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The Futurama Chronology

Version 0.1


Hello Futurama fans!

      Welcome to the first ever release of the Futurama Chronology!  Why did I do this, you might ask?  Well, I've watched Futurama from the beginning and have always been intrigued by it's version of the future and seeing what events will come to pass between now and the 31st century.  Also, having read/browsed through The Star Trek Chronology (by Michael and Denise Okdua) and “The Star Wars Timeline Gold” (compiled by Nathan P. Butler & available at www.starwarz.com/timeline), I really wanted to crack open and through a Futurama one.  Knowing that will never happen (at least not in the near future, I decided to do it myself.  All I needed was a reason.

      One came.  I originally started this as a birthday present for my good buddy of mine that was a diehard Futurama fan back in October of 2004.  However, life and school came crashing in and I had to put it on hold for about 8 months, missing the completion date for his birthday.  For those interested, I got him a copy of Highlander on DVD instead, which he probably has enjoyed more than if I were to have given him this.

      Anyway, having a lot of preliminary work done (and a few episodes already chronicled), I felt the urge to see this project through.  Plus, summer was here, so I didn't have any pressing matters to attend to (other than work).  The timing was perfect.

This first edition of it here, is not quite complete, therefore it is Version 0.1.  I am still ironing out some of the kinks, such as editing and layout design.  I am hoping to have the first true version of this online by November 2005 (if not earlier).  I am planning to circle this document to various online genre message boards to get some feedback and possibly additional entries.  Until the next release, I present to you the first edition of the Futurama Chronology!  Enjoy.


      --Nick Slicer



All titles and storylines below are trademark/copyright by 30th Century Fox. This is a non-profit publication for use as a supplement to Futurama and is NOT in any way affiliated with 30th Century Fox, the Curiosity Company, and any other licensed distributor of Futurama merchandise. Any items that are property of these sources are not, of course, claimed by this author. All rights are reserved to their original creators.  Please don't sue me.


That being said, the Futurama Chronology is ©2005 by Nicholas Slicer. Do not reproduce this document, in part or whole, anywhere without the author's express permission. All rights reserved. Any unauthorized reproduction is prohibited by law without the expressed permission of the author/compiler/designer.


How to Read


      Since Futurama uses the Roman calendar, I kept the dates relative from that, with the century as a heading and the year/date as a subheading.  All the events mentioned or seen in each episode are listed in an approximate order of occurrence.  Those who know about Futurama's turbulent initial airing on Fox, knows that the episodes were show in pretty much any order.  For the use of this chronology, I ignored the airings and instead used the production order of the episodes as the chronological order of events in the show.  Much to my surprise, when I was compiling the timeline, I found that the show works so much better when you see the episodes when you watch them in the production order.  

      It should be noted that the fourth production season gets a little wacky when it comes to when episodes take place.  I tried my best to accommodate the shifts in order and have inserted an editor's note on episode entries that fall all out of order, explaining on how I came to such a placement.  I admit, though, that there is a lot of wiggle room with this and am willing to adjust entries if someone makes a strong enough case for it.

      As I mentioned above, I was really impressed with Nathan P. Butler's work on his Star Wars timeline and the Okdua's work on The Star Trek Chronology.  As a result, I merged various layout elements from both works into mine, more so with Butler's document.  Those familiar with it will know what I am talking about right off the bat.  

      A sample entry:

    Century of Event
Year/Specific Date (when given) of event
      Entry

(Episode name, if an episode entry)

      (Source of entry; Editor's Note (will be marked as “Editor's Note”))   

Some Questions One Might Ask


What's Futurama?

It was a television show that ran from 1999 to 2004 on the Fox network and can currently be seen as repeats on Cartoon Network.  It was created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen.  The show centers on the delivery boy, Fry, who was frozen in the year 1999, only to reawaken in 3000.  He soon meets up with his only surviving relative, Professor Farnsworth, and becomes friends with Bender, a mischievous robot, and Leela, a one-eyed beauty.  Together, they go on wacky adventures week after week.  While no new episodes are being made, there have been recent rumors that a Futurama direct-to-DVD film is in the works.  

What's your take with the What-If Machine?
My take on that is that the What-If machine knows all and takes what is really going on in the real world into account, but the tales that it shows are completely factious.  For example, in “Anthology of Interest I,” the What-If machine shows us that Scruffy, by this time, is working at Planet Express.  In the “real world,” we don't see Scruffy at Planet Express until “Parasites Lost,” five episodes later.  However, I placed Scruffy starting at Planet Express before “Anthology of Interest I,” because the What-If machine knew that he was working there and placed him in the vision accordingly.  

What about the Futurama comics?

I honestly didn't know how those fell within actual Futurama canon (or if Futurama even has a canon, for that matter).  I ultimately decided to not include them.  If this chronology of mine becomes somewhat of an Internet success and there is a demand that they be included, I might revise that policy.  Until then, nope, they don't count.  The same goes for the video game (which never came out for GameCube.  Grr…).

How come you spell something this way, when I have seen it spelled differently elsewhere?

All my spellings go off of the DVD subtitles.  I know some things are spelled differently in fandom (for example, I have seen the Signiods (from “A Leela of Her Own”) also spelled as Cygnoids).  While this might not be the most official spelling of some things, this is the best way I can think of at the moment.  Occasionally, the subtitles are wrong (such as spelling Kif as Kiff), but I am usually able to know better in such cases.  I guess until I see something more official, like the scripts, I'm going to stick with my spellings (unless I obviously misspelled something (like Fri, instead of Fry), in which case tell me!).

Why did you list this event to be happening here, when it clearly happened here?
Many of the entries are based upon conjecture and inference.  They are all open to debate.  I basically just placed the events in the order that I thought best related to the events around it.  I am more than willing to tweak this timeline for future installments, so if you think something should be moved around, make an argument and drop a line.  

When is the Futurama movie coming out?

I don't know.  I don't work for 30th Century Fox or have access to Matt Groening, David X. Cohen, or anybody that would be working on such a project.  I'm just in the dark as you.  Check out Can't Get Enough Futurama (www.gotfuturama.com) for more info on this.  

Acknowledgements


I'd like to give a shout-out to those people who helped me with this by either inspiration, or format issues, or whatever else.  Without you, this document that amounts to ultimately nothing would never have been completed!  J


Matt Groening

David X. Cohen

Zack S. Lowe

The good folks over at Can't Get Enough Futurama

Michael & Denise Okdua

Nathan P. Butler and his cronies over at www.starwarz.com


~ ~ ~


Now…onto the world of tomorrow…



Futurama Chronology

(From 17 years before the beginning of time to 4000)

17 Years Before The Big Bang


On the planet Etermium, which is located at what will be the exact center of the universe, the Nibblonians come into existence.  Somehow.

(Mentioned in “The Day the Earth Stood Stupid” as being seventeen years before the Big Bang.  Thanks to Noah Otters and his timeline at Can't Get Enough Futurama for the wording on this entry.  Honestly, there is no better way to phrase this.)   

15 Billon Years Ago


      The Universe is created in a massive explosion known as he Big Bang.  

      (Scientific theory and mentioned in “The Day the Earth Stood Stupid.”)

One millisecond after the Big Bang, the Brain Spawns come into existence.  They begin their campaign to wipe out all thought by attacking the delta brain wave of beings.  The war between the Nibblonians and the Brain Spawns begin.

(Mentioned in “The Day The Earth Stood Stupid.”)

  

Millions Years Ago


     69 Million Years Ago

      The Huge Brain comes to Earth and kills off the dinosaurs.

      (Mentioned in “The Why of Fry”)


     28,997,000 BC

Emperor Nimballa rules Zuban 5.  Professor Farnsworth will one day own his mummified corpse only to have Fry eat it.  

(29 million years before “I, Roommate.”)


      A caveman is frozen in a glacier.

      (Mentioned in “Future Stock”)

Thousands of Years Ago


     2575 BC - 2040 BC

Visitors from Osiris 4 arrive on Earth and land in Ancient Egypt.  They are influenced by the culture and learn how build pyramids, develop space travel, and how to prepare their dead to scare away Abbot and Costello.

(Thousands of years before “A Pharaoh to Remember”)

(Editor's Note: The date is based on what was established in the episode and real history.)


15th Century


     1410

A number of noblemen create the six banking regulatory traditions.  These will go well into the 31st century for the basis of banking regulations.  

(Mentioned in “Place Your Head On My Shoulder”)


18th Century


     1775-1783 - American Revolution

According to Fry's father, during the war, a descendant of his defends his nation by fighting communists.  

(Historical accounts and mentioned in “The Luck of the Fryish”)

20th Century


     1947

      Roswell High School undergoes gym renovations.  They will be completed on schedule.

      (Mentioned in “Roswell that Ends Well”)  


     July 8, 1947

The Planet Express ship emerges from the time hole.  They head back to Earth and crash in Roswell, New Mexico.  During the crash, Bender flies out the window and his body shatters.  Zoidberg is placed in charge of picking up Bender's body, but during the process he and Bender's body are captured by U.S. government and Zoidberg is submitted to testing.

     July 9, 1947

Realizing that they only have 24 hours before the time hole collapses, repairs begin on the ship.  Fry is sent out to collect Bender's body at the Roswell Air Force Base.  While there, he meets Private Enos, who Fry thinks is his grandfather.  Ensuring his existence, Fry attempts to keep Enos safe, but ends up, unknowingly, having him stay at a atomic test site.  Enos is killed and, while consoling Mildred, Enos's fiancée, Fry, since he still exists, realizes that Mildred cannot be his grandmother.  He sleeps with and impregnates her.  

     July 10, 1947

Professor Farnsworth explains to Fry that the reason Fry still exists is because he is his own grandfather.  No longer caring about preserving the timeline, the Planet Express crew invade the air force base, take back Bender's body and Dr. Zoidberg, and steal the microwave dish needed to reenter the time hole.  On their way out, Bender's head accidentally falls out of the ship and is buried in the ground for the next 1000 years.  The ship reenters the time hole.

(“Roswell that Ends Well”)


Based on President Truman's order, construction ends on the fake moon-landing site at Area 51.  As a result, NASA begins to form to really land on the moon.

      (Conjecture, based on “Roswell that Ends Well”)  


     1948

      Mildred gives birth to Yancy.

      (Conjecture, based on “Roswell that Ends Well”)  


     1951

Pete's TV begins to allow people to watch TV news reports through glass from the televisions facing the street.  

(Shown in “A Big Piece of Garbage”)


1965-73 - Vietnam War

Yancy Fry fights in the war.  He will later go on to claim that the suit he wore got him through the war in style.

(Historical accounts and mentioned in “The Luck of the Fryish”)


1973

According to a memory-hazy George Foreman, Muhammad Ali fights against an 80-foot tall mechanical Joe Frazer, in a bout where the Earth was destroyed, this year.  He will later go on to claim that this is one of the most one-sided fights he has ever seen.

      (Mentioned in “Raging Bender”)


     1974

Philip J. Fry is born, named after the screwdriver.  His older brother, Yancy Jr., is jealous of Fry being the baby.  Because of the fact that Fry is his own grandfather, Fry doesn't have the delta brain wave.  One of Fry's aspirations as a child is to be an astronaut, while one of his heroes is Bigfoot.  

(Fry is said to be 25 in “My Three Suns.”  Subtract that from when he was frozen in 1999.  Being named after a screwdriver and the jealousy of his brother is established in “Luck of the Fryish.”  The lack of a delta brain wave is established in “The Day the Earth Stood Stupid” and later again in “The Why of Fry.”  Fry wanting to be an astronaut is mentioned in “The Series Has Landed” and the Bigfoot hero worship comes from “Spanish Fry.”)


Richard Nixon resigns as president of the United States.  Over the next 1000 years, he becomes bitter and crazy.  He vows to return to his former glory.  

(Mentioned in “A Head in the Polls”)


     1980

Fry decides that he wants a robot friend.  

(Fry said that he wanted a robot friend since he was six in “Space Pilot 3000”)


     1986

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is released.  Director Leonard Nimoy will claim that he got such a good performance out of William Shatner because he respected him as an actor.  

      (Mentioned in “Where No Fan Has Gone Before”)


     circa. 1987

That Guy, a stock market shark, is diagnosed with terminal bone-itis.   One company is close to a cure, but That Guy ends up buying it and he sells all the assets, making 100 million dollars.  Knowing there won't be another cure in development for a while, That Guy freezes himself in the hopes that one will be found in the future.

      (Date is conjecture based on “Future Stock”)


     1988

After facing off against his brother, Yancy Jr. in basketball, Fry discovers a seven-leaf clover and begins to have amazing success with it, even when Yancy Jr. tries to steal all of Fry's things.  Using his seven-leaf clover, Fry performs a septuple head spin for a dance off group.  Jealous, Yancy Jr. chases after Fry, trying to get the clover.  Wanting to keep it safe, Fry hides it in The Breakfast Club soundtrack and places that into his Ronco Record Vault, until he needs it again one day.  

(Seen in “Luck of the Fryish.”  Date is conjecture, but considering we see a “Rock Us, Dukakis” poster, it is likely that this happened in 1988.)


Fry enters high school though his parents keep taking him out because they consider it would be a waste of the taxpayer's money.  During this time, he consumes nearly 100 cans of cola a week.  He keeps this practice up until his third heart attack.

(Mentioned in “Fry and the Slurm Factory.”  Fry's education being a waste of money mentioned in “The Cryonic Woman”)


In the ninth grade, Fry plays video games everyday, with the exception of one day when his eyes started to bleed.  He would spend his Saturday nights playing Space Invaders, while listening to his Rush mix-tape and drinking Shasta.  Fry would never be able to beat the game himself, so he would have Yancy Jr. do it for him.

(Mentioned in “Anthology of Interest II”)


     1989

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier is released.  Director William Shatner will claim that he got a good performance out of himself because he respects himself as an actor.

      (Mentioned in “Where No Fan Has Gone Before”)

     December 17, 1989
The Simpsons TV show premieres on the Fox network.  

(Editor's Note:  No episode specifically relates this.  This entry is included due to comments made by Matt Groening that The Simpsons is fiction while Futurama is real.  This comment would suggest that The Simpsons exists at a TV show in the Futurama universe.)


     1992

Pauly Shore's Encino Man is released.  During the production, Shore becomes curious about the cryogenic process and decides that he wants to undergo it in the future.

      (Mentioned in “The Cryonic Woman”)


Fry goes to collage at Coney Island Community College.  He soon drops out.  

(Conjecture based on “Mars University;” assumes Fry was 18 when entering)


Fry's next-door neighbor buys the '92 model of the Latoura, who's daughter Fry will later claim to be his girlfriend (and by girlfriend, he means she had her window opened).

      (Mentioned in “The Lesser of Two Evils”)


     1995

Fry takes Michelle to Rockefeller Center for their first date.  

(Mentioned in “Space Pilot 3000.”)


     1996

Pauly Shore's Bio-Dome is released.  During the production, Shore researches the bio-dome concept and determines that it is fundamentally flawed.  

      (Mentioned in “The Cryonic Woman”)

     November 5, 1996
Fry almost votes for Bill Clinton, but doesn't when he realizes that voting is stupid.  Instead, he stays home and gets wasted on Listerine.  

(Conjecture based on “A Head in the Polls.”  Depending on his birthday, Fry would have been old enough to vote in this election.)


     1997

With Bill Clinton sworn into office, Al Gore becomes his vice president.  One of his duties includes leading the Vice Presidential Action Rangers, a group of top-nerds whose duty is to protect the space-time continuum.  For his team, Gore selects Nichelle Nichols, Stephen Hawking, and Gary Gygax.

(Date is conjecture from “Anthology of Interest I,” but logically Gore would have started to command this group when he stepped into office.)


The one-day last existing anchovies on Earth, a can of Angry Norwegian Anchovies, is from around this year.  

(Mentioned in “A Fishful of Dollars”)

August 1997
Fry is the delivery victim of a fake pizza delivery to “Seymour Asses.”  While eating the pizza, a young pup comes up to him, wanting something to eat.  Taking to the dog, Fry names him Seymour after the prank.  The two become best friends

(Shown in “Jurassic Bark”)


Applied Cryogenics has an accident in their lab.  This is the last one until at least the year 1999.  

(Shown in “Space Pilot 3000” among others)


     July 1998

Seymour becomes the mascot for Panucci's Pizza and waits for Fry everyday at the pizzeria.  

(Shown in “Jurassic Bark”)


     1999

Fry delivers a pizza and beer to WNYW-TV, a Fox affiliate, which is showing the season finale of Single Female Lawyer.  Fry accidentally knocks a beer can over, shorting out the antenna and knocking Fox off the air.  

(Shown in “When Aliens Attack”)


Al Gore's Action Rangers take on Deep Blue, a computer chess machine, as a summer intern, however his internship extends well into the winter.

(Mentioned in “Anthology of Interest I.”  The fact that his internship was extended is based on the fact that he was mentioned as being a summer intern, while the story clearly takes place in January.)


Fry finds that he has only 97 cents left in his account at Big Apple Bank.  This account will raise 2 ¼ interest for the next 1000 years.  

(Mentioned in “Fishful of Dollars” and obviously is before the 1999 section of “Space Pilot 3000”)


The Brain Spawns being constructing the Info-Sphere.  Their goal is to collect all the knowledge in the universe, then destroy it, so no new information can be created.  

(1000 years before “The Why of Fry”)


Nibblonian sages foresee Fry's unique role in destroying the Brain Spawn threat.  As a result, they send Nibbler to Earth in order to ensure that Fry is frozen for 1000 years.

(Mentioned in “The Why of Fry”)

     December 31, 1999 - New Year's Eve
Michelle dumps Fry's belongings that she has on the street.  

(Prior to the 1999 section of “Space Pilot 3000.”)


Using the name “I.C. Weiner,” Nibbler orders from Panucci's Pizza and has it sent to Applied Cryogenics.”  Philip J. Fry, on call, is sent to deliver the pizza.  Seymour tries to stop Fry from going, but fails.  Along the way, Fry's girlfriend, Michelle, breaks up with him while in a cab with another guy.  Near midnight, Fry arrives at Applied Cryogenics and discovers that the pizza delivery was a crank.  Waiting under a desk to push Fry into the chamber, Nibbler is confronted by a Fry from a slightly alternate future.  Alt-Fry is mad at being used, but is willing to help save the future.  Sulking, present-day Fry toasts the new millennium at midnight.  At that time, Alt-Fry causes Fry falls into an open cryogenic tube.  It locks, freezes Fry, and a timer countdown for 1000 years is set.  Alt-Fry disappears from existence, but not before advising Nibbler to give him a better vehicle when destroying the Info-Sphere.

(“Space Pilot 3000;” “Jurassic Bark;” “The Why of Fry”)


     January 1, 2000

Seymour seaches the entire city for Fry and eventually makes it to Applied Cryogenics.  Fry's parents soon arrive to collect Seymour, but fail to see Fry frozen in a cryonic tube.  

No one knows what happened to Fry.  Fry's parents refuse to allow the police to do a search for Fry considering it would be a waste of taxpayer money.  His brother Yancy is saddened by Fry's disappearance.  Seymour, meanwhile, refuses to give up hope on Fry and waits outside of Panucci's Pizza everyday, hoping for Fry's return.

(Seymour's journey is seen in “Jurassic Bark, while Fry's parents' actions are mentioned in “The Cryonic Woman”)


      Wisconson wins the 2000 Rose Bowl, 17-9.

(Mentioned in “Luck of the Fryish”)


Nibbler heads to Vergon 6 to wait 1000 years for Fry to find him.

(Just after the 1999 section of “The Why of Fry”)


With garbage piling up, New York secretly piles it all onto a barge and sends it out to sea.  It will float round for the next fifty years.  No country will take claim to it.  

(Mentioned in “A Big Piece of Garbage”)


Over the next 1000 years, people forget how, when, or where the moon was first landed on.  “Fungineers” theorize that it had something to do with pirates and gophers.  In any event, an amusement park is built on the moon, called “Luna Park.”  

(Mentioned in “The Series Has Landed.”)


Michelle really moves on without Fry and ends up marrying a man named Charles.  She puts Charles through law school by being a dog walker for anti-social dogs.  After Charles graduates, he cheats on her.  They eventually get divorced and Michelle wants to start anew, so she freezes herself at Applied Cryogenics.  

(Conjecture, based on “The Cryonic Woman.”  We don't know when this all happened, but it was sometime after Fry was frozen.)

21st Century


     2001

      Jury Duty II: Trouble on the Hubble is released.

      (1000 years before “The Cryonic Woman”)


     2003

      Lucy Liu is named “Sexiest Woman of the Year” by People Magazine.

      (Mentioned in “I Dated A Robot”)


     2007

      Charlie's Angels III: The Legend of Charlie's Gold is released.

      (Seen in “I Dated A Robot”)


     2008

Stop and Drop Suicide Booth is founded.  It is considered to be one of the best of its kind for the next millennium.  

(Mentioned in “Space Pilot 3000.”)  


Baywatch: The Movie, the first movie to be filmed in slow motion, is made.  Pamela Anderson wins an Oscar for her performance.  

(Conjecture, based on comments made on “A Fishful of Dollars”)


Yancy Fry Jr., ready to be married, discovers Fry's seven-leaf clover.  He decides to give it to his son one day.  He names his son Phillip, after his brother.  The clover does give Phillip immense success by enabling him to be the first man on Mars (a feat that historians will claim has never been matched), be rich by striking gold on in the bathroom of the mansion he won in the lottery, date supermodels, and have a string of top ten hits with his band Leaf Seven.  He is buried at the Orbiting Meadows National Cemetery with the seven-leaf clover.

(Date is conjecture based on “Luck of the Fryish”)


     2012

War breaks out on Earth.  During the conflict, comedian Conan O'Brian looses his legs.

(Mentioned in “Xmas Story”)


      Seymour, Fry's dog, dies, while still waiting for Fry.

      (Shown in “Jurassic Bark”)


     2019

Project Satan is created.  It is an intelligent, military vehicle made from the most evil parts of the most evil cars.  The project gets out of hand and the car is an object of pure evil, with the ability to make robots into were-cars.  The first victim is a robotic arm, Calculon 1.0.  The robot, now nearly immortal, decides to become an actor and changes identities over the next 1000 years, including David Duchovny, Acting Unit 0.8, Thespomat, and Calculon.

      (Mentioned in “The Honking”)


     2038

Petroleum reserves on Earth finally run dry.  As a result, alternative methods of fuel are used.  The use of whale oil is one such method.

      (Mentioned in “Bendin' in the Wind”)


     2052

New York City sends the giant ball of garbage into space.  They refused to consider the possibility that it might return one day due to it being to disturbing.  

(Mentioned in “A Big Piece of Garbage”)


     2063

      Lucy Liu is named “Sexiest Woman of the Year” again by People Magazine.

      (Mentioned in “I Dated A Robot”)


     Summer 2063

With the threat of global warming increasing, Earth begins to collect ice from Halley's Comet and dropping it into the ocean to cool down the planet each year.  However, each time this is done, more and more ice is needed.

(Mentioned in “Crimes of the Hot”)


Cyborgs enslave humanity.  

(Mentioned in “Love's Labor Lost in Space.”)


A woman that Fry meets in the year 3000 is from this time period.  

(Mentioned in “Love's Labor Lost in Space.”)


22nd Century - 25th Century


Atlanta, Georgia, in a desperate move for tourism, relocates to the center of the Atlantic Ocean.  However, the now-island becomes over-populated and begins to sink.  The quality people living there, such as Ted Turner, Hank Aaron, Jeff Foxworthy, the guy who invented Coca-Cola, the magician, and Jane Fonda run away.  Atlanta sinks and to the world at large, becomes lost.  However, the population begins to evolve into mer-people.  The evolution process happens much quicker than normal due to the caffeine leaking out from the Coca-Cola factory.

(Conjecture, shown in “The Deep South”)


Earth is invaded and crumbled by aliens.  It rebuilds into a medieval-type of culture.   Aliens return and destroy the world again.  It again rebuilds.  

(Conjecture, shown in “Space Pilot 3000.”)


New New York is founded.  It is built on the remains of “Old New York.”  

(Conjecture, but it seems reasonable that it was during the second rebuilding of Earth, plus New New York was mentioned to have existed as early as the 26th Century in “A Big Piece of Garbage.”)  


     2100

      Y2K is finally fixed.

       (Mentioned being 900 years before “Xmas Story”)

22nd Century


     2159

Central Bureaucracy is established.  It's license will be pending for the next nine hundred years.  

(Seen in “How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back”)


     2200

      Pine trees become extinct.

      (800 years before “Xmas Story”)


23rd Century


During this century, the Crustaceans arrive on Earth and eat the planet's anchovy population to extinction.  

      (Mentioned in “A Fishful of Dollars”)  


The cast of Star Trek reunites to do some musical specials.  James Doohan (aka Scotty) refuses to participate, so he is replaced with Welshie.

      (Mentioned in “Where No Fan Has Gone Before”)


     2202

      Lucy Liu is kidnapped by Nappster.com.

      (800 years before “I Dated A Robot”)


     2208

      Scientists increase the speed of light.  

      (Mentioned in “A Clone of My Own”)


     2275

The “Fairness in Hell Act of 2275” is drafted.  It states that the devil is required to inform people that if they can beat him in a fiddle contest, then they can save their soul and win a solid gold fiddle.  If they lose, they are to remain with the devil and receive a smaller, silver fiddle.  

