History Recap / FuturamaS3E14TimeKeepsOnSlippin

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Subverted; when Hermes suggests that Fry won Leela over with skill as a lover, Amy chimes in that he is not and Fry himself unhesitatingly agrees that he has no idea what he's doing.

* 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.

* TemptingFate: To quote Fry, Earth's team is up 35 points 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 150 points.

* LousyLoversAreLosers: When Hermes suggests that maybe Fry is a good lover, Amy ([[Recap/FuturamaS2E7PutYourHeadOnMyShoulder who slept with him in the past]]) chimes in with "Um, no."

-->'''Zoidberg:''' So [Fry]'s not perfect. You don't want to end up old and lonely like ZOIDBERG! ''[sobs loudly]''

-->'''Professor Farnsworth:''' (angrily) Good news, everyone. You're off to the Tempest Nebula to gather chronotons!

* ArtisticLicenseSports: When Fry begs to take part in the basketball game, he says that they are 35 points ahead, and then comes a GilliganCut to the Globetrotters winning 244-86. It is not possible for even the Harlem Globetrotters to score 193 points in 2 minutes in a basketball game, as each of the 65 shots needed to achieve that score would take at least 3 seconds apiece. If anything, [[ZeroEffortBoss The supermutants]] ''[[ZeroEffortBoss should've]]'' [[ZeroEffortBoss won instead of the Globetrotters anyway]] because of this even if he were a handicap.

* LousyLoversAreLosers: When Hermes suggests that maybe Fry is a good lover, Amy (who slept with him in the past) chimes in with "Um, no."

* ArtisticLicenseSports: When Fry begs to take part in the basketball game, he says that they are 35 points ahead, and then comes a GilliganCut to the Globetrotters winning 244-86. It is not possible for even the Harlem Globetrotters to score 193 points in 2 minutes in a basketball game, as each of the 65 shots needed to achieve that score would take at least 3 seconds apiece. If anything, [[ZeroEffortBoss Fry's team]] ''[[ZeroEffortBoss should've]]'' [[ZeroEffortBoss won instead of the Globetrotters]] because of this.

* ArtisticLicenseSports: When Fry begs to take part in the basketball game, he says that they are 35 points ahead, and then comes a GilliganCut to the Globetrotters winning 244-86. It is not possible for even the Harlem Globetrotters to score 193 points in 2 minutes in a basketball game, as each of the 65 shots needed to achieve that score would take at least 3 seconds apiece.

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.

-->'''Amy:''' ''(After the shock wears off)'' ...Hi!
-->'''Arachneon (cheerfully):''' Hello!

* GilliganCut: In-universe, caused by the chronotons.

* 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.

* {{Jerkass}}: Bubblegum Tate keeps being an overall jerk towards Bender, who really wishes to be a Globetrotter. At one point, Tate even names everyone in the room part of the team, but Bender misses it by a few seconds because he wasn't in the room yet and Tate won't let him catch a break.

-->'''Zoidberg:''' So [Fry]'s not perfect. You don't want to end up old and lonely like Zoidberg. ''[sobs]''

** Happens to Fry, over and over again. When he finally discovers what it was that made Leela finally love him, it's blown up before she can see it and she divorces him.

* 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.
** The commentary states this was done [[BitingTheHandHumor to mess with the execs]].

* 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, ''[[ThrowTheDogABone Doctor Zoidberg]]''). Bender hears this, but arrives just too late.
** Happens to Fry, over and over again.

* 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.

* CleavageWindow: Amy's outfit during the basketball game. When the random time skips start, Amy immediately brings attention to it as a possible explanation.