Futurama

Aw. You're all such talented artists!

I'm gonna put this cute little guy on the corkboard.

This isn't kid's stuff, Mom!

We're making NFTs.

NFTs? So, like digital art, right?

- Hardly. Though, in this case, yes.

NFTs stands for non-fungible token.

That means it's unique.

Ah! So, if I buy an NFT,

I'm the only one who has that image.

- No. - But I own the original?

Meesh, Mom! No one wants the original!

So if I were to buy an NFT,

what would I actually own?

A concept.

In the form of a digital token stored on the blockchain.

Blockchain. Blockchain. Block...

Blockchain, eh? That is so interest--

I sold my horsie NFT!

- Someone bought Mandy's awful horse drawing?

Uh-huh! For $3!

Wha? Money? Who said money?

- Nobody, but top NFTs do sell for millions.

Like this collection.

The Apathetic Fish Society.

They look kinda cool,

yet also extremely stupid.

Cool yet stupid, you say?

Clearly, I, Bender, am destined to be

the next smash-hit NFT!

- You know, he might be just stupid enough.

Might be.

Look at that. Yeah. Oh.

Hm. Come on now!

Yeah. Hit it up. Ooh!

Hey.

It's go time!

The Bender Collection drops in three,

two...

Let's sell some Bender!

Oops. Wrong gun.

"Bender with Sombrero" just sold for one cent!

That's 'cause I bought it.

You know, to trick suckers into thinking it's valuable.

Then I paid a quarter.

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

- This whole NFT thing is completely crooked?

I love it!

It's happening!

The suckers are snapping up Bender's NFTs now!

How much did I make?

You're not gonna believe this.

You just made 90-- - Million?

- Four-- - Thousand?

- Dollars! - Cents?

Wait. $94? Woo-hoo! I'm rich!

In your face, kids who helped me!

You children really earned that ice cream.

I probably should have paid for it.

Anyway, thanks for the ice cream.

Huh.

Apparently, one buyer purchased all of Bender's NFTs.

- Wha-- What kinda idiot would do that?

That kind.

Note how the apathy conveyed by the fish

is exceeded only by the laziness of the art itself.

- Oh, yes. - Fabulous. - Quite so.

And here's a piece

we just acquired for $94.

That's me! That's my NFT!

Excuse me? No.

This piece belongs to the museum.

Could you step aside, sir? You're blocking the art.

I am the art!

That NFT represents the very concept of me, Bender.

- That concept now resides in our NFT, so... scoot!

But! But! But!

I've lost everything!

I sold off all the little pieces of me!

Can't you just hack in and get your NFT back?

- Dad! That hacking stuff only happens in stupid TV shows.

Does it look like we're in a stupid TV show?

Kind of.

- The blockchain is cryptographically secure.

There's no way to hack in.

- Unless you can factor a million-digit number,

which I very much doubt.

- I can't even factor six! I've tried!

I don't know who or what I'm anymore!

- Well, according to your self-published, handwritten autobiography,

you're Bender Rodriguez,

the coolest Mexican bending robot in the world.

And also my best friend.

Then truly I have nothing!

Goodbye, jerks!

I'm off to rediscover the concept of Bender!

Perhaps in the land of my ancestors.

What land was that again?

Mexxxico, with three Xs.

Got it.

Adios, carnitas bags.

Oh!

Ah, Mexico.

Maybe here in the land of my robo-ancestors,

I can find myself.

Hola, amigo.

Close enough.

Yep, it's shiny and metal, alright.

And what of your ass?

¡También es magnífico!

- We must've been made in the same factory.

We have so much in common!

- Come, amigo! I will take you to my village,

where my family has lived for centuries

without a single software update.

Mexico has been home to many great empires.

The Toltecs, the Aztecs, and in the 2200s,

the Nanotecs.

The ancient stone robots?

Sí.

Everywhere we still find ruins of their great civilization.

Because, uh, they were bad at building stuff.

Here, our people still fire pottery

just as the ancients did.

¿Quién es este idiota?

Please, the pleasure is all mine.

Hey, what are those dorks doing?

- Playing "Hoop," our ancient national sport.

Whoever gets the ball through the hoop wins.

Aw. It's cute how bad they suck.

- Well, it's basically impossible to score.

The ball is just a big heavy rock.

Hey! That was the best shot I ever seen!

It nearly went through!

- I'm great, alright.

- And here is where my familia has lived for generations.

Welcome to Casa Rodriguez.

That's so weird.

The house and me have the same last name!

You are Bender Rodriguez?

I am Doblando Rodriguez!

We are all some kind of Rodriguezes!

Everyone, say hola to Bender,

my long-lost cousin!

Hola, Bender.

¡Hola, Tío Bender!

Ah! Parasite!

Bender, this is my Abuelatron.

And yours, too, come to think of it.

You're my grandma?

I can't believe I've never met you before!

Oh, Nieto.

You move away when you just eight seconds old.

I can tell you are muy especial.

I really am.

And so is this rusty old village.

I feel so surrounded by love.

- Bah, I don't like talk about feelings. Time for a drink.

You're a booze bag? Me, too!

- Poor Bender'll never have another moment of happiness

unless we can get his NFT back.

But I know it's impossible 'cause of blockchain.

Blockchain's not the boss of me!

I say we grab it off the wall and run.

I've always wanted to pull a museum heist.

Oh, you poor ignorant dopes.

You can't just steal an NFT off the wall.

To steal an abstract mathematical construct,

you need a professor.

- And we have a professor! - Now, as everyone knows,

the secret to a good heist is

the more complex, the better.