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|name=Bending units<br />
|image=[[File:Olympic grade benders (male).png|225px]]<br />
|image text=Olympic grade benders<br />
|homeworld=<br />
|first appear={{e|1ACV01}}<br />
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'''Bending units''' are [[robots]] built by [[MomCorp|Mom's Friendly Robot Company]] for the main purpose of bending metal for constructive purposes. Like many devices of the [[20th century]], however, these robots have many capabilities aside from their main function, and other robots, such as [[Robo-Rooter]], are capable of bending while having other primary functions. <br />
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== Variations and cost ==<br />
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Purpose built benders are known to come in many varieties; model #22 for instance has at least two finish colour options: gold and fog hat grey. These units are assembled by [[Bender's mother|robotic arms]]. While at least 994 models of bending unit exist, the only unit with a confirmed model number is the aptly named model #22 unit [[Bender Bending Rodríguez]], who, like units of most of the other first 994 models, has been recalled. These robots most likely come in so many varieties to provide higher quality additional features to different industries, and to allow the customer to choose more compact or higher powered models, and choice depends on whether the item needing bending is a wire hanger, an [[Unbendable girder|"unbendable" girder]], or something in-between.<br />
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Bending units are fairly inexpensive; the overall price is a meager $19.95, you can buy one for $30, then there's a $10 rebate and when you're done with it you can turn in the head for the 5 cent deposit. Of course, while a bending unit can be owned, others are free to wander the streets, vote, and be charged and jailed for crime.<br />
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[[File:Olympic grade benders (female).png|thumb|left|[[Fembot|Female]] bending units.]]<br />
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== Genders ==<br />
As with most robot classes, there are both [[manbot|male]] and [[fembot|female]] bending units. The main difference between the two is the type of oil used, and the apparent design of the robots to emulate the [[humans|human]] sexes (i.e. fembots tend to have long eyelashes, higher voices, and a somewhat more feminine physique than manbots).<br />
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Female bending units are much weaker than male, and they have a separate class in the [[Olympics]] for bending. Working female bending units generally bend simpler constructions, such as clothes hangers, leaving the heavier work to the males.<br />
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== Functions ==<br />
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[[File:Bending Unit construction.png|thumb|[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|A bending unit]] is constructed on the assembly line.]]<br />
[[File:Bending School.png|thumb|All bending units are programmed into the art of bending in a "Bending School" in the assembly line.]]<br />
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While a bending unit's main function is to bend girders, they can also have many secondary functions, either from when they were originally built, or from being installed or learned afterward. A list of some possible secondary functions are listed [[Bender Bending Rodriguez#Bender's Functions, Attachments, and Accessories|here]].<br />
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Like many [[robot]]s, bending units have seemingly [[humans|human]] features in their personality. While [[Bender]] has argued that they do not have feelings, major anecdotal evidence has proved this wrong, and they even seem capable of love, both of other robots and [[robosexuality|of humans]]. They do not, however, have a sense of taste. Despite their lack of a sense of taste, in "[[Benderama]]", [[Bender]] chugged a bathtub full of water converted to alcohol. He remarked that it tasted "like fine cogniac with a hint of aged scrotum," This, however, could have been a joke. Like other robots, bending units need [[alcohol]] to function, or they will break down, similarly to the human behavior when ''drinking'' alcohol. Bending units also seem to have a generally abusive personality, easily falling into abuse of [[tobacco]], [[electricity]] and partying.<br />
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== Construction ==<br />
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Bending units are built on an assembly line in a factory, with the mechanical arms gaining the role as their "mother". <br />
