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3ACV06: Bendless Love
First UK airing: Sky One, 8:30pm, 18-2-01
"He's a menace to every straight
person in the company!"
On the face of it, this should have been a big, blaring,
warning sign episode. Flexo and the Robot Mafia dragged
back in the same story? Hell, Matt 'n' Dave, why don't you haul
in Guenter, Cubert and Michelle while you're at it? However,
thank TPTB that this wasn't a guest star episode -- instead,
the non-regulars were wheeled in for jokes and plot advancement,
then quickly removed so the main cast could all have their scenes,
which is the way it should be.
It was quite weird that this was the third romance-themed
episode of Futurama in a row --
presumably Valentine's Day was responsible for it being shown
quite a long way out of order. First Fry/Leela, then Amy/Kif
and now Bender/Angleina. Funnily enough, only one of those relationships
worked out... they must be saving the others for the season finale
of about year six.
All that aside, 'Bendless Love' was standard Futurama fare -- some good jokes (I thought
what Bender did to Zoidberg's slinky was hilarious!), some fairly
obvious ones and a story that had its moments but didn't really
linger in the mind. Characters like Elzar did their regular schtick
but without adding anything new, and Angleine, a couple of one-liners
aside, wasn't the most memorable guest character the show's ever
had. 3ACV06 wasn't anywhere near Futurama's
high points, but then it was comfortably clear of its worst episodes
as well. Apart from that, there's not a lot more I can say. Hey,
at least it saves valuable bandwidth!
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