Time Keeps On Slippin' story
"Time Keeps On Slippin" is the fourteenth episode in season three of the animated television series Futurama. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 6, 2001. The title is from a lyric in "Fly Like an Eagle" by Steve Miller Band. Basketball and time-travel play a prominent role in this episode. Directed by: Chris Louden. Story by: Ken Keeler.
8 total · 2 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| time travel | major | An excess of chronitons make time skip forward randomly. |
| unrequited love | major | Fry was hard after Leela. |
| coping with personal failure | minor | Fry failed to gain Leela's love and Bender failed to become a Globetrotter |
| disembodied head | minor | Marv Albert's head called the basketball game between the Globetrotters and the atomic supermen. Nixon's head gave Professor Farnsworth and Bubble Tate funding to build a gravity pump. |
| flying saucer | minor | The Globetrotters landed on Earth in a flying saucer. |
| interstellar space travel | minor | The Planet Express crew went to the Tempus Nebula to collect chronitons. |
| parody on life in academia | minor | We saw a parody on how professors act when encountering professors from rivaling institutions. |
| stellar engineering | minor | Stars were moved around and destroyed using technology. |