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* [[I Ate What]]: "The Problem with Popplers"

* [[I Ate What?]]: "The Problem with Popplers"

* [[I Banged Your Mom]]: In the episode "A Clockwork Origin":

{{quote| '''Brett Blob''': Hey Cubert! Is that your family mansion?<br />

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* [[I Know What We Can Do Cut]]: In "Time Keeps On Slipping", so the cut is a [[Time Skip]].

{{quote| '''Hermes:''' "[[Noodle Implements|I don't even know how this was supposed to work!]]"}}

* [[I'll Kill You]]: Plenty of times.

* [[I'll Kill You!]]: Plenty of times.

* [[Ill Take Two Beers Too]]: Bender.

* [[I'm Not Afraid of You]]: Won't work on Robot Santa.

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'''Fry''': (defeated) Always respect the chain-o-command...captain. }}

* [[Instant Home Delivery]]: In "The Route of All Evil," Cubert and Dwight order a pedal-powered spacecraft. The form says "allow four to six seconds for delivery." Cubert says it's more like seven.

* [[Instant Plunder Just Add Pirates]]: Space pirates.

* [[Instant Plunder, Just Add Pirates]]: Space pirates.

* [[Interdimensional Travel Device]]: Farnsworth invents the parabox which allows travel to different realities, including one where Fry and Leela are married.

* [[Interspecies Romance]]:

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** "In regular fossilization, flesh and bone turns to mineral. Realizing this, it was a simple matter to reverse the process!"

** Also the Central Bureaucracy. An organization that runs full stop on a combination of [[Pirate Code]] and [[Big Book of War]] philosophies, some of which their rules border on [[Calvin Ball]] mentality, all cubicles (or at least the section that we see) are constructed in a hovering Rubik's cube, the lines are ''impossibly'' long, and those who ''have'' managed to go inside and are not bureaucrats go insane within minutes.

* [[~~Its~~ Been Done]]: [[Word of God|The creators]] have explained that Amy Wong was originally created to be a female character who was always hurting herself, thinking that it's typically only males who get to engage in the slapstick. They evidently didn't realize that there's already [[Dojikko|a trope for that]]. True, that's mostly a [[Japanese Media Tropes|Japanese Media Trope]], but it does have a [[Cute Clumsy Girl|Western counterpart]].

* [[It's Been Done]]: [[Word of God|The creators]] have explained that Amy Wong was originally created to be a female character who was always hurting herself, thinking that it's typically only males who get to engage in the slapstick. They evidently didn't realize that there's already [[Dojikko|a trope for that]]. True, that's mostly a [[Japanese Media Tropes|Japanese Media Trope]], but it does have a [[Cute Clumsy Girl|Western counterpart]].

** Although it's arguable that these aren't the same trope, as the [[Dojikko]] and [[Cute Clumsy Girl]] are typically played for [[Moe Moe|moe/endearing]] effect; while Amy's clumsiness is played [[Comedic Sociopathy|strictly for laughs]], which has historically been a predominantly male role.

* [[Its Like I Always Say]]

* [[~~Its~~ Up to You]]: The [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits|Planet Express crew]] has saved the city/planet/universe from annihilation dozens of times. Sometimes this is justified with Fry's "special" brain.

* [[It's Up to You]]: The [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits|Planet Express crew]] has saved the city/planet/universe from annihilation dozens of times. Sometimes this is justified with Fry's "special" brain.

* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: Bender to Flexo's not-quite-divorced robot wife who remembers she remembers she loves Flexo after all.

* [[I Will Wait for You]]: "Jurassic Bark", which even makes use of the song that named the trope in the ending, which makes the ending even more heart-wrenching.

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** {{spoiler|Whenever I said "Kill All Humans" I always whispered "except one." Fry was that one.}} (That one has its impact lessened by the revelation that {{spoiler|it was just a hallucination of Leela's.}})

* [[Kill Em All]]: Every short story in the Christmas special ends like this.

* [[Kill'Em All]]: Every short story in the Christmas special ends like this.

* [[Killer Rabbit]]: Nibbler, and arguably the rest of the Nibblonians. They're tiny and adorable...and capable of destroying much larger opponents {{spoiler|(including the seemingly invincible Brainspawn)}}, running a [[Secret Society]], and excreting Dark Matter. Though for some reason, they're utterly useless against the Nudists.

{{quote| '''Nibber''': Alas, our kitten class attack ships were no match for their mighty chairs. The universe is Doomed.}}

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** "I'M NOT '''''FROM''''' HERE! I'VE GOT MY '''''OWN''''' CUSTOMS! LOOK AT MY '''''CRAAAAZY''''' PASSPORT!"

** Also Bender, from time to time. "And ''I''... '''''I''''' ''can be an'' '''''ACTING COACH!!!!'''''

* [[Large Ham Title]]: Lrrr, '''RULER OF THE PLANET OMICRON PERSEI 8!'''. He even shouts it when he's trying to [[Paper Thin Disguise|go incognito]].

* [[Large Ham Title]]: Lrrr, '''RULER OF THE PLANET OMICRON PERSEI 8!'''. He even shouts it when he's trying to [[Paper-Thin Disguise|go incognito]].

