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Futurama is some kind of ailment.

Future trama sounds more like it.

Fry is in a new coma trauma self-induced state known as Futurama.

Fry

Futurama after the first few minutes is a Dying Dream

Cryogenic freezing didn't exist in 1999, therefore Fry actually freezes to death and everything from then onwards is Fry's Dying Dream as he falls unconscious.

Lars-Fry was never the Fry we know and love.

Rather, he's Fry from another universe.

When Fry-A (our universe's Fry) goes back in time so the pizza he wants will be warmer, he encounters Lars-Fry, who criticizes his choice to go back in time for pizza. Lars-Fry always seemed more clever than Fry-A even before he matured into Lars. He's Fry, all right; but his intellect and reasoning seem slightly more refined than they should.

The time code, regardless of what the characters tell you, is horribly flawed. Somewhere in that mess, something we didn't know about could have been going on. Maybe the time code somehow got Lars-Fry mixed up in a different universe - our universe A. If the differences between the universes are that subtle (just like slightly different IQs for everyone), then Lars-Fry would notice but wouldn't necessarily realize that he's in a different universe. Besides, Lars, as a supposed duplicate, cheated death for a long time. Also...

Lars-Fry is the Grandson of Fry-A

After sleeping with his grandmother, Lars fry was the resulting Grandson. Perhaps, ironically, inbreeding is the cause for his intelligence.

  • Additionally, Fry has created an infinite loop of alternate universes branching from that event as a result. Each alternate Fry, no doubt, also slept with their grandmothers to create another universe (such as the universe of Lars-Fry and the Box universe Fry etc.) Each counter-part would develop slightly differently from the original in IQ or hair color etc.
    • For even more "fun" lets consider the possibility that Enos Fry (the Grandfather of Fry-A) was ANOTHER Parallel Fry from the time loop.

God is Fry.

The time-travel related weirdness concerning Fry's family tree and Lars is just the beginning. Fry is destined to, via Time Travel and other strangeness, become every single particle, thing, and person in the universe.

In "Godfellas," it is implied that God is the sentient mind of the universe. Perhaps there is only one sentient mind in the universe, weaved and weaving through all of time and space. Fry is the first segment of the thread, and his family tree oddness is the knot keeping his end in place. God is the sentient mind of the universe as a whole at any given point in time.

Communicating with the universe as a whole may only be possible through the One True Language (see below).

  • This would explain why the God Probe and Fry have the same voice (well, that and the fact that Billy West did about a third of the voices for the whole show...)

Fry is also his maternal grandfather.

Fry has his mother's hair color and style. His father looks more like Mildred than either Enos Fry or Fry himself.

This sort of thing can skip a generation, but we never see his maternal grandparents. His mother's maiden name is All There in the Manual.

Fry, or a clone of him, is his own mother

  • That's either too convoluted or not convoluted enough.

Part of or all of the series has been a Dying Dream of Fry.

There are at least two notable instances where this could in fact be true:

  • As seen in Anthology of Interest I, Fry may have smashed his head against the cryogenic pod instead of falling in, but fatally.
  • At the end of The Cryonic Woman, The Professor ejects Fry from the Planet Express ship through a trap-door, likely hundreds of feet or more above ground. Of course, no mention of this is made in the next episode and Fry has survived without incident... but what if he in fact hadn't?

In either case, everything past that point (the entire series, or just Volume Three and up) is not real and is just the twisted product of Fry's mind gradually shutting down.

Everything past The Late Philip J Fry is Fry, Farnsworth and Bender's Dying Dream.

Time isn't cyclical; the new universe could have only been brought about by a Big Crunch. The Forwards Time Machine is slowly losing power, and with no more stars the temperature is decreasing. Fry and the Professor are in a coma due to the cold, and will soon freeze. Even Bender will freeze because there is no source of heat or light left in the cosmos

  • Jossed by real-world physics. Quantum foam will eventually cause a new Big Bang something like 10^142 years after the universe succumbs to proton decay, although it almost certainly won't be identical to the previous one in real life. The More You Know.

Fry didn't mutate because he's already a mutant.

His "past-nastification" led to his lack of the delta brainwave. Who said all mutations have to be external?

  • That and his genome is already locked in due to infinite inbreeding on his end. Granted, that particular fact is tied into his Delta Brainwave lack, but even if it wasn't, there isn't all that much that the mutagen water can work with after a family lineage infinitely strong AND his genome holding several Stable Time Loops in place by this point.

== Fry is related to Conan O'Brien. == Come on, just look at his hair!

Fry's middle name is Jancy.

Pronounced like the J in "Hallelujah". The J. middle name is a tradition from his mother's side of the family.

Philip Fry II is living the life Fry would have lived if he wasn't frozen.

Fry's life started going downhill when he hid his 7-leaf clover. If he hadn't been frozen, he would have found his clover. Everything that happened to Fry's nephew would have happened to Fry himself. The Nibblonians knew this and and gave him Leela as a gift for such a sacrifice.

Everything we know is a lie

Fry is actually a genius, but he was transported to a universe where no one understands his genius because, the knowledge they have is completely, difrent than the knowledge he has, in his universe.

1. The sky is blue because of refraction.

  • In Fry's universe the sky is blue because of reflection.

2. You can't put metal in the microwave because the microwaves will bounce off ot the metal and back into the processor.

  • In Fry's universe the reason is because metals, give off a dusty alloy, that's gets into the machine and when it mixes with Microwave Fluid it is transformed into a solution more volatile than Napalm.

Philip J. Fry is still a police officer

He was simply assigned to keep an eye on Bender, a known criminal mastermind (and possible supervillain/God/etc.) with a pretty lengthy rap sheet.

Fry is allowed to watch the DVDs of shows that came out in the early 21st century at a rate no faster than he would have been able had he stayed in the 21st century, and looks stuff up on Wikipedia 3000.

For example, he could have started watching the Lost DVD set in 3003, but the Professor and Leela wouldn't let him finish watching it until 3009. If he was allowed to catch up on television at whatever rate he wished, he would spend all of his time watching 21st century television (when he's rich, he spends all of his time watching the incredibly rare tapes of 20th-century shows in order to recreate his old life), Everybody Loves Hypnotoad, and All My Circuits (he watches contemporary shows with the rest of the gang anyway). Fry watches a lot of DVD sets of media news/pop culture shows so he can keep up with the topical references other shows make; a lot of post-Y 2 K Family Guy episodes (to use an example of something that started in the 20th century, which he might have enjoyed watching) would have made absolutely no sense if Fry hadn't looked up most of his references online, and news/comedy/clip/pop culture shows like Tosh.0 not only wouldn't make sense if he didn't know most of the references, but also gives him information on 21st-century pop culture that he then parrots back into the world. There is the irony in this situation that Fry probably knows more about the 21st century now than he would have if he's stayed in our present.

Leela ==== Leela has an important destiny.

The only evidence is Nibbler's cryptic comment "Ah, she must be the other..." (as in savior?), and Leela's dad replying, "Well, actually..." when Leela asked her parents if she was their mutant messiah.

Leela's purpose for being the Other is...

To herald a new generation to protect the universe when Fry is dead. When Universe Gamma v1 Leela thought Fry was dead,she got some of Fry's sperm from a sperm bank and had a kid, but decided to give it up for adoption. That, or Fry knocked her up not long before "The Late Philip J Fry"

  • Unless her purpose is to keep him the Chosen One. He got rid of the worms because he wanted Leela to love him for himself, and if they'd managed to set him up with a Delta brain wave after all their repairs that would've made Fry useless against the Brain Spawn.

That thing Leela wears on her wrist is what the iPhone will evolve into.

It gets calls, does just about everything, and gets Tetris.

  • Jossed...the future of the iPhone will be that it's implanted directly into your eye.

In The Sting, Leela never did wake up at the end of the episode.

The part where Leela woke up in the hospital was part of another one of the crazy dreams she had been having. Either she did eat a third spoonful of jelly and will never wake up, or she will one day hear Fry tell her that she has to wake up again.

Fry and Leela ==== Fry and Leela's children will be superbeings.

He's his own grandfather. She's the least mutated sewer mutant ever. If their unique genetics combine, then it may result in the most powerful beings ever. Also fits in with the above WMG.

  • And their children will have one eye with two pupils. It's a sight gag too good to pass up.

Fry and Leela will not be together at the beginning of season six.

Come on, does anyone really expect anything else to happen outside of wishful thinking? The writers reset it in Bender's Big Score so what's to say that they won't do it again? It'll probably be done in Rebirth by having Leela either not remember or otherwise change her mind, but Fry will settle at the end of the episode for the fact that she's alive. Cue Fry's 'Quest To Get Leela To Love Me' all over again.

  • Seems to be confirmed by Word of God saying that it'll be "on and off". In other words, a definite return to the status quo. Prepare for plenty of Fan Wank.
  • Well so far it seems to vary depending on the episode. Their relationship only seems to exist when the plot is centered on Fry and Leela. If it's anyone else's turn in the spotlight the Fry+ Leela relationship doesn't seem to exist.
  • It's not quite the old Status Quo, though. Even when the episode isn't centered on Fry and Leela, she's still more receptive to Fry than she had been previously. See the episode where they're looking for Da Vinci's secrets, where Leela says yes to becoming a member of the "mile deep club" without the slightest hesitation. So the change in their relationship is still there, but it's subtle unless it's focused on.
  • I think it's more that they have had the Relationship Upgrade, but beyond the removal of the Fry-gets rejected-continuously-by-Leela dynamic, not much changes because they were already so close. For example, in "The Late Philip J. Fry," for her birthday he's supposed to take her out for a romantic dinner just the two of them.

Despite his romantic feelings, Fry is sexually averse to Leela.

In other words: Fry loves Leela, but does not want to have sex with her. Because although he is fond of her personality—as well as being attracted to her from the waist down—the thought of copulating with a Cyclops horrifies him. This could be due to, despite being used to her face on a casual level, he still cannot fathom it in a sexual context. More likely, he is afraid of producing similarly "disfigured" offspring, especially considering him being a product of incest himself and thus not wanting to suffer anyone a fate of this sort. Given that he comes from an era where safe sex and birth control aren't quite as watertight as the time period he currently resides in, it makes some sense.

Think about it. The only times the two have been seen to have had intercourse were in "Anthology of Interest" and "The Prisoner of Benda". The former was a "What If" scenario spawned from Leela's mind, a situation she aggressively initiates, thus suggesting in this context that it's actually Leela who wants to make love to Fry, rather than the other way around. The latter occurred while the two were in different bodies, where Fry had just finished having sex with the decrepit, yet fully human, Farnsworth in Zoidberg's body. As for his attempt to sleep with Leela in "Parasites Lost", this is easily explained by the parasites' modification of his brain. When he returns after removing the parasites, his brain's gradual return to its formal, "unenlightened" self results in him becoming increasingly confused (and socially inept, as per usual). The followup holophone image he creates represents the horror his unconscious mind feels in regards to the situation he is finding himself in: getting ready to make love to a monster that he somehow feels deep affection for.

Bender

Bender is Jesus

When Bender went back in time to steal the cross, he went back a bit too early and suffered damage. He then rebooted himself into thinking he was Jesus because people thought he was divine in nature because he appeared to appear out of nowhere.

Once Bender was crucified, he realised that he was a robot and reverted to his normal personality. Myths about Jesus being a human with divine attributes were due to no-one knowing what a robot was at the time.

Bender is God/The Galactic Entity/whatever Yivo wasn't.

The Galactic Entity isn't a space probe that collided with God, but God. But it started out as something that "collided" with God. A certain Bending robot, perhaps?

He did become a god to the Shrimpkins, which fulfilled the Clap Your Hands If You Believe requirement of Gods Need Prayer Badly.

The Time Code was in a tattoo of Bender because he's vain and would think it great fun to make the universe's inhabitants contact a picture of him.

Bender may eventually be several times older than the universe itself, depending on how many times he traveled, both in Bender's Big Score and afterward.

  • As of The Late Phillip J. Fry, Bender has been present at both the birth and collapse of the universe at least twice. I'm not really sure how age is tallied in his particular case, but its reasonable to say that at this point, he's at least twice the age of the universe and some change.

The Time Code was in the binary language that robots use, not because it is based on the same 21st-century language that the robot language evolved from, but because it's literally Bender's code format.

  • not to mention now in the recent episode Bender overclocks himself inside out turning the entire universe into his processor core

Bender's nightmare about the 2 has to do with the Church of Robotology prayer.

Everything goes fine in the dream, all zeroes and ones, until he sees the two. In the prayer, the two seems to indicate a higher power, and it may be this that he's afraid of in the dream, instead of the non-binary number.

Bender isn't a sociopath, just mentally very young.

Bender is only four years old in terms of age, and in psychology it has been found that very young children are essentially very selfish beings. (which makes evolutionary sense as human children are essentially helpless and need to demand that level of attention to survive.) If robots are designed to develop mentally in the same way humans do, it could be that Bender simply hasn't grown up enough to develop the ability to empathise with others especially since he shows the occasional signs of empathy and even feels quite lonely when apart from his friends, particularly Fry... or he could just be a sociopathic kleptomaniac with a soft spot for his friends. Who knows? For this WMG to work would mean that Bender would still have to have been given the intellectual concepts like language and the like in his initial programming.

  • Just realised this is effectively Jossed due to the time-travel incident leaving him in the sand for a thousand years. Any maturation programming would've kicked in by then.
    • It's quite possible that he was powered down for that time, we've seen what happens when he goes without alcohol for long periods of time, but he seemed pefectly sober drunk? whatever.

Bender's family.

Multiple WMGs crammed into one;

  • Bender's father was a conveyor belt. Since Bender's mother is a robotic arm (Xmas Story), then one of the few things that could be his father is the conveyor belt that Bender was assembled upon.
    • Alternatively, Bender's father is a computer. "Teenage Mutant Leela Hurdles" showed the embryonic form of Bender being a CD, so Bender's father may be the computer that created the CD programming.
  • The can opener that killed Bender's father was faulty. Bender's father was already established to have been killed by a giant can opener (I Second That Emotion). It's possible that the can opener was improperly assembled in the same factory that Bender was assembled. It exploded, destroying the conveyor belt that was Bender's father. The conveyor belt seen behind Bender's mother in Xmas Story is her second husband.
  • Uncle Vladimir was assembled in the same factory as Bender's mother and/or father. Self-explanatory.
  • Bender himself is part cement mixer and kiln, hence his Bowel-Breaking Bricks.
  • Bender has an ex-wife or ex-girlfriend who won custody of their son. Possibly she divorced/left him after his first conviction.
  • Bender's bulldozer grandmother is on his father's side, clearing the way for the conveyor belt/computer factory that is Bender's father. His parental grandfather is the smelting factory used to find the material for his father.

Bender became evil the day he met Fry

He was reluctant to bend anything that wasn't girders when they were trapped in the hall of criminals (in the first episode),but then his head anntenae ran into the light and got shocked. Now remember this in the Hall of criminal Heads, so when he wakes up he is much more spunky and has a more "in your face personality". Perhaps the heads had a effect on him to make him more evil. He also might have had some memory loss when this happened explaining:"People lived before they met me?"

  • That. Is. Truly Fridge Brilliance, I never thought of it that way
  • In Bender's first appearance, the guilt of learning that he was building components of suicide booths had...uh...driven him to suicide. By the end of the first season his stated goal was to Kill All Humans. By season 3, he had attempted to sell orphans as food (and apparently misrepresenting their weight). Today, every time a human's death is even alluded to, he chuckles. Wow, this is a great theory.
  • Note that, for Futurama robots, electricity is the equivelant of a drug. Given how direct it was, this likely contributed to Bender's hedonism.

Bender is a Super Prototype.

Bender is constantly bending things that a normal Bending Unit is not supposed to be able to bend. He's even violated the laws of physics multiple times. This would explain why he was built without a backup unit: he was never intended for regular Bending duty or for mass production. He was never even intended to be let out of the factory; Hermes wasn't supposed to approve him. This also explains his child-like mood swings and his self-destructive tendencies: he can sense something's not right with him and his situtation, so he's lashing out at the universe and himself.

Bender's hindquarters (probably including the rest of him) were plated or painted with a metallic yellow substance for a while before Fry met him.

Hence why his second favorite word (in "War is The H-Word") is "daffodil", while "bite", "my", and "shiny" are his fifth through third favorite words but "metal" doesn't even make the list. This may have changed at the time of the coin flip for his metallic coating referenced in "The Farnsworth Parabox"; They discontinued (or changed) the coating, and he flipped a coin between using a new but slightly different golden coating or go back to his original silvery coating style.

Bender was high in the first episode.

Many people interpret bender getting shocked to mean that he was deprogrammed that day. However, remember what we learn much later, that unusually high amounts of electricity gets robots high. Also, Bender doesn't show any tendency to bend for destructive purposes after the pilot. Bender does many evil things, but bending destructively isn't one of them. So, Bender was simply high after running into the exposed socket, which hampered his way of thinking, which explains why he was suddenly so enthusiastic about bending.

Bender embodies all the seven deadly sins at once.

Let's see he's self-centered, arrogant and cocky(Pride), he will do anything underhanded for material/financial gain(Greed), he's very sleazy and won't do anything important with his life(Sloth), he has a short fuse and is quick to react to his short temper(Wrath), he uses alchohol as a fuel source therefore he needs it so we can't say lust but he takes way more alchohol than he needs to the point of waste(Gluttony), he likes sluts and whores(Lust), and he covets/hates others fortunes(Envy).


Other characters

I. C. Wiener is an abbreviation of Nibbler's real name.

Fry is the only one we see read it. What reason would he have to use a fake one?

Zoidberg is Jesus

He came back as a space lobster, but was too naive to comprehend how corrupt humanity had become. Instead, he got caught up in the moment and has been coasting along ever since.

In "A Tale of Two Santas," he dressed as Jesus and said himself that he was Jesus. Mayor Poopenmeyer believed him.

  • So that's why lobster isn't kosher.

Zapp Brannigan is able to maintain his command because he's blackmailing someone.

You know that line "It is a woman this time?" in his first appearance? Well, that non-woman was in a position of power and gave Zapp his position. He gets to keep it because of the technicalities of year 3000 Earth.

Alternatively,it is all a farce.

The Earth government needed something to distract them from their real problems, so they use Zapp Brannigan. They don't choose a competent general in case he catches on, and make clones of the many soldiers who die in Zapp's strategies. Kif is there to make sure he doesn't go too overboard, and is forced to stay with him under threat of death. Let's face it, the Futurama universe would allow that.

Igner's middle name is Amos.

Too obvious to not be true.

Morbo is Jesus.

Here to spread his message: News anchor, plus "I WILL DESTROY YOU!"

Everyone will be taken up into the sky to watch the earth burn: sounds like something the thousands of fleets could do.

And, having been deified (or at least deincarnated), there's no reason to assume that he would look human when he returned. A Space Jesus would have to look familiar to as many different species as possible; many species are green, with proportionally larger heads and larger fangs than humans.

Kif is Zapp's caretaker.

Unfortunately, he's not blunt enough to tell people outright. While he was skirting the issue, Zapp was hired onto DOoP and promoted to Captain. Then it became truly embarassing because Kif is now responsible for letting an incompetent man send millions of soldiers to their deaths.

This is why Kif doesn't protest much when he gets demoted along with Zapp:

  1. he believes he's responsible for anything Zapp does, and therefore deserves it
  2. he wants Zapp out of power anyway
  3. he has to go along with it or risk losing track of Zapp.
  • Official or not, this is how things work with Kif and Zapp.

The Chanukah Zombie is Zombie Jesus

Jesus cannot be so vain to worship himself, so he must be of the Jewish religion. Q.E.D.

  • Wait... then that would make Mark Hamill the voice of Jesus! Which would make Luke... AHA! It all makes sense now! But where does that leave The Joker?
    • The Joker is the Antichrist.

Igner is Obfuscating Stupidity

In Bender's Game, he successfully diverted the attenetions of his brothers away from the location of Fry and company while escaping. He did so with some clever wording, effectively turning attention away from the area. He then, following the example of Hubert Farnsworth, swallowed the phlebotinum. Even as an idiot, he had no reason to do this, and instantly comprehended Farnsworth plan to destroy it. The question of why he would do this can be figured out fairly easily. He is intelligent, but his upbringing gave him great insight into the business world. He decided to eventually usurp his mother's business, waiting for (very) old age to begin acting against her, and playing the fool in the intervening time. This partly explains his final actions in Bender's Game. With the phlebotinum destroyed, her fuel empire was in shambles. This could, eventually lead to a break down, with enough time and "foul-ups". His brothers, being entirely loyal to Mom, would stick by her, trying to rebuild, while Igner worked on the sidelines to cement his power. After Mom's passing, the brothers would likely inherit control, with the more intelligent two having majority. Careful manipulation could cause them to give Igner control, citing loyalty by stupidity. At this point he could throw off the ruse and do as he pleased.

The Turangas ARE aliens.

Or, at least, PART alien. They're brain slug/mutant hybrids. This is why they all have one eye, while other mutants seem to have no similarity within families at all, and that the Turangas' sanity, especially Leela's, is much higher than the other characters in Futurama.

  • Turanga is a given name. Leela, like Fry, uses her last name instead of her first. This is lampshaded in the (rather early) episode where Fry learns this about her.
    • Turanga is a Family Name First name. Leela is her given name, Turanga is Leela's, Morris's, and[... I can't believe I have to cheat and use The Infosphere for this] Munda's family name.

Mom is a descendant of Steve Jobs

She's an industrial giant who presents a warm and inviting image that makes people trust her and buy into her empire, but is cutthroat, bitter, and downright evil when she's not in the public view. Then she invented the eyePhone.

    • They show an episode pointing out how she has zero tolerance for a product flaw tarnishing her image after the fallout from the infamous iPhone "Antennagate" saga.

Hermes is responsible for the conflicting versions of Bender's birth.

The version with Bender born as a smaller robot is real, and the version with Bender born "fully grown" is a false memory planted in Bender's mind by Hermes. When Bender was hired by Planet Express Hermes realized Bender would kill Hermes if the missing backup unit was discovered. So Hermes reprogrammed Bender's memory of his birth to remove all images of "inspector 5" so that Bender wouldn't kill Hermes.

  • That would explain why during Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles, Bender de-ages like everyone else!

The Galactic Entity is..

  • God itself: It just isn't sure if its God, and probably thinks having the role of God
  • A reboot program by God: This is why time is cyclical-every 10^40 years it uses all its knowledge to ensure the Big Bang gives a similar result
  • Built by the Anti-Spirals. You knew this was coming
  • The former home galaxy of Eternium. That is how they are 17 years older than the universe
  • A probe built by the Nibblonians that collided with God, and since it was in the early days of the universe there was plenty material for a galaxy to form over it
  • A mutated TARDIS.

The Preacherbot is the true Robot Devil.

Could you honestly expect robots (or anyone for that matter) to leave a sinless life? Preacherbot created Robotology for the sole purpose of sending robots to Hell. That is why when you join their religion, you are sent to Robot Hell the moment you sin. The Robot Devil is the Anti Christ, or the Anti-Anti-Christ as he is unaware of his purpose

Professor Farnsworth is a Zombie.

He worships zombie Jesus, wants to eat Hermes's brains and thought about removing his own brain.

  • He's also stated that he's only technically alive, cold blooded, and legally both not a mammal and dead.

Professor Farnsworth is a Furry.

Think about it: are there any other odd fetishes he hasn't tried? Also, the Planet Express building seems to have a room for every possible purpose; it's only a matter of time before this one is revealed.

Zoidberg is not actually poor.

In his capacity as a Doctor and Medical consultant, he makes a decent minimum wage and manages to support himself; however, he keeps up the pretence of being destitute and starving in order to support the horrible eating disorder that spiralled out of his crippling depression. You notice how fat he looks next to other members of his species?

  • He could actually be rich, in order to pay for the medicine needed to survive eating so much trash. As for where he gets the money? Zoidberg sells his art. It was revealed that it's what he majors in...

There is another being Yivo wasn't able to brainwash.

Yivo couldn't get Leela because Leela was too clever and was able to avoid the tentacles until she could get the word out. However, there is also no way that Yivo, who possesses a mind strong enough to talk to 20 quadrillion people at once, could have stood a chance against the Hypnotoad.

  • Ah, but it seems that you might need to be looking at the eyes of the Hypnotoad to be under his power. so the tentacles, not having eyes would be able to get him without being effected.

Nothing went wrong with Santa's programming or construction.

The only problem was that everybody except for Zoidberg actually deserved to die.

Slurms Mac Kenzie wasn't killed in the cave collapse

He was actually cut up into hundreds of smaller Slurms Mac Kenzies, which sort of explains his appearance on the V-GINY in "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela"

Zapp Brannigan has only made it all the way with a few women.

Which is why whenever he sees Leela he feels the need to bring it up to keep his false reputation as a "ladies man". He always hits on her because she had sex with him once, and he figures maybe she'll do it again.

Cpt. Land O' Connor is the great-grandfather of Dr. Adlai Atkins.

Because the former is "devoid of characteristics", i.e. boring. The generation between the Captain's son and Atkins (Who assumably is either is related through his mother or took a new name due to not knowing his family) died and he was not adopted by his grandfather or great-grandmother.

the brain slug planet isn't that bad

you should all go there without hats on and enjoy it

Setting

The heads in jars are not actual preserved people, but simply clones with The Theme Park Version of that person's personality installed artificially.

It would certainly explain Nixon's head. He's been dead for years now.

It also explains the changes in personality. Contrary to popular opinion, Nixon was not nearly that depraved during his presidency. He wasn't majorly involved in Watergate until AFTER it started going public. Also, Washington didn't sell his teeth for whiskey, and the replacement teeth certainly weren't wooden, but more likely some sort of ivory or similar. Moreover, he didn't speak in Elizabethen English.

  • Nixon DID admit to going insane from being kept in a jar for so many years...
  • The Head Museum has a room called the Hall of Presidents with the head of every US president from Washington to Clinton. It even had two Grover Clevelands! If two of the same person isn't confirmation, then what is?
  • That makes this almost compulsory. Consider the Fridge Logic of having JFK's head in a jar.
  • This troper thinks that two Grover Clevelands is just Rule of Funny.
  • They could have been constructed with something similar to the birthing machine from "Rebirth."

Some of the heads are reanimated from dead remains by necromancy.

Pulled from the boardosphere, although the Hall of Screaming Skulls in Bender's Big Score makes it approach obvious. This could overlap with the first theory if there's some kind of personality imprinting going on. Connections to the Chanukah Zombie and the 2443 rise of Zombie Jesus are unclear.

The technology of making new heads in jars got lost in the third millenium

They still know how to keep the existing heads alive, but they don't know how to cut off the head without killing the person.

All robots have nanite healing systems.

This is why Bender has recovered quickly from damage with no on-screen repairs.

  • He has had repairs made to himself in the past, such as when he had that seam under his arm soldered. And we've seen other robots getting junked due to being "broken" even though they were still "alive"; this would mean that they should have repaired themselves.
  • Refined guess:
  • To be fair, Bender is made of titanium, which is incredibly tough.

All bending robots have nanite healing systems.

They have been shown to be a lot tougher than most robots.

  • One universe's version of Bender died in "The Late Philip J. Fry." Other than that, Status Quo Is God full stop.

Yivo is God

Yivo's body is literally Fluffy Cloud Heaven. Shkle seems to have a deep love for all sentient lifeforms as well as numerous godlike abilities. Furthermore, Yivo is a possible reading of YHVH, which according to Jewish lore is God's true name.

Bender met God, which suggests one of two things:

  1. After being hit by a probe, Yivo retreated to another universe, leaving that galaxy thing to oversee Universe Gamma.
  2. There is one overruling deity per universe. We have God; another, perpendicular universe has Yivo.
  • Yivo's main body is incapable of surviving in Universe Gamma for long, and is made of the same kind of matter that everything in his own universe is made from. Unless he somehow adapted to the universe into which he somehow retreated, then he must be native to it.
  • It's stated in the movie that Yivo sent visions of hirself to earth that people believed was god and heaven. Yivo was not god, but people thought Yivo was.

Binary is the One True Language.

Binary is the most basic form of proper communication in the Futurama universe.

If God is the universe's sentient mind, then His native language would be the most fundamental. The time-sphere generation code from Bender's Big Score is, as was strongly implied, a direct request to God in His native language.

The Smelloscope uses spectroscopy

Since scientists increased the speed of light to travel intergalactic distances, the smelloscope uses high-speed-light radio spectroscopy and translates the chemicals composing the smell into a synthetic odor on the user's end.

Brain Slugs feed off the Delta Brain Wave and have limited power over it.

Brain Spawn control people through the Delta Brain Wave. Fry doesn't have a Delta Wave because of his Past-Nastification, so the Brain Spawn don't control him. The one time he got a Brain Slug attached, the poor guy starved to death, obviously because Fry's brain didn't have the proper balance of "nutrients". The same thing would happen if a human ate nothing but Twinkies and Funnyuns all day.

Also, it seems that nobody but Fry notices when anybody has a Brain Slug attached, and the little things seem immobile. This is because they transmit a weak telepathic field to anybody within range that compels them to put them on their heads, and keeps others from noticing their existence. Fry is immune because, as before, he lacks the necessary Delta Wave.

  • Does this mean that the Brain Slugs are somehow related to the Dark Ones?
    • Or the larval forms of the Brain Spawn.
  • Actually, it's because everyone else knows to just ignore them and switch to a garlic shampoo.

Part of the job of the collars on heads in jars is increased memory capacity and retention.

This is how Nixon can recall with perfect clarity the first half century of his life, and why Leonard Nimoy doesn't mention any major accomplisments since the turn of the 21st century. Their lives as of the time they were headjarified are contained in the collars, and only the last couple of decades are contained in their brains, and slowly get replaced with newer, less time-degraded memories. Their personalities stay roughly the same over a thousand years or more because they're having a constant case of Amnesiac Dissonance.

The "some trees" that possess the delta brain wave...

Include the screaming pines from Xmas Story and the Altairean Bouquet Tree from The Cyber House Rules. Yeah, I know, this isn't that much of a WMG. I just wanted to make that connection.

Why most of the heads are from the late 20th century:

They got in on the head-preserving deal when it was just starting up, and nobody realized how incredibly expensive it would be to keep feeding the immortal heads for the rest of eternity, or until the warranty ran out (whichever came first... Teller probably didn't give a verbal objection when Penn got him the shortest warranty possible to save on preservation fees). A few heads are reconstructions of different historical people, the heads of clones with artificial or (somehow) copied memories, like with Seymour (the presidents are the prime example of the reconstructions).

Water wasn't instantaneously mutagenic, a flying pig-fish just ate the rat.

Or the rat was switched out for a fish by a swimming mutant. There are other pig fish, mutation doesn't work that quickly, and there's no reason that a mutant shouldn't get more mutated by falling in.

  • Potentially Jossed by the preview for The Mutants Are Revolting, which shows Fry jumping into that water and mutating. Never mind. Fry's "mutation" was really Mr. Aster, and Fry was lodged in his mouth.
  • But Mr. Aster had to mutate somewhere, didn't he? QED, the water is a mutagen.

