The Late Philip J. Fry

"The Late Philip J. Fry" is the ninety-fifth episode of Futurama, the seventh of the sixth production season and the seventh broadcast season.

The Story
The Professor invents a one-way time machine which can only go forwards, the Professor and Fry try to go forward one minute but they're sent 10,000 years ahead instead. They then keep going further and further to find a backward machine. It is also known that an elderly Amy Wong, with a robot body, will appear.

Storyboard
Another storyboard released from Act 1 of "The Late Philip J. Fry" previews a scene entitled "Time-Machine". In this scene, we see the Professor showing his time machine to Fry and Bender, then Bender says that he can't go back in time.

Production
The Table read for this episode took place on 21 October 2009 with Maurice LaMarche commenting through his Facebook page that this episode is: "Hilarious, touching, meaningful, philosophical, even metaphysical. And did I mention, hilarious?"

Another person present at the table read said that this episode is "the Emmy shot".

Continuity

 * The birthday song Elzar sings to Leela was used in "I Second that Emotion" for Nibbler's party.


 * The creation of a forward only time machine is stated to be to prevent against paradoxes. Both Fry and Bender have previously caused such paradoxes.

man who wanted to meet Shakespeare.
 * The concept of time being cyclical was previously mentioned in The Cryonic Woman by the


 * The time machine is really useless, as it has nearly the exact same effect as freezing yourself.

Characters

 * Amy
 * Bender
 * Cubert
 * Elzar
 * Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth
 * Fry
 * Hermes
 * Leela
 * Zoidberg