Fry's nose is stolen by alien poachers to sell as a black market aphrodesiac.
WAR
29.1
Wins Above Replacement
“Spanish Fry” ranks #127 of 137 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 71.4 — Solid. The episode packs 62 scored jokes at 3.3 per minute, averaging 6.5 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
Bender: Ever seen soccer players line up to block a free kick? They ain't covering their noses, I'll tell you that much.
Documentary narrator: They typically dwell just behind rocks, but are also sometimes playful... Bounding into thick fogs and out-of-focus areas.
Lrrr · Ndnd: Yes, but I'm the one who injured them. Oh, shush. You stepped on them by accident and then you cried all night.
Lrrr Ndnd Character Comedy Escalation Callback Fry: I don't want to teach a new one how to shoot milk when I laugh.
Fry Character Comedy Absurdist Bender: The main event, so to speak, is downstairs near the wallet.
Bender Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Standout Moments
Documentary narrator: They typically dwell just behind rocks, but are also sometimes playful... Bounding into thick fogs and out-of-focus areas.
Bender: Ever seen soccer players line up to block a free kick? They ain't covering their noses, I'll tell you that much.
Lrrr · Ndnd: Yes, but I'm the one who injured them. Oh, shush. You stepped on them by accident and then you cried all night.
Lrrr Ndnd Character Comedy Escalation Callback All Jokes — 62 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Hermes: Oh, Lord. Hiking is always such a strain on the buttocks.
Hermes Character Comedy Observational Bender: Don't tell me you actually believe in Bigfoot, you blathering ninny-Hammer.
Bender Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Fry: Bigfoot's my hero. Growing up, he was the celebrity I most identified with... Because he was a loner who hated the popular monsters yet longed to be one.
Fry Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Bender: Enough emotions. This isn't a fat camp, for God's sake.
Bender Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Bender: Although you wouldn't know it from looking.
Bender Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Callback Professor: Bender, if you want to sleep in the tent tonight... You're welcome to join me and Hermes for a little 'just friends' spooning.
Ranger Park: Hi, I'm Ranger Park, the park ranger. I get it.
Documentary narrator: In the dense forests of the Pacific Northwest... Dwells the strange and beautiful creature known as Bigfoot, perhaps.
Documentary narrator: Today threaten what might possibly be his habitat. Although if it's not, they don't.
Ranger Park: It should say 'Top Quality Exercycle For Sale.' And could you put 'Top Quality' in bold? You can't? Okay, whatever.
Documentary narrator: Bigfoot is a crucial part of the ecosystem, if he exists. So let's all help keep Bigfoot possibly alive... For future generations to enjoy, unless he doesn't exist.
Ranger Park: But I do see him each night in my dreams... And each day in the smiling faces of hairy children.
Ranger Park: I have some of someone who saw him.
Bender: Oh, he's gone. He said you should keep wasting your life, though.
Bender Character Comedy Misdirection Ranger Park: What you saw was Bigfoot the monster truck. But thanks for a great question.
Ranger Park: That would be very expensive... And most people who believe in Bigfoot are broke.
Bender: Where? Up your face. Everybody do the Bender.
Bender Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Bender: That guy won't be going home to his kids.
Bender Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Alien: Fry. Fry, wake up. It's me, Bigface. Come out and groom my mangy fur.
Alien Misdirection Absurdist Fry: Bigfoot? You taught yourself English?
Fry Character Comedy Absurdist Fry: I bet you have a wounded raccoon friend... That you tenderly nurse back to health while you go: [makes sounds] In the end, they shoot you, but you teach us about things.
Fry Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Fry: Why does your vanity plate say 'Probe 1'?
Fry Observational Absurdist Professor · Bender: Bender, wasn't that Fry's tent? 'Bender.'
Professor: Fry, what in Sega Genesis happened to you?
Zoidberg: Fry, you have no nose. Your nose is gone. You have no nose on your face. Where it is, I can't say... But on your face it's not.
Bender: You chopped off your nose so you could look more like your hero: me, Bender.
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Fry: I don't get that gesture. Am I wrong?
Fry Visual Gag Character Comedy Fry: I don't want to teach a new one how to shoot milk when I laugh.
Fry Character Comedy Absurdist Fry: My nose is an aphrodisiac? I'm gonna drop a barf.
Fry Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Fry: Snarfs it and does the worm.
Fry Character Comedy Absurdist Leela: We've been to every scuzzy bazaar... In the galaxy, including Pottery Barn.
Leela Observational Irony/Sarcasm Alien merchant: Welcome, friends. How may I pervert you?
Leela · Bender: Of course not. In fact, he's a crook. Yep. Stolen Pez, anyone?
Alien merchant: Human horn. So fresh you can still see the eyeglass marks.
Alien merchant: I videotape everyone who comes in here so I can blackmail them later.
Alien merchant: Hey, I'm a porno-dealing monster. What do I care what you think?
Bender: That's exactly the lie we used to get past your guards.
Bender Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Lrrr: Why would a virile male like Lrrr need human horn? I don't even know what it's for. What is it... Something you put in salad dressing?
Lrrr Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Ndnd · Lrrr: Like you've ever seen a salad. My weight is appropriate and attractive.
Fry: I guess I'll just go home and marry a skunk.
Fry Character Comedy Absurdist Ndnd: For the last time, I don't like lilacs. Your first wife was the one who liked lilacs. She also liked to shut up.
Ndnd Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Lrrr: But I thought the horn was the human wing-dang-doodle.
Lrrr Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Bender: The main event, so to speak, is downstairs near the wallet.
Bender Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Lrrr: Interesting. The trousers conceal a tiny secondary horn.
Lrrr Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Lrrr: Then bring it to our royal bedchamber and put it in the sock drawer... With the other things that have failed to arouse my passion for this woman.
Lrrr Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Fry · Bender: I'm usually the first guy to toot my own horn-- I'll say! Whoo! But in this case I don't think it's gonna do any good. That's what she said! Whoo!
Ndnd: And you used to wear a size 3 cape, but not anymore!
Ndnd Character Comedy Escalation Callback Fry: I keep my horn as long as you two end up doing the horizontal monster mash.
Fry Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Ndnd: Why don't you just inject some fat... Straight into your ass and cut out the middleman?
Ndnd Character Comedy Escalation Lrrr: Bang. Zoom. Straight to the third moon of Omicron Persei 8.
Lrrr Callback Character Comedy Callback Bender: It's used to it! Whoo!
Bender Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Bender: Boy, who knew a cooler could also make a handy wang coffin.
Bender Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Fry: Yes! I never thought I'd escape with my doodle, but I pulled it out. Just like at the movie theater! Whoo!
Ranger Park: So I can chop off his feet as proof he exists... Then dump him back in the wild. He'll do fine.
Lrrr · Bender: This human's lower horn is one of God's creatures. A living thing. And all living things, large and small-- In this case, small! Whoo!
Bender Character Comedy Callback Callback Leela · Bender: Well, Fry, it looks like you get to hold on to your lower horn. As usual! Whoo!
Narrator: You ask a passerby for directions... Only to find he has no face or something.
Mad scientist: I have combined the DNA of the world's most evil animals... To make the most evil creature of them all. It turns out it's man.
