The Late Philip J. Fry/References

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Trivia

• Professor Farnsworth said they will go one minute in to future. It is possibly a reference to 1985 movie Back to the Future.
• Fry, Bender and the Professor sit back with beers to watch the world end. This possibly a reference to Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams.
• The various Statues of Liberty with different animals is a reference to the 1968 movie Planet of the Apes.
• In the year 10,000, Bender throws three books into the fire:
  • "The History of the Human Race"
  • an Amazon Kindle
  • "Backwards Time Travel Made Easy". (in alienese)
• The song playing during the time-travel montage is an adaption of the 1969 hit song "In the Year 2525" by Zager & Evans. Similar to the time in the episode, the song tells tales of later and later centuries and finally concludes with the first verse again and fading out.
• When Bender is laughing at a merman, his legs are not seen even though the hips are next to the center of the screen at that shot.
• The year ten million, where robots enslave and/or kill humanity, is a reference to the 1984 movie The Terminator which also features time travel.
• Hitler says "Betrachten Sie meinen Schnurrbart", which translates to “Look at my mustache”.
• When Farnsworth attempts to kill Hitler a second time and misses references the time paradox legend about killing Hitler.
• When homing in on the destination time, the following episodes are referenced:
  • Bender's Big Score
  • "Love's Labours Lost in Space"
  • "Amazon Women in the Mood"
  • "Future Stock"
  • "A Taste of Freedom"
  • The Beast with a Billion Backs
  • "Attack of the Killer App"
• Farnsworth said that they fixed the time travel paradox when the crew finally stopped and killed their latter forms. However, they no longer exist in the first universe and the second universe could have went and travelled to the future. If this is still true, then the crew of the third universe should go forward, but do not. Then, the crew of the fifth universe (if such a universe exists) cannot be killed, creating another paradox in that they're meant to be killed by the crew of the third universe.
• For consistency, If you slow down the first attempt at time-travel by Fry, Bender, And Professor Farnsworth, you can see the back of the 75 year-old Leela's head; but you'd never be able to see it if you didn't slow it down, so as not to ruin the story.
• When the date is shown in the Time Machine for the first time the current day of the year displayed is July 29th the current time is 10:05. This episode first aired July 29, 2010 and that particular scene of the episode aired at 10:05 PM.
• In the year five million, the world has been split into two races. The small land dwellers, and the undergrounds beasts. Exactly like in H.G. Wells book The Time Machine

Continuity

• The time machine in this episode is the unfinished one in "A Clone of My Own"