Leela leads an army of underground mutants in a rebellion against the surface people.
WAR
40.5
Wins Above Replacement
“The Mutants Are Revolting” ranks #95 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 77.4 — Great. The episode packs 53 scored jokes at 3.5 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.6 on impact, with Fry landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Leela: Aw. Come here. Let me give you a kiss. Uh... hug. Handshake. I'll text you.
Leela Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Leela's Father: Now that you're here, this hellhole feels more like a nice, regular hole.
Bender: Hooray! A happy ending for the rich people!
Bender Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Bender: I trust the orgy pit has been scraped and buttered?
Bender Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender Reaction Beat Character Comedy All Jokes — 53 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Bender: One hundred! That's almost ten per year.
Bender Observational Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Bender: I'm ordering a hundred kegs, a hundred hookers and a hundred Elvis impersonators who aren't above a little hooking, should the occasion arise.
Elzar: Mrs. Astor takes nitroglycerine for her heart, and being a class act, she prefers it in soufflé form.
Elzar Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Elzar: Bam.. To prevent the soufflé from exploding, Bender will carry it. He's gyroscopically stable.
Elzar Irony/Sarcasm Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Fry: Wow, it's ricketier than it looks. You better try to jump it, Bender.
Fry Observational Setup/Punchline Butler: I shall inform Mrs. Astor that the circus is in town.
Butler Observational Deadpan/Understatement Mrs. Astor: Where's the exploding? One does not explode in Mrs. Astor's face.
Fry: Yes, I have. And I'm his uncle.
Fry Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Mrs. Astor · Fry: How charmingly unconventional. I can eat a hot dog underwater.
Mrs. Astor: Just four days into her maiden voyage, as we approached 32nd street, the land liner struck a mailbox and went down.
Fry · Leela: Mutants? That's the kind of thing you are. Shh. You know mutants aren't allowed on the surface.
Narrator: there toil a downtrodden people even less well off than the upper-middle class: The noble sewer mutants.
Narrator Irony/Sarcasm Observational ★ Rewatch Narrator · Leela: mutated them into horrific monsters! Ooh! Shut up.
Narrator: These industrious, uh, 'people,' I guess
Narrator Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Narrator: At brown university, the nation's premiere institution of lower learning.
Narrator Wordplay/Pun Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Narrator: Not in person, thank God.
Narrator Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Mrs. Astor: Really? It's also about keeping those filthy things busy. There are thousands of them down there, breeding like rats.
Mrs. Astor Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Guest: My great uncle once saw a rat.
Police: You going downtown, baby. Way down.
Police Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Leela's Father: Now that you're here, this hellhole feels more like a nice, regular hole.
Leela's Mother: What do you say we go get some sewer coffee, sewer cake and safeway ice cream.
Fry: I don't care what you say, Hermes.
Fry Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Hermes: You did ruin her life. I am right. We should do something!
Hermes Character Comedy Escalation Fry: We did harbor a mutant! Uh-oh.
Fry Character Comedy Escalation Leela's Father: If those guys slack off for even a second, it could explode.
Mutant: Well, they're with the chuds now.
Mutant Observational Deadpan/Understatement Leela: You'll grow a camel hump or a Zoidberg face.
Leela Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Fry: Um, I would, but I j... I ate a bunch of potato salad, so...
Fry Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Bender: I trust the orgy pit has been scraped and buttered?
Bender Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Background Character: You know it, and there's mini-quiches, too.
Mutant: Shmeepers, it's the land Titanic, the biggest and onlyest land boat ever constructed.
Mutant Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Zoidberg: Hand me some more of that cruise director.
Zoidberg Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender: It's jewelry... jewelry. It's jewelry, people!
Bender Character Comedy Escalation Callback Letter: My love for you is as unsinkable as this land ship and as brilliant as this stone. Dictated but not read, Mr. Astor.
Letter Irony/Sarcasm Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Fry: Did you guys know I have a crush on Leela?
Fry Character Comedy Running Gag ★ Rewatch Callback Leela's Mother: You've hardly touched your toilet clams.
Background Character: this is the dangest wang I ever doodled.
Bender: Get out! Get out! It's not fun anymore! I want to be alone! Alone with me?
Bender Character Comedy Escalation Fry: Sorry. I tried to scream, but I barfed.
Fry Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Leela: Fry, this is the stupidest, sweetest thing you've ever done.
Leela Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Leela: Aw. Come here. Let me give you a kiss. Uh... hug. Handshake. I'll text you.
Leela Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Fry: Beautiful mutants, please welcome... Devo!
Fry Meta/Self-Referential Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Crowd · Devo: Play 'Whip it!' No. Play the other one.
Crowd Devo Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender Reaction Beat Character Comedy Bender: What goes down must back up.
Bender Wordplay/Pun Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Mayor: I picked the wrong day to wear my new crocses.
Mayor Observational Wordplay/Pun Mayor: We simply pump the fruits of our excretion into Madison cube garden.
Mayor Wordplay/Pun Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Leela: and the blood of your first-born children. That's so we have something to give up in the negotiations.
Leela Escalation Misdirection ★ Rewatch Mrs. Astor: I've never been so moved, and I see no reason to begin now.
Mrs. Astor Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Crowd · Bender: Are we not men now? I'm 40% potato, but close enough.
Mr. Astor: Good afternoon. I am Mr. Astor. I did not perish that fateful day, but rather plummeted into the toxic lake, where I mutated and lived in solitude until this ruddy lad here stepped into my mouth and lodged there.
Bender: Hooray! A happy ending for the rich people!
Bender Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Leela's Grandmother: Was there a fire?