Futurama episode
"Time Keeps on Slippin'"
Episode no.	46
Prod. code	3ACV14
Airdate	May 6, 2001
Writer(s)	Ken Keeler
Director	Chris Louden
Opening subtitle	FOR PROPER VIEWING, TAKE RED PILL NOW
Opening cartoon	Unknown
Season 3 January 2001 – December 2002
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
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"Time Keeps on Slippin" is the 14th episode in season 3 of Futurama. It originally aired May 6, 2001. The title is from a lyric in Fly Like an Eagle by The Steve Miller Band. Futurama is an Emmy Award-winning animated American sitcom created by Matt Groening, also the creator of The Simpsons, and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox network. ... Image File history File links Futurama_ep46. ... is the 126th day of the year (127th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Keeler at the 2003 Writers Guild Awards, after winning in the animation category. ... Chris Louden is an American animator. ... The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction action film written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski and starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano and Hugo Weaving. ... The complete Futurama DVD collection The following is an episode list for the FOX animated television series Futurama. ... Amazon Women in the Mood is the first episode in season three of Futurama. ... Parasites Lost is the 2nd episode in series 3 of Futurama. ... A Tale of Two Santas is the third episode in season 3 of Futurama. ... The Luck of the Fryrish is the fourth episode in season three of Futurama. ... The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz is the fifth episode in season three of Futurama. ... Bendless Love is the 6th episode in season 3 of Futurama. ... The Day the Earth Stood Stupid is the seventh episode in season three of Futurama. ... Thats Lobstertainment! is the 8th episode in season 3 of Futurama. ... The Cyber House Rules is the ninth episode in season three of Futurama. ... Where the Buggalo Roam is the tenth episode in season three of the animated television series Futurama. ... “Insane in the Mainframe” is the eleventh episode in season three of Futurama. ... The Route of All Evil is the 12th episode in season 3 of Futurama. ... This section has been identified as trivia. ... I Dated a Robot is the fifteenth episode in season three of Futurama. ... A Leela Of Her Own is the sixteenth episode in the third season of the animated series Futurama. ... A Pharaoh to Remember is episode seventeen of Futuramas third season. ... Anthology of Interest II is the eighteenth episode of the third season of Futurama. ... Roswell That Ends Well is the nineteenth episode of the third production season of the TV show Futurama. ... Godfellas is the twentieth episode of the third season of Futurama. ... Future Stock is the 21st episode in the third season of Futurama. ... “The 30% Iron Chef” is the twenty-second episode in season three of Futurama. ... The complete Futurama DVD collection The following is an episode list for the FOX animated television series Futurama. ... Futurama is an Emmy Award-winning animated American sitcom created by Matt Groening, also the creator of The Simpsons, and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox network. ... is the 126th day of the year (127th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Steve Miller (born October 5, 1943 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American blues and rock and roll guitarist and performer. ...

Plot

Representatives from the Globetrotter homeworld land in Central Park, and challenge Earth's honor on the basketball court. Professor Farnsworth accepts the Globetrotters' challenge, resolving to create a team of mutant atomic supermen to take them on. Unfortunately, when he completes his work, he is left with a team of mutant infants. Needing to accelerate their growth, the Professor sends the crew to gather chronitons over Bender's objection that the particles in question were responsible for the destruction of an entire civilization. All the while, Fry is trying to woo an unreceptive Leela. The Harlem Globetrotters are an exhibition basketball team that combines athleticism and comedy to create one of the best-known sports entertainment franchises in the world. ... Central Park is a large public, urban park (843 acres or 3. ... Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by throwing a ball through a 10-foot high hoop (the basket) under organized rules. ... Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth (born April 9, 2841) is the extremely elderly proprietor of the Planet Express delivery service in the fictional animated television series Futurama. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into mutation. ... A human infant In basic English usage, an infant is defined as a human child at the youngest stage of life, especially before they can walk or simply a child before the age of one. ... A chroniton (also spelled chronoton) is a fictional elementary particle in some works of science fiction. ... Bender Bending Rodríguez or simply Bender and nicknamed Bending Unit 22, is a fictional Robot character in the animated television series Futurama. ... The end of civilization or the end of the world are phrases used in reference to human extinction scenarios, doomsday events, and related hazards which occur on a global scale. ... Philip J. Fry is the protagonist of the animated television series Futurama and is voiced by Billy West. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Turanga Leela (referred to as simply Leela) is the primary female character in the animated television series Futurama. ...

The crew returns with the chronitons, and the mutants' growth is successfully accelerated. The game proceeds, with Farnsworth's team of mutants maintaining a massive lead over the Globetrotters. But at the start of the second half, time begins inexplicably jumping forward. One of the atomic supermen, Arachneon, is killed and Fry joins the team in the last minutes. Although the Earth team had a seemingly insurmountable lead the Globetrotters win by unknown means during a time skip. The Professor formulates a theory that the crew's collection of chronitons has destabilized space-time, and will lead to the premature destruction of the universe. In special relativity and general relativity, time and three-dimensional space are treated together as a single four-dimensional pseudo-Riemannian manifold called spacetime. ...

With the assistance of the Globetrotters' leader, "Bubblegum" Tate, Farnsworth builds a gravity pump. With the pump, they intend to reposition stars around the source of the problem, thus diverting the time skips to the empty side of the universe. Thankfully, the time skips worked in their favour, enabling them to build the gravity pump and attach it to the ship. Once they finish, Fry begins buttering Leela up again, but just as she's refusing him, time skips yet again—to their wedding, and then to their divorce. This leaves Fry wondering what he did to win her over. Meanwhile, the time skips are only getting worse.

With the assistance of the other Globetrotters (the greatest scientific minds in the universe), a new plan is devised. The Planet Express crew will use one of Professor Farnsworth's doomsday devices to implode the nebula, creating a black hole which will prevent further release of chronitons. As the crew gets into position, Fry notices a set of stars that spell out a love letter to Leela; apparently he used the gravity pump to move the stars into a love message for Leela during a time skip, and that apparently was what won her heart. However, these stars are too close to the nebula and are imploded along with it before anyone else can see them. Fry's feelings for Leela remain unresolved, but the time skips have been stopped for good. Futurama is an animated United States cartoon series (March 28, 1999-2003) created by Matt Groening (who also created The Simpsons). ... Many hypothetical doomsday devices are based on the fact that salted hydrogen bombs can create large amounts of nuclear fallout. ... The Triangulum Emission Nebula NGC 604 The Pillars of Creation from the Eagle Nebula For other uses, see Nebula (disambiguation). ... Simulated view of a black hole in front of the Milky Way. ...

Continuity

• This episode introduces Ethan "Bubblegum" Tate, who is later seen in the episodes "30% Iron Chef" and "Less Than Hero".
• In a previous episode, "A Fishful of Dollars", Professor Farnsworth states he was called mad because he "dared to dream of my own race of atomic monsters, atomic supermen with octagonal shaped bodies that suck blood..." In this episode he finally creates a team of atomic monsters, although none have octagonal bodies or suck blood.
• Farnsworth's nuclear mutant with a chest-mounted cannon is a reference to the episode "Put Your Head on My Shoulders" in which Amy and Fry dated. Farnsworth stated during that episode that he could graft a cannon on Fry's chest.

Futuramas recurring human characters: // In the episode A Big Piece of Garbage, Ron Popeil, his severed head floating in a large jar, mentions several of his inventions including the (fictional) technology to keep human heads alive in jars, implicitly arresting the aging process. ... “The 30% Iron Chef” is the 22nd episode in season 3 of Futurama. ... Less Than Hero is the fourth episode in the fourth season of Futurama. ... A Fishful of Dollars is episode six in the first season of Futurama. ... ‹ The template below (Unreferenced episode) is being considered for deletion. ...

Production

• Ken Keeler used the story "Strange Romance" from the book Y. Cheung, Business Detective by Harry Stephen Keeler (no relation) as the basis for this episode.

Keeler at the 2003 Writers Guild Awards, after winning in the animation category. ... One of the most prolific and yet relatively unknown American authors, Harry Stephen Keeler represented to many the quintessential writer: one who wrote for the love of writing, regardless of fan base, profit or any other external factors. ...

Broadcast and reception

In 2006 it was named by IGN as the number 15 best episode of Futurama, especially because of the last scene where Fry's star message "I Love You Leela" gets destroyed and Fry sadly stares out into space after no one believes that the message was there.^[1] IGN is a multimedia news and reviews website that focuses heavily on video games. ...

Cultural references

• Various elements of the story (growth of mutant basketball players, a challenge from outer space) parody the film Space Jam, in which Billy West voiced Bugs Bunny. The episode's title is also taken from a line in the song Fly Like an Eagle, which was featured in the movie.

• The Professor throws (or, at least, attempts to throw) a folding chair onto the court. This is a reference to former Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight who once threw a chair in a fit of rage during a 1985 game against Purdue.

• The concept of a peculiar time distortion affecting widely separated regions of space is the main plot of the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “We’ll Always Have Paris”, wherein it is referred to as the “Manheim Effect”.

• The Globetrotters' saucer looks identical to the one Klaatu lands on Earth in the classic 1950s sci-fi movie The Day the Earth Stood Still.

• The game takes place at Madison Cube Garden, a play on Madison Square Garden.

• Professor Farnsworth references the song "Skills To Pay The Bills" off of The Beastie Boys 1999 album The Sounds of Science. When Fry asks if he can show Leela his skills, Farnsworth replies; "Hmm. Will said skills pay the bills?". The Beastie Boys had previously made an appearance in "Hell is Other Robots".

• The Globetrotter named "'Curly' Joe" is a dual reference to real Harlem Globetrotter Fred "Curly" Neal and to Joe DeRita, who was one of The Three Stooges from the late 1950s into the 1970s, and was called "Curly-Joe" to distinguish him from the original "Curly," Jerome Howard.

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