Leela and Zapp Brannigan find themselves stranded on an Eden-like planet.
WAR
46.3
Wins Above Replacement
“In A Gadda Da Leela” ranks #85 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 77.9 — Great. The episode packs 63 scored jokes at 3.6 per minute, averaging 6.8 on craft and 6.7 on impact, with Zapp landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Nixon: Erased that planet like 18 minutes of incriminating tape.
Nixon Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Bender: Move it. I gotta get home and do laundry.
Bender Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Zapp: My instinct is to hide in this barrel like the wily fish.
Zapp Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Zapp: But then I wouldn't have been able to provide the loving care you wouldn't have needed.
Zapp Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Zapp: Was it as good for you as it was for the human race?
Zapp Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun All Jokes — 63 analyzed
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Zapp: Well, obviously, Zapp Brannigan could save you, but...
Zapp Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Zapp: I surrender and volunteer for treason.
Zapp Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Zapp: The long, dramatic corridor. That's never a good sign.
Zapp Observational Meta/Self-Referential Security system: Glove recognized. Proceed, Mrs. Eisenhower.
Nixon: Reptilicus, hit the thingy.
Nixon Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Aide · Nixon: That's all the resolution we have. Making it bigger doesn't make it clearer. It does on CSI: Miami.
Nixon: but it was like shooting bbs at Bebe Rebozo.
Nixon Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Nixon: Erased that planet like 18 minutes of incriminating tape.
Nixon Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Zapp: Oh, I just wish I understood why. Why I should care.
Zapp Character Comedy Misdirection Zapp: My instinct is to hide in this barrel like the wily fish.
Zapp Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Professor: Let's see how crazy I am now, Nixon. The correct answer is 'very.'
Professor · Zapp: It's right in front of you. I find that... Ow! ...To believe.
Zapp: But how exactly is this happy meal toy going to destroy a giant death-sphere?
Zapp Observational Character Comedy Professor: All death-spheres have one vulnerable opening.
Nixon · Zapp · Leela · Professor: I say Brannigan. I say no. - I say me. - I say Leela. - I say yes. - I say no. I say Leela, too. I say yes again.
Zapp: It'll help us achieve maximum thrust.
Bender: I haven't felt much of anything since my Guinea pig died.
Bender Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch GPS voice: Feel the entrance, Leela.
Zapp · Leela: V-giny? Doesn't ring a bell. Hmm, I don't like the looks of this V-giny.
Zapp: This is it... the moment we should have trained for.
Zapp Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Zapp: I can't face this mysterious planet alone without you or someone like you.
Zapp: If anyone can move it, I can. No one can move it.
Zapp Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Leela: This space suit is making me sweat like a sow.
Zapp: I'll try to avert my eyes from your nudery.
Zapp Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Zapp: You will? Eh, what's the point? You'll have to look sooner or later.
Zapp Character Comedy Misdirection Leela: What a thoughtful and considerate thing to say. What the hell's wrong with you?
Leela Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Zapp: Perhaps it's the fresh air or a severe head injury.
Zapp Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Bender: How should I know? And how come you never ask if I'm okay? I'm feeling a little neglected here.
Bender: Well, I guess it's time to indulge in some end-of-the-world debauchery. Who's up for an orgy?
Bender Character Comedy Escalation Amy: Maybe a parcheesi tournament.
Amy Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Fry: Like The Pimpsons and Ass-o-rama?
Professor: First came X-3 the nude beach planet, then Poopiter, and finally that world that can't be mentioned in polite company.
Fry · Leela: You mean... How dare you.
Zapp: Why couldn't a water fountain have fallen on me?
Zapp Character Comedy Absurdist Zapp: Stealth technology makes the ship impossible to locate, yet easy to stub your crotch on.
Zapp Observational Character Comedy Callback Zapp · Leela: It's a veritable garden of eden. It is?
Zapp: No. We're both delirious from dehydration. Just like Adam and Eve.
Zapp Character Comedy Absurdist Scruffy: I'll thinks it overs while I engages is five-dollar hooker.
Scruffy: Yuck! I don't wants no three-dollar hooker. I'm going backs to the adults bookstore.
Fry · Clerk: Adult bookstore? I thought this was the public library. No. Pubic library.
Leela · Snake: Oh, God, I'm actually starting to miss him. Maybe you two belong together. We do not. And you can't talk.
Zapp: Guess who just killed a woodchuck with his bare feet?
Zapp Character Comedy Absurdist Hermes: Well, now I've heard everything. On my iPod.
Fry: Hey, I'm proud of you, Bender... avoiding sin for almost a full minute. Bender?
Fry Setup/Punchline Irony/Sarcasm Bender: What's the worst that could happen?
Zapp: We're the only two humans left in the universe!
Zapp Escalation Cringe/Discomfort Zapp · Leela: Like the tuba. Yes! We'll be like Adam and Eve. Only without the tuba.
Leela · Zapp: Yuck! Is that really what happened in the Bible? It's a sick and twisted book of holiness, all right.
Zapp: With less Sodom and more Gomorrah.
Zapp Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Leela: Those nut-berries you found were so salty, I couldn't think straight. I mean, not to belabor it, but they were as salty as that bag of trail mix Fry gave me. Exactly as salty.
Leela Setup/Punchline Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Zapp: I exaggerated when I said I picked it from the treetops.
Zapp Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Zapp: I wanted to offer you the chocolates... I truly did... but I was concerned about your waistline. Very concerned.
Zapp Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Zapp: But then I wouldn't have been able to provide the loving care you wouldn't have needed.
Zapp Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Bender: Ah, this seems like a good place to take a dump.
Bender Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Leela: You said there wasn't any toilet paper! And that humanity was annihilated!
Leela Escalation Setup/Punchline Zapp · Leela: The alleged 'telescope' was a toilet paper tube. You said there wasn't any toilet paper!
Zapp Leela Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback V-GINY satellite: Hear the righteous word of the mighty V-giny! The mighty V-giny!
V-GINY satellite: Unacceptable wardrobe malfunction!
Zapp: Well... if it's to save Earth... I guess I could take one for the team.
Zapp: Those giant guns are making me feel sort of inadequate. I'm not sure if I can...
Zapp Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Bender: Move it. I gotta get home and do laundry.
Bender Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Zapp: Was it as good for you as it was for the human race?
Zapp Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun