10 Dumbest Decisions Made By Futurama Characters

This list has detailed the stupidity of Futurama characters ranging from releasing control of Planet Express (twice), to ill-advised sexual encounters and almost destroying time itself. However, nothing is even close to the level of using the universal time code.

After being found on Fry’s ass, Nudar and his scamming buddies used the time code to go back in time and steal some of the most valuable things throughout history. Fry used the code to escape death and then to get lukewarm pizza, and Bender decided to bring a whole army of Bender’s up from the caverns under the Planet Express building at once instead of when they were logically supposed to.

All of this they did with the full knowledge of Nibbler’s warning. Just a single use of the universal time code, in spite of it being automatically paradox correcting, risked tearing the very fabric of the universe itself, yet no one seemed to care.

You could have expected Nudar to recklessly use it, he was the villain of the piece after all, but even the heroes risked it as well. Every time the code was used there was a chance of tearing the universe apart, which ultimately happened, leading to the entire universe being enslaved for a short time by Yivo.