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** The entire Earth ends up with an addiction to Poplers. They're so delicious, people even have a hard time stopping eating them when they find out the truth behind what they are. Then again, in a society that has "Soylent Cola", that is not that surprising.
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** The entire Earth ends up with an addiction to Poplers.Popplers. They're so delicious, people even have a hard time stopping eating them when they find out the truth behind what they are. Then again, in a society that has "Soylent Cola", that is not that surprising.
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** And "Fun on a Bun"
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* MeetMyGoodFriendsLeftyAndRighty Bender in the initial finale affectionately names his hands Grabby and Squeezey.
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* MeetMyGoodFriendsLeftyAndRighty MeetMyGoodFriendsLeftyAndRighty: Bender in the initial finale affectionately names his hands Grabby and Squeezey.
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** [[spoiler: Roberto]] in "The Six Million Dollar Mon."
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* LavaPit:The championship match of The Butterfly Derby(a popular Blood Sport) is fought over one.
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** Larvae Slevin in "Thief Of Baghead" is an obvious parody of TMZ head honcho/ex-lawyer Harvey Levin.
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--->'''Nibber''': Alas, our kitten class attack ships were no match for their mighty chairs. The universe is Doomed.
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* KillerRabbit: Nibbler, and arguably the rest of the Nibblonians. They're tiny and adorable...and capable of destroying much larger opponents [[spoiler: (including the seemingly invincible Brainspawn)]], running a SecretSociety, and excreting Dark Matter. Though for some reason, they're utterly useless against the Nudists.
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* KillerRabbit: Nibbler, and arguably the rest of the Nibblonians. They're tiny and adorable...and capable of destroying much larger opponents [[spoiler: (including the seemingly invincible Brainspawn)]], running a SecretSociety, secret society, and excreting Dark Matter. Though for some reason, they're utterly useless against the Nudists.
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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Calculon]] as of "The Thief of Baghead".
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* InsistentTerminology: In "The Thief of Baghead" Professer Farnsworth insists that the concept of "souls" is ridiculous and insists on calling it "lifeforce" claiming the latter term to be scientific.
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* InsistentTerminology: In "The Thief of Baghead" Professer Farnsworth insists that the concept of "souls" is ridiculous and insists on calling it "lifeforce" claiming the latter term to be scientific. Though even he slips up once.
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-->'''Melllvar:''' If I can't have the original cast of ''StarTrek'', no one will!
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-->'''Melllvar:''' If I can't have the original cast of ''StarTrek'', ''Franchise/StarTrek'', no one will!
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Zapp Brannigan. The original concept for the character was "What if {{William Shatner}} was the captain of the ''[[StarTrek Enterprise]]'' instead of James Kirk?"
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Zapp Brannigan. The original concept for the character was "What if {{William Shatner}} was the captain of the ''[[StarTrek ''[[Franchise/StarTrek Enterprise]]'' instead of James Kirk?"
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* MisterSeahorse: Kif Kroker's species has "males" who become pregnant by absorbing genetic material from other lifeforms via skin contact. In another episode, Bender allows Fry and Leela to homebrew beer inside his torso and it's treated like a case of pregnancy. In one of the spin-off comics, Zapp Brannigan basically gets this with the intent of using him as a human weapon.
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* ImNotAfraidOfYou: Won't work on Robot Santa.
* ImNotAfraidOfYou: Won't work on Robot Santa.
* InformedFlaw: Calculon tells the protagonists about Project Satan, where the most evil car parts in the world were used to build a car. Among these were the window wipers of the car from KnightRider. When Fry countered that KITT wasn't evil, Calculon responds that the window wipers were, it just didn't come up much in the show.
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* InformedFlaw: Calculon tells the protagonists about Project Satan, where the most evil car parts in the world were used to build a car. Among these were the window wipers of the car from KnightRider. When Fry countered that KITT wasn't evil, Calculon responds that the window wipers were, it just didn't come up much in the show.
* InstrumentalThemeTune: Based on [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOqfWj0HqNE Psyche Rock]] by Pierre Henry.
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* InstrumentalThemeTune: Based on [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOqfWj0HqNE Psyche Rock]] by Pierre Henry.
* IronicEcho: Several examples, but a very prominent use occurs in "A Head In The Polls" when Fry realizes just how much of a bastard Nixon truly is and vows never to vote for him. Nixon's response? [[spoiler: "Like one vote ever really mattered"]], a harmless phrase that was used as a minor gag earlier in the episode. This also crosses over with WhamLine.
* IronLady: Parodied with DaChief in "Law & Oracle".
* IslandHelpMessage: Bender can barely spell "HELP". Because he had used most of his rocks to explain who he was and how he had come to be on the island.
--> "TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: I, BENDER, BID YOU HELLO! YOU DON'T KNOW ME, THOUGH YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF ME, BUT THAT'S NOT THE POINT. LONG STORY SHORT... I NEED HELF"
* IronLady: Parodied with DaChief in "Law & Oracle".
* IslandHelpMessage: Bender can barely spell "HELP". Because he had used most of his rocks to explain who he was and how he had come to be on the island.
--> "TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: I, BENDER, BID YOU HELLO! YOU DON'T KNOW ME, THOUGH YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF ME, BUT THAT'S NOT THE POINT. LONG STORY SHORT... I NEED HELF"
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* IslandHelpMessage: Bender can barely spell "HELP". Because he had used most of his rocks to explain who he was and how he had come to be on the island.
--> "TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: I, BENDER, BID YOU HELLO! YOU DON'T KNOW ME, THOUGH YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF ME, BUT THAT'S NOT THE POINT. LONG STORY SHORT... I NEED HELF"
--> "TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: I, BENDER, BID YOU HELLO! YOU DON'T KNOW ME, THOUGH YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF ME, BUT THAT'S NOT THE POINT. LONG STORY SHORT... I NEED HELF"
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* IronLady: Parodied with DaChief in "Law & Oracle".
* IronicEcho: Several examples, but a very prominent use occurs in "A Head In The Polls" when Fry realizes just how much of a bastard Nixon truly is and vows never to vote for him. Nixon's response? [[spoiler: "Like one vote ever really mattered"]], a harmless phrase that was used as a minor gag earlier in the episode. This also crosses over with WhamLine.
* {{Jerkass}}: Bender on a good day. Zapp Brannigan is even worse, and far more smug, and far more sexist.
* IronicEcho: Several examples, but a very prominent use occurs in "A Head In The Polls" when Fry realizes just how much of a bastard Nixon truly is and vows never to vote for him. Nixon's response? [[spoiler: "Like one vote ever really mattered"]], a harmless phrase that was used as a minor gag earlier in the episode. This also crosses over with WhamLine.
* {{Jerkass}}: Bender on a good day. Zapp Brannigan is even worse, and far more smug, and far more sexist.
* {{Jerkass}}: Bender on a good day. Zapp Brannigan is even worse, and far more smug, and far more sexist.
* LeastCommonPizzaTopping: Causes a LogicBomb to go off and make the robot waiter self-destruct when Fry tries to order it at Cosmic Ray's Pizzeria.
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* LeastCommonPizzaTopping: Causes a LogicBomb to go off and make the robot waiter self-destruct when Fry tries to order it at Cosmic Ray's Pizzeria.
* MermaidProblem
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* MetaphorIsMyMiddleName: Bending is Bender's middle name. His full name is Bender Bending Rodriguez.
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* MermaidProblemMetaphorIsMyMiddleName: Bending is Bender's middle name. His full name is Bender Bending Rodriguez.
* MisguidedMissile
* ModestyBedsheet: Morgan Proctor, when she and Fry got caught having sex in Bender's closet, and then running out to catch a taxi with the bedsheet covering her when Bender figures out the truth about her.
* MoodWhiplash: Coma-coma-coma-coma-coma-[[CultureClub chameleon...]]
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* {{Mutants}}: A group of them live underneath the city in its {{Absurdly Spacious Sewer}}s, including [[spoiler:Leela's parents]]
* MisguidedMissile
* ModestyBedsheet: Morgan Proctor, when she and Fry got caught having sex in Bender's closet, and then running out to catch a taxi with the bedsheet covering her when Bender figures out the truth about her.
* MoodWhiplash: Coma-coma-coma-coma-coma-[[CultureClub chameleon...]]
* MisguidedMissile
* ModestyBedsheet: Morgan Proctor, when she and Fry got caught having sex in Bender's closet, and then running out to catch a taxi with the bedsheet covering her when Bender figures out the truth about her.
* MoodWhiplash: Coma-coma-coma-coma-coma-[[CultureClub chameleon...]]
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* IWantGrandkids: Amy's parents.
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* IdiotHero: Fry. You don't need to have any kind of intelligence to be a hero, and this guy proves it.
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* MessOnAPlate: Bender's final presentation in the ''{{Futurama}}'' episode "The 30% Iron Chef."
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* MesOnAPlate: Bender's final presentation in the ''{{Futurama}}'' episode "The 30% Iron Chef."
-->'''Morbo:''' The challenger's ugly food has shown us that even hideous things can be sweet on the inside. [Begins to cry]
-->'''Morbo:''' The challenger's ugly food has shown us that even hideous things can be sweet on the inside. [Begins to cry]
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* NegativeContinuity: Strongly subverted between the 1st and 2nd direct-to-TV movies.
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** Also Bender, from time to time. "And ''I''... '''''I''''' ''can be an'' '''''ACTING COACH!!!!'''''
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** Similarly, in "When Aliens Attack," Amy puts on a new bikini top:
-->'''Amy:''' How do I look?
-->'''Farnsworth:''' Like a cheap French harlot.
-->'''Amy:''' ''French?!''
-->'''Amy:''' How do I look?
-->'''Farnsworth:''' Like a cheap French harlot.
-->'''Amy:''' ''French?!''
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* IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: Bender attempts to dodge this problem during "Bender Gets Made". Averted with Morbo: [[spoiler: kittens give him gas.]]
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** After Zoidberg's slinky gets straightened by Bender, he tries to coil it back up and set it walking down a pile of books. It flops over and bursts into flames.
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* MotivationalLie: The team makes use of this to [[ItMakesSenseInContext get Fry to cry out the Emperor that Fry drank]].
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* IgnoringBySinging: From "Godfellas":
-->'''Fry:''' You can't lose hope just because it's hopeless. You gotta hope more, then put your fingers in your ears and go "Blah blah blah blah!"
-->'''Fry:''' You can't lose hope just because it's hopeless. You gotta hope more, then put your fingers in your ears and go "Blah blah blah blah!"
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* IAteWhat: "The Problem with Popplers"
* IBangedYourMom: In the episode "A Clockwork Origin":
-->'''Brett Blob''': Hey Cubert! Is that your family mansion?
-->'''Cubert''': Why don't you ask your mom? She's coming over for a sex visit!
* IBrokeANail: Played with in "A Clockwork Origin", where Amy complains about having just done her manicure, followed immediately by her losing a finger. [[ChekhovsGag Fry later finds it in his soup.]]
* ICanChangeMyBeloved: Romanticorp tests pickup lines on women using test dummies. One of the dummies uses the line "My two favorite things are commitment and changing myself." The woman in the test chamber [[CodeWordCoitus immediately falls in love]] with the dummy.
--> '''Leela:''' [[DoesHeHaveABrother Does that dummy have a brother?]]
* IfICantHaveYou: Melllvar from "Where No Fan has Gone Before".
-->'''Melllvar:''' If I can't have the original cast of ''StarTrek'', no one will!
* ICommaNoun: "I, Roommate".
* IdiotHero: Fry. You don't need to have any kind of intelligence to be a hero, and this guy proves it.
* IgnoredConfession: Professor Farnsworth occasionally brings up that Fry is his uncle when trying to prove his own sanity.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: [[spoiler:Pickles, the oracle from "Law and Oracle" who gives Fry false prophecies relating to Bender so that he could drink some strong malt liquor and suffer brain damage.]]
* IKnowWhatWeCanDoCut: In "Time Keeps On Slipping", so the cut is a TimeSkip.
-->'''Hermes:''' "[[NoodleImplements I don't even know how this was supposed to work!]]"
* IllKillYou: Plenty of times.
* IllTakeTwoBeersToo: Bender.
* ImNotAfraidOfYou: Won't work on Robot Santa.
* ImAHumanitarian: It's implied that ''eating people'' is legal.
--> '''Joseph "Fishy Joe" Gilman''': "After all, the only reason we don't eat people is 'cause they taste lousy."
** And, of course, "Fry and the Slurm Factory" combined this with a ShoutOut:
-->'''Fry''': "Oh my god! What if the secret ingredient is people!"\\
'''Leela''': "No, there's already a soda like that, [[SoylentGreen Soylent Cola]]."\\
'''Fry''': "Oh. How is it?"\\
'''Leela''': "It varies from person to person."
** In "My Three Suns the crew visit a Neptunian butcher shop in New New York
--> '''Fry''' Wow! You have every type of meat here but human.
--> '''Shopkeeper''' What, you want human?
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice
* ImpossiblyDeliciousFood: In ''Fry And The Slurm Factory'', Fry is put in a death trap to drink concentrated slurm until his stomach bursts. He can't stop eating it, even long enough to save his friends. When Leela frees him from it by dumping it down the sewer, Fry tries to chew his own arms off to follow it.
** The entire Earth ends up with an addiction to Poplers. They're so delicious, people even have a hard time stopping eating them when they find out the truth behind what they are. Then again, in a society that has "Soylent Cola", that is not that surprising.
* INeedToGoIronMyDog: Parodied in the SuperheroEpisode. Three times in a row.
-->'''Leela:''' Oh, I completely forgot, I left my apartment on fire!\\
'''Bender:''' As for me, I'm late for my L.S.A.T.'s.\\
'''Fry:''' And I can't take life anymore! ''[Leaps out the window]''
* InherentlyFunnyWords: "Pazuzu!" Though it would be unwise to [[DungeonsAndDragons repeat it three times fast]].
** [[{{Gamebreaker}} Unwise?]]
* InformedFlaw: Calculon tells the protagonists about Project Satan, where the most evil car parts in the world were used to build a car. Among these were the window wipers of the car from KnightRider. When Fry countered that KITT wasn't evil, Calculon responds that the window wipers were, it just didn't come up much in the show.
* InnocentAliens: Dr. Zoidberg, who thinks most doctors are poor.
* InnocentInnuendo: In "Put Your Head on My Shoulders", Fry and Amy connect while stranded in their car. In the next scene, the recovery truck worker arrives to find Fry and Amy's car windows steamed up. Instead of having sex, however, Fry and Amy are merely playing cards.
* InSpiteOfANail: In "Roswell That Ends Well", the Professor wants to take every precaution against altering history... right up until Fry sleeps with his own grandmother. At this point he just gives up and launches a full scale, laser blasting assault on the 1950's Roswell military base to get its radar dish while delivering what is probably the best line in the entire episode.
-->'''Professor Farnsworth:''' Choke on that, causality!
** In "All the Presidents' Heads", [[spoiler:the Professor horribly maims (possibly even kills) his own ancestor, while Bender conspires to put himself on one of the first American flags. Zoidberg also meets Andy Warhol, who paints a picture of him. Other than that, it appears to have had no meaningful effect on history.]]
* InstantExpert: When Bender temporarily becomes captain of the Planet Express, much to Fry's annoyance. When Fry lambastes him and accuses him of not knowing the first thing about being a captain, Bender instantly reads the entire manual and then uses the info to chastise Fry. Justified by the fact that he's a robot.
-->'''Fry''': Have you even ''read'' the captain's handbook?
-->'''Bender''': (flips through entire manual) I have now. And what's Peter Parrot's first rule of captaining?
-->'''Fry''': (defeated) Always respect the chain-o-command...captain.
* InstantHomeDelivery: In "The Route of All Evil," Cubert and Dwight order a pedal-powered spacecraft. The form says "allow four to six seconds for delivery." Cubert says it's more like seven.
* InstantPlunderJustAddPirates: Space pirates.
* InterdimensionalTravelDevice: Farnsworth invents the parabox which allows travel to different realities, including one where Fry and Leela are married.
* InterspeciesRomance:
** [[spoiler:Leela and Fry]], though since [[spoiler: Leela is a mutated human]] they're technically the same species.
** A better example would be Amy and Kif.
** And in the fourth episode of the sixth season [[spoiler:Amy and Bender.]]
** And Bender and Lucy Liu. And Fry and Lucy Liu-bot. {{Robosexual}}ity is rampant in the future apparently.
* InstrumentalThemeTune: Based on [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOqfWj0HqNE Psyche Rock]] by Pierre Henry.
* InTheFutureWeStillHaveRoombas: Bender lampshades this by complaining about small robots cleaning up the trash at a blernsball game (after he throws some trash), supporting his rant about robots not being in an equal standing with humans in terms of competitions.
* IsTheAnswerToThisQuestionYes: "Is the Space-Pope reptilian?" "Yes".
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: In "Why Must I Be A Crustacean In Love", we get this exchange:
-->'''Leela''': Fry, you've become so lazy you've become a fat sack of crap.
-->'''Fry''' (indignantly): ''Sack?''
* IslandHelpMessage: Bender can barely spell "HELP". Because he had used most of his rocks to explain who he was and how he had come to be on the island.
--> "TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: I, BENDER, BID YOU HELLO! YOU DON'T KNOW ME, THOUGH YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF ME, BUT THAT'S NOT THE POINT. LONG STORY SHORT... I NEED HELF"
* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: Anything Prof. Farnsworth explains. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in one episode when Fry cuts a Farnsworth explanation short by saying that it's magic. Ironically, ''that'' Farnsworth explanation was one that used real-world science.
** "I've got it! The ship stays still, and the engines move the universe around it!"
*** In case you're unfamiliar that was based off of the so-called "The Alcubierre drive". Which could, in theory, work just fine with faster-than-light travel. The show also has quite a few other examples of actually basing plot points off of real science.
** "In regular fossilization, flesh and bone turns to mineral. Realizing this, it was a simple matter to reverse the process!"
** Also the Central Bureaucracy. An organization that runs full stop on a combination of PirateCode and BigBookOfWar philosophies, some of which their rules border on {{Calvinball}} mentality, all cubicles (or at least the section that we see) are constructed in a hovering Rubik's cube, the lines are ''impossibly'' long, and those who ''have'' managed to go inside and are not bureaucrats go insane within minutes.
* ItsBeenDone: [[WordOfGod The creators]] have explained that Amy Wong was originally created to be a female character who was always hurting herself, thinking that it's typically only males who get to engage in the slapstick. They evidently didn't realize that there's already [[{{Dojikko}} a trope for that]]. True, that's mostly a [[JapaneseMediaTropes Japanese Media Trope]], but it does have a [[CuteClumsyGirl Western counterpart]].
** Although it's arguable that these aren't the same trope, as the {{Dojikko}} and CuteClumsyGirl are typically played for [[MoeMoe moe/endearing]] effect; while Amy's clumsiness is played [[ComedicSociopathy strictly for laughs]], which has historically been a predominantly male role.
* ItsLikeIAlwaysSay
* ItsUpToYou: The [[RagTagBunchOfMisfits Planet Express crew]] has saved the city/planet/universe from annihilation dozens of times. Sometimes this is justified with Fry's "special" brain.
* IWantGrandkids: Amy's parents.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Bender to Flexo's not-quite-divorced robot wife who remembers she remembers she loves Flexo after all.
* IWillWaitForYou: "Jurassic Bark", which even makes use of the song that named the trope in the ending, which makes the ending even more heart-wrenching.
* IWouldSayIfICouldSay
* IronLady: Parodied with DaChief in "Law & Oracle".
* IronicEcho: Several examples, but a very prominent use occurs in "A Head In The Polls" when Fry realizes just how much of a bastard Nixon truly is and vows never to vote for him. Nixon's response? [[spoiler: "Like one vote ever really mattered"]], a harmless phrase that was used as a minor gag earlier in the episode. This also crosses over with WhamLine.
* {{Jerkass}}: Bender on a good day. Zapp Brannigan is even worse, and far more smug, and far more sexist.
* JackieRobinsonStory: Leela with Blernsball.
* JokerImmunity: Robot Santa
* JumpOffABridgeRebuttal: Parodied in the first episode.
-->'''Bender:''' I'll have to check my program... ''(looks away from Fry momentarily)'' Yep!
* JustFriends: Fry and Leela.
* JustLikeMakingLove:
** Parodied in "The Series Has Landed", when Amy is trying to retrieve the keys to a spaceship from a claw arcade game.
-->'''Bender''': "Come on, it's just like making love. Y'know: Left, down, rotate 62 degrees, engage rotor." \\
'''Amy''': I know how to make love!
** After Fry first tries a delicious Poppler, he declares "It's like sex, except I'm having it!"
* KangarooPouchRide: ''Bender's Game'' had orc spear-throwers riding in giant war-kangaroo pouches.
* KarmaHoudini: Bender sometimes has to face some kind of punishment for his behavior, but as often as not he just does whatever he wants without having to face any real consequences. In fact, there's a surprising amount of episodes where he's directly or indirectly responsible for everything bad that happens to the crew, and he gets away with it.
** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d and subverted in "Three Hundred Big Ones", where Bender has stolen an expensive cigar and flaunted it at a fancy party; at the episode's end he notes "My story kinda petered out without me learning a lesson," at which point [[ThoseTwoGuys two cops]] recognize him from security footage and begin to beat Bender senseless while he enjoys this closure.
** Made fun of in "Hey Leela Leela", where, after the episode ended with [[spoiler: the Rumpldyhumps getting healthcare, plumbing, and electricity, and all of the orphans from the orphanage getting adopted and paying jobs]], Leela simply cannot understand that[[spoiler: everybody got a happy ending]], and demands that somebody teaches her a lesson.
* KarmicTwistEnding: Parodied with the ShowWithinAShow ''The Scary Door''. The best example is the one where the bookworm's reading glasses break after doomsday.
-->'''Bookworm''': Finally! Solitude! I can read books for all eternity! (glasses fall off) It's not fair! IT'S NOT... Oh, well, my eyes aren't that bad. I can still read the large print books. (eyes fall out) IT'S NOT... Oh, well, lucky I know Braille. (hands fall off) *screams* (tongue falls out, head falls off) Hey, look at that weird mirror!\\
'''Bender''': Cursed by his own hubris.
* KillAllHumans: Bender expresses a desire to do this while sleeptalking, Fry hears him and is disturbed. "I was having the most wonderful dream...I think you were in it."
--> "Hey, sexy mama. Wanna kill all humans?"
** [[spoiler: Whenever I said "Kill All Humans" I always whispered "except one." Fry was that one.]] (That one has its impact lessened by the revelation that [[spoiler:it was just a hallucination of Leela's.]])
* KillEmAll: Every short story in the Christmas special ends like this.
* KillerRabbit: Nibbler, and arguably the rest of the Nibblonians. They're tiny and adorable...and capable of destroying much larger opponents [[spoiler: (including the seemingly invincible Brainspawn)]], running a SecretSociety, and excreting Dark Matter. Though for some reason, they're utterly useless against the Nudists.
--->'''Nibber''': Alas, our kitten class attack ships were no match for their mighty chairs. The universe is Doomed.
* KillThePoor: In the future, the unemployment problem was "solved" by making it illegal to be unemployed.
** Also, poverty was declared a mental illness.
* KnifeNut: Roberto
-->'''Roberto''': I was designed by a team of engineers attempting to build an insane robot but it seems, they failed!
-->'''Vending Machine''': Um, actually *Roberto stabs him*
* KnightTemplar: Robot Santa.
* {{Ladyella}}: Leela calls herself "Clobberella" when she gets superpowers.
* LampshadeHanging: In the ''Futurama'' video game, when Fry turns on the TV:
-->'''Bender:''' Has anyone ever noticed how Fry always seems [[CoincidentalBroadcast to turn on the TV at just the right moment]]?
* LargeHam:
** Hellooooo, Calculon. His hamming is ramped up to dangerous levels in "That's Lobstertainment!", when director Harold Zoid tells him he isn't emoting enough. His hamminess is on display off the stage as well in "The Devil's Hands":
--->'''Calculon:''' Well, I do owe you for giving me this... ''unholy'' '''[[MilkingTheGiantCow ACTING TALENT!]]'''
** Zapp Brannigan. He's not an actor, but he'll steal the scene anyway.
** How '''dare''' you not mention Lrrr... [[InsistentTerminology '''RULER OF THE PLANET OMICRON PERSEI 8!''']]
** Puny tropers would do well to list Morbo as well!!!!!
** The Nibblonians.
*** Not to mention that they would eat the Large Ham too.
** "WELCOME, TO THE WORLLLLLD OF TOMORROWWWWWW!"
** "I'M NOT '''''FROM''''' HERE! I'VE GOT MY '''''OWN''''' CUSTOMS! LOOK AT MY '''''CRAAAAZY''''' PASSPORT!"
* LargeHamTitle: Lrrr, '''RULER OF THE PLANET OMICRON PERSEI 8!'''. He even shouts it when he's trying to [[PaperThinDisguise go incognito]].
* LastNameBasis: Fry's full name is "Phillip J. Fry". This gets a {{lampshade|Hanging}} by Amy in one episode. AndZoidberg (John).
** Apparently this with Turanga Leela; but eventually subverted when we discover in that Leela's parents are "Turanga Morris" and "Turanga Munda", indicating that mutants arrange their names Asian style, with the family name first.
* LatinLand: The Tijuana from "Lethal Inspection" is a textbook example.
* LeadTheTarget
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall:
** In "Fear of a Bot Planet", immediately before a commercial break:
-->'''Leela:''' This is a difficult decision! If only I had 2 to 3 minutes to think it over!
** The entire opening to ''Bender's Big Score''.
** And in the first episode of the newest season, "It's some kind of new, comedy-central channel! And we're on it now!"
** Robot Devil has a couple in the ex-series finale:
*** [after his own name is selected for Fry's hands] "What an appallingly ironic outcome!"
*** "Ah, my ridiculously circuitous plan is one quarter complete!"
** Upon completion of the FonFon-Rubok ceremony in "The Beast With A Billion Backs", Amy joyously declares "Oh, Kif, this is just like a movie with this happening in it!"
* LEGOGenetics: The Decopodians contain parts of every known marine animal on earth, as well as every Yiddish stereotype imaginable, all wrapped up in the body of a six-foot-tall humanoid lobster.
* LeastCommonPizzaTopping: Causes a LogicBomb to go off and make the robot waiter self-destruct when Fry tries to order it at Cosmic Ray's Pizzeria.
* LeonardoDaVinci: In "The Duh-Vinci Code".
* LeotardOfPower: Leela when she became a superhero.
* LethalChef: Bender is a literal one, since he has a limited knowledge of organic biology.
** Though to be fair he did make one good dish and the rest of the time he's at least trying.
** If he's following a recipe, he can cook as well as anyone, but he tries to improvise. Without a sense of taste, he has no basis on which to improvise from beyond "throw it into the pot," which doesn't work so well.
* LieDetector: The truthoscope used during the presidential debate in the episode "A Head in the Polls".
* LimitedWardrobe: {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Bender in regards to Fry:
-->'''Bender''': "You own one pair of clothes and you're not taking them off while I'm around."
* LinkedListClueMethodology: Parodied in "The Duh Vinci Code" with Leela [[LampshadeHanging questioning the Professor's clue deductions]], only to be angrily shouted down.
* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: Deconstructed in "Yo Leela Leela".
* LivingCrashpad: Bender has done this to Fry several times.
** The Countess de la Roca (A Flight To Remember) did also, when she fell through the deck of the Titanic, but a family broke her fall. Since she weighs at least two metric tons according to Leela, things probably did not end well for them.
* LockedIntoStrangeness: Parodied with Zoidberg and the space whale. He's so terrified that he grows hair just so it can turn white. Lucky for him, the third time around he stops at the "grow hair" part.
* LogicBomb
-->'''Zap Brannigan''': "I am the man with no name - Zap Brannigan, at your service!"
** More traditionally, Leela attempts this on Robot Santa. His head explodes; however, he was built with "paradox-absorbing crumple zones", so a new head simply springs up to replace the old one.
** An even earlier example a LogicBomb proof robot in "Mother's Day": There's a wax robot janitor taking a nap in the hall of wax robot replicas of famous robots Mom ever built. When Fry tries to figure why the robot would do this, it just ticks him off, prompting an even more bizarre explanation that does nothing but advance Fry's confusion and even frightens him a little.
* LogoJoke: 30th Century Fox.
* LonelyTogether
* LosingYourHead: The heads in jars, Bender, Zoidberg, [[spoiler:Hermes]], Robot Santa (who produced a new one), and technically Fry (his body was damaged so they moved his head to Amy's shoulder).
* LowSpeedChase: There's a chase scene at the Central Bureaucracy on "slowmobiles", hover-scooters that travel at slightly less than walking pace.
* LukeYouAreMyFather: Farnsworth is [[spoiler:Igner's]] father.
* MadeOfEvil
* MadeOfExplodium: One of the bees crashes into the walls of the hive and explodes in "The Sting". As of the 2010 Christmas special episode, it appears ALL space bees are made of explodium.
** One of Fry's fellow inmates in the robot insane asylum, Malfunctioning Eddie, tends to blow up at the slightest provocation.
* TheMagnificent: The water people's rulers.
* MakeOutPoint: In the robot SlasherMovie.
* MassHypnosis: '''ALL GLORY TO {{THE HYPNOTOAD}}!'''
* MatrixRainingCode: How robots "interface".
* MayContainEvil:
** Slurm, a soda advertised with the slogan "It's highly addictive!"
** The Popplers, which turn out to be the offspring of an alien race.
** The Slurm episode also parodies this with Soylent Cola, the taste of which "varies from person to person".
** Also Soylent Green. Yes, [[SoylentGreen that]] Soylent Green. Everyone is quite aware of [[ImAHumanitarian what it's made of]], no one cares though.
* MeaningfulName: A number of the cast's names are {{ShoutOut}}s or [[GeniusBonus Genius Bonuses]] to some degree.
** Philip J. Fry himself, named for the dearly departed PhilHartman.
** Leela's full name (Turanga Leela) is a direct reference to Olivier Messiaen's famous ''Turangalîla Symphony''.
** Zapp Brannigan's name shares resonance with the semi-obscure term "brannigan", meaning an embarrassing drunken bender.
** Bender... [[spoiler:in more ways than one]].
** And of course, Professor Farnsworth, named after the inventor Philo Farnsworth, who invented the television.
*** And revealed in "All the Presidents' Heads" to actually be a descendant of Philo Farnsworth.
* MechanicalEvolution: In the episode "A Clockwork Origin", Professor Farnsworth releases some {{Nanomachines}} to purify water on an uninhabited planet. Subsequent generations of nanites are more complex, and the situation very quickly gets far out of hand. In one day they become trilobites, the next day there's robot dinosaurs, the next cave-bots, then human-bots, and finally [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence energy beings]].
* MetaphorIsMyMiddleName: Bending is Bender's middle name. His full name is Bender Bending Rodriguez.
* {{Metaphorgotten}}: A lot. Zapp Brannigan and Fry being the more notable offenders.
--> '''Fry''': Bender! You can't date the ship! It would be like me dating a really fat lady, and then living inside her! And she'd be all (makes space travel motions with his hands) Vrrrroooom vrwooo bweeee zooom!
--> '''Fry''': [[LampshadeHanging Like a balloon! And then something bad happens]]!
--> '''Zapp''': "If we hit that bullseye, the rest of those dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate."
** In the Season 6 episode "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences":
-->'''''Scary Door'' intro''' You're taking a vacation from normalcy. The setting; a weird motel with a bed that is stained with mystery. And there's also some mystery floating in the pool. Your key card may not open the exercise room because someone smeared mystery on the lock.
* MermaidProblem
* MileHighClub: An inversion in "The Duh-Vinci Code". While searching for a tomb underneath Rome, Fry asks Leela if she wants to join the "Mile Deep Club". She consents but they're interrupted by the Professor.
* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: In one "What if" story, Fry destroys the entire universe with a time paradox.
* MindScrew: "The Sting". And how!
** "Obsoletely Fabulous" ventures here too but more mildly. The bulk of the episode is just a long string of [[spoiler:fictitious events in Bender's head to make him appreciate the 1-X robots.]]
* MisfitMobilizationMoment: In Bender's big score, this happens in the climactic battle against the scammers when Hermes' head is plugged directly into the battlegrid. Cue ThemeMusicPowerUp and much ass-kicking.
* MistakenForExhibit: In "Mother's Day", Fry justly mistakes the janitor (who happens to be a robot made out of wax) for one of the wax robot sculptures in a museum.
* MisterSeahorse: Kif Kroker's species has "males" who become pregnant by absorbing genetic material from other lifeforms via skin contact. In another episode, Bender allows Fry and Leela to homebrew beer inside his torso and it's treated like a case of pregnancy. In one of the spin-off comics, Zapp Brannigan basically gets this with the intent of using him as a human weapon.
* MobstacleCourse: Bender's cow catcher on Freedom Day.
* ModernMajorGeneral: Zapp, at times.
* MonsterProgenitor: The Project Satan to all Were-cars.
* MoralityDial
* MoreDakka: Mom's killbots, which have a [[GatlingGood minigun]] on each arm and one on their chest. [[SubvertedTrope They only ever manage to kill]] [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace each other]]
* {{Mutants}}: A group of them live underneath the city in its {{Absurdly Spacious Sewer}}s, including [[spoiler:Leela's parents]]
* MisguidedMissile
* ModestyBedsheet: Morgan Proctor, when she and Fry got caught having sex in Bender's closet, and then running out to catch a taxi with the bedsheet covering her when Bender figures out the truth about her.
* MoodWhiplash: Coma-coma-coma-coma-coma-[[CultureClub chameleon...]]
* MultiArmedMultitasking: Elzar. The DVD commentary mentions that the animators went out of their way to have each arm work independently rather than have each arm on either side move in the same way.
* MushroomSamba: In the episode "Hell is Other Robots", Bender injects himself with electricity causing him to go on a mind trip.
** Fry also undergoes one in "A Fishful of Dollars" after being whacked on the head by Igner, robbed of his money, and dumped in front of his apartment. This MushroomSamba is also responsible for being the TropeNamer for StuffyOldSongsAboutTheButtocks.
* MustMakeAmends: Fry finds his old dog from the 20th century fossilized in a construction site. Feeling bad for abandoning it (despite not meaning to) he arranges for the professor to actually revive it. With Science!
** In that same episode, Bender, in a fit of jealousy, literally kicked said dog's fossil into hot lava, but after realizing what he did, he went in to save him and recovered him.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: "I just told you, you've killed me!"
** "What have I [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble will have done]]?!"
* NamesTheSame: Mike Rowe and Josh Weinstein are members of the production crew. However, they aren't [[DirtyJobs that Mike Rowe]] or [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 that Josh Weinstein]].
* NauseaDissonance: In "Parasites Lost", after learning there are worms inside Fry's body:
-->'''Hermes:''' (''eating popcorn'') It's nauseating, mon! (''eats more popcorn'') Is there no way to get rid of the disgusting maggots?
* NegativeContinuity: Strongly subverted between the 1st and 2nd direct-to-TV movies.
* NeverTrustATrailer: The commercials for "Neutopia" made it appear that the cast being [[GenderBender Gender Bent]] would be the focus of the episode. It doesn't happen until the last five minutes, and most of the jokes in those five minutes were shown in the commercials.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Bender's robotic abilities, Leela's armband, Kif and Zoidberg's BizarreAlienBiology.
* NighInvulnerable: Lampshaded by Bender.
-->'''Bender:''' Geez, what does it take to kill me?
* NightmarishFactory
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Zapp Brannigan. The original concept for the character was "What if {{William Shatner}} was the captain of the ''[[StarTrek Enterprise]]'' instead of James Kirk?"
** Elzar is a clear parody of tv chef Emeril Lagasse.
* NoodleImplement / ChekhovsGun: And this is from the ''very first episode.'' Professor Farnsworth introduces a drawer full of "assorted lengths of wire" to distract Fry, Leela and Bender from the fact that he has a spaceship in "Space Pilot 3000". In "The Farnsworth Parabox", a full '''''4 seasons later''''', they are used as tools to help the gang and their Universe-1 counterparts find the missing box with Universe-A.
* NoRomanticResolution: Not for Fry and Leela, anyway.
* NotMeThisTime: In ''Futurama: The Game'', Bender says this when they find the ship badly damaged. It turns out that [[spoiler:[[StableTimeLoop he (as well as Fry and Leela) ''did'' do it]].]]
* NotRareOverThere: In "Time Keeps On Slippin'", a character mentions that they'll need "some sort of doomsday device" to solve the problem of the week. Quoth [[MadScientist Prof. Farnsworth]];
-->'''Farnsworth:''' ''Doomsday device?'' Well now the ball's in Farnsworth's court!
-->''[The professor presses a button on a remote, causing several different stereotypically "mad scientist" style machines to come up through a trap door]''
-->'''Farnsworth:''' I suppose I could part with one and still be feared.
* TheNotSoHarmlessPunishment: From "Space Pilot 3000,"
--> '''Fry:''' And what if I don't want to be a delivery boy?
--> '''Leela:''' Then you'll be fired.
--> '''Fry:''' Fine!
--> '''Leela:''' ...out of a cannon, into the Sun.
* NotThatKindOfDoctor: What happens when Zoidberg's ignorance of human biology is taken to its logical conclusion: his doctorate is in [[ArtMajorBiology Art History]].
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Happens in the episode "Why Must I Be A Crustacean in Love" with Fry when Zoidberg walks in on both Fry and Edna who is kissing him on her sofa.
-->'''Zoidberg''': Edna, I couldn't stand it any longer. I-- Gasp! Fry!
-->'''Fry''': Dr. Zoidberg, it's not how it looks!
-->'''Zoidberg''': Her caviar is on your neck!
* IBangedYourMom: In the episode "A Clockwork Origin":
-->'''Brett Blob''': Hey Cubert! Is that your family mansion?
-->'''Cubert''': Why don't you ask your mom? She's coming over for a sex visit!
* IBrokeANail: Played with in "A Clockwork Origin", where Amy complains about having just done her manicure, followed immediately by her losing a finger. [[ChekhovsGag Fry later finds it in his soup.]]
* ICanChangeMyBeloved: Romanticorp tests pickup lines on women using test dummies. One of the dummies uses the line "My two favorite things are commitment and changing myself." The woman in the test chamber [[CodeWordCoitus immediately falls in love]] with the dummy.
--> '''Leela:''' [[DoesHeHaveABrother Does that dummy have a brother?]]
* IfICantHaveYou: Melllvar from "Where No Fan has Gone Before".
-->'''Melllvar:''' If I can't have the original cast of ''StarTrek'', no one will!
* ICommaNoun: "I, Roommate".
* IdiotHero: Fry. You don't need to have any kind of intelligence to be a hero, and this guy proves it.
* IgnoredConfession: Professor Farnsworth occasionally brings up that Fry is his uncle when trying to prove his own sanity.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: [[spoiler:Pickles, the oracle from "Law and Oracle" who gives Fry false prophecies relating to Bender so that he could drink some strong malt liquor and suffer brain damage.]]
* IKnowWhatWeCanDoCut: In "Time Keeps On Slipping", so the cut is a TimeSkip.
-->'''Hermes:''' "[[NoodleImplements I don't even know how this was supposed to work!]]"
* IllKillYou: Plenty of times.
* IllTakeTwoBeersToo: Bender.
* ImNotAfraidOfYou: Won't work on Robot Santa.
* ImAHumanitarian: It's implied that ''eating people'' is legal.
--> '''Joseph "Fishy Joe" Gilman''': "After all, the only reason we don't eat people is 'cause they taste lousy."
** And, of course, "Fry and the Slurm Factory" combined this with a ShoutOut:
-->'''Fry''': "Oh my god! What if the secret ingredient is people!"\\
'''Leela''': "No, there's already a soda like that, [[SoylentGreen Soylent Cola]]."\\
'''Fry''': "Oh. How is it?"\\
'''Leela''': "It varies from person to person."
** In "My Three Suns the crew visit a Neptunian butcher shop in New New York
--> '''Fry''' Wow! You have every type of meat here but human.
--> '''Shopkeeper''' What, you want human?
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice
* ImpossiblyDeliciousFood: In ''Fry And The Slurm Factory'', Fry is put in a death trap to drink concentrated slurm until his stomach bursts. He can't stop eating it, even long enough to save his friends. When Leela frees him from it by dumping it down the sewer, Fry tries to chew his own arms off to follow it.
** The entire Earth ends up with an addiction to Poplers. They're so delicious, people even have a hard time stopping eating them when they find out the truth behind what they are. Then again, in a society that has "Soylent Cola", that is not that surprising.
* INeedToGoIronMyDog: Parodied in the SuperheroEpisode. Three times in a row.
-->'''Leela:''' Oh, I completely forgot, I left my apartment on fire!\\
'''Bender:''' As for me, I'm late for my L.S.A.T.'s.\\
'''Fry:''' And I can't take life anymore! ''[Leaps out the window]''
* InherentlyFunnyWords: "Pazuzu!" Though it would be unwise to [[DungeonsAndDragons repeat it three times fast]].
** [[{{Gamebreaker}} Unwise?]]
* InformedFlaw: Calculon tells the protagonists about Project Satan, where the most evil car parts in the world were used to build a car. Among these were the window wipers of the car from KnightRider. When Fry countered that KITT wasn't evil, Calculon responds that the window wipers were, it just didn't come up much in the show.
* InnocentAliens: Dr. Zoidberg, who thinks most doctors are poor.
* InnocentInnuendo: In "Put Your Head on My Shoulders", Fry and Amy connect while stranded in their car. In the next scene, the recovery truck worker arrives to find Fry and Amy's car windows steamed up. Instead of having sex, however, Fry and Amy are merely playing cards.
* InSpiteOfANail: In "Roswell That Ends Well", the Professor wants to take every precaution against altering history... right up until Fry sleeps with his own grandmother. At this point he just gives up and launches a full scale, laser blasting assault on the 1950's Roswell military base to get its radar dish while delivering what is probably the best line in the entire episode.
-->'''Professor Farnsworth:''' Choke on that, causality!
** In "All the Presidents' Heads", [[spoiler:the Professor horribly maims (possibly even kills) his own ancestor, while Bender conspires to put himself on one of the first American flags. Zoidberg also meets Andy Warhol, who paints a picture of him. Other than that, it appears to have had no meaningful effect on history.]]
* InstantExpert: When Bender temporarily becomes captain of the Planet Express, much to Fry's annoyance. When Fry lambastes him and accuses him of not knowing the first thing about being a captain, Bender instantly reads the entire manual and then uses the info to chastise Fry. Justified by the fact that he's a robot.
-->'''Fry''': Have you even ''read'' the captain's handbook?
-->'''Bender''': (flips through entire manual) I have now. And what's Peter Parrot's first rule of captaining?
-->'''Fry''': (defeated) Always respect the chain-o-command...captain.
* InstantHomeDelivery: In "The Route of All Evil," Cubert and Dwight order a pedal-powered spacecraft. The form says "allow four to six seconds for delivery." Cubert says it's more like seven.
* InstantPlunderJustAddPirates: Space pirates.
* InterdimensionalTravelDevice: Farnsworth invents the parabox which allows travel to different realities, including one where Fry and Leela are married.
* InterspeciesRomance:
** [[spoiler:Leela and Fry]], though since [[spoiler: Leela is a mutated human]] they're technically the same species.
** A better example would be Amy and Kif.
** And in the fourth episode of the sixth season [[spoiler:Amy and Bender.]]
** And Bender and Lucy Liu. And Fry and Lucy Liu-bot. {{Robosexual}}ity is rampant in the future apparently.
* InstrumentalThemeTune: Based on [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOqfWj0HqNE Psyche Rock]] by Pierre Henry.
* InTheFutureWeStillHaveRoombas: Bender lampshades this by complaining about small robots cleaning up the trash at a blernsball game (after he throws some trash), supporting his rant about robots not being in an equal standing with humans in terms of competitions.
* IsTheAnswerToThisQuestionYes: "Is the Space-Pope reptilian?" "Yes".
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: In "Why Must I Be A Crustacean In Love", we get this exchange:
-->'''Leela''': Fry, you've become so lazy you've become a fat sack of crap.
-->'''Fry''' (indignantly): ''Sack?''
* IslandHelpMessage: Bender can barely spell "HELP". Because he had used most of his rocks to explain who he was and how he had come to be on the island.
--> "TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: I, BENDER, BID YOU HELLO! YOU DON'T KNOW ME, THOUGH YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF ME, BUT THAT'S NOT THE POINT. LONG STORY SHORT... I NEED HELF"
* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: Anything Prof. Farnsworth explains. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in one episode when Fry cuts a Farnsworth explanation short by saying that it's magic. Ironically, ''that'' Farnsworth explanation was one that used real-world science.
** "I've got it! The ship stays still, and the engines move the universe around it!"
*** In case you're unfamiliar that was based off of the so-called "The Alcubierre drive". Which could, in theory, work just fine with faster-than-light travel. The show also has quite a few other examples of actually basing plot points off of real science.
** "In regular fossilization, flesh and bone turns to mineral. Realizing this, it was a simple matter to reverse the process!"
** Also the Central Bureaucracy. An organization that runs full stop on a combination of PirateCode and BigBookOfWar philosophies, some of which their rules border on {{Calvinball}} mentality, all cubicles (or at least the section that we see) are constructed in a hovering Rubik's cube, the lines are ''impossibly'' long, and those who ''have'' managed to go inside and are not bureaucrats go insane within minutes.
* ItsBeenDone: [[WordOfGod The creators]] have explained that Amy Wong was originally created to be a female character who was always hurting herself, thinking that it's typically only males who get to engage in the slapstick. They evidently didn't realize that there's already [[{{Dojikko}} a trope for that]]. True, that's mostly a [[JapaneseMediaTropes Japanese Media Trope]], but it does have a [[CuteClumsyGirl Western counterpart]].
** Although it's arguable that these aren't the same trope, as the {{Dojikko}} and CuteClumsyGirl are typically played for [[MoeMoe moe/endearing]] effect; while Amy's clumsiness is played [[ComedicSociopathy strictly for laughs]], which has historically been a predominantly male role.
* ItsLikeIAlwaysSay
* ItsUpToYou: The [[RagTagBunchOfMisfits Planet Express crew]] has saved the city/planet/universe from annihilation dozens of times. Sometimes this is justified with Fry's "special" brain.
* IWantGrandkids: Amy's parents.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Bender to Flexo's not-quite-divorced robot wife who remembers she remembers she loves Flexo after all.
* IWillWaitForYou: "Jurassic Bark", which even makes use of the song that named the trope in the ending, which makes the ending even more heart-wrenching.
* IWouldSayIfICouldSay
* IronLady: Parodied with DaChief in "Law & Oracle".
* IronicEcho: Several examples, but a very prominent use occurs in "A Head In The Polls" when Fry realizes just how much of a bastard Nixon truly is and vows never to vote for him. Nixon's response? [[spoiler: "Like one vote ever really mattered"]], a harmless phrase that was used as a minor gag earlier in the episode. This also crosses over with WhamLine.
* {{Jerkass}}: Bender on a good day. Zapp Brannigan is even worse, and far more smug, and far more sexist.
* JackieRobinsonStory: Leela with Blernsball.
* JokerImmunity: Robot Santa
* JumpOffABridgeRebuttal: Parodied in the first episode.
-->'''Bender:''' I'll have to check my program... ''(looks away from Fry momentarily)'' Yep!
* JustFriends: Fry and Leela.
* JustLikeMakingLove:
** Parodied in "The Series Has Landed", when Amy is trying to retrieve the keys to a spaceship from a claw arcade game.
-->'''Bender''': "Come on, it's just like making love. Y'know: Left, down, rotate 62 degrees, engage rotor." \\
'''Amy''': I know how to make love!
** After Fry first tries a delicious Poppler, he declares "It's like sex, except I'm having it!"
* KangarooPouchRide: ''Bender's Game'' had orc spear-throwers riding in giant war-kangaroo pouches.
* KarmaHoudini: Bender sometimes has to face some kind of punishment for his behavior, but as often as not he just does whatever he wants without having to face any real consequences. In fact, there's a surprising amount of episodes where he's directly or indirectly responsible for everything bad that happens to the crew, and he gets away with it.
** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d and subverted in "Three Hundred Big Ones", where Bender has stolen an expensive cigar and flaunted it at a fancy party; at the episode's end he notes "My story kinda petered out without me learning a lesson," at which point [[ThoseTwoGuys two cops]] recognize him from security footage and begin to beat Bender senseless while he enjoys this closure.
** Made fun of in "Hey Leela Leela", where, after the episode ended with [[spoiler: the Rumpldyhumps getting healthcare, plumbing, and electricity, and all of the orphans from the orphanage getting adopted and paying jobs]], Leela simply cannot understand that[[spoiler: everybody got a happy ending]], and demands that somebody teaches her a lesson.
* KarmicTwistEnding: Parodied with the ShowWithinAShow ''The Scary Door''. The best example is the one where the bookworm's reading glasses break after doomsday.
-->'''Bookworm''': Finally! Solitude! I can read books for all eternity! (glasses fall off) It's not fair! IT'S NOT... Oh, well, my eyes aren't that bad. I can still read the large print books. (eyes fall out) IT'S NOT... Oh, well, lucky I know Braille. (hands fall off) *screams* (tongue falls out, head falls off) Hey, look at that weird mirror!\\
'''Bender''': Cursed by his own hubris.
* KillAllHumans: Bender expresses a desire to do this while sleeptalking, Fry hears him and is disturbed. "I was having the most wonderful dream...I think you were in it."
--> "Hey, sexy mama. Wanna kill all humans?"
** [[spoiler: Whenever I said "Kill All Humans" I always whispered "except one." Fry was that one.]] (That one has its impact lessened by the revelation that [[spoiler:it was just a hallucination of Leela's.]])
* KillEmAll: Every short story in the Christmas special ends like this.
* KillerRabbit: Nibbler, and arguably the rest of the Nibblonians. They're tiny and adorable...and capable of destroying much larger opponents [[spoiler: (including the seemingly invincible Brainspawn)]], running a SecretSociety, and excreting Dark Matter. Though for some reason, they're utterly useless against the Nudists.
--->'''Nibber''': Alas, our kitten class attack ships were no match for their mighty chairs. The universe is Doomed.
* KillThePoor: In the future, the unemployment problem was "solved" by making it illegal to be unemployed.
** Also, poverty was declared a mental illness.
* KnifeNut: Roberto
-->'''Roberto''': I was designed by a team of engineers attempting to build an insane robot but it seems, they failed!
-->'''Vending Machine''': Um, actually *Roberto stabs him*
* KnightTemplar: Robot Santa.
* {{Ladyella}}: Leela calls herself "Clobberella" when she gets superpowers.
* LampshadeHanging: In the ''Futurama'' video game, when Fry turns on the TV:
-->'''Bender:''' Has anyone ever noticed how Fry always seems [[CoincidentalBroadcast to turn on the TV at just the right moment]]?
* LargeHam:
** Hellooooo, Calculon. His hamming is ramped up to dangerous levels in "That's Lobstertainment!", when director Harold Zoid tells him he isn't emoting enough. His hamminess is on display off the stage as well in "The Devil's Hands":
--->'''Calculon:''' Well, I do owe you for giving me this... ''unholy'' '''[[MilkingTheGiantCow ACTING TALENT!]]'''
** Zapp Brannigan. He's not an actor, but he'll steal the scene anyway.
** How '''dare''' you not mention Lrrr... [[InsistentTerminology '''RULER OF THE PLANET OMICRON PERSEI 8!''']]
** Puny tropers would do well to list Morbo as well!!!!!
** The Nibblonians.
*** Not to mention that they would eat the Large Ham too.
** "WELCOME, TO THE WORLLLLLD OF TOMORROWWWWWW!"
** "I'M NOT '''''FROM''''' HERE! I'VE GOT MY '''''OWN''''' CUSTOMS! LOOK AT MY '''''CRAAAAZY''''' PASSPORT!"
* LargeHamTitle: Lrrr, '''RULER OF THE PLANET OMICRON PERSEI 8!'''. He even shouts it when he's trying to [[PaperThinDisguise go incognito]].
* LastNameBasis: Fry's full name is "Phillip J. Fry". This gets a {{lampshade|Hanging}} by Amy in one episode. AndZoidberg (John).
** Apparently this with Turanga Leela; but eventually subverted when we discover in that Leela's parents are "Turanga Morris" and "Turanga Munda", indicating that mutants arrange their names Asian style, with the family name first.
* LatinLand: The Tijuana from "Lethal Inspection" is a textbook example.
* LeadTheTarget
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall:
** In "Fear of a Bot Planet", immediately before a commercial break:
-->'''Leela:''' This is a difficult decision! If only I had 2 to 3 minutes to think it over!
** The entire opening to ''Bender's Big Score''.
** And in the first episode of the newest season, "It's some kind of new, comedy-central channel! And we're on it now!"
** Robot Devil has a couple in the ex-series finale:
*** [after his own name is selected for Fry's hands] "What an appallingly ironic outcome!"
*** "Ah, my ridiculously circuitous plan is one quarter complete!"
** Upon completion of the FonFon-Rubok ceremony in "The Beast With A Billion Backs", Amy joyously declares "Oh, Kif, this is just like a movie with this happening in it!"
* LEGOGenetics: The Decopodians contain parts of every known marine animal on earth, as well as every Yiddish stereotype imaginable, all wrapped up in the body of a six-foot-tall humanoid lobster.
* LeastCommonPizzaTopping: Causes a LogicBomb to go off and make the robot waiter self-destruct when Fry tries to order it at Cosmic Ray's Pizzeria.
* LeonardoDaVinci: In "The Duh-Vinci Code".
* LeotardOfPower: Leela when she became a superhero.
* LethalChef: Bender is a literal one, since he has a limited knowledge of organic biology.
** Though to be fair he did make one good dish and the rest of the time he's at least trying.
** If he's following a recipe, he can cook as well as anyone, but he tries to improvise. Without a sense of taste, he has no basis on which to improvise from beyond "throw it into the pot," which doesn't work so well.
* LieDetector: The truthoscope used during the presidential debate in the episode "A Head in the Polls".
* LimitedWardrobe: {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Bender in regards to Fry:
-->'''Bender''': "You own one pair of clothes and you're not taking them off while I'm around."
* LinkedListClueMethodology: Parodied in "The Duh Vinci Code" with Leela [[LampshadeHanging questioning the Professor's clue deductions]], only to be angrily shouted down.
* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: Deconstructed in "Yo Leela Leela".
* LivingCrashpad: Bender has done this to Fry several times.
** The Countess de la Roca (A Flight To Remember) did also, when she fell through the deck of the Titanic, but a family broke her fall. Since she weighs at least two metric tons according to Leela, things probably did not end well for them.
* LockedIntoStrangeness: Parodied with Zoidberg and the space whale. He's so terrified that he grows hair just so it can turn white. Lucky for him, the third time around he stops at the "grow hair" part.
* LogicBomb
-->'''Zap Brannigan''': "I am the man with no name - Zap Brannigan, at your service!"
** More traditionally, Leela attempts this on Robot Santa. His head explodes; however, he was built with "paradox-absorbing crumple zones", so a new head simply springs up to replace the old one.
** An even earlier example a LogicBomb proof robot in "Mother's Day": There's a wax robot janitor taking a nap in the hall of wax robot replicas of famous robots Mom ever built. When Fry tries to figure why the robot would do this, it just ticks him off, prompting an even more bizarre explanation that does nothing but advance Fry's confusion and even frightens him a little.
* LogoJoke: 30th Century Fox.
* LonelyTogether
* LosingYourHead: The heads in jars, Bender, Zoidberg, [[spoiler:Hermes]], Robot Santa (who produced a new one), and technically Fry (his body was damaged so they moved his head to Amy's shoulder).
* LowSpeedChase: There's a chase scene at the Central Bureaucracy on "slowmobiles", hover-scooters that travel at slightly less than walking pace.
* LukeYouAreMyFather: Farnsworth is [[spoiler:Igner's]] father.
* MadeOfEvil
* MadeOfExplodium: One of the bees crashes into the walls of the hive and explodes in "The Sting". As of the 2010 Christmas special episode, it appears ALL space bees are made of explodium.
** One of Fry's fellow inmates in the robot insane asylum, Malfunctioning Eddie, tends to blow up at the slightest provocation.
* TheMagnificent: The water people's rulers.
* MakeOutPoint: In the robot SlasherMovie.
* MassHypnosis: '''ALL GLORY TO {{THE HYPNOTOAD}}!'''
* MatrixRainingCode: How robots "interface".
* MayContainEvil:
** Slurm, a soda advertised with the slogan "It's highly addictive!"
** The Popplers, which turn out to be the offspring of an alien race.
** The Slurm episode also parodies this with Soylent Cola, the taste of which "varies from person to person".
** Also Soylent Green. Yes, [[SoylentGreen that]] Soylent Green. Everyone is quite aware of [[ImAHumanitarian what it's made of]], no one cares though.
* MeaningfulName: A number of the cast's names are {{ShoutOut}}s or [[GeniusBonus Genius Bonuses]] to some degree.
** Philip J. Fry himself, named for the dearly departed PhilHartman.
** Leela's full name (Turanga Leela) is a direct reference to Olivier Messiaen's famous ''Turangalîla Symphony''.
** Zapp Brannigan's name shares resonance with the semi-obscure term "brannigan", meaning an embarrassing drunken bender.
** Bender... [[spoiler:in more ways than one]].
** And of course, Professor Farnsworth, named after the inventor Philo Farnsworth, who invented the television.
*** And revealed in "All the Presidents' Heads" to actually be a descendant of Philo Farnsworth.
* MechanicalEvolution: In the episode "A Clockwork Origin", Professor Farnsworth releases some {{Nanomachines}} to purify water on an uninhabited planet. Subsequent generations of nanites are more complex, and the situation very quickly gets far out of hand. In one day they become trilobites, the next day there's robot dinosaurs, the next cave-bots, then human-bots, and finally [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence energy beings]].
* MetaphorIsMyMiddleName: Bending is Bender's middle name. His full name is Bender Bending Rodriguez.
* {{Metaphorgotten}}: A lot. Zapp Brannigan and Fry being the more notable offenders.
--> '''Fry''': Bender! You can't date the ship! It would be like me dating a really fat lady, and then living inside her! And she'd be all (makes space travel motions with his hands) Vrrrroooom vrwooo bweeee zooom!
--> '''Fry''': [[LampshadeHanging Like a balloon! And then something bad happens]]!
--> '''Zapp''': "If we hit that bullseye, the rest of those dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate."
** In the Season 6 episode "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences":
-->'''''Scary Door'' intro''' You're taking a vacation from normalcy. The setting; a weird motel with a bed that is stained with mystery. And there's also some mystery floating in the pool. Your key card may not open the exercise room because someone smeared mystery on the lock.
* MermaidProblem
* MileHighClub: An inversion in "The Duh-Vinci Code". While searching for a tomb underneath Rome, Fry asks Leela if she wants to join the "Mile Deep Club". She consents but they're interrupted by the Professor.
* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: In one "What if" story, Fry destroys the entire universe with a time paradox.
* MindScrew: "The Sting". And how!
** "Obsoletely Fabulous" ventures here too but more mildly. The bulk of the episode is just a long string of [[spoiler:fictitious events in Bender's head to make him appreciate the 1-X robots.]]
* MisfitMobilizationMoment: In Bender's big score, this happens in the climactic battle against the scammers when Hermes' head is plugged directly into the battlegrid. Cue ThemeMusicPowerUp and much ass-kicking.
* MistakenForExhibit: In "Mother's Day", Fry justly mistakes the janitor (who happens to be a robot made out of wax) for one of the wax robot sculptures in a museum.
* MisterSeahorse: Kif Kroker's species has "males" who become pregnant by absorbing genetic material from other lifeforms via skin contact. In another episode, Bender allows Fry and Leela to homebrew beer inside his torso and it's treated like a case of pregnancy. In one of the spin-off comics, Zapp Brannigan basically gets this with the intent of using him as a human weapon.
* MobstacleCourse: Bender's cow catcher on Freedom Day.
* ModernMajorGeneral: Zapp, at times.
* MonsterProgenitor: The Project Satan to all Were-cars.
* MoralityDial
* MoreDakka: Mom's killbots, which have a [[GatlingGood minigun]] on each arm and one on their chest. [[SubvertedTrope They only ever manage to kill]] [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace each other]]
* {{Mutants}}: A group of them live underneath the city in its {{Absurdly Spacious Sewer}}s, including [[spoiler:Leela's parents]]
* MisguidedMissile
* ModestyBedsheet: Morgan Proctor, when she and Fry got caught having sex in Bender's closet, and then running out to catch a taxi with the bedsheet covering her when Bender figures out the truth about her.
* MoodWhiplash: Coma-coma-coma-coma-coma-[[CultureClub chameleon...]]
* MultiArmedMultitasking: Elzar. The DVD commentary mentions that the animators went out of their way to have each arm work independently rather than have each arm on either side move in the same way.
* MushroomSamba: In the episode "Hell is Other Robots", Bender injects himself with electricity causing him to go on a mind trip.
** Fry also undergoes one in "A Fishful of Dollars" after being whacked on the head by Igner, robbed of his money, and dumped in front of his apartment. This MushroomSamba is also responsible for being the TropeNamer for StuffyOldSongsAboutTheButtocks.
* MustMakeAmends: Fry finds his old dog from the 20th century fossilized in a construction site. Feeling bad for abandoning it (despite not meaning to) he arranges for the professor to actually revive it. With Science!
** In that same episode, Bender, in a fit of jealousy, literally kicked said dog's fossil into hot lava, but after realizing what he did, he went in to save him and recovered him.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: "I just told you, you've killed me!"
** "What have I [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble will have done]]?!"
* NamesTheSame: Mike Rowe and Josh Weinstein are members of the production crew. However, they aren't [[DirtyJobs that Mike Rowe]] or [[MysteryScienceTheater3000 that Josh Weinstein]].
* NauseaDissonance: In "Parasites Lost", after learning there are worms inside Fry's body:
-->'''Hermes:''' (''eating popcorn'') It's nauseating, mon! (''eats more popcorn'') Is there no way to get rid of the disgusting maggots?
* NegativeContinuity: Strongly subverted between the 1st and 2nd direct-to-TV movies.
* NeverTrustATrailer: The commercials for "Neutopia" made it appear that the cast being [[GenderBender Gender Bent]] would be the focus of the episode. It doesn't happen until the last five minutes, and most of the jokes in those five minutes were shown in the commercials.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Bender's robotic abilities, Leela's armband, Kif and Zoidberg's BizarreAlienBiology.
* NighInvulnerable: Lampshaded by Bender.
-->'''Bender:''' Geez, what does it take to kill me?
* NightmarishFactory
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Zapp Brannigan. The original concept for the character was "What if {{William Shatner}} was the captain of the ''[[StarTrek Enterprise]]'' instead of James Kirk?"
** Elzar is a clear parody of tv chef Emeril Lagasse.
* NoodleImplement / ChekhovsGun: And this is from the ''very first episode.'' Professor Farnsworth introduces a drawer full of "assorted lengths of wire" to distract Fry, Leela and Bender from the fact that he has a spaceship in "Space Pilot 3000". In "The Farnsworth Parabox", a full '''''4 seasons later''''', they are used as tools to help the gang and their Universe-1 counterparts find the missing box with Universe-A.
* NoRomanticResolution: Not for Fry and Leela, anyway.
* NotMeThisTime: In ''Futurama: The Game'', Bender says this when they find the ship badly damaged. It turns out that [[spoiler:[[StableTimeLoop he (as well as Fry and Leela) ''did'' do it]].]]
* NotRareOverThere: In "Time Keeps On Slippin'", a character mentions that they'll need "some sort of doomsday device" to solve the problem of the week. Quoth [[MadScientist Prof. Farnsworth]];
-->'''Farnsworth:''' ''Doomsday device?'' Well now the ball's in Farnsworth's court!
-->''[The professor presses a button on a remote, causing several different stereotypically "mad scientist" style machines to come up through a trap door]''
-->'''Farnsworth:''' I suppose I could part with one and still be feared.
* TheNotSoHarmlessPunishment: From "Space Pilot 3000,"
--> '''Fry:''' And what if I don't want to be a delivery boy?
--> '''Leela:''' Then you'll be fired.
--> '''Fry:''' Fine!
--> '''Leela:''' ...out of a cannon, into the Sun.
* NotThatKindOfDoctor: What happens when Zoidberg's ignorance of human biology is taken to its logical conclusion: his doctorate is in [[ArtMajorBiology Art History]].
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Happens in the episode "Why Must I Be A Crustacean in Love" with Fry when Zoidberg walks in on both Fry and Edna who is kissing him on her sofa.
-->'''Zoidberg''': Edna, I couldn't stand it any longer. I-- Gasp! Fry!
-->'''Fry''': Dr. Zoidberg, it's not how it looks!
-->'''Zoidberg''': Her caviar is on your neck!
