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* [=~Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act~=]: Double subverted in "The Late Philip J. Fry." Professor Farnsworth succeeds in assassinating Hitler, but they're forced to travel through time a second time and he ends up assassinating Eleanor Roosevelt instead.

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* [=~Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act~=]: HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: Double subverted in "The Late Philip J. Fry." Professor Farnsworth succeeds in assassinating Hitler, but they're forced to travel through time a second time and he ends up assassinating Eleanor Roosevelt instead.



* [[HolodeckMalfunction Holo-Shed Malfunction]]: Parodied to hell and back in "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch".

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* [[HolodeckMalfunction Holo-Shed Malfunction]]: HolodeckMalfunction: Parodied to hell and back with the Holo-Shed in "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch".


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* HugAndComment:
** Leela hugs Fry and mentions that "you smell like you've been rolling in New Jersey."
** Another episode ends with the revelation that Leela has been comatose for weeks, and Fry has been at her side the whole time. They hug, and:
-->'''Leela''': You could really use a shower.\\
'''Fry''': So could you.
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* CloserThanTheyAppear: "Objects may be less sexy than they appear" shows up on a clothes shop mirror.
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* StockAudioClip:
** The show uses the exact same scream every time Amy falls over.
** The opening of "Brannigan, Begin Again" uses a recording of the judge calmly saying "I'm going to allow this" several times, in increasingly odd circumstances.
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* JustLikeMakingLove:
** Parodied in "The Series Has Landed", when Amy is trying to retrieve the keys to a spaceship from a claw arcade game.
-->'''Bender''': "Come on, it's just like making love. Y'know: Left, down, rotate 62 degrees, engage rotor." \\
'''Amy''': I know how to make love!
** After Fry first tries a delicious Poppler, he declares "It's like sex, except I'm having it!"
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* UnnecessarilyCreepyRobot:
** Sure, Robot Santa Claus is evil ''now'', but as originally designed he shouldn't be that scary.
** One episode has a robot nanny who not only looks frightening, but speaks in a loud, angry voice and claims to have replaced the baby's mother before feeding it with a bottle from its toothy maw. Leela thinks it's cute. Notably, the baby doesn't seem to mind either.
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'''Leela:''' [[NotSoFastBucko No, you didn't!]]

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'''Leela:''' [[NotSoFastBucko [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle No, you didn't!]]
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** Played with with Smitty and URL in a later episode when Fry replaces Smitty as URL's partner.
--> '''URL''': (morosely) He was just a few days away from retirement.
--> '''Fry''': What happened?
--> '''URL''': He took an early retirement.
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Inverted in "Parasites Lost":
-->'''Professor Farnsworth:''' Anyhoo, your net-suits will allow you to experience Fry's worm infested bowels as if you were actually wriggling through them.
-->'''Dr. Zoidberg (cheerfully):''' There's no part of that sentence I didn't like!
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** The show has plenty, but possibly none so great as when visiting the President's heads in season 6.
-->'''Bender:''' Anyone seen Ulysses Grant? He owes me a cheroot.\\
'''Leela:''' He's over there, pukin' in the Bushes.\\
[Ulysses Grant prepares to vomit in the jars of George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush]\\
'''George H. W. Bush's head and George W. Bush's heads:''' [[BigNo No!]]
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** In "Raging Bender: "Now quit scratching your ax hole and get out there!"
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: The Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
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* TheWikiRule: The [[http://theinfosphere.org/Main_Page Infosphere.]]

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* TheWikiRule: The [[http://theinfosphere.org/Main_Page The Infosphere.]]
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* TheWikiRule: The [[http://theinfosphere.org/Main_Page Infosphere.]]

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having an in-universe example of a YMMV trope is not a license to put out-of-universe examples of the same trope on the main page


** Out of universe, [[YMMV some will argue]] that the ComedyCentral episodes are this.


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* SecondFaceSmoke: In "Three Hundred Big Boys", Bender steals a fabulously expensive cigar expressly for the purpose of blowing its smoke into the faces of the "fantsy-pantses" at an upscale art gallery.
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** The "alien writing" seen in the background of many scenes are actually [[CypherLanguage ciphers]]. Fans made a game of decoding them, and the messages are often [[ShoutOut shouts-out]].

