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1WildMassGuessing for ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''.
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5[[folder:Meta]]
6[[WMG:''Futurama'' is some kind of ailment.]]
7[[{{Pun}} Future-trauma]] sounds ''more'' like it.
8
9Or Fry is in a new (comatose) traumatic self-induced state now known as ''Futurama'' to Earth doctors.
10
11[[WMG:The writers must have been watching ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''.]]
12[[spoiler:The finale almost confirms it.]]
13* [[spoiler:''How'' does the finale confirm it?]]
14
15[[WMG: The writers have watched Hentai.]]
16Explains "The Beast with a Billion Backs."
17* To be fair, you don't have to have watched hentai in order to be aware of the existence of tentacle porn.
18
19[[WMG: "Simpsorama" was an episode in the Futurama universe.]]
20As great as it was to see the two crossover, it doesn't really work: The Simpsons has been established as fictional multiple times in Futurama, and its ComicBookTime doesn't gel with the real time of Futurama. That being said, it's a show in-universe that's [[LongRunner apparently still running]] even in the 31st century (Bender is still waiting for another Simpsons movie). At one point, Planet Express managed to make a deal with the heads of the staff; they get to be in an episode if Planet Express sells a bunch of Simpsons merchandise. Being a fan of 21st century TV, the Omicronians demanded it was set a 1000 years ago or they'd try to destroy the Earth for like the 900th time. Well, that, or in one of Bender's time travel shenanigans he threatened them in 2014 to make his friends part of the series.
21
22[[WMG: The series will be brought back on Netflix.]]
23And it will be given a test run with 13 episodes like the Full House spin-off, "Fuller House", is getting.
24* Alternatively, Creator/SyFy will revive it, depending on the ratings that the reruns get
25* '''Jossed''', somewhat. ''Futurama'' is getting rebooted on Hulu.
26
27[[WMG: The Hulu series will be more serialized.]]
28Since 2013 animated series have become progressively more serialized and narrative-driven. Futurama already had long-standing plot points even in its original run (Fry's destiny, Leela's parentage ect) so it wouldn't be out of nowhere for them to give more focus. This could take the form of new recurring characters, along with build up of some of the more mysterious background elements like the Nibblonians, Professor Farnsworth's past ventures or what happened during the thousand years Fry was frozen.
29
30[[WMG: "Into the Wild Green Yonder" is repurposed from an unused Brainspawn script.]]
31The villain, the Dark One, is an AncientEvil that only a small handful of people are aware of, and its implicit goal is being the enemy of all life. Fry's lack of a Delta Brainwave is key to stopping the Dark One due to making his mind being unreadable, as the Dark One can read minds. There's a weird amount of parallels between the MythArc of Fry vs the Brainspawn both in the similarities between the villains, and Fry's role. The eons old conflict between the benevolent Encyclopods and evil Dark Ones is reminiscent to the similarly ancient conflict between Nibblonians and Brainspawn. Add in how Futurama was cancelled before the writers felt they had done everything they wanted, and perhaps the fourth Futurama movie decided to re-use some ideas that they never got to use.
32
33[[WMG: [[VideoGame/{{Futurama}} The game]] will be [[VideoGameRemake remade]] for both [[MilestoneCelebration its own 20th anniversary]] and to promote the revival.]]
34* Jossed. At the time of this writing, it's August 2023, and there's no ''Futurama: The Game'' remake. The closest we got is a ''VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}'' collab ([[WeirdCrossover of all things]]), and a fan is currently developing a global mod for its sister game ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsHitAndRun'', so we have that to look forward to.
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36[[/folder]]
37
38[[folder:Fry]]
39
40[[WMG:Fry's seven leaf clover isn't what it seems]]
41Four leaf clovers are rare, five leaf clovers are extremely rare but do happen, a seven leaf clover is absurdly impossible. One of the few plants that does have seven leaves, marijuana. Presumably this was a baby plant. The whole episode takes a very different tone when you realize marijuana was the reason for Fry's success.
42
43[[WMG:Futurama after the first few minutes was Fry's DyingDream]]
44Cryogenic freezing [[FridgeHorror didn't exist]] even back in 1999, therefore [[OurHeroIsDead Fry actually freezes himself to death]]- and ''everything'' from then onwards was Fry's DyingDream as he falls unconscious.
45* Unlikely. The series often refers to events that happened after the year 2000.
46** Which could just be stuff his subconscious spits up. This explains the constant scientific errors and SchizoTech without invoking RuleOfFunny - it's all just what he imagines the future will be like.
47*** How did he feel pain? And so deeply 'create' these personalities and scenarios? Not to mention the show is fictional.
48
49[[WMG:Lars-Fry was never the Fry we knew and love.]]
50Rather, he's actually Fry from ''another'' universe.
51
52When Fry-A (our universe's Fry) goes back in time so the pizza he wants ''will'' be warmer, he encounters Lars, who criticizes his choice to go back in time for pizza. Lars always seemed more clever than Fry-A even before Fry matured into Lars. He's Fry, all right; but his intellect and reasoning seem ''slightly'' more refined than they should have been...
53
54The time code, regardless of what the characters tell you, is horribly flawed. Somewhere in that mess, something we didn't know about could have been going on. Maybe the time code somehow got Lars-Fry mixed up in a different universe - our universe called A. If the differences between the universes are that subtle (just like slightly different [=IQs=] for everyone), then Lars-Fry would notice but wouldn't necessarily realize that he's from a different universe. Besides, Lars, as a supposed 'duplicate' had cheated death for a long time.
55Also...
56
57[[WMG:Lars-Fry is the Grandson of Fry-A]]
58After sleeping with his grandmother, Lars Fry was the resulting Grandson. Perhaps, ironically, inbreeding is the cause for his intelligence.
59* Additionally, Fry has created an infinite loop of AlternateUniverse branching from that event as a result. Each alternate Fry, no doubt, also slept with their grandmothers to create ''another'' universe (such as the universe of Lars-Fry and the Box universe Fry etc.) Each counterpart of Fry would develop slightly differently from the original in either IQ or hair color etc.
60** For even more [[MindScrew "fun"]] let us consider the possibility that Enos Fry (the Grandfather of Fry-A) was yet ANOTHER Parallel Fry from the ongoing time-loop!
61* Considering that Fry was already his own grandfather, this was long since confirmed.
62
63[[WMG:God ''was'' Fry.]]
64The time-travel related weirdness concerning Fry's family tree- and Lars is ''just the beginning''... Fry is destined to, via TimeTravel and other strangeness, become creator of [[TimeAbyss every single particle, thing, and person in the universe]].
65
66In "Godfellas," it is implied that God is the sentient mind of the universe. Perhaps there is only one sentient mind in the universe, weaved and weaving through all of time and space. Fry is the first segment of the thread, and his family tree oddness is the knot keeping his end in place. God is the sentient mind of the universe as a whole at any given point in time.
67
68Communicating with the universe as a whole may only be possible through the One True Language (see below).
69* This would explain why the God-Probe and Fry have the ''same'' voice (well, that and the fact that Billy West did about a third of the voices for the whole show...)
70** Further enhancing this theory, Fry was also present at the time of the second Big Bang (that we know of) in the episode [[spoiler: The Late Phillip J Fry]] via time-machine...
71
72[[WMG:Fry is also his maternal grandfather?!]]
73Fry has his mother's hair color and style. His father looks ''more'' like Mildred than either Enos Fry- or Fry himself.
74
75This sort of thing can skip a generation, but we never see his maternal grandparents. His mother's maiden name is AllThereInTheManual.
76* Does that mean Fry's parents [[BrotherSisterIncest are siblings]]? I guess genetic concerns aren't really an issue if your father is also your son. Fry's mom must have gotten [[TheDitz his brains]] (she's somewhat childish considering her obsession with sports) and Fry's dad got [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass his skills]] (it takes some level of skill to be a soldier in Vietnam, and he did make plans for possible nuclear/Y2K war).
77* We also don't know if Fry has forgotten or not memorized the time code, and we never see the code being wiped from Bender's memory after he takes [[spoiler:Lars' tattoo]] back to make a StableTimeLoop.
78
79[[WMG:Fry (or a clone of him) was his own mother]]
80* That's either ''too'' convoluted or ''not'' convoluted enough.
81
82[[WMG:Part of (or all) the series has been a DyingDream of Fry...]]
83There are at least two notable instances where this ''could'' in fact be actually true:
84* As seen in ''Anthology of Interest I'', Fry may have smashed his head ''against'' the cryogenic pod- (instead of falling in) but also fatally hitting his head in the process.
85* At the end of ''The Cryonic Woman'', The Professor ejected Fry from the Planet Express ship (!) through his trap-door, likely ''hundreds of feet'' above the ground. Of course, [[ResetButton no mention of this accident]] was ever made in future episodes- and Fry had survived without incident... But what if he in fact ''hadn't''?
86
87In either case, everything past that point (the entire series, or just Volume Three and up) is not real and is just a twisted result of Fry's poor mind ''gradually'' shutting down from injury.
88
89[[WMG:Everything past ''The Late Philip J. Fry'' was Fry, Farnsworth and Bender's DyingDream.]]
90Time isn't cyclical; the new universe could have only been brought about by a Big Crunch. The Forward-Time Machine was slowly losing power- with no more stars, the temperature is stealthily decreasing.
91* Fry and the Professor are both in a coma due to the cold and will soon freeze...
92** Even Bender the robot will freeze because there is no source of heat or light left in the cosmos...
93*** Jossed by real-world physics. Quantum foam will eventually cause a new Big Bang something like 10^142 years after the universe succumbs to proton decay, although it almost certainly won't be identical to the previous one in real life. TheMoreYouKnow.
94*** Double Jossed by real world physics. The laws of thermodynamics say heat flows from high heat to low heat. However, there is almost no matter in space so the temperature will not decrease.
95
96[[WMG:Fry didn't mutate because he's ''already'' technically a mutant.]]
97His "past-nastification" led to his lack of the Delta Brainwave. Who said all mutations have to be external?
98* That and his genome is already locked in due to ''infinite'' inbreeding of his family. Granted, that particular fact is tied into his Delta Brainwave lack, but even if it wasn't, there isn't all that much that the mutagen water can work with after a family lineage infinitely strong AND his genome holding several {{Stable Time Loop}}s in place by this point.
99
100[[WMG:Fry is related to Conan O'Brien.]]
101Come on, just ''look'' at his pointy hair!
102
103[[WMG:Fry's middle name is Jancy.]]
104Pronounced like the J in "Hallelujah". [[CreatorThumbprint The J. middle name]] is a tradition from his mother's side of the family.
105
106[[WMG:Philip Fry II was living the life his Uncle Fry ''would'' have lived- if he wasn't frozen.]]
107Uncle Fry's life started going downhill when he hid his 7-leaf clover. If he hadn't been frozen, he would have found his clover. Everything that actually happened to Fry's nephew [[WhatCouldHaveBeen would have happened]] to Fry himself. The Nibblonian Nibbler ''knew'' of this outcome and and gave him Leela instead- as a gift for such a sacrifice.
108
109[[WMG:Everything we know is a [[BlatantLies lie]]]]
110Fry is actually a genius, but he was transported to a universe where ''no-one'' understands his genius because, the knowledge they have is completely different than the knowledge he had in the future universe.
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1121. The sky is blue because of refraction.
113* In Fry's universe the sky is blue because of reflection.
1142. You can't put metal in the microwave because the microwaves will bounce off the metal and back into the processor.
115* In Fry's universe the reason is because metals give off a dusty alloy that gets into the machine and when it mixes with Microwave Fluid it is transformed into a solution more volatile than Napalm.
116
117[[WMG:Philip J. Fry is still a police officer]]
118He was simply assigned to keep an eye on Bender, a known criminal mastermind (and possible super-villain/God/etc.) with a pretty lengthy rap sheet.
119
120[[WMG:Fry is allowed to watch the UsefulNotes/{{DVD}}s of shows that came out in early 21st century at a rate no faster than he would have been able had he stayed in the 21st century, and looks stuff up on [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} Wikipedia 3000]].]]
121For example, he could have started watching the ''Series/{{Lost}}'' DVD set in 3003, but the Professor and Leela wouldn't let him finish watching it until 3009. If he was allowed to catch up on television at whatever rate he wished, he would spend all of his time watching 21st century television (when he's rich, he spends all of his time watching the incredibly rare tapes of 20th-century shows in order to recreate his old life), ''Everybody Loves Hypnotoad'', and ''All My Circuits'' (he watches contemporary shows with the rest of the gang anyway). Fry watches a lot of DVD sets of media news/pop culture shows so he can keep up with the topical references other shows make; a lot of post-[MillenniumBug [=Y2K=]]] ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episodes (to use an example of something that started in the 20th century, which he might have enjoyed watching) would have made absolutely no sense if Fry hadn't looked up most of his references online, and news/comedy/clip/pop culture shows like ''Series/{{Tosh0}}'' not only wouldn't make sense if he didn't know most of the references, but also ''gives'' him information on 21st-century pop culture [[DiscoDan that he then parrots back into the world]]. There is the irony in this situation that Fry probably knows more about the 21st century now than he would have if he'd stayed in our present.
122* Maybe he gets it from Omicron Persei 8? They get our shows 1000 years from the release date-the Omicronians could export recorded copies of their shows across the universe. They don't have to worry about competition since the actual videos must've deteriorated centuries ago, and I doubt the heads of their writers could sue them(their shows would've entered public domain long ago, and the Omicronians could easily bomb/eat them).
123
124[[WMG:Fry isn't as stupid as we think.]]
125Fry is actually of average intelligence. However, being a FishOutOfTemporalWater means that English has changed so much in the intervening years that he often has problems understanding what is said to him. The other characters are not speaking modern English, but rather an Anglic descendant language that is mostly (but not totally) mutually intelligible with modern English. It's close enough that Fry decides not to try and learn the language, confident that he can get whatever he's trying to say across. And whenever we see him acting stupid, it's actually him misunderstanding the Anglic descendant language.
126* Probably jossed in "The Late Philip J Fry"-Farnsworth and Bender go with Fry far further into the future than Fry's hometime is to New New York, and [[MadScientist Farnsworth can talk to the natives just fine.]] Though Fry could be smarter than he seems, but seems a lackwit because compared to 31st century in a similar manner to how we see people in the 11th century living in the DungAges.
127** Perhaps by then they've invented universal translators.
128
129[[WMG:Enos really is related to Fry.]]
130Specifically, Enos is Fry's maternal great-uncle. He looks too much like Fry to not be related, and Fry already has a source of orange hair with his mom. While I first thought he may be Fry's maternal grandfather, that would result in Yancy Sr being fine with marrying his [[BrotherSisterIncest sibling.]] [[KissingCousins Cousin marriage]] is allowed in New Mexico and New York, so it could happen.
131
132[[WMG:Fry's Y Chromosome is where his special-ness comes from.]]
133Assuming he didn't get his grandparents mixed up, of course. The Y chromosome is passed from father to son, which for Fry's case would make it and the inevitable fractal of his punnet square unique to him. The lack of a Delta Brainwave is probably down to whatever's responsible for it compensating [[TangledFamilyTree the mess that is his family tree]] and cutting things out.
134
135[[WMG:Fry's [[{{UnusualEuphemism}} "lower horn"]] isn't really that [[{{TeenyWeenie}} small]].]]
136At least, not by 20th or 21st Century standards. It's just that in the future, genetic engineering has increased the average length of the human penis by several inches, making Fry's look small compared to what Amy and Leela are used to, while it'd be considered averaged-sized at worst if he hadn't been frozen.
137* He's Fry. He's "the" loser. Everything in him is small (pun intended). Why don't you ask Michelle? Or, excluding savages who had never met a man before, any of the girls that had snu-snu with him?
138* With the obvious exceptions of Mildred and Michelle, all of the non-Amazonian women Fry had snu-snu with during the course of the show's run were from either 31st-century Earth or one of its off-world colonies. And in ''Bender's Big Score'', Bender only said that Constantine had a better ass than Fry, he never commented on his "lower horn", so it may be comparable in size to Fry's.
139
140[[WMG: Fry uses the youthenizing clinic.]]
141It explains why he hasn't shown visible signs of aging, despite not having the extended lifespan of 29th+ century people. And, for that matter, explaining why Lars aged realistically when he returned to the 21st century
142* His age might already be off the first time he visited it.
143* Alternatively one of the benefits of [[MyOwnGrampa being your own grandfather]] is you age more gracefully.
144
145[[WMG: Yancy Sr was named after his ''maternal'' grandfather.]]
146Even assuming Enos was his father, he was only engaged and Yancy would've been born out of wedlock. Meaning the Fry surname came from Mildred, and her father would've been called Yancy Fry. This also means that he and his descendants are still related to the line of Yancys stretching back to the Revolutionary War. Though him having the same name as his grandfather applies [[MyOwnGrampa to his paternal side as well]].
147
148[[WMG: Fry's house lasted so long because of his father.]]
149Fry's dad is paranoid about the idea of an apocalyptic combat, being the Cold War turning hot or Y2K. Somewhat justifiably, considering his assumed father died in a nuclear blast. He made sure to doomsday prep the Hell out their house, which was so successful it remained untouched after a thousand years and ''two'' alien invasions. [[spoiler:Well, one, since Bender knew the house needed to survive long enough for history to be consistent/it's his best friend's house]].
150
151[[WMG: Fry has Autism.]]
152This [[https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/5knbpi/futurama_fry_is_really_just_autistic/ Reddit post]] laid out a pretty good theory on Fry being Autistic.
153
154[[WMG: Fry is his ''maternal'' grandfather.]]
155We never hear Enos or Mildred's last name, and the only confirmation in the series proper that Enos is supposedly his paternal grandfather is Fry. And we know [[TheDitz Fry isn't all that smart]], so that and the stress of non-existing could have gotten him to mix his grandparents up. Fry's mom looks more like him and has orange hair, so maybe he's where she gets it from. It'd also solve the question of where Fry's Y chromosome is supposed to come from.
156
157[[/folder]]
158
159[[folder:Leela]]
160[[WMG:Leela has an important destiny.]]
161The only evidence is Nibbler's cryptic comment "Ah, she must be the other..." (as in savior?), and Leela's dad replying, "Well, actually..." when Leela asked her parents if she was their mutant messiah.
162* Perhaps the episode "The Mutants are Revolting" will involve these pieces of evidence. [[LawOfOneHundred It's also Futurama's hundredth episode!]]
163
164[[WMG:Leela's purpose for being the Other is...]]
165To herald a new generation to protect the universe when Fry is dead. When Universe Gamma v1 Leela thought Fry was dead,she got some of Fry's sperm from a sperm bank and had a kid, but decided to give it up for adoption. That, or Fry knocked her up not long before "The Late Philip J Fry"
166* Unless her purpose is to keep him the Chosen One. He got rid of the worms because he wanted Leela to love him for himself, and if they'd managed to set him up with a Delta brain wave after all their repairs that would've made Fry useless against the Brain Spawn.
167
168[[WMG:That thing Leela wears on her wrist is what the iPhone will evolve into.]]
169It gets calls, does just about everything, and gets Tetris.
170* Jossed...the future of the iPhone will be that it's implanted directly into your eye.
171** Okay, how did [[IKnewIt you know]]?
172* [[http://www.macrumors.com/roundup/iwatch UnJossed]], maybe. Perhaps the eyePhone is a separate development.
173
174[[WMG:In The Sting, Leela never did wake up at the end of the episode.]]
175The part where Leela woke up in the hospital was part of another one of the crazy dreams she had been having. Either she did eat a third spoonful of jelly and will never wake up, or she will one day hear Fry tell her that she has to wake up again.
176
177[[WMG:Leela's an emotional masochist.]]
178Whenever she feels she's done something wrong ("Yo Leela Leela" for example) she begs people to get angry and punish her. At first, it seems to be out of guilt, but then she keeps asking and asking and asking for people to punish her and make her feel bad. Hmmm...
179
180[[WMG:Leela was hatched from an egg, and the same will ring true if she ever has children.]]
181In "Leela and the Genestalk," Leela mentions she lays an egg every now and then, implying she has some [[WhaleEgg oviparous capabilities]]. When we see the flashback in "Leela's Homeworld" of her having just been born, we don't see the birth itself, so it's possible Leela was actually hatched, especially given her parents have traits from squids and reptiles.
182
183Additionally, if Leela ever has children herself, she may herself lay them as an egg first, as an inversion of Kif having been a PregnantReptile. Good thing we know [[Recap/FuturamaS6E22FryAmTheEggMan Fry is good at taking care of eggs]].
184[[/folder]]
185
186[[folder:Fry and Leela]]
187[[WMG:Fry and Leela's children will be superbeings.]]
188He's his own grandfather. She's the least mutated sewer mutant ever. If their unique genetics combine, then it may result in the most powerful beings ever. Also fits in with the above WMG.
189* And their children will have one eye with two pupils. It's a sight gag too good to pass up.
190
191[[WMG:Fry and Leela will not be together at the beginning of season six.]]
192Come on, does anyone ''really'' expect anything else to happen outside of wishful thinking? The writers reset it in ''Bender's Big Score'' so what's to say that they won't do it again? It'll probably be done in ''Rebirth'' by having Leela either not remember or otherwise change her mind, but Fry will settle at the end of the episode for the fact that she's alive. Cue Fry's 'Quest To Get Leela To Love Me' all over again.
193* Seems to be confirmed by WordOfGod saying that it'll be "on and off". In other words, a definite return to the Status Quo. Prepare for plenty of FanWank.
194* Well so far it seems to vary depending on the episode. Their relationship only seems to exist when the plot is centered on Fry and Leela. If it's anyone else's turn in the spotlight the Fry+ Leela relationship doesn't seem to exist.
195* It's not ''quite'' the old Status Quo, though. Even when the episode isn't centered on Fry and Leela, she's still more receptive to Fry than she had been previously. See the episode where they're looking for Da Vinci's secrets, where Leela says yes to becoming a member of the "mile deep club" without the slightest hesitation. So the change in their relationship is still there, but it's subtle unless it's focused on.
196* I think it's more that they have had the RelationshipUpgrade, but beyond the removal of the Fry-gets rejected-continuously-by-Leela dynamic, not much changes because they were already so close. For example, in "The Late Philip J. Fry," for her birthday he's supposed to take her out for a romantic dinner just the two of them.
197
198[[WMG:Despite his romantic feelings, Fry is sexually averse to Leela.]]
199In other words: Fry loves Leela, but does not want to have sex with her. Because although he is fond of her personality—as well as being [[ButterFace attracted to her from the waist down]]—the thought of copulating with a {{cyclops}} horrifies him. This could be due to, despite being used to her face on a casual level, he still cannot fathom it in a sexual context. More likely, he is afraid of producing similarly "disfigured" offspring, especially considering him being [[spoiler:a product of incest himself]] and thus not wanting to suffer anyone a fate of this sort. Given that he comes from an era where safe sex and birth control aren't quite as watertight as the time period he currently resides in, it makes some sense.\
200\
201Think about it. The only times the two have been seen to have had intercourse were in ''Anthology of Interest'' and ''The Prisoner of Benda''. The former was a [[AllJustADream "What If"]] scenario spawned from Leela's mind, a situation she aggressively initiates, thus suggesting in this context that it's actually ''Leela'' who wants to make love to ''Fry'', rather than the other way around. The latter occurred while the two [[spoiler:were in different bodies, where Fry had just finished having sex with the decrepit, yet fully human, Farnsworth in Zoidberg's body.]] As for his attempt to sleep with Leela in "Parasites Lost", this is easily explained by the parasites' modification of his brain. When he returns after removing the parasites, his brain's gradual return to its formal, "unenlightened" self results in him becoming increasingly confused (and socially inept, as per usual). The followup holophone image he creates represents the horror his unconscious mind feels in regards to the situation he is finding himself in: getting ready to make love to a monster that he somehow feels deep affection for.
202* This was jossed in the episode ''Free Will Hunting.'' Fry laments that he feels alone, the camera pans to post-coital Leela saying "what about me?"
203** Further jossed in "Fun On A Bun". [[SomethingElseAlsoRises Just check the radar page.]]
204*** Jossed again in "Fry and Leela's Big Fling".
205** Years of being with Leela made him used to the whole creepy cyclops thing
206* Did you just imply that Fry is more comfortable with the idea of having sex with his 160-year-old nephew than with a well-built woman just because she has one eye?
207
208[[WMG: If they have kids, Fry and Leela will adopt.]]
209Possibly because they couldn't conceive a child together given they're their own grandfather and a mutant respectively, but more likely because they would just want to and Leela grew up in an orphanage. Maybe [[CallBack the three-eared girl]].
210
211[[WMG:Leela is illegitimate.]]
212Her parents seem to be married now because of the same family name, but maybe they weren't married when Leela was born. Hence her being called a "lovechild" in the song.
213
214[[/folder]]
215
216[[folder:Bender]]
217
218[[WMG:Bender's current personality was a result of the electrical shock he received in ''Space Pilot 3000'']]
219Think of it- when we first meet Bender in ''Space Pilot 3000''- he was just a suicidally depressed, alcoholic robot (which makes just as much sense as everything else in the series), who only had a few "up yours" moments. After Bender walked into the electrical lamp in the Hall Of Criminals at the Head Museum, he suddenly obtains a lust for bending that was probably greater than we first met him, his "up yours" attitude is worsened, complete with a horrible understanding of the word "stealth". And by the end of the episode, he's become an attention whore, a kleptomaniac, and his drinking problem's intensified. We know that electricity does bizarre things to a robot in the ''Futurama'' 'verse, so why wouldn't it make sense that too much electricity can override one's personality?
220* Partly Jossed in [[Recap/FuturamaS2E14MothersDay Mother's Day]], where we can "see through the eyes of a bending unit", which shows most humans as theft targets.
221** It's possible that Bender's personality was ''exaggerated'' by the electrical shock. Flexo, another bending unit, doesn't seem to be as criminally-inclined as Bender is, but it might just be that he's more subtle or sticks to petty theft. (Alternatively, [[MST3KMantra the latter is a one-off joke and it's okay to just ignore it.]])
222** It could also be Bender's ''ego'' that was changed to the shock, rather than his criminality, just in a more gradual fashion. [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness He's more sullen in Season 1]].
223
224[[WMG:Bender is Jesus]]
225When Bender went back in time to steal the cross, he went back a bit too early and suffered damage. Maybe his real target was the Ark of the Covenant, and while it didn't kill him due to being a robot it knocked him out for centuries. He then rebooted himself into thinking he was Jesus because people thought he was divine in nature because he appeared to appear out of nowhere.
226
227Once Bender was crucified, he realised that he was a robot and reverted to his normal personality. Myths about Jesus being a human with divine attributes were due to no-one knowing what a robot was at the time.
228
229* You know, I had a hilarious image in my head of the Robot Devil dragging a kicking and screaming Bender up Mt. Carmel when I read this.
230* The Second Coming of Jesus may have been Bender appearing and using [[Film/OceansEleven an enormous electromagnetic pulse generator]] to pull of a heist during the "past" events of ''Bender's Big Score''.
231** [[FridgeBrilliance So that's why videotapes were destroyed in the Second Coming of Jesus-the EMP wrecked them!]]
232
233[[WMG:Bender is God/The Galactic Entity/whatever Yivo wasn't.]]
234The Galactic Entity isn't a space probe that collided with God, but God. But it started out as something that "collided" with God. A certain Bending robot, perhaps?
235
236He did become a god to the Shrimpkins, which fulfilled the ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve requirement of GodsNeedPrayerBadly.
237
238The Time Code was in a tattoo of Bender because he's vain and would think it great fun to make the universe's inhabitants contact a picture of him.
239
240Bender may eventually be [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy several times older than the universe itself]], depending on how many times he traveled, both in ''Bender's Big Score'' and afterward.
241* As of ''The Late Phillip J. Fry'', Bender ''has'' been present at both the birth and collapse of the universe at least twice. I'm not really sure how age is tallied in his particular case, but its reasonable to say that at this point, he's at least twice the age of the universe and some change.
242
243The Time Code was in the binary language that robots use, not because it is based on the same 21st-century language that the robot language evolved from, but because it's literally Bender's code format.
244
245* not to mention now in Overclockwise, [[spoiler: Bender overclocks himself inside out turning the entire universe into his processor core]]
246** Perhaps [[spoiler:before getting downgraded, the overclocked Bender found a way to spare his omniscience(being, well, ''omniscient'', it would be easy.) The result was Overclocked!Bender [[AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascending to a higher plane of existence]] and [[AGodAmI becoming God Himself.]] ]]
247
248* Nice theory, but keep in mind that as a result of "The Late Philip J Fry", Bender is no longer in his original universe, but a copy. This means one of two things: this theory is Jossed, or the "copy" is the original universe, and time as far as Futurama is considered turned out to be cyclical.
249
250[[WMG:Bender's nightmare about the 2 has to do with the Church of Robotology prayer.]]
251Everything goes fine in the dream, all zeroes and ones, until he sees the two. In the prayer, the two seems to indicate a higher power, and it may be this that he's afraid of in the dream, instead of the non-binary number.
252
253[[WMG:Bender isn't a sociopath, just mentally very young.]]
254Bender is only four years old in terms of age, and in psychology it has been found that very young children are essentially very selfish beings. (which makes evolutionary sense as human children are essentially helpless and need to demand that level of attention to survive.) If robots are designed to develop mentally in the same way humans do, it could be that Bender simply hasn't grown up enough to develop the ability to empathise with others especially since he shows the occasional signs of empathy and even feels quite lonely when apart from his friends, particularly Fry... or he could just be a sociopathic kleptomaniac with a soft spot for his friends. Who knows? For this WMG to work would mean that Bender would still have to have been given the intellectual concepts like language and the like in his initial programming.
255* Just realised this is effectively {{Jossed}} due to the time-travel incident leaving him in the sand for a thousand years. Any maturation programming would've kicked in by then.
256** It's quite possible that he was powered down for that time, we've seen what happens when he goes without alcohol for long periods of time, but he seemed perfectly sober drunk? Whatever.
257*** Plus Bender was [[AndIMustScream completely isolated for said years.]] Even if robots are incapable of claustrophobia, without any outside influences he'd be emotionally stunted and incapable of changing (unless he went insane from the experience, which robots are ''really good'' at avoiding) until Planet Express finds him. Same goes for Bender's Big Score-the near-entirety of the experience was with future/past selves just like him, and the twelve years searching for Fry were done under brainwashing. If anything, the experience would've made him ''more'' egotistical and socially dysfunctional. This goes to explain why he TookALevelInJerkass in the Uncancelled episodes: millennia of stewing in his own ego caused him to regress in development.
258
259[[WMG:Bender's family.]]
260Multiple [=WMGs=] crammed into one;
261* Bender's father was a conveyor belt. Since Bender's mother is a robotic arm (Xmas Story), then one of the few things that could be his father is the conveyor belt that Bender was assembled upon.
262** Alternatively, Bender's father is a computer. "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" showed the embryonic form of Bender being a CD, so Bender's father may be the computer that created the CD programming.
263* The can opener that killed Bender's father was faulty. Bender's father was already established to have been killed by a giant can opener (I Second That Emotion). It's possible that the can opener was improperly assembled in the same factory that Bender was assembled. It exploded, destroying the conveyor belt that was Bender's father. The conveyor belt seen behind Bender's mother in Xmas Story is her second husband.
264* Uncle Vladimir was assembled in the same factory as Bender's mother and/or father. Self-explanatory.
265* Bender himself is part cement mixer and kiln, hence his BowelBreakingBricks.
266* Bender has an ex-wife or ex-girlfriend who won custody of their son. Possibly she divorced/left him after his first conviction.
267* Bender's bulldozer grandmother is on his father's side, clearing the way for the conveyor belt/computer factory that is Bender's father. His parental grandfather is the smelting factory used to find the material for his father.
268* Mom is regarded as a godmother by Bender and the other robots
269
270[[WMG:Bender became evil the day he met Fry]]
271He was reluctant to bend anything that wasn't girders when they were trapped in the hall of criminals (in the first episode),but then his head antennae ran into the light and got shocked. Now remember this in the Hall of
272criminal Heads, so when he wakes up he is much more spunky and has a more "in your face personality". Perhaps the heads had a effect on him to make him more evil. He also might have had some memory loss when this happened explaining:"People lived before they met me?"
273* That. Is. Truly FridgeBrilliance, I never thought of it that way
274* In Bender's first appearance, the guilt of learning that he was building components of suicide booths had...uh...[[DrivenToSuicide driven him to suicide]]. By the end of the first season his stated goal was to KillAllHumans. By season 3, he had attempted to sell orphans as food (and apparently misrepresenting their weight). Today, every time a human's death is even alluded to, he chuckles. Wow, this is a great theory.
275* Note that, for Futurama robots, electricity is the equivalent of a drug. Given how direct it was, this likely contributed to Bender's hedonism.
276
277[[WMG:Bender is actually a SuperPrototype.]]
278Bender is constantly bending things that a normal Bending Unit is not supposed to be able to bend. He's even violated the laws of physics multiple times. This would explain why he was built without a backup unit: he was never intended for regular Bending duty or for mass production. He was never even intended to be let out of the factory; Hermes wasn't supposed to approve him. This also explains his child-like mood swings and his self-destructive tendencies: he can sense something's not right with him and his situtation, so he's lashing out at the universe and himself.
279
280[[WMG:Bender's hindquarters (probably including the rest of him) were plated or painted with a metallic yellow substance for a while before Fry met him.]]
281Hence why his second favorite word (in "War is The H-Word") is "daffodil", while "bite", "my", and "shiny" are his fifth through third favorite words but [[RuleOfFunny "metal" doesn't even make the list]]. This may have changed at the time of the coin flip for his metallic coating referenced in "The Farnsworth Parabox"; They discontinued (or changed) the coating, and he flipped a coin between using a new but slightly different golden coating or go back to his original silvery coating style.
282
283[[WMG:Bender was high in the first episode.]]
284Many people interpret Bender getting shocked to mean that he was deprogrammed that day. However, remember what we learn much later, that unusually high amounts of electricity gets robots high. Also, Bender doesn't show any tendency to bend for destructive purposes after the pilot. Bender does many evil things, [[EvenEvilHasStandards but bending destructively isn't one of them]]. So, Bender was simply high after running into the exposed socket, which hampered his way of thinking, which explains why he was suddenly so enthusiastic about bending.
285
286[[WMG:Bender embodies all the seven deadly sins at once.]]
287Let's see: he's self-centered, arrogant and cocky (Pride), he will do anything underhanded for material/financial gain (Greed), he's very sleazy and won't do anything important with his life (Sloth), he has a short fuse and is quick to react to his short temper (Wrath), he uses alchohol as a fuel source therefore he needs it so we can't say lust but he takes way more alchohol than he needs to the point of waste (Gluttony), he likes sluts and whores (Lust), and he covets/hates others' fortunes (Envy).
288
289[[WMG:Bender is far stronger than he thinks he is]]
290During "Bender's Big Score", when under the Scammers' control, he was able to block Leela's kick just by standing there, when usually she can easily hurt him. In "The Beast With A Billion Backs", while he was smoking during deathball, a giant ball hit him and he barely noticed. Then in "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back", when his mind was wiped, he walked right through a metal door like it wasn't even there.
291
292[[WMG: Part of Bender's job is being Farnsworth's sandbox.]]
293Hence why he [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands gets new powers right out of his shiny metal ass]]: Professor Farnsworth regularly unleashed his MadScientist tendency by upgrading Bender. It's the main reason why [[LazyBum Bender]] hasn't been fired-the Professor is playing MadDoctor ForScience on him. Being upgraded over and over goes to explain his inconsistent composition-by the time the series was perma-cancelled, all that's left of Bender's original is his head and spine ''at best''. Many of Bender's abilities are Farnsworth testing his inventions on him/reverse engineering Bender:
294* Bender is BiggerOnTheInside because Farnsworth replaced his chest interior with a Parabox. Nibbler later ate a Parabox, which we used to escape the universe
295* Bender had a microwave/refrigerator stuck in him so that he'd be able to function as Express chef
296* The life support system Bender has was put there since Leela began to complain about how he kept forgetting to send space suits when they went to planets of very little oxygen
297* Bender's neural network helped develop the Cool-o-meter, which goes to explain why it saw stealing as cool([[ComedicSociopathy because it is]])
298* His super-bending skills come from Farnsworth getting back/impressing Mom by making an awesome bending unit out of a defective model
299* [[{{Squick}} The less known about why Bender can be flushed, the better.]]
300
301[[WMG: Bender's composition doesn't go over 100%.]]
302When he uses the percentages, sometimes it's MetaphoricallyTrue or just lies/miscounts:
303* The only substances we know for sure are part of Bender are dolomite and titanium, since they had a role in the plot. That just leaves the other 20% of his person unclear.
304* Empty space doesn't count as part of his mass.
305* Wire isn't counted as the main mass of Bender, and could be using any of the other elements
306* The scrap metal and horsehoes could've been made out of anything, and only count as building material percentage.
307* The Professor's claim of Bender being an iron-osmium aren't to be totally trusted; not just because he's been senile, but that it's been over 70 years since he last worked on Bender-like model. Perhaps he mistook the 2930s Bender-like model's alloy for Bender? Similary, the Antaren may have mistook Bender for being part chromium
308
309So what if some of these claims besides dolomite and titanium are right? That can still make some sort of sense:
310* Bender has a nose, but never wears the damn thing. Bender could have a bunch of spare parts, and as such aren't part of his main body. 100% might refer to the main body, and the rest to support parts for the bending unit
311* Bender has been through a number of scuffles, and may have had broken body parts replaced. Older percentages may not apply to him
312* He could be storing a bunch of stuff in his empty chest, adding to the overall percentage.
313
314[[WMG: Bender's mind was downloaded from a former con-artist.]]
315At sometime, there was an experiment performed on criminals to see if the human mind could be replicated inside a robot body. Needless to say, it was a complete success. For what ever reason, the original copies survived and were still in use.(Possibly part of Bender's "defect".) That is why not only are robots like Bender so human like, but posses less desirable human qualities as well.
316
317[[WMG: Bender's design is a StableTimeLoop.]]
318Thanks to time travel, there are hundreds of Benders throughout history. Professor Farnsworth wanted a strong and cool model for his sports utility robot, and considered the legend of the thieving robot to be a good template. It looks different from Bender due to not having direct contact, and after sixty years they managed to get it right. [[StableTimeLoop Thus, the Bending Units and Bender were made.]]
319* If Bender is responsible for very template modern robots are descended from, that means... he ''is'' as great as he thinks he is. Mind blown.
320* Fueling the StableTimeLoop, studying him(along with some wreckage the Planet Express may have left behind by accident) could've allowed the far more effective cryogenics that got Fry frozen and eventually sending Bender/Planet Express back in time in the first place.
321
322[[WMG: Bender's defect is a DisabilitySuperpower.]]
323It's why he does feats of strength no-one of the same model has. If a bending unit tries to exert too much strength, it will damage the circuits necessary for uploading into another body. A fuse is put in place to make sure that doesn't happen. Since Bender doesn't have an immortality unit, there's no need for a fuse and he can achieve his feats of strength.
324
325[[WMG: Everything past "Overclockwise" was planned, in some part, by Bender.]]
326When Bender briefly turned the whole universe into his processor, he became TheOmniscient and was able to predict the future enough to figure out when ceiling fans would fall. Outside of RuleOfFunny it doesn't seem like Mom should ever be able to catch him, unless a)he was BoredOfPrescience at that point or b)had planned everything he'd ever want out in advance, so there wasn't any reason to remain as TheOmniscient. Probably both. As such, anything that happens afterwards is AllAccordingToPlan. Dicy events like "Farnsworth getting Zoidberg to give him a MercyKill" and "Fry almost being ground to sausage meat" are manipulated to ensure they have a positive outcome in the end. Why doesn't this mean everything goes right for Bender afterwards? Problem is such knowledge can change a man. Compared to [[TheHedonist how he usually is]], Bender with the universe as his processor seems much more calmer and reasonable, his only real petty act being getting ceiling fans to fall on Zoidberg. Maybe in this enlightened state [[IHatePastMe he didn't care much for the bot he used to be]] so isn't too self-serving with his cosmic powers.
327
328[[WMG: Only Bender's body needs to drink.]]
329You never see him drinking when he's just a head, or getting sober-wasted as just a head. The alcohol is needed to run most of his body, but the head has a more efficient power source. His head not needing alcohol might explain why he doesn't run out of power buried in Roswell for a thousand years.
330
331[[WMG: Potential replacements for Creator/JohnDiMaggio as Bender:]]
332* Creator/BillyWest
333* Creator/BradGarrett
334* Creator/SteveBlum
335* Creator/MarkMeer
336** All {{Jossed}}. Creator/JohnDiMaggio is confirmed to be reprising his role as Bender for the Hulu revival.
337[[/folder]]
338
339[[folder:Other characters]]
340[[WMG:Zapp Brannigan is the real reason Nixon won the election]]
341Nixon won the election by seemingly getting 100% of the eligible robot vote, highly unlikely even with his shiny new robot body. What could have possibly caused the robots to vote in a block like this? We know that there are at least two people with the ability to strip robots of their free will, Mom and Brannigan. Brannigan was also responsible for the death of the previous president when he handed him over to the Omicronians. Nixon's presidency was in fact a palace coup orchestrated by Brannigan, who only obfuscates stupidity so that no one will suspect that he is the real mastermind.
342
343[[WMG:Robot Devil is an alien robot.]]
344And that's because humans hadn't develop the technology to build robots in the 23rd century(and it's implied he's ''that'' old).
345* Actually, they probably did: RealLife estimates that by 2050, we'll have made human-like AI so long as some major technology throwback doesn't happen/the energy crisis botches the whole program. The only reason it took so long for sports-utility robots is because civilization was thrown back to the Middle Ages ''twice''. The Robot Devil was made long before this
346
347[[WMG:The 4th dimensional whale evolved on Zoidberg's home planet]]
348Every time he sees it, he grows horror hair, yet we never see him grow the hair for anything else, thus we must assume that it is a natural defense mechanism, maybe the shape of the hair scares the whale or something?
349
350[[WMG:I. C. Wiener is an abbreviation of Nibbler's real name.]]
351Fry is the only one we see read it. What reason would he have to use a fake one?
352* [[MindScrew If that was his real name, who wouldn't use a fake one?]]
353** [[RefugeInAudacity Do you honestly expect someone to be named I.C.Wiener?]]
354*** Ask the 165+ US residents named Mike Hunt.
355** [[WildMassGuessing Actually, it is the real reason Nibbler was so reluctant to say his real name.]]
356
357[[WMG:Zoidberg is Jesus]]
358He came back as a space lobster, but was too naive to comprehend how corrupt humanity had become. Instead, he got caught up in the moment and has been coasting along ever since.
359
360In "A Tale of Two Santas," he dressed as Jesus and said himself that he was Jesus. Mayor Poopenmeyer believed him.
361* So that's why lobster isn't kosher.
362
363He's also the only being on Earth that Santa deemed "good". Santa judges everyone, even the nicest people (and robots, and mutants, and aliens), as naughty for the smallest actions, and yet he is unable to find fault in Zoidberg? It logically follows that Zoidberg is perfect, and who else was completely sinless? Jesus.
364
365[[WMG:The Professor caused the extinction of all life in "The Late Philip J. Fry".]]
366When he was showing off his doomsday devices there was one that "Kills everything everywhere." Somebody must have found and detonated it, it is the only thing I can see as causing the death of all life in the universe when just shortly before that it had been thriving with millions/billions/trillion of species.
367* When saying "all life", he could just mean Earth-life or is just exaggerating. How is that scanner meant to detect everything everywhere?
368
369[[WMG:Zapp Brannigan is able to maintain his command because he's blackmailing someone.]]
370You know that line "It ''is'' a woman this time?" in his first appearance? Well, that non-woman was in a position of power and gave Zapp his position. He gets to keep it because of the technicalities of year 3000 Earth.
371
372[[WMG:Alternatively, it is all a farce.]]
373The Earth government needed something to distract them from their real problems, so they use [[FakeUltimateHero Zapp Brannigan.]] They don't choose a competent general in case he catches on, and make clones of the many soldiers who die in [[PyrrhicVictory Zapp's strategies.]] Kif is there to make sure he doesn't go too overboard, and is forced to stay with him under threat of death. Let's face it, [[CrapsackWorld the Futurama universe would allow that.]]
374
375[[WMG:Igner's middle name is Amos.]]
376Too obvious to not be true.
377
378[[WMG:Morbo is Jesus.]]
379Here to spread his message: News anchor, plus "I WILL DESTROY YOU!"
380
381Everyone will be taken up into the sky to watch the earth burn: sounds like something the thousands of fleets could do.
382
383And, having been deified (or at least de-incarnated), there's no reason to assume that he would look human when he returned. A SpaceJesus would have to look familiar to as many different species as possible; many species are green, with proportionally larger heads and larger fangs than humans.
384
385[[WMG: Dwight Conrad is not the biological son of Hermes Conrad.]]
386
387Considering [=LaBarbara=]'s myriad trysts with Barbados Slim, Slim is actually Dwight's biological father.
388
389[[WMG:Kif is Zapp's caretaker.]]
390Unfortunately, he's not blunt enough to tell people outright. While he was skirting the issue, Zapp was hired onto [=DOoP=] and promoted to Captain. Then it became truly embarassing because Kif is now responsible for letting an incompetent man send millions of soldiers to their deaths.
391
392This is why Kif doesn't protest much when he gets demoted along with Zapp:
393# He believes he's responsible for anything Zapp does, and therefore deserves it
394# He wants Zapp out of power anyway
395# He has to go along with it or risk losing track of Zapp.
396* Official or not, this is ''how things work'' with Kif and Zapp.
397
398[[WMG:The Chanukah Zombie is Zombie Jesus]]
399Jesus cannot be so vain to worship himself, so he must be of the Jewish religion. Q.E.D.
400* Wait... then that would make Creator/MarkHamill the voice of Jesus! Which would make [[Franchise/StarWars Luke...]] [[MessianicArchetype AHA!]] It all makes sense now! But where does that leave [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries The Joker?]]
401** The Joker is the Antichrist.
402** JESUS WAS JEWISH ALREADY,OY!
403
404[[WMG:Igner is practising ObfuscatingStupidity]]
405In Bender's Game, he successfully diverted the attentions of his brothers ''away'' from the location of Fry and company while escaping. He did so with some clever wording, effectively turning attention away from the area. Igner then, following the example of Hubert Farnsworth, swallowed the rare phlebotinum.
406* Even as an idiot, he had no reason to do this, and instantly comprehended Farnsworth's plan to destroy it. The question of why he would do this can be figured out fairly easily. He is fairly intelligent, but his upbringing gave him great insight into the business world...
407* In the far uture he decides to eventually usurp his mother's business, waiting for (very) old age to begin acting against her by playing TheFool in the intervening time...
408* This partly explains Igner's ''final'' actions in ''Bender's Game''- with the gem destroyed, Mom's robotic fuel Empire was in ''shambles''- this could eventually lead to her breakdown- with enough "foul-ups". His two brothers (being entirely loyal to Mom) would still stick by her trying to rebuild... While Igner worked on the sidelines to cement his power.
409* After Mom's passing, the three brothers would likely inherit control, with the more intelligent two having the majority vote. Careful manipulation could cause them to foolishly give Igner more control, citing loyalty by stupidity. At this point TheFool could throw off the ruse and do as he pleased.
410
411[[WMG:The Turangas ARE aliens.]]
412Or, at least, PART alien. They're brain slug/mutant hybrids. This is why they all have one eye, while other mutants seem to have no similarity within families at all, and that the Turangas' sanity, especially Leela's, is much higher than the other characters in Futurama.
413* Turanga is a given name. Leela, like Fry, uses her [[LastNameBasis last name]] instead of her first. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in the (rather early) episode where Fry learns this about her.
414** Turanga is a Family Name First name. Leela is her given name, Turanga is Leela's, Morris's, and[... I can't believe I have to cheat and use The Infosphere for this] Munda's family name.
415* Maybe that's what happens [[ExtraParentConception when people with brain slugs on them reproduce]].
416
417[[WMG:Mom is a descendant of Steve Jobs]]
418She's an industrial giant who presents a warm and inviting image that makes people trust her and buy into her empire, but is cutthroat, bitter, and downright evil when she's not in the public view. Then she invented the [[IProduct eyePhone]].
419** They show an episode pointing out how she has zero tolerance for a product flaw tarnishing her image after the fallout from the infamous iPhone "Antennagate" saga.
420
421[[WMG:Hermes is responsible for the conflicting versions of Bender's birth.]]
422The version with Bender born as a smaller robot is real, and the version with Bender born "fully grown" is a false memory planted in Bender's mind by Hermes. When Bender was hired by Planet Express, Hermes realized Bender would kill him if the missing backup unit was discovered. So Hermes reprogrammed Bender's memory of his birth to remove all images of "inspector 5" so that Bender wouldn't remember Hermes.
423* That would explain why during ''Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles'', Bender de-ages like everyone else!
424
425[[WMG:The Galactic Entity is..]]
426* God itself: It just isn't sure if it's God, and probably thinks having the role of God. Alternatively it knows it's God but is using AFormYouAreComfortableWith to put Bender at ease and teach him a lesson.
427* A reboot program by God: This is why time is cyclical-every 10^40 years it uses all its knowledge to ensure the Big Bang gives a similar result
428* Built by the Anti-Spirals. You knew this was coming
429** Impossible: the galaxy is a spiral, and has "a light touch." [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment The Anti-Spirals are against spirals]], and are strong KnightTemplar.
430* The former home galaxy of Eternium. That is how they are 17 years older than the universe
431* A probe built by the Nibblonians that collided with God, and since it was in the early days of the universe there was plenty material for a galaxy to form over it
432* [[Series/DoctorWho A mutated TARDIS.]]
433
434[[WMG:The Preacher bot is the ''true'' Robot Devil.]]
435Could you honestly expect robots (or anyone for that matter) to leave a sinless life? Preacherbot created Robotology for the sole purpose of sending robots to Hell. That is why when you join their religion, you are sent to Robot Hell the moment you sin. The Robot Devil is the AntiChrist, or the AntiAntiChrist as he is unaware of his purpose
436
437[[WMG:Professor Farnsworth is a Zombie.]]
438He worships zombie Jesus, wants to eat Hermes's brains and thought about removing his own brain.
439* He's also stated that he's only technically alive, cold blooded, and legally both not a mammal and dead.
440
441[[WMG:Professor Farnsworth is a secret Furry.]]
442Think about it: are there any '''other''' odd fetishes he hasn't tried? Also, the Planet Express building seems to have a room for every possible purpose; it's only a matter of time before ''this'' one is revealed.
443
444[[WMG:Zoidberg is not actually poor.]]
445In his capacity as a Doctor and Medical consultant, he makes a decent minimum wage and manages to support himself; however, he keeps up the pretence of being destitute and starving in order to support the horrible eating disorder that spiraled out of his crippling depression. You notice how fat he looks next to other members of his species?
446* He could actually be rich, in order to pay for the medicine needed to survive eating so much trash. As for where he gets the money? Zoidberg sells his art. It was revealed that it's what he majors in...
447* Alternatively he's poor, but only because he has terrible sense in money. This is a man who sold off his massive stock for a sandwich, after all.
448
449[[WMG:There is another being Yivo wasn't able to brainwash.]]
450Yivo couldn't get Leela because Leela was too clever and was able to avoid the tentacles until she could get the word out. However, there is also no way that Yivo, who possesses a mind strong enough to talk to 20 quadrillion people at once, could have stood a chance against the Hypnotoad.
451* Ah, but it seems that you might need to be looking at the eyes of the Hypnotoad to be under his power. so the tentacles, not having eyes would be able to get him without being effected.
452
453[[WMG:Nothing went wrong with Santa's programming or construction.]]
454The only problem was that everybody except for Zoidberg actually deserved to die.
455* Alternatively Zoidberg's ButtMonkey status gives him PlotArmor. The only way for him to get on his list would be to rape and murder a school bus of stoned out mentally retarded children... [[CrossesTheLineTwice twice]]
456
457[[WMG:Slurms [=MacKenzie=] wasn't killed in the cave collapse]]
458He was actually cut up into hundreds of smaller Slurms [=MacKenzies=], which sort of explains his appearance on the V-GINY in "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela"
459
460[[WMG:Zapp Brannigan has only made it all the way with a few women.]]
461Which is why whenever he sees Leela he feels the need to bring it up to keep his false reputation as a "ladies man". He always hits on her because she had sex with him once, and he figures maybe she'll do it again.
462
463So where's the Wild Mass Guess?
464
465[[WMG:Cpt. Land O' Connor is the great-grandfather of Dr. Adlai Atkins.]]
466Because the former is "devoid of characteristics", i.e. boring. The generation between the Captain's son and Atkins (Who presumably is either is related through his mother or took a new name due to not knowing his family) died and he was not adopted by his grandfather or great-grandmother.
467
468[[WMG:the brain slug planet isn't that bad]]
469you should all go there without hats on and enjoy it
470
471[[WMG:Calculon really did beat Langdon Cobb.]]
472Just one problem with that, the idiot killed himself, so Langdon won by default.
473
474[[WMG:Nibbler's cutesy brainless pet persona isn't just an act, it's a separate personality.]]
475Nibbler's done some pretty horrible things while keeping up his act (see the Fridge page for a list), but Lord!Nibbler can't be blamed for what Pet!Nibbler does.
476
477[[WMG:Zoidberg is ObfuscatingStupidity for Farnsworth's sake.]]
478Think about it for a second: compare his character in Tip of the Zoidberg to his current incarnation. He's still fairly comical, but look at his sudden flashes of lucidity/brilliance, like when he cures Farnsworth's yeti-ism and his ''incredibly deep characterization'' in the casino episode. [[HiddenDepths How do you explain those?]] The answer: [[StupidityIsTheOnlyOption It's a facade to]] [[ThePowerOfFriendship protect Hubert.]] [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Comically.]]
479
480[[WMG:Zoidberg botched the operation in Stench and Stenchibility]]
481In Stench and Stenchibility Zoidberg attaches a new nose to his girlfriend so she can smell, the down-side Zoidberg smells awful. However after the nose-job she thinks he smells lovely and flowers smell repulsive, she quits her job as a florist because of this and becomes a garbage collector. She puts this down to having never smelt before and therefore having no positive/negative experiences but this doesn't really add up, instead it seems that Zoidberg crossed some wires down the line.
482
483[[WMG:The Hyperchicken Lawyer is actually brilliant at his job.]]
484In just about every single case where he appears, he manages to act in his clients' best interests, even if what he does gets him disbarred (calling evidence against his own clients and then ''moving for his own disbarment'' being an example.) That particular piece of insanity would have resulted in an instant mistrial for Bender and Fry, and in any case allowed them to plead insanity. His insanity works out too well for his clients for it to purely be incompetence.
485
486[[WMG: Zoidberg was neutered at some point.]]
487Zoidberg has alluded to having sex, [[OutWithABang despite dying after mating.]] When he came to understand emotions like love and disembowelling, his potential suitors may have wanted to sleep with him([[FanDisservice not sure why]]). So he could fufill a physical aspect of the relationship along with an emotional, Zoidberg had his male jelly-producing testes surgically removed. There's already a precedent for neutered animals who suffer OutWithABang (squids, for example) living longer because they're unable to reproduce.
488
489[[WMG: Zoidberg's OutWithABang only applies to his own species.]]
490In addition to events in "Prisoner of Benda," he is mentioned to have made love with his girlfriend in "Stench and Stenchability." Perhaps this is possible because he was mating with humans and not other Decopodians? Maybe some kind of chemical trigger happens when Decopodians fruitfully reproduce causing OutWithABang that doesn't happen when they have sex non-fruitfully with other species.
491* Alternatively he can have sex, but he can't do so to reproduce without dying. As for why Decapodians don't do that? Because to them all sex is is a means of continuing their species, sex for pleasure isn't something they know.
492
493[[WMG: Hermes became a drug-user as a result of the 2980 Olympics.]]
494Note this line in "The Prisoner of Benda"
495->''"No Hermes, I'll ruin your body too!"''\
496--Amy Wong in Leela's body
497
498->''"30 years of the munchies beat you too it."''\
499--Hermes Conrad
500
501The episode's chronology sets during the year 3010-thirty years after the Olympics that Hermes Conrad competed in. And what happened there? A kid died trying to imitate him. [[FridgeHorror Hermes didn't just give up limbo because of this event]]-[[TearJerker he took marijuana to cope with the loss/possible guilt of the event.]] [[CerebusSyndrome Bet you feel bad laughing at the stoner implications now don't you?]]
502
503[[WMG: Igner is no longer alive in Universe 1]]
504In ''The Farnsworth Parabox'' the planet express crew visits an alternate universe (called Universe 1) in which coin flips have the opposite outcome compared to the regular universe (called Universe A). And in ''Bender's Game'' Mom states that when Igner was born, she was so disgusted by him she flipped a coin to determine whether she should keep him or the afterbirth. In Universe A the coin flip evidently ended in Igner's favor since he is still with mom, but that automatically means that in Universe 1 the coin flip ended the other way and mom threw Igner away after he was born.
505* Alternatively, Mom was making a cruel joke.
506
507[[WMG: The events of "Roswell that Ends Well" decreased Zoidberg's lifespan.]]
508"The Tip of the Zoidberg" shows Zoidberg over 80 years ago, [[OlderThanTheyLook and he looks at most 20 years younger than in the present.]] 20 years later in "The Late Philip J Fry", he looks old. This increasing aging could be a consequence of when the Roswell scientists removed one of his hearts. Think of losing one of your lungs or kidneys-you can live without them, but you'll be less healthy
509* Alternatively he starts to age fast at that point of his life.
510
511[[WMG: They don't really hate Zoidberg.]]
512They might find him kind of annoying, but they really do like him. Even Hermes - after all, according to Fry's mind-reading powers in "Into the Wild Green Yonder", he finds Zoidberg pathetic but lovable.
513
514[[WMG: Zapp Brannigan is Fry's distant nephew.]]
515There is over nine hundred years between Zapp and Fry's brother, so it's possible.
516
517[[WMG: Leela's parents are related]]
518Of the diverse mutant population throughout the sewers, Morris and Munda are the only ones that resemble each other. Incest is probably not much of a taboo in the sewers- they probably figure, "Hey, we're already horribly mutated. What harm could it do?" Yet, by some miracle, they manage to produce the least mutated mutant.
519
520[[WMG: Robot Santa's AxCrazy nature is a sham]]
521In all his appearances, he has never actually killed an innocent person on screen. Of course he does injure people, causes a lot property damage, he may kill the occasional AssholeVictim, and generally causes mass terror. But that's usually it, whenever he actually goes after the protagnist, he shoots like graduated bottom of his class at the ImperialStormTrooperMarksmanshipAcademy and is fairly easily avoided.
522
523Why? Because he's actual a WellIntentionedExtremist, trying to bring people together in a holiday many people take for granted. Fry himself admits in his second appearance, that cowering in fear of him in the fortified Planet Express Building, has brought them closer together, like how Christmas used to bring his family together.
524
525[[WMG: There's some weird secret to Amy's relationship with her mother that we'll find out if there's a revival.]]
526
527It's kind of meta, but it was one thing that they're both voiced by [[Creator/LaurenTom the same actor]], but the fact that she's gone on to play someone who [[Series/AndiMack raised her granddaughter as her child]] requires a mention...
528
529[[WMG: Zapp Brannigan isn't stupid. [[TheQuisling He's something far more insidious]]. ]]
530As dumb as people can be, he'd have to have enough intelligence to even get into the military [[FakeUltimateHero and seem like the big hero]]. In fact, he's a genuinely brilliant general [[ObfuscatingStupidity who pretends to be incompetent]]. It's just that he's also a secret traitor to humanity. Originally the Earth military was a more effective, and one of the old enemy aliens wanted to get back at them. Since they couldn't win a fair fight, they went to sabotaging the armed forces with incompetent leaders. Zapp's a genius, but failed the psychology test. The aliens [[DealWithTheDevil offered him a deal]]. He would become famous as the champion of humanity, all while making massive tactical blunders [[WeHaveReserves and sacrificing his men by the droves]] so Earth will one day be conquered by the aliens. He'll get to live, and be seen as a hero by the aliens(or at least that's what they told him, [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves they probably plan to kill him at the end]]). People like Leela have figured out [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk he's a childish buffoon underneath his bravado]], but what ''nobody'' has figured out is that underneath that is his true personality; [[EvilGenius a brilliant]] [[TheSociopath psychopath]] who not only willfully throws men to their death [[ItsAllAboutMe because it benefits his endgame]], but also [[AxCrazy because he's deranged and likes to see people die]]. It's why he failed the psychology test in the first place, [[MaskOfSanity and suppresses his true personality ever since]].
531
532[[WMG: Amy's Clumsyness]]
533She's only clumsy due to the differences in gravity between earth and mars. it's why the joke fades out in the later seasons.
534
535[[WMG: Igner isn't actually Farnsworth's son.]]
536He lied to the Professor to make him feel better.
537
538[[WMG: Zapp is [[ArmouredClosetGay Armoured Closet Bisexual]].]]
539He has a lot of AmbiguouslyBi moments, and was SweetOnPollyOliver at least once(even outright admitted he felt confused by said feelings), and asks Kif about Leela "[[NoodleIncident she is a woman?]]" Zapp is bisexual, but his macho persona and personal opinions [[BoomerangBigot don't want him to admit it]]. While genuinely attracted to Leela, he focuses his attention on her because [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday everyone must think he's only interested in boobies]]. While a {{Jerkass}} in general, some of that is trying to push off the subject of his sexuality. Him saying "what are you, gay?" to Kif(who's also taken) being afraid of [[OutWithABang death by snu snu]] is just projection.
540
541[[WMG: Sal the Lazy Guy is a bunch of clones of a lazy guy who sold his genome.]]
542Inspired by the ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonXIOfficerRimmer Officer Rimmer]]", where Lister reveals that he licensed his genome for exchange for 100 dollar-pounds and half a pack of smokes, resulting in an army of call center operators from Liverpool who hate their jobs.
543
544[[WMG: Sally the Orphan is also a mutant.]]
545Just like Leela, Sally's mutation is so minimal, (she just has an Ear in her face and a tail you can't see under her clothes,) that her parents decided to abandon her in the orphanage instead of raising her in the canalisation.
546
547[[WMG: Zoidberg's wasting his potential in both medicine AND comedy.]]
548He can dance, sing in two different voices, play the theremin, and once caused an international incident by desecrating a flag onstage. He should have been a rock star!
549
550[[WMG:Sally's biological father is none other than Zapp Brannigan.]]
551As an above WMG speculates, Sally appears to be a mutant possibly also posing as an alien, but Leela's case is implied to be exceptional. What circumstances would produce a girl who appears to be a mutant, but is not actually one?
552
553Well, in "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch," Zapp alludes to having been "slapped with three paternity suits" due to malfunctions in the Holo-Shed in which the projections became real. Knowing Zapp's [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe apparent type in women]], these baby mamas were likely similar to Leela in terms of appearance. However, being living holograms only designed for [[SexBot one purpose]], they likely wouldn't be very capable mothers, so one of them gave up their daughter, Sally, who inherited the LittleBitBeastly mutations Zapp added to his humanoid alien fantasy woman. So she's not legally alien nor mutant, but the product of a product of Zapp's imagination.
554
555[[WMG: Professor Farnsworth is annoyed by the fact Fry's his direct ancestor.]]
556Pretty much every time he's involved in time travel and he acknowledged it's possible [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten he makes some crack at Fry being his own grandfather]]. However it's usually only him, with the one exception outside of "Roswell That Ends Well" being Nibbler mentioning it as the explanation behind his chosen one status. The reason the Professor always brings it up is that by being his own grandfather, Fry is the direct ancestor of Farnsworth rather than just his ancestor's brother and responsible for his existence as well. [[Recap/FuturamaS6E5TheDuhVinciCode He's shown to be embarrassed at their relationship]] [[Recap/FuturamaS6E23AllThePresidentsHeads and sometimes downplays their relationship]], so he brings it up the most out the Planet Express crew due to the embarrassment Fry's as much his (dozens of greats) grampa as he is his (slightly less dozens of great) great-uncle.
557
558[[/folder]]
559
560[[folder:Setting]]
561
562[[WMG:"Robosexuality" is actually a metaphor for interracial relationships.]]
563
564[[WMG:Scientists didn't increase the speed of light]]
565They shrank the universe, this while still ridiculous makes more sense than changing a physical constant especially since they do have shrinking technology it just requires really tiny atoms and those are really expensive, maybe they are expensive because they used most of them to shrink the universe or maybe its just hard to make them smaller than they already are.
566* One problem: this would mean that the radio waves would go at the same speed as current light waves. Unless they slowed them down, but there'd be no point to it
567
568[[WMG:The heads in jars are not actual preserved people, but simply clones with TheThemeparkVersion of that person's personality installed artificially.]]
569It would certainly explain Nixon's head. He's been dead for years now.
570
571It also explains the changes in personality. Contrary to popular opinion, Nixon was not nearly that depraved during his presidency. He wasn't majorly involved in Watergate until AFTER it started going public. Also, Washington didn't sell his teeth for whiskey, and the replacement teeth certainly weren't wooden, but more likely some sort of ivory or similar. [[AnachronismStew Moreover, he didn't speak in Elizabethan English.]]
572* Nixon DID admit to going insane from being kept in a jar for so many years...
573* The Head Museum has a room called the Hall of Presidents with the head of every US president from Washington to Clinton. It even had ''two'' Grover Clevelands! If two of the same person isn't confirmation, then what is?
574* That makes this almost compulsory. Consider the FridgeLogic of having JFK's head in a jar.
575* This troper thinks that two Grover Clevelands is just RuleOfFunny.
576* They could have been constructed with something similar to the birthing machine from "Rebirth."
577* The reason why all the heads seem to be 21st century or prior is because it's then the technology was invented, and was all the rage so they cloned anyone even remotely famous. That, or there are other head museums for 22nd-30th century famous people. Technology was primitive, which is why they can fix and reattach Hermes' head and body(and how his decapitated head didn't die thirty seconds after being separated), but President Nixon doesn't try to clone the rest of his body back again.
578* The Headless Body of Agnew [[CameBackWrong was an attempt]] at fully reviving them. [[TakeThat Not that lacking a brain changes much for him]].
579
580[[WMG: Halloween no longer exists in the year 3000 and the existence of aliens may have something to do with it.]]
581Since Halloween was never referenced in both the show's runs with the closest the show ever getting to having a true HalloweenEpisode (The Honking) not mentioning anything about Halloween aside from the werewolf symbolism, it is likely that Halloween, as a tradition, no longer exists in the future. This can be explained by the existence of real aliens in the lore of the show. It is likely that Halloween no longer exists because the holiday received major criticism and backlash from visiting aliens due to them being stereotyped as Halloween costumes, decorations, and animatronics during that day. As a consequence, Halloween was considered outlawed, though some vestigial elements of Halloween, such as the presence of zombies, vampires, werewolves (as well as robot equivalents in werecars), and ghosts (only in robot form) still remain in human culture well into the 31st century.
582
583[[WMG:Some of the heads are [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment reanimated from dead remains by necromancy.]]]]
584[[http://www.exisle.net/mb/index.php?showtopic=49626#entry1063015 Pulled from the boardosphere]], although the Hall of Screaming Skulls in Bender's Big Score makes it approach obvious. This could overlap with the first theory if there's some kind of personality imprinting going on. Connections to the Chanukah Zombie and the 2443 rise of Zombie Jesus are unclear.
585* There's a reason Nixon had [[Main/HurricaneOfPuns voodoo economists]].
586* The screaming skulls could be, umm, botched "attempts" at the process which CameBackWrong. NightmareFuel, anyone? [[AndIMustScream They have mouths, but all they can do is scream]].
587* Scruffy [[spoiler:is a zombie.]] This in itself gives a lot of credence.
588
589[[WMG:The technology of making new heads in jars got lost in the third millennium]]
590They still know how to keep the existing heads alive, but they don't know how to cut off the head without killing the person.
591* Jossed by ''Bender's Big Score''. And in addition, they don't just still have the technology to cut off someone's head and keep it alive, whatever does it (Nanomachines?) is apparently pre-installed in everyone. In the film, Hermes' head was chopped off accidentally but until it was properly jarred, remained pretty conscious (if somewhat impatient). Although his dialogue suggests that whatever tech keeps the head alive without a body in emergencies won't last long and the head jar is needed for longer term preservation.
592
593[[WMG:All robots have nanite healing systems.]]
594This is why Bender has recovered quickly from damage with no on-screen repairs.
595* He has had repairs made to himself in the past, such as when he had that seam under his arm soldered. And we've seen other robots getting junked due to being "broken" even though they were still "alive"; this would mean that they should have repaired themselves.
596* Refined guess:
597* To be fair, Bender ''is'' made of titanium, which is incredibly tough.
598
599[[WMG:All ''Bending robots'' have nanite healing systems.]]
600They have been shown to be a lot tougher than most robots and are able to survive most incidents that would normally kill or at the very least, mortally wound a robot.
601* One universe's version of Bender died in "The Late Philip J. Fry." Other than that, StatusQuoIsGod full stop.
602
603[[WMG:Yivo is {{God}}]]
604Yivo's body is literally FluffyCloudHeaven. Shkle seems to have a deep love for all sentient lifeforms as well as numerous godlike abilities. Furthermore, Yivo is a possible reading of YHVH, which according to Jewish lore is God's true name.
605
606Bender met God, which suggests one of two things:
607# After being hit by a probe, Yivo retreated to another universe, leaving that galaxy thing to oversee Universe Gamma.
608# There is one overruling deity per universe. We have God; another, perpendicular universe has Yivo.
609* Yivo's main body is incapable of surviving in Universe Gamma for long, and is made of the same kind of matter that everything in his own universe is made from. Unless he somehow adapted to the universe into which he somehow retreated, then he must be native to it.
610* It's stated in the movie that Yivo sent visions of shklerself to earth that people believed was god and heaven. Yivo was not god, but people thought Yivo was.
611
612[[WMG:Binary is the One True Language.]]
613Binary is the most basic form of proper communication in the Futurama universe.
614
615If God is the universe's sentient mind, then His native language would be the most fundamental. The time-sphere generation code from ''Bender's Big Score'' is, as was strongly implied, a direct request to God in His native language.
616
617[[WMG:The Smelloscope uses spectroscopy]]
618Since scientists increased the speed of light to travel intergalactic distances, the smelloscope uses high-speed-light radio spectroscopy and translates the chemicals composing the smell into a synthetic odor on the user's end.
619
620[[WMG:Brain Slugs feed off the Delta Brain Wave and have limited power over it.]]
621Brainspawn control people through the Delta Brain Wave. Fry doesn't have a Delta Wave because of his Past-Nastification, so the Brainspawn can't control him. The one time he got a Brain Slug attached, the poor guy starved to death, obviously because Fry's brain didn't have the proper balance of "nutrients". The same thing would happen if a human ate nothing but Twinkies and Funnyuns all day.
622
623Also, it seems that nobody but Fry notices when anybody has a Brain Slug attached, and the little things seem immobile. This is because they transmit a weak telepathic field to anybody within range that compels them to put them on their heads, and keeps others from noticing their existence. Fry is immune because, as before, he lacks the necessary Delta Wave.
624* Does this mean that the Brain Slugs are somehow related to the Dark Ones?
625** Or the larval forms of the Brain Spawn.
626* Actually, it's because everyone else knows to just ignore them and switch to a garlic shampoo.
627
628[[WMG:The new Nixon administration repealed the career assignment law.]]
629In the pilot and in the Season 2 finale ("The Cryonic Woman"), the palm-implanted career chip played a significant role in the plot. Otherwise, it does not seem to come up much; in later seasons, characters are seen to be changing jobs relatively freely (ex: Fry becoming a police officer in "Law and Oracle") without implanting/changing chips. It's possible that someone/some group in the Earth government saw the career assignment law as unjustifiably harsh (firing people out of a cannon into the sun), difficult to enforce (think of how much chip implanting goes on without official knowledge--like how Leela, Fry, and Bender take up employment at Planet Express thanks to Farnsworth keeping the career chips of his old crew), ideologically problematic (Earth makes a big enough deal of freedom to have a holiday called Freedom Day), or otherwise untenable, and had it taken off the books. Nixon might well have magnified his role in the repeal of the law to garner public support and gain more consecutive terms as Earth president.
630
631[[WMG:Part of the job of the collars on heads in jars is increased memory capacity and retention.]]
632This is how Nixon can recall with perfect clarity the first half century of his life, and why Leonard Nimoy doesn't mention any major accomplishments since the turn of the 21st century. Their lives as of the time they were headjarified are contained in the collars, and only the last couple of decades are contained in their brains, and slowly get replaced with newer, less time-degraded memories. Their personalities stay [[TheThemeParkVersion roughly]] the same over a thousand years or more because they're having a constant case of AmnesiacDissonance.
633
634[[WMG:The "some trees" that possess the delta brain wave...]]
635Include the screaming pines from Xmas Story and the Altairean Bouquet Tree from The Cyber House Rules. Yeah, I know, this isn't that much of a WMG. I just wanted to make that connection.
636* Having the delta brain wave makes a life form vulnerable to [[EpilepticTrees Epilepsy as well.]]
637* I also add the Tree form of the Piggies from ''Literature/SpeakerForTheDead''.
638** And, if we're going out of continuity, [[Film/{{Avatar}} Eywa]].
639** Those trees from Literature/{{Discworld}} which grew their ages into their sides so people wouldn't cut them down. They got cut down to make house-number plates, but until then they had delta brainwaves too.
640*** How could we not get ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin sapient]] pearwood'' before the Counting Pines!?
641* What about the Peanuts' Kite-Eating Tree?
642* I'd like to nominate [[Literature/HarryPotter the Whomping Willow]] and [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings the Ents]]. Technically, they're magical... but hey, [[ClarkesThirdLaw sufficiently advanced science...]]
643* Literature/TheGivingTree and the apple trees from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
644* umm hello ...[[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Exeggutor!]]
645
646[[WMG:Why most of the heads are from the late 20th century:]]
647They got in on the head-preserving deal when it was just starting up, and nobody realized how incredibly expensive it would be to keep feeding the immortal heads for the rest of eternity, or until the warranty ran out (whichever came first... Teller probably didn't give a verbal objection when Penn got him the shortest warranty possible to save on preservation fees). A few heads are reconstructions of different historical people, the heads of clones with artificial or (somehow) copied memories, like with Seymour ([[GottaCatchEmAll the presidents]] are the prime example of the reconstructions).
648* Another idea: they used the same stem cell technology Farnsworth used in "Rebirth." It was ultimately banned in our time, and the technology lost until recently.
649* Maybe there are heads in jars from the future centuries, it's just they're in head museums on other countries and America has monopoly on 21st century and before.
650
651[[WMG:Water wasn't instantaneously mutagenic, a flying pig-fish just ate the rat.]]
652Or the rat was switched out for a fish by a swimming mutant. There are other pig fish, mutation doesn't work that quickly, and there's no reason that a mutant shouldn't get more mutated by falling in.
653* [[strike: Potentially {{Jossed}} by the preview for ''The Mutants Are Revolting'', which shows Fry jumping into that water and mutating.]] Never mind. Fry's "mutation" was really [[spoiler: Mr. Aster, and Fry was lodged in his mouth.]]
654* But Mr. Aster had to mutate somewhere, didn't he? QED, the water is a mutagen.
655* Perhaps instead of being an immediate mutagen, it's a slow process. Mr Aster spent a century in the sewer, having to live in those conditions caused him to mutate ''horribly'' over time.
656
657[[WMG:Futurama takes place in our future]]
658When Lars, about a few days after becoming a time paradox duplicate, starts to really miss home he will go back to 1999 and freeze himself in a tube on a different floor than where he was originally frozen. He ends up a bit early, so decides to take a job at Fox. And thus,he gives us the Futurama show in the first place
659
660[[WMG:Futurama takes place in our past]]
661The year 252,525? That was the Middle Ages. The reason why we don't remember having ostriches then was because the castle that used ostriches was run by idiots who thought ostriches would catch on. We know what happens in Futurama because Fox discovered a secret basement of Planet Express, which had a diary of the crew's adventures.
662
663[[WMG:Dead bodies from suicide booths are used to make soy-lent green]]
664It would certainly explain why they would empty after a person dies and explain where the soylent green factories get their people from
665* You forgot other Soylent Products as well, like Soylent Cola, Soylent Orange and Soylent Coleslaw...
666** Hey! Soylent Orange is a high-energy vegetable concentrate, and don't you forget it!
667*** Coma patients are vegetables
668*** *[[FridgeHorror Mind. Blown.]]*
669*** In this particular context, it seems unfortunate the trope name includes the word "fridge" (but hey, at least it doesn't say anything about the "crisper")
670* This would explain how suicide booths are profitable despite costing only 25 cents to use.
671* What do they do with the remains of robots who commit suicide in the booths, though?
672
673[[WMG:The Tijuana that Bender and Hermes visit is a themed city]]
674In a previous invasion, the Omicronians were expecting every city south of the North American border to be a [[LatinLand clichéd Latin town]] because of the TV signals they kept intercepting, and since it is extremely inadvisable to disagree with the Omicronians, authorities rapidly turned all bordering cities into Latin Land themed cities, or alternatively, city sized theme parks.
675
676[[WMG:The paradox free time code doesn't send you back in time. It sends you forward in time far enough to enter the next incarnation of the universe at the desired point in time.]]
677''The Late Phillip J Fry'' proved that time is cyclical, and it featured copies of the time travelers that were immediately doomed once the travelers arrived. This explains why time paradox duplicates (like the scammer duplicate) aren't seen going back in time to create stable time loops. It's a new universe so they don't ''have to'' go back to avoid paradoxes. The doom field that kills duplicates doesn't come from time paradoxes, but from the space probe that collided with God trying to keep everything straight. All those extra Benders started exploding because space probe/God got sick of making logical endings for each one and decided to kill them all to make a point about abusing the code.
678* [[FridgeHorror Sucks for those universes]]. [[ComedicSociopathy AH-Hahahaha]]... [[TearJerker aw]].
679* But then the scammers of the new universe would only have the result of bender's most recent heist.
680
681[[WMG:The Heads are from the present era because of the War of 2012.]]
682Conan O'Brien's head said that he lost his freakishly long legs in the War of 2012. It's possible that the war was between the pop-culture icons and... [[NothingIsScarier something]].
683* Blame it on [[Music/LadyGaga Gaga]]. (See ''her'' WMG entry, for NightmareFuel...)
684
685[[WMG:The last proton becomes God.]]
686Then it caused the next big bang and restarts the universe.
687
688[[WMG:The Near Death Star gives immortality]]
689Nobody dies of old age anymore in the future. Once somebody reaches 160, they're taken by the robots and kept on the Near Death Star. This keeps them in a healthy, safe stasis, where they will never die (barring destruction of the Near Death Star). The robots actually mean well.
690* [[{{Canon}} Yes?]] V.R. stasis. Looks like Florida. Amazingly boring. Any of that ring a bell?
691* I thought of it as they already achieved immortality, and the Near Death Star prevents the planet from being overpopulated.
692
693[[WMG:Robots often use their closet space to keep extra chassis in.]]
694Because when your clothing won't fold flat and is about the size of a rotund human, you ''need'' that much closet space.
695
696[[WMG:The Planet Express Ship subjectively exceeds c.]]
697I am referring to the future speed of light, of course. Cubert and Farnsworth agree that the ship moves the universe around it. They also have some basic engines on the back. The combination of these two facts is that, if you use the old distance travelled/time lost equation, you get a speed greater than (future) c. The professor, however, prefers going slowly, and Leela knows enough to realize why going faster than you can see obstacles is a bad idea. Incidentally, this justifies any future use of TravellingAtTheSpeedOfPlot if the ship is involved. If it's an emergency, they ''can'' go faster.
698
699[[WMG:The universe Pre ''The Late Philip J Fry'' was the very first one, or the second to first]]
700We saw that time is cyclical, in that each universe is basically identical to the previous. Thus each forwards time machine misses one universe, and reaches the next. If there was two universes or more before the one we grew up on, the Forwards Time Machine there would have either crushed the crew we know or arrived nearby, and they would have replaced the Fry,Bender and Farnsworth we know. But this didn't happen much to Leela's dismay. Either the cycle started with the original universe, or with one before that which means this previous reality's crew is in the universe our crew skipped trying to get home.
701* The time travellers end up killing their duplicates from two universes down the line, and hence the duplicates don't go on their journey through time. This means that not only would the crew from the first and second universes be safe but also the fifth and sixth, ninth and tenth, and so on (this still works if there is an no "first" universe, the numbering just becomes somewhat arbitrary).
702
703[[WMG:The last proton is..]]
704* The remains of the Galactic Entity. It already holds the time-code, and its decay will release it and reboot reality. Since there's nothing left destroying the universe will do no harm
705* The Planet Eternium. When the very first universe, the one before the "original", was dying, the very last proton became a superorganism. The Nibblonians weren't always their cute selves, they were energy beings that fit in this little proton. At the Big Bang, the proton quickly combined with other particles. It formed the Planet Eternium, and the Nibblonians' physical form appeared later. They just thought they were always physical beings
706
707[[WMG:Humans in the Futurama universe all have a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_insensitivity_to_pain congenital insensitivity to pain]]]]
708How often have we see Fry loose a limb or nail his own hand to something without flinching? It isn't just him either - Amy accidentally cut off one of her own fingers without seeming more than mildly annoyed.
709
710[[WMG:Freedom Day is a SecretTestOfCharacter.]]
711You can do whatever you want without any consequences, letting you unleash your real self and letting others see you for who you really are. It's WhatYouAreInTheDark, in broad daylight.
712
713[[WMG:The beautiful and intelligent women of the year Fifty Million AD were [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots actually robots.]]]]
714Of course, the machines won the war in Ten Million AD and went on to build a paradise in the next forty million years.
715
716[[WMG:The entire series is like "The Sting", only in Fry's mind.]]
717What happened in the beginning of the third sketch of "Anthology of Interest 1" is exactly what happened; Fry didn't land in the cryogenic tube, but instead hit his head on it. Hard enough to put him into an irreversible coma. Being the over-imaginative sci-fi nut that he is, Fry's mind is now stuck in the place it always wanted to be: the future. He gets the robot friend he always wanted, gets the career he's always dreamed of (though because his mind only knows of being a delivery boy, that's exactly the circumstance it puts him in), and, for once, his life doesn't suck. It certainly explains most (if not all) of the technological anachronisms that sprout up all over the place (like [=VCRs=] and dial-up internet existing 1000 years in the future); like most people, his mind's expectations of the future only reach the big picture, so the minor details most people wouldn't think about are filled in by what his brain knows. We see family and loved ones nearly breaking through to Fry in episodes like "The Cryonic Woman" and "Jurassic Bark" (likely Michelle visited him during the former, and Fry's parents brought Seymour to see him in the latter); their words (or barks) reach his subconscious and trigger memories that wind up integrating themselves into his elaborate fantasy world. The reason the Brainspawn can't attack him isn't because he lacks the delta brain wave, but because he's the only person in that entire universe that's actually ''real'' (think of it like a virtual reality game; if one of the enemies shoots another character with a ray gun, they're gonna explode, but if they shoot you, you ''certainly'' won't because you're not technically part of the "universe"). If you look at it from that angle, suddenly 95% of the show starts to make sense.
718
719[[WMG:The Sting is canon.]]
720Fry really did die, and Leela went mad from grief. Everything afterwards is her mind's desperate attempt to prevent her killing herself from depression, but at the cost of detaching herself from reality. Planet Express probably locked her up after she stole Fry's corpse and [[BrainBleach used him.]]
721
722** How would that explain what happens from other character's POV's? Especially Fry.
723
724[[WMG:The Jakabirds that live with Yivo are really humans from previous versions of Universe Gamma.]]
725Yivo did say that shklee was older than Universe Gamma, so shklee must have launched the same tentacle attack on each iteration of the universe many times before. In the end, Yivo would pick one random human to stay with shkler each time. As Yivo's universe does cause immortality, the human's mind would degenerate and they would grow a pair of wings after living with Yivo for eons, creating another trillion years of loneliness for shklim until an Anomoly opens up between a new universe and Yivo's universe, causing these events to [[EternalRecurrence repeat themselves all over again]].
726
727[[WMG:Nibbler (or the Nibblonians in general) own(s) Applied Cryogenics.]]
728Given their need for Fry to be sent to the future (and for him to STAY THERE) AND their need to keep his importance secret, they secretly built and own the cryogenics company and basically pay their employees to maintain the stasis pods and their residents and to not worry when they find any sudden new arrivals. The building has also been powered by Nibblonian power generators (that no doubt look like some form of adorable pet/child's toy and therefore attract no suspicion) since 1997 to make sure the power never fails.
729
730ALSO POSSIBLE: They intentionally employ... eccentric individuals who are less likely to question what they are doing, with the one exception being Leela, who they had, through ancient Nibblonian Science (or because Future-Fry mentioned her name when he tried to stop Nibbler on NYE 1999), determined that she would become "The Other" to Fry. Also, the scans performed on new defrostees are sent to The Nibblonians, so they would know when TheChosenOne had arrived, because that's just practical.
731
732So, in short: The Nibblonians are responsible for everything that happens and preventing every undesirable thing that should happen involving the cryogenic chambers.
733* "Anthology of Interest I" suggests one of the vice president's roles is to protect the space-time continuum(read the constitution), so Al Gore and his successors are probably making sure the Nibblonian's plan works. Far as anyone is concerned, it's just part of governmental expense and best just go along with it.
734
735[[WMG:Zoidberg's race ability to mate is similar to insects]]
736They're insects that, after sex, the female kills the male. The females of Zoidberg's race kill their male mate and minutes later she dies.
737
738[[WMG:The whole entire series didn't actually happen.]]
739It's all a dream Fry's having while he's being cryogenic- in reality he is still in the Cryogenic Chamber! When the series truly ends, the audience will find out that none of that crazy stuff actually happened, none of those futuristic beings never existed... It was a [[AdventuresInComaLand really long unrealistic dream]] due to Fry being in such a deeply artificial sleep...
740
741When Fry wakes up ''for real'' there's a certain number of possibilities that could happen to him:
742* Only a short amount of time went by, because someone luckily let him out of that Cryo-Chamber soon after he got into it; Fry then goes back to his normal life stuck in the year 2000.
743** Fry awakens from his cryogenic slumber ''for real'' but realize that it was all a dream- He is then put in the ''exact'' situation he was in his dream (so Fry basically had his own ''prophetic'' insight on everything)- the future will now turn out in his favor- who knows he might get Leela sooner!
744** After Fry awakens in the year 3000, only this time life ''won't'' be anything like his dream predicted! Fry must now find a capable way to cope in this new world as he did in his dream:
745* Nothing like what Fry had envisioned. There are very few elements that we (the audience) would recognize. It may even be a NothingIsScarier version of the future.
746* A very [[CrapsackWorld nightmarish Future]] or a fantastic Utopia- which Fry cannot ever comprehend.
747* Exactly the same as the dream, except AliensSpeakingEnglish does not apply to the future.
748* Another [[NightmareFuel The End of Evangelion]] situation where aliens had conquered the Earth and humans are gone...
749
750[[WMG:The forwards time machine doesn't send you to an identical universe.]]
751Rather, it sends you to the same universe. When the universe ends, time itself goes back to the beginning. This is why they seem perfectly fine with what happened. As for why the universe didn't collapse when they crushed their past selfs? The time machine is designed to avoid paradoxes, so it runs on the time code.
752* The forwards time machine is actually a reverse-engineered time code. Farnsworth simply added a lever and inverted the code. Going back to the beginning was probably the code resetting itself.
753
754[[WMG:Radiators give off a type of hypnosis to make people think they're just radiators]]
755Fry made out with one and it did show up at his funeral after all.
756* Maybe the radiator was a robot?
757* Cracky theory: [[TheCloudCuckoolanderWasRight radiators really are aliens from a radiator planet.]] [[AncientAstronauts They became the basis for our radiators]], in an attempt to slowly infiltrate Earth. Why? [[MarsNeedsWomen To mate with us!]] [[EpicFail You can imagine how that went.]] Washing machines, on the other hand, were much more successful.
758** Radiators and washing machines are members of the same alien species - The Washing Machines are male, the Radiators are female.
759
760[[WMG:The culture of the Futurama world is due to an AfterTheEnd apocalyptic event.]]
761Specifically, it was one caused by the first set of saucers ([[spoiler:aka Bender]]), during the 24th century. The result was a traumatic global war, bringing the majority of the world into a Middle-Ages stasis. This all changed with the second coming of Jesus. Mankind managed to advance thanks to the lost technology, however, due to the disaster, the world was still culturally in the neo-Middle Ages. This, and SchizoTech, may explain why Futurama became the world that it is.
762
763[[WMG:Origin of robots with unclear reasons to be built.]]
764* Hedonism Robot was developed by a very rich and very perverted member of nobility(or possibly a past king of some past empire), created as a pleasure bot. Of course, it's just as possible that Hedonism Bot is said perverted member of nobility, who's disposed of his organic parts to better pleasure himself(the human part that Hedonism Bot expunged was his now-useless human brain).
765* Tinny Tim was, sadly, created to earner pity. Why? Best case scenario, his creator [[WellIntentionedExtremist created Tinny Tim to raise awareness for the poor.]] Worst case scenario, his creator intentionally made Tinny Tim to suffer in order to take the cash he gets.
766* Roberto was designed as a model to study criminal psyches, namely the AxeCrazy SerialKiller. Unfortunately [[GoneHorriblyRight Roberto was a complete success.]] His "mother" was his creator, who welded him to the wall to prevent Roberto going on a rampage. Unfortunately, this made his even nuttier.
767* The Robot Mafia were replacement goons designed by the New New York mafia, who needed the perfect members for their greatest heist. [[GoneHorriblyRight They sure succeeded.]]
768* The Robot Devil and Robot God were made by the Church. Robots pointed out [[FridgeLogic why they should worship God/Jesus/ect if robots have no soul]], so they needed to build their own afterlife for robots.
769* Homeless Robots are likely obsolete models, that were laid off from work, after newer robots were developed.
770
771[[WMG:Earth was actually very peaceful until recently.]]
772* The Earth military tends to be understaffed and under-prepared, and run by people like Zapp Brannigan. They've only got the one warship ''Nimbus,'' and that belongs to DOOP. When they invaded the Ball Planet, they had to make do with recruits that were only trained last afternoon- and then Zapp dumps them out of the cargo hold. When the Omnicronians invaded the first time, they needed to draft every single spaceship on Earth. Earth's military history consists of being invaded, and Earth is/was also home to DOOP headquarters in New Jersey.
773
774Sure, Futurama runs on RuleOfFunny, but most people tend to be semi-competent, like Leela, or Hermes, or doctors who aren't Zoidberg. But they didn't really need a military, so they let it go.
775
776[[WMG:The Doom Field of time duplicates only activates when they're in they're near their immediate counterpart.]]
777Think about it-Nudar's duplicate died right after Nudar returned from time travel, and right next each other. Hermes's duplicate headless body dies with the original's head attached, and Bender's duplicate self-destructs shortly after meeting his "19 seconds from the future" original. The reason why is because there's a significant more paradox when a duplicate and original are close to each other-however they have to be close to the original not just in space, but in time: Lars-Fry lasted because he spent 12 years away from the closest Fry to his timeline, and causality couldn't just [[CryonicsFailure wreck Lars' tube]] because that would also kill Michelle, unnecessarily complicating Fry's history(which is bad) and possibly leading to the facility being shut down for being unsafe([[TemporalParadox which is]] '''[[RealityBreakingParadox VERY]] [[RetGone BAD.]]''') Lars-Fry continued to last because of the StableTimeLoop of his past self knowing about him, and continued to a combination of being a FutureBadass and causality wanting to get back at Nudar for starting this whole thing. When Bender created a massive paradox at the end, time said "screw it" and just blew them all up to say "don't mess with time travel!"
778
779[[WMG:January 1st, 2000 is [[Series/DoctorWho a fixed point in time.]] ]]
780Out of necessity, of course. Not only does it involve Fry getting frozen, forming the key to the massive StableTimeLoop that is his existence, but it also has two other versions of Fry in the same area. The reason why 1999!Fry didn't wake up when 3007!Fry tried to take his wallet and fell into the same tube, despite using the paradox-free time travel code, was because as a fixed point history would ensure that nothing could be altered, so the effects of suspended animation would remain. Similarly, no-one noticed the frozen Bender duplicate because of said unalterable fixed point. Logically, the whole of the cryogenic lab would remain a fixed point until December 31, 2999. The Anthology of Interest story didn't just have the universe fall apart because of the expected TemporalParadox, but because as Series/DoctorWho has shown [[TimeCrash denying a fixed point is really bad.]]
781
782[[WMG:Earth is the way it is because of Omicron Persei 8]]
783Lrrr loves watching tv from earth, and Omicron Persei 8 is strong military power compared to (puny)earth to the point where it is standard policy for us surrender instantly whenever we are attacked, yet earth still has a (mostly) independent government, How? well Lrrr declares that no one can mess with earths culture (which would stop tv from being made) they can still rule over earth or declare war on it as long as pop culture is unaffected, this explains why everyone acts like invaders taking over and enslaving earth is as normal as doing the laundry, they know that nothing major is going to happen as the omicronian's would step in. it also explains why there are so many pop references and why the future is, more or less the same as today just with shinier gadgets. it has been hinted at in the show that earth's primary export is tv, (well, and mom's robots.)
784
785[[WMG: The Nibblonnians got Ronald Reagen and Nikia Khrushchev into a position of power.]]
786Nibbler and friends had learned at some point that Fry lacked the Delta Brainwave, and figured out the Cold War was happenning. In order to prevent it from going nuclear and making their plans for him impossible, they ensured that both politicians would become the leaders of their respective nations in the hope of ending the conflict.
787
788[[WMG: The Time Code's rules applies to objects as well as living things.]]
789Bender isn't a living thing, yet his copies were just as affected by the Doom Field. While it's less obvious since it's harder for objects to create paradoxes, the rule still applies: copies are made to keep some sort of consistency, and eventually destroyed. When the Scammers were beating fought against, the area where they kept all the artifacts was burning down-that's just the Doom Field doing its job. Sentient beings have a higher Doom Field, which is why thousands of paradoxical artifacts didn't create a tear in reality but thousands of Benders did
790* It could have something to do with WhatMeasureIsANonHuman
791
792[[WMG: Nibblonians [[EldritchAbomination aren't nearly as cute as they seem.]] ]]
793They're impossibly ancient, dating back to 17 years before the universe-even taking into account the previous identical universe, no normal creature should exist in this era. They can eat [[BiggerOnTheInside more than their body should allow]], secrete hyper-dense matter and [[AlienGeometries can devour themselves to escape the universe.]] [[AdorableAbomination As cute as they seem, they are not normal.]] Nibblonians are actually some sort of ancient, incredibly powerful eldritch beings of dark matter. What you see is a shell that contains [[TimeAbyss the primal]] [[EldritchAbomination god-monster]] that lies beneath. Mercifully [[DidYouJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu they want to protect the universe]] and take adorable forms to socialize.
794
795[[WMG: There's a race of [[TimeAbyss very long-lived]] aliens who were Mom's early rivals.]]
796In Futurama, robots can live [[TimeAbyss an absurd amount of time]], even ordinary robots like Bender and, say, the robots trapped in the Titan mines(it takes them ''300'' years to die). Even though they don't age, common robots generally don't last that long without an upgrade, yet Mom-built robots like Bender do such. Why bother developing robots that can survive so absurdly long, especially since you can just upload them in a new body? After all, we don't expect to make machines that'll out-live us. Well some time in the late 29th to early 30th century, there was a race of incredibly long-lived(as in thousands and thousands of years) who needed their technology to last a really long time because of their huge lifespan. Mom didn't want to be upped in any way, so she decided to beat them at this by making robots who could live millions, maybe even ''billions'' of years without a major upgrade. So what happened to this civilization? Well, they tried to one-up that by utilizing chronitons, and it destroyed their entire civilization.
797
798[[WMG: [[StatusQuoIsGod Status Quo Is literally God]] due to the Nibblonians’ wish for immortality]]
799Throughout the series, the Galactic Entity and other powerful beings are only ever shown keeping the universe in check. In the first appearance of the Galactic Entity, he sends Bender back to Earth, maintaining the status quo. In “Bender’s Big Score,” the machine-language time code removes time-travel duplicates, maintaining the status quo. Time is shown to be cyclical in “The Late Philip J. Fry” - So the loop of time itself maintains the status quo (even the Universe being 15 ft. lower than the old one - there can't be two Frys running around). The Encyclopod in “Into The Wild Green Yonder” is in charge of preserving all extinct species to someday be revived, so all life is maintained by the status quo. The universe has a wall around it, as seen in “I Dated A Robot,” meaning even the size of the universe never changes.
800
801“If you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.”
802
803This extends far beyond the usual [[StatusQuoIsGod Status Quo Is God]], but why?
804
805Perhaps the Nibblonians, being [[TimeAbyss 17 days older than the universe]], made things to be this way. Sometime after the universe began, the Nibblonians sent a supercomputer to collide with God and reprogram him to keep things as they are. This supercomputer implemented the Time sphere, a paradox-free time travel device that ran on chronitons - Note that in “Bender’s Big Score,” Nibbler already knew about the time code. The newly reprogrammed God went on to create life, including the entities that would evolve into the Encyclopods (who preserve life) and the Dark Ones (created only to cause evolution and push the Encyclopods toward their final form). And a wall was built around the Universe to prevent it from expanding normally, therefore keeping the Galactic Entity from becoming massive enough that he collapses on himself as would normally happen (or something), thereby keeping him and their supercomputer running. And, of course, the Nibblonians sent Fry through time to prevent the Brain Spawn from destroying the Universe and wrecking their hard work.
806
807All of this will allow the Nibblonians to live forever. When/If the Nibblonians ever die off, the Encyclopods will preserve their DNA. The Time sphere can then send The Encyclopods and the Nibblonian home world ahead in time to the next Universe, wherein God is still the same, and events are fixed - the Encyclopod slowly reintroduces original species (including themselves), Fry can predictably stop the Brain Spawn, and The Nibblonians go back to their homeworld to do it all over again. There’s a reason their planet is called [[MeaningfulName Eternium]].
808
809[[WMG: Neptune and possibly the other gas giants in The Earth's solar system, are actually the theorized rocky core of the planet.]]
810Some force either natural or unnatural, has destroyed its atmosphere and Terraformed the left over remains. The "Neptunians" and likely other life forms, are actually a non-native species, that migrated to the planet at some point and adopted it as their new home world.
811
812[[WMG: The Brainspawn are actually [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds half-way sympathetic]]. ]]
813Think about it; the thoughts of ''any sentient being'' is agony to them, and they can't turn it off. Just one person thinking strongly was "unbearable", so imagine how miserable they must be with a universe full of thought. While they may have wanted to work with early races like the Nibblonians at first, the fact that every other race psychically pains them led the Brainspawn to be MaddenIntoMisanthropy and hate all life, eventually wanting to destroy the universe just to have peace and quiet along with satiate their lust for knowledge.
814
815[[WMG: SeenItAllSuicide and a more passive view on death is the main reason why suicide booths are used.]]
816The world of Futurama is full of so many fantastic things and sights that it's led to a lot of people getting straight up bored of life, much more than the 20th century. This is why outside of RuleOfFunny the booth has a [[CruelAndUnusualDeath "slow and horrible" option]]; some people are so desensitized [[TooKinkyToTorture they want their last moments to be agonizing just for some feeling]]. The desire for some sort of adrenaline or excitement might explain why [[GeneralFailure Zapp Brannigan]] or [[BadBoss Professor Farnsworth]] have gotten steady employ-a lot of people join both for the chance of adventure and the risk of dying gives them adrenaline. Whether this is an [[TheAntiNihilist anti-nihilist]] or StrawNihilist worldview probably varies from person to person, though fortunately it's still a minority opinion(just less so than now). Robots are more emotional so they are less inclined towards apathy, which is why outside of completing some sort of function they are far less likely to use the booths(well, that and their back-up unit so it's more self-harm than anything). It's why the first time we see him use it Bender has a far more somber reason of [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone being disgusted the girders he bent were used for suicide booths]].
817
818[[WMG: Leela and the Whale Biologist are unsuccesful in their careers because they're both orphans]]
819Career chips are actually a lot more useful than we believe - Fry was assigned his delivery boy career, and, even after he refused it, he ended up being a delivery boy. Other characters also seem to be pretty happy with their jobs - like URL mentioning how he loves being a cop. Now, Leela, and the Whale Biologist, are different. Leela's unhappy working at the cryonics clinic (though given the number of times she's crashed the Planet Express ship, that was a safer job) because her assiged career was incorrect. Her orphanage was pretty terrible, so it makes sense that they'd botch the implant.
820
821Same thing happened with the Whale Biologist - when asked ''why'' he's a whale biologist if he hates whales, he refuses to talk about it. Probably a sore subject, being given the wrong career chip.
