Futurama: "Overclockwise"

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"Overclockwise." Futurama episode 25 of 6th season,[1] number 113 in the run of the series. Comedy Central, 1 September 2011. Ramie, dir. Ken Keeler, script. Production number 6ACV25.[2]

Wikipedia gives as the basic premise, "Bender is overclocked by Cubert Farnsworth, gradually becoming more powerful in computing ability, until eventually becoming omniscient and able to foresee future events." Of some interest for its sendup of Role-Playing computer games and satire of user license agreements — the unauthorized upgrade violates the one on Bender, with horrific legal implications — but of greater interest for the sophistication of the theology when Bender becomes a mechanical and cybernetic god, in whose mind and metal head the universe is contained, including Fry (which we see clearly) and later — with less emphasis — the courtroom for the license-violation trial.[3]


(RDE, 15June15, 28Feb19 for regularizing title)