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Trivia / Futurama S 1 E 12 "When Aliens Attack"

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  • Defictionalization: The spray-on bikini top is at least being tested out first to see if it's physically possible.
  • Technology Marches On: The crew were unable to find a VHS of a show called Single Female Lawyer (due to most VHS tapes being destroyed during the second coming of Jesus, which contradicts the earlier episode "A Fishful of Dollars" where Fry was shown watching old VHS tapes of Sanford and Son in his new apartment). Oddly, no mention is made of the fact that VHS (like all magnetic tape technology) tends to degrade over time and would not have survived for ten decades, let alone ten centuries. In addition, no more than a year after the episode aired, VHS's were pretty much overshadowed by the superior DVD format, and a decade after that, Blu-Ray, streaming, and downloading television shows (legally or otherwise) pretty much made DVD as outdated as VHS (though DVDs are still around, just not as popular as they once were).

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