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"The Honking" is episode 2 in season three of ''Futurama''. It originally aired in North America on November 5, 2000. The title comes from ''The Howling'', a 1981 werewolf film. ==Plot== As part of his late uncle Vladimir's last will, Bender must spend the night in his family's sinister old castle near Thermostadt, the capital of the Robo-Hungarian Empire, in order to inherit it. However, the castle's holographic "robot ghosts" cause him to flee out into the night, where he is promptly run over by a mysterious non-hover car. After returning to New New York, Bender begins to experience nightmares and blackouts, and starts to believe that the car has followed him home. In the city, mysterious tire tracks are discovered at places where Bender has been. Worried, he seeks "professional help" from a coin-operated Gypsy Bot machine. It informs him that he was run over by a "werecar", the robotic equivalent of a werewolf, and has thus become one himself. He is cursed to keep running people over and eventually kill his best friend, Fry. The only thing that can lift the curse is to destroy the original werecar. That night, Bender indeed turns into a sedan that resembles the 1971 Lincoln from the movie ''The Car'' and goes after Leela. This angers Fry, who takes this as a sign that Bender does not consider him to be his best friend after all. After narrowly surviving Bender's nocturnal rampage, the crew returns to the village near Uncle Vladimir's castle. From there, they follow a trail of various bizarre werecars, until they ultimately find the original werecar: Project Satan, a demonic car built a thousand years earlier from parts of the "most evil cars in history" (such as Hitler's Mercedes and the Manson Family's Volkswagen transporter). In the final act, Bender once again transforms, and this time goes after Fry, to the latter's immense joy. A climactic fight ensues between Leela, Fry, Bender-car, and Project Satan. Project Satan accidentally drives into a large furnace, destroying himself and lifting the curse. The episode ends with Bender violently strangling Fry for taking his last beer, signaling their friendship has returned to what passes for normal between them. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Honking」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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