Futurama: Hell Is Other Robots

Futurama: Hell Is Other Robots
Fox
May 18, 1999
Sci-Fi, Comedy, Cartoon
DVD
C+

This story, Eric Kaplan's first of seven, is odd even by Futurama standards.  It includes the following:

• A Beastie Boys concert
• Bender becoming addicted to electricity until he's saved by the Church of Robotology
• His friends corrupting him in Atlantic City
• Him being dragged off to Robot Hell, which is apparently located in an abandoned amusement park
• Bender, the Robot Devil (voiced by Castellaneta), Leela, and Fry singing a song about Robot Hell
• and Bender deciding he'll be just as evil as usual, no more no less.

Vanzo and Moore co-directed.

Futurama in its first season ranges from C to B-, averaging out to C+.  There are no real classic moments but it's a decent introduction to the series.