Bender and the crew are reimagined as wild animals in a nature documentary.
WAR
42.3
Wins Above Replacement
“Naturama” ranks #81 of 137 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 76.9 — Great. The episode packs 79 scored jokes at 4.8 per minute, averaging 6.7 on craft and 6.3 on impact, with Narrator landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Narrator: And so the endless circle of life comes to an end, meaningless and grim. Why did they live, and why did they die? No reason.
Narrator Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Salmon Hedonismbot: Whoa! Oh my! Oh dear! Oh yes!
Female Seal · Beachmaster: He's been dead since yesterday! / What?! He's dead?! / Whoo! I'm killin' dudes in my sleep!
Hubert · Finches: You haven't aged a day! Should we say something? Nah. Let him have his fun.
Beta male: We beta males deserve better. When we're in charge, we'll treat females with respect, keeping sensible harems of no more than five.
Standout Moments
Salmon Hedonismbot: Whoa! Oh my! Oh dear! Oh yes!
Narrator: And so the endless circle of life comes to an end, meaningless and grim. Why did they live, and why did they die? No reason.
Narrator Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Female Seal · Beachmaster: He's been dead since yesterday! / What?! He's dead?! / Whoo! I'm killin' dudes in my sleep!
All Jokes — 79 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Narrator: Mutual of omicron... insuring your world, and its destruction.
Narrator Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Fry Character Comedy Absurdist Fry · Other salmon: What's your name? I don't have a name. I'm a salmon.
Fry: I do look forward to cavorting in the spray.
Fry Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Various salmon: Let's all ten of us go together. There's safety in numbers.
Bird: I reckon my boy will be right pleased when I regurgitate that into his mouth.
Bird Cringe/Discomfort Dark/Subversive News Reporter: This just in. Three dead in foamy plunge.
Various salmon: Still, six out of ten alive. That's considered good for our species! Five out of ten, also nice.
Narrator: birthplace of all life. Except the salmon.
Narrator Deadpan/Understatement Observational Fry · Female salmon: I'd like to mate with you in a few years when we're sexually mature. I'd like that.
Various salmon: Coho, what have we here? I'm a pieces. And you? Also pieces. We're all pieces.
Rejected salmon: You haven't ignored the last of me...
Salmon · Other salmon: So how do we find our way home? Nobody knows!
Salmon: Okay, everybody do one of those three things.
Salmon: I can tell by the magnets in my head, or whatever.
Salmon Observational Deadpan/Understatement Salmon · Other salmon: Stupid body! Why won't you go to that other stream? Nobody knows!
Narrator: I just told you! Goodbye!
Narrator Meta/Self-Referential Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Fry: I need a mate who's within squirting distance. I'll never forget you... fish.
Fry Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Male salmon: Come on, loxy lady, it's time for us to get naughty by nature!
Salmon Wordplay/Pun Observational Salmon: Jumping is for suckers.
Salmon Irony/Sarcasm Physical/Slapstick Salmon · Bear: Oh, I'm good! Who wants a piece of me? / I'll try a bite!
Fry: Okay, who's next? There's a lot more where that came from!
Fry Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Fry: I refuse to release anything unless it's in the vicinity of the eggs of the fish I love!
Fry Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Dying salmon: Tell my offspring I loved me... Very much...
Male salmon: Oh, yeah. Plop those roundies.
Bender Bear: I am brrr, devourer of fish and honey!
Bender Bear: What? It's spawning season! It's a bear holiday!
Female Bear: That is what you said when you found those boy scouts! Next you'll be telling me I can't crap in the woods!
Fry: You overcame salmon instinct and left your home stream for me!
Fