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** Also parodied in "The Late Phillip J Fry" where they find the Statue of Liberty blown up...then an Ape Statue of Liberty...than a Bird one...then a Lizard...then I dunno, a slug maybe?

* [[Ear Trumpet]]: When Fry travels in time and accidentally has sex with his grandmother when she was younger; upon having it spelled out for him she responds to his screams with "What was that dear?" and uses an ear horn.

* [[Easily-Thwarted Alien Invasion]]

* [[Eat Dirt Cheap]]: After Lrrr accidentally conquers Earth the next thing we see is the main cast sentenced to the mines to supply his wife with gemstones to eat.

* [[Edited for Syndication]]: A few examples:

** The very first episode had a part where Fry is traveling through the transport tubes to "JFK Jr. Airport." Because of JFK Jr.'s mysterious death involving a plane crash, the destination was changed to "Radio City Mutant Hall" (this was even done on the DVD release, except for the animatic seen on the special features).

** On two episodes ("The Deep South" and "Bender Gets Made"), the Professor twice yells "Holy (or Sweet) Zombie Jesus!" This line was heard when it aired on FOX ([[Executive Meddling|if any viewer managed to see it on that channel]]) and in the reruns on Comedy Central. However, the former reruns on TBS's short-lived "Too Funny to Sleep" cartoon block and Cartoon Network's [[Adult Swim]] line-up mutes out the "Jesus" in "Holy (or Sweet) Zombie Jesus!" due to that hypocritical BS&P rule stating that "Oh my God" and its variants (i.e. "Oh God" or "Oh, dear God!" or even "Oh, Lord" and "Good Lord!") are okay, but "Oh, Jesus!" "Christ!" or "Jesus Christ!" is taboo (unless you're ''[[South Park]]'', but that show is pretty much anything goes).

** Two examples in the [[Comedy Central]] rebroadcast of "When Aliens Attack":

*** In the original Fox broadcast, Bender says "Bite My Red-Hot Glowing Ass!". This is followed by a [[Beat]], and Bender saying [[Brick Joke|"Wait a minute... Red Hot Glowing Ass?"]], calmly saying "Excuse me for just a minute" before running off screaming and diving off into the ocean to cool off. In the [[Comedy Central]] rebroadcast, the "Excuse me for just a minute" line is completely cut, and it goes from "Wait a minute...Red Hot Glowing Ass?" to him running straight into the ocean.

* [[Enemy Mine]]: ''Bender's Big Score'' has everyone forced to evacuate Earth to other planets by the scammer aliens, with the main characters taking up residence on Neptune. Unfortunately, they forget that Robot Santa is based there. It turns out that he's also been scammed, and Leela "convinces" him and his fellow holiday mascots to join forces and take out the scammers.

* [[Enhance Button]]: Averted and lampshaded in "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela".

'''Zap''': It does on [[CSI: Miami]]. }}

** In "Law and Oracle" the [[Minority Report]]-style prediction videos can be enhanced by doing a binocular-focusing hand-gesture.

* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: Bender's alcoholism and tendencies to steal were established, in a few seconds (After seeming to "join in" on the emotional moment by putting his hand on top of Leela's, and, when he pulls it back, the ring is gone. Leela swiftly accuses him of stealing the ring, to which he admits he stole and then returns it, declaring "and now the mystery of the stolen ring has been solved! Let's have a drink!", pulling out three large beer bottles and then guzzling all three down at one time) in "Space Pilot 3000".

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: In the second movie, ''The Beast With a Billion Backs'', Bender goes to the Robot Devil to get soldiers for his army of the damned. In exchange for this, the Robot Devil wants Bender's first-born son. Bender finds his long-lost son playing by himself outside of a suburban home. Bender's son looks up and runs towards him, yelling, "Daddy! I knew you'd come back!" The two share a hug and heart-warming music plays. Cut back to the Robot Devil's office where Bender has his long-lost son in his hands and kicks him through the plate-glass window into a lava pit.

'''Bender''': [[Crosses the Line Twice|No backsies.]] }}

* [[Everything's Better with Penguins]]: Specially if they have ''Shotguns''

* [[Everyone Meets Everyone]]: Twice in a row: Fry, Leela, Bender and Farnsworth meet each other in the pilot; the first three [[Second Episode Introduction|meet Hermes, Amy and Dr. Zoidberg]] in the second episode.

** ''[[Tyrannosaurus Rex|T. rexes]]'' are inexplicably alive and well in the year 3000 and are used to give children rides in petting zoos. Presumably they were cloned.

** A random Stegosaurus also shows up grazing on the White House lawn in one episode.

* [[Cute Kitten]]: Not to Amy. She's allergic. And kittens give Morbo gas.

* [[Evil Old Folks]]: Mom. Professor Farnsworth had a tendency to fall in love with her and leave her (again) when he discovered she was evil. This happened several times.

* [[Evil Twin]]: In "Lesser of Two Evils", Flexo is considered Bender's Evil Twin ([[Beard of Evil|he has a goatee!]]). {{spoiler|The trope is subverted is at the end of the episode, when it turns out that ''Bender'' is the Evil Bender.}}

** Another episode parodies the [[Mirror Universe]] style of [[Evil Twin]].

* [[Executive Meddling]]: As noted above, it had an often pre-empted timeslot on Fox.

** To reiterate, the show aired for 3 seasons, was cancelled and had re-runs played for 5 years, then brought back with a bunch of TV movies, and cancelled ''yet again'' before being brought back a second time. And now, the series still doesn't have a secure spot for another season.

* [[Extreme Omnivore]]: Zoidberg, Nibbler, and numerous other aliens.

* [[Exty Years From Now]]: It's always 1000 years into the future.

** The eyePhones are - you guessed it - inserted directly into the eyes.

** A Martian Muck Leech attaches itself to Leela's eye in the fourth movie.

* [[The Faceless]]: Leela's boyfriend (or later ex-boyfriend) Sean is alluded to multiple times across the show's run, but is never actually seen (although he is described).

* [[Fake-Out Fade-Out]]: At the end of "Put Your Head on My Shoulder":

'''Leela:''' [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle|No, you didn't!]] }}

** The ancient Professor and fat Hermes often get naked or dressed in skimpy clothes for little to no reason, aside from the future having left behind such primitive concepts as "modesty". Also, we really didn't need to see Brannigan as the Adam figure in the second 2010 episode. ''Augh''. Also, Mom and the Professor on "Mother's Day."

** Leela and Fry making out in the bodies of '''Zoidberg and Professor Farnsworth''' on "Prisoner of Benda." [[Brain Bleach|Good God]]!.

** The second part of the Girly Calendar on "Neutopia". It starts out nice, then rapidly becomes very disturbing.

** Shortly afterward, Leela declares that Bender has been down in the lava too long and she is going in after him. She starts to tear off her skimpy outfit (revealing some underboob) but is stopped by Professor Farnsworth who angrily reminds her that lava is hot. The [[DVD Commentary]] says they pushed it as ''far'' as they could.

** "Why Must I Be A Crustacean In Love?" has Fry [[Accidental Pervert|accidentally hitting up the women's steam room]], where naked Leela and Amy are relaxing. Amy moves the hand covering her chest, but just enough to keep it still covered (according to the DVD commentary, the writers used this scene as a bargaining chip for the FOX censors when they wanted to get away with something that the censors would immediately decline, telling them "You let us get away with this. Why can't you do the same with this scene?").

Fry swings his legs closed. }}

** The straight-to-DVD movies kick it up a notch. The first one begins with a visit to the "Nudie beach planet." In non-sexual fanservice, all the [[Continuity Nod|ContinuityNods]] qualify.

*** For added points, there's the scene where she tells her parents about being a superhero: she ''tears off her clothes showing the Clobberella uniform underneath''!

**** [[Changing Clothes Is a Free Action|And tears up the uniform again to change back.]]

** In "Neutopia", most of the first calendar shoot. Particularly when Leela is wearing nothing on her upper body ''except suspenders.'' HOW DID THEY GET AWAY WITH THAT?

** In "All the Presidents' Heads" we see Amy as if the British had won the Revolution. Needless to say, [http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/282/amywowza.png God Save] [http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/6828/amywowza2.png the Queen].

* [[Fever Dream Episode]] ({{spoiler|"The Sting"}})

* [[Fiction 500]]: The Wong family and Mom.

'''Amy''': They have a college kid wear that to attract customers. }}

* [[Fictional Holiday]]: Freedom Day.

* [[Fidelity Test]]

* [[Finish Him!]]: In "Why Must I Be A Crustacean In Love", Fry dramatically refuses to kill his friend, and Zoidberg takes the opportunity to ''chop off his arm''.

* [[Fire and Brimstone Hell]]: With robots.

* [[First Law of Gender Bending]]: Appears to occur in the episode "Neutopia" to Scruffy, as he is in the bathroom when everybody else is returned to their normal gender. However, this is actually subverted, as in the next episode "Benderama", [[Status Quo Is God|Scruffy is seen returned to normal.]]

* [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]]: Fry, of course, and a later episode mildly [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstructed]] the concept via his ex-girlfriend.

* [[Fixing the Game]]: Bender doesn't just cheat. He doesn't just like cheating. He has a cheating unit, that occasionally malfunctions.

'''Bender''': ...What? }}

* [[For Want of a Nail]] Paul Revere only has access to one lantern in one episode

* [[Fluffy Tamer]]: Lrr and Nd-Nd towards Bigfoot in "Spanish Fry."

* [[Foreign Wrestling Heel]]: When Bender joins the "Ultimate Robot Fighting League", he's shown as an [[All-American Face]] squaring off against a montage of stock [[Heel]] characters. One such is named "The Foreigner." His antagonizing of the crowd?

* [[Foreshadowing]]:

** {{spoiler|Nibbler's eyestalk appears in a dust basket in a [[Flash Back]] to Fry's freezing in the Seymour episode.}}

** Blink and you'll miss it, but in "When Aliens Attack," when the camera zooms through the cosmos from Earth to Omicron Perseii 8, it passes by an Earth space probe engulfed in a blue, somewhat sparkly nebula. This is two and a half seasons before "Godfellas."

* [[Freaky Friday Flip]]: "A Prisoner of Benda" takes this trope and runs across the border with it, refusing to come back until extradited for its various crimes. They set up a rule that two bodies can only switch minds once, and then proceeded to work out whether they could eventually restore everyone's original bodies via group-theory. The episode contains a 3-second shot of nothing but Farnsworth's laser-blackboard showing the new, completely original theorem proved just for this episode. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|And they said abstract math doesn't have any real-world applications.]]

* [[Friendly Sniper]]: As of "The Tip of the Zoidberg", {{spoiler|Zoidberg}}, of all people, is revealed to be one, or at least capable enough to put three shots into a body with a fairly tight grouping.

* [[The Fun in Funeral]]. Bender's "funeral" in "A Pharaoh to Remember."

* [[Funny Background Event]]

* [[Fun with Acronyms]]: '''F'''athers '''A'''gainst '''R'''ude '''T'''elevision was a group made by Farnsworth and Hermes in response to Bender's decadence when he starred on All My Circuits in "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television".

* [[Future Badass]]: {{spoiler|Lars Fillmore}} in ''Bender's Big Score''. Not actually a [[Badass]], nor ''technically'' from the future, but he ''is'' a look at a much, much more mature version of a present-day character.

* [[Future Imperfect]]

* [[Gambit Roulette]]: Spoofed by the Don Bot in "The Silence of the Clamps".

* [[GASP]]: Done all the time.

* [[Geeky Turn On]]: "Dirty boy! Dirty, dirty, dirty!"

* [[Gender Bender]]: Done with Bender himself. Of course how robots have genders shouldn't matter. [[Rule of Funny]] and all that.

* [[General Failure]]: Zapp Brannigan.

* [[Genius Breeding Act]]: In one episode, a [[Genius Breeding Act]] is referenced from a time when aliens landed on Earth and forced the smartest members to mate continuously. Farnsworth was disappointed that the latest alien invasion wasn't going to involve this.

** Amy is an ABSOLUTE [[Ditz]]. However, as the episode "That Darn Katz" [[Brick Joke|reminds us]], she IS an engineering graduate student who designs a machine to harness the rotational energy of the Earth. Also, she officially gains her doctorate at the end of the episode, so she is the ultimate Genius Ditz.

** Also Dr. Zoidberg. Even though he's the staff Doctor, he knows absolutely nothing about the Human Anatomy. We later find out that he IS a doctor - of [[Not That Kind of Doctor|Art History]].

* [[Get a Room]]: Bender shouts this at an offscreen couple while he, Fry and Leela are climbing up the Watergate hotel. When one of them replies that they're ''in'' a room, he tells them to lose some weight.

* [[Get Back to the Future]]: "Roswell That Ends Well".

** [[Word of God|According to DVD commentary]], the background joke on "Why I Must Be a Crustacean in Love" where a woman is shown using a "Kegelcizer" at the gym is considered the dirtiest joke the writers have ever done, but the censors didn't catch it because they had no idea what a kegel exercise is. [[wikipedia:Kegel exercise|Here]]'s a link to it from [[The Other Wiki]].

