History Recap / FuturamaS3E19RoswellThatEndsWell

* AlienAutopsy: Dr. Zoidberg, however, is still alive and conscious and does things, like re-eating the deviled egg they take out of his stomach and making remarks like, "Take, [[BizarreAlienBiology I've got four of them]]" when when his heart is removed.

* BeenThereShapedHistory

* ExplodingCalendar: Does in reverse. As the Planet Express crew travel back in time, the ship's digital chronometer ticks backwards, eventually turning into a 1947 pinup calendar.

* FutureImperfect: Leela and the Professor's ignorance of 20th Century is evident when they try to buy a microwave decades before one were commonly available (the "Radarange" having been introduced in 1946, but far from popular until the early 1970s), and Leela assumes people in 1947 speak like turn-of-the-21st-Century Fry.

* RomancingTheWidow

* StableTimeLoop: As this is ''Futurama''[='s=] first experience with time travel, they settle on this as their rule of time (Fry's presence in the past leads to him sleeping with his eventual grandmother, thus bringing himself into creation two generations later). "The Why of Fry", ''Bender's Big Score'', and "Decision 3012" would go on to [[TimeyWimeyBall completely muck around with this]] ("The Late Phillip J. Fry" may also cause some rule-bending as well).

* InventionalWisdom: Fry buys Ennis a pinup calendar that for no apparent reason alternates between female and male models. Lampshaded in the commentary, when they wonder who would buy such a calendar ([[BiTheWay the obvious answer]] not really making sense given this was the [=1940s=]).

** Lampshaded in the commentary, when they wonder who would buy such a calendar.

* ButterflyOfDoom: The Professor gives Fry the classic advice for people going back in time: "Don't do anything that will change history. Unless, you're supposed to do it, in which case for the love of God [[ConfusingDoubleNegatives don't not do it]]."

* StartsStealthilyEndsLoudly: After getting the microwave needed to escape quietly is no longer viable, the crew decides to simply break into the base guns a blazing, rescue Zoidberg and take their microwave dish, timeline be damned.

* ButterflyOfDoom: The Professor gives Fry the classic advice for people going back in time: "Don't do anything that will change history. Unless, you're supposed to do it, in which case for the love of God [[DoubleNegatives don't not do it]]."

* StartsStealthlyEndsLoudly: After getting the microwave needed to escape quietly is no longer viable, the crew decides to simply break into the base guns a blazing, rescue Zoidberg and take their microwave dish, timeline be damned.

* StartsStealthyEndsLoudly: After getting the microwave needed to escape quietly is no longer viable, the crew decides to simply break into the base guns a blazing, rescue Zoidberg and take their microwave dish, timeline be damned.

-->'''Professor:''' "Let's get the hell out of here already! Screw history!"

* DistantReactionShot / UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The nuclear test going off and obliterating Enis. The scene then cuts to a diner where Professor Farnsworth and Leela are sitting down to eat as the mushroom cloud from the explosion appears in the window. Neither they nor the residents of the town seem to pay it much mind. Believe it or not, that ''was'' a realistic reaction. During the 1950s, atomic tests in the deserts of the U.S. Southwest (that would be the states of Arizona and New Mexico for those who don't live there) were so commonplace that people eventually stopped paying them much attention.

* FutureImperfect: Leela and the Professor's ignorance of 20th Century is evident when they try to buy a microwave decades before one were commonly available (the "Radarange" having been introduced in 1946,but far from popular until the early 1970s), and Leela assumes people in 1947 speak like turn-of-the-21st-Century Fry.

* FutureImperfect: Leela and the Professor's ignorance of 20th Century is evident when they try to buy a microwave decades before one is available, and Leela assumes people in 1947 speak like turn-of-the-21st-Century Fry.

* BodyPaint: Fry uses a can of spray paint that actually creates a army uniform.
* ButterflyOfDoom: The Professor gives Fry the classic advice for people going back in time: "Don't do anything that will change history. Unless, you're supposed to do it, in which case for the love of God don't not do it."

* DistantReactionShot and UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The nuclear test going off and obliterating Enis. The scene then cuts to a diner where Professor Farnsworth and Leela are sitting down to eat as the mushroom cloud from the explosion appears in the window. Neither they nor the residents of the town seem to pay it much mind. Believe it or not, that ''was'' a realistic reaction. During the 1950s, atomic tests in the deserts of the U.S. Southwest (that would be the states of Arizona and New Mexico for those who don't live there) were so commonplace that people eventually stopped paying them much attention.

* FashionsNeverChange: in an attempt to fit in in 1947 New Mexico, Leela dons a poodle skirt and beehive hairdo, and Professor Farnsworth wears a zoot suit and fedora while swinging a pocketwatch on a chain. Leela also tries to fit in using Fry's 1990s slang, with similar success.

* GetBackToTheFuture: The Planet Express crew need a microwave oven in order to go back through the wormhole before it closes in, oh, say... [[RaceAgainstTheClock EXACTLY 24 HOURS]]!

* OurWormholesAreDifferent: radiation from a supernova combined with radiation from Fry putting aluminum in a microwave oven to create a wormhole that sends the Planet Express crew back in time.

* TheSlowPath: In a direct parody of the ''[[StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]]'' episode, Bender's head is dropped in the New Mexico desert in the 1940s, and has to be recovered a thousand years later. Not only does Bender not mind being buried in the dirt for a millennium, he actually complains upon being rescued that his peace and quiet are being disturbed.

* MyOwnGrandpa: Fry, after doing you-know-what with Mildred. It's the only reason he doesn't die after Enis is killed.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Enis is based on GomerPyle, and his commanding officer spoofs Sgt. Carter from the same show.

** Also in an inversion of this, their chronometer, that should work fine in the past, is [[RuleOfFunny turned into a pin-up calendar]].

* AmbigouslyGay: Enis questions ''why'' he has to go out with girls, and just before he dies, he's examining the male model in the pin-up calendar.

-->'''President Truman:''' Take this to {{Area 51}}. \\

* DistantReactionShot: The nuclear test going off and obliterating Enis. The scene then cuts to a diner where Professor Farnsworth and Leela are sitting down to eat as the mushroom cloud from the explosion appears in the window. Neither they nor the residents of the town seem to pay it much mind. Believe it or not, that was realistic - during the 1950s, atomic tests in the desert southwest were so commonplace that people eventually stopped paying them much attention.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: HarryTruman.

* EveryCarIsAPinto: "I've never seen a supernova, but if it's anything like my Chevy Nova, it'll light up the night sky."

* Bodypaint: Fry uses a can of spray paint that actually creates a army uniform.

** Also in an inversion of this, their chronometer, that should work fine in the past, is [[RuleOfFunny turned into a pin-up calender]].

Realizing that they have traveled backward in time, Leela and the Professor attempt to find a microwave with no luck. Meanwhile Fry goes on the base to find Zoidberg and to visit his grandfather Enis, despite the Professor warning him about changing history. Due to his paranoia about Enis getting killed or neutered, Fry drives him out to the desert to stay safe. Unfortunately, he chooses a nuclear testing site and Enis dies.

The night of Enis' death, Fry comforts his fiancee Mildred, who comes on to him. Fry resists initially, but then accepts, thinking that she can't be his grandmother as his supposed grandfather just died. The next morning, the Professor tells Fry that he just became his own grandfather; Fry is understandably [[ScreamingAtSquick upset]]. The crew then decide to steal a microwave dish from the base and rescue Zoidberg without regard for consequences. They do so, though Bender's head falls into the desert, remaining buried for a thousand years until his friends find him in the future.

The night of Enis' death, Fry comforts his fiancee Mildred, who comes on to him. Fry resists initially, but then accepts, thinking that she can't be his grandmother as his supposed grandfather just died. The next morning, the Professor tells Fry that he just became his own grandfather; Fry is understandably [[ScreamingAtSquick upset]]. The crew then decide to steal a microwave dish from the base and rescue Zoidberg without regard for consequences. They do so, though Bender's head falls into the desert, remaining buried for a thousand years til his friends find him in the future.

The night of Enis' death, Fry comforts his fiancee Mildred, who comes on to him. Fry resists initially, but then accepts, thinking that she can't be his grandmother as his supposed grandfather just died. The next morning, the Professor tells Fry that he just became his own grandfather; Fry is [[Understatement understandably]] [[ScreamingatSquick upset]]. The crew then decide to steal a microwave dish from the base and rescue Zoidberg without regard for consequences. They do so, though Bender's head falls into the desert, remaining buried for a thousand years til his friends find him in the future.

This was the only Futurama episode from the original run to win an Emmy.