History HarsherInHindsight / Futurama

* "[[Recap/FuturamaS7E25StenchAndStenchability Stench and Stenchability]]" ends with Marianne joking to Zoidberg that she has to dump in, meaning she's taking him with her to the dump rather than breaking up with him. Come "[[Recap/FuturamaS8E6IKnowWhatYouDidNextXmas I Know What You Did Next Xmas]]" and Zoidberg is alone, presumably because Marianne dumped him for real this time.

* In "[[Recap/Futuramas1E1SpacePilot3000 Space Pilot 3000]]", the line about Stop & Drop Suicide booths being "Americans' favorite suicide booth since 2008" becomes a bit wince-worthy in light of 2008's economic meltdown and the invention of an actual suicide machine in the same year.
* Fry's delighted reaction to realizing that everybody and everything he knew in the 20th century has gone (since he thought they didn't seem to like, care, or even respect him) seems much harsher subsequent episodes such as "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E4TheLuckOfTheFryrish The Luck of the Fryrish]]", "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E24ColdWarriors Cold Warriors]]", and "[[Recap/FuturamaS7E23GameOfTones Game of Tones]]" have shown that his family actually did love him and were worried about him when he went missing.

* The electronics disposal scene in "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E3AttackOfTheKillerApp Attack of the Killer App]]" can be somewhat disquieting for actual New Yorkers. In 2015, It became illegal to submit most electronics for curbside garbage disposal in New York State.
* In "Into the Wild Green Yonder", white rhinoceroses are shown amongst the animals preserved by the Last Encyclopod alongside extinct species. In 2018, the northern white rhinoceros was declared functionally extinct after the death of the last male.

* In "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E6TheLesserOfTwoEvils The Lesser of Two Evils]]", the main characters visit a theme park modeled on 2000s New York. There's a brief scene where the stock market drops from about 11,000 to 7,200, similar numbers to the real-life 2008 crash. (Fortunately, it jumps right back up to 11,000, and all the stock brokers who jumped to their apparent deaths float back up into the building via jetpack). Considering that the scene was supposed to be a "distorted history" take on the crash that started the Great Depression, that makes this a sort of bizarre case of life imitating art imitating life.
* "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E15TheProblemWithPopplers The Problem With Popplers]]" features an AnimalWrongsGroup protesting meat consumption, with Leela pointing out that animals eat other animals and then shown a lion who was taught to eat tofu... with the lion in a very, very malnourished state. The 2010s brings us the disturbing trend of [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/24/kitten-vegan-diet-nearly-dies_n_3644213.html vegan pet owners forcing their pets onto vegan diets]].
* In "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E3AttackOfTheKillerApp Attack of the Killer App]]", Sal's friend Hoschel remarks that the video of Fry diving into alien goat vomit and diarrhea is "disgusting and inspiring, like Jared from Subway". As of 2015, Jared Fogle has been fired by Subway after he confessed to owning child pornography and having sex with minors.

* In "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E14TimeKeepsOnSlippin Time Keeps on Slippin]]," There's a scene of a news report that talks about a celebrity named Wendy, who we learn through the timeskip jumps that occur that she won three grammies and then died in her bathtub. this could be an eerie foreshadowing of what happened to Music/WhitneyHouston in 2012, as she was found dead in the bathtub at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly hills the day before the Grammy awards that year.
* In "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E9ABicyclopsBuiltForTwo A Bicyclops Built For Two]]" the gang explore the internet and Amy is angered to find nude pictures of herself, which Bender admits he created by sticking pictures of her head onto someone else's body (i.e., Leela's). In the late 2010s, the abuse of deepfake technology began to become an increasing issue, including its use to make [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfake_pornography illicit pornography]] of people without their consent.]

* Nibbler was assumed to be a non-intelligent animal before his sapience was revealed in "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E7TheDayTheEarthStoodStupid The Day the Earth Stood Stupid]]". "[[Recap/FuturamaS8E4ParasitesRegained Parasites Regained]]" would have Nibbler be in danger of becoming an non-intelligent animal for real due to being infected with worms.

* Nibbler was assumed to be a non-intelligent animal before his sapience was revealed in "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E7TheDayTheEarthStoodStupid The Earth the Earth Stood Stupid]]". "[[Recap/FuturamaS8E4ParasitesRegained Parasites Regained]]" would have Nibbler be in danger of becoming an non-intelligent animal for real due to being infected with worms.

* In "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E9ABicyclopsBuiltForTwo A Bicyclops Built For Two]]" the gang explore the internet and Amy is angered to find nude pictures of herself, which Bender admits he created by sticking pictures of her head onto someone else's body (i.e., Leela's). In the late 2010s, the abuse of deepfake technology began to become an increasing issue, including its use to make [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfake_pornography illicit pornography]] of people without their consent.

* Mom (who is somewhat of a TakeThat to Disney's monopolistic behavior in spite of its pleasant imagery) almost buying up Planet Express in "Future Stock," given that through its purchase of Fox, Disney now owns the rights to ''Futurama.''

* In "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E9ABicyclopsBuiltForTwo A Bicyclops Built For Two]]" the gang explore the internet and Amy is angered to find nude pictures of herself, which Bender admits he created by sticking pictures of her head onto someone else's body. In the late 2010s, the abuse of deepfake technology began to become an increasing issue, including its use to make [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfake_pornography illicit pornography]] of people without their consent.

* In "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E14TimeKeepsOnSlippin Time Keeps on Slippin]]," There's a scene of a news report that talks about a celebrity named Wendy, who we learn through the timeskip jumps that occur that she won three grammies and then died in her bathtub. this could be an eerie foreshadowing of what happened to Creator/WhitneyHouston in 2012, as she was found dead in the bathtub at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly hills the day before the Grammy awards that year.

* In "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E14TimeKeepsOnSlippin Time Keeps on Slippin]]," There's a scene of a news report that talks about a celebrity named Wendy, who we learn through the timeskip jumps that occur that she won three grammies and then died in her bathtub. this could be an eerie foreshadowing of what happened to Whitney Houston in 2012, as she was found dead in the bathtub at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly hills the day before the Grammy awards that year.

* In "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E14TimeKeepsOnSlippin Time Keeps on Slippin]]," There's a scene of a news report that talks about a celebrity named Wendy, who we learn through the timeskip jumps that occur that she won three grammies and then died in her bathtub. this could be an eerie foreshadowing of what happened to Whitney Houston in 2012, as she was found dead in the bathtub at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly hills hours before the Grammy awards that year.

* In "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E14TimeKeepsOnSlippin' Time Keeps on Slippin']]," There's a scene of a news report that talks about a celebrity named Wendy, who we learn through the timeskip jumps that occur that she won three grammies and then died in her bathtub. this could be an eerie foreshadowing of what happened to Whitney Houston in 2012, as she was found dead in the bathtub at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly hills hours before the Grammy awards that year.

* In "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E14TimeKeepsOnSlipping Time Keeps on Slipping]]," There's a scene that talks about a celebrity named Wendy who we learn through the timeskip jumps that occur that she won three grammies and then died in her bathtub. this could be an eerie foreshadowing of what happened to Whitney Houston in 2012, as she was found dead in the bathtub at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly hills hours before the Grammy awards that year.

* Fry's delighted reaction to realizing that everybody and everything he knew in the 20th century has gone (since he thought they didn't seem to like, care, or even respect him) seems much harsher subsequent episodes such as "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E4TheLuckOfTheFryrish The Luck of the Fryrish]]", "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E24ColdWarriors Cold Warriors]] and "[[Recap/FuturamaS7E23GameOfTones Game of Tones]]" have shown that his family actually did love him and were worried about him when he went missing.