Bender's scam to win Olympic gold sets him on the road to becoming a celebrity wife.
WAR
55.1
Wins Above Replacement
“Bend Her” ranks #80 of 137 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 76.9 — Great. The episode packs 91 scored jokes at 4.7 per minute, averaging 6.7 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: But just once I'd like to eat dinner with a celebrity who isn't bound and gagged.
Bender Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Leela: If there's one kind of pain he can handle... It's soap opera pain.
Leela Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch LaBarbara: If I'd wanted a human adonis for a husband... I'd have stayed married to Barbados Slim.
Calculon: And this time, the Academy will not deny me. Not when they see Coilette: The Calculon Story.
Calculon Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Humorbot 5.0: Anecdote accepted. Snappy comeback not found.
Standout Moments
LaBarbara: If I'd wanted a human adonis for a husband... I'd have stayed married to Barbados Slim.
Bender: But just once I'd like to eat dinner with a celebrity who isn't bound and gagged.
Bender Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Leela: If there's one kind of pain he can handle... It's soap opera pain.
Leela Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 91 analyzed
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Fry: Who should I root for? America? Or a country I learned about at the food court?
Fry Character Comedy Observational Leela: No. They're from the Republic of French Stereotypes. Everybody hates them.
Leela Absurdist Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Hermes: All this inspiring multiculturalism is angrying up my blood!
Hermes Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Hermes: Go on, stick, touch me. Can't do it.
Hermes Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy LaBarbara: Quit lying to your pudgy self.
Fry: Yeah. Isn't that basically all Jamaicans do?
Fry Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Hermes: Which is why the limbo team got detained at the airport.
Hermes Dark/Subversive Callback ★ Rewatch Hermes: I described it to them on the phone using a series of artful euphemisms.
Hermes Character Comedy Observational Professor Farnsworth: Don't worry. The fat pig will do fine...
Hermes: Those haven't descended in years!
Hermes Physical/Slapstick Cringe/Discomfort Zoidberg: Look at that fine Jamaican bacon!
Zoidberg Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Bender: Something tells me I could easily beat those trained professionals.
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bender · Leela: My dreams of glory died before they began. Welcome to my life.
Barbados Slim: Hermes Conrad, is that you inside that dumpy little fat man?
Hermes: Your body may be as perfectly sculpted as it was 20 years ago... When you whupped my fat ass every time.
Hermes: I see you're still able to limbo under the bar of fashion sense.
Hermes Wordplay/Pun Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Hermes: That's it, Barbados Slim! You've gone one toke over the line!
Hermes Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch LaBarbara: God, I hope he wins.
LaBarbara: He's limboed out of retirement and straight into my heart.
LaBarbara: I say, 'Go to hell, Barbados Slim!'
Fry: Come on, Hermes! Beat that mahogany god!
Fry Character Comedy Observational Bender: I wish everybody else was dead.
Bender Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Bender: Methinks a clever man-Bot, suitably disguised... Might win those events.
Bender Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Bender: My name is Coilette, and I'm from Robonia.
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist Official: But 'Robonia' sounds like something somebody made up on the spot.
Official Meta/Self-Referential Observational ★ Rewatch Bender · Official: Ever been beaten up by a guy dressed like a chick? Yeah.
Bender: I'm great! Everybody else sucks! Except that guy Bender. He's really something.
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Leela: You actually thought they'd let you walk away without an engine-Oil sex check?
Bender · Professor Farnsworth: Professor, make a woman out of me! Oh, I think we should just stay friends.
Professor: Replacing your testoster-Oil with fem-Bot lubricants... Can cause wild mood swings.
Bender Reaction Beat Character Comedy Professor Farnsworth: But for the proud people of Robonia!
Amy: I can't watch this 'cause it's creepy and wrong and sick. However, I will watch out of curiosity.
Official: I have to get home to watch The Zombie Osbournes.
Bender: Hail, hail Robonia... A land I didn't make up...
Bender Callback Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Callback Leela: You're making us look like jerks in front of the other genders!
Bender: Dear Lord, a coaster!
Bender Character Comedy Escalation Professor: The Femmzoil must be sashaying girlishly into your processor.
Bender: My breasts are keeping me awake at night anyway.
Bender Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Bender: No, I don't have my own limo. You'd better send one.
Bender Character Comedy Escalation Calculon: Funny story. The script called for me to say 'yes.' But I gave it a little twist.
Calculon Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Humorbot 5.0: Anecdote accepted. Snappy comeback not found.
Bender: If you ask me, women today are too stuck-up... To go out and jiggle their Jell-O like everybody wants them to.
Bender Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Bender: Oh, I bet you say that to all the five-Olympic-Gold-Medal-Winning fem-Bots.
Bender Character Comedy Escalation Calculon: From this day forth, I shall do so whenever possible.
Bender: That's my favorite kind of 'this.'
Bender Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Calculon: Of course I would.
Calculon Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Bender: This top makes me look fat. Is it trampy to go on a first date nude?
Bender Character Comedy Escalation Bender: Men love it when you really glob it on.
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bender: I tell you, men are so much better at being women.
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bender Character Comedy Absurdist Bender: That'll stick a potato in his tailpipe.
Bender Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Professor Farnsworth: She's becoming a slave to her emotions. Just like all women. Particularly you, Leela.
Elzar: You saved me a trip to the dump. Bam!
Elzar Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Calculon: I'd appreciate it if you didn't 'bam' the young lady.
Calculon: It's as if you understand the male mind better than I.
Calculon Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender: Oh, yes, you have.
Bender Irony/Sarcasm Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Bender: Whoo! I'm a trophy girlfriend!
Bender Character Comedy Observational Bender: And then I can turn back into a guy and hock all this stuff. It's just a game.
Bender: Oh, Calculon. Yes, I will!
Bender Character Comedy Escalation Bender: It's sort of a two-person pyramid scheme.
Bender Character Comedy Observational Fry: That's marriage, all right.
Fry Observational Deadpan/Understatement Leela: I, uh. I thought I might like him on a full stomach.
Leela Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Bender: Zoidy-Poo? Please tell me frilly is in this year.
Bender Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Zoidberg: Late at night it taunts me with its frosted beauty.
Calculon: It's the remote control to my heart. It symbolizes the power you have to sway my emotions.
Calculon Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Bender: Will it work on my TV?
Bender Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Bender · Calculon: Would we have donkeys? All you could eat.
Bender: Oh, curse this woman's heart!
Bender Character Comedy Escalation Preacher: Who might be looking for someone to play a preacher...
Preacher Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Zoidberg: Oh, it appears to be a case of African hydraulic fever!
Calculon: Dear God! The very illness my TV character caught in season two... When I was holding out for more money.
Calculon Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Calculon: When I was holding out for more money.
Calculon Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Calculon: Deep in the diamond mines of the Congo.
Calculon Setup/Punchline Escalation ★ Rewatch Elzar: You really thought you could steal those diamonds from me and Congo Jack?
Elzar Character Comedy Escalation Zoidberg: Yes! And I have a message for you from Col. Matombay. He says, 'This is from Congo Jack.'
Calculon: And this time, the Academy will not deny me. Not when they see Coilette: The Calculon Story.
Calculon Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Calculon: Every emotion an actor can display.
Calculon Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Professor Farnsworth: Turn off that crap-O-Rama!
Professor: I hope this taught you a lesson about changing your sex to win gold medals.
Bender: He and I could drive to Vegas, pick up some floozy-Bots... And void their warranties all night long! Whoo!
Bender Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Fry: And his respect for women is back to normal.
Fry Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bender: Emotions are dumb and should be hated.
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Fry: Sentimental dribble poop! Come on, Bender, let's go. This chick flick is getting me all barfy.
Fry Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Bender: I said, 'You two don't dress trampy enough!'
Bender Character Comedy Callback Callback 