Futurama: "Hell Is Other Robots"

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"Hell Is Other Robots, Futurama Season 1, episode 9, Fox-TV, 18 May 1999.

Episode features Bender "jacking on": getting addicted to electricity. To cure himself, Bender finds religion, Robotology—including Robot Hell (a musical number in a fun house featuring a fiddling contest with a robot devil Leela calls "Beelzebot"). Note image of Bender as a robot angel (note also title as an allusion to the once famous climax line from J-P Sartre's No Exit, "Hell is other people." Full discussion of episode in Wikipedia article, under "Hell Is Other Robots".[1]

(RDE, 18/05/99)