History Futurama / TropesIToN

* NumberTwo: Hermes appears to be Professor Farnsworth's second in command as he usually fulfills and gives commands to the crew members when Farnsworth is away. [[spoiler: In Tip of the Zoidberg, Zoidberg is revealed to be Farnsworth's most trusted friend in the company, as he enlisted him so that Zoidberg can mercy kill him in the future when the Yetism advances, meaning that Hermes is his second-in-command in the business.]]

* NightmarishFactory

* MustMakeAmends: Fry finds his old dog Scruffy from the 20th century fossilized in a construction site. Feeling bad for abandoning him (despite his being involuntarily frozen) he arranges for the Professor to revive it. With Science!
** In that same episode, Bender, in a fit of jealousy, literally kicks said dog's fossil into hot lava, but after realizing what he has done (broken his friend Fry's heart), Bender dives into the lava to recover Scruffy.

* NotAllowedToGrowUp: The show makes it pretty clear that several years do go by during the seasons (the pilot episode is set on New Year's Eve 2999, while as of season 7 it is already 3012), but none of the characters ever seem to age. This can be justified for the adult characters since some of them are aliens (who believably would age at a slower rate than humans) or robots (who don't age in the first place), and the average life expectancy for humans has drastically increased in the 31th century, but it's very noticeable with the child characters. Cubert, Dwight, and the Cookieville Orphans constantly remain at the same age as they were upon their introduction.

* NotablyQuickDeliberation:
** Spoofed in one episode. The jury dramatically walked into a room to deliberate and then immediately walked out the next door. And then declared the defendant guilty.
** Another episode has a Supreme Court case in which the justices decide "using high-speed telepathy" in a matter of moments.

* NotEvenBotheringWithAnExcuse: In "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E4TheLuckOfTheFryrish The Luck of the Fryrish]]", Bender is fixing a horse race by crawling around in a [[PaperThinDisguise bad horse costume]] drugging the other horses with Comatonin to make them sleepy, when he's confronted by a tiny jockey.
-->'''Jockey''': Hey! What are you doing?\\
'''Bender''': This. (drugs jockey)

* KentBrockmanNews: Morbo and Linda. They're presented in a format similar to TheTropeNamer, but when the alien Morbo often comments on how he and his race hates all other living things (especially humans), and suggests that invasion or some other unpleasantness will ensue, Linda, his human co-anchor, only and always absent-mindedly reacts with airheaded laughter.

* KentBrockmanNews: Morbo and Linda. They're presented in a format similar to Kent Brockman himself, but with Morbo often talks about how he hates all other living things, especially humans. Linda, his co-anchor, often gives him airheaded laughs.

* 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.

* {{Mutants}}: A group of them live underneath the city in its {{Absurdly Spacious Sewer}}s, including [[spoiler:Leela's parents]]

* MistakenForInsane: In "Insane in the Mainframe," Bender and Fry's lawyer [[ObfuscatingInsanity pleads insanity]] after they're framed for a murder case (by Roberto, the real culprit), and as the mental facilities for humans are overcrowded (due to poverty being declared a mental illness), the human Fry alongside Bender is sent to a robot institution. Soon after discovering how horrific conditions in a robot mental institution are for a human, Fry tries to convince everybody that he's not actually a robot, but they assume he's just delusional. Eventually, his spirit is so broken down that he ''actually'' becomes delusional, believing he's a robot.

* MistakenForInsane: In "Insane in the Mainframe," Bender and Fry's lawyer [[ObfuscatingInsanity pleads insanity]] after they're framed for a murder case, so Bender and Fry are sent to a robot institution. Fry tries to convince everybody that he's not actually a robot, but they assume he's just delusional. Eventually, his spirit is so broken down that he ''actually'' becomes delusional, believing he's a robot.

* 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]].

** In one of the "Anthology of Interest" segments, Leela kills Bender by smashing the glass door of a microwave, activating it, bathing Bender in the unleashed radiation, causing him to fall apart.

* MetaphorIsMyMiddleName: Bending is Bender's middle name. His full name is Bender Bending Rodriguez.

%%* MassHypnosis: '''ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!'''
%%* MatrixRainingCode: How robots "interface".

* MesACrowd: Bender, in "Benderama".

* TheMeaningOfLife: While Fry, Bender and The Professor are [[spoiler:watching the universe end.]]
-->'''Fry:''' Hey, uh... What was the purpose of life, anyway?
-->'''Professor:''' Who knows? Probably some hogwash about the human spirit.
-->'''Bender:''' Mm-hm.
-->'''Fry:''' Sounds about right.

* MayDecemberRomance: Exagerated. The Professor, who is over 150 years old, gets into a relationship with a girl in her early 20s at one point.

* MagicPants: Alcazar from "A Bicyclops Built for Two" is ultimately foiled because he had to rent a tux that [[VoluntaryShapeshifting changes shape]].

* LogicBomb: Averted with 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 the robot off, prompting an even more bizarre explanation that does nothing but advance Fry's confusion and even frightens him a little.

* KillThePoor: In the future, the unemployment problem was "solved" by making it illegal to be unemployed.
** Also, poverty was declared a mental illness.

* JustFriends: Fry and Leela. [[spoiler: They eventually do become a couple in later seasons ]]

* JokerImmunity: Robot Santa is established as ''very hard'' to damage, let alone destroy. Leela's attempt to destroy him by telling him a logical paradox doesn't woek because he has paradox-proof hardware.

* {{Jerkass}}:
** Bender, especially in the last seasons.
** Zapp Brannigan is smugness and sexism incarnate.
** Calculon, until he gets some belated CharacterDevelopment in Season 7.
* JerkassGenie: Most deals the Robot Devil makes:
** Fry want robot hands but he is given many bad random possible choices. RD then tries to renege on the deal.
** Leela trades a hand for Calculon's ears, but RD says it's her hand ''in marriage'' to force Fry back on his deal.
** Even the deal with Calculon was this, with Calculon trading some unknown object/favor for "un-holy unholy ACTING TALENT", but simply being made into a LargeHam.

* IsTheAnswerToThisQuestionYes: "Is the Space-Pope reptilian?" "Yes".
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: In "Why Must I Be A Crustacean In Love", we get this exchange:
-->'''Leela''': No offense, Fry, but you've become a fat sack of crap.
-->'''Fry''' (indignantly): ''Sack?''
** 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?!''
** When two truckers are insulting Leela:
---> '''Trucker''': Yeah, you're right. She ain't gots enough meat for a guy like me.\\
'''Fry''': Yes she does! She's loaded with meat!
** The alternate universe Amy finds the original's nail polish color offensive.
---> "Our professor was right! You are evil...and shallow!"\\
"I am not evil!"

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Bender to Flexo's not-quite-divorced robot wife who remembers that she loves Flexo after all.
** Fry in Bender's big score. After seeing how crushed Leela was when Lars left her, he decides to bring them back together. He sums it up in a very touching and beautiful scene
---> Fry: Leela, I want what'll make you happy, not what'll make me happy."
*** [[spoiler: Lars turned out to be a time paradox duplicate of Fry. He left her because he knew he was doomed and wanted to spare her the pain of losing him.]]
* IWasQuiteALooker: Farnsworth upon seeing [[spoiler: old Fry and Leela]] exclaims [[HypocriticalHumor "someones beaten you two with]] [[LampshadedTrope with the old and ugly stick!"]]
* 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.

** Another example from was when Roberto robbed the bank by punching through a large plate glass window clearly marked "laser-proof":

* IronLady: Parodied with DaChief in "Law & Oracle".

* InterdimensionalTravelDevice: Farnsworth invents the parabox which allows travel to different realities, including one where Fry and Leela are married.

* InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube: In "Attack Of The Killer App", Fry inflicts this to Leela (by filming and sending on Twitter her singing wart).[[spoiler: Later in the same episode, he does the same to himself as a repentance.]]

* 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.

* TheInspectorIsComing: In [[Recap/FuturamaS2E11HowHermesRequisitionedHisGrooveBack "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back"]], Hermes' office is all cleaned up for the inspector from the Central Bureaucracy, but it gets trashed. He attempts suicide, but the inspector talks him out of it by telling him he hasn't done the required paperwork.

* 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.]]

* InfectionScene: In "Cold Warriors," Planet Express gets quarantined because of a common cold outbreak (since humanity has lost its immunity to the cold, it spreads much more quickly), but Bender (who is immune due to being a robot) breaks out to avoid playing caretaker. Unfortunately, Zoidberg sneezes a bunch of green gunk onto Bender, which stays on Bender's fingers after he breaks quarantine. Bender then proceeds to shake the hands of all the CDC workers overseeing the quarantine, except the last worker, who gets his cheeks affectionately pinched by Bender, leaving green gunk all over his face. All the workers start coughing, and it soon spins into a full-blown epidemic.
* 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 Series/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.