Bender fathers a child with the office soda machine.
WAR
57.7
Wins Above Replacement
“The Bots And The Bees” ranks #46 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 80.8 — Elite. The episode packs 74 scored jokes at 4.5 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.6 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: Call me old-fashioned, but I like a little romance in an orgy.
Bender Dark/Subversive Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Bender: No. She was a religious fundamentalist. Plus she didn't have a mouth. It's an unusual combination.
Bender Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender: Damn it, I love that little guy so much! I'd sacrifice any four of you if it would help him bend even a little!
Bender Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Ben Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Bender: That doesn't prove I'm an unfit parent! I was drunk and violent when I signed that!
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 74 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Professor: Repeat: What I just said, immediately!
Fry: Sorry, Randy. Step away from the car and no one gets hurt! Ow! To the employment cave!
Fry Absurdist Physical/Slapstick Bender: Whoa, whoa, there, girl. Go on now! Get on back to Paraguay!
Bender Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Amy · Leela: We're being eaten by a giant spider! There's no time for that! The Professor needs us!
Fry: What is it?! I'm on the edge of my butt!
Fry Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fry: You undersold it, Professor! Look, it has Slurm Loco! It's the extremiest!
Fry Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bev · Bender: Hey, what can I get y'all? Wow, you can talk? Shut up and give me a Slurm Loco.
Bev Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Bev: Y'all can't drink at work! This ain't a sawmill!
Bev Observational Absurdist ★ Rewatch Bev: I call myself 'Bev.' And if you're looking for a smelly old can of booze, go look in the mirror.
Fry: And one more to wash that Slurm taste out of my mouth.
Fry Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fry · Bender: So I went to the bathroom and my pee was green. Pretty neat, huh? I was wondering who Shrekked in the toilet.
Bev: Cut me some slack, preacher. I'm just a coal grinder's daughter trying to stay off the pole.
Bev Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Bender: With that big ol' caboose, it'd have to be a telephone pole!
Bev · Bender: Well, I guess a fella's gotta talk big when he's sportin' a little shriveled-up antenna like that. What?! For your information, 'madam,' it's a grower, not a show-er!
Bev Bender Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Bender: My antenna's fine. It's just fine. Ladies can't get enough Bender.
Bender Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Bender: Call me old-fashioned, but I like a little romance in an orgy.
Bender Dark/Subversive Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Fry: Just sitting here turning quarters into urine.
Fry Observational Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Robot prostitutes: We don't gotta put up with this. We got Poli Sci degrees.
Robot prostitute: Hot. I could bake a potato in my cleavage.
Robot prostitute: Trashy? At least I don't put out for quarters.
Bender: All right, I've been waiting all day for an excuse to hit a lady.
Bender Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Bev: Ooh, I'm so scared, No-Arms.
Bev Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender: Uh, Fry? You're glowing like the Human Torch on prom night.
Leela: Shouldn't you be standing on a rocky coast somewhere preventing shipwrecks?
Leela Observational ★ Rewatch Fry: Nice, hate me because of the brightness of my skin.
Fry Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Fry: You okay, ma'am? I think your soda water broke.
Fry Wordplay/Pun Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Fry: My God! Bev just had a baby in my cup!
Fry Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Amy: Aw, he's so cute. Wait. No, he isn't.
Amy Setup/Punchline Deadpan/Understatement Bender: Oh, no, no, no. No way am I that kid's Dad!
Bender Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Ben · Bender: Wipe my tiny metal ass! Aw, crap.
Bender Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement Amy Cringe/Discomfort Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Bender: Are you telling me the stuff we did in private, and also twice on the sidewalk, made a baby robot? How?!
Bender Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Bender: No. She was a religious fundamentalist. Plus she didn't have a mouth. It's an unusual combination.
Bender Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Crew · Professor: We don't know either. Then prepare to be embarrassed.
Narrator: Sex Ed, Volume One, or... Pants Full of Shame!
Bender · Narrator: Hey, he looks like me! His hideous appearance is a by-product of his hardware gearing up for an important mission: reproduction.
Narrator: The best he can do is Francine.
Narrator: It's all perfectly natural. Let's watch, aroused, as Gerald's antenna uploads a binary file to Francine's internal drive.
Narrator: Except masturbation. That's just wrong.
Leela · Bender: Bev will get custody, and you'll be a deadbeat Dad who never even bothers to know his own son. You really think so? I know so. You're absolutely horrible in every way.
Bender: You're sweet, Leela.
Bender Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender · Notary: So here's my certificate of abandonment drawn up by our notary! That'll be ten bucks.
Bev: Damn baby's drivin' me crazy! He won't stop giggling no matter how much I scream at him!
Bev Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bev: I still got womanly needs! Who's gonna look twice at me with this dirty leech hangin' off my dairy nozzle?
Bev Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Ben: Bend some other stuff! Ben'! Ben'!
Ben Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Bender: I'm gonna call him Ben... after the first half of me... Bender.
Ben: You bended it like a 'petzel.'
Ben Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Bender · Ben: Leela was wrong! Leela was wrong!
Bender Ben Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Ben: But my mommy had no arms! Does that mean I can never be a bender?
Ben Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Robot Doctor: I hate to crush a boy's dreams, but what the heck.
Bender · Robot Doctor: Don't tell my son what he can and can't do! You may know what's in his head, but you don't know what's in his heart! There's no slot in there either. I said shut up!
Ben: I'd like to thank the Preacherbot for the introduction and also for not circumcising me again, am I right? Twice was enough.
Ben Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender: I could take him or leave him.
Bender Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Bev · Fry: I've come to take him and leave with him! She beat you to both things.
Bev Fry Wordplay/Pun Observational Bev · Bender: Oh, yeah? Well, I'm still less unfitter than you. Says who?! Says this document you gave me when you tried to abandon Ben first!
Bev Bender Callback Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Bender: That doesn't prove I'm an unfit parent! I was drunk and violent when I signed that!
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Professor: That's it, Fry! For a guy who's not too bright, you're too damn bright! Now, get out! And don't come back until someone finds a use for a million-watt idiot!
Professor Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender: That's it, Fry! For a guy who's not too bright, you're too damn bright! Now, get out! And don't come back until someone finds a use for a million-watt idiot!
Ben · Bev: Mom, will I ever get to see Dad again? No, he died yesterday. Rust monsters ate his face. Sweet dreams!
Ben Bev Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender: Only a fool plans more than a few centuries ahead, son.
Bender Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Police Officer: You're under arrest for kidnapping and burning raccoons without a permit!
Bender · Ben: There's a dam! Damn! There's a grate! Great!
Ben: Yeah, this ain't gonna happen.
Ben Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Ben: Is that even necessary?
Ben Observational Reaction Beat Leela: I'm amazed someone who dispenses such warm soda, could be so coldhearted!
Leela Wordplay/Pun Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Fry: I'm gonna buy a drink just so I can throw it in your face!
Leela · Bev: You got knocked up by a police officer while he was looking for your kidnapped child? Sure did! I still got it.
Leela Bev Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender: Damn it, I love that little guy so much! I'd sacrifice any four of you if it would help him bend even a little!
Bender Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Robot Doctor: He'd be able to bend, but he'd lose all his memories. He wouldn't even remember who you are.
Bender: No! I said with the mouth you're looking at.
Bender Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Ben Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Ben Character Comedy ★ Rewatch