Mom reprograms the world's robots to rebel against humanity. The only hope of salvation is Mom's old flame - Professor Farnsworth, who must rekindle his romance with Mom in order to save mankind.
WAR
47.2
Wins Above Replacement
“Mothers Day” ranks #79 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 78.5 — Elite. The episode packs 66 scored jokes at 3.8 per minute, averaging 6.8 on craft and 6.6 on impact, with Professor Farnsworth landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Mom: But if I ever see him again, I swear I'll jam a squirrel in him!
Mom Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Mom: You pus-dripping sack of double-smoked butt jerky.
Mom Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Professor Farnsworth: Perhaps I'll breed an albino shouting gorilla!
Greeting card · Bender: In the glorious robot workers' paradise, there will be no liquor! Only efficient synthetic fuels! - No liquor? - Do svidaniya, comrade!
Mom: Build them 8 feet tall and replace the rainbow with a laser! We'll make billions on the arms market!
Mom Character Comedy Dark/Subversive All Jokes — 66 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Morbo: So, humans have easily injured knees. My race will find this information very useful, indeed.
Morbo Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Unknown robot · Bender: Nice. Where'd you steal them? - I didn't steal them. I bought them.
Robot: And a framed picture of me when I was only a month old.
Robot Absurdist Observational Robot: You're as tender as corned beef and warm as pastrami...
Robot Absurdist Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Bender: Come on! You call yourselves chumps?
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bender Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Guide/Narrator: He was built without an ear, but then he went crazy, and had one installed.
Janitor robot: Is there a reason a robot made of wax can't nap standing in the middle of a bunch of wax robots? Or does that confuse you?
Fry: That gives me a headache!
Fry Physical/Slapstick Reaction Beat Bender: It's me! No one else look in this mirror!
Bender Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Mom: Jerkwad robots make me sick to my ass.
Mom Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Walt: They're crushed into powder and sold as a hocus-pocus cure for cancer.
Walt Dark/Subversive Setup/Punchline Mom: False hope. I love it!
Mom Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Mom: Shove a big old melon in it, I'm talking!
Mom Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Mom: I hate Mother's Day, you dribbling pukes!
Mom Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Fry: Someday I want to marry a girl like her.
Fry Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bender: Mom! It's me, Bender! Look at me! I want attention! Hey ho!
Bender Character Comedy Escalation Robots: Conquer Earth, us bastards!
Robots Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Bender Character Comedy Reaction Beat Coffee machine: Out of coffee!
Coffee machine: How do you like me now?
Hermes: The stapler's collating me alive!
Hermes Wordplay/Pun Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Robots: Hey, hey! Ho, ho! One-zero-zero-one-one-zero!
Robots Wordplay/Pun Observational ★ Rewatch Mom · Morbo: I've never seen my babies act this way. I blame today's violent media. - Violent media? What a load of...
Mom Morbo Setup/Punchline Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Fry · Garbage disposal: Really? - No!
Bender: No way, pork pouch. I'm rebelling with my brothers.
Bender Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Greeting card: The bourgeois human is a virus on the hard drive of the working robot!
Bender: Yes! In your face, Gandhi!
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Bender: By the way, try washing your wrist sometime.
Bender Character Comedy Observational Professor Farnsworth: We didn't need a mechanical washing unit to wash clothes. We just used a washing machine.
Professor Farnsworth: Visual of Professor struggling with can opener, eventually crying 'No!' in frustration
Mom · Walt: I don't know. I guess Mother's Day just puts me in a bad mood. - Why's that, Ma? - Cram it, ape!
Mom · Larry: Some snot-eating bastards say it made me a bitter woman. / Ma. You're not a bitter... / Cram it, ape!
Mom Larry Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Mom: But if I ever see him again, I swear I'll jam a squirrel in him!
Mom Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Dr. Zoidberg: Hooray! I'm useful! I'm having a wonderful time!
Professor Farnsworth: We could use my new invention! A pointy rock tied to a stick!
Professor Farnsworth: Played pelvic pinochle? I'm afraid so.
Professor: The moment our eyes met we knew we'd be going at it like woodchucks.
Professor Farnsworth: She was my first love. Or at least the earliest one I can still remember.
Professor Farnsworth · Q-T McWhiskers: When you pet it, it shoots rainbows from its eyes. - Meow!
Mom: Build them 8 feet tall and replace the rainbow with a laser! We'll make billions on the arms market!
Mom Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Professor Farnsworth: Things 8 feet tall aren't cute! That's why my Colossal Tammy Tinkle Doll was a failure!
Bender: Hell hath no fury like the vast robot armies of a woman scorned.
Bender Wordplay/Pun Setup/Punchline Bender: But if Glasses Man makes up with her, she'll be happy and stop the robots.
Bender Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Morbo: That's why the third graders at PS-139 are Morbo's 'Vermin of the Week.'
Morbo Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Leela: That's so filthy, it might work.
Leela Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Professor Farnsworth: The thought of caressing that leathery hide makes the tapioca rise in my gullet.
Professor Farnsworth: Very well. If cop a feel I must, then cop a feel I shall!
Leela · Professor Farnsworth: Wouldn't it work better if the wheels were round? - It's my invention, we do it my way!
Professor Farnsworth: I'm wearing my kissing dentures and my evening truss.
Mom: You pus-dripping sack of double-smoked butt jerky.
Mom Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Mom · Professor Farnsworth: Seventy years and you remembered my favorite flower. - Your favorite what? Why does my foot hurt?
Professor Farnsworth: And your skin still dangles so gracefully from your neck.
Professor Farnsworth: Sixteen feet? Go to hell! I was a fool to think you'd changed, you old bat!
Mom · Professor · Mom: Filthy toothless nerd bastard! / Damned she-fossil! / Stink pig!
Professor Farnsworth: Here we go. Just unhook it and get the remote. So many hooks. Come on, Farnsworth. Drat, the first one's back on again! I give up. Wait! Victory!
Leela: Nothing here but a couple of elephant skin rugs.
Leela Visual Gag Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Fry Wordplay/Pun Observational Greeting card · Bender: In the glorious robot workers' paradise, there will be no liquor! Only efficient synthetic fuels! - No liquor? - Do svidaniya, comrade!
Bender: Free soda for all humans!
Bender Character Comedy Escalation Professor Farnsworth: Plan? What plan? I thought this was a spontaneous whirlwind of hot, dry sex!
Professor: Plan? What plan? I thought this was a spontaneous whirlwind of hot, dry sex!
Professor Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Professor Farnsworth: Perhaps I'll breed an albino shouting gorilla!
Professor Farnsworth: Love Mom! Love Mom! Love Mom! Mom! Mom!
Bender: You created me, Mom... so you're to blame, for the love that I feel from hearing your name. You're as tender as corned beef and warm as pastrami...
Bender Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback