The Planet Express crew goes to a parallel universe made accessible by the Professor's latest experiment.
WAR
75.4
Wins Above Replacement
“The Farnsworth Parabox” ranks #20 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 83.1 — Elite. The episode packs 92 scored jokes at 4.7 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.6 on impact, with Farnsworth landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Bender: This is awful! Somewhere, there's a more evil Bender than me! I do my best, damn it!
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Farnsworth: Help, Satan! You owe me!
Alternate Farnsworth: Now, now, perfectly symmetrical violence never solved anything.
Fry: One year later I got beat up at a Neil Diamond concert... by a guy named Scrunchy!
Fry Setup/Punchline Absurdist ★ Rewatch Alternate Fry: One year later I gave Leela a diamond scrunchy, and we were married.
All Jokes — 92 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Farnsworth: Oh, Lordy Lou! Help!
Fry: I know you've rejected me a lot before, but frankly... I wasn't sure we were right for each other either. But now I am!
Fry Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Leela · Farnsworth: I think I left my toaster on. / Buddha! Zeus! God! One of you guys, do something!
Farnsworth: Help, Satan! You owe me!
Leela · Fry: I can't go out tonight... because I have sweaty boot rash! / No spluh.
Fry: Why do you think I'm sitting over here in the stink-free zone?
Fry Observational Visual Gag Farnsworth: Good news, everyone! I'm still technically alive, yes.
Farnsworth Running Gag Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Callback Bender · Farnsworth: I could hit it with a shovel. / That's not good enough.
Bender: This one time I pounded a guy into the ground like a stake with a shovel.
Bender Dark/Subversive Escalation Bender · Farnsworth: Ow! You hurt my collator! / I don't care.
Farnsworth: Forbidden! Pretty tantalizing, though.
Amy: Whatever's in there, it's the only thing I've ever wanted.
Amy Absurdist Character Comedy Fry: In my experience boxes are usually empty... or maybe with a little cheese stuck to the top. And one time, pepperoni. What a day that was!
Fry Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender · Fry: Fry, how can you be so naive? He was joking, get it? / No. / That's what makes it so funny!
Bender Fry Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy Bender: Okay, he wasn't joking. Now shut up and follow me.
Bender Misdirection Character Comedy Fry: Ow! It's hot! The butter in my pocket is melting!
Fry Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Amy · Bender: Tangled-up Christmas lights! We can take shifts untangling them! / And unlabeled booze! Wide-mouth too!
Fry: And unlabeled booze! Wide-mouth too!
Leela: A whole evening of TV, gone! What a mockery of justice that I can't take even a little tiny peek.
Leela Character Comedy Escalation Leela: Okay, heads I look, tails I don't. / Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah! Heads! I mean, all right, then.
Leela Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Leela: Well, then again, I promised the coin I would.
Leela Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Leela: Ouch! My lawyer will hear about this!
Leela Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Fry: I meant your hair. It's all different-y.
Fry Misdirection Character Comedy Bender: Leela? Oh, there's a woman for you. Always dyeing her hair instead of not looking in a box.
Bender Irony/Sarcasm Observational ★ Rewatch Bender: Clone? Robot? Or long-lost twin? Taking all bets! I also offer video poker!
Bender Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Fry: It's some guy wearing a Leela costume! Get him!
Fry · Farnsworth: Am not! / It contains a parallel universe!
Alternate Leela: Now look, I am not evil. My loan officer said so.
Bender: Or should I say, 'Evilla'?
Bender Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Bender: This is awful! Somewhere, there's a more evil Bender than me! I do my best, damn it!
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Alternate Leela: I tell you, they're not evil. But don't be confused. They are jerks.
Fry: Oh, wow! It's like that drug trip I saw in that movie... when I was on that drug trip.
Fry Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Alternate Farnsworth: Baldercrap! I created your universe!
Alternate Farnsworth · Farnsworth: Baldercrap! I created your universe! / All you created was my fist parallel to your face!
Leela: We're exactly the same. I know all her moves. Therefore, I've got the upper hand.
Alternate Farnsworth: Now, now, perfectly symmetrical violence never solved anything.
Alternate Amy · Alternate Fry · Alternate Bender: Hey! Why can't we be Universe A? / We want A! / It's the best letter!
Leela: All right, you can be crummy Universe A. And we'll be Universe One.
Alternate Bender: Or the Mongooses. That's a cool team name. 'The Fighting Mongooses.'
Farnsworth: Interesting. Apparently the key difference between our universes... is that coin flips have opposite outcomes.
Bender · Alternate Bender: That explains fruity here. I tossed a coin to pick my finish. / Fog hat gray. / Hey! Bite my glorious golden ass!
