The crew stages a casino heist to recover stolen property from the Robot Mafia.
WAR
23.1
Wins Above Replacement
“Viva Mars Vegas” ranks #122 of 137 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 72.1 — Solid. The episode packs 55 scored jokes at 3.4 per minute, averaging 6.5 on craft and 6.3 on impact, with Zoidberg landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Zoidberg: This is why you never see a poor person with millions of dollars
Zoidberg Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Zoidberg · Professor: You mean I'm invisible? No, no, no. Not in any sense of the word. But essentially, yes, entirely.
Robot mafia: He can't be lying', boss, not after a krantzing like that.
Bender: This much money could feed a small, starving planet. But it doesn't!
Bender Dark/Subversive Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Professor: Nobody said that.
Professor Deadpan/Understatement Dark/Subversive Standout Moments
Zoidberg: This is why you never see a poor person with millions of dollars
Zoidberg Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Robot mafia: He can't be lying', boss, not after a krantzing like that.
Zoidberg · Professor: You mean I'm invisible? No, no, no. Not in any sense of the word. But essentially, yes, entirely.
All Jokes — 55 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Zoidberg: That's a lot of deniros. Oh, this 'a Berry Berry bad!
Zoidberg Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Zoidberg: Look out, penny slots. I've got a system. It's to put all my money in you.
Zoidberg: What? It's full of fat guys in sandals.
Zoidberg: Oh, yes, better. A lonely weekend in my dumpster with a jar of pennies and tears.
Zoidberg Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Robot Mafia: You mean the one in that alley off 72nd street? Yeah. What do you think I'm pointing at?
Zoidberg: God, it's Zoidberg. I hate to bother you, but... Okay, okay, I'll shut up!
Wong: This very lucky casino own. Someone wins one million dollar every hour! Usually it us.
Wong Setup/Punchline Irony/Sarcasm Amy · Wong: Well, they do work for minimum wage in a land that was once theirs. Yeah, but they never made wise use of the land.
Amy Wong Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Wong: When my ancestor Reginald wong found them here, they had no bingo parlors and only one prostitute.
Wong Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Amy Reaction Beat Character Comedy Wong: Ooh, perfect timing! It's the weekly changing of the shrimp!
Wong: It's Mars' happiest place on earth!
Wong Wordplay/Pun Absurdist Bender: This much money could feed a small, starving planet. But it doesn't!
Bender Dark/Subversive Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Wong: Don't mess with blind Joe. Nothing get past his sense of smell. Yeah, that's why he in here. Guarding galaxy's most secure safe.
Wong Absurdist Character Comedy Casino announcer: Category-five sucker now arriving.
Casino singer: ♪ the minute you walked in the joint, I could smell you were a man who was stinkin' ♪
Zoidberg: It's my eight million dollars. God gave it to me.
Professor: Oh, come now! God didn't get to be God by giving away money.
Professor Observational Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Casino worker: I think that's about eight.
Amy · Zoidberg: Zoidberg, what are you doing?! I don't know. I think it's called roulette.
Zoidberg: Vodka with a sardine in it, please. In fact, vodka with a sardine all around!
Zoidberg: No! I'm having fun and a sardini!
Zoidberg Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Callback Professor: Now that's the God I know.
Professor Setup/Punchline Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Zoidberg: But for one brief moment, I made everybody on Mars happy. And if you ask me, that makes me a winner.
Zoidberg Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Casino announcer: Category-five loser now departing.
Clamps: This Judith Krantz novel's only missing its frontispiece.
Clamps Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Robot mafia: We should have brought a gun.
Amy: Oh, my God! Amy's mirror got a tattoo!
Professor: Oh, Hermes, you and your preposterous Sci-Fi nonsense. No, this is simply a translucidating ink polarizer.
Professor Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Professor: Nobody said that.
Professor Deadpan/Understatement Dark/Subversive Hermes: Hide a giant lobster covered in ink? And how do you propose we do that?
Hermes Setup/Punchline Visual Gag Robot mafia: It's no use, Zoidberg. We're, like, 85% sure you're in there!
Robot mafia: Come on, clamps, let's go, and watch out... there's some sort of smelly air pocket over here.
Donbot · Clamps: What are you, an idiot? Pretty much, yeah.
Donbot · Wong: Your casino... give it to us. Okay, fine, I just retire to my fabulous mansion.
Amy Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Wong: It's not a dump. It's the company housing we built for our employees.
Wong Dark/Subversive Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Zoidberg: You can't afford tissue any more. This is Walgreens brand nose paper.
Zoidberg: No, you snuck in here while I was grabbing a bubble cake.
Zoidberg: Of course, because no one can possibly know what I'm up to.
Amy · Professor: Um, how come we've never been in this room before? I think this chart will answer that.
Professor: Not if Zoidberg eats the money. Everything he swallows turns invisible.
Hermes: He stinks like the inside of a tauntaun.
Bender: Whoa-ho! Don't shut that door, partner. I'm a cr-razy Texas robot millionaire, and I plan on losing billions in your 'casiny.'
Bender Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Hermes: Hello! I'm prime minister Nelson Okeke of Nigeria. I trust you received my spam e-mail?
Professor: Uh, I said 'aseeka kanamoo atall.' It means, uh, 'we must leave now in an unusual manner.'
Casino patron: Look! The shrimp cart's paying out!
Blind Joe: Smell with your eyes what I see with my nose.
Blind Joe Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Donbot: And let this be a lesson to any other albino lobsters thinking of robbing our casino
Donbot Absurdist Setup/Punchline Donbot: This casino is wrongfully ours.
Donbot Wordplay/Pun Setup/Punchline 