Fry is heartbroken to learn Leela's soulmate is someone other than him.
WAR
67.9
Wins Above Replacement
“Fifty Shades Of Green” ranks #10 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 84.5 — Elite. The episode packs 70 scored jokes at 4.1 per minute, averaging 7.1 on craft and 6.9 on impact, with Lrrr landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Lrrr · Jrrr: 'You shot your hamster.' 'I told you, that was suicide.'
Lrrr Jrrr Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Lrrr · Guard: 'Love harder!' 'We can't, sir. The men have been hurt too often.'
Lrrr: 'Well, let's work up to that one.'
Lrrr Deadpan/Understatement Dark/Subversive Jrrr · Fry: 'It's powered by love.' 'Aww.' 'Okay, stop loving me so much so we can land.'
Bender: 'Oh, it's just not the same without the muffled screams.'
Bender Dark/Subversive Character Comedy All Jokes — 70 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ TV Announcer: TV parody of procedural shows: 'Some cops can read minds. Did you do it or not? I'm not a mind reader.'
TV Announcer: 'I could solve this crime if only I had personally watched it happen.'
TV Gabriel: Angel Gabriel refusing to help cop: 'Nah, man, I ain't seen nothing for no cop.'
TV Detective: 'There's only one way to know who committed this crime. I'll just have to... find out.'
Lrrr: Lrrr watching TV: 'This truly is the golden age of television.'
Lrrr Irony/Sarcasm Observational Lrrr: 'Right now, NBC needs my love more than you do.'
Lrrr Character Comedy Absurdist Ndnd: 'Either help the boy, or go outside and degauss the lawn!'
Ndnd Absurdist Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Lrrr: 'Well, let's work up to that one.'
Lrrr Deadpan/Understatement Dark/Subversive Lrrr: 'That is for Grrrl Scouts! Men bring the skulls home, women arrange them.'
Professor: 'Good news, everyone! I'm in terrible pain.'
Professor Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Professor: 'my arthritis will make me seize up like a dried monkey carcass.'
Fry: 'I've seen those. In the Great Monkey Desert.'
Fry Absurdist Character Comedy Morbo: 'We interrupt your TV being off for this special bulletin.'
Morbo Wordplay/Pun Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jrrr: Jrrr's nervous invasion attempt: 'Um, hi? I-I'm Jrrr, of the planet Omicron Persei 8. I just wanted to know-- well, I'm here to invade your planet?'
Jrrr Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Jrrr: I just wanted to know-- well, I'm here to invade your planet?
Nixon · Agnew: Nixon and Agnew laughing at cute invasion before gun powers up and 'Uh-oh.'
Lrrr: 'before I get my expletives deleted!'
Lrrr Meta/Self-Referential Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Lrrr: 'His bowels aren't gonna disem themselves.'
Lrrr Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Lrrr: 'Just pick something and blow it up so I can get home in time for The Finder-Outer.'
Lrrr Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Nixon: 'He killed my second-to-last Agnew.'
Nixon Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Nixon: 'Clone of Agnew is gone, killed in his clomping shoes by ruthless Omicronians.'
Nixon Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Lrrr: Aw, crap, he's on every channel!
Lrrr: 'Where's my Hot in Cleveland?' during embargo announcement
Lrrr Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Leela: 'If we want to breathe sulfuric acid and get our heads torn off by giant lizards, we can always go to Gary, Indiana.'
Leela Setup/Punchline Observational Professor: 'Even I would never send you to Gary, Indiana.'
Bender: 'Sweet toke of Ocracoke, this stuff's the Omichronic!'
Bender Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Leela · Bender: 'Then engage deflector shields.' 'That's from TV, Geordi.'
Leela Bender Meta/Self-Referential Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Leela · Bender: 'Well, what sort of stealth technology do we have? A can of paint.'
Military Officer: 'Home, eh? That's where I live. Let them through the blockade.'
Zoidberg: 'Screwed again, my friend.' (Zoidberg's reaction to being left out of buddy system)
Fry · Bender: 'I think it's leaking enchantment.' 'That's not enchantment, it's the herbs!'
Professor: 'Everyone, start filling these dime bags.'
Bender: 'First Law of Robotics, baby.'
Bender Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender: 'I saw him in the, uh, kitchen. With Dinah. You know, the dyno-matic food-service robot.'
Bender Character Comedy Escalation Omicronian TV: Omicronian TV show with canned laughter and grunting
Fry · Jrrr: Fry eating Jrrr's feces thinking it's candy
Fry Jrrr Physical/Slapstick Cringe/Discomfort Fry · Jrrr: You're an alien? Do you speak English? English?
Fry: 'Feces pieces? Blech! You must be hungry. Really hungry.'
Fry Escalation Character Comedy Fry: but I'm kind of picky.
Jrrr Deadpan/Understatement Jrrr · Fry: 'I'm gonna call you 'T.' For terrestrial?' 'No, turd-eater.'
Jrrr Fry Setup/Punchline Misdirection Callback Jrrr: '(mocking) 'cause he can't watch television.'
Jrrr Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Fry · Jrrr: Both characters simultaneously saying Lrrr's full title: 'Ruler of the planet Omicron Persei 8.'
Fry Jrrr Running Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Bender: He went out to buy you flowers. Whatever kind you like best. 'Cause he loves you and crap.
Bender: Fry is one guy I'd definitely never abandon.
Jrrr: Jrrr showing Fry weapons: 'This is my fleam. You use it to peel the skin off your enemies layer by layer till they die or whatever.'
Jrrr Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fry: My friend Bender, who I'll never see again.
Bender: Bender talking to Fry's bed: 'I didn't abandon you! You wandered off! Stop judging me, Fry-bed!'
Bender Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Bender: 'Oh, it's just not the same without the muffled screams.'
Bender Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Fry: Fry's voicemail: 'we're out getting drunk at the Olive Garden'
Fry Absurdist Character Comedy Bender: Bender manipulating voicemail: 'I'm... drunk... right now. So just leave. I love you. Olive... you.'
Bender Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Bender · Professor: Bender's voicemail manipulation: 'Mice... Mice... Myself... Elf... Elf.' 'Elves are back.'
Jrrr: 'Watch out! Sorry. This planet has a moon problem.'
Jrrr Absurdist Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Jrrr · Fry: 'It's powered by love.' 'Aww.' 'Okay, stop loving me so much so we can land.'
Bender: Those are the letters that Fry knows!
Lrrr: 'Jrrr, how do I watch a funny on the YouTube?'
Lrrr Character Comedy Observational Lrrr: 'I thought I told you to kill those foos.'
Lrrr Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Lrrr · Jrrr: 'You shot your hamster.' 'I told you, that was suicide.'
Lrrr Jrrr Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Fry: 'The week I spent hiding in your closet, eating your turds, was the best week of my life.'
Fry Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Callback Omicronian Guard: 'He's escaping on a bicycle powered by love. Which is an ordinary thing on this planet.'
Lrrr · Guard: 'Love harder!' 'We can't, sir. The men have been hurt too often.'
Drrr: 'I could, but he'd only live another 80 years at most. The humane thing is to put him to sleep.'
Drrr Setup/Punchline Absurdist ★ Rewatch Lrrr: 'It's not lame, it's lamé.'
Lrrr Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Jrrr: which is delicious, by the way; I've been drinking it every day--
Lrrr: 'which is delicious, by the way; I've been drinking it every day'
Lrrr Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Drrr: 'Good news! Nobody has to kill him after all. Because he already died!'
Drrr Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive Jrrr: 'At least his butt is.' (Fry's glowing posterior indicating he's alive)
Jrrr Visual Gag Absurdist Callback Professor: 'The electromagnetic intensity of the robot's friendship is causing the herbs in his bowels to bioluminesce with love. Probably.'
Bender: 'Stuck on another delivery that he undertook on his own.'
Bender Character Comedy Escalation Leela: 'Remember that make out session in that dark closet? You were like a machine.'
Leela Cringe/Discomfort Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch