History Futurama / TropesTToZ

* TheyCalledMeMad: The Professor even called ''himself'' mad. "But I showed myself!"

* TwoLinesDifferentTimes: A [[Recap/FuturamaS3E4LuckOfTheFryish couple]] [[Recap/FuturamaS4E7JurassicBark of]] [[Recap/FuturamaS6E24ColdWarriors episodes]] focus on a story taking place in the 30th century while also following a story from Fry's life in the 20th century.

-->'''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.

** He becomes super-intelligent, witty and charming due to intestinal worms, capable of playing a difficult to master instrument amazingly well, enough to seduce Leela. He throws it all away because he doesn't feel he's earned it.

** When time starts skipping he manages to impress Leela enough for her to marry him. She attacks him at the altar, then quickly divorces him. Also when he finally discovers the thing he did to make Leela fall in love with him, it's immediately destroyed.

** In the episode "Fry am the egg man" Leela calls Fry her "strictly platonic friend" Fry's reaction is one of great disappointment.

* WaxingLyrical: In "the 30% Iron Chef", Bender and Elgar have a food competition in Japan. Koji declares Bender the winner. Bender says, "Thank you, Chairman". Koji replies, "Domi Aragoto, Mister Roboto."

-->'''Robot Devil''': Your lyrics lack subtly! You can't just have your characters ''announce'' how they feel! [[HypocriticalHumor That makes me feel angry!]]

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* 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]].

** 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:

-->'''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!

-->"I apologise for ''nothing''!"

* WorthlessForeignDegree: No degree and being out of time instead of out of space but the basic principle is the same. In one episode, Fry was told that being a college drop-out back in his [[HumanPopsicle pre-freezing days]] was like being a High School drop-out in the series' time. Wating the same respect he believes college drop-outs have, he enrolled at Mars University just to drop out. He even took it as a compliment when Leela told him he'd not last two weeks.

* 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.

** The second half of "Bender's Game" is primarily a ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'' parody, with a dose of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' for good measure.

** [[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.

--->'''Fry''': Like watching ''[[TheTonightShow Leno]]''!

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** "Love and Rocket", parodies [[ASpaceOdyssey 2001]], but with a {{Yandere}} female AI.

* TrueCompanions: The Planet Express crew, no matter what they go through, will always pull together for each other in the end.

* VitriolicBestBuds Bender and Fry, although it's usually Bender who's vitriolic.
** 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.]]

* WeHaveForgottenThePhlebotinum: In ''Love's Labours Lost in Space'', Bender forgets to replenish the ship's dark matter supply.

'''Fry:''' Film/{{Gho|stbusters}}--\\
'''Phone:''' ''(BEEP!)'' The number you have dialed has been ''lame'' [[{{Sequelitis}} since 1989.]]