For the crew's first mission, they must deliver a crate full of toys for an arcade game to the moon. Fry is very excited, while it is not really a big deal in the year 3000. Fry tries to persuade Leela to go exploring on the moon, while Amy tries to recover the keys to the Planet Express Ship.
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“The Series Has Landed” ranks #142 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 72.9 — Solid. The episode packs 70 scored jokes at 4.1 per minute, averaging 6.6 on craft and 6.1 on impact, with Fry landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Bender: Yeah, well, I'm gonna go build my own theme park... with blackjack and hookers. In fact, forget the park.
Bender Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Leela · Bender: If everyone's finished being stupid-- I had more, but you go ahead.
Leela Bender Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Farnsworth: Nothing will go wrong. If something goes wrong, bring back the blood.
Bender: Come on, it's just like making love. You know, left, down, rotate 62 degrees, engage rotor.
Bender Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Animatronic whalers: We're whalers on the moon We carry a harpoon There ain't no whales so we tell tall tales and sing a whaling tune
All Jokes — 70 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Farnsworth · Fry · Leela: I've paid to air it during Super Bowl. -Wow. -Not on the same channel, of course.
Delivery employee: I'm not Evans!
Announcer: Our crew's replaceable. Your package isn't.
Announcer Dark/Subversive Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Fry · Farnsworth: -Are there really giant birds? -No, that was all special effects.
Farnsworth · Giant Bird: [BIRD CRIES] [FARNSWORTH SCREAMS]
Fry: Caffeinated bacon. Baconated grapefruit. Admiral Crunch?
Farnsworth: If you don't like that, try Archduke Chocula.
Amy · Bender · Farnsworth: Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh! [BENDER BURPS] -You!
Fry · Hermes: 'Death by airlock failure.' 'Death by brain parasite.' 'By sonic diarrhea.' -You don't want that.
Fry: I don't know about previous captains... but I intend to do as little dying as possible.
Fry Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Farnsworth: I should warn you, though. He's a little unusual. He wears sandals.
Farnsworth Misdirection Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Zoidberg: Open your mouth and let's look at that brain. No, no, not that mouth.
Fry · Zoidberg · Leela: I only have one. Really? -Is there a human doctor around?
Zoidberg: Young lady, I'm an expert on humans. Pick a mouth, open it and say-- [BUZZES]
Zoidberg Irony/Sarcasm Physical/Slapstick Callback Zoidberg: [BUZZES] What?! My mother was a saint! Get out!
Amy · Bender: Lord, Bender, you're filthy. Like you don't have crap in your neck.
Amy · Bender: Does it hurt when I go like this? Ow! A little.
Amy Bender Physical/Slapstick Deadpan/Understatement Farnsworth: I like having her around. She's the same blood type as me.
Farnsworth Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Bender · Amy: What's your sorority? -Kappa Kappa Wong.
Bender: Hey, rich girl, look over here! It's me, Bender. I'm being entertaining. La-la-la, look at my head! It's all painted, look at my head! I got a big old head, and hey, ho! Show's over, I'm tired.
Bender Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Leela Irony/Sarcasm Deadpan/Understatement Fry: The moon? The moon moon? Wow! I'll be a famous hero. Like Neil Armstrong and other guys no one's heard of!
Fry Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Leela: I'd like to hold off any major screwups... until at least my second day.
Leela Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Farnsworth: Nothing will go wrong. If something goes wrong, bring back the blood.
Fry · Leela: Can I do the countdown? -Sure. Knock yourself out. -10, 9-- -Okay, we're here.
Fry: 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, blastoff.
Fry Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Callback Fry · Leela: Hurry! I want to see the moon! -Relax, it's open till 9.
Fry Leela Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist ★ Rewatch Fry · Leela: That's one small step for Fry-- And one giant line for admission.
Fry Leela Callback Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback Fry · Person in line: Can I have cuts? No.
Fry: You won't believe it. There's an amusement park on the moon! It's the happiest place orbiting Earth.
Fry Wordplay/Pun Observational Bender: Let's dump it and say we delivered it. Too much work. Let's burn it and say we dumped it.
Bender Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Leela · Bender: If everyone's finished being stupid-- I had more, but you go ahead.
Leela Bender Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Amy: Aye, aye, captain. I mean, Only One Eye. I mean, yes, sir. Ma'am.
