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* FriendVersusLover: Bender vs. Colleen and later Yivo.

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Film came out the year before so it's plausible


* ShoutOut: Bender's fight with Yivo momentarily turns into a re-enactment of Jack Sparrow [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest facing down the Kraken]].

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** The sight of New New York being covered in Yivo's tentacles is very similar to the Martian red weeds covering buildings and everything in ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds''.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Before the Planet Express crew leave to make first-contact with the NegativeSpaceWedgie, the crew receive coffee enemas from an Enema-bot. Coffee enemas actually do exist in real life. It is considered a form of "alternative medicine" and [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment perhaps we should end it there]].
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* DwindlingParty: The Planet Express workers are caught by Yivo's tentacles one by one, until it's just Leela. Played with in that none of the members are killed.
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* NoAnimosityInTheAfterlife: Yivo brings everybody in the universe to his universe so they can live on his planet-sized body, which is essentially a FluffyCloudHeaven where everyone gets along. Even Wernstrom and Farnsworth, who are bitter rivals on Earth, can be seen working together on science projects.
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* FluffyCloudHeaven: What Yivo's body looks like. In fact, Yivo inspired the whole idea of heaven looking like this, because he telepathically transmitted images of his universe to the minds of Earth's artists. Among other things, the "clouds" are a vapor the alien exudes, and stereotypical humanoid "angels" with wings and halos are present, but they're not even sapient; they're just birdlike creatures who eat the parasites on his surface.

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* BizarreAlienBiology: We learn here that Zoidberg has freshwater ''and'' saltwater stomachs. When he's sufficiently touched, he vomits from both of them.

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** The final lifecycle stage of Kif's species is revealed to be a swarm of flying hookworks that act as a colony creature.


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* DidntThinkThisThrough: After the true nature of Yivo's tentacles is revealed to the people of Earth, Fry incites the crowd into attacking Yivo's mouth tentacle... which is using Fry himself as a host.
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* SickeninglySweethearts: Fry and Colleen are this at first. Leela even lampshades it

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* SickeninglySweethearts: Fry and Colleen are this at first. Leela even lampshades it it.
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-->'''Bender:''' Weren't you already pope of something?

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-->'''Bender:''' -->'''Bender:''' ...Weren't you already pope of something?
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* CaughtUpInTheRapture: The universe's human and alien populace ascends to Yivo's universe by means of [[StairwayToHeaven golden escalators]]. Because machines can't enter Yivo's universe, the robots are left behind.


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* StairwayToHeaven: The golden escalators leading to Yivo's universe.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: While sulking that Fry doesn't notice or care about what's going on with him, Bender [[HypocriticalHumor completely fails to react to Fry being parasitized by an enormous Lovecraftian tentacle]].

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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: While sulking that Fry doesn't notice or care about what's going on with him, Bender [[HypocriticalHumor completely fails to react to Fry being visibly parasitized by an enormous Lovecraftian tentacle]].
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-->'''Bender:''' ...Weren't you already pope of something?

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-->'''Bender:''' ...-->'''Bender:''' Weren't you already pope of something?
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: While sulking that Fry doesn't notice or care about what's going on with him, Bender [[HypocriticalHumor completely fails to react to Fry being parasitized by an enormous Lovecraftian tentacle]].
-->'''Fry:''' I'm sorry, I should have asked what was bothering you. I've been kind of preoccupied.
-->'''Bender:''' With ''what?''
-->'''Fry:''' ''(putting on vestments)'' Well, I went to another universe and I fell in love with a giant octopus, and now I'm pope of a new religion.
-->'''Bender:''' ...Weren't you already pope of something?
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* FloweryElizabethanEnglish: Fry starts speaking entirely in King James Bible-style phrases after he emerges from the other universe with a tentacle in his neck. At first you think it's because he's being puppeted by the tentacle, but it turns out [[CloudCuckoolander he's just being Fry]].

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* FloweryElizabethanEnglish: Fry starts speaking entirely in King James Bible-style phrases after he emerges from the other universe with a tentacle in his neck. At first you think it's because he's being puppeted by the tentacle, but it turns out [[CloudCuckoolander he's just being Fry]]. Fry]]:
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-->'''Fry:''' Thus sayeth the tentacle, 'Verily, thou shalt rejoice in the house of the tentacle.'"

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-->'''Fry:''' Thus sayeth the tentacle, 'Verily, thou shalt rejoice in the house of the tentacle.'"tentacle!'"
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* FloweryElizabethanEnglish: Fry starts speaking entirely in King James Bible-style phrases after he emerges from the other universe with a tentacle in his neck. At first you think it's because he's being puppeted by the tentacle, but it turns out [[CloudCuckoolander he's just being Fry]].
-->'''Fry:''' Thus sayeth the tentacle, 'Verily, thou shalt rejoice in the house of the tentacle.'"
-->'''Leela:''' Fry, listen to yourself! You've been brainwashed!
-->'''Fry:''' [[DelusionsOfEloquence No, I'm just trying to fit my diction to the importance of what I'm saying]].

