Futurama: 12 Plot-Holes That Almost Ruin The Show
7. Fry Never Really Left Home
Fasten your seatbelts, because there's three time travel related plot holes in a row. They all connect to the first movie, Bender's Big Score, which uses time travel to propel its plot forward.
One of the main elements of the story sees Fry returning home to the year 2000, living there for 12 years until Bender goes back in time to kill him. This turns Fry into Lars, setting up the events which actually kickstarted Bender's Big Score, and fast fossilises Seymour; something which stacks up with Seymour's back story.
What doesn't stack up though is anything else about this back story. Fry went home, which as far as his family are concerned, means he never left. This means all the flashbacks we see of his family missing him can't have happened.
Yancy naming his son after Fry, Fry visiting his mother's dreams, Seymour's loneliness outside the pizza shop... none of it really happened if Fry was there all along.
Time travel does throw up things like this, and to Bender's Big Score's credit, it does balance its internal plot holes fairly well. There is one other thing though that it doesn't explain...