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- "So long, earth! Thanks for the air and whatnot."
- ―Fry
The Late Philip J. Fry is the seventh episode of the sixth season of Futurama.
Short Plot Summary
The Professor invented a time machine that can only travel forward in time, to the future, not back again. This causes Fry, Bender and The Professor to be stuck in the future when the Professor accidentally turns the knob too far.
Detailed Plot Summary
[http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/Bender
Bender] keeps Fry up all night, therefore Fry oversleeps and arrives at Planet Express – around the time he is supposed to meet Leela at Elzar's Fine Cuisine for her birthday dinner. When he finally arrives, Leela has already eaten both their meals, leaves and leaves the tab to Fry. Fry tries to make it up to her and tells her he will meet her for dinner at the Cavern on the Green – although this means he will miss Hedonismbot's “Girls Gone Wildest” bachelor party. Just as Fry wants to leave (on time) to meet Leela, the Professor makes him try his new one-way time machine. They are supposed to go one minute into the future but the professor slips and they go 7000 years instead. Later that night (in the year 3010) everyone at Hedionismbot's party but him die. Leela, having been stood up again, thinks Bender, the Professor and Fry were at the party.
The involuntary time-travelers try to go forward in time until they reach an era where humanity has developed a backwards time-machine. Meanwhile, in 3030, Leela misses Fry and hits on Cubert for his (perceived) similarity to Fry. Fry, Bender and the Professor, after visiting several eras in Earth's future, come to a future where robots enslave humanity and – of course – Bender immediately likes it. Fry and Farnsworth, however, are not impressed by the mountain of skulls (nor by the gorgeous view over the blood lake) and push the machine forward to a future where there are beautiful women, the few males are in high demand (even the dumb and old ones) and backwards time-travel has been developed. Bender, still angry at Fry and Farnsworth, activates the time-machine again to get even.
Forty years after Fry's disappearance, Planet Express has developed into a big and successful company. Leela is apparently divorced from Cubert who seems to have an affair with Cyborg-Amy. Fry's birthday card appears out of thin air and Leela learns that it wasn't Fry's fault and that the "trio fatale" is not dead but has traveled to the future. Leela goes to the Cavern on the Green and leaves a message for Fry by shooting holes in the ceiling. The water dripping from the holes will form stalagmites, making the message visible. Meanwhile, in the year 1,000,000,000, all live on Earth has been extinct. Fry finds Leela's message and seems content with his live. He suggests to skip even further forward in time and watch the end of the universe and Farnsworth and Bender assent.
After all the stars explode and the last proton decays, the group gets bored. Surprisingly a new big bang occurs and a new, identical universe is created. They watch the creation of the Sun, Earth and Moon, evolution, dinosaurs, "history" and finally arrive back at the time they left. The Professor slips again, however, so they have to "bring her 'round again." So they take a second trip through time (this time Bender takes the controls) and on their second approach on the destination time they accidentally crush their alternative selves, taking care of the time-traveling paradox. Fry rushes off and makes it in time to the Cavern on the Green.