History Futurama / TropesOToS

** Igner is [[the bastard offspring of one of Mom's trysts with Professor Farsnworth.]]

* TheReveal: On numerous occasions.

* RandomlyReversedLetters: In the episode "Bender Gets Made," the sign on Tinny Tim (a robot designed to resemble a crippled child)'s oil-ade stand has a backwards L and E. This gets lampshaded by Tim himself:

* SmallNameBigEgo: Bender and Zapp Brannigan.

* SimpleCountryLawyer: The hyperchicken as well as Old Man Waterfall.

* ShownTheirWork: In the Pilot, Bender mentions that the Head Museum is free on Tuesdays. As it turns out, December 31st, 2999 is, in fact, a Tuesday!

* SecretRelationship: When Hermes is temporarily replaced by bureaucrat Morgan Proctor, she becomes infatuated with Fry because she has a kink for dirty slobs. However, she wants to keep it secret from everyone and states that she will deny their affair if Fry tries to reveal it.
--> '''Fry''': Just like every other woman I've dated.

* RubeGoldbergHatesYourGuts: the episode "The Tip of the Zoidberg" has the protagonists use one on the professor. Being a Rube Goldberg Device, it was not quick, allowing time for the execution to be interrupted. After Farnsworth is removed, more events happen, destroying the device. Amy comments that none of those were supposed to happen.

* RoboticTortureDevice: The Probulator.

* RobotAntennae: Mom builds all her robots this way. She says that most people think she does that for the aesthetic purpose, but she really does it so she can control all the robots she sells by remote control. This hasn't stopped the show from making several juvenile penis jokes about Bender's antenna.
* RobotHair: Any {{Fembot}} that appears tends to have some sort of hair-like structure on their head, notably Bender [[GenderBender as Coilette]].
* RobotKid: Tinny Tim.

** [[spoiler: Leela sees Cubert as this in "The Late Philip J. Fry".]]

** Double subverted on more than one occasion. In one episode, aliens cause untold devastation, and Fry comments that "[[GenreSavvy At the end of the episode]], [[StatusQuoIsGod everything is back to normal]]"... only to have the last shot be of all the devastation... which is [[SnapBack promptly back to normal]] the next. Another one: Fry is fired from his job (for ruining Professor Farnsworth's... everything), but Farnsworth was willing to forgive him because he couldn't even remember why he fired him. Then Bender reminds him exactly why, and Farnsworth tells him to get lost. He's back to working the next episode.

* RelationshipUpgrade: In the closing moments of ''Into The Wild Green Yonder'' when Leela officially returned Fry's feelings and kissed him. Appears to have stuck with the premiere of the new season.

** Parodied in the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' episode. Welshie, a stand-in for James Doohan, is killed by the energy being. Said energy being proceeds to zap the corpse out of frustration several times, eventually vaporizing it.

* RecurringExtra: Number 9 Man

* RandomlyReversedLetters: In the episode "Bender Gets Made," the sign on Tinny Tim's oil-ade stand has a backwards L and E. This gets lampshaded by Tim himself:

* PunchParry: Bender and Flexo.

* ThePublicDomainChannel: A different old cartoon in every title sequence. Zapp is also shown to be watching an old cartoon in one episode.

-->'''Roberto:''' I was designed by a team of engineers attempting to build an insane robot but it seems, they failed!\\

* PrecrimeArrest: ''Futurama'' parodies ''Film/MinorityReport'' in an episode where Fry joins the police's Future Crimes division.

* PrecrimeArrest: ''Futurama'' parodies ''Film/MinorityReport'' in an episode where Fry joins the police's Future Crimes division.
* PregnantReptile: Done with Kif, who is an alien that is basically humanoid, but has BizarreAlienBiology that points to him being some sort of amphibian. When he gets [[MisterSeahorse pregnant]], however, he winds up giving birth to a collection of tadpoles. It's an [[InterspeciesRomance interspecies]] example, too, as the biological mother is [[spoiler:Leela]].
* PressHat: Looks like reporters will still wear Press-credential hats in the 3000s. Throughout the series, multiple reporter characters wear hats with Press notes.
* ProductDeliveryOrdeal: The main characters work for an intergalactic delivery service that advertises itself as willing to take on the most difficult of deliveries, no matter what happens to their crews. Meaning that hazardous deliveries form the set up for at least half the episodes, and most of the B Plots.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Originally Billy West, Katey Segal and John [=DiMaggio=] were the only castmembers credited as regulars. Maurice [=LaMarche=], Lauren Tom, Phil [=LaMarrr=] and David Herman were all recurring or special guests for the first four seasons (despite appearing in most episodes). Tress [=MacNeille=] was added to the main cast in season 2, [=LaMarche=] in season 5 and the others followed suit in season 6.
* PromotedToScapegoat: In the episode "A Flight to Remember" Zapp Brannigan, being the failure that he is, decides to needlessly go off course, through a field of comets. To get away from the field of comets he flies the ship toward a black hole. After realizing he has doomed the ship, he proclaims a captain must go down with his ship, [[DirtyCoward promotes Kif to captain, congratulates Kif on his promotion, and takes an]] {{escape pod}}.
* ProWrestlingEpisode: "Raging Bender".
* ThePratfall: Amy in her klutzy mode would often perform these.

