Fry discovers the ability to download any celebrity onto a blank robot, and chooses to download Lucy Liu, with whom he falls madly in love. Repulsed by this disgusting display of human/robot love, Leela, Bender, and Zoidberg set out to shut down Nappster.com and put an end to illegal celebrity downloads forever.
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“I Dated A Robot” ranks #43 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 81.0 — Elite. The episode packs 84 scored jokes at 5.1 per minute, averaging 6.8 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
Bender: Bender don't bend that way.
Bender Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender: Humans dating robots is sick. You people wonder why I'm still single? It's 'cause all the fine robot sisters are dating humans!
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Lucy Liu-Bot · System: I'll always remember you, Fry. - Memory deleted.
Lucy Liu-Bot: My personality is mathematically derived from my movies... proportionately weighted by box office receipts.
Lucy Liu-Bot: I love you more than the moon and the stars... and the... Poetic image number 37 not found.
All Jokes — 84 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Narrator: You're entering a realm which is unusual. Maybe it's magic or contains some kind of monster. The second one.
Narrator Deadpan/Understatement Misdirection ★ Rewatch Clyde Smith: A casino where I'm winning? That car must have killed me. I must be in heaven.
Clyde Smith: A casino where I always win? That's boring. I must really be... in hell!
Flight Attendant: No. You're not in heaven or hell. You're on an airplane.
Flight Attendant · Clyde Smith: Why should I believe you? You're Hitler. Eva Braun, help me!
Bender Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement Fry: A big floating ball that lit up with every color in the rainbow... plus some new ones that were so beautiful I cried.
Fry Character Comedy Absurdist Leela: They have a kid wear that to attract customers.
Leela Misdirection Deadpan/Understatement Fry: I don't care if it was a dork in a costume. For a moment, I felt the heartbeat of creation, and it was one with my own.
Fry Character Comedy Escalation Bender: Big deal. We all feel like that all the time. You don't hear us gassing on about it.
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Leela: Boring? Wasn't that the period when they cracked the human genome... and boy bands roamed the earth?
Leela Observational ★ Rewatch Amy · Bender: You know what might be a hoot? - No. Why would I know that?
Amy Bender Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Amy · Leela: Everything? - Except that.
Leela · Fry: So your fantasy has always been to destroys a planet? - Yeah. What did they ever do for me?
Amy: Funny, you live in the universe... but you never do these things till someone visits.
Amy Observational Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Fry · Leela: Far out. So there's an infinite number of parallel universes? - No, just the two.
Fry Leela Misdirection Deadpan/Understatement Fry: Well, I'm sure that's enough.
Fry Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Bender: I'm sick of parallel Bender lording his cowboy hat over me.
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist Child · Mother: Mommy, why is that man like that? - Don't look at him.
Fry Character Comedy Visual Gag Bender: These new hands are great. I'll break them in tonight.
Bender: I could pound your head till you think that's what happened.
Bender Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Amy: Of course. You should read a blimp.
Fry: Download a celebrity. What part of that do I understand?
Fry Character Comedy Observational Bender: While you're there, pick me up a few credit card numbers.
Bender Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Internet User 1 · Internet User 2: Kirk could kick Picard's ass. - At least Picard had the guts to admit he was bald.
eBay Auctioneer: Sold to the being of inconceivable horror.
Being of Horror · eBay Auctioneer: Will a money order be okay? - Yes.
Nappster Employee · Fry: Gwyneth Paltrow? - Nah. I read she drinks human blood.
Fry: I'd prefer someone with shaved underarms.
Fry Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Nappster Employee: Only woman to be named People's Sexiest Woman of the Year twice: In 2003 and then again in 2063.
Fry: I'd like the 2003 model.
Lucy Liu-Bot: You're one sexy man, Philip J. Fry.
Leela · Fry: Well, duh! She's programmed to like you. - But this is Lucy Liu, the only good actress of the 21st century.
Lucy Liu-Bot · Fry: Would you like to register me? - I'll remind you later, you hot stud.
Lucy Liu-Bot · Fry: When I feel so stuffed I can't eat... I use the restroom, and then I can eat more. - You should write a book. People need to know about the 'can eat more.'
Lucy Liu-Bot: My personality is mathematically derived from my movies... proportionately weighted by box office receipts.
Fry · Lucy Liu-Bot · Professor: You're cute. - You're cute. - You. - You. - Oh, dear. She's stuck in an infinite loop and he's an idiot.
Professor: That's love for you.
Bender: Humans dating robots is sick. You people wonder why I'm still single? It's 'cause all the fine robot sisters are dating humans!
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Leela · Professor: This is Fry's decision. - And he made it wrong, so it's time for us to interfere.
Bender: Stay away from our women! You've got metal fever, boy!
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist Professor · Professor: He never took middle school hygiene. He never saw the propaganda film. - It's just lucky I keep a copy in the VCR at all times.
Billy · Monroe-Bot: Neat-o! A Marilyn Monroe-Bot. - You're a dreamboat, Billy Everyteen.
Real Girl · Billy: Your house is across the street. - That's an awfully long way to go for making out.
Narrator: Where are all the football stars? And where are the biochemists?
Narrator · Narrator: All civilization was an effort to impress the opposite sex. - And sometimes the same sex.
Narrator: Have you guessed the name of Billy's planet? It was Earth!
Narrator Misdirection Meta/Self-Referential Professor: I knew I should have shown him Electro Gonorrhea: The Noisy Killer.
Hermes: That Fry's a sicko pervert, I tell you. Dating a robot, it's an atrosamacy!
Hermes Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Amy · Bender: But Fry's our friend, Bender. - Will you stifle there, meat bag?
Leela · Amy · Amy: You stifle, Bender. - Finally you're standing up to him. - Although he is completely right.
Leela · Nappster Employee: Who's in charge? - If you're an investor, you can dump your money in the hole.
Nappster Employee: The Internet is about the free exchange and sale of other people's ideas.
Nappster Employee: No. Stay out. There's a guy going for the Tetris world record in there.
Real Lucy Liu · Fry: Help me! They've been holding me prisoner for 800 years. - The real Lucy Liu! The one you can see a movie of.
Leela · Employee · Employee: Don't make me call the maintenance guy. - It's a bluff. - We can't take that chance. Move!
George Michael-Bot · Bender: Please pick me up before you go-go. - She asked first.
Nappster Employee: We'd have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling adults.
Real Lucy Liu · Bender: Quite a masculine piece of metal, aren't you? - Don't look at me like that. If you're thinking of crossing the line, you can forget it. Bender don't bend that way.
Bender: Bender don't bend that way.
Bender Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Evil Lucy Liu-Bot: I am Lucy Liu. Give me your spines.
Bender: Looks like you're retaining water.
Bender Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Amy: That was incredible, Bender. You're like Jackie Chan before he got doughy.
Amy Character Comedy Observational Bender: Shucks, I wasn't afraid of that robot. I'm pretty brave once you get past my macho exterior...
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Lucy Liu Army: Take this, and that, and one of these.
Fry: Now that's a wave of destruction that's easy on the eyes.
Fry Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Character: Now that's a wave of destruction that's easy on the eyes.
Fry: This is the best movie I've ever seen. It has a vampire and an explosion.
Fry Character Comedy Observational Leela: It's amazing the way you notice two things.
Leela Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Professor: Read the jar, Evelyn Wood.
Movie Character · Movie Character: If you want to see the real vampire, look in the mirror. - I can't. I'm a vampire.
Leela: They're forming a human pyramid... Of robots.
Leela Misdirection Visual Gag Leela: We weren't counting on them being as smart as they are sexy.
Leela Character Comedy Observational Zoidberg · Leela: Hooray! - And don't eat it.
Fry: You'll be safe in here, sweetheart. Get lost, Pavarotti.
Lucy Liu-Bot: I love you more than the moon and the stars... and the... Poetic image number 37 not found.
Fry · Lucy Liu-Bot: You saved us. Are you all right? - Yes, my love. I'll be just... Massive corn clog in port seven.
Real Lucy Liu: That and the largest gold nugget in the world.
Lucy Liu-Bot · System: I'll always remember you, Fry. - Memory deleted.
Bender · Real Lucy Liu: Yeah, at our wedding. - It's true. Bender and I are in love.
Real Lucy Liu · Bender: Yeah, at our wedding. - It's true. Bender and I are in love.
Fry · Bender: But... But... - Don't be a prude, Fry.
Fry Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback