A new model of robot threatens Bender, forcing him to run away after he avoids upgrading his own technology.
WAR
30.1
Wins Above Replacement
“Obsoletely Fabulous” ranks #84 of 137 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 76.5 — Great. The episode packs 59 scored jokes at 4.2 per minute, averaging 6.8 on craft and 6.3 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
Wooden Bender: Behold my handcrafted purity. The modern world can bite my splintery wooden ass!
Bender: I never meant to hurt you... Just to destroy everything you ever believed in.
Bender Dark/Subversive Misdirection ★ Rewatch Bender: I never got the change. Suckers.
Bender Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Bender: Oh, it's true. I am a hideous triumph of form and function.
Bender Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Standout Moments
Wooden Bender: Behold my handcrafted purity. The modern world can bite my splintery wooden ass!
Bender: I never meant to hurt you... Just to destroy everything you ever believed in.
Bender Dark/Subversive Misdirection ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 59 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Robot: Sleep, little dumpling. I have replaced your mother.
Robot Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Human: Oh, my God! Robot dealy-Boppers! And there's a robot scratching post!
Human · Bender: You should try it out, Bender. Please. I have some dignity.
Wernstrom: Like fun it is, you glass-Headed wallaby!
Wernstrom Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Professor · Wernstrom: No one calls me that! I'm having at you! Wernstrom!
Announcer: And now, the woman who mom-Opolizes the robot industry...
Crowd: I get it! ...Mom! Oh, now I get it!
Crowd Reaction Beat Meta/Self-Referential Bender: Here! I'm coming! Come on, baby! I'm yours! Come on, Mom! Jerk! Here we go. I'm your top of the line, Mom!
Bender Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Mom: Whereas Robot 1-X runs on pollution and emits pure oxygen... With a fresh pine scent.
Mom Absurdist Observational Bender: I never got the change. Suckers.
Bender Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Bender: That new robot is great, huh? He sure made me look like a pile of crap.
Bender: You call that a kiss? I'll show you! Come here, Nibbler!
Bender Absurdist Character Comedy Bender: Get out of here, freshman! I don't need your help! Yeah? Well, assist this!
Bender Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Bender: When I screamed 'Help,' I didn't mean you!
Bender Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Fry: Mell out, Bender. Come watch some TV.
Fry Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Leela: Like a socket wrench, or a burglar's kit.
Leela Escalation Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Bender: I'm scared of him.
Bender Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Fry: Oh, yeah. No, you're pretty perfect.
Fry Reaction Beat Character Comedy Leela: Yes, for God's sakes, yes!
Leela Escalation Character Comedy Robot prisoner: Yeah, right on, nut cake.
Robot: Parole officer says I gotta upgrade, or he won't give me back my stabbing knife.
Robot Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Former prisoner robot: I love those magnificent 1-X Robots! The 1-X Robots are my friends.
Former prisoner robot: I'm past that. Later, blood.
Other robot: You took away his robo-Humanity!
Bender: Oh, merciful Poseidon, take pity on this mechanical mariner.
Bender Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Bender: Curse you, merciful Poseidon!
Bender Callback Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Bender: Boy, what is the deal with the ocean?
Bender Observational Character Comedy Bender: There. Well, I guess I'll go out for a while.
Bender Visual Gag Deadpan/Understatement Bender: Damn. One rock short of rescue.
Bender: Okay, don't panic. I've got these yams. I'll just make some yam schnapps.
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist Obsolete robots: We're a community of outdated robots who refused to upgrade... And came here-- Side B. To live a simpler existence, free of technology.
Cartridge Unit: Your mother.
Cartridge Unit: Your mother.
Water wheel robot: Oh, God! I'll never make it this time! This is the end!
Memory-insufficient robot: Oh, great. Now I remember that word, but I forgot my wife's face. Oh, God! No! I want to live!
Bender: That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Bender Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Bender: Oh, man! He's never gonna make it over that pebble! Wait! Wait! Oh, my God! He made it! Yeah! Way to go!
Bender Absurdist Character Comedy Bender: Wow. It's like the Earth making sweet, salty love to itself... While all the fish groove on it.
Bender Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender: Take that, Beethoven, you deaf bastard!
Bender Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Bender: You sure got this life thing figured out, cymbal-Banging monkey.
Bender Character Comedy Observational Bender: Wretched technology has brought me nothing but misery.
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bender: Oh, it's true. I am a hideous triumph of form and function.
Bender Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Wooden Bender: Mirrors reflecting mirrors? High-Tech sorcery! Sorcery, I say!
Wooden Bender: And now, technology shall taste the lash of the hickory switch!
Wooden Bender: They're the devil's veins, and electricity is his blood!
Robot · Wooden Bender: Bender? If we don't survive the attack, I want you to know I love you. Okay, fine. Fire!
Wooden Bender: Free you from the 'complicated' part, I mean, not the 'lives' part.
Wooden Bender: I'm a steam-Powered wooden robot, just as nature intended.
Obsolete robot: You wanged my ship, you walnut-Paneled idiot!
Wooden Bender: What the--? Termites?
Bender: Save my friends! And Zoidberg!
Bender Character Comedy Running Gag ★ Rewatch Bender: Save my friends! And Zoidberg!
Bender Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender: I was like, 'Save them!' And he was all, 'No problem.' And then he did it.
Bender Character Comedy Misdirection Bender: His new technology is great. I love those magnificent 1-X Robots. The 1-X Robots are my friends.
Bender Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Callback Bender: Is it not possible, nay, probable... That my whole life is just a product of my, or someone else's imagination?
Bender Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Upgrade technician: No. Get out. Next?
