Really? I could've sworn it was from Futurama, or at least preceding the 2000s, strange.

Per the Wikipedia article:

>The word clanker has been previously used in science fiction literature, first appearing in a 1958 article by William Tenn in which he uses it to describe robots from science fiction films like Metropolis.[2] The Star Wars franchise began using the term "clanker" as a slur against droids in the 2005 video game Star Wars: Republic Commando before being prominently used in the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which follows a galaxy-wide war between the Galactic Republic's clone troopers and the Confederacy of Independent Systems' battle droids.

There's a robot mafioso character named Clamps. Perhaps that's what you were thinking of?

Didn't they call them clankers in Battlestar Galactica?