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* NaturalEndOfTime: An odd case where the universe ending naturally is problematic. Because nobody remembers what happened during the TimeSkip and they're becoming larger and larger, the universe is at risk of skipping to the end of time without anyone experiencing the time inbetween.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Zoidberg may be desperate for any form of social interaction, no matter how fleeting (or hostile), but even he gets so bored with Leela's lengthy list of Fry's faults that he starts ignoring her and watching the television during a time-skip.
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* TemptingFate: To quote Fry, they were twenty points ahead with two minutes left, what cold possibly happen? One GilliganCut later, and Fry has somehow managed to screw up bad enough that Earth's behind by over two hundred points.
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* TemptingFate: To quote Fry, they were twenty Earth's team is up 35 points ahead with two minutes left, what cold possibly happen? One GilliganCut later, and Fry has somehow managed to screw up bad enough that Earth's behind by over two hundred 150 points.
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* InsultToRocks: Leela's list of Fry's faults gets so long and boring that even ''Zoidberg'', someone who is desperate for any semblance of friendship or social interaction, gets bored enough to start ignoring her and watching TV during the ensuing time skip.
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* InsultToRocks: Leela's list of Fry's faults gets so long and boring that even ''Zoidberg'', someone who is desperate for any semblance of friendship or social interaction, gets bored enough to start ignoring her and watching TV during the ensuing time skip.
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* CosmicFlaw: Stealing chronotrons causes time itself to break apart. Time starts skipping forward at random times, threatening to end the universe itself.
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-->'''Amy:''' (After the shock wears off) ...Hi!
-->'''Arachneon (cheerly):''' Hello!
-->'''Arachneon (cheerly):''' Hello!
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-->'''Amy:''' (After ''(After the shock wears off) ...off)'' ...Hi!
-->'''Arachneon(cheerly):''' (cheerfully):''' Hello!
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* AffablyEvil: Farnsworth created the Mutant Atomic Supermen to take over the universe (and win at basketball), but they're actually super nice.
-->'''Amy:''' (After the shock wears off) ...Hi!
-->'''Arachneon (cheerly):''' Hello!
-->'''Amy:''' (After the shock wears off) ...Hi!
-->'''Arachneon (cheerly):''' Hello!
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** The commentary states this was done to mess with [[ExecutiveMeddling the execs]].
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** The commentary states this was done [[BitingTheHandHumor to mess with [[ExecutiveMeddling the execs]].
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* NoodleImplements: After Planet Express receives their gravity pump, they prepare the long and tedious task of attaching it to the ship. Before Farnsworth can explain in further detail, they skip time and the ship launches with the pump fully installed on it.
--> '''Farnsworth:''' Off you go, apparently!
--> '''Farnsworth:''' Off you go, apparently!
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* NoodleImplements: After Planet Express receives their gravity pump, they prepare the long and tedious task of attaching it to the ship. Before Farnsworth can explain in further detail, they skip time and the ship launches with the pump fully installed on it.
--> '''Farnsworth:''' Off you go, apparently!
--> '''Farnsworth:''' Off you go, apparently!
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* BitingTheHandHumor: According to the writers, the reason it's so heavily emphasized that absolutely nothing is at stake in the basketball game except Earth being seen as losers is because execs were asking that the show have episodes with higher stakes. (Ironically, the real conflict in this episode involves the near-destruction of the universe.)
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* NoodleIncident: Too many to list. The nature of the sporadic time skips mean a lot of crazy things can and do happen, but even in-universe, no one can even fathom what the hell they were or how they led to the predicament they ended up in.
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* CleavageWindow: Amy outfit during the basketball game. When the random time skips start, Amy immediately brings attention to it as a possible explanation.
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* CleavageWindow: Amy Amy's outfit during the basketball game. When the random time skips start, Amy immediately brings attention to it as a possible explanation.
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* CleavageWindow: Amy outfit during the basketball game. When the random time skips start, Amy immediately brings attention to it as a possible explanation.
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* TimeSkip: The main problem of the episode is that time keeps skipping forward. It's quite convenient when it comes to difficult or tedious jobs, because time tends to skip ahead to when they're done.
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* GiantNoveltyCheck: Prof. Farnsworth is given one for "all of Earth's money" by President Nixon to finance his plan to stop the time skips.
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* LiteralMetaphor: When Fry is trying to win Leela over while the crew is harvesting chronotons, Leela tells him to 'cool his jets', which Fry means to give it up. Turns out she meant to turn down the flames of his jetpack because they were melting Bender's face.
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* GrandRomanticGesture: Fry used the gravity pump to make Leela a love note of stars, which was so touching that Leela actually married him. Unfortunately, not only did Leela not remember it and divorced Fry, but Fry's message was destroyed along with the nebula before anyone else saw it.
