The Planet Express crew is exposed to a substance that causes everyone to age backwards.
WAR
22.2
Wins Above Replacement
“Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles” ranks #121 of 137 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 72.2 — Solid. The episode packs 78 scored jokes at 4.8 per minute, averaging 6.4 on craft and 6.2 on impact, with Professor landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Pazoozoo: And that, little one, is how Papa gained his freedom.
Pazoozoo Misdirection Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Callback Leela · Server: I'd like a sewer burger, but without the rat feces. / What, are you on a diet?
Professor · Restaurant worker: Sir, this card has expired. / But it's good for a lifetime. / Well, yours expired.
Professor: Well, I can't keep them in my mouth, they're nuclear-Powered!
Zoidberg: Funny story. I just reverted to the age when my siblings budded from me... And my brother Norman split off and jumped in the fountain.
Zoidberg Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Standout Moments
Professor · Restaurant worker: Sir, this card has expired. / But it's good for a lifetime. / Well, yours expired.
Leela · Server: I'd like a sewer burger, but without the rat feces. / What, are you on a diet?
Pazoozoo: And that, little one, is how Papa gained his freedom.
Pazoozoo Misdirection Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Callback All Jokes — 78 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Professor: Pazoozoo, you ungrateful gargoyle! I put you through college, and this is how you repay me?
Professor: Driving gloves, driving goggles, driving thong. There!
Professor · Leela: You? A woman? I'm trying to catch a monster, not find the quickest route to the mall.
Leela: My God, he's gonna do it! Everyone, seat belts to maximum buckling!
Leela Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Unknown driver: Hey, Grandpa! Move your wrinkly old keister!
Leela: This ship can do 99 percent light speed. Why are we going 35 miles an hour?
Leela Absurdist Observational Professor: Because we're in a hurry, that's why! Plus, you have the high beams on!
Professor: Oh, it's 2:30. We can still catch the early-Bird dinner special.
Leela · Professor: Aren't we looking for your gargoyle? / My what?
Restaurant worker: Mavis is dead.
Restaurant worker: Oh, Lord! Teeth do not belong in your pants, professor.
Professor: Well, I can't keep them in my mouth, they're nuclear-Powered!
Professor: No! No! It's tasted human blood!
Professor: Mm. Damn good meat.
Professor Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Leela: Professor, we've talked it over, and everybody thinks you're too old.
Leela Cringe/Discomfort Setup/Punchline Amy: It's this season's shark-Cartilage enema!
Amy Absurdist Observational ★ Rewatch Professor: But I like being old! I don't have to talk to my parents, no one asks me to help move their stuff
Professor: I don't need to understand today's 'edgy' TV sitcoms.
Professor Meta/Self-Referential Observational ★ Rewatch Leela: Okay, okay. We're not gonna force you until I finish this sentence. Get him!
Leela Misdirection Escalation Professor Callback Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Callback Professor · Heather: Go to hell, Heather! Oh .
Heather: Instead of killing you in the most horrible fashion imaginable.
Heather Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement Professor: Give me back my floppy face!
Heather: Sir, it's not necessary or wise to be naked.
Professor: You sound just like my tennis instructor.
Heather: In what top scientists suspect is a miracle.
Heather Absurdist Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Professor: I have to go buy a single piece of fruit with a coupon and then return it... Making people wait behind me while I complain.
Bender: Like everything else in life... Pumping is just a primitive, degenerate form of bending.
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Unknown · Bender: Come on, Bender! Pump harder! Harder! I'm trying as hard as I can. Harder, damn you!
Leela: Professor, it worked! You look young enough to be my father!
Leela Irony/Sarcasm Observational Professor: Oh, now I'll need a fake ID to rent ultra-Porn.
Professor: Dear Lord! You've all reverted to your childhood forms!
Zoidberg: Hooray! I'm a teenage heartthrob again.
Zoidberg Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fry · Amy · Hermes: It wasn't me, Mr. F. It was Amy. / Stop it, Amy! You stink! / You know you did it!
Child Hermes: Goodbye, Mr. Dumbsworth!
Amy · Leela: But your parents are gross sewer mutants. Ow!
Amy Leela Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Professor: That's not what happened! Shut up and go live with your parents!
Leela · Morris: And if some kid picks on me, my dad can beat up his dad! / Can't I just beat up the kid?
Morris · Leela: Now, let's all have some tequila to celebrate! / Dad, I'm underage! / Oh, right. Here's a silly straw.
Amy's mom: This like a mother's dream! Bad dream, that is.
Amy's dad: Maybe she not grown up, but she sure grown out. She fat!
Amy's dad: Stay in room? You so fat, you gonna stay all around room.
Professor: Suddenly, I'm going to the bathroom like clockwork, every three hours.
Professor: And those jerks at Social Security stopped sending me checks. Now I have to pay them!
Bender: Well, I'm running away from this dead-End family. I know there's a place for people like me, with new ideas.
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bender · Professor: Oh, I'm going, and you're gonna be all, 'Where's Bender? I miss Bender!' / We won't know that until you leave.
Bender: Oh, I'm leaving. There's the door. / I'll be good.
Bender Character Comedy Escalation Professor Farnsworth: We won't know that until you leave.
Morris: What do we live in, a zoo?
Morris Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fry: Thanks. These aren't pockets, they're just flaps. I put my money in my sock.
Fry Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Moose: Oh, so this is the famous Fry. What is he... Like, the biggest loser on the surface so he has to hang out in the sewer?
Moose Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Fry Reaction Beat Character Comedy Leela: There's. The world's drinking water is safe for another day.
Leela Absurdist Irony/Sarcasm Professor: The devil take this predictable colon!
Professor: As well as Bender's robo, or 'RNA.'
Child Amy · Professor: Question. Yes? / You stink.
Young Leela: My old life wasn't as glamorous as my web page made it look.
Fry · Morris: Bring beer. / No beer till you finish your tequila!
Amy: I'm no doctor, but this machine guy could use a lozenge.
Amy Absurdist Character Comedy Professor: Damn! The bacteria pigged out on the tar... And now they're getting freaky deaky... Spreading kronatons throughout our systems!
Zoidberg: What? I'm gonna revert through all my larval stages?
Zoidberg Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Professor: Pre-Life! Then death.
Nibbler: Oh, sure, you need all your blood!
Nibbler Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Professor: Who would you rather hear about, Four-Legged Chachi or Tentacle Chachi?
Professor Absurdist Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Professor: 'Charlotte's Tholian Web.' 'The Fountain of Aging.'
Professor Wordplay/Pun Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Professor: Still, they called the Tooth Fairy a legend, and now he's head of the FBI!
Professor: I had a few beers, but I'm cool to drive.
Morris: Who cares, Leela? It was just a public school.
Morris Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Child crew member: When I grow up, I wanna be a steam shovel!
Professor: Teddy Bear Junction, the worst scum-Hole in the galaxy.
Amy: Look how high the asteroid belt is pulled up on that planet!
Amy Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Zoidberg: Funny story. I just reverted to the age when my siblings budded from me... And my brother Norman split off and jumped in the fountain.
Zoidberg Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Zoidberg: He always had to be the center of attention!
Professor: With my last breath, I curse Zoidberg!
Professor: Pazoozoo! You came back to me.
Professor Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback 