Leela endeavors to become the first female blernsball player, but her lack of depth perception hinders her skills. Nevertheless, she becomes the pitcher for the New New York Mets, purely for her novelty value.
WAR
52.8
Wins Above Replacement
“A Leela Of Her Own” ranks #67 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 79.0 — Elite. The episode packs 80 scored jokes at 5.1 per minute, averaging 6.7 on craft and 6.6 on impact, with Leela landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Fry: You are! What about that little girl you visited in the hospital who died?
Fry Dark/Subversive Misdirection ★ Rewatch Bender · Leela: You put a one and two zeros in front of that, or we pass. Deal. That's great. How much did you get me? One hundred dollars!
Signoid father: Just like rats we crushed to make the wine.
Leela: The whole numbers have been retired.
Leela Setup/Punchline Absurdist ★ Rewatch Injured batter: Yeah. Me too, now.
All Jokes — 80 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Unknown character: Put down the binoculars. The wall of that strip club isn't gonna collapse twice in one day.
Bender: I know. I accept that. Now I'm interested in that new pizza parlor.
Bender Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Fry: Makes me pine for my days as a delivery boy. 'Here's your pizza,' I'd say. 'I didn't order any,' they'd say. Then off to my next adventure.
Fry Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Bender: That story stunk. Hand me the binoculars.
Bender Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Callback Unknown neighbor: The owner is from Signas-Five. Signoids? On our block? They should go back where they came from.
Professor Farnsworth: Society's never gonna make progress... Until we learn to pretend to like each other. Let's make these hideous strangers feel welcome.
Signoid alien: You sure about these chairs? Guidebook says human legs bend down at knee.
Signoid son: It's okay, Mama. Anyone complains, I bend legs up for free.
Signoid owner: Welcome to Earth Pizza Store. Here, sit. I bend the knees for you.
Signoid owner: What kind of pizza goes in you?
Signoid owner: Silt? Asbestos? We got guano, very fresh.
Customer · Signoid owner: Have any food? Here, try a deep-Dish pizza. Contains four kinds of things.
Customer: This tastes like vomit. Thank you.
Leela: Actually, I mean to offend a little. This is awful.
Leela Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Signoid mother: We come to Earth to start new life, raise fat, spoiled Earth kids...
Signoid mother: Hang many underwear from Earth clothesline, live Earthican dream.
Fry: As soon as I stop blasting puke... I'm gonna teach you to sell pizza.
Fry Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Signoid father: You save us, sir. If we cannot make Earth Pizza, our dream will die.
Signoid father: Just like rats we crushed to make the wine.
Fry: For starters, use quality ingredients. Case in point? No more live bees.
Fry Setup/Punchline Absurdist Fry: When you put pizzas in the oven, don't get in with them.
Fry Absurdist Deadpan/Understatement Signoid Physical/Slapstick Reaction Beat Callback Fry: Families need a TV so they don't have to talk to each other.
Fry Observational Dark/Subversive Announcer: Mets lose again. I haven't seen play this bad since the days of Bob Uecker.
Announcer Setup/Punchline Meta/Self-Referential Bob Uecker: This is Bob Uecker saying thanks for watching.
Bob Uecker Callback Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Callback Signoid: Mets? Shortstop? Pinching the hitter? I don't understand this Blernsball.
Signoid Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Crowd member: Go, team. Beat those no-Good Signoids.
Signoid father: Ah, this is why I love Earth. Beautiful star-Brightened day, friendly Blernsball game with chum pals.
Leela · Umpire: No batter, no batter. No batter anymore. Take your base.
Injured batter: Yeah. Me too, now.
Player: Hey, batter, batter, batter, batter. Hey, duck.
Batter: Please, I want to live. Can I use bat to protect head? Apparently not.
Batter Cringe/Discomfort Escalation Spectator: Check out the one-Eyed bean machine.
Signoid player: Hooray, I make a score point.
Teammate · Leela: You beaned a run in. Better let me pitch. But I've got a no-Hitter going. You're right. Here.
Elzar: Now I'm the sleaze bag who owns the New New York Mets.
Elzar Character Comedy Callback Leela: The Mets? Those bums are worse than me.
Leela Setup/Punchline Irony/Sarcasm Leela: You mean, I'd be the first woman ever to play major league blernsball?
Leela Running Gag Character Comedy Owner · Leela: It'd be a publicity stunt. A one-Eyed lady might bring out the freak show crowd. Wow, the first woman ever to play major league blernsball.
Fry: Like a sexy Yogi Berra. Why is your number 7/8?
Fry Setup/Punchline Absurdist Leela: The whole numbers have been retired.
Leela Setup/Punchline Absurdist ★ Rewatch Amy · Leela · Amy: Can I pat you on the butt? I'm a professional athlete. So go ahead. Now I'm too nervous.
Announcer: The Swedes have already turned this one into a 'laffer'.
Announcer: And that's with two 'F's.' The crowd is pouring out L.A. -Style.
Manager: I already put in the circus clown. But he bunted. Clowns are only funny when they swing away.
Announcer: A one-Eyed woman.
Crowd: Come on, throw like a girl. Go, Leela. Too much eyeliner.
Crowd Irony/Sarcasm Observational Announcer: An inauspicious continuation for the career of the first woman blernsballer.
Crowd: Bean! Bean! Bean! Bean! Bean...
Crowd Running Gag Escalation Agent · Agent: You got more publicity than a cowboy in a shark tank. Poor Tex. He was quite a shark.
Bender · Leela: You put a one and two zeros in front of that, or we pass. Deal. That's great. How much did you get me? One hundred dollars!
Leela: As a pitcher, I serve up plenty of bean balls. So I know good beans when I see them. Bean-Bay Beans! They're the beaniest!
Leela Wordplay/Pun Meta/Self-Referential Bender · Leela: You put a one and two zeros in front of that, or we pass. Deal. So, what did you get me? A thousand and one pesos.
Girl · Leela: To eBay? That's a popular name today. Little 'e,' big 'B'?
Bender: Five bucks an autograph, 200 fans, add a one and two zeros, we got a wad.
Bender Callback Character Comedy Callback Jackie · Leela: A role model for how to stink. What? Who are you?
Fry: You are! What about that little girl you visited in the hospital who died?
Fry Dark/Subversive Misdirection ★ Rewatch Professor: That's statistically impossible. In 77 innings, you haven't gotten one out.
Leela: Then I have a new vow. I solemnly swear I will become not the worst blernsball player of all time!
Leela Character Comedy Escalation Bender: When will man learn that all races are equally inferior to robots?
Bender Character Comedy Observational Guide: He once struck out when his tongue stuck to a cold bat.
Guide Absurdist Physical/Slapstick Guide · Hank Aaron XXIV: He tried to catch with an oven mitt! It's a crummy hologram. I'm not a hologram. Hank Aaron the 24th.
Hank Aaron XXIV · Guide: My batting average was low. Low? It was zero! You went your whole career without getting a hit.
Professor: Leela beats that. She pitched without ever getting an out!
Hank Aaron XXIV: Wade Boggs, goes down smooth.
Hank Aaron XXIV: I can't help you play better than Tiny lota. He was great!
Leela · Hank Aaron XXIV: You mean on the ball? Who's in the hall of fame?
Umpire · Leela: Strike! Man, you did it, Leela! I didn't hit the batter!
Character · Signoid: You opened a franchise! Yes. Our biggest seller is Leela's Bean Pizza!
Signoid wife: Live hornets. We smoosh them right into dough.
Customer: I don't care if it's horse manure. That's good.
Signoid father · Signoid mother: No! We come to Earth to make pizza, not money! No, Blek! Other way around.
Announcer: Fans, Boston's turning the last game into a real 'squeeeker'.
Manager: I repeat. Isn't there a man on...
Manager Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Announcer: I've never seen anything this weird and I've seen Mr. Belvedere naked!
Leela: She puts on her sports bra one arm at a time.
Leela Observational Wordplay/Pun Announcer: This moment is brought to you by Month Old Franks... The hot dogs with experience!
Announcer: She's taught the world that being a bum knows no gender.
Jackie: You were so awful that women set out to prove they don't stink as bad as you.
Jackie Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kid · Leela: You're still the worst football player of all time. Yeah.
Kid Leela Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy