Trivia: The version of Baseball in the 31st Century, Blurnsball, came about when, stuck for time, someone put up a schedule for the week with Blurnsday as an eight day.
Love's Labors Lost in Space - S1-E4
Trivia: The creatures on the list are: Purple Fruit Snake, Sharktopus, Chilean Space Bass, Parasitic Puppy, Gretchen Mole, WIndy Shrimp, Vampire Slug, Excommunicate, Four-Legged Mimic, Molotov Cockatoo and Hermaphlamingo.
Trivia: Omicron Persei is actually a real star 1000 light years away from earth.
Trivia: If you watch closely, after Fry is leaning on the chair just after the countdown to ten reaches zero and he loses his balance, they cut to a close-up of the chair's legs falling over. You can see Nibbler's shadow cast on the wall in front of him. This was however retroactively added to the first season DVD. In the original airing of the pilot on TV Nibbler's shadow was not present.
Suggested correction: This has proven to be in the original airing.
Episode Two: The Series Has Landed - S1-E2
Trivia: When Amy is trying to get the keys out of the claw machine the games in the background have names like "Gender-Neutral Pac-Person" and "Mortal Kooperation(sic)"
Episode Two: The Series Has Landed - S1-E2
Trivia: The black and white scene Leela and Fry witness on the ride "Destination Moon" (In which the man says to his wife "One of these days, Alice, bang. Zoom. Straight to the moon.") is a scene from the 1950s TV show called "The Honeymooners".
Fry and the Slurm Factory - S2-E4
Trivia: Glurmo's original name was "Slurmy Slonka".
That's Lobstertainment! - S3-E8
Trivia: Harold Zoid's name is a nod to the famous silent movie star, Harold Lloyd.
I, Roommate - S1-E3
Trivia: The title of this episode ("I, Roommate") is a parody of one of Isaac Asimov's books, entitled "I, Robot."
Episode Two: The Series Has Landed - S1-E2
Trivia: The creators were well into the late animation stage when they realized that the original moon lander had left the moon. They then added the plaque in the background that says "Returned by the historical sticklers society".
Trivia: The episode's downbeat ending, with Seymour waiting outsize the Pizza restaurant, mirrors the story of a Japanese dog called Hachiko, who spent 10 years waiting on a train station for his master who died at work and never returned. Page on Hachiko.
Trivia: The scientist with the degree in homeopathic medicine has a degree from Evergreen State College, creator Matt Groening's alma mater.
Trivia: In the elves' workshop, Leela turns the controls up to the highest speed. This is a reference to a classic episode of I Love Lucy, where Lucy works in a chocolate factory, and the candies come out on the conveyor belt much too fast for her to wrap.
Trivia: At the beginning of the episode, when Fry walks into the room wearing an orange space suit, you can see that Amy is busy reading a book (so busy she doesn't mind the odd liquid inside Zoidberg's bathtub being splattered all over her). The book's title is "Martians are from Mars, Venutians are from Venus."
Anthology of Interest 2 - S4-E3
Trivia: On the DVD commentary, David Cohens mentions that Matt Groening's favourite line in the entire show is 'You watched it, you can't unwatch it. Stay tuned for more Tales Of Interest' spoken by Maurice La Marche as the narrator for this episode. Groening confirms this himself.
