Zoidberg becomes the center of a Supreme Court case after he celebrates Freedom Day by publicly eating the Earth flag.
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“A Taste Of Freedom” ranks #19 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 83.2 — Elite. The episode packs 71 scored jokes at 4.0 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.9 on impact, with Zoidberg landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
President Nixon · Chief Justice: Maybe so. But I know a place where the Constitution doesn't mean squat! The Supreme Court hereby accepts the case of Earth v. Zoidberg.
Zoidberg: Yes, fellow patriots! I ate your flag! And I did it with pride. For to express oneself by doing a thing, is the very essence of Freedom Day!
Crowd · Zoidberg: We're not listening! / That's what I'm talking about!
Crowd Zoidberg Setup/Punchline Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Callback Zoidberg: Yes, I'm desecrating a flag, but to preserve the freedom it represents.
Zoidberg: Wait a second. They do! Because this is my home planet!
All Jokes — 71 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Bender: So, what is Freedom Day? Sounds like a feminine hygiene product.
Bender Observational Wordplay/Pun Zoidberg: No, it's a fabulous, crab-ulous day!
Bender: If you want to do something, you do it, and just spleck with the consequences. You know, like how I live every day.
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Amy: Happy Freedom Day! Oh, I think my wrist is broken.
Amy: Mm. That'll feel nice on my shattered bones.
Amy Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement Fry: Wow, nude hot-tubbing? That's all I need to hear about Freedom Day.
Fry Character Comedy Observational Zoidberg: Sure, you can be a comedian instead of a doctor... if you want your parents to roll over in their graves!
Zoidberg: Sure, you can go to medical school... if you've given up on your dream of being a comedian!
Zoidberg · Others: That's why I love Earth. You can do what you want, and no one makes you feel guilty... because no one cares. We're not listening! That's what I'm talking about!
Crowd · Zoidberg: We're not listening! / That's what I'm talking about!
Crowd Zoidberg Setup/Punchline Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Callback Victim · Bender: Ow! You broke my foot! Freedom.
Zapp Brannigan: Come on, let loose and show me something. Anything. Seriously, I'd take an armpit.
President Nixon: We're free to choose which hand our sex-monitoring chip is implanted in.
President Nixon: If we don't want to pay our taxes... why, we're free to spend a weekend with the Pain Monster.
President Nixon: See you April 15, folks!
President Nixon: The great taste of Charleston Chew.
Zoidberg: I'm swelling with patriotic mucus.
President Nixon: In our darkest hour, we can stand erect with proud, up-thrust bosoms.
President Nixon: Anyone who laughs is a Communist.
Zoidberg: Yes, fellow patriots! I ate your flag! And I did it with pride. For to express oneself by doing a thing, is the very essence of Freedom Day!
Crowd: Kill him! Kill the traitor!
Crowd Escalation Reaction Beat Zoidberg: [ZOIDBERG MIMICKING THE THREE STOOGES]
Zoidberg Physical/Slapstick Callback Callback Zoidberg: I'm all scuttled out! What? My planet's embassy? They're paid to not kill me! Alley-oop!
Zoidberg · Ambassador Mervin: But I guess I don't belong here any more than I do on our crappy home planet. Sorry. What sorry? Our planet stinks. We all know it.
Ambassador Mervin: What, no marshmallows? Well, let's storm the place! Without my prior knowledge.
Leela: You may even find the image of it festering in his bowels offensive.
Leela Dark/Subversive Visual Gag President Nixon · Chief Justice: Maybe so. But I know a place where the Constitution doesn't mean squat! The Supreme Court hereby accepts the case of Earth v. Zoidberg.
Country Singer: You can eat my dog, You can eat my truck, But you eat my flag, And you're out of luck
Bender: I was hating Zoidberg before it was cool.
Bender Character Comedy Observational Bender: Posers! I was hating Zoidberg before it was cool.
Bender Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Old Man Waterfall · Fry: Name's Old Man Waterfall... but most folks just call me Old Man. I'll never remember that.
Old Man Waterfall: Name a body part and a planet, and I've taken a bullet in it, on it.
Fry: I'll never remember that.
Fry Character Comedy Reaction Beat Old Man Waterfall · Bender: Son, to me a robot's just a garbage can with sparks coming out it. The sparks keep me warm.
Old Man Waterfall: Or I would, if I hadn't lost my teeth and nails on Mars and Saturn, respectively.
Zoidberg: No! There's no cocoa marshmallows! And every night, the rats eat a little more of my foot.
Zoidberg Escalation Dark/Subversive Callback Prosecutor: I was hatched ready.
Justice: He shut you up, O'Connor.
Justice Reaction Beat Character Comedy Bender: Court's kind of fun when it's not my ass on the line. Nachos?
Bender Character Comedy Observational Old Man Waterfall: No, you don't! Because I lost my real hand planting the flag when we took back Halley's comet.
Old Man Waterfall · Crowd: I love it even more than I love my seven wives. That's right, I'm a polygamist. Boo!
Old Man Waterfall: Yet I would gladly eat a flag myself... had I not used my intestine as a rope to hoist a flag made of my own skin...
Old Man Waterfall · Crowd: Freedom such as polygamy. Boo! I rest my case.
Bender: Six to three? I beat the spread!
Bender Character Comedy Observational Leela: She means you, you turkey of the sea.
Leela Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Chief Justice · Crowd · Woman: Also, in a rare double-whammy decision, the court finds polygamy constitutional. Boo! I can't wait to tell my husband! Boo!
Ambassador Mervin: Aha! Now the rubber band's on the other claw!
Zoidberg: Well, we'll do to you what we did to the Squash men of the Squash planet: Squished them!
Zoidberg: Charleston Chew? You bet!
Spy · Zapp: Hugh Man, sir! Hugh Man. Now, that's a name I can trust.
Spy Zapp Wordplay/Pun Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Zapp: You're damn right there is. That young lad's gunning for your job. And he just might get it.
Zapp Misdirection Character Comedy Zapp: Make it gaudy. I'm going clubbing later.
Zapp Character Comedy Escalation Zapp: Well, Kif, stand by to take the blame.
Zapp Character Comedy Running Gag Zoidberg: It's a lesson, I say!
Fry: I'm no good at being a slave. I'm thinking about graduate school to become a barber.
Fry Character Comedy Absurdist Leela · Amy: This can't go on. Today is the day we fight back! It's already 10:00. Oh, you're right. Tomorrow is the day we fight back.
Fry · Leela: Hey, wait. I'm having one of those things. You know, a headache with pictures. An idea? Mm. Mm-mm-mm.
Bender: The Bender of the 15th century!
Ambassador Mervin: But with the mobile oppression palace... a few dignitaries can oppress your entire planet for pennies a day!
Old Man Waterfall: You can crush me, but you can't crush my spirit! Oh, my spirit!
Leela: Another victim of the mano-centric male-ocracy.
Zoidberg: I request a satanic funeral.
Zoidberg · Ambassador Mervin: Is it possible that all this slavery and oppression... is schmutzing up our freedom lesson? Take a pill, Zoidberg.
Fry · Bender: You didn't expect us to even go to a museum... much less steal this ancient heat-seeking missile! I don't even know you.
Ambassador Mervin: I don't even know you.
Ambassador Mervin: All Decapodian technology is cold-blooded, like us!
Bender: Hey, I need that to smoke!
Bender Character Comedy Callback Zoidberg: Yes, I'm desecrating a flag, but to preserve the freedom it represents.
Zoidberg: Wait a second. They do! Because this is my home planet!
Zoidberg: Well, maybe just a taste.
Zoidberg Callback Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Bender: I wonder what the Shroud of Turin tastes like.
Bender Escalation Character Comedy