10 Dark Futurama Fan Theories That Change Everything

We love Futurama, and like too many space travelling sci fi adventure shows (looking at you, Firefly), we will always feel like it never got the respect it really deserved. Bender, Fry, Leela, and the rest of the Planet Express crew will always have a place in our hearts, and as long as we can keep rewatching the old seasons over and over and over again, we won’t be forgetting them any time soon. And neither will their legions of devoted fans, apparently! So much so that every day, fans are creating new and amazing theories about the show in order to explain every possible moment. Some are lighthearted and some are seriously dark, but all might just make you think a little differently about everyone in the year 3000. Like the idea that it was a case of worms that finally made Fry become a better man in order to win Leela. Or how about the theory that The Simpsons and Futurama might share a timeline? There’s one that says that Bender wasn’t a criminal until Fry got a hold of him, and another that believes that Hypnotoad might be a descendant of the toad Bart released in Australia! There are theories that say that Zapp was actually a good leader but was traumatized by battle, and that the Planet Express crew don’t seem to age because of radiation! There are also theories about Herme’s real identity, Kif and Zapp’s relationship, the What If Machine, and the possible involvement of the dreaded Illuminati!

Featuring:

FRY’S WORMS
TIMELINE TROUBLE
THE REAL BENDER
HYPNOTOAD
POOR ZAPP
ANTI-AGING SECRETS
HERMES… OR IS HE?
KIF AND ZAPP
WHAT IF?
ILLUMINATING THEORIES

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[rxsheepxr]

"Whose number one passtime is getting high and chillaxing..." This is Hermes we're talking about. Have you actually watched Futurama?

[narrator_alpha]

"the crew does not age!"
*proceeds to show old hermes and leela*
hmmm

[conanx]

Bender has always been a criminal... He was trying to rip off the booth with his coin on a sting... Theory denied....

[vidushibatra]

Futurama was possibly the best show ever made.

[dylc]

How could you put hypnotoad in here without his noise

[albionflux]

A few of these theories are disproven in the show itself
Bender not being a criminal until his reset.
In the episode where he gets reset and acts like a penguin, at the end he gets reset again and he is not surrounded by criminals and still is 1.
Zapp madness theory
The theory says he wants to get fired because of what happens with the killbots
And yet in 1 episode he did get fired and was a total mess because of it, it wasnt until getting rehired that he was happy again.

[snarfsnarfff]

"So that's what would've happened if I invented the finglonger."

[YamiSuzume]

"A possessed krusty the clown"

Not every clown is krusty.

[kimd]

Technically, a Bart doll indicates they're NOT from the same reality. It just shows Futurama has a Simpson's TV shows.

[ronaldholm]

Then for the Brannigan theory, when stripped of his rank by the doop he becomes extremely depressed and at the end begs for his old job back; a cool theory but seems implausible nonetheless

[-subscriberswithahammerad]

We are waiting for another season

It doesn’t matter how long it takes

[daveski]

The Simpsons is a T.V show in the Futurama universe, it's been confirmed by the creators. Also, how is that clown a Simpsons reference? It looks nothing like Krusty lol. It's just a clown.

[Cookie]

i think the characters do age, just incredibly slow due to future technologies/treatments. all the characters on the show don't really seem to age much. the professor is 178 and is relatively functional.

[FoxDemonMaster]

I'm surprised they didn't bring up the theory about scruffy being the professor's brother or scruffy being a failed clone of Professor

[Dickiemiller]

Completely missing the fact, that the "toad" Bart released in Australia was actually a bull frog.

[WhoisJustinBeaver]

I think that Hypnotoad was more likely to mutate from the power plant (as there is a 3 eyed fish) than evolve to be that way. Easier solution than what was purposed?

[averagegamecritic]

No, it’s scruffy as the agent. He “cleans” everything. Snapping pics and such. Could be like the EYEphone or in his mustache. Hermes could get papers or finances, but Scruffy cleans everywhere.

Dust falls all over. He’s rarely seen actually cleaning, even though it’s him for a building. He cleans near inventions, snapping mustache pics and footage. Mom made the EYEphone, surely a government could do that and more.

Speaks softly and usually just is in a scene silently

[robertanderson]

You mention them not aging then show the episode "The Late Philip J. Fry" where Fry, Bender and the Professor are traveling forward in time. The rest of the cast are aging normally despite being surrounded by multiple Planet Express ships.

[americanaspie]

Disenchantment castle getting obliterated it looks like that takes place after The Simpson's, but before Futurama.

[wolfman-updh]

"This thing's a frog, and....that thing's a frog. They must be the same frog! Surely there can't be more than one frog, right?"