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* [[Anti-Gravity Clothing]]: In [[Homage]] to ''[[The Jetsons]]''.
* [[Anything That Moves]]:
** Amy shows shades of this at times. Depending on the episode, her readiness to leap into bed with aliens, [[
** "Happy Freedom Day, ladies! Come on, show me something. Anything. Seriously, I'd take an armpit." Needless to say Zapp Brannigan isn't picky.
** And then there's Yivo, an [[Another Dimension|extra-dimensional]] being that had sex with every single person in the universe ''at the same time''. Except for Leela.
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* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: Naturally almost every episode, especially thanks to Professor Farnsworth having an invention for every occasion.
** However, it is beautifully ''subverted'' almost as often. For example, in the 2nd-season episode ''Fry and the Slurm Factory'', the Slurm drink manufacturer runs a contest where the grand prize is won by finding one golden bottle cap hidden in a Slurm can. Fry wonders if there could be a way to find the bottlecap without having to buy millions of cans. As expected, he shortly comes into possession of the professor's "F-Ray" (which can see through anything) and uses it on every can of slurm in the city of New New York. But while this wins him lots of "minor" prizes (including a jetski!), he still doesn't find the golden bottlecap. He's so frustrated that he declares he will never look at another can of slurm again. Of course, he immediately goes to the fridge to get another one to drink. It's the winning can.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Just like in [[The Simpsons (animation)|Matt Groening's other show]]. For example, in "Neutopia", Leela lists two things she doesn't like about being a man, then inexplictably says, "The food at those strip clubs is terrible," as if it were a third reason.
* [[Art Shift]]: The final episode of season 6 [[wikipedia:Reincarnation (Futurama)|features three acts, each animated in a different style]], including [[Max and Dave Fleischer|Fleischer]], [[Retraux|early low resolution video games]], and [[Animesque|anime]].
* [[Ascended Meme]]: The [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/futurama-fry-not-sure-if-x "Squinting Fry"] image macro showed up in a recent Comedy Central promo for the new 2012 season.
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** While the future doesn't have Fry's "[[No Nudity Taboo|primitive notions of modesty]]", the only characters who seem to have no sense of modesty are Farnsworth (over 150 years old), Hermes (obese), and Cubert (twelve, overweight, and only really immodest when he's first taken out of his cloning vat).
** Also, humans have been genetically engineered to have larger penises, or it's possibly an oblique reference to Fry being circumcised, which according to [[Arthur C. Clarke]], is illegal in the year [[2001: A Space Odyssey|3001]].
** And of course there are the giant Amazon women in [[Fur Bikini
** There's a speculative fiction fetish for [[Rule 34|nearly]] everyone, and they're all going down.
* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: Invoked in-universe with the "Goofy Gopher Revue" from "The Series Has Landed".
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* [[Axe Crazy]]: Roberto, the criminally insane, psychotic stab-bot.
{{quote|"I was built by a team of engineers tryin' to create an insane robot. [[Gone Horribly Right|But it seems... they failed!]]"}}
* [[The "B" Grade]]: The reason that Professor Wernstrom hates Professor Farnsworth is because Farnsworth gave him an "A" minus in college because "Penmanship counts." Wernstrom takes revenge decades later by giving Farnsworth's failed plan ''the worst grade imaginable!''
* [[Bad Bad Acting]]: Fry's episode of "Single Female Lawyer", the cast's interference with Calculon's wedding (soap opera style), Bender's audition for "All My Circuits".
** Subverted in "Yo Leela Leela". The crew gets to act on Leela's kids show. While it sounds like [[Bad Bad Acting]] on the surface, it actually fits with the more deliberate and easy to follow style of a real kids show.
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{{quote|'''Talk show host-bot''': ...And now a scene from ''All My Circuits''. Calculon, care to set this one up?
'''Calculon''': No, I think the one speaks for itself.
* clip of Calculon belting a [[Big No]] while a pirate, [[Pirate Parrot|parrot and all]], flips burgers on a barbeque in the background.*
'''Calculon''': Interesting side note: the script called for me to say "Yes", but I gave it a little twist. }}
** The newest season likes this trope. First Fry did this when {{spoiler|the censoring satellite V-Giny refused to censor Leela and Zapp's copulation}}. Then the Professor did one when he realized he'd lived to see the day when {{spoiler|Amy and Bender got engaged}}. And most recently {{spoiler|and more seriously}}, Bender had this reaction when {{spoiler|he learned that he didn't have a back-up unit and will die one day}}.
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** Leela gets one in "Yo Leela Leela," after {{spoiler|lying about the Rumbledy-Hump planet leads to sweatshop-like jobs for the Humplings and the orphans.}}
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]:
** The "alien writing" seen in the background of many scenes are actually [[Cypher Language|ciphers]]. Fans made a game of decoding them, and the messages are often [[Shout-Out|shouts-out]]. There's actually two versions; one is a simple subsitution
** In the global warming episode, the crew goes to Kyoto and passes a "[[Bland-Name Product|Curious Pussycat]]" billboard that states "I love you more than your mother."
** Whenever Amy gets angry and [[Pardon My Klingon|curses in Chinese]], though according to the audio commentary for the second episode, what Lauren Tom yelled in Chinese was harsh and insulting, but not obscene.
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** [[Running Gag|Chekhov's Development Team]]: Because if it's introduced, it is ''going'' to come back at ''some'' point, even if [[Rule of Cool|just to lampshade itself!]]
* [[Chirping Crickets]]
* [[The Chosen One]] / [[The Chosen Zero]]: Fry. Thanks to being his own grandfather (that's [[Time Travel]] for you) Fry is the only sentient being in the universe who lacks a delta brain wave, thus making him immune to various forms of telepathic attack, and earning him the title of "The Mighty One" among the Nibblonians.. In the 30th century, he turns out to be the key to mankind's survival on a number of occasions, to the point that {{spoiler|we eventually learn that Nibbler froze him on purpose in the year 2000 so he'd be alive to save the world in the 31st century.}}
When Fry is told that the fate of the universe depends on him in the fourth movie, he casually replies "Yeah, I get that a lot."
* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: Robot 1-X, who is introduced as a new Planet Express staff member in "Obsoletely Fabulous" and is gone without a trace in the next episode.
* [[Clark Kenting]]: Fry, Bender, and Leela somehow manage to pull this off in the episode "Less Than Hero."
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** During "The Farnsworth Parabox", the parallel benders do a nifty reverb-double-[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_49iNqxOnH4 DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM]!
{{quote|Tonight at Eleven: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}DMSHvgaUWc8 DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!]}}
** ''Bender's Big Score'' gave us countless [[Doomsday Device
* [[Doomsday Device]]: Professor Farnsworth may just be the patron saint of Doomsday Devices.
{{quote|'''Farnsworth:''' I suppose I could part with ''one'' and still be feared.}}
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** "Jurassic Bark", among others.
** Done deliberately in the three stories of The Futurama Holiday Spectacular,
* [[Double Entendre]]: The episode title "The Mutants Are Revolting".
* [[Double Standard]]: The episode "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch" gets a lot of humor out of reversing the "woman gets pregnant, man is nervous about it" trope, but Amy is still treated a ''lot'' more sympathetically than a man would be in the same position.
* [[Dressed in Layers]]: Parodied when Leela became a superhero. She wore her costume under her street clothes, and then another set of street clothes under her costume. It was a cold day. Furthermore, neither of her outfits could hide under the other (her superhero outfit has a collar and shoulders that would be visible under her tanktop, and her tanktop covers her navel while her super hero outfit doesn't.)
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