Futurama: "Godfellas"

"Godfellas." Futurama. Fox-TV, 18 March 2002. #52 by through-numbering system, or 4.8 by season.episode system.

Avoiding the noise of a battle with space pirates, the robot Bender goes into a torpedo tube and is shot out, destroying a pirate ship. Bender is going too fast to be recovered, so he continues on, getting hit by a small meteor that implants on him some small colonies of very small people. Bender becomes literal mechanical + cybernetic god to these people, and the script offers a lot of fun playing with the cliché. Listen for musical allusions to S. Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (film). Bender also meets a galactic intelligence who/which might be as close to God as there is—and who gives Bender good advice and gets him home.