History TakeThat / Futurama

* ''[[Recap/FuturamaM3BendersGame Bender's Game]]'' feature several: First is Creator/GeorgeTakei's head ramming a ship into one driven by [[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Scott Bakula]] and tells him "Way to kill[[DarthWiki/RuinedFOREVER ruining]] [[Franchise/StarTrek the franchise]], Bakula!". Second, there's the gratuitous take that to Creator/RobinWilliams when they run into "Series/{{Mork|AndMindy}}s" and kill them while telling them they're not funny and need to shut up. Third, there's when they reach the kingdom of "Wipe Castle", where you can eat lots of burgers without gaining weight [[ArtisticLicenseBiology because they give you diarrhea]].

* ''[[Recap/FuturamaM3BendersGame Bender's Game]]'' feature several: First is Creator/GeorgeTakei's head ramming a ship into one driven by [[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Scott Bakula]] and tells him "Thanks for [[DarthWiki/RuinedFOREVER ruining]] [[Franchise/StarTrek the franchise]]!". Second, there's the gratuitous take that to Creator/RobinWilliams when they run into "Series/{{Mork|AndMindy}}s" and kill them while telling them they're not funny and need to shut up. Third, there's when they reach the kingdom of "Wipe Castle", where you can eat lots of burgers without gaining weight [[ArtisticLicenseBiology because they give you diarrhea]].

* ''[[Recap/FuturamaM3BendersGame Bender's Game]]'' feature several: First is Creator/GeorgeTakei's head ramming a ship into one driven by [[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Scott Bakula]] and tells him "Thanks for [[DarthWiki/RuinedFOREVER ruining]] [[Franchise/StarTrek the franchise]]!". Second, there's the gratuitous take that to Creator/RobinWilliams when they run into "Series/{{Mork|AndMindy}}s" and kill them while telling them [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny they're not funny]] and need to shut up. Third, there's when they reach the kingdom of "Wipe Castle", where you can eat lots of burgers without gaining weight [[ArtisticLicenseBiology because they give you diarrhea]].

* ''[[Recap/FuturamaS6E16LawAndOracle Law and Oracle]]'', when Fry is promoted to Executive Delivery boy

-->'''Hermes''': It's a meaningless title, but it makes insecure people feel better about themselves\\

* In issue 79, Kif is believed to be dying, but later turns out to only be suffering a non-fatal virus that's making him act like a jerk. Fry asks if Kif will have to live with it forever like UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump.

* Issue 66 has Bender respond to Fry mentioning ''TabletopGame/{{Battleship}}'' by telling him that it's been illegal to say that word out loud since they released [[Film/{{Battleship}} the horrible movie of the same name]].

* Issue 66 has Bender respond to Fry mentioning ''TabeltopGame/{{Battleship}}'' by telling him that it's been illegal to say that word out loud since they released [[Film/{{Battleship}} the horrible movie of the same name]].

* Issue 66 has Bender respond to Fry mentioning ''TabeltopGame/Battleship'' by telling him that it's been illegal to say that word out loud since they released [[Film/{{Battleship}} the horrible movie of the same name]].

* In issue 41, Leela hears Zapp speaking and remarks that she knows who it is because there's only one person's voice that sends chills down her ponytail. Fry asks if Leela is referring to Rosie Perez.

* In "[[Recap/FuturamaS1E3IRoommate I, Roommate]]", Fry and Bender find a seemingly perfect apartment during a HouseHuntingMontage. Suspicious, Fry asks the realtor what the catch is, to which he responds that the house is in New Jersey. SmashCut to Fry, Bender, and Leela sitting around a table and complaining that not one of the houses they saw were livable.

* ''[[Recap/FuturamaS6E17LawAndOracle Law and Oracle]]'', when Fry is promoted to Executive Delivery boy

'''Fry''': I feel better about myself!

-->'''Bender:''' Good work, writer of ''The Matrix!''

** In general, ''Bender's Game'' vacillates between an AffectionateParody of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', a mild and still affectionate Take That against some of the more JustForFun/{{egregious}} tropes of the game (such as the very Gygaxian use of multitudes of random-roll tables) and a flat-out Take That against the anti-D&D hysteria of the '80s (with Bender becoming an over-the-top parody of the "steam-tunnel gamer" urban legend -- the gamers who supposedly lost their minds and grip on reality playing D&D).

-->'''Fry:''' Plus, no matter how much energy they produced, it would take more energy than that to keep them alive!

-->'''Bender:''' But wouldn't almost anything make a better battery than a human body? Like a potato? Or a ''battery?''

-->'''Leela:''' I know, I know, it sounds absurd. In fact, when ''The Matrix'' first came out, it seemed like the single crummiest, laziest, most awful, dimwitted idea in the entire history of science fiction, but it turned out to be true!

* In "Near-Death Wish," Fry, Leela and Bender discuss the logistics of the Near-Death Star, where Earth's elderly humans are plugged into a stimulated nursing home.

-->'''Farmer''': The name's Creator/BillyWest.
-->'''Fry''': '''(laughs)''' Billy West? What kind of dumb made up name is that?

-->'''Leela:''' I know, I know. It sounds absurd. In fact, when ''The Matrix'' first came out, it seemed like the single crummiest, laziest, most awful, dimwitted idea in the entire history of science fiction, but it turned out to be true!

* "[[Recap/FuturamaS7E19SaturdayMorningFunPit Saturday Morning Fun Pit]]" is one massive Take That to 70s and 80s cartoons by emphasizing all the aspects of them that most people forget about due to NostalgiaFilter such as Creator/HannaBarbera's decline in quality, mediocre writing and animation, shameless [[MerchandiseDriven merchandising]], and excessive {{Bowdlerisation}} and censorship by MoralGuardians for violence and lack of educational value.

* A subtle one against ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': in 1999 Pizzeria Panucci has a FG calendar with Brian and Stewie on the cover, which says "One laugh a month!".

Much like Creator/MattGroening's [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons other show]], ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' isn't afraid to make fun of others.