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* IgnoredExpert: Of a sort. Bender, of all beings, points out that chronotons are the ones "that destroyed a whole civilisation." The Professor doesn't care.
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* IgnoredExpert: Of a sort. Bender, of all beings, points out that chronotons are the ones "that destroyed a whole civilisation.civilization." The Professor doesn't care.
* TragicDream: Bender just isn't funky enough to be a Globetrotter, and Fry's attempts to win Leela's heart were futile [[spoiler:at least for now]]. Bender even consoled Fry that he knew what it was like to have a dream that would never come true.
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* YankTheDogsChain: Bubblegum, celebrating an idea that might solve the chroniton problem, makes everyone in the room with him an honorary Globetrotter (The Professor, Amy, Hermes, ''Doctor Zoidberg''). Bender hears this, but arrives just too late.
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* YankTheDogsChain: Bubblegum, celebrating an idea that might solve the chroniton problem, makes everyone in the room with him an honorary Globetrotter (The Professor, Amy, Hermes, ''Doctor Zoidberg'').''[[ThrowTheDogABone Doctor Zoidberg]]''). Bender hears this, but arrives just too late.
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* EpicFail: Fry offers to substitute for one of the killed genetically-engineered basketball-playing super mutants with just several minutes of time left on the clock and the mutants having a massive lead. Cue a timeskip where the game is over and somehow the Globetrotters are now ahead 244 to 86.
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* EpicFail: Fry offers to substitute for one of the killed genetically-engineered basketball-playing super mutants. Cue a timeskip where the game is over and somehow the Globetrotters are now ahead 244 to 86.
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* EpicFail: Fry offers to substitute for one of the killed genetically-engineered basketball-playing super mutants.mutants with just several minutes of time left on the clock and the mutants having a massive lead. Cue a timeskip where the game is over and somehow the Globetrotters are now ahead 244 to 86.
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* DistractedByTheSexy: A man fleeing from the landing Globetrotter spacecraft takes a moment to admire a sunbathing Amy.
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* MaleGaze: A man fleeing from the landing Globetrotter spacecraft takes a moment to admire a sunbathing Amy.
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* EpicFail: Fry offers to substitute for one of the killed genetically-engineered basketball-playing super mutants. Cue a timeskip where the game is over and somehow the Globetrotters are now ahead 244 to 86.
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* TemptingFate: To quote Fry, they were twenty points ahead with two minutes left, what cold possibly happen? One GilliganCut later, and Fry has somehow managed to screw up [[EpicFail bad enough that's Earth's behind by over two hundred points]].
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* TemptingFate: To quote Fry, they were twenty points ahead with two minutes left, what cold possibly happen? One GilliganCut later, and Fry has somehow managed to screw up [[EpicFail bad enough that's that Earth's behind by over two hundred points]].points.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The Mutant Atomic Supermen that the Professor created are never seen or mentioned again after this episode.
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* ForgottenBirthday: When time skips and it's suddenly Amy's birthday, Zoidberg says, "I hope we all have as much fun tomorrow at my birth--" Time suddenly skips, and the lodge is empty except for Zoidberg, who only has a cupcake with a single candle in it.
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* BigNo: Fry, when he realises that his romantic message is about to be destroyed.
* FailedASpotCheck:
** Fry tries riding some swan boats in Central Park. Only afterwards does he learn those were just swans, even after he found all those eggs.
** PlayedForDrama with Fry's message to Leela, which no-one notices save Fry.
** Fry tries riding some swan boats in Central Park. Only afterwards does he learn those were just swans, even after he found all those eggs.
** PlayedForDrama with Fry's message to Leela, which no-one notices save Fry.
* HiddenDepths: Bubblegum Tate, and indeed all the Globetrotters, turn out to be genius physicists.
* HypocriticalHumor: Two children complaining about old people receiving social security benefits. One Gilligan Cut later, and the one complaining is an old man, demanding free money.
* HypocriticalHumor: Two children complaining about old people receiving social security benefits. One Gilligan Cut later, and the one complaining is an old man, demanding free money.
* MaleGaze: A man fleeing from the landing Globetrotter spacecraft takes a moment to admire a sunbathing Amy.
* YankTheDogsChain: Bubblegum, celebrating an idea that might solve the chroniton problem, makes everyone in the room with him an honorary Globetrotter (The Professor, Amy, Hermes, ''Doctor Zoidberg''). Bender hears this, but arrives just too late.
** Happens to Fry, over and over again.
** Happens to Fry, over and over again.
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'''Professor Farnsworth:''' Enough about your promiscuous mother, Hermes. We've got bigger problems.
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'''Professor Farnsworth:''' Enough about your promiscuous mother, Hermes. We've got bigger problems.problems.
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* PutMeInCoach: After Arachneon is killed, Fry offers to fill in, noting that they're 35 points ahead and there's only two minutes left in the game. One time skip later, Fry has somehow lost the game 244 to 86.
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* ChestBlaster: One of the mutant players, Thorias, has a cannon on his chest.
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* ChestBlaster: One of the mutant players, Thorias, has a cannon on his chest.chest, [[BrickJoke just like the Professor talked about some episodes ago]].
* DoggedNiceGuy: Fry's every action in this episode is just trying to get Leela to go out with him, and the one time it works, neither of them remember what happened.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Fry's every action in this episode is just trying to get Leela to go out with him, and the one time it works, neither of them remember what happened.
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* DownerEnding: Is it ever. Leela divorces Fry instantly, and just as he learns what it was he did to get her to marry him, it gets blown up. Also, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Bender just isn't funky enough to be a Globetrotter]].
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* IgnoredExpert: Of a sort. Bender, of all beings, points out that chronotons are the ones "that destroyed a whole civilisation." The Professor doesn't care.
-->'''Professor Farnsworth:''' (angrily) Good news, everyone. You're off to the Tempest Nebula to gather chronotons!
-->'''Professor Farnsworth:''' (angrily) Good news, everyone. You're off to the Tempest Nebula to gather chronotons!
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* KilledOffForReal: Poor Arachneon gets an accidental case of friendly fire. The Professor's more annoyed about it than anything else.
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** The commentary states this was done to mess with [[ExecutiveMeddling the execs]].
* TemptingFate: To quote Fry, they were twenty points ahead with two minutes left, what cold possibly happen? One GilliganCut later, and Fry has somehow managed to screw up [[EpicFail bad enough that's Earth's behind by over two hundred points]].
* TemptingFate: To quote Fry, they were twenty points ahead with two minutes left, what cold possibly happen? One GilliganCut later, and Fry has somehow managed to screw up [[EpicFail bad enough that's Earth's behind by over two hundred points]].
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* ChestBlaster: One of the mutant players, Thorias, has a cannon on his chest.
* DoomsdayDevice: Bubblegum Tate theorizes that they need one of those to get rid of the chronotons.
-->'''Prof. Farnsworth:''' Doomsday device, you say? Ah, now the ball's in Farnsworth's court! [pushes a button, a platform with several doomsday devices rises from the floor] I guess I could part with one and still be feared.
* DoomsdayDevice: Bubblegum Tate theorizes that they need one of those to get rid of the chronotons.
-->'''Prof. Farnsworth:''' Doomsday device, you say? Ah, now the ball's in Farnsworth's court! [pushes a button, a platform with several doomsday devices rises from the floor] I guess I could part with one and still be feared.
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* SeriousBusiness: The game against Globetrotters. There was absolutely nothing at stake, and no consequence for losing...save the humiliation of defeat. This is treated as the worst thing ever.
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* IKnowWhatWeCanDoCut: Hermes has an idea on how to stop the time jumps. One time jump later and everyone is conga dancing naked while Hermes plays the steel drums. Even he admits he doesn't know how this would be of any help.
* SeriousBusiness: The game against Globetrotters. There was absolutely nothing at stake, and no consequence for losing...save the humiliation of defeat. This is treated as the worst thingever.ever.
* YourMom: Referenced in this exchange:
-->'''Leela:''' I don't know how you did it, Fry, but once again you screwed up. Now all the planets are gonna be cracking wise about our mommas.\\
'''Hermes:''' I'm just glad my fat, ugly mama isn't alive to see this.\\
'''Professor Farnsworth:''' Enough about your promiscuous mother, Hermes. We've got bigger problems.
* SeriousBusiness: The game against Globetrotters. There was absolutely nothing at stake, and no consequence for losing...save the humiliation of defeat. This is treated as the worst thing
* YourMom: Referenced in this exchange:
-->'''Leela:''' I don't know how you did it, Fry, but once again you screwed up. Now all the planets are gonna be cracking wise about our mommas.\\
'''Hermes:''' I'm just glad my fat, ugly mama isn't alive to see this.\\
'''Professor Farnsworth:''' Enough about your promiscuous mother, Hermes. We've got bigger problems.
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To play basketballs against the Harlem Globetrotters (Now a planet of its own), Professor Farnsworth uses chronotons to grow a team of mutant supermen. However, this starts to cause 'time-jumps' that threaten to destroy the universe. Meanwhile, Fry tries to win Leela's heart and just might succeed for once, provided the time-jumps don't screw everything up.
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* GilliganCut: In-universe, caused by the chronotons.
* SeriousBusiness: The game against Globetrotters. There was absolutely nothing at stake, and no consequence for losing...save the humiliation of defeat. This is treated as the worst thing ever.
!!Tropes
* GilliganCut: In-universe, caused by the chronotons.
* SeriousBusiness: The game against Globetrotters. There was absolutely nothing at stake, and no consequence for losing...save the humiliation of defeat. This is treated as the worst thing ever.