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* AdamAndEvePlot: Zapp suggests he and Leela repopulate the human race when it seems that the two of them and Amy are the last un-tentacled humans on the planet. It doesn't work, though [[spoiler:Zapp does end up sleeping with a grief-stricken Amy]]. [[Recap/FuturamaS6E2InAGaddaDaLeela It's not the last time he'll bring it up.]]

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* AdamAndEvePlot: Zapp suggests he and Leela repopulate the human race when it seems that the two of them and Amy are the last un-tentacled humans on the planet. It doesn't work, though [[spoiler:Zapp Zapp does end up sleeping with a grief-stricken Amy]].Amy. [[Recap/FuturamaS6E2InAGaddaDaLeela It's not the last time he'll bring it up.]]



* BizarreAlienBiology: We learn here that Zoidberg has freshwater ''and'' saltwater stomachs. When he's sufficiently touched, he vomits from both of them.



* TheBusCameBack:
** One of Colleen's co-boyfriends is Bolt Rolands.
** The Grand Midwife returns, also performing the role of Grand Priestess and Grand Funeral Director.
** Robot 1-X returns momentarily in the final act, working for Bender.



** Yivo doesn't like shkler paramour(s) talking to other universes, meaning shke tries to cut off all contact with the now robot filled universe. Because Fry continued to contact Bender afterward, Yivo breaks things off.

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** Yivo doesn't like shkler paramour(s) talking to other universes, meaning shke shkle tries to cut off all contact with the now robot filled universe. Because Fry continued to contact Bender afterward, Yivo breaks things off.



* TheDogBitesBack: Kif punches Zapp in the belly at the end [[spoiler:for sleeping with Amy while Kif was dead]].

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* DeathIsCheap: Kif gets killed in the second part of the movie. Yivo brings him back with ease.
* TheDogBitesBack: Kif punches Zapp in the belly at the end [[spoiler:for for sleeping with Amy while Kif was dead]].dead.



* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Upon completion of the Fon Fon-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!"

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* LampshadeHanging: At the end of the movie, Leela acknowledges that after having spent the entire previous movie pining after Leela, Fry didn't even glance at her in this one.
* LaserGuidedKarma: The Professor planned to fry a giant, medium-sized and sentient ant just to see what the anomaly's rays would do to it. He manages to set himself on fire instead.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Upon completion of the Fon Fon-Rubok ceremony in "The Beast With A Billion Backs", ceremony, Amy joyously declares "Oh, Kif, this is just like a movie with this happening in it!"


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* NegativeSpaceWedgie: The rip in the universe Bender tore open at the end of the previous movie. Nothing electronic can go through it, but organic matter can.


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* PoliceBrutality: Nixon has Colleen, Smitty and URL beat up Farnsworth and Wernstrom just for lightly protesting sending DOOP at the anomaly. Then they're arrested.
* PsychopathicManchild: Bender is particularly psychopathic and manchildish in this one, firmly believing in the League of Robots with a childish enthusiasm ("when I was a kid I had a whole sticker-book of 'em! Answer that with your precious logic!"), while being willing to hand his own son over to the Robot Devil just to get an army to take over the world, ''just because'' Fry isn't paying attention to him.


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* ShoutOut: Bender's fight with Yivo momentarily turns into a re-enactment of Jack Sparrow [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest facing down the Kraken]].


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* TemptingFate: When the Professor and Wernstrom storm the White House, two guards let loose with a barrage of lasers. The first, thinking Pazuzu is gone, remarks they got them, and is grabbed by Pazuzu. His co-worker scolds him for letting his guard down, and promptly gets nabbed himself.
* TheresNoKillLikeOverkill: Bender's choice of weapons for his duel with Calculon? Planetary Annihilators, which cause a massive swath of destruction with one shot.


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* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Leela is implied to have killed (or just crippled) a guard to get the miniature smell-o-scope to the Professor and Wernstorm. Nobody cares, and the moment is never brought up again.
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* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: To avoid putting underaged characters in the vicinity of NaughtyTentacles, the film simply avoids showing children altogether...which gets weird once Earth's entire organic population, including Farnsworth and the Conrads (all parents of grade-school children), vacates the planet and the universe to mutually marry Yivo, intending never to come back. There's not even a perfunctory HandWave.

