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Revision as of 05:57, 7 January 2009
HAL Institute | |
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Location | New New York, Earth |
First appearance | "Insane in the Mainframe" (3ACV11) |
The HAL Institute is an asylum for criminally insane robots. Doctors and nurses use shocks of electricity to calm down their patients during interviews with psychiatrists. For a brief portion of time, Fry was admitted to the hospital after being found guilty of aiding in a bank robbery.
Known Patients Admitted
Patient | Admitted for/Condition |
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Bender | Plead insanity during trail, after being framed by Roberto. Admitted again for being unable to differentiate fantasy from reality. |
Fry | Same reason as first reason above, except admitted to HAL Institute as the human insanity facility was full, due to Judge Whitey considered homeless a mental illness. |
Malfunctioning Eddie | His explosion problem got worse, and his prices turned out really to be insane. |
Roberto | For holding up the same bank twice, and was deemed insane as a result. But it was later revealed that he was intentionally built to be an insane robot. |
Unit 2013 | Thinks he is human. |
Hair Robot | Got too obsessed with his hair. |
Pay 'n' Chew Robot | Does not really appear to be insane, but rather ill. |
Norm | Receives transmissions from the CIA on his teeth. |
Frankie | Thinks he works in a lunchroom, so they put him to work in the Institute's lunchroom. |
Lincolnbot | While he does think he is Abraham Lincoln, he has split personalities, all of them Lincoln. His comment may suggest his personalities split is up to 200. |
Mad Hatterbot | From Alice in Wonderland, his insanity is obvious. |
Rosie the Robot Maid | Started believing that everything must be clean, murdering Astro and Elroy because they were dirty. |
Teabot Robot | Unknown. Was shattered during hammer therapy. |
Additional Info
Trivia
- The Institute is named after HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey who was an insane robot himself.