* {{Portmanteau}}: When Leela takes Fry and Bender to a farmer's market, Fry samples some genuine Amazonian maple syrup. When he compliments the hulkish girls on the syrup, they start coming onto him. Fry shows both his fear and anticipation.

* PostPeakOil: Fossil fuels ran out in the 2050s, forcing vehicles to run on whale oil. But for a while, vehicles ran on dark matter. Which is actually [[spoiler:Nibblonian poop]].

* PrecrimeArrest: ''Futurama'' parodied ''Film/MinorityReport'' in an episode where Fry joined the police's Future Crimes division.

* {{Portmanteau}}: When Leela takes Fry and Bender to a farmer's market, Fry samples some genuine Amazonian maple syrup. When he compliments the girls on the syrup, they start coming onto him. Fry shows both his fear and anticipation.

--->'''Fry:''' Bees make honey ''and'' jelly? How come nothing humans make taste good?

* PlanetaryCoreManipulation: In "That Darn Katz!", Amy invents a device that channels energy from the Earth's rotation, connected straight to the mantle. Cats use it to slow down the Earth's rotation to replace their dying home planet. Amy saves the day by [[spoiler:putting the device in reverse so that the planet starts rotating again, only in reverse.]]
* PlanetaryNation: Played with in regards to Earth itself. Earth has its own overarching government ([[AmericaTakesOverTheWorld that is somehow also the American government and based on American governmental traditions]]), but other nations are shown to still exist with their own set of laws. And then its usually played straight when any other planets show up (which is normally OnceAnEpisode).
* PlanetaryRelocation:
** "[[Recap/FuturamaS4E8CrimesOfTheHot Crimes of The Hot]]" has global warming caused by robot emissions cause Nixon to resort to gathering all robots to the Galapagos Island in order to kill them with an EM blast. In order to both save them and solve the problem of global warming, Farnsworth has all the robots vent their exhaust upwards to physically move the Earth out of the way and into a larger orbit, thus cooling it(and also extending the year by a week).
** "[[Recap/FuturamaS7E2AFarewellToArms A Farewell To Arms]]" has the threat of a dangerous solar flare actually hit Mars instead of Earth like the people on the latter planet thought, causing the methane pockets to ignite and blast Mars out of its orbit. It just ''narrowly'' avoids [[ColonyDrop colliding with the Earth]] before leaving.
* PlanetBaron: Amy Wong's parents claim ownership of literally the entire northern hemisphere of Mars as part of "Wong Ranch", among other ventures.
** Lrrr is the ruler of the planet Omicron Persei 8, a fact that is reiterated [[{{Catchphrase}} every single time he appears on the show]].

** The Mobster planet, where Fry received the Kiss of Death by a guy named Vinnie, but Fry thought he was gay.

* PlanetaryCoreManipulation: In "That Darn Katz!", Amy invents a device that channels energy from the earth's rotation, connected straight to the mantle. Cats use it to slow down the Earth's rotation to replace their dying home planet. Amy saves the day by [[spoiler:putting the device in reverse so that the planet starts rotating again, only in reverse.]]

** Amy Wong, one of the main characters in the series, and a GirlyGirl, especially when compared to [[Action Girl Leela]]. She's openly promiscuous and a source of fanservice for the show. She wears pink clothes, has a pink bed and has a pink bedside table.

** Amy Wong is one of the main characters in the series, she's openly promiscuous and a source of fanservice for the show. She wears pink clothes, has a pink bed and has a pink bedside table.

* PassThePopcorn: During Fry's colonoscopy.

** Fry's dad grew up without a father. Since Fry's dad's father [[spoiler: turned out to be Fry himself]], that's probably just as well.

* PacManFever: In "Rebirth", Fry is seen complaining about how the ship's ''Gameboy'' isn't working while holding a ''NES controller''. Complete with sounds from the original Donkey Kong! OK, [[TheDItz it's Fry]], but you'd think if he has one area of expertise, it's video games.