Amy Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Fry: My first space delivery. Greetings, Moon Man. We come in peace. I am Fry, from the planet Earth.
Fry Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Moon resident · Fry: Wise guy. If I wasn't so lazy, I'd punch you in the stomach. -But you are lazy, right? -Oh, don't get me started.
Crater Face: I still have my self-respect. [LAUGHS] [CRIES]
Leela · Salesperson: Who buys this trash? Idiots who need gifts for other idiots.
Fry · Bender: I got you guys refrigerator magnets! Get it off! Get it off!
Bender: Keep those things off of me. Magnets screw up my inhibition unit.
Bender Character Comedy Observational Fry · Bender: So you flip out and act like a crazy folk singer? Yes. I guess a robot would have to be crazy to want to be a folk singer.
Animatronic whalers: We're whalers on the moon We carry a harpoon There ain't no whales so we tell tall tales and sing a whaling tune
Elzar · Bender: Bender! Bender! Over here! Oh, jeez. I went to high school with that guy.
Goofy Gopher: Why does moon rock taste better than Earth rock? Because it's a little meatier.
Leela · Gopher: This is weak. Address all complaints to the Monsanto Corporation.
Bender: You're the kind of guy who visits Jerusalem... and doesn't see the Sexeteria.
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Amy: Next year in Jerusalem!
Fry · Leela: Wow! I never realized the first astronauts were so fat. That's no astronaut. It's a TV comedian. He used space travel as a metaphor for beating his wife.
Fry Leela Observational Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Fry · Bender: -Leela's gonna kill me. -No, she'll probably make me do it.
Fry · Bender: Could you get those keys out for me? What do I look like, a guy who's not lazy?
Fry Bender Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Animatronics: We're whalers on the moon We carry a harpoon There ain't no whales so we tell tall tales and sing a whaling tune
Fry · Guide: That's not how it happened. I don't see you with a fun-gineering degree.
Fry Guide Wordplay/Pun Deadpan/Understatement Bender: I died doing what I loved.
Bender Deadpan/Understatement Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Fry: We're gonna die! It's every man for himself! Help me, Leela!
Bender: Come on, it's just like making love. You know, left, down, rotate 62 degrees, engage rotor.
Bender Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fry: I know how to make love. Oh!
Fry Cringe/Discomfort Reaction Beat Bender: That's her, officers! That's the woman who programmed me for evil!
Bender Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender: Yeah, well, I'm gonna go build my own theme park... with blackjack and hookers. In fact, forget the park.
Bender Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Moon farmer · Leela: Trespassers, eh? -No, we're amusement park patrons. That's a wicked, sinful place. Tilt-A-Whirl's okay, but the rest is mighty wicked.
Moon farmer: Borrow? Looky here, city girl. Oxygen don't grow on trees.
Moon farmer · Leela: Night lasts two weeks on the moon. Yep. Drops down to minus 173. Fahrenheit or Celsius? First one, then the other.
Fry · Moon farmer · Robot daughters: Robot daughters? -This here is Lulabelle Seven. -Yoo-hoo! -Daisy Mae 128K. -Yoo-hoo! And the Crush-A-Nator! Yoo-hoo. Whoo.
Leela: Face it. The moon's a dump. A boring, dried-up wasteland. The only reason people come is for the tacky amusement park. -Can't you accept that?
Leela Observational Deadpan/Understatement Moon farmer · Bender: I'll learn you to sleep with my robot daughters! -He'll never find me in here!
Fry · Bender: You didn't touch the Crush-A-Nator, did you? Of course not. A lady that fine, you gotta romance first.
Moon farmer · Crush-A-Nator: Goldarn it, Crush-A-Nator! Jump! No, Pa. I love him.
Fry · Leela · Bender: Hey, cool! Dark side of the moon. Nightfall's coming. -Hurry, before we freeze! -What do you mean 'we,' mammal?
Farnsworth: Oh, dear. I really ought to do something. But I am already in my pajamas.
Farnsworth Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Fry: My foot's bigger. Isn't this the greatest thing you've ever seen?
Fry Character Comedy Observational Bender: Oh, no room for Bender, huh? Fine. I'll build my own lunar lander, with blackjack and hookers. In fact, forget the lunar lander and the blackjack. Screw the whole thing.
Bender Running Gag Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Bender · Leela: She'll be coming around the mountain when she comes I'll kill you, Amy!