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* WillTheyOrWontThey: Fry loves Leela despite her being a mutant. 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.]]
** 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.
** In a later episode "Fry and Leela's Big Fling" they have evolved to the point of being a happy couple and try to find alone time for sex. Leela sees her ex Sean again and tells him that Fry and her are "what would you say we are again?" and she seems to have no issue interrupting their intimacy to catch up with him. Though she isn't interested in Sean anymore, it still showed a lack of regard for Fry's feelings.

--->'''Amy''': You've gone from crazy like a fox to crazy like Creator/{{Fox News|Channel}}!

** In the episode "Fry am the egg man" Leela calls Fry her "strictly platonic friend". Fry's reaction is one of great disappointment.
** Another example is in "Fry and Leela's big fling" we see Leela's often mentioned ex Sean for the first time in person. Leela states that she and Fry are.."what would you say we are again?" and also doesn't have an issue leaving him to go catch up. Though she is clearly over Sean, it's still a little disrespectful.

** In a later episode "Fry and Leela's big fling" they have evolved to the point of being a happy couple and try to find alone time for sex. Leela sees her ex Sean again and tells him that Fry and her are "what would you say we are again?" and she seems to have no issue interrupting their intimacy to catch up with him. Though she isn't interested in Sean anymore, it still showed a lack of regard for Fry's feelings.

** Arguably the Unattractive Giant Monster from "Benderama" counts as one. After attacking the planet express crew for insulting his mother, he tries to apologize and even seeks psychological help. This is only for his appearance and mother to be insulted until he breaks. The fact that he had what was probably one of the most agonizing deaths in the entire series does not help.

* 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?" Fry's response? "But it was MY life..."
* [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove What Is This Thing You Call 'Wuv'?]]: The Omicronians' reaction to Valentine's 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.

* WealthyYachtOwner:
** Duchess de la Roche, the wealthy robot Bender dates in the episode "A Flight to Remember". She doesn't just own a yacht, she ''is'' a yacht.
** Calculon owns two yachts: a well-sized vessel called "''Calculon's Pride''"...which floats in the pool of a ''gigantic'' yacht called "''Calculon's Talent''".
* 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 for their reality shows.
* WearingItAllWrong: There's an episode where a monkey forgets where to put his intelligence-enhancing hat, at one point putting it on his butt.
* WeirdWorldWeirdFood: Many common foods still exist in the 31st century, but the diverse species population means more alien-like food may casually show up, such as bug legs or horse fries. One episode centers around the Planet Express crew finding a delicious new food on a planet and bringing it back to Earth... only for it to be revealed they're eating ''infant aliens''.

* 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.

* VirtualRealityInterrogation: In one episode, MOM wanted to get Fry's bank information. Since his PIN was related to his old job in the twentieth century, her sons set up an elaborate hoax to convince him that coming to the future was AllJustADream and he was back in his old life.

* 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.

* VandalismBackfire: In the beginning of the episode where they go the Ancient Egypt themed planet, Bender graffities a building with a drawing of himself flexing and reading "Bender likes to kick butt." When the demolition crews initiate the implosion of the condemned building, the pieces rearrange themselves into the shape of a butt and now reads: "Bender licks butt." Cue raucous laughter from the demolition crew.

* 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".

* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: In the original series, Fry would often ask Leela out on dates, and she would reject through lame excuses. In the Comedy Central revival, when they do start dating, Fry would often brush off Leela's advances because he's distracted by something else, like eavesdropping on Bender, meeting the Professor's parents or listening to the Professor's lecture.

* TWordEuphemism: From "War is the H-Word":
-->"If you say the A-word, you'll blow this whole planet straight to the H-word!"

* ToyBasedCharacterization: In "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back", Hermes reveals through song that when he was four years old, he had alphabet blocks, and when a hurricane blew them out of order, he cried for an entire night. He then grew up to become a stuffy bureaucrat.

* TradeSnark: In "Brannigan, Begin Again", Zapp's spaceship laser has three settings - stun, kill, and hyperdeath. Hyperdeath has the small tm next to it.

* TemporaryBlindness: Leela suffers this when she is accidentally blasted in the face with Elzar's spice weasel (BAM!).

** Hermes and Manwich.

* TooStrangeToShow: The ThreeShorts episode "Reincarnation" does this [[RuleOfThree three times]] using a different ArtShift to hide what's being shown. It has a new colour in a black and white cartoon, a particle so detailed that it answers all scientific questions in a {{Retraux}} video game, and an impossibly beautiful dance in a LimitedAnimation 80s anime.

* TimeZonesDoNotExist: The pilot episode begins on New Year's Eve, 1999, and shows a worldwide simultaneous countdown to the Year 2000.

* TimeTravelRomance: For Fry. Leads to [[spoiler: MyOwnGrandpa]].

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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.

* TheInternetIsForPorn: Once the Planet Express enters the Internet, as represented by a giant virtual world, they instantly fly down to the sleeziest parts to view smut and enter filthy chatrooms.

* WealthyYachtOwner: Duchess de la Roche, the wealthy robot Bender dates in the episode "A Flight to Remember". She doesn't just own a yacht, she ''is'' a yacht.

%% * WorstAid: Everything Zoidberg does.