The theory of evolution is put to the test on a planet inhabited by robots.
WAR
33.6
Wins Above Replacement
“A Clockwork Origin” ranks #99 of 137 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 74.9 — Great. The episode packs 59 scored jokes at 3.6 per minute, averaging 6.7 on craft and 6.5 on impact, with Professor Farnsworth landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Bender · Professor Farnsworth: Yes, it's completely crazy, and that is why you must find him not guilty by reason of insanity! Objection. I'm not crazy. I created you all, and I came here in a homemade spaceship and lived in a cave.
Zoidberg: Cubert, I felt we needed some father-son bonding time, so I found a couple of baseball gloves and boiled them up for lunch.
Bender: Hey, Professor, I'm a flying spaghetti monster. You seriously believe I'm descended from some kind of flightless manicotti?
Bender Wordplay/Pun Absurdist ★ Rewatch Dr. Widnar: I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
Fry · Leela: My tux doesn't fit. Probably because I've grown so much since I last wore it. Or evolved, one might say. One might not say that. Your tux doesn't fit because you stole it from a boy. You mean a man. It was his Bar Mitzvah.
Standout Moments
Bender: Hey, Professor, I'm a flying spaghetti monster. You seriously believe I'm descended from some kind of flightless manicotti?
Bender Wordplay/Pun Absurdist ★ Rewatch Zoidberg: Cubert, I felt we needed some father-son bonding time, so I found a couple of baseball gloves and boiled them up for lunch.
Bender · Professor Farnsworth: Yes, it's completely crazy, and that is why you must find him not guilty by reason of insanity! Objection. I'm not crazy. I created you all, and I came here in a homemade spaceship and lived in a cave.
All Jokes — 59 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Professor Farnsworth: Cubert, you crapscallion!
Professor Farnsworth · Other character: To the Science Mobile. You mean the ship? Yes. The Science Mobile. It's just that you've never called it that before, but okay.
Protestor: I don't understand evolution, and I have to protect my kids from understanding it! We will not give in to the thinkers!
Professor Farnsworth: You people are as loud as you are ignorant. Now get back on your turnip trucks and go home!
Protestor: That is an insultingly accurate stereotype, sir!
Dr. Banjo: I cannot speak for you, sir, but my ancestors were not monkeys. They were orangutans. Hard-working, patriotic orangutans.
Dr. Banjo: I remind you that evolution is merely a theory, like gravity, or the shape of the Earth.
Dr. Banjo · Professor Farnsworth: Extended missing link argument sequence ending with 'Oh-ho! I've got you now.'
Dr. Banjo: Things don't exist simply because you believe in them. Thus sayeth the Almighty Creature in the Sky!
Professor Farnsworth: I'll show that banana-swilling poop-slinger!
Amy · Professor Farnsworth: I found a missing link. It seems to be half man, half toucan. Not what we're looking for. Throw it in the soup!
Hermes · Amy: Uh-oh. It's another one of Fry's dogs. You find something, Hermes? Uh... no.
Hermes Amy Callback Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Callback Amy · Professor Farnsworth: Oh, darn it! I broke off one of my of fingers! Look, Cubert. The neck on this one. I bet he spent a fortune on ties!
Professor Farnsworth · Amy: What, too soon? I highly doubt a Jurassic elaphrosaurid had access to neckwear.
Professor Farnsworth: I knew I should have gone with the ring-around-the-collar joke.
Bender · Professor Farnsworth: Hey, look! I found a robot fossil! That's a bedspring, you dumb bedspring!
Professor Farnsworth: I've hit a rich vein of missing links. Java Man, Piltdown Man, Manfred Mann.
Professor Farnsworth: What the...? Oh, that's mine.
Fry · Leela: My tux doesn't fit. Probably because I've grown so much since I last wore it. Or evolved, one might say. One might not say that. Your tux doesn't fit because you stole it from a boy. You mean a man. It was his Bar Mitzvah.
Museum Director: Welcome, museum members. Or as I like to call you, future exhibits.
Professor Farnsworth: I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
Leela · Professor Farnsworth: Professor, is this your only water source? It looks like Diet Dr. Pepper. It's not that bad. It's just laden with toxic minerals.
Fry: Speaking of nasty irritants, what's gonna become of Cubert?
Fry Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Zoidberg · Cubert: Wait! We still have to discuss the facts of life. What are they?!
Professor Farnsworth: Ah, the water's as sterile as my milkman-trusting father.
Professor Farnsworth: Those robots evolved all by themselves, you say? It wasn't by themselves. I put them there. I'm a genius. Get over it.
Fry: Oh, no! My sunglasses were in there!
Fry Character Comedy Misdirection Character unclear: Look, there's a cave-like hole in that mountain. It might be a cave.
Multiple characters: Pineapple?! Ugh! Oh, man! Oh! So much for that.
Zoidberg · Cubert: I remembered you liked superheroes, so I painted you a mural on your wall. This is Father-Man. He fights crime to earn Son-Boy's respect. Is it working? This is sucky! You suck! Who taught you to do three-point perspective? I could make a better mural with my butt!
Zoidberg: Father-Man away.
Zoidberg Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Bender: One thing about Bristol-Myers-Squibb... they know how to cook a steak. Hey, look at me. I'm the Tidy Bowl Man. I own a yacht, and everybody poops on me!
Professor Farnsworth: Great Scott, a tricycle-tops.
Cubert: I'm sorry for treating you like a total Zoidberg... I mean, loser.
Cubert Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Bully: Why don't you ask your mom? She's coming over for a sex visit.
Bully Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Zoidberg: Don't worry, I know how to handle bullies. Just pretend like you're pathetic. Help, I'm scared! I wet myself. I'm crying like a baby and I'm soaking in pee, but what else is new?
Cubert: Whoa! You're like some kind of Dumpster Jedi.
Cubert Wordplay/Pun Observational Bender: If this is anything like killing that pigeon on my balcony, we've got our work cut out for us.
Bender Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Bender · Professor Farnsworth: What the shmell happened? A mass extinction. That solar flare created a huge electromagnetic pulse that, while harmless to organic life, short-circuited the robo-dinosaurs. Convenient.
Bender: Sweet robot swan of Botswana.
Bender Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Leela · Amy: I think they want wives, so just play along. If it doesn't work out, we'll still get half their rocks. I can earn my own rocks. Also, I don't want any rocks.
Amy: I'm going to miss Spencer.
Amy Character Comedy Observational Bender · Dr. Widnar: Nice net. What, you... you can speak? Dread my locks.
Museum Director: I now present my latest discovery... the amazing non-mechanical man, Homo Farnsworth.
Professor Farnsworth: Thank you. I must say, I'm so proud to see what you've blossomed into since I first created your ancestors.
Dr. Widnar: I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
Dr. Widnar: I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
Professor Farnsworth: Could you drag me by the restroom?
Professor Farnsworth · Bender: Bender, what the hell are you doing? Shut up, I'm billing you by the hour.
Prosecutor · Judge: Objection. In the absence of pants, defense's suspenders serve no purpose. I'm going to allow them... for now.
Bender: I ask you, is that so crazy? Yes, it's completely crazy, and that is why you must find him not guilty by reason of insanity!
Bender Misdirection Setup/Punchline Professor Farnsworth: If you don't believe me, ask my uncle.
Prosecutor: Yeah, honey, I'll be home for dinner. The prosecution rests, Your Honor.
Judge · Jury: Has the jury reached a verdict? No, we have not, for we have evolved to a higher state of consciousness. In the grand scheme, all physical beings are but yokels.
Bender: That'll be $1P, 000.
Bender Character Comedy Visual Gag Zoidberg: Good, 'cause I'm sick of him. I'm serious. He's a terrible person.
