Benderama

"Benderama" is the one hundredth and fifth episode of Futurama, the seventeenth of the sixth production season and the second of the eighth broadcast season. It is scheduled to air 23 June, 2011, immediately following "Neutopia".

Story
The Professor invents a machine that takes in any object and creates two half-sized copies, consuming matter provided to it in order to do so. He uses the machine to create a number of sweaters suited to his shrunken, old-aged self and sets Bender on the task of folding them. Bender looks for a shortcut and creates duplicates of himself using the machine to do the job for him. This soon escalates and eventually there are trillions of increasingly smaller copies of Bender creating copies of themselves until eventually they threaten to consume all of the matter on Earth.

Production
According to the table read, "Benderama" will feature a new episode of The Scary Door and introduce the unattractive giant monster, a character voiced by special guest Patton Oswalt.

Countdown to Futurama began releasing promotional material for the episode in May 2011. It released five items in its first run: concept art of the unattractive giant monster (together with confirmation that he will be voiced by Patton Oswalt) on 9 May, a promotional picture featuring various copies of Bender on 10 May, part of the storyboard showing the Planet Express crew prepare to deliver a package to the monster on 11 May, a promotional picture featuring three Benders riding a bicycle on 12 May, and a promotional picture featuring a fight between a giant Bender and the monster on 13 May.

In June, some pictures from the episode was shown in Comedy Central's Futurama commercial, including a picture hundreds of Benders aboard the Planet Express Ship. On July 15, Countdown to Futurama released a 53-second video of the episode, showing the Planet Express crew by the conference table, discussing the many Benders.

Trivia

 * It is among the few one-word titled media.

Allusions

 * The Scary Door narrator reads a line that says "A picture of yourself in a boat on a river", a play on the first line of ' song "", which says "Picture yourself in a boat on a river".
 * At one point, Bender says, "Hi, I'm Bender, this is my robot Bender and this is my other robot Bender." This is a reference to the TV series , specifically the character of Larry and his brothers Darryl, whom he always introduced, "Hi, I'm Larry, this is my brother Darryl and this is my other brother Darryl."

Characters

 * Amy
 * Bender
 * Debut: Bender duplicates
 * Dr. Zoidberg
 * Fry
 * Debut: The unattractive giant monster
 * Hermes
 * Leela
 * Professor Farnsworth
 * The Scary Door narrator
 * Scruffy