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==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
Calculon is most famous as the star of the hit robot soap opera [[All My Circuits|"All My Circuits"]]. He has also appeared in films, including "[[The Magnificent Three]]", for which he was nominated for an Oscar although was just [[Dr. John Zoidberg|Dr. Zoidberg]] trying to save his own skin as Calculon had said earlier | Calculon is most famous as the star of the hit robot soap opera [[All My Circuits|"All My Circuits"]]. He has also appeared in films, including "[[The Magnificent Three]]", for which he was nominated for an Oscar although was just [[Dr. John Zoidberg|Dr. Zoidberg]] trying to save his own skin as Calculon had said earlier that if he didn't win one he would kill [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]], [[Harold Zoid]] and Zoidberg. Throughout his career he has lived a secret life unknown to the public. He is over a thousand years old, rather than 37 as claimed in his biography. He changes identities every few decades, and starting out from a humble beginning as a motorized service arm working on [[Project Satan]] made his way to being many of history's great acting robots, including Acting Unit 0.8, Thespa-mat, and David Duchovney. For most of this thousand years, he was also a [[Were-Car]], until [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] broke the curse by destroying the original were-car. | ||
===Filmography=== | ===Filmography=== | ||
Revision as of 22:31, 22 April 2007
Species: Robot
Planet of Origin: Earth
Age: slightly less than 1000 years
Voiced By: Maurice LaMarche
First Appearance: "I, Roommate" (1ACV03)
Biography
Calculon is most famous as the star of the hit robot soap opera "All My Circuits". He has also appeared in films, including "The Magnificent Three", for which he was nominated for an Oscar although was just Dr. Zoidberg trying to save his own skin as Calculon had said earlier that if he didn't win one he would kill Bender, Harold Zoid and Zoidberg. Throughout his career he has lived a secret life unknown to the public. He is over a thousand years old, rather than 37 as claimed in his biography. He changes identities every few decades, and starting out from a humble beginning as a motorized service arm working on Project Satan made his way to being many of history's great acting robots, including Acting Unit 0.8, Thespa-mat, and David Duchovney. For most of this thousand years, he was also a Were-Car, until Fry and Leela broke the curse by destroying the original were-car.
Filmography
- Series
- Films
- All My Circuits: The Movie (3000)
- The Magnificent Three (3001)
- Coilette: The Calculon Story (3002)
Additional Info
Trivia
- Once was a Were-Car
- Almost married Bender once, who then was a Fembot
- Owns a big house in Hollywood
- Enjoys hot showers
- Tends to see life as a huge soap opera
- Bender once worked as his hot water boiler in Hollywood
Quotes
- Robot Devil: Calculon, old friend, I'm afraid I need your ears.
Calculon: Well I do owe you for giving me this unholy (melodramatically) acting talent. - Calculon: Oh, how cruel and melodramatic fate is. (shouting) Why?
- Calculon: NOOOOOOOO!
Appearances
- I, Roommate (1ACV03)
- Fry and the Slurm Factory (1ACV13)
- I Second that Emotion (2ACV01)
- The Lesser of Two Evils (2ACV06)
- Raging Bender (2ACV08)
- Mother's Day (2ACV14)
- The Honking (2ACV18)
- The Cryonic Woman (2ACV19)
- That's Lobstertainment! (3ACV08)
- Future Stock (3ACV21)
- Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television (4ACV06)
- Bend Her (4ACV13)
- Spanish Fry (4ACV17)
- The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings (4ACV18)
- The Owner Of Mars Attacks! (US#003)
- Fry Me To The Moon (US#015)
- A Fit Worse Than Death (US#022)