The Planet Express crew races to future Rome to unearth the shocking secret of Leonardo da Vinci.
WAR
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Wins Above Replacement
“The Duh Vinci Code” ranks #80 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 78.5 — Elite. The episode packs 74 scored jokes at 4.6 per minute, averaging 6.9 on craft and 6.5 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
Professor: I hate these nerds! Just 'cause I'm stupider than them, they think they're smarter than me.
Professor Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Bender: Everybody at Kinko's was an idiot, so I just brought the original.
Bender Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Leonardo: Duh! I'm Leonardo!
Leonardo Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Bender Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Professor: Oh, I suppose if I have an Achilles' heel, it's because I bought it at that same auction.
Professor Wordplay/Pun Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 74 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Morbo · Fry: So, Fry, what do you do for a living? Me? Um... can I phone a friend?
Fry: I didn't come to play; I came to win. Now let's play.
Fry Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Fry: B: Nail! Final answer!
Fry Absurdist Character Comedy Hermes: Sweet dodo of Lesotho!
Hermes Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Hermes · Fry: Don't you ever stop to think before you speak? I never stop to think about it.
Leela: His intelligence is just a little... differenty.
Leela Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Bender: (imitates Redd Foxx): You a big dummy!
Bender Callback Character Comedy Callback Professor · Fry: You can barely remember your own name, Einstein. Einstein is a hard name to remember.
Fry: Don't have a shmaneurysm.
Fry Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Professor: I'll be a monkey's uncle if I'm this monkey's nephew.
Professor Wordplay/Pun Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Fry: Who will hug me if I achieve something?
Fry Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Fry: What turned them to stone?
Fry Character Comedy Absurdist Fry: Uh-oh. Nibbler died in the wall.
Fry Misdirection Character Comedy Professor: Oh, I suppose if I have an Achilles' heel, it's because I bought it at that same auction.
Professor Wordplay/Pun Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Zoidberg: Indeed so. Most indeededly.
Professor: But possibly yes.
Professor: And now, at last, neither do I!
Fry: Well, I may not have brain smarts, but at least I have street smarts.
Fry Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Fry: I was in the hospital two weeks. No one visited me.
Fry Callback Character Comedy Callback Fry Escalation Character Comedy Bender: Everybody at Kinko's was an idiot, so I just brought the original.
Bender Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fry: That's the great thing about that hand.
Fry Absurdist Character Comedy Zoidberg: My doctorate is in art history.
Zoidberg Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Hermes: Wait a second! I'm not big-boned; I'm just fat.
Hermes Observational Character Comedy Leela: My God! I'm looking!
Leela Escalation Reaction Beat Fry: My God! This is the greatest mystery of all time.
Fry Escalation Character Comedy Leela: Didn't we used to be a delivery company?
Leela Observational Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Bender: PST! Leela, wanna join the mile-deep club?
Bender Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Fry: Roman numerals?! I've got it! We're in Rome.
Fry Character Comedy Absurdist Professor · Fry: One... Okay, we're there.
Bender: I bet he's up in Robot Heaven right now. So he won't miss his eyes.
Bender Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Fry: My God! Robot Saint James is a zombie.
Fry Escalation Character Comedy Animatronio · Fry: Nay, I am not Saint James. Enough of your lies, Saint James.
Animatronio: When I took repose in this coffin, I carefully tossed the real Saint James in yonder heap.
Animatronio: Ah, I told him I'd be back in five minutes. Ah, well, he'll make a nice heap.
Amy: (girlish squeal) Was he nice? How did his hair smell?
Amy Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Fry Character Comedy Reaction Beat Leela: Why does a robot need a codpiece?
Leela Observational Character Comedy Animatronio: Fie, thou fen-suckled bumbailey!
Leela: Trey... V... Trey... Trevi! It's the Trevi Fountain!
Leela Setup/Punchline Observational Professor · Leela: There can be no question! But Professor...? There can be no question!
Bender: What are you, senile? I'm not jumping in there. Hey, look... coins.
Bender Character Comedy Misdirection Bender Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender: (gasps) There's one more nickel, and it's a big one!
Bender Escalation Character Comedy Professor: Note how the perspective lines draw the eye right to his dong.
Professor Observational Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Professor: I mean... that flying machine's as aerodynamic as a sofa!
Animatronio: In a way thou shalt ne'er discover!
Animatronio: Porco metallico! Ne'er shall I reveal how these wondrous machines fit together!
Fry: No wonder this contraption isn't aerodynamic! It's not an aircraft, it's a spacecraft!
Fry Misdirection Character Comedy Leonardo: I am Leonardo. guy.
Fry: That's what I was gonna say!
Fry Character Comedy Reaction Beat Fry: And might I say, you were great in Titanic. The Beach... eh.
Fry Character Comedy Misdirection Fry: Heh. Looks like eating rocks wasn't as dumb as you said.
Fry Callback Character Comedy Callback Fry · Leonardo: How's your football team? Learned.
Professor: All this knowledge is giving me a raging 'brainer.'
Fry: No. It would just go in one ear and our some other hole.
Fry Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Fry: I have a terrible secret to confess, Mr. DiCaprio.
Fry Callback Character Comedy Callback Leonardo: Duh! I'm Leonardo!
Leonardo Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Leonardo: Duh! I have to draw in pencil, 'cause I don't know how to use rendering software.
Leonardo Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Leonardo: Stupid Biff! Thinks he's so smart. He looks stronger than you, too.
Fry: I can see myself in your shiny button.
Fry Character Comedy Absurdist Amy: We had to answer every question in the form of an opera.
Amy Escalation Observational Amy: I have a lot of homework for tomorrow, if I don't want to be... ♪ embarrassed. ♪
Amy Callback Character Comedy Callback Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen... Leonardo DiCaprio! I mean DaVinci!
Biff · Audience: Nice hat! AUDIENCE: Ooh!
Fry: Wait... you told me it was an unstoppable ice cream machine.
Fry Misdirection Character Comedy Leonardo: Ice cream is just a byproduct of the machine.
Professor: I hate these nerds! Just 'cause I'm stupider than them, they think they're smarter than me.
Professor Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Fry: I've got one single nail, and another nail to nail it in with
Fry Character Comedy Callback Callback Bender: Some doomsday machine! It barely killed anyone!
Bender Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement Professor: Poor Leonardo DaVinci. He sure was stupid.
Professor: Your tiny, tiny intellect. Oops! There I go again, you dope. Uh, I mean, dummy.
Fry · Professor: That's what my mom used to say. She was a wise woman. Also that I'm not much to look at.
Fry: I can't believe it! I'm gonna die! Next Thursday...
Fry Misdirection Character Comedy