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* LiteralMetaphor: When Fry is trying to win Leela over while the crew is harvesting chronitons, Leela tells him to "cool his jets", which Fry means to give it up. Turns out she meant to turn down the flames of his jetpack because they were melting Bender's face.

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* LiteralMetaphor: When Fry is trying to win Leela over while the crew is harvesting chronitons, Leela tells him to "cool his jets", which Fry means takes to mean give it up. Turns out she meant to turn down the flames of his jetpack because they were melting Bender's face.
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* CosmicFlaw: Stealing chronotrons causes time itself to break apart. Time starts skipping forward at random times, threatening to end the universe itself.

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* CosmicFlaw: Stealing chronotrons chronitons causes time itself to break apart. Time starts skipping forward at random times, threatening to end the universe itself.



* DownerEnding: Is it ever. Leela divorces Fry instantly, and just as he learns what it was he did to get her to marry him, it gets blown up. Also, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Bender just isn't funky enough to be a Globetrotter]].

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* DownerEnding: Is it ever. Leela divorces Fry instantly, and just as he learns what it was he did to get her to marry him, it gets blown up. Also, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Bender just isn't funky enough to be a Globetrotter]].



* FireForgedFriends: At the start of the episode, the Globetrotters are antagonistic and challenging Earth to defend her honor "for absolutely no reason"; throughout the ordeal of fixing the time-skips, they go to attending Fry and Leela's wedding, and Bubblegum Tate consoles Fry upon their divorce.

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* FireForgedFriends: At the start of the episode, the Globetrotters are antagonistic and challenging Earth to defend her honor "for absolutely no reason"; throughout the ordeal of fixing the time-skips, they go to end up attending Fry and Leela's wedding, and Bubblegum Tate consoles Fry upon their divorce.



* ForgottenBirthday: When time skips and it's suddenly Amy's birthday, Zoidberg says, "I hope we all have as much fun tomorrow at my birth--" Time suddenly skips, and the lodge is empty except for Zoidberg, who only has a cupcake with a single candle in it.

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* ForgottenBirthday: When time skips and it's suddenly to Amy's birthday, Zoidberg says, "I hope we all have as much fun tomorrow at my birth--" Time suddenly skips, skips again, and the lodge room is empty except for Zoidberg, who only has a cupcake with a single candle in it.



* HypocriticalHumor: Two children complaining about old people receiving social security benefits. One Gilligan Cut later, and the one complaining is an old man, demanding free money.

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* HypocriticalHumor: Two children are complaining about old people receiving social security benefits. One Gilligan Cut later, and the one complaining is an old man, demanding free money.



* IKnowWhatWeCanDoCut: Hermes has an idea on how to stop the time jumps. One time jump later and everyone is conga dancing [[NakedPeopleAreFunny naked]] while Hermes plays the steel drums. Even he admits he doesn't know how this would be of any help.

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* IKnowWhatWeCanDoCut: Hermes has an idea on how to stop the time jumps. One time jump later later, and everyone is conga dancing [[NakedPeopleAreFunny naked]] while Hermes plays the steel drums. Even he admits he doesn't know how this would be of any help.



* NoodleIncident: Too many to list. The nature of the sporadic time skips mean a lot of crazy things can and do happen, but even InUniverse, no one can even fathom what the hell they were or how they led to the predicament they ended up in.

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* NoodleIncident: Too many to list. The Due to the sporadic nature of the sporadic time skips mean skips, a lot of crazy things can and do happen, but even InUniverse, no one can even fathom what the hell they were or how they led to the predicament they ended up in.



* TimeSkip: The main problem of the episode is that time keeps skipping forward. It's quite convenient when it comes to difficult or tedious jobs, because time tends to skip ahead to when they're done.

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* TimeSkip: The main problem of the episode is that time keeps skipping forward. It's quite only convenient when it comes to difficult or tedious jobs, because time tends to skip ahead to when they're done.done - the rest of the skips are played as alarming gaps.



** Bubblegum, celebrating an idea that might solve the chroniton problem, makes everyone in the room with him an honorary Globetrotter (The Professor, Amy, Hermes, ''[[ThrowTheDogABone Doctor Zoidberg]]''). Bender hears this, but arrives just too late.

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** Bubblegum, celebrating an idea that might solve the chroniton problem, makes everyone in the room with him an honorary Globetrotter (The Professor, Amy, Hermes, ''[[ThrowTheDogABone Doctor Zoidberg]]''). Bender hears this, this but arrives just too late.

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crosswicking Dramatic TV Shut Off, official DVD subtitles spell it as "chronitons" apparently


To play basketball against the Harlem Globetrotters (now a planet of their own), Professor Farnsworth uses chronotons to grow a team of mutant supermen. However, this starts to cause 'time-jumps' that threaten to destroy the universe. Meanwhile, Fry tries to win Leela's heart and just might succeed for once, provided the time-jumps don't screw everything up.

