After saving a robotic fox from hunters, Bender becomes the hunted.
WAR
37.2
Wins Above Replacement
“31St Century Fox” ranks #91 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 77.5 — Great. The episode packs 49 scored jokes at 3.2 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.6 on impact, with Mrs. Astor landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Leela: and the blood of your first-born children. That's so we have something to give up in the negotiations.
Leela Misdirection Observational ★ Rewatch Fry: Uh... hug. Handshake. I'll text you.
Fry Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Bender: I trust the orgy pit has been scraped and buttered?
Bender Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Professor Farnsworth: I can eat a hot dog underwater.
Mrs. Astor: the land liner struck a mailbox and went down
All Jokes — 49 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Bender: One hundred! That's almost ten per year.
Bender Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender: I'm ordering a hundred kegs, a hundred hookers and a hundred Elvis impersonators who aren't above a little hooking, should the occasion arise.
Elzar: she prefers it in soufflé form
Elzar Absurdist Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Elzar Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Fry: Wow, it's ricketier than it looks.
Fry Observational Visual Gag Hobbsy: I shall inform Mrs. Astor that the circus is in town.
Hobbsy Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Mrs. Astor: Where's the exploding? One does not explode in Mrs. Astor's face.
Professor Farnsworth: Yes, I have. And I'm his uncle.
Professor Farnsworth: I can eat a hot dog underwater.
Bender Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Mrs. Astor: the land liner struck a mailbox and went down
Amy: Mutants? That's the kind of thing you are.
Amy Character Comedy Observational Leela · Amy: Ooh! Shut up.
Narrator: At brown university, the nation's premiere institution of lower learning.
Narrator Wordplay/Pun Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Narrator: Not in person, thank God.
Narrator Dark/Subversive Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Mrs. Astor: Really? It's also about keeping those filthy things busy.
Mrs. Astor Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Mrs. Astor: My great uncle once saw a rat.
Mrs. Astor: I might say it with my evening boot.
Mrs. Astor: Well! Rarely have I never!
Mrs. Astor: You may have eluded the authorities, but don't nothing get past Mrs. Astor.
Leela's father: this hellhole feels more like a nice, regular hole.
Leela's father: sewer coffee, sewer cake and safeway ice cream
Hermes: You did ruin her life. / I am right.
Hermes Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Mayor · Hermes: Wait. You knowingly attempted to harbor a mutant?! / We did harbor a mutant!
Mutant worker: Well, they're with the chuds now.
Leela: You'll grow a camel hump or a Zoidberg face.
Leela Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Fry: Um, I would, but I j... I ate a bunch of potato salad, so...
Fry Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Leela: You are all surface.
Leela Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender: I trust the orgy pit has been scraped and buttered?
Bender Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Zoidberg: the biggest and onlyest land boat ever constructed
Zoidberg Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Zoidberg: Hand me some more of that cruise director.
Zoidberg Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Amy: It's jewelry... jewelry. It's jewelry, people!
Amy Character Comedy Escalation Fry: Did you guys know I have a crush on Leela?
Fry Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Leela's mother: Have some more of what looks like lemonade.
Professor Farnsworth: this is the dangest wang I ever doodled
Bender: I said scram, Grapey!
Bender Character Comedy Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Fry: I tried to scream, but I barfed.
Fry Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Fry: Uh... hug. Handshake. I'll text you.
Fry Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Mutant: We can do that, too...
Mutant Reaction Beat Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Crowd · Devo member: Play 'Whip it!' No. Play the other one.
Fry: But who could possibly bend such a huge pipe?
Fry Setup/Punchline Irony/Sarcasm Bender: What goes down must back up.
Bender Wordplay/Pun Setup/Punchline Random citizen: I picked the wrong day to wear my new crocses.
Leela: and the blood of your first-born children. That's so we have something to give up in the negotiations.
Leela Misdirection Observational ★ Rewatch Mrs. Astor: Ah, so what? I have a chandelier in my car made of those.
Daughter: My mother's nuts.
Daughter Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender: Are we not men now? I'm 40% potato, but close enough.
Bender Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Dr. Zoidberg: Hooray! A happy ending for the rich people!
Leela's father: Was there a fire?