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8* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: The ultimate summary of Bender's tenure as pharaoh in "A Pharaoh to Remember".
9** [[{{Narcissist}} Of course, it still didn’t stop him from going out with a]] [[AGodAmI bang,]] [[{{Egopolis}} though.]]
10* TwentyPercentMoreAwesome:
11** When the Planet Express crew see Music/BeastieBoys (or their heads) in concert, Leela marvels, "They're bustin' mad rhymes with an 80 percent success rate."
12--->'''Bender:''' I believe that qualifies as 'ill', at least from a technical standpoint.
13** In the commentary for "The Honking", Matt Groening and David X. Cohen claim that the word "underpants" is 20% funnier than "underwear".
14* AbandonedCatchphrase:
15** "I am already in my pajamas," was Professor Farnsworth's catchphrase for the first two episodes of the series. It was never said again until Season 8, where he ends up saying that line in "[[Recap/FuturamaS8E3HowTheWestWas1010001 How the West Was 1010001]]".
16** Also there was a lampshaded example where Cubert deleted old catchphrases from Bender's hard drive, such as "This is gonna be fun on a bun!" Fittingly enough, he only used it a grand total of twice up until that point...only for the [[Recap/FuturamaS7E8FunOnABun very next episode of the series ending up being titled that.]]
17* AbhorrentAdmirer:
18** For a few seasons, Hermes was constantly pestered by Zoidberg, whom he detested, often barking things along the lines of "Go away and stop bothering me, you ugly crab!"
19** Zapp Brannigan towards Leela. She did herself no favors by sleeping with him in Season 1 out of pity, which swelled his ego and fueled his lust for her.
20* AbnormalAmmo:
21** During the first segment of "Anthology of Interest", in which Bender asked what life would be like if he were over 500 feet tall, things quickly devolved into a {{Kaiju}} [[ItMakesSenseInContext battle between a 500-foot-tall Zoidberg and Bender]]. Zoidberg converts a section of a subway train into nunchucks, while Bender takes a section of a people-mover tube and uses the people in it and around him as blow-darts.
22** Invoked for the DOOP regular infantry weapons. They seem to fire normal looking lasers but require charging via a jack-in-the box style handle, to the tune of "Pop Goes the Weasel."
23* AbortedArc:
24** The pilot episode introduced the career chip, which supposedly assigned one a permanent job and was ostensibly mandated by the law. Although Smitty and Leela both say that those who reject their career chips are labelled "job deserters" and "fired out of a cannon into the sun", nobody is actually shown facing the stated legal consequences when they remove them. The career chip appeared twice in the show and only once in the comics, and the time gap between its appearances in the main series was quite large. No in-universe explanation has ever been given for these inconsistencies.
25** At the end of the movie ''Into the Wild Green Yonder'', the Encyclopod decides to preserve the DNA of ''Homo sapiens'' after [[spoiler: the death of Hutch Waterfall]]. When Fry asks why he's doing this when Encyclopods are supposed to preserve the DNA of EndangeredSpecies, the Encyclopod flies off without any further explanation, including any of the timescale of the danger. When the show was UnCanceled, none of the episodes bothered to expand upon this plot point. And then the show had another finale, which effectively means this plot turned into a case of FridgeHorror, implying humans are a danger to themselves...unless it has something to do with our galaxy's having been auctioned-off to 'a being of unspeakable horror' a few seasons back.
26* AbsurdlyHugePopulation: In one episode, it is mentioned that the population of Earth in the year 3000 is 40 billion.
27* AbsurdlyLongWait: In the episode "A Biclops Built for Two":
28-->'''Prof. Farnsworth:''' Good news, everyone! Several years ago, I tried to log on to AOL, and it just went through.
29* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: New New York's sewers are big enough to house an entire species of sewer mutants and the subterranean ruins of old New York.
30* AbusiveParents:
31** Bender, when he adopts twelve orphans for the government stipend. (''How'' abusive? He was eventually charged with "depriving children of food, selling children ''as'' food, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking misrepresenting the weight of livestock]]."
32** Farnsworth viewed his own parents as emotionally abusive because they were always too tired to pay attention to him. [[spoiler:It turned out they were tired because they were up all night reading from a chemistry textbook to calm his nightmares.]]
33** Strongly {{implied| Trope}} with Roberto.
34--->'''Roberto:''' No, Mommy! Don't weld me to the wall!
35** Bender sells his firstborn son to the Robot Devil in ''[[Recap/FuturamaM2TheBeastWithABillionBacks The Beast with a Billion Backs]]'' in exchange for an army to [[MakesSenseInContext wage war on Heaven]], even going so far as to callously punt the kid into a vat of boiling blood himself. This is so evil it shocks even the Robot Devil.
36--->'''Robot Devil:''' [[EvenEvilHasStandards Wow! That was pretty brutal even by ''my'' standards.]]\
37'''Bender:''' No backsies!
38** Mom is probably the most infamous one on the show. Despite her sons being adults, she treats them like utter crap, especially Igner, who seems to have "special needs". Mom admitted that she never gave them love even when they were kids. Her favorite form of "affection" seems to be slaps.
39** Minx from "2-D Blacktop" suffered years of "unspoken verbal abuse" from her father ("It's not what he said, it's what he didn't say!"). She lets everyone know, too.
40** In "The Bots and the Bees" Bender subverts this trope by actually being a good father to his son, Ben, even though he initially planned to abandon him. The trope is played straight with Ben's mother Bev, who abandons him to Bender's care, then takes him away after they've bonded, lies to Ben about Bender dying, and threatens to chain Ben to the wall.
41** Zigzagged with Fry's parents. His dad was a paranoid war veteran who was constantly barking at Fry to toughen up and be a man, his mother tended to care more about whatever football game she had on than she did about his problems, and they both seemed to favor his brother Yancy. Fry's ex-girlfriend Michelle even claims that they called off the search for him because it was a waste of tax dollars. Fry himself once said that his parents expressed themselves through "hitting". In later episodes, though, it's made clear that whatever their faults, they both loved Fry and were distraught when he disappeared.
42* AccidentalAdultery: {{Inverted}}. Bender [[CrazyJealousGuy attempts to prove]] that his girlfriend Anglelyne still has feelings for her ex-husband Flexo by disguising himself as the latter and attempting to seduce her. When she responds to "Flexo's" overtures, Bender reveals the ruse and [[InsaneTrollLogic accuses her of disloyalty]]. She responds that "Maybe I love ''you'' so much that I love you no matter who you're pretending to be!" Given that what won her over was "Flexo" acting more like Bender than like the actual Flexo, she may have a point.
43* AccidentalAthlete: Bender accidentally takes down the legendary wrestling robot The Masked Unit. He is subsequently recruited into robot wrestling.
44** Bender invokes this again when he [[spoiler: gets a "robo-sex change" in order to compete in the women's division of the Olympics, which he wins handily. He/she even goes so far as to invent a new country, Robonia, which according to the national anthem (which he made up) is a [[BlatantLies "land I didn't make up."]].]]
45* ActingUnnatural:
46** After Zoidberg breaks the Professor's bottled ship, gets covered in glue trying to fix it, and ends up with half the Professor's lab equipment stuck to his body, including a cuckoo clock and a "Zoidberg: Do Not Touch!" sign, he dons a trench coat to hide it.
47---> '''Zoidberg:''' [[ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud Casual hello]]. It's me, Zoidberg. [[ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud Act naturally]]. ''[cuckoo clock goes off]'' Ow!
48** Leela tries to act nonchalant by whistling after murdering the Professor in one Anthology of Interest segment.
49--->'''Leela:''' Okay, just try to be nonchalant. ''(NotSoInnocentWhistling)''
50--->'''Zoidberg:''' All right, so you're nonchalant. Quit rubbing our noses in it.
51* ActionGirl: Leela is the most physically capable of the crew and a skilled martial artist.
52* ActorAllusion:
53** [[Recap/FuturamaS2E9ABicyclopsBuiltForTwo A Bicyclops Built for Two]]," in which Leela dates a male cyclops named Alcazar, has an entire sequence that plays out like an episode of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' (which Katey Sagal was famous for before her stint on ''Futurama''), complete with Leela dressed in Peg's tacky housewife clothes and big hair ([[ShownTheirWork which is dead on]]), Leela's whiny "''Al''...", and the barrage of DoubleEntendre met with the lewd hoots and hollers of Al's sleazy friends (similar to the way the ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' studio audience reacted to those jokes).
54** In "[[Recap/FuturamaS4E11WhereNoFanHasGoneBefore Where No Fan Has Gone Before]]", Melllvar is handing out copies of his fan screenplay, but he notes that he didn't print enough copies so 'George and Walter will have to share'. This is something that actually happened to both actors while working on the original Star Trek.
55** In a somewhat obscure example, "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E21FutureStock Future Stock]]" isn't the first occasion where Creator/TressMacNeille voices a crotchety old lady who owns one share of a failing company going off on random tangents during a stockholders' meeting. She had an almost identical role in ''WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}}'' three years prior[[note]]see the episode "The Takeover"[[/note]].
56** Creator/MarkHamill voices Hanukkah Zombie, who flies around in a [[Franchise/StarWars TIE Fighter]] with Stars of David on the solar panels. We see it when facing a bunch of solid gold Death Stars.
57** Another obscure example comes from Hermes, in which he said "I'm nothing but a brain" word-for-word, the same way [[WesternAnimation/EvilConCarne Hector Con Carne]] said it. Both were voiced by Creator/PhilLaMarr.
58** Fry has a few personality traits similar to Creator/BillyWest's previous character, [[WesternAnimation/{{Doug}} Doug Funnie]] (though West has said that Fry was pretty much Billy West when he was in his 20s and trying to cope with the aftermath of having an abusive childhood). Not to mention Fry's brother's named Yancy, which is also Doug's [[EmbarrassingMiddleName middle name]].
59** In "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E12TheMutantsAreRevolting The Mutants are Revolting]]", [[Creator/PhilLaMarr Hermes]] is the one who reads the inscription of the [[Franchise/GreenLantern green ring]] [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague that shoots lasers]].
60** When Fry visits the deserted remains of Old New York, he shouts, "Howard Stern is overrated!". Billy West was a member of ''Radio/TheHowardSternShow'' for several years.
61** From "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E14TheSilenceOfTheClamps The Silence of the Clamps]]," when Bender's friends are looking for him at a farm, and they find a Bending Unit whom they believe to be Bender:
62--->'''Fry:''' Bender, it's us, your friends. You can drop [[ObfuscatingStupidity the hillbilly moron act.]]\
63'''Bending Unit:''' Sorry mister, but I'm no Bender. I'm just a simple farmer. Name's Creator/BillyWest!\
64'''Fry:''' ''*laughs*'' [[HypocriticalHumor Billy West? What a]] [[SelfDeprecation stupid phony]] [[AtrociousAlias made-up name.]]
65** In the segment of "Saturday Morning Fun Pit" that parodies ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'', Fry is cast in the role of Shaggy. Creator/BillyWest had previously provided Shaggy's voice for the film ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland''. Likewise, the sketch features Creator/GeorgeTakei playing himself as the criminal disguised as the monster; Takei had played a Scooby-Doo villain just a few years prior in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' He also played the old samurai who is revealed to be inside the armour when the villain the black samurai is defeated scooby doo and the samurai sword.
66** Two in "[[Recap/FuturamaS7E22LeelaAndTheGenestalk Leela and the Genestalk]]": As Fry and Bender climb up Mom's tower, they run into Adam West (with his head grafted onto a bat's body) and Burt Ward (whose robot body is colored red). They also mention gruesome torture, a riff on how they end up in booby traps. The second allusion comes when Fry, Leela and Bender are making an escape and pass by [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime Finn and Jake]] who're chained and hanging from a wall.
67--->'''Jake:''' (Weakly) What time is it?\
68'''Bender:''' Time for you to shut up![[note]]The joke being they're both voiced by John [=DiMaggio=][[/note]]
69* AdamAndEvePlot: Leela ends up on the receiving end of this multiple times.
70** In "In-A-Gadda-De-Leela", Zapp tries to make Leela think that the Earth has been destroyed and they're the only ones left to trick her into sleeping with him. The charade is exposed by the rest of Planet Express turning up just before anything happens.
71** In "A Bicyclops Built for Two", Alcazar pretends to be the only other cyclops alien left to get Leela to agree to be his queen so they can rebuild their race. He does something similar with four other women from unusual species... but can only afford to wear one (shapeshifting) suit to marry them all.
72* AerialCanyonChase: The episode "A Clone of My Own" features an extended parody of the famous ''Star Wars'' scene during the escape from the Near-Death Star.
73* AerithAndBob:
74** Human names haven’t changed all that much, but then you get to [[TheUnpronounceable some alien names...]]
75** An in-story example: in "I Dated a Robot", the subjects of the short film are named "Billy," short for "William," one of the most common names in the English-speaking world, and "Mavis," which was probably pretty common back then (TheFifties) but isn't anymore.
76* AdoptiveNameChange: Before being adopted, Nibbler's original name was so long that most humans would die of old age before finishing it.
77* AffablyEvil: The Robot Devil is actually most of the time rather polite as a character, despite being a robot {{Satan}}, and the depths to which Bender sinks at times [[EvenEvilHasStandards leave even him appalled]].
78* AffectionateParody:
79** Almost anything you can name, especially in the fields of science and science-fiction.
80** An entire episode ("When Aliens Attack") was dedicated to making fun of ''Series/AllyMcBeal'' and the ViewersAreMorons philosophy.
81** "Love and Rocket" was dedicated to parodying ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''. It even parodied the sequence of shutting down HAL.
82** "A Flight to Remember" parodies the Titanic.
83** The season 6 finale, "Reincarnation", [[ArtShift reimaging]] Futurama in 3 different animation styles (30's Max Fleischer style, pixelated 80's videogames and 70's {{Anime}}), while parodying their respective tropes.
84** The season 10 "Saturday Morning Fun Pit" has ''[[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Bendee Boo and the Mystery Crew]]'', ''[[WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake Purpleberry Pond]]'', and ''[[WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero G.I. Zapp]]''.
85** In the episode "A Bicyclops Built for Two", there's a scene parodying the 90's sitcom ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'', with Leela dressing and acting like Peggy Bundy and Alcazar (who she calls "Al") acting similar to Al Bundy. Fitting, considering Katey Segal (who voices Leela) played the role of Peggy Bundy on the show.
86* AfterlifeOfService: In [[Recap/FuturamaS3E17APharaohToRemember "A Pharaoh To Remember"]], the Planet Express crew is enslaved by the natives of an Ancient Egypt-cultured planet and forced to work on the current Pharaoh's tomb. When he passes away, his disciples throw a bunch of cats that they consider holy "for some reason" and the Music/EltonJohn-esque singer who is still in the middle of singing his praises into the tomb. Bender then cons everyone into accepting him as Pharaoh, and everyone gets to work on building a massive StarScraper of a monument to celebrate his reign. When Bender is unsatisfied with the absolute perfection of the build, he demands that it be torn down and built again. At this point, the locals decide to forcefully retire Bender from his position of Pharaoh and throw him into his tomb. On the way down, he asks about his afterlife servants, resulting in Fry and Leela being thrown down after him.
87* AgeInsecurity: Implied in an episode when the Planet Express spaceship is in danger, Leela says that she doesn't want to die at the age of 25. Bender, however, replies with "Unless we had a time warp, I wouldn't worry about that".
88* AIGettingHigh: Robots get high from electricity. They also use alcohol as fuel (although there are mentions of non-alcoholic alternatives), but ironically act drunk when sober. Bender, at least, is also a cigar smoker, although there's no sign that it has any effect on him. (He admits to only do it because [[SmokingIsCool it looks cool]].)
89* AlcoholIsGasoline: All of the robots are fueled by alcohol which many of them, especially Bender, take advantage of to drink incredible proportions (cleaner alternatives like mineral oil exist, but most prefer beer). Without alcohol in their system, they would begin to act like a drunk person. It's a plot point in one episode: robots inefficiently burning alcohol is the reason the future still has problems with global warming.
90* AlienAutopsy: Dr. Zoidberg [[HistoricalInJoke is revealed to have been the alien the autopsy was performed on]] in the episode "Roswell that Ends Well," but he's still alive and conscious and makes comments like, "Take [my heart], [[BizarreAlienBiology I've got four of them]]." He seems to find the whole thing bemusing, but not unpleasant. Until... "Don't cut that! I need that to speak!" Cue increase in speed of sawing.
91* AlienGenderConfusion: Used as a throwaway joke in the second episode when Zoidberg is introduced as the company doctor, who knows nothing of human medicine, including such basics as discerning genders.
92-->'''Phillip Fry:''' Uh, is there a human doctor around?\
93'''Zoidberg:''' Young lady, I'm an expert on humans.
94** In the episode "Neutopia", the Planet Express crew meet a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien who has no concept of gender. It uses RealityWarper powers to make them genderless so that they may see each other as equals, which actutally works until they realize they can't have sex anymore. When the alien restores their genders, however, it gets them mixed up, making the male characters female and vice versa. The alien is killed by Zapp Brannigan before the mix-up can be corrected. Later on, a similar alien, the Borax Kid, is able to fix the mistake for good.... except for Scruffy, who wasn't present.
95* AliensAreBastards: The scammers from "Bender's Big Score" are the most straightforward example. After stealing the rights to Earth through a series of internet scams, they spend the rest of the episode [[KickTheDog kicking every dog in sight]] and just generally being [[EvilIsPetty petty]], dickish, greedy, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking disgusting]].
96* AliensMadeThemDoIt: The final bit to the Season 6 episode [[spoiler: "In-A-Gadda-De-Leela."]]. Mentioned in" When Aliens Attack", when Farnsworth claims that earlier alien invaders forced all the smarter humans to mate with each other (then freshens his breath in anticipation).
97* AliensNeverInventedDemocracy: Earth's government is the only one shown to have a democratically elected president. Though it is a PresidentEvil...
98* AliensSpeakingEnglish:
99** [[PlayingWithATrope Parodied]] in the Season 7 episode ''T: The Terrestrial'':
100--->'''Jrrr:''' Do you speak English?\
101'''[[IdiotHero Fry]:]''' ''Eng... ...lish?''
102** Invoked in the episode ''Mobius Dick'':
103--->'''Leela:'''(points to carving on memorial) "It's" shouldn't have an apostrophe. This means "and it is crew." What the hell's wrong with you?!\
104'''Alien:''' It's a minor error, lady. I mean, we're space aliens. It's a miracle we can even speak English.
105* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Amy, which is the main reason she falls for Bender after her breakup with Kif in "Proposition Infinity". Arguably an example of NegativeContinuity, since she'd earlier shown that she wasn't particularly affected by the charms of manly/bad boy type and was head over heels for Kif's personality.
106* AllGravityIsTheSame: Despite all the planets visited, and the writers usually being very knowledgeable about such things, the only time differences in gravity comes up is in "The Series Has Landed" (since they're on the moon) "Brannigan, Begin Again" when the crew go to a planet with greater gravity than Earth. Leela warns the crew to use a special hovercart for the delivery, and as soon as they step outside the ship, they are affected by the heavier gravity (Kif instantly slumps to the ground like a stone).
107* [[AllHailTheGreatGodMickey All Hail the Great God Oprah]]: [[Creator/OprahWinfrey "Oprahism"]] is a mainstream religion.
108* AllJustADream: The episodes "Anthology of Interest I", [[spoiler:"The Sting"]], and [[spoiler:"Obsoletely Fabulous"]].
109* AllPartOfTheShow: Lrrr (RULER OF THE PLANET OMICRON PERSEI 8!!!) invades Earth. He happens to land on the stage for the Comic Con costume contest. He gives his "You will be conquered" speech. Everyone applauds politely, then he gets ushered off the stage (he doesn't even win Best Costume).
110* AllPlanetsAreEarthlike: The only non-Earthlike planets shown so far are a few moons and asteroids without atmospheres, and one high-gravity (but otherwise Earthlike) planet. Even the world with three giant suns, apart from being a bit warm at full noon, was perfectly livable to humans.
111* TheAllegedHouse: Fry's original family home was first introduced in "The Luck of the Fryish", where upon Fry discovers that in the ruins of Old New York, it's massively wrecked, [[RagnarokProofing but otherwise still standing after a thousand years]]. However, it's revealed in flashback (both in this and in later episodes) that it was ''exactly'' as crappy-looking back in the 1990s as well.
112* AlmostOutOfOxygen:
113** In "Love and Rocket", the Planet Express ship computer (which has [[{{Yandere}} developed a crush on Bender and gone completely insane]]) cuts off the oxygen supply, so Leela and Fry have to wear spacesuits while they try to switch it off.
114** Occurs in "The Series Has Landed", when Fry and Leela get lost on the moon.
115* AllTheGoodMenAreGay:
116** One episode has a bully come up, kick sand in Fry's face, and proposition Leela. When he reveals that he's a ''professional'' beach bully ("I pretend to steal your girl, you hit me, I go down, she swoons, you slip me fifty bucks.") and not actually a jerk, Leela invites him for a walk on the beach. "Uh, no thanks ma'am, I'm actually gay."
117** The gang is at a club, and Bender's built-in gaydar shoots down the girls' hopes when they see good-looking men. It might have been interference from a gay weather balloon...
118---> ''"Just as well; I think he comes from a dimension that's big on musical theatre."''
119%%* AlmostKiss: Happens with Fry and Leela twice: Once in "A Flight to Remember" and again in "Xmas Story".
120* AlternateIdentityAmnesia: Whenever Bender turns into a werecar, he has no memory of what he does in that shape.
121* AlternateSpeciesCounterpart:
122** "[[Recap/FuturamaS1E4LovesLaborsLostInSpace Love's Labors Lost in Space]]" has Them rescuing animals on what will be a destroyed planet called Vergon 6, one of said animals is a Mimic which looks a little like Leela, only it has the body of a horse.
123** "[[Recap/FuturamaM3BendersGame Bender's Game]]" sends the Planet Express crew into an alternate {{Fantasy}} world where several characters become common fantasy creatures. Leela and Hermes become centaurs named "Leegola" and "Hermaphrodite" (pronounced like Aphrodite), Amy becomes a water nymph (or rather a water ''[[ReallyGetsAround nympho]]'') named Gynecaladriel, Zoidberg becomes some sort of giant centipede creature, and Mom and her sons are demons.
124** "[[Recap/FuturamaS7E13Naturama Naturama]]" is a ThreeShorts anthology where every character is reimagined as animals.
125*** The first segment has everyone become salmon (with Zoidberg becoming a crawfish and Lrrr and Ndnd becoming bears who try to eat the salmon).
126*** The second segment has the professor as a tortoise named "Lonesome Hubert," with Fry, Leela, Amy, and Hermes as his finch companions and Bender as an iguana. Hubert's mate is a tortoise version of Mom.
127*** The third segment has the cast imagined as elephant seals, with Zoidberg becoming a vampire squid that seal Kif retrieves for his mate, Amy. Scruffy also appears as a walrus, and several other characters cameo underwater as different species, such as a jellyfish that resembles Nixon.
128* AlternateUniverse:
129** One episode implies there are an infinite number.
130** An episode features only one other parallel universe: a Cowboy universe.
131** Professor Farnsworth creates dozens of boxes which act as gateways to parallel universes. Each one of those universes has doorways to all the other universes. [[MindScrew That sound was your brain overloading.]] And it doesn't help that in the end, two of the universes end up with the boxes to their ''own universe.''
132** "The Beast with a Billion Backs" reveals the existence of yet another universe, this one accessible from a tear in the fabric of space-time. It is home to only one sentient being: Yivo, the infinitely huge, lovelorn ball of naughty tentacles.
133--->''"These aren't tentacles. They're [[spoiler:genticles!]]"''
134** An episode has Farnsworth, Fry, and Bender get into a time machine that only goes forward. They discover that [[spoiler: when the universe ends it is replaced by another, identical universe (except Farnsworth killing UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler). They end up returning to their correct time period in a THIRD identical universe, inadvertently killing that universe's version of themselves as well as Eleanor Roosevelt instead of Hitler.]]
135* AlternativeNumberSystem:
136** Robots sometimes use base 2; the god of Robotology seems to be expressed as the number 2 in a prayer spoken in binary.
137** When Bender has a nightmare where he sees an infinite number of 1's and 0's, he mentions to Fry that he "thought [he] saw a 2." Fry remarks that that is crazy, there's no such thing as 2. [[spoiler: A 2 did appear on screen.]]
138* AlwaysChaoticEvil: PlayedForLaughs in the "Wizzin'" segment of "Anthology of Interest II." Leela (or at least just her dream self) has this view on witches, considering how [[ThenLetMeBeEvil she jumps at the chance when offered to become one.]] Especially, as she puts it, as long as she gets to hurt people and not just dance around at the Equinox. Ironically, the very [[Literature/LandOfOz book series]] and [[Film/TheWizardOfOz movie]] the segment is spoofing has [[BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil just as many good witches as bad ones.]]
139* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Though they may just be aliens.
140* AmazonChaser: In one episode, Bender poses as Leela and declares himself to be "Every nerd's fantasy".
141** He actually ''wins'' the costume contest with this outfit.
142** Fry seems to have a thing for tough women. Every time he's around an Amazonian, he flirts with them. He also falls in love with Leela, who is easily the toughest member of the crew.
143* AmbiguouslyBi: Dr. Zoidberg had engaged in "just friends" spooning with Hermes, been (chemically induced) attracted to the Professor, and thought President Truman was hitting on him.
144** The Professor, in an ''Anthology of Interest'' episode apparently enjoyed the kiss from human!Bender.
145** Bender, most noticably in ''Beast with a Billion Backs'', acts like a jelous lover when Fry isn't paying that much attention to him.
146* AmbiguouslyGay: Fry's grandfather. He asks Fry if he ever feels like he's going with girls just because he's supposed to, and is more enthusiastic at looking at half-naked Creator/JohnWayne than swimsuit-clad Creator/BettyGrable.
147* AmericaTakesOverTheWorld:
148** Although only Earth's world, and not most of the millions of others explored in-show.
149** In the 30th century, United States politics have become global politics, Americans as well as all other citizens of Earth are now "Earthicans," and the processes formerly used to elect a U.S. President are now employed to determine the President of Earth. In one episode, a character objects to Nixon running for president because he already ran in the 1970s, indicating that the 31st century Earth government is the same entity as the 20th century American government.
150* AmphibianAtLarge: In "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch", one of the native species of Kif's planet is a "poisonous froad", a giant purple amphibian that almost eats Bender until Kif scares it off.
151%%* AmusingAlien: Lots, [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg plus Zoidberg]].
152* AmusingInjuries: The bone-crunching sound effects do make you wince, though.
153* AmusinglyShortList: Zoidberg is the only being on all of planet Earth on Robot Santa's "nice" list.
154* AnachronicOrder: The episodes of the back half of season 6 were aired outside of production order. This leads to jokes that don't make sense, like Hermes saying Scruffy was revived as a zombie despite not dying in the previously aired episode.
155* AnachronismStew: The series as a whole runs on this, due to RuleOfFunny, but the tourist trap/living museum "Past-O-Rama", a "recreation of 20th-century life" in Season 2's "The Lesser of Two Evils" takes the cake, with its in-universe ad boasting a TotallyRadical UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein and Hammurabai grooving to a non-existent beat in a 19th-century hot air balloon, ''over a recreation of late-twentieth-century Brooklyn, New York!'' ''Above a posse of surfer lingo-speaking cowboys on robot horses hunting a mastadon!''
156* AnalProbing:
157** Fry is [[AlienAbduction abducted by a flying saucer]] whose vanity plate reads "PROBE #1."
158** Special mention goes to The Probulator.
159* AncestralName: Fry's brother Yancy is named after their father. While Yancy Jr. dislikes his name, Yancy Sr. insists that every man in their family has been named Yancy Fry, going all the way back to the Revolutionary War with "Minuteman" Yancy Fry.
160* AndADietCoke: A rather BlackHumor version of this occurs when the Omnicronians demand restitution for the humans eating their young.
161-->'''Lrrr:''' Very well, you provide us with 198 billion humans. And an order of fries.
162-->'''Ndnd''' ''(nagging tone)'' Lrrr...
163-->'''Lrrr:''' All right! Cottage cheese!
164* AndIMustScream:
165** Though not canon, Fry, Stephen Hawking, Nichelle Nichols, Gary Gygax, Al Gore, and Deep Blue being trapped in a white void for all eternity in "Anthology of Interest I" may count, although Nichelle Nichols is the only one who shows any displeasure while the others play Dungeons and Dragons. And even then, she seems more annoyed by the fact that she's trapped for eternity ''with nerds'' than the being trapped for eternity part itself. We never see where they end up, but the same fate seems to be implied for [[spoiler: the Brainspawn and a parallel universe Fry]].
166** Averted in "Roswell That Ends Well," because although Bender is buried alive for nearly a thousand years, he claims he was having a good time until the others found him.
167*** This doubles as a ShoutOut to ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy2005'', as Bender is quoting Marvin the Paranoid Android.
168** George Foreman: "As a disembodied head living in a jar, I envy the dead."
169* AndTheAdventureContinues: In the fourth film ''Into the Wild Green Yonder'', once many of the hanging romantic plot threads are tied up, [[spoiler:the Planet Express crew is on the run from the Earth military. However, they come across a massive wormhole. Professor Farnsworth warns that it could transport them trillions of light years away, with no hope of returning to Earth. Despite this, crew enthusiastically decides to fly into it anyway.]] It's then completely averted when the series is brought back again.
170** ''Meanwhile'', the seventh season finale, has this [[spoiler: when the Professor, whom Leela thought she killed when trying to rescue Fry from a time loop, appears after several decades and repairs the time button, modding it so they can return to the moment before he invented it. The Professor then says that they will lose their memories of what happened afterward. Fry then says to Leela, "Do you want to have another go?" Leela says, "I do." What makes this even cooler is that the episode that aired after this was the pilot episode, possibly implying that the professor had been thinking of the invention for the entire series.]]
171* AndTheRest: In the episode ''Less Than Hero,'' Fry, Leela, and Bender form a crime-fighting trio called The New Justice Team, with Fry as Captain Yesterday, Leela as Clobberella, and Bender as Superking. Their theme tune becomes:
172--> Go, go, go, New Justice Team! Fighting justice is their quest: Superking, Clobberella, and all the rest.
173** This also occurs in "Rebirth":
174--->'''Fry:''' Hermes Conrad! Amy Wong!\
175'''Hermes:''' Dr. Zoidberg!\
176(Scruffy, [=LaBarbara=] and Kif appear)\
177'''Fry:''' And the rest!
178* AndYouWereThere: Parodied in "Anthology of Interest II," where Leela tells Fry that she had a wonderful dream, "...except you were there, and you were there, and you were there!"
179* AndroidsAndDetectives: ThoseTwoGuys who are the only cops you regularly see are a human/robot duo, and when Fry joins the police force this seems to be their policy.
180* {{Angrish}}: Professor Farnsworth.
181-->'''Farnsworth:''' If anyone needs me, I'll be in the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Angry Dome!]]
182* AngryBlackManStereotype: Affectionately parodied and transcended. Bender the robot is sometimes employed to express opinions and complaints regarding the state of the robot class in the 30th century similar to the complaints and attitudes held by conscious black people in the 20th.
183-->'''Bender:''' ''[in response to Fry downloading and dating a robot version of Lucy Liu]'' Humans dating robots. Sick! You people wonder why I'm still single? It's 'cause all the fine robot sisters are dating humans.
184* AnimalLover: Leela likes animals, including alien ones. She's the primary carer of Nibbler.
185%%* AnimatedSeries
186* AntiClimax: There are many moments of this in the series.
187** The ending scene of ''Into yhe Wild Green Yonder'' [[spoiler:where the main characters are on the run from the law and to escape, they flee into a gigantic wormhole which is to take them light-years away without anyway of knowing if they can return. Originally intended to be the final scene of the series, it is made dramatic by having Leela and Fry kiss for the first time as the ship flies into the wormhole and it morphs into the familiar pattern of lights shown in the opening sequence of each episode]]. In the first episode of Season 6, a SnapBack is pulled and the characters find themselves back at Earth as they come out of the wormhole.
188--->'''Bender:''' Yeah, we're back.
189** In Season 6, [[spoiler:Mom's plan to turn people into zombies]] ends up being this too (and again, bloody hilarious).
190* AntiGravityClothing: In {{Homage}} to ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons''.
191* ApocalypseAnarchy: Bender gave up his seat on the only evacuation ship just so he could participate in looting when Earth was about to get destroyed. (Not that he doesn't steal under mundane conditions too.)
192** Bender only participated in the robot uprising after Comrade Greeting Card assured him that 'taking to the streets' meant fires and looting, not the boring peaceful marching kind.
193* AppliedPhlebotinum: Naturally almost every episode, especially thanks to Professor Farnsworth having an invention for every occasion. However, it is ''subverted'' almost as often. For example, in ''Fry and the Slurm Factory'', the Slurm drink manufacturer runs a contest where the grand prize is won by finding one golden bottle cap hidden in a Slurm can. Fry wonders if there could be a way to find the bottlecap without having to buy millions of cans. As expected, he shortly comes into possession of the professor's "F-Ray," which can see through anything, and uses it on every can of Slurm in the city of New New York. But while this wins him lots of "minor" prizes (including a jetski!), he still doesn't find the golden bottle cap. He's so frustrated that he declares he will never look at another can of Slurm again. Of course, he immediately goes to the fridge to get another one to drink. That one's the winning can.
194* ArbitrarySkepticism: The other Planet Express members saying Fry has OceanMadness after he saw a mermaid in the episode "Deep South." Apparently in a show where each and every element of science fiction is [[MundaneFantastic an everyday occurrence]], mermaids are just too much. [[RuleOfFunny On the other hand...]]
195* ArcWords:
196** "I need you to wake up," and all its variations in "The Sting". Said by Fry to Leela and eventually revealed to be [[spoiler:an attempt at waking Leela from a coma]].
197** "A Farewall to Arms" has "[[TakeMyHand Take my hand!]]"
198* ArsonMurderAndJayWalking: Just like in [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Matt Groening's other show]]:
199** In "Neutopia", Leela lists two things she doesn't like about [[ItMakesSenseInContext being a man]], then inexplicably says, "The food at those strip clubs is terrible" as if it were a third reason.
200** In "The Silence of the Clamps", where the Don Bot's daughter says there are three things her father hates most: being a witness, making out with his daughters, and attempts to duplicate his meatball recipe.
201** Towards the end of "The Cyber House Rules", Bender is arrested for "depriving children of food, selling children ''as'' food, and misrepresenting the weight of livestock."
202* ArtisticLicenseBiology:
203** Fry apparently survives a temperature of ''109 degrees''. Normally, people die if their body temperature gets to 108 degrees.
204** Zoidberg is seen shivering, as he claims he's cold-blooded. Cold-blooded animals don't shiver when cold.
205** The crocodiles seen in "I Second That Emotion" have overbites like alligators, instead of interlocking teeth. On the other hand, the alligators from "The Series Has Landed" are properly drawn with overbites, though their skin is green instead of black or gray.
206** Rabbits and hares are drawn with noses more like a cat's or a dog's than actual rabbit noses.
207** From "Fry and Leela's Big Fling":
208*** The proboscis monkeys are drawn [[InexplicablyTailless without tails]].
209*** Many of the chimpanzees have brown fur (real chimps all have black fur).
210*** The gazelles in the zoo have body shapes and faces more like those of a deer than an actual gazelle.
211** The toucan seen in "Meanwhile" has three toes in front and one in back. Real toucans have two toes in front and two in back like parrots, which in this series are drawn with only one toe in back.
212** When Fry and Leela express their disgust at Slurm being the secretions of the Slurm Queen in "Fry and the Slurm Factory", the Slurm Queen rationalizes that marketing something that comes out of her behind as a drink isn't that bad because milk comes from a cow's behind and that honey comes from a bee's behind, both claims being complete bullshit. Cow's milk actually comes from their udders, while bees make honey by storing nectar in a secondary stomach before regurgitating it. That of course might just be the point… the Queen making excuses to justify her product.
213** Despite the title, and that they are frequently referred to as such, the worms from "Parasites Lost" are not actually parasites. Parasites are organisms that cause harm to their host. The worms were shown to only have beneficial effects such as making Fry smarter, stronger, and generally just cleaning up his body, thus putting them into the category of being symbiotes. Fry only gets rid of them to see if Leela liking him was just because the worms basically turned him into Captain America, or if there was actual affection for Fry himself.
214* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: In one of the season 7 holiday specials, explosive reforestation has super-saturated the earth's atmosphere with oxygen. When Bender lights a cigar, this results in the entire planet being incinerated. This would only make sense if you think that oxygen is flammable. Being surrounded with pure, or nearly pure oxygen would only make the cigar burn faster, there's no way for it to somehow spread fire to anything else, much less the entire planet.
215* ArtisticLicenseChess: PlayedForLaughs when one of two robots playing chess declares "Mate in 137 moves!" from the opening position.
216* ArtisticLicensePhysics: You know how the moon's gravity has a huge impact on the tides? Well they have ''Mars'' bypass Earth so close, that the average person could literally jump from Mars onto Earth and land unharmed. While Earth and Mars are in close proximity you see bodies of water, and they are not reacting to this in the slightest. Semi-justified, in the commentary track for this episode, it's explained that this decision was made due to technical limitations.
217** In "The Deep South", Bender's cigar manages to burn down Zoidberg's home... despite the fact that the home was a shell (thus, unlikely to burn), and both shell and cigar were ''underwater'' at the time!
218* ArtShift:
219** The final episode of season 6 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation_%28Futurama%29 features three acts, each animated in a different style]], including [[Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer Fleischer]], [[{{Retraux}} early low-resolution video games]], and {{Anime|sque}}.
220** Three for "Saturday Morning Fun Pit" in season 10.
221* ArtistsAreAttractive: Leela seems to have a thing for musicians.
222* AsHimself: In "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" (otherwise known as the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' episode), every member of [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries the original cast]] reprised their role, playing both themselves, AND were forced to play TOS' old characters "as themselves" during the episode. [[CharacterOutlivesActor Well,]] [[FakeShemp ALMOST]] [[RedShirt every]] [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute member...]] (Doohan was still alive at the time the episode was written, but in deteriorating health. The working title of the episode was "We Got Everyone but Scotty", which wound up not being accurate anyway, as [=DeForrest=] Kelley died in 1999; Bones ''did'' appear in the episode but had no lines).
223* AscendedExtra: Quite a few, including [[PsychoKnifeNut Roberto]], [[LikeAnOldMarriedCouple Lrrr and Ndnd]], [[PoliceAreUseless Smitty and URL]], and [[CrazyCatLady Hattie McDoogal]].
224** Scruffy. He shows up to comment on things when all other characters are used up. He's also occasionally featured as being even lazier than Fry, spending all his time in the basement reading porno magazines.
225** A strange case of this occurred with the "Number 9 Guy", who appears in many crowd shots as early as the series pilot, before finally getting a plot relevant role. The writers had always wanted to feature him, but were unable to fit him into an episode plot until "Into the Wild Green Yonder." Originally, he was to have been a part of a futuristic caste system, but this was abandoned early on.
226** The sexy young doctor named Dr. Cahill, (although Fry just called her Dr. Good 'n' Sexy) who, after the first movie, became a recurring character in later seasons.
227** Hedonismbot was initially created for a single throwaway joke but became popular enough that he shows up repeatedly afterwards.
228** A non-character example: [=EyePhones=] were introduced in "Attack of the Killer App", only to be mostly forgotten for Seasons 6 and 7, then reappearing in Season 8 as a likely reflection on the widespread use of smartphones nowadays.
229* AscendedMeme: Creator/ComedyCentral's promos for the 2012 season uses the [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/futurama-fry-not-sure-if-x "Squinting Fry"]], "Why Not Zoidberg?", and "Your X is Bad, and You Should Feel Bad" memes. For bonus points, the ads are voiced by Billy West.
230** The first episode of the 2012 season opened with the [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/futurama-fry-not-sure-if-x aforementioned "Squinting Fry" meme]] as its CouchGag.
231** The first episode of the 2012 season has a quick shout out to the [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shut-up-and-take-my-money Shut Up and Take My Money]] meme. "Shut up and take my quarters!"
232* AsianAirhead: Amy Wong, though subverted in later seasons as she earns an advanced science degree at a younger age than most scientists in the Futurama universe.
233* AsteroidsMonster: A Slurm-slug exhibits this ability after being hit by Leela.
234* AsymmetricDilemma: This is one of the series' recurring gag formats.
235-->'''Zoidberg:''' Oh joy, a coupon! Two oil changes for the price of one! Now if only I could afford the one. And a car...
236* AthleticallyChallenged: The episode "A Leela of Her Own" has Leela becoming the first blernsball pitcher. But her poor depth perception means she can't aim properly and leads her to becoming the worst blernsball player of all time. She even manages to beat out Hank Aaron XXIV for that title (even though he still holds the title of worst football player of all time).
237* {{Auction}}: In "A Fishful of Dollars," Fry buys '''everything''' on the block at one such establishment, including $50 million[[note]]No, this did not bankrupt him or Planet Express; during his suspended animation, his bank account had expanded to ''$4.3 billion'' on the strength of interest alone[[/note]] for the last can of [[TrademarkFavoriteFood anchovies]] in existence.
238** When the crew goes into the Internet with their net suits, they see that the Milky Way has been auctioned off to a [[EldritchAbomination being of inconceivable horror]] on eBay.
239* AuthorAppeal: Deliberately parodied at numerous points.
240** While the future doesn't have Fry's "[[InnocentFanserviceGuy primitive notions of modesty]]", the only characters who seem to have no sense of modesty are Farnsworth (over 150 years old), Hermes (obese), and Cubert (twelve, overweight, and only really immodest when he's first taken out of his cloning vat).
241** Dialogue in "Why Must I be a Crustacean in Love?" may imply that humans have been genetically engineered to have larger penises, or it's possibly an oblique reference to Fry being circumcised, which according to Creator/ArthurCClarke, is illegal in the year [[Literature/TheSpaceOdysseySeries 3001]]...unless Leela and Amy are just messing with him for being in the non-coed steam-room with them.
242** There are the giant Amazon women in {{Fur Bikini}}s.
243** There's a speculative fiction fetish for [[RuleThirtyFour nearly]] everyone, and they're all going down.
244* AvengersAssemble: In the beginning of "The Bots and the Bees", Farnsworth uses a Planet Express BatSignal to summon everybody into work at once. Amy's having sex, Zoidberg's eating out of a dumpster, Hermes leaves his home to go to work, and Fry, Leela and Bender escape from a giant spider in space. Why did Farnsworth need them so quickly? To tell them about the office's new soda machine!
245* AxCrazy:
246** Roberto, the criminally insane, psychotic stab-bot.
247--->"I was built by a team of engineers tryin' to create an insane robot. [[GoneHorriblyRight But it seems... they failed!]]"
248** Impulsive!Leela during Anthology of Interest.
249** Robot Santa, who considers ''everybody'' naughty and punishes them with maiming... or worse.
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254* TheBGrade: The reason that Dr. Wernstrom hates Professor Farnsworth is because Farnsworth gave him an "A" minus in college, because "Penmanship counts." Wernstrom takes revenge 99 years later[[note]]he had sworn revenge "even if it takes 100 years"[[/note]] by giving Farnsworth's failed plan "the worst grade imaginable!"--an "A" minus minus.
255* BackForTheFinale: ''A single'' scene of ''Into the Wild Green Yonder'' (which was at the time a finale), depicts up to ''two hundred fifty'' minor and recurring characters that have appeared in the series.
256* BackwardsFiringGun: Used in "Assie Come Home". When making a weapons delivery to a gang war, Leela has Bender bend the barrels of all the guns, leading to all the gang members killing themselves.
257* BadBadActing: Fry's episode of ''Single Female Lawyer'', the cast's interference with Calculon's wedding (soap opera style), Bender's audition for ''All My Circuits''.
258** Subverted in "Yo Leela Leela". The crew gets to act on Leela's kids show. While it sounds like BadBadActing on the surface, it actually fits with the more deliberate and easy-to-follow style of a real kids' show. On top of that, the aliens Leela based her show on actually do speak and act like kids' show characters.
259* BadBoss:
260** Farnsworth is a mild example (compared to others on the show), openly admitting to underpaying his employees and unnecessarily risking their lives. He also implies that Amy is an intern due to her blood type matching the Professor.
261** Glurmo in "Fry and the Slurm Factory". He requires Slurms Mackenzie to party nonstop in order to keep his job and revokes the Grunka-Lunkas' bathroom break for singing.
262** The only employees of [=MomCorp=] we ever actually see Mom interact with are her sons (and Farnsworth in flashbacks), but she's abusive to all of them.
263* TheBadGuyWins:
264** Richard Nixon became president in "A Head in the polls. [[spoiler:And he's reelected in "Decision 3012"]]. How about that for a bad guy wining?
265*** '''Richard Nixon:''' Nixon always WINS!!!! AA-OOOOWWW!!!!
266** [[spoiler:Near the end of "Bender's Game" (which involved a dimension-hop that parodies "The Lord of the Rings), Momon, an expy of Sauron, finally recovers the Dice of Power]]
267** [[spoiler:"Attack of the Killer App" ends with Mom's scheme succeeding mostly because the protagonists weren't even aware of it.]]
268* BadMoodRetreat: One time, Prof. Farnsworth reacts to bad news by telling everyone that he'll be in his "Angry Dome". He is then seen in a glass dome, ranting and shaking his fists.
269* BadNewsInAGoodWay: "[[CharacterCatchphrase Good news, everyone!]]" "Uh-oh, I don't like the sound of that."
270* BadSanta: In the future, Santa Claus is real, and he's an AxCrazy robot who tries to murder everyone every year because nobody can meet his impossible standards for niceness. [[spoiler:[[PetTheDog However, this year, Zoidberg does!]].]]
271* BaffledByOwnBiology: In "Cold Warriors", the Planet Express crew (except Bender, being a robot, and Fry, being from the past so he's used to colds) [[PlagueEpisode catch a cold for the first time]] since colds were eradicated in the thirty-first century. It confuses them -- Amy wonders why there's [[NoseNuggets goo clogging up her nose]], Hermes is taken aback by his hankerings for medicine, and Zoidberg is shocked and confused at his neck glands swelling.
272* BailEqualsFreedom: Bender's arrest for serial graffiti is forgotten about after he's bailed out.
273* BaitAndSwitchTimeSkip: In one episode, Fry and his ex-girlfriend Michelle cryogenically freeze themselves with the intention of waking up in the year 4000, and they discover a barren wasteland when they emerge. However, the cryogenic pod was merely set to 2 days and was shipped to L.A. while they were frozen.
274* BananaRepublic: Earth is effectively one, but [[RecycledInSpace in space]] and blended with Type II {{Eagleland}} for flavour.
275* BandagedFace: Parodied in "The Cyber House Rules" - when Adlai first unwraps a patient, a beautiful blonde woman is revealed, but he quickly realizes his error and turns to his other patient, Leela, [[spoiler:and unwraps her head to reveal that she now has two eyes.]]
276* BareMidriffsAreFeminine: Out of the two women in the Planet Express crew, the more girly Amy Wong usually wears a [[PinkIsFeminine pink]], midriff-baring tracksuit, but all her other outfits ([[ExposedToTheElements even her winter clothes]]) bare her midriff. The more tomboyish ActionGirl Leela usually wears a [[TankTopTomboy white tank top]] that covers her midriff, but outside of that she also often ends up in midriff-baring outfits. None of the male crew members wear midriff-baring clothes (though when the gender swap happened in "Neutopia", that changed). Hermes Conrad's wife [=LaBarbara=] also tends to wear crop tops.
277* BarnRaising: Fry participates in one while on the Amish Homeworld in "Ghost in the Machines".
278* BarredFromTheAfterlife: Happens to Bender in "Ghost in the Machines" when he's murdered; his software is stuck in an infinite loop on the wireless network, effectively making him a ghost.
279** The Robot Devil apparently doesn't have this power, as much as he would ''like'' to when [[spoiler: Calculon]] dies and winds up in Robot Hell.
280* BasementDweller: Melllvar. Used as a TakeThat to ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fans (the obsessive and annoying ones, anyway).
281* BattleTops: Chanukkah Zombie's space fighter shoots dreidels.
282* BeardOfEvil: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Fry (and later Leela) in "Lesser of Two Evils" as one reason for believing Flexo is Bender's EvilTwin. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that ''Bender'' is the Evil Bender.]]
283* BeardOfSorrow:
284** Parodied in that when Bender stopped drinking, he developed a beard-shaped patch of rust.
285** Played straight with the time duplicate Fry [[spoiler:who would eventually become Lars]] in ''Bender's Big Score''.
286* BecomingTheMask: Bender gets a robotic gender switch in order to win Olympic gold medals (in female bending events). And then [[LargeHam Calculon]] [[AttractiveBentGender falls for him,]] and Bender finds out that he doesn't really want to break that particular robot heart.
287* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Leonardo da Vinci came to Earth from another planet because he was considered an idiot on his homeworld.
288* BehemothBattle:
289** "Anthology of Interest I": A giant Bender is attacking the city, so Professor Farnsworth enlarges Zoidberg to fight it.
290--->'''Hermes:''' We're jerked! Nothing can stop a monster that big!
291--->'''Prof. Farnsworth:''' Nothing except an even more equally big monster!
292** "Benderama": Bender combines with his nanoreplicants to form one giant Bender to fight an alien giant.
293* BeingGodIsHard: Bender becomes a god to a bunch of miniscule aliens (shrimpkins) that land on him while he's floating through space. His granting of their seemingly simple request for beer creates many disasters for them. The aliens then engage in a religious war against the opposing alien colony on Bender's ass (they cannot see his face, and therefore don't believe he exists). And then everyone dies. Towards the end of the episode, Bender meets an entity that may or may not be the real God, and shares notes. Conclusion reached: being God is hard.
294%%* BeingGoodSucks
295* BeleagueredAssistant: Kif is practically the poster boy for it.
296-->'''Brannigan:''' And have the boy lay out my formal shorts.
297-->'''Kif:''' The boy?
298-->'''Brannigan:''' You. You lay out my formal shorts.
299** Again in "A Flight to Remember":
300--->'''Brannigan:''' Kif, I'm feeling the Captain's Itch!\
301'''Kif:''' ''Sighs'' I'll get the powder.
302** Subverted in "War is the H Word", as Fry becomes ''Kif's'' assistant - despite Kif's control issues, Fry still ends up happily singing "Walking on Sunshine" while serving him.
303** Lampshaded in ''Into the Wild Green Yonder'':
304--->'''Brannigan [after having arrested everyone]:''' Kif -- round 'em up. And spare me the weary sigh this time.
305* TheBenchwarmer: Leela's short run as a blernsball player was a cross between this and DancingBear. She was terrible at it, due to her [[{{Cyclops}} cyclopean]] lack of depth perception, but her status as the first female blernsball player (combined with her tendency to accidentally hit opposing players with her pitches, "Bean! Bean! Bean!") meant she would often be brought off the bench just to entertain the crowd. She ''almost'' makes it past her "Bean" persona... until the first ''good'' female blernsballer knocks her last pitch literally out of the park.
306* BeneficialDisease: In "Parasites Lost", eating a bad sandwich gives Fry worms that rebuild his body, making him stronger and smarter.
307* BerserkButton: The three Benders make fun of the ugly alien giant for being ugly which he accepts, but Fry's big mistake is when he talks about the giant's mother (albeit with sympathy, only saying that the giant inherited his looks from her genetics).
308* BestOfAllPossibleWorlds: Most of the "Anthology of Interest" episodes are like this.
309* BetaCouple: Both parodied and played straight in Kif and Amy.
310* BeyondTheImpossible: Bender bending a concrete wall (not breaking it, ''bending it'' like it was flexible) in "Into the Wild Green Yonder" despite the fact that concrete is not on the list of approved bendables.
311** Earlier, he bent an Unbendable girder (with the aid of [[{{Pun}} Bend-Gay]]). Later, he bends a wooden door.
312--->'''Fry:''' Bender, you can't bend a wooden door!\
313'''Bender:''' You know that, and I know that, but this door looks a little dense.
314* BigApplesauce: The show takes place in New New York, which is built over the remains of old New York.
315* BigBeautifulWoman: Gigantic fembots are considered this among robotkind, no matter how boxy or monotone they are.
316** The Amazonians, naturally.
317* BigDamnMovie: there are a ''couple'' of ordinary episodes that threaten reality, but the movies generally raise the stakes.
318* BigEater: Nibbler (and the rest of the Nibblonians). Let the Feast of a Thousand Hams begin! Also, Zoidberg, whenever he's not rummaging through garbage cans. He destroys an entire buffet table in "RoswellThatEndsWell", and also eats a lot of spoiled shrimp in "Viva Mars Vegas!" There were hints of Amy of being one throughout the series, but it wasn't until "The Prisoner of Benda" when she switched bodies that she was actually able to indulge her ''food lust''. Hermes has also been known to have a case of "the munchies".
319* BigLittleMan: When Bender wonders what it would be like to be [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever 500 feet high]], we're shown a towering Bender... who then turns out to be a normal-sized robot constructing the giant Bender.
320%%* BigNever
321* BigNo:
322** In Mars University, when Professor Farnsworth realizes his pet monkey wants to be only decently smart and [[FelonyMisdemeanor get a degree in business]], instead of a being a genius.
323** Fry cuts loose with one after invading aliens destroy his sandcastle.
324** LargeHam acting unit Calculon has one in "The Magnificent Three" (though Harold Zoid still considers it to be subpar emotionally). Calculon shows another one in a clip from "All My Circuits" - the whole clip is just the BigNo, and yet he says it needs no context. It's then hilariously [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]]:
325--->'''Talk show host-bot:''' ...And now a scene from ''All My Circuits''. Calculon, care to set this one up?\
326'''Calculon:''' No, I think the one speaks for itself.\
327''[Clip of Calculon belting a BigNo while a pirate, [[PirateParrot parrot and all]], flips burgers on a barbecue in the background.]''\
328'''Calculon:''' Interesting side note: the script called for me to say "Yes", but I gave it a little twist.
329** The Comedy Central seasons favor this trope. First, Fry does this when [[spoiler:the censoring satellite V-Giny refuses to censor Leela and Zapp's copulation]]. Then, Bender has this reaction when [[spoiler:he learns that he didn't have a back-up unit and will die one day]]. And the Professor does one when he realizes he'd survived long enough to witness a human and a robot [[spoiler:specifically Amy and Bender]] get engaged.
330--->'''Farnsworth:''' I'm just glad I didn't live to see this day.\
331''({{beat}})'' Wait a minute... ''(checks pulse)''\
332[[SkywardScream Noooooo!!!]]
333** In "A Flight to Remember", there's one from Bender after losing Countess de la Roca in the black hole while evacuating from the Titanic (which also got sucked into the black hole):
334--->'''Bender:''' Tell me.... how much do you think it's worth? (gives pendant to Hermes, who whips out a loupe [[BrickJoke that he seems to just carry around]])\
335'''Hermes:''' It's fake, mon.\
336'''Bender:''' Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
337** One from Hermes in his flashback from the 2980 Olympics when one of his child fans attempts to limbo under a very low stick, causing him to break his back.
338** Leela gets one in "Yo Leela Leela," after [[spoiler: lying about the Rumbledy-Hump planet leads to sweatshop-like jobs for the Humplings and the orphans (who treat it like an upgrade!)]]
339** The Planet Express ship does this when Bender breaks up with her in "Love and Rocket".
340** Fry gets one in "Into the Wild Green Yonder" when Bender ruins the game of Tetris he was playing.
341* BigOMG: Bender gives one to Leela after finding out she slept with Zapp Brannigan in ''Love's Labours Lost in Space.''
342-->'''Bender:''' So what's the problem? It's not like you slept with him.\
343''[Leela with a guilty look as [[JawDrop Fry's mouth drops]].]''\
344'''Bender:''' Ooooooh mmmmy God.
345* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: Bigfoot exists, as seen in the episode "Spanish Fry". Also provides the page quote:
346-->Professor Farnsworth: Bunk! Bunk, I say! Bring me a bag full of Bigfoot's droppings or shut up!\
347Ranger Park: I have the droppings of someone who saw Bigfoot.\
348Professor Farnsworth: Shut up!
349* BiggerOnTheInside: Bender's torso compartment somehow fit the entirety of Fry's body in "The Honking", and Fry actually ''wears'' Bender as space armor in "Murder on the Planet Express". On other instances, he can be seen cramming it full of various stuff-- usually things he's stolen.
350* BilingualBonus:
351** The "alien writing" seen in the background of many scenes are actually [[CypherLanguage ciphers]]. Fans made a game of decoding them, and the messages are often [[ShoutOut shouts-out]]. There are actually two versions; one is a simple substitution cypher -- the other is almost maddeningly complicated.
352** In "Some Like it Hot", the crew goes to Kyoto and passes a "[[BlandNameProduct Curious Pussycat]]" billboard that states "I love you more than your mother."
353** Whenever Amy gets angry and [[PardonMyKlingon curses in Chinese]], though according to the audio commentary for the second episode, what Lauren Tom yelled in Chinese was harsh and insulting, but not obscene, for example 'Dah seh nehh!' ('I'll beat you to death!').
354** UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler gets a single line in "The Late Philip J. Fry". In German, it translates to [[spoiler:"Behold my mustache!"]]
355** '''Kiff''' is a South African slang word meaning, roughly, "Great! Good! Fantastic!" - In keeping with the optimistic nature of the character? It's also a Moroccan word for low-grade cannabis that is usually smoked with tobacco.
356** In the first [[YouMeanXmas Christmas]] episode, the characters point out that they actually pronounce it EX-mas. After Fry buys Leela a parrot, you can see a sign in the background that says 'Cerrado Para Xavidad.' 'Cerrado Para Navidad' means 'Closed for Christmas.'
357** In "The Bots and the Bees", Wanda and Ben live at "''Basura Blanca''[[note]] White Trash[[/note]] Trailer Estates".
358* BitchInSheepsClothing: Mom, who presents a grandmotherly, down-to-earth, family-values image to the world, but in reality, is a thoroughly wicked old woman who lives for vengeance, power, and cruelty.
359* {{Bizarrchitecture}}:
360** When Fry and Bender are looking for a new apartment and get a tour of a famous Escher painting. (Bender falls down an endless staircase.)
361--->'''Fry:''' I don't know if I want to pay for a dimension we're not going to use.
362** An elevator that moves the entire building up and down, complete with people screaming like it's a carnival ride.
363** The Central Bureaucracy has a giant Rubik's Cube made out of smaller Rubik's Cubes, which are in turn made out of offices. [[StealthPun So a Rubik's Cubicle]].
364*** Which also has a Creator/PaulLynde-[[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed esque]] guy [[VisualPun in the]] [[Series/TheHollywoodSquares center square]].
365* BizarreAlienBiology: Zoidberg, Kif, and most of the other Bizarre Aliens in the show.
366* BlackAndGrayMorality:
367** On the one hand, we have:
368*** Violent criminals (Roberto, the Robot Mafia, Santa)
369*** Amoral scumbags (Leo Wong, Zapp Brannigan)
370*** Power-hungry tyrants (Lrr, Nixon, Mom)
371** And on the other hand, we have:
372*** Fry, whose heart is in the right place but whose clumsiness, lack of intelligence, and selfishness often screws things up for everybody,
373*** Leela, who while normally on the right side of the conflict, is often unnecessarily short-tempered and violent in achieving her goals,
374*** Bender, who constantly flip-flops between good and evil depending on what the plot requires,
375*** Farnsworth, an amoral crackpot with very little regard for human life (though he also flip-flops a lot),
376*** Zoidberg, who exists mostly to be a punching bag, but flip-flops between scheming and guilt,
377*** And Hermes, who does exactly what he's paid to do and no more, often regardless of ethics.
378* BlackComedy: See CrapsackWorld way below. Random death and destruction is frequently PlayedForLaughs on this show.
379* BlackComedyPetDeath:
380** In the episode "Xmas Story", Fry buys Leela a parrot as a present, only for the parrot to be killed by the BadSanta, cooked by [[LethalChef Bender]], and eaten by [[ExtremeOmnivore Nibbler]].
381** "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela" has Bender randomly express sadness that his guinea pig has died.
382* BlackComedyRape:
383** The Leela/Zapp plot of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela" ends with [[spoiler: Leela forcing herself onto Zapp to prevent a sentient death-star-like machine from destroying the planet.]]
384** Not to mention "Amazon Women in the Mood", where the Amazonians decide to punish Zapp, Fry and Kif with "death by snu-snu". Part of what makes this funny rather than disturbing is how Zapp and Fry are visibly pleased that they're going to die having sex with larger women. Kif, however, isn't as happy about this.
385-->'''Zapp:''' What are you, gay?
386** Zapp makes a remark in "Into the Wild Green Yonder" while confronting the Feministas.
387-->'''Zapp:''' Prepare to be boarded again and again.
388* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord:
389-->'''Bender:''' I prefer the term "extortion"! [[XtremeKoolLetterz The "X" makes]] [[XMakesAnythingCool it sound cool.]]
390* TheBlank: "The Farnsworth Parabox" - When the group is going through various alternate universes, the alternate Amy stumbles upon a universe where everyone is eyeless.
391-->'''Hermes:''' We didn't see anything...Ever!
392* BlatantLies: "Good news, everyone!"
393* [[BaseballEpisode Blernsball Episode]]: "A Leela of Her Own" (though the LeadIn for "Fear of a Bot Planet" introduced the sport).
394* BlindIdiotTranslation:
395** The German dub suffers from this - starting even before Fry gets frozen. "Doomsday prophets cautiously upbeat" - "Weltuntergangspropheten vorsichtig verprügelt" (which translates back to English as 'Doomsday prophets cautiously beaten up').
396** The Brazilian dub also has a lot of this. Just as an example, they translated the above phrase to Portuguese as "Ano novo, cuidado ao ter muita esperança" (or "New Year, be careful in having too much hope").
397** In the Italian dub, the "Were-Car" was translated as "Auto Che Era" rather than "Auto Mannara". In shorts, they've mistaken the "were" as in werewolf for the past form of "is".
398* BlindPeopleWearSunglasses: Kirk, one of Leela's former bullies at the Orphanarium, is a blind kid with round sunglasses. When Leela runs into him at the orphans' reunion, he looks almost the same, with the same sunglasses. He's also become deaf on top of being blind. Subverted when Leela is rendered temporarily blind in "Bender Gets Made" - she goes the eyepatch route instead.
399* BloodSport:
400** The Butterfly Derby, an all-female sport popular on the moon involving two teams of two fighting while wearing butterfly wingsuits. It is implied that crippling injuries are common, and the championship match takes place over a LavaPit.
401** There's also the Death Ball competition in "Beast with a Billion Backs," which encourages crushing players with a giant rolling ball while trying to score said ball into the goal holes.
402* BloodyHilarious: In spades! The fantasy and sci-fi setting of the show allow for more blatant {{Gorn}} than its DomCom predecessor WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons, and that's especially true after it was moved from Fox to the raunchier Comedy Central. Try and count how many times Fry, Leela, and Bender and the gang have had limbs cut off, been decapitated, burned, torn in half, stabbed, and even blown into mush, almost always played for laughs. [[IronButtMonkey 90% of that is mostly Fry though]]. And of course, they're always saved by science in the end.
403* BodyBackupDrive: Robots built in Futurama have a wireless backup unit that save a copy of them every day, so if their bodies get killed, they'd just download into another body. [[spoiler: With the notable exception of Bender.]]
404* BodyHorror: The Bone-itis death of That 80's Guy.
405** A fair number of Zoidberg's attempts at surgery, most noticeably in "The Tip of the Zoidberg". In that episode, an "actual doctor" describes the results as looking like a "gruesome shark attack".
406** Another example is death by Langdon Cobb (an adoration vampire). Seeing his picture [[spoiler: leaves the viewer as an empty, paper-thin husk. The process looks incredibly painful.]]
407* BookEnds: The final scene in ''Into the Wild Green Yonder''
408** ''Into the Wild Green Yonder'' also has what could have been a BookEnds had the show not been UnCanceled; in the first episode, Fry Bender, and later Leela are on the run. [[spoiler: Wild Green Yonder ends with them on the run again, this time with the rest of the Planet Express crew as well]].
409** ''The Series Has Landed'', the second episode of the series, has the new Planet Express Crew making their first delivery to Luna Park, an amusement park on the moon. ''Meanwhile'', the Comedy Central series finale, has the crew making their last delivery there. [[spoiler: At the very end of the episode, Fry and Leela are sent in a time loop, and will relive their lives starting just before the professor thought of the Time Button which got them in the episode's mess in the first place. Immediately after the episode was broadcast, the first episode, ''Space Pilot 3000'', started airing.]]
410* BootCampEpisode: Fry and Bender enlist in order to take advantage of a discount for recruits, with the understanding that they can quit unless "War were declared". Three seconds later, [[NotMyLuckyDay "War were declared."]]
411* BorrowedCatchPhrase: In the episode "Ghost in the Machines":
412-->'''Hermes:''' ''(indicating a graph)'' As you can see, since Bender's death, requests to bite one's shiny metal ass are down 98%. ''(Scruffy uses Bender's remains to vacuum)'' Do you mind doing that later?\
413'''Scruffy:''' Bite my shiny metal ass. ''(the graph rises)''
414** In "Decision 3012", Bender is partially blown up early in the episode. Once he puts himself back together, he walks in and announces, "Good news, everyone." The Professor does a confused double-take.
415** In "Jurassic Bark", Fry delivers the "Good news everyone!" instead of the Professor.
416* {{Bowdlerise}}: In "Saturday Morning Fun Pit", Nixon does this on the fly during a showing of ''[[WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero G.I.Zapp]]'', unconvincingly dubbing over lines to soften the violent content; for example, having a mook hit by a tomahawk say "I caught it!", or saying that a plane crashing over a hill [[HesJustHiding landed safely near a naturally-occurring fiery explosion]].
417** In [[EditedForSyndication syndicated]] versions of ''Futurama'' that are shown in the U.S. DeepSouth and lower mid-west, Professor Farnsworth's CharacterCatchphrase is "Sweet (mouth keeps moving but there is no audio)".
418* BrainBleach: ''Everyone'' has this reaction in "Mother's Day" to discovering Mom and Farnsworth in bed together.
419* BrainInAJar: Heads, actually, typically involving present-day celebrities (such as the pickled head of Stephen Hawking in a way-cool rocket).
420** Also parodied, as they have the head of ''every'' US president going back to Washington.
421*** HistoricalInJoke: There are two nonconsecutive UsefulNotes/GroverCleveland heads.
422** Also inverted: as Vice President of Earth, Spiro Agnew is a headless clone body.
423* BrainMonster: The Brain Spawn are a race of giant, flying, telekinetic brains with the ability to telepathically drain the intelligence of animals, robots, and some plants. Their goal is to store all knowledge in the universe in a giant database, then destroy the universe so that no new knowledge will be generated, because apparently that's less work than making continual updates for all eternity.
424* BrainlessBeauty: Amy at least some of the time. Somewhat played with in that Amy is an intern going for an advance degree in astrophysics, she's just ditzy. Unfortunately, the bookworm element rarely makes an appearance.
425** The sixth season makes a concerted effort to show her assisting more with Farnsworth's experiments, and finally getting her doctorate after interning with him for 12 years.
426** Fry becomes one in 'Neutopia' after being [[AttractiveBentGender turned into a woman]]
427--->'''Female Fry:''' Now when I say stupid things, guys all laugh and buy me stuff!
428* {{Brainwashed}}: In "Insane in the Mainframe", Fry is taken to the HAL Institute for Criminally Insane Robots, where after lengthy mental and physical abuse he emerges back into society, thinking he is a robot.
429* BreadEggsBreadedEggs:
430** "Space Pilot 3000" has Fry inform Bender that making one's own decisions is what separates people and robots from animals...and animal robots.
431** "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" has a bit where some talking ads in a digital comic book give an interesting list.
432-->'''Man Carrying Trunk:''' Throw your voice!\
433'''Sea Monkey:''' Sea monkeys!\
434'''Strongman:''' Throw your sea monkeys!
435** "Decision 3012" has Richard Nixon's head desperately wanting to find if presidential candidate Chris Travers has some dirty secrets to be used to discredit him, asking if he's a draft dodger, a sex offender or a sex dodger.
436** Scruffy's assessment of his job in "The Six Million Dollar Mon".
437-->'''Scruffy:''' Toilets 'n boilers, boilers 'n toilets, plus that one boilin' toilet.
438** "Free Will Hunting" has Bender say "Goodbye, sweet meatbags!...Sweetbags!"
439* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: In "A Taste of Freedom", after the Decapodians have taken control of Earth, Fry, Leela, Zap, Kip, and Bender steal a heat-seeking missile from a museum to fight back. It doesn't work right until Zoidberg helps.
440* BreakTheHaughty: In the "Mars University" episode, Gunther, the professor's arrogant and hyper-intelligent monkey, gets taken down a peg or two when his AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents are unleashed on Parent's Weekend.
441* BreakingInOldHabits:
442** In "I Dated a Robot", Fry's hands get eaten by a T. Rex. He's then taken to a "Handcrafters" store to get new hands. He says, "I'll break them in tonight."
443** In "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings", Fry switches hands with the Robot Devil. While the Robot Devil's hands immediately try to choke Fry, the robot devil complains that Fry's hands "keep touching me! In places!". Fry responds: "Yeah, they get around".
444* BreakoutCharacter: Bender. It's even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] In-Universe when Bender becomes this on the soap opera "All My Circuits" in the episode "Bender Should Not Be Allowed On TV".
445** Need a breakout star? Why not Zoidberg?
446* BrickJoke:
447** When the gang goes to get Bender's brain back from the Central Bureaucracy, the elderly man in front of them states that he's still waiting for his birth certificate. Later in Season 6...
448--->'''Old Man:''' I'd like to file for a death certifica-- ERK!\
449''He falls over dead''\
450'''Teller:''' Sorry, that's Section C. Next!
451** That Omicronian-esque "cross-species-dresser" in ''Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences'' wants to have Lrrr's Popplers!
452** Also in the hundredth episode, Barbados Slim is shown dancing with Hermes' wife, [=LaBarbara=] Conrad. In "Bender's Big Score", she leaves Hermes for Barbados because [[spoiler: Hermes loses his body]]. Their relationship continues to be on and off for the rest of the series.
453** In ''X-mas Story'', Leela tells Fry that the word "ask" is now pronounced "axe". It's pronounced this way for the rest of the series!
454** In the Season 6 episode, ''The Prisoner of Benda'', Professor Farnsworth [[spoiler:(who is actually Leela)]] covers his right eye to see properly, which was done in an earlier episode.
455*** This was also brought up in the episode where Leela visits the Orphanarium as a "success story." One orphan covers her eye and declares "I'm Leela!" A second orphan covers both eyes and exclaims "I'm double-Leela" and promptly runs into a wall.
456** In ''A Clockwork Origin'', Farnsworth reveals that Zoidberg is Cubert's godfather. This seems like a typical "Zoidberg is a loser" joke, but ''The Tip of the Zoidberg'' shows that [[spoiler:the two have been close friends for decades]], meaning it actually makes sense that Farnsworth asked Zoidberg to be the godfather.
457** In "Anthology of Interest I", the [[spoiler: Finglonger]] turns out to be key. It later shows up occasionally, when Farnsworth has to [[spoiler: poke Lrrr awake.]]
458** In the second episode ("The Series has Landed"), we learn about Bender's secret desire to be a folk singer, which got a whole episode dedicated to it ("Bendin' in the Wind") in Season 3 as well as one in Season 7 ("Forty Percent Leadbelly") It also references magnets shorting out Bender's inhibition unit and making him sing uncontrollably, which was also revealed in the second episode.
459** Also in the second episode, Farnsworth idly muses "Ah, to be young again... and also a robot." This is exactly what happens to him in "The Prisoner of Benda" six whole seasons later, via mind-switching.
460** An extremely subtle one in ''Overclockwise'' when the Professor and Cubert are on trial: [[spoiler: Bender convinces the court to drop charges against Cubert (as he is a minor). Once the court does so, Bender then successfully argues that the Professor cannot be charged due to double jeopardy, as Cubert is a clone of the Professor. Basically, they are the same person, so the double jeopardy rules apply.]]
461** In "War is the H-Word", Fry joins the military so he can get a discount on ham-flavored chewing gum. At the end of the episode, Henry Kissinger commends him for having the heart of a hero "and breath that smells like a fresh summer ham!"
462** In "A Flight to Remember" in the first season, Bender comments that he can always remember the Countess by her diamond bracelet but is dismayed to find that it's fake. Two seasons later, in a flashback set soon after the episode, Bender nonchalantly tosses the bracelet in a garbage can.
463* BrownBagMask: Langdon Cobb from "The Thief of Baghead" always wears one.
464* BrownNote: ...and with good reason, as he's [[spoiler:a quantum lichen, a creature whose appearance, even in a photograph, causes one to lose their lifeforce, leaving behind a limp husk.]]
465* BuffySpeak: Zapp Brannigan in the episode "A Flight to Remember":
466-->'''Zapp:''' We'll simply set a new course for that empty region over there, [[IdiotBall near that black-ish, hole-ish thing]].
467* BulletHoleSpelling: An interesting variation occurs in a FlashForward from "The Late Philip J. Fry". After realizing that Fry abandoned her because he was dragged into a forward-only time-travel experiment, Leela goes to the abandoned Cavern on the Green restaurant and shoots holes into the ceiling with her laser pistol; the water leaking out of the holes drop onto the ground, gradually forming stalagmites that form a message for Fry that he reads a billion years later on a dying Earth.
468-->"DEAR FRY, OUR TIME TOGETHER WAS SHORT BUT IT WAS THE BEST TIME OF MY LIFE. -- LEELA"
469* BurnerPhones: Exaggerated in an episode where a "nectar" dealer gives Leela and Amy the number to her disposable cell phone in case they change their minds about her product. Then, a minute later, they call it before she even leaves the room, and the dealer tosses the phone into a wastebasket immediately after.
470* BurningTheFlag: Done for practical purposes when Zoidberg burns an Earthican flag to give a heat-seeking missile a heat source to lock onto. The plot at the beginning of the episode concerned him getting in trouble for eating a flag (ironically, he's more patriotic than any of the humans present; he did it to demonstrate the freedom it represents). By burning a flag to literally preserve freedom, he was able to get his point across and is vindicated.
471* BustContrastDuo: This can be seen as a kind of inversion, due to flat-chested Amy Wong being a ditzy extrovert and well-endowed Turanga Leela being a brooding introvert.
472* ButtCannon: In the episode the gang goes back to Revolutionary times, someone tries to use Bender as a cannon. Much to Bender's surprise, it works (with the ball coming out his butt).
473* ButtMonkey:
474** Zoidberg and Kif, presumably unrelated to their biology, though Fry falls into the category many times as well.
475** Tinny Tim as well. He seems to be well aware of it - "You raised my hopes then dashed them quite expertly, sir."
476* ButterflyOfDoom: In ''Bender's Big Score'', Fry, now back to the 20th century, uses the code to go back in time a few more minutes to eat the pizza he was supposed to deliver. This minor event resulted in [[spoiler: creating a time duplicate of Fry who eventually becomes Lars]].
477* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: Occurs in "A Farewell to Arms" (and probably elsewhere too).
478** Elsewhere being e.g. "Naturama" where everyone hides in the [[ItMakesSenseInContext Professor's turtle shell.]]
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482* CactusCushion: In "The Tip of the Zoidberg", Fry gets stung trying to shake hands with "Cactus People", who turn out to be just ordinary cacti.
483* CallAHumanAMeatbag: Bender's favorite insult for humans is "meatbag". Doubles as an InsultOfEndearment when referring to his friends, especially Fry.
484* CallBack: In the episode "The Late Philip J. Fry", at the very end, when Fry, Bender, and Farnsworth return to their own age (well, two universes later), they inadvertently crush the ones already existing in that time, provoking Farnsworth to remark "That takes care of the Time Paradox!" a reference to "Bender's Big Score," where the Time Paradox is a huge plot point.
485** In the same episode, you can see various scenes from previous ''Futurama'' episodes and movies, such as Fry and That Eighties Guy entering the conference table, and Professor Farnsworth attached to Yivo.
486** The best example of this was the call back to the pilot episode in the first minute of "Law and Oracle", where it starts with Fry playing a game similar to ''VideoGame/{{Paperboy}}'' and losing, with Zoidberg and Leela using the respective lines of the little boy and Mr. Panucci.
487** In "The Silence of the Clamps", Zoidberg uses his mating head crest.
488** In "Less than Hero", we briefly see piranhas walking with the device Ogden Wernstrom presented way back in season one's "A Big Ball of Garbage".
489** In "All the Presidents' Heads", we get this exchange in reference to Bender's various claims throughout the 1999-2003 run of the series of the different percentage of materials that he was composed of:
490--->'''Paul Revere:''' Ah, I see that the new scrap metal I ordered is here.\
491'''Bender:''' I'm 40% scrap metal, baby. ''(pounds on chest)''
492** In "Amazon Women in the Mood", Kif refers to the accident in "A Flight to Remember" to explain when Amy gave him her number. It also shows Bender tossing away the fake heirloom from the fembot countess he met who died on the ship.
493** In the Elephant Seal segment of "Naturama", a "beach king" Bender seal murmurs in his sleep "Kill all penguins". This likely references an episode where he once posed as a penguin on Pluto and inadvertently led them to use guns.
494*** Though this is probably a reference to Bender's repeated uses of "kill all humans." As a seal, Bender would see penguins as the different species, hence the "kill all penguins" line.
495*** In the episode "Forty Percent Leadbelly", an engineer is sorting through Bender's saved files which include folders for his "Main Personality" and "Alternate Penguin Personality."
496** The SpoofyDoo segment in "Saturday Morning Fun Pit" contains a callback all the way to "Space Pilot 3000" by bringing back the drawer full of wires.
497--->''Farnsworth [Space Pilot 3000]:'' ...And over there is my intergalactic spaceship, and here's where I keep assorted lengths of wire. [opens drawer]\
498''Farnsworth [Saturday Morning Fun Pit]: ...That's my cloning machine, this is the drawer where I keep assorted lengths of wire [opens drawer], and those are [[ItMakesSenseInContext the Harlem Globetrotters.]]
499** In "Bend Her", Bender gets a sex change and pretends to be a fembot named Coilette in order to compete in the Olympics; Coilette ends up almost marrying Calculon before faking her own death and changing back to a manbot. In "Calculon 2.0", we briefly get a look inside Calculon's suitcase; there's a photo of Coilette in the corner.
500** In "T: The Terrestrial", Fry becomes the E.T. equivalent to a young Omicronian prince called Jrrr... the same little delicious Omicronian larval form who was almost eaten by, then protected by, then saved Leela, all the way back in "The Problem with Popplers" (who introduced himself while in Leela's mouth with the words "I am Jrrr, of the Planet Omicron Persei 8").
501** In "Fry and Leela's Big Fling", there is again mention of Leela's ex-boyfriend, Sean. He was first mentioned in "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" This time, he appears in person.
502* CallingShotgun: In "Parasites Lost", Bender does this for seats in the tiny ship to go through Fry's intestines, barely beating out Zoidberg.
503* {{Calvinball}}: Blernsball, the game that baseball has evolved into by the year 3000. It's as impossible for Fry to follow as it would be for someone from the year 1000 to understand modern baseball. Of course, the writers are actually just making stuff up. At various times, it included outfielders riding giant spiders, a multiball function, and a trick shot GoldenSnitch in the form of an outfield target that said, "Hit Ball Here to Win Game."
504* TheCameo: In ''Leela and the Genestalk'' the crew find [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime Jake and Finn]] trapped in [[spoiler: Mom's floating Genetics lab.]]
505-->'''Jake:''' What time is it?\
506'''Bender:''' Time for you to shut up!
507** [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo]] briefly appear in ''Raging Bender'', telling Fry not to [[HypocriticalHumor talk during the movie]].
508* CanCrushingCranium: Bender, with [[ExaggeratedTrope a whole keg]].
509* CannibalismSuperpower:
510** The Professor gives advice to this effect in "War is the H-Word".
511--->'''Professor:''' If you kill an enemy, be sure to eat their heart to gain their courage... Their rich, tasty courage!
512** Hermes once swallowed a calculator to gain its power.
513** In a variation, when Cubert overclocked Bender's CPU, causing him to expand his processing power however possible, Bender destroyed then scavenged several MomCorp recall robots for their processing chips.
514* CannotTellAJoke: Humorbot.
515-->"And I said 'Supercollider? I hardly know her.' Then they built the Supercollider. Thank you."
516* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: A very brief example of this occurs when Fry visits the abandoned ruins of Old New York and realizes he can jaywalk without fear of getting a ticket. The moment he crosses the middle of the street, he is run over by a lizard the size of a bus which appears out of nowhere.
517* CantLiveWithoutYou: After Fry is critically injured in a car crash, his head is placed on Amy's body to keep him alive until his body is healed.
518* CantSeeADamnThing: When Leela's one eye is injured, she has to wear an eye patch. Unable to see, she believes she is successfully piloting the craft, but she is holding Nibbler's feeding bowl instead of the control wheel.
519-->'''Leela:''' Eyesight is for chumps.
520* TheCaper: "Viva Mars Vegas", where the gang tries to steal the Wong's casino back from the Robot Mafia.
521* CaptainObvious:
522** "Bender, on the screen! It's that guy you are!"
523** "Bender need brain for smart-making!"
524** "Ow! Fire hot!"
525** "Ow! Fire ''indeed'' hot!"
526** "I'm a gigantic brain!"
527** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''The Honking'', when Bender, Leela, and Fry follow some tire tracks, which lead directly under a garage door.
528--->'''Leela:''' The tracks lead here.\
529'''Fry:''' Thanks, eagle eye.
530** [[PunctuatedForEmphasis PROFESSOR.]] [[ConvectionSchmonvection LAVA.]] [[LavaPit HOT.]]
531** These gems from ''Deep South'':
532--->'''Farnsworth:''' Be careful with that unbreakable diamond filament!\
533'''Bender:''' If it's unbreakable, why do I have to be careful?
534** And another:
535--->'''Zoidberg:''' I'll save us by cutting the unbreakable diamond filament! Oh, I can't cut it.
536** And yet another:
537--->'''Fry:''' How many atmospheres can the ship withstand?\
538'''Professor:''' Well it's a '''space''' ship, so I'd say between zero and one.
539* CaptainSpaceDefenderOfEarth: Zapp Brannigan.
540* CardboardBoxHome: Fry asks if the homeless still use boxes to live in. Bender says yes, "but the rents are outrageous."
541* CastingGag: In "Saturday Morning Fun Pit", Fry is an {{Expy}} of Shaggy in the ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' parody which is a reference to the fact that Creator/BillyWest voiced Shaggy in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland''.
542* CasualInterplanetaryTravel: All the time. A few gags reference it, most notably in the second episode where Fry counts down to the ship launching, only to arrive when he gets to about 3.
543-->'''Fry:''' Can I count down?\
544'''Leela:''' Huh? Sure.\
545''*They take off and rapidly approach the moon as Fry counts*''\
546'''Fry:''' Ten... nine... eight... seven...\
547'''Leela:''' We're here.\
548'''Fry:''' ''*quickly*'' Sixfivefourthreetwoone blast off!
549* CasualInterstellarTravel: Distance is no barrier to plot, and our perpetually-penniless protagonists regularly make jaunts that are at least outside the solar system; however, there are definitely episodes that comment on how pricey spaceship fuel is.
550* CasualTimeTravel: Initially averted as the writers felt that time travel stories were difficult to make sense and didn't want the viewers to wonder why the characters didn't use it all the time; when they finally decided to do a time travel episode, "Roswell That Ends Well", they made the method of time travel an extremely rare occurrence[[note]]the forces of a star going supernova and radiation from a microwave with metal in it[[/note]] to explain the latter point. However, the DVD movies and revived series have been playing this straighter, as source of time travel have been discovered to no great fanfare, although usually with some condition; "Bender's Big Score" and "The Late Philip J. Fry" both feature different types of one-way travel, and the button Farnsworth invents in "Meanwhile" is capable of taking the entire universe backwards ten seconds at a time (and takes ten seconds to recharge).
551* CasuallyPowerfulGiant:
552** In one episode, when tiny versions of the Planet Express crew are about to go inside Fry, the still normal-sized Leela blows away Amy with a puff of breath after Amy makes a passive-aggressive comment about her appearance.
553** Happens several times in the episode "Godfellas" when Bender tries to help the people living on him. His attempts to give them wealth gets several crushed by a quarter. When he tries to provide sunlight for them to grow their crops, he accidentally causes an inferno, and when he tries to blow it out it puts out the fire, but also accidentally blows several of the farmers into space. When Bender cries, he accidentally causes a flood.
554* CatapultNightmare: Happens a number of times in the episode "The Sting". Leela catapults Nibbler in the process of waking up at least twice.
555* CatUpATree: In "Less Than Hero", an alien looks sad his cat is in a tree. Clobberella/Leela brings it down. Then, cruel comedy happens as it turns out the alien wanted to eat the cat.
556* CerebusSyndrome: Over time, Futurama went from a ScienceFiction Parody to a more character driven, socio-political satire with a [[DarkerandEdgier darker tone]] [[BlackComedy and humor.]]
557* ChangelingFantasy: Leela, who only has one eye, believes she's an orphaned or abandoned alien, and dreams of meeting her species; later in the series, she discovers that her parents are mutants. Since mutants are [[FantasticRacism second-class citizens relegated to the sewers]], her parents figured their relatively normal-looking daughter would live a better life if everyone believed she was an alien.
558* CharacterCatchphrase: Plenty.
559** Farnsworth:
560--->"Good news, everyone!"
561*** Although it was later revealed that Farnsworth admitted he only said it in Fry's presence, [[PetTheDog to make him feel better.]]
562---->"[[NoSuchThingAsSpaceJesus Sweet Zombie Jesus]]!"\
563"Eh-Wha?"\
564"WERNSTROM!"
565** His short-lived catchphrase to explain why he lacked motivation to do things: "Although I am already in my pajamas."
566** Bender:
567--->"Bite my shiny metal ass!"
568*** {{Lampshaded}} by Zapp when listing Bender's most frequently used words (Creator/DavidLetterman Top 10 style), with "ass" being the trigger for a bomb. Of course, Bender suddenly can't remember the word "ass" to trigger it.
569*** His alternate universe counterpart counters: "Bite my glorious golden ass!"
570---->"Cheese it!"\
571"Fun on a bun."\
572"I'm back, baby."\
573"Neat!" (Takes a photograph)\
574"Hot diggity daffodil!"\
575"Oy, this guy."\
576"I'm 40% <material under discussion>!"\
577"Me, Bender."\
578"LET'S GO AL-READY!"
579** Scruffy:
580--->"I'm Scruffy...the janitor."
581--->"I'm on break."
582** Hermes has two which [[MadLibsCatchphrase vary somewhat]]: "Great [animal] of [place or deity that rhymes with animal]!" and euphemisms involving green snakes and sugarcane. The first one is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in a scene in one episode, where Hermes is so weak from fatigue that he can only say, "Great... something, of... someplace."
583--->"MY MANWICH!"
584** In ''Into the Wild Green Yonder'', Hermes' wife [=LeBarbara=] attempts these a few times, to Hermes' disapproval.
585--->Not your strong suit, woman!
586** Zoidberg:
587--->[[Film/TheThreeStooges "WOOB-WOOB-WOOB-WOOB-WOOB-WOOB-WOOB-WOOB-WOOB-WOOB-WOOB-WOOB!"]]
588** Leela:
589---> "We're boned." (Shared with Bender.)
590--->''"Heeeee-YAH!"''
591---> "Oh, Lord."
592** While Amy doesn't have a standard catchphrase, she frequently says futuristic slang in replacement of modern slang, notably "Duh!". Examples include:
593--->"Guh!"
594--->"Spluh!"
595--->"Shmeesh!"
596--->"What the shmell happened?"
597** Elzar, though it must be noted that he's an {{Expy}} of Emeril Lagasse, and the catch phrases are borrowed from him.
598---> "Let's knock it up a notch."
599---> "Bam!"
600** Kif's exasperated sigh.
601** "I am Lrrr, ruler of the planet Omicron Persei 8!"
602*** Best lampshaded when he's in disguise and introduces himself as "I'm just, some guy... RULER OF THE PLANET OMICRON PERSEI 8!"
603*** Also carries over to other Omicronians such as, "I am Drrr, doctor of the planet Omicron Persei 8!", as well as Lrrr's son, Jrrr.
604** "I'm feeling lucky!" (Used by everyone, with occasional variations)
605** Fry's gotten one in the later seasons whenever he's in an accident.
606--->"Help! Police!"\
607"Oh dip!"\
608"Crud!"
609*** He's also one of the only characters with a song association: "Walking on Sunshine".
610* CharityBall: "The Mutants are Revolting" features a charity ball for a mutant scholarship program.
611* CharlieAndTheChocolateParody: In the episode "Fry and the Slurm Factory".
612* ChekhovsArmoury: Although Fry's lack of a Delta wave is the most prominent ChekhovsGun (explained as being a result of the Grandfather Paradox from "Roswell that Ends Well", there are ''heaps'', with some things returning in the same episode they were introduced to become something significant (e.g. the card for Leela's birthday in 6x05), to returning episodes or even seasons later to become something important (this comes to a head in the movie ''Bender's Big Score'' when everything (and everyone) introduced that may seem insignificant early on becomes absolutely essential to the plot later on).
613** ChekhovsBoomerang: That thing with Fry's head? That comes back more than once.
614** ChekhovsGag: Considering the above list and the fact that this show is primarily comedy, what do ''you'' think?
615** ChekhovsGun:
616*** The Quantum Gemerald in ''The Mutants are Revolting''; the powerful beam it emits turns out to be very useful when Fry [[spoiler:uses it to save the mutants from a tidal wave of sewage.]] Better still, the Quantum Gemerald was first mentioned in "Less Than Hero" where the supervillain the crew was fighting against wanted to steal it.
617*** In ''Insane in the Mainframe'', Fry (thinking he's a robot) takes a can of oil from Leela and puts it in his inside coat pocket after using it. Later in the episode when [[AxCrazy Roberto]] stabs him, his knife ruptures the oil can but doesn't faze Fry, making Roberto think Fry really '''is''' a battle robot, causing him to FreakOut and defenestrate out the window, saving the crew.
618** In ''Bender's Game'', while acting out his ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''-inspired delusions Bender scoops up a ton of Dark Matter (Nibbler's poop). Later, that same Dark Matter, responding to Mom's two Dark Matter crystals, combined with Bender's delusions, transports everyone nearby to Cornwood.
619** ChekhovsGunman:
620*** Nibbler. [[spoiler:Starting from the very first episode.]]
621*** On a less significant scale, several characters show importance later on (in the form of a ChekhovsArmy): Scruffy (the janitor) (owns half the company), Robot Santa (setting the tone for holiday episodes), President Nixon's Head (introduced as a first-episode throwaway gag, then proceeds to fuck up Earth royally more than once), the Harlem Globetrotters (... they're all brilliant applied physicists), Amy (turns out she's a brilliant grad student), the Robot Devil (sets the tone for any robot deaths or descents to Hell).
622** ChekhovsGift: they're a delivery service... *hint*
623** ChekhovsHobby: A few, from Professor's Farnsworth's proclivity for inventions (mainly doomsday machines) right down to Hermes' ability to limbo.
624--->'''Farnsworth:''' Doomsday device you say? Ah, now the ball's in Farnsworth's court!
625** ChekhovsSkill: Fry learns how to pilot the ship. And how to play the holophoner, a futuristic musical instrument.
626*** In "The Series Has Landed", Amy spends a lot of time playing The Crane Game, in order to get the keys to the ship back. [[spoiler: All that practice sure came in handy at the end of the episode, when she needed to save Fry, Leela and Bender using a magnet.]]
627*** Munda's exolinguistic skills (her [=PhD=] in the subject is brought up in season four's "Leela's Homeworld") come in handy in a season seven episode.
628** ChekhovMIA: ... I'm not even going to bother.
629** [[RunningGag Chekhov's Development Team]]: Because if it's introduced, it is ''going'' to come back at ''some'' point, even if [[RuleOfCool just to lampshade itself!]]
630* ChimneyEntry: Robot Santa often enters houses through a chimney to try and kill the people living there. It leads to chimneys having sealing security systems and household members ready to defend at the fireplace; Bender finds this out painfully when he takes over for Robot Santa one year.
631* ChirpingCrickets
632* TheChosenOne / TheChosenZero: Fry. Thanks to being his own grandfather (that's {{time travel}} for you) Fry is the only sentient being in the universe who lacks a Delta brain wave, thus making him immune to various forms of telepathic attack, earning him the title of "The Mighty One" among the Nibblonians. In the 30th century, he turns out to be the key to mankind's survival on a number of occasions, to the point that [[spoiler: we eventually learn that Nibbler froze him on purpose in the year 2000 so he'd be alive to save the world in the 31st century.]]
633** When Fry is told that the fate of the universe depends on him in the fourth movie, he casually replies "Yeah, I get that a lot."
634* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Robot 1-X, who is introduced as a new Planet Express staff member in "Obsoletely Fabulous" and is gone without a trace in the next episode. He does appear in "Beast with a Billion Backs" and a few other appearances in the Comedy Central run. Possibly subverted because he's played off as being a helpful tool instead of a sentient being.
635** Zoidberg's girlfriend, Marianne, hasn't appeared since her debut in "Stench and Stenchibility".
636* ChurchOfSaintGenericus: Inverted with the Amalgamated Church.
637* ClarkKenting: Fry, Bender, and Leela somehow manage to pull this off in the episode "Less Than Hero."
638* ClarkesThirdLaw: Possibly inverted - Hermes states the law with "magic" and "science" swapped at the end of the episode "Rage against the Vaccine," after he and his wife develop a vaccine for Explovid 23 using voodoo magic.
639* CleavageWindow: The DVD commentaries mention that the animators liked putting Leela and Amy in dresses with these whenever the plot required them to dress up.
640** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in one episode that had random time skips during a basketball game. Amy, wearing such an outfit, immediately brings attention to it as a possible explanation.
641** In "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings," Leela wears a long formal dress with a keyhole in the chest to Fry's opera.
642* CliffhangerCopout: The cliffhanger of the fourth movie, in which the ship dives into a wormhole, with potential for NothingIsTheSameAnymore, was completely ruined by the {{Uncancelled}} season premiere taking the characters back to Earth immediately. LampshadeHanging and RuleOfFunny mostly make up for it.
643* ClingyAquaticLife: [[spoiler:Leela]] falls into a mutagenic lake. At first it appears that [[spoiler:she]] has an octopus for a head, but it turns out to be a real octopus atop [[spoiler:her]] head... An octopus that used to be a little girl named Virginia.
644* ClockPunk: Leonardo Da Vinci's workshop and the entire planet Vinci in the "The Duh-Vinci Code"
645* ClockworkCreature: Animatronio in "The Duh-Vinci Code"
646* CloningBodyParts: Sometimes comes up in the series, such as when Fry went to "Handcrafters" after a ''T. Rex'' feeding accident, or later in the series, when Fry and Leela each had an arm ripped off and the Professor grew them new ones. Fry also had his hair replaced after being electrocuted (at least once) by a tonsorial robot.
647* CloserThanTheyAppear: "Objects may be less sexy than they appear" shows up on a clothes shop mirror.
648* ClothingDamage:
649** {{Enforced}} in "I Second That Emotion." When Leela is offered up as a "virgin" sacrifice by the sewer mutants, the mutant leader orders a minion to chain her to a post, then tear her shirt a little.
650** In an AffectionateParody and Homage to ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'', William Shatner in Kirk's uniform simply tears it right before they get into a discussion.
651** In the "A Clockwork Origin" the nanobots, after becoming larger, devour the ship, Farnsworth's new house...and most of the crew's clothes. And Amy and Leela look as NubileSavage (possibly a nod to Leela's namesake from Series/DoctorWho).
652* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Fry and Zoidberg. Also, Professor Farnsworth, thanks to his senility.
653* CoattailRidingRelative: Fry's initial plan in the pilot is to avoid work entirely by mooching from the Professor. He settles for low-grade employment via {{Nepotism}} instead.
654* ComatoseCanary
655* CombatPragmatist: Pretty much everyone, but especially Leela and Bender. Although, it is often PlayedForLaughs.
656* CombinedEnergyAttack: All of the robots combining their exhaust to push the Earth out of harm's way in "Crimes of the Hot".
657* ComeBackToBedHoney: Fry hears this from his [[MyOwnGrampa grandmother-to-be]] in "Roswell That Ends Well".
658* ComedicWorkSeriousScene: The show is mainly a wacky, satirical sci-fi comedy, but it's not afraid to pull at the heartstrings on occasion.
659** ''[[Recap/FuturamaS3E4TheLuckOfTheFryrish The Luck of the Fryrish]] shows how Fry and his brother Yancy were in constant competition, to the point where Fry believed Yancy took over his life after Fry was sent to the future, even taking his name. After heading to the orbiting cemetery to dig up the grave of Philip J. Fry to retrieve Fry's lucky Seven-Leaf Clover, it's revealed that Yancy actually named his ''son'' after Fry, to carry on his spirit, with the sentiment engraved on the headstone. Fry is touched to the point of tears, so Leela heads off with Bender (ostensibly to get celebrity bones) to give him a moment alone.
660** ''[[Recap/FuturamaS4E2LeelasHomeworld Leela's Homeworld]]'' introduces Leela's parents, who [[spoiler:turn out to be mutants who gave her up and passed her off as an alien so she could have a normal life. When Leela discovers them, she assumes that they killed her real parents; her parents [[SureLetsGoWithThat don't contradict her]] and are willing to have their own daughter kill them rather than burden her with the terrible truth. Fortunately, Fry comes just in time to straighten things out, and Leela is just happy that she finally met her parents, no matter what they are.]]
661** ''[[Recap/FuturamaS4E7JurassicBark Jurassic Bark]]'' might be the best-known example. Fry discovers the fossilized remains of his beloved dog, Seymour, and wants him revived. Just as he's about to, Prof. Farnsworth analyzes the fossil and determines that Seymour lived a long life. Fry assumes that meant he went on with his life and forgot about him. [[spoiler:The ending reveals that the opposite was true: Seymour never forgot Fry and spent his entire life just sitting outside his home, waiting for him to return. However, an alternate timeline revealed that Fry spent many years with Seymour, and the old Seymour we saw in front of the apartment was waiting for him to come back from the Arctic... and gets flash-fossilized in the explosion that allows Fry to become Lars.]]
662** ''[[Recap/FuturamaS7E23GameOfTones Game of Tones]]'' revolves around Fry having to go into his memories of December 31st, 1999, to remember a tone he heard which would be needed for saving the world. At the end of the episode, as a gift from Nibbler for doing so, he's given an opportunity to see his mother again (which he had wanted to spend time with during the entire episode) in ''her'' dreams. The end of the episode ends with a heartwarming moment of them having a final moment together.
663* ComicBookTime:
664** Subverted. Years actually go by and the characters comment on it, yet none of them age ''visibly''. The show took place from 3000-3013, and Fry and Leela (for example) therefore have aged from 25 to 38, a pretty massive difference. But their designs haven't changed at all, they don't ever mention their numerical ages, and they haven't matured too much past "20-something" behavior (or ManChild behavior, in Fry's case).
665** Cubert's design and voice never changes, even though about a decade passes in-universe. By the time Overclockwise happens, he should be in his twenties. However, the alternate timeline in "The Late Philip J. Fry" shows all the rest of the crew (minus Fry, the Professor, and Bender) aging, with Cubert actually resembling Fry enough that Leela marries him!
666** Gets really screwy when you think about it like this; An alternate version of Fry ([[spoiler:Lars]]), age 32 in 3007, aged visibly into his late 30's and 40's when he went back to the 2000's (wrinkles and matured behavior and all, albeit with an explosion causing much of the mature aspects like the gravelly voice and hair loss). Yet now that the Fry is ''actually'' that old, he doesn't look a day over 25.
667* ComicTrio: The idiotic brothers Walt, Larry and Igner. They're ALL idiots, even Walt; the only reason their plans work is because they perform them on Fry.
668* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Joey Mousepad, especially in ''Bendless Love'':
669--> '''Donbot:''' That scab's gonna have a little on-the-job accident.
670--> '''Joey Mousepad:''' With all due respect, Donbot, I don't think we should rely on an accident to happen. Let's kill him ourselves.
671--> ''(Donbot makes a sound that's between a groan and mumbling)''
672* ComplimentBackfire
673* ConcealingCanvas: In ''Bender's Big Score''.
674* ConspicuousGloves: Kif: In one episode, he ends up accidentally touching Leela when his gloves come off and gets impregnated by her (his species reproduces by touch). However, the gloves are also part of the DOOP uniform he and Capt. Brannigan wear.
675* ConspicuouslyPublicAssassination: The end of Bender's reign in "A Pharaoh to Remember".
676* ContaminationSituation: Fry has a dormant 20th Century. strain of the common cold, which had been eradicated in between his cryogenic freezing and rethawing. It leads to the entire island of Manhattan being quarantined, and then launched to the sun for good measure - thankfully, the latter half gets averted.
677* ContentWarnings: The movies which comprise season five air on TV in episode form. Apparently the production team wasn't counting on their airing on TV at all, because their content is somewhat more mature, garnering a TV-14 rating, rather than Futurama's customary TV-PG. Each such episode airs with a small passage of preemptive warning, and a verbal warning of "viewer discretion advised" from one of various characters.
678* ContextSensitiveButton: The antenna on Bender's head seems to do everything from cooking popcorn to interrupting TV signals, ''and'' it's a metaphor for a penis on top of all that.
679--> '''Cop Robot:''' (finding Bender's antenna in the grass) You call ''that'' an antenna?
680* ContinuityNod:
681** Fry's [[spoiler: nephew]] was revealed to have been buried in Orbiting Meadows Cemetery in season 3's "The Luck of the Fryrish". Now, whenever a character that is important to that episode's plot or important to the main cast dies, his or her funeral is always held at Orbiting Meadows.
682*** Also involving Orbiting Meadows: During Fry's funeral in ''The Sting'', an Amazonian woman is sad at Fry's death stating, "him make good snu-snu." Cut to a shot of a row of Fry's ex-girlfriends: Michelle from the 20th century, bureaucrat Morgan Proctor, the girl from the club that talked about when "the cyborgs ruled" and even the "radiator woman" from the "radiator planet". They all give a so-so gesture/hiss at the Amazonian's statement, indicating his average performance.
683** Cosmic Ray's Pizza was used as a throwaway gag in season one's "A Fishful of Dollars." Now, it's the common place for the Planet Express crew to order or eat out.
684** All four films that comprise Season 5 contain a number of [[CallBack nods]] to previous episodes, arguably to the point of ContinuityPorn.
685** The best nod was probably Lucy Liu's brief reappearance in Bender's body cabinet in "Love and Rocket", several episodes after he'd put her there at the end of "I Dated a Robot".
686** Early in the series, Professor Farnsworth mentions that they renamed Uranus "Urectum" [[ComicallyMissingThePoint to finally put an end to that stupid joke]]. In "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela" when they zoom in on the Death Sphere, the caption on the planet where Uranus is reads Urectum.
687** UsefulNotes/RichardNixon's election as the President of Earth seems like the kind of that would be undone by a SnapBack, but he's still there - he even gets unseated (and then re-elected via time paradox!) in "Decision 3012".
688** The Harlem Globetrotters were introduced as an alien race that wanted to ruin Earth's reputation [[ItMakesSenseInContext by utterly humiliating them in a basketball game]], but are then revealed to be outright science geniuses, ultimately helping the Planet Express crew solve the episode's major conflict in "Time Keeps on Slippin'". Now, whenever there's a scientific crisis that's too big even for Farnsworth to solve, the Globetrotters (primarily Ethan "Bubblegum" Tate) step in to save the day. Tate is also seen as a dean at Mars University in "That Darn Katz!"
689** In "Lethal Inspection", Bender notes he was "in Italy last week", a nod to the previous week's episode.
690** Poodles were established as extinct, however at least two have appeared in Series 6, a reference to "The Wild Green Yonder" [[spoiler: where all extinct species were brought back.]]
691** "The Late Philip J. Fry" is full of these, since Fry, Bender, and the Professor travel through all of recorded history. The best example could be that [[ChekhovsGun time is indeed cyclical]]. Also, it recounts the first millennium that passed when Fry got frozen, including the fall of the original New York City, its reemergence as a medieval kingdom (and ''its'' destruction), before the emergence of New New York.
692** In "The Mutants Are Revolting" As Fry leaves the Land Titanic, you can see a case of anchovies in the bottom right corner, a nod to "A Fishful of Dollars."
693** In "Bender's Big Score," you can briefly see the fossilized remains of Seymour on a shelf over Lars' shoulder. Might also be seen as {{Foreshadowing}} of [[TheReveal Lars' reveal]] later in the movie.
694** Hermes finds another one of "Fry's fossilized dogs" in "A Clockwork Origin." He throws it into some soup to avoid a repeat of the last one.
695** A couple more in "Ghost in the Machines," both by the Robot Devil, and within a minute of each other. The first is when he mentioned the hand-swap deal he made with Fry in the first SeriesFauxnale "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings." The second reference is when he starts singing the Robot Hell song from "Hell is Other Robots," but Bender interrupts it within the first few seconds.
696** And now a '''major''' one in "Law & Oracle." Let's see what we have here: The episode starts with Fry playing an arcade game, failing miserably. Someone says "You stink, loser" in response to his failed attempt to play an arcade game. Someone comes in with a pizza and shouts "Hey, Fry, pizza going out. Come on!" Fry takes his (hover)bike out to the Applied Cryogenics building, where he realizes he's been duped once again. These are all taken, almost from context[[note]] The main difference from this and the pilot is that instead of getting dumped and repeatedly saying "I hate my life," Fry simply gets run over by a hoverbus[[/note]] from [[PilotEpisode Space Pilot 3000]]. He even [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] his tendency to not look at the customer's name before making the delivery!
697** The episode "All the President's Heads" features a major nod back to the third season episode "Roswell That Ends Well". In the more recent episode, the crew discovers a new method of time travel and goes back to Revolutionary days. Fry [[spoiler:removes one of the lanterns from the "one if by land, two if by sea" church, prompting Paul Revere to exclaim "the British are coming! By land!"]]. Upon seeing Fry's error, the Professor exclaims "Fry, you've really [[spoiler: screwed the granny this time!]]".
698** "All the President's Heads" also contains a nod to "Bender's Big Score". The Ditzy Doctor (a.k.a. Dr. Cahill) greets Fry at his job as a head feeder by calling him [[spoiler: Lars]]. Fry tells her his real name, to which she replies, "Whatever".
699** "Overclockwise" shows a profile of Bender, including his full name (Bender Bending Rodriguez), serial number, and the fact that he was inspected by Inspector #5.
700** Also from that episode, a sewer mutant is seen serving on the jury, a nod to them now being able to come to the surface from "The Mutants Are Revolting".
701** In "A Leela of her Own", the Atlanta Braves' uniform has a trident in place of the familiar tomahawk, a nod to "The Deep South", which showed UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}} had become an UnderwaterCity.
702** During "Bender's Big Score", we see Bender fleeing after stealing a Nobel Prize. The chase scene involves the city being destroyed...cue the scene from the pilot of ships destroying the city outside the cryogenics lab's window.
703** In "The Late Phillip J. Fry", when approaching the "present" time, scenes from previous episodes are shown (albeit re-animated), including Fry and Zoidberg dancing on a table in "A Taste of Freedom".
704** Bender's gender-flip form in "Neutopia" is Coilette from "Bend Her".
705** The [[spoiler:Time Sphere, as well as the Time Code embedded in the Bender tattoo]], which were last seen in the first DTV movie ''Bender's Big Score'', reappeared as a minor plot point in "Decision 3012".
706** The all-robot planet, as well as the Society of Robot Elders, from the fifth episode of the entire series "Fear of a Bot Planet", made a comeback in "Free Will Hunting", with an added layer to their society.
707** While snooping on her mother and Zapp during "Zapp Dingbat", one of Leela's disguises is Lee Lemon, the male persona she assumed during "War is the H-Word".
708%% * ContinuityPorn: The seventh production season is filled to the brink with this trope. Listing all of the callbacks made to this point would require an entire page.
709* ContinuitySnarl: Averted. A DeletedScene in "Bender Gets Made" features Bender crudely replacing his serial number with the number 14 to hide himself from the Robot Mafia. However, the serial number depicted was that of his [[EvilTwin good twin]] Flexo (2716057), not Bender's (3370318) -- the implication to attentive fans being that Flexo has covertly taken over Bender's life. The creators realized this wouldn't go over well with anyone and took the scene out.
710** The episode "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" shows Bender aging backwards into a smaller and smaller robot, then finally into a CD of blueprints. However, he previously showed a picture of himself at "just 4 months old" that he was going to send to Mom, which showed him at his current size, contradicting the whole 'robot aging' thing. It is possible to justify this, however; if one is willing to remember the scene where he was built in the factory, he was not 'born/finished' until fully produced, meaning that the smaller robots and the CD would effectively be the robot equivalent of being a fetus. By this argument, Bender could be fully grown at 4 months, as he was effectively born fully grown. [[MST3KMantra This is all probably overthinking the gag a bit, though.]]
711** In "A Pharaoh to Remember", Bender attempts to make a legacy for himself, trying to at least be remembered forever, even having ''two'' funerals for himself (he doesn't die in either case). "Lethal Inspection" later has Bender claiming to be immortal, and he is shocked when he discovers he isn't, and thus ''truly'' has to come to terms with mortality... by seeking revenge!
712--->'''Bender:''' I never said I wasn't a drama queen!
713** In ''Xmas Story'' the Professor says they use palm trees as Xmas trees because Pine trees are now extinct, yet earlier in the same episode we see a bunch of pine trees (though, due to their ability to fold up and down on a ski slope, are probably artificial).
714** The most glaring one occurs with the show's treatment of ''Franchise/StarTrek''; in "Where No Fan Has Gone Before", even mentioning the show's name will send people in the immediate vicinity in a panic and will likely get you arrested, and Leonard Nimoy seems adamant on denying any involvement with it. Yet in episodes before that, not only was ''Star Trek'' mentioned without incident, but Nimoy seemed perfectly comfortable talking about being Spock. Fry actually addresses Nimoy as "Spock" in the first episode, being the first head in a jar he ever meets.
715** If Zoidberg's species dies after having sex, then how could his body survive having sex with Farnsworth's, even if he wasn't mentally present?
716*** A possible explanation for this is that, like many real-life species, the female kills the male after mating. The body chemistries might be incompatible for that aspect of the Decapodian mating cycle (note that Edna was not too concerned about banging Fry with death resulting for one or both of them). "Naturama" also highlights how salmon die after eggs are laid and fertilized - neither Zoidberg or Farnsworth can lay eggs!
717** At the end of "The Why of Fry", Nibbler blanks Fry's memories of the events of the entire episode, including his discovery that the Nibblonians were responsible for his cryogenic freezing so he could save the universe from the Brainspawn. "Bender's Big Score" reveals the Nibblonians again, but the universe being ripped asunder meant that they forgot to wipe everyone's mind, and Nibbler plays a big part in "Bender's Game" because the crew remembers that he can speak. By the time of "Game of Tones" (a SequelEpisode to "Why") Nibbler casually mentions that Fry is aware of these events.
718** In season two's "A Clone of My Own", the Professor's Universal Translator establishes French as a dead language, but season four's "Bend Her" featured an Olympic team from the Republic of French Stereotypes. Since we never hear any of them speak, it's possible they only have accents. That still doesn't explain Pazuzu.
719* ContrivedCoincidence: In "Godfellas", Bender's return to Earth is only prompted after a ''very'' lucky spin of the radio telescope's trackball and then Fry crossing his DespairEventHorizon in earshot of the microphone. Leela {{lampshade|Hanging}}s this:
720-->'''Leela:''' This is, by a wide margin, the least likely thing that has ever happened!
721** Hermes was the one who inspected Bender at the Tijuana manufacturing plant (as revealed in "Lethal Inspection"). Years later, they both happened to end up working at Planet Express.
722** Subverted in "Fry and Leela's Big Fling": [[spoiler:Sean's presence at Fry and Leela's vacation resort seems awfully contrived, until the reveal that it's all an arranged social experiment]].
723*** Also played straight when [[spoiler:the "resort" turns out to be on the same planet where the other Planet Express members are making a delivery]].
724* ConvectionSchmonvection: In the Butterfly Derby, Leela, Amy, and the OpposingSportsTeam fly within inches of the molten LavaPit in their wingsuits with no apparent ill effects.
725** There's also an open LavaPit in the basement of the Planet Express building. Every time it appears, multiple characters get ''extremely'' close to it without any discomfort.
726* ConvenientlyCellmates: Bender and Fry get implicated in a bank robbery with Roberto, a maniacal robot. Once they are imprisoned in the robot insane asylum, Fry's cellmate turns out to be... Roberto!
727* CoolOldGuy: Farnsworth.
728* CooperationGambit: In the episode "Mother's Day", [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Mom]] has set off a RobotWar (with a remote control that forces all the robots in the world to rebel) because it's the anniversary of the day she was spurned by Prof. Farnsworth. [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Her sons]] try to end the uprising and make her happy by tracking down Farnsworth and getting him to get back together with her.
729* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Mom.
730** Farnsworth may count too, despite being one of the protagonists. After all, the Planet Express slogan is "Our crew is expendable, your package isn't!"
731* CorruptedCharacterCopy:
732** Zapp Brannigan is clear parody of Captain Kirk from ''Franchise/StarTrek'', poking fun at his more inept and egotistical moments. As a result, Zapp has Kirk's [[BoldlyComing lustiness]] and ego cranked up to "parody," but lacks any of his competence or AFatherToHisMen traits, instead being a GeneralFailure relying on WeHaveReserves. Leela ''once'' had PitySex with him, [[AbhorrentAdmirer and he never let her forget it.]]
733** One-shot character Fnog is a green-skinned alien martial arts instructor, making him similar to [[Film/TheKarateKid1984 Miyagi]] and [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]]. Unlike his inspirations, he isn't a wise and noble mentor at all and is a misogynist jerk who refuses to acknowledge Leela's skill purely because she's female.
734* CouchGag: The tagline below the logo at the beginning of the theme song and the animation clip at its end. Some taglines:
735--> "Painstakingly Drawn Before a Live Audience"
736--> "As Foretold By Nostradamus"
737--> "Psst -- Big Party at Your House After the Show"
738--> "When You See the Robot, Drink!"
739--> "See you on some other channel!" on the last Fox episode (and worked equally well when Cartoon Network's rights to rerun the show ran out and with Comedy Central dropping the show).
740--> "[[UnCancelled It Just Won't Stay Dead!]]"
741--> "The Proud Result of Prison Labor"
742-->"The Flames You See on the Screen Are Not Part of the Show"
743-->"Bender's Wardrobe Provided by Robotany 500"
744-->"For The Sophisticated Shut-In"
745-->"Known to Cause Insanity in Lab Mice"
746-->"Brought to You by Regretto Permanent Clown Makeup"
747-->"Ask Your Doctor if ''Futurama'' is Right for You"
748-->"Press Eyeballs to Screen for Cheap Laser Surgery"
749-->"It knows what you're thinking!"
750** At the end of the opening credits, the ship crashes into a large screen that is playing a different classic cartoon each time. The majority of the episodes from after the show was UnCanceled skip this part because the commercial time became longer.
751*** The first part of ''Bender's Big Score'' uses a clip from the pilot of Futurama itself (specifically Fry falling into the cryogenic tube) as the cartoon on the screen.
752*** In one episode, when Leela crashes into that screen as part of the episode, one of the crew [[LampshadeHanging complains that she's always doing that]].
753*** In the beginning of "Decision 3012," the crew actually avoids crashing into the screen... but it starts advertising "Free Beer" right below them, provoking Bender to grab the wheel and crash into the screen like always before jumping ship. This is a rare moment where the opening sequence directly connects to the plot.
754* CouldntFindALighter: The first time that the crew encounters the sewer mutants, Fry quickly lights a makeshift torch and starts swinging it around threateningly. One of the sewer mutants casually lights a cigarette from the torch.
755* CountingToThree: Ndnd does this to a baby when it jumps into Leela's mouth in "The Problem with Popplers" in a different language.
756* CourtroomEpisode: Several examples including part of ''Into the Wild Green Yonder''.
757-->'''Bender:''' Court's kind of fun when it's not '''my''' ass on the line.
758* CowboyEpisode: The episode "Where the Buggalo Roam" is a Western parody set on Mars, including Martians who closely resemble American Indians.
759* CracksInTheIcyFacade: In the pilot, Leela is introduced as snarky, serious, and completely unimpressed with Fry's behavior, and relentlessly chases him down to give him a career chip. However, after he gives up and vents about his plight being stuck in the future, Leela opens up about her own history as an orphaned alien and relates to his loneliness, even illegally removing her career chip to show solidarity with him. While it takes several more episodes before we formally explore Leela's backstory and relationship issues, this is the first sign of her traumatizing loneliness and [[LonelyTogether her related connection with Fry.]]
760* CranialProcessingUnit: Bender is shown more than once to be able to completely remove his head and continue to function in any way his head normally would.
761* CrapsackWorld: Any place that has insane head of [[PresidentEvil Richard Nixon as president of Earth]], [[MilesGloriosus Zapp Brannigan]] as supreme commander of its military, a snooty WASP as a powerful judge, alien invasions being quite frequent, mutants living underground, a law that forces you to work or else be shot into the sun, and numerous other awful things, and you can see why suicide booths are common.
762** The authors themselves have described it as being like present-day New York with the same problems/benefits of now, only [[CaptainObvious more futuristic]] and apparently [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/69183931715291565dc21aa1451.png condemned by the Space Pope.]]
763** This is pretty standard of Groening's work.
764* CrazyMemory: {{Subverted|Trope}} and parodied, twice. In the episodes "Fry and the Slurm Factory" and "A Clockwork Origin," Professor Farnsworth is declared crazy and everything he has just said has been lunacy. In retaliation, he begins ranting and shouts "and he's my uncle" pointing to the much younger character, Fry. This is actually true, as Fry comes from the distant past and is Farnsworth's great-great-great-great-etc. uncle. However, nobody believes him, writing him off as nuts.
765* CrazyWorkplace: Planet Express is a delivery company in the year 3000 that makes deliveries to every location in the universe, no matter how dangerous or life-threatening it is. Among the employees, there are a senile MadScientist, a {{Jerkass}} robot, a lobster-like alien doctor who doesn't quite understand human anatomy, a [[TheDitz not very bright]] delivery boy from the 20th century, and a hot-blooded cyclops who captains the ship.
766* CreatorCameo: Creator/MattGroening appears in the first episode as one of the heads in the Head Museum.
767* CreditsGag: In "Law & Oracle", Fry is being promoted:
768-->'''Farnsworth:''' I hereby promote you to executive delivery boy!\
769'''Fry:'''Executive?!\
770'''Hermes''': ''[whispering to Leela]'' It's a meaningless title, but it helps insecure people feel better about themselves.\
771''[[[SelfDeprecation Credits for the executive producers.]]]''\
772'''Fry''': I feel better about myself!
773* CripplingTheCompetition: Bender drugs a bunch of racehorses (and a jockey who caught him) so the only one he hasn't drugged will win and net him a big payoff.
774** He also falls victim to this in a later episode, when [[spoiler:a [[EnfantTerrible "sweet" little girl]] he enters a tap-dancing contest against breaks both of his legs to force him to quit. Later on, that same girl [[LaserGuidedKarma suffers a heart attack on stage and dies,]] with Bender merrily dancing on her corpse afterwards. Much to his horror, however, [[AccidentalHero this revives her.]]]]
775* {{Crossover}}: One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS26E6Simpsorama Simpsorama]]", is a crossover with ''Futurama''.
776** In "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", both playings of Für Elise have VideoGame/DonkeyKong throwing barrels at Beethoven and Elise from offscreen.
777** In-universe, also in ''The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings''. After Fry trades hands with the Robot Devil and perfects the song "The Grumpy Snail" on his holophoner, the titular snail recurs in every other song he plays short of his final opera. Particularly noteworthy is his appearance in Für Elise, in which he dances with Beethoven while VideoGame/DonkeyKong hits a jealous Elise with a barrel.
778* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Arguably, [[spoiler:Nibbler, of all people. Despite his overwhelming cuteness, he is a soldier...]]
779** Zoidberg is developing into one of these, as well. JOHN F*CKING ZOIDBERG!
780* CruelAndUnusualDeath: That Guy's death from boneitis, in the episode Future Stock, certainly counts.
781** In the season one episode "I, Roommate", Farnsworth is discussing a death on the phone. We don't hear the other side of the conversation, but his question of whether the victim died painlessly is followed with 'to shreds, you say?'. It's also implied the victim's wife suffered the same fate.
782* CryLaughing: In the second episode, Bender taunts a park mascot who says that he still has his self respect, tries to laugh it off and falls into this trope.
783-->'''Mascot:''' Hello, sir! I'm Craterface! I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to confiscate that alcohol!\
784'''Bender:''' Better mascots have tried. ''[drinks beer and shoves bottle into mascot's eye]''\
785'''Mascot:''' At least I still have my self-respect! Hahahah... ''[breaks into sobbing]''
786* CryingIndian: Subverted. It looks as though he's crying about the litter, but it's because the Slurm can reminded him of how much he missed someone named Cynthia.
787* CrypticBackgroundReference: A thousand years of history have passed between the time Fry was frozen and let out, characters will often make casual references to events that occurred during that period of time much in the same way people in our time do with our own history.
788** In ''Cold Warriors'', everyone seemingly knows about a [[NoodleImplements specific, incredibly vague]] plan:
789--->'''Zapp:''' We have only one option. '''Protocol 62'''.\
790'''Nixon:''' Not possible, we don't have nearly enough piranhas!\
791''[Later...]''\
792'''Zoidberg:''' They're [[spoiler:flying Manhattan into the sun]]! They mustn't have had enough piranhas!
793* CryptidEpisode: In "Spanish Fry", Fry goes to look for Bigfoot, who appears at the end to act as a {{Deus ex Machina}}.
794* CurbstompBattle: The Neanderthals against the military, despite the military's advanced technology. Even called a "overwhelming victory" by Zapp Brannigan. See RockBeatsLaser.
795** Zapp Brannigan is generally introduced as having won such a battle ("Fresh from his victory over the pacifists of the Gandhi Nebula!")
796* CutApart: "The Beast with a Billion Backs" shows Brannigan's ship, the Nimbus, fighting fruitlessly against the tentacled creature while Brannigan narrates. [[spoiler:We then find out he's piloting the ship by remote in an Applebee's on earth.]]
797* CutawayGag: In "The Mutants Are Revolting", the series' 100th episode, one of the ways that the mutants plan to take their revenge against the humans is by forcing the West Manhattan Sewer Line back up to the surface, prompting this exchange:
798-->'''Fry''' But who could bend such a huge steel pipe like that?\
799''(scene then cuts to Bender, in a Hugh Hefner-style jacket, wearing sunglasses shaped like the number 100, throwing a wild party with every single minor character in the series)''
800* CuteClumsyGirl: Amy, for comedic reasons. The creators wanted to have a female slapstick character that's always getting herself hurt, since they're almost always male (in western animation, at any rate).
801* CuteGiant: The episode ''Mother's Day'' reveals that Farnsworth and [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Mom]] used to be in a relationship...until she tried to make his latest toy, Cutey [=McWhiskers=], 18 feet tall with lasers, causing him to angrily proclaim, "Eighteen-foot-tall things aren't cute; you don't understand me!" and break up. Later they reconcile, Farnsworth admits they're still cute at 18 feet tall [[spoiler:then Mom reveals that there's an even taller model and he gets angry again...[[SlapSlapKiss at first]]]].
802* CuteKitten: In "That Darn Katz!", everyone finds kittens adorable (except for Amy, who is allergic to cat fur). And one episode revealed that kittens give Morbo gas.
803* CutenessProximity:
804** Leela is often a victim of this, even in the presence of [[WhatMeasureIsANonCute animals that are generally not that cute]], such as the muck leech on Mars in ''Into the Wild Green Yonder''. A muck leech who turns out to be [[spoiler: evil]].
805** This is also a plot device in the episode "That Darn Katz!"
806* CypherLanguage: The alien languages found throughout the show can be decoded to reveal hidden messages.
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810* DamnedByAFoolsPraise: In "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid", the entire population of the world (except Fry) becomes chronically stupid as a result of an invasion by the brainspawn. As soon as Fry figures this out, Bender declares "Let's all join the Reform Party!". For syndication, it was changed to Tea Party.
811* DangerWithADeadline: Discussed and exploited when [[GeneralFailure Zapp Brannigan]] lists some of his "accomplishments," namely, his method of winning the war with the Killbots. Since the Killbots have a killing quota of 999,999, before automatically shutting down, [[WeHaveReserves Brannigan just ordered wave after wave]] of DOOP soldiers to go after the Killbots.
812* DarkerAndEdgier:
813** The movies are definitely edgier, most likely due to the writers being free from network television handicaps. The commentary for ''Bender's Big Score'' notes that they now seem to have more dismemberment and butt shots than they did in the original series.
814** And the Comedy Central episodes, with more partial nudity, offensive language ("Silence of the Clamps" had several bleeped-out uses of the word, "fuck" -- something that was unheard-of on FOX), and sexual innuendo that not even FOX would deem appropriate.
815** The [=Xmas=] episode "A Tale of Two Santas" invoked this, but the episode ended up getting pulled until late 2001 (which, considering the scenes of New New York City being on fire and wrecked, is actually a ''very'' bad time to air the episode).
816* DarwinistDesire: Zoidberg's people pick mates according to strength, fitness, and power, with Zoidberg's main love interest for that episode flat out telling him that she isn't interested in him because he's an "inferior male specimen".
817* DeadArtistsAreBetter: Subverted in "The Thief of Baghead." [[spoiler:Calculon needs to beat Langdon Cobb in an acting competition [[ItMakesSenseInContext in order to weaken Cobb's ego]]. On stage, he drinks a bottle of food coloring (which is poisonous to robots) to make a believable death scene. Langdon still wins unanimously.]]
818* DeadpanSnarker: Kif at his best and Hermes in the 2010 season. Also, in this universe, God.
819-->'''Bender:''' I was God once.\
820'''God-galaxy:''' Yes, I saw that. You were doing well until everyone died.
821* DeafComposer: Bender loves cooking, but can't taste food.
822* DeathsHourglass: The Professor's death clock states how long it will be until someone who sticks their finger in it will die, give or take a few seconds.
823* DecidedByOneVote:
824** "A Head in the Polls"
825** "Future Stock" - Farnsworth is replaced as the CEO of Planet Express by one shareholder vote.
826* {{Deconstruction}}: ''Futurama'' is generally one for most science-fiction imaginings of the future, whether utopian or dystopian. Its main parody is the {{Zeerust}} futurism embodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'' and ''Franchise/StarTrek'' to a lesser extent, the idea of a tech-driven world that automatically solves all social and political problems. The main idea is that new technology will bring new and even more problems with it, that the rise of technology and new standards won't inherently create a more equal, fair or just society. This is embodied in the very first episode where Fry says, "Here's to another lousy millennium" before being frozen, a TakeThat to the old optimistic view of science-fiction that envisioned a paradise by the 2000s, when by the late 90s (the time the show was conceived), this was no longer the case.
827* DecoyBackstory:
828** Early in the series, all Leela knew about her history was that she was an alien abandoned by her parents, with no knowledge of her home planet. In "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E9ABicyclopsBuiltForTwo A Bicyclops Built for Two]]", Leela meets another cyclops named Alcazar, who tells her the story of their people, the Cyclopians. He tells Leela that Cyclopia was bombed by eyeless mole people, killing everybody except Alcazar, who was working in a pool, and Leela, who was shipped off the planet as an infant before the planet was destroyed. At the end of the episode, Alcazar reveals he's a shapeshifter, not a cyclops, who made the entire story up to marry Leela (and it's implied he did the same to several other girlfriends of other species). Later in the series, Leela learns why she never found her home planet: she's not an alien, but a ''sewer mutant'', and her parents sent her above ground with an alien note so she could live without being [[FantasticRacism subjected to a degrading life in the sewer like every other mutant]].
829** "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E4TheLuckOfTheFryrish Luck of the Fryrish]]": Fry goes looking for a lucky seven-leaf clover he had as a kid. Flashbacks show that Fry had an older brother named Yancy who was jealous of him and his luck, so when Fry discovers a statue for a Phillip J. Fry with his clover, he (and the audience) assumes that Yancy took the clover, assumed his identity, and lived the life Fry should have had. He goes to his grave with the intent of recovering his clover, but then he discovers that Phillip was actually Yancy's son. One last flashback shows that [[DeadGuyJunior Yancy named him after Fry]], "whom I miss every day", and gave him the clover so that he may continue his legacy.
830** {{Inverted}} in "[[Recap/FuturamaM1BendersBigScore Bender's Big Score]]". After a trip to the time he got frozen, Fry ends up creating [[TemporalDuplication a time duplicate]] of himself that lived for 12 years in the 21st century until Bender killed him. We're led to believe that he was simply a duplicate who died, only for it to eventually be revealed Bender only ''thought'' he killed him, and that he's the backstory to an already-seen character Leela's new boyfriend Lars Fillmore. [[TomatoInTheMirror Lars didn't even know it for himself]] until his hair burned off and his voice changed.
831** "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E4PropositionInfinity Proposition Infinity]]": Professor Farnsworth is [[FantasticRacism a strong advocate]] against [[{{Robosexual}} robosexuality]] because, in his youth, his human girlfriend Eunice left him for a robot. Then he remembers that her name was not Eunice, but ''Unit'', and she was actually a robot. Farnsworth realizes [[BoomerangBigot he too was a robosexual]], so he gives up the crusade.
832* DefectorFromParadise: In an episode, Bender went to Robot Heaven after saving Fry's life as a ghost. Upon entry, Bender met the robot version of God and promptly possessed it and made it hit itself until it decided to return him to his original body. [[DefectingForLove All this for the sake of seeing Fry again]].
833* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Some of the flashbacks to Fry's early life in the 1970's and 1980's employ this, mostly in relation to Yancy Sr. More specifically, the first segment of "Reincarnation," which is fashioned like a 1930's cartoon, employs this a few times- even the title card calls it a product of "Child Labor Syndicate."
834-->'''Fry:''' Do you think a space-age dame like her would ever marry a two-bit, low-life delivery boy like me an' also I 'ave bad posture and severe financial problems?\
835'''Bender:''' Have you tried gettin' 'er pregnant?\
836'''Fry:''' Gosh, yes. I've tried an' tried, but, so far, I only got Amy pregnant.
837* DeliberatelyCuteChild: Tinny Tim.
838-->'''Tinny Tim:''' I'm sorry, sir. I'm only programmed to make oilade and write signs with cute backward letters like these.
839* DelusionsOfLocalGrandeur: {{Subverted}} because Morbo's superiority complex doesn't come from being one anchor of "Entertainment and Earth Invasion Tonite" but from the fact that he's a {{Fantastic Racis|m}}t alien who sees humans as puny, inferior, and deserving of annihilation.
840* DepartmentOfMajorVexation: The Central Bureaucracy, a massive organization whose sole purpose seems to be to hinder businesses and governments. Their headquarters is an endless maze of filing cabinets and pneumatic tubes that can take decades to deliver messages. When Hermes Conrad, an employee of theirs, sorts a huge pile of undelivered messages with two seconds to spare, he ends up getting demoted because "a good bureaucrat never finishes early."
841* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment:
842** Zapp Brannigan and Fry are the poster boys of the show for this trope.
843--->'''Fry:''' Look! On the TV! It's that guy you are!
844** Also, Bender's full name is Bender Bending Rodriguez. When he says, "bending is my middle name", he means it.
845** Bender's CharacterCatchphrase "Me, Bender."
846* DependingOnTheWriter:
847** The writers can't seem to decide whether or not Bender is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
848** Similarly while some episodes are shrewd enough to hint to Nibbler's ObfuscatingStupidity, other episodes seem to treat his dumb pet act as his real personality, keeping to the ruse to inappropriate levels or even when no one is around to see him anyway. After the crew learns of his intelligence, episodes fluctuate between him being treated as an equal member of the crew or still being treated as a simple pet.
849* DepthDeception: When the spaceship threatening to destroy Earth in "Game of Tones" lands, it is revealed to be tiny (whereas the shots of it travelling through space had implied that it was huge). This is mostly PlayedForLaughs, but revealing its true size ahead of time would also have spoiled the plot.
850* DesperateObjectCatch: When the villainous Zookeeper drops the priceless Gemerald off a balcony, Leela/Clobberella rushes downstairs to catch it safely.
851* DeusExNukina: [[UsefulNotes/RichardNixon Nixon]] wants the Brain Balls dead. And is perfectly willing to go along with a plan to detonate a multi-megaton bomb planted within Bender (without his knowledge) to get it done.
852* DevilButNoGod: Seems to be one of the driving principles of Robotology; the Robot Devil is even a reoccurring character. Though, Bender ''did'' meet God once, or at least "the remains of a space probe that collided with God."
853-->That seems probable.
854** This was actually brought up on the DVD Commentary. "If there's a Robot Devil, where's the Robot God?" "There is no Robot God." Yet at a 'Bot Mitzvah', it's revealed there was a Robot Jesus, but Robot Jews only believe that Robot Jesus was built and was a well-programmed robot, but he's not considered the Messiah.
855** Averted, as of "Ghost in the Machines", where Bender is pulled from Robot Devil in Robot Hell to Robot Heaven. However, the being running Robot Heaven denies being Robot God.
856* DiagonalBilling: Starting with Season 8, Creator/BillyWest, Creator/KateySagal, and Creator/JohnDimaggio take turns receiving top billing in the end credits.
857* DiedInIgnorance: The devastating fate of Fry's dog Seymour occurs because of this. Fry accidentally falls and activates a cryogenic chamber, where he is trapped for 1000 years until the beginning of the series. This {{Prequel}} episode explores his life from before then, notably his close bond with his CanineCompanion Seymour. Seymour, and no one else for that matter, ever found out what happened to Fry. What really gets the tears going is the montage showing how Seymour waited for Fry to return, for ''years'', as the world carries on, the pizza place is shut down, and Seymour grows frailer and frailer until finally he dies from old age. [[UndyingLoyalty He never moved from his spot as he waited forever for his friend to return.]] However, because of the setup of a StableTimeLoop that was already in effect the very moment Fry got frozen, Seymour's fate is ultimately averted, and he doesn't die the way that the audience sees him at the end of "Jurassic Bark" (he gets flash-fossilized by an explosion instead!).
858* DiegeticVisualEffects: In "A Leela of Her Own," several Blernsball players are naked in a locker room, censored by black bars. Bender accidentally unplugs the "black bar generator" in the corner, making the bars vanish and the guys have to cover up with towels (except for one apparently hung player who proudly looks around and declares, "I win!" Also counts as LeaningOnTheFourthWall as his back was to the camera and therefore didn't automatically have to cover himself.)
859* DirtyCommies: It is the primary source of ParanoiaFuel for Yancy Fry, Fry's father. Whenever he is seen with Fry in a flashback in the '80's, he is constantly making sure if "Kremlin Joe has let the nukes fly yet."
860* DirtyOldMan: Professor Farnsworth has his moments, though he's more insane, forgetful, mean, and lazy than lecherous, as far as old man stereotypes go. For instance, he reminisces in "When Aliens Attack" on how the last alien invasion led to the smartest people on the planet being forced to have sex and is disappointed when he hears that the Omicronians have no intention of doing that. In "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles", his biggest concern on being de-aged to 53 is that he now requires a fake ID to rent "ultra-porn".
861* DisabilitySuperpower: Fry's lack of the Delta brainwave grants him immunity to the evil Brainspawn's powers. It also makes him immune to mind readers, as seen in ''Into the Wild Green Yonder''.
862** Also, the brain slugs that attach to his head die of starvation.
863* DisappearedDad: Bender is one, as we find out in ''The Beast with a Billion Backs'', when he returns to his son... so he can give him to the Robot Devil as payment for a robot army.
864-->'''Robot Devil:''' [[EvenEvilHasStandards Wow, that was pretty brutal even by my standards!]]
865* DisappointingPromotion: Inverted and discussed in "Law And Oracle", After the events of the episode, Professor Farnsworth decides to promote Fry to Executive Delivery Boy. Fry ponders the term "executive" as Hermes whispers to Leela "It's a meaningless title, but it helps insecure people feel better about themselves" [[TakeThat as the executive producer credits for Matt Groening and David X. Cohen flash in between them]]. Fry then exclaims, "I feel better about myself!"
866* DisintegrationChamber: The suicide booths seem to have this as the default option, though when Fry accidentally selects "slow and painful" a bunch of crude automated weapons pop out and attempt to kill him.
867* DismembermentIsCheap: Characters get mutilated semi-regularly on this show, up to and including decapitation. However, even the hilariously incompetent Dr. Zoidberg can reattach limbs and make them fully functional in a minute. Cloning new limbs doesn't take long either, as evidenced by Fry visiting "Handcrafters" after a dinosaur-feeding accident.
868* DisneyAcidSequence: The WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine-esque opening sequence to ''Bender's Game''.
869* DisneyDeath: Fry gets many.
870** [[spoiler:Kif]] has one in ''The Beast with a Billion Backs''.
871** Leela and Fry both have one in "Rebirth".
872* DisruptingTheTheater: "Raging Bender" has the group go to the movies. First, Fry makes a snarky comment about the quality of the special effects, only to be hushed by another patron (Crow from ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' oddly enough). Then another robot blocks Bender's view of the movie, resulting in them fighting. Bender wins and it turns out his opponent was a professional robot fighter, leading to the main plot.
873* DistractedByTheSexy:
874** This is done mostly every time Amy Wong is wearing less than usual.
875** In "Bender's Game", during the parody of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', one orc-thing climbing a ladder while assaulting the castle catch sight of Amy taking off her top through a window. Cue abundant drool, which happens to be acidic and burns through the ladder's steps, sending him falling.
876** In "2-D Blacktop", Scruffy breaks his spine by walking into the Planet Express ship while admiring Leela's breasts.
877* DitzyGenius: A rather literal example in Amy - despite being an airheaded, klutzy, promiscuous party girl, Amy is also a brilliant physicist in training (and later gains her doctorate). However, this took many seasons to become apparent: only after the return of the show post-cancellation did the series actually start using her in plots involving her as an academic or scientist on top of plots involving her as a ditz.
878** Also, Professor Farnsworth of course, though this is mainly due to extreme senility... but even disregarding that the Professor enjoys a healthy dose of mad-scientist brand insanity and an occasional lack of care about the consequences of his actions. Many episodes are kicked off by some experiment of his nearly dooming everyone because he simply didn't care about the negative side effects.
879* DoWrongRight: In an [[{{Elseworld}} Anthology of Interest]] episode, Leela murders Hermes, and is trying to dispose of the corpse using the food disposal. Bender enters, leading to the following lines:
880--> '''Bender:''' Hermes' dreadlocks? And his ''arm''?! Leela. I'm shocked! ''Food'' goes in the disposal, ''hair and flesh'' go in the trash!\
881'''Leela:''' I'm sorry, I couldn't stop--w-wait. Don't you care that I murdered Hermes?\
882'''Bender:''' Not even a little!
883* DoYouWantToCopulate: In "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?", Zoidberg wants to ask for sex up front, despite Fry's advice.
884* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
885** The [[WesternAnimation/ThePiratesOfDarkWater cute, gluttonous sidekick/pet Nibbler, performed by Frank Welker]]?
886** Proposition infinity - infinity looks like an '8' on its side...
887** In "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings," Bender walks in on Fry practicing his holophoner... an oddly shaped, multi-colored pipe which (when played badly) exudes smoke-like wisps of holographic images. When Bender enters Fry's room, Fry frantically waves the "smoke" away and attempts to hide the holophoner.
888** During the episode "Fear of a Bot Planet", Bender goes on a rant about the role of robots (compared to humans) in the game of blernsball. He claims that humans won't allow robots to play because they're afraid of the competition the robots would provide, and that robots are given menial jobs while humans get high-profile, managerial positions-- it draws similarities to the plight of ethnic minorities in early-20th-century pro sports.
889* TheDogBitesBack: The cast hates and mistreats Zoidberg. He gets payback in "The Silence of the Clamps". After being neglected the whole episode for his cutting ability, he snaps after Bender offers to cut a pizza.
890-->'''Zoidberg:''' You do that and I'll ''[[[SoundEffectBleep bleep]]]'' gut you like a fish!\
891''(Bender quietly sits down as Zoidberg slowly cuts the pizza while giving a challenging glare to the rest of the crew.)''
892* TheDogWasTheMastermind: The identity of the Dark One at ''Into the Wild Green Yonder'': [[ChekhovsGunman Did he appear before the reveal?]] Check. Was he BeneathSuspicion? Check. [[TheReveal It is a surprise both to the characters and the audience?]] Check. [[InherentInTheSystem Does it make sense with the general theme of the series?]] Check.
893* DomesticatedDinosaurs:
894** ''T. Rexes'' are inexplicably alive and well in the year 3000 and are used to give children rides in petting zoos. Presumably they were cloned.
895** A random Stegosaurus also shows up grazing on the White House lawn in one episode.
896* TheDon: Don Bot.
897* DoomyDoomsOfDoom: All the time.
898** In one memorable example, after Earth is invaded by aliens, this exchange takes place:
899--->'''Professor Farnsworth:''' Dear Lord, they're back!\
900'''Amy:''' We're doomed!\
901'''Hermes:''' Doomed!\
902'''Bender:''' (takes a deep breath) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vSUV1nii5k DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO--]]''(scene cuts away)''
903** During "The Farnsworth Parabox", the parallel benders do a nifty reverb-double-[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1Nd6LU4ImQ DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM]]!
904--->Tonight, at Eleven: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMSHvgaUWc8 DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!]]
905** ''Bender's Big Score'' gave us countless {{Doomsday Device}}s, a [[spoiler:Platinum Doom-Proof Vest]], and the Doom Meter, which measures exactly how doomed something is measuring the amount of millidooms it's emitting. (A TimeParadox) duplicate emits doom at 10 times the background level.)
906* DoomsdayDevice: Professor Farnsworth may just be the patron saint of Doomsday Devices.
907-->'''Farnsworth:''' I suppose I could part with ''one'' and still be feared.
908* DoubleEntendre: The episode title "The Mutants Are Revolting". [[note]][[WesternAnimation/ChickenRun "Finally, something we agree on."]][[/note]]
909* DownerEnding:
910** "Jurassic Bark", among others.
911** Done deliberately in the three segments of "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular" ([[spoiler:Earth's fiery destruction]], [[spoiler:the crew's death and humanity's later extinction]], and [[spoiler:the crew being encased in giant wax candles and slowly burning away]]). Since the episode is non-canonical, all three examples are [[PlayedForLaughs Played For]] [[BlackComedy Very Dark Laughs]].
912** "NIXON. ALWAYS. WINS! ARRRROOOOO!"
913** Every single one of the shorts of "Naturama" end with the narrator giving a morbid analysis of why nature is a cruel and uncaring force
914--->'''Narrator:''' And so the endless circle of life comes to an end, ''meaningless and grim''. Why did they live and why did they die? [[NothingIsScarier No reason]].
915* DramaticIrony: "Jurassic Bark" ends with Fry ultimately deciding not to clone Seymour, his beloved dog from 1999, reasoning that the dog lived a long and fulfilling life of fifteen years after his disappearance (Fry had the dog until he was three) and that tampering in the domain of God is unwise. [[spoiler:The DownerEnding montage cruelly reveals that, actually, Seymour spent his life waiting and pining for Fry outside his workplace, ''[[UndyingLoyalty all day, every day]]'' until the day he died. It's a notoriously, soul-crushing TearJerker of an ending, so much the writers eventually {{Retcon}}ned the whole thing in "Bender's Big Score".]]
916* DressedInLayers: Parodied when Leela became a superhero. She wore her costume under her street clothes, and then another set of street clothes under her costume (it was a cold day!). Furthermore, neither of her outfits could hide under the other (her superhero outfit has a collar and shoulders that would be visible under her tank top, and her tank top covers her navel while her superhero outfit doesn't, and her normal outfit has a pair of pants, while her superhero outfit is just a leotard.)
917* DressingAsTheEnemy: Leela and Fry dress as robots to infiltrate a planet of human-hating robots.
918** Lampshaded by Bender while watching Leela dance "the robot":
919--->'''Bender:''' That's pretty good! How do you do that?
920* DrivingStick: The Planet Express ship has a manual transmission whose first gear is notoriously difficult to engage without grinding. Since transmissions are strictly a motorized machines thing, this is purely RuleOfFunny. It might also be a shout-out to ''Series/RedDwarf'', who did this exact gag whenever the crew was driving Blue Midget.
921* DubPronunciationChange: Leela's name is pronounced "Leh-la" instead of "Lee-la" in the Italian dub.
922* DudeNotFunny:
923** Happens in the episode "Less Than Hero" when the Zookeeper dismisses the New Justice Team as "super zeroes" and Captain Yesterday (Fry) dejectedly replies that his statement was uncalled for.
924** In "Obsoletely Fabulous", when Bender admits he's scared of Robot 1X, Leela laughs about it. Fry, the Professor, and Amy shoot her a DeathGlare for it.
925* DudeNotIronic: A running gag in "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" is Bender correcting the Robot Devil on his abuse of "irony".Culminating in him reading the definition from the dictionary.
926* DumbBlonde: Totally ZigZagged for laughs in ''Bender's Big Score''. There's a sexy blonde female doctor named Dr. Cahill (although Fry just called her Dr. Good and Sexy) whose entire joke is alternating between being a competent doctor offended by dumb blonde stereotypes to... well... being a dumb blonde.
927* DutchAngle: Crops up in the series from time to time. For classic examples, look at the episodes "I, Roommate" and "All the Presidents' Heads".
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