The Planet Express crew take a space cruise vacation. Leela tells Captain Zapp Brannigan that Fry is her boyfriend and Amy tells the same thing to her parents. Bender falls in love with a rich female robot. Problems start when the spaceship approaches a black hole.
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“A Flight To Remember” ranks #12 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 84.0 — Elite. The episode packs 72 scored jokes at 4.7 per minute, averaging 7.2 on craft and 6.8 on impact, with Zapp landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Bender: Don't tell the others. If I don't return, say I died robbing some old man.
Bender Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Leela · Zapp: That's surprisingly noble of you. / No, it's noble of you.
Hermes: This one is for that little kid limboing in heaven now.
Hermes Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Callback Bender: And I'd do it again! And perhaps a third time! But that would be it.
Bender Character Comedy Escalation Bartender · Bender: You gonna pay for those? / Hell, no.
All Jokes — 72 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Fry: Never go to a planet called 'Cannibalon.' That's right. Food was good, though.
Fry Dark/Subversive Misdirection ★ Rewatch Professor · Leela · Professor: Great news, everyone- / Shove it! We quit! / Then I'll have to hire a new crew to go on our company vacation.
Fry: Great! I haven't had time off since I was 21 through 24.
Fry Character Comedy Absurdist Professor · Amy: It's my way of thanking you for not reporting my countless violations... of safety and minimum-wage laws. / Aw, you!
Professor: I've booked us on the maiden voyage of the largest... most luxurious space cruise ship ever built. The Titanic!
Fry Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat Mayor: A man who single-handedly defeated the Retiree People... of the Assisted Living Nebula: Zapp Brannigan!
Mayor Absurdist Character Comedy Leela · Fry · Leela: God, not Zapp Brannigan! / You know Zapp Brannigan? / Let's just say we've crossed paths.
Amy: Before or after you slept with him?
Amy Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Zapp: She's a beautiful ship. Shapely, seductive. I'm gonna fly her brains out.
Zapp: And now, without further adieu... I christen this ship Titanic.
Zapp Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Crowd Reaction Beat Visual Gag Zapp · Kif: Well, well, well! The Lady Leela. Take notes, Kif. You're about to witness the subtle waltz known as seduction.
Zapp Kif Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Zapp: So! Trapped on a ship with me. What say you and I knock some very sensual boots?
Zapp Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Callback Leela: It's tempting, but I have a fiancé now.
Leela Irony/Sarcasm Setup/Punchline Fry · Fry: Huh? Ooh! / How do you do?
Fry Fry Reaction Beat Character Comedy Fry: At least we get a window.
Fry Visual Gag Deadpan/Understatement Bender: I'm tired of this room and everyone in it. Excuse me. I'm gonna pop over to the casino for the next 135 hours.
Bender Character Comedy Escalation Zoidberg · Amy: I think I'll go fill up on bisque at the buffet. / That just leaves you and your fake fiancé... all alone on a romantic cruise.
Bender: I'm betting it all! Come on! Baby needs a new pair of feet!
Bender Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Dealer · Bender: Snake eyes. / My cheating unit malfunctioned! You gotta give me a do-over.
Dealer: Sorry, the house limit is three do-overs. Next shooter.
Bender: I assure you, I barely know the meaning of the word 'labor.'
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Zapp · Kif: Kif, I'm feeling the captain's itch. / I'll get the powder.
Zapp Kif Misdirection Character Comedy Zapp: The itch for adventure. Let's change course.
Zapp Callback Character Comedy Callback Zapp: That's for schoolgirls. Here's a route with chest hair.
Zapp Character Comedy Absurdist Zapp: Yes, comets. The icebergs of the sky.
Zapp Absurdist Character Comedy Zapp: It's time to shove a jalapeno up this ship's tailpipe.
Amy's Mom: We were enjoying a relaxing vacation. Since you're here, we must meddle.
Amy's Mom · Amy's Dad: We met a nice boy in the next cabin. / He's not very ugly.
Amy's Mom: You should marry him. Or use him to conceive a grandchild for us.
Amy's Dad: Where is he? And why isn't he here right now, fathering our grandchild?
Fry: It's romantic- I mean, platonic. That sure is one platonic view.
Fry Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Leela · Fry: I'm beginning to think this whole fake fiancé thing was a terrible- / Hm? Mmm.
Zapp: Perhaps this is an awkward time.
Zapp Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Fry: Well, you got anything else for him?
Leela: I consider my fake relationship with you more meaningful.
Leela Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Countess: Either that was a computing error or you're the most romantic robot ever.
Bender: The bracelet had a diamond the size of a raccoon's brain. Why couldn't I steal it?
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist iZac: It's obvious. You're in love.
iZac Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Bender: She, a countess built with a silver spoon in her mouth... and me, just a regular honest Joe.
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bartender · Bender: You gonna pay for those? / Hell, no.
Hermes: Don't be a dog heart, woman. You know I can't. Not after what happened.
Hermes Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Hermes · Kid · Hermes: No, boy, stop! It's too low! Your backbone can't take it! / I'm just like Hermes! I'm just like- / No!
Hermes · LaBarbara: Though it did get me some action. / I like a man who's flexible.
Zapp: No matter. I know from personal experience how horizontal you can get.
Bender: I'm a fraud. A poor, lazy, sexy fraud.
Bender: This isn't even a real bow tie. It's magnetic.
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist Countess: I love your artificial intelligence and sincerity simulator.
Zapp: Not much younger. Perhaps even a couple years older.
Zapp: I'll be all over Leela like a fly on a pile of very seductive manure.
Zapp Character Comedy Absurdist Fry: I learned how to handle delicate situations... from a show called Three's Company.
Fry Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy Fry: Come and knock on our door
Fry Meta/Self-Referential Callback Callback Fry Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy Callback Zapp: Come back when it's a catastrophe.
Zapp Character Comedy Escalation Zapp: I don't know which disgusts me more, your cowardice or stupidity.
Zapp Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Zapp: We'll set a new course for that region... near that black-ish hole-ish thing.
Zapp Character Comedy Misdirection Leela: Are you sure? I mean, she has two eyes. You have two eyes.
Fry: Talk about a mood killer.
Fry Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Leela · Zapp: That's surprisingly noble of you. / No, it's noble of you.
Bender: Don't tell the others. If I don't return, say I died robbing some old man.
Bender Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Fry: I'll say you died prying the ring off his dead finger.
Fry Escalation Character Comedy Countess: No, luckily a family broke my fall.
Countess Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement Bender: And I'd do it again! And perhaps a third time! But that would be it.
Bender Character Comedy Escalation Bender: When we kiss, I feel like I'm standing waist-deep... in a pool of cold, rising water.
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist Hermes: This one is for that little kid limboing in heaven now.
Hermes Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Callback Zapp: We needn't dress up like women and children.
Zapp Character Comedy Absurdist Amy's Mom · Amy's Dad: More importantly, we found you a man. / A captain.
Countess: After all, it's shareware.
Bender: Tragic romances always have a happy ending.
Bender Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Amy · Professor · Zoidberg: Don't cry. Nobody knows what happens in a black hole. It's possible she's alive in another dimension, right? / Oh, yes. Absolutely. / Not a chance.
Zoidberg Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch