Bender, insulted by the reception his terrible cooking receives, runs away and joins a space hobo camp, where he apprentices with a legendary former TV chef. Meanwhile, Dr. Zoidberg accidentally destroys Professor Farnsworth's prized ship-in-a-bottle and frames Fry.
WAR
19.4
Wins Above Replacement
“30 Iron Chef” ranks #111 of 137 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 73.9 — Solid. The episode packs 79 scored jokes at 5.3 per minute, averaging 6.4 on craft and 6.1 on impact, with Bender landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
Get weekly comedy rankings
Join comedy fans getting new analyses, score drops, and the funniest moments each week. Free, no spam.
Top Jokes
Professor: Yes, ordinary water, laced with nothing more than a few spoonfuls of LSD.
Leela: Good thing I secretly installed this wormhole in the table.
Leela Absurdist Misdirection ★ Rewatch Chairman Koji: That sword cost $5000!
Bender: For example, Amy, you're cute, so I baked you a pony.
Bender Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Elzar: to get reservations you had to create a parallel universe, where you had reservations!
Elzar Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Standout Moments
Leela: Good thing I secretly installed this wormhole in the table.
Leela Absurdist Misdirection ★ Rewatch Chairman Koji: That sword cost $5000!
Professor: Yes, ordinary water, laced with nothing more than a few spoonfuls of LSD.
All Jokes — 79 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ TV Host: But apparently my wife hasn't been listening.
Morbo: I will destroy her!
Morbo Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Fry: What's with the pots and pans? Building a wife?
Fry Observational Dark/Subversive Bender Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Fry: I'd better warn... Tell... Warn-tell the others.
Fry Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Professor: I put a tiny spaceship inside to keep it from being boring.
Professor: For the last time, Zoidberg, look with your eyes, not your claws!
Amy Reaction Beat Cringe/Discomfort Leela: Don't panic. If we can get to the ship, we'll fly north and hide under the polar icecaps.
Leela: With you blocking the only escape route? Don't be silly.
Leela Irony/Sarcasm Reaction Beat Bender: Stop crying, Leela.
Bender Visual Gag Character Comedy Zoidberg: Surrender your mysteries to Zoidberg.
Zoidberg: But if Zoidberg fixes it, then perhaps gifts.
Zoidberg Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Bender: For example, Amy, you're cute, so I baked you a pony.
Bender Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Bender: I slaved all day over a filthy stove.
Bender Wordplay/Pun Irony/Sarcasm Leela: You know, I'm not quite sure.
Leela Escalation Cringe/Discomfort Bender: You guys like swarms of things, right?
Bender Visual Gag Cringe/Discomfort Zoidberg: Casual hello. It's me, Zoidberg. Act naturally.
Zoidberg Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Bender: Check out the palm tree. It gets sick when I cook brunch.
Bender: How's that for coincidence, professor, with all your precious science?
Bender Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Hermes: I don't want to hurt his feelings, but this tastes better as vomit.
Hermes Cringe/Discomfort Escalation Amy: What would it cost to get my tongue removed?
Amy Escalation Cringe/Discomfort Bender: Then it's settled. Elzar will teach me to cook!
Bender Misdirection Character Comedy Bender Character Comedy Absurdist Elzar: One, your antenna's in my crotch. Also, I hate you.
Elzar Physical/Slapstick Escalation Elzar: I knocked it up a notch. Bam!
Elzar Meta/Self-Referential Callback Zoidberg: When the professor finds out, he'll tear me a new cloaca!
Bender Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Bender: My dream of being a chef is deader than the cat I'm sitting on.
Bender Dark/Subversive Visual Gag Gus: A 'robo'. You know, a robot hobo.
Gus Wordplay/Pun Setup/Punchline Bender: I thought you said 'romo'.
Bender Wordplay/Pun Misdirection Bender: I've seen bigger. Wait, I'm thinking of Eugene, Oregon.
Bender Misdirection Observational Elzar: to get reservations you had to create a parallel universe, where you had reservations!
Elzar Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Nixon's Head: I once ate there, back when I was a senator.
Hobo: I once ate there, back when I was a senator.
Hobo Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Elzar Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Spargle Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Elzar: Cilantro, mango salsa, raspberry vinaigrette.
Elzar Character Comedy Observational Bender: My story's like yours, only interesting. It involves robots.
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Bender: I'd trade them all, even smision, to be able to taste!
Spargle: Just as Beethoven was a great composer because he was deaf!
Spargle: Or how Rembrandt was blind and had wooden hands!
Bender Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Leela: I'm acting astonished.
Leela Meta/Self-Referential Deadpan/Understatement Professor: leaving this confession note!
Professor: I have no choice but to charge you the full cost of the materials. $10.
Spargle: Because my stomach is about to explode.
Bender: A diamond vial of Mrs. Dash?
Bender Misdirection Observational Hobo: I'm not drunk. I'm mentally ill. But I likes what, what you said.
Hobo Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Elzar: What'd he do, bland himself to death?
Elzar Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Bender: Maybe so, but you're his sworn enemy!
Bender Absurdist Character Comedy Bender: I can't lose. I'm 30% iron.
Bender Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Bender: Also, I had a reservation for one, under Dr. Bender.
Bender Character Comedy Escalation Martha Stewart's Head: The secret is fresh pork.
Bender: If it's chicken, chicken à la king. Fish, fish à la king.
Bender Running Gag Character Comedy Bender: Turkey, fish à la king.
Bender Escalation Character Comedy Hiroki: he asked what it was to me and conjectured my mother was a prostitute.
Hiroki Escalation Cringe/Discomfort Hiroki: In the countryside, prostitutes decorate rooms with festive gourds.
Hiroki: I've never seen such powerful strokes of the ass.
Hobo: My turkey is dry, and I've tried everything.
Hobo Visual Gag Cringe/Discomfort Bender: Master Spargle, if you can hear me up in that ditch, where I left you...
Bender Dark/Subversive Callback ★ Rewatch Hiroki: He's even garnished the salad with $100 bills.
Bubblegum Tate: Soylent Green is my kind of people.
Morbo: Morbo will store this in his sack for future digestion.
Morbo Character Comedy Visual Gag Martha Stewart's Head: I'm swimming in my Soylent waste. It's a good thing.
Bubblegum Tate: This food looks kind of funky, but it tastes kind of funk-ay!
Professor: That's my robot! I own him!
Chairman Koji: Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto.
Bender: accept only the lesser title of Zinc Saucier, which I just made up.
Bender Absurdist Character Comedy Bender: Also, it comes with double prize money.
Bender Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Zoidberg: Wait. Everyone must know. I broke the professor's bottled ship! And what is worse, I framed my dearest friend, Fry!
Zoidberg Character Comedy Escalation Callback Bender: I can never repay him his $10, so I must take the only honorable path...
Bender Escalation Callback Callback Bender Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Professor: Spargle's magic ingredient was water! Ordinary water.
Bender: Now, who wants brunch cooked with plenty of 'confidence'?
Bender Callback Dark/Subversive Callback 