Alternate Bender: Hey! Bite my glorious golden ass!
Alternate Farnsworth: Nonsense! I would never do such a thing. Unless you were already having been going to do that!
Leela · Alternate Fry: You guys are dating? / Oh, no, no. We're married.
Bender · Alternate Bender: Good point. What do you say we just hit a strip joint? / I was waiting for one of us to say that!
Alternate Bender: Bender A, you're a prince among robots. Can you forgive me for distrusting you?
Alternate Amy: I'm not imaginary, I'm parallel.
Fry: Is that pink nail polish?
Alternate Amy: I am not evil!
Alternate Fry: I'd make up stuff like, 'I have sweaty boot rash'... or 'I have to meet the president.'
Alternate Fry: Oh, man, you never heard such excuses. But, like a dope, I believed her.
Alternate Leela · Leela · Fry: I flipped a coin. / You mean you flipped a coin too? And it was tails? / So that's why you said you had to meet that ghost!
Fry: So that's why you said you had to meet that ghost!
Fry Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Alternate Fry: One year later I gave Leela a diamond scrunchy, and we were married.
Fry: One year later I got beat up at a Neil Diamond concert... by a guy named Scrunchy!
Fry Setup/Punchline Absurdist ★ Rewatch Farnsworth: Oh, this old thing? I was experimenting to see if I could remove my own brain.
Farnsworth Deadpan/Understatement Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Alternate Farnsworth: Oh, this old thing? I was experimenting to see if I could remove my own brain.
Alternate Farnsworth: Well, getting the brain out was the easy part. The hard part was getting the brain out.
Alternate Zoidberg: Well, don't look into it, but I'm a respected internal-medicine doctor.
Alternate Zoidberg · Zoidberg: As for me, I design mansions, then live in them. / I'm lying. I'm an appalling failure!
Alternate Zoidberg: I'm lying. I'm an appalling failure!
Zoidberg: They're all like, 'Stop spraying me with ink, Zoidberg!' 'Put on pants, Zoidberg!' 'Don't touch our fancy box, Zoidberg.'
Zoidberg Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Alternate Zoidberg: Someday they'll watch from down in the gutter, they will... as King Zoidberg caresses their fancy box!
Alternate Zoidberg: Someday they'll watch from down in the gutter, they will... as King Zoidberg caresses their fancy box!
Farnsworth: After carefully reading the scriptures... we've concluded that none of us are evil.
Alternate Hermes: Your granny can go to hell!
Hermes: No. Now, like my granny used to say in her tarpaper shack on Montego Bay:
Hermes Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Farnsworth: Your granny can go to hell!
Alternate Hermes: God rest her zombie bones.
Hermes: Like Granny said, 'If you want a box hurled into the sun... you got to do it yourself!' God rest her zombie bones.
Hermes Callback Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Callback Alternate Zoidberg · Zoidberg: Now it's my turn, maybe? / The box says no.
Hermes: Item one: box. Check. Item two: sun. That's a big check.
Hermes Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Farnsworth: Hmm. All women. I'll put this one aside for later.
Alternate Hermes: Plus, this box is stuck on my fat head!
Farnsworth: Yes, it's the apocalypse, all right. I always thought I'd have a hand in it.
Farnsworth Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Bender: I'm not sad, because I finally found someone as great as me.
Bender · Alternate Bender: It's like I always say, make new friends, but keep the old. / One is silver-- / And the other's gold.
Cowboy Universe Character: We didn't see anything. Ever.
Big-headed Fry · Big-headed Leela · Big-headed Bender: Hell, no! / Shut up! / Beat it, jerk!
Robot Bender · Robot Leela: Negative. Will you go out with me? / Access denied.
Robot Leela: Access denied.
Alternate Bender: Yeah, Leprechaun Universe is fine, if you haven't seen Pirate Universe!
Hippie universe inhabitant: Baby, they're somewhere. Everything's, like, somewhere. Place is kind of au naturel right now.
Hippie Universe Character: Baby, they're somewhere. Everything's, like, somewhere. Place is kind of au naturel right now.
Hippie universe inhabitant: Dig it! All of you fitting in this box is, like, seriously freaked up!
Hippie Universe Professor · Hippie Universe Character: Dude, there's a universe in all of us. / Right on, Professor Freaksworth!
Hermes Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Fry: So, Leela? Seeing how the universe wasn't destroyed... you wanna catch an ape fight? You know, together?
Fry Character Comedy Callback Callback Leela: You know, let's just say it's heads.
Leela Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Farnsworth: Sweet honeybee of infinity!
Leela: Bender, quit destroying the universe!
Leela Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender: And the box itself is probably worth something too.
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch