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	Season 3 episode
Time Keeps on Slippin'
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No.	46
Production number	3ACV14
Written by	[[Ken Keeler]][[Category:Episodes written by Ken Keeler\|Time Keeps on Slippin']]
Directed by	[[Chris Loudon]][[Category:Episodes directed by Chris Loudon\|Time Keeps on Slippin']]
Title caption	For proper viewing, take red pill now
Title caption reference	The Matrix
First air date	May 6, 2001
Broadcast number	S03E14
Title reference	Lyric in Fly Like an Eagle by The Steve Miller Band.
Additional
Commentary; (Transcript)	Transcript
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Revision as of 05:10, 13 April 2008

The Story

Act I: Your face can take a lot of punishment. That's good to know.

While the staff of Planet Express are visiting Central Park Lake, a spaceship lands and the Globetrotters emerge and challenge Earth to a game of basketball simply to embarrass them if they lose. Professor Farnsworth offers to play them and plans to beat them with a team of mutant atomic supermen, however they are currently only babies. To speed up the growth, Farnsworth sends the crew to collect Chronitons. While collecting the Chronitons, Fry tries but fails to impress Leela. Professor gives the supermen the cronotons and they grow into adults; mutations include a man with a cannon in his chest and a giant spider. The basketball game starts and is commentated by Marv Albert's head. The supermen are winning 48-42.

Act II: Enough about your promiscous mother, Hermes!

While playing a strange flash happens and everyone is in a different position. Another flash happens and Professor times the game out and says that time is lurching forward randomly and it is because of the interference with the cronotons, and that time and space are ripping apart. In addition the fifth man is killed and Fry offers to play to show Leela his skills. However in two minutes he allows the Globetrotters to win 200 points causing earth to lose the game. The leader of the Globetrotters, Ethan 'Bubblegum' Tate offers to help find out what is happening with time and space. The Professor concludes that by Thursday it will be the end of existence.

Act III: Hello, lawsuit.

Time continues to skip forward and the Professor says that everyone acts normally during the time skip, but they have no memory of it. Bender explains that he is a big fan of the Globetroters and that he wants to be one. Fry shows Leela a special room that will stop time skips. However it is just a romantic chamber and this annoys Leela. She explains to Zoidberg that Fry is sweet but very immature. Through the smellescope, Farnsworth finds out that time is leaking, causing time skips on earth. Bubblegum thinks that moving a cluster of stars to a certain area will cause the time skips to move to an empty part of the universe. A machine is built using all of earth's money to move the stars. After Leela successfully moves the stars Bender shows Bubblegum his homemade Globetrotter uniform and Fry again tries to impress Leela. A time skip occurs and Fry and Leela have just gotten married.

Act IV: Even in these formal shorts I feel like a failure.

The time skips carry on and Leela, thinking that Fry tricked her into marrage, divorces him. The others try to console him.

Act V: I deserve free money!

Farnsworth realises that Bubblegum's algebra was incorrect. The rest of the globetrotters decide to cause an implosion in the cronoton nebula to create a black hole. Farnsworth provides one of his doomsday devices for that to work and the Globetrotters say that Bender isn't funky enough to be one which upsets him. Fry tells Leela he is sorry if he did trick her, only to find out he did it by spelling "I love you Leela" with the stars, which are sucked into the black hole and Leela never finds out what happened.

Aditional Info

Trivia

Zoidberg's birthday is the day after Amy's.
Professor Farnsworth has mentioned Atomic Monsters before but this is the only time we see them.

Quotes

Zoidberg: Don't be so hard on yourself, Fry. You lost the woman of your dreams but you still have Zoidberg. You all still have Zoidberg.
Leela: Fry, stop. I don't wanna hurt you, but there is absolutely, positively no way that you and I will ever, ever-
[Time skips]
Preacherbot: ...man and wife. You may kiss the bride.
Nixon: Now, how long will it take to build?
Tate: It won't be easy, Nixon. A jim-jam this complex might take months or even-
[Time skips]
Farnsworth: Ah, there we are. One gravity pump. Powerful enough to move the stars themselves. Now to begin the arduous task of attaching it to the ship so th-
[Time skips. The Planet Express ship is taking off with the gravity pump attached]
Farnsworth: Off you go, apparently.
Farnsworth: Doomsday device? Ah, now the ball's in Farnsworth's court!
[platform rises from floor containing many doomsday devices]
Farnsworth: I suppose I could part with one and still be feared.

Outside References

The front cover of the pop singer Wendy's album is a reference to one of Britney Spears' albums

Goofs

After the time skip during the wedding, when Fry gets a bouquet in his mouth, Grotrian, who is to screen right, is duplicated.

Characters

(In alphabetical order)

Episode Credits

Futurama episodes/films

1ACV
(Season 1)

"Space Pilot 3000" • "The Series Has Landed" • "I, Roommate" • "Love's Labours Lost in Space" • "Fear of a Bot Planet" • "A Fishful of Dollars" • "My Three Suns" • "A Big Piece of Garbage" • "Hell Is Other Robots" • "A Flight to Remember" • "Mars University" • "When Aliens Attack" • "Fry and the Slurm Factory"

2ACV
(Season 2)

"I Second that Emotion" • "Brannigan, Begin Again" • "A Head in the Polls" • "Xmas Story" • "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" • "The Lesser of Two Evils" • "Put Your Head on My Shoulders" • "Raging Bender" • "A Bicyclops Built for Two" • "A Clone of My Own" • "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" • "The Deep South" • "Bender Gets Made" • "Mother's Day" • "The Problem with Popplers" • "Anthology of Interest I" • "War Is the H-Word" • "The Honking" • "The Cryonic Woman"

3ACV
(Season 3)

"Amazon Women in the Mood" • "Parasites Lost" • "A Tale of Two Santas" • "The Luck of the Fryrish" • "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz" • "Bendless Love" • "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" • "That's Lobstertainment!" • "The Cyber House Rules" • "Where the Buggalo Roam" • "Insane in the Mainframe" • "The Route of All Evil" • "Bendin' in the Wind" • "Time Keeps on Slippin'" • "I Dated a Robot" • "A Leela of Her Own" • "A Pharaoh to Remember" • "Anthology of Interest II" • "Roswell that Ends Well" • "Godfellas" • "Future Stock" • "The 30% Iron Chef"

4ACV
(Season 4)

"Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch" • "Leela's Homeworld" • "Love and Rocket" • "Less than Hero" • "A Taste of Freedom" • "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television" • "Jurassic Bark" • "Crimes of the Hot" • "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" • "The Why of Fry" • "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" • "The Sting" • "Bend Her" • "Obsoletely Fabulous" • "The Farnsworth Parabox" • "Three Hundred Big Boys" • "Spanish Fry" • "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"

5ACV
(Season 5)

Bender's Big Score	The Beast with a Billion Backs	Bender's Game	Into the Wild Green Yonder
Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4	Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4	Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4	Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4

6ACV
(Season 6)

"Rebirth" • "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela" • "Attack of the Killer App" • "Proposition Infinity" • "The Duh-Vinci Code" • "Lethal Inspection" • "The Late Philip J. Fry" • "That Darn Katz!" • "A Clockwork Origin" • "The Prisoner of Benda" • "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" • "The Mutants Are Revolting" • "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular" • "The Silence of the Clamps" • "Möbius Dick" • "Law and Oracle" • "Benderama" • "The Tip of the Zoidberg" • "Ghost in the Machines" • "Neutopia" • "Yo Leela Leela" • "Fry Am the Egg Man" • "All the Presidents' Heads" • "Cold Warriors" • "Overclockwise" • "Reincarnation"

7ACV
(Season 7)

"The Bots and the Bees" • "A Farewell to Arms" • "Decision 3012" • "The Thief of Baghead" • "Zapp Dingbat" • "The Butterjunk Effect" • "The Six Million Dollar Mon" • "Fun on a Bun" • "Free Will Hunting" • "Near-Death Wish" • "31st Century Fox" • "Viva Mars Vegas" • "Naturama" • "Forty Percent Leadbelly" • "2-D Blacktop" • "T.: The Terrestrial" • "Fry and Leela's Big Fling" • "The Inhuman Torch" • "Saturday Morning Fun Pit" • "Calculon 2.0" • "Assie Come Home" • "Leela and the Genestalk" • "Game of Tones" • "Murder on the Planet Express" • "Stench and Stenchibility" • "Meanwhile"

8ACV
(Season 8)

"The Impossible Stream" • "Children of a Lesser Bog" • "How the West Was 1010001" • "Parasites Regained" • "Related to Items You've Viewed" • "I Know What You Did Next Xmas" • "Rage Against the Vaccine" • "Zapp Gets Cancelled" • "The Prince and the Product" • "All the Way Down"

Specials

Everybody Loves Hypnotoad: "Amazon Adventure" • "The Lost Adventure" • "Simpsorama"

S01E
(Broadcast season 1)

"Space Pilot 3000" • "The Series Has Landed" • "I, Roommate" • "Love's Labours Lost in Space" • "Fear of a Bot Planet" • "A Fishful of Dollars" • "My Three Suns" • "A Big Piece of Garbage" • "Hell Is Other Robots"

S02E
(Broadcast season 2)

"A Flight to Remember" • "Mars University" • "When Aliens Attack" • "Fry and the Slurm Factory" • "I Second that Emotion" • "Brannigan, Begin Again" • "A Head in the Polls" • "Xmas Story" • "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" • "Put Your Head on My Shoulders" • "The Lesser of Two Evils" • "Raging Bender" • "A Bicyclops Built for Two" • "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" • "A Clone of My Own" • "The Deep South" • "Bender Gets Made" • "The Problem with Popplers" • "Mother's Day" • "Anthology of Interest I"

S03E
(Broadcast season 3)

"The Honking" • "War Is the H-Word" • "The Cryonic Woman" • "Parasites Lost" • "Amazon Women in the Mood" • "Bendless Love" • "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" • "That's Lobstertainment!" • "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz" • "The Luck of the Fryrish" • "The Cyber House Rules" • "Insane in the Mainframe" • "Bendin' in the Wind" • "Time Keeps on Slippin'" • "I Dated a Robot"

S04E
(Broadcast season 4)

"Roswell that Ends Well" • "A Tale of Two Santas" • "Anthology of Interest II" • "Love and Rocket" • "Leela's Homeworld" • "Where the Buggalo Roam" • "A Pharaoh to Remember" • "Godfellas" • "Future Stock" • "A Leela of Her Own" • "The 30% Iron Chef" • "Where No Fan Has Gone Before"

S05E
(Broadcast season 5)

"Crimes of the Hot" • "Jurassic Bark" • "The Route of All Evil" • "A Taste of Freedom" • "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch" • "Less than Hero" • "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" • "The Why of Fry" • "The Sting" • "The Farnsworth Parabox" • "Three Hundred Big Boys" • "Spanish Fry" • "Bend Her" • "Obsoletely Fabulous" • "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television" • "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"

S06E
(Broadcast season 6)

"Bender's Big Score Part 1" • "Bender's Big Score Part 2" • "Bender's Big Score Part 3" • "Bender's Big Score Part 4" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 1" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 2" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 3" • "The Beast with a Billion Backs Part 4" • "Bender's Game Part 1" • "Bender's Game Part 2" • "Bender's Game Part 3" • "Bender's Game Part 4" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 1" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 2" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 3" • "Into the Wild Green Yonder Part 4"

S07E
(Broadcast season 7)

"Rebirth" • "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela" • "Attack of the Killer App" • "Proposition Infinity" • "The Duh-Vinci Code" • "Lethal Inspection" • "The Late Philip J. Fry" • "That Darn Katz!" • "A Clockwork Origin" • "The Prisoner of Benda" • "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" • "The Mutants Are Revolting" • "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular"

S08E
(Broadcast season 8)

"Neutopia" • "Benderama" • "Ghost in the Machines" • "Law and Oracle" • "The Silence of the Clamps" • "Yo Leela Leela" • "All the Presidents' Heads" • "Möbius Dick" • "Fry Am the Egg Man" • "The Tip of the Zoidberg" • "Cold Warriors" • "Overclockwise" • "Reincarnation"

S09E
(Broadcast season 9)

"The Bots and the Bees" • "A Farewell to Arms" • "Decision 3012" • "The Thief of Baghead" • "Zapp Dingbat" • "The Butterjunk Effect" • "The Six Million Dollar Mon" • "Fun on a Bun" • "Free Will Hunting" • "Near-Death Wish" • "31st Century Fox" • "Viva Mars Vegas" • "Naturama"

S10E
(Broadcast season 10)

"Forty Percent Leadbelly" • "2-D Blacktop" • "T.: The Terrestrial" • "Fry and Leela's Big Fling" • "The Inhuman Torch" • "Saturday Morning Fun Pit" • "Calculon 2.0" • "Assie Come Home" • "Leela and the Genestalk" • "Game of Tones" • "Murder on the Planet Express" • "Stench and Stenchibility" • "Meanwhile"

S11E
(Broadcast Season 11)