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* ShaggyDogStory: Bender's mission to extract petroleum is revealed to have been entirely pointless when he returns to the decayed Planet Express building to find the the oil he had miraculously lasted for millions of years.

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* ShaggyDogStory: Bender's mission to extract petroleum is revealed to have been entirely pointless when he returns to the decayed Planet Express building to find the that the oil he had poured over the fembots miraculously lasted for millions of years.
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* FantasticRacism: As a result of parasitic infection, Space Bees become willing to shoot one another other being either yellow with black stripes, or black with yellow stripes.

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* FantasticRacism: As a result of parasitic infection, Space Bees become willing to shoot one another other over being either yellow with black stripes, or black with yellow stripes.
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--> '''Petunia:''' Die young, leave a pretty corpse; that's what I say.\\
'''Bender:''' You should say something else.
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* MassOhCrap: Everyone turns to Bender in horror when they see him light a cigar in the oxygen saturated atmosphere.

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* DeathAsComedy: Lots of characters die for the sake of a dark joke. This is especially noticeable with Scruffy being killed by the end of the first segment's musical number and Kwanzaabot arriving to save everyone from the Space Bees only to get killed by them off-screen.



** In the second, the entire crew (save Bender) are crushed and die.

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** In the second, the entire crew (save Bender) are crushed and die. Upon returning to the surface, the Earth is shown to have become a desolate wasteland with Bender and the two fembots wrestling one another in oil being the only survivors.



* BreakingTheFourthWall: The end of the segment has Robot Santa directly address the audience and tell them to stay tuned for the next segment.



* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When asked the Albino Humping Worm, the Professor explains it's called such because it doesn't have any pigment.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The Albino Humping Worm. It's a giant worm. It's albino.

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When asked by Fry about why the Albino Humping Worm, Worm is called that, the Professor explains it's called such because it doesn't have any pigment.
pigment. Right after the creature starts humping the Planet Express ship.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The Albino Humping Worm. It's a giant worm. It's albino. And boy, does it hump!



* FanDisservice: Petunia offering "a little honey".

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* FanDisservice: Petunia offering "a little honey".honey", which actually elicits exclamations of disgust from the other characters.
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''[[CouchGag Time travelers: Only 331 shopping days 'til last Xmas]]''
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* TimeSkip: The final scene takes place millions of years later.
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* ShaggyDogStory: Bender's mission to extract petroleum is revealed to have been entirely pointless when he returns to the decayed Planet Express building to find the the oil he had miraculously lasted for millions of years.
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** The X-Mas tree is reintroduced, and thanks to cross-contamination from the germ warfare vault, reproduces at lightning speed, covering the entire planet.

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** The X-Mas pine tree is reintroduced, and thanks to cross-contamination from the germ warfare vault, reproduces at lightning speed, covering the entire planet.planet. Oxygen levels in the atmosphere sharply rise causing the entire planet to incinerate after Bender lights a cigar.
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* SuddenlyVoiced: The Space Bee Queen, who previously communicated only in buzzes, is voiced by Dawnn Lewis.

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* SuddenlyVoiced: The Space Bee Queen, who previously communicated only in buzzes, is voiced by Dawnn Lewis.Lewis.
* UngratefulBastard: Hermes saves the space bees from their parasite infestation. Seconds after the Queen Bee thanks him, the other bees turn on the protagonists and kill them all.
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** Fry plays a Holophonor during Bender's song about Robanukah.

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A ThreeShorts Christmas Episode based around the three winter holidays previously featured on the show: Xmas, Kwanzaa, and Robanukah.

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When asked the Albino Humping Worm, the Professor explains it's called such because it doesn't have any pigment.

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A ThreeShorts Christmas Episode based around the three winter holidays previously featured on the show: Xmas, X-Mas, Kwanzaa, and Robanukah.

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When asked the Albino Humping Worm, the Professor explains it's called such because it doesn't have any pigment.
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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The Albino Humping Worm. It's a giant worm. It's albino.
* FanDisservice: Petunia offering "a little honey".
* FantasticRacism: As a result of parasitic infection, Space Bees become willing to shoot one another other being either yellow with black stripes, or black with yellow stripes.



** Hermes uses the spirit of Kwanzaa to rekindle the Space Bee's hive mind, and they promptly turn on the Planet Express crew.

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** Hermes uses the spirit of Kwanzaa to rekindle the Space Bee's Bees' hive mind, and they promptly turn on the Planet Express crew.crew.
* MusicalEpisode: Each segment has one musical number to explain the traditions of each holiday.
* [[ChristmasSpecial X-Mas Special]]: And Robanukah Special and Kwanzaa Special.

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* SuddenlyVoiced: The Space Bee Queen, who previously communicated only in buzzes, is voiced by Dawnn Lewis
* [[ChristmasSpecial X-Max Special]]: And Robanukah Special and Kwanzaa Special.

