YMMV / Futurama S 2 E 6 The Lesser Of Two Evils

• Harsher in Hindsight: The main characters visit a theme park modeled on 2000s New York. There's a brief scene where the stock market drops from about 11,000 to 7,200, similar numbers to the real-life 2008 crash. (Fortunately, it jumps right back up to 11,000, and all the stock brokers who jumped to their apparent deaths float back up into the building via jetpack). Considering that the scene was supposed to be a "distorted history" take on the crash that started the Great Depression, that makes this a sort of bizarre case of life imitating art imitating life.
• Memetic Mutation: A screengrab of Fry squinting suspiciously at Flexo is used for not one, but two memes: "Fry sees what you did there" and "Not Sure If..."
  • "I'm shocked, shocked! Well, not that shocked."

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