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* BoyishShorts: This is mostly averted with the [[FountainOfYouth aged down]] crew; Fry and Hermes are shown in long pants, while the Professor is an adult. However, Hermes is briefly shown in shorts with a sailor top when they're small kids, Fry wears overalls on the way to the Fountain of Aging as a toddler, and young Professor Farnsworth wears shorts with a button shirt and bow, high socks, and black shoes in the more nerdy/old-fashioned style at the fountain (before returning to pants before he goes into the fountain with the infant rest of the crew).
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* BizarreAlienBiology: Zoidberg's "teenage heartthrob" phase of life bears a strong resemblance to a cuttlefish, while his even earlier phase looks similar to a sponge or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunicate tunicate]].[[note]]Amusingly, the equivalent Earthican species are nowhere near related to each other, or to the crustaceans that Zoidberg's adult form resembles.[[/note]]


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* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Heather, the "youthacizer" at the spa. As a Neptunian, she has four arms and purple skin, but is still quite good-looking by the standards of Groening's animation style.

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* IWantGrandkids: Inez Wong still really wants grandchildren (despite, y'know, already having them, though she probably means "human grandchildren" and doesn't count the offspring Kif made since Leela is biologically the mother). She's annoyed by Amy being de-aged.



* IWantGrandkids: Inez Wong still really wants grandchildren (despite, y'know, already having them, though she probably means "human grandchildren" and doesn't count the offspring Kif made since Leela is biologically the mother). She's annoyed by Amy being de-aged.
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* BigDamnHeroes: After hiding under the crew's rocket ship, the professor's gargoyle comes to save his master from the Fountain Of Aging.

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* BigDamnHeroes: After hiding under the crew's rocket ship, the professor's Professor's gargoyle comes to save his master from the Fountain Of Aging.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: Pre-life! Then death.
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** The title parodies ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles''.

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** The title parodies ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles''. Coincidentally, Fox had recently started airing the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 2003 series of this franchise]] when this episode first aired.
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* DisneyDeath: Zoidberg falls into the Fountain of Aging and promptly [[DeathByDeaging dissolves into dust]]. It's then revealed it wasn't actually Zoidberg, but one of his brothers instead.

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* DisneyDeath: Zoidberg falls into the Fountain of Aging and promptly [[DeathByDeaging [[RapidAging dissolves into dust]]. It's then revealed it wasn't actually Zoidberg, but one of his brothers instead.
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* DyingCurse: When the Professor is about to drown, he screams: "With my last breath, I curse Zoidberg!"

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* DyingCurse: PlayedForLaughs. When the Professor is about to drown, he screams: "With my last breath, I curse Zoidberg!"
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->''[[CouchGag Now interactive!]]''
->''[[CouchGag Joystick controls Fry's left ear]]''

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''[[CouchGag Now interactive!]]''
''[[CouchGag Joystick controls Fry's left ear]]''

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''[[CouchGag ->''[[CouchGag Joystick controls Fry's left ear]]''
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* EmotionalMaturityIsPhysicalMaturity: While de-aged, the crew acts like the teenagers/children that they look like.

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* EmotionalMaturityIsPhysicalMaturity: While de-aged, the crew acts like the teenagers/children that they look like. Averted with Zoidberg, who behaves the same regardless of age.
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* EleventhHourRanger: Pazuzu shows up at the very end to save Farnsworth from the Fountain of Aging.
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-->'''Heather:''' Sir, it's not necessary, or wise to be naked.
-->'''Farnsworth:''' You sound just like my tennis instructor.
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* AbsenteeActor: Creator/MauriceLaMarche is included in the end credits but doesn't actually appear in the episode. He points this out on the DVDCommentary, prompting Creator/JohnDiMaggio to ask if that means he got paid anyway (he didn't).
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** Pazuzu finishes the episode by saying "bonne nuit" to the audience, despite French supposedly being a dead language by the 31st century (though, given that Pazuzu is a gargoyle, he's probably been around since French was considered a live language).
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* FountainOfYouth: The tar, obviously. One of the Professor's cures causes those exposed to further regress. This is solved by the Fountain of Aging.

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* FountainOfYouth: The tar, obviously. One of the Professor's cures causes those exposed to further regress. This is solved by the [[InvertedTrope Fountain of Aging.Aging]].
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** Similarly, in "Bendless Love", Bender's recollection of his "birth" shows him being fully assembled already as an adult. Possibly justified as a either a false memory or him getting a new body, and later a flashback in "Lethal Inspection" shows that Bender was originally built with an infant body.

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* PermissiveParents: Leela's parents are willing to let their de-aged daughter have an independent life but Leela actually ''wants'' the strict parenting a teenager normally gets. Leela's dad responds by giving her a bottle of tequila with a crazy straw.



* WholePlotReference: To the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Rascals".

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* WholePlotReference: To the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Rascals"."[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E7Rascals Rascals]]".
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* DisneyDeath: Zoidberg falls into the Fountain of Aging and promptly [[DeathByDeaging dissolves into dust]]. It's then revealed it wasn't actually Zoidberg, but one of his brothers instead.


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* FriendOrIdolDecision: Leela is forced to choose between reliving her childhood with her parents or saving her friends from DeathByDeaging. She chooses her friends.

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* ContinuitySnarl: Zoidberg is shown going through different transformations before reaching his adult form. The flashbacks from Zoidberg's youth in "That's Lobstertainment!" showed that Decapodian children are miniature versions of adults.
** One possible explanation is that Zoidberg's various larval stages are from a point ''before'' he 'evolved' into the more familiar humanoid form.



* SeriesContinuityError: Pazuzu finishes the episode by saying "bonne nuit" to the audience, despite French supposedly being a dead language by the 31st century (though, given that Pazuzu is a gargoyle, he's probably been around since French was considered a live language).

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** Zoidberg is shown going through different transformations before reaching his adult form. The flashbacks from Zoidberg's youth in "That's Lobstertainment!" showed that Decapodian children are miniature versions of adults. One possible explanation is that Zoidberg's various larval stages are from a point ''before'' he 'evolved' into the more familiar humanoid form.
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* DyingCurse: "With my last breath, I curse Zoidberg!"

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* DyingCurse: When the Professor is about to drown, he screams: "With my last breath, I curse Zoidberg!"
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* GoodParents: Leela's mom states that if Leela really wants to move in with them as a teenager, she states they'll try their best to respect her independence and boundaries. Hilariously, Leela demands they don't as she wants the typical adolescent experience of strict, nagging, controlling parents. Which her father responds to by offering her tequila.
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* SeriesContinuityError: Pazuzu finishes the episode by saying "bon nui" to the audience, despite French supposedly being a dead language by the 31st century.

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* SeriesContinuityError: Pazuzu finishes the episode by saying "bon nui" "bonne nuit" to the audience, despite French supposedly being a dead language by the 31st century.century (though, given that Pazuzu is a gargoyle, he's probably been around since French was considered a live language).



** The cover of "A Child's Garden of Space Legends" features a child's head being bitten by a Gorn from the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E18Arena Arena]]". One of the stories in the book is "[[Literature/CharlottesWeb Charlotte's]] [[Recap/StarTrekS3E9TheTholianWeb Tholian Web]]".

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** The cover of "A Child's Garden of Space Legends" features a screaming child's head being bitten by a Gorn from the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E18Arena Arena]]". One of the stories in the book is "[[Literature/CharlottesWeb Charlotte's]] [[Recap/StarTrekS3E9TheTholianWeb Tholian Web]]".
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** One possible explanation is that Zoidberg's various larval stages are from a point ''before'' he 'evolved' into the more familiar humanoid form.
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* StinkSnub: Little Amy tells little Conrad that he stinks.

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* StinkSnub: Little Amy tells little Conrad Hermes that he stinks.
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* LastGraspAtLife: The Professor's raised fist while uttering his DyingCurse.


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* StinkSnub: Little Amy tells little Conrad that he stinks.
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* AbsenteeActor: Creator/MauriceLaMarche is included in the end credits but doesn't actually appear in the episode. He points this out on the DVDCommentary, prompting Creator/JohnDiMaggio to ask if that means he got paid anyway (he didn't).

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