Here's the scene:
1. Fry is frozen in 2000.
2. Fry of 3007 travels back to 2000. This Fry will be called Fry*.
3. Fry* freezes a self-destructing Bender.
4? It can be assumed (to keep it canonical with the timeline) that during this time, Fry* meets Fry' (Fry' is the Fry* of an hour later)
5. Fry* takes the elevator in the cryogenic lab and goes to Panucci's Pizza for pizza, but returns to the cryogenic lab and travels back an hour before, where he becomes Fry'.
6. Fry' briefly meets Fry*. Later, he accidentally freezes himself again when trying to get money from the original Fry.

How was the Fry who becomes Lars created? I can't see how if we only follow one timeline. Was Lars a timeline glitch?

I believe the timesphere is a dangerous tool to transport you back to the past that allows the user to corrupt the past. There is this theory of mine on time that you're probably going to have a difficult time understanding because I don't know how to explain it well in words or it makes no sense whatsoever.

Let me present it in an example. Let's say Bender went back in time to 1505 when the Mona Lisa was still being painted by Da Vinci. He steals the portrait and kills Da Vinci. Bender waits in the limestone cavern back at the Planet Express Building and waits the next 15 centuries out. He leaves the cavern on his cue. He returns to time, unaffected by what he did, but once it becomes 3008, the changes that he made come into effect.

Now, here's it in the best analogy/ies I could think of. Think of the timeline as a string still being made. There's a beginning, but yet it is still in the works and there hasn't been an end made. There is constantly more inches being spooled onto the end. A constant point is right where the wool is spooled into spring is the present. Like the present, it never stays at the same part of the string because there's always a newer end of the string being made.

Now, here's a new analogy to add to that. A change in time is like a wave. It starts out in the middle of the ocean (go along with it, please) and the water in front of it hasn't had that wave go through it yet. The water behind the wave the the past of where that event occurred. That wave travels to the shore. The water that it passes is changed from that wave. As it goes to the shore, the wave grows to something bigger. That is because as different times in the past change, the changes in the future are much more drastic. The shore is like the present. It takes some time for that wave to hit the shore, but when it does, major changes are done. Do you understand?

What I'm trying to say is that it takes time for a change to go into effect into the timeline, but when it does, the effects are devastating.

I don't know if this would help or hurt the timetravel in "Bender's Big Score". My brain's fried from just writing it...

Wait, then how would there be two different Frys visiting Panucci's that night? Wouldn't there have to be a totally different timeline involved? (My brain's still fried, and I still don't understand).

Some Quantum theories would call it 2 realities - more like Paraboxes rather than timelines. The choice Fry' made spawned a new reality or universe with it's own timeline. Which is perfectly acceptable in some Quantum theories, an infinite number may also be acceptable.

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Originally posted by futz:
The split is when Fry is at Pannuci's, the timelines match until the Frys make their choice on what to do next.

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Also, I like to know where did the original tattoo come from? There must be a starting point?

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Originally posted by Zamorano:
Also, I like to know where did the original tattoo come from? There must be a starting point?

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Originally posted by Zamorano:
And why do ppl keep on referencing Devils Hands?

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Originally posted by futz:
Origin of the tatoo? You'll have to search back in the messages (manual time travel) to about a week or so after the release of BBS. You'll find Xanfor deciphered the time code then which points to the origin of the tatoo.

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Here's what I'm talking about:

Compare to the straight-forward joke with Boticelli's "Birth of Venus" in "A Cyclops Built for Two".

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Originally posted by boingo2000:
Another question that just occoured to me:

Spoilers ahead! Highlight to read.

We have two Frys frozen in one cryo-tube. One of those Frys defroze on Dec. 31st, 2999, and in the film we see the second Fry step into that same cryo-tube and set it for 7.95 years. BUT, in Space Pilot 3000, Leela accidently leaps into that same cryo-tube (which Fry left open) and the dial sets itself to 1000 years, which Fry changes to 5 minutes. How could Leela fall into the open, unset cryo-tube when Fry2 has already set it?

Man, that question was hard to word so it'd make sense.

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