History Futurama / TropesTToZ

* 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".

* 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.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Mom
* ViewersAreGeniuses: there are a lot of complex jokes on science, science-fiction, and engineering and mathematical principles.
* ViolentGlaswegian: Parodied in "Yo Leela Leela" with ''Extreme Toddler Wrestling'' held in Glasgow, Scotland.

* 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.

'''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 ''Film/ANightToRemember''), and "Love and Rocket", parodying [[ASpaceOdyssey 2001]], but with an {{Yandere}} female AI.

** Likewise, "Fishy Joe" Gillman will always open a new fast-food resturaunt after the previous one fails.

** 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, and with no sympathetic or positive traits whatsoever.

* 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").

* 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.

*** 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.

* TouchOfTheMonster: The cover of "The Beast with a Billion Backs" shows Leela [[ContemptibleCover in a skimpy nightdress]] being held aloft by Naughty Tentacles as the rest of the cast look on in horror.

* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: Named the trope. From "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings":
-->'''Robot Devil''': Your lyrics lack subtly! You can't just have your characters announce how they feel. [[TropeNamer That makes me feel angry!]]\\

** The role of Zap Brannigan was written for the late, great PhilHartman.

* Tearjerker: "Jurrassic Bark" and "The Luck of the Fryish".

* 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.

** 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 Complete Monsters]] with no sympathetic or positive traits whatsoever.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: Hermes is a master of tedious office work. He is sometimes called upon to display his superhuman ability to fill out paperwork, balance accounts and so forth.

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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.]]

*** 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.