Futurama: Bender’s Big Score - Binary Joke

In Futurama: Bender’s Big Score, Bender reads off a series of 0’s and 1’s to travel through time. Now I won’t go much into the movie¹, but the writers are known for their geek humor.

Now, if you take the whole thing by itself, it’s not a 16-bit code, but 32-bit. I believe IBM made a few super computers that handle 32-bit binary. With that said, we can’t just pump it into a binary-to-ASCII converter. Watching the movies I noticed that the binary code he reads is symmetrical. If you take the first half of each line you will notice that the binary is translated to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Wow, that simple.

If you type the actual string out into google, you will notice that the producers have actually registered the domain 001100010010011110100001101101110011.com/ and displayed just one image. How nice of them. Unlike the site ilovebender.com/, there is no other information on the page.

They have set up a nice auto-responder to anything that goes to bender@ilovebender.com. It reads:

Dear New Friend,

Thank you for writing to me, Bender. It really means a lot to me. Not many humans contact me because I am so rude and impatient. You‚Äôre starting to get on my nerves now. Quit buggin‚Äô me, meatbag!

P.S. - Buy my DVD.

Love,

Bender

I’m glad to see writers, producers, directors, and whoever involved taking the extra measure to make the experience more enjoyable. Now go by the DVD.

You should really go buy the movie. It’s pretty cheap at Amazon. [↩]

Matt

It is not actually 32 bit binary. There are 36 total 0s and 1s. It would actually be 36 bit binary than.

Barry Mason

if you actually type the binary code in from top to bottom starting from the left you can get a message that says ≈°¬™d Seems to me that's the message they want to get across.

Andrew

Look at the 1s and you can see benders face... yes its a geek joke, but more a joke on geeks!!!

Sometimes its as obvious as the nose (or not) on your face...

Bye guys...

Ken

I just found your article regarding Bender's binary code, and it gave me quite a chuckle. Thanks.

Anyway, if you look at the code the way it is displayed, a couple things are apparent:

001100
010010
100001
011110
101101
110011

The 1's in the first row are in the center. In the next row, they are pushed out one spot, and after they're on the end, the 0's start on the outside and work their way in.
Just my 2 cents.

nathaniel adams

if u take the code in its original form it is this 001100010010100001011110101101110011
and u put it into a scientific calculator as a binary then add the code backwords... sooo
001100010010100001011110101101110011 +
110011101101011110100001010010001100
then hit = u get this 111111111111111111111111111111111111 then change the binary to a decimal u get this number 68719476735 ... now put that number on google and the first site to pop up is this http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.ph... now on this thread on page 1 it explains a puzzle that will effect the universe...

Perplex City is home to many strange groups and organizations; perhaps none stranger than the Brotherhood of the Six, who revere and venerate the Cube. In the centre of their temple, in the heart of the old city, is a structure they call the "Tower of Cubes". It consists of 3 poles and 36 cubes of diminishing size, each with a hole through the centre.

At the beginning of time, so it is said, all the cubes were arranged in perfect order on the first, black pole. It is the duty of the Brotherhood to transfer all the cubes so that they sit, in perfect order, on the final, white pole. Various rules govern this holy activity. A larger cube can never sit on top of a smaller one, and only one cube may be transferred at one time; it is not permitted to hold a cube in one's hand, or to place it anywhere other than one of the poles.

According to ancient prophecy, when the cubes are all arranged on the white pole, the universe will be aligned in perfect harmony and there will be an end to all sorrow and grief. If one cube is transferred every minute, how long will it take for this blissful state of affairs to come to pass? the answer is the decimal conversion of the sum of the binary code added to the backwords code 68719476735 moves or minutes!!! try it for yourself!!!

nathaniel adams

maybe that was the joke? however it does look a bit like bender the way they had the code

Talix

It's a space ship.

Mind Mining Medium

Futurama: Bender’s Big Score - Binary Joke