Tinny Tim (voiced by Tress MacNeille) is an ill-fated orphan-bot with a crutch for an arm and one shortened leg, a reference to Tiny Tim in Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Carol. He speaks with an English accent and is programmed to beg, sell oil-ade, and write in cute backwards letters on signs. A running gag is that he is always violently abused in some way, such as being tripped by Bender, or run over by the Crushinator, or having his crutch kicked off. He is shown with the Planet Express crew on both Xmases, and appears to be friends with Dwight and Cubert. In the subtitles of " Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV ", he is called "Tiny Tim-Bot".