A revolutionary invention allows the crew members to exchange minds.
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“The Prisoner Of Benda” ranks #4 of 137 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 87.5 — Elite. The episode packs 67 scored jokes at 3.8 per minute, averaging 7.1 on craft and 7.0 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
Scruffy: This is wrong, washbucket. Oh, it would be sweet for a while, But in the back of our minds, we'd know That I'm a man, and you're janitorial equipment.
Scruffy Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Big Bertha · Professor · Big Bertha: I have not so much time left anyhow. But you could get a new body. You could have a rich, full life! / I am trying to have a rich, full life.
Scruffy: Go. Go now. Before I beg you to stay.
Scruffy Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Professor: Look, I paid for 15 robot clowns per cubic meter of car, And you're barely giving me 12.
Scruffy: Switch bodies? I don't see why not. I also don't see why.
Scruffy Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Standout Moments
Scruffy: This is wrong, washbucket. Oh, it would be sweet for a while, But in the back of our minds, we'd know That I'm a man, and you're janitorial equipment.
Scruffy Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Scruffy: Go. Go now. Before I beg you to stay.
Scruffy Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Big Bertha · Professor · Big Bertha: I have not so much time left anyhow. But you could get a new body. You could have a rich, full life! / I am trying to have a rich, full life.
All Jokes — 67 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Fry · Leela: Boy, that thing's big. / Fry, is my colossal eye too big? / No, it's what makes you you. / But it's so round, so hideously round.
Fry · Leela: Leela, listen, you're the most beautiful woman I've ever known. / Oh, so you only care about my looks? / No, I... what?
Nikolai: I am just a humble emperor with a big, big crown.
Bender · Leela: Of course I'm not planning to steal that crown. / What? / True, I've always dreamt of being an emperor, You know, for Halloween, and then forever
Bender · Fry: And finally, a chump To be caught on video and later arrested. / As I told you on sucker-punch day, I'm through being a chump.
Bender Fry Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Bender: You see, I own a watch.
Bender Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist ★ Rewatch Amy: Good, I'm sick of cleaning up those heaps of dead monkeys.
Amy Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Amy · Professor: Like the heaps of dead monkeys? / Science cannot move forward without heaps.
Amy · Professor · Amy: I wasted my youth porking out. / Yes, I remember. / Would you please take that down? It's making me hungry.
Professor: we're just the people This mind-switcher was made for by us.
Amy · Professor: It didn't work, you doddering old... / Ah, cartilage.
Professor: Dude, I bid you a fond cowabunga.
Professor Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Professor: Yee-haw! Look out, world, here I... [crash sound implied]
Professor: I'm sorry, Amy, but your body's not up to the task. Also, I don't care for these boobs Flapping every which way.
Professor: You idiot! Once two bodies have switched minds, They can never switch back.
Professor: However, perhaps they can.
Bender: I'm 60% storage space.
Bender Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Professor: I'm afraid we need to use... Math.
Professor Deadpan/Understatement Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Bender: Stupid air-needing lungs.
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist Bender · Basil · Bender: Four seconds?! / Who goes there? / Three, two, one. / Hello, big boy.
Basil: Silence. I am basil, The emperor's cousin and chief of his royal guard, And I shall not be seduced by a... / I said...
Basil Reaction Beat Cringe/Discomfort Amy: I hate paying $14 to see Nicolas cage solve things.
Amy Observational ★ Rewatch Leela: see, you do only like me for my body.
Leela Callback Irony/Sarcasm Callback Fry: That is entirely not true, sir.
Fry Character Comedy Awkward Silence Bender Escalation Physical/Slapstick Bender: Uh, could you come back when my chump gets here?
Bender Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Nikolai · Bender: A reverse Turing test, eh? Very good. What is the square root of nine? / Uh, hold on, let me just get out a pencil.
Bender: okay, look, I'm not that kind of robot. I'm more this kind of robot. [steps forwards but moves backwards]
Bender Physical/Slapstick Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Nikolai: He steps forwards but moves backwards. By the gods, he is a machine.
Nikolai Observational Deadpan/Understatement Professor: Look, I paid for 15 robot clowns per cubic meter of car, And you're barely giving me 12.
Professor: I am Nonchalanto the robot daredevil, And my dream is to risk my life In strange and original ways.
Professor Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Circus performer: That's the dumbest thing anybody's ever done. You're hired.
Bender: Oh, crap, that is what I am.
Bender Reaction Beat Character Comedy Flavia · Nikolai · Flavia: Hello. / Ah, my fiancée princess Flavia. / Dearest, meet bender. He's a robot in the body of a Chinese Martian physicist. / How tedious.
Nikolai · Bender: Can I trust you to do it? / You can trust anything.
Zoidberg: A man can give her a toke of her own medicine.
Zoidberg: Friends, friends, I've got barnacles on my tuchus.
Zoidberg Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Scruffy: Washbucket full. Scruffy's work here is done.
Scruffy Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Scruffy: Switch bodies? I don't see why not. I also don't see why.
Scruffy Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fry · Bender: If you're a bender, why is your body full of fetid water? / If you're an emperor, why don't you shut up?!
Fry · Nikolai · Nikolai: Robot? / Yes, 'tis I... Bender. Do you not recognize your own best friend? / Aha! The guy in this body has a friend!
Amy · Amy: But then Nicolas cage discovered The real treasure was his family. / Yes, I'll hold.
Amy Amy Callback Misdirection ★ Rewatch Callback Leela · Fry: Amy?! Stop it! She's turning me into a parade float. / Ew, look at her!
Fry: That wasn't a little extra weight.
Fry Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat Hermes: Sweet orca of Majorca. You make fat Albert look like normal Albert.
Hermes: Three decades of the munchies beat you to it.
Hermes Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Big Bertha: Oh, excuse me. Too much goulash.
Big Bertha: Never! My body may be old, but it is mine, And every crack, a memory of heavy things shot a long way.
Basil: Nikolai, you imperial fool. We've been having an affair for 700 years.
Basil Escalation Dark/Subversive Zoidberg: You mean, like my penis?
Fry · Nikolai: Well, bender, here's our apartment That we live in every day. / A floor? We live like kings!
Nikolai: Kings? Silence! Like you, I'm a common lout.
Nikolai Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Scruffy · Washbucket: Miss Wong? / No, scruffy, I am washbucket. I love you. Washbucket has always loved you.
Washbucket: In another city, we could be anyone we want!
Bender: Shut up, madam ambassador. I know it.
Bender Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Bender: I'd now like to digress from my prepared remarks To say I'm done.
Bender Deadpan/Understatement Misdirection ★ Rewatch Professor · Carnie: You're robo-Hungarian? / Yes. Our nation's chief export is carnies.
Professor: That is not what I meant to give you for big Bertha.
Professor Deadpan/Understatement Dark/Subversive Professor: Good, 'cause I've got 20 of them per cubic meter.
Child: When I grow up, I want to be a diplomat!
Child Irony/Sarcasm Dark/Subversive Hermes: Q to the e to the d.
Hermes Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Professor: And they say pure math has no real-world applications!
Professor Irony/Sarcasm Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Professor: You'll win the NBA's highest academic honor for this!
Bender: And I'm left with the real jewels safely inside... His compartment?! Oh!
