Delivery Boy Philip J. Fry is promoted to Emperor after accidentally drinking his fluid-based predecessor.
WAR
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Wins Above Replacement
“My Three Suns” ranks #123 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 74.6 — Great. The episode packs 36 scored jokes at 2.2 per minute, averaging 6.8 on craft and 6.6 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
Fry: Fry's mangled fable: grasshopper burying acorns while octopus watches TV, ending with octopus getting race car
Fry Absurdist Misdirection ★ Rewatch Fry: Phew! That's a load off my mind
Fry Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender · Fry: 'There is no God, and your human ideals are laughable!' 'Phew! That's a load off my mind.'
Bender Fry Dark/Subversive Misdirection ★ Rewatch Bender · Fry: Bender's existential attack: 'Everyone you knew or loved in the 20th century is dead.' Fry: 'These things happen.'
Bender Fry Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Fry: After tasting Bender's salty cooking: 'That's the saltiest thing I ever tasted. I once ate a bowl of salt.'
Fry Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 36 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Bender: Bender singing 'Going through the car wash' while apparently going through some kind of wash
Bender Absurdist Character Comedy Elzar: Elzar's cooking show mentions 'give it a blast from your spice weasel. Bam!'
Elzar Absurdist Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Fry · Bender: Fry asks what Bender's watching, Bender denies cooking show and claims 'It was porno. Yeah, that's it!'
Leela · Bender: When Leela says she likes cooking too, Bender immediately calls her 'Pansy'
Fry: Fry complains 'You call that a couch? I demand a pillow!'
Leela: Leela points out Bender is 'a robot without a sense of taste'
Leela Observational Irony/Sarcasm Bender: Bender retorts 'I wouldn't talk about taste, wearing a lime-green tank top'
Bender Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Alien vendor: 'Z is better. It is two more than X.' regarding Z-ray vs X-ray
Alien vendor · Fry: Vendor warns Fry 'You're not in the 20th century. You don't know how things work' to which Fry responds 'I'm not a kid'
Fry · Aliens: Fry claims 'I grew up in this city. These are my people' then awkwardly greets aliens with 'What up?' 'Word.'
Fry: When told swamp root 'makes you irresistible to the opposite sex', Fry says 'That's ridiculous. I'll take two pounds'
Fry Character Comedy Misdirection Fry: About purple slug causing diarrhea, Fry says 'Either one is fine'
Fry Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Fry · Organ dealer: The rapid-fire organ trading scene with lungs, gills, and 'Can't imagine why I would' need lungs
Professor · Fry: Professor's 'Good news' followed by Fry saying 'I don't like the sound of that!'
Professor: Professor's escalating zone descriptions: 'Death Zone', 'Zone of No Return', 'Galaxy of Terror'
Fry: After tasting Bender's salty cooking: 'That's the saltiest thing I ever tasted. I once ate a bowl of salt.'
Fry Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Leela: Leela's extreme reaction to Bender's cooking: 'Oh, dear God!'
Leela Reaction Beat Escalation Bender: Bender's defensive 'The salt level was 10% less than a lethal dose'
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist Fry: Fry burping after claiming innocence about drinking the emperor
Fry Physical/Slapstick Irony/Sarcasm Fry: Fry's logic: 'Chances were equally good it was an emperor'
Fry Absurdist Character Comedy Fry · Bender: Fry choosing Bender as prime minister: 'In your face, Gorgak'
Fry · Bender: Harem selection scene with Bender's reactions to Fry's choices
Bender: 'They are mild. You're soaking in one right now.'
Bender Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Flof: Flof's stand-up routine about people from different suns making different sounds
Flof Observational Absurdist Fry: Fry's response about reign length: 'I knew you wouldn't ask unless it was really high or low'
Fry Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fry: Fry's mangled fable: grasshopper burying acorns while octopus watches TV, ending with octopus getting race car
Fry Absurdist Misdirection ★ Rewatch Fry: Fry's coronation: 'What up?' instead of formal oath opening
Fry Cringe/Discomfort Callback Callback Bender · Fry: Bender trying to make Fry cry: 'You're a pimple on society's ass! You'll never amount to anything!' Fry: 'I was emperor of a planet.'
Bender · Fry: Bender's existential attack: 'Everyone you knew or loved in the 20th century is dead.' Fry: 'These things happen.'
Bender Fry Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Bender · Fry: 'There is no God, and your human ideals are laughable!' 'Phew! That's a load off my mind.'
Bender Fry Dark/Subversive Misdirection ★ Rewatch Fry: Phew! That's a load off my mind
Fry Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender: Bender's collect call: 'I won't give my name to you'
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist Emperor Bont: Bont's elaborate deception about Leela being dead followed by 'I said you were dead so he'd cry out the emperor'
Leela · Emperor Bont: Leela's confused response: 'What are you talking about?' followed by Bont's explanation
Everyone: Everyone helping Fry cry by hurting him
Someone · Amy: 'How we doing, Amy?' 'We're 1/10 of the way there.'