A sober Bender crashes a dark matter tanker on Pluto, threatening the penguin reserve nearby. Leela helps out in the clean-up, but when the penguins begin mating out of control, drastic action must be taken to thin the herd.
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“The Birdbot Of Ice Catraz” ranks #30 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 82.1 — Elite. The episode packs 75 scored jokes at 5.4 per minute, averaging 6.8 on craft and 6.6 on impact, with Free Waterfall Sr. landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Bender: I taught them if it ain't black and white, peck and bite.
Bender Wordplay/Pun Escalation ★ Rewatch Free Waterfall Sr.: Little lady, those people's asses are living things too.
Free Waterfall Sr.: Sorry, if it's fun in any way, it's not environmentalism.
Leela: They're so cute. No! You can do this. It's like murdering a little butler.
Leela Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Free Waterfall Sr.: Don't leave orphans. Gotta kill entire families.
All Jokes — 75 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Character: Those cookies are fresh-a-licious, but they produce a lot of trash.
Character: So? It's not the only one we've got.
Character Irony/Sarcasm Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Professor · Other: Controversial? - Oh, my, no. For this highly controversial mission...
Professor: Impossible. The tanker has 6000 hulls. So, unlike me, it's entirely leakproof.
Character · Professor: Protestors? - Correct. Six thousand hulls.
Professor: To avoid the tollbooth.
Professor: She's restocked with emergency jam.
Leela: This is my normal jacket. I've had it 1 0 years.
Leela Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Hermes: Well, Fry, or should I say Captain Fry? No, I shouldn't. Bender is the new captain.
Hermes Misdirection Setup/Punchline Hermes: Being captain is about intuition and heart. A good captain can't have either.
Hermes Irony/Sarcasm Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Bender: I do think of human life as expendable.
Bender Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fry: She let me sit on her lap and steer, in this comic I drew.
Fry Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Amy Reaction Beat Character Comedy Bender: Now, look spry, men. We launch at six bells.
Free Waterfall Sr.: When you clap your hands...you kill thousands of spores that'll someday form a nutritious fungus.
Free Waterfall Sr.: Just show your approval with a mold-friendly thumbs up.
Free Waterfall Sr.: Please hold your thumbs until the end.
Leela: Why resort to nonviolence? Can't we kick their asses?
Leela Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Free Waterfall Sr.: Little lady, those people's asses are living things too.
Fry: We're hitched up tighter than Davy Jones' U-Haul.
Bender: From now on, you'll be known as Wiggles.
Bender Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Bender: What's Peter Parrot's first rule of captaining?
Free Waterfall Sr.: Our peace ring has them trapped like a tiger in a washing machine.
Fry: Didn't you realize spaceships can move in three dimensions?
Fry Observational Deadpan/Understatement Free Waterfall Sr.: No, I did not.
Free Waterfall Sr.: If you're cold, rub your bodies with permafrost. It's nature's long johns.
Zoidberg: If rubbing dirt in your crotch is wrong, I don't wanna be right.
Zoidberg Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Amy: They're so cute, like if puppies and kittens could have babies.
Zapp: It's this medal I'm most proud of. I won it for saving the children of Earth from a giant kangaroo.
Zapp Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Zapp: It was on Australian news. You didn't see it.
Zapp Escalation Character Comedy Leela: Those aren't even medals. They're bottle caps and pepperoni slices.
Leela Visual Gag Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Fry: Fine, I've got a toast. To Captain Bender. He's the best...at being a jerk, and his ugly face is as dumb as a butt.
Bender: I've heard better.
Bender Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat Kif Escalation Deadpan/Understatement Bender: I once knew a guy... You look like him.
Bender: He wasn't neither...
Free Waterfall Sr. · Leela: Bender's too low and upside down. - He must be talking on a cell phone.
Professor: Fools. If only they'd built it with 6001 hulls. When will they learn?
News Anchor: I don 't think any of us can understand how those poor penguins feel.
Penguin Visual Gag Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch News Anchor: At the time of the crash, the captain had an alcohol level of. 08 percent...well below the legal limit for robots.
Hyper-Chicken Lawyer: As your lawyer, I declare y'all are in a 1 2-piece bucket of trouble.
Bender: Five hours? Couldn't you have just gotten me the death penalty?
Bender Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Hyper-Chicken Lawyer: I'd have done better, but it's hard pleading a case...while awaiting trial for incompetence.
Free Waterfall Sr.: To avoid frostbite, put your hands between your buttocks. That's nature's pocket.
Bender: Can't beat fresh-squeezed.
Bender Visual Gag Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Fry · Free Waterfall Sr.: Are they black with white feathers...or white with black feathers? - Don't matter. They're all beautiful.
Guard: Man, he got away. This is why chief says no hugging.
Guard Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist ★ Rewatch Free Waterfall Sr.: I'm gonna stay up singing songs about penguins in a fine, piercing tenor.
Leela: Here robot, robot, robot.
Fry · Amy · Fry: They sent us inside for doing an unsatisfactory job. - And eating penguin eggs. - You ate most of them.
Hermes: Where's Captain Bender? Off catastrophizing some other planet?
Hermes Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Kif: Such a man. I'd follow him to hell and back, I would.
Kif Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bender: What's this water made of, ice? Forget this!
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist Fry: I don't think we're on Pluto. We may have left space as we know it.
Free Waterfall Sr.: It's like a mix of penguin estrogen, penguin Viagra and Spanish penguin fly.
Free Waterfall Sr.: A garden-variety penguin lays one egg a year. Since the spill, our penguins lay six eggs every 1 5 minutes!
Free Waterfall Sr.: Also, the eggs hatch in only 1 2 hours! Also, the males are laying eggs!
Free Waterfall Sr.: This man has overgasped!
Leela: If only we hadn't flown penguins to Pluto and dumped oil on them.
Leela Irony/Sarcasm Observational Leela: Oh, God, it's inhuman! It's like Hong Kong! I'll do it!
Free Waterfall Sr.: Sorry, if it's fun in any way, it's not environmentalism.
Amy · Free Waterfall Sr.: Really? How about blowing up dams? - Yeah, that is fun.
Free Waterfall Sr.: Don't leave orphans. Gotta kill entire families.
Leela: They're so cute. No! You can do this. It's like murdering a little butler.
Leela Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Bender: I don't know why, but when I look at their faces...it makes me want to puke! In a good way.
Bender Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender: I don't know why, but when I look at their faces... it makes me want to puke! In a good way.
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist Free Waterfall Sr.: You may just be farming some free-range truth there.
Bender: I taught them if it ain't black and white, peck and bite.
Bender Wordplay/Pun Escalation ★ Rewatch Bender: Guys, it's me, your lovable dictator!
Fry: If only we had a toboggan!
Fry: Right, they can swim. It's all coming back to me now.
Fry Deadpan/Understatement Observational Fry · Leela: At least it'll help reduce their population. Yeah, life is hilariously cruel.
Fry Leela Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Leela: Nature will work itself out. It can't screw up any worse than we did, right?
Leela Irony/Sarcasm Observational Bender: Thanks to my influence, those stupid birds will do just fine.
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm