10 Tiny Details In Futurama You Definitely Missed
2. 1010011010
There is a lot of secret language used throughout Futurama, from the alien language that was genuinely created for the show, to the binary code used by robots the world over. Generally, there won’t be many people that understand binary in the audience, so this joke may have gone unnoticed by most.
In ‘The Honking’, Bender is forced to stay one night in the family castle being left to him by his Uncle Vladimir, and he got creepy haunted vibes from it immediately. This wasn’t helped by red dripping numbers appearing on the wall.
As Bender read out the sequence of 0101100101, he told Leela that it meant nothing, and that it was just jibberish. When he looked in the mirror however, reading the code backwards, he ran off screaming without so much of an explanation.
A quick check on Google will tell you that in binary, 1010011010, the reversed code Bender saw in the mirror, actually translates to '666'. I suppose you can’t really blame him for losing it after seeing such a wonderful play on the famous 'Red Rum' scene.