Shii Posted:

Yeh, I remember that now. That WAS depressing. Is that the one where he proposes to Leela in the end with the stars but it gets sucked into a black hole or something?

yes that’s the one. in the episode the professor supposedly stopped the time skips with his weird doomsday machine. But I read an interpretation once where the professor actually didn’t do anything. That the time skips were actually just there to help fry. Because almost every skip happened when he was unsure of something, and wouldn’t take the life path he wanted to take. Like asking leela to marry him. He thought about it or something, then the time was skipped to how him what would happen. In the end the time skips only stopped happening because he had just given up so there was nothing left to help him. It was a really good article, I’ll see if i can find it.