Obsoletely fabulous

The largest robot exhibition Roboticon-3003 is taking place at Madison-Cube Garden. There, professors Farnsworth and Wornstroom present their rogue killers. In the same place, the Mom's Friendly Robot Company demonstrates Robot 1-X , a domestic servant with unlimited possibilities. Farnsworth buys one of them, which makes Bender depressed : he understands that the new 1-X is many times better and more functional than it. In desperation, he decides to upgrade , but at the last second he runs away, afraid of radical changes in himself. Not knowing how to now seem up-to-date in front of friends, Bender builds a boat and floats into the open sea.

A storm takes him to a tropical island. Bender can neither build himself a shelter, nor get food, and very soon his battery runs out . He is saved by the natives - the same robots, but using alternative (non-modern) power sources. Very soon, Bender imbued with their life, accepted their lifestyle and even made a downgrade for themselves - replacing the metal parts of its structure with similar wooden ones. He calls on everyone to fight with modern technology.

In a wooden submarine with a rowing oars, Bender (as the captain of the ship and the leader of the uprising) and the inhabitants of the island arrive in the waters of New York. They commit a series of “anti-tech sabotage and terrorist acts,” and then Bender outlines the final goal - the office of the Interplanetary Express, where his sworn enemy Robot 1-X remained. After several shots into the office from a primitive catapult, the entire Express crew is caught under their spaceship , and they are surrounded by burning fuel . Bender rushes to the rescue of his friends, but his new body brings him - it is undermined by termites . The only way out is to ask for the help of the hated 1st, and Bender does it.

List of new or recurring characters in the series:

• Ogden Wornstroom
• Mommy
• Walt, Larry and Ignar
• Roberto
• Fat Robot
• Debut: Nannibot 1.0
• Debut: Robot 1-X
• Debut: Sinclair 2K
• Debut: Lisa

• Soul detector.

• The title of the episode is reminiscent of the name of the song “Absolutely Fabulous” by Pet Shop Boys .
• The storyline of the series, based on the introduction of false memory into the brain, as well as the escape scene from the “upgrade”, refers to the film “ Remember Everything ” with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the title role. It is based on the idea of solipsism - doubts about reality.

• The robot girl from the island (working from the water flowing through the mill wheel) is called Lisa. This is the name of the predecessor of the Apple Computer Macintosh .
• The second robot from the island is called Sinclair. This is a reference to the company that created the ZX series home computers that were popular in the 80s and early 90s (including in the USSR / CIS).
• Vernstrum is trying to entice customers with claims that its robot killer has IBM Lotus Notes .
• At the very beginning of the series, professors compete with whose robots are meaner. The Wornstrum robot is clearly similar to the robot from the movie Robot Police Officer .
• On one of the counters appears part R2-D2 .

• Opposite the Wernstrum counter is a killer robot. In the animated series, he appears for the first time, although before that he appeared in a deleted scene from the episode " Love's Colors Lost in Space ".
• This is the second episode of those most of which is devoted to fantasy or hallucinations (the previous episode is “ The Sting ”). Also this episode is the fourth of those in which Bender hesitates: to become better, worse, or to remain himself (previous episodes - “ Fear of a Bot Planet ”, “ Hell Is Other Robots ” and “ Bend Her ”).
• Robot 1-X dies in the full-length animated film Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Spin . Moreover, Bender already appreciates it less than the wastebasket.
• The god of robots looks like a Robot 1-X without hands. This is seen in the episode " Ghost in the Machines ."

• Obsoletely Fabulous on the Futurama wiki
• Obsoletely Fabulous on the Internet Movie Database