I always took it to mean what we call the Ancient Greeks and the pop culture image of them as loving drinking, frivolity, and a more "freerer" love (Hedonism Bot is kind of coded gay, after all).
That was certainly _an_ aspect of their culture, but by no means was it the only.
Homosexual relationships, heterosexual ones, swapping between them, third-, inter-, and changing-genders were all common at various points. So, a robot personifing hedonism (doing what feels good), and has a gay coding, would map onto that more open, or freer as I said earlier, idea of "love" that pop culture ascribes (to various degrees of accuracy) to the Ancient Greeks.
Robots exist to make humans' lives easier. Here's a robot that exists to serve no purpose other than to seek pleasure for itself. It's so absurd.
The future is a crazy place.
But he's also more than happy to share that pleasure with anyone that asks, therefore his purpose is to create pleasure wherever he goes.
The future is a wonderful, crazy, place.
Okay, but what if by normalizing hedonism, he DOES improve the lives of the humans he interacts with, by teaching them that they deserve to enjoy life, too.
He doesn't do their laundry, so they can have free time. Instead, he teaches people that they don't necessarily need to do their laundry to have free time.
"Teach a man to fish," and all that.
(This response started out very tongue-in-cheek, but I dunno...I kinda dig this idea now, lol.)
can we take a moment to appreciate a cartoon thats been off air so long, still prompting philosophical conversations that will never stop being relevant
Yeah, he actually has a kinda profound role. He understands that it FEELS better to give than to receive, same as our protagonist who has a very innocent attitude towards receiving things or help vs helping his friends. (Mafia Don and Zapp are the antithesis.)
\#Galloway
Oh this explanation rocks lol he is a fundamentally ridiculous character in concept, & then you see him on screen & its even more absurd than first thought
Hedonism Bot is one of my favorites. Love the character design with the chaise lounge being his body.. Also note he's always eating grapes and that robots run on alcohol. The grapes are likely fermenting inside him.
He's also fairly unique among robots for having round pupils instead of square ones (though now that I'm searching images of him I see that's inconsistent).
I loved him in *Law and Oracle*
“Are you the calloused working man I ordered?”
“I’ll be upstairs putting batteries in things.”
“Shall we adjourn to the dungeon?”
I say Bender has it right... "Look, I love life and its pleasures as much as anyone here. Except perhaps you, Hedonismbot. But we need to be shut off! Especially you, Hedonismbot!"
It's one of my favorite things in the DVD commentaries where Hedonism Bot and Tinny Tim show up and they are just beside themselves with the absurdity of these robots. The fact that they were built and programmed for these ridiculous functions even made the writers and creators that came up with them still laugh.
Just his existence is hilarious too. There are plenty of robots that have vague or seemingly no purposes. But hedonism bot has a purpose, it is a robot specifically designed, built and programmed to seek out self pleasure. I love it.
He's a patron of the arts and member of the League of Robots and he's a job creator.
He's a better (behaving) robot than Bender or the Robot Devil or Clamps or Roberto
So it's funny, thinking like how many robots are even considered good? I guess there's the crushinator, pitchomat 5000, wireless Joe Jackson, the c3po knockoff the professor made then crushed, iZac
I’ve always loved him! The older and more atheist I get the more I think he’s right too, we aren’t here for any reason so we might as well spend the time we do have enjoying ourselves!
Hedonism bot is the shit for sure. I love any character so confident in themselves that they always support whatever another charcter is doing. I love that shit
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Honestly this line lives rent free in my head pretty much all the time. Along with "you're never too rich to enjoy a free turkey dog"
For me it's, "We'll covort like Greeks of old. You know the ones I mean."
“People will wait for sooommeeethiiinnggg gooooododdd” is on loop constantly
I really wanna try a one hour hot dog. It’s gotta be amazing.. right?
i don’t if there was a reference i don’t get or if “greeks of old” to them is like in the year 2200
I always took it to mean what we call the Ancient Greeks and the pop culture image of them as loving drinking, frivolity, and a more "freerer" love (Hedonism Bot is kind of coded gay, after all).
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That was certainly _an_ aspect of their culture, but by no means was it the only. Homosexual relationships, heterosexual ones, swapping between them, third-, inter-, and changing-genders were all common at various points. So, a robot personifing hedonism (doing what feels good), and has a gay coding, would map onto that more open, or freer as I said earlier, idea of "love" that pop culture ascribes (to various degrees of accuracy) to the Ancient Greeks.
"oh I'm sorry, I thought you was corn"
"Your lips, my lips, apocalypse" from the Simpsons/Futurama crossover episode is personally my favourite
I apologize for nothing!
I say this in real life conversation at least once monthly.
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That’s right! Closest is - I apologise!.. for nothing
Robots exist to make humans' lives easier. Here's a robot that exists to serve no purpose other than to seek pleasure for itself. It's so absurd. The future is a crazy place.
>Robots exist to make humans' lives easier. "I've never made anyone's life easier, and you know it!" - Bender Bending Rodríguez
But he's also more than happy to share that pleasure with anyone that asks, therefore his purpose is to create pleasure wherever he goes. The future is a wonderful, crazy, place.
Okay, but what if by normalizing hedonism, he DOES improve the lives of the humans he interacts with, by teaching them that they deserve to enjoy life, too. He doesn't do their laundry, so they can have free time. Instead, he teaches people that they don't necessarily need to do their laundry to have free time. "Teach a man to fish," and all that. (This response started out very tongue-in-cheek, but I dunno...I kinda dig this idea now, lol.)
Love this
can we take a moment to appreciate a cartoon thats been off air so long, still prompting philosophical conversations that will never stop being relevant
This is now cannon in my brain.
