A spacetime accident leaves the Planet Express crew stranded in Roswell, New Mexico in the year 1947, where a shattered Bender is mistaken for UFO debris and Zoidberg is captured as an alien specimen. Leela and the professor work to get everybody home, while Fry tries to keep his accident-prone grandfather alive.
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“Roswell That Ends Well” ranks #128 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 74.4 — Great. The episode packs 49 scored jokes at 3.8 per minute, averaging 6.8 on craft and 6.2 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
Professor: Isn't it obvious? You are.
General: Where we're building the fake moon landing? We'll have to really land on the moon. Invent NASA and tell them.
Fry: But existing is basically all I do!
Fry Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Fry · Leela: Well, I killed my grandfather. Wha...? Wait, why do you still exist? I don't know. Maybe God loves me.
Fry Leela Setup/Punchline Absurdist ★ Rewatch Professor: Don't do anything that affects anything, unless you were supposed to, in which case, don't not do it.
All Jokes — 49 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Fry: I've never seen a supernova blow up... But if it's like my Chevy Nova, it'll light up the sky.
Fry Setup/Punchline Observational ★ Rewatch Fry: What smells like blue?
Fry Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fry: Which crazy thing happening are you guys screaming about?
Fry Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Fry: My popcorn's done. It's less popped than ever.
Fry Absurdist Observational Leela: What's this layer of ozone? That's never been there before.
Leela Irony/Sarcasm Observational ★ Rewatch Bender: Those cost more lives than they save.
Bender Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Leela: Here's the plan. Zoidberg, pick up the pieces. Everyone else, take five.
Leela Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Narrator/Zoidberg: Zoidberg picks up another piece. The crowd goes wild.
Military Officer: In all my years of covering top-Secret discoveries with sheets... I've never dramatically revealed anything this shocking. Dun-Dun-Dun!
Professor: Which explains why the chronograph turned into this calendar.
Professor · Bender: Some idiot must have put metal in the microwave. Yo.
Leela: 'Gym Renovations on Schedule'? What a load.
Leela Observational Character Comedy Bender: That's no flying saucer. That's my ass.
Zoidberg · Others: Hello. Ugh. What are you guys doing tonight? I'm up for whatever.
Professor: We tore the universe a new space hole. But it's clenching shut fast.
Professor: Don't do anything that affects anything, unless you were supposed to, in which case, don't not do it.
Fry: But existing is basically all I do!
Fry Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Fry: Not a day goes by I don't ask myself that.
Fry Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Sergeant: I want that toilet so clean I could eat off it. Because I intend to.
Enos: Then I am lucky you knocked me onto this pile of rusty bayonets.
Enos Irony/Sarcasm Dark/Subversive Fry: I could feel myself fading away, like Greg Kinnear.
Enos: Handling raw chicken? Best part of the job. Finger-Licking good.
Leela: Yo, Homes, we need a microwave.
Fry: Yo, Homes, we need a microwave.
Fry Character Comedy Observational Appliance Salesman: And a foot-Soaking tub, since, as a woman, you'll be in front of it all day.
Appliance Salesman: She's hysterical, so I'll talk to you.
Fry Character Comedy Reaction Beat Fry: Hey, that's my brain!
Fry Visual Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Enos · Fry: That's my fiancée, Mildred. Grandma Mildred? No dessert.
Enos Fry Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Enos · Fry: You almost got neutered. Ain't as bad as killed. For me it is.
Enos Fry Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Amy: I'll have soylent green... With a soylent orange and soylent coleslaw.
Hermes: I'll have a croque monsieur, paella, two mutton pills and a stein of mead.
Professor: Oh, lord! We'll have to endure the horrible music of the Big Bopper... And then the terrible tragedy of his death.
Fry: Well, I killed my grandfather. Wait, why do you still exist? I don't know. Maybe God loves me.
Fry Character Comedy Absurdist Fry · Leela: Well, I killed my grandfather. Wha...? Wait, why do you still exist? I don't know. Maybe God loves me.
Fry Leela Setup/Punchline Absurdist ★ Rewatch Professor: If it makes you feel any better... He was vaporized, so he can't come back as a zombie.
General: Where we're building the fake moon landing? We'll have to really land on the moon. Invent NASA and tell them.
Scientist · Bender: Are you coming on to me? I take exception to that.
Mildred: How about these cookies, sugar?
Professor · Fry: What the hell have you done?! Relax. She can't be my grandmother. I figured it out.
Professor: Isn't it obvious? You are.
Bender: Come on, lighten up. What is this, a funeral?
Bender Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Scientist: The same deviled egg.
Leela: A lesson in not changing history from Mr. I'm-My-Own-Grandpa.
Leela Character Comedy Callback Callback Zoidberg · President Truman: Great Roosevelt's ghost! Hi-Ya! Ya! Ya! Take this, Mr. President. Sir.
Bender: Choke on that, causality!
Leela: Oh, poor Bender. He must be so lonely right now, trapped 1000 years in the past.
Fry · Bender: What was it like lying in that hole for 1000 years? I was enjoying it until you showed up.
Professor: If history doesn't care that our degenerate friend, Fry... Is his own grandfather, who are we to judge?