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<div>{{character infobox<br />
|name=Lord Nibbler<br />
|type=s<br />
|image=[[File:Nibbler.jpg|225px]]<br />
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|species=[[Nibblonians|Nibblonian]]<br />
|gender=Male<br />
|origin=[[Eternium]]<br />
|age={{age|-274}}<ref>{{cite dvd| volume=Two |disc=2 |where=DVD special features menu (as 3,277)}}</ref> <br />
|birth date=[[274 BC]]<br />
|family=See ''[[#Family|Family]]'' section<br />
|voiced by=Frank Welker<br />
|first appear={{e|1ACV01}}<br />
}}<br />
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'''Lord Nibbler''' is a member of a proud and ancient race, the [[Nibblonians]]. Born [[274 BC]], he is old and wise, and with a high status in the Nibblonian world, yet he prefers to be [[Turanga Leela]]'s pet, and a member of the [[Planet Express crew]].<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
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[[File:Nibbler hides.png|thumb|left|Nibbler hides before pushing Fry into the tube at [[Applied Cryogenics]] {{et|4ACV10}}.]]<br />
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=== Synopsis ===<br />
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Lord Nibbler was responsible for pushing [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] into the [[Applied Cryogenics|cryogenic tube]] and sending him to the year [[3000]]. Nibbler was stationed on [[Vergon 6]] until [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] discovered him there and instantly fell for his cuteness. He is the Nibblonian Ambassador on [[Earth]] and has [[That Darn Katz!|recently]] become a member of the [[Planet Express]] crew.<br />
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=== Stationed on Vergon 6 ===<br />
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[[File:Nibbler first.png|thumb|Nibbler's first appearance, meeting [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] on [[Vergon 6]] {{et|1ACV04}}.]]<br />
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Lord Nibbler was born on [[Planet Eternium]] in [[274 BC]], making him almost 3300 years old, one of the oldest characters in [[Futurama|the series]]. Not much is known of Nibbler's biography before New Years' Eve, [[1999]], at which time he was stationed at the planet [[Vergon 6]] alongside a great number of his species.<ref>Nibbler mentions that he was stationed on [[Vergon 6]] in his conversation with Fry at Applied Cryogenics on 31 December, 1999 in "[[The Why of Fry]]".</ref> At this time, the [[Nibblonians]] had learned that [[Philip J. Fry]] was "the Mighty One", the only being in [[Universe Γ|the universe]] capable of stopping the [[Brain Spawn]] [[3004|over a thousand years later]]. However, because Fry lived in the [[20th century]], Nibbler got the mission to make sure that he fell into the cryogenic tube at [[Applied Cryogenics]], frozen until the year [[3000]].<br />
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Nibbler continued to be stationed on [[Vergon 6]] for the next thousand years, but due to [[Dark Matter]] being the excrement of the Nibblonians, the planet's core was slowly filled with the valuable Dark Matter. As a result, a [[DOOP]] mining operation started, and as the core was mined out, the planet was left hollow and as a consequence dangerously sensitive for a coming implosion. The Nibblonians soon fled the planet, but Nibbler was pooping at the time, and was thus left behind.<br />
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=== Hiding his intelligence ===<br />
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On 13 April, [[3000]], the [[Planet Express crew]] - [[Turanga Leela|Leela]], [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] and [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] - landed on Vergon 6 to rescue the animals left from the coming implosion of the planet. They encountered Nibbler (who ate the rest of the animals), and fled moments before the planet's doom. Nibbler hid his real identity and intelligence from the crew, and indeed from all non-Nibblonians he would encounter, and pretended to just be a dumb pet. Leela took Nibbler in, in the belief that he was dog-like in intelligence, and made him her pet.<br />
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[[File:Lord Nibbler.jpg|thumb|left|Nibbler in his formal, [[Nibblonian]] clothing {{et|3ACV07}}.]]<br />
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Lord Nibbler hid his intelligence until [[The Day the Earth Stood Stupid|the day the Earth stood stupid]], when he told Leela the truth about his orgins. This eventually helped Fry defeat the [[Brain Spawn]], an enemy to the Nibblonians. After this, he erased Leela's memory in order to keep everything in secret. While Fry's memories were not erased, no-one believed his story, and with time he forgot it. [[The Why of Fry|Later]], Nibbler got Fry into the game, as he led him through time to destroy the [[Infosphere]]. He then deleted Fry's memory as well, so that he could fulfil his purpose undetected.<br />
