Fry and Leela disguise themselves as robots to find Bender after he fails to return from a delivery to a robot planet, only to learn that he has become a celebrity in a culture which fears humans.
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“Fear Of A Bot Planet” ranks #119 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 74.9 — Great. The episode packs 76 scored jokes at 4.3 per minute, averaging 6.8 on craft and 6.4 on impact, with Bender landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Fry Reaction Beat Character Comedy Robot Elders: We use them as scapegoats to distract the public from their real problems. / Like our crippling lug nut shortage. / And a corrupt government of robot elders. / That's for sure. / Quiet, Jimmy.
Bender: And if you enjoyed that diatribe, you'll want to purchase my spoken-word album. Just $18.95.
Leela: Fry. First of all, this is serious. Second of all: [does robot dance]
Leela Visual Gag Misdirection Fry · Guard: Is the puppy mechanical at all? / No. It's the bad kind of puppy.
All Jokes — 76 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Professor: From up here, an entire world can seem utterly insignificant.
Professor Irony/Sarcasm Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Bender: We're close enough that when you hit a player with a bottle, he's down.
Bender Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Leela: Baseball? God forbid. Face it, Fry. Baseball was as boring as mom and apple pie.
Leela Wordplay/Pun Observational Leela: It's tradition, like aluminum bats and the seventh-inning grope.
Leela Wordplay/Pun Absurdist Bender · Vendor: I'd like a jumbo squid log, please. / We don't sell those. / All right. Let me have one of your young on a roll. / We're out of rolls. / Fine. Just give me something crawling with parasites.
Fry: At least hot dogs didn't change.
Fry Irony/Sarcasm Visual Gag Bender: Anyone want butter on that?
Fry · Leela: I'm getting the hang of this. The blerns are loaded, count's 3 blerns, 2 anti-blerns, and the blern rule's in effect, right? / Except for the word 'blern,' that's total gibberish.
Hermes: And Johnson played back in the days before steroids were mandatory.
Hermes Absurdist Dark/Subversive Bender · Hermes: Exactly. He was a machine designed to hit blerns. / Wireless Joe was a programmable bat on wheels.
Hermes: And I suppose pitching at 5000 was just a modified howitzer?
Bender · Fry: But how many robot managers are there? -Eleven? -Zero!
Bender: Is it a human child? I wish!
Bender Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Bender · Professor: Get away, you filthy bird. / Professor? Turn me off, quick! / I'm sorry. What?
Leela · Bender: Well, aren't they? / I've never made anyone's life easier, and you know it!
Professor · Bender · Fry: Great news, everyone. You'll be delivering a package to Chapek 9. / Where humans are killed on sight. / Why is that great news?
Bender: Just because a robot wants to kill humans, he's a 'radical.'
Bender Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Leela · Bender: This is the first actual work you've ever done here. / Well, I'm not doing it! It's a robot holiday.
Leela · Bender: Really? Which one? / Only Robanukah. The holiest two weeks on the robot calendar.
Amy · Bender: Come on, Bender. Last month, it was Robomadom. / And before that, Robonza.
Bender: Not just a blast, it was a sacred tribute to my ancestral prototypes which took the form of a drinking contest.
Bender Absurdist Character Comedy Hermes: But you used all your days off when you had Roberculosis.
Hermes Wordplay/Pun Callback Callback Leela: Kind of like how a warehouse is inhabited by boxes.
Leela Deadpan/Understatement Dark/Subversive Bender: Yes, Ms. Leela. Tote that space barge. Lift that space bale.
Bender Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Bender: I'll try to keep that in mind.
Bender Irony/Sarcasm Deadpan/Understatement Leela: If only I had two or three minutes to think.
Leela Deadpan/Understatement Irony/Sarcasm Leela: If only I had two or three minutes to think.
Leela Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Fry: I can dance like a robot. Will that help?
Fry Absurdist Character Comedy Leela: Fry. First of all, this is serious. Second of all: [does robot dance]
Leela Visual Gag Misdirection Leela · Fry: We look stupid. We should've gotten store-bought costumes. / But there's no Woolworth's nearby.
Fry: Robot we be. Just two robots out roboting it up.
Fry Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Guard: Which of the following would you most prefer: A: A puppy? B: A pretty flower from your sweetie? Or C: A large, properly formatted data file?
Guard Setup/Punchline Absurdist Fry · Guard: Is the puppy mechanical at all? / No. It's the bad kind of puppy.
Leela · Fry: Come on, Fry. Walk like a robot. / I have to go to the bathroom. / Robots don't have bathrooms. / Right. Where do they smoke in high school?
Robot · Fry: Sir? Are you aware you're leaking coolant at an alarming rate? / Let me patch you up with hot resin.
Robot: What sort of robot turns down a free blast of searing-hot resin?
Robot Absurdist Irony/Sarcasm Robot: Sounds like a romantic evening. I won't keep you.
Robot Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist Robot boyfriend: Say, Wendy? Your chassis's scuffed. Mind if I polish it for you?
Robot boyfriend: Relax, Wendy. Humans will never come to our little town. It's perfectly safe to let our guard down.
Movie human: I will eat and digest you all with my system of mighty organs!
Fry · Leela: Wow! The 3-D's great! -Mine's not working.
Robot moviegoer: Yet in the end, he succumbed to a harmless sharpened stick.
Robot in Movie: Even now, humans lurk in our playgrounds, breezeways... perhaps even our movie theaters!
Fry Reaction Beat Cringe/Discomfort Robot: Too much romance, not enough human killing. It was a real chick flick.
Robot Citizen: I heard a human was draining coolant behind garbage can 738.
Robot: I heard they unscrew our lug nuts at night and eat them at brunches.
Robot host: We have a guest whose irrational hatred for humans makes me look like a human sympathizer.
Bender: Many said I was too extreme when I called for the annihilation of humans, as well as some of the more cunning monkeys.
Bender: And if you enjoyed that diatribe, you'll want to purchase my spoken-word album. Just $18.95.
Bender action figure: Bite my shiny metal ass.
Robot hunter: Now, your basic human is between three and 25 feet tall, and is made of a hairy, oily goo in a T-shirt.
Robot hunter: Nothing. Humans prefer low-calorie bait.
Robot hunter: But I've got a good feeling about tomorrow.
Robot hunter: Nothing there, except a few shreds of old robot pornography.
Bender: Oh, yeah. You're a bad girl, aren't you?
Bender: They let me go when I said I killed a billion humans.
Bender Dark/Subversive Absurdist Bender: I've got wealth, fame, and access to the depths of sleaze from that.
Bender Character Comedy Escalation Bender: and access to the depths of sleaze from that.
Bender Character Comedy Callback Callback Bender: Friends? That activates my hilarity unit.
Bender Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Bender: You're no more my friends than you are with the toaster, phonograph or electric chair.
Bender Dark/Subversive Escalation Robot prosecutor: Come to think of it, I rest my case.
Fry · Judge: Yeah! He may not have a case, but I am genuinely not a human. / Quiet, human!
Multiple robots: He froze up again. Try control-alt-delete. / Jiggle the cord. / Turn him off and on. / Clean the mouse. / Call technical support!
Leela: Look, one eye! Count them! One! Not human!
Leela Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Robot judge: They'll perform tedious calculations and spot-weld cars until they become obsolete, and given to an inner-city school.
Robot Elder: Handcarved from meteorites by robot founders over four centuries ago.
Bender: Plenty of humans have mistreated robots, but not these two. They're my friends.
Fry Reaction Beat Character Comedy Robot Elders: We use them as scapegoats to distract the public from their real problems. / Like our crippling lug nut shortage. / And a corrupt government of robot elders. / That's for sure. / Quiet, Jimmy.
Robot Elders: He'll do it! He's crazy! / Did we make that up? / Gee, I can't remember anymore. / It might be from that stupid movie.
Robot Elders: He'll do it! He's crazy! -Did we make that up? -Gee, I can't remember anymore.
Robots: Lug nuts! Precious lug nuts!
Robots Callback Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Bender · Fry · Leela: Thanks. You know I made Robanukah up to get out of work, right? / Of course. / That doesn't make it less meaningful.
Bender · Leela: Thanks. You know I made Robanukah up to get out of work, right? -Of course.
Bender: Hey, you guys are good. How the hell do you do that?
Bender Visual Gag Character Comedy Callback