"But the simulations will find out they're simulations! You swore a stirp club oath that would never happen!"
This was
Futurama at its absolute finest. The perfect combination of science-fiction, humor, romance, and philosophy. Honestly, it's surprising the show hasn't tackled the idea of their universe, and our own, being a simulation, and to do it in a genuinely thoughtful way that deliberately doesn't provide any easy or conclusive answers. Much like the last several season finales, this finale works wonderfully as a series finale (even though we know we will get at least another 10 episodes).
While this episode focused primarily on Bender worrying about simulated Bender's existence, and to a lesser degree, the Fry/Leela romance, the thing I loved the most about this episode is that the show remembered that Amy is a brilliant scientist, too, and asked plenty of thought-provoking questions to push back at Farnsworth's handwaving. I love the notion the lightspeed constant and the bizarreness of quantum mechanics could simply be programing rules produced by our creator(s).
As a certain robit would say, neat!
So the Bender now is the one from the universe above us? Trippy stuff
Considering the craziness of "The Late Philip J. Fry" and the ending of "Meanwhile" (and probably a couple of others), everyone's existence and "original" realities have been shaken up quite a bit.
