Bender, Fry and Leela decide to go to an amusement park called Past-o-Rama. They find a 20th century car and Fry demonstrates his driving skills by driving through a wall and running over a robot. It turns out he is a bending unit like Bender called Flexo, who looks just like Bender but with a goatee. The two robots hit it off, and Fry is jealous, not least because Flexo is horrible to him. Flexo is hired as extra security when a rare atom must be delivered to the Miss Universe pageant. Fry is convinced that Flexo is evil, and the atom is stolen when he falls asleep. Flexo is gone. Bender and Flexo fight at the pageant, and it turns out that Bender stole the atom and Flexo went to tell Bob Barker, who was hosting the pageant. Flexo is arrested anyway.

Quotes:

Proffesor: This is a single atom of Jumboneum, an element so rare that the nucleus alone is worth more than fifty thousand dollars.
Bender: How much more?
Proffesor: A hundred thousand.

Fry: Aha! I saw you looking at the atom.
Flexo: So? I look at lots of atoms.

Flexo: Hey, Fry, think fast!
(He blows some gas into Fry's face)
Flexo: Get it, its chlorine!
Zoidberg Hahaha! It's funny because it's poisonous!

Bender: Hubba, hubba, she is built! In Mexico I believe.
Fry: Uh, yeah, look at that exhaust fan.
Bender: Eurgh! Pervert.

Seen Around the Future

Signs seen around Past-o-Rama include:
Past-o-Rama - It's da Bomb!
Learn Spanglish!
Laser tentacle surgery (in alien writing)
47th Street Butter Churn
Star Wars 9 - Yoda's Bar Mitzvah

Signs at the pageant:
'Tonight: Miss Universe Pageant
Tomorrow: Miss Parallel Universe Pageant' and
'Contestants may not exceed 50% implant'

Bender's serial number is 2716057, which is expressible as the sum of two cubes:
952³ + -951³ = 2716057
And for Flexo:
119³ + 119³ = 3370318

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