History Recap / FuturamaS1E6AFishfulOfDollars

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-->'''Mom:''' You know what needs to be done.
-->'''Larry:''' What?
-->'''Mom:''' [[SuddenlyShouting GET HIS PIN NUMBER]], [[SurroundedByIdiots YOU IDIOTS!]]

* AbusiveParents: Mom gets off to a flying start, forcing her sons to also each other as punishment.

* AbusiveParents: Mom gets off to a flying start, slapping her sons repeatedly.
** To be perfectly accurate, Mom doesn't actually slap any of her sons ''personally'' in this, their first appearance: she has Walt (the oldest) do it in her stead. But she's much more "hands on" in later episodes.

* AnAesop: First Fry announces that he finally has found what he needed to be happy: "Things, not friends!". After some development he learns that friendship is more important though.

* ArtisticLicenseMarineBiology: The episode claims that "the" species "anchovy" is long extinct. "Anchovy" is roughly the fish equivalent of "sparrow" or "mouse", in that it's a shared term for a whole ''bunch'' of species of small, abundant, and similar-looking animals.

* EvilLaugh: When Fry stupidly reveals his PIN number, Mom's sons and Pamela Anderson all laugh diabolically at him. Not realizing their scheme, Fry decides to join in the laughter, only to get knocked out when one of the sons gets annoyed and tells him he's not supposed to laugh.

When Bender is arrested for shoplifting, Fry finds his old bank lasted to the 31st century--and [[RidiculousFutureInflation the thousand years of interest has turned his meager 93 cent account into several billion dollars]]. Now a rich man, Fry starts buying antiques from the 20th century. Among those purchases is a preserved can of anchovies, a species now extinct. This puts him in conflict with Mom, owner of Mom's Friendly Robot Company, who feels that anchovies are the key to cheap robot oil (and a threat to her company).

** Bender [[EatingMachine joins the others]] in tasting the pizza with anchovies and immediately thinks they're gross. Later episodes would show he is a LethalChef because he had no sense of taste.

** To be perfectly accurate, Mom doesn't actually slap any of her sons ''personally'': she has Walt (the oldest) do it in her stead. But she's much more "hands on" in later episodes.

* YouLookFamiliar: An extremely rare animated example. Scruffy the janitor is the masseuses for Bender during their spending spree.

* RuleofThree: Occurs in a line of dialogue that punctuates the scene nicely. Fry's Visa credit card went out of business 800 years ago. His Mastercard went out of business 500 years ago. Against all odds, Discovery still exists. They just don't take it.

* ButYouWereThereandYouandYou: Fry sees Bender and Leela in his dream.

* HillariousinHindsight: There was a Baywatch movie in 2017. Unfortunately, it failed to earn an Oscar or even an Oscar nomination for Pamela Anderson. According to IMDB, the only awards it won were Teen Choice Awards, the Razzies for Worst Picture, The Alliance of Women Film Journalists for "Film That Shouldn't Have Been Made", and GALENA for Campy Flick of the Year.

* ArtisticLicenseMarineBiology: The episode claims that "the" species 'anchovy' is long extinct. 'Anchovy' is roughly the fish equivalent of 'sparrow' or 'mouse', in that it's a shared term for a whole ''bunch'' of species of small, abundant, and similar-looking animals.

-->'''Commercial:''' Do you remember a time when women couldn't vote, and certain people weren't allowed on golf courses? [[BlandNameProduct Petridge]] Farm remembers.

* OnlyOneWhoLikesSpam: Fry becomes a multimillionaire thanks to compound interest on the tiny amount of money in his bank account before being cryogenically frozen, and buys the last can of anchovies in existence to serve to his friends on a pizza. Most of his friends pull disgusted faces as they eat, with the only people to enjoy them being Fry himself (who admits "no one ever likes them the first time you eat them, but they grow on you"), and Zoidberg (who is driven into a feeding frenzy by the salty fish aroma).

** At the mall, all of Fry's debit cards are turned down because they all went extinct, except for Discover, which is still in use...which they don't take anyway.
** Fry decries the AdvertOverloadedFuture as needlessly invasive... only to accidentally [[NotSoDifferentRemark point out that the ad campaigns of the past (read: our present) aren't much different]],

* SpontaneousSkeetShooting: Fry gets insanely rich by collecting 1000 years worth of interest from his savings account. To show how much money he now has, he takes Bender and Leela to go skeet shooting with famous priceless works of art such as the ''Art/MonaLisa'' as skeet targets.

* SpontaneousSkeetShooting: Fry gets insanely rich by collecting 1000 years worth of interest from his savings account. To show how much money he now has, he takes Bender and Leela to go skeet shooting with famous priceless works of art such as the Mona Lisa as skeet targets.

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* OnlyOneWhoLikesSpam: Fry becomes a multimillionaire thanks to compound interest on the dollar that he put in his bank account before being cryogenically frozen, and buys the last can of anchovies in existence to serve to his friends on a pizza. Most of his friends pull disgusted faces as they eat, with the only people to enjoy them being Fry himself (who admits "no one ever likes them the first time you eat them, but they grow on you"), and Zoidberg (who is driven into a feeding frenzy by the salty fish aroma).

* TheFilmOfTheSeries: Parodied with ''Series/{{Baywatch}}: The Movie'', the first movie [[{{Gainaxing}} shot entirely in slow motion]]. It won Creator/PamelaAnderson the Oscar.

When Bender is arrested for shoplifting, Fry finds his old bank lasted to the 31st century--and the thousand years of interest has turned his meager 93 cent account into several billion dollars. Now a rich man, Fry starts buying antiques from the 20th century. Among those purchases is a preserved can of anchovies, a species now extinct. This puts him in conflict with Mom, owner of Mom's Friendly Robot Company, who feels that anchovies are the key to cheap robot oil (and a threat to her company).

* StockYuck: Fry buys the last can of anchovies in existence to serve to his friends on a pizza. He enjoys them, but his friends (excluding Zoidberg, of course) do not (which he puts down to them being an "acquired taste").

* TakeThat: At the mall, all of Fry's debit cards are turned down because they all went extinct, except for Discover, which is still in use...which they don't take anyway.

* ArtisticLicenseMarineBiology: The episode claims that "the" species 'anchovy' is long extinct. 'Anchovy' is roughly the fish equivalent of 'sparrow' or 'mouse', in that it's a shared term for a whole ''bunch'' of species of small, abundant, and hard-to-distinguish animals.