Futurama takes place in our future

When Lars, about a few days after becoming a time paradox duplicate, starts to really miss home he will go back to 1999 and freeze himself in a tube on a different floor than where he was originally frozen. He ends up a bit early,so decides to take a job at Fox. And thus,he gives us the Futurama show in the first place

Futurama takes place in our past

The year 252,525? That was the Middle Ages. The reason why we don't remember having ostriches then was because the castle that used ostriches was run by idiots who thought ostriches would catch on. We know what happens in Futurama because Fox discovered a secret basement of Planet Express, which had a diary of the crew's adventures.

Dead bodies from suicide booths are used to make soylent green

It would certainly explain why they would empty after a person dies and explain where the soylent green factories get their people from

  • You forgot other Soylent Products as well, like Soylent Cola, Soylent Orange and Soylent Coleslaw...
    • Hey! Soylent Orange is a high-energy vegetable concentrate, and don't you forget it!
      • Coma patients are vegetables
        • *Mind. Blown.*
        • In this particular context, it seems unfortunate the trope name includes the word "fridge" (but hey, at least it doesn't say anything about the "crisper")
  • This would explain how suicide booths are profitable despite costing only 25 cents to use.

The Tijuana Bender and Hermes visit, is a themed city

In a previous invasion, the Omicronians were expecting every city south of the North American border to be a clichéd latin town because of the TV signals they kept intercepting, and since it is extremely inadvisable to disagree with the Omicronians, authorities rapidly tuner all bordering cities into Latin Land themed cities, or alternatively, city sized theme parks.

The paradox free time code doesn't send you back in time. It sends you forward in time far enough to enter the next incarnation of the universe at the desired point in time.

The Late Phillip J Fry proved that time is cyclical, and it featured copies of the time travelers that were immediately doomed once the travelers arrived. This explains why time paradox duplicates (like the scammer duplicate) aren't seen going back in time to create stable time loops. It's a new universe so they don't have to go back to avoid paradoxes. The doom field that kills duplicates doesn't come from time paradoxes, but from the space probe that collided with God trying to keep everything straight. All those extra Benders started exploding because space probe/God got sick of making logical endings for each one and decided to Kill'Em All to make a point about abusing the code.

The Heads are from the present era because of the War of 2012.

Conan O'Brien's head said that he lost his freakishly long legs in the War of 2012. It's possible that the war was between the pop-culture icons and... something.

The last proton becomes God.

Then it caused the next big bang and restarts the universe.

The Near Death Star gives immortality

Nobody dies of old age anymore in the future. Once somebody reaches 160, they're taken by the robots and kept on the Near Death Star. This keeps them in a healthy, safe stasis, where they will never die (barring destruction of the Near Death Star). The robots actually mean well.

  • Yes? V.R. stasis. Looks like Florida. Amazingly boring. Any of that ring a bell?
  • I thought of it as they already achieved immortality, and the Near Death Star prevents the planet from being overpopulated.

Robots often use their closet space to keep extra chassis in.

Because when your clothing won't fold flat and is about the size of a rotund human, you need that much closet space.

The Planet Express Ship subjectively exceeds c.

I am referring to the future speed of light, of course. Cubert and Farnsworth agree that the ship moves the universe around it. They also have some basic engines on the back. The combination of these two facts is that, if you use the old distance travelled/time lost equation, you get a speed greater than (future) c. The professor, however, prefers going slowly, and Leela knows enough to realize why going faster than you can see obstacles is a bad idea. Incidentally, this justifies any future use of Travelling At the Speed of Plot if the ship is involved. If it's an emergency, they can go faster.

The universe Pre-The Late Philip J Fry was the very first one, or the second to first

We saw that time is cyclical, in that each universe is basically identical to the previous. Thus each fowards time machine misses one universe, and reaches the next. If there was two universes or more before the one we grew up on, the Forwards Time Machine there would have either crushed the crew we know or arrived nearby, and they would have replaced the Fry,Bender and Farnsworth we know. But this didn't happen much to Leela's dismay. Either the cycle started with the original universe, or with one before that which means this previous reality's crew is in the universe our crew skipped trying to get home.

  • The time travellers end up killing their duplicates from two universes down the line, and hence the duplicates don't go on their journey through time. This means that not only would the crew from the first and second universes be safe but also the fifth and sixth, ninth and tenth, and so on (this still works if there is an no "first" universe, the numbering just becomes somewhat arbitrary).

The last proton is..

  • The remains of the Galactic Entity. It already holds the time-code, and its decay will release it and reboot reality. Since there's nothing left destroying the universe will do no harm
  • The Planet Eternium. When the very first universe, the one before the "original", was dying, the very last proton became a superorganism. The Nibblonians weren't always their cute selves, they were energy beings that fit in this little proton. At the Big Bang, the proton quickly combined with other particles. It formed the Planet Eternium, and the Nibblonians' physical form appeared later. They just thought they were always physical beings

Humans in the Futurama universe all have a congenital insensitivity to pain

How often have we see Fry loose a limb or nail his own hand to something without flinching? It isn't just him either - Amy accidently cut off one of her own fingers without seeming more than mildly annoyed.

Freedom Day is a Secret Test of Character.

You can do whatever you want without any consequences, letting you unleash your real self and letting others see you for who you really are. It's What You Are in the Dark, in broad daylight.

The beautiful and intelligent women of the year Fifty Million AD were actually robots.

Of course, the machines won the war in Ten Million AD and went on to build a paradise in the next forty million years.

The entire series is like "The Sting", only in Fry's mind.

What happened in the beginning of the third sketch of "Anthology of Interest 1" is exactly what happened; Fry didn't land in the cryogenic tube, but instead hit his head on it. Hard enough to put him into an irreversible coma. Being the overimaginative sci-fi nut that he is, Fry's mind is now stuck in the place it always wanted to be: the future. He gets the robot friend he always wanted, gets the career he's always dreamed of (though because his mind only knows of being a delivery boy, that's exactly the circumstance it puts him in), and, for once, his life doesn't suck. It certainly explains most (if not all) of the technological anachronisms that sprout up all over the place (like VCRs and dial-up internet existing 1000 years in the future); like most people, his mind's expectations of the future only reach the big picture, so the minor details most people wouldn't think about are filled in by what his brain knows. We see family and loved ones nearly breaking through to Fry in episodes like "The Cryonic Woman" and "Jurassic Bark" (likely Michelle visited him during the former, and Fry's parents brought Seymour to see him in the latter); their words (or barks) reach his subconscious and trigger memories that wind up integrating themselves into his elaborate fantasy world. The reason the Brainspawn can't attack him isn't because he lacks the delta brain wave, but because he's the only person in that entire universe that's actually real (think of it like a virtual reality game; if one of the enemies shoots another character with a ray gun, they're gonna explode, but if they shoot you, you certainly won't because you're not technically part of the "universe"). If you look at it from that angle, suddenly 95% of the show starts to make sense.

The Sting is canon.

Fry really did die,and Leela went mad from grief. Everything afterwards is her mind's desperate attempt to prevent her killing herself from depression, but at the cost of detaching herself from reality. Planet Express probably locked her up after she stole Fry's corpse and used him.

The Jakabirds that live with Yivo are really humans from previous iterations of Universe Gamma.

Yivo did say that shklee was older than Universe Gamma, so shklee must have launched the same tentacle attack on each iteration of the universe many times before. In the end, Yivo would pick one random human to stay with shkler each time. As Yivo's universe does cause immortality, the human's mind would degenerate and they would grow a pair of wings after living with Yivo for eons, creating another trillion years of loneliness for shklim until an Anomoly opens up between a new universe and Yivo's universe, causing these events to repeat themselves all over again.

Nibbler (or the Nibblonians in general) own(s) Applied Cryogenics.

Given their need for Fry to be sent to the future (and for him to STAY THERE) AND their need to keep his importance secret, they secretly built and own the cryogenics company and basically pay their employees to maintain the stasis pods and their residents and to not worry when they find any sudden new arrivals. The building has also been powered by Nibblonian power generators (that no doubt look like some form of adorable pet/child's toy and therefore attract no suspicion) since 1997 to make sure the power never fails.

ALSO POSSIBLE: They intentionally employ... eccentric individuals who are less likely to question what they are doing, with the one exception being Leela, who they had, through ancient Nibblonian Science (or because Future-Fry mentioned her name when he tried to stop Nibbler on NYE 1999), determined that she would become "The Other" to Fry. Also, the scans performed on new defrostees are sent to The Nibblonians, so they would know when The Chosen One had arrived, because that's just practical.

So, in short: The Nibblonians are responsible for everything that happens and preventing every undesirable thing that should happen involving the cryogenic chambers.

Zoidberg's race ability to mate is similar to insects

There're insects that, after sex, the female kills the male. The females of Zoidberg's race kill her male mate and, minutes later, she dies.

The whole entire series didn't happen.

It's all a dream Fry's having while he's being cryhogenized. In reality he is still in the cryhogenized chamber. When the series truly ends, the viewers will find out that none of that crazy stuff actually happened and none of those futuristic beings never existing and it was a really long realistic dream due to Fry being in such a deep artificial sleep. When he wakes up for real there's a number of possibilities that could happen. Only a short amount of time went by because someone's let him out of that cryo chamber soon after he got into it; Fry then goes back to his normal life. Fry awakens from his cryhogenic slumber for real and realize that it was all a dream but he is put in the exact or similar situation he was in his dream so he'll basically have his own insight on everything on the future and the new series will turn out in his favor, who knows he might get Lela sooner. Or after he awakens and find out that the series was a dream he will be in the future except this time it won't be like his dream or probably nothing like it and he must find a way to cope in this new world as he did in the future in his dream. And that future would be:

The fowards time machine doesn't send you to an identitical universe.

Rather, it sends you to the same universe. When the universe ends, time itself goes back to the beginning. This is why they seem perfectly fine with what happened. As for why the universe didn't collapse when they crushed their past selfs? The time machine is designed to avoid paradoxes, so it runs on the time code.

Radiators give off a type of hypnosis to make people think they're just radiators

Fry made out with one and it did show up at his funeral after all.

The culture of the Futurama world is due to an After the End apocalyptic event.

Specifically, it was one caused by the first set of saucers(aka Bender), during the 24th century. The result was a traumatic global war, bringing the majority of the world into a Middle-Ages stasis. This all changed with the second coming of Jesus. Mankind managed to advance thanks to the lost technology, however, due to the disaster, the world was still culturally in the neo-Middle Ages. This, and Schizo-Tech, may explain why Futurama became the world that it is.

Plot - open

The Encyclopod didn't take Hutch Waterfall's DNA because Humans are endangered.

He took it because the Waterfall family is endangered.

The worms from Parasites Lost were planted by the Nibblonians.

Assuming that the Nibblonians knew that the worm's improvements of his brain wouldn't remove his immunity to the Brainspawn, it would be the only logical course of action.

The worms from "Parasites Lost" were planted by the Brainspawn or the Dark One.

The parasites were working hard on repairing and perfecting Fry's body. If they have been left there long enough, then they probably would have given him a new Delta Brainwave, rendering him vulnerable.

The Robot Devil cheats at fiddle contests.

He and the contestants use the fiddle made of gold, which, as Leela points out and the Robot Devil admits, would sound bad. But the Robot Devil's playing sounds good. He probably has a recording that he plays and a way to dampen the actual sound of the golden fiddle.

  • This makes sense. The Robot Devil was likely created by the Church of Robotology to give church members a reason to not sin. (Robots have no souls. Souls have been proven to exist -- hence the existence of soul detectors.) This was effective: an issue of Futurama Comics shows everyone leaving the church when the Robot Devil is put out of commission. A Robot Devil created by robots would probably be designed to be superior to the existing concept of the devil. As a result, they would have tracked down the devil's flaws and made sure not to repeat them in the Robot Devil. They would have sought info about the devil not just in the Christian Bible, but also in other cultural artifacts, such as the song "The Devil Went Down to Georgia," from which the concept of the infernal fiddle contest originates. In the song, the devil plays honestly and loses. The Church of Robotology probably surmised that a truly effective devil would cheat at such a contest.
  • This would also explain how he's able to use two bows at once and somehow have both of them work.

The bird grabbed by Yivo's genticle had an adverse effect.

The angels on Yivo were created by trying to reproduce human beings in Yivo's world. Because Yivo caught the bird, they became winged with bird-like intelligence.

  • This doesn't fit with the timeline. Many centuries earlier, Yivo psychically inspired humans to come up with the idea of heaven, based upon the surface of his body, angels and all.
  • This is a 'verse with Time Travel.

In Bender's Big Score, Bender saved a bunch of stuff; only the cheap copies were destroyed in the post-Y2K apocalypses.

Self-explanatory. The ones we think are real are fakes, but we have no access to the real real things and so cannot know any better. The real ones skipped over all that stuff, so they weren't destroyed.

Oh, and Da Vinci originally did paint the Mona Lisa on canvas; the fake "real" one is on wood.

Space Bee honey doesn't have any soporific or coma-inducing effects.

Come on, it was Zoidberg who said it did! (Also, it was All Just a Dream, so Leela could have made it up.)

Rebirth was a story told by Pazuzu.

It explains the stem cell stuff as well as it explains the Robot-Nucleic Acid.

Circusitis is The Virus but only truly effects children

It turns children into clowns. However should an adult, (like Hermes did) contract it just makes them sick for a bit with an easy cure.

At one point during the temporal fast-forward montage, Fry and Farnsworth revisited the buxom scientist time period.

Because c'mon. Probably just cut because it ruined the flow of the montage.

  • Then why did they not use the backwards-traveling time machine? Distracted by the Sexy?
    • Their backwards time machine only goes back a million years or so. Not far enough.
      • What? When was that said?
  • To avoid paradoxes. The knew history said they'd never get back with the message at the Cavern on the Green. Plus Fry decided to grieve that his Leela was dead by banging the buxom scientists. That and they were very hot

Morbo's promises of an alien invasion already came... in the form of the Brainspawn.

Morbo was actually a member of the Brainspawn who took an alien form and became a sleeper cell agent for Earth. However, his failure to hide his goals made it so the Brain's power would affect him as well.

Bender's dad's death was the reason the robot factory in Tijuana to be closed down

In Lethal Inspection we learn that the robot factory where Bender was made was closed down, and we know from an earlier episode that Bender's dad was killed by a giant magnetic can opener. We also know that Bender's mom is the mechanical arm that assembled him. Well if his mom was the mechanical arm, then most likely his dad may have been the conveyor belt that he was on. Anyway the theory goes like this: the robot factory constructed not just robots but other mechanical objects as well. One day while they were assembling a giant can opener, the can opener went haywire while it was still on the conveyor belt causing it to be destroyed. The accident was so bad that it caused the Tijuana robot factory to be closed down. Bender's mom obviously survived as she still sends a letter to Bender every X-mas.

The Late Phillip J. Fry was All Just a Dream.

I'm not sure whose dream it was (though Fry would be the best candidate), but there are just too many things that make no sense at all in it. For starters, Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale, but that's everything with this show. However, it still fails astrophysics forever because even assuming protons do decay, the decay of the last proton is not the end of time. Black holes would continue to exist, slowly evaporating and exploding, and by the time the degenerate era is complete, most of the mass in the universe would be in black holes, not in intersteller gas or even black dwarfs and neutron stars. Next, the In Spite of a Nail bit makes no sense whatsoever, because any slight deviation causes random variables to be different, which causes dramatically different outcomes. We aren't talking about human events here, we're talking about the fundamental parameters of the universe. One could appeal to determinism, but that violates quantum mechanics. No, what makes the most sense is that this was all some crazy dream, or else the output of the What If Machine.

  • Well they never turned off the time machine after the last proton decayed. I just assumed they kept going forward forever, skipping the less known aspects of the universe ending, and then the new universe started. The In Spite of a Nail part is pure Rule of Funny mixed with Status Quo Is God though.
    • This show's never been big on following the rules of physics anyway.
  • It was an output of the What If Machine. That being, the writers' imaginations. I mean, think about it.

Mildred cashed in on Enos's death.

We all know that Fry became his own grandfather when he did the nasty in the past-y. His "grandmother" Mildred was clever enough to know that her doofus boyfriend Enos Fry would get himself killed somehow. She convinces Enos to take out a huge military life insurance policy and name her as the beneficiary. She only pretended to be sad when Enos was blown up by an A-Bomb, and leaped into bed with Fry. Her son Yancey was well taken care of even though Mildred was an unwed mother.

The First Amalgamated Church was created by jesus in his second coming

why do you think there is an space pope? of course, jesus is from zoidbergs race and this time his message traveled the entire universe.


Inspired by the events of "Benderama", the makers of Slurm will release their new drink: Slurmahol!

An episode may revolve around the bad stuff that happens when you either feed a slurm queen no water and lots of alcohol or (if they use a method similar to the Mini-Bender method) when you mix Slurm with alcohol. They'll probably just make it a minor background or recurring gag, or one of their fake commercials.

There is SOME meaning behind Fry missing the button push in "A Big Piece of Garbage"

Given Futurama's propensity for using obscure or subtle moments, I can't help but think that the writers have (or even had and then later dropped) something in mind for when Fry went to push the button to launch the ball of garbage and missed on his first attempt. Perhaps by missing at that second, the second ball's trajectory was altered from the original calculation and thus will have some ramification later. In any event, This Troper believes there's some meaning in all this...

  • It was to show that Fry wasn't focused at all on the situation at all, once again proving his stupidity and general apathy towards such life threatening situations. Long story short, Rule of Funny.


Plot - Jossed

The first episode of Season Six will riff on the Star Trek reboot.

The characters will come out of the wormhole in an Alternate Universe where everything is randomly different. In a recent panel, they mentioned warning Matt Groening of a 'literal rebirth' of the show.

They needed to hire new voice actors to portray the alternate versions of the characters, and they covered it up as re-casting. Instead of handing over Continuity to the new versions of themselves, the characters we know and love will run rampant in the new universe.

"the first episode is tentatively titled "Rebirth" and and in a surprisingly literal fashion, as things turn out."

This means that, sadly for many people, the series will feature a "literal" rebirth of the characters.

  • So we watch the characters grow up from birth - like Muppet Babies - In Space!
  • As of the end of "The Wild Green Yonder," humanity is likely an endangered species. Only Planet Express and the others present for Leo Wong's detonation of the violet dwarf star remain. The Encyclopod may end up having to replicate the majority of Homo sapiens sapiens. Considering they will likely be created from the DNA of the Waterfall family, they may not last long. At least the environmentalists won't.
  • Most of this WMG may be Jossed in this article

The Nibblonians invented housecats

They were created to help contol/keep an eye on humans. This is why Nibbler, who will eat anything, didn't touch the cats in the episode where he was at the animal show. The fact that cats act somewhat like Nibblonians just adds to this.

  • Jossed by That Darn Katz

On the new season's first episode in regards to the "literal rebirth":

The planet-mantis depositing its young on various planets, so they won't go extinct.  Or rather, become unextinct.

Everyone but Fry and Professor Farnsworth in Rebirth will be brought back with no memories.

They will be 'reborn' perhaps due to the Stingray Alien from The Movie, or just made new bodies by the Professor. Sadly, it will turn out that all of their last memory-backups on file at the Central Bureaucracy are from December 30, 2999, meaning a Reset Button on a grand scale for everyone except Fry (The Professor's memory is very inconsistent from one moment to the next, so he doesn't count). This means:

  • Fry and Leela are back to a literal square one, given that she wouldn't know who he is. However, this might also give Fry a pseudo-Peggy Sue opportunity to do things better the second time around.
  • Amy and Kif also would not know each other, and might not get together again.
  • Zapp and Leela would have never met, meaning that she might end up falling for his charms once again. But only once.

At the end of the season (or possibly series, depending on how well it does) it'll turn out that the Professor made a backup of everyone just before they entered the wormhole, but forgot all about it. One by one everyone will decide if they want the memories back or not, and some may actually refuse because they like things better the way they are.

The Wormhole will transport the cast even further into the future.

Now they all get to feel Fry's pain as a school of Fish Out of Temporal Water.

  • What pain? The pain of realising all his dreams in one afternoon? (I dated a robot) The ability of feeling like you belong somewhere that you never felt before? (The cryonic woman) About having the ideal girlfriend? (How hermes requsitioned his groove back) the only time he felt that pain was when he thought he was in the year 4000.
    • Exactly. And who knows what the future will bring?

Fry and Farnsworth aren't genetically related.

In "A Clockwork Origin," Farnsworth uses the phrase "sterile as my milkman-trusting father." That implies a 1 in 2 chance that Farnworth isn't really Fry's nephew. Given that Fry's grandfather turned out not to be his grandfather, there also seems to be a family tradition of this stuff, which makes the odds even greater that someone got cuckolded somewhere along the line. Would make for a fun subplot some time. (Also, Farnsworth has the delta brainwave Fry lacks and is incredulous that he could be related to someone so stupid, but I don't think that really counts as evidence.)

  • The first episode says they are genetically related.
  • That's why he goes to see the Professor in the first place: Because the equipment said that they're genetically related. They confirm it again when he gets there. All the "milkman-trusting father" implies is that it was his mother that was related to Fry, not his father (a reasonable assumption, considering that the professor's last name isn't Fry). That "one in two" chance thing doesn't make any sense at all.

At the end of the video game segment in "Reincarnation"...

The Planet Express crew will come across a planet that opens up and reveals a giant ape in suspenders, which proceeds to toss some barrels at the crew and destroy them.

Future plots

WE HAVE NOT SEEN THE LAST OF BARBADOS SLIM!

Because I hate an unfollowed WMG tag, as this one once was, Barbados Slim goes after Hermes (rightfully or not) for breaking Barbados Slim's back with the door.

The cycle will end eventually

Every universe in the cycle is identical, right? WRONG! Universe A version 3.0 is slightly off directionwise. Not to mention Farnsworth v1.0 killed its Eleanor Roosevelt who knows where and when. While each cycle seems identical, there are subtle changes. And such subtle changes can amount to larger changes over time (in this case, millions upon trillions upon trillions upon trillions of years). Certainly at one point we would get to a universe where the Brainspawn succeed in gaining all information in the universe, and then destroying it. Or maybe where Fry's story of "Anthology of Interest" played out, and a paradox destroyed the universe. The previous cycles were all due to natural reasons of entropy and age. If an artifical factor is put in, the cycle could and should stop eventually, be it Universe v4.0 or Universe vA googolplex and three

  • Farnsworth says he hit Eleanor Roosevelt, not that he killed her. This troper took that to be a joke about Eleanor's... slight unattractiveness.
    • But in the timeline before that one (where they missed the year 3010), Farnsworth successfully killed Hitler. So he may have killed Eleanor in that timeline. (Yes, Eleanor Roosevelt is sort of a Butt Monkey for historical fiction writers.)

Professor Farnsworth and Leela's newly discovered grandmother will hook up in the next season.

That pairing is screaming for the shippers to put them together. We are fully aware that the professor is senile and Leela's mother admits that Leela's grandmother is nuts, so they are perfect for each other. The Professor/Mom pairing has been sunk and raised and sunk again too many times to be credible anymore so Leela's grandmother is introduced to give the Professer a new squicky love interest.

The final ever episode will be about Fry and Leela's wedding.

At some point, Fry will pop the question, and Leela says Yes. In the last ep of the season, one of Farnsworth's inventions malfunctions, stranding Fry on a distant planet and Leela in the year 2000, thus inverting the setup from the first episode where Leela is (apparently) displaced in space and Fry in time.

