What We Now Know About the Future...

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What have you learned about the future from Futurama?
Just a few examples...
Robots run off of alcohol.
All cups of coffee (big & small) cost $3.
There are thousands of intelligent species but all of the have only 2 eyes.
I know its a kinda lame topic but i was tired of looking at the same thing on the board every day.

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Robot 1X runs off pollution.

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~Suicide only costs a quarter!
~Commercials are broadcast into your dreams!
~Santa Claus can, and will, kill you if you're out after dark on Xmas eve!
~Speaking of which, "Christmas" is known as "Xmas!"
~There are still hippies.  Eeeew. 

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Originally posted by HamNEggs116:
All cups of coffee (big & small) cost $3.
There are thousands of intelligent species but all of the have only 2 eyes.

Wrong! There's a five-eyed species in "A Bicyclops Built for Two", and Mr. H. G. Blob's race has three.

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Originally posted by Kryten:
 Wrong! There's a five-eyed species in "A Bicyclops Built for Two", and Mr. H. G. Blob's race has three.

And let's not forget the "no eye" energy beings, from Melllvar to the one that Amy tries to fix Leela up with.

--The speed of light has been increased.
--You say "axe" instead of "ask."

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Originally posted by Lionel Hutz Esq:
--You say "axe" instead of "ask."

Sometimes (i.e. until the writers got tired of it).

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~Space travel is common
~Television is still around
~Famous head's live in jars

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-Severed limbs are easily replaceable.
-You can buy organs on the street and crack out of vending machines.
-Anchovies and Cows are extinct.
-People in LA are still phony and put cilantro on everything.
-Cryogenics really does work.
-Ron Popeil is still awesome.

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If you're investing in the stock market, The Mom Corperation is a sure thing!

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Technology STILL never works right.

There's still a roach problem.

Nobody cares about art that isn't tattooed on some fat guy.

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Everyone has a career chip.  Well...maybe not.

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Hoard anchovies.

There are Filthy Chat rooms and Filthy, Filthy Chat rooms.  (Wait, we already have those.)

Worms in your body actually help you.  Just ask Lord Mayor of Colon.

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-You can go into the internet
-Old people get taken to the near Death Star

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There's an actual, factual robot hell. And it's in New Jersey.

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The average naughty nurse is $8.95 a minute.

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Visa and Mastercard no longer exist, but the Discover card is still around. Funny, no mention of American Express.

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-there are still cars-wait-there Were cars (the warecar)

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Serious owl problem.

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People travel around in tubes.

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Fish can walk on land.

Hocus-pocus traveling body creams can turn you into superheroes.

Pluto is a reserve for penguins.

There will be a prestigious university on Mars.

Cars have toasters, blenders, and video-phones built into them.

Spaceships are powered by dark matter.

Ancient televison shows are beamed to distant planets.

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New York will be replaced by New New York after what looks like alien attacks.
We will have mutants who will live in the sewers.

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People can become smaller and become pets for humaniod cats.

People can be cloned.

French no longer exsits.

Heads can be brought back to live in jars and also be brought back to how they looked in their prime.

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Originally posted by Kryten:
 Wrong! There's a five-eyed species in "A Bicyclops Built for Two", and Mr. H. G. Blob's race has three.

I may be wrong but isnt the 5-Eyed species similar to Leela's 1-Eyed species... There's only one of them. Otherwise she probably wouldnt have been on an empty planet with a jerk like Al.
But you are correct about the Blob race.

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Originally posted by HamNEggs116:
 I may be wrong but isnt the 5-Eyed species similar to Leela's 1-Eyed species... There only one of them. Otherwise she probably wouldnt have been on an empty planet with a jerk like Al.

Not neccessarily.  Al just said that he made out with five wierdos.  It doesn't mean she's the only one of her kind.  Possibly she was cut off from her species and Al used the same con job he used on Leela.

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And as long as we're talking about people with unusual numbers of eyes, let's not forget about the Nibblonians, with their third eye-on-a-stalk.

You can survive decapitation as long as a surgeon is nearby to graft your head onto someone else's shoulder.

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Pigeons went extinct, and their niche on the food chain was taken by owls.

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- they still have viagra  -they still use pump action shotguns                 

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Originally posted by Evil Fox Exec:
Pigeons went extinct, and their niche on the food chain was taken by owls.

*Bzzzzt*, wrong.  Go check Fear of a Bot Planet.

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Not only do we still have TV but it's finally HDTV!

Oh my yes!

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-Human Horn is an aphrodesiac.

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- Human lower horn is a better one.

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Since Labor Day is this weekend in the US, and the first plastic Christmas tree sightings can't be far behind:

He knows when you are sleeping.
He knows when you're on the can.
He'll hunt you down and blast your ass from here to Pakistan.
Ohh.
You better not breathe, you better not move.
You better off dead, I'm telling you dude,
Santa Claus is gunning you down.

That, and girls like lizards, right?

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Then I stand corrected. Some species have more then 2 eyes... But appearently all Cyclopse are mutants. Can we agree on that???

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Both "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" and "Happy Birthday" have new lyrics.

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Although Record LP's were dead by the year 2000, somehow they are around in 3000++. Even though most people in the year 2003 use cordless and cell phones; for some reason they still use phones with cords on them in 3000++. (See Zoidberg buying 2 record set in "Devil's Hands" ).

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Pine Trees are extinct, Star Trek is banned, the wheel has been replaced, Uranus is now Urecktum and food is recycled. Nice...

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The Bad News about the future-
Humans are still stupid.

The Good News about the future-
Turns out the rest of the universe is just as dumb.   

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Originally posted by Vamsi:
Visa and Mastercard no longer exist, but the Discover card is still around. Funny, no mention of American Express.

well actually:
fry: do you take visa?
salesman:visa hasnt existed for 500 years
fry; american express


THERE WAS NO MENTIONING of mastercard

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Inflation won't be a problem.

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Originally posted by Goldfish:
Pine Trees are exinct

That was actually one of the worst continuity errors I ever caught on the show, considering they had just been skiing through pine trees during the whole first act.

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We get alternate universes in boxes.

We get blernsball.

We get All My Circuits.

We get the 3004 Earth Olympics.

And, we get Everybody Loves Hypnotoad.