As Fry laments never telling Leela that he loved her, Bender corrects him, saying: "What?! You told her like 140 times!" Bender is alluding to the length of the full series, which comprised 124 episodes and 4 full-length features. (Each feature was originally shown on television split into 4 half-hour episodes, which makes the series 140 episodes long.)
When they are in the lunar amusement park Bender throws his beer bottle at the guy wearing the moon costume, impacting into the moon's eye. This is a parody of one of the first motion pictures ever made, Viaje a la Luna (1902). The film was inspired by Jules Verne's 1865 novel "From the Earth to the Moon" and H.G. Wells's 1900 novel "The First Men in the Moon". In the 9 minute film a rocket is shot from the Earth's surface and impacts on the moon's surface, embedding itself in the "Man in the Moon's" left eye.
This same joke appeared in The Series Has Landed (1999), thus book-ending the series.
This same joke appeared in The Series Has Landed (1999), thus book-ending the series.
On the MegaHexaDecapus, Bender tells a kid that if he wants a corndog, he should ask his mom for one. The kid is Albert, one of the orphans from Cookieville Minimum-Security Orphanarium. He was purportedly adopted by Abner Doubledeal (along with all the other orphans) in Yo Leela Leela (2011), but as far as we know, he has no adoptive mother.
Ironically, at one point, Bender himself was the sole guardian for Albert and the other orphans, but it's conceivable that Bender would neither remember nor care.
Ironically, at one point, Bender himself was the sole guardian for Albert and the other orphans, but it's conceivable that Bender would neither remember nor care.
This episodes features the classical piece 12 Etudes, Op. 10 - No. 3 in E Major by Frederic Chopin
The concept of a button rewinding its user to the beginning of their free fall was originally done in Lucifer!, a short story by E.C. Tubbs wherein the protagonist boards a plane that crashes and tries to escape, only to black out mid-fall and wake up right before impact, allowing them a moment to rewind to the beginning. They are forever doomed in that moment lest they give up and die.