The crew discovers an irresistible source of food on a distant planet, and brings it back to Earth to be sold at the Fishy Joe's restaurant chain. But when it's discovered that the so-called "Popplers" are actually Omicronian babies, the Omicronians demand recompense.
WAR
55.2
Wins Above Replacement
“The Problem With Popplers” ranks #14 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 83.8 — Elite. The episode packs 59 scored jokes at 3.5 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.8 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
Various: Pass the blowhole. Fluke, please. Quit hogging the bottle-nose! Toss me the speech center of the brain!
Various Escalation Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Poppler Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Amy: No, this one blew his money on lottery tickets.
Amy Dark/Subversive Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Fry: They're great! They're like sex! Except I'm having them!
Fry Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Bender · Fry: You're just a carbon-based life form... but I'll always think of you as a big pile of titanium. Just like titanium.
Bender Fry Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 59 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Fry: I hate the Moochers. They offer you a drink... but their wallet's always in the other pants... which they borrowed from me!
Fry Escalation Observational ★ Rewatch Bender: Fight to the death. I'll cook the loser. Work his gut. I like it tender.
Bender Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Leela: No, we're a billion miles from nowhere. It probably only has a Howard Johnson's.
Leela Observational Setup/Punchline Fry: I'm good at foraging. I found mushrooms on my bathmat.
Fry Character Comedy Observational Fry · Bender: I found some rocks! You eat rocks, right? Not even sautéed in a little mud?
Fry · Bender: Look! A ditch full of fried shrimp! Are you blind? Looks more like a hole full of fried prawns.
Fry Bender Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fry: They're great! They're like sex! Except I'm having them!
Fry Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Amy · Leela · Amy: They're tasty. What about Tasty-cles? Not that. Why not? It sounds like frozen mountain oysters on a stick. You know, Test-cicles.
Mr. Krabs analog: Slow down there, Sigmund! I can't stand poor people getting free food.
Delivery person: Where do you want those rat droppings you ordered?
Fishy Joe: You're a guy who eats at Fishy Joe's? Hell, no! I am Fishy Joe!
Fry: I'll be rich! You too, but that doesn't excite me.
Fry Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Commercial singer: Pop a Poppler at Fishy Joe's... Pick them, lick them, chew them, stick them, if you won't sue. Shove one up your nose
Fishy Joe: Unless this is a nude love-in, get the hell off my property!
Hippie · Fishy Joe: You can't own property, man! I can, because I'm not a penniless hippie!
Hippie: No, it isn't. We taught a lion to eat tofu.
Hippie Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fishy Joe · Bender: Okay, we won't eat you! I'll go get some more bricks.
Poppler Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Professor Farnsworth: Congratulations! I assume Amy is the father?
Bender: She's hallucinating from lack of Popplers. Eat some now!
Bender Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Amy · Fry: Parrots talk and we eat them, right? Maybe it learned as a parlor trick. Like Fry. Like Fry! Like Fry!
Amy Fry Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Professor Farnsworth: There's one way, and only one way, to determine if an animal is intelligent. Dissect its brain.
Poppler: No! Mama! Stop Grandpa!
Passerby Setup/Punchline Deadpan/Understatement Leela: Stop eating them with honey mustard sauce, tangy sweet and sour sauce! Stop eating the fiesta Popplers salad! Stop taking advantage of the cheaper 12-pack!
Leela Escalation Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Leela: Stop eating them with honey mustard sauce, tangy sweet and sour sauce! Stop eating the fiesta Popplers salad!
Leela Escalation Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch TV Host · Someone: Taronga? That's her name, Philip.
Poppler Character Comedy Misdirection Fishy Joe: The reason we don't eat people is the lousy taste.
Fishy Joe Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Poppler: Ca-ca head. Mean, old ca-ca head.
Poppler Character Comedy Escalation Callback Free Waterfall Jr.: Stop it! I call murder on that!
Fishy Joe: I'm willing to grant it's murder. The real issue is... Who's gonna stop me?
News anchor: And crap like I've never seen!
Lrrr: Turn down the TV, Indunda.
Lrrr Character Comedy Observational Lrrr: When you know you can't scratch, that's when you really have to. Oh, yeah! That feels a lot better... What? It's still on?
Lrrr Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Nixon · Lrrr: It'd be great with quack-a-mole. Stop eating our young! And it's guacamole!
Kif · Nixon · Lrrr · Nixon: It's 198 billion, sir. Very well. You will provide us with 198 billion humans. And small fries. Lrrr! All right. Cottage cheese.
Zapp Brannigan: I'll do my part. Kif? Clear my schedule.
Bender: Just wipe out humanity. Get it over with. It's the waiting I can't stand.
Bender Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Nixon: I filled up on nuts negotiating.
Nixon Character Comedy Observational Commercial announcer: Try our new Extreme Walrus Juice! One hundred percent fresh-squeezed walrus! Ride the walrus!
Bender · Fry: You're just a carbon-based life form... but I'll always think of you as a big pile of titanium. Just like titanium.
Bender Fry Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Bender: Someone's acting awfully aluminum.
Bender Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback Fry: Tell it to Wingus and Dingus.
Fry Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Leela: It doesn't look anything like me! The hair's all wrong.
Leela Character Comedy Visual Gag Leela: It doesn't look anything like me! The hair's all wrong.
Leela Setup/Punchline Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Kif: Please, I'm creating!
Kif Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Fry · Bender: That's Leela! I'm seeing double!
Waiter · Lrrr: That comes with salad or soup. Salad. Ranch or vinaigrette? Balsamic or raspberry?
Waiter: Would you like some human with your salt?
Waiter Setup/Punchline Wordplay/Pun Fishy Joe: Why'd you open your bong hole, you smelly hippie?
Free Waterfall Jr.: You'd sacrifice a beautiful woman for an attractive monkey? You must have smoked some bad granola.
Leela: Go consummate yourself.
Leela Wordplay/Pun Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Jurr: Little one, get out of there! I'm going to count to Blorks!
Jurr Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Fry: Hear me out! There are many good reasons to eat! Hunger, boredom, wanting to be the world's fattest man!
Fry Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Lrrr: I think there was something funny in that hippie.
Lrrr Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Free Waterfall Jr.: Dude, my hands are huge! They can touch anything but themselves. Oh, wait...
Amy: No, this one blew his money on lottery tickets.
Amy Dark/Subversive Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Various: Pass the blowhole. Fluke, please. Quit hogging the bottle-nose! Toss me the speech center of the brain!
Various Escalation Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch