Bender's banjo

Bender's banjo
Fry, Bender and Leela in the Planet Express ship in 3000 (2ACV02).
Type	Banjo
Owner(s)	Bender
First appearance	"Brannigan, Begin Again" (2ACV02)
Current status	Broken

Bender's banjo is a white banjo that belongs to Bender. Bender asked Leela to save it when the Planet Express ship was about to crash into Neutropolis in 3000 (2ACV02), tuned and played it at HAL Institute in 3002 (3ACV11) and played it on Mars in 3003 (3ACV10). Brett Blob played and broke it in the Planet Express conference room in 3004 (4ACV06).

Image gallery

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  3ACV10

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  3ACV11

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  4ACV06

Production

Bender's banjo was originally a French horn.

Additional info

Quotes

David X. Cohen: That was a saxophone for a long time.
Lewis Morton: It was a French horn for a while.
[David X. Cohen laughs.]
David X. Cohen: French horn. French horn. Sorry. Pardon me. But then we remembered that Bender liked the banjo from episode... What? 1'02, was it, or?
Lewis Morton: Something like that. Bender...
Maurice LaMarche: Yeah...
Lewis Morton: Bender goes on to play the banjo a lot in upcoming episodes.
Billy West: He does it with... With 105-pound hands.
[Lewis Morton and Billy West laugh.]

Appearances

• "Brannigan, Begin Again" (2ACV02)
  
• "Where the Buggalo Roam" (3ACV10)
  
  (as well as a deleted scene)
• "Insane in the Mainframe" (3ACV11)
  
• "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television" (4ACV06)