The Omicronians invade Earth, demanding to see the lost final episode of the 1999 TV show Single Female Lawyer. The Planet Express crew must re-enact the episode to appease the invading aliens.
WAR
47.6
Wins Above Replacement
“When Aliens Attack” ranks #40 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 81.2 — Elite. The episode packs 57 scored jokes at 3.5 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.7 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
Zapp Brannigan: If we hit that bull's-eye... the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.
Fry: Clever things make people feel stupid. Unexpected things make them feel scared.
Fry Observational Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Zapp Brannigan: When I'm in command, son, every mission's a suicide mission.
Fry: It's HDTV. It has better resolution than the real world.
Fry Absurdist Observational ★ Rewatch Professor · Amy: - Like a cheap French harlot. - French?
All Jokes — 57 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Fry · Leela: - Wow! So this is a real TV station? - Well, it's a Fox affiliate.
Fry Leela Setup/Punchline Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Fry: That's a chick show. I prefer programs of the genre "World's Blankiest Blank."
Fry Observational Wordplay/Pun Bender · Fry: - She's in the world's shortiest skirt. - I'm in.
Jenny McNeal: If you care about the case, you should sleep with me.
Jenny McNeal · Judge: - But this is a unisex bathroom! - Overruled, counselor.
Leela · Bender: - My God! You knocked Fox off the air. - Like anyone on Earth cares.
Alien: Could you repeat that last p-?
Alien Callback Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Alien: ...and her compellingly short garment!
Alien Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Hermes: The phony-baloney holiday crammed down our throats by union gangsters?
Hermes Character Comedy Observational Fry: It's HDTV. It has better resolution than the real world.
Fry Absurdist Observational ★ Rewatch Fry · Leela: - Not covered. - Just get in the car.
Fry Leela Deadpan/Understatement Cringe/Discomfort Professor: In the 2600s, New Yorkers elected a villainous governor. He stole most of the world's monuments.
Professor: Truly a great man. Look at him up there.
Bender: Like my dad used to make, until McDonald's fired him.
Bender Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Bender: Bite my red-hot glowing ass! Wait a minute. Red-hot glowing ass? I'll be right back.
Bender Callback Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Callback Professor · Amy: - Like a cheap French harlot. - French?
Beach Bully: I pretend to steal your girl, you punch me, I go down... she swoons, you slip me 50 bucks.
Fry: $50?! Not even if she was my girlfriend. Take her.
Fry Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Beach Bully: No, thanks, ma'am. I'm actually gay.
Zoidberg: You gotta spring me! I won't survive in here! I'm too pretty!
Professor: King Arthur would've lived in it if he were a fiddler crab.
Professor: ...they forced the most intelligent of us to pair off and mate continuously.
News Anchor: Once again, today's winning lotto number was four.
President McNeal: Get down on all fours and lick boot. Give our alien masters whatever they-
Lrrr Deadpan/Understatement Observational President McNeal: ...fresh from his bloody triumph over the Gandhi Nebula pacifists...
Bender: Look, it's that idiotic windbag you slept with.
Bender Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Callback Professor · Bender: - A what? - You know. A coward.
Bender: It's every robot's duty to give his life for humanity. Oh, crap.
Bender Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Zapp Brannigan: But I don't care if your skin's red or tan or Chinese.
Zapp Brannigan: If we hit that bull's-eye... the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.
Zapp Brannigan: My strategy is so simple an idiot could have devised it.
Leela: Wouldn't it make more sense to send the robots in first-?
Leela Setup/Punchline Reaction Beat Zapp Brannigan: When I'm in command, son, every mission's a suicide mission.
Leela: We should wait till after, in case neither of us comes back.
Leela Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive Leela: I'll be a science-fiction hero, like Uhura or Captain Janeway or Xena.
Leela Observational Meta/Self-Referential Fry: Sure. I just like TV better.
Fry Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Callback Zapp · Kif · Zapp · Kif: - What is that? - It appears to be the mother ship. - Then what did we just blow up? - The Hubble Telescope.
Zapp Brannigan: Stop exploding, you cowards!
Professor: Sorry. Check back in three days. A week at the most.
Professor Deadpan/Understatement Dark/Subversive Fry · Lrrr: - Miniskirts? That sounds familiar. - Really?
Fry Lrrr Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Fry · Lrrr: - Wait, I know her. - You do not, you big fat liar.
Fry Lrrr Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Professor · Fry: - You see- - Magic. Got it.
Bender: Beer. I would think.
Bender Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Professor: Most videotapes from that era were damaged in 2443... during the second coming of Jesus.
Professor: Let's put on a show!
Amy: Plus, you don't have the thighs for a miniskirt.
Amy Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Lrrr: If she wants to be taken seriously, why not tear the judge's head off?
Lrrr Absurdist Character Comedy Lrrr: It is true what they say. Women are from Persei Seven. Men are from Persei Nine.
Lrrr Wordplay/Pun Observational ★ Rewatch Fry: It took an hour to write. I thought it'd take an hour to read.
Fry Absurdist Character Comedy Fry: Clever things make people feel stupid. Unexpected things make them feel scared.
Fry Observational Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Fry: Deep down I knew it might one day help me save the world.
Fry Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Lrrr: Overall, I would rate it a C-Plus. Okay, not great.
Lrrr Deadpan/Understatement Observational Leela: Way to overact, Zoidberg.
Leela Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Lrrr: Now we must return to our planet... to catch a 1000-year-old Leno monologue.
Lrrr Absurdist Observational ★ Rewatch Fry: At the end of the episode, everything is right back to normal.
Fry Meta/Self-Referential Observational ★ Rewatch