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Fry gets to ask a question. Fry's request for a repeat of Bender's question is denied, so he asks: what if he never came to the future?
Fry gets to ask a question. Fry's request for a repeat of Bender's question is denied, so he asks: what if he never came to the future?
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Fry makes his fateful delivery to [[I. C. Wiener]] at [[Applied Cryogenics]]. Instead of falling in the freezer, he hits his head. This rips the fabric of space-time, through which we see some of the Planet Express staff. The next day [[Stephen Hawking's head|Stephen Hawking]] drops by [[Panucci's Pizza]]. Fry asks him about the hole in nothing, with "monsters" in it. After work, the [[Vice Presidential Action Rangers]] abduct Fry. The rangers inform him that they have to fix the time-space continuum or the universe will be destroyed. Fry tells his story and it is decided that when he hit his head he should have died, the attempt at murder fails to fix it and the rift in Space-Time reappears, they try to make him enter [[Cryogenic Freezing Chamber|the tube]] but instead he breaks the glass. This causes the universe to collapse on itself and Fry and the Vice Presidential Action Rangers are floating around outside the universe, they start a game of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''.
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Fry makes his fateful delivery to [[I. C. Wiener]] at [[Applied Cryogenics]]. Instead of falling in the freezer, he hits his head. This rips the fabric of space-time, through which we see some of the Planet Express staff. The next day [[Stephen Hawking's head|Stephen Hawking]] drops by [[Panucci's Pizza]]. Fry asks him about the hole in nothing, with "monsters" in it. After work, the [[Vice Presidential Action Rangers]] abduct Fry. The rangers inform him that they have to fix the time-space continuum or the universe will be destroyed. Fry tells his story and it is decided that when he hit his head he should have died, the attempt at murder fails to fix it and the rift in Space-Time reappears, they try to make him enter [[Cryogenic Freezing Chamber|the tube]] but instead he breaks the glass. This causes the universe to collapse on itself and Fry and the
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Action Rangers are floating around outside the universe, they start a game of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''.
The Professor throws away the What-If Machine because he didn't think the stories were realistic, but declares the fing-longer a success.
The Professor throws away the What-If Machine because he didn't think the stories were realistic, but declares the fing-longer a success.
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*[[Gary Gygax]]'s appearance alongside Al Gore is something of an inside joke since Gore's (now ex-)wife, Tipper Gore, hates ''Dungeons & Dragons'' and has been publicly critical of it.
*[[Gary Gygax]]'s appearance alongside Al Gore is something of an inside joke since Gore's (now ex-)wife, Tipper Gore, hates ''Dungeons & Dragons'' and has been publicly critical of it.
*Al Gore received some criticism for his appearance because parts of the show "conflicted starkly with the anti-violence, anti-smoking and family-values themes of Gore's campaign". Gore's spokesperson responded by stating that most viewers would recognize that the show was meant to be entertaining and that it would be taken in the right spirit.
*Al Gore received some criticism for his appearance because parts of the show "conflicted starkly with the anti-violence, anti-smoking and family-values themes of Gore's campaign". Gore's spokesperson responded by stating that most viewers would recognize that the show was meant to be entertaining and that it would be taken in the right spirit.
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*When rebroadcast during the
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United States presidential election, 2000|2000 Presidential Election
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, the tagline at the start of the episode said, "Starring a guy who is kind-of, sort-of our next president, maybe!".
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*When rebroadcast during the
[[
United States presidential election, 2000|2000 Presidential Election
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, the tagline at the start of the episode said, "Starring a guy who is kind-of, sort-of
[[president of the United States|
our next president
]]
, maybe!".
*Nichelle Nichols and Al Gore both make later appearances in {{eline|4ACV11}} and {{eline|4ACV08}} respectively.
*Nichelle Nichols and Al Gore both make later appearances in {{eline|4ACV11}} and {{eline|4ACV08}} respectively.
*Giant Bender's shell seems to be made of bent girders.
*Giant Bender's shell seems to be made of bent girders.
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*Zoidberg wears the famous hat of the great detective {{w|Sherlock Holmes}}, and "The Accusing Parlor" looks a lot like his home in London from the books.
*Zoidberg wears the famous hat of the great detective {{w|Sherlock Holmes}}, and "The Accusing Parlor" looks a lot like his home in London from the books.
*The story of a giant robot coming to earth and making friends with a lonely kid is a parody of the story behind ''{{w|The Iron Man (novel)|The Iron Giant}}'' which was made into an {{w|The Iron Giant|animated film}} in 1999.
*The story of a giant robot coming to earth and making friends with a lonely kid is a parody of the story behind ''{{w|The Iron Man (novel)|The Iron Giant}}'' which was made into an {{w|The Iron Giant|animated film}} in 1999.
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*One of the members of the Vice
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Presidential Action Rangers is [[Deep Blue]] which was a computer made by {{w|IBM}} that beat world chess champion {{w|Gary Kasparov}} in 1997.
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*One of the members of the Vice Presidential Action Rangers is [[Deep Blue]] which was a computer made by {{w|IBM}} that beat world chess champion {{w|Gary Kasparov}} in 1997.
*The cover of the Monster Manual at the end of the third segment is exactly the same as the original Monster Manual from {{w|Monster Manual#First edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced ''Dungeons & Dragons'' 1st editon}} from the late 1970s. This particular book was, of course, written by Gygax.
*The cover of the Monster Manual at the end of the third segment is exactly the same as the original Monster Manual from {{w|Monster Manual#First edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons|Advanced ''Dungeons & Dragons'' 1st editon}} from the late 1970s. This particular book was, of course, written by Gygax.