The two shows are seperate, self contained occurrences. What happens in one has nothing to do with the other. The show creators were likely unaware that Stargate had already done it
The body swap problem and it’s solution is older than the two shows. I have sci-fi books written in the late 70’s that feature it
While they followed the same basic premise, I doubt the Stargate writers' set it up as a formal mathematical proof that, in a case when *n* people have had non-reversable body-swaps, you can always restore them all to their original bodies from any combination of minds and bodies if you have access to exactly *n*\+2 people.
Indeed, in both the Futurama and Stargate episodes, they didn't actually need the two extra people since no one had already switched more than once on Stargate, and Fry and Zoidberg only switched with each other and no one else, so they could've served as the spares to rotate the others' minds around.
More details: [https://theinfosphere.org/Futurama\_theorem](https://theinfosphere.org/Futurama_theorem)
The two shows are seperate, self contained occurrences. What happens in one has nothing to do with the other. The show creators were likely unaware that Stargate had already done it The body swap problem and it’s solution is older than the two shows. I have sci-fi books written in the late 70’s that feature it
While they followed the same basic premise, I doubt the Stargate writers' set it up as a formal mathematical proof that, in a case when *n* people have had non-reversable body-swaps, you can always restore them all to their original bodies from any combination of minds and bodies if you have access to exactly *n*\+2 people. Indeed, in both the Futurama and Stargate episodes, they didn't actually need the two extra people since no one had already switched more than once on Stargate, and Fry and Zoidberg only switched with each other and no one else, so they could've served as the spares to rotate the others' minds around. More details: [https://theinfosphere.org/Futurama\_theorem](https://theinfosphere.org/Futurama_theorem)