History Recap / FuturamaS2E10ACloneOfMyOwn

* BasedOnADream: [[invoked]] According to Professor Farnsworth, all his inventions came to him in dreams (and then forgot them in different dreams). Later, Cubert figures out how the PE ship engines work from a dream he has while unconscious.

** Bender letting it slip that Cubert is a bedwetter after Cubert says that robots are good at keeping secrets.

* FauxHorrific: Inside the Near-Death Star, the old people are put in a virtual world where they think they're living in a facility in Florida, spending all day playing bingo, eating oatmeal and waiting for their family to call. The crew react in absolute horror.

* LogicalLatecomer: The writers originally meant Cubert to be the character who points out the show's logical inconsistencies and scientific inaccuracies, as seen in the scenes where he sizes up the PE crew and mocks the Professor's inventions. This was dropped in subsequent appearances.

* NonIndicativeName: The cells at the Near Death Star have names sounding like... well, ordinary streets.

** When Cubert's unfrozen:

* SeizeThem: Shouted by the Near-Death Star guards; one shouts "Get them!" by mistake, then corrects himself.
* SelfDeprecation: When Cubert starts listing meaningful jobs he wants to take (none of which sound ''that'' meaningful) the last is "science-fiction cartoon writer".[[note]]Though it's pretty amusing Fridge when you remember a lot of the writers hold Harvard degrees, mimicing how Cubert is supposed to be super-smart.[[/note]]

* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: On Professor Farnsworth's final message to the PE staff, he accurately predicts Bender making a smart remark and reveals he has taken pre-emptive vengeance by recording said message over Bender's soaps.

* WouldHurtAChild: Bender, to no-one's surprise, starts hurting Cubert in the third act, starting with zapping him after yet another rude put-down from the kid.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: As the Professor lists all the dark secrets of the Mars University faculty, his last is Wernstrom, to whom the Professor can only growl "Wernstrom!"

* TakeThatUs: When Cubert starts listing meaningful jobs he wants to take (none of which sound ''that'' meaningful) the last is "science-fiction cartoon writer".[[note]]Though it's pretty amusing Fridge when you remember a lot of the writers hold Harvard degrees, mimicing how Cubert is supposed to be super-smart.[[/note]]

* PrecisionFStrike: Leela refers to Fry as "you bastard." The show uses the word on other occasions but here it seems out of place. It was likely in regards to Bender's 'shocking' comment about how young people use curse words, which came immediately before both Fry and Leele used a swear.

* PrecisionFStrike: Leela refers to Fry as "you bastard." The show uses the word on other occasions but here it seems out of place.

* ImmediateSelfContradiction:
-->'''Cubert:''' We'll never find this place. Robots are very good at keeping secrets.\\
'''Bender:''' No, we're not, you little bedwetter! Oops, I'm sorry.

-->It's ''Showtime at The Apollo'' all over again[[note]]and, in the first "Anthology of Interest" episode, he wrecked the Apollo Theater for getting booed on open-mic night[[/note]].

-->'''Cubert''': What? You've never seen a genius's wiener before?\\

-->'''Zoidberg:''' Good evening, ladies and germs. [RimShot] That wasn't a joke. I was talking to Dean Streptococcus.

* UniversalTranslator: One of the Professor's inventions, only so far it only translates into an "incomprehensible dead language" (French).

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: As the Professor lists all the dark secrets of the Mars University faculty, his last is Wernstrom, to whom the Professor can only growl "Wernstrom!"

* LampshadeHanging[=/=]FridgeLogic: Cubert spends a fair portion pointing out all of the incongruities in the InUniverse science and natural laws.

-->It's Showtime at The Apollo all over again.

'''Fry''': Well, once in the park-

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-->'''Cubert:''' Look, Professor. I may be identical to you in every possible way, but that doesn't mean I'm anything like you!

** The Professor's failed time-machine is designed after the one from ''Film/TheTimeMachine2002''.
** The Near-Death Star. Taken further when the security droids' speeders use the sound effects of [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi the speeder bikes]]. Likewise, the Professor's recorded message ends with him turning off the recorder, a la Leia in ''Film/ANewHope''.

* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Fry bluffs the Near-Death Star robots by saying he has "Talking Hump Syndrome". They buy it.

* TheLoad: Cubert. The crew even disguise him as a hump on Fry's back at one point to sneak into a place.

* TakeThatUs: When Cubert starts listing meaningful jobs he wants to take (none of which sound ''that'' meaningful) the last is "science-fiction cartoon writer".

* BasedOnADream: According to Professor Farnsworth, all his inventions came to him in dreams (and then forgot them in different dreams). Later, Cubert figures out how the PE ship engines work from a dream he has while unconscious.

** The Professor's failed time-machine is designed after the one from ''Film/TheTimeMachine''.