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** The scammer aliens in ''Bender's Big Score.'' Infantile {{Trolls}} that derive great pleasure in [[KickTheDog kicking the dog,]] the writers did everything in their power to portray them as sick, deviant [[CompleteMonster CompleteMonsters]] with no sympathetic or positive traits whatsoever.
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** The scammer aliens in ''Bender's Big Score.'' Infantile {{Trolls}} that derive great pleasure in [[KickTheDog kicking the dog,]] the writers did everything in their power to portray them as sick, deviant [[CompleteMonster CompleteMonsters]] Complete Monsters]] with no sympathetic or positive traits whatsoever.
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*** Leela was raised in a facility that is described (in its' own signage) as a "Minimum Security Orphanarium". And it looks like one, too. Standards of care seem to be a bit...different in the late 30th/early 31st century.
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* ThreeLawsCompliant: In "Free Will Hunting", Prof. Farnsworth reveals that he designed Bender's operating system, which prevents him from picking up a free will unit or attempting to kill his programmer.
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* ZipMeUp: Happens in ''Bender's Big Score'' with Hermes.Hermes.
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** In "Bender's Big Score" a ''FamilyGuy'' ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' calendar can be seen in the background. It advertizes that it includes a season's worth of jokes from the show, which comes out to one per month.
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** On the other hand, the average human lifespan has been extended to the point where robots collect people when they turn 160, then process them a la ''TheMatrix''.
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** And the next season after that has them going on regular dates, Leela initiating her share of the romance (asking Fry if he wants to join the "Balcony Club", for instance), and her referring to Fry as her boyfriend.
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* WorldOfPun: Invoked in-universe with the "Goofy Gopher Revue" from "The Series Has Landed".
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* {{Zeerust}}: Some of the parody targets in early episodes are showing signs of this, such as the episode with Kidnappster.
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* YourSoulIsMine: Quantum lichens [[spoiler:such as Langdon Cobb]] are a Type One.
* {{Zeerust}}: Some of the parody targets in early episodes are showing signs of this, such as the episode withKidnappster.Kidnappster ("I Dated A Robot").
* {{Zeerust}}: Some of the parody targets in early episodes are showing signs of this, such as the episode with
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* WorldsSmallestViolin: In the episode "A Farewell to Arms".
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* UnfortunateImplications: Bev, the talking beverage machine, has the voice and attitude of a SassyBlackWoman, [[spoiler:gets knocked up by Bender, runs out on her kid, comes back to reclaim him, then gets knocked up AGAIN by a copbot, and seems proud of this fact and the fact that she is an irresponsible mother.]]
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* Tearjerker: "Jurrassic Bark" and "The Luck of the Fryish".
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** "Come on everybody, it's time to teach Bender about The Bots and The Bees."- from 'The Bots and The Bees'
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*** Leela was raised in a facility that is described (in its' own signage) as a "Minimum Security Orphanarium". And it looks like one, too. Standards of care seem to be a bit...different in the late 30th/early 31st century.
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* YouGoGirl: Played with in the Blernsball episode. Leela is awed at the chance to be the first woman to play the sport in the Major League, despite being told up front that it's a stunt hire because she's so [[SoBadItsGood entertainingly awful]]. Then she's discouraged when she realises she's actually making it ''harder'' for female athletes to be taken seriously, and resolves to become at least slightly competent. She fails, but her opponent consoles her with the fact that she'd made lots of other female players determined to prove they don't all suck as much as she does.
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** In "Bender's Big Score" a ''FamilyGuy'' calendar can be seen in the background. It advertizes that it includes a season's worth of jokes from the show, which comes out to one per month.
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* TangledFamilyTree: The Fry-Farnsworth-[[spoiler:Mom]] family tree is surprisingly complex when you sit down and draw it.
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* TangledFamilyTree: The Fry-Farnsworth-[[spoiler:Mom]] family tree is surprisingly complex when you sit down and draw it.
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* TemporalParadox: [[{{MST3KMantra}} Thinking]] about ''Bender's Big Score'' [[BellisariosMaxim too much]] is guaranteed to make your head hurt. Paradox-Free Time Travel my (shiny metal) ass!
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* TemporalParadox: [[{{MST3KMantra}} [[MST3KMantra Thinking]] about ''Bender's Big Score'' [[BellisariosMaxim too much]] is guaranteed to make your head hurt. Paradox-Free Time Travel my (shiny metal) ass!
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* {{Troperiffic}}: this show is pretty much the embodiment of this trope. It celebrates in every single cliche and trope, and often uses RuleOfCool just because it is so freaking awesome.
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* {{Troperiffic}}: this show is pretty much the embodiment of this trope. It celebrates in every single cliche and trope, and often uses RuleOfCool just because it is so freaking awesome.
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** The original title was going to be "Aloha Mars." Also, early character designs showed Bender with satellite antenna ears.
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* XMakesAnythingCool: The trope namer.
-->'''Leela:''' You're blackmailing me?
-->'''Bender:''' Blackmail is such an ugly word. I prefer 'extortion'. The 'X' makes it sound cool.
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-->'''Bender:''' Blackmail is such an ugly word. I prefer 'extortion'. The 'X' makes it sound cool.
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* XMakesAnythingCool: The trope namer.
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-->'''Leela:''' You're blackmailingme?
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-->'''Bender:''' Blackmail is such an ugly word. I prefer 'extortion'. The 'X' makes it sound cool.
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** Zapp Brannigan enjoys drinking "champaggin" and eating "guacamowl".
** Bender makes the same mistake with "guacamole" when showing off his [[JustAStupidAccent "flawless" Spanish accent]].
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** Zapp Brannigan enjoys drinking "champaggin" and eating"guacamowl".
"guacamowl".
** Bender makes the same mistake with "guacamole" when showing off his [[JustAStupidAccent "flawless" Spanish accent]].
** Zapp Brannigan enjoys drinking "champaggin" and eating
** Bender makes the same mistake with "guacamole" when showing off his [[JustAStupidAccent "flawless" Spanish accent]].
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** More like "paradox correcting". Pretty much every paradox that shows up (The second Nudar, Hermes' body, [[spoiler: Lars]]) gets destroyed ("corrected") by the universe eventually. The one exception may be the [[spoiler: thousands of Benders at the end]]. Not even the Universe could handle that much paradox.
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** In a more meta example, Producer David X. Cohen said he changed his middle initial from the original "S" (which he used when he worked on The Simpsons) because X "sounded cool and science-fictiony."
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** In "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid", when the Nibblonians tell Leela that the brains want to wipe out all thought in the universe:
-->'''Leela:''' My God! They're like flying televisions!
-->'''Leela:''' My God! They're like flying televisions!
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* [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove What Is This Thing You Call 'Wuv'?]]: The Omicronians' reaction to Valentine's Day.
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* [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove What Is This Thing You Call 'Wuv'?]]: 'Wuv'?]]:
** The Omicronians' reaction to Valentine'sDay.Day.
** Parodied in "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?", when Fry tries to help Zoidberg to get a woman.
-->'''Zoidberg:''' I'm confused, Fry. I'm feeling a strange new emotion. Is it love when you care about a female for reasons beyond mating?
-->'''Fry:''' Nope. Must be some weird alien emotion.
** The Omicronians' reaction to Valentine's
** Parodied in "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?", when Fry tries to help Zoidberg to get a woman.
-->'''Zoidberg:''' I'm confused, Fry. I'm feeling a strange new emotion. Is it love when you care about a female for reasons beyond mating?
-->'''Fry:''' Nope. Must be some weird alien emotion.
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** In "A Clockwork Origin", the entrance sign for Odulvai Gorge reads "Birthplace of RyanSeacrest... [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg And The Rest of Mankind]]"
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** In ''Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences'', the gang visits Comic Con. The entire sequence is strewn with subtle [[TakeThat Take Thats]], but the part where the pilot of a new show-- ''Futurella''-- is shown off by its creators takes the cake, as the show is canceled [[ScrewedByTheNetwork five seconds into the intro]].
--> '''Matt Groening:''' Wow. Fox has really streamlined the process.
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** In ''Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences'', "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences", the gang visits Comic Con. The entire sequence is strewn with subtle [[TakeThat Take Thats]], but the part where the pilot of a new show-- ''Futurella''-- is shown off by its creators takes the cake, as the show is canceled [[ScrewedByTheNetwork five seconds into the intro]].
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** "Mars University" takes a jab at professors:
---> '''Farnsworth:''' Please, Fry! I don't know how to teach. I'm a professor!
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* TakeThat: In "I Second that Emotion", Fry, Leela and Bender visit the Sewer Mutants underneath New New York, whose entire civilisation is built out of things people have flushed down their toilets. Eventually they get to their library:
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** In "I Second that Emotion", Fry, Leela and Bender visit the Sewer Mutants underneath New New York, whose entire civilisation is built out of things people have flushed down their toilets. Eventually they get to their library:
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** The episode "Overclockwise" takes a stab at people who don't read the EULA before accepting as well as game console manufacturers for their somewhat draconian policies on dealing with people who mod their consoles.
** "[[DonkeyKong Monkeys aren't donkeys]]! Stop messing with my head!"
** In "Bender's Big Score" a ''FamilyGuy'' calendar can be seen in the background. It advertizes that it includes a season's worth of jokes from the show which comes out to one for each month.
** "[[DonkeyKong Monkeys aren't donkeys]]! Stop messing with my head!"
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** The episode "Overclockwise" takes a stab at people who don't read the EULA before accepting as well as game console technology manufacturers for their somewhat draconian policies on dealing with people who mod their consoles.
** "[[DonkeyKong Monkeys aren't donkeys]]! Stop messing with my head!"
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: In Futurama world bureaucrat appears to be the most badass job ever.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: In Futurama world bureaucrat appears Hermes is a master of tedious office work. He is sometimes called upon to be the most badass job ever.display his superhuman ability to fill out paperwork, balance accounts and so forth.
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* ThisIsSparta: "Professor! Lava! Hot!"
* TomHanksSyndrome: In-universe example with Harold Zoid, once a famous silent comedian, turned drama director.
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* TakeThat: In "I Second that Emotion", Fry, Leela and Bender visit the Sewer Mutants underneath New New York, whose entire civilisation is built out of things people have flushed down their toilets. Eventually they get to their library:
--> '''Bender:''' Nothing but crumpled porno and AynRand! [''He holds up'' Atlas Shrugged]
** [[IProduct Apple]] and {{Twitter}} in ''Attack of the KillerApp''. Includes subtle references to the Foxconn suicide controversy and portrays Mom as a much more (or possibly less) evil caricature of Steve Jobs.
** An almost heroically extended one after Planet Express is "back on the air" (Farnsworth: "[[LeaningOnTheFourthWall Yes, flying through the air in our spaceship]],") after renewing their contract with the "Box Network".
** In "Yo Leela Leela", Leela warns everyone not to get to excited about the premiere of her kids' show, because "we all know every good show gets canceled. Sometimes twice."
** In ''Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences'', the gang visits Comic Con. The entire sequence is strewn with subtle [[TakeThat Take Thats]], but the part where the pilot of a new show-- ''Futurella''-- is shown off by its creators takes the cake, as the show is canceled [[ScrewedByTheNetwork five seconds into the intro]].
--> '''MattGroening:''' Wow. Fox has really streamlined the process.
** In "A Clockwork Origin", the entrance sign for Odulvai Gorge reads "Birthplace of RyanSeacrest... [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg And The Rest of Mankind]]"
** The episode "Overclockwise" takes a stab at people who don't read the EULA before accepting as well as game console manufacturers for their somewhat draconian policies on dealing with people who mod their consoles.
** "[[DonkeyKong Monkeys aren't donkeys]]! Stop messing with my head!"
* TakeThatAudience: From "The Why of Fry":
-->'''The Big Brain''': Detecting trace amounts of mental activity, possibly a dead weasel or a cartoon viewer.
** "Thank goodness most of our fans are huge perverts!"
* TakeThatMe: Fry thinks BillyWest is a stupid phony made up name.
* TakenForGranite: Fry thinks this is what happened to the plinths the Professor shows Fry in "The Duh Vinci Code". Given that heads are kept alive in jars in the 31st century, [[FridgeBrilliance this could have been a valid question]].
* TalkingToHimself: Most of the main cast play multiple characters, though Billy West, Maurice [=LaMarche=], and Tress [=MacNeille=] are the most frequent. In fact, the only voice actress who plays one character is Katey Sagal, who only plays Leela. She only counts if you include alternate universe Leelas in "The Farnsworth Parabox" [[spoiler:and the robot Leela in "Rebirth".]]
* TangledFamilyTree: The Fry-Farnsworth-[[spoiler:Mom]] family tree is surprisingly complex when you sit down and draw it.
* TheTeaser
* TechnoBabble: subverted multiple times by many of the main cast. Scenes requiring a pseudo-scientific explanation often invoke the use of gibberish in the place of more traditional, partially plausible AppliedPhlebotinum.
-->'''Bubblegum Tate''': Looks like what we got here is a chronoton mass in the sub-atomic inferencees.
-->'''Prof. Farnsworth''': Yes, something involving that many BIG words could easily destabilise time itself!
* TedBaxter: Zapp Brannigan.
* TemporalParadox: [[{{MST3KMantra}} Thinking]] about ''Bender's Big Score'' [[BellisariosMaxim too much]] is guaranteed to make your head hurt. Paradox-Free Time Travel my (shiny metal) ass!
* TemporaryBlindness
* TemptingFate: In "Benderama":
-->'''Bender:''' ...What?\\
'''Hermes:''' This place is crawling with yous!\\
'''Bender:''' So there's more Benders around. As far as I'm concerned, that's good news!\\
'''Farnsworth:''' Bad news, everyone!
* {{Terraform}}: Mars and the [[PlanetOfHats Ancient Egypt-style planet]].
* ThatLiarLies: Bender responds with the accusation that he is being used as a beer distiller with "Lies! Lies and slander!"... right before he burps up a bit of foam.
* ThatManIsDead: Made humorously literal in "The Late Phillip J. Fry". When Fry shows up on time for Leela's birthday dinner, she admits she didn't think he'd actually do so. Fry tells her that the Phillip J. Fry that stood her up before is dead... [[spoiler:because through the use of the Professor's forward-only time machine, the Professor, Fry, and Bender have cycled all the way through their universe and an additional one to get back to their relative present, killing the Professor, Fry, and Bender of the latest iteration of the universe upon arrival]].
* ThatRussianSquatDance: Done by Zoidberg in one episode, with Fry joining in.
* TheyCalledMeMad: The Professor even called ''himself'' mad. "But I showed myself!"
* ThirdPersonPerson: Morbo.
* ThisIsAWorkOfFiction: "The Route of All Evil" begins "DISCLAIMER: Any resemblance to actual robots would be really cool."
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Inverted in "Parasites Lost":
-->'''Professor Farnsworth:''' Anyhoo, your net-suits will allow you to experience Fry's worm infested bowels as if you were actually wriggling through them.
-->'''Dr. Zoidberg (cheerfully):''' There's no part of that sentence I didn't like!
* ThisIsSparta: "Professor! Lava! Hot!"
* ThrowItIn: The Hypnotoad's trademark droning sound was originally a placeholder, but it sounded so bizarrely ''wrong'' that they kept it.
* TimeAbyss: The Nibblonians were 17 years old at the time of the Big Bang, and the Brainspawn came into existence 1 millisecond after.
* TimePassesMontage: In "Space Pilot 3000", we have this type of montage while Fry is frozen. It wouldn't be the last time this trope is utilized.
** Used to soul crushing effect in "Jurassic Bark", where Seymour is seen waiting for him on the curb outside his old workplace for 15 or so years, until he lies down and dies.
*** Both of these were among the things [[ContinuityNod nodded to]] in ''Bender's Big Score''. Both times, a time-traveling Bender was responsible. It also shows that the dog was being watched after by an alternate Fry, somewhat lessening the impact of the preceding episode in hindsight.
** It's also used breathtakingly in the climax of ''The Late Philip J. Fry'' when Fry, Bender and the professor witness the end and beginning of the universe.
* TimeTravel: At one point, the Professor builds a time machine that can only go forward. He has Bender and Fry help him test it, but they end up in the year 10,000.
** In "All the President's Heads", Farnsworth discovers that licking the heads in the Head Museum causes one to travel briefly to the time period that head lived in.
* TimeTravelRomance: For Fry. Leads to [[spoiler: MyOwnGrandpa]].
* TimeyWimeyBall: The Universal Time Code in ''Bender's Big Score'' is quite literally a TimeyWimeyBall. It's even green.
* TimmyInAWell: Parodied in "Jurassic Bark":
-->'''Mr. Fry:''' What's that, Seymour? You walking on sunshine?
* TitleDrop: At one point after seeing the bad influence he's caused, Bender says, "Bender Should Not Be Allowed On Television."
** The Robot Devil hands Bender a pamphlet entitled "Hell Is Other Robots" during the episode that he first premiers in.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Bender. The number of times he's sold out his closest friends is ''astounding''. After a heartwarming moment, he puts Hermes on his "do not kill" list. They had worked together for 10 years before that.
* TookALevelInBadass: Zoidberg took a large one in 'The Silence Of The Clamps' when he fights [[TheMafia Clamps]] in claw-to-clamp combat.
** He also seemed to have gained a lot of self-confidence by the end of the episode.
* TomHanksSyndrome: In-universe example with Harold Zoid, once a famous silent comedian, turned drama director.
* TopTenList: Zapp Brannigan reveals Bender's ten most frequently used words in this manner during "War is the 'H' Word". For the record, the words are:
** #10: Chump
** #9: Chumpette
** #8: Yours
** #7: Up
** #6: Pimpmobile
** #5: Bite
** #4: My
** #3: Shiny
** #2: Daffodil (as in "Hot diggety daffodil!")
** #1: Ass
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Bender and all other robots love alcohol, as it is their power source.
** Hermes and Manwich.
** Fry seems to like pineapples, as shown in "The Why of Fry" and "Ghost in the Machines".
* TriggerHappy: The machine gun robots from "Lethal Inspection".
--> "Someone said 'shoot'!"
* TrojanPrisoner
* {{Troperiffic}}: this show is pretty much the embodiment of this trope. It celebrates in every single cliche and trope, and often uses RuleOfCool just because it is so freaking awesome.
* TrouserSpace: [[spoiler: While thinking he is a [[{{Hammerspace}} robot]]]], Fry takes some sandwiches from his pants and offers them to his friends. They are not interested.
* TrueCompanions: The Planet Express crew, no matter what they go through, will always pull together for each other in the end.
* TubeTravel: The Tube Transport System.
* TWordEuphemism: From "War is the H-Word":
-->"If you say the A-word, you'll blow this whole planet straight to the H-word!"
* UglyGuyHotWife: Hermes and LaBarbara Conrad.
* UnCanceled
-->'''Bender''': On the count of three you will awaken feeling refreshed. As if ''Futurama'' had never been [[ExecutiveMeddling canceled by idiots]], then [[NetworkToTheRescue brought back by]] [[BitingTheHandHumor bigger idiots]]. One... Two... (scene change)
* UnderwaterCity: Atlanta.
* UnexpectedInheritance
* UnfazedEveryman: Fry.
* UnflinchingWalk: Hermes in "Lethal Inspection".
-->'''Bender:''' He did it! And he's [[LampshadeHanging not looking back]] at that [[StuffBlowingUp cool explosion]]! He's a hero!
* UnnecessarilyCreepyRobot:
** Sure, Robot Santa Claus is evil ''now'', but as originally designed he shouldn't be that scary.
** One episode has a robot nanny who not only looks frightening, but speaks in a loud, angry voice and claims to have replaced the baby's mother before feeding it with a bottle from its toothy maw. Leela thinks it's cute. Notably, the baby doesn't seem to mind either.
* UnPaused: In the pilot, Fry pushes Leela into a stasis pod mid-lecture, and sets the release time for later that day. When she comes out she's still yelling at him.
* UnroboticReveal: In a horror movie for robots.
* UnusualEuphemism: Amy uses "Gleesh" for "Sheesh", words that rhyme with "duh" for "duh".
** ''As though!''
** Snu-Snu.
** Let me axe you something...
* UselessAccessory: Bender and many other robots have antenna that serve no apparent purpose, which gets a LampshadeHanging several times. First when the thing turned out to be interfering with the satellite transmission in his new apartment, and Fry says he should just cut it off since it doesn't do anything, after which it's treated as a robot equivalent of his penis. Again when it's suggested he has a toilet somewhere in his body and pushing down on it flushes.
** {{Subverted|Trope}} again when Mom says most people think she puts antenna on her robots just to make them "more [[BuffySpeak science-fictiony]]" but they really let her take control of everything with a remote control.
** The antennae also allow DOOP to take military control of the robots.
* UranusIsShowing: According to Professor, astronomers changed the name of the planet Uranus to stop that stupid joke once and for all. It's now named "Urectum".
* VetinariJobSecurity: Hermes apparently has this at Planet Express. During the events of "Lethal Inspection," he leaves Leela in charge for a few days. During that time things fall apart completely: he returns to find that the ship has been repossessed, unexplained alarms are going off, the Professor is trapped in a giant beaker, Leela has been reduced to a gibbering mess, and the crew is preparing to cook and eat Zoidberg. It only takes him an hour to get things back to normal.
* VirginSacrifice: In 'I Second That Emotion', Leela is a virgin sacrifice to lure out sewer monster El Chupanibre, despite the fact that the sewer mutants have seen Zapp Brannigan's website.
* VitriolicBestBuds Bender and Fry, type 1.
** Zapp and Kif seem to be a more extreme and subtle example, though it's usually always Kif showing the hidden friendship aspect, [[JerkAss not Zapp.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Mom
* ViewersAreGeniuses: there are a lot of complex jokes on science, science-fiction, and engineering and mathematical principles that may have just been accidental... but considering that this development team literally thinks of everything, I seriously doubt it.
* ViolentGlaswegian: Parodied in "Yo Leela Leela" with ''Extreme Toddler Wrestling'' held in Glasgow, Scotland.
* VoicesAreMental
* VocalEvolution: Many examples, but the ones that stand out the most are Hermes, Morbo, Bender, and Professor Farnsworth. Hermes had a much deeper voice, his accent slightly more prominent. Likewise, Morbo had a more prominent guttural tone to his voice, but now, it only shows when he coughs.
* VoodooShark: Parodied. Often. Hell, the most prominent example is the page quote.
* WallpaperCamouflage
* WeaponizedLandmark: Done as a variation with 20th Century Fox's iconic searchlight logo, which is an actual building in Hollywood. The tour guide explains that the searchlights are designed to blind pilots so Fox can film the resulting crashes.
* WeHaveForgottenThePhlebotinum: In ''Love's Labours Lost in Space'', Bender forgets to replenish the ship's dark matter supply.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Apparently Lrrr's reason for entering the Universal Poker Championship during the events of "Into the Wild Green Yonder" was to win his Father's approval.
* WeWillHavePerfectHealthInTheFuture: Subverted on a few counts. The Professor's back, memory, and mental stability are often called into question; [[spoiler: Leela is put in danger by giant space bees]], Zapp Brannigan claims to suffer from the "very sexy learning disability" of Sexlexia--even the robots get sick!
** On the other hand, the average human lifespan has been extended to the point where robots collect people when they turn 160, then process them a la ''TheMatrix''.
** Certain conditions that used to be fatal, such as decapitation, can be recovered from pretty easily. On a related note, it seems blood has also been totally replaced by medication and nanobots.
** Even [[spoiler: Americans that have been taken over by Britons]] in an AlternateUniverse are not immune to this, as proved by "All The President's Heads". Given a brilliant [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] by a Cockney version of Bender.
--> '''"Oy, 'ow come we Brits got unionized healthcare, but our teeth still look like this?"'''
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally the newest season was to take place in another universe, but Matt Groening wanted to do the rebirth episode instead.
** The role of Zap Brannigan was written for the late, great PhilHartman.
** The original title was going to be "Aloha Mars." Also, early character designs showed Bender with satellite antenna ears.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: In Futurama world bureaucrat appears to be the most badass job ever.
* WhatIsOneMansLifeInComparison: In ''The Why Of Fry'', it's revealed that Fry was [[spoiler: frozen by Nibbler so he could live long enough to fight the Brain Spawn.]] While explaining himself and trying to convince Fry to go through it all over again, [[spoiler:Nibbler]] asks the all important question of "what is one man's life weighed against the entire universe?"
* [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove What Is This Thing You Call 'Wuv'?]]: The Omicronians' reaction to Valentine's Day.
* WhamEpisode: The last few minutes of ''Luck of the Fryrish''. It doesn't get any less shocking or impacting on further re-watches, either.
* WhatWeNowKnowToBeTrue: According to Farnsworth, genetic engineering is preposterous science-fiction mumbo-jumbo.
* WhoEvenNeedsABrain: The episode "Roswell That Ends Well" has Bender's brain (a collection of computer chips) being mistaken for food and eaten. Bender isn't happy but he suffers no ill effects.
* WhoYouGonnaCall:
-->'''Fry:''' All I know is I've got a ghost that needs busting. ''(dials a phone)''\\
'''Hermes:''' Who you gonna call?\\
'''Fry:''' {{Gho|stbusters}}--\\
'''Phone:''' ''(BEEP!)'' The number you have dialled has been ''lame'' [[{{Sequelitis}} since 1989.]]
* WholePlotReference: As well as "Fry and the Slurm Factory", above, "A Flight To Remember" is a parody of ''{{Titanic}}'' (with a title based on the earlier Titanic film ''ANightToRemember''), and "Love and Rocket", parodying [[ASpaceOdyssey 2001]], but with an {{Yandere}} female AI.
* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: Sal, the morbidly obese redneck, is always seen in a different low-level job, primarily one that involves heavy lifting.
** Likewise, "Fishy Joe" Gillman will always open a new fast-food resturaunt after the previous one fails.
* TheWikiRule: [[http://theinfosphere.org/Main_Page The Infosphere.]]
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Fry loves Leela despite her mutation. Leela rarely reciprocated, until the end of the fourth movie, and [[OfficialCouple it's stuck]]. The [[{{Uncanceled}} new season]] has them together, but it's done subtle enough in most of the new episodes that you wouldn't know it if you didn't look for it (For example, Leela instantly agreeing to join the "mile deep club" in "The Duh-Vinci Code"), but some make it obvious (All of "The Late Philip J. Fry").
** In the final scene of "[[SeriesFauxnale Overclockwise]]", Bender gives Fry and Leela a paper containing a prediction he made (during a time where he [[TheSingularity passed the existential singularity]]) of their future together. [[TheUnreveal We only have their reactions to go by.]]
* WithDueRespect
* WorstAid: Everything Zoidberg does.
* WriteBackToTheFuture: Leela uses this trope to send a message to Fry a billion years in the future.
* WritingAroundTrademarks: {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d and used to point out how things have changed in the course of 1000 years. Examples include "Admiral Crunch."
* WroteTheBook: Spoofed in "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back":
-->'''Number 1.0''': Don't quote me regulations! I co-chaired the committee that reviewed the recommendation to change the color of the book that regulation's in. We kept it gray.
* XDaysSince:
** In one episode a sign counts the days since the last time a certain planet invaded Earth.
** In another episode there's one in a working ground for slaves counting the days since the last accident (and Fry accidentally nails his own hand to the sign while changing the number).
** When Fry enters the cryogenics lab, the sign says "No power failures since 1997," with the "7" being handwritten and taped on.
* XMakesAnythingCool: The trope namer.
-->'''Leela:''' You're blackmailing me?
-->'''Bender:''' Blackmail is such an ugly word. I prefer 'extortion'. The 'X' makes it sound cool.
* {{Yandere}}: Interestingly enough, the Planet Express crew's primary mode of transportation, as seen in "Love and Rocket".
* YouMakeMeSic: Multiple examples. Happens frequent with robot mafia henchman [[{{Malaproper}} Joey Mousepad]], whose mangled English is a RunningGag.
** From "Love and Rocket":
--> '''Lrr (Ruler of the planet Omicron Persei 8!)''': "THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!"
** From: "Bendless Love"
--> '''Joey Mousepad''': "But what if management remains intragnizent?"
--> '''The Donbot''': "From the context it is clear what you mean."
* YouSayTomato:
** Zapp Brannigan enjoys drinking "champaggin" and eating "guacamowl".
** Bender makes the same mistake with "guacamole" when showing off his [[JustAStupidAccent "flawless" Spanish accent]].
** And on "The Day The Earth Stood Stupid", Fry confronts the Giant Brain in the "libary".
* YouWillBeBeethoven: Fry replaces/becomes his own grandfather.
* YouWillBeSpared
* YouWouldntHitAGuyWithGlasses: In "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back", Bender is caught cheating in a game of poker using X-ray glasses. When he's cornered, he nervously states, "Hey...you wouldn't hit a guy wearing X-ray glasses, would ya?" Unsurprisingly, it doesn't work.
* YourBrainWontBeMuchOfAMeal: We see a Brain Slug starve to death after it gets on Fry's head. This is originally played as this trope, but eventually {{Retcon}}ned into being because he's [[MyOwnGrampa his own grampa]].
* {{Zeerust}}: Some of the parody targets in early episodes are showing signs of this, such as the episode with Kidnappster.
* ZeroGSpot: The "Zero-G Juggs" magazine.
* ZipMeUp: Happens in ''Bender's Big Score'' with Hermes.
--> '''Bender:''' Nothing but crumpled porno and AynRand! [''He holds up'' Atlas Shrugged]
** [[IProduct Apple]] and {{Twitter}} in ''Attack of the KillerApp''. Includes subtle references to the Foxconn suicide controversy and portrays Mom as a much more (or possibly less) evil caricature of Steve Jobs.
** An almost heroically extended one after Planet Express is "back on the air" (Farnsworth: "[[LeaningOnTheFourthWall Yes, flying through the air in our spaceship]],") after renewing their contract with the "Box Network".
** In "Yo Leela Leela", Leela warns everyone not to get to excited about the premiere of her kids' show, because "we all know every good show gets canceled. Sometimes twice."
** In ''Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences'', the gang visits Comic Con. The entire sequence is strewn with subtle [[TakeThat Take Thats]], but the part where the pilot of a new show-- ''Futurella''-- is shown off by its creators takes the cake, as the show is canceled [[ScrewedByTheNetwork five seconds into the intro]].
--> '''MattGroening:''' Wow. Fox has really streamlined the process.
** In "A Clockwork Origin", the entrance sign for Odulvai Gorge reads "Birthplace of RyanSeacrest... [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg And The Rest of Mankind]]"
** The episode "Overclockwise" takes a stab at people who don't read the EULA before accepting as well as game console manufacturers for their somewhat draconian policies on dealing with people who mod their consoles.
** "[[DonkeyKong Monkeys aren't donkeys]]! Stop messing with my head!"
* TakeThatAudience: From "The Why of Fry":
-->'''The Big Brain''': Detecting trace amounts of mental activity, possibly a dead weasel or a cartoon viewer.
** "Thank goodness most of our fans are huge perverts!"
* TakeThatMe: Fry thinks BillyWest is a stupid phony made up name.
* TakenForGranite: Fry thinks this is what happened to the plinths the Professor shows Fry in "The Duh Vinci Code". Given that heads are kept alive in jars in the 31st century, [[FridgeBrilliance this could have been a valid question]].
* TalkingToHimself: Most of the main cast play multiple characters, though Billy West, Maurice [=LaMarche=], and Tress [=MacNeille=] are the most frequent. In fact, the only voice actress who plays one character is Katey Sagal, who only plays Leela. She only counts if you include alternate universe Leelas in "The Farnsworth Parabox" [[spoiler:and the robot Leela in "Rebirth".]]
* TangledFamilyTree: The Fry-Farnsworth-[[spoiler:Mom]] family tree is surprisingly complex when you sit down and draw it.
* TheTeaser
* TechnoBabble: subverted multiple times by many of the main cast. Scenes requiring a pseudo-scientific explanation often invoke the use of gibberish in the place of more traditional, partially plausible AppliedPhlebotinum.
-->'''Bubblegum Tate''': Looks like what we got here is a chronoton mass in the sub-atomic inferencees.
-->'''Prof. Farnsworth''': Yes, something involving that many BIG words could easily destabilise time itself!
* TedBaxter: Zapp Brannigan.
* TemporalParadox: [[{{MST3KMantra}} Thinking]] about ''Bender's Big Score'' [[BellisariosMaxim too much]] is guaranteed to make your head hurt. Paradox-Free Time Travel my (shiny metal) ass!
* TemporaryBlindness
* TemptingFate: In "Benderama":
-->'''Bender:''' ...What?\\
'''Hermes:''' This place is crawling with yous!\\
'''Bender:''' So there's more Benders around. As far as I'm concerned, that's good news!\\
'''Farnsworth:''' Bad news, everyone!
* {{Terraform}}: Mars and the [[PlanetOfHats Ancient Egypt-style planet]].
* ThatLiarLies: Bender responds with the accusation that he is being used as a beer distiller with "Lies! Lies and slander!"... right before he burps up a bit of foam.
* ThatManIsDead: Made humorously literal in "The Late Phillip J. Fry". When Fry shows up on time for Leela's birthday dinner, she admits she didn't think he'd actually do so. Fry tells her that the Phillip J. Fry that stood her up before is dead... [[spoiler:because through the use of the Professor's forward-only time machine, the Professor, Fry, and Bender have cycled all the way through their universe and an additional one to get back to their relative present, killing the Professor, Fry, and Bender of the latest iteration of the universe upon arrival]].
* ThatRussianSquatDance: Done by Zoidberg in one episode, with Fry joining in.
* TheyCalledMeMad: The Professor even called ''himself'' mad. "But I showed myself!"
* ThirdPersonPerson: Morbo.
* ThisIsAWorkOfFiction: "The Route of All Evil" begins "DISCLAIMER: Any resemblance to actual robots would be really cool."
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Inverted in "Parasites Lost":
-->'''Professor Farnsworth:''' Anyhoo, your net-suits will allow you to experience Fry's worm infested bowels as if you were actually wriggling through them.
-->'''Dr. Zoidberg (cheerfully):''' There's no part of that sentence I didn't like!
* ThisIsSparta: "Professor! Lava! Hot!"
* ThrowItIn: The Hypnotoad's trademark droning sound was originally a placeholder, but it sounded so bizarrely ''wrong'' that they kept it.
* TimeAbyss: The Nibblonians were 17 years old at the time of the Big Bang, and the Brainspawn came into existence 1 millisecond after.
* TimePassesMontage: In "Space Pilot 3000", we have this type of montage while Fry is frozen. It wouldn't be the last time this trope is utilized.
** Used to soul crushing effect in "Jurassic Bark", where Seymour is seen waiting for him on the curb outside his old workplace for 15 or so years, until he lies down and dies.
*** Both of these were among the things [[ContinuityNod nodded to]] in ''Bender's Big Score''. Both times, a time-traveling Bender was responsible. It also shows that the dog was being watched after by an alternate Fry, somewhat lessening the impact of the preceding episode in hindsight.
** It's also used breathtakingly in the climax of ''The Late Philip J. Fry'' when Fry, Bender and the professor witness the end and beginning of the universe.
* TimeTravel: At one point, the Professor builds a time machine that can only go forward. He has Bender and Fry help him test it, but they end up in the year 10,000.
** In "All the President's Heads", Farnsworth discovers that licking the heads in the Head Museum causes one to travel briefly to the time period that head lived in.
* TimeTravelRomance: For Fry. Leads to [[spoiler: MyOwnGrandpa]].
* TimeyWimeyBall: The Universal Time Code in ''Bender's Big Score'' is quite literally a TimeyWimeyBall. It's even green.
* TimmyInAWell: Parodied in "Jurassic Bark":
-->'''Mr. Fry:''' What's that, Seymour? You walking on sunshine?
* TitleDrop: At one point after seeing the bad influence he's caused, Bender says, "Bender Should Not Be Allowed On Television."
** The Robot Devil hands Bender a pamphlet entitled "Hell Is Other Robots" during the episode that he first premiers in.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Bender. The number of times he's sold out his closest friends is ''astounding''. After a heartwarming moment, he puts Hermes on his "do not kill" list. They had worked together for 10 years before that.
* TookALevelInBadass: Zoidberg took a large one in 'The Silence Of The Clamps' when he fights [[TheMafia Clamps]] in claw-to-clamp combat.
** He also seemed to have gained a lot of self-confidence by the end of the episode.
* TomHanksSyndrome: In-universe example with Harold Zoid, once a famous silent comedian, turned drama director.
* TopTenList: Zapp Brannigan reveals Bender's ten most frequently used words in this manner during "War is the 'H' Word". For the record, the words are:
** #10: Chump
** #9: Chumpette
** #8: Yours
** #7: Up
** #6: Pimpmobile
** #5: Bite
** #4: My
** #3: Shiny
** #2: Daffodil (as in "Hot diggety daffodil!")
** #1: Ass
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Bender and all other robots love alcohol, as it is their power source.
** Hermes and Manwich.
** Fry seems to like pineapples, as shown in "The Why of Fry" and "Ghost in the Machines".
* TriggerHappy: The machine gun robots from "Lethal Inspection".
--> "Someone said 'shoot'!"
* TrojanPrisoner
* {{Troperiffic}}: this show is pretty much the embodiment of this trope. It celebrates in every single cliche and trope, and often uses RuleOfCool just because it is so freaking awesome.
* TrouserSpace: [[spoiler: While thinking he is a [[{{Hammerspace}} robot]]]], Fry takes some sandwiches from his pants and offers them to his friends. They are not interested.
* TrueCompanions: The Planet Express crew, no matter what they go through, will always pull together for each other in the end.
* TubeTravel: The Tube Transport System.
* TWordEuphemism: From "War is the H-Word":
-->"If you say the A-word, you'll blow this whole planet straight to the H-word!"
* UglyGuyHotWife: Hermes and LaBarbara Conrad.
* UnCanceled
-->'''Bender''': On the count of three you will awaken feeling refreshed. As if ''Futurama'' had never been [[ExecutiveMeddling canceled by idiots]], then [[NetworkToTheRescue brought back by]] [[BitingTheHandHumor bigger idiots]]. One... Two... (scene change)
* UnderwaterCity: Atlanta.
* UnexpectedInheritance
* UnfazedEveryman: Fry.
* UnflinchingWalk: Hermes in "Lethal Inspection".
-->'''Bender:''' He did it! And he's [[LampshadeHanging not looking back]] at that [[StuffBlowingUp cool explosion]]! He's a hero!
* UnnecessarilyCreepyRobot:
** Sure, Robot Santa Claus is evil ''now'', but as originally designed he shouldn't be that scary.
** One episode has a robot nanny who not only looks frightening, but speaks in a loud, angry voice and claims to have replaced the baby's mother before feeding it with a bottle from its toothy maw. Leela thinks it's cute. Notably, the baby doesn't seem to mind either.
* UnPaused: In the pilot, Fry pushes Leela into a stasis pod mid-lecture, and sets the release time for later that day. When she comes out she's still yelling at him.
* UnroboticReveal: In a horror movie for robots.
* UnusualEuphemism: Amy uses "Gleesh" for "Sheesh", words that rhyme with "duh" for "duh".
** ''As though!''
** Snu-Snu.
** Let me axe you something...
* UselessAccessory: Bender and many other robots have antenna that serve no apparent purpose, which gets a LampshadeHanging several times. First when the thing turned out to be interfering with the satellite transmission in his new apartment, and Fry says he should just cut it off since it doesn't do anything, after which it's treated as a robot equivalent of his penis. Again when it's suggested he has a toilet somewhere in his body and pushing down on it flushes.
** {{Subverted|Trope}} again when Mom says most people think she puts antenna on her robots just to make them "more [[BuffySpeak science-fictiony]]" but they really let her take control of everything with a remote control.
** The antennae also allow DOOP to take military control of the robots.
* UranusIsShowing: According to Professor, astronomers changed the name of the planet Uranus to stop that stupid joke once and for all. It's now named "Urectum".
* VetinariJobSecurity: Hermes apparently has this at Planet Express. During the events of "Lethal Inspection," he leaves Leela in charge for a few days. During that time things fall apart completely: he returns to find that the ship has been repossessed, unexplained alarms are going off, the Professor is trapped in a giant beaker, Leela has been reduced to a gibbering mess, and the crew is preparing to cook and eat Zoidberg. It only takes him an hour to get things back to normal.
* VirginSacrifice: In 'I Second That Emotion', Leela is a virgin sacrifice to lure out sewer monster El Chupanibre, despite the fact that the sewer mutants have seen Zapp Brannigan's website.
* VitriolicBestBuds Bender and Fry, type 1.
** Zapp and Kif seem to be a more extreme and subtle example, though it's usually always Kif showing the hidden friendship aspect, [[JerkAss not Zapp.]]
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Mom
* ViewersAreGeniuses: there are a lot of complex jokes on science, science-fiction, and engineering and mathematical principles that may have just been accidental... but considering that this development team literally thinks of everything, I seriously doubt it.
* ViolentGlaswegian: Parodied in "Yo Leela Leela" with ''Extreme Toddler Wrestling'' held in Glasgow, Scotland.
* VoicesAreMental
* VocalEvolution: Many examples, but the ones that stand out the most are Hermes, Morbo, Bender, and Professor Farnsworth. Hermes had a much deeper voice, his accent slightly more prominent. Likewise, Morbo had a more prominent guttural tone to his voice, but now, it only shows when he coughs.
* VoodooShark: Parodied. Often. Hell, the most prominent example is the page quote.
* WallpaperCamouflage
* WeaponizedLandmark: Done as a variation with 20th Century Fox's iconic searchlight logo, which is an actual building in Hollywood. The tour guide explains that the searchlights are designed to blind pilots so Fox can film the resulting crashes.
* WeHaveForgottenThePhlebotinum: In ''Love's Labours Lost in Space'', Bender forgets to replenish the ship's dark matter supply.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Apparently Lrrr's reason for entering the Universal Poker Championship during the events of "Into the Wild Green Yonder" was to win his Father's approval.
* WeWillHavePerfectHealthInTheFuture: Subverted on a few counts. The Professor's back, memory, and mental stability are often called into question; [[spoiler: Leela is put in danger by giant space bees]], Zapp Brannigan claims to suffer from the "very sexy learning disability" of Sexlexia--even the robots get sick!
** On the other hand, the average human lifespan has been extended to the point where robots collect people when they turn 160, then process them a la ''TheMatrix''.
