I find it a bit boring is all. It's quite depressing how they give Bender, an amazing character, a plot that makes me not really care about him at all. Not really much of a spoiler: he starts doing country music. Maybe it's just I don't take a liking to country music episodes for whatever reason, I seem to vaguely remember one (or perhaps even more at this point) episodes of the Simpsons involving some character making country music as the plot.

I guess part of it might be it's very unmotivated - Bender has never shown this side of him much. Compared to Bender's well-established life of crime, his romantic side, or even his desire to be a chef, it's somewhat bizzare. Bender being a chef also works due to the humour of him being a robot who can't eat, and his hedonism in his enjoyment of sex and crime which you'd imagine wouldn't match the personality of a robot. But making music seems much more "usual" or "generic" to me in some way.

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