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!!Tropes in the Robanukah segment
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When asked the Albino Humping Worm, the Professor explains it's called such because it doesn't have any pigment.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The Albino Humping Worm. It's a giant worm. It's albino.

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* FanDisservice: Petunia offering "a little honey".
* FantasticRacism: As a result of parasitic infection, Space Bees become willing to shoot one another other being either yellow with black stripes, or black with yellow stripes.
* LeeroyJenkins: Kwanzaa-bot tries to pull a BigDamnHeroes at the end, but the Space Bees kill him.
* SuddenlyVoiced: The Space Bee Queen, who previously communicated only in buzzes, is voiced by Dawnn Lewis
* [[ChristmasSpecial X-Max Special]]: And Robanukah Special and Kwanzaa Special.
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The Lady Land was in 50 million AD, not 500 million AD.


* SeriesContinuityError: ''The Late Phillip J. Fry'' shows us that Earth c. 5,000,000 AD is a LadyLand. However, in this episode, it's a desert.
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* SeriesContinuityError: ''The Late Phillip J. Fry'' shows us that Earth c. 5,000,000 AD is a LadyLand. However, in this episode, it's a desert.

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* [[ChristmasSpecial X-Max Special]]: And Robanukah Special and Kwanzaa Special.
* ContinuityNod: Robanukah was originally an excuse Bender came up with to ditch work in "Fear of Bot Planet". This is mentioned.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: A RunningGag for all three segments.]]

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* [[ChristmasSpecial X-Max Special]]: And Robanukah Special and Kwanzaa Special.
ComicallyMissingThePoint: When asked the Albino Humping Worm, the Professor explains it's called such because it doesn't have any pigment.
* ContinuityNod: ContinuityNod:
** Richard Nixon's Head has a new vice president, Dick Cheney's Head, replacing the deceased Headless Body of Spiro Agnew, killed back in ''Into the Wild Green Yonder''.
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Robanukah was originally an excuse Bender came up with to ditch work in "Fear of Bot Planet". This is mentioned.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: A RunningGag for all three segments.]]segments.
** In the first one, Bender lighting a cigar ignites Earth's atmosphere, killing everyone.
** In the second, the entire crew (save Bender) are crushed and die.
** And in the third, the Space Bees seal the entire crew in wax and prepare to burn them.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The Albino Humping Worm. It's a giant worm. It's albino.
* FanDisservice: Petunia offering "a little honey".
* FantasticRacism: As a result of parasitic infection, Space Bees become willing to shoot one another other being either yellow with black stripes, or black with yellow stripes.
* GoneHorriblyRight: In the X-Mas and Kwanzaa specials.
** The X-Mas tree is reintroduced, and thanks to cross-contamination from the germ warfare vault, reproduces at lightning speed, covering the entire planet.
** Hermes uses the spirit of Kwanzaa to rekindle the Space Bee's hive mind, and they promptly turn on the Planet Express crew.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: The Professor helps fight off Robot Santa with fruitcake. Nuclear fruitcake, which has reached critical mass.
* RunningGag: The first segment has someone pointing something out about the seeds, only for the Seed Vault Guard to deny there's a problem.
* SuddenlyVoiced: The Space Bee Queen, who previously communicated only in buzzes, is voiced by Dawnn Lewis
* [[ChristmasSpecial X-Max Special]]: And Robanukah Special and Kwanzaa Special.
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* [[ChristmasSpecial X-Max Special]]: and Robanukah and Kwanzaa.

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* [[ChristmasSpecial X-Max Special]]: and And Robanukah Special and Kwanzaa.Kwanzaa Special.
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* RocksFallEveryoneDies: [[spoiler: A RunningGag for all three segments.]]

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* RocksFallEveryoneDies: DownerEnding: [[spoiler: A RunningGag for all three segments.]]

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A Three Shorts Christmas Episode based around the three winter holidays previously featured on the show: Xmas, Kwanzaa, and Robanukah.

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A Three Shorts ThreeShorts Christmas Episode based around the three winter holidays previously featured on the show: Xmas, Kwanzaa, and Robanukah.



* ContinuityNod: Robanukah was originally an excuse Bender came up with to ditch work in "Fear of Bot Planet". This is mentioned.

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* ContinuityNod: Robanukah was originally an excuse Bender came up with to ditch work in "Fear of Bot Planet". This is mentioned.mentioned.
* RocksFallEveryoneDies: [[spoiler: A RunningGag for all three segments.]]
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* [[ChristmasSpecial X-Max Special]]: and Robanukah and Kwanzaa.
* ContinuityNod: Robanukah was originally an excuse Bender came up with to ditch work in "Fear of Bot Planet". This is mentioned.
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A Three Shorts Christmas Episode based around the three winter holidays previously featured on the show: Xmas, Kwanzaa, and Robanukah.

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