Futurama: 10 Most Paused Moments

2. At The Movies (Raging Bender)

Raging Bender is another absolute classic episode and features Bender becoming a robot wrestling superstar.

At the beginning of the episode, the gang go to the cinema and settle on watching All My Circuits: The Movie, which features a hilarious pick your own adventure gag. When Bender gets into a fight with another cinema goer for being obnoxious and loud, Bender accidentally knocks him out only to discover that he was a Robot Wrestling champion. As Bender's fame grows, he finds out that Robot Wrestling is all a sham and decides not to concede when his time in the spotlight is up.

When we paused: Some of the great gags in Futurama are the different TV shows and movies that exist within that universe like Hypnotoad, The Scary Door and Star Wars IX: Yoda's Bar Mitzvah. As the shot cuts to outside the cinema (at 1:54 in the video) you can see various movie titles parodying classic films like: It Came From Planet Earth, Shaft On Africon-9, When A Man Loves A Smizmar, Planet Of The Clams, Galaxy Wars (a historical documentary apparently) and the must-see film Quizblorg Quizblorg.

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