The Planet Express crew learns the true meaning of Xmas, Robanukah and Kwanzaa.
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“The Futurama Holiday Spectacular” ranks #116 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 75.6 — Great. The episode packs 67 scored jokes at 3.6 per minute, averaging 6.6 on craft and 6.5 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
Robot Santa: Ho, ho, ho! Everyone's dead!
Leela · Fry · Leela: It's an albino humping worm! / Why do they call it that? / Because it doesn't have any pigment.
Fry: Hey, cool. The air's on fire.
Fry Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Professor Farnsworth · Unknown · Al Gore: Good news! All these pine trees are fighting global warming by producing oxygen! / Happy now, Gore? / Yeah. But I'd be happier if I had a set of lungs.
Unknown crew member: You know, Santa may have killed Scruffy, but he makes a good point
All Jokes — 67 analyzed
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Fry: Something about Xmas just doesn't feel like Christmas
Fry Observational Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Robot Santa: God rest ye merry gentlemen... in peace
Robot Santa: It's the violent-est season of the year / And Krinklebot has come dispensing mugs of Xmas fear
Robot Santa: On Xmas Eve, we don our gay apparel / kevlar vests / asbestos stockings and a barrel
Robot Santa: And if grandma's Xmas fruitcake finally reaches critical mass / it can be re-gifted straight to Santa's ass
Robot Santa: The one thing that you need to make your Xmas day splendiferous / is a pine tree / a pine tree that's coniferous
Unknown crew member: You know, Santa may have killed Scruffy, but he makes a good point
Professor Farnsworth: Cram it, Virginia! Pine trees have been extinct for over 800 years
Professor Farnsworth: Pine trees aren't barking snakes! They won't just turn up in a salad at olive garden
Professor Farnsworth: But there is one hope, and, as usual, it's Norwegian
Norwegian Guard: Halt! Wh... what's your business pokey-pokin' about de seed vault, uh, guardian of mankind's precious botanical heritage dere?
Fry · Norwegian Guard: We just want to come in and rummage about a bit. / Oh. So... okay.
Bender · Norwegian Guard · Leela: Yo, Abba, what's that next-door? / Oh, dat's de germ warfare repository. / It's so close. / Is there any chance of cross-contamination? / No.
Norwegian Guard: Now, your pine trees were all chopped down to make emergency toilet paper during the 50-year squirts
Fry · Norwegian Guard: What's that splork on them? / It's not germs, is it? / No.
Leela · Professor Farnsworth: Could the seed have been contaminated by a virus from the germ vault? / Uh, yeah, I suppose.
Professor Farnsworth: Wait! This could be a good thing. That weaponized virus made the sickly little tree grow big and strong!
Professor Farnsworth: Wait... this could be a good thing. Reforestation has begun.
Professor Farnsworth: Arguably, this could be a good thing. The planet has returned to its primeval state! Earth is just the way it was before the white man came!
Professor Farnsworth · Unknown · Al Gore: Good news! All these pine trees are fighting global warming by producing oxygen! / Happy now, Gore? / Yeah. But I'd be happier if I had a set of lungs.
Fry: Hey, cool. The air's on fire.
Fry Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Robot Santa: Ho, ho, ho! Everyone's dead!
Amy · Fry: Pfft! That's just a fake holiday you make up every year to get out of work. / Yeah! If it's real, how come there's no song that explains how to celebrate it?
Amy Fry Setup/Punchline Meta/Self-Referential Bender: Robanukah may sound as if it's Jewish / but its ancient-sounding customs are exceptionally new-ish
Bender Wordplay/Pun Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Bender: So take a hearty swallow from your robo-kiddush cup / which will give me time to quickly make them up
Bender Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender: Do you spin a dreidel made from Clay? / Mine is called a 'droidl', and it's rigged to make you pay
Bender Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender: Do you eat these yummy tin-wrapped chocolate coins? / Better! We got fembots with illegal five-speed groins!
Bender Escalation Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Fembots: Shalom, Ruth and Esther! Why with the music so loud? Would it kill them to turn up the heat a little in here?
Fembots Character Comedy Observational Bender: But by far the most important thing is oil / To keep the lamplight burning or to help the latkes broil? / No, we pour the holy lubricant out from the sacred vessel / into this blessed pit so they can wrestle
Bender Setup/Punchline Misdirection ★ Rewatch Bender · Fembot: Thank you, Abraham. / Not in the hair, please. I just had it did.
Bender: Aw, no! These broads are supposed to wrestle for six and half weeks, but there's only enough petroleum oil for four and a half weeks!
Bender Setup/Punchline Absurdist Fembot · Bender: We're still getting paid, right? / I told you, it's an audition!
Bender: Not kosher! It has to be petroleum oil! Do you not give a damn about the hallowed traditions of Robanukah?!
Bender Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Clerk · Al Gore: That'll be... I don't know, ten bucks? / Um, can you make change for a Nobel prize?
Bender: I can't wait that long! I've got A.D.D.!
Bender Character Comedy Observational Fembot: This is so unfair! I don't wrestle dry, Bender. I went to Vassar.
Fembot Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Leela · Fry · Leela: It's an albino humping worm! / Why do they call it that? / Because it doesn't have any pigment.
Leela: I hate to complain about the heat, but the air conditioner's on fire.
Leela Deadpan/Understatement Observational ★ Rewatch Bender: You vile racist. Haven't my people suffered enough?
Bender Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Bender: I thought they were selfish, yet in the end, it turns out it was I who thought they were selfish.
Bender Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Bender: There was only enough petroleum for four and a half weeks of oil wrestling, but it lasted 500 million years! It's a miracle!
Bender Running Gag Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Amy: We brought a chocolate cake, but now I'm worried that might be offensive in some way.
Amy Observational Character Comedy LaBarbara: Well, look at the cat the cat dragged in!
Barbados Slim: All night long, woman.
Hermes · Fry: Kwanzaa traditions are quite ancient, dating back over one thousand years. / Whoa.
Hermes Fry Setup/Punchline Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch LaBarbara: No, child, that's not a made-up character, it's Kwanzaabot!
LaBarbara Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Zoidberg: How 'bout I just lay down?
Zoidberg Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Kwanzaabot: So sit your asses down and have some knowledge dropped upons ya
Kwanzaabot: like the ever-changing nature of my sexual proclivities
Kwanzaabot Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kwanzaabot · Bender: something about a pine tree and an oil-wrestling dealie? / That's from Xmas and Robanukah you plagiarizing lout.
Kwanzaabot: Yeah, I'm kinda losing interest here / I best be rollin' out
Kwanzaabot Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kwanzaabot: but they best be made of beeswax / or y'all might as well be white
LaBarbara: Girl, those stank sticks are for single women who take baths!
Hermes: Sweet candelabra of la habra, labarbara!
Hermes Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bee Keeper: The bees are acting all crazy, like they've been drinking tang and cough syrup, or, as I call it, my Friday night.
Bender · Leela: Die young, leave a pretty corpse, that's what I say. / You should say something else.
Bender: Okay. If we survive.
Bender Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Bender: It's like the deadly prius.
Bender Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fry: That was weird. It's like the Jagermeister air show all over again.
Fry Observational Absurdist ★ Rewatch Fry · Queen Bee: The big, fat, ugly, compound-eyed, hairy-thorax... / Don't be applying your euro-centric standards of beauty to me, fool.
Bee 1 · Bee 2 · Bee 1: Are y'all black with yellow stripes, or ya yellow with black stripes? / Yellow with black stripes, man. / Why don't you just move along?
Bee 1 · Bee 2 · Bee 1: Let me ask you something. You sting my wife? / What kinda buzzin' question is that? / Where do you get the wings big enough to ask me that?
Hermes: It's time to African-americanize these honeybees!
Hermes Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Bee: At the end of the day, we're just a couple dern talkin' space bees.
Bee Deadpan/Understatement Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Bender: Hooray! Kwanzaabot's here to save... Oh, they killed him.
Bender Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Al Gore: featuring Bender, Leela, and me, Al Gore, as Captain Lance Starman