With the help of a $300 government refund, the Planet Express crew pursue their dreams and desires.
WAR
46.7
Wins Above Replacement
“Three Hundred Big Boys” ranks #73 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 78.8 — Elite. The episode packs 58 scored jokes at 3.8 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.7 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
Zapp: Crazy bugs actually wove this tapestry of my heroic conquest while I was still killing them.
Zapp Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Rich Woman: The only way to keep the butler from running away is to cut off his foot.
Rich Woman Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Elzar · Bender: Very good, sir. Shall I pre-warm sir's crack pipe?
Zapp · Kif: Show them my medal, Kif. He rented it with his tax refund.
Zapp Kif Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Rich Person: What a clever impersonation of a stupid poor person.
All Jokes — 58 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Bender: I'm slightly richer! What to do, what to do? One $300 hooker-Bot or 300 $1 hooker-Bots?
Bender Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fry: I'm gonna swim with a whale. They're the gentle giants of the deep. I'm well aware of that.
Fry Character Comedy Observational Scruffy: Scruffy's gonna get himself one of them $300 haircuts. This one's lost its pizzazz.
Scruffy Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Zoidberg: A fortune, it is. At last, Zoidberg will live like a rich man!
Fry: It's just 300 bucks. What is that, like 100 cups of coffee? That's it! I'm getting 100 cups of coffee, starting now.
Fry Setup/Punchline Escalation ★ Rewatch Zapp · Kif: Show them my medal, Kif. He rented it with his tax refund.
Zapp Kif Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Elzar · Bender: Very good, sir. Shall I pre-warm sir's crack pipe?
Amy · Tattoo: I almost feel kind of shallow for blowing my rebate on this cool talking tattoo. Hey, Gordon Gekko. I cost as much as this whole crummy date!
Amy Tattoo Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Professor · Amy: Well, yes. In the same way an infant may fight Muhammad Ali, but-- One pound of stem cells, please!
Cigar Salesman · Bender: It was hand-rolled by Queen Elizabeth during her wild years... And was buried with George Burns until grave-robbing space mushrooms-- Well, you know the rest.
Bender · Cigar Salesman: Give you 300 bucks for it. No can do. Oh, all right. I'll just take these $300 burglar's tools, then. Very good, sir. So, what time you close tonight?
Bender · Shop owner: Oh, all right. I'll just take these $300 burglar's tools, then. / Very good, sir. / So, what time you close tonight?
Professor: With a warning label this big, you know they gotta be fun.
Dwight: But, Pops, I don't want to have fun. I want to be like you, boring but prudently invested.
Dwight Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Dwight: No! I wish I had two mommies!
Zoidberg: I ask for rich-guy stuff, and you give me shiny pebbles? I bid you adieu.
Whale Biologist: Well, you asked the right guy. I'm the whale biologist. Though, personally, I hate whales. Especially Mushu.
Fry · Whale Biologist: Then why'd you become a whale biologist? I don't know you well enough to get into that.
Fry · Waitress: Yeah. I'll have a coffee. / Guppy, trout, mermaid or--? / Whale, please.
Tattoo · Amy: Oh! Somebody won big at Skee-Ball! You shut up!
Tattoo: Oh! I can't wait till the tattoos on Amy's butt hear about this!
Tattoo Absurdist Character Comedy Bender: Say, this reminds me of that time I ate that other watch Kif gave you.
Bender Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Old Man: The key is to grab life by the ho-joes. Live every day like it might be your last.
Old Man Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Zoidberg · Waiter: Goose liver? Fish eggs? Where's the goose? Where's the fish? Hey, that's what rich people eat. The garbage parts of the food.
Zoidberg: I ate garbage yesterday, and it didn't cost me $300!
Police: You see that? Grand-theft tobacco. Time to get off our fat cop asses and ride.
Police Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Fry: This isn't Yemeni! It's Sulawesi! The cup's shaking! I don't want my coffee shaking!
Fry Escalation Character Comedy Bender: No. You can't blow the smoke from such a majestic stogy in just anyone's face. I'm saving it for the fancy-pantses at Zapp Brannigan's black-tie reception.
Bender Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Whale Biologist: And the fifth reason whales kill is for the sheer fun of it. Anything else? You're lumpy and you smell awful.
Whale Biologist: Hey, I calls them like I sees them. I'm a whale biologist.
Whale Biologist: Oh, crud. He ate my suit. It was ugly! Whale biologist.
Zoidberg: Rich people wouldn't waste their time on this nonsense. Plus, these eggs are gritty and tasteless.
Fry: Come on, Mushu! Barf! Barf like a freshman!
Fry Escalation Observational Fry: Better do what he says. He's a whale biologist.
Fry Running Gag Character Comedy Zapp: Crazy bugs actually wove this tapestry of my heroic conquest while I was still killing them.
Zapp Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender: What? It's not even scratch and sniff.
Bender Character Comedy Observational Bender: But if rich people think it's good, I'll buy it. One art, please!
Bender Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Rich Person: What a clever impersonation of a stupid poor person.
Rich Woman: The only way to keep the butler from running away is to cut off his foot.
Rich Woman Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Zoidberg: Yes, it reminds me of a joke I heard about upper-middle-class people.
Zoidberg Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Leela: Jail's not so bad. You can make sangria in the toilet. Of course, it's shank or be shanked.
Leela Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Kif Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Roseanne: This has been Roseanne, your guide to the world of facts.
Kif: Or better yet, I'll simply shed my skin.
Kif Visual Gag Character Comedy Professor · Amy: You, wrinkled as a prune. You, fat as the queen of sea cows. I love you!
Kif: Using that, I'll make you a perfume of lilac and jasmine and frankenberry.
Kif Absurdist Character Comedy Amy: Who smells like freaking porpoise hork? I do!
Amy Physical/Slapstick Cringe/Discomfort Zoidberg: Ah. So now I'm in the gutter, surrounded by bums who eat garbage? Money brought me no happiness. Bupkis.
Zoidberg Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Callback Zapp: Everyone, to the fire door! It's on fire!
Fry: Coffee, coffee, coffee!
Fry Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Callback Professor: I think we were saved by a mysterious orange blur.
Zoidberg: Oysters Rockefeller here has provided genuine turkey dogs.
Dwight · Professor: I'm gonna take this and buy five shares of Amazon.com. A risk-taker. That's my boy.
Nixon: Why did I have to issue that crooked tax rebate? At least we got a few mildly interesting stories out of it.
Nixon Meta/Self-Referential Observational Nixon: Oh, what a McGovern I've been.
Nixon Character Comedy Observational Bender · Police: Speaking of which, my story kind of petered out... Without me learning a lesson. There he is. All right! Closure!
Roseanne: Futurama. Noun. I don't know. You just watched it, dummy. What are you asking me for? Hey, here's a fun definition. Idiot. Noun. You! This has been Roseanne, your guide to the world of facts.
Roseanne Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy Callback Roseanne: 'Futurama'. Noun. I don't know. You just watched it, dummy. What are you asking me for?
Roseanne Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback