History Recap / FuturamaM1BendersBigScore

-->'''Al Gore:''' ...ROBOT!

* ArcWords: Farnsworth's warning that "the copy is always doomed" regarding copies of people or objects due to usage of time-travel. Every single copy through this dies or gets destroyed one way or another at a random point in the near future, and Lars becomes extremely unnerved when hearing about this for the first time, since he's an alternate Fry and now knows he's going to die very soon.

* BackToTheEarlyInstallment: Thanks to the paradox-free time code, leading Fry and Bender go back to the same room he was frozen under an hour after he fell in the cryo-tube. The duplicate Fry is apparently killed by Bender right after [[Recap/FuturamaS4E7JurassicBark Seymour lays down after 12 years]], which is what flash-fossilizes him in the first place. Regular Fry ends up falling into the pilot Fry's tube and re-freezes himself for 7 more years after the original Fry is defrosted. Earlier, we see Bender be the one behind the first alien destruction of New York in the pilot. Lars eventually makes it back to the future by hiding in Michelle's cryotube, thus thawing out during the events of [[Recap/FuturamaS2E19TheCryonicWoman "The Cryonic Woman"]].

* BlingBlingBang: Taken to its extremely ridiculous conclusion with the scammer's fleet of solid gold Death Stars.

--> '''Al Gore''': Here's to four years of clean air, clean government, and amazing new technologies such as...

-->'''Al Gore''': ...ROBOT!

* ForWantOfANail: Fry, now back to the 20th century, uses the code to go back in time an hour prior to eat the pizza he was supposed to deliver. This minor event results in a time duplicate of Fry who eventually became Lars.

* MythologyGag: The ''Futurama'' theme remix was from the [=Xbox/PlayStation 2=] [[VideoGame/{{Futurama}} console game]].

* SickeninglySweethearts: Leela and Lars, at least to Leela’s coworkers (but especially to Fry), who are dealing with too many problems themselves to be in the mood to hear it.

* TimeTravelingJerkass: The Nudists once they get their hands on a time sphere (formed through a code on a tattoo on Fry's butt), fully intending to use it to steal things of value from all of history. Additionally, they don't care that the time sphere could lead to the destruction of the universe until after they have obtained everything of value in history.
* TheSlowPath: The Time Sphere only goes back in time, not forwards, forcing the Scammers to [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots use Bender]] to steal historical values. Fry only gets back to the present by re-freezing himself.
** TimeAbyss: Due to dozens (perhaps hundreds) of time-travel jaunts, Bender is at least hundreds of thousands of years old.

* TimePassesMontage: There's sort of one with time-duplicate Fry living the life he left behind after getting frozen. There's also a nod to the Seymour one from ''"[[Recap/FuturamaS4E7JurassicBark Jurassic Bark]]"''.

* TimeyWimeyBall: Literally ''and'' figuratively. The time code tattooed to Fry's butt in the shape of Bender's head can be used to summon one. Besides, it enables one to ignore temporal paradoxes like Fry meeting himself from an hour earlier, yet the tattoo itself is in a StableTimeLoop, since it was taken from ''Duplicate''!Fry[=/=]Lars's butt and placed on [[HumanPopsicle the youngest Fry]]'s butt.
* TomatoInTheMirror: Duplicate!Fry discovering that his rival for Leela's affections is a time-displaced version of himself.

* BrattyHalfPint: Philip J. Fry II.

* ContinuityPorn: Too many to name:

* ExoticEquipment: "Why are you talking to my penis?"

* HistoricalInJoke: George W. Bush "winning" the 2000 election.

* ArcWords: Farnsworth's warning that "the copy is always doomed" regarding copies of people or objects due to usage of time-travel. Every single copy through this dies or gets destroyed one way or another at a random point in the near future, and [[spoiler:Lars]] becomes extremely unnerved when hearing about this for the first time, [[spoiler:since he's an alternate Fry and now knows he's going to die very soon.]]
* ActorAllusion: The Chanukah Zombie's vehicle is a Jewish-themed TIE Fighter, an obvious nod to his voice actor, Creator/MarkHamill.

* AssholeVictim: The Box Network executives who cancelled Planet Express's license got fired, but then killed and turned into a fine pink powder to be used in "Torgo's Executive Powder". The Professor takes glee in this development happening, who first uses the powder to soothe his crotch.

* BackToTheEarlyInstallment: Thanks to the paradox-free time code, leading Fry and Bender go back to the same room he was frozen under an hour after he fell in the cryo-tube. The duplicate Fry is apparently killed by Bender right after [[Recap/FuturamaS4E7JurassicBark Seymour lays down after 12 years]], which is what flash-fossilizes him in the first place. Regular Fry ends up falling into the pilot Fry's tube and re-freezes himself for 7 more years after the original Fry is defrosted. Earlier, we see Bender be the one behind the first alien destruction of New York in the pilot. [[spoiler:Lars eventually makes it back to the future by hiding in Michelle's cryotube, thus thawing out during the events of [[Recap/FuturamaS2E19TheCryonicWoman "The Cryonic Woman"]].]]

* BitingTheHandHumor: The beginning of the movie takes a not-so-sutble jab at Fox for cancelling the show. It has The Professor telling the Planet Express crew that they were fired two years ago by the "Box Network" [[SignsOfDisrepair (if it wasn't obvious enough, the B on their logo flickers to an F and back again)]] due to them cancelling their license. However, they ended up getting their jobs back due to the executives who cancelled them getting fired for incompetence, which then they beaten up badly, died of their injuries, then grounded up into a fine pink powder called "Torgo's Executive Powder", which is then used in several humiliating ways throughout the film.

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: Nudar ambushes Lars during the denouement and claims he has the time code, setting up the reveal shortly afterwards that [[spoiler:he was Fry's time duplicate all along.]]

* ForWantOfANail: Fry, now back to the 20th century, uses the code to go back in time an hour prior to eat the pizza he was supposed to deliver. This minor event resulted in creating a time duplicate of Fry who eventually became Lars.

* OntologicalInertia: A major plot element of the film is "paradox-free time travel"--that is to say, a form of time travel where no matter what you do, the universe bends events so that the present mostly turns out the same. This allows things that would normally be impossible, such as preventing yourself from going back in time or stealing a vital historical object and never returning it, without significant risk of the universe breaking down. This is mainly through causing any spare duplicates created through time travel to abruptly die. [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, Bender manages to do something ''so'' impossible that it breaks OntologicalInertia altogether, cracking open the universe.]]

* RewatchBonus: Lars' chemistry and behavior with Leela makes a lot more sense after TheReveal that [[spoiler:he's an older version of Fry from another timeline]], hence why he's so at ease around her.

** TimeAbyss: Due to dozens (perhaps hundreds) of time-travel, Bender is at least hundreds of thousands of years old.

* RecycledSoundtrack: The same opening cue from the [[VideoGame/{{Futurama}} video game]] plays during the first exterior shot of the Head Museum.

-->'''Hermes:''' Kiss my front-butt!

* LosingYourHead: Aside from the reappearance of heads in jars, Hermes gets his head chopped off within the first five minutes of the movie.

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: The alien scammers keep getting away with scamming everyone in their sight, including the Earthicans out of their planet. This finally get their just-deserts at the end when the Planet Express crew kills them with the bomb that Bender scammed them out of.

** The scammers send Bender back in time to steal a host of famous pieces of art, including an unfinished copy of Creator/LeonardoDaVinci's ''Art/MonaLisa'' and Creator/{{Michelangelo}}'s ''Art/{{David}}''. Bender also somehow manages to steal the Ten Commandments and [[Music/VanHalen Eddie Van Halen's]] guitar.

* BackToTheEarlyInstallment: Thanks to the paradox-free time code, leading Fry and Bender go back to the same room he was frozen under an hour after he fell in the cryo-tube. The duplicate Fry is apparently killed by Bender right after [[Recap/FuturamaS4E7JurassicBark Seymour lays down after 12 years]], which is what flash-fossilizes him in the first place. Regular Fry ends up falling into the pilot Fry's tube and re-freezes himself for 7 more years after the original Fry is defrosted. Earlier, we see Bender be the one behind the first alien destruction of New York in the pilot.

* FanDisservice: The Nudist Scammer Aliens. Especially when they exercise the PowerPerversionPotential of time travel. And ''especially'' when their sprungers are out.

** {{Lampshaded}} by a tuxedo-clad Bender who comes during the middle of the film to put the tattoo on Fry's ass.

* BitingTheHandHumor: The beginning of the movie takes a not so-sutble jab at Fox for cancelling the show. It has The Professor telling the Planet Express crew that they were fired two years ago by the "Box Network" [[SignsOfDisrepair (if it wasn't obvious enough, the B on their logo flickers to an F and back again)]] due to them cancelling their license. However, they ended up getting their jobs back due to the executives who cancelled them getting fired for incompetence, which then they beaten up badly, died of their injuries, then grounded up into a fine pink powder called "Torgo's Executive Powder", which is then used in several humiliating ways throughout the film.

* {{Handwave}}: The physical differences between Fry and Lars are quickly explained away in four words, when Bender nearly kills [=TimeDuplicate=]!Fry.

* PreMortemOneLiner / IronicEcho: "You've been scammed, sweatheart!"

* DisproportionateRetribution: After its show gets interrupted by a presidential address from Nixon, the Hypnotoad [[PsychicAssistedSuicide forces the announcer to kill themselves]].