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=== Revealed to the Crew ===<br />
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In [[3007]], he finally [[Bender's Big Score|revealed]] his true nature to the whole crew during a failed attempt to avert disaster and on seeing the formation of a dangerous [[Anomaly|tear in the time-space continuum]]. Nibbler escaped the universe by swallowing himself, forgetting to blank everyone's memories. He returned in 3008, after [[Yivo]] was gone. It is unknown how he managed to get back to [[Universe Gamma|our universe]]. Nibbler was kidnapped by [[Mom's sons]] and imprisoned in a dark matter farm with hundreds of other Nibblonians. After this, he once again didn't wipe their memories. Despite everybody knowing that he was sentient, the Planet Express crew continued to treat him like a pet... until August of [[3010]], when he was [[That Darn Katz!|granted]] the status of crew member.<br />
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== Character description ==<br />
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[[File:Nibbler in his real naval uniform.jpg|thumb|right|Nibbler in his [[Nibbler's naval uniform|naval uniform]] {{et|6ACV08}}.]]<br />
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=== Appearance and clothing ===<br />
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Nibbler has (like other [[Nibblonians]]) three eyes, one of which is on an "eye stalk", a single nostril, and fang-like teeth. He is knee-tall compared to [[humans]], and mostly covered in fur.<br />
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While at the [[Planet Express headquarters|headquarters]], he always wears a red cape, small yellow shoes and baby diapers. When accompanied by other Nibblonians and on missions, however, he is much more formally dressed. He also has a [[Nibbler's naval uniform|naval uniform]] which he dresses up in on occasion, and in which [[Nibbler's best friend|his best friend]] for some reason died.<br />
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=== Name ===<br />
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As Nibbler remarks in "[[The Day the Earth Stood Stupid]]", his true name is not really Nibbler - that was just the name that Leela gave him when first finding him {{et|1ACV04}}. The other Nibblonians uses this name as well, however, when speaking in English, because his true name would take too long to pronounce properly, or so he claims.<br />
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=== Age ===<br />
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[[File:Nibbler Birthday.jpg|thumb|Nibbler's supposed fifth birthday {{et|2ACV01}}.]]<br />
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As shown in "[[The Why of Fry]]", Nibbler was already an adult with no apparent physical changes in [[1999]] as compared to the [[31st century]]. In the same episode, he tells Fry that his species "live long". As a bonus to the [[Volume Two]] DVD, Nibbler's age was revealed to be 3,277.<br />
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When Nibbler's right fang broke in "[[I Second that Emotion]]", [[Vet Jeffrey Grant|the veterinarian]] told Leela that the rings on his tooth could indicate his age ("if he's anything like the common tree"). Taking his word for granted, this had Leela assume that Nibbler was five years for a while.<br />
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=== Family ===<br />
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Nibbler has no known direct family, although [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] could be seen as his adoptive mother, or owner.<br />
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=== Personality ===<br />
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While on the surface pretending to be a cuddly pet - long even disguising his intelligence entirely - Nibbler is highly intelligent and sophisticated. He enjoys being [[Turanga Leela|Leela's]] "schnuchoms", but sometimes longs for intelligent conversation and approval in the [[humans|human]] world.<br />
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== Production ==<br />
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The character of Nibbler was planned before the pilot, including that he would really be a talking, intelligent alien, and that he would hold the truth of the greater conspiracy that had Fry frozen. While everything wasn't planned out from the beginning, the writers included [[Nibbler's shadow]] for a short second as Fry falls into the tube in "[[Space Pilot 3000]]", in spite of Nibbler's first real appearance being [[Love's Labours Lost in Space|several episodes later]], and in spite of the bigger conspiracy starting to unveil [[The Day the Earth Stood Stupid|several seasons later]].<br />
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His original appearance was hard to pin-point. [[Matt Groening]] insisted that he was supposed to be extremely cute, but that when looking at his separate components - his eye stalk, his one nostril, his fangs - he seems really ugly. In one original design of Nibbler, he would have drool constantly hanging from his nostril, but without ever dripping.<ref>"[[Love's Labours Lost in Space]]" [[Commentary:Love's Labours Lost in Space|commentaries]]: "In designing Nibbler I went– I wanted to do– I wanted to see if I could make a character that was really ugly when you looked at the components, he's got one nostril, he's got fangs and an eye ball on a stalk on the top of his head. And yet he is really– pretty cute, huh?" - [[Matt Groening]] ([[Transcript:Commentary:Love's Labours Lost in Space|transcript]])</ref><br />
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As of "[[That Darn Katz!]]", Nibbler and [[Scruffy]] are the only members of the [[Planet Express crew]] who are not [[List of primary characters|primary characters]].<br />
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== Image Gallery ==<br />
<gallery perrow="5"><br />
Image:Nibbler promo 2.jpg|A [[promotional picture]] of Nibbler eating what seems to be a cat.<br />
Image:Lord Nibbler.jpg|Nibbler in Nibblonian clothing.<br />
Image:Nibbler in his real naval uniform.jpg|Nibbler in his real naval uniform.<br />
Image:Nibbler's shadow in 1ACV01.png|[[Nibbler's shadow]], as seen in [[Space Pilot 3000|the first episode]].<br />
Image:Overclockwise 3.png|Nibbler won a Tony.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*When Nibbler's right fang broke in "[[I Second that Emotion]]" (when [[bite my shiny metal ass|he chewed at]] [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender's]] butt), it was replaced by a tooth of belonging to [[Vet Jeffrey Grant|a veterinarian]].<br />
*If you look closely, you can see [[Nibbler's shadow]] under the chair when Fry falls into the tube in "[[Space Pilot 3000]]".<br />
**In "[[Anthology of Interest I]]", when Fry misses the freezer by an inch in the alternate future the [[What-If Machine]] shows, Nibbler's shadow is gone, though this may be why Fry doesn't go to the future in that separate version of the [[timeline]].<br />
**However, in "[[The Why of Fry]]", when Fry tries to cross Nibbler and eventually decides to let himself be sent to the future after all, there are two shadows under the desk - those of Nibbler and Fry (seen earlier in "[[Jurassic Bark]]").<br />
*[[Nibbler's spaceship]], parked inside a container near the [[Planet Express headquarters]], is just big enough to accept him and an adult human - if Nibbler scootches up his seat, that is.<br />
*The [[dark matter]] he excretes was used to fuel the [[Planet Express ship]], before the events of ''[[Bender's Game]]''.<br />
*He comes in the [[Toynami Futurama Figures|Toynami action figure line]] as an one of [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|the Professor]]'s accessories.<br />
*It is unknown if Nibbler was present in [[Universe Gamma]] during the events of [[The Beast with a Billion Backs|the second movie]], as he fled it by the end of [[Bender's Big Score|the first one]].<br />
*He won a {{w|Tony Award}} for his performance in ''[[Nibbler on the Roof]]''.<br />
*He planted a tracking chip in Leela's [[Wristlojackimator]] for emergencies.<br />
*His third eye can summon [[Nibbler's spaceship|his ship]] and change the appearance of other beings (this has only been done to Fry), however, this drains his strength and he can only keep it up for a short period of time.<br />
*Nibbler ate himself to get out of [[Universe Γ]], implying that his stomach transports matter to another universe.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
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<poem>'''Fry''': But I know you in the future, I clean your poop!<br />
'''Nibbler''': Possible, my people live long and are celebrated poopers.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Nibbler''': The poop-eradication is but one aspect of your importance.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': I did do the nasty in the pasty.<br />
'''Nibbler''': Yes, that past nastification is what gives you your special powers.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Nibbler''': Alas, our kitten-class attack ships were no match for [[Scammer Aliens|their]] mighty chairs. The universe is doomed. Doomed!<br />
'''Fry''': Can I pull up my pants now?<br />
'''Nibbler''': DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Nibbler''': Everyone out of the universe, quick!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Nibbler''': Stop, you fools!<br />
'''Leela''': Nibbler! You--you can talk?<br />
'''Nibbler''': I can do more than talk. I can pontificate!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Nibbler''': We must remove the time-tattoo as quickly and painlessly as possible!<br />
''[Cut to Fry's apartment. Fry is on the sofa screaming in agony while the Professor, Bender and [[Ethan 'Bubblegum' Tate|Bubblegum]] hold him down. Leela and [[Lars Fillmore|Lars]] keep watch at the door. They see the [[Scammer Aliens]] approaching.]''<br />
'''Lars''': Quick, they're coming!<br />
''[Nibbler finishes lasering the tattoo off Fry's butt.]''<br />
'''Nibbler''': The tatoo is gone. I saved the space-time continuum and 40% of your rectum.<br />
''[Everyone cheers.]''<br />
'''Bubblegum''': That's all you need!</poem><br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
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*{{clink|US#050|Your Mother Wears Pilot Boots}}<br />
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*{{clink|US#X03|Slaves of New New York!}}<br />
*{{clink|US#X04|The Read Menace!}}<br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Aliens]]<br />
[[Category:Articles with outdatable content|9]]<br />
[[Category:Characters]]<br />
[[Category:Nibblonians]]<br />
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[[Category:Planet Express]]</div>90.220.50.200http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=The_Why_of_Fry&diff=125746The Why of Fry2013-07-25T02:01:51Z<p>90.220.50.200: /* Goofs */</p>
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<div>{{episode infobox<br />
|name=The Why of Fry<br />
|no=64<br />
|image=[[File:The Why of Fry.jpg|225px]]<br />
|season=4<br />
|broadcast season=5<br />
|number=4ACV10<br />
|caption=Dancing space potatoes? You bet!<br />
|first aired=6 April, 2003<br />
|written by=David X. Cohen<br />
|directed by=Wes Archer<br />
|title reference=<br />
|caption reference=<br />
|opening cartoon=Much Ado About Mutton<br />
|sponsor=<br />
|special guest=[[Bob Odenkirk]]<br />[[Frank Welker]]<br />
|broadcast number=S05E08<br />
|special guest=[[Bob Odenkirk]]<br />
|prev ep=Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles<br />
|next ep=Where No Fan Has Gone Before<br />
|broad prev=<br />
|broad next=The Sting<br />
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"'''The Why of Fry'''" is the sixty-fourth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the tenth of the [[Season 4|fourth production season]] and the eighth of the [[Broadcast season 5|fifth broadcast season]]. It aired 6 April, 2003 on FOX. It guest stars [[Bob Odenkirk]] as [[Chaz]]. [[Nibbler]] enlists [[Fry]] in a mission to blow up [[Brain Spawn|evil brains]] bent on destroying the [[Universe Γ|universe]]; Fry time travels into the past to prevent himself from being cryogenically frozen.<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
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[[File:4ACV10 Medals.png|thumb|left|220px|[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] feels unimportant when [[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]] and [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] comes back from a successful mission without him.]]<br />
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=== Act I: "Without me, there IS no mission!" ===<br />
[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] is disappointed because [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] and [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] went on a mission without him (and without his services as Delivery Boy), and because Leela is going out with another man - [[Chaz]], the Mayor's aide. Fry is down in the dumps because he thinks himself unimportant. Meanwhile, Leela and Chaz are going to [[Elzar's Fine Cuisine]], where Chaz manages to get a table without a reservation - Leela is genuinely impressed. Fry has adjourned to [[O'Zorgnax Pub]] to drown his depression in alcohol, however, Leela and Chaz enter and Leela tells him she may not make it back to her apartment tonight, and she needs him to walk [[Nibbler]]. Fry gets fined as Nibbler unloads a pile of [[Dark Matter]] on the sidewalk, just in time for Chaz to make a showy appearance in his car with Leela. Nibbler, however, reveals his intelligence to Fry and takes him to his spaceship, both leave [[Earth]] and head for [[Planet Eternium]] where the [[Nibblonians|Nibblonian]] Council informs Fry that he is the most important person in the universe, for the fate of the universe rests with him.<br />
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[[File:Delta Brain Wave Absence.png|thumb|left|220px|The [[Nibblonians]] tell Fry of his powers, or lack thereof.]]<br />
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=== Act II: "Now it's personal!" ===<br />
Fry is told that due to his lack of the [[Delta Brain Wave]], caused by a genetic anomaly because [[Roswell That Ends Well|he is his own grandfather]], he is immune to the attacks of the [[Brain Spawn]] and therefore the only hope of the universe. The Brains have constructed the [[Infosphere]], a monstrous memory bank that contains all information in the universe. Once they have acquired all information, they will make sure that there is no new information by destroying the universe. Fry is to infiltrate the Infosphere and plant a [[Quantum Interphase Bomb]] inside that will blast the sphere into an alternate universe from which there is no return, then escape the blast on a [[Scooty-Puff|Scooty-Puff, jr.]] ''(Who's ready for safe fun?)'', a clockwork-powered scooter. As the Infosphere opens itself for a final self-scan, Fry can enter the structure undetected as the Brains cannot perceive him because of his special thought processes. Fry plants the bomb, but hesitates to trigger it as he wants some answers on intriguing questions, like what postal stamp glue is made of (toad mucus) and what really [[Dinosaurs Extinction|killed the dinosaurs]] (the giant brain at the center of the sphere). The unauthorized access triggers the alarm, and as Fry tries to make his getaway, the scooter breaks. The brains become aware of his presence, among them the [[The Big Brain|Big Brain]]. Fry now triggers the bomb, leaving sixty seconds to detonation. Fry is pleased that he is helping good triumph over evil, or so he thinks. The brains in turn show him [[Nibbler's shadow|what really happened]] on the night of 31 December, 1999 when Fry got frozen (after some confusion between him and a Phillip J. Fry from Hovering Squid World 97A) - Nibbler gave Fry's chair a push so he fell into the cryogenic tube. Fry is furious with the Nibblonians for wrecking his past life, but before they can elaborate on the subject, the bomb goes off and transfers the Infosphere to the alternate universe.<br />
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[[File:Fry pushing himself in 4ACV10.png|thumb|left|220px|To save the universe - and [[Turanga Leela|other]] things - Fry pushes himself into the tube.]]<br />
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=== Act III: "Here I come, future!" ===<br />
The Brains think of a way for Fry to return to 31 December 1999, so he can prevent Nibbler from shoving him into the tube and thus stop the Nibblonians from thwarting the Brain's plan to understand and destroy the universe. Meanwhile, Chaz has taken Leela to the [[New New York#Rocket Skating Rink|Rocket Skating Rink]] that he has reserved just for them - impressing her once more. But the reservation means that the orphans from the [[Cookieville Minimum Security Orphanarium]] can't take their turn on the rocket skating rink as planned and are missing out. Leela asks Chaz if the orphans can join them, but he refuses as he wants to impress her with his amazing influence. This leaves Leela extremely testy, and she makes him eat his own badge - the romance is over. Fry is transferred by the Brain Spawn to [[Old New York]], to the night he was frozen, where Nibbler is then busy ordering a pizza as [[I. C. Wiener]] at [[Panucci's Pizza]] to the address of [[Applied Cryogenics]]. Fry materializes behind Nibbler under the desk his other self is sitting at and seizes him, telling him what brought him there. Nibbler explains that he did not come back in time, and that Fry is needed in a thousand years time, and that the Nibblonians were afraid he might refuse being frozen. Fry, on the other hand, loves the future and has nothing against being frozen, but is still mad because he does not like being used. Nibbler now tells Fry what happens now is his choice, and asks Fry if there is nothing in the future that he wants, and Fry answers that it is Leela - but that she doesn't think much of him. Nibbler thinks she may be the [[The Other One|Other]], and tells Fry not to give up on her - he offers his help in the matter. Fry is now left to choose between saving himself or the universe - and Leela. He makes his decision and tips the chair his other self is sitting on, sending him into the [[Cryogenic Freezing Chamber|cryogenic tube]] - the future is saved... unfortunately, it means he's going back to the other Universe and the Infosphere. Fry has just enough time to say that Scooty-Puff, Jr. sucks before he fades - and so, a thousand years later, Fry manages to escape the vanishing Infosphere on the [[Scooty-Puff|Scooty-Puff, Sr.]] ''(The Doom-Bringer)''. Nibbler brings Fry back to Earth and then deletes his memory of the incident to maintain his cover. Before that, he gives Fry a flower that he in turn gives to Leela, and for a moment, she is happy to see him, although he is not the most important person in the universe. As she gives him a kiss, Fry's final utterance is "YES!"<br />
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== Reception ==<br />
This episode was subject to [[censorship]] by {{w|Pick TV}}.<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
[[File:Nibbler's shadow in 1ACV01.png|thumb|225px|The events of the episode were planned before the show even started, as is evidenced by the foreshadowing of [[Nibbler's shadow]] in [[Space Pilot 3000|the pilot]].]]<br />
*This episode is one of two ''Futurama'' episodes that do not feature [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]], the other being "[[Where No Fan Has Gone Before]]", which is the following episode in [[production]] order.<br />
*The events of this episode were planned before the show started.<br />
**This can be shown by the presence of [[Nibbler's shadow]] in "[[Space Pilot 3000]]", the very first episode.<br />
**The connection to "[[Roswell that Ends Well]]" was not part of the original plan.<br />
*Guest star [[Bob Odenkirk]] is the brother of ''Futurama'' writer [[Bill Odenkirk]].<br />
*The last three bits of information seen going into the [[Infosphere]] are "Beavers mate for life", "11 > 4", and "For Quality Carpets, Visit Kaplan's Carpet Warehouse". <br />
**''Kaplan'' may refer to [[Eric Kaplan]], who is a writer for ''Futurama''.<br />
*This episode was named #20 on IGN's list of [http://tv.ign.com/articles/716/716663p1.html Top 25 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*This episode was named #6 on TV.com's list of [http://www.tv.com/story/12579.html?ref_story_id=12579&ref_type=1101&ref_name=story Top 10 Futurama Episodes].<br />
*Technically, some of the events didn't happen, namely those in which [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] travels back in time because [[Nibbler]] remembered to give him a [[Scooty-Puff Sr.]], instead of the [[Scooty-Puff Jr.]], meaning Fry could get away from the Infosphere and not get a chance to ask to go back.<br />
*This episode marks the only time that Fry is seen wearing a [[Wristlojackimator]], which he uses to communicate with the Nibblonians.<br />
*The Brains' method of time travel works across universes.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
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<poem>'''Ken''': Does he not know?<br />
'''Nibbler''': He does not know.<br />
'''Fiona''': He knows not?<br />
'''Nibbler''': Knows not does he.<br />
'''Male Nibblonian 2''': Not he knows?<br />
'''Ken''': Enough!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': I did do the nasty in the pasty.<br />
'''Nibbler''': Verily.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Nibbler''': Quite possible. We live long and are celebrated poopers. You will meet me when I'm a thousand years older.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Big Brain''': Detecting trace amounts of mental activity. Possibly a dead weasel or a cartoon viewer.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Nibbler''': Yes, incidentally, I need to remain undercover so I'm blanking your memory.<br />
'''Fry''': ''[After his memory is erased by Nibbler.]'' Hmm, did everything just taste purple for a second? All right, c'mon, you dumb poop machine.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Infosphere''': ''[Scanning info.]'' Beavers mate for life. 11 greater than 4. For quality carpets visit Kaplan's carpet warehouse!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': Is it true that postage stamps are made of&ndash;<br />
'''Infosphere''': Correct, toad mucus!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Fry''': What really killed the Dinosours?<br />
'''Infosphere''': MEEEEEE! ''[The Giant Brain is seen blasting dinosaurs to death with its ray blasts.]''</poem><br />
<poem>'''Infosphere''': Clarification request. Are you the Philip J. Fry of Earth, or the Philip J. Fry of Hovering Squid World 97A?<br />
'''Big Brain''': Earth, you fat idiot! Hurry up!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': We're back from the mission!<br />
'''Fry''': Wh-What? You went without me?<br />
'''Bender''': ''[Shouting.]'' You were looking up curse words in the dictionary. It seemed like a better use of your time.<br />
'''Fry''': But-- But I'm the delivery boy.<br />
'''Leela''': Don't worry. Everything went fine.<br />
'''Bender''': Better than usual!<br />
'''Leela''': We got medals!</poem><br />
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=== Continuity ===<br />
[[File:Fry-Hole.jpg|thumb|250px|In "[[Anthology of Interest I]]", [[Fry-hole|a hole]] emerges and destroys the universe if Fry does not [[Applied Cryogenics|go]] into the future. In this episode, we finally learn why.]]<br />
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*{{e|1ACV01}}<br />
**We get a lot of flashbacks from this episode, and [[Nibbler's shadow|the shadow]] from this episode is explained.<br />
*{{e|1ACV04}}<br />
**Nibbler mentions he will be stationed on [[Vergon 6]], where they will meet in the future.<br />
*{{e|2ACV10}}<br />
**The joke about cartoon viewers having low brainwaves is similar to the joke about cartoon writers being losers.<br />
*{{e|2ACV11}}<br />
**Fry thought Hermes was an "outer space potato man" in this episode, which are "promised" as a regular feature in the opening joke caption.<br />
*{{e|2ACV16}}<br />
**"The Why of Fry", along with "Roswell that Ends Well" explains why the universe was destroyed in this episode. Had Fry not been frozen because of his future self, it would create a paradox and destroy the [[Timeline of Futurama|timeline]].<br />
*{{e|2ACV17}}<br />
**Using a wind-up toy to fight enemy forces.<br />
*{{e|3ACV07}}<br />
**Nibbler asks Fry if he can remember when he defeated the Brain Spawn.<br />
*{{e|3ACV11}}<br />
**One of the brains says "Are you insane in the membrane"? This is a reference to the song "Insane in the Brain" by Cypress Hill, just as the title of this episode was.<br />
*{{e|3ACV19}}<br />
**Nibbler mentions that Fry is his own grandfather.<br />
*{{e|4ACV07}}<br />
**In this episode, we see two shadows knocking Fry into the tube during a flashback, we get the explanation for the extra shadow in the current episode.<br />
**A shot of Nibbler's third eye sticking out of a trash can is included as a reference to these events as well, an item which many fans had noticed.<br />
*{{e|4ACV09}}<br />
**[[Curious Pussycat]] is seen again. This is its third appearance.<br />
*{{f|4}}<br />
**When the [[Legion of Mad Fellows]] tells Fry that the fate of the universe depends on him, he says "Yeah, I get that a lot." There is also mention of how he lacks the [[Delta Brainwave]].<br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
[[File:Martians Mars Venusians Venus.png|thumb|right|Amy's book]]<br />
*Amy reads the book ''[[Martians]] are from [[Mars]], [[Venusians]] are from [[Venus]]'', an allusion to ''{{w|Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus}}''.<br />
*The song "{{w|Insane in the Brain}}" by {{w|Cypress Hill}} is referenced to by one of the Brain Spawn with "are you insane in the membrane?" <br />
*The flashing light Nibbler uses to erase Fry's memory alludes to the Neuralyzer in the movie ''{{w|Men in Black (film)|Men in Black}}''.<br />
*After having his memory erased, Fry asks "Did everything just taste purple for a second?" This is an instance of {{w|synesthesia}}, a neurological condition that is characterized by the mixing of sensory input. Fry does this once before, when he smells the color blue flowing out of the microwave in "[[Roswell that Ends Well]]".<br />
**It is possible, then, to assume that Fry is a colour-gustatory synesthete (a synesthete that "tastes" colours).<br />
*The giant brain within the Infosphere bears a high resemblance to the final boss from {{w|Gradius}}.<br />
*In the book ''{{w|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (book)|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy}}'' by Douglas Adams, there's a flashback that tells of a very old race. These people built a giant computer called {{w|List of minor characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#Deep Thought|"Deep Thought"}} just to finally get an answer to {{w|Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything#Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything (42)|The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything}}.<br />
*{{sw|Star Wars}}:<br />
**The Infosphere resembles the {{sw|Death Star}}.<br />
**The mission to destroy the Infosphere (and destruction of it) is reminiscent of the mission to destroy the Death Star.<br />
**[[Nibbler]] says "maybe she [Leela] is the other," but this remark remains unexplained. It is likely it is a reference to ''{{sw|Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back}}'' where {{sw|Yoda}} mentions that "there is another," which too is never explained, though it is likely to refer to {{sw|Princess Leia}} — it is doubtful that the writers of ''Futurama'' are trying to suggest that [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] and Leela are siblings.<br />
**Nibbler also says "Knows not does he!" Again, this seems to be a reference to Yoda messing up grammatical structures in Star Wars movies.<br />
*When the Big Brain explains how Fry can return to the past, a {{w|light cone}} diagram is shown on the display, used in {{w|general relativity}} to illustrate the past and future boundaries of an event.<br />
*When the Nibblonians are telling Fry that he is very important, Fry incredulously asks "So the way I feel when I'm drunk is correct?". The Nibblonians reply: "Yes, except that the {{w|Dave Matthews Band}} doesn't rock".<br />
*The rocket skates are slightly reminiscent of the ACME rocket skates {{w|Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner|Wile E. Coyote}} always buys.<br />
*"There are guys in the background of {{w|Mary Worth (comics)|''Mary Worth'' comics}} that are more important than me." <br />
*After Fry, the Brainspawn and the Infosphere are trapped in the alternate universe, one of the brains mentions that they could spend the rest of eternity singing "{{w|American Pie}}"; the full version of the song lasts over eight minutes.<br />
*The Brainspawn's mission is reminiscent of the mission of Braniac from the Superman DCAU series, who seeks to understand all information and then destroy it.<br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*Albert is missing from the group of [[Orphans]].<br />
**There are many reasons why Albert could be missing from the [[Orphans]], he could have been adopted or alternatively he could simply not like rocket skating<br />
**He is not adopted until the episode "Yo Leela Leela".<br />
*The Infosphere apparently scans all knowledge in a sequential way. One knowledge chunk is "11 > 4". There are unlimited pairs like that, so technically the scan could never be completed.<br />
**It may have only been scanning information that people said, meaning that this wouldn't be true.<br />
**Another explanation is that this was done intentionally as a joke, although it's unlikely.<br />
*When Fry and Nibbler were in the past (31 December 1999), and under the table, they were talking at normal volume so the Fry in the past sitting in the desks chair would obviously have heard them.<br />
