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* TheInternetIsForPorn: After seeing a documentary downloaded for the internet:

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* TheInternetIsForPorn: After seeing a documentary downloaded for from the internet:



* TrashOfTheTitans: An internet video showed that 21st century New York was near completely covered in trash before it was launched into space.
* UltimateJobSecurity: Professor Wernstrom tricks Mayor Poopenmeyer into giving him tenure as part of the plan to get rid of the giant ball of garbage. Afterwards, he refuses to deal with the garbage ball on grounds that he's set for life, leading to this exchange:

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* TrashOfTheTitans: An internet video showed that 21st century New York was near completely covered in trash before it said trash was launched into space.
* UltimateJobSecurity: Professor Wernstrom tricks Mayor Poopenmeyer into giving him tenure as part of the plan to get rid of the giant ball of garbage. Afterwards, he refuses to deal with the garbage ball on the grounds that he's set for life, leading to this exchange:
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* AnswerCut: Wernstrom points out that they will never find a crew willing to take on a [[SuicideMission mission so suicidally dangerous]]. Then the camera pans over to the our heroes.

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* AnswerCut: Wernstrom points out that they will never find a crew willing to take on a [[SuicideMission mission so suicidally dangerous]]. Then the camera pans over to the our heroes.
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* UpsideDownBlueprints: After activating the bomb, the Planet Express crew realize that the timer was installed upside down, so that instead of 25 minutes, the bomb was set to explode in ''52 seconds''. After they barely escape with their lives, Professor Farnsworth wonders how things went wrong, as he holds the bomb's manual upside down.

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* GreenAesop: Spoofed. Garbage saves the day.



* GreenAesop: Spoofed. Garbage saves the day.
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* TheBGrade: Farnsworth's and Wernstrom's feud began when Farnsworth gave Wernstrom an A- on a test, because penmanship counts. Wernstrom gets even by giving Farnsworth "the lowest grade imaginable: an A-minus-''minus''!"

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* TheBGrade: Farnsworth's and Wernstrom's The feud between Farnsworth and Wernstrom began when Farnsworth gave Wernstrom an A- on a test, because penmanship counts. Wernstrom gets even by giving Farnsworth "the lowest grade imaginable: an A-minus-''minus''!"



* DistressCall: They receive one from a crew from Neptune, the messenger suffocating from the stench of the garbage ball.

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* DistressCall: They receive one from a crew from Neptune, with the messenger suffocating from the stench of the garbage ball.
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* CreatorsShowWithinAShow: Some of the garbage comprising the asteroid consists of [[SelfDeprecatingHumor unsold]] [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]] dolls.
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Watched the episode again and was surprised Morbo didn't call Linda by name


* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Morbo and Linda mention that they're based in Los Angeles, but nearly all future episodes show them as being based in New New York. Though this one could be {{hand wave}}d as the network having temporarily relocated them to the west coast to save them from being squished by the ball of garbage.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Morbo and Linda mention that they're based in Los Angeles, but nearly all future episodes show them as being based in New New York. Though this one could be {{hand wave}}d as the network having temporarily relocated them to the west coast to save them from being squished by the ball of garbage. The below line, whilst an EstablishingCharacterMoment, has Morbo simply call Linda "human female" when later episodes make it clear that Linda is one of Morbo's [[OnlyFriend Only Friends]] other than UsefulNotes/RichardNixon. Could also be {{hand wave}}d as Morbo only being recently employed at the news station.
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* LiteralMinded: When Bender finds a talking [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]] doll among the garbage, it says [[CatchPhrase "Eat my shorts!"]]. Bender readily does so.

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* LiteralMinded: When Bender finds a talking [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]] doll among the garbage, it says [[CatchPhrase [[CharacterCatchphrase "Eat my shorts!"]]. Bender readily does so.
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Power Walk was renamed by TRS to Team Power Walk. Removing or reworking misuse when necessary. ZCE.


* PowerWalk: The ''Film/Armageddon1998''[[note]]itself a reference to ''Film/TheRightStuff''[[/note]] example is parodied.
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* YourDaysAreNumbered: The Death Clock shows the time someone is going to die. Though it is off by a few seconds due to "Free Will". Fry tests the device, and everyone is shocked to see when it says he's going to die.
-->'''Bender:''' Dibs on the CD Player!
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''Mr Bender's Wardrobe by Robotany 500''

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''Mr ''[[CouchGag Mr. Bender's Wardrobe by Robotany 500''
500]]''
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* SixIsNine: The plan to blow up the garbage asteroid fails because Prof. Farnsworth put the detonator display upside down, so the bomb was set to 52 seconds instead of 25 minutes.

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* SixIsNine: The plan to blow up the garbage asteroid fails because Prof. Farnsworth [[CalculatorSpelling put the detonator display upside down, down]], so the bomb was set to 52 seconds instead of 25 minutes.
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* WholePlotReference: To ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'', especially the middle act.

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* WholePlotReference: To ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'', ''Film/Armageddon1998'', especially the middle act.
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* PowerWalk: The ''Film/{{Armageddon}}''[[note]]itself a reference to ''Film/TheRightStuff''[[/note]] example is parodied.

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* PowerWalk: The ''Film/{{Armageddon}}''[[note]]itself ''Film/Armageddon1998''[[note]]itself a reference to ''Film/TheRightStuff''[[/note]] example is parodied.
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* OhCrap: Said by Bender when Wernstrom says a mission to blow up the garbage ball is suicidal, followed by Farnsworth looking happily at the crew.
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* HurlItIntoTheSun: They end up making a second trash asteroid and using it to knock the first one into the sun.
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* AllGravityIsTheSame: The trash asteroid seems to have the same gravity as Earth.


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* LandfillBeyondTheStars: All New York's garbage was launched into space where it became a garbage asteroid.


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* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: The first case of the gang having to work with the New New York mayor to save the world. Justified somewhat when the better scientist Wernstrom backs out after getting tenure and the mayor has to settle for Farnsworth.


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* TrashOfTheTitans: An internet video showed that 21st century New York was near completely covered in trash before it was launched into space.
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* MundaneSolution: While proposing the idea to deflect the garbage ball with another ball, Farnsworth is unable to think of a substance with the same physical properties as garbage. Fry suggests using garbage. The mayor then says that the city has no garbage, and Fry suggests that they make some by throwing away whatever they have on hand.
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-->'''Professor Farnsworth:''' Five, four, three, two, three, four, five, six...
-->'''Leela:''' Just fire the damn thing.

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-->'''Professor --->'''Professor Farnsworth:''' Five, four, three, two, three, four, five, six...
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six...\\
'''Leela:'''
Just fire the damn thing.
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''Mr Bender's Wardrobe by Robotany 500''
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The Professor's screw-up with the bomb timer is inspired by a story involving a terrorist attack in Manila in the early 1990s. Reportedly, the clock display on a bomb used by the terrorists was fitted upside-down, and so when they tried to set it for ten minutes (10:00), they unwittingly set it for one second (00:01) and of course blew themselves to kingdom come as soon as they activated the timer. That particular aspect of the story is in all likelihood an urban legend, though the rest of it is true, including the attack going wrong because of some kind of error arming the bomb.
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-->'''Farnsworth:''' I demand you fire him!\\

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-->'''Farnsworth:''' I demand you fire him!\\-->'''Leela:''' That rat! Do something!\\
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* {{Sexposition}}: The documentary that explains how the garbage ball came to be also doubles as a porno film, which plays after the exposition part is over.
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* TheNoseKnows: Invoked In-Universe thanks to the Smelloscope.
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* UltimateJobSecurity: Professor Wernstrom tricks Mayor Poopenmeyer into giving him tenure as part of the plan to get rid of the giant ball of garbage. Afterwards, he refuses to deal with the garbage ball on grounds that he's set for life, leading to this exchange:
-->'''Farnsworth:''' I demand you fire him!\\
'''Mayor Poopenmeyer:''' I would, but he's got tenure.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Morbo and Linda mention that they're based in Los Angeles, but nearly all future episodes show them as being based in New New York. Though this one could be {{hand wave}}d as the network having temporarily relocated them to the west coast to save them from being squished by the ball of garbage.
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* DistressCall: They receive one from a crew from Neptune.

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* DistressCall: They receive one from a crew from Neptune.Neptune, the messenger suffocating from the stench of the garbage ball.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When the time bomb plan fails, the mayor calls on Wernstrom for a solution. But when his demands are met, he leaves them their fate while he's "set for life".

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