History Recap / FuturamaS6E7TheLatePhillipJFry

* BrickJoke: In "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E19TheCryonicWoman The Cryonic Woman"]], a defrostee at the Applied Cryogenics building mentioned his theory that all of history is a cycle, so if you go far enough you'll eventually loop back into the past. Although a thousand years won't be enough, he is right.

** By 252525, humanity has seemingly regressed to the Middle Ages or even further back, with the only technology being described as "a rusty sword [[AssShove for practicing proctology]]; by 1000000 1/2, humankind is at the same level of technology, though they've now been reduced to the slaves of intelligent giraffes.

* MsFanservice: The women of the year 50 Million. They are gorgeous and wears all {{Stripperific}} outfits.

** Also counts as ObviousRulePatch since Farnsworth specifically mentions doing this because of the events of [[Recap/FuturamaS3E19RoswellThatEndsWell Roswell That Ends Well]]".

** Fry, Bender, and the Professor [[Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse sit back and watch the end of the universe]]. As Earth crumbles away Fry says "[[Literature/SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish so long Earth, thanks for the air and what-not]]".

* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: Having passed through the previous universe and working their way through the new one, Farnsworth decides to pay a stop in 1930s Germany and cap Hitler with a laser gun. This appears to have no measurable affect on their future a 1000 years later from what little we see, but we never learn the ramifications because Farnsworth trips and overshoots their landing. This trope then gets DoubleSubverted when on repeat 2, he's too lazy to stop and tries to shoot Hitler from the window, but misses and hits Eleanor Roosevelt.

* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: Double-subverted. Having passed through the previous universe and working their way through the new one, Farnsworth decides to pay a stop in 1930s Germany and cap Hitler with a laser gun. This appears to have no measurable affect on their future a 1000 years later from what little we see, but we never learn the ramifications because Farnsworth trips and overshoots their landing. On repeat 2, he's too lazy to stop and tries to shoot Hitler from the window, but misses and hits Eleanor Roosevelt.

-> ''"Happy Birthday Leela! Sorry I'm gonna be one minute late, 'cause we're testing the professor's dumb time machine... But, you know, happy birthday and all, and, I love you."''

-> ''"Happy Birthday Leela! Sorry I'm gonna to be one minute late, 'cause we're testing the professor's dumb time machine... But, you know, happy birthday and all, and, I love you."''

-->-- Fry

* AnAesop: Future Leela's story carries the message that throwing yourself into work as a means of dealing with emotional problems is a bad idea. While throwing herself into work after Fry, Bender, and the Professor vanished caused Planet Express to become hugely successful, she has little in the way of a personal life or relationships beyond a divorced ex-husband (Q-Bert, who cares more about alimony than her, plus it's implied she only married him in the first place because of his resemblance to Fry) and even refers to herself as being MarriedToTheJob, along with a life-long resentment toward Fry for something neither of them had any control over.

* StarCrossedLovers: Fry and Leela by an infinity of lifetimes.

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/futurama_6x07_the_late_philip_j_frymkv_snapshot_0443_20230511_213319.png]] [[caption-width-right:350: Little did he know, he would be a lot longer than one minute late.]]

* CloseEnoughTimeline: Fry, Farnsworth and Bender discover that the universe restarts itself once it ends, so they manage to return to their era shortly before they left. However, this universe is 10 feet lower than theirs, and they land on their duplicate selves, [[KillAndReplace killing them and allowing the originals to take their place]].

* ReplacementGoldfish: Cubert becomes this for Leela. It doesn't end well. Despite looking similar and having similar habits, Cubert is nothing like Fry personality wise so she didn't get the person she loved back.

* AnAesop: Future Leela's story carries the message that throwing yourself into work as a means of dealing with emotional problems is a bad idea. While throwing herself into work after Fry, Bender, and the Professor vanished caused Planet Express to become hugely successful, she has little in the way of a personal life or relationships beyond a divorced ex-husband (Q-Bert, who cares more about alimony than her) and even refers to herself as being MarriedToTheJob, along with a life-long resentment toward Fry for something neither of them had any control over.

* CrapsackWorld:
** The year 10000, with New New York in rubble and men with spears living amongst the wreckage. A few thousand years later, it's a new ice age.
** "In 252525... there is only one technology, a rusty sword [[AssShove for practicing proctology]]."
** "In the year 1000000 1/2, humankind is enslaved by giraffe, man must pay for all his misdeeds, when the treetops are stripped of their leaves."
** The year Ten Million is a Terminator style wasteland of endless human slaughter [[AIIsACrapshoot by machines]]. Bender, however, loved this place.

* EternalRecurrence: The universe is ''always'' cyclical.

* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: Having passed through the previous universe and working their way through the new one, Farnsworth decides to pay a stop in 1930s Germany and cap Hitler with a laser gun. This appears to have no measurable affect on their future a 1000 years later from what little we see, but we never learn the ramifications because Farnsworth trips and overshoots their landing. On repeat 2, he's too lazy to stop and tries to shoot Hitler from the window, but misses and hits Eleanor Roosevelt.

** The year 10 Million is based on the BadFuture of the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' franchise.

* TimeTravel: The major plot of the episode.

* BuxomIsBetter: The women of 50 million AD have gigantic breasts in proportion to their bodies.

* EternalRecurrence: The universe ''always'' repeats itself.

* ProgressiveEraMontage: Happens when the forward time machine speeds through the universe's history/future.

* ShownTheirWork: Aside from the more comical science-fiction moments, the writers understood the life-cycle of the universe.

* OurTimeMachineIsDifferent: The time machine only goes ''forward'' in time.

-->'''Fry''': Oh, no! They did it! They blew it up! And then the apes blew up ''their'' society, too! How could this happen?! And then the birds took over, and then the cows, and then... I dunno! [[AmbiguousSpecies Is that a slug or something?!]] Noooooooooooo!!!

* ProgressiveEraMontage: Happens when the forward time machine speeds throughout the universe's history/future.