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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The Wizard of Oz, which Futurama is parodying, definitely counts! Yes, Dorothy wants to help the randos she meets, but the whole reason she's going to the Emerald City in the first place is to try to get home to live in poverty with her dirt-farming, teetotaling aunt and uncle.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Futurama, too. But without the "wanting to go home" aspect.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Interestingly, when Fry is actually presented with a way to get home via a forward-traveling time machine and a universe that resets, he never brings up getting off at 1999 and it's never mentioned in any way.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because the future is where he belonged. The nibblers would just find another way to bring him to the future.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

He had already fulfilled his destiny of defeating the brain spawn three seasons prior. Although judging by this scene he wasn't in too much of a hurry to go back in time: