High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Lethal Inspection" is the sixth episode of the sixth season of the animated sitcom, Futurama, and originally aired on July 22, 2010 on Comedy Central. In the episode Bender learns that he suffers from a terminal manufacturing defect, effectively rendering him mortal. Bender must cope with his new found mortality and employs Hermes Conrad`s help to track down the mysterious quality inspector—Inspector #5—whom he blames for allowing him to enter the world only to die.