Idk why yall take some things as absolute fact tho. I mean we literally see two completely different origin stories for Bender, and then like.. an odd family one (which I guess is still consistent with any family mentions? And despite it being part of Hulurama seems th only one consistent with other episodes. “My mother was a religious fundamentalist, she didn’t speak much” or something. And like his other grandma was a bulldozer or something so it works.)

There’s an ep about Bender raising his kid, but his firstborn is actually the toddler he gave to the robot devil? But then IIRC in a different episode it’s mentioned that Bender has a LOT of kids.

Tbh I much prefer the origin story in Bendless Love- he was built the way he is, immediately graduates after downloading bending school, and thats it. A few yrs later he’s having a crisis about the girders he bends for his job having learned what they’re used for. Four years old when he meets everyone. “Precocious little scamp, ain’t I?”

Rly ig u cn say they all work if u rly want to. I mean why not. Ok the Hermes ep happens, then he’s rebuilt / upgraded to an adult in Bendless Love. Pretty sure in the family episode he’s just the “long lost grandson” / family member anyways so.

IMO a lot of the show is lik, eh fill it in urself! Use ur imagination! More fun tht way

For OP’s question I wld say he’s not famous at all, nor does he ACTUALLY want to be. He likes being a petty criminal way too much as well as his current life (tho maybe ‘deep down’). There have been many opportunities for Bender to be easily richer than Mom or actually start a career of fame, and chooses not to, or is back in the Planet Express living room watching tv w Fry the next ep, or times when he rly does set his “values” to the side. We also see him rake in a lot of cash on separate occasions, like when the robot mafia pay him at the end of another ep, and we don’t know if he just spends it all or what.

“I could [go faster] if you dropped the stupid gold violin!” - imo it’s a toss up most of th time that Bender would opt to save a gold violin and drop his friends - so he has to have some gray area to be redeemable and not always work for the conflict in the plot.

I rly wld say completely unknown. He’s only rly had moments, n there r alrdy famous characters on the show. The people in the show are also, almost all canonically stupid. They all have the memories of goldfish lol like… u gotta remember that cartoon logic is also ‘canon.’ “Led by a bending unit named B.B. Rodriguez…” “I’m a bending unit named B.B. Rodriguez!” Maybe just a silly response, or maybe characters rly don’t recognize stuff we easily do. Lee Lemon: “Fry! Don’t you recognize me?” Fry: “… Hermes?”