A fishing trip over the ocean takes a turn for the worse when a colossal mouth bass pulls the Planet Express ship to the bottom of the sea. There, Fry falls in love with a mermaid named Umbriel, and the crew discovers the sunken city of Atlanta, Georgia.
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“The Deep South” ranks #67 of 137 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 78.2 — Elite. The episode packs 59 scored jokes at 3.7 per minute, averaging 6.9 on craft and 6.6 on impact, with Fry landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Fry: Why couldn't she be the other kind of mermaid... with fish part on top, and lady part on bottom?
Fry Absurdist Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Professor: It is! It's the fabled lost city of Atlanta!
Professor Setup/Punchline Observational ★ Rewatch Professor: How many atmospheres can the ship withstand? It's a spaceship, so I'd say anywhere between zero and one.
Professor Setup/Punchline Observational ★ Rewatch Fry · Professor: I can't swallow that! Well, then, good news! It's a suppository.
Bender: I suggest a nice lobster Zoidberg. I mean lobster Newburg. I mean Dr. Zoidberg.
Bender Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Standout Moments
Professor: How many atmospheres can the ship withstand? It's a spaceship, so I'd say anywhere between zero and one.
Professor Setup/Punchline Observational ★ Rewatch Professor: It is! It's the fabled lost city of Atlanta!
Professor Setup/Punchline Observational ★ Rewatch Fry: Why couldn't she be the other kind of mermaid... with fish part on top, and lady part on bottom?
Fry Absurdist Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 59 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Hermes: Dream on! I want to put him in a sack, toss the sack in the river... and hurl the river into space.
Hermes Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Hermes: But I like filling out requisitions. And these were some doozies!
Hermes Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Hermes: Great Jah's dreadlocks! There's been a mix-up.
Hermes Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Professor: Seems the logical place for fish to congregate!
Bender: Falcon, this is Blue Raven. The goose has nested.
Bender Absurdist Character Comedy Bender: Guess what you're accessories to? The sun, the sea air, good friends.
Bender Misdirection Character Comedy Fry: Oh, yeah? I once caught a fish this big.
Leela · Amy: Harpoon my ass! Okay!
Leela Amy Setup/Punchline Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Zoidberg: These sardines, for example, are bland and tasteless.
Zoidberg: Very, very juicy.
Zoidberg Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Fry: I don't believe this! It's eating my bait! Beat it, you mooching crawdad!
Fry Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Bender · Fry: I can hit a fish between the eyes from 20 yards. Yeah? I can hit a shrimp!
Bender: So, this is where you shop for your boots!
Bender Observational Deadpan/Understatement Leela: A couple more of those and you'll have yourself a fish stick.
Leela Observational Deadpan/Understatement Zoidberg: My small intestine. Bingo!
Zoidberg Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Amy: What you need is this fish pheromone. The most potent aphrodisiac known to fishkind.
Amy Setup/Punchline Absurdist Fry · Bender: Bender, I just caught a fish this big! Quit exaggerating!
Fry: If I'm not gonna catch a fish, I might as well not catch a big fish.
Fry Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender: There. Like most problems, this one can be solved with bending.
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist Bender · Leela: Then, why do I have to be careful? It belonged to my grandmother.
Zoidberg Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Zoidberg: I wasn't wearing it. I was eating it!
Amy · Leela: What happened to my parasol? It wasn't here when I took your umbrella.
Professor: Sweet zombie Jesus! It's huge!
Leela: Well, at least I'll die with my friends. Hello?
Leela Setup/Punchline Deadpan/Understatement Bender: What's that? Is someone bending girders?
Bender Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Bender: Tempers are wearing thin. Let's hope some robot doesn't kill everybody!
Bender Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Bender: I suggest a nice lobster Zoidberg. I mean lobster Newburg. I mean Dr. Zoidberg.
Bender Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Professor: Not necessarily. This is a chance for Fry to test my experimental anti-pressure pill.
Fry · Professor: I can't swallow that! Well, then, good news! It's a suppository.
Zoidberg: Look at me! I'm Dr. Zoidberg, homeowner!
Zoidberg Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Bender: The laws of science be a harsh mistress.
Bender Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Bender: Okay. But I'm not carrying it upstairs.
Bender Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Zoidberg: Then how about lending your old pal Zoidberg a few bucks, Mr. Millionaire.
Fry · Leela: A mermaid! You think you saw a mermaid? No, I did see a mermaid. She was wearing a tube top... and she had a scaly tail, and hair extensions.
Professor · Fry: Fry is suffering from ocean madness. Every time something good happens to me, you say it's madness. Or I'm drunk. Or I ate too much candy.
Hermes: He may have ocean madness, but that's no excuse for ocean rudeness.
Hermes Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Fry: Thanks. They're called pants.
Fry Deadpan/Understatement Observational Fry: Sure, sometimes it falls from the sky. And sometimes it doesn't.
Fry Deadpan/Understatement Observational Fry: Yep! We call them land sea lions. I tame them.
Fry Wordplay/Pun Absurdist ★ Rewatch Amy: In the event of emergency, my ass can be used as flotation device.
Amy Cringe/Discomfort Physical/Slapstick Bender: Bend me! Dude! An ancient sunken city!
Bender Character Comedy Observational Professor: This is uncomfortable and humiliating! Now, if they could put it in the form of a suppository...
Professor Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Fry: I think it was just an airport. They had a place to buy nuts.
Fry Observational Deadpan/Understatement Colonel: Normally, yes. But the caffeine really sped things up.
Bender: She's right. Sure they got the Braves, but it's a third-rate symphony.
Bender Observational Character Comedy Fry: Realize it? I don't even understand it!
Fry Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Fry: Sorry, I'm trying to join the country club.
Fry Absurdist Character Comedy Hermes · Professor · Zoidberg · Bender: How did this happen? That's a good question! So that's where I left my cigar. That just raises further questions!
Hermes: That just raises further questions!
Hermes Reaction Beat Observational Fry: I'm a little confused too! How do I... you know, with the tail and all?
Fry Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Fry: Turns out I loved her, but I wasn't in love with her.
Fry Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Official: Wait! This is no record! Give me back that check! I'm giving it to some giant orphans.
Fish: Hey, I'm trying to sleep in here!
Fish Visual Gag Absurdist Callback Fish Callback Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback 