Did this episode even air? I do not remember it. The Futurama page at TV guide says it did. I think it might have been preempted by football in the East and aired only on the West Coast.

The Futurama page at TV guide is wrong. FOX pre-empted this episode at the last minute to show their idiotic (and almost immediately cancelled) "hot" new game show, "The Chamber.

Is this any way to run a network?

No.

Hooray. They finally aired this one. And it was worth a wait. Well, not really. But it was still good fun.

Gotta love Bender and God's conversation,

Bender: "I was God too once."
God: "Yes, I saw. You were doing pretty good until everyone died."

Overall I thought it was a pretty cute episode, if a little heavy handed on the morals. :-)

GIANT NIT!

Sound doesn't travel through vaccum, and I don't think that Bender has enough mass to have an atmosphere.

Right, so this is a comedy show and that doesn't really matter...

(like the Simpsons' car getting destroyed every other episode)

The monks searching the universe from earth for god reminds me of the Seti@home project. Anyone else catch this reference to Seti?

The people on Bender build atomic weapons and blow themselves up, so why doesn't Bender become radioactive from this?
Then again I believe that those missiles are too small to contain the minimum amount of radioactive material for an explosion.

Bender must have some kind of autorepair mechanism. First, he gets a hole in his head from a small meteorite, which vanishes again. Then he etches his version of the voyager probes on his chest, and people with landscape land on him. But after the war erupted, his whole body is clean again - no landscape left over, no scarring from the rockets, no etching.

I wondered about the atmosphere and the sound, too. I hope the creators were deliberately making fun of the bad sci-fi- shows were sounds travel through vacuum, and every ship explodes in a fireball...

The monks searching the universe from earth for god reminds me of the Seti@home project. Anyone else catch this reference to Seti?

They reminded me of the listening monks in Pratchett's Discworld, which live in a very silent valley near the Hub, trying to listen to the first word God said when he created the universe, and their first repsonse to visitors usually is "SHHHhhh, don't be so loud."

"We can pray."
"Is there anything, you know, useful we can do?"
"Oh. No."

Hahahaha, friggin' awesome episode.