Neat

About

“Neat” is a catchphrase uttered by the character Bender from the animated television show Futurama that is often used in image macros featuring a subject holding a camera accompanied by the caption “Neat.”

Origin

In the television series Futurama, the robot Bender Bending Rodriguez is often shown pulling out a camera and saying “Neat” while photographing a catastrophic or disturbing event (shown below). The first example of this was broadcast during Season 3 Episode 8, originally aired on February 25th, 2001, in which Bender photographs a plane crash (shown below).

On January 4th, 2010, NeoSeeker Forums^[2] member Curt Connors posted an image macro of Bender taking a photograph with the caption “Neat” in a thread about the game Mass Effect 2 (shown below).

Spread

On April 23rd, 2010, the same image macro was posted to a thread in the /a/ (anime) board on 4chan] On October 27th, FunnyJunk^[4] user UnicornsLOLcats posted a compilation of Futurama screen captures of Bender taking photographs with the caption “Neat” (shown below).

On August 24th, 2011, Body Building Forums^[6] member Assembly_Required posted a 60’s Spiderman image macro of Spiderman using a camera with the caption “neat” (shown below).

On June 19th, 2012, Redditor flairstar8 submitted the Bender image macro to the /r/pokemon^[1] subreddit as a reaction image representing the experience of playing the 1999 Nintendo 64 first-person camera game Pokémon Snap. On March 28th, 2013, Redditor Dethrin submitted an Imgur gallery titled “Neat!” to the /r/futurama^[5] subreddit, featuring favorites photoshopped Futurama screen captured images edited to appear as if they were Polaroid photographs taken by Bender.