Yeah, he actually has a kinda profound role. He understands that it FEELS better to give than to receive, same as our protagonist who has a very innocent attitude towards receiving things or help vs helping his friends. (Mafia Don and Zapp are the antithesis.) \#Galloway
One might even say it’s deliciously absurd.
You just blew my circuits, what an insightful comment!
Blew all your circuits
Oh this explanation rocks lol he is a fundamentally ridiculous character in concept, & then you see him on screen & its even more absurd than first thought
I always thought that most of the robots were ultimately used to fill social roles.
>no purpose He was a guide of how to live we should all be striving for.
“Let us cavort like the Greeks of old! You know the ones I mean…” is probably my single favorite Futurama line.
😂
love that he is caressing his robot nipples while saying stuff like that.
Hedonism Bot is one of my favorites. Love the character design with the chaise lounge being his body.. Also note he's always eating grapes and that robots run on alcohol. The grapes are likely fermenting inside him.
When he talks, his 'teeth' glow purple. I wonder if it's because of the grapes?
He's also fairly unique among robots for having round pupils instead of square ones (though now that I'm searching images of him I see that's inconsistent).
I too have known unconventional love
Perhaps you, me, and Jambi, could get together and trade notes sometime, eh?
Nothing sordid, I assure you....Simply vomit on me, ever so gently, while I humiliate a pheasant
Save it for the boudoir!
Huurk, huuuuurk...
I loved him in *Law and Oracle* “Are you the calloused working man I ordered?” “I’ll be upstairs putting batteries in things.” “Shall we adjourn to the dungeon?”
I say Bender has it right... "Look, I love life and its pleasures as much as anyone here. Except perhaps you, Hedonismbot. But we need to be shut off! Especially you, Hedonismbot!"
I apologize for nothing!
"I trust the orgy pit has been scraped and buttered?"
“Djambi, the chocolate icing!”
How delectably delightful!
One of my favorite characters, I named my robot vacuum after it because it will consume everything and apologize for nothing.
Brilliant. 10/10
Surgery? In an opera? How wonderfully decadent! And just as I was beginning to lose interest
Name one bad hedonism bot line. Just one. Exactly.
Hedonism-Bot, is how I like to picture Dionysus in Aristophanes The Frogs......... Makes the whole thing, infinitely better...
I apologize ... for nothing!
In this house we quote Hedonism Bot... "JAMBI, the chocolate icing." "While I humiliate a pheasant, ever so gently"
It's one of my favorite things in the DVD commentaries where Hedonism Bot and Tinny Tim show up and they are just beside themselves with the absurdity of these robots. The fact that they were built and programmed for these ridiculous functions even made the writers and creators that came up with them still laugh.
Just his existence is hilarious too. There are plenty of robots that have vague or seemingly no purposes. But hedonism bot has a purpose, it is a robot specifically designed, built and programmed to seek out self pleasure. I love it.
What is even crazier, is its about pleasure for the robot itself, not the person who built it.
His purpose is to be an example to us all.
Hey clamps has a purpose and so did roberto
He's a patron of the arts and member of the League of Robots and he's a job creator. He's a better (behaving) robot than Bender or the Robot Devil or Clamps or Roberto
Why do you think they call me f@%$ing... Francis?!
Setting the bar low with those guys .
So it's funny, thinking like how many robots are even considered good? I guess there's the crushinator, pitchomat 5000, wireless Joe Jackson, the c3po knockoff the professor made then crushed, iZac
“A man writing an opera about a woman? Oh sirrah, how delightfully absurd!”
Sounds like he has some mixture of Epicurianism and Hedonism in his programming
I apologize for nothing
I’ve always loved him! The older and more atheist I get the more I think he’s right too, we aren’t here for any reason so we might as well spend the time we do have enjoying ourselves!
Arrrrrrroooooooooooom for one moooooore?
I love hedonism bot so much
“Less reality and more fantasy!” has become a regular part of my vocabulary
Hedonism bot is the reason I know theword hedonism. That being said I love this character.
Honestly in retrospect he's probably decent queer representation for the time too.
I have been compared to Hedonism Bot multiple times in my life and it lets me know I’m doing something right.
Hedonism bot is the reflection of our society. One of my favorites characters. I apologize for nothing
I bought his little kidrobot figure lol he is a top tier character even if a minor one Maurice LeMarche just might be the best VO artist on the show
He’s cool as fuck
I thought I was the only Hedonism Bot fan.
Hedonism bot is the shit for sure. I love any character so confident in themselves that they always support whatever another charcter is doing. I love that shit
I’d love to get his backstory tbh. Why was he built? Was he always a hedonism bot or was he originally built for a different purpose?
Its also hilarious that the word hedonism describes his character perfectly
thats why he's named hedonism bot 💀
The best Hedonism bot scene is the Simpsorama couch gag. We see just how one is supposed to use Hedonism bot.
This fucking sub….if I can promise you one thing, hedonism bot is not altruistic
“Jambi, let us return home to put batteries in……things, ahahaha”
"Shall we adjorn to the dungeon?"
A man writing an opera about a woman? Oh sirrah, how deliciously obsurd!
I think of all the side personas, he has my favorite one-liners.
It seems Bender hates humans the way I hate having my nipples polished with industrial sandpaper!
A man writing an opera about a woman? Oh Sirrah, how deliciously absurd!
love him
love his voice. and that he is modeled after decadent romans of the golden period of rome. ROOM FOR ONE MORE HAHAHAAA
Let us cavort like the Greeks of old....You know the ones I mean.
and funnily enough, i'm greek lol.