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I don't think there are, news sites routinely stuff barely related or unrelated images in to articles these days.

They say though that:

- Bender's serial number is 1729

- In 'The Farnsworth Parabox' there's a Universe 1729

- Zapp Brannigan's ship the Nimbus is BP-1729

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Except Bender's serial number is very clearly stated in "The Lesser of Two Evils" as 2716057. Don't know why the author says otherwise.

See http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/Bender (and I just checked the episode myself and confirmed it.)

1729 is actually his chassis number.

Bender gets an xmas card from the machine who made him that says "merry xmas son 1729" It's not his serial number but is sort of close to a serial number in a way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_(number)

This is really weird, because the article quotes a mathematician/writer for show: "For example, I chose Bender's serial number to be 1,729." The article talks about how 1729 is special because 1729 = 1³ + 12³ = 9³ + 10³ (and is apparently the smallest number that is the sum of two different sets of cubes or something like that), but the wikia article says 2716057 = 952³ + (-951)³. It's like they are similar ideas but the numbers are actually different. I guess the writer was misquoted, or forgot which sum of cubes he chose...

Could have just been an oversight, there's quite a lot of them in Futurama when you look closely. They often change history to match their own story at the time, like Leela's mother originally had normal arms rather than tentacles in the earlier episodes.

Munda has tentacles even in her first (voiced) appearance: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hEtstZ7Ka2A/TwtZrM89ZPI/AAAAAAAAAH...

Though I will grant you that the design of her tentacles has altered slightly.

Her first appearance is earlier than that though, where she has arms — http://theinfosphere.org/images/c/ca/The_Turangas%27_First_A...

I think it means "#1 son". Bender and Flexo follow the same numbering pattern. Makes sense if you assume all bending units' serial numbers are expressible as sums of two cubes.

Mathworld to the rescue with screen captures & episode references: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/1729.html

More here: http://theinfosphere.org/1729_%28number%29

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