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* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: When Travers' baby self is born, he is named on his birth certificate "''Senator'' Chris Xaxxar Travers".

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* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: When Travers' baby self is born, he is named on his birth certificate "''Senator'' Chris Xaxxar Zaxxar Travers".
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* EvilGloating: With a touch of BadassBoast in there for good measure, by (who else?) Nixon.
-->'''Nixon always WINS!!! AROOOOOOOOO!!!'''
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[[caption-width-right:1000:""We want an Earthling, not a dirty space thing!"]]

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[[caption-width-right:1000:""We [[caption-width-right:1000:"We want an Earthling, not a dirty space thing!"]]
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* AlternateTimeline: The timeline where Nixon won the 3012 election.



* ImprobableInfantSurvival: Despite the time travel used being the same one as ''Bender's Big Score'', the infant Chris survives the episode, possibly because [[spoiler: the paradox was corrected by the adult Chris being erased from the timeline]].
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Everyone after [[spoiler: the politician, Chris, was erased from the timeline]]

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* ImprobableInfantSurvival: Despite the time travel used being the same one as ''Bender's Big Score'', the infant Chris survives the episode, possibly because [[spoiler: the paradox was corrected by the adult Chris being erased from the timeline]].
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Everyone after [[spoiler: the politician, Chris, was erased from the timeline]]timeline.



-->'''Bender''': [[spoiler: You see, since Nixon wasn't elected, the robot uprising didn't happen and Travers never got sent back from the future. It's Politics 101!]]
* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler:"Wow, it really ''doesn't'' matter who you vote for!"]]

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-->'''Bender''': [[spoiler: You see, since Nixon wasn't elected, the robot uprising didn't happen and Travers never got sent back from the future. It's Politics 101!]]
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* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler:"Wow, "Wow, it really ''doesn't'' matter who you vote for!"]]for!"



* TimeTravel: [[spoiler:The politician came from the AlternateTimeline future, where Richard Nixon won the 3012 election. Unfortunately, FridgeHorror kicks in that since Chris was erased from the timeline and Nixon ended up President again, which can only mean two things: that everyone is now in a ''third'' timeline where Nixon wins but the robot apocalypse won't happen (since President Chris would still be there in some fashion) or the BadFuture will still happen]].
** AlternateTimeline: The timeline where Nixon won the 3012 election.

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* TimeTravel: [[spoiler:The The politician came from the AlternateTimeline future, where Richard Nixon won the 3012 election. Unfortunately, FridgeHorror kicks in that since Chris was erased from the timeline and Nixon ended up President again, which can only mean two things: that everyone is now in a ''third'' timeline where Nixon wins but the robot apocalypse won't happen (since President Chris would still be there in some fashion) or the BadFuture will still happen]].
** AlternateTimeline: The timeline where Nixon won the 3012 election.
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** Chris' ultimate fate is the consequence of the time code's self correction of paradoxes; all time travel duplicates are fated to die.

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** Chris' ultimate fate is the a consequence of the time code's self correction of paradoxes; all time travel duplicates are fated to die. paradoxes.

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* CallBack: Future Bender wields the same gun and sunglasses he had in ''Bender's Big Score''.

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* CallBack: A few to ''Bender's Big Score'':
** Chris is able to travel back in time by using a photocopy of the time code.
** Immediately after Chris leaves,
Future Bender wields breaks into the room, wielding the same gun and sunglasses he had in ''Bender's Big Score''.used when he was ordered to kill Fry.
** Chris' ultimate fate is the consequence of the time code's self correction of paradoxes; all time travel duplicates are fated to die.
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-->'''Bender''': [[spoiler: You see, since Nixon wasn't elected, the robot uprising didn't happen and Travers never got sent back from the future. It's Politics 101!]]
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* HumanResources: In the future, Nixon turned the silent majority into the [[Film/SoylentGreen soylent]] [[IncrediblyLamePun majority]].

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* HumanResources: In the future, Nixon turned the silent majority into the [[Film/SoylentGreen soylent]] [[IncrediblyLamePun [[{{Pun}} majority]].
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* CheekCopy: One last copy of the time code from ''Bender's Big Score'' survived on one of these, allowing Chris to return to the past.

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* CheekCopy: One last copy of the time code from ''Bender's Big Score'' survived on one of these, a photocopied image, allowing Chris to return to the past.
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''[[CouchGag Made from 100% recycled pixels]]''
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* TimeyWimeyBall: By this point ''Futurama'' has stepped all over the rules of time travel (mostly due to ''Bender's Big Score'') but if one must nit-pick, this episode's ending contradicts ''[[Recap/FuturamaS4E10TheWhyOfFry The Why of Fry]]'' (because disrupting the past results in a paradox that erases the causality of the event that originally enabled the time travel, something that did not happen in that episode).

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* TimeyWimeyBall: By this point ''Futurama'' has stepped all over the rules of time travel (mostly due to ''Bender's Big Score'') but if one must nit-pick, this episode's ending contradicts ''[[Recap/FuturamaS4E10TheWhyOfFry The Why of Fry]]'' (because disrupting the past results in a paradox that erases the causality of the event that originally enabled the time travel, something that did not happen in that episode).episode. Possibly justified as the Brain Spawn explain the nature of Fry being able to go back in time was a rare occurrence so it's possible this method of time travel has its own rules).
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* CallBack: Alternate future Bender wields the same gun and sunglasses he had in ''Bender's Big Score''.

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* CallBack: Alternate future Future Bender wields the same gun and sunglasses he had in ''Bender's Big Score''.

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* CallBack: Alternate future Bender wields the same gun and sunglasses he had in ''Bender's Big Score''.



* ImprobableInfantSurvival: Despite the time travel used being the same one as ''Bender's Big Score'', the infant Chris survives the episode.

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* ImprobableInfantSurvival: Despite the time travel used being the same one as ''Bender's Big Score'', the infant Chris survives the episode.episode, possibly because [[spoiler: the paradox was corrected by the adult Chris being erased from the timeline]].
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** He also joins Nixon in an "AROOOO!" while the pair plot against Travers.



** He also joins Nixon in an "AROOOO!" while the pair plot against Travers.
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* DownerEnding: "Nixon ''always'' wins!"
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* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: When Travers' baby self is born, he is named on his birth certificate "'''Senator''' Chris Xaxxar Travers".

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* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: When Travers' baby self is born, he is named on his birth certificate "'''Senator''' "''Senator'' Chris Xaxxar Travers".

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