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Professor Farnsworth said they will go one minute in to future - 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.
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:

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.
- However by the year 10 million they have merged again in one being.
Ironically if Bender had just waited until the evening after to use the backwards time machine that the women's civilisation had invented, he could have used it to travel back only as far as the era of robot war, with Fry and Farnsworth going all the way back to where they had begun to travel. But instead he decided to skip over that era by millions of years. Bender is just that petty.
It seems the Time Machine can travel through time, but not through space, since Farnsworth gives up at the death of the Earth, rather than trying on other planets.