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They go through different stages as they move along the line, starting out as small, baby-like robots and growing into adult-sized units, with the aid of the mechanical arms. While they are in their baby stage, they must be inspected to make sure that there are free of defects, and if they do have a defect, the unit must be recycled {{et|6ACV06}}.<br />
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=== Profession programming ===<br />
After their body is in the finalized, adult stage, they are programmed into the art of bending by inputting data from a computer by the "Bending School". After this, their mind grows out of their baby stage and they are able to speak properly like adults - they are complete.<br />
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== Characters ==<br />
*[[Angleyne]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodríguez]], model #22<br />
*[[Flexo]]<br />
*Possibly one of the [[Whalers on the Moon]]<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Bending Unit heads.png|Possible heads <br />
File:Bending Unit recall.png|Recall notice<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*In "[[Attack of the Killer App]]" it is revealed by [[Flexo]] that bending units are dangerously outdated. They overheat, they are {{w|radioactive}} and they cause {{w|erectile dysfunction}}.<br />
* The basic model is represented as a [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|primary]] and [[Flexo|secondary]] character. A [[Billy West (robot)|tertiary]] character is built with an identical casing and voice, but is supposedly not a bending unit.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''[[Professor Farnsworth|Prof. Farnsworth]]''': Your standard bending unit is made of an iron-osmium alloy. But Bender was different. Bender had a point-04% nickel impurity.<br />
'''Bender''': [crying] It's what made me me.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Bender''': It's hopeless. We might as well turn in my head for the five cent deposit.<br />
'''[[Fry]]''': No way! I'm not letting my best friend get recycled. Not for five cents, not for five hundred cents!</poem><br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
:''As [[Bender]] appears in every episode and comic, only episodes with other units and references to them are noted here.''<br />
*{{e|1ACV01}}<br />
*{{e|2ACV06}}<br />
*{{e|2ACV07}}<br />
*{{e|3ACV06}}<br />
*{{e|3ACV17}}<br />
*{{e|4ACV13}}<br />
*{{e|4ACV15}}<br />
*{{e|6ACV03}}<br />
*{{e|7ACV01}}<br />
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[[Category:Robots]]</div>99.179.145.47http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Bite_my_shiny_metal_ass&diff=135366Bite my shiny metal ass2013-10-19T09:56:14Z<p>99.179.145.47: Bender says "yours" but means "Fry's"</p>
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<div>"'''Bite my shiny metal ass'''" is one of [[Bender Bending Rodríguez]]'s most used [[catchphrase]]s, and it is one of the most famous catchphrases on ''[[Futurama]]'', together with [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|the Professor's]] "[[Good news, everyone]]". It is commonly used by Bender as a retort to a comment at his expense. The catchphrase is also Bender's first uttered line on the show, in "[[Space Pilot 3000]]" to [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]], where he describes his reasoning with that his ass is "shinier than [Fry']s". The other of Bender's common catchphrases is "[[Me, Bender]]".<br />
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== Major appearances ==<br />
In "[[War Is the H-Word]]", Bender was prevented from saying the 'last word' of the quote because he had a bomb inside him which would explode if he said it. It could not be removed, so the word which would blow up a planet was changed to 'antiquing', one of Bender's least said words. Surpisingly, his second most said word was revealed to be 'daffodil'.<br />
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After Bender's death in "[[Ghost in the Machines]]", [[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]] shows a graph of how the usage of the catchphrase has decreased by 98%. The remaining 2% is shortly thereafter explained as being of [[Scruffy]]'s usage.<br />
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== Variations ==<br />
Already in the [[Season 1|first season]] of the show, the line had been uttered enough to be a joke of itself, as "[[When Aliens Attack]]" feature Bender giving a parody of it when his ass is in fact not shiny, but "red-hot glowing". In subsequent episodes, there have been many other variations of the phrase, said by both Bender and other characters. This is sometimes done as a conscious parody of the phrase, such as when [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] tells Bender to "bite [his] shiny metal hat" ([[Into the Wild Green Yonder|ITWGY]]). In other variations, it is done by characters who are probably unaware of the catch phrase, for example when [[Princess Num Num]] says that Bender "sure has a shiny metal bubbledeeboop" {{et|6ACV21}}.<br />
