Fry discovers his bank account interest has made him a billionaire and buys the one thing the year 3000 doesn't have, anchovies.
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“A Fishful Of Dollars” ranks #47 of 137 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 79.6 — Elite. The episode packs 59 scored jokes at 3.2 per minute, averaging 6.9 on craft and 6.7 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
Bank Teller: At an average of 2¼ percent interest over a period of 1,000 years that comes to... $4.3 billion.
Fry: Well, sure, but not in our dreams only on TV and radio and in magazines and movies and at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and T-shirts and bananas and written on the sky but not in dreams. No, sirree.
Fry Escalation Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Zoidberg: Stop! Stop! I admit it. My people ate them all. We kept saying, 'One more can't hurt.' And then they were gone. We're sorry!
Bender: I don't know. I've had cow.
Bender Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement Mom: If anyone ever got hold of anchovy DNA they could chop out the oil-making gene stick it in a bunch of third world kids and bam! Cheap, effective robot oil
Mom Dark/Subversive Escalation Standout Moments
Fry: Well, sure, but not in our dreams only on TV and radio and in magazines and movies and at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and T-shirts and bananas and written on the sky but not in dreams. No, sirree.
Fry Escalation Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Bank Teller: At an average of 2¼ percent interest over a period of 1,000 years that comes to... $4.3 billion.
Zoidberg: Stop! Stop! I admit it. My people ate them all. We kept saying, 'One more can't hurt.' And then they were gone. We're sorry!
All Jokes — 59 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Fry: Uh, excuse me. I missed a few lectures. Uh, what subject is this? Ancient Egyptian Algebra. What a nightmare!
Fry Character Comedy Observational Professor: Mr. Fry, are those your underpants?
Professor · Advertisement: Young man, I think it's time you learned a lesson... about Lightspeed brand briefs.
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Professor: The ad gets into your brain just like this liquid gets into this egg. Although in reality it's not liquid, but gamma radiation.
Professor Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement Bender: Nobody's forcing you to buy anything. Yeah. I mean, we all had commercials in our dreams but you don't see us running off to buy brand-name merchandise at low, low prices.
Bender Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Salesperson: What a lovely face. We just need to draw attention away from the eye area.
Fry · Salesperson: Can I try these on before I buy them? I'm afraid I can't let you open the package but you can try on the demo pair.
Fry Visual Gag Reaction Beat Fry · Bender: Hey, Bender. Great new sweater. Uh, 'new'? What sweater? I came in with it! I don't know you people.
Cashier: Visa hasn't existed for 500 years. American Express? 600 years. Discover Card? Mmm, sorry, we don't take Discover.
Fry: What kind of world is this where they advertise things not everybody can afford?
Fry Irony/Sarcasm Observational Fry · Leela: Hey, who's the rocker jockey? Guh! It's Mom the world's most huggable industrialist.
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Bender Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Bender: I say, I'm sure there's... That is, I'm sure there's... a very... reasonable...
Bender Physical/Slapstick Escalation Fry: I'd love to chip in, but Bender stole my wallet.
Fry Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Fry: Sure. It's the price of a cheese pizza and a large soda back where I used to work Pinucci's Pizza.
Fry Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Leela: Maybe you don't understand just how rich he is. In fact, I think I better put on a monocle.
Leela Visual Gag Escalation Fry · Pizza Guy: Anchovies. You know those little headless fish? Does not compute.
Leela · Zoidberg: Just about the time your people arrived on earth wasn't it, Zoidberg? I'm not on trial here.
Leela: Well, aside from causing eye cancer these things had a lousy, low-definition picture.
Leela Escalation Deadpan/Understatement Bender: On a TV like this, I bet you couldn't even make out my obscene tattoo.
Bender Visual Gag Character Comedy Leela: Who was this Ted Danson and why would you pay $10,000 for his skeleton?
Leela Absurdist Dark/Subversive Fry: I have an idea for a sitcom.
Fry Meta/Self-Referential Deadpan/Understatement Fry · Auctioneer · Leela: Don't tell me how to spend my money. 50, going once, twice... $75,000. Oh, my God. It's Mom.
Fry · Auctioneer: One jillion dollars. Sir, that's not a number. Oh. In that case 50 million.
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Fry: I like big butts and I cannot lie # You other brothers can't deny
Fry Callback Character Comedy Callback Fry: I could if you hadn't turned on the lights and shut off the stereo.
Fry Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Leela: Now, are you going to come to the squid fights with us or sit here wallowing in your prehistoric junk?
Fry · Bender: I finally found what I need to be happy and it's not friends... it's things. I'm a thing.
Fry Bender Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Leela: My ponytail's caught in the door.
Leela Physical/Slapstick Visual Gag Mom: Holy crap, that bastard's itchy.
Mom Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Mom · Walt · Larry: Walt, cream soda. Right away, Mother. Larry, get your mother a cream soda. But Mom said... You heard me.
Mom: You don't have to do the math to know that's a buttload of oil.
Mom Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Mom: If anyone ever got hold of anchovy DNA they could chop out the oil-making gene stick it in a bunch of third world kids and bam! Cheap, effective robot oil
Mom Dark/Subversive Escalation Mom Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Walt · Mom: Mother, you are one clever old scag. And don't you forget it.
Walt Mom Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Mom: Now I'm off to some charity B.S. For knocked-up teenage sluts.
Mom Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Walt · Fry: We're here to tighten your drains. Ow!
Walt Fry Wordplay/Pun Physical/Slapstick Fake Pinucci: No, you only 'dreamed' you were in the year 3000.
Pamela Anderson's Head: Okay, but I'm only doing this so people will take my head seriously as an actress.
Pamela Anderson's Head: Then he doesn't know I won the Oscar? Nope. Crap!
Fry: 10.77 same as my PIN number.
Fry Callback Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Callback Pamela Anderson · Fry: Thanks a billion. More like 4.3 billion.
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Repo Man Callback Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Callback Professor: Because I dared to dream of my own race of atomic monsters Atomic supermen with octagonal-shaped bodies that suck blood out of you
Mom: Listen, you little bastard... I control the robot oil business... and I won't let you ruin me.
Mom Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Callback Fry: You might as well put that checkbook away because I've discovered something even more important my friends, and they aren't worth even a penny to me.
Fry Character Comedy Misdirection Mom: Holy hell! You're going to eat them? Oh! Well, just make sure you eat them all. You're a growing boy. Toodle-oo! Dumb ass.
Mom Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Everyone · Fry: Gross! Ick! Mm. Eh, no one likes them at first... but they'll grow on you.
Bender: I don't know. I've had cow.
Bender Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement Zoidberg: That heavenly stench.
Fry · Zoidberg: There aren't anymore, and there never will be. More!
