I have a question, how can Fox have a season finalle if the season started in Feburary? By my tally, there are 7 episodes left in season 3.

Futurama's season started on time...but thanks to football most of it got preempted...or we only saw half.
I like the shot of the ship heading to the time nebula...really beautifull...they might have used an actuall nebula pic for that.
What's with fry going after Leela so much tonight? Normally we here almost nothing about it in an episode or as an afterthought (fry thought leela was beautiful the way she was before she got 2 eyes in that one ep.)

Pretty funny time jumps..."Time will stand still for us..." TIME JUMP
:::shot of fry with black eye:::

or the Britney Spears thing...."an up and coming..." TIME JUMP "Won 3 grammies" TIME JUMP "found dead in her bath tub" LOL

so when they did the black hole thing...did time go on as if it never happened? Because they jumped around a lot (remember the kids picking on the old folks and then suddenly they are old themselves).
Those stars seemed awfully small...i would think the planet express ship would be a small dot compared to a star.

Smaller than a small dot. Although if they were maybe 70 million miles away our sun might appear that small.

Fry has his rocket blasting and yet his lifeline has slack in it. Later when Bender is dropping off the doomsday device his line also has slack instead of being taught.

Curly Joe was okay, but couldn't they have gotten Shemp or the original Curly?

So was the Atomic Superman with the laser eyes cloned from Dave Jones DNA? (http://www.crfh.net)

The time jumps reminded me of the Red Dwarf ep White Hole, except there the time jumps went back & forth.

So how did Fry spell I love you Leela when he was basically in the same plane as the stars? Fry's not too bright, but to do that he would have had to visualize what it would look like when seen from above.

So how did Fry spell I love you Leela when he was basically in the same plane as the stars? Fry's not too bright, but to do that he would have had to visualize what it would look like when seen from above.


exactly Kmorgan...thats why leela fell for him! She realized he would have something smart about him in that tiny brain of his to visualize spelling that...because intellegance seems to be a factor in her loving fry (see the ep where fry becomes smart).

So Bender isn't funky enough to be a globetrotter.

Tributes/references:

• Star Trek
• Space Jam
• Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island

Great Scene: Leela's hiney! (During the Conga Line dance sequence)

As I was watching this episode last night, I thought for SURE I'd seen the basic plot device (everyone moves forward in time at random intervals, with life having gone on as normal during the gaps even though no one has any memory of it) in some prior context and I was right. The idea was lifted (whether consciously, unconsciously, or coincidentally) from a story by Ian Watson called "The Thousand Cuts," which I read in a 1985 anthology called "The Fourth Omni Book of Science Fiction" edited by Ellen Datlow (and which originally appeared in "The Best of Omni Science Fiction No. 3" edited by Ben Bova in 1983.

The story has a less-than-upbeat ending, to be sure.

On further investigation, the story is available in its entirety, and for free, here:

http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/watson/watson1.html

KAM: Smaller than a small dot. Although if they were maybe 70 million miles away our sun might appear that small.

No. Earth is 93 million miles away from the Sun. It's not a small dot.

I should have known that. I wonder if I mistyped the distance or just forgot about the distance to the sun?