The Bots and the Bees

7ACV01 is the one hundred and fifteenth episode of Futurama and the first of the seventh production season and the ninth broadcast season. It is scheduled to air in June 2012 on Comedy Central. Planet Express gets a new soda machine and Bender impregnates it.

Production
On 26 January 2012, Eric Rogers revealed that the production team had just seen the first full-color animation for the episode, calling it, "Un. Be. Lievable." On the next day, Aimee Steinberger revealed that the full-color animation had been screened on the Fox lot, that it received "lots of yays", that she could not go due to her work on "7ACV14", that she watched it nonetheless and that she found it "lovely". On 18 February 2012, Eric Rogers revealed that the episode "Probably" was titled "The Bots and the Bees".

Reception
On 30 January 2012, Eric Rogers revealed that his favourite episode from the ninth broadcast season was either this one, "7ACV02" or "7ACV11".