Futurama (TV Series)

Time Keeps on Slipping (2001)

Billy West: Philip J. Fry, Prof. Hubert J. Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg, Richard Nixon's Head, Judge Ron Whitey, Senior Citizen

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Quotes 

• Fry : That's how I must have done it! I moved the stars themselves to write her a love note in the sky.

• Leela : All right, cool your jets, hot shot.

  Fry : Come on, Leela. Why won't you go out with me? We both know there's something there.

  Leela : No, I mean cool your jets. You're melting Bender's face.

• Fry : Put me on, Professor. I wanna show Leela my skills.

  Professor Hubert Farnsworth : Hmm. Will said skills pay the bills?

• Professor Hubert Farnsworth : At this rate, by Tuesday it will be Thursday, by Wednesday it will be August, and by Thursday it will be the end of existence as we know it!

• Professor Hubert Farnsworth : I knew I should have checked that showboating Globetrotter algebra.

  Ethan 'Bubblegum' Tate : I thought you knew that algebra was all razzamatazz. A Globetrotter always saves the good algebra for the final minutes.

• Leela : Here you are, fresh off the nebula.

  Professor Hubert Farnsworth : And none too soon. While you were gone, the Trotters held a news conference to announce that I was a jive sucker.

• Fry : I got her champagne, I opened it... What does a guy have to do?

• Ethan 'Bubblegum' Tate : Pitiful basketball players of Earth, I am Ethan "Bubblegum" Tate, commander of the Harlem Globetrotters. For generations, your puny planet has lived in peace with the Globetrotter homeworld. But now, for no reason, we challenge you to defend your honor on the basketball court. Will no one meet our challenge? Have none of you pathetic eartlings game?

  Fry : What happens if we lose?

  Ethan 'Bubblegum' Tate : Nothing. There is nothing at stake and no threat, beyond the shame of defeat.

• Professor Hubert Farnsworth : The time skips are worse than ever now. Isolated spots are jumping by years at a time. Look.

  Boy : Stupid senior citizens. Why should we have to pay for their Social Security benefits?

  [Time skip; boy becomes senior citizen] 

  Senior Citizen : I deserve free money!

• Fry : Say, Leela. How about a romantic ride on one of those swan boats? They're kinda dangerous, but I finally mastered them.

  Leela : Those aren't swan boats. Those are swans.

  Fry : Oh. That explains these boat eggs.

• Ethan 'Bubblegum' Tate : Mind if I dribble while we work?

  Professor Hubert Farnsworth : Not if you'll grant me the same liberty.

• [after Fry looses basketball game to invading Harlem Globetrotters] 

  Leela : I dont know how you did it, Fry, but once again you screwed up. Now every galaxy is gonna be cracking wise about our mamas.

  [Hermes hangs his head in shame] 

  Hermes Conrad : I'm just glad my fat ugly mama is not alive to see this.

  Professor Hubert Farnsworth : Enough about your promiscuous mother, Hermes.

• Professor Hubert Farnsworth : What do you know of this?

  Ethan 'Bubblegum' Tate : Not much yet, but I am a senior lecturer of physics at Globetrotter U, and I'd like to help you investigate.

  Professor Hubert Farnsworth : You're *that* Bubblegum Tate?

  Ethan 'Bubblegum' Tate : Well, I sure ain't his grandma.

• Ethan 'Bubblegum' Tate : We need some kind of Doomsday device to create an implosion like that.

  Professor Hubert Farnsworth : Doomsday device? Aha! Now the ball's in Farnsworth's court.

  [pulls on a lever; a platform appears with several Doomsday devices] 

  Professor Hubert Farnsworth : I suppose I can part with one and still be feared.

• Dr. Zoidberg : Don't be so hard on yourself, Fry. You lost the woman of your dreams, but you still have Zoidberg. YOU ALL STILL HAVE ZOIDBERG!

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

  Fry : There's a lot about my face you don't know. Perhaps you and it could get better acquainted over dinner.

• Leela : How did you do it? Drugs on the champagne? Hypnosis?

  Fry : No! Drugs are for losers, and hypnosis is for losers with big, weird eyebrows.

• Professor Hubert Farnsworth : Behold, my mutant atomic supermen!

  Leela : They're only a foot high, professor.

  Professor Hubert Farnsworth : Well, they're still young. Mere atomic superboys, really. We'll need to speed their growth with time particles called chronitons.

  Bender : Aren't those the particles that destroyed an entire civiliza...

  Professor Hubert Farnsworth : Good news, everyone! You're off to the Tempus Nebula to collect chronitons.

• Fry : Psst. Leela, I've set up a time-proof shelter in the closet. There's only room enough for two, and you're the one I want to share it with.

  Leela : Fry, that's so sweet. Let me see.

  [Looks inside; the closet is set up with bead curtains, blacklight posters and a rug] 

  Leela : How exactly will this protect us from time skips?

  Fry : Because when we're together in here, baby, time will stand still.

  [Time skip; Leela is gone and Fry has a black eye] 

  Fry : Ow!

• [after Fry loses basketball game to invading Harlem Globetrotters] 

  Leela : Way to go, Fry. Now every galaxy is gonna be cracking wise about our mothers.

  [Hermes hangs his head in shame] 

  Hermes Conrad : I'm just glad my fat ugly mother is not alive to see this.

  Professor Hubert Farnsworth : Enough about your promiscuous mother, Hermes.

• Professor Hubert Farnsworth : You're THAT Bubblegum Tate?

• Fry : I moved the stars themselves to write her a love note in the sky.

• Professor Hubert Farnsworth : Off you go, apparently.

• Leela : The thing is, Fry is very sweet, but he's so immature. I love his boyish charm but I hate his childishness.

  Dr. Zoidberg : So he's not perfect. You don't wanna end up old and lonely like Zoidberg!

  [He cries then suddenly stops] 

  Dr. Zoidberg : You were saying?