The Professor invents a one-way time machine that takes the crew ever further into the future with no hope of returning.
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49.8
Wins Above Replacement
“The Late Philip J Fry” ranks #31 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 82.0 — Elite. The episode packs 56 scored jokes at 3.5 per minute, averaging 6.9 on craft and 6.8 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
Bender: Yeah, yeah, I can take a hint.
Bender Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fry: Sorry I'm a billion years late.
Fry Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Professor: This new universe is about ten feet lower than our old one.
Professor Absurdist Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Professor · Bender: To the end of the universe! That's basically what I do every day.
Fry Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 56 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Bender: I'm about to get down and funky with this Ladybot, and I'd appreciate it if as many people as possible could know about it. Now can we get some privacy?!
Bender Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender: Aw, yeah! Back it on up.
Bender Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Bender: ♪ Hambone, hambone! ♪
Bender Absurdist Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Bender: Okay, hambone break's over. Back to the bedroom!
Bender Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Professor: She left a while ago. She said some idiot was taking her to lunch for her birthday.
Amy · Leela: ♪ What day is today? ♪ ♪ It's Leela's birthday ♪ Please stop. ♪ What a day for a birthday ♪ I really would like you to stop singing. ♪ Let's all have some cake! ♪
Amy Leela Cringe/Discomfort Escalation ★ Rewatch Amy · Leela: You want to buy a slice of birthday cake for $11.95? Yes, please.
Leela: I was. But then I realized it's actually my fault for thinking you might be on time for once.
Leela Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Leela: Wow, that'll be the nicest place I've ever been stood up.
Leela Deadpan/Understatement Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Fry: I can throw up on a stripper anytime. Tonight, I want to not throw up... On you.
Fry Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Professor: Cubert, fetch my drinking teeth.
Fry: How do you spell 'XO'? Guh!
Fry Character Comedy Absurdist Fry: Does it have to be nude?
Fry Reaction Beat Character Comedy Bender · Fry: You leave a nude video greeting. Does it have to be nude? I guess not. That never occurred to me.
Fry: I wouldn't want to do that again.
Fry Dark/Subversive Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Professor · Bender: Everyone we ever knew died thousands of years ago. Everyone we ever knew? Ah, I never liked those guys.
Bender: Ah, I never liked those guys.
Bender Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Fry: They blew it up! And then the apes blew up their society, too! How could this happen?! And then the birds took over and ruined their society! And the cows, and then... I don't know. Is that a slug maybe?
Fry Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Robot: Hey, aren't you the loser who got stood up at my other restaurant?
Robot Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Hermes: Has anyone seen Fry's ass? It's late for a date with my boot.
Hermes Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Bender: Everywhere I looked, there were piles of bodies. And then the explosion struck.
Bender Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Leela: Fry stood me up and died?! I'm so angry! I mean, I'm so sad! But-but I'm still pretty angry! But also sad. Can I be both?
Leela Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Amy Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Fry · Future humans: Man, the future is a total craphole, and whoever lives here is a crap-faced sack of crap! No offense, fellas.
Bender: Man, the future is a total craphole, and whoever lives here is a crap-faced sack of crap! No offense, fellas.
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bender: ♪ In the year 105105 ♪ ♪ If man is still alive ♪ ♪ If robot can survive ♪ ♪ They may find... ♪
Fry · Bender · Professor: ♪ In the year 105105, If man is still alive, If robot can survive, They may find... ♪
Bender: ♪ In all the world, there's only one technology ♪ ♪ A rusty sword for practicing proctology ♪
Bender Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Bender: ♪ A shlubby merman's gonna try to get chummy ♪ ♪ He may look like a watery wimp ♪ ♪ When in fact he's a bloodthirsty shrimp! ♪
Bender: ♪ In the year one million and a half ♪ ♪ Humankind is enslaved by giraffe ♪
Bender Absurdist Dark/Subversive Leela · Zoidberg: I laid you off 20 years ago. Woop-woop-woop-woo... Oh, the claws can't flee like they used to.
Zoidberg: Oh, the claws can't flee like they used to.
Zoidberg Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Callback Advanced human: And the Dumblocks... stupid, vicious brutes who live underground.
Bender: We could settle down on that mountain of skulls.
Bender Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Bender: Hey! That place had a gorgeous view of Blood Lake!
Bender Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Amazon leader: Even very old and stupid males are prized.
Amazon women · Bender: Let us anoint our guests in oil without using our hands. Oh, so we can stay in the future you like, but not the future I like?
Fry: I could eat. And fertilize.
Fry Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Bender: Oh, so we can stay in the future you like, but not the future I like?
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Callback Fry: Somewhere, some time, Leela is waiting for me.
Fry Reaction Beat Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fry: Sorry I'm a billion years late.
Fry Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Amy: Move it, boy toy. Granny's taking you to Atlantic City.
Amy Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Amy's grandmother: I don't know why you ever married that pig-nosed punk.
Leela: My whole life I've been mad at him, and it wasn't his fault.
Leela Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Professor · Bender: To the end of the universe! That's basically what I do every day.
Fry · Bender · Professor: To the end of the universe!
Professor: Who knows. Probably some hogwash about the human spirit.
Professor Deadpan/Understatement Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Bender: Yeah, yeah, I can take a hint.
Bender Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fry Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fry: It's okay. They're not going anywhere.
Fry Irony/Sarcasm Misdirection ★ Rewatch Fry: It was coming right at us! You saw it. I'm gonna grab another beer.
Fry Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Hitler: Betrachten sie meinen schnurrbart!
Fry: Darn! I hit Eleanor Roosevelt by mistake.
Fry Dark/Subversive Absurdist Professor: This new universe is about ten feet lower than our old one.
Professor Absurdist Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Fry: That was the old Fry. He's dead now.
Fry Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Leela: That's okay. I don't really like cards. What I'll remember is our time together.
Leela Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch