Now this was a good episode. The introduction and showing how much having Fry arround interfered with day to day business was excellent. Who knew that being blind stinking sober whould be bad for robots. This episode also answered the question why bender drinks so much and how he considers friendshp and some of his emotions. My solution to benders television interfeerence is to change his frenquency to another one. "Little bender" nice way of putting it. "Put it on ice" is pretty funny.

I live in Ireland, this series is at least six months, if not a year away. But I was wondering, Isn't this series meant to be some sort of sequel to the Simpsons. Wasn't it made by the same team?

Yes, it is a sequel to the Simpsons. Although, on Futerama, the Simpsons are in their 1011th season. Apparently, robotic cyborg zombies and evil alien overlords weren't enough to take it off the air.

It's not a sequel. Matt Groening, creator of the Simpsons, is co-creator of Futurama.

Fry Lives In Bender's Closet... Pretty Big For A Closet, Eh?

Speaking of Bender's closet, dosen't it seem a bit
stylish for a closet? And what's with the big windows
for someone to smash and steal stuff through?
(they do have hover craft which makes the job easy),

In the pilot episode Bender didn't want people to think he & Fry were 'robosexuals'. I wonder what people would say when they discover that Bender has a human 'in the closet'?

Of course, if Fry ever went out to get really drunk would he be 'on a bender'?

I imagine it's because Bender didn't know fry at first, but sense his sensory input paramaters had grown acustomed to Fry, and would be missed when absent.

Speaking of which, Bender's sort of an enigma.
In this episode he declares he wants to kill all humans. But then he grows attached to Fry. In the Robot planet epsiode he bgins hating humans again, and even joins a group dedicated to killing them all. Then in the water-people episode he seems happy that Leela likes him. I guess Bender has problems expressing his emotions correctly. His attachment to Fry in this episode is really sweet though. I've never really seen anything so "sweet" in a cartoon, infact.

Something just came to mind. Were the police officers--one human and the other an artificial life-form (i.e., robot)--not the same police officers who pursued Fry and Bender in the head museum during the pilot episode? If so, then how come the two had not resumed their pursuit when being contacted by Fry and Bender? Technically, Fry and Bender are still in trouble with the law.

Hilarious line: "You call that an antenna."

Bender and Fry were introuble because they didn't have career assignments. Fry's great-times-infinitum cusion (Dr. Farnsworth) took care of that.

My "nit-picks" are as numerically proceeds:
1) In the All My Circuits scene in which the yellowish robot proposes to the female robot, whose identity is Monique if memory serves me correctly, the yellowish robot screws on a bolt for an engagement ring. In fact, the yellowish robot screws it on to the very end of Monique's finger. In the sequential scene, though, the bolt is conspicuously not all the way down the finger.
2) Bender supports Leela's protest regarding Fry's living behavior and arrangements but soon joins Fry in observing an episode of All My Circuits. Fry replies, "Sure," and pushes clutter off the coach. When Bender sits down, Fry moves to the exact spot off which Fry pushed the clutter. Why did Fry push the clutter off a spot he apparently intended to switch to anyway?
3) The landlord for the underwater apartment most definitely resembles Bernard "Barney" Gumble from The Simpsons.
4) Bender mentions how his old TV does not become distorted by his antenna. However, I never caught a glimpse of any TV within Bender's "apartment."
5) Bender broodingly strides down a street that is surrounded by neon signs. This scene reminded me of a similar scene of an episode in The Simpsons in which Homer Simpson is also broodingly striding down a street--to one of the songs pertaining to the film The Graduate, might I add.

RE Nit 4:
Maybe Bender ment the TV at Planet Express headquaters?

His attachment to Fry in this episode is really
sweet though. I've never really seen anything so "sweet" in a cartoon, infact.

What about Pikachu and his devtion to Ash? Especially in the first episode.

Futurama has just started screening in Australia - how come we can't add any new messages to episode one?
It was an hour-long premiere but they screened Eps I and III together... the Fry getting frozen and into the future and the room-mate one.
Did anyone notice Bender in Ep I being so scared a brick came out his back end, in line with the famous expression that rhymes with "hitting sticks" ?

And did anyone notice the 30th Century Fox logo right at the end, instead of 20th Century?

When Bender and Fry move in together in the big apartment, music from The Odd Couple starts to play and there are passing references to the film/series, most notably the umbrella picking up the cigar scene.

As far as I know, the 30th Century Fox logo is at the end of each episode.

This was a good one though, it was good to get inside Benders mind.

It is John, the DVD audio commentary mentions this.

I like the way that Fry, Leela and Bender are searching for houses.

The Escher and New Jersey references were especially funny.