When the Professor fine tunes his "What-If" machine, Bender discovers what it would be like if he were human, Fry discovers what it would be like if life were more like a video game, and Leela discovers what it would be like if she found her true home.
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“Anthology Of Interest Ii” ranks #44 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 81.0 — Elite. The episode packs 84 scored jokes at 5.6 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.5 on impact, with Bender landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Professor · Amy: He's dead. When did he die? About twelve hours ago when the party started. But he just said 'Woo!' No, that was air escaping from the folds of his fat.
Zoidberg: Are you off to see the Professor? 'Cause I could use a heart. A human heart. I need to pump a lot of blood out of my basement.
Zoidberg Misdirection Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Lrrr: Quarters! A million allowances worth of quarters! No slugs or tokens!
Lrrr Misdirection Absurdist ★ Rewatch Leela: Well, no point letting her go to waste.
Leela Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fry: All right. It's Saturday night. I have no date, a two-liter bottle of Shasta... and my all-Rush mix tape. Let's rock!
Fry Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 84 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Bender: Being a robot's great, but we don't have emotions... and sometimes that makes me very sad.
Professor: Oh, Lordy Lou, there he goes again! Well, let's give baby what he wants.
Professor: I've already tested it by turning the toaster into a raccoon.
Hermes: Cover your shame, mon!
Hermes Visual Gag Character Comedy Professor: It worked! Eat it, everyone who's never won a Nobel Prize! And that includes you, Amy.
Bender: Nah, it just moved. I'm not getting good reception on it, though.
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Bender · Hermes: Maybe if I wiggle it around... No! You'll make God cry!
Professor: Hooray! It's just like Mardi Gras.
Bender: Come into the bathroom and look at this! You won't believe it!
Bender Cringe/Discomfort Setup/Punchline Leela: Bender, it's okay to be proud, but don't be a showoff.
Leela Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement Amy · Bender: You look a lot better than you used to. You're not so bad yourself, big boy.
Bender: Hey, that felt great! Nah, it's not working anymore.
Bender Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Amy Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement Bender: You drank and smoked as a robot. But now it's bad for me! Woo!
Bender Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Bender: Why didn't anyone tell me tasting things tasted so good?
Bender Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Bender: What's going on? That rhythm, it's doing something to my human butt!
Bender Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Bender: I bet I can eat nachos and go to the bathroom at the same time!
Bender Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Bender: Goodbye moderation!
Bender Character Comedy Escalation Professor: As I've said before, I used reverse fossilization... which is the reverse of regular, uh, eh...
Professor: Ah! Then without further stalling for time, I present to the Nobel judges...
Doctor: Pulse, 300. Liver, failing. Cholesterol, 40? Well, that's not so bad. No, I mean 40 pounds!
Bender: Come here and give old Bender a kiss.
Bender Visual Gag Cringe/Discomfort Bender: Hey, you like grilled cheese?
Bender Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Nobel Judge: Not only do you not deserve a Nobel Prize... for loosing this man-ball upon the world... but you are hereby kicked out of the Academy of Science!
Professor: Wait! As men of science, are not your minds open to new ideas?
Nobel Judge: Young man, you've opened our minds and swayed our hearts. Let us therefore... Party!
Professor · Amy: He's dead. When did he die? About twelve hours ago when the party started. But he just said 'Woo!' No, that was air escaping from the folds of his fat.
Bender Callback Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Callback Professor: Let's get him out of here. He's starting to smell up the joint.
Professor Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Bender Callback Escalation Callback Fry: I'm good at video games and bad at everything else. I wish life was like a video game.
Fry: Can you say that as a question? What if that thing I said?
Fry Character Comedy Absurdist Fry: Wait. I know that monkey! His name is Donkey!
Fry Character Comedy Observational Nixon: Monkeys aren't donkeys. Quit messing with my head!
Nixon Character Comedy Absurdist Italian General: Mama Mia! The cruel meatball of war has rolled onto our laps... and ruined our white pants of peace!
Fry: I spent all of ninth grade studying them... except the day my eyeballs started to bleed, and in my opinion...
Fry Character Comedy Escalation Fry: Delicious! Just like stale marshmallows!
Fry Character Comedy Observational Amy: Hey, watch out! Uh-oh! Oh, my God! He ate Fry! Fry is dead!
Amy Physical/Slapstick Escalation Fry: It's okay! I had another guy!
Fry: All right. It's Saturday night. I have no date, a two-liter bottle of Shasta... and my all-Rush mix tape. Let's rock!
Fry Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Lrrr: He's a madman! A madman!
Lrrr Reaction Beat Escalation Zapp: No! Amy, tend to the Widow Packman.
Zapp Wordplay/Pun Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Fry: One ship is left only! Come on, Fry! Get it! It's moving too fast! I could never get the last one! My brother always got it for me!
Fry Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Lrrr: You are defeated! Instead of shooting where I was, you should have shot where I was going!
Lrrr Character Comedy Observational Lrrr: All your base are belong to us.
Lrrr Meta/Self-Referential Observational Lrrr: Quarters! A million allowances worth of quarters! No slugs or tokens!
Lrrr Misdirection Absurdist ★ Rewatch Lrrr · Leela: Fork them over! Forget it, you pixelated pirates! We need quarters to do our laundry!
Lrrr: But space invaders need to do laundry, too. Look at Donkey Kong. Have you smelled his loincloth?
Lrrr Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Person Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement Lrrr: What if we put our laundry in with yours? Would that be okay?
Lrrr Misdirection Absurdist Leela · Lrrr: I guess so. Okay, that settles that. But if this cape shrinks, consider your species extinct!
Machine/Professor: Amy. I mean Leela.
Leela · Bender: As an alien who was abandoned on Earth... I've never really belonged anywhere. Boo-hoo! Ow!
Leela: Jeez, apparently the phrase 'Tone it down' doesn't exist on this planet.
Leela Observational Visual Gag Leela: Oh, no! We hit someone! Quick, back into the ship! Nice boots.
Leela Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Munchkins · Leela: Look, everyone! She killed the Man-Witch of the West! A witch? That explains how these boots magically appeared on my feet! No, you stole them. We saw you!
Leela: Well, it's hard to find shoes that fit me.
Leela Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Leela: Who are you people? Haven't I seen you in some copyrighted movie?
Leela Meta/Self-Referential Munchkins: We resemble but are legally distinct from the Lollypop Guild, the Lollypop...
Munchkin: You mean that Yellow Brick Road? The city council re-named it in 1975.
Amy · Leela: Those are great shoes! Oh, thank you. Do they come in women's sizes?
Fry · Leela: 'Then, the car honked its own horn!' A talking scarecrow. Want to come with us to see the Professor?
Leela · Fry: He might give you a brain. Hey! That's not nice to say.
Zoidberg: Are you off to see the Professor? 'Cause I could use a heart. A human heart. I need to pump a lot of blood out of my basement.
Zoidberg Misdirection Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Hermes: And I'm the other guy. Courage. Not enough of it. Need some from what's-his-name.
Hermes Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Mom: Fly, my stupids! Fly out and get them! You promised you'd bake monkey cake today! By 'monkey cake,' I meant your ass!
Mom Wordplay/Pun Escalation Bender: We've been skipping for hours. I need to pull over and take 'The Wiz.'
Bender Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Bender: What, do I smell or something?
Bender Reaction Beat Character Comedy Mom: Here's why I brought you, you twice-baked barf bags! I've always wanted a daughter to love. You want to get adopted, you skank?
Mom Character Comedy Misdirection Leela: Live here and be a witch like you? Yeah. As long as I get to hurt people... and not just dance at the equinox.
Leela Character Comedy Escalation Mom: I'm melting! Oh! Who would have thought a small amount of liquid would ever fall on me?
Mom Irony/Sarcasm Meta/Self-Referential Leela: Well, no point letting her go to waste.
Leela Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Professor · Hermes: I want to see them! It's nobody! Now, sign that will.
Hermes: Nothing! But if you have extra courage, I'd haul it away for you maybe?
Hermes Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Professor: After all, who needs courage when you have a gun?
Hermes: Now, world. You put your hands up!
Hermes Escalation Character Comedy Fry: This is a stickup! Give me the bag, old man!
Fry Character Comedy Misdirection Professor: Here you go, my friend. 5000 Professor Land fun bucks!
Fry Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement Professor: Nonsense. Click your big honking boots together three times... and wish to go home to Kansas... to live with your dirt-farming, teetotaling aunt and uncle.
Leela: There's no place like... I want to be a witch!
Leela Character Comedy Misdirection Leela · Janitor: Oh, no! Help! What's happening? Uh, sorry. I think there's a problem with your upstairs toilet.
Leela · Professor: I was having a wonderful dream. Except you were there. And you. And you. Never mind, she came to.