10 Things Futurama Wants You To Forget

Despite being set 1000 years into the future, Futurama has put forward its fair share of social commentary on the issues of the modern world, including global warming, the theory of evolution vs creationism, and same sex marriage. The latter was done through a 'robosexual' relationship between Bender and Amy.

After the two are discovered to be seeing each other, they are met with a barrage of criticism and disgust, from none more so than the Professor. In a play on California Proposition 8 that banned same sex marriage in the state in 2008, Proposition Infinity is created by Bender and Amy in a bid to legalise human-robot marriage.

There is a reason this relationship is never mentioned again though. The problem was that the pairing made very little sense in the wider Futurama narrative, and felt incredibly forced when compared to the relationship between Fry and Leela. Not to mention the fact that Bender once got engaged to Lucy Lui with no legal ramifications, as did Leela and the Robot Devil.

The potential power of the episode is almost completely robbed at the end when, after robosexual marriage is legalised, Bender almost immediately dumps Amy because he doesn't want to be monogamous. It is supposed to be funny, but it just comes off as an insult to the viewers.