Futurama Facts You Never Knew

Ever the useful robot and a product of a thousand years of design advancement, Bender has come in handy for just about every occasion, always with a solution tucked away in his limitlessly spaced compartment, or with some new unforseen function. 

To date, we've seen his antenna alone function as: an antenna, a timer button for his internal digital camera, a beer pump lever, a measure of his manhood, a popcorn butter dispenser lever, a pager vibrator, a flushing lever, a cooking timer, an alarm clock snooze button, a voice mail alert light, a voice mail "delete all" button, "little Bender", a cap for a beer still, and an audio tape dispenser button.

And that's not even counting the multiple conflicting percentages of his composition! The easy answer? Bender represents an ever-evolving structure of nano-bots that conform to any need. Maybe.

The writers actually had Cubert in mind since the beginning, as a character who gave voice to nitpicking fans by pointing out the many plot holes and inconsistencies of the series. 

However, the writers never saw fit to introduce the character before the second season, and despite his many nitpicks during his first apparance, Cubert never ended up fulfilling the role the writers had set out for him, becoming a more normal boy from then on out.

In the third season episode "Luck of the Fryrish," Fry takes advantage of the solitude found in the old New York ruins underground to scream things he's always wanted to say, in this case "Howard Stern is overrated!"

Billy West, who provides Fry's voice (and many others) was a regular presence on the Howard Stern radio show for years prior to Futurama.

Believe it or not, while her fellow castmates voice multiple characters throughout the Futurama universe, Katey Sagal herself only provides the voice of Turanga Leela, and no other. 

Then again, we know Sons of Anarchy tends to keep her pretty busy.