When the inheritance Bender claims in the Old Country isn't quite what he expected, the Planet Express crew has to find the source of an age-old curse.
WAR
41.6
Wins Above Replacement
“The Honking” ranks #53 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 79.8 — Elite. The episode packs 52 scored jokes at 3.6 per minute, averaging 6.9 on craft and 6.7 on impact, with Bender landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Bender: I can't keep running people over. I'm not famous enough to get away with it. Help me!
Bender Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Bender: Look, everyone loves killing people, but I don't wanna hurt my friends.
Bender Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Fry: You jerk! I thought I was your best friend! What kind of two-timing kill-mobile are you?
Fry Character Comedy Absurdist Calculon · Fry: Knight Rider wasn't evil. His windshield wipers were. It didn't come up in the show.
Leela: You've been drinking too much. Or too little. Anyway, not the right amount.
Leela Setup/Punchline Escalation All Jokes — 52 analyzed
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Bender Character Comedy Absurdist Hermes · Amy · Fry · Leela: Mail call! Amy, your designer lingerie catalog. Fry, Sadie's Bra Parade. And Leela, Bulk Underpants Outlet.
Leela: You buy once, you're on the list forever.
Bender: I hope it was one of my enemies. Those guys suck.
Bender Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Bender: Well, I'm rich. Goodbye, losers, whom I've always hated!
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bender: Pardon me, my good simpleton. Could you take us to yon castle?
Bender Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Villager: Some say unholy things happen up there. For example, all of us say that.
Villager Setup/Punchline Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Villager: Mumbo, perhaps. Jumbo, perhaps not.
Professor: Yes, you idiot! The circuit diagram is here on the inside of your case.
Villager: I choose to believe what I was programmed to believe.
Robot Priest: Filings to filings. Rust to rust.
Lawyer/Will: I leave a pittance to be paid in 20 installments of 1/20th of a pittance each.
Tandy Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bender: Oh, man! There's always a catch.
Bender Character Comedy Observational Bender: I get a good vibe from this place. Nice long dinner table, quiet, well-behaved spiders, graveyard-adjacent.
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist Bender: So does my butt, but I don't frame it and put it on the wall. Although...
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist Hermes: Don't be silly, man. The last ghost died 200 years ago.
Bender: They said that about being alive!
Bender Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Professor: Of course! It was so obvious! That sequence of words I said made perfect sense.
Professor Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Bender: It crept along on round rubber feet, like a wolf!
Bender Absurdist Character Comedy Leela: You've been drinking too much. Or too little. Anyway, not the right amount.
Leela Setup/Punchline Escalation Bender · Amy: I just need sleep. I had nightmares about cars running people over. Many dream of a fresh new look. And Mary Kay can make those dreams come true.
Bender: Robot porno theater? I was in that general area last night.
Bender Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Bender: Yeah? Could a big hallucinating baby do this?
Bender Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Elzar: I don't know which I like more, smashing cars or faces.
Elzar Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Amy: It was probably just a golden marmoset.
Amy Absurdist Character Comedy Hermes: Don't sound like no golden marmoset I ever heard.
Hermes Deadpan/Understatement Callback Callback Bender · Robot: Please, I'm scared. We all are. It's the human condition. That's why I put on this tough guy facade. Now beat it!
Fry: Relax. You were probably just shooting big fuzzy craps.
Fry Character Comedy Absurdist Robot Psychiatrist: You have nothing to worry about. Except a nightmarish life of unremitting horror! For you see, you are a were-car.
Bender · Robot Psychiatrist: That's crazy. Yes. So crazy that it must be true!
Bender: I can't keep running people over. I'm not famous enough to get away with it. Help me!
Bender Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Robot Psychiatrist · Bender: Sure you can die! You want to die? No! There's still too many things I don't own!
Robot Psychiatrist: Each night, your attacks will become more gruesome until one dark night you are doomed to kill your dearest friend.
Bender: Could one of you just--? Ah, forget it. I'll just sleep here.
Bender Visual Gag Character Comedy Bender: What about welding everyone except me to the wall?
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist Fry: You jerk! I thought I was your best friend! What kind of two-timing kill-mobile are you?
Fry Character Comedy Absurdist Leela · Fry: Could you help me? Bender crushed my foot. Stop rubbing it in!
Fry: Words. Nothing but sweet words turning into bitter orange wax in my ears.
Fry Absurdist Character Comedy Fry: I wish I was stupid and violent. We'd see what's what. I'd pound him till--
Fry Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Crowd: We aren't ignorant villagers. We're sophisticated New New Yorkers. Whup his butt!
Crowd Irony/Sarcasm Setup/Punchline Calculon: The natives called it the abominable snowmobile.
Calculon: I once had a best friend who liked to smell things with me.
Fry: Whoa, whoa! You're 1000 years old? Your bio says you're 27.
Fry Character Comedy Observational Calculon: Acting Unit 0.8, Thespo-mat, David Duchovny.
Calculon · Fry: Knight Rider wasn't evil. His windshield wipers were. It didn't come up in the show.
Bender: Look, everyone loves killing people, but I don't wanna hurt my friends.
Bender Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Fry · Project Satan: Oh, no! There's no exhaust pipe! That's right, thanks to Ed Begley Jr.'s electric motor, the most evil propulsion system ever conceived!
Bender: Oh, boy! I feel like a car in a candy store!
Bender Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Fry: Yes! He chose me! He's trying to kill me! Leela, I'm so happy!
Fry Character Comedy Absurdist Callback Bender: I must have killed him! He's my best friend and I killed him! I never felt so empty inside.
Bender Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Bender · Fry: That's my last beer, you bastard! I'll kill you! I'll kill you too, buddy. I'll kill you too.