History Recap / FuturamaS8E7RageAgainstTheVaccine

** The Atlantan mer-people from "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E12TheDeepSouth The Deep South]]" appear on the far side of the force field levy.

** Speaking of which, Dr. Banjo returns [[Recap/FuturamaS6E9AClockworkOrigin once again]] in a pseudo-intellectual role, this time by being an anti-vaxxer and believing in [=5G=] conspiracy theories.

* MadameFortune: The MagicalRomani fortune teller robot appears again, and her name is revealed to be "Madame Robeaux"

--<'''Hermes:''' And yet there are zombies.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Professor Farnsworth dismisses voodoo as balderdash despite acknowledging the existence of zombies. This gets lampshaded by Hermes.

* OutOfCharacterMoment: Jrrr. He seemingly looked fine with obeying his parent’s orders to post online misinformation about the virus on social media so that his parents could invade Earth and has no apparent objections to that. This goes against his pacifistic personality as he previously stated that he didn’t want to invade planets or kill things. Then again he didn’t participate in the invasion itself, sparing him from being infected.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Leela had been visiting her parents right when EXPLOVID-23 was starting to develop in the Mutants, and she ends up spreading the virus to the surface people as the crew was dropping off Bill Nye's head at the Back-To-Normal Fest.

* MeaningfulName: One suspects the reason the Omnicronians get involved and attempt to take over the Earth in this episode is because they coincidentally share their name with one of the variants of COVID-19; the ''Omicron'' variant. This also qualifies as an AscendedMeme, as back when lockdowns were still happening, many fans made memes about how the Omnicronians were to blame for it.

* OutOfCharacterMoment: Jrrr. He seemingly looked fine with obeying his parent’s orders to pose online misinformation about the virus on social media so that his parents could invade Earth and has no apparent objections to that. This goes against his pacifistic personality as he previously stated that he didn’t want to invade planets or kill things. Then again he didn’t participate in the invasion itself, sparing him from being infected.

* UnwittingPawn: Implied with Jrrr. He is shown posting online misinformation and it’s shown that he is just typing down and posting whatever his parents tell him as both of them were standing behind Jrrr on his laptop. He seemed to have no idea on what he is doing due to his age and lack of understanding on the pandemic

** The general distrust of news and media outlets is alluded to, and social media's impact is also present, with Jrr shown quite literally making stuff up to destabilize the world and make them more angry.

* NoseShove: True to a real life covid test, the Professor has everyone shove a long Q-tip up their nose to check if they are infected with the virus.

* FreezeFrameBonus: When Farnsworth gets his vaccination at the end, you may notice that the needle clearly goes through his arm.

* NoseShove: True to a real life covid test, the Professor has everyone shove a (ridiculously) long Q-tip up their nose to check if they are infected with the virus.

** Anti-maskers are also alluded to, with Judge Whitey complaining that the mask he is forced to wear during the pandemic is suffocating him before [[HypocriticalHumor smoking]].

* NoseShove: True to a real life covid test, the Professor has everyone shove a long Q-tip up their nose to check if they are infected with the virus.

** Just as he did in "[[Recap/FuturamaS7E7TheSixMillionDollarMon The Six Million Dollar Mon]]", Hermes proves he is UnaffectedBySpice when he eats extremely spicy gumbo at Elzar's Nonola.

* HypocriticalHumor: Dr. Banjo compares vaccinations to being confined in a zoo like his aunt, despite being the director of a zoo on Simian 7.

* BaitAndSwitch: When the Omnicronian fleet arrive to Earth, Kif is seemingly shooting at them and calling them scum... before he coughs and the camera reveals he and Zapp are firing at each other due to both also being infected.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Professor Farnsworth dismisses voodoo as fictitious despite acknowledging the existence of zombies. This gets lampshaded by Hermes.

* ShownTheirWork: Alligators are depicted with broad snouts and overbites, just as in "The Series Has Landed", in contrast to the crocodiles seen in "[[Recap/FuturamaS8E2ChildrenOfALesserBog Children of a Lesser Bog]]".

A new disease called EXPLOVID-23 begins spreading across the planet, leading to Hermes pursuing a cure through voodoo and the Omnicronians taking advantage to take over the planet.

* MeaningfulName: One suspects the reason the Omnicronians get involved and attempt to take over the Earth is because they coincidentally share their name with one of the variants of COVID-19; the ''Omicron'' variant of the virus.

** One of the voodoo dolls on display in the fotune-teller robot’s shop is of a Trog from ''WesternAnimation/{{Disenchantment}}''.

** The show lampoons many of the conspiracy theories flown around at the time, such as [=5G=] towers causing mental issues (in this case, Farnsworth uses [=5G=]-enabled chips to enhance his data collected on people so he knows if the vaccination works).
** The variants of EXPLOVID-23 and their multiple inoculation treatments are also mentioned, with some vaccine variants competing with each other (Farnsworth's gives people an aching shoulder, Wernstrom's gives people a magnetic superpower). Not only that, but the virus mutates, starting from Mutants living underground, then to the general population of New New York, then to the Omnicronians having their own variant.

** The writers also took pot-shots at people who didn't trust the science of the vaccines or how the virus spread in the first place, and trusting other alternative sources and rationale instead; with Voodoo, literal black magic (though it actually works as science anyways), being used as the eventual cure for it in the show.

** Dr. Banjo is [[Recap/FuturamaS6E9AClockworkOrigin once again]] in a pseudo-intellectual role, this time by being an anti-vaxxer.

* VideoCallFail: A couple moments of this occur during the crew's Gloom meeting, including Dwight gloom-bombing Hermes' part of the call, Zoidberg having audio and video issues, Farnsworth accidentally putting a teddy bear filter in front of his own face, and Hattie joining the wrong call trying to get a prescription filled.

** Dr. Banjo makes his third appearance, criticizing vaccinations.

* TheBusCameBack: Barbados Slim returns to help Hermes find the voodoo cure for the rage virus.

** The variants of EXPLOVID-23 and their multiple inoculation treatments are also mentioned, with some vaccine variants competing with each other (Farnsworth's gives people a aching shoulder, Wernstrom's gives people a magnetic superpower). Not only that, but the virus mutates, starting from Mutants living underground, then to the general population of New New York, then to the Omnicronians having their own variant.

* TranquilFury: After Hermes gets his voodoo shot, [=LaBarbara=] and Barbados test him by making out in front of him. Hermes responds that he's feeling a "normal, easy-to-repress rage", confirming that the shot had worked.