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* SecretTestOfCharacter: The real purpose of the custody challenge is just the Grand Midwife making sure that Amy loves the kids, biological or not.

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* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Played for laughs. When Kif tries to leave Zapp to the Tardigrade Bears, Zap insists to Kif that they never leave a man behind.

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* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Played for laughs. When Kif tries to leave Zapp to the Tardigrade Bears, Zap Zapp insists to Kif that they never leave a man behind.


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* NutritionalNightmare: The honey candies from Fry's time are no longer available because they were reclassified as industrial glue. Bender cooks up a new batch that has so much sugar that it causes a diabetic seizure in Farnsworth, and so sticky that Amy loses two teeth from chewing on one. Zapp uses them as an alternative to hair wax.
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* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Played for laughs. When Kif tries to leave Zapp to the Tardigrade Bears, Zap insists to Kif that they never leave a man behind.
-->''"Not when I'm the man!"''
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* VillainBall: The Biologist suddenly starts to taunt the Tardigrade Bears with food he can't have, when beforehand he was careful with how he handled food around them, just so he could be an AssholeVictim by Kif's hand to have the bears distracted with.

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* VillainBall: The Biologist suddenly starts to taunt the Tardigrade Bears with food he can't have, doesn't want to give them in while Kif was surrounded by the bears in the cave, when beforehand he was careful with how he handled food around them, just so he could be an AssholeVictim by Kif's hand to have give Kif the bears distracted with.motivation to use him as bait for his escape.
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* VillainBall: The Biologist suddenly starts to taunt the Tardigrade Bears with food he can't have, when beforehand he was careful with how he handled food around them, just so he could be an AssholeVictim for Kif to have the bears distracted with.

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* VillainBall: The Biologist suddenly starts to taunt the Tardigrade Bears with food he can't have, when beforehand he was careful with how he handled food around them, just so he could be an AssholeVictim for Kif by Kif's hand to have the bears distracted with.
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* VillainBall: The Biologist suddenly starts to taunt the Tardigrade Bears with food he can't have, when beforehand he was careful with how he handled food around them, just so he could be an AssholeVictim for Kif to have the bears distracted with.
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* EveryoneCries: Near the end of the episode, all of the characters that were there for Amy and Kif's trial cry in happiness for them, with Bender even pouring out treacle for them.

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* EveryoneCries: EverybodyCries: Near the end of the episode, all of the characters that were there for Amy and Kif's trial cry in happiness for them, with Bender even pouring out treacle for them.
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* EveryoneCries:

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* EveryoneCries:EveryoneCries: Near the end of the episode, all of the characters that were there for Amy and Kif's trial cry in happiness for them, with Bender even pouring out treacle for them.

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It's ambiguous if he actually died from being mauled by the bears. Characters in Futurama have come back from worse.


* BullyingADragon: The Biologist taunts the Tardigrade Bears on the balcony in the cave with different food items that he doesn't want to give them. This prompts Kif to shoot the balcony with him on it to divert the bears from him, resulting in the Biologist getting mauled.



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* KarmicDeath: The Biologist winds up getting killed by the same tardigrades he cruelly mocked and berated.
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[[caption-width-right:1000:"We welcome these new beings of the land."]]



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* CallARabbitASmeerp: The giant tardigrade are referred to as bears.

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* CallARabbitASmeerp: The giant tardigrade tardigrades are referred to as bears.bears due to "water bear" being one of the alternate names for them.

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* AndThisIsFor: Kif declares "This one's for Axl, Mandy, and little What's-His-Name" as he's about to shoot some more of the Tardigrade Bears. He lets them off, however, when the Bears turn out to have children of their own.



* BaitAndSwitch: Bender adds some treacle to his NutritionalNightmare, to remind him of his late Aunt Juanita… who drowned in treacle.

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* BaitAndSwitch: Bender adds some treacle to his NutritionalNightmare, to remind him of his late Aunt Juanita… Juanita... who drowned in treacle.
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* BlackComedy: Remember the dozens of tadpoles Kif birthed? It turns out they have to go through "the Winnowing", which resembles [[NatureIsNotNice the early lives of frogs, turtles, or most R-selected species in general]]: they're eaten by various predators, one of whom is ''Zoidberg'', until only four... no, wait; [[CrossesTheLineTwice three and a half]] remain.

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* BlackComedy: Remember the dozens of tadpoles Kif birthed? It turns out they have to go through "the Winnowing", which resembles [[NatureIsNotNice the early lives of frogs, turtles, or most R-selected species in general]]: they're eaten by various predators, one of whom is ''Zoidberg'', until only four... no, wait; [[CrossesTheLineTwice three and a half]] half remain.
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* GreenEyedMonster: Amy grows jealous as her children starts bonding with Leela, which is not helped by the fact that Leela was the one who impregnated Kif.

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* GreenEyedMonster: Amy grows jealous as her children starts start bonding with Leela, which is not helped by the fact that Leela was the one who impregnated Kif.

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* FreezeFrameBonus: Amy's calendar provides a couple of blink-and-you-will-miss-it entries, including "Hypntotoad Trivia Night", "Call Mom About Mom", and "Reassure Kif".

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* FreezeFrameBonus: Amy's calendar provides a couple of blink-and-you-will-miss-it entries, including "Hypntotoad "Hypnotoad Trivia Night", "Call Mom About Mom", and "Reassure Kif".


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* GreenEyedMonster: Amy grows jealous as her children starts bonding with Leela, which is not helped by the fact that Leela was the one who impregnated Kif.
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* JerkassRealization: Amy gets angry when her kids start bonding with Leela, suspecting she's trying to take them away due to being the one who impregnated Kif, and she goes as far as to accuse Leela of calling the Grand Midwife to officially become the kids' mother. She realizes it's all a misunderstanding, as the Grand Midwife is only there to test her on being kids' true mother and Leela never intended to take them away from her, and apologizes for being jealous.

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* JerkassRealization: Amy gets angry when her kids start bonding with Leela, suspecting she's trying to take them away due to being the one who impregnated Kif, and she goes as far as to accuse Leela of calling the Grand Midwife to officially become the kids' mother. She realizes it's all a misunderstanding, as the Grand Midwife is only there to test her on being the kids' true mother and Leela never intended to take them away from her, and apologizes for being jealous.
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* JerkassRealization: Amy gets angry when her kids start bonding with Leela, suspecting she's trying to take them away due to being the one who impregnated Kif, and she goes as far as to accuse Leela of calling the Grand Midwife to officially become the kids' mother. She realizes it's all a misunderstanding, as Leela never intended to take the kids and the Grand Midwife is only there to test her on being the true mother, and apologizes for being jealous.

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* JerkassRealization: Amy gets angry when her kids start bonding with Leela, suspecting she's trying to take them away due to being the one who impregnated Kif, and she goes as far as to accuse Leela of calling the Grand Midwife to officially become the kids' mother. She realizes it's all a misunderstanding, as Leela never intended to take the kids and the Grand Midwife is only there to test her on being the kids' true mother, mother and Leela never intended to take them away from her, and apologizes for being jealous.
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* JerkassRealization: Amy gets angry when her kids start bonding with Leela, suspecting she's trying to take them away due to being the one who impregnated Kif, and she goes as far as to accuse Leela of calling the Grand Midwife to officially become the kids' mother. She realizes it's all a misunderstanding as Leela never intended to take the kids and apologizes for being jealous.

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* JerkassRealization: Amy gets angry when her kids start bonding with Leela, suspecting she's trying to take them away due to being the one who impregnated Kif, and she goes as far as to accuse Leela of calling the Grand Midwife to officially become the kids' mother. She realizes it's all a misunderstanding misunderstanding, as Leela never intended to take the kids and the Grand Midwife is only there to test her on being the true mother, and apologizes for being jealous.
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* JerkassRealization: Amy gets angry when her kids start bonding with Leela, suspecting she's trying to take them away due to being the one who impregnated Kif, and she goes as far as to accuse Leela of calling the Grand Midwife to officially become the kids' mother. She realizes it's all a misunderstanding as Leela never intended to take the kids and apologizes for being jealous.
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--> Amy: The Winnowing? What does that mean?
--> Kif: It means don't name them yet.

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--> Amy: -->'''Amy:''' The Winnowing? What does that mean?
--> Kif: -->'''Kif:''' It means don't name them yet.
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* KarmicDeath: The Biologist winds up getting killed by the same tardigrades he cruelly mocked and berated.

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* ExtraParentConception: Not only do Kif and Amy's children have Kif and Leela's DNA, they also have Scruffy's.

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* ExtraParentConception: Not only do Kif and Amy's children have Kif and Leela's DNA, they also somehow have Scruffy's.Scruffy's.
* FullFrontalAssault: Kif Kroker takes on the Tardigrade Bears in the nude so that his camouflage ability will be more effective.



* InvisibleStreaker: Kif makes use of his camouflage ability to rescue Zapp from the Tardigrade Bears, ensuring his invisibility is effective by removing his clothes before getting near the beasts.



** The bear sanctuary is in Ursa Major, a reference to the fact that tha constellation is known as the Great Bear.

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** The bear sanctuary is in Ursa Major, a reference to the fact that tha the constellation is known as the Great Bear.
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* BizarreAlienBiology: Despite being born at the same time, Amy and Kif's kids are in different stages of development with the eldest being a teen, the middle child a pre-teen and the youngest a toddler. Hermes calls attention to this fact, to which Kif explains their kids must have spend the last 20 years in different water temperatures, hence they developed at different rates.
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* CustodyBattle: An unintentional one; when Amy and Kif's kids start bonding with Leela, Amy suspects Leela is trying to take the kids away from her since, while Amy may have been the Smizmar, it was Leela who impregnated Kif. Things get worse when the Grand Midwife witnesses this, and decides Amy has to be put through a trial to see whether she or Leela will officially becomes the kids mother. However, it's all a big misunderstanding since Leela never intended to take the kids from Amy, and the trial ultimately is nothing more than Amy admitting that she loves the kids, which is good enough for the Midwife to give her custody.


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* OnceMoreWithClarity: When Zapp flees from the cave of the Tardigrade Bears while Kif stays behind to fight them off, several gunshots are heard from inside the cave, implying Kif killed the bears. Later however a flashback shows the events from Kif's perspective, and it's revealed he instead shot down a ceiling mounted platform that The Biologist was standing on.
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The last episode stated that they’d lost 10 years as a result of the time freeze. So they have aged, but not anymore than 10 years


* ComicBookTime: It's acknowledged that the tadpoles were born 20 years ago but not that none of the characters have aged in that time.

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* GenerationShip: Amy's babysitter says she'll get the next generation ship home from Kepler-10b.



* MonsterIsAMummy: When attempting to save Zapp from Tardigrade Bears, Kif discovers that some of them are trying to protect their children. Whilst the episode initially suggests that they were killed anyway, it is later revealed that he spared them.

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* MonsterIsAMummy: MonsterIsAMommy: When attempting to save Zapp from Tardigrade Bears, Kif discovers that some of them are trying to protect their children. Whilst the episode initially suggests that they were killed anyway, it is later revealed that he spared them.


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* ShoutOut: The giant tardigrades might be a reference to ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'', which had one.
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** The bear sanctuary is in Ursa Major, a reference to the fact that tha constellation is known as the Great Bear.
** The babysitter Amy hires accidentally goes to Kepler-10b, the first extrasolar planet discovered.
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* CallARabbitASmeerp: The giant tardigrade are referred to as bears.


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* MagicalSecurityCam: Amy's able to bring up footage from "Kif Gets Knocked Up A Notch" on her [=eyePhone=].
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* PunBasedCreature: Tardigrades are also known as "water bears". The Tardigrade Bears are as big as actual bears and behave like them.

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* KickTheDog: The Biologist taunts the tardigrades with salmon while calling them stupid. This prompts Kif to use him
as live bait for the tardigrades.

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* KickTheDog: The Biologist taunts the tardigrades with salmon while calling them stupid. This prompts Kif to use him
him as live bait for the tardigrades.
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* KickTheDog: The Biologist taunts the tardigrades with salmon while calling them stupid. This prompts Kif to use him
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