(Mentioned in “Hell is Other Robots”)


By the end of this century, the Star Trek Wars take place.  When it's over, Star Trek becomes a full-blown religion and continues to grow more and more powerful.  World leaders become threatened, so they do away with everything Trek related to the point that uttering the words “Star Trek” is forbidden.  All the episodes and movies are banned to the forbidden world of Omega 3.  

(Mentioned in “Where No Fan Has Gone Before”)


24th Century


     2302

The Monks of Deshuba bind together in the belief that God exists somewhere in space.  High in the Himalayas, they construct the most powerful telescope in the world to search for Him.  

      (700 years before “Godfellas”)  


     2354

Kwanzaabot begins to deliver the book What the Hell is Kwanzaa? on Kwanzaa.

(647 years before “Tale of Two Santas”)


     2400

The American Express credit no longer exists.  

(600 years before “A Fishful of Dollars”)

25th Century


     2443

The Second Coming of Jesus takes place.  In its wake, most of the videotapes are destroyed.  

(Mentioned in “When Aliens Attack”)


     2475

      Washington DC is renamed after Washington the Sweathog.

(Mentioned in “A Taste of Freedom”)


     2500

      The Visa credit card no longer exists.  

      (500 years before “A Fishful of Dollars”)


New New York becomes garbage free.  After this point, everything is recycled.  Old beer cans are recycled into robots, old robots are recycled into beer cans; and sandwiches are recycled into new ones.  

(500 years before “A Big Piece of Garbage”)

26th Century


Radical robot separatists colonize planet Chapek 9.  The founders create the Robot Elders by carving them out of meteorites.  The Elders are trusted with the knowledge that humans are really no threat to robots, but keep the illusion of them being dangerous as a way of distracting the population from their real problems, such as their lug-nut shortage and corrupt government.  They continue to spread false stories about humans, such as they are able to breath fire.  Humans have since stayed away from this planet in fear that they will be killed.  

(Conjecture from “Fear of a Bot Planet.”  No date was mentioned on when the planet was colonized, but it was mentioned that the Robot Elders were created over 400 years before the episode.  Presumably, this would have happened shortly after arriving on the planet.)


27th Century


Sir Reginald Wong buys Mars from the Martian Natives for one bead (the bead is really a giant diamond, but that remains unknown to the natives).  The natives are then forced to live underground in the Martian Reservations.  The purchase of Mars forms into a holiday known as Mars Day.

(Conjecture.  This event is mentioned in “Where the Buggalo Roam.”  We were not given a date to when this happened, but logically, it must have been before the planet was terraformed and Mars University was founded.)


Mars University is founded.  Their motto is “Knowledge Brings Fear” and by the year 3000 will host the largest collection of literature in the known universe.   Soon after the college opens, the entire planet of Mars is terra-formed.  

(Mentioned in “Mars University”)


     2620  

Scientists rename the planet Uranus to Urectum.  

(Mentioned in “A Big Piece of Garbage”)


28th Century


2702

The original cast of Star Trek feels unappreciated, so they depart Earth, with the exception of Leonard Nimoy who just rented an apartment.  On their way to Welshie's cousin's house, their ship crashes onto Omega 3.

      (300 years before “Where No Fan Has Gone Before”)  


     2790

Vladimir, the robot, is born.  He is a very rich robot and owns a castle in Thermostadt, the capital of the Robo-Hungarian Empire.  

      (Seen in “The Honking”)


      The last ghost is killed.

      (Over 200 years before “The Honking”)


29th Century


     2801

The Friendly Robot Company build a robotic Santa Claus to determine who has been naughty and nice for the previous year and distribute presents accordingly and, as a failsafe, built him with paradox absorbing crumple zones.  However, there was an error during production and Santa's standards were set too high, where nearly no one would be considered nice.  As a punishment, Santa would go around on Xmas Eve, chop off peoples' heads and stuff their neck full of toys from his bag of horrors.  Santa set himself up at the North Pole of Neptune, near the town of Jolly Junction.  All the Neptunians that live there were forbidden to make toys.  The Earth population begins to lock themselves indoors after dusk on Xmas Eve to avoid Santa at all costs.

(Mentioned in “Xmas Story” and “Tale of Two Santas”)     


     April 9th, 2841

Hubert Farnsworth is born in New New York City's nerdiest slum, Hell's Laboratory.  

      (Mentioned in “A Clone of My Own.”)


     2849

At age eight, Hubert Farnsworth learns to read.  Interestingly enough, he is still in diapers.

(Leela's documentary in “A Clone of My Own” claimed that he was eight when this happened.  Considering that the Professor lied about his age, this date might accurate.)


     April 9th, 2851

To make himself seem younger, Professor Farnsworth claims that this is when he was born.   

(Revealed in “A Clone of My Own”)


2284

Wendy, a future teen music star, is born.

      (Mentioned in “Time Keeps on Slipping”)


2887

Professor Farnsworth completes fourteen years of graduate school.  After this, he will go on to work at Mom's Friendly Robot Company (where he invents the first robot to be approved for a boat loan) and be a professor at Mars University.  While working at Mom's Friendly Robot Company, he and Mom fall in love.  

(Mentioned in “A Clone of My Own.”  The date is conjecture.  It assumes that the professor did all of his schooling in a row.  The relationship between Mom and the professor is established in “Mother's Day.”)


     2900

Hubert Farnsworth, a professor at Mars University, gives one of his students, Ogden Wernstrom an “A-“ on a test.  Wernstrom vows revenge and starts to carry a grudge against the professor.  

(Mentioned in to have happened 100 years before “A Big Piece of Garbage”)

30th Century


     2922

      The Harold Zoid classic A Close Shaving is released.

(Mentioned in “That's Lobstertainment!”)


     2924

      Bigfoot is born, though is existence will remain a mystery for the next eighty years.

(Bigfoot turned 80 in “The Farnsworth Parabox.”  Him being still a myth is referenced in “Spanish Fry.”)


     October 17, 2928

Professor Farnsworth completes the prototype for all robots for at least the next 75 years.  However, he realizes that the design gives off too many gasses, thereby harming the environment, and can never meet emission standards.  To get around the problem, Mom goes ahead and markets it as a sport utility robot, but classify it as a light truck.  The professor never objects to it and decides to live with the secret.

(Mentioned in “Crimes of the Hot”)


     2930

Professor Farnsworth develops the QT McWhiskers toy for Mom's Friendly Robot Company.  Mom loves it, but wants to make it eight feet tall and replace the rainbows that shoot out of it's eyes with neutron lasers in order to make billions in the international arms market.  Farnsworth is enraged by her beliefs and attitudes.  He ends their relationship and quits the Friendly Robot Company.  Mom will be bitter about this for the next seventy years.  At the same time, she does go forward with the QT McWiskers as a weapon, eventually making it as tall as sixteen feet.

(70 years before “Mother's Day”)


     2952

Smell-O-Vision for movies is created.  As a result, the career of silent hologram legend Harold Zoid dies.

(Fifty years before “That's Lobsetertainment!”)


     2960

Slurms McKenzie begins to work with his two beautiful female assistants.  

(Forty years before “Fry and the Slurm Factory”)


     2962

      The tape that Duraflame National Forest shows, Bigfoot: Endanger Mystery, is released.  

      (Mentioned in “Spanish Fry”)


     2968

Melllvar is born on Omega 3.  He will discover the Star Trek tapes and become an obsessed fan.  

      (Melllvar is said to be 34 in “Where No Fan Has Gone Before”)


      2973

Married couple, Sheldon and Gwen, starts up RomantiCorp.  One of the things they incorporate into the company is Gwen's family business of the candy hearts.

       (30 years before “Love and Rocket”)


     2974

The actor Calculon claims to have been activated this year.  In reality, this was just another change in identity and appearance upgrade for him.  He makes a deal with Beelzebot for his great acting talent.  Among his acting duties, he will teach an acting class, at which he will attack a robot while as a were-car.  This robot will become known as the Abominable Snowmobile.   

(27 years before the “The Honking.”  The deal with the devil mentioned in “The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings.”)


     2975

Turanga Leela is born on in the sewers on Earth.  Realizing that she is the least mutated mutant ever born, her parents, Morris and Munda drop her off at the Cookieville Orphanarium with a note in alien script that will make people think she isn't from Earth.   Mr. Vogel, Cookieville's caretaker, finds her at the doorstep.  One of her happiest memories here is Double Soup Tuesday.  As a young girl, Leela is made fun because of having only one eye.  One kid in particular, named Kirk, would tease her about her eye, even though he was blind.  Leela would later go on to beat him up at least ten times.  While at Cookieville, Leela has a crush on fellow orphan Adlai Adkins.

(She claims that she is 25 in “Brannigan, Begin Again.”  The fact that she is a mutant born on Earth is established in “Leela's Homeworld.”  Double Soup Tuesdays mentioned in “Parasites Lost.” Being teased, Kirk, and Adlai are all established in “The Cyber House Rules.”)


     2980

Hermes Conrad is a member of the Earth Limbo Team in the Olympics.  During the event, a young fan runs onto the field and tries to impersonate Hermes, but ends up killing himself.  Hermes is traumatized by this and gives up limbo.  

(Shown in “A Flight to Remember”)


     2982

Master Chef Helmut Spargle is at the top of his game with the successful television cooking show Down Home Country Cooking and a fine dining restaurant.  However, the Extreme Soda Company, which sponsors his show, wants to target younger viewers, which they felt Helmut wasn't doing.  As a result, Helmut is fired and replaced by Elzar, a cook that was seduced by the dark side of cooking.  Helmut went insane for a short period and eventually ended up on Bumbase Alpha.

      (Twenty years before “The 30% Iron Chef”)


Mrs. Mellonger begins giving holo-phoner lessons.  One of her students will be Beelzebot.

(Conjecture based on “The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings.”  A sign read that she had been doing this for “over twenty years.”)


     2983

      The tradition of Claw Plock starts on Decapod 10, the Crustacean homeworld.  

      (Mentioned in “Why Must I Be a Crustacean In Love”)


     2986

MomCorp announces, “future of robotics has arrived” for the first time.  This announcement will continue each year for at least the next seventeen years.

      (Mentioned in “Obsouetely Fabulous”)


     2989

Professor Farnsworth begins to develop a clone of himself.  He uses a cell that he got from a growth on his back.

      (Twelve years before “A Clone of My Own”)


Leela enters high school.  She continues to be picked on a lot, but finds an outlet with Octouran Kung-Fu.  Her teacher, Mastor Funog is very chauvinistic and claims that as a woman, Leela will never gain the will of the warrior, even though she is the best student in the cass.  Leela will always resent this.

      (Mentioned in “Raging Bender”)


     2990

      Cubert Farnsworth, the clone of Professor Farnsworth, is born.

(Cubert says he's 12 in “The Route of All Evil,” which is consistent with “A Clone of My Own.”)


      Dwight Conrad is born.

(Dwight turns 13 in “Bender Should Not Be Allowed On TV.”)


2992

Leela gets her green jacket.

(Ten years before “The Bird-Bot of Ice-Catraz”)


Dr. John Zoidberg begins to work at Planet Express.  He opens up a retirement fund, but will forget to put any money into it.  Despite this, Hermes will continually keep track of it.  Additionally, he will end up owning 51% of the company, mostly because he kept asking Hermes for toilet paper, and with the stock being worthless, Hermes kept giving it out.

(Ten years before “Insane in the Mainframe.”  The stockholder status established in “Future Stock.”)


Dean Vernon begins working at Mars University.  

(Eight years before “Mars University”)


2995

As far and Leela and the rest of the Planet Express crew know, Nibbler is born this year.  

(Mentioned in “I Second That Emotion.”  Of course, we know that Nibbler is really thousands of years old.)


     2997

      Fronty's Meat Market begins to be used as a front for the Robot Mafia.

      (Seen in “Bender Gets Made”)


     2998

Bender Bending Rodriquez, unit number 2716057, is built in Mexico.  He is 30% iron and 40% dolomite with .04% nickel impurity.  He is programmed with thirteen senses.  He attends Bending School where he majors in bending and minors in Robo-American studies.   He was also a member of Epsilon Rho Rho.  After his schooling download is completed, Bender bends around Europe for six months.

(Four years before “Bendless Love.”  His nickel impurity is established in “A Pharaoh to Remember” while his iron build and extra senses is mentioned in “The 30% Iron Chef."  Bender's college days are mentioned in “Mars University” and “Bendless Love.”  Him being Mexican is first established in “Amazon Women in the Mood,” his unit number in “The Lesser of Two Evils,” and his full name in “The Luck of the Fryish.”)


DOOP Captain Zapp Brannigan saves the Outtilliann System from Killbots by sending wave after wave of men until the Killbots' kill limit was reached.  Also in his adventures, Zapp also single-handedly defeated the Retiree people of the Assisted Living Nebula.  All of these experiences cause him to write a book, entitled Zapp Brannigan's Big Book of War.

(This is complete conjecture.  Zapp's win over the Killbots is mentioned in “Love's Labor Lost in Space” while the Retiree victory is referred to in “A Flight to Remember.”  There isn't a specific way to date these events, but considering that Bender reflected on the Killbots incident as if he was alive when it happened, it is probable to place this after his activation.  Zapp Brannigan's Big Book of War mentioned in “Love's Labor Lost in Space.”)


     2999

Professor Farnsworth presents the Death Clock at the Academy of Inventors' Annual Symposium.  Farnsworth's peers laugh at him and his invention.  The professor will eventually forget that he created the machine and that he presented it at the symposium.  

(Mentioned in to have happened one year before “A Big Piece of Garbage”)


The professor invents the smellascope, but will forget that he did so.  

(Mentioned to have happened one year before “A Big Piece of Garbage”)


The three-armed mutant is elected as Supreme Mutant of the sewers.

      (4 years before “Leela's Homeworld”)


Professor Farnsworth falls asleep at the park and is declared dead.  He later fixes this mistake, but reports the declaration as a tax dodge.  

      (Three years before “The Route of All Evil”)


Professor Farnsworth starts to examine a monkey's brain to see if he can make them super intelligent. His research will eventually lead him to create an electronium hat that harnesses the power of sunspots to produce cognitive radiation in monkeys.  He gives this hat to a monkey named Guenter and is successful.  It is the professor's goal to win the Nobel Prize with this.  

(Conjecture, the professor said he was working on this “for months” in “Mars University.”)


The old Planet Express crew, whose captain is too proud to admit that they are not as good as the previous crew, is killed while collecting honey from Space Bees.  Luckily, their career chips are recovered.  

(Prior to “Space Pilot 3000” and mentioned in “The Sting.”)

(Editor's Note: in “Space Pilot 3000,” it indicates that they old crew was killed by Space Wasps, not bees.  Chalk it up to a labeling error on the package with the career chips in it.)


Bender decides to commit suicide when he discovers that his job produces parts for suicide booths.  

(Prior to “Space Pilot 3000”)

     December 31, 2999 - New Year's Eve
Fry is defrosted and awakes.  He is stunned to find himself in the future.  At the cryogenics lab, he meets Turanga Leela, whose job it is to give Fry a career chip.  Fry runs away when discovering that his job in the future is to be a delivery boy.  Leela follows.  Fry runs into Bender at a suicide booth.  Together, they evade Leela and end up in the remains of Old New York.  Leela finds them and sympathizes with Fry's loneliness.  She removes her career chip.  The three of them then find Fry's great-great-great, etc nephew, Professor Hubert Farnsworth.  He offers them a job as the new crew of his side venture, “Planet Express.”  They accept, even though Fry discovers that he is still a delivery boy.

(“Space Pilot 3000”)

January 3000
Leela forgets to properly inform her boss at Applied Cryogenics that she has a new job.

(Mentioned in “How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back”)   


Fry begins living in the Planet Express office building.  As a result, water usage triples and owls begin infesting the office.

(One month before “I, Roommate”)


Professor Farnsworth arranges a commercial for Planet Express to air during the Superbowl, but not on the same channel.  

(Prior to “The Series Has Landed”)

Professor Farnsworth makes Leela the Planet Express ship captain.  Hermes Conrad, the Planet Express Grade 36 bureaucrat who runs the day-to-day operations, has her fill out the necessary forms.  The Planet Express crew has a delivery of stuffed animals to make at Luna Park, an amusement park on the moon.  While there, Fry convinces everyone to spend some time at the park.  Fry and Leela go on a moon-walk ride and get lost outside of the park.  Bender gets kicked out of the park for stealing.  The three of them meet up in a buagglo farmer's place, where Bender makes a move on his robot daughters and angers the farmer.  While escaping, the three of them discover the original moon-landing site.  Amy, piloting the Planet Express ship, rescues the three of them before the farmer moves in for the kill.

(“The Series Has Landed”)

     February 3000
      Bender puts new carpeting in his apartment.  

      (Prior to “I, Roommate”)


Professor Farnsworth's friend, Dr. McBootu dies.  His wife doesn't take it well.  

(Prior to “I, Roommate”)


Fed up with Fry living in the Planet Express offices, Hermes decides to kick him out.  With nowhere to go, Fry moves in with Bender in the Robot Arms Apartments.  Fry finds the robot-sized apartment to be too small.  As a result, Bender and Fry look for a new place to live.  They end up moving into Dr. McBootu's old place.  Everything works out great at first, but when it is discovered that Bender's antenna disrupts the television signal, he is forced out.  Bender undergoes a two-week depressive period without any alcohol in his system.  Bender wants to live with Fry and cuts off his antenna to make it happen.  Fry regrets making Bender to do this and agrees to move back into his place and is thrilled to discover that Bender has a “room-sized” closet.  Bender's antenna is reattached.

(“I, Roommate”)  


The Diplomatic Order of Planets discovers that they have mined all of the dark matter from Vergon 6.  The planet is about ready to implode.  

(Prior to “Love's Labor Lost in Space”)


      DOOP gets new velour uniforms.  

      (Prior to “Love's Labor Lost in Space”)


Bender claims that the robot holiday of Robamadan is taking place.  Before this was Robanazaa, a holy holiday that honors past relatives in the form of a drinking contest.  Fry claims that Robanazaa was a blast.  

(A month before “Fear of a Bot Planet”)


Hod the Dewy becomes emperor of Trisol after he eats a soup made of Throm the Chunky.  

(Conjecture from “My Three Suns.” Leela said that each Trisol emperor's reign is about one week.  Hod and Throm  mentioned in the Royal Oath.)

     April 13, 3000 (Stardate 3000.3)
Leela goes out with Doug, but is disgusted by his lizard-like tongue.  Leela is depressed about not finding anyone.  The Planet Express crew goes to The Hip Joint in hopes to fix her up with someone.  It is unsuccessful.  The Professor sends the crew on a mission to save all the animals on Vergon 6 before it implodes.  As the crew is about to reach the planet, they are stopped and imprisoned by the Nimbus, the ship of DOOP Captain Zapp Brannigan.  They are charged with violating the non-interference directive of B10.81 (aka Brannigan's Law).  Leela tries to talk to Zapp into letting them go.  She ends up sleeping with him.  As a result, she is allowed to leave, due to Zapp's belief that she'll be back, wanting more.  They continue their mission and find Nibbler, a little furry creature with three eyes.  Nibbler eats all the animals that the crew collected.  Leela discovers that the ship cannot take off because Bender forgot to fuel it before they left Earth.  Zapp refuses to help because Nibbler is on the Planet Express Ship.  The crew then discovers that Nibbler's waste happens to be dark matter.  They fuel the ship and take off as the Vergon 6 implodes.

(“Love's Labor Lost in Space”)


After his intimate encounter with Leela, Zapp sets up a website that describes it to the fullest.  

(Mentioned in “I Second That Emotion.”)


Zorn the Stagnant rises to the throne of Trisol after he slurps Hod the Dewy.  

(Conjecture from “My Three Suns.” Leela said that each Trisol emperor's reign is about one week.  Zorn and Hod  mentioned in the Royal Oath.)


Planet Chapek 9 releases the 3-D movie It Came From Planet Earth.  

(Prior to “Fear of a Bot Planet”)


The Planet Express crew, except for Hermes, goes to a blurnsball game at Madison Cube Garden between the New New York Yankees and the Mars Greenskins.  Their enjoyment is cut short when Hermes calls them back to the office.  Fry, Leela, and Bender are sent to planet Chapek 9 to deliver a package of log-nuts.  Due to the planet's robotic inhabitants, who hate humans, Bender is placed in charge of delivering the package.  Bender, who has been angry with Fry and Leela about robot rights, begrudgingly accepts the assignment.  While on the planet, Bender is captured when it is found out to be consorting with humans, but is let go when he lies about his killing of billions of humans.  Due to this and other compounding lies, Bender becomes a celebrity on the planet with a spoken word album, entitled Bender Lets Loose, and other merchandise.  Meanwhile, Fry and Leela mount a rescue mission, but end up captured.  They are ultimately sentenced to death by the Robot Elders of Chapek 9 and call upon Bender to do the killing.  Bender cannot go through with it and the three of them escape and race back to the ship.  Bender tosses down the package of lug-nuts, which cause the robots rejoice for humans.  On the way back to Earth, Fry, Leela, and Bender celebrate Robaukah, a made-up robot holiday that Bender claims to be the holiest two weeks on the robot calendar.

(“Fear of a Bot Planet”)


Bender Lets Loose goes gold on Chapek 9.  

(Concurrent to “Fear of a  Bot Planet”)


Ungo the Moist becomes emperor of Trisol after he guzzles Zorn the Stagnant.  

(Conjecture from “My Three Suns.” Leela said that each Trisol emperor's reign is about one week.  Ungo and Zorn mentioned in the Royal Oath.)


      Scruffy begins working at Le Spa.  

      (Prior to “A Fishful of Dollars”)


Fry has trouble falling asleep due to his next-door neighbors squeaking all night.  When he does fall asleep, he has his first commercial broadcasted in his dreams.  The next day, the Planet Express Crew heads over to Alien Lord and Taylor.  While there, Bender is caught shoplifting.  Coming up short on his bail, Fry checks his old bank account at Big Apple Bank.  He discovers that his interest has grown over the past 1000 years and now has 4.3 billon dollars.  Fry becomes reckless with his money by renting a “Historic 20th Century Apartment,” and buying everything at an auction.  He runs into real trouble when he refuses to let Mom buy the last existing can of anchovies.  Mom is desperate to get the anchovies, because, due to their ability to lubrication properties, she could be put out of business.  Thinking that Fry plans to use the anchovies for just that purpose, Mom has her three sons, Walt, Larry, and Igner, complete an elaborate scheme to discover Fry's ATM pin number and steal all his money, thereby forcing Fry to sell his anchovies to get his wealth back.  The plan goes off without a hitch and Fry is penniless again.  He is kicked out of his apartment and all his stuff reposed, except for the salty fish.  Fry returns to Planet Express with the anchovies.  Mom then arrives and is willing to pay a high price for the anchovies.  Fry refuses again, saying that he wants to share them on a pizza with his friends.  Pleased by what he wants to do with them, Mom leaves.  The Planet Express Crew eats an anchovy pizza and hates it, save for Fry.  Zoidberg arrives and goes nuts over the smell, eating whatever was left of the salty fish.

(“A Fishful of Dollars”)   


      Leela and Bender go to the squid fights.  

      (Concurrent to “A Fishful of Dollars”)


Bont the Viscous becomes emperor of Trisol after he drinks Ungo the Moist.  Bont's prime minister is Gorgak.  

(Conjecture from “My Three Suns.” Leela said that each Trisol emperor's reign is about one week.  Ungo mentioned in the Royal Oath.)


Scruffy quits Le Spa and begins working at Madison Cube Garden.  

(Conjecture, though this is prior to “Hell is Other Robots,” but after “A Fishful of Dollars”)


Bender gets a Robot Wash, only for it to start raining right when he gets done.  Bender takes on the role of ship's cook with Planet Express so he can continue to be paid.  In order to get supplies for his first meal, Bender, with Fry and Leela, head to Little Neptunie.  While there, Fry unknowingly almost gets harvested for his lungs.  The Planet Express crew is assigned to deliver a package to planet Trisol in the Forbidden Zone of the Galaxy of Terror.  Leela orders Fry to deliver the sign to the Emperor.  Extremely thirsty from the heat of Trisol's three suns, Fry accidentally drinks Emperor Bont.  As is the planet's custom, Fry becomes the new emperor.  Fry makes Bender his prime minister.  Florp performs at Trisol's Pre-Coronation Ceremony Gala.  As the suns set during Fry's coronation ceremony, the Trisolians begin to glow.  It is revealed that Emperor Bont is still alive inside Fry.  The Trisolians decide to kill Fry, in order to save Bont.  Fry, Amy, Bender, and Zoidberg lock themselves inside the palace, where Fry attempts, with marginal success, to cry to get Bont out.  Leela soon arrives and starts to beat Fry up, causing a more constant cry.  Bont escapes from Fry's body.  

(“My Three Suns”)


Professor Farnsworth presents at the Academy of Inventors' Annual Symposium, hosted by Ron Popiel.  He is going to present his Death Clock machine, but soon is reminded that he presented it the previous year.  He quickly tires to turn around his bad luck and explain his smellascope idea, but is ultimately embarrassed.  The professor's old rival, Ogden Wernstrom, wins the Academy Prize for his reverse scuba suit.  Professor Farnsworth discovers that he has already invented the smellascope.  Fry begins to play around with it when he discovers the giant ball of garbage launched in 2052 is heading back towards Earth.  New New York Mayor C. Randall Poopenmeyer orders immediate action and the professor crafts an idea to blow up the garbage ball, named El Stinko.  He also volunteers his Planet Express crew to do it.  They ultimately fail when they discovered that the professor programmed the bomb wrong.  The professor and Fry come up with a new plan.  They suggest launching another ball of garbage towards the first one in hopes that it will knock the first away from Earth and into the sun.   Fry and the Mayor appear on TV to encourage everyone to stop recycling and to make garbage.  The plan works and New New York is saved.  Mayor Poopenmeyer presents Professor Farnsworth with the Academy Prize.

(“A Big Piece of Garbage”; El Stinko established in “Leela's Homeworld”)


The Planet Express crew delivers a package to Ebola 9, the virus planet.  

(Concurrent to “A Big Piece of Garbage”)


Neptune is attacked by El Stinko.  

(Concurrent to “A Big Piece of Garbage”)


Wernstrom receives tenure, a big research grant, access to a lab, and five graduate assistants (three of which are Chinese).  

(Concurrent to “A Big Piece of Garbage”)


Fry, Leela, and Bender see The Beastie Boys in concert at Madison Cube Garden.  Bender starts to experiment with jacking-on.  He soon becomes addicted.  The electric bill rises in the Planet Express offices due to Bender's jacking-on.  Planet Express delivers a crate of subpoenas to Sicily 8, the mob planet.  On the way back, Leela tries to fly over a electrical disturbance in the Coalsack Nebula, but Bender alters the ship's path to get a jacking-on fix.  With his friends mad at him, Bender joins the Temple of Robotology.  However, Bender's newfound religion annoys all of his fellow workers.  Fry and Leela succeed in returning Bender to the person he was.  Soon, the Beelzebot, the Robot Devil, comes and takes Bender away to Robot Hell, located at former location of Reckless Ted's Fundland.  Fry and Leela use Nibbler to find Bender.  Once in Hell, they are able to escape when Bender attaches wings to himself and the three of them fly out.

(“Hell Is Other Robots”)


Nibbler is able to make it back to Leela from Reckless Ted's Funland.  

(Conjecture; Nibbler was left at the entrance of Reckless Ted's in “Hell is Other Robots,” but our heroes never picked him up when they flew away at the end.  Considering we see him in later episodes, Nibbler obviously found a way back home.)  


The Planet Express crew goes on a delivery to Cannibalon.  A weary Leela will later go on to claim that it was the worst delivery ever.  

(Just prior to “A Flight to Remember”)


As a way to thank for not reporting the countless violations of safety and minimum wage laws, Professor Farnsworth books the Planet Express crew a space cruise on the Titanic, the largest space cruise ship ever constructed.  For it's maiden voyage, Zapp Brannigan captains the Titanic.  Other passengers include Leo and Inez Wong, Amy's parents and the Countess De La Roca, whom Bender falls in love with.  While on the ship, Fry pretends to be a boyfriend to both Leela (to keep Zapp away) and Amy (to quiet her meddling parents).  Wanting adventure, Zapp takes the ship off course and into an asteroid field.  After realizing this was a bad idea, Zapp moves the ship near a black hole.  The ship is pulled into the hole.  Everyone is able to escape, with the exception of Countess De La Roca, who is pulled into the black hole.  During the crisis, Zapp makes Kif Kroeker the new captain and escapes, Hermes is able to reconcile with the death of the young boy and limbos again, and Amy's parents introduce Amy to Kif and the two are immediately attracted to each other.  

(A Flight To Remember)


After returning to the Planet Express offices, Amy tells Kif to call her sometime.  Kif, completely in love with her, is too shy and nervous to ever talk to her, though he will call and hang up numerous times over the next year.  

(Mentioned in “Amazon Women in the Mood”)

August 3000
The Planet Express crew delivers Guenter, the monkey, to Mars University and he enrolls.  Fry, upon learning that current college academics have advanced to the point where 20th century colleges are looked at as day-care centers, also enrolls.  His classes include 20th Century History and Mathematics of Quantum Neutrino Fields.  During parent's weekend, Professor Farnsworth brings Guenter's un-super intelligent parents.  However, things go horribly wrong and cause Guenter to rethink his life.  The next day, during a test, Guenter throws off his hat and runs into the jungle.  Fry, Leela, and the professor go after him.  Guenter is conflicted, but after his hat is damaged and gives him normal intelligence, he finds happiness.  Bender reconnects with the Mars University's chapter of Epsilon Rho Rho (or Robot House, for short).  Discovering the house to be made of nerds, Bender attempts to make them cool.  Through Bender's actions, Robot House is placed on Dodeca-tuple Secret Probation.  Bender takes Robot House on a road trip to Tijuana, where one member, Fat-Bot, gets a computer virus.  The Robot House participates in the “Big Raft Regatta” and end up winning.  They are placed in charge of the Greek Council, the probation is lifted, and Dean Vernon leads a parade in their honor.  

(“Mars University”)

(Editor's Note: The date for this episode is conjecture.  Considering the next episode takes place during the first week of September and this episode shows the beginning of a school year, it is likely that the events would take place in August.)


Bender steals anything of value from Robot House and runs off.  

(Right after “Mars University”)


Guenter transfers to business school.  

(Right after “Mars University”)


Fry successfully drops out of Mars University.  

(Right after “Mars University”)


Dean Vernon and Leela go on a date.  Vernon never calls her again.  

(After “Mars University”)   


Fat-Bot has to be rebooted due to his virus.  

(After “Mars University”)


Zapp Branigann, now a 25-Star General, gains a bloody triumph over the pacifists of the Gandhi Nebula.  

(Just prior to “When Aliens Attack”)

September 5, 3000 - Labor Day
The 1000 year-old signal of the season finale of Single Female Lawyer reaches Omicron Persei 8.  Lurr is watching it when the cable is cut out.  He is enraged.  The Planet Express crew goes to Monument Beach.  While there, ships from Omicron Persei 8 arrive and begin to blow up the monuments.  

September 6, 3000
Lurr demands McNeil, the main character from Single Female Lawyer.  Earth gets this confused with Earth President McNeil.  War is declared and all available ships are ordered to attack the Omicronian Mothership.  The attack, commanded by Zapp Brannigan, is a failure and the Hubble Telescope is destroyed.  Earth gives up President McNeil and he is killed when the Omicronians get angry at the mix-up.  

September 7, 3000
Fry realizes what the aliens want and he and the Planet Express crew perform the rest of the episode for them.  The Omicronians are pleased and leave Earth.  

(“When Aliens Attack”)


The Omicronians finish watching a 1000-year-old Jay Leno monologue.  

(Just after “When Aliens Attack”)


Zapp Brannigan is returns to the rank of captain.  

(Conjecture, this happens between his appearances in “When Aliens Attack” and “Brannigan, Begin Again.”  Then again, his general ranking could have been more for show, since he was in charge of the Earth forces.)


The race for a new Earth president begins.  The two candidates are Jack Johnson and John Jackson.  While they are clones of each other, they differ on some key issues, such as the three-percent titanium tax.  

(Conjecture; after the death of McNeil in “When Aliens Attack,” it is reasonable to assume that the election process for a new president would begin.  Johnson, Jackson, and their issues are mentioned in “A Head in the Polls.”)


Bender steals Amy's watch, but will forget that he put it in his body.  

(Just prior to “Fry and the Slurm Factory”)


Professor Farnsworth creates the F-Ray, which can see through anything.  

(Just prior to “Fry and the Slurm Factory”)


Bender is not feeling well and Professor Farnsworth uses his F-Ray and finds Amy's watch.  Bender and Fry are placed in charge of the F-Ray.  During this time, they accidentally kill Fry's sperm and win a bunch of promotional stuff from Slurm cans.   Fry wins the Slurm contest to party with Slurms McKenzie on planet Wormulan.  While there, Fry, Bender, and Leela wander way from the tour and discover that Slurm is really the Worm Queen's waste.  They try to escape, but finally succeed with help from Slurms McKenzie, who parties hard enough for the cave to collapse.  They Planet Express crew leaves the planet and Fry, due to his love for the drink, decides not to inform the Bureau of Soft Drinks, Tobacco, and Firearms about what Slurm really is.   

(“Fry and the Slurm Factory”)


Leela takes Nibbler to the animal clinic after he breaks a fang while trying to bite Bender.  While there, the vet, wrongly, deduces that Nibbler is five years old.  The Planet Express Crew throws a party for Nibbler's fifth birthday.  Bender makes a cake for the event, but before he can present it to everyone, Nibbler eats it.  Angry, Bender flushes Nibbler down the toilet.  Devastated, Leela wishes that Bender could feel how she is feeling.  The professor attaches an empathy chip (which ends up running at triple capacity) to Bender and every emotion that Leela expresses is transmitted to Bender.  Not being able to deal with Leela's emotions, Bender decides to search for Nibbler in the sewers.  Leela and Fry soon follow and the three of them discover a city of mutants, being attacked by a creature known as El Chupanibre.  The three of them find Nibbler and are attacked by El Chupanibre.  Bender is able to defeat the creature by flushing it down a toilet that leads into the sub-sewers.  The empathy chip is removed from Bender.

(“I Second That Emotion”)


Leela's parents witness their daughter's encounter with El Chupanibre.  (Concurrent to “I Second That Emotion.”  The characters can be seen in the back of a mutant crowd.)


Hermes requisitions himself the ability to utter the forbidden words, “Star Trek”.

(No episode ever said this.  I made it up as a way to explain how Hermes was able to say “Star Trek” in “Brannigan, Begin Again” and not get in trouble for it.  After all, we do know he likes to requisition things no matter what it is for.)


The Diplomatic Order of Planets completes work on their new headquarters, a space station orbiting planet Neutropolis, in the Neutral Zone.  It cost forty billon dollars to build.  This is a major upgrade from their former HQ in Weehenken, New Jersey.  

(Prior to “Brannigan, Begin Again”)  


Zapp Brannigan is successful in his latest mission where he carpet-bombed Eden 7.  

(Just prior to “Brannigan Begin Again.”)


On a mission, Fry and Bender play a game of virtual chess.  The Planet Express crew is assigned to deliver the ceremonial, oversized scissors for the ribbon cutting ceremony of the new Diplomatic Order Of Planets.  Captain Zapp Brannigan is to be the one cutting the ribbon.  During the DOOP ceremony, Zapp arrests the Planet Express crew, thinking they are spies for the Neutral Planet, and takes them back to the Nimbus.  Remembering that he has the cut the ribbon, Zapp uses the ships lazer to do it, but ends up destroying the headquarters.  Zapp and Kif Kroker are court marshaled and dishonorably discharged from DOOP.  Having nowhere to go, Zapp and Kif end up working for Planet Express.  Planet Express is assigned to deliver forty pillows to Stumbos 4, a planet of high gravity.  During the mission, Zapp is able to lead a successful mutiny over Leela.  As captain, Zapp plans a suicide mission to attack Neutropolis.  He and Kif escape the doomed ship as Leela, now back in command, is able to prevent any damage from occurring.  Zapp and Kif are given back their ranks during a second trial (for the unprovoked attack on Neutropolis), in which Leela lies to prevent from Zapp coming back to Planet Express.

(“Brannigan, Begin Again”)


Amy returns to Mars University for classes.  

(Concurrent to “Brannigan, Begin Again”)

(Editor's Note:  This is a complete conjecture based on the fact that in “Amazon Women in the Mood” Kif is said not have seen Amy since “A Flight to Remember.”   Considering that he worked for Planet Express during “Brannigan, Begin Again,” and never encountered her is obviously odd.  Having her away at school is a way to correct this problem and keeping it reasonably within continuity.)

Late October 3000
Leela takes Fry to get registered to vote.  The rest of the Planet Express crew comes along.  A titanium mine collapses on the moon Titan, trapping 1000 robots.  Due to the accident, the price of titanium skyrockets.  Bender sells his body to take advantage of this.  However, after visiting the head museum, Richard Nixon makes Bender regret his decision.  When trying to buy his body back, Bender discoverers that Nixon bought it and is now running for president of Earth against Jack Johnson and John Jackson.  A presidential debate scores big points for Nixon.  Later that night, Fry, Leela, and Bender break into Nixon's Watergate Hotel room to steal the body back.  When that fails, they black mail Nixon with a recording of his villainous plans if elected president.  

Early November 3000
Nixon, now in a new cyborg body, wins the presidential election of Earth by one vote.  The robot vote secured the victory.  The election had a record turnout of 6%.  Fry and Leela forgot to vote.

(“A Head In the Polls”)


A vice-president “Your Momma So Fat” Contest is held the following day.  

(Concurrent to “A Head In the Polls”)


The mine on Titan is paved over.  

(Concurrent to “A Head in the Polls”)


December 3000

Amy gets all “C's” in her classes.

(Mentioned in “Put Your Head On My Shoulder.”  Date is conjecture; assumes that Mars University goes on a semester schedule similar to present day colleges.)


December 24, 3000 - Xmas Eve

The Planet Express crew goes to Catskills Lodge for some skiing and a Conan O'Brian show.  Fry is depressed about this being his first Xmas without his friends and family from the 20th century.  Leela is depressed because she has no family to begin with.  Fry decides to get her a present, but is trapped outside after sunset.  Leela goes after him.  Meanwhile, Bender heads over to a local homeless shelter for robots to get free alcohol.   All three of them run into each other right before they encounter the robot Santa Claus.  Santa chases the three of them back to the Planet Express office, where he deems all of them, except for Zoidberg, to be naughty.  After a struggle, the crew is able to cause Santa to fall into the fireplace.  They close it off right as one of his robot reindeer explode, shooting Santa out of the chimney.  

(“Xmas Story”)


For Xmas gifts, Amy sells her hair to Zoidberg to buy a set of combs for Hermes and, ironically, Hermes sells his hair to Zoidberg to buy a set of combs for Zoidberg.

(Concurrent to “Xmas Story”)


During Santa's rampage, he is responsible for the Gingerbread Massacre, firing a bicycle at Pramala, a little girl, which tore up her insides, and choked a little boy's grandfather with a chestnut.  Strangely, the little boy left his grandfather's body where it was for the next year.

(Concurrent to “Xmas Story,” but mentioned in “Tale of Two Santas”)


Conan O'Brian appears at the chuckle hut.  

(One week after “X-Mas Story”)


31st Century


     3001

The Planet Express crew goes to the gym.  While there an erratic Zoidberg goes bezerk.  It is revealed that his is full of male jelly and needs to return to his homeworld, Decapod 10, to mate.  Upon arriving, Zoidberg sees that the countdown to the Mating Frenzy has begun and tries to reconnect with his lost love, Edna, but she wants nothing to do with him.  Under tutelage from Fry, Zoidberg attempts to use love to get her to mate with him.  It begins to work, until Edna discovers that Fry is the one coming up with all the romantic words.  She falls for him.  Zoidberg discovers this and thinks that Fry is trying to steal Edna away from him.  Zoidberg challenges Fry to the ritual of Claw Klock, a fight to the death.  During the fight, Zoidberg cuts Fry's right arm off.  Before the Claw Klock can finish, the Mating Frenzy happens and Edna runs off to mate with the king.  Every Crustacean dies that mated.  On the way back to Earth, Zoidberg reattaches Fry's arm to the wrong side of his body.  Trying to fix his mistake, Zoidberg cuts off Fry's legs.  Eventually, he is successful.

(“Why Must I Be A Crustacean In Love”)


Fry, Leela, and Bender go to “Past-o-Rama,” an amusement park that reflects the 20th Century.  During an accident at that park, they meet Flexo, another bending unit.  He and Bender hit it off, although Fry remains suspicious.  The crew is sent on a mission to planet Tova 9, where they are to deliver an atom of Jumbonium, an element so rare that it costs nearly $200,000, and a tiara for the Miss Universe Pageant.    The professor hires Flexo as extra security.  While on the way there, Bender, Flexo, and Fry are to take shifts guarding the Jumbonium.  Fry, still weary, watches Flexo during Flexo's shift.  During Fry's shift, he falls asleep and when he wakes, discovers the Jumbonium is gone.  Bender stole it, but allows Fry and Leela to pin it on Flexo.  In reality, Flexo saw what Bender did and left the ship to inform Bob Barker, the host of the Miss Universe Pageant.  Fry and Leela finally track Flexo down and all is revealed.  Barker, however, wrongly points out Flexo to the police as being the thief and Flexo is arrested.  Gladys Lennox, Ms. Vega 4 wins the pageant.  Mistaking it for a contestant, Fry makes out with a radiator and rushes to a burn clinic.  

(“The Lesser of Two Evils”)


Bender appears on Caught on Tape 3, where he is seen doing something to the office coffee pot.  

(Concurrent to “The Lesser of Two Evils”)


      The Miss Parallel Universe Pageant is held.  

      (One day after “The Lesser of Two Evils”)

Due to mistaken identity, Flexo is imprisoned at a South American Turkish Prison for a few months.  After he is released, he gets a job as the forman at Curvetti Brothers' Bending Plant.

      (Mentioned in “Bendless Love”)


Bender gets a notice in the mail saying that, unless he gets a repair, his rear is getting recalled.  Without the repair, he can bust into flam