* [[Last Name Basis]]: Fry's full name is "Phillip J. Fry". This gets a [[Lampshade Hanging]] by Amy in one episode. [[And Zoidberg]] (John).

* [[Last-Name Basis]]: Fry's full name is "Phillip J. Fry". This gets a [[Lampshade Hanging]] by Amy in one episode. [[And Zoidberg]] (John).

** Apparently this with Turanga Leela; but eventually subverted when we discover in that Leela's parents are "Turanga Morris" and "Turanga Munda", indicating that mutants arrange their names Asian style, with the family name first.

* [[Latin Land]]: The Tijuana from "Lethal Inspection" is a textbook example.

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* [[Losing Your Head]]: The heads in jars, Bender, Zoidberg, {{spoiler|Hermes}}, Robot Santa (who produced a new one), and technically Fry (his body was damaged so they moved his head to Amy's shoulder).

* [[Low Speed Chase]]: There's a chase scene at the Central Bureaucracy on "slowmobiles", hover-scooters that travel at slightly less than walking pace.

* [[Luke You Are My Father]]: Farnsworth is {{spoiler|Igner's}} father.

* [[Luke, You Are My Father]]: Farnsworth is {{spoiler|Igner's}} father.

* [[Made of Evil]]

* [[Made of Explodium]]: One of the bees crashes into the walls of the hive and explodes in "The Sting". As of the 2010 Christmas special episode, it appears ALL space bees are made of explodium.

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* [[Mermaid Problem]]

* [[Mile High Club]]: An inversion in "The Duh-Vinci Code". While searching for a tomb underneath Rome, Fry asks Leela if she wants to join the "Mile Deep Club". She consents but they're interrupted by the Professor.

* [[Mike Nelson Destroyer of Worlds]]: In one "What if" story, Fry destroys the entire universe with a time paradox.

* [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds]]: In one "What if" story, Fry destroys the entire universe with a time paradox.

* [[Mind Screw]]: "The Sting". And how!

** "Obsoletely Fabulous" ventures here too but more mildly. The bulk of the episode is just a long string of {{spoiler|fictitious events in Bender's head to make him appreciate the 1-X robots.}}

* [[Misfit Mobilization Moment]]: In Bender's big score, this happens in the climactic battle against the scammers when Hermes' head is plugged directly into the battlegrid. Cue [[Theme Music Power Up]] and much ass-kicking.

* [[Misfit Mobilization Moment]]: In Bender's big score, this happens in the climactic battle against the scammers when Hermes' head is plugged directly into the battlegrid. Cue [[Theme Music Power-Up]] and much ass-kicking.

* [[Mistaken for Exhibit]]: In "Mother's Day", Fry justly mistakes the janitor (who happens to be a robot made out of wax) for one of the wax robot sculptures in a museum.

* [[Mister Seahorse]]: Kif Kroker's species has "males" who become pregnant by absorbing genetic material from other lifeforms via skin contact. In another episode, Bender allows Fry and Leela to homebrew beer inside his torso and it's treated like a case of pregnancy. In one of the spin-off comics, Zapp Brannigan basically gets this with the intent of using him as a human weapon.

* [[Mobstacle Course]]: Bender's cow catcher on Freedom Day.

* [[Modern Major General]]: Zapp, at times.

* [[Modern Major-General]]: Zapp, at times.

* [[Monster Progenitor]]: The Project Satan to all Were-cars.

* [[Morality Dial]]

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* [[Must Make Amends]]: Fry finds his old dog from the 20th century fossilized in a construction site. Feeling bad for abandoning it (despite not meaning to) he arranges for the professor to actually revive it. With Science!

** In that same episode, Bender, in a fit of jealousy, literally kicked said dog's fossil into hot lava, but after realizing what he did, he went in to save him and recovered him.

* [[My God What Have I Done]]: "I just told you, you've killed me!"

* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: "I just told you, you've killed me!"

** "What have I [[Time Travel Tense Trouble|will have done]]?!"

* [[~~Names~~ the Same]]: Mike Rowe and Josh Weinstein are members of the production crew. However, they aren't [[Dirty Jobs|that Mike Rowe]] or [[Mystery Science Theater 3000|that Josh Weinstein]].

* [[Name's the Same]]: Mike Rowe and Josh Weinstein are members of the production crew. However, they aren't [[Dirty Jobs|that Mike Rowe]] or [[Mystery Science Theater 3000|that Josh Weinstein]].

* [[Nausea Dissonance]]: In "Parasites Lost", after learning there are worms inside Fry's body:

{{quote| '''Hermes:''' (''eating popcorn'') It's nauseating, mon! (''eats more popcorn'') Is there no way to get rid of the disgusting maggots?}}

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''[The professor presses a button on a remote, causing several different stereotypically "mad scientist" style machines to come up through a trap door]'' <br />

'''Farnsworth:''' I suppose I could part with one and still be feared. }}

* [[The Not So Harmless Punishment]]: From "Space Pilot 3000,"

* [[The Not-So-Harmless Punishment]]: From "Space Pilot 3000,"

{{quote| '''Fry:''' And what if I don't want to be a delivery boy?<br />

'''Leela:''' Then you'll be fired.<br />