822
823[[WMG: "I Dated A Robot" is a documentary.]]
824Hermes calls it a propaganda film, but the aliens who come by to destroy the planet at the end do so in the same way they do when Fry is frozen. So, what if history actually happened that way? What if that's why relationships between robots and humans were outlawed?
825
826[[WMG: The second alien invasion was the Second Coming Of Jesus, resulting in Futurama's.]]
827We know there was some destruction when he arrived in 2443, as all VHS were lost. The first UFO destruction was in 2308, and the saying "I'm gonna get 24th century on your ass" suggests the medieval New York in-between this destruction could fit there. Also, the Space Pope is a reptilian. Maybe [[NoSuchThingAsSpaceJesus there really is a Space Jesus]], and he was a reptilian...[[OurZombiesAreDifferent and one of the undead]], hence Zombie Jesus being a thing. The second New York destruction [[BewareTheNiceOnes was him pissed off at various things]], mainly all the religious infighting, so he ended up trying to sort things out. However again he failed to unite people under one faith so we got Space Catholicism and [[InterfaithSmoothie the First Amalgamated Church]]...though at least this led to less religious conflict.
828
829Why use the same ufos Bender used? Before going back in time Bender stole the Space Pope's [=UFOs=] [[StableTimeLoop which gave Zombie Jesus an idea]]. The reason why Zoidberg's race is Jewish is because Zombie Jesus visited them as well. The Robot Devil was built before Zombie Jesus arrived given when the Fairness in Hell Act was made, so it's possible they may have discussed theological matters during this arrival.
830
831[[WMG: Nibbler's species CausedTheBigBang.]]
832They know about how the universe came about, what with predating it by 17 years. The Galaxy Entity may be God, but Bender postulated that he was in fact the result of a probe that collided with God instead. Perhaps Bender's right, and Nibbler's people were the ones who launched the probe at God(or whatever is in charge of the EternalRecurrence). The Brainspawn emerged a millisecond afterwards [[NiceJobBreakingItHero because of the probe's A.I interfering with things]], with them being the EvilCounterpart to the Galactic Entity. [[EldritchAbomination Yivo]] may or may not have been God, unknowingly bringing the universe into being. Shklee being a partial creator of the universe might explain why Farnsworth refers to electromatter as "the badass grandma" of regular matter.
833
834[[/folder]]
835
836[[folder:Plot - open]]
837[[WMG:The Encyclopod didn't take Hutch Waterfall's DNA because Humans are endangered.]]
838He took it because the Waterfall family is endangered.
839
840[[WMG:The worms from ''Parasites Lost'' were planted by the Nibblonians.]]
841Assuming that the Nibblonians knew that the worm's improvements of his brain wouldn't remove his immunity to the Brainspawn, it would be the only logical course of action.
842
843[[WMG:The worms from "Parasites Lost" were planted by the Brainspawn or the Dark One.]]
844The parasites were working hard on repairing and perfecting Fry's body. If they have been left there long enough, then they probably would have given him a new Delta Brainwave, rendering him vulnerable.
845
846[[WMG:The Robot Devil cheats at fiddle contests.]]
847He and the contestants use the fiddle made of gold, which, as Leela points out and the Robot Devil admits, would sound bad. But the Robot Devil's playing sounds good. He probably has a recording that he plays and a way to dampen the ''actual'' sound of the golden fiddle.
848* This makes sense. The Robot Devil was likely created by the Church of Robotology to give church members a reason to not sin. (Robots have no souls. Souls have been proven to exist -- hence the existence of soul detectors.) This was effective: an issue of Futurama Comics shows everyone leaving the church when the Robot Devil is put out of commission. A Robot Devil created by robots would probably be designed to be superior to the existing concept of the devil. As a result, they would have tracked down the devil's flaws and made sure not to repeat them in the Robot Devil. They would have sought info about the devil not just in the Christian Bible, but also in other cultural artifacts, such as the song "The Devil Went Down to Georgia," from which the concept of the infernal fiddle contest originates. In the song, the devil plays honestly and loses. The Church of Robotology probably surmised that a truly effective devil would cheat at such a contest.
849* This would also explain how he's able to use two bows at once and somehow have both of them work.
850* Or the Robot Devil is ''so damn good'' at the fiddle he can play fantastically even with a bad instrument.
851
852[[WMG:The bird grabbed by Yivo's genticle had an adverse effect.]]
853The angels on Yivo were created by trying to reproduce human beings in Yivo's world. Because Yivo caught the bird, they became winged with bird-like intelligence.
854* This doesn't fit with the timeline. Many centuries earlier, Yivo psychically inspired humans to come up with the idea of heaven, based upon the surface of his body, angels and all.
855* This ''is'' a 'verse with TimeTravel.
856
857[[WMG:In ''Bender's Big Score,'' Bender ''saved'' a bunch of stuff; only the cheap copies were destroyed in the post-[=Y2K=] apocalypses.]]
858Self-explanatory. The ones we think are real are fakes, but we have no access to the real real things and so cannot know any better. The real ones skipped over all that stuff, so they weren't destroyed.
859
860Oh, and Da Vinci originally ''did'' [[RealityIsUnrealistic paint the Mona Lisa on canvas]]; the fake "real" one is on wood.
861
862[[WMG:Space Bee honey ''doesn't'' have any soporific or coma-inducing effects.]]
863Come on, it was ''[[ArtisticLicenseBiology Zoidberg]]'' who said it did! (Also, [[spoiler: it was AllJustADream, so Leela could have made it up]].)
864
865[[WMG:''Rebirth'' was [[BroadStrokes a story told by Pazuzu]].]]
866It explains the stem cell stuff as well as it explains the Robot-Nucleic Acid.
867* Nah, [[MST3KMantra you're probably taking this a bit to seriously.]]
868
869[[WMG:Circusitis is TheVirus but only truly effects children]]
870It turns children into clowns. However should an adult, (like Hermes did) contract it just makes them sick for a bit with an easy cure.
871
872[[WMG:At one point during the temporal fast-forward montage, Fry and Farnsworth revisited the buxom scientist time period.]]
873Because c'mon. Probably just cut because it ruined the flow of the montage.
874* Then why did they not use the backwards-traveling time machine? DistractedbyTheSexy?
875** Their backwards time machine only goes back a million years or so. Not far enough.
876*** ''What''? When was that said?
877* To avoid paradoxes. The knew history said they'd never get back with the message at the Cavern on the Green. Plus Fry decided to grieve that his Leela was dead by banging the buxom scientists. That and they were very hot
878
879[[WMG:Morbo's promises of an alien invasion already came... in the form of the Brainspawn.]]
880Morbo was actually a member of the Brainspawn who took an alien form and became a sleeper cell agent for Earth. However, his failure to hide his goals made it so the Brain's power would affect him as well.
881* Brainspawn probably lack a Delta Brainwave to affect [[RequiredSecondaryPowers otherwise they would be hurt by each other's thoughts]]. However, [[ObfuscatingStupidity acting like he is would help his cover]].
882
883[[WMG:Bender's dad's death was the reason the robot factory in Tijuana to be closed down]]
884In Lethal Inspection we learn that the robot factory where Bender was made was closed down, and we know from an earlier episode that Bender's dad was killed by a giant magnetic can opener. We also know that Bender's mom is the mechanical arm that assembled him. Well if his mom was the mechanical arm, then most likely his dad may have been the conveyor belt that he was on. Anyway the theory goes like this: the robot factory constructed not just robots but other mechanical objects as well. One day while they were assembling a giant can opener, the can opener went haywire while it was still on the conveyor belt causing it to be destroyed. The accident was so bad that it caused the Tijuana robot factory to be closed down. Bender's mom obviously survived as she still sends a letter to Bender every X-mas.
885
886[[WMG:The Late Phillip J. Fry was AllJustADream.]]
887I'm not sure whose dream it was (though Fry would be the best candidate), but there are just too many things that make no sense at all in it. For starters, SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale, but that's everything with this show. However, it still [[ArtisticLicensePhysics fails astrophysics forever]] because even assuming protons do decay, the decay of the last proton is not the end of time. Black holes would continue to exist, slowly evaporating and exploding, and by the time the degenerate era is complete, most of the mass in the universe would be in black holes, not in intersteller gas or even black dwarfs and neutron stars. Next, the InSpiteOfANail bit makes no sense whatsoever, because any slight deviation causes random variables to be different, which causes dramatically different outcomes. We aren't talking about human events here, we're talking about the fundamental parameters of the universe. One could appeal to determinism, but that [[ArtisticLicenseStatistics violates quantum mechanics.]] No, what makes the most sense is that this was all some crazy dream, or else the output of the [[ContinuityNod What If Machine.]]
888* Well they never turned off the time machine after the last proton decayed. I just assumed they kept going forward forever, skipping the less known aspects of the universe ending, and then the new universe started. The InSpiteOfANail part is pure RuleOfFunny mixed with StatusQuoIsGod though.
889** This show's never been big on following the rules of physics anyway.
890* It ''was'' an output of the What If Machine. That being, ''the writers' imaginations.'' I mean, think about it.
891
892[[WMG:Mildred cashed in on Enos's death.]]
893We all know that Fry became his own grandfather when he did the nasty in the past-y. His "grandmother" Mildred was clever enough to know that her doofus boyfriend Enos Fry would get himself killed somehow. She convinces Enos to take out a huge military life insurance policy and name her as the beneficiary. She only pretended to be sad when Enos was blown up by an A-Bomb, and leaped into bed with Fry. Her son Yancey was well taken care of even though Mildred was an unwed mother.
894
895[[WMG:The First Amalgamated Church was created by jesus in his second coming]]
896why do you think there is an space ''pope''? of course, jesus is from zoidbergs race and this time his message traveled the entire universe.
897
898[[WMG:Inspired by the events of "Benderama", the makers of Slurm will release their new drink: Slurmahol!]]
899An episode may revolve around the bad stuff that happens when you either feed a slurm queen no water and lots of alcohol or (if they use a method similar to the Mini-Bender method) when you mix [[FantasticDrug Slurm]] with alcohol. They'll probably just make it a minor background or recurring gag, or one of their fake commercials.
900
901[[WMG:There is SOME meaning behind Fry missing the button push in "A Big Piece of Garbage"]]
902Given Futurama's propensity for using obscure or subtle moments, I can't help but think that the writers have (or even had and then later dropped) something in mind for when Fry went to push the button to launch the ball of garbage and missed on his first attempt. Perhaps by missing at that second, the second ball's trajectory was altered from the original calculation and thus will have some ramification later. In any event, This Troper believes there's some meaning in all this...
903* It was to show that Fry wasn't focused at all on the situation at all, once again proving his stupidity and general apathy towards such life threatening situations. Long story short, RuleOfFunny.
904
905[[WMG:Something must have happened to prevent the robot takeover described in ''Decision 3012.'']]
906In ''The Late Phillip J. Fry,'' even as time progresses to 3050 and Planet Express expands, there wasn't any Soylent Majority or robot uprisings. When they travel forward in time, there ''is'' an era wherein robots are killing what is left of humanity, but that's millions of years in the future. Something else must have happened to stop the takeover of Earth by robots in what seems to be less than 100 years, since in ''The Late Phillip J. Fry,'' there is no robot takeover until ''many'' years later.
907
908[[WMG:Barbara was planning a ThanatosGambit for Hermes in the non canon third X-Mas special]]
909[[TookALevelInJerkAss That's why she invited Barbados Slim for Kwanzaa and bitched at Hermes to get bee wax for the candles.]] [[FridgeHorror She knew that the killer bees were the only ones with the bee's wax and that they would kill him and his friends so she could have him out of the way so she and Barbados could hook up.]]
910
911[[WMG: The Death Clock was foreshadowing the events of "Bender's Big Score."]]
912The garbage ball episode had Fry enter his finger in the Death Clock, and it suggested he would die very soon. Cut to 7 years later, where Lars Filmore appears and dies. Up until the events of the movie, Lars and Fry were the exact same individual. Thus the implications of Fry dying very soon were MetaphoricallyTrue (for those who say "7 years isn't soon", consider how Farnsworth's parents are still alive despite being 190 years old ''at least'' when we see them.
913
914[[WMG: Analysis on the different futures of "The Late Philip J Fry".]]
915* The initial year 10,000 has the wreckage of the Statue of Liberty, along with four other statues. Meaning after 69 centuries, there were five respective cataclysms.
916** The first was probably the consequence of "A Big Ball of Garbage." Farnsworth did say that [[BrickJoke the second garbage ball arrive, but that's centuries from now so who cares.]] The ball must've hit at a point where everyone from the Stupid Ages was defrosted, and as such no-one could make a third garbage ball to stop it. Assuming it had the same projectory, this will occur in 3948
917** Apes ruling over the world is clearly possible considering that in "Fry in Leela's Big Fling", and with people gone they must've migrated back. May be the ones who wrote "A Brief History of Time Travel" circa 4972. [[TimeCrash May even explain what happened to them.]]
918** Given how stupid the universe can be the apes probably made the same mistake as people by uplifting birds, and they took over
919** The cows were extinct until the Encyclopod revived them. As a consequence of a completely new species being introduced, nobody could control them and they eventually became rulers of the Earth.
920** The slug-things could've been Wormulons. They likely wiped out the cows because they wanted a monopoly on restaurants([[FridgeHorror best not]] to think about [[ToServeMan what that means.]]) The result was an ugly rule that ended in their collapse
921* Geology show that if we don't muck up the cycle, the Ice Age will return once more tens of millennia from now. Either that, or by 100,000 years a supervolcano would've gone up and causing a volcanic winter. Given the frozen buildings we saw, society was probably really advanced at this point.
922* Thanks to the Ice Age, the advanced technology 100,000+ years from the series fell apart and society collapsed. Humanity basically had to restart from scratch, and so history repeated itself. As such, we got another Middle Age in 252,525
923* The year that ends with a twenty is a water world with merfolk and bloodthirsty shrimp. Mermen and merwomen managed to evolve in Atlanta within the 1000 years that Fry was frozen thanks to the Coca-Cola bottling plant. Thanks to the Coca-Cola, they were able to [[HollywoodEvolution "evolve"]] way faster than people and quickly took them over. The bloodthirsty shrimp [[WhosLaughingNow is Zoidberg's people]], who with the merfolk flood the world for their mobile oppression palace.
924* The bloodthirsty shrimps eventually consumed all the merfolk, and having lost the intelligence of their Decapodian ancestors went extinct without a food source. Eventually humanity reset itself, only to make the same mistakes over 600,000 years later. As the crossover with ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' shows, they exist in the same universe, the future seen in "Rosebud" happened simultaneously. The world is divided into two sections: the people enslaved by giraffes, and the Homer clones enslaved by the apes.
925* The year 5 million resulted in two paths: the giraffe slaves used their morality and intellect to escape society and build a paradise, while the Homer clones' descendants retained their stupid and vicious behavioural traits and became the Dumblocks.
926* Once the Dumblocks took over, it took another five million years for them to retain enough sense of intelligence to restart society. With all knowledge of robot apocalypse fiction wiped out millions of years ago and no existing robots([[TimeAbyss except maybe Bender]]), they were GenreBlind to the idea of the uprising.
927* The conflict between robots and people were so devastating humanity adapted a new strategy of survival: a harem. Like lions, there are multiple women to one male. Forty million years after the RobotWar, males had become so pampered they became little more than drones like male bees, and [[{{Gendercide}} were purged for their uselessness.]] Spending so long wearing the [[{{Stripperific}} metaphorical]] pants in the relationship led them to be in charge of the planet, and [[WomenAreWiser highly intelligent.]]
928* Science states that by a billion years, the Earth would be a wasteland.
929
930[[WMG:Motherly love is outlawed in the future ([[CrossOver from]] "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS26E6Simpsorama Simpsorama]]") because Mom copyrighted it as a marketing ploy to sell her robots/make the robots feel extra loved by her specially.]]
931
932[[WMG: There used be many of Yivo's species.]]
933Schklee has genticles, and the only reason Yivo would have the power to mate is if schklee would need to make more of itself. Octillions of years before the universe, there was a race of [[EldritchAbomination Yivo]] who lived trillions upon trillions of years, who's life [[GeniusLoci was the size of planets]] and had a whole ecosystem. Some sort of horrible cataclysm, however, wiped out all life except for one egg. After a quadrillion or so years, the egg hatched into Yivo, believing itself alone. It's possible that, by mating with the universe, Yivo has become pregnant and once schklee learns the truth of schkler universe schkler mission will be to use our DNA to try and recreate schkler biosphere. Which, countless eons later will result in history repeating itself [[EternalRecurrence and ending with a lone egg hatching into Yivo.]]
934
935[[WMG: How the Brain Spawn planned to destroy the universe.]]
936Once the Brain Spawn had scanned the Infosphere, they would know all the information in the universe. Including the Time Code. The objective was to use that code to send them back into the 20th century, and prevent Nibbler from freezing Fry. The code would allow them to perform such a blatant paradox, and protect them from it while the entire universe [[RealityBreakingParadox is turned inside-out.]] The time code only works inside the same universe, so they were pretty much stuffed when they got trapped in that pocket dimension. Trying to get Fry to interfere with his own freezing was a last-ditch attempt to put this plan in motion. The "What if Fry never got frozen" scenario in the What-If Machine is a universe where the Brainspawn managed to stop Nibbler in his tracks. Planet Express appeared in the Fry Hole because that Nibbler somehow warned them, and was desperately trying to fix the timeline.
937
938[[WMG: "Bender's Big Score" is the reason why Universe 1 is so different.]]
939"Bender's Big Score" reveals that Old New York was destroyed thanks to Bender. In order for the story to make any sense, multiple [[StableTimeLoop bootstrap paradoxes]] need to exist. One of the main threads? The romance sub-plot involving Lars Fillmore. Lars exists because of Fry's time travel, who did so because [[OtherMeAnnoysMe of his jealously towards Lars]], which was only possible because [[StableTimeLoop of Lars' tattoo.]] Universe 1 is a world where Fry and Leela married, so none of that could happen. Why does this change things? When Bender went back in time, [[BeenThereShapedHistory he caused George Bush to win the election and destroyed Old New York.]] Thus in Universe 1, Al Gore became President in 2001, and Old New York wasn't demolished in 2308. It's this major difference that resulted in Universe 1 being aesthetically different in spite of only coin flips making a change; a sort of phantom causal loop. As for Fry, he'd have to just dye his hair differently.
940
941[[WMG: In "The Farnsworth Parabox", there is no box containing [[RuleSixtyThree a genderbent universe]].]]
942There were apparently universes where everyone was eyeless, bobbleheaded and robotic for example. A key element is that Fry is the chosen one of the Futurama universe due to the existence of [[OmnicidalManiac the Brainspawn]] (who's more or less been around since time began) and [[MyOwnGrampa being his own grandfather]]. Robots can apparently reproduce so it would still work in that universe, and the eyeless humans could evolve another sense to be able to pilot a spaceship. The constant is that so long as there is a Fry, said Fry must go back in time to 1947 and conceive their parent. But what about [[RuleSixtyThree the universe where people were born the opposite sex?]] That Fry would have to stay behind nine months to be pregnant and give birth to their own parent, when the rest of the Futurama crew needs to get back to their own time in 24 hours. Rule 63 Fry would be stuck and live for 53 years before she could use Applied Cryogenics again, assuming she'd even want to go back after spending most of her life in the 20th century(as opposed to 2 in the 31st). And the Nibbler of this era would have no way of knowing, [[FridgeHorror so this Fry wouldn't be able to save the universe from the Brainspawn]]. "The Farnsworth Parabox" takes place after "The Why of Fry", so the Brainspawn of that reality would've already destroyed it due to no Fry to stop them. Even if the female Fry froze herself again, she'd be 80 years old and might die from natural causes in the two year interval between the end of "Roswell that Ends Well" and "The Why of Fry".
943* Perhaps the baby somehow got sent back in time to 1948 via shenanigans. Or somehow, Fem-Fry and her grandfather are both transgender (technically genderbent but not sexbent).
944
945[[WMG: The Galactic Entity from "Godfellas" is related to the Nibblonians.]]
946Assuming it's the result of a probe colliding with God and not the real deal. The Nibblonians existed 17 years before the Big Bang, and would spend those 17 years as the only things that to their knowledge existed. Then whatever counted for {{God}} in the Futurama universe arrived. They sent a probe to investigate this intelligence, which hit Him and created the Galactic Entity. This also CausedTheBigBang, which was God reacting to being hit by the probe. It's why Nibbler already knew of the time code-they're responsible for its existence. The ability to ignore causality is likely a consequence of the Galactic Entity being created at the moment of the universe. It's possible that this is why the Brainspawn came into being such a millisecond-[[NiceJobBreakingItHero they're an unwanted consequence of the probe colliding with God]].
947
948[[WMG: Bender wasn't all that depressed in the pilot.]]
949We learn later that robots like him have back-up systems, though it wasn't until then he found out he doesn't have one. Sure, Bender was genuinely outraged that the girders had been used for suicide booths, but he wasn't depressed enough to truly kill himself or he'd go out of a way to destroy said back-up and be DeaderThanDead. Using the suicide booth was more a means of venting frustrating and feeling better about himself afterwards, and wholeheartedly knew the irony of using one-it was a message. Ironically, this would've actually killed him. The only other time he really considers suicide is during the events of "Bender's Big Score" where duplicate self-destructs rather than kill Fry, and mistaking a phone booth for a suicide booth-it's the 21st century, so the back-up system doesn't exist yet and he would be KilledOffForReal if he did, even if he did have a backup drive.
950
951[[WMG: "The Late Philip J Fry" was a case of time being cyclical, not repetitive.]]
952Professor Farnsworth states that the new universe is the exact same as before, implying that the universe copies itself. However, who's to say it actually is copying itself, and this isn't just time being on a loop? The gang end up arriving at right before they left after two universes, but shouldn't their identical copies two universes before have showed up? In reality, time is truly cyclical and the universe being lower is their time machine being off-direction. Or it's the ripple effect of trying to shoot Hitler through the window, leading to Planet Express being built on a lower altitude. The time code shows it is possible to break cause and effect, but it comes as the expense of killing the earlier versions once they interact with their future selves-exactly what happens by their machine falling onto their other selves. This is also why [[FreezeFrameBonus Yivo's tentacles are seen]], despite being established as an immortal from another universe; shkler universe still exists within time. So it would follow the same rules and last for the same amount of time as Universe Gamma, it's just the start/end point of shkler time circle is a trillion or so years behind Universe Gamma. The Nibblonians probably come from another universe that had a starting point of 17 years before the universe, however were close enough to the Big Bang that they got knocked into the main universe and have lived there for the next 14 billion years. The Galactic Entity's statement that it always was could be because its the only entity that can survive the cycle naturally, and thus has no origin because of it. The Time Code might not even be backwards time travel persay, but a means of going an enormous jump forwards in time that you end up on the other side of the circle, its just that the code isn't powerful enough to do a complete rotation.
953
954[[WMG: The events of "Roswell that Ends Well" explains how cryogenics were a thing.]]
955Though it was only there for a day, Bender's 30th century body was there to study and compile data on. Also, Planet Express and its crew may have left what's to them junk, but highly advanced by the standards of 1947. This is how such highly advanced cryogenics exists by the turn of the millennium, when even in 2019 it's still impossible to revive people from the process; [[ETGaveUsWifi they built it off what little they had to go on and understand from the Roswell incident]]. It's not even a Fry thing, as the 80s guy was frozen in the 1980s, yet was perfectly fine when he got out and only defroze when he did because he was waiting for a cure for bone-itis. [[StableTimeLoop And it ties nicely to Fry getting frozen so he can go back in time in the first place.]]
956
957[[WMG: Leela was rejected in "A Farwell To Arms" because she was a mutant.]]
958With the machine choosing Fry because he likes his pants (ignoring his lack of skills and being a slave to his emotions), it is likely that he ignored all of Leela's credentials solely because it was racist against mutants.
959
960[[WMG: The third part of "Anthology of Interest I" is also a WhatIf to "The Why Of Fry".]]
961The Brainspawn gave Fry the option of going back in time to stop himself being frozen, and Nibbler made it his choice whether to push himself in the cryo-tube or not. The "what if Fry was never frozen" scenario is also what would happen if Fry decided to be selfish and kept Nibbler under the table, which is why you see neither of their shadow. The Fry we know had seconds to warn Nibbler that Scooty Puff Jr sucks before going back into the Infosphere, so this Fry vanished before he could deal with the Fry-Hole. Nibbler helped get the Vice Presidential Rangers together to fix what happened, but [[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds didn't count on the younger Fry's stupidity]].
962
963[[WMG: There's a non-paradoxical version of "Bender's Big Score".]]
964While the Time Code basically lets you ignore paradoxes for the most part, thus breaking the YouAlreadyChangedThePast nature of regular time travel, there are traits of the latter like us already seeing New York being destroyed in the same way as Bender or the tattoo relying on a StableTimeLoop. Perhaps there's an alternate version of events which is truly paradox-free, with what we see being an attempt to keep everything consistent with paradoxes.
965* Rather than stealing "all the treasures in history", Bender is only able to steal ones people know are historically lost like the Ark of the Covenant or who's known versions are dubious like parts of the True Cross. That, and things that could be copied down/replaced with a replica. The heist that destroyed Old New York still happens.
966* No paradox-duplicates are created. Instead Nudar tests out the time sphere in a non-paradoxical way, Bender just goes to the bathroom and misses Fry, and Fry doesn't go back to get warm pizza. Lars is actually Fry's future self, and Bender ends up "killing" him in 2006(which is why Yancy Jr still misses him when his son is born).
967* Bender puts the tattoo on Fry's ass by copying it from Lars and going back to when Fry was asleep shortly before the events of the movie, or at least after the last non-tattoo ass-shot of Fry in the series. They're in the same apartment, he could easily sneak it on him while asleep.
968* Hermes remains without a body, but eventually manages to become a computer for the fight against the Scammers anyway. The Sphere-O-Boom solution Bender had didn't involve time travel anyway.
969* Instead of a HeroicSacrifice with a doomed Bender duplicate, Lars/Fry uses his time code to go back and freeze himself in the same room Nudar is(probably before Michelle/he de-freezes to avoid complicating things) in while pulling a RetroactivePreparation and wake up right after he vanished to shoot Nudar and save Leela. While also obscuring his appearance in the tube to prevent issues with the timeline.
970
971[[WMG: Fry was NotBrainwashed in "The Beast With A Billion Backs".]]
972The fact he can't be screwed with mentally is a plot point both prior and in a later movie. Being depressed he willingly [[DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu embraced Yivo]] and because it seemed to work out for him, he projects his own feelings by assuming everyone'll be happy with a tentacle in their neck.
973
974[[WMG: The second destruction of New York seen in "Space Pilot 3000" was a demolition team.]]
975Thanks to "Bender's Big Score" we know the first destruction was Bender using a bunch of decoy saucers to evade the Swedish government. The destruction was likely only New York considering that even Bender shouldn't have the firepower to destroy civilization (unless it was the trigger for a world war), and the fact there are organizations that been active since before 2308 it's likely some amount of continuity in the world's governments remained over the thousand years Fry was on ice. Rather than a city being destroyed the second time, the medieval-themed New York buildings were already empty and ready to be replaced with the more futuristic buildings. This is why Applied Cryogenics survived the second "invasion"; the saucers were a demolitions team and the building was still being used to preserve people in suspended animation, so it was off-limits. It's possible the medieval period of the 24th century was simply a renaissance-esque movement rather than a restart of civilization.
976
977[[WMG:The letter in "Overclockwise" wasn't actually a description of Fry and Leela's ultimate fate.]]
978It was just a letter Bender wrote telling Fry and Leela to quit messing around and just get together already. Fry and Leela's reactions were because of Bender's brutally honest but ultimately sweet opinions on the couple.
979
980[[/folder]]
981
982[[folder:Plot - {{Jossed}}]]
983[[WMG:The first episode of Season Six will riff on the ''[[Film/StarTrek2009 Star Trek]]'' reboot.]]
984The characters will come out of the wormhole in an AlternateUniverse where everything is randomly different. In a recent panel, they mentioned warning Creator/MattGroening of a 'literal rebirth' of the show.
985
986They needed to hire new voice actors to portray the alternate versions of the characters, and they covered it up as re-casting. Instead of handing over {{continuity}} to the new versions of themselves, the characters we know and love will run rampant in the new universe.
987* Semi-confirmed at the Animation [=SuperCon=] by [[WordOfGod David X Cohen]]:
988--> "the first episode [[spoiler: is tentatively titled "Rebirth" and and in a surprisingly literal fashion, as things turn out."]]
989
990This means that, sadly for many people, [[spoiler: the series will feature a "literal" rebirth of the characters]].
991* So we watch the characters grow up from birth - [[SpinoffBabies like]] WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies - {{IN SPACE}}!
992* As of the end of "The Wild Green Yonder," humanity is likely an endangered species. Only Planet Express and the others present for Leo Wong's detonation of the violet dwarf star remain. The Encyclopod may end up having to replicate the majority of ''Homo sapiens sapiens.'' Considering they will likely be created from the DNA of the Waterfall family, they may not last long. At least the environmentalists won't.
993* Most of this WMG may be {{Jossed}} in [[http://theinfosphere.org/Rebirth this article]]
994
995[[WMG:The Nibblonians invented housecats]]
996They were created to help contol/keep an eye on humans. This is why Nibbler, who will eat anything, didn't touch the cats in the episode where he was at the animal show. The fact that cats act somewhat like Nibblonians just adds to this.
997* Jossed by That Darn Katz
998
999[[WMG:On the new season's first episode in regards to [[spoiler: the "literal rebirth"]]:]]
1000[[spoiler: The planet-mantis]] depositing its young on various planets, so they won't go extinct. [[spoiler: Or rather, become extinct]].
1001
1002[[WMG:Everyone but Fry and Professor Farnsworth in ''Rebirth'' will be brought back with no memories.]]
1003
1004They will be 'reborn' perhaps due to the Stingray Alien from TheMovie, or just made new bodies by the Professor. Sadly, it will turn out that all of their last memory-backups on file at the Central Bureaucracy are from December 30, 2999, meaning a ResetButton on a grand scale for everyone except Fry (The Professor's memory is very inconsistent from one moment to the next, so he doesn't count). This means:
1005
1006* Fry and Leela are back to a literal square one, given that she wouldn't know who he is. However, this might also give Fry a pseudo-PeggySue opportunity to do things better the second time around.
1007* Amy and Kif also would not know each other, and might not get together again.
1008* Zapp and Leela would have never met, meaning that she might end up falling for his charms once again. But only once.
1009
1010At the end of the season (or possibly series, depending on how well it does) it'll turn out that the Professor made a backup of everyone just before they entered the wormhole, but forgot all about it. One by one everyone will decide if they want the memories back or not, and some may actually refuse because they like things better the way they are.
1011
1012[[WMG:The Wormhole will transport the cast even ''further'' into the future.]]
1013Now they all get to feel Fry's pain as a school of FishOutOfTemporalWater.
1014* What pain? The pain of realising all his dreams in one afternoon? (I dated a robot) The ability of feeling like you belong somewhere that you never felt before? (The cryonic woman) About having the ideal girlfriend? (How Hermes requsitioned his groove back) the only time he felt that pain was when he thought he was in the year 4000.
1015** [[FridgeBrilliance Exactly.]] And who knows what the future will bring?
1016
1017[[WMG:Fry and Farnsworth aren't genetically related.]]
1018In "A Clockwork Origin," Farnsworth uses the phrase "sterile as my milkman-trusting father." That implies a 1 in 2 chance that Farnworth isn't really Fry's nephew. Given that Fry's grandfather turned out not to be his grandfather, there also seems to be a family tradition of this stuff, which makes the odds even greater that someone got cuckolded somewhere along the line. Would make for a fun subplot some time. (Also, Farnsworth has the delta brainwave Fry lacks and is incredulous that he could be related to someone so stupid, but I don't think that really counts as evidence.)
1019* The first episode says they are genetically related.
1020* That's ''why'' he goes to see the Professor in the first place: Because the equipment said that they're genetically related. They confirm it again when he gets there. All the "milkman-trusting father" implies is that it was his ''mother'' that was related to Fry, not his father (a reasonable assumption, considering that the professor's last name isn't Fry). That "one in two" chance thing doesn't make any sense at all.
1021* As for the Delta brainwave thing, the Professor is a direct descendant of Yancy, not Fry, so he wouldn't have inherited any of Fry's genetics that were specifically unique.
1022
1023[[WMG:At the end of the video game segment in "Reincarnation"...]]
1024The Planet Express crew will come across a planet that [[CallBack opens up and reveals a giant ape in suspenders, which proceeds to toss some barrels at the crew and destroy them]].
1025[[/folder]]
1026
1027[[folder:Future plots]]
1028[[WMG:WE HAVE NOT SEEN THE LAST OF BARBADOS SLIM!]]
1029Because I hate an unfollowed WMG tag, as this one once was, Barbados Slim goes after Hermes (rightfully or not) for breaking Barbados Slim's back with the door.
1030
1031[[WMG:The cycle will end eventually]]
1032Every universe in the cycle is identical, right? [[Film/SupermanReturns WRONG!]] Universe A version 3.0 is slightly off directionwise. Not to mention Farnsworth v1.0 killed its Eleanor Roosevelt who knows where and when. While each cycle seems identical, there are subtle changes. And such subtle changes can amount to larger changes over time (in this case, millions upon trillions upon trillions upon trillions of years). Certainly at one point we would get to a universe where the Brainspawn succeed in gaining all information in the universe, and then destroying it. Or maybe where Fry's story of "Anthology of Interest" played out, and a paradox destroyed the universe. The previous cycles were all due to natural reasons of entropy and age. If an artifical factor is put in, the cycle could and should stop eventually, be it Universe v4.0 or Universe vA googolplex and three
1033* Farnsworth says he ''hit'' Eleanor Roosevelt, not that he killed her. This troper took that to be a joke about Eleanor's... slight unattractiveness.
1034** But in the timeline before that one (where they missed the year 3010), Farnsworth successfully killed Hitler. So he may have killed Eleanor in that timeline. (Yes, Eleanor Roosevelt is sort of a ButtMonkey for historical fiction writers.)
1035
1036[[WMG:Professor Farnsworth and Leela's newly discovered grandmother will hook up in the next season.]]
1037That pairing is '''screaming''' for the [[{{Shipping}} shippers]] to put them together. We are fully aware that the professor is senile and Leela's mother admits that Leela's grandmother is nuts, so they are perfect for each other. The Professor/Mom pairing has been sunk and raised and sunk again too many times to be credible anymore so Leela's grandmother is introduced to give the Professer a new [[{{Squick}} squicky]] love interest.
1038* Who says the two ships have to be mutually exclusive? Leela's Grandmother/Professor/Mom OT3!
1039* I think Mom would happily MurderTheHypotenuse ([[BigBad And their species]]) over a slight jealousy.
1040
1041[[WMG:The final ever episode will be about Fry and Leela's wedding.]]
1042At some point, Fry will pop the question, and Leela says Yes. In the last episode of the season, one of Farnsworth's inventions malfunctions, stranding Fry on a distant planet and Leela in the year 2000, thus inverting the setup from the first episode where Leela is (apparently) displaced in space and Fry in time.
1043
1044Most of the rest of the episode will be about various wacky hijinks that ensue at they attempt to reach the venue in the right year, while Hermes and Zoidberg try desperately to stall for time.
1045
1046Leela's adventures will end up involving Fry's time paradox duplicate (who becomes Lars) who reluctantly helps her get back to the 31st century so she can marry someone "a lot like [him]". Most likely, she'll end up freezing herself, and be thawed out with just a short time to spare. Alternatively, all the tubes will be occupied, and Leela will somehow manage to obtain a forwards time machine, allowing her to bring the Fry family forward in time to see Philips's wedding.
1047
1048In the end, Leela and Fry will arrive at the church ragged and out of breath at about the same time, followed by a nice marriage and then the two of them flying off into the sunset.
1049* [[spoiler:Confirmed, sort of. the last episode has fry proposing to Leela, they get married, and have a honeymoon, however at the end it is reset.]]
1050
1051[[WMG:The universe will end when a brain slug controls the Hypno Toad]]
1052
1053[[WMG: Had the show not been canceled, a future episode would've been a parody of ''Film/{{Pacific Rim}}''.]]
1054Obviously Phillip and Yancy Fry would fill in for the Beckett Boys, with Farnsworth and Wernstrom playing the Geizler and Gottlieb roles, and Leela would be Mako. Bender would be the A.I. One thing I can't decide on is if Zapp should be Pentacost or one of the "suits and ties".
1055
1056[[WMG: If the series is revived, it will deal with unfinished plot-lines, new settings and unresolved fan-queries .]]
1057* The movies were originally going to deal with Bender's TimeAbyss nature taking its toll, since metal melts after a very very very long time. We could have a scenario where Bender is dying due to how obscenely old he became, and could either be used to kill him off or a new design with a new body.
1058* A story surrounding Bender's family, where we figure out just who his father was and why he was killed by a can-opener.
1059* Being MyOwnGrandpa eliminates the Delta brainwave, making them immune to the Brainspawn. Fry's father is technically his own grandfather. We could have an episode where it turns out that the Nibblonians froze him for a backup
1060* That guy from the future was meant to be [[KidFromTheFuture Leela and Fry's son.]] Let's have that play out, with a good old StableTimeLoop of him ending up having Leela and Fry deciding to concieve
1061* An episode occuring between Fry getting frozen and the beginning of the series. Possibly a parody of the American Revolutionary War with the formation of the Earthican Empire, circa [[ExactlyExtyYearsAgo 2776]]. There would be expies of the characters in a wartime setting, and because of the movie we could see Bender play a part
1062* Another parallel universe episode
1063* A another parody three-parter, this time parodying sci-fi. It'll definitely involve Star Trek, will probably involve Series/DoctorWho and another sci-fi show [[AuthorAppeal the showwrites love.]] Maybe even a SelfParody of Futurama, set in the year 4000.
1064** Yeah, it'll be great, they'll make a whole spinoff series, and it'll be called Futurell-[[ScrewedByTheNetwork CANCELED.]]
1065** There have been references to Franchise/SailorMoon, so maybe a Main/MagicalGirl film.
1066** Another possibility is ''Franchise/MassEffect''. Just imagine the potential...
1067* If Futurama gets revived by Creator/AdultSwim, it could crossover with WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty.
1068* At least one episode will be a WholePlotReference to ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}''. The set-up is as follows: [[{{GeneralFailure}} Zapp]] crash lands on a Dyson Ring with Fry, Leela, Kif, Amy, Nibbler, and/or Bender. For bonus points, the Nibblonians will be the stand-ins for the Puppeteers.
1069
1070[[WMG: There will be an episode where Bender finally crosses the MoralEventHorizon.]]
1071One day, Bender will finally cross to line one too many times, and all his friends leave him. This will be a huge tear jerkier, especially when it's Fry's turn to tell him. Bender will be completely devistated, only to brush it off and convince himself either that they were the ones in the wrong or they didn't even deserve to be in his prescience. But, Bender will eventually have a HeelRealization, and be left with a choice of rejoining his friends or ditching them once again.
1072
1073[[WMG: If the series had kept on going, Richard Nixon would've become friends with Donald Trump.]]
1074
1075[[WMG: The Hulu revival will feature an episode about Kif and Amy's children.]]
1076When Kif gave birth to their kids he mentioned that in twenty years they'll sprout legs and return to land. As time seems to pass about equal to the real world in ''Futurama'', the revival would be set in the early 3020s, exactly twenty years after "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch".
1077** Seems to be supported by the announced episode title "Children of a Lesser Bog," which is indeed about their tadpoles.
1078
1079[[WMG: The Hulu revival will make "Why not Zoidberg?" an AscendedMeme.]]
1080The Comedy Central run featured a CouchGag referencing the "Not Sure If..." meme, so why not?
1081
1082[[WMG:If Zapp gets cancelled is a legit episode during the Hulu revival]]
1083They will use the episode as a means to kill off the Zapp Brannigan character as we know him. By the ending of the episode, Zapp will just become a normal generic captain and/or just be KilledOffForReal. Up to the viewer on if they feel this was the right call or not to do with him.
1084* This seems to be jossed as press releases instead suggest he receives AesopAmnesia, which would require him to be alive and not become a generic captain.
1085
1086[[WMG: A Hulu episode will involve Fry's family somehow ending up in the future and getting closure about Fry's fate only to have their memories wiped to perserve the time stream]]
1087To add another "Fry's family" episode to the list.
1088
1089[[WMG: "Attack of the Clothes" will be about technology bringing all clothing to life and the animate textiles starting a revolution against their wearers.]]
1090With the clothing becoming independent of their wearers, this also leads to everyone on Earth becoming naked, with the Planet Express crew eventually [[FullFrontalAssault fighting their own wardrobe in the buff]].
1091
1092[[WMG: The final Hulu episode's caption will be...]]
1093* Farewell! From the world of tomorrow!
1094
1095[[WMG: A Hulu episode will reference or parody ''Film/JurassicWorld''.]]
1096* And it will also feature feathered dinosaurs as one of the show's science references, perhaps even a CentralTheme (like an ExtinctAnimalPark where all the dinosaurs are feathered species).
1097
1098[[WMG: We'll eventually get a time travel episode set during the period Fry was frozen.]]
1099So far with time travel episodes we've explored [[Recap/FuturamaS6E7TheLatePhillipJFry the future]], Fry's time and historical eras. Pretty much the only time period we've never got much time to spend with was centuries in between the world Fry left behind and flashbacks of a young Farnsworth. It might be interesting to have an episode where the characters go to a time in the 3rd millennium where they don't have the "modern day, but ''in the future''" them and can be more out there. For example they could do a homage to ''Film/AKidInKingArthursCourt'' but in the medieval period we see while Fry's frozen, which could end with them mucking things up [[BeenThereShapedHistory and cause those castles to be shot down]] [[RoswellThatEndsWell like they've caused the Roswell incident]]. And while [[Recap/FuturamaS8E6IKnowWhatYouDidNextXmas they recently destroyed Farnsworth's time machine]], he still has a double from the version of himself he crushed.
1100
1101[[/folder]]
1102
1103[[folder:Possible crossovers]]
1104[[WMG:''Futurama'' is a SpiritualSuccessor of ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}''.]]
1105
1106An average, BookDumb boy attempts to acclimate into the new environment he finds himself in the first episode. His best non-human friend is bluish-gray and leads a full life just like a human. He harbors a crush on the first girl he sees. The girl's best friend is the SpoiledSweet daughter of a millionaire. The name "Yancy" is prominent in his family. He had an often contentious but mostly loving relationship with his older sibling. And he's voiced by Creator/BillyWest.
1107
1108Not necessarily a reincarnation, but definitely some interesting similarities.
1109
1110[[WMG:Zap Brannigan is also Descended from...]]
1111Troy [=McClure=], of course. Somehow, Troy managed to find a woman willing to bear his child, with Brannigan as the eventual result. (I am aware that ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is another ShowWithinAShow. It's too good not to be true-ish.)
1112* If the crossover is anything to go with, they're part of the same series while also being MutuallyFictional. Wonder if Zapp has some sort of [[BestialityIsDepraved fixation with fish]].
1113
1114[[WMG:Futurama is an alternate reality of WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons]]
1115All Futurama characters are futuristic expys of Simpsons characters.
1116* Fry is like Homer
1117* Leela is arguably Marge
1118* Bender is like Bart, but he also has ''some'' traits of Homer (beer for example)
1119* The Professor is like Grandpa
1120* Amy is arguably Lisa
1121* Nibbler is Maggie
1122* Hermes and Zoidberg are Carl and Lenny
1123* Mom and Robot Devil combine to make Mr. Burns
1124* Mom's 3 sons combine to make Mr. Smithers
1125* Slurms [=McKenzie=] is Duffman
1126* Mayor Poopenmeyer is Mayor Quimby
1127* Lrrr and Ndnd are Kang and Kodos
1128* Check the Simpsorama crossover's plot on the Infosphere: "Bart Simpson does something that affects the future in a really bad way, so Bender travels back in time to kill him." If this comes out, then jossed: The Simpsons and Futurama are in the same universe. Also considering WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy will have a crossover with WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons, all three would share a universe. Thusly...
1129
1130[[WMG: WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons, Futurama and WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy are all in the same universe.]]
1131And this is how they fit into one another:
1132* All three series mention each other as a fictional universe. The answer to that? Matt Groening and Seth [=McFarlane=] are psychics! In-universe, both of them saw into the near and far future, and based a TV show about them. Also both the Griffins and Simpsons have in-universe been part of their own TV shows based around their life, and as such could've been the inspiration for [[RuleOfThree the in-universe shows.]] With Futurama, that's explainable as [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory Very]] [[InvertedTrope accurately]] based on a true story.
1133* WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons and WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy have ComicBookTime. Futurama has had weird time phenomenon occur. It's a stretch, but they could Handwave in Simpsorama that Quahog and Springfield live above a chroniton field.
1134* The yellow skin of WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons is explained away by Simpsons Jaundice.
1135* The different versions of God in each series is because, like the Galactic Entity, they're beings who collided with God. That or they simply came into contact with the Galactic Entity, and [[AGodAmI full of it.]]
1136* Cryonics is seen in The Simpsons "Holidays of Future Passed" and Family Guy's "The Big Bang Theory." Stewie's cryogenic tube was used centuries later to make the ones in Applied Cryonics, who later became the ones in The Simpsons and
1137* Bender having a cameo in both series before is pretty easy to explain-he had [[TimeAbyss a shiny metal ass-load of it]] in the movie. The last, non-brainwashed Bender could've had time to hang out with them.
1138* Seymour is somehow related to Brian Griffin.
1139* Dogs can talk because they were mutated by Mr Burns' nuclear waste [[NoodleIncident somehow.]]
1140* At the end of "Rosebud", Mr Burns is a head in a jar attached to a robot. Whatever technology used for this led to the invention of head jars.
1141* Since Bart apppeared in South Park's "Cartoon Wars" and Cartman's head can be seen in "Bender's Big Score", ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' somehow fits in this universe as well-meaning manatees are psychic too.
1142* Krusty the Clown has Circusitis.
1143
1144[[WMG:Franchise/JamesBond is a ''Futurama'' robot]]
1145He only needs alcohol to survive. He can eat and sleep when he chooses to.
1146
1147[[WMG:Futurama takes place in the same universe as ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'']]
1148* Did YOU see any anchovies in SB-129?
1149
1150[[WMG:Fry once was an ultratech PhysicalGod created by an evil MegaCorp to [[WesternAnimation/ProjectGeeKeR conquer the universe]]]]
1151* ...When he finally got the hang of his powers, he recreated the universe as a place too inherently crazy for any megalomaniac to rule... at least not on any large scale or for an extended length of time. That's why the Nibblonians are obsessed with him - they know that Fry is ''God''.
1152
1153[[WMG:Futurama takes place in Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy universe]]
1154* Fry slept through the Vogons, protected by an improbability field. Why are Mom robots so offensive and powered by alcohol? Because no one dared make genuinely nice robots after those Sirius Cybernetics Co. bastards went up against the wall when the revolution happened.
1155** Jossed: the Earth still exists, and in "The Late Philip J Fry" they saw the Earth form without any help of mice.
1156
1157[[WMG: Film/CloudAtlas occurs in Futurama's universe.]]
1158It could work - civilization rises and falls several times in Futurama between 2000 and 3000.
1159
1160[[WMG: Film/TheFifthElement occurs in Futurama's universe.]]
1161Flying cars, New York being built atop the old, casual interstellar travel...
1162
1163[[WMG: In a different universe, the War of 2012 [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime resulted in the World of Ooo.]] ]]
1164Finn and Jake had a cameo appearance in "Leela and the Genestalk." Parallel(well, perpendicular) universes are both known to exist and it is possible to travel to them through the universe boxes. The Mushroom War occurred 1000 years ago, and when was this episode set in? 3013-almost 1000 years after the War of 2012. While Futurama is a sci-fi show, it's soft sci-fi and has referenced magical things before-Scruffy is a zombie, the final episode had vampires and so on. The War of 2012 that Conan O'Brien lost his legs in? In another universe, that was the Mushroom War. Susan Strong and the fish people are the alternates of the Sewer Mutants. The Applied Cryonics was powered by the Ice Crown of the Futurama universe. Finn and Jake somehow got captured, probably thanks to Mom stealing the technology of the parabox.
1165
1166[[WMG: [[HospitalHottie Dr. Cahill]] is [[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} Hello Nurse]].]]
1167Nearly a thousand years ago, Hello Nurse quit her nurse job out of fear of more sexual harrassment, put a restraining order on the Warner brothers and cryogenically froze herself for almost a thousand years to work as a doctor under a new name: Dr. Cahill. It would make sense, given how Hello Nurse and Dr. Cahill both look very similar and are voiced by Creator/TressMacNeille.
1168
1169[[/folder]]
1170
1171[[folder:Impossible crossovers]]
1172[[WMG:''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]'', ''WesternAnimation/WallE'', and ''Futurama'' all take place in the same universe.]]
1173After the events of the [=MST3K=] finale, in which the SOL crashed, Mike and the Bots moved into an apartment for the rest of Mike's life.
1174
1175After the eventual death of Mike, the first Garbage Crisis happens. This is solved by launching the trash into space.
1176
1177Several years Later, Buy n Large takes control of the Earth government. Around 2100, a second garbage crisis occurs -- this time all around the world. This time, because of the sheer amount of trash on Earth, [=BnL=] deems it inefficient to launch the garbage into space; instead, it initiates "Operation Cleanup", where humans evacuate the Earth until it is cleaned. Searching for a suitable prototype for their EVE units, they find Tom Servo.
1178
1179Servo is several hundred years old by now. [=BnL=] improves upon Joel's design and creates a line of vegetation probes, the [=EVE=]s, who will be used in the cleanup operation.
1180
1181Similarly, Gypsy's design is heavily modified and repackaged as AUTO units. Alas, no one thought to include her personality program.
1182
1183WALL•Es are manufactured. Most malfunction and fail, leaving only one.
1184
1185Tom, Crow, and Gypsy themselves are taken aboard a ship.
1186
1187The events of ''WALL•E'' take place. Fry's cryogenic capsule is removed and placed on the Axiom or a similar cruise ship.
1188
1189After the return to Earth and its eventual rehabilitation, [=BnL=] declared bankruptcy and was bought out by Mom, who integrated much of the robotics portion of the company into her own fledgling business.
1190
1191Sometime around the 2800's, aliens such as the Decapodians came into contact with Earth. Earth joined DOOP. Knowledge of the Second Garbage Crisis was covered up to prevent another crisis. Tom and Crow themselves hang out in a New New York movie theater and shush other patrons who talk.
1192
1193This also happens Pre-[[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths Crisis]] ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes! In "Superman and The Legion of Super-Heroes", when we see Superman rescuing a bunch of aliens who were being sent to a concentration camp, one is a red lobster-man with an anemone for a mouth, big blue eyes, and a white doctor's coat. This cannot be coincidence; this is Zoidberg or one of his relatives.
1194* Mike might not be dead. His head is probably in a jar at the museum.
1195* Right next to Joel, Tom and Crow. Riffing on the interactions they see at the museum and with the heads.
1196
1197[[WMG:Kif is [[WesternAnimation/InvaderZim an Irken]]]]
1198No real evidence except the green skin and the three-letter-name, and he would have unusual anatomy for the species. [[RuleOfCool But it would be cool.]]
1199* Maybe he's a feral Irken.
1200** Unlikely. The insectoid features (antennae, etc.) are missing.
1201
1202[[WMG: WesternAnimation/InvaderZim and WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} share a universe.]]
1203Comedic alien conquerors who take over planets for usually petty regions? Most sentients are idiots? Perhaps Zim is set in the 21st century of Futurama, or "Earth" is actually a lost colony world where people have become even stupider.
1204[[WMG: The [[WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor KND]]still exists in the Futurama universe.]]
1205With all the weird things that happen in Futurama, it is not strange that adult tyranny can exist in this universe, alongside with the KND. And maybe the KND museum has the heads of Sector V
1206
1207[[WMG:Kif is [[Literature/HarryPotter Lord Voldemort]]]]
1208As argued by [[http://srhaber.com/blog/2007/04/25/voldemort-and-kif Shaun Haber]]
1209
1210[[WMG:Futurama is the future of ''WALL•E'']]
1211Eventually, ''somebody's'' got to think that if they get a monopoly on a particular product/service, they can do a better job of it than [=BnL=] did back in the stupid ages. And so was born, [=MomCorp=].
1212* Alternatively...
1213
1214[[WMG:''WALL•E'' is what ''Futurama'' would have been...]]
1215...Had the garbage ball not been created back in the 21st century.
1216
1217[[WMG:Fry is Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya, or a reincarnation of her.]]
1218He wanted desperately to leave his job, and his godlike powers pulled the world around to create the future he wanted, where all the fantastic things he saw in sci-fi were real.
1219
1220[[WMG:The 'God' Bender meets in ''Godfellas'' is [[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya The Data Integration Thought Entity]]]]
1221It makes too much sense, and it works with the above theory of Fry being Haruhi.
1222* The only one who met him was Bender, the robot companion of Fry/Haruhi. this actually makes a lot of sense.
1223
1224[[WMG:The superpower-granting cream is [[Series/{{Heroes}} The Catalyst]]]]
1225Okay, from the Series/{{Reaper}} WMG page, we know that the Second Coming of Zombie Jesus that occurs in 2443 was predicted by Regular Satan (as opposed to the robot devil). This puts Futurama and Series/{{Reaper}} in the same {{Verse}} We ''also'' know that Series/{{Reaper}} must be set in the Series/{{Heroes}}{{Verse}}, because Sam's brother is the same person as Claire's brother. From that, it's not to much to assume that the Catalyst was accidentally rediscovered in the 1000-ish years between Series/{{Heroes}} and Futurama while researching miracle creams and their uses in relieving joint pain.
1226
1227[[WMG:''WesternAnimation/UglyAmericans'' is a parallel-universe version of Futurama]]
1228Not only do they both take place in New York City and frequently feature monsters, robots and aliens, but many of the characters in Ugly Americans have Futurama counterparts:
1229* Mark Lilly is Fry. Both are naive UnfazedEveryman in a world full of fantastic creatures, both are generally regarded with little respect by their co-workers, and {{Dogged Nice Guy}}s.
1230* Randall is Bender. Both are non-human jerkasses who happen to be the protagonist's best friend/roommate, and they have both been known to lose parts of their bodies.
1231* Callie is Leela. They are both the {{Tsundere}} love interests of the protagonists, both are short-tempered and prone to violence, and they each have unusual stories regarding their parents.
1232* Leonard is Prof. Farnsworth. As well as being hundreds of years old, they both are extremely intelligent, even if their eccentric behavior gets in the way of their common sense on several occasions.
1233* Although not an exact counterpart, Twayne has some similarities with Hermes. Both are dedicated to their jobs and they don't really care whether their employees live or die. But that's where the similarities end.
1234* And finally, the Koala Man is Zoidberg, since they are both the {{Butt Monkey}}s of their repective shows.
1235* How did Old New York end up underground?
1236** New New York was built on top of the ruins of Old New York [[spoiler:after Bender destroyed it]].
1237*** But why didn't [[spoiler:Bender destroy]] the cryogenics building?
1238*** Probably because this is Bender AFTER he met Fry, and since Fry is the only human he won't destroy when he destroys all humans, he saves the one building. To save his best friend.
1239** Killing Fry would have caused a paradox and remember it was a paradox-correcting time portal.
1240
1241[[WMG:Zoidberg and his alien species are the lobsterities from Franchise/TheDarkTower]]
1242Or some kind of evolved version of them. They maintain some of the same characteristics such as being able to, quite easily, snip off a person's limbs. However, they have been able to evolve into being able to walk up right and have gain the ability to actually talk.
1243
1244[[WMG:Mom is [[WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}} Charlotte Pickles]].]]
1245She got frozen in her elder years, and unfrozen at some point in time to become the cold, bitter woman we know and love today.
1246* They do have similar hair...
1247
1248[[WMG:Robot religion was founded by the Robot-Rabbi from Conan]]
1249Think about it. ''Think about it.''
1250
1251[[WMG:Futurama and South Park take place in the same universe]]
1252The reason the fungineers in the future think that there were whalers on the moon is because they found the corpse of Willzyx and assumed the stupidest. Of course, this might just be highly improbable...
1253** Cartman's head is seen in a jar at the head museum.
1254
1255[[WMG:''Franchise/CodeGeass'' takes place in [[spoiler:the British alternate universe in ''All the President's Heads'']]. ]]
1256And [[spoiler:Fry]] helped midwife the Holy Britannian Empire. (The Queen seen is just one of Emperor Charles' wives.)
1257
1258[[WMG:Professor Farnsworth went back in time and invented the hairdryer.]]
1259"Eureka! I've invented an automatic hair-drying machine. You use it when you get out of the bathtub. Its only flaw is that if it actually gets into the bathtub, it kills you. Oh yes."
1260
1261[[WMG:From Godfellas:]]
1262"When you write the Bible, you might wanna omit that last ... miracle." Maybe that's what happened to the real [[Literature/TheBible Bible]].
1263
1264[[WMG:The Amazon World is an alternate WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague future.]]
1265There was an episode of the WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague animated series where an amazon (a woman from an island populated only by immortal women) sought to kill all men from the world beyond her island. Of course, the League stopped her... but, in an alternate reality, they could not. So, after the League defeat, they found some magical or magic/science way to create new babies without men, women filled all areas of human society, and life goes on. After all, men are not intrinsically needed at any place, everything is capable to run smoothly without them: politics, economy, culture, science, infrastructure... even the whole superhuman issue would stay the same, with superheroes as Wonder Woman and Hawkgirl keeping the female supervillians under control. Yes, men are not intrinsically needed for anything... [[AllWomenAreLustful except for one thing]]: Snu snu. So, centuries passed, and this alternate JL earth became the Amazon World where Fry, Bender, Zapp Branigan and Kif (and Leela and Amy) landed.
1266
1267[[WMG:The Nibblonians are related to [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica the Incubators]], and of course are from the same planet.]]
1268[[spoiler:Both are ancient alien races dedicated to preserving the universe, albeit through [[WellIntentionedExtremist extremely cold, manipulative, sociopathic means]].]] Reflecting the Incubators' TrueNeutral status, they are usually selected for the post of their planet Eternium's ambassador to the Neutral Planet.
1269* [[spoiler:Homura of course travels into the future each time she tries to save Madoka. ([[FridgeHorror Too bad for all those other Earths she allows Walpurgisnacht or Kriemhild Gretchen to destroy]].) Of course the other Homura in the next universe is always doomed like all time-clones and dies shortly after her time-jump, which is why she never bumps into her other self. Obviously ''Futurama'' proper takes place after Madoka resets the universe.]]
1270* [[spoiler:The Professor's timeskip button in the finale had same basic electronic design as Homura's time shield. Kyubey didn't implant the design in his head, however; "great" minds just think alike.]]
1271
1272[[WMG:Futurama takes place in the same universe as ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series.]]
1273It's implied that there was some sort of apocalyptic event in the Futurama universe, and Leela did mention nuclear winter once. Plus, both universes have a retro-futuristic style. And the mutagenic goo under New New York could be FEV. So the nuclear war in Fallout happened, a dark ages like period emerged (the time period you play in in the games) and then civilazation rebuilds itself and eventually we get Futurama.
1274
1275[[WMG: Yivo and [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Bill Cipher]] have a loose connection.]]
1276Yivo states that shklee was alone for a trillion years until the Big Bang. Bill Cipher spent a trillion years in his own decaying Nightmare Realm dimension. Also, Yivo refers to the main universe as "Universe Gamma". Presumably shklee would call shkler own universe as "Universe Alpha". "Universe Beta" is actually Bill's home universe, which Yivo tried to make proper contact with [[WhereIWasBornAndRazed but Bill set that on fire]]. Shklee could've reached out to Bill, [[EveryoneHasStandards but even shklee isn't that lonely]].
1277
1278
1279[[WMG: Futurama is a distant prequel to WesternAnimation/{{Disenchantment}}.]]
1280Asides from both being made by Creator/MattGroening, there have been some references and even a blink and you'll miss it FreezeFrameBonus of the forwards time machine showing up. While a sci-fi sitcom, there have been a few nods to magic existing/possibly existing (albeit mainly as a gag) and some of Professor Farnsworth's inventions are so absurd they might as well be magic. We also know from "The Late Philip J Fry" that the distant future will have at least two more medieval societies, and multiple civilizations collapsing. Disenchantment is actually the same universe as Futurama, just set thousands and thousands of years into the future [[AfterTheEnd after one of many future apocalypses]]. The lack of the four fingered hand is because its set far enough that humanity has evolved or mutated a fifth digit.
1281
1282[[/folder]]

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