Meanwhile

"Meanwhile" is the one hundred and fortieth and last episode of Futurama, the twenty-sixth and last of the seventh production season and the thirteenth and last of the tenth broadcast season.

Plot
(ACT I) The episode finds Fry (West), Leela (Sagal) and Bender (John DiMaggio) making a delivery to the moon and visiting a theme park. After a ride accident, Leela seemingly dies.

Luckily, all is well. She was trapped inside a stuffed animal. Really. The close call was too much for Fry to handle, and he announces to Bender that he's going to finally propose to Leela.

Meanwhile, Professor Farnsworth (West) invents a device that lets him travel 10 seconds into the past. Naturally, he uses it to steal money from Zoidberg. What else will you do with 10 seconds? Fry takes the time machine to steal diamonds, along with Bender.

He uses the stolen diamonds to fashion an engagement ring, which he hides in a clam. When he presents it to Leela, she reaches for the ring and the clam snaps shut, severing her hand and a bloody stump.

(ACT II)

Fry still has the time traveling decide and uses it to go back and save Leela from losing her hand. He proposes and tells Leela to meet him on top of the Vampire State Building if she'll marry him. When he thinks Leela misses the time she was supposed to meet him, Fry takes that as a no to the proposal and jumps from the top of the building.

However, he sees Leela approaching the building as the building as he falls and realizes that his clock is wrong due to all the time-traveling. He tries to go back and save himself by using the device, but ten seconds before, he's still falling from the building. He keeps himself in a time loop, reliving those ten seconds over and over until he loses his grip on the device and hits the ground in front of Leela, leaving a pile of blood and guts at her feet.

(This is all that's know for now. All shall be revealed on September 6th!)

Production
In 2012, Futurama writer Eric Rogers made two revelations concerning the episode. On 11 April, he revealed that " [ "7ACV25" and this episode] now [had] stories". On 20 April, he revealed that the episode was being "[pitched] out" and urged fans to buy merchandise in order for the show to "come back".

On 5 February 2013, released a preview clip for the tenth broadcast season, which contained footage from the episode.

On 22 April, it was announced that Futurama had not been renewed for an eight season, making this the series finale.

On 20 July, the cast read the episode's first act at.

Trivia

 * The episode will air on cast member John DiMaggio's forty-fifth birthday.
 * Bender tells Fry that he told Leela that he loved her "like 140 times". This episode is the one hundred and fortieth episode of Futurama.

Allusions

 * Petunia says "I'll have what she's having", a famous line from the 1989 film .

Continuity

 * When Fry is staring at the time button, his eyes narrow. This is a reference to a scene from "The Lesser of Two Evils", which originated an internet meme.
 * Fry's tuxedo and Leela's wedding gown are both from previous episodes. The tuxedo is from "Calculon 2.0", and the gown is from "Time Keeps on Slippin'".

Characters

 * Albert
 * Amy
 * Bender
 * Craterface
 * Elzar
 * Professor Farnsworth
 * Fry
 * Hermes
 * Last clone of Agnew
 * Leela
 * Mom
 * Morbo
 * Petunia
 * Scruffy
 * Debut: Ultra Guy
 * URL
 * Zoidberg

Places

 * Apartment 00100100
 * Luna Park
 * Planet Express hangar
 * Planet Express conference room
 * Robot Arms Apartments