WHat-If Machine
Invented by	Hubert J. Farnsworth
Purpose of invention	To ask "What-if" questions and find out how the world would look if..
First appearance	Anthology of Interest I

The What-if Machine is a machine invented by Professor Farnsworth. When it is asked a "what if" question it will give a display scenario of what will happen. It is unknown when the professor invented it, but its first apperance was in "Anthology of Interest I". Every time the machine is asked a new question, the professor uses a difefrent buttom, knob, switch etc.

In the Futurama comic book "Twice Told Tales of Interest" it is Bender's poker buddy for a while, but then it destruct it self, and the professor says that it would take a year to rebuild. It is again shown in the comic book "Anthology of Interest II" (comic book).

Apperances Edit

Futurama, the tv show:Edit

• "Anthology of Interest I"
• "Anthology of Interest II"

Futurama, comic book issues:Edit

• "New Years Rockin' Evil"
• "Twice Told Tales of Interest"
• "Anthology of Interest II" (comic issue)
• "Follow the Reader"

Futurama/The Simpsons crossoversEdit

• "The Read Menace!"

What-If Questions Edit

"Anthology of Interest I":

• Bender: What if I was 500 feet tall?
• Leela: What if I was a little more impulsive?
• Fry: What if I never fell in the freezer-doodle and never came to the future-diggy?
• Professor Farnsworth: What if I invented the Fing-Longer?

"Anthology of Interest II"

• Professor Farnsworth (for Bender): What if Bender was human?
• Professor Farnsworth (for Fry): What if life was more like a videogame?
• Leela: What if I found my true home? (Leela get knocked out by the What-If Machine, so the scenario that followed was not actually shown by the What-If Machine. So we do not know what it showed. )

"New Years Rockin' Evil"

• Bender: What would happen if I went back in time to 1999?

"Twice Told Tales of Interest"

• Fry: What if it was Christmas every day?
• Bender: What if we skip Leela's question?
• Fry: What if life was like a sitcom?

"Anthology of Interest II" (comic issue)

• Bender: What if ruled the world?
• Bender: What if I hit it [the What-If Machine] with a hammer?
• Hermes: What if the world was perfectly organised?
• Fry: What if there was a machine that could grant wishes and I wished for a what-if machine that showed what it would be like if I asked it: What if Leela fell in love with me?
• Amy: What if we were all poor stinking lobsters for just a minute?
• Leela: What if I had a normal childhood?
• Lrrr: What if Omicronians took over Earth?

"Follow the Reader"

• Professor Farnsworth and Ethan: What if Nixon watched the TV news?

"The Read Menace!"

• Marge Simpson: What if you [Homer] actually tried to help us?
• Homer Simpson: What if Flanders was a monkey?
• Lisa Simpson: What if we knew how to stop the fictional characters?