Most of the rest of the episode will be about various wacky hijinks that ensue at they attempt to reach the venue in the right year, while Hermes and Zoidberg try desperately to stall for time.

Leela's adventures will end up involving Fry's time paradox duplicate (who becomes Lars) who reluctantly helps her get back to the 31st century so she can marry someone "a lot like [him]". Most likely, she'll end up freezing herself, and be thawed out with just a short time to spare. Alternatively, all the tubes will be occupied, and Leela will somehow manage to obtain a forwards time machine, allowing her to bring the Fry family forward in time to see Philip's wedding.

In the end, Leela and Fry will arrive at the church ragged and out of breath at about the same time, followed by a nice marriage and then the two of them flying off into the sunset.

The universe will end when a brain slug controls the Hypno Toad

Possible crossovers

Zap Brannigan is Descended from...

Troy Mclure, of course. Somehow, he managed to find a woman willing to bear his child, with Brannigan as the eventual result. (I am aware that the simpsons is another show within the universe. It's too good not to be true-ish.)

Futurama is an alternate reality of The Simpsons

All Futurama characters are expys of Simpsons characters.

  • Fry is Homer
  • Leela is arguably Marge
  • Bender is Bart, but fry also has traits of Bart
  • the Professor is Grandpa
  • Amy is arguably Lisa
  • Nibbler is Maggie
  • Hermes and Zoidberg are Carl and Lenny
  • Mom and Robot Devil combine to make Mr. Burns
  • Mom's 3 sons combine to make Mr. Smithers
  • Slurms McKenzie is Duffman
  • Mayor Poopenmeyer is Mayor Quimby
  • Lrrr and Ndnd are Kang and Kodos

James Bond is a Futurama robot

He only needs alcohol to survive. He can eat and sleep when he chooses to.


Impossible crossovers

Mystery Science Theater 3000, WALL-E, and Futurama all take place in the same universe.

After the events of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 finale, in which the SOL crashed, Mike and the Bots moved into an apartment for the rest of Mike's life.

After the eventual death of Mike, the first Garbage Crisis happens. This is solved by launching the trash into space.

Several years Later, Buy 'N' Large takes control of the Earth government. Around 2100, a second garbage crisis occurs -- this time all around the world. This time, because of the sheer amount of trash on Earth, BnL deems it inefficient to launch the garbage into space; instead, it initiates "Operation Cleanup", where humans evacuate the Earth until it is cleaned. Searching for a suitable prototype for their EVE units, they find Tom Servo.

Servo is several hundred years old by now. BnL improves upon Joel's design and creates a line of vegetation probes, the EVEs, who will be used in the cleanup operation.

Similarly, Gypsy's design is heavily modified and repackaged as AUTO units. Alas, no one thought to include her personality program.

WALL-Es are manufactured. Most malfunction and fail, leaving only one.

Tom, Crow, and Gypsy themselves are taken aboard a ship.

The events of WALL-E take place. Fry's cryogenic capsule is removed and placed on the Axiom or a similar cruise ship.

After the return to Earth and its eventual rehabilitation, BnL declared bankruptcy and was bought out by Mom, who integrated much of the robotics portion of the company into her own fledgling business.

Sometime around the 2800's, aliens such as the Decapodians came into contact with Earth. Earth joined DOOP. Knowledge of the Second Garbage Crisis was covered up to prevent another crisis. Tom and Crow themselves hang out in a New New York movie theater and shush other patrons who talk.

This also happens Pre-Crisis Legion of Super-Heroes! In "Superman and The Legion of Super-Heroes", when we see Superman rescuing a bunch of aliens who were being sent to a concentration camp, one is a red lobster-man with an anemone for a mouth, big blue eyes, and a white doctor's coat. This cannot be coincidence; this is Zoidberg or one of his relatives.

  • Mike might not be dead. His head is probably in a jar at the museum.
  • Right next to Joel, Tom and Crow. Riffing on the interactions they see at the museum and with the heads.

Kif is an Irken

No real evidence except the green skin and the three-letter-name, and he would have unusual anatomy for the species. But it would be cool.

  • Maybe he's a feral Irken.
    • Unlikely. The insectoid features (antennae, etc.) are missing.

Kif is Lord Voldemort

As argued by Shaun Haber

Futurama is the future of WALL-E

Eventually, somebody's got to think that if they get a monopoly on a particular product/service, they can do a better job of it than BnL did back in the stupid ages. And so was born, Mom Corp.

  • Alternatively...

WALL-E is what Futurama would have been...

...Had the garbage ball not been created back in the 21st century.

Fry is Haruhi Suzumiya, or a reincarnation of her.

He wanted desperately to leave his job, and his godlike powers pulled the world around to create the future he wanted, where all the fantastic things he saw in sci-fi were real.

The 'God' Bender meets in Godfellas is The Data Integration Thought Entity

It makes too much sense, and it works with the above theory of Fry being Haruhi.

The superpower-granting cream is The Catalyst

Okay, from the Reaper WMG page, we know that the Second Coming of Zombie Jesus that occurs in 2443 was predicted by Regular Satan (as opposed to the robot devil). This puts Futurama and Reaper in the same Verse We also know that Reaper must be set in the HeroesVerse, because Sam's brother is the same person as Claire's brother. From that, it's not to much to assume that the Catalyst was accidentally rediscovered in the 1000-ish years between Heroes and Futurama while researching miracle creams and their uses in relieving joint pain.

Ugly Americans is a parallel-universe version of Futurama

Not only do they both take place in New York City and frequently feature monsters, robots and aliens, but many of the characters in Ugly Americans have Futurama counterparts:

  • Mark Lilly is Fry. Both are naive Unfazed Everyman in a world full of fantastic creatures, both are generally regarded with little respect by their co-workers, and Dogged Nice Guys.
  • Randall is Bender. Both are non-human jerkasses who happen to be the protagonist's best friend/roommate, and they have both been known to lose parts of their bodies.
  • Callie is Leela. They are both the Tsundere love interests of the protagonists, both are short-tempered and prone to violence, and they each have unusual stories regarding their parents.
  • Leonard is Prof. Farnsworth. As well as being hundreds of years old, they both are extremely intelligent, even if their eccentric behavior gets in the way of their common sense on several occasions.
  • Although not an exact counterpart, Twayne has some similarities with Hermes. Both are dedicated to their jobs and they don't really care whether their employees live or die. But that's where the similarities end.
  • And finally, the Koala Man is Zoidberg, since they are both the Butt Monkeys of their repective shows.
  • How did Old New York end up underground?
    • New New York was built on top of the ruins of Old New York after Bender destroyed it.
      • But why didn't Bender destroy the cryogenics building?
      • Probably because this is Bender AFTER he met Fry, and since Fry is the only human he won't destroy when he destroys all humans, he saves the one building. To save his best friend.
    • Killing Fry would have caused a paradox and remember it was a paradox-correcting time portal.

Zoidberg and his alien species are the lobsterities from The Dark Tower

Or some kind of evolved version of them. They maintain some of the same characteristics such as being able to, quite easily, snip off a person's limbs. However, they have been able to evolve into being able to walk up right and have gain the ability to actually talk.

Mom is Charlotte Pickles.

She got frozen in her elder years, and unfrozen at some point in time to become the cold, bitter woman we know and love today.

  • They do have similar hair...

Robot religion was founded by the Robot-Rabbi from Conan

Think about it. Think about it.

Futurama and South Park take place in the same universe

The reason the fungineers in the future think that there were whalers on the moon is because they found the corpse of Willzyx and assumed the stupidest. Of course, this might just be highly improbable...

    • Cartman's head is seen in a jar at the head museum.

Code Geass takes place in the British alternate universe in All the President's Heads.

And Fry helped midwife the Holy Britannian Empire. (The Queen seen is just one of Emperor Charles' wives.)

Professor Farnsworth went back in time and invented the hairdryer.

"Eureka! I've invented an automatic hair-drying machine. You use it when you get out of the bathtub. Its only flaw is that if it actually gets into the bathtub, it kills you. Oh yes."

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