** They also got away with showing a bong by referring to it in the script as a "weird bottle", or at least that's what the [[DVD Commentary]] claims.

** Came from this quote: "That is how we spell our s's, you ftupid fhitheads." For both those quotes, replace the f's with an s.

** When in need of an accomplished harpoon shooter, Amy volunteers. Leela responds thusly:

** The entire "private exhibition" joke in "The Lesser Of Two Evils". Farnsworth just wanted to introduce the atom that would be used on the tiara for the "Miss Universe" pageant, but the way he worded it really squicked everyone out.

** In "Raging Bender: "Now quit scratching your ax hole and get out there!"

* [[Gilligan Cut]]: Used, along with most other cut gags, in "Time Keeps on Skippin'"

'''Preacher:''' "--man and wife. You may kiss the bride." }}

** It was used in the new season 6 episode as well, where the crew stumble upon a bus filled with skeletons of dead people. When Zoidberg shoves the bones off of a bed, the Professor scolds Zoidberg for desecrating the bones of the dead people. However, when Amy says that she found a safe, cut to Farnsworth using a skull to break into the safe

* [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot]]: Titanius Anglesmith (Bender) and Greyfarn's (Farnsworth) opinion on Leegola (Leela) and Gynecaladriel (Amy) making out in ''Bender's Game''.

'''Greyfarn:''' Yes, yes it can. }}

** Bender and Fry watching Amy wash the Planet Express Ship, aka Bender's current girlfriend (quite literally [[Cargo Ship]]).

* [[God Guise]]: In "Godfellas", Bender ends up drifting in space, where he becomes God to the Shrimpkins, a race of miniature people who end up settling on his body.

** After learning that Nibblonians have been around since the dawn of time, Leila asks them about the creation. After seconds of untranslated Niblonian gibberish, Leila exclaims "That means every religion is wrong!"

** In "Overclockwise", Bender temporarily achieves omniscience, and obtains printouts with the answers to life's great questions. He casually throws away "the reason we exist", {{spoiler|but does show Fry and Leela an account of their future together.}}

* [[Going Critical]]: Better than most shows, but in "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular", Grandma's fruitcake reaches critical mass when thrown into Santa's sleigh, creating a small mushroom cloud.

* [[Going to Give It More Energy]]: The Planet Express crew tries this against the ''[[Star Trek]]''-loving Energy Being Melllvar. It doesn't work...

'''Bender''': [[Layman's Terms|Like putting too much air in a balloon!]]<br />

...<br />

* [[Grade System Snark]]: Apparently, within the lecture halls of Mars University, specifically the Twentieth-Century History class Fry, Amy, and Gunter, a [[It Makes Sense in Context|chimpanzee whose intelligence was greatly enhanced due to a bowler hat that absorbed the energy of sun spots]] in "Mars University", each individual seat is rigged to electrocute any student who [[Disproportionate Retribution|makes a snide or incredibly stupid remark, calls out of turn, or gets a question wrong.]] It doesn't help that the professor in charge of that particular class was [[Sarcasm Mode|thick on the sarcasm]].

* [[Grey and Grey Morality]]: "Benderama", interestingly enough. The giant starts smashing up everything, only because he has some self-esteem and anger issues and everyone is insulting him. Everyone except Bender is entirely drunk and so can't really be held accountable, and while Bender stops the giant, he really was the only sober one and isn't any better than everyone else drunk:

* [[Grey Goo]]: Done with the infinitely replicating Benders, which even drop the trope name. They only thing saving the world was the Benders' collective laziness. The do leave behind significant damage before leaving to avoid doing even a minisulce fraction of a thing.

* [[Great Way to Go]]: Several. Fry tends to be a part.

* [[Hand Wave]]: "I thought that machine made noses?" "It can do other things. Why shouldn't it?" (Granted, that all makes perfect sense.)

* [[Hanging Judge]]: Judge Whitey

* [[Hard on Soft Science]]

* [[Have I Mentioned I Am Sexually Active Today?]]: Zapp Brannigan is one of the page quotes.

* [[He Knows Too Much]]: When the crew is throwing away their "overly-complicated Japanese toilet", it offers them "Happy Poopy Time" if they'll spare it. Fry responds with this trope.

* [[Her Codename Was Mary Sue]]: Melllvar's [[Author Avatar]] is the ''classic'' example of this in his FanFic.

'''Nichols:''' ''(reading aloud in bored monotone)'' My, what a handsome energy creature you are. I love you. }}

* [[Hermaphrodite]]: This is Hermes' actual name ([[Its Pronounced Tropay|but pronounced "Herm-Aphrodite"]]) when he is turned into a centaur with breasts in the third movie, 'Bender's Game'.

* [["Hey You!" Haymaker]] something like this happened in "I second that emotion" one of bender's arms tapped a foe on the shoulder, pointed in another direction, then the other arm punched said foe in the face.

* [[High-Class Glass]]: Bender puts on a monocle to show how rich Fry becomes in the episode "A Fish Full of Dollars".

'''Bender''': Maybe you don't understand just how rich he is. In fact, I think I'd better put on a monocle. }}

* [[High Collar of Doom]]: The Omicronians.

* [[Hold Up Your Score]]

* [[Holodeck Malfunction]]: Parodied to hell and back with the Holo-Shed in "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch".

'''Zapp''': Damn, the last time that happened [[Power Perversion Potential|I was slapped with three paternity suits]]. }}

* [[Hollywood Density]]: Parodied as starship fuel (dark matter) is so dense that "a single pound of it weighs ten thousand pounds." In one case, Fry refers to a ball of this fuel, which has previously been shown on rare occasions to be liftable by a human, as "weighing as much as a thousand suns."

** Then Bender grabs some wings and begins to fly out of Robot Hell carrying Fry and Leela. When Leela tells him he needs to fly faster he says he could if she would drop the solid gold fiddle she was carrying (dented from hitting the Robot Devil over the head with it).

* [[Hollywood Tone Deaf]]: In "Spanish Fry," Leela sings a warbly and off-key bit of Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You." Katey Sagal (besides being known as [[Married... with Children|Peg Bundy]] and Turanga Leela) is a talented singer, [[Irony as She Is Cast|and manages to convincingly sing badly]].

* [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold]]: Literally: in "Hell is Other Robots" there's a robot hooker who has an actual heart of solid gold.

** Leela hugs Fry and mentions that "you smell like you've been rolling in New Jersey."

** Another episode ends with the revelation that Leela has been comatose for weeks, and Fry has been at her side the whole time. They hug, and:

'''Fry''': So could you. }}

* [[Huge Holographic Head]]: Used several times, but most notably with '''Jorel, Master of Scheduling''', who uses the system to make mundane announcements.

* [[Human Popsicle]]: How Fry gets to the future in the first place.

'''Naked Man''': Turns out it's man. }}

* [[Humans Are Morons]]: The 20th Century is known as "The Stupid Age" to historians. However, that doesn't make humans of the 31st Century any less stupid than us.

* [[Hurl It Into the Sun]]: Hermes and the box in "The Farnsworth Parabox". Also done with a shipment of popcorn kernels in "A Bicyclops Built for Two" and a shipment of candy hearts in "Love and Rocket", although in that episode it was a quasar instead of the sun.

* [[Hurricane of Excuses]]:

** Also Leela, Bender, and Fry in "Less than Hero" (see [[I Need to Go Iron My Dog]]).

* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: Numerous examples, but the one that really takes the cake is the [[Lead In]] to "The Luck of the Fryrish", containing every joke imaginable about horse racing, and, [[Just for Pun]], a joke about Quantum Physics.

* [[Hyperspace Lanes]]: The Panama Wormhole, Earth's central shipping channel.

* [[Hypnotic Eyes]]: THE HYPNOTOAD. This has reached the levels of Memet--'''[[Interrupting Meme|ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD]]'''

** In ''Bender's Game'', following a particularly brutal [[Take That]] to [[Robin Williams]] (in form of a horde of [[Our Orcs Are Different|Morks]], a combination of orcs and, well, [[Mork and Mindy|Mork]] who can only repeat his catchphrases and are messily slain in great numbers for being annoying) for supposedly not being funny, we are subjected to ''[[Overly Long Gag|The Eviscerator]]'', which seems like the exact kinda joke Williams would make in his stand-up routine.

** "That Darn Katz" has Nibbler claiming that nothing acts cute without an ulterior motive. Even keeping in mind his actions through the entire series, he follows this up by acting cute to trick Amy into changing his diaper.

** "I hereby promote you to executive delivery boy!" "It's a meaningless title, but it helps insecure people feel better about themself"...Executive Producers: Matt Groening, David X. Cohen.

 

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