Top 10 Worst Things Bender Has Ever Done

This relationSHIP was about as disastrous as the Titanic! (Haha, GET IT!?) No, really, this was pretty bad. In the episode “Love and Rocket”, Bender hooks up with the Planet Express spaceship after its operating system is given a sexy female voice. Things take a turn for the worse when the ship wants to get serious and Bender begins leading her on. It isn’t until the middle of a dangerous delivery that Bender finally breaks up with the ship; which isn’t exactly the most appropriate time to do so, but we suppose better late than never… maybe?

If our internet was like the VR version we see in “Futurama”, we’d probably witness a lot more heinous things than our few measly tabs allow us to focus on. Amy got to experience this first-hand in the episode “A Bicyclops Built for Two” when the Planet Express crew step inside the web to have some fun. However, Amy soon finds lewd photos of herself and learns that Bender was the one who leaked them. Not only that, but he cropped Amy’s face over Leela’s body. Way to kill two birds with one stone, Bender...

After putting the Professor’s replicator machine inside his chest, Bender gains the ability to reproduce miniature versions of himself and uses them to do his tasks while he lazes around. Of course, it all gets out of hand when the miniature versions start replicating themselves for the same reason. The Benders eventually get so small that they are able to restructure molecules and proceed to turn the world’s supply of water into alcohol. Bender gets an infinite supply of fuel while the entire world stumbles and slurs like a pack of drunkards. He may have saved the Earth from a monster, but after putting everyone through a terrible hangover, we’re surprised he hasn’t been dismantled yet.

One of Bender’s aspirations in life is to be a great, well-respected chef who’s dishes are as good as Elzar’s. But when he asks Elzar to teach him, the celebrity cher refuses, and Bender is forced to seek help from Helmut Spargel, a once reputable chef who seeks revenge against Elzar. As Spargel dies (ironically from Bender’s horrible cooking), he hands him a bottle of mysterious liquid, saying it will help him win the Iron Cook challenge. Bender could’ve tried winning on his own merits, but to no one’s surprise, he cheats with the magic ingredient and wins the contest. Turns out the liquid was just water laced with LSD, meaning Bender was willing to drug people just to win a contest.

The last thing Bender should ever get is a platform to speak his own thoughts. (Good thing he doesn’t have Twitter…) Alas, it was only a matter of time before he got a spotlight on TV. In the appropriately-named episode “Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV”, the foul-mouthed robot gives a PSA regarding his behavior. Predictably, instead of telling kids to not be impressionable and commit crimes, he tells them that smoking and violence is cool and that parents should abuse their kids. How does Bender live with himself without any moral compass?

You’d think that a sad bender would somehow be less dangerous, but you’d be wrong. While delivering a tank filled with dark matter, Bender gets into a heated argument with Fry, which makes him depressed and causes him to get sober. As a result, he carelessly flies the tanker onto Pluto, collides with an iceberg and spills all of the dark matter fuel into the water. And to think all of this was because of a fight with a friend. At least this was one of the few instances where Bender learned some kind of lesson and was punished for his misdeeds.

Given that Bender is a standard bending unit and therefore mass-produced, you would think he’d be able to frame other units for his crimes with little trouble. Unsurprisingly, he’s done it before in the episode “The Lesser of Two Evils”, where he meets Flexo, another bending unit whose only unique feature is a metal goatee. When Flexo joins the crew to deliver a piece of “jumbonium” for the Miss Universe pageant, Bender takes advantage of Fry’s mistrust towards Flexo to steal the atom. In other words, he used his best friend’s stupidity for his own personal gain. How low can Bender get?

After the extraterrestrial known as Yivo proposes to Earth, humanity leaves their homes to reside on the heavenly planet. However, not everyone is living in an eternal paradise, most notably Bender. Upon receiving a message from Fry, Bender takes it upon himself to “rescue” his friend. But, because Yivo made Earth promise to never speak to other universes after their marriage, Bender’s invasion exposes Fry’s message and causes all of mankind to be booted off Yivo. This inadvertently causes strain between everyone else’s relationships, too. So, he not only ruined heaven for his best friend, but for an entire planet.

We can give Bender a little bit of credit behind some of his misdemeanors - at least he had reasons to do what he’s done. This, on the other hand, was downright childish. When he notices the amount of attention Nibbler gets, Bender quickly grows jealous to the point where he begins to resent the little guy. This eventually leads to Bender flushing Nibbler down the toilet without considering Leela’s feelings. As punishment, he’s programmed with a chip that’s synced with Leela’s emotions, forcing him to feel what she feels every moment. Seriously, man, you didn’t have to like Nibbler, but sending him packing was cruel.

Before we convict Bender of his worst crime, here are a few Honorable Mentions…

Stealing Everything From His Fraternity

Cheating at a Slurm Sweepstakes

Dumping Toxic Waste

Annoying Elzar on His Show

Joining the Robot Mafia

In the episode “A Pharaoh to Remember”, Fry, Leela, and Bender make a delivery to O’Cyris IV, a planet that lives in the same culture as ancient Egypt. Unfortunately, they quickly find themselves enslaved and forced to build pyramids. Shortly after their current pharaoh is entombed, Bender makes a few alterations to the planet’s ‘Wall of Prophecy,’ tricking them into believing he is the next pharaoh. Not only does he treat the people with little dignity, but he also commands them to build a massive statue of himself. If there was any moment that proves just how selfish the alcoholic android is, it was this.