The Professor's "What-If" machine simulates Bender, Leela and Fry's wishes. Bender discovers what it would be like if he were 500 feet tall, Leela discovers what it would be like if she were more impulsive, and Fry discovers what would happen if he never came to the future.
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“Anthology Of Interest I” ranks #90 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 77.6 — Great. The episode packs 55 scored jokes at 4.3 per minute, averaging 6.8 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
Giant Bender: I came here with a simple dream... a dream of killing all humans.
Al Gore: As an environmentalist, I'm against that.
Al Gore Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Giant Zoidberg: Who's intimidating who now, big city? Hello, Mr. Chase Manhattan Bank. Deny my credit card application, will you?
Leela: I can be impulsive. It just takes me a while.
Leela Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Giant Bender · Human: Put her there, pal! No, your wallet.
All Jokes — 55 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Professor Farnsworth: I call it the 'Fing-Longer.' Observe. And here we go. There! Pretty long, eh?
Professor Farnsworth: It's just not very long.
Bender: As a robot among humans, I never feel accepted at parties or nude beaches.
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Giant Bender: I'm so lonely since I came to the future. Will you be my friend?
Giant Bender: I'm a big robot! And I want a big cereal.
Giant Bender · Human: Put her there, pal! No, your wallet.
Unknown character: That calms the shakes.
Civilians: Well, there goes the neighborhood. And another one. We're jerked!
Zoidberg: What? Two meals in one week?
Zoidberg Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Zoidberg: Gotcha! A guinea pig tricked me!
Giant Zoidberg: Who's intimidating who now, big city? Hello, Mr. Chase Manhattan Bank. Deny my credit card application, will you?
Giant Zoidberg: Ah, the Apollo Theater. Boo me off-stage on open-mike night? I'll show you!
Giant Zoidberg · Giant Bender: Tell it to the claw! Bite my colossal metal ass!
Amy: Who wants lobster bisque?
Amy Dark/Subversive Visual Gag Unknown character: Want to make Shrinky Dinks?
Giant Bender: I came here with a simple dream... a dream of killing all humans.
Giant Bender: And this is how it must end? Who's the real seven-billion-ton robot monster here? Not I.
Fry: Good night, sweet prince.
Leela: I can be impulsive. It just takes me a while.
Leela Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Leela: Look what I bought on a wild impulse! New boots! They're like my old ones, but with a crazy green stripe!
Leela Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Professor Farnsworth: Not like predictable, dull-as-dishwater Leela.
Leela Reaction Beat Irony/Sarcasm Callback Professor Farnsworth · Leela: You've killed me! You've killed me! What have I done? I just told you! You've killed me!
Fry: All right, you're nonchalant. Don't rub our noses in it.
Fry Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Bender: I'll call the cops. After I flush some things.
Bender Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Zoidberg: I happen to have mail-order degrees in Murder-ology and Murder-onomy.
Zoidberg Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Hermes: What? How do you spell that? What are you hacking off? My torso? It is! My precious torso!
Hermes Escalation Physical/Slapstick Hermes: What? How do you spell that? What are you hacking off? My torso?
Hermes Physical/Slapstick Escalation Scruffy: Ain't nothing wrong with murder... as long as I can wet my beak.
Scruffy Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Bender: I prefer the word extortion. The 'x' makes it sound cool.
Bender Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Leela: Okay, that's it. No more killing. Next time, just have a stick of gum.
Leela Escalation Character Comedy Leela · Scruffy: Who are you? Scruffy, the janitor. I've never seen you before. I've never seen you neither.
Leela: See? What smells like boot feet?
Leela Irony/Sarcasm Physical/Slapstick Zoidberg: My next clue came at 4:15, when the clock stopped. Two hours later, at 4:15... I discovered the murdered body of Amy's dead, deceased corpse.
Bender (letter): Dear Doctor Jerk-berg, if you're reading this, I'm dead. The murderer was...
Bender · Leela: Are we near an Indian graveyard? No? Then it was you!
Fry: Here's to another lousy millennium.
Fry Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Mr. Panucci: There's only three monsters, kid. Dracula, Blacula and Son of Kong.
Fry · Nibbler: Is one of you I.C. Wiener? If that's his pizza, then I am.
Fry · Stephen Hawking: Stephen Hawking! Didn't you invent gravity? Sure. Why not?
Fry: Isn't your sole duty to break ties in the Senate?
Fry Observational Setup/Punchline Al Gore: That, and protect the space-time continuum.
Nichelle Nichols: Incoming transmission from MCI. It sounds like low rates. I'm in the tub!
Nichelle Nichols: Incoming transmission from MCI. It sounds like low rates. I'm in the tub!
Deep Blue · Al Gore: Bishop to knight 4. Not every mission can be solved by chess, Deep Blue.
Stephen Hawking · Fry: I call it a 'Hawking Hole.' Hey, I saw it first! Who will The Journal of Quantum Physics believe?
Al Gore: As an environmentalist, I'm against that.
Al Gore Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Fry · Stephen Hawking: I call it a 'Hawking Chamber.' But I missed and wanged my head.
Al Gore: Something's wrong! Murder isn't working.
Al Gore: Put the dice away.
Al Gore Character Comedy Reaction Beat Gary Gygax: Here, take my plus-one mace!
Nichelle Nichols: Eternity with nerds. It's a Star Trek convention all over again!
Al Gore: I'm a 10th-level vice president.
Professor: That was preposterous. Stephen Hawking in a pizzeria.
Professor Farnsworth: So that's how it would be if I'd invented the Fing-Longer. A man can dream though. A man can dream.