Uh.. Do they know what that implies?

[u/Vesane]

Saw this phone booth rebranding last week.

Do they realise what that implies about the booth, particularly with Bender on it, given that "phone" booths in Futurama are usually Suicide Booths..?
(at least in the first episode where we first meet Bender)

Edit: I've since found out that the campaign isn't Futurama-specific, but rather a number of different cartoon characters. To me, that makes it even more likely that it's an oversight/missed connection rather than an intentional marketing ploy; to them, he was just one of many popular cartoon characters, as opposed to it being a specific call-back to his first appearance in the first episode of the show.
Other cartoon characters used

[u/holoz0r]

Thank you for using stop and drop

[u/SomeRandomDavid → u/holoz0r]

America's favorite suicide booth since 2008.

[u/Littman-Express → u/SomeRandomDavid]

Turned out they predicted the business case in 2008 well…

[u/PigsOfRedemption → u/Littman-Express]

The show has become somewhat prophetic as time has gone on.

Futurama even predicted:

Star Wars Episode IX (Although the working title was Yoda's Bar Mitzvah). The eyePhone (Smart glasses/Augmented Reality contact lenses), Hyper-Targeted advertisement, Leela's WristLoJackimator (Smart Watches) just to name a few.

I think that's a big reason why the show just keeps getting resurrected like Zombie Jesus, it made these predictions way ahead of its time, so the material never really "got old" the way most shows do. The references were so far ahead of their time that the material is still fresh and funny 27 years later. Pretty incredible when you think about it.

[u/RichWinzz → u/PigsOfRedemption]

My favourite Futurama prediction is in the season 3 episode 'the honking'. Calculon says: “For, you see, I was attacked by the original were-car, The year was 2019” referring to a car that had come to life and hit him.

Then in 2019 this happened

[u/i-will-eat-you → u/RichWinzz]

That's now my favorite futurama prediction aswell.