Bender fears that nobody will remember him after he dies, and sees his chance for immortality when the crew is enslaved on the planet Osiris 4. Posing as the planet's new pharaoh, Bender orders a humongous statue built in his honor, and quickly goes mad with power.
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“A Pharaoh To Remember” ranks #9 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 85.6 — Elite. The episode packs 53 scored jokes at 3.7 per minute, averaging 7.2 on craft and 6.9 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
Bender: Don't whip with your arms. The power comes from your hips. Like this:
Bender Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Bender: You've convinced me life is worth living... by showing how bad my funeral will suck!
Bender Irony/Sarcasm Misdirection Bender: Well, in that case, one planet down.
Bender Escalation Character Comedy Bender: Are people gonna be remembering me or the statue?
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Slave · Bender: Pharaoh, it hurts when I breathe. - Well then, what do you think you should stop doing?
All Jokes — 53 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Bender: More like three lockers and a sink.
Bender Character Comedy ★ Rewatch News Anchor · Leela · Amy: Holy Spitz! He's sporting skintight Speedos. - They don't leave much to be imagined. - On a robot, they do.
Bender: Make me famous, bighead!
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bender · Fry: It's Bender. Why bother remembering anything? You'll forget it five seconds later.
Bender: doomed to obscurity like the rest of you, especially Leela.
Bender Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Fry: Boy, I've never seen him so down, or ever before.
Fry Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Fry · Leela: I'm stuck, but I haven't given up hope! Call a soft-news journalist! - You're not stuck. - Shut up!
Hippie: This circle's about free expression not fascist moves!
Hippie Observational Wordplay/Pun Bender: No one will forget how I live or my attitude regarding butt.
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist Bender: Cushiony! And a minibar!
Professor: crushed by a runaway semi driven by the Incredible Hulk.
Bender: Aw, you knew my favorite cause of death.
Bender Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Professor · Bender: But Bender was different. Bender had a.04-percent nickel impurity. - It's what made me me!
Bender: It's what made me me!
Bender Character Comedy Callback Callback Amy: If you needed a package brought into the country without x-raying... Bender always had a free body cavity.
Amy Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender: You people look like you're waiting for the bus.
Bender Observational Cringe/Discomfort Bender: You're at my funeral, singing about some dead stiff named Danny-boy?
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bender · Fry: You really are a massive bonehead! - I'm expressing sorrow. - Get lost! I'd say, 'Don't quit your day job,' but you're bad at it too!
Bender: You've convinced me life is worth living... by showing how bad my funeral will suck!
Bender Irony/Sarcasm Misdirection Fry: I thought something looked different in here.
Fry Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Leela: Call it a hunch, but I've got a bad feeling about this.
Leela Deadpan/Understatement Irony/Sarcasm Amy: That's the only thing about being a slave.
Amy Deadpan/Understatement Observational Fry: That's the only thing about being a slave.
Fry Deadpan/Understatement Observational Fry: This place is like the ancient Egypt of my day!
Fry Character Comedy Absurdist Amy: Insane theories: one. Regular theories: a billion!
Amy Observational Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Alien: and how to prepare our dead so as to scare Abbott and Costello.
Alien Observational Callback Bender: Spend your whole life building a guy's toe, you'll remember him.
Bender Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender · Slave Driver: I noticed your sign. I thought I'd look into your program. - We make you starve to death.
Zoidberg: Aw, bloody chunder!
Bender: Don't whip with your arms. The power comes from your hips. Like this:
Bender Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Bender: Enoughsis! Pullutut! What's-His-Name!
Bender Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Guard · Pharaoh · Guard: Go faster? I told them, but they're lazy. - No. I mean, they're all free. - Freeloading off you? I agree.
Guard: He's whipping angels now.
Guard Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Priest: The damned good-looking. Pharaoh commanded me to tell that joke at his funeral.
Priest Setup/Punchline Meta/Self-Referential Priest: Also this bag of cats our culture considers holy.
Priest: That ends the funeral. You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.
Priest Callback Observational Callback Priests: Free us from thought and responsibility! - We shall read things off you! - Then do them! - Your words guide us! - We're dumb!
Priests Cringe/Discomfort Escalation ★ Rewatch Bender: Those are waves, jackass! It's supposed to be a river!
Bender Character Comedy Observational Bender: Behold! I have emerged from the place of spells and fairies!
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Leela: This society is a bunch of idiots.
Leela Reaction Beat Observational Bender: Let a whole new wave of cruelty wash over this lazy land!
Bender Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Bender: I meant, 'Yourself to death?'
Bender Escalation Character Comedy Slave · Bender: Pharaoh, it hurts when I breathe. - Well then, what do you think you should stop doing?
Bender: Are people gonna be remembering me or the statue?
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Bender: Too exact, if you ask me.
Bender Escalation Character Comedy Bender: Afterlife? If I had to go through another life, I'd kill myself.
Bender Dark/Subversive Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Fry: Nothing can get in or out except millions of snakes.
Leela · Fry: Hey, Fry? Remember that robot, Bender? - Bender? Doesn't ring a bell.
Leela Fry Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Bender: Stop it! It's not right! You've crossed a line!
Bender Cringe/Discomfort Escalation ★ Rewatch Leela: Oh, Bender! When did you come in? Hold still.
Leela Physical/Slapstick Escalation Fry · Bender: You have your legacy as a brutal, tyrannical dictator... and that will outlive any monument. - You think they'll remember me? - Absolutely. Well, in that case, one planet down.
Bender: Well, in that case, one planet down.
Bender Escalation Character Comedy