The pair have the kind of passionate and silly romance that Bender has often indulged in across the series.

The episode even seems to reward her sense of self by having the Buggalo find peace with her profession.

Should Bender Have A Permanent Love Interest In Futurama?

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Why Bender Works Better Without A Long-Time Romance

Some ofFuturama’s best plotlines have been love stories.

However,Bender has only ever really had one-off love interestswho last an episode at at time.

With that in mind,it makes sense to give Bender one-off love interests.

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Futurama follows the exploits of Philip J. Fry, a pizza delivery boy from 1999 who is cryogenically frozen for 1000 years. Waking up in the year 3000, Fry befriends a cyclops named Leela and a roguish robot named Bender, and the three find employment with Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery service. Their work takes them to all corners of the universe, exploring space and the future as imagined by Matt Groening and the creators of The Simpsons.

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