** Certain conditions that used to be fatal, such as decapitation, can be recovered from pretty easily. On a related note, it seems blood has also been totally replaced by medication and nanobots.
** Even [[spoiler: Americans that have been taken over by Britons]] in an AlternateUniverse are not immune to this, as proved by "All The President's Heads". Given a brilliant [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] by a Cockney version of Bender.
--> '''"Oy, 'ow come we Brits got unionized healthcare, but our teeth still look like this?"'''
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally the newest season was to take place in another universe, but Matt Groening wanted to do the rebirth episode instead.
** The role of Zap Brannigan was written for the late, great PhilHartman.
** The original title was going to be "Aloha Mars." Also, early character designs showed Bender with satellite antenna ears.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: In Futurama world bureaucrat appears to be the most badass job ever.
* WhatIsOneMansLifeInComparison: In ''The Why Of Fry'', it's revealed that Fry was [[spoiler: frozen by Nibbler so he could live long enough to fight the Brain Spawn.]] While explaining himself and trying to convince Fry to go through it all over again, [[spoiler:Nibbler]] asks the all important question of "what is one man's life weighed against the entire universe?"
* [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove What Is This Thing You Call 'Wuv'?]]: The Omicronians' reaction to Valentine's Day.
* WhamEpisode: The last few minutes of ''Luck of the Fryrish''. It doesn't get any less shocking or impacting on further re-watches, either.
* WhatWeNowKnowToBeTrue: According to Farnsworth, genetic engineering is preposterous science-fiction mumbo-jumbo.
* WhoEvenNeedsABrain: The episode "Roswell That Ends Well" has Bender's brain (a collection of computer chips) being mistaken for food and eaten. Bender isn't happy but he suffers no ill effects.
* WhoYouGonnaCall:
-->'''Fry:''' All I know is I've got a ghost that needs busting. ''(dials a phone)''\\
'''Hermes:''' Who you gonna call?\\
'''Fry:''' {{Gho|stbusters}}--\\
'''Phone:''' ''(BEEP!)'' The number you have dialled has been ''lame'' [[{{Sequelitis}} since 1989.]]
* WholePlotReference: As well as "Fry and the Slurm Factory", above, "A Flight To Remember" is a parody of ''{{Titanic}}'' (with a title based on the earlier Titanic film ''ANightToRemember''), and "Love and Rocket", parodying [[ASpaceOdyssey 2001]], but with an {{Yandere}} female AI.
* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: Sal, the morbidly obese redneck, is always seen in a different low-level job, primarily one that involves heavy lifting.
** Likewise, "Fishy Joe" Gillman will always open a new fast-food resturaunt after the previous one fails.
* TheWikiRule: [[http://theinfosphere.org/Main_Page The Infosphere.]]
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Fry loves Leela despite her mutation. Leela rarely reciprocated, until the end of the fourth movie, and [[OfficialCouple it's stuck]]. The [[{{Uncanceled}} new season]] has them together, but it's done subtle enough in most of the new episodes that you wouldn't know it if you didn't look for it (For example, Leela instantly agreeing to join the "mile deep club" in "The Duh-Vinci Code"), but some make it obvious (All of "The Late Philip J. Fry").
** In the final scene of "[[SeriesFauxnale Overclockwise]]", Bender gives Fry and Leela a paper containing a prediction he made (during a time where he [[TheSingularity passed the existential singularity]]) of their future together. [[TheUnreveal We only have their reactions to go by.]]
* WithDueRespect
* WorstAid: Everything Zoidberg does.
* WriteBackToTheFuture: Leela uses this trope to send a message to Fry a billion years in the future.
* WritingAroundTrademarks: {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d and used to point out how things have changed in the course of 1000 years. Examples include "Admiral Crunch."
* WroteTheBook: Spoofed in "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back":
-->'''Number 1.0''': Don't quote me regulations! I co-chaired the committee that reviewed the recommendation to change the color of the book that regulation's in. We kept it gray.
* XDaysSince:
** In one episode a sign counts the days since the last time a certain planet invaded Earth.
** In another episode there's one in a working ground for slaves counting the days since the last accident (and Fry accidentally nails his own hand to the sign while changing the number).
** When Fry enters the cryogenics lab, the sign says "No power failures since 1997," with the "7" being handwritten and taped on.
* XMakesAnythingCool: The trope namer.
-->'''Leela:''' You're blackmailing me?
-->'''Bender:''' Blackmail is such an ugly word. I prefer 'extortion'. The 'X' makes it sound cool.
* {{Yandere}}: Interestingly enough, the Planet Express crew's primary mode of transportation, as seen in "Love and Rocket".
* YouMakeMeSic: Multiple examples. Happens frequent with robot mafia henchman [[{{Malaproper}} Joey Mousepad]], whose mangled English is a RunningGag.
** From "Love and Rocket":
--> '''Lrr (Ruler of the planet Omicron Persei 8!)''': "THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!"
** From: "Bendless Love"
--> '''Joey Mousepad''': "But what if management remains intragnizent?"
--> '''The Donbot''': "From the context it is clear what you mean."
* YouSayTomato:
** Zapp Brannigan enjoys drinking "champaggin" and eating "guacamowl".
** Bender makes the same mistake with "guacamole" when showing off his [[JustAStupidAccent "flawless" Spanish accent]].
** And on "The Day The Earth Stood Stupid", Fry confronts the Giant Brain in the "libary".
* YouWillBeBeethoven: Fry replaces/becomes his own grandfather.
* YouWillBeSpared
* YouWouldntHitAGuyWithGlasses: In "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back", Bender is caught cheating in a game of poker using X-ray glasses. When he's cornered, he nervously states, "Hey...you wouldn't hit a guy wearing X-ray glasses, would ya?" Unsurprisingly, it doesn't work.
* YourBrainWontBeMuchOfAMeal: We see a Brain Slug starve to death after it gets on Fry's head. This is originally played as this trope, but eventually {{Retcon}}ned into being because he's [[MyOwnGrampa his own grampa]].
* {{Zeerust}}: Some of the parody targets in early episodes are showing signs of this, such as the episode with Kidnappster.
* ZeroGSpot: The "Zero-G Juggs" magazine.
* ZipMeUp: Happens in ''Bender's Big Score'' with Hermes.