** It is established in {{e|3ACV07}} that Nibbler must communicate telepathically to bypass the language barrier. It is entirely possible that Fry's perception is that they're talking normally when they might not even be speaking at all.<br />
*When the Nibblonian ship approaches the Infosphere, the female niblonian is on the left hand side (from viewer's perspective) and then when the camera goes into the ship, she and Lord Nibbler have swapped places, she is now on the right.<br />
*The light in Applied Cryogenics change during the scene. When Future-fry emerge and grabs Nibbler all shadows indicate the only light source is directly above the table. When the countdown on the clock begin the light source is between the table and the cryogenics tube, and finally when past-Fry tumbles over there's an incredibly powerful light source at the entrance door.<br />
*In "Jurassic Bark", we see a Nibblonian eye-stalk in the trash bin, yet in this episode Nibbler is under the desk all the time.<br />
**The eye-stalk is not necessarily Nibbler's. Also, given the importance of that moment in time, it is possible that Nibbler has traveled through time in an episode that hasn't aired yet, and the eye-stalk is a duplicate Nibbler, and that it is another Nibblonian.<br />
*When Fry enters the Nibblonian Hall, his jacket is done up, then next shot it is undone again. He would not have had time to undo it.<br />
*When Fry is flying into the Infosphere, there's a shot of him looking down at his wrist communicator and he isn't wearing a glove. Every other shot shows he is.<br />
*The Nibblonians could not be called that and neither can Nibbler be called Lord Nibbler, because Turanga Leela names Nibbler, so that could not be his real name, if he had sentience before being found by Leela.<br />
** It is established in {{e|3ACV07}} that his name and the name of their race is likely called such for the sake of time as in the time it would take to pronounce one letter of his true name, a trillion cosmoses would flair into existence and sink into eternal night. <br />
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*When Fry goes back in time and lets Nibbler freeze him, Nibbler says that he will get a transfer to Earth to help Fry in 1000 years. However, because Nibbler is on Earth the whole series, (we presume that being on Vergon 6 was simply a ploy to get close to Fry), that means that Fry has always been going back in time. Simply because Nibbler is with Fry means that Fry went back in time, so he SHOULD have given Fry the Scooty Puff Sr. in the first place.<br />
*Because Fry tells Nibbler that Scooty Puff Jr.s suck, Fry doesn't end up getting trapped in the Infosphere. Because of this, Fry wouldn't be able to go back in time and tell Nibler that Scooty Puff Jr.s suck, and he WOULD get stuck in the Infosphere. Then, because he got stuck in the Infosphere, he WOULD go back in time... etc. This creates a paradox.<br />
*The big brain in the center of the Infosphere asked if the request was from the Philip J. Fry of Earth, or the Philip J. Fry of Hovering Squid World 97A, indicating that there was only one Philip J. Fry on Earth during 31 December, 1999. However, in ''[[Bender's Big Score]]'', when Bender looks for Fry in the phonebook, it becomes apparent that there was more than one Philip J. Fry alive at that time.<br />
The second Fry would be a time paradox duplicate after the first one was trapped in the Infosphere and time paradox duplicates are always doomed<br />
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=== Alien Language Sightings ===<br />
'''Time''': 06:49<br /><br />
'''Location''': Great Hall of [[Planet Eternium]] (pillars on either side)<br /><br />
'''Language''': [[Alien Languages#AL2|AL2]]<br /><br />
'''Translation''': ''Fuzzy Wuzzy''<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Dr. Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]]<br />
*The [[Big Brain]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Chaz]]<br />
*[[Elzar]]<br />
*[[Fiona]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[The Infosphere]]<br />
*[[Ken]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Nibbler]]<br />
*[[Mayor Poopenmeyer]] {{miso}}<br />
*[[Smitty]]<br />
*The [[Transition Announcer]]<br />
*'''Debut''': The [[Trash Can]]<br />
*[[URL]]<br />
*[[Warden Vogel]]<br />
*[[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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== Episode Credits ==<br />
{{credits-begin}}<br />
*Writer<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
*Director<br />
**[[Wes Archer]]<br />
*Voice Actors<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Katey Sagal]]<br />
**[[John DiMaggio]]<br />
**[[Frank Welker]]<br />
**[[Bob Odenkirk]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
*DVD Commentary<br />
**[[Matt Groening]]<br />
**[[David X. Cohen]]<br />
**[[Wes Archer]]<br />
**[[Billy West]]<br />
**[[Maurice LaMarche]]<br />
*Special Guest<br />
**[[Frank Welker]]<br />
**[[Bob Odenkirk]]<br />
{{credits-end}}<br />
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