Futurama: 10 Worst Things Bender Has Ever Done
8. Break Up With Planet Express Ship During A Chase
Breaks ups happen in life. Bender has previously dated Amy, Lucy Liu and a fembot pretending to be a femputer, as well as having a child with a Slurm machine. And on a side note, allowing his son to give up all memory of him in order to learn how to be a better bending unit is a huge contender for the best thing he’s ever done, but that’s an issue for another day.
The point is, it’s not the breaking up that makes this bad. The ship is a little clingy and pushy, and again, they’re just a part of life. It’s the way he breaks up that makes it so awful.
While the crew are fleeing from the Omincron army (enraged and confused by the human emotion of ‘wuv’), Bender has a chat with the ship. While he isn’t particularly mean, deciding to do it during a chase is just plain stupid and endangers everyone on board.
Leela is able to steer them to safety, but Bender’s justification for his timing is that he likes a dump to be as memorable as it is devastating, which is needlessly cruel. Her psychotic reaction shows he definitely made the right move though.