Overclockwise

"Overclockwise" is the one-hundred-and-thirteenth episode of Futurama, the twenty-fifth of the sixth production season and the twelfth of the eighth broadcast season. It aired 1 September, 2011 on Comedy Central. Bender evolves into a godlike being after vastly increasing his processing power.

Plot
Cubert overclocks Bender to improve his performance while playing an online game. Walt, Larry, and Igner are defeated by Bender and complain to Mom, who sues both Cubert and Professor Farnsworth for overclocking Bender, which is a violation of Bender's contract of ownership. She also sends an army of robots to capture Bender so he can be reset to his original, slower programming. Due to his heightened intelligence caused by his overclocking, Bender begins processing countless books and hooks himself to a water cooler to prevent himself from overheating. He then steals the processing chips of Mom's robots, increasing his capacities even further before leaving Planet Express to find a new, larger coolant.

During their trial, Farnsworth and Cubert are ordered to bring in Bender as evidence of their contract violation, and are forced to pay $10,000 every day until Bender is found. With Planet Express running out of business, Leela, weary of her on-again, off-again relationship with Fry, decides to leave Planet Express. Heartbroken, Fry attempts to commit suicide by going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. There, he discovers a cave behind the falls where Bender has developed into an omnipotent being capable of foreseeing the future, using the falls as his new cooling system. Fry tries to convince Bender to help Farnsworth and Cubert, but Bender refuses, unconcerned with their troubles and predicting that they will be found guilty. Fry then asks Bender whether what his future with Leela would be like if they came together, after which Bender gives him a sad look and tells him to leave, saying nothing about Leela.

After Fry returns to Farnsworth and Cubert's trial, Bender has a change of heart and appears in court, accusing Mom of unfairly trying Cubert, a minor. Fearing that Cubert will gain the jury's sympathy, Mom drops charges against Cubert while still attempting to sue Farnsworth. However, Bender declares that by dropping charges against Farnsworth's clone, she is unable to press charges against Farnsworth for the same crime because he and Cubert are technically the same person. Enraged that she is unable to sue Farnsworth, Mom captures Bender and has him reset to his original programming, returning him to normal. Leela also returns to Fry, who still wonders what the future holds for him and Leela. Bender reveals that he had written down his prediction of their future, which Fry and Leela silently read together. The two don't reveal exactly what the prediction says to the viewer, but their facial expressions indicate that they will have their ups and downs, and will ultimately have a happy ending.

Production
"Overclockwise" was originally planned to be the series finale of season 6, but it was later moved to the penultimate episode to make "Reincarnation" the finale. As "Reincarnation" is a non-canon segmented episode, however, "Overclockwise" is seen as the "proper" season finale. The episode was written in 2010, before the series had been renewed for another season, and much like "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" and Into the Wild Green Yonder, "Overclockwise" was written as if it was the last episode ever of Futurama. As such, Ken Keeler was once again in charge of the writing, making this his third "last episode ever" for the series. as with "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" and Into the Wild Green Yonder.

During June 2011, Countdown to Futurama released four items of promotional material for the episode: concept art of the interior of transfigured Bender's head on 7 June, concept art of Fry's character in a video game on 8 June, part of the storyboard showing Mom's sons release hoverfish on 9 June, and a video clip featuring Fry talking to the transfigured Bender on 20 June.

Two promotional pictures for the episode were released by Comedy Central Press.

Trivia

 * It is among the few one-word titled media.
 * It was written as the last episode because the show hadn't been renewed at the time of the writing.
 * This is one of four episodes of broadcast season 8 to be broadcast in production order. The other three are "Fry Am the Egg Man", "Cold Warriors" and "Reincarnation".
 * This is the first time that Randy is referred to by name.

Allusions

 * The X-Cube 360 is a parody of and.
 * World of World War II 3 is a parody of.
 * It could also be a reference to . This makes more sense because it's a FPS (First Person Shooter).
 * The German commander character in World of World War II 3 resembles from .
 * Walt slaps himself and says, "Ach! I could haf fired a V-8!" This is a parody of the famous advertising campaign "I could've had a !"
 * When Professor Farnsworth and Cubert are in jail, there's a  drawing on the wall.
 * Nibbler suggests putting on a show called "Nibbler on the Roof", a parody of .
 * The hoverfish resemble the Sentinels from the.
 * Judge Whitey says to Cubert, "That'll do, pig," a famous line from the movie .

Bender's reading list

 * Some of the books that Bender reads while overclocked include:
 * Calculus
 * Advanced Calculus
 * NNYC Phone Book
 * Ventriloquism for Dummies
 * (Which itself references the  book series)
 * Dante's Life in Hell
 * (Referencing the ' by Dante Alighieri, and ' by Matt Groening)
 * Connecticut Tax Law
 * Google Book
 * Big Book of Tumbleweeds
 * Guinness Book of Parallel World Records
 * VCR Repair
 * Ayn Rand McNally Atlas Shrugged
 * (Referencing  by Ayn Rand, and map publisher )
 * How I Conquered Your Planet
 * The Collected Wisdom of Braino
 * The Complete Simpson Episode Guide
 * "All the Presidents' Heads"
 * Shakespeare Typed by Monkeys - Volume 78
 * (Referencing the )
 * The Sithal War
 * (Referencing the and the Star Wars )
 * Calculon on Calculon
 * Some of the Digits of π
 * Genome of the Flatworm - Volume 12
 * Genome of the Flatworm - Volume 12

Goofs

 * Smitty says that the Planet Express building does not have a doorbell, however a doorbell has been heard in previous episodes.
 * With so many things falling apart in the building (ceiling fans, for example) the doorbell might have been broken.
 * Bender addresses Cubert as a twelve-year-old, but he turned 13 in "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television", which is set years earlier.

Continuity

 * When Mom looks at Bender's data, we see his serial number is 2716057, his unit is 22 and he was inspected by Inspector #5.
 * Bender speed-reads a book called "The Sithal War", an event the Planet Express crew re-enacted in "Lethal Inspection".
 * The bridge where Fry falls over is the same one where he and Leela celebrated Leela's birthday in "The Late Philip J. Fry".
 * This is the first cameo appearance of Nine since Into the Wild Green Yonder, he can be seen wearing his tinfoil hat.
 * Vyolet can be seen in the jury since mutants were granted citizenship in The Mutants Are Revolting.
 * This is the third time that Planet Express almost goes out of business (This fact is referenced in the banner that says "GOING OUT OF BUSINESS...AGAIN!"). The first two times were in Into the Wild Green Yonder and Neutopia.

Characters

 * Amy
 * Jackie Anderson
 * Angleyne
 * Bailiff
 * Dr. Ben Beeler
 * Bender
 * The blue and orange salesman
 * Cubert
 * Falafel Stand Guy
 * Farnsworth's Girlfriend
 * Fishy Joe
 * Fry
 * Hermes
 * Hoschel
 * Debut: Hoverfish
 * The Hyper-Chicken
 * Hypnotoad
 * Igner
 * Ipji
 * Larry
 * Leela
 * Mom
 * Nibbler
 * Nine
 * Petunia
 * Professor Farnsworth
 * Randy
 * Ron Whitey
 * Scruffy
 * Smitty
 * Sweet Clyde
 * URL
 * Vyolet
 * Walt
 * The yellow and red lawyer
 * Zoidberg