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To play basketball against the Harlem Globetrotters (now a planet of their own), Professor Farnsworth uses chronotons chronitons to grow a team of mutant supermen. However, this starts to cause 'time-jumps' that threaten to destroy the universe. Meanwhile, Fry tries to win Leela's heart and just might succeed for once, provided the time-jumps don't screw everything up.



* DoomsdayDevice: Bubblegum Tate theorizes that they need one of those to get rid of the chronotons.

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* DoomsdayDevice: Bubblegum Tate theorizes that they need one of those to get rid of the chronotons.chronitons.



* DramaticTVShutOff: PlayedForLaughs. Leela first asks Zoidberg about for his opinion on Fry. The crustacean first says "he'd be honored" to listen to her troubles, only for it to cut a few minutes later due to the time skips, with Zoidberg having turned on the TV and ignoring Leela at some point. She then yells at him to pay attention.
--->'''Leela:''' --does the worst W.C. Fields imitation I've ever seen, Zoidberg!\\
'''Zoidberg:''' Sorry, you must have been boring me.



* {{Foreshadowing}}: When collecting the Chronotons, Bender and Fry take the effort to catch floating ones, while Leela picks up static ones with tweezers, creating orange rings. [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom This ends up causing the problems everyone faces later]].

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: When collecting the Chronotons, Chronitons, Bender and Fry take the effort to catch floating ones, while Leela picks up static ones with tweezers, creating orange rings. [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom This ends up causing the problems everyone faces later]].



* GilliganCut: Multiple ones, InUniverse, caused by the chronotons.

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* GilliganCut: Multiple ones, InUniverse, caused by the chronotons.chronitons.



* IgnoredExpert: Of a sort. Bender, of all beings, points out that chronotons are the ones "that destroyed a whole civilization." The Professor doesn't care.
-->'''Professor Farnsworth:''' (angrily) Good news, everyone. You're off to the Tempus Nebula to gather chronotons!

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* IgnoredExpert: Of a sort. Bender, of all beings, points out that chronotons chronitons are the ones "that destroyed a whole civilization." The Professor doesn't care.
-->'''Professor Farnsworth:''' (angrily) Good news, everyone. You're off to the Tempus Nebula to gather chronotons!chronitons!



* LiteralMetaphor: When Fry is trying to win Leela over while the crew is harvesting chronotons, Leela tells him to "cool his jets", which Fry means to give it up. Turns out she meant to turn down the flames of his jetpack because they were melting Bender's face.

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* LiteralMetaphor: When Fry is trying to win Leela over while the crew is harvesting chronotons, chronitons, Leela tells him to "cool his jets", which Fry means to give it up. Turns out she meant to turn down the flames of his jetpack because they were melting Bender's face.



* NaturalEndOfTime: An odd case where the universe ending naturally is problematic. Because nobody remembers what happened during the TimeSkip and they're becoming larger and larger, the universe is at risk of skipping to the end of time without anyone experiencing the time inbetween.

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* NaturalEndOfTime: An odd case where the universe ending naturally is problematic. Because nobody remembers what happened during the TimeSkip and they're becoming larger and larger, the universe is at risk of skipping to the end of time without anyone experiencing the time inbetween.in-between.
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* TechnoBabble: Lampshaded by the professor that Bubblegum's explanation has so many big words it ''must'' be correct.

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* TechnoBabble: Lampshaded by the professor Professor that Bubblegum's explanation has so many big words it ''must'' be correct.
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* GrandRomanticGesture: Fry used the gravity pump to make Leela a love note of stars, which was so touching that Leela actually married him. Unfortunately, not only did Leela not remember it and divorced Fry, but Fry's message was destroyed along with the nebula before anyone else saw it.

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* GrandRomanticGesture: Fry used uses the gravity pump to make Leela a love note of stars, which was is so touching that Leela actually married marries him. Unfortunately, not only did does Leela not remember it and divorced Fry, divorces Fry (assuming he did something underhanded to "trick" her into marrying him), but Fry's message was gets destroyed along with the nebula before anyone else saw (including Leela) sees it.

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* FireForgedFriends: At the start of the episode, the Globetrotters are antagonistic and challenging Earth to defend her honor "for absolutely no reason"; throughout the ordeal of fixing the time-skips, they go to attending Fry and Leela's wedding, and Bubblegum Tate consoles Fry upon their divorce.



* FireForgedFriends: At the start of the episode, the Globetrotters are antagonistic and challenging Earth to defend her honor "for absolutely no reason"; throughout the ordeal of fixing the time-skips, they go to attending Fry and Leela's wedding, and Bubblegum Tate consoles Fry upon their divorce.



* GilliganCut: InUniverse, caused by the chronotons.


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* GilliganCut: Multiple ones, InUniverse, caused by the chronotons.

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