10 Times Futurama Made NO Sense

10. The Wheel

Over the next 1000 years, there will of course be ridiculous steps taken in the world of technology, and naturally at the same time today's technology will become obsolete. This was no different in the world of Futurama, as the Planet Express crew were seemingly in the dark about one of the most basic inventions in human history.

In 'Mother's Day', Mom set her robots the task of overthrowing humanity, leaving the inhabitants of Earth to fend for themselves without the use of technology. The Professor's inventions were relegated to a sharp rock on a stick, and the crew had to depend on Fry's 20th century knowledge to sculpt the wheel.

No one else had ever heard of such a device which, as all cars in the future hovered, made sense, and while it was funny to think that such a standard thing had fallen out of the memory of everyone on Earth, there have been many occasions in which wheels have been seen in the show.

There have been robots operating with working wheels, Leela was kept in a wheeled cage before almost being eaten by Lrrr, vehicles and space pirate ships still had steering wheels, and even Bender had wheels when he became a werecar.