History Recap / FuturamaS2E19TheCryonicWoman

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Amy, Hermes and Zoidberg's adventure in the fantasy planet (where everyone's fantasies come to life) goes completely unseen. All we hear about it is that it was "great" (Amy), "organized" (Hermes) and that it let [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Zoidberg live life as a grandmother]].

* TeenageWasteland: Fry thinks this is the case with the kids who capture him and Michelle... until their mothers come to pick them up for Hebrew school.

* AllTakeAndNoGive: Michelle has been on both sides of this equation. Her ex-boyfriend used her to pay for law school and dumped her as soon as he graduated. In the future, Michelle makes unreasonable demands of Fry starting from knowing he fits in and she doesn't, culminating in forcing Fry to fight for power in the supposed 40th century tribe they're stuck with.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Michelle claims that Fry's parents were so indifferent to his disappearance that they thought a police search would be a "waste of tax-payers money." Later episodes like "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E4TheLuckOfTheFryrish Luck of the Fryrish]]", "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E24ColdWarriors Cold Warriors]]" and "[[Recap/FuturamaS7E23GameOfTones Game of Tones]]", would show that all Fry's relatives cared for him deeply despite their oddness and seeming jerkishness.

** The Professor angrily declares he should fire Fry, Leela and Bender after what they did, but he's not cold-hearted enough. He then immediately turns to Hermes, who ''is'' cold-hearted enough.

* MonumentalDamage: Fry and Bender joyride across the world with the Planet Express ship hitting the Leaning Tower of Pisa upright then knocked down completely with the Planet Express building being tethered behind the ship.

* TrapDoor: The Professor has one to disposes of Fry in the last scene.

* HellishLA: It turns out that Fry and Michelle didn't wake up in a post-apocalyptic wasteland -- that's just what Los Angeles is like now.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Michelle claims that Fry's parents were so indifferent to his disappearance that they thought a police search would be a "waste of tax-payers money." Later episodes like "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E4LuckOfTheFryish Luck of the Fryish]]", "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E24ColdWarriors Cold Warriors]]" and "[[Recap/FuturamaS7E23GameOfTones Game of Tones]]", would show that all Fry's relatives cared for him deeply despite their oddness and seeming jerkishness.

* EasilyForgiven: By the end of the episode, the Professor takes the trio back in, because he's forgotten why he fired them in the first place. Then Bender reminds him.

* {{Bowdlerization}}: After the Norway terrorist attacks in 2011, some versions of this episode are re-animated so that way the chip on the dismembered arm Bender uses is from a chainsaw juggler instead of the Prime Minister of Norway. Netflix used to have the original "Prime Minister of Norway" take, but when they added the last half of the series (from "2-D Blacktop" to "Meanwhile"), they changed it to the edited "Chainsaw Juggler" version.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Michelle claims that Fry's parents where so indifferent to him they thought a police search after he disappeared would be a "waste of tax-payers money." Later episodes like "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E4LuckOfTheFryish Luck of the Fryish]]", "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E24ColdWarriors Cold Warriors]]" and "[[Recap/FuturamaS7E23GameOfTones Game of Tones]]", would show that all Fry's relatives cared for him deeply despite their oddness and seeming jerkisness.

** The Professor angrily declares he should fire Fry, Leela and Bender after what they did, but he's not cold-hearted enough. He then immediately turns to Hermes, who ''is'' that cold-hearted enough.

* LaserGuidedKarma: It's shown Michelle treating Fry like crap in the past came back to bite her when her new boyfriend basically used her to pay for his career in law school and then dumped her on graduation day. Michelle's then cryogenically frozen only to discover the 31st Century terrifies her, and she sticks out like a sore thumb specifically because she ''did'' fit in during the 20th Century.

* NegativeContinuity: Lela tells Bender not to beg for money because they're "not veterans" even though they fought for Earth in combat in [[Recap/FuturamaS1E12WhenAliensAttack "When Aliens Attack"]] and [[Recap/FuturamaS2E17WarIsTheHWord "War is the H-Word"]].
* NotSoRemote: Fry mistakes contemporary Los Angeles for a post-apocalyptic wasteland left in the wake of New York.

* ParentalNeglect: Fry mentions that his parents called off the search party for him and took him off school in order to save tax payers money.

* TiltingTowerOfPisa: During Fry's and Bender's joyride, the Planet Express ship collides with the Tower, tilting it into a normal upright position. Then the Planet Express ''building'' which the ship is dragging behind it collides with the upright Tower, tilting it the other way. Finally, the Tower falls over on a crowd of onlookers who'd gathered to gawk at its new tilt.

* NotWhereTheyThought: Not only do Fry and Morgan think they've gone a millennium forward in time when they haven't, they also think they're still in New New York (or [[AfterTheEnd what's left of it]]), when actually they're in LA.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Amy, Hermes and Zoidberg's adventure in the fantasy planet (where everyone's fantasies come to life) goes completely unseen. All we hear about it is that it was "great" (Amy), "organized" (Hermes) and that it let Zoidberg live life as a grandmother.

* UngratefulBitch: Fry does everything Michelle asks him to, such as sacrificing his life in the 30th Century so they can be in a time where ''she'' is comfortable, and all she does is demand more before coldly ditching him once again.

* Foreshadowing: At one point, the camera focuses on a sign that says "Highway On-Ramp," which is a clue as to the true nature of the "future." This is a reference to the "Freeway Entrance" signs that are posted at on-ramps in California.