Bender undergoes a risky treatment to make himself gigantic.
WAR
39.8
Wins Above Replacement
“Destroy Tall Monsters” ranks #96 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 77.4 — Great. The episode packs 56 scored jokes at 3.8 per minute, averaging 6.9 on craft and 6.5 on impact, with Professor landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Scruffy · Leela: Done broke my spine. Nice rack, though. / Thank you, Scruffy.
Professor: Twice around Central Park. Loser has to make the winner's Medicare copayments for a year!
Street racer · Professor: Yo, Wrinkles, you got big glasses. I'm gonna call you the Professor. / What?! No one calls me that!
Minx Callback Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Callback Professor: Your mouth just wrote a PayPal transfer request that your butt has insufficient funds to honor!
All Jokes — 56 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Bender · Fry: Fry did it! / Did what? / Just practicing for later.
Bender Fry Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fry · Professor: What's the matter compressor? / Nothing's the matter, Fry, now that I've turbocharged the matter compressor.
Leela: Yes, but I feel the nafety for safety.
Leela Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Professor · Leela: Oh, fuff! I don't get all up in your business when you upgrade your bazooms! / That's because my bazooms don't put anyone's life in danger!
Scruffy · Leela: Done broke my spine. Nice rack, though. / Thank you, Scruffy.
Professor: You wrecked my dear ship, Bessie?! I just finished naming her.
Bender Callback Running Gag ★ Rewatch Callback Professor: Here I comes to save the days.
Professor: Oh, what the heck-- a hot rod!
Sal: Ah... time for the mornings meltsdowns.
Sal Character Comedy Observational Professor · Sal: I'll pay you back, I swear. / Yeah, yeah, I heards its befores.
Sal · Professor: Whoa, whoa, whoa! Whats the...? / In your face, sucker! Also, I'll send you a check for the parts I stole!
Sal: Okays, ya honest young punk!
Sal Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Professor: Step off, you greasers! I was street-racing back when ships still ran on moonwater!
Professor: Your mouth just wrote a PayPal transfer request that your butt has insufficient funds to honor!
Street racer · Professor: Yo, it is on! / Before that, it was off.
Professor: Twice around Central Park. Loser has to make the winner's Medicare copayments for a year!
Street racer: Aw, man, I can't afford no Medicare copayments!
Street racer · Professor: Yo, Wrinkles, you got big glasses. I'm gonna call you the Professor. / What?! No one calls me that!
Street racer · Minx: Girl, he don't own you! / Yeah, but he saved me from my abusive father. Not physically abusive; verbally. It's a long story I can't get into while we're spinning out.
Unknown character: Ow! Paper cut!
Street racer: Yo, Professor, if your ship's so dope, why are those cops on your tail like my dad's verbal abuse on my psyche.
Professor: Sayonara, Tokyo driftwood!
Police officers: I can't believe we lost 'em again. I need a drink. / Nah. We're on the job. Let's just go pepper-spray some homeless families.
Street racer: In my case, it was verbal abuse. / That's in the rearview mirror, baby. It wasn't what he said that hurt, it was what was left unsaid.
Professor: Again, no idea what that means.
Hermes: Our safe new ship has arrived, and it's gonna knock your socks on... where they belong.
Fry · Hermes: Hey, wait. If I'm backwards, I can't see out the windshield. / There is no windshield.
Fry · Hermes: At least there's a cup holder. / That's an arm holder.
Bender: ♪ Bender is bored, Bender is bored ♪ ♪ Bender, Bender, Bender... ♪
Bender Character Comedy Running Gag Street racer: Like my aunt's neighbor is a hoarder. Stack of magazines fell on her cat. It's hard, you know?
Professor: Ain't no thing but a hyperchicken wing.
Fry · Professor: But we didn't have an adventure. This is a delivery company. We need less adventures, not more adventures.
Street racer: Yo, soccer mom, speed it up! Move that lunch bucket!
Professor: Because unlike you, I'm cool. I drive fast late at night when I should be sleeping.
Street racers · Professor: That one-eyed housewife called you out! / When and where, PTA?
Street racer: Möbius drag strip, man.
Leela · Professor: One more lap! / Nah, half a lap. You forgot, on a Möbius strip, two laps is one lap.
Professor: You kids and your topology.
Professor · Street racer: Now who's in the lead?! / Seriously, I have no idea.
Hermes · Amy: No, no. I choose to believe they're alive in some other dimension. Screaming in agony. / I hope so.
Leela · Professor: Why do I look like a stupid cartoon character? / I feel like I lost weight. All of it.
Leela · Professor: Oh, no! Like Flatland? / Call it what you will. The point is, the new Shrek movie won't look nearly as good.
Street racer: I've been... emotionally scarred by years of unspoken verbal abuse.
Professor: Well, that's the same, but other things are different.
Fry · Leela · Professor: Ow! / Ow! / You can't step past in this dimension. You have to step around.
Flatland King: Fourth dimension?! I can't picture that! You're dumb.
Fry: Hey, how come I can't swallow?
Flatland King: Third dimension? I can't picture that! You're dumb.
Flatland beings: There's nothing funny about science! If there can be an X-axis and a Y-axis, why not a Z-axis? He's opening our minds to new ideas! Kill him!
Professor: Oh, if only Minx could see that. Then she'd see me as more than just a father figure.
Fry: My bowels returned at a bad time!
Fry Character Comedy Callback Bender: I'm gonna burns them ups.
Minx Callback Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Callback