Chroniton

A chronoton is a small purple orb that are unstable in the field of time and can cause time to lurch forwards. Professor Farnsworth had his crew collect them to speed up the growth of his Mutant Atomic Supermen. However, upon collecting them, the loss of chronotons caused time to leak (which smells really bad) and time began to skip forward, randomly. They eventually solved the problem by destroying a cluster of stars.