The people who write Futurama screwed themselves in the butt.
Here is why, and feel free to disagree with me here and hopefully I'm wrong about some detail.
They used to pride themselves on the accuracy of their details, it's a pretty smart show. They usually don't leave a paradox un-killed. So here's where I take issue. You're all aware of the three big movies, where some big event happened that threatened to kill the universe. Let's talk about Big Score and Green Yonder in particular, because Bender's Game was just a bit masturbatory exercise in fanboyism of D&D and the result of that film isn't even referenced in future episodes. What the hell is the new fuel source? But I digress.
In season 5 (the new season) episode 7 called "The Late Philip J. Fry", Leela invites Fry to her birthday in Cavern on the Green or whatnot, yadda yadda. But we see that Fry, with Bender and the Professor, go forward in time on accident. This movement REMOVES them from the ongoing universe, as they are now in the time machine, and even when they return you see them crushing their paradox copies who are about to get into the time machine again. That's when I realized that Fry's role as the "chosen one" or whatever Nibbler said he was, is over. If the universe can go on -- well PAST Fry's lifespan, mind you -- then there's no more stories to tell. There won't be another movie where Fry "saves the universe" or anything of the sort, using his "special brain". This is proved by the fact that Fry leaves the universe, and goes forward in time to see the evolutionary changes or inevitable destruction that he wouldn't have had an affect on in life anyway.
Why do I "assume" that the future destruction is inevitable for Fry to stop? Because it happens after he would be dead anyway. Someone tell me I'm wrong.
It's like in the show Nip/Tuck when they did the flash to the future episode where everyone was alive and things were normal, then the season finale's cliffhanger was a guy getting stabbed in the back. It's like COME ON, you already showed that he's alive 20 years in the future. I mean come on.
Even in the following episode we see Nibbler taking a dump of Dark Matter in the litter box, even though Bender's Game showed all dark matter turning to dust. WHAT THE HELL, WRITERS?