Hell Is Other Robots

"Hell Is Other Robots"
Futurama episode
Episode no.Season 1
Episode 9
Directed byRich Moore
Written byEric Kaplan
Featured music
  • "Robot Hell"
  • Lyrics by Eric Kaplan and Ken Keeler
  • Music by Ken Keeler and Christopher Tyng
  • Performed by Dan Castellaneta, John DiMaggio, The Beastie Boys, Billy West, and Katey Sagal
Production code1ACV09
Original air dateMay 18, 1999 (1999-05-18)
Guest appearances
Episode features
Opening captionCondemned by the Space Pope
Opening cartoon"Betty Boop and Grampy" (1935)[1]
Episode chronology
List of episodes

"Hell Is Other Robots" is the ninth episode in the first season of the American animated television series Futurama. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 18, 1999. The episode was written by Eric Kaplan and directed by Rich Moore. Guest stars in this episode include the Beastie Boys as themselves and Dan Castellaneta voicing the Robot Devil.

The episode is one of the first to focus heavily on Bender. In the episode, he develops an addiction to electricity. When this addiction becomes problematic, Bender joins the Temple of Robotology, but after Fry and Leela tempt Bender with alcohol and prostitutes, he quits the Temple of Robotology and is visited by the Robot Devil for sinning, and Bender is sent to Robot Hell. Finally Fry and Leela come to rescue him, and the three escape.

The episode introduces the Robot Devil, Reverend Lionel Preacherbot and the religion of the Temple of Robotology, a spoof on the Church of Scientology. The episode received positive reviews, and was one of four featured on the DVD boxed set of Matt Groening's favorite episodes, Monster Robot Maniac Fun Collection.

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