Bender’s Reading List

On the most recent episode of Futurama, Bender gets overclocked and procedes to whiz through several books a la Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation. The writers had some fun with the book titles as they quickly whizzed by on screen. Here they are in order of appearance.

Calculus

Advanced Calculus

Decline and Fall of the Romulon Empire

The Oxford English Pictionary

Anti-Gravity’s Rainbow

NNYC Phone Book

Wuthering Gattaca

The Mathketball Diaries

Advanced Calculus [Again]

Every Translation of the Iliad

How to Kill A Mockingbird

Ventriloquism for Dummies

Dante’s Life in Hell

Connecticut Tax Law

Google Book

Big Book of Tumbleweeds

Guinness Book of Parallel World Records

VCR Repair

The Collected Wisdom of Braino

How I Conquered Your Planet

Complete Simpson Episode Guide

All the Presidents’ Heads

Shakespeare Typed by Monkeys, Volube 78

The Sithal War

Calculon on Calculon

Ayn Rand McNally Atlas Shrugged

Some of the Digits of Pi

Genome of the Flatworm, Volume 12

Later in the episode, The Hyperchicken (the large blue/green rooster-like attorney with southern mannerisms) has a book at the defendant’s table that says “Leges Avium”, which is Latin for “Laws of Birds.”