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* [[I Can Change My Beloved]]: Romanticorp tests pickup lines on women using test dummies. One of the dummies uses the line "My two favorite things are commitment and changing myself." The woman in the test chamber [[Code Word Coitus|immediately falls in love]] with the dummy.
{{quote|'''Leela:''' [[Does He Have a Brother?|Does that dummy have a brother?]]}}
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* [[If I Can't Have You]]: Melllvar from "Where No Fan has Gone Before".
{{quote|'''Melllvar:''' If I can't have the original cast of ''[[Star Trek]]'', no one will!}}
* [[If You're So Evil Eat This Kitten]]: Bender attempts to dodge this problem during "Bender Gets Made". Averted with Morbo: {{spoiler|kittens give him gas.}}
* [[Ignored Confession]]: Professor Farnsworth occasionally brings up that Fry is his uncle when trying to prove his own sanity.
* [[Ignoring by Singing]]: From "Godfellas":
{{quote|'''Fry:''' You can't lose hope just because it's hopeless. You gotta hope more, then put your fingers in your ears and go "Blah blah blah blah!" }}
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: {{spoiler|Pickles, the oracle from "Law and Oracle" who gives Fry false prophecies relating to Bender so that he could drink some strong malt liquor and suffer brain damage.}}
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* [[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]]:
** {{spoiler|Leela and Fry}}, though since {{spoiler|Leela is a mutated human}} they're technically the same species.
** A better example would be Amy and Kif.
** And in the fourth episode of the sixth season {{spoiler|Amy and Bender.}}
** And Bender and Lucy Liu. And Fry and Lucy Liu-bot. [[Robosexual|Robosexuality]] is rampant in the future apparently.
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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.
* [[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.
* [[It's Like I Always Say...]]
* [[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.
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{{quote|'''Bender''': "Come on, it's just like making love. Y'know: Left, down, rotate 62 degrees, engage rotor."
'''Amy''': I know how to make love! }}
** After Fry first tries a delicious Poppler, he declares "It's like sex, except I'm having it!"
* [[Kangaroo Pouch Ride]]: ''Bender's Game'' had orc spear-throwers riding in giant war-kangaroo pouches.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Bender sometimes has to face some kind of punishment for his behavior, but as often as not he just does whatever he wants without having to face any real consequences. In fact, there's a surprising amount of episodes where he's directly or indirectly responsible for everything bad that happens to the crew, and he gets away with it.
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** Hellooooo, Calculon. His hamming is ramped up to dangerous levels in "That's Lobstertainment!", when director Harold Zoid tells him he isn't emoting enough. His hamminess is on display off the stage as well in "The Devil's Hands":
{{quote|'''Calculon:''' Well, I do owe you for giving me this... ''unholy'' '''[[Milking the Giant Cow|ACTING TALENT!]]'''}}
** Zapp Brannigan. He's not an actor, but he'll steal the scene anyway.
** How '''dare''' you not mention Lrrr... [[Insistent Terminology|'''RULER OF THE PLANET OMICRON PERSEI 8!''']]
** Puny tropers would do well to list Morbo as well!!!!!
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* [[Matrix Raining Code]]: How robots "interface".
* [[May Contain Evil]]:
** Slurm, a soda advertised with the slogan "It's highly addictive!"
** The Popplers, which turn out to be the offspring of an alien race.
** The Slurm episode also parodies this with Soylent Cola, the taste of which "varies from person to person".
** Also Soylent Green. Yes, [[Soylent Green|that]] Soylent Green. Everyone is quite aware of [[I'm a Humanitarian|what it's made of]], no one cares though.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: A number of the cast's names are [[Shout-Out|ShoutOuts]] or [[Genius Bonus|Genius Bonuses]] to some degree.
** Philip J. Fry himself, named for the dearly departed [[Phil Hartman]].
** Leela's full name (Turanga Leela) is a direct reference to Olivier Messiaen's famous ''Turangalîla Symphony''.
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*** And revealed in "All the Presidents' Heads" to actually be a descendant of Philo Farnsworth.
* [[Mechanical Evolution]]: In the episode "A Clockwork Origin", Professor Farnsworth releases some [[Nanomachines]] to purify water on an uninhabited planet. Subsequent generations of nanites are more complex, and the situation very quickly gets far out of hand. In one day they become trilobites, the next day there's robot dinosaurs, the next cave-bots, then human-bots, and finally [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence|energy beings]].
* [[Mess On a Plate]]: Bender's final presentation in the episode "The 30% Iron Chef."
{{quote|'''Morbo:''' The challenger's ugly food has shown us that even hideous things can be sweet on the inside. [Begins to cry]}}
* [[Metaphor Is My Middle Name]]: Bending is Bender's middle name. His full name is Bender Bending Rodriguez.
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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.
* [[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.}}
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* [[Mushroom Samba]]: In the episode "Hell is Other Robots", Bender injects himself with electricity causing him to go on a mind trip.
** Fry also undergoes one in "A Fishful of Dollars" after being whacked on the head by Igner, robbed of his money, and dumped in front of his apartment. This [[Mushroom Samba]] is also responsible for being the [[Trope Namer]] for [[Stuffy Old Songs About the Buttocks]].
* [[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!"
** "What have I [[Time Travel Tense Trouble|will have done]]?!"
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* [[No Romantic Resolution]]: Not for Fry and Leela, anyway.
* [[Not Me This Time]]: In ''Futurama: The Game'', Bender says this when they find the ship badly damaged. It turns out that {{spoiler|[[Stable Time Loop|he (as well as Fry and Leela) ''did'' do it]].}}
* [[Not Rare Over There]]: In "Time Keeps On Slippin'", a character mentions that they'll need "some sort of doomsday device" to solve the problem of the week. Quoth [[Mad Scientist|Prof. Farnsworth]];
{{quote|'''Farnsworth:''' ''Doomsday device?'' Well now the ball's in Farnsworth's court!
''[The professor presses a button on a remote, causing several different stereotypically "mad scientist" style machines to come up through a trap door]''
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