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** The "alien writing" seen in the background of many scenes are actually [[CypherLanguage ciphers]]. Fans made a game of decoding them, and the messages are often [[ShoutOut shouts-out]]. There's actually two versions; one is a simple subsitution cypher -- the other is almost maddeningly complicated.
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** As is "The Why of Fry" to "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid".
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* [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove What Is This Thing You Call 'Wuv'?]]: The Omicronians' reaction to Valentine's Day.
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*Body Horror : the Bone-itis death of That Guy
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Nakama was renamed True Companions.


* {{Nakama}}: The Planet Express crew, no matter what they go through, will always pull together for each other in the end.


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* TrueCompanions: The Planet Express crew, no matter what they go through, will always pull together for each other in the end.
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* MistakenForExhibit: In "Mother's Day", Fry justly mistakes the janitor (who happens to be a robot made out of wax) for one of the wax robot sculptures in a museum.



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* GrandFinale: They ''really'' tried with the ending of ''Into the Wild Green Yonder'' [[spoiler:, but just got blasted back to Earth when the series restarted on Comedy Central.]]

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* [=~Poe's Law~=]: Some will be surprised to learn that "I Dated a Robot" has an [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil anti-piracy moral]], not a [[SpoofAesop parody of anti-piracy morals]]. This confusion can be attributed to the [[FantasticAesop fantastic devices (copies of Lucy Liu) used to give the message]], [[{{Anvilicious}} heavy handedness]] and the fact that show isn't one to play morals straight.

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* [=~Poe's Law~=]: PoesLaw: Some will be surprised to learn that "I Dated a Robot" has an [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil anti-piracy moral]], not a [[SpoofAesop parody of anti-piracy morals]]. This confusion can be attributed to the [[FantasticAesop fantastic devices (copies of Lucy Liu) used to give the message]], [[{{Anvilicious}} heavy handedness]] and the fact that show isn't one to play morals straight.


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* ElSpanishO: Bender's attempts to speak Spanish tend to turn out this way.
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* EatDirtCheap: After Lrrr accidentally conquers Earth the next thing we see is the main cast sentenced to the mines to supply his wife with gemstones to eat.
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* EarTrumpet: When Fry travels in time and accidentally has sex with his grandmother when she was younger; upon having it spelled out for him she responds to his screams with "What was that dear?" and uses an ear horn.
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* DudeNotIronic: A running gag in "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" is Bender correcting the Robot Devil on his abuse of "irony".

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* DudeNotIronic: A running gag in "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" is Bender correcting the Robot Devil on his abuse of "irony".Culminating in him reading the definition from the dictionary.[[hottip:*:[[He's reading the definition of sarcasm."]]
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* JumpOffABridgeRebuttal: Parodied in the first episode.
-->'''Bender:''' I'll have to check my program... ''(looks away from Fry momentarily)'' Yep!
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* MistakenForMasturbating: In "Hell is Other Robots" Bender has locked himself in the bathroom so he can get high on electricity, Leela asks him "You're not jerking on in there are you?".

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* MistakenForMasturbating: In "Hell is Other Robots" Bender has locked himself in the bathroom so he can get high on electricity, Leela asks him "You're not jerking jacking on in there are you?".

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* LastNameBasis: Fry's full name is "Phillip J. Fry", and Leela's is "Turanga Leela", but everyone just refers to them as "Fry and Leela". This gets a {{lampshade|Hanging}} by Amy in one episode.
** AndZoidberg (John).
** In another episode, Leela's parents are "Turanga Morris" and "Turanga Munda", implying that mutants arrange their names last name first.

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* LastNameBasis: Fry's full name is "Phillip J. Fry", and Leela's is "Turanga Leela", but everyone just refers to them as "Fry and Leela". Fry". This gets a {{lampshade|Hanging}} by Amy in one episode.
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episode. AndZoidberg (John).
** In another episode, Apparently this with Turanga Leela; but eventually averted when we discover in that Leela's parents are "Turanga Morris" and "Turanga Munda", implying indicating that mutants arrange their names last Asian style, with the family name first.
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* FetishFuelStationAttendant: Coleen in ''Beast with a Billion Backs''. She's a young, hot, blonde chief of the NYPD, who is poly-amorous with six men, and ultimately dumps all of them to be with a NaughtyTentacles monster. All heavily Lampshaded.
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* MonsterProgenitor: The Project Satan to all Were-cars.

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