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*"Bite my red-hot glowing ass." {{et|1ACV12}} -- said while Bender cooks burgers on the beach.<br />
*"Lick my frozen metal ass!" {{et|17}} -- stated by Bender while skiing.<br />
*"Bite my colossal metal ass!" {{et|29}} -- Bender says this as he is 500 feet tall in the segment "Terror at 500 Feet".<br />
*"Maybe you can interface with my ass - by biting it!" {{et|3ACV01}} -- Bender's response when Leela suggests he interface with the [[Femputer]].<br />
*"1947 can kiss my shiny metal-AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" {{et|51}} -- said by Bender, as his body-less head fell off the Planet Express ship to the ground. <br />
*"The modern world can bite my splintery wooden ass!" {{et|68}} -- said by Bender after he gets "downgraded"<br />
*"Bite my glorious golden ass!" {{et|69}} -- said by Bender-1 since he chose the golden finish as opposed to Bender-A, who chose the fog hat grey.<br />
*"Bite my shiny metal- OHHH NOOOOOOOO!" {{et|72}} -- said by Bender after he realizes he traded his ass plate to the Robot Devil in exchange for an airhorn.<br />
*"Bite my shiny metal face." {{f|3}} -- said by [[Titanius Anglesmith]] before he smashes his shiny metal face against the [[Die of Power]].<br />
*"Bite my shiny metal hat." {{f|4}} - said by [[Fry]] in reference to the headpiece made of aluminum foil on his head to protect him from reading other people's thoughts.<br />
*"Is there an [[mobile app|app]] for kissing my shiny metal ass?" {{et|6ACV03}} - about the new [[eyePhone]]. <br />
*"That guy can bite my shiny metal clamps!" {{et|6ACV14}} - said by [[Clamps]], in reference to [[Zoidberg]].<br />
*"Bite my tiny metal ass!" {{et|6ACV17}} - said by one of the [[Bender duplicates]].<br />
*"As you can see, since Bender's death, requests to bite one's shiny metal ass are down 98%." {{et|6ACV19}} - said by [[Hermes]].<br />
**A few seconds later, [[Scruffy]] interrupts Hermes with a vacuum cleaner. When told to be quiet, he responds with "Bite my shiny metal ass."<br />
*"Wife? What are you doin' with Bender's shiny metal, gas compressor?" {{et|6ACV20}} - said by Hermes in reference to LaBarbara stealing Bender's gas compressor.<br />
*"[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|He]] sure has a shiny metal bubbledeeboop." {{et|6ACV21}} - said by [[Princess Num Num]].<br />
*"Byte my 8-bit metal ass. ''[Bender turns to Hermes.]'' That's [[wiktionary:byte|"Byte" with a ''Y'']]." {{et|6ACV26}}<br />
*"Wipe my tiny metal ass!" {{et|7ACV01}} - said by [[Ben Rodríguez]]<br />
*"Nice shiny metal ass, Hermes!" {{et|7ACV07}} - said by Fry when examining Hermes' robotic implants.<br />
*"Bite my freshly molted, blubber-filled ass!" {{et|7ACV13}} - said by Bender in the form of an {{w|Elephant seal}}.<br />
*"Bite my shiny metal axe!" {{et|7ACV18}} - said by Bender after becoming a firefighter.<br />
*"Write my riny retal rass!" {{et|7ACV19}} - said by Bender as Bendee Boo, a parody of the cartoon dog {{w|Scooby-Doo (character)|Scooby-Doo}}.<br />
*"Hey, Fry. [[Bender's camera|Take a picture]] of me bit'n' my own shiny metal ass." {{et|7ACV21}}<br />
*"[[Fry|He]]'s just jealous that <u>my</u> ass is shiner than <u>his</u> teeth." {{et|7ACV24}}<br />
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== Comics ==<br />
*"He can bitty my shiny metal ass!" {{clink|US#049|Dummy Up!}} - said towards Bender's mini-duplicate, Bitty Bender.<br />
*"Behold! Mr. Oscar Wilde once bit my shiny metallic buttocks!" {{clink|US#057|Steampunk'd}} - said by Bender whilst acting as "Benderplate" on the show "Steampunk'd".<br />
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== Other ==<br />
*"Bite my shiny metal box!" - said by Boxer the Robot, a character based on Bender in Fry's [[Delivery-Boy Man (in-universe comic)|Delivery-Boy Man comic]]. (Seen on the "Fry's Crudely-Drawn Comic Book - The Crudely Animated Edition" special feature on [[Volume 5]])<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*Bender's ass is actually bitten in "[[I Second that Emotion]]", by [[Nibbler]], and in "[[The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz]]", by a penguin.<br />
*Although there are two parodies of it in [[Season 3]], the phrase itself does not appear in that season.<br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
{{listExpansion}}{{appear-begin}}<br />
*{{e|1ACV01}}<br />
*{{e|1ACV05}} -- said by the Bender Action Figurine<br />
*{{e|1ACV12}}<br />
*{{e|1ACV13}}<br />
*{{e|2ACV04}}<br />
*{{e|2ACV17}}<br />
*{{e|4ACV06}}<br />
*{{e|4ACV14}}<br />
*{{e|4ACV15}} -- said by the golden Bender<br />
*{{f|2}}<br />
*{{f|4}} -- said by Fry<br />
*{{e|6ACV03}}<br />
*{{e|6ACV14}} -- said by [[Clamps]]<br />
*{{e|6ACV17}} -- said by one of Bender's duplicates<br />
*{{e|6ACV19}} -- said by [[Scruffy]], referred to by [[Hermes]]<br />
*{{e|6ACV21}} -- said by [[Princess Num Num]]<br />
*{{e|6ACV26}} -- said by 8-bit Bender<br />
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