After a string of bad luck, Fry ventures into the decaying ruins of Old New York to regain his lucky seven-leaf clover from his childhood, only to find that his brother Yancy Fry had stolen not only the clover, but Fry's identity as well. Fry sets out to exhume his brother's body, but discovers the startling truth about Yancy instead.
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Wins Above Replacement
“The Luck Of The Fryrish” ranks #59 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 79.5 — Elite. The episode packs 74 scored jokes at 4.7 per minute, averaging 6.7 on craft and 6.5 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
Young Fry: I can't wait until I'm old enough to feel ways about stuff.
Young Fry Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Bender: Okay, grab a shovel. I'm one skull short of a Mouseketeer reunion.
Bender Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fry's father: He better keep his hands off these bananas. Gonna need them when the radiation turns us all into monkeys.
Fry's father: All the way back to minuteman Yancy Fry... who blasted commies in the American Revolution.
Fry's father: Philip, until I find a suitable model of an ICBM... you'll have to make do fearing this toy spacecraft.
All Jokes — 74 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Fry's father: Squeeze one out for America, honey.
Fry's father: Keep it down, it's the 9th inning.
Fry's father: You saying my son's a commie?
Fry's father: This is the happiest day of my life. - Here's your baby. - Okay, thanks.
Fry's mother: You pick. I picked dinner.
Fry's father: I was thinking of Philip, after those screwdrivers.
Young Yancy: Me Philip! Me Philip!
Fry's father: All the way back to minuteman Yancy Fry... who blasted commies in the American Revolution.
Fry's father: Philip, until I find a suitable model of an ICBM... you'll have to make do fearing this toy spacecraft.
Bender: To hell with your baby. I need those shoes.
Bender Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Fry: No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it.
Fry Observational Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Fry: I'll tell you when my horse finishes. - Bad.
Fry Setup/Punchline Deadpan/Understatement Jockey: Hey, baby, ever do it in a suitcase?
Jockey Absurdist Dark/Subversive Fry Wordplay/Pun Setup/Punchline Fry: I've run over black cats that were luckier than me.
Fry Dark/Subversive Observational Vendor: Get your hot horse-burgers, horse-fries, horse-cakes and shakes.
Vendor: All our horses are 100% horse-fed for that double juiced-in goodness.
Customer: I'll have a cholesterol-free omelet with horse-beaters.
Vendor: How can I horse you, sir?
Vendor · Fry: Horse Pepsi okay? - Neigh!
Fry: Dear Horse God, I don't usually pray. Sometimes I doubt you even exist.
Fry Absurdist Character Comedy Fry: Don't do that. What are you...? It's contagious.
Fry Visual Gag Physical/Slapstick Announcer: That'll teach those horses to take drugs.
Amy: That'll teach those horses to take drugs.
Amy Deadpan/Understatement Dark/Subversive Fry: I may not know about horses, but I know lots about doing anything for $1.
Fry: If you think bad luck can defeat me, you don't know my name is Philip J...
Fry Physical/Slapstick Irony/Sarcasm Bystander: That is one unlucky guy.
Young Fry: Kareem has the sky hook, but Philip J. Fry has the space hook.
Young Fry · Young Yancy: Hey! That's my patented space hook. You stole it. - You're not the president of it.
Young Fry: Holy camolie! A seven-leaf clover.
Young Yancy: I'm dying of old age!
Bender: Someone's in a good mode.
Bender Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Fry · Fry: What happened to this clover? - I hid it in a secret place and never told anyone. Not even Scruffy.
Fry Fry Character Comedy Observational Leela: Dirt doesn't need luck.
Leela Deadpan/Understatement Observational Bender: My full name is Bender Bending Rodriguez.
Bender Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Bender Dark/Subversive Reaction Beat Fry: The city that inspired a casino in Las Vegas.
Fry Observational Irony/Sarcasm Fry: Howard Stern is overrated.
Fry Observational Meta/Self-Referential Leela: New York is so burned. Remember when Giuliani cracked down on jaywalking? Well, Rudy, how do you like this action?
Leela Character Comedy Observational Young Fry: Cosmic F. - Outer space. - The moonwalk. The robot. The zero G.
Young Fry · Young Yancy: Deep Space?! - You totally ripped off my routine.
Young Fry · MC: The septuple head-spin! - He's just scratching. No one's done more than a quadruple.
Young Fry: Oh, yeah? Noticeably F.A.T., rewind the tape.
Fry: 71st Street? Never heard of it.
Fry Character Comedy Observational Fry Physical/Slapstick Reaction Beat Train announcer: This is the Brooklyn-bound B-train, stopping wherever I feel like.
Fry: That's the bench where I found shirts. We used to light that hydrant on fire!
Fry Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Leela · Fry: Was it poorly xeroxed? - Oh, yeah.
Leela: The comedians were right. This is different from L.A.
Leela Meta/Self-Referential Observational Andy Goldman: I mutated from him.
Andy Goldman · Leela · Fry: I'm teaching. - He seemed nice. - Sure, when he's sober.
Fry: Man, Father Time really took a bat to this place.
Fry Observational Wordplay/Pun Fry's father: What's happening? Did Kremlin Joe let fly with the nukes?
Fry's father: He better keep his hands off these bananas. Gonna need them when the radiation turns us all into monkeys.
Young Fry: I can't wait until I'm old enough to feel ways about stuff.
Young Fry Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Fry · Leela: Yet there was no nuclear war. - What a waste.
Professor: The Achilles' heel of the Ronco design is its structural resonance frequency.
Bender: You mean breakfast club sandwich?
Bender Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Leela: Except Sports, by Huey Lewis.
Leela Observational Wordplay/Pun Fry: Good Lord! He ditched his goofy name and stole mine.
Fry Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Professor · Fry: You opened the vault, and the clover was gone? - Nothing in there but the best music of the 1980s.
Fry: Survivor, Pat Benatar, The Scorpions. The list goes on.
Fry Observational Character Comedy Amy: It also opened my calendar to Friday and ordered some french fries.
Amy Observational Absurdist Fry · Bender: Good, we're going grave robbing. - I'll get my kit.
Mr. Fry: Yancy, that tux got me through Nam in style.
Yancy: He may be missing, but his crap sure isn't.
Yancy Character Comedy Observational Yancy: Breakfast Club. This will clear the room after the reception.
Yancy Callback Observational Callback Bender: Now no one will be able to say I don't own John Larroquette's spine.
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Fry: He wasn't original. He wasn't a Martian. He wasn't Philip. He wasn't a 'the.'
Fry Escalation Character Comedy Leela: You're twice the 'the' he ever was.
Leela Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Yancy: Really? Son, I'm naming you Philip J. Fry... in honor of my little brother, who I miss every day.
Yancy Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fry: Pay dirt! I got the clover, plus his wedding ring. Sorry, ladies, I'm taken.
Fry Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bender: Hey, Fry, you want me to smack the corpse up a little?
Bender Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Bender: Okay, grab a shovel. I'm one skull short of a Mouseketeer reunion.
Bender Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch