Bender is sent off to Zapp Brannigan's camp for screen addicts.
WAR
37.5
Wins Above Replacement
“Scared Screenless” ranks #65 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 79.2 — Elite. The episode packs 46 scored jokes at 3.1 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.6 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
Professor: Guess what. Hell is real. Oh, good, it works. Toodle-oo!
Professor Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Bender: Yes! Suck it, Gilgamesh!
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Bender: Fry did it?! Ow! You're a horrible person! And your carelessness nearly cost the life of my best friend. You.
Bender Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Flame Being: A billion years ago, I attempted to overthrow the democratically elected alderman from my district.
Fry: He would never burn something down to get attention. For insurance money? Yes. Revenge? You bet. To give an autumn night that crisp chestnutty smell? Absolutely. But not for fame, women or thrills.
Fry Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 46 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Bender · Fry: They said it couldn't be done, but here we are, stealing an unlimited supply of birthday grade helium from the unsuspected moon. Um... sun.
Bender: At night it's called the moon.
Bender Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Miner · Bender: Mine collapse! Mine collapse! So? Mine collapse, too.
Fry: Won't that sear our tender flesh, sealing in the juices?
Fry Dark/Subversive Observational Professor: You clearly weren't paying attention to what I'm about to say.
Professor: Guess what. Hell is real. Oh, good, it works. Toodle-oo!
Professor Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Leela · Miners: Stop laughing. Help is on the way! In the meantime, you should sing a song to keep your spirits up.
Hermes: I'll stay here and be in charge of not dying.
Hermes Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Bender: Just one more fire between me and a well-earned nap.
Bender Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Linda · Morbo: The heroic robot, with no concern for his own safety, has bravely charged back into the mine. What else is on?
Bender: I am? Huh, I always strongly suspected I was one of those.
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Reporter · Bender: An actress? A celebrity chef? Stay tuned for the next 14 rescues. 14?
Morbo: Morbo is not weeping. He has a... a parasite in his eye.
Morbo Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Mayor: But we only have the one medal. So please direct all your admiration to the main guy-- Bender! Now, you two step aside.
Mayor Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Woman · Mayor: My baby's in that podium! Somebody call the fire department! There is no fire department. I sold it to pay for Bender's medal.
Nixon: These boys must have hero in their bones. And you, ma'am, must have heroine in your veins.
Nixon Wordplay/Pun Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Bender: Bite my shiny metal axe!
Bender Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Leela: Zoidberg, quit turning us on and go polish your nozzle.
Leela Wordplay/Pun Cringe/Discomfort Bender: Yo! Hero in the house. I just got back from my daily medal strut.
Bender Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Amy · Leela: The locations form a perfect shape of some kind. No! Bender was at every one of those places right before the fire started.
Crew: Oh, I don't know. Possible, feasible. I don't know. Seems like maybe. Who knows? Maybe I do. Yeah, probably.
Crew Escalation Character Comedy Fry: He would never burn something down to get attention. For insurance money? Yes. Revenge? You bet. To give an autumn night that crisp chestnutty smell? Absolutely. But not for fame, women or thrills.
Fry Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender: Hey, guys, it's me, Bender. The famous, sexy, thrilling hero.
Bender Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Bender: What do you want in that, beans or just blood?
Bender Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Bender: Oh, no! Surprisingly, a fire has broken out at the meat market where I am! We'll be there right away. Yeah, don't trouble yourselves. This is just a one-hero fire.
Bender Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Reporter: Scoop Chang, New New York Magazine, Kosher Recipes Editor, iPad Edition.
Woman: Well, I was shoplifting a lamp chop when suddenly fire erupted from the liver tray.
Woman Character Comedy Absurdist Leela: We can have four idiots and a fat guy, but no arsonists.
Leela Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Bender: How could a fire learn to talk? Did you burn up a dictionary? Or a parrot?
Bender Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Flame Being: A billion years ago, I attempted to overthrow the democratically elected alderman from my district.
Bender: Get to the point, Flame-O.
Bender Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Bender: You're huffin' for a snuffin', boy!
Bender Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Flame Being: Once I make my way there, your planet will go micro-nova and become a miniature sun, with me as its Supreme Alderman.
Flame Being · Bender: Sooner or later, a polar bear will happen by. A nice, flammable polar bear. Polar bears don't burn. I've tried many times.
Fry · Bender: No, free. But it's got ads on it. That seems fair.
Fry: I know you would never set a fire that would endanger your own valuables.
Fry Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Fry: That's not a flame creature. It's your pilot light.
Fry Misdirection Escalation ★ Rewatch Fry: Stupid Bender. Liar, liar, pants on fire.
Fry Irony/Sarcasm Wordplay/Pun Crew member: It's like the flame has a mind of its own! It's deaky! Freaky deaky!
Leela: What kind of coffin do you want?!
Leela Dark/Subversive Escalation Fry: All the lava in the world won't wash away your lies.
Bender: I guess some grown men just don't like being carried.
Bender Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Bender: Yes! Suck it, Gilgamesh!
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Amy Callback Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Fry: I guess a welding torch is no way to catch a rat.
Fry Character Comedy Absurdist Bender: Fry did it?! Ow! You're a horrible person! And your carelessness nearly cost the life of my best friend. You.
Bender Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch