A big piece of garbage that was released a thousand years ago is now on the way to Earth to destroy it. After Fry, Leela and Bender fail on placing a bomb on it, the city has to build another big piece of garbage, yet that may be a problem since trash doesn't exist in year 3000.
WAR
52.8
Wins Above Replacement
“A Big Piece Of Garbage” ranks #61 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 79.4 — Elite. The episode packs 76 scored jokes at 4.3 per minute, averaging 6.8 on craft and 6.6 on impact, with Farnsworth landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Wernstrom: I've waited 100 years for this. I give your invention the worst grade imaginable: An A-minus-minus!
Farnsworth · Fry: Astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all. -What's it called now? -Urectum.
Farnsworth: The odor travels past this coffee stain here. Around the olive pit... and into this cigar burn. And this appears to be a... doodle of myself as a cowboy.
Fry · Farnsworth: Who cares? That would take centuries. Exactly. It's none of our concern. That's the 20th-century spirit!
Farnsworth: Good news, everyone. Tomorrow, you'll make a delivery to Ebola Nine, the virus planet.
Farnsworth Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 76 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Farnsworth: Good news, everyone. Tomorrow, you'll make a delivery to Ebola Nine, the virus planet.
Farnsworth Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Unknown · Farnsworth: -Why can't they go today? -Tonight's special.
Unknown · Farnsworth: -Sounds boring. -Oh, my, yes. But not this year...
Farnsworth: -Sometimes it's off by seconds... what with free will and all.
Unknown: Dibs on his CD player!
Unknown Dark/Subversive Reaction Beat Wernstrom: Look who's showing his wrinkled face.
Wernstrom: Leave science to the 120-year-olds.
Farnsworth: I invented things when you were barely turning senile.
Wernstrom: A-minus? No one gives Ogden Wernstrom an A-minus!
Farnsworth: I'm sorry, but penmanship counts.
Farnsworth: And here it is, slightly over 99 years later and still no revenge.
Bender: I've been perusing your fortified wine list... and I've selected the '71 Hobo's Delight... the '57 Chateau Par-Tay, and the '66 Thunder Chevitz.
Bender Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Waiter · Bender: Exquisite choices, sir. And mix them all together in a big jug.
Ron Popeil: Welcome to this year's symposium. I'm your host, Ron Popeil... inventor of Mr. Microphone, the Spray-on Toupee... and the technology to keep heads alive in jars.
Ron Popeil: Wait, there's more.
Wernstrom: Fetch! [fish swims away] Now, sit. I said sit! Bad fish!
Young Scientist: I hope it's not as lame as last year's Death Clock.
Old Scientist: We laughed until our teeth fell out. Come along, Cinnamon.
Farnsworth: I have to invent something new in the next 10 minutes. Perhaps some sort of Death Clock!
Wernstrom: Pencils down, prune-face.
Farnsworth: We all know telescopes allow us to see distant objects... but what if we want to smell those objects?
Farnsworth: Thanks to my new invention... the Smell-O-Scope.
Farnsworth: The odor travels past this coffee stain here. Around the olive pit... and into this cigar burn. And this appears to be a... doodle of myself as a cowboy.
Crowd · Farnsworth: [CROWD LAUGHS] Oh, my. [CROWD LAUGHS]
Wernstrom: I've waited 100 years for this. I give your invention the worst grade imaginable: An A-minus-minus!
Farnsworth: Perhaps 149 is just too old to be a scientist.
Fry: There were many times in my century when I never gave up. Never. Are you even listening to me? Oh, I give up.
Fry Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Farnsworth: No, I remembered that I built one last year!
Fry · Leela: As long as you don't make me smell Uranus. -I don't get it.
Farnsworth · Fry: Astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all. -What's it called now? -Urectum.
Farnsworth · Fry: Here, let me locate it for you. No, I think I'll just smell around over here.
Farnsworth: Remarkable! A stench so foul it's right off the funkometer!
Bender: Oh! Name it after me!
Bender Character Comedy Reaction Beat Bender: Well, let's get looting. [BENDER WHISTLES]
Bender Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Narrator: New Jersey was full.
Narrator Observational Deadpan/Understatement Narrator: Not even that really filthy one. You know the one I mean.
Narrator: Some experts claim the ball may return to Earth. But their concerns were dismissed as 'depressing.'
Fry · Leela: You got that off the Internet? In my day it was only used to download porn. -Actually, that's still true.
Professor · Leela: Now that the garbage is in space... perhaps you can help me with my sexual inhibitions. -With gusto.
Fry · Leela · Bender: -What do you do with it? -We recycle. -Robots are made from old beer cans. -And this can's made from old robots.
Fry · Leela: Give me a break. What do you do with it? We recycle.
Leela · Bender: Robots are made from old beer cans. And this can's made from old robots.
Leela: That sandwich is made of discarded sandwiches.
Fry: The future is disgusting.
Fry Observational Reaction Beat Leela · Fry: -Those are from the 19th century. -They probably just copied us.
Mayor Poopenmeyer: I hope this isn't a fraud like global warming or second-hand smoke.
Wernstrom: That smell could be anything... a faulty stench coil, cheese on the lens, who knows?
Assistant · Recorded Voice: The transmission ends there, sir. [RECORDED VOICE GAGS] No, I guess it keeps going. [RECORDED VOICE GAGS AND STOPS] There we go.
Farnsworth · Mayor: -Do you mean him or me? -Him!
Linda · Morbo: -I'm glad we live here in Los Angeles. -Morbo agrees. [NEWSCASTERS LAUGH]
Scientist: But suppose we sent a crew to plant an explosive on the fault line... between this mass of coffee grounds and this deposit of AOL floppy disks?
Crew Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement Bender Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Fry Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Fry: It's not filth. It's a monument to 20th-century achievements.
Fry Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bart Doll · Bender: Eat my shorts. -Okay! Mmm, shorts!
Leela: This was garbage when it was new. Let's blow it up already.
Leela Observational Setup/Punchline Leela: There's your problem. The professor put the counter on upside down.
Leela Visual Gag Character Comedy Leela: That idiot! It wasn't set for 25 minutes, it was set for 52 seconds.
Bender: Okay, keep your space pants on. I'll take care of this.
Bender Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Bender: Hey! You'll put somebody's eye out! Okay, keep your space pants on. I'll take care of this.
Bender Character Comedy Callback News Anchor: All in all, this is one day Mittens the Kitten won't soon forget.
Morbo: Kittens give Morbo gas.
Morbo Character Comedy Absurdist Fry: And when my toilet broke, I just went straight in the garbage can.
Wernstrom: Lab access and five grad students, at least three Chinese.
Wernstrom: What plan? I'm set for life. Au revoir, suckers.
Mayor · Assistant: -That rat! Do something! -I would, but he's got tenure.
Rich Person: Stephanie, cancel the maid. Have her come tomorrow.
Farnsworth: Good Lord! A second ball of garbage! That just might work!
Leela: You can't just find garbage in the streets. City's been garbage-free for 500 years!
Fry: This Slurm can? Now it's garbage. These papers? Garbage. This picture of your wife? Pure garbage.
Fry Escalation Character Comedy Fry: Get that robot some more beer!
Fry Character Comedy Callback Farnsworth · Someone: . . .three, four, five, six. . . Just fire the damn thing.
Wernstrom: I'll get you, Farnsworth, even if it takes another 100 years!
Leela · Farnsworth · Fry: Should we be celebrating? What if it returns to Earth like the first one? -Who cares? That would take centuries. -Exactly. It's none of our concern. -That's the 20th-century spirit!
Fry · Farnsworth: Who cares? That would take centuries. Exactly. It's none of our concern. That's the 20th-century spirit!