15 Shiny Times 'Futurama' Flashed Some Serious Geek Cred

All you need to know about Futurama is that three of its writers have PhDs. OK, you actually need to know a lot more about Futurama than just that, and very probably do -- but the writers being huge nerds goes a long way into explaining all the nerdy jokes and Easter eggs. We here at Cracked fail half the time at changing our phone's background, so we missed all of these. But a general lack of mental acumen rarely stops us from talking about smart people, so here we are to tell you about Futurama's geekiest moments.

Source: The Mary Sue

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Sources: The Atlantic, Baird Television

Sources: The Infosphere, Wolfram Mathworld

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Sources: Gizmodo, The Infosphere

Sources: Futurama Wiki, Live Science
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Sources: The Infosphere, Math is Fun
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Source: The Infosphere, Universe Today

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Sources: Appalachian State University, The Infosphere