During a Beastie Boys concert, Bender runs into a high school buddy, Fender. He invites him to a party, which turns out to be robots getting high off of electricity, or "jacking on". After one try, Bender is hooked.
WAR
47.5
Wins Above Replacement
“Hell Is Other Robots” ranks #62 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 79.4 — Elite. The episode packs 54 scored jokes at 3.1 per minute, averaging 7.1 on craft and 6.7 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
Leela: Bender, we didn't mind your drinking or your kleptomania or your pornography ring. In fact, that's why we loved you.
Leela Character Comedy Escalation Robot Devil: You'll only win a smaller silver fiddle. Also, I guess I'll kill one of you... Him.
Fry · Bender: I know big Vinnie said he was giving me the kiss of death... but I still think he was gay. Did he use his tongue? A little.
Fender: Hey, Bender, why don't we ditch these organ sacks and hit the real party?
Fender Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender: Come on, universe! You big, mostly empty wuss! Give me all the juice you got!
Bender Character Comedy Escalation All Jokes — 54 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, here to lay down some old, old, incredibly old school beats, the Beastie Boys!
Professor Farnsworth: They're busting mad rhymes with an 80% success rate. I believe that qualifies as ill. At least from a technical standpoint.
Fry: Will you guys shut up? I'm trying to look cool.
Fry Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bender: Tonight we're going to party like it's 1999... again.
Bender · Fender: Hey, Bender. Hey, Fender.
Bender: You still working at Jack in the Box?
Beastie Boys · Fry: That was a thousand years ago. Now we got seven. Cool. Can I borrow the new ones? And a couple of blank tapes?
Fender: Hey, Bender, why don't we ditch these organ sacks and hit the real party?
Fender Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender: Hey, what kind of party is this? There's no booze and only one hooker.
Bender Character Comedy Observational Bender: Uh, hey, I'm no square... but isn't that counter-indicated by my operations manual?
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bender: Well, if jacking on will make strangers think I'm cool... I'll do it.
Bender Character Comedy Observational Fender · Bender: Easy, baby, you don't want to get hooked on this stuff. Ah, no need to worry. I don't have an addictive personality.
Bender Character Comedy Escalation Bender: Hey, do I preach to you when you're lying stoned in the gutter? No. So beat it!
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Fry · Bender: Who was that guy? Your mama. Now shut up and drag me to work.
Hermes: Our electric bill is climbing faster than a green snake up a sugarcane.
Hermes Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Hermes · Fry: If I didn't know better, I'd almost think he was abusing electricity. Bender? No way. I definitely would have noticed something.
Leela · Bender: Bender, why are you spending so much time in the bathroom? Are you jacking on in there? No! Don't come in!
Fry · Bender: I know big Vinnie said he was giving me the kiss of death... but I still think he was gay. Did he use his tongue? A little.
Bender: Come on, universe! You big, mostly empty wuss! Give me all the juice you got!
Bender Character Comedy Escalation Leela: Bender, we didn't mind your drinking or your kleptomania or your pornography ring. In fact, that's why we loved you.
Leela Character Comedy Escalation Fry: Just like when my friend Richie swore he wasn't taking drugs... and then he sold me my mom's VCR. And then later, I found out he was taking drugs.
Fry Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Preacher Bot: I see a lot of fancy robots here today... made of real shiny metal. But that don't impress the robot devil, no, sir.
Preacher Bot: he's going to plug his infernal modem in the wall... belching smoke and flame, and he's going to download you straight to robot hell.
Hermes · Bender: This is a witch hunt. Oh, what a beautiful morning, oh, what a beautiful day.
Fry · Bender: Great. He's whacked out on electricity again. No, I'm whacked out on life.
Fry: Religion? Is this another scam to get free yarmulkes?
Fry Character Comedy Observational Bender: Then you'll all come to my exceedingly long... un-air-conditioned baptism ceremony.
Bender Character Comedy Escalation Robot congregation: Tell it, preacher! That equals true.
Preacher Bot: Press any key to continue.
Bender: Uh, while you're at it... could you touch up this seam?
Bender Character Comedy Observational Bender: No poison for us, thanks. I'll stick with good old mineral oil.
Bender Character Comedy Observational Fry: I'm hungrier than a green snake in a sugarcane field.
Fry Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Bender: One-zero-zero-zero... one-zero-one-zero-one-zero-one-zero-one... zero-zero-one... zero-one-one-zero-zero-one... two.
Bender · Fry: I'd like to give everyone hugs. Come here, Fry. Oh, uh, but I don't want to.
Leela · Bender: What are you doing to my ship? Sanctifying it. There. That ought to convert a few tailgaters.
Professor Farnsworth: If only he had joined a mainstream religion... like Oprah-ism or voodoo.
Fry · Leela: Bender's stupid religion is driving me nuts. / Amen.
Bender: But those girls don't wear cases. You can see their bare circuits.
Bender Observational Wordplay/Pun Bender: Thou shalt not snatch.
Bender Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Bender Character Comedy Escalation Bender: You know, as a major Hollywood director... I'll be holding auditions tonight for my next movie.
Bender Character Comedy Observational Leela · Fry: What in hell happened to Bender? Well, he didn't check out. The ashtray's still here.
Beelzebot: No, Bender. Robot hell is quite real. Here's our brochure.
Amy: They shut it down after all those people... caught salmonella from the flume ride.
Amy Dark/Subversive Observational Fry · Professor Farnsworth: Who would have thought hell would really exist? And that it would be in New Jersey?
Bender Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Leela · Robot Devil: Wouldn't a solid gold fiddle weigh hundreds of pounds... and sound crummy? Well, it's mostly for show.
Robot Devil: You'll only win a smaller silver fiddle. Also, I guess I'll kill one of you... Him.
Bender: Well, we're boned.
Bender Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Robot Devil: Stop them! They cheated!
Bender · Fry: I could if you dropped the stupid gold violin. Oh, sorry.
Bender: I could if you dropped the stupid gold violin.
Bender Character Comedy Observational Leela · Bender: Uh, do you think you could be... just a little less evil than that? I don't know. Do you think you could survive a 700-foot fall?