"Fear of a Bot Planet" is the fifth episode in the first season of the American animated television series Futurama.
The episode was written by Heather Lombard and Evan Gore and directed by Peter Avanzino and Carlos Baeza with co-direction by Ashley Lenz and Chris Sauvé.
They discover Bender is playing the robots' prejudice for his own benefit, claiming he has killed billions of humans.
The crew, headed back to Earth, celebrate Robanukah with Bender, who confesses the holiday is fictitious.
The planet Chapek 9 is named after Karel Čapek, the Czech writer who is attributed with coining the term "robot" in his play R.U.R..[1] The plot element related to the human-hating robot planet was based on Stanisław Lem's story "The Eleventh Voyage" (of Ijon Tichy) from The Star Diaries.
Club gave the episode an A−, stating, "While the show would go on to create more consistently well-considered worlds, the depth of its cleverness is on fine display.