Leela finally learns the truth about her parents and her own identity.
WAR
22.2
Wins Above Replacement
“Leelas Homeworld” ranks #153 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 71.4 — Solid. The episode packs 44 scored jokes at 3.0 per minute, averaging 6.7 on craft and 6.3 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
Bender: Wait. I don't even have DNA. Why am I screaming?
Bender Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Leela: I usually try to keep my sadness pent up inside... Where it can fester quietly as a mental illness.
Leela Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Fry: Yeah, I do that with my stupidness.
Fry Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Bender: Professor, I'll take care of that waste for $499 and 100 cents.
Bender Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fry: That's impossible, because my time is worthless!
All Jokes — 44 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Bender · Fry: Sure, we talk about it all the time. Really? No. Burn!
Bender Fry Setup/Punchline Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Fry: Your parents must be so proud! Sorry.
Fry Cringe/Discomfort Irony/Sarcasm Professor: It's a glow-In-The-Dark nose you can wear over your regular non-Glowing nose.
Bender: Now I can punch you in the nose in the dark.
Bender Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Bender Visual Gag Physical/Slapstick Professor: If you think it's anything, you're a suspicious moron.
Fry: Delicious fig pudding! That's good. But a distinct aftertaste of toxic waste.
Bender: Professor, I'll take care of that waste for $499 and 100 cents.
Bender Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Professor: I know That's a rip, but I'll pay for the convenience.
Professor · Bender: Do you take credit cards? Let's find out.
Bender: All right, environment, you've met your match.
Bender Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Unknown surface dweller: Honey, that thing was ruined the minute it went on you.
Orphanarium head: Not if I have anything to do with it.
Orphanarium head: Because I have a photographic memory, and I remember every night.
Unknown orphan: Picture's up. It's crooked!
Albert: Look at me! I'm Leela! No! Because I'm double Leela! Whee!
Albert Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Orphanarium worker: That's it, Albert. No more espresso for you!
Fry: If those aren't tears of happiness, please stop crying.
Fry Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Leela: I usually try to keep my sadness pent up inside... Where it can fester quietly as a mental illness.
Leela Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Fry: Yeah, I do that with my stupidness.
Fry Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Fry: Because I happen to be a holding, stroking, loving machine. Also spanking.
Fry Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Bender: Yo, yo, Bazender! What up?
Bender Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Bender: I just got hired to clean up the set of Free Willy 3!
Bender: Namely, I'm up here, and they are safely down--
Bender Setup/Punchline Irony/Sarcasm Mutant: Oh, man. As if our lives weren't miserable enough already.
Mutant Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement Fry: It's like that time I peeked in the kitchen at Imperial Hunan.
Bender: Wait. I don't even have DNA. Why am I screaming?
Bender Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Mutant: We're gonna beat you afterwards.
Mutant Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement Fry: Great Cheech's ghost!
Bender: And I'm the Leela! Dude, over here!
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist Fry: And also, for some reason, the letter I wrote you full of my personal feelings.
Fry Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Mutants: Four more years! Four more years!
Fry: Can we really never return to this dank pit of sewage?
Fry Irony/Sarcasm Deadpan/Understatement Mutant: Underdog's groin, Bart Simpson's left ear and right shin... Garfield's owner John's forehead.
Mutant: I used to be a little blond girl named Virginia.
Mutant Dark/Subversive Visual Gag Fry: That's impossible, because my time is worthless!
Orphanarium head · Fry: Would you like some dirt on any other orphans? I'm trying to save someone here. I'll have to come back for those later.
Professor: Doesn't that machine make noses? It can do other things. Why shouldn't it?
Fry · Professor: Is it done? Certainly not. Two dings means it's done. But not like that. Slightly more rapid.
Bender: Good news, Leela! I landed the contract to empty all the spittoons in Little Italy.
Bender Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Mutant doctor: In my professional opinion, as an ear, ear, ear, nose and throat doctor...
Leela's father: But if my PhD. in exolinguistics is worth diddlypoop...
Leela's mother: Don't say anything stupid, Morris.
Fry: A squeezably soft paper used mainly in the sewers.
Fry Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort