Raging Bender

"Raging Bender"
Futurama episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 8
Directed by	Ron Hughart
Written by	Lewis Morton
Production code	2ACV08
Original air date	February 27, 2000
Opening caption	"Nominated For Three Glemmys"
Opening cartoon	"Hollywood Capers" (1935)
Guest appearance(s)
Rich Little as himself Russ Leatherman as Moviefone announcer Tom Kenny as Abner Doubledeal
Season 2 episodes
November 1999 – December 2000 "I Second That Emotion" "Brannigan, Begin Again" "A Head in the Polls" "Xmas Story" "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" "The Lesser of Two Evils" "Put Your Head on My Shoulders" "Raging Bender" "A Bicyclops Built for Two" "A Clone of My Own" "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" "The Deep South" "Bender Gets Made" "Mother's Day" "The Problem with Popplers" "Anthology of Interest I" "War Is the H-Word" "The Honking" "The Cryonic Woman"
List of Futurama episodes

Rich Little as himself
Russ Leatherman as Moviefone announcer
Tom Kenny as Abner Doubledeal

"Raging Bender" is the eighth episode in the second production season of the American animated television series Futurama. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 27, 2000 as the twelfth episode of the second broadcast season. The episode was written by Lewis Morton and directed by Ron Hughart. The story focuses on Bender becoming a professional robot wrestler.

At the morning Planet Express meeting, the crew discovers Hermes has been assimilated by the Brain Slugs. To avoid Hermes' slack-jawed stare and being assimilated themselves, the rest of the staff takes off for the movies.

While watching All My Circuits, The Movie, Bender picks a fight with a robot that turns out to be Ultimate Robot Fighting champion The Masked Unit. The Masked Unit trips on Bender's oil-soaked popcorn, and is knocked out by the fall. Coincidentally, the commissioner of Ultimate Robot Fighting, Abner Doubledeal, is at the movie, and hires Bender on the spot.

After training with Leela, Bender has his first fight against a chainsaw-equipped robot called The Clearcutter. Seemingly by a stroke of luck, Bender defeats his opponent, causing The Clearcutter to explode into a pile of parts. However, Bender runs into the robot backstage, and the commissioner reveals that Ultimate Robot Fighting is fixed, and that the most popular robot always wins. Bender is shocked at first, but then celebrates the fact that he is popular.

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