Futurama: 10 Most Annoying Little Inconsistencies

From ‘A Head In The Polls’ way back in season two, Richard Nixon has been the President of Earth. It hasn’t mattered how devious, how conniving, and how down-right useless the villain from the past has been, nothing ever came between him and the White House. That is until Chris Travers defeated him in the 3012 Presidential election.

The candidate had been sent back in time to defeat Nixon and stop the robot uprising that was the result of the President’s anti-alien fence around the planet’s southern hemisphere.

When Travers won however, his entire timeline was erased. Since Nixon never got into power to put his fence in place, the robot uprising never happened, and Travers himself was never sent back. It was a time paradox that seemed to make sense in the vacuum of that one episode, but thanks to previous Futurama lore was a huge plot hole.

To travel back in time, Travers used the same time code used by Bender so many times in 'Bender’s Big Score'. It was made abundantly clear throughout the first Futurama movie that this was a paradox correcting time code, mainly as a get-out clause for further plot holes. In theory then, the paradox of Travers never being sent back should have been automatically corrected, and he should have survived to rule the planet.