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* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: To avoid putting underaged characters in the vicinity of NaughtyTentacles, the film simply avoids showing children altogether...which gets weird once all of Earth's entire organic population, beings, including Farnsworth and the Conrads (all parents of grade-school children), vacates vacate the planet and the universe to mutually marry Yivo, intending never to come back. There's not even a perfunctory HandWave.



* TakeOverTheWorld: Bender and [[RobotWar his army]] manage this by happening to demand ownership of Earth at the exact moment that its population universally decides they don't want it anymore. It's an especially hollow victory for Bender, who [[AttentionWhore was only doing it to get a reaction]].

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* TakeOverTheWorld: Bender and [[RobotWar his army]] manage this by happening to demand ownership of Earth at the exact moment that its entire non-robot population universally decides they don't want it anymore. It's an especially hollow victory for Bender, who [[AttentionWhore was only doing it to get a reaction]].
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* TakeOverTheWorld: Bender and [[RobotWar his army]] manage this by happening to demand ownership of Earth at the exact moment that its population universally decides they don't want it anymore. It's an especially hollow victory for Bender, who [[AttentionWhore was only doing it to get a reaction]].

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** Bender with regard to Fry, as he proudly admits.

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** How Crazy Jealous is Bender with regard to Fry, as he proudly admits.his best friend Fry? He kicks his own son into Hell in exchange for an [[LegionsOfHell Army of the Damned]] to TakeOverTheWorld with, all so Fry will stop being distracted with Yivo and pay attention to him.
--->'''Bender:''' My friends, [[SpoofAesop there is no great love without great jealousy!]]
* DealWithTheDevil: Bender's deal with the Robot Devil.

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* CrazyJealousGuy: Yivo doesn't like shkler paramour(s) talking to other universes, meaning shke tries to cut off all contact with the now robot filled universe. Because Fry continued to contact Bender afterward, Yivo breaks things off.

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** Bender with regard to Fry, as he proudly admits.
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* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: To avoid putting underaged characters in the vicinity of NaughtyTentacles, the film simply avoids showing children altogether...which gets weird once every human being on Earth, including Farnsworth and the Conrads (all parents of young children), has made what's intended to be a permanent move to Yivo's dimension without even a HandWave to explain the absent kids.

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* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: To avoid putting underaged characters in the vicinity of NaughtyTentacles, the film simply avoids showing children altogether...which gets weird once every human being on Earth, Earth's entire organic population, including Farnsworth and the Conrads (all parents of young grade-school children), has made what's intended vacates the planet and the universe to be a permanent move mutually marry Yivo, intending never to Yivo's dimension without come back. There's not even a HandWave to explain the absent kids.perfunctory HandWave.
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* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: To avoid the {{Squick}} of putting underaged characters in the vicinity of NaughtyTentacles, the film simply avoids showing children altogether...which gets weird once every human being on Earth, including Farnsworth and the Conrads (all parents of young children), has made what's intended to be a permanent move to Yivo's dimension without even a HandWave to explain the absent kids.

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* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: To avoid the {{Squick}} of putting underaged characters in the vicinity of NaughtyTentacles, the film simply avoids showing children altogether...which gets weird once every human being on Earth, including Farnsworth and the Conrads (all parents of young children), has made what's intended to be a permanent move to Yivo's dimension without even a HandWave to explain the absent kids.

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* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: To avoid the {{Squick}} of putting underaged characters in the vicinity of NaughtyTentacles, the film simply avoids showing children altogether...which gets weird once every human being on Earth, including Farnsworth and the Conrads (all parents of young children), has made what's intended to be a permanent move to Yivo's dimension without even a HandWave to explain the absent kids.



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* WouldHurtAChild: Bender punts his own son [[BlackComedy into a vat of magma.]]

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* WouldHurtAChild: Bender punts his own son [[BlackComedy into a vat of magma.]]]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even the Robot Devil is stunned]].
-->'''Robot Devil''': Wow! That was pretty brutal, even by ''my'' standards!
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-->'''Bender:''' Wait! ''(whispers)'' Take me with you.

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-->'''Bender:''' Wait! ''(whispers)'' Take Let me come with you.
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* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Bender when Fry is about to ascend the escalator to Yivo's dimension.
-->'''Bender:''' Wait! ''(whispers)'' Take me with you.
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** The only human the League of Robots have killed in the past 800 years was "a very sick Girl Scout."
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* PunnyName / GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The title is a parody on "the beast with two backs", which is a euphemism for sex and famously heard in the Shakespeare play ''Othello''.

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* PunnyName / GettingCrapPastTheRadar: PunnyName: The title is a parody on "the beast with two backs", which is a euphemism for sex and famously heard in the Shakespeare play ''Othello''.
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* AndCallHimGeorge: After Bender delivers the SpoofAesop about how all true love is selfish, he declares "I love you guys," and captures Fry and Leela in a hug which causes them to wince in obvious pain.

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