He has no success as a "foodmotron" since no one wishes to eat the sandwiches from his "compartment" (the crotch of his pants), nor as a calculator since he cannot identify a plus sign, nor as a toolbot since he cannot unscrew a bolt with his bare fingers (even after he puts oil in his armpits). Roberto, fed up with life in the asylum, breaks out and takes Bender with him.īack at the Planet Express building, Fry attempts to discover his function as a robot. The day after suffering a complete mental breakdown, Fry is released, having been "cured" of his delusion of humanity, causing him to think he is a robot. When Fry thinks he is going to be released, Malfunctioning Eddie gets released instead, and Fry gets a new roommate: the insane bank robber Roberto, who was captured after robbing the same bank again. Fry perseveres, surviving on food coughed up by a sick vending machine robot, but his mental state continues to rapidly deteriorate. Fry is roomed with car salesman Malfunctioning Eddie, who is undergoing treatment for his condition of exploding when surprised or shocked. To make matters worse, the doctors refuse to acknowledge that Fry is human, due to their logic that, if Fry is a patient in a robot asylum, he must be a robot, completely disregarding that he is a biological life form. Once there, Fry undergoes a torturous physical examination, to Bender's enjoyment. After pleading insanity on the advice of their lawyer, Fry was going to be sent to a human asylum, and Bender to a robot asylum yet since the human asylum is overcrowded (as poverty had been deemed a mental illness by the judge), both Fry and Bender are sent to the HAL Institute for Criminally Insane Robots. At the trial, Roberto surreptitiously threatens to kill Fry should Fry testify against him. The criminally insane robot Roberto hands them bags of cash for their trouble, and after he runs off, Fry and Bender are charged for their role in the robbery. While at Big Apple Bank to open a retirement fund, Fry and Bender become involved in a holdup. The episode introduces the recurring Futurama character Roberto. After being released, the Planet Express crew try to make him rediscover his humanity these attempts fail, until Fry bleeds and realizes he is in fact, human. Fry's attempts to convince the asylum's staff that he is a human fail he is eventually made to believe that he is a robot, and is deemed "cured" and released from the asylum. In the episode, Fry and Bender are admitted to an insane asylum for robots after being charged for their roles in holding up a bank. ![]() ![]() The episode was written by Bill Odenkirk and directed by Peter Avanzino. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 8, 2001. " Insane in the Mainframe" is the eleventh episode in the third season of the American animated television series Futurama, and the 43rd episode of the series overall. "The Mild West" by Fleischer and Famous Studios (1947) 11th episode of the 3rd season of Futurama " Insane in the Mainframe"
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