3x14 Time Keeps on Slipping - Futurama Episode Guide

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- Episode 03x14

Episode: 03x14
Title: Time Keeps on Slipping
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 3ACV14
First Aired: May. 06, 2001

Season 3 » Episode #14 - Time Keeps on Slipping

Summary: In the 30th Century, the once entertaining Harlem Globetrotters are now feared as they will humiliate any planet in the Universe who dares to play them. Feeling up to the challenge, Professor Farnsworth creates a group of mutant basketball players to go head-to-head with the Globetrotters. Farnsworth's secret winning ingredient is chronitons, time particles found in the Tempus Nebula. However, when the Planet Express crew removes the mutants from harvesting, they tip of the Time/Space Continuum causing forward motion of time to skip ahead.

Watch Episode Videos

Skipping Through Time (00:37)

Invincible Nuclear Mutants (00:41)

Lurching Forward In Time (01:05)

Time Proof Shelter (00:26)

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Senior Citizen	voiced by Billy West (II)
Judge Ron Whitey	voiced by Billy West (II)
Richard Nixon's Head	voiced by Billy West (II)
Curly Joe	voiced by John Di Maggio
Thorias	voiced by John Di Maggio
Linda	voiced by Tress MacNeille
Boy	voiced by Tress MacNeille
Man in Park	voiced by Maurice LaMarche
Madison Cube Garden Stage Manager	voiced by Maurice LaMarche

	Season 3 / Episode 14: - Time Keeps on Slipping Bender: What does it matter? I'll never be a Globetrotter. My life, and by extension, everyone else's, is meaningless.
	Season 3 / Episode 14: - Time Keeps on Slipping 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.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

CONT: The professor says that when time jumps forward, people continue acting normally but simply have no memory of what happened in-between. If this is the case, why would the group be standing in the stadium at the end of the baseball game, then jump forward in time but still be standing there the next night when the circus has set up? This isn't what they would normally have done if time had passed at regular speed.

TRIVIA

All of the Nuclear Mutants have names. There is Grotrian (named for a piano company) [misspelled in the DVD subtitles as "Grotreant"], Thorias (the Norse god Thor with a generic ending), Arachnion (because he's a spider), Armo (because he has five arms), and Lasero (because he shoots lasers).
When the news reporter is reporting on teen singer "Wendy" (and consequently skips through to her tragic death), the album cover displayed on screen is a parody of the Britney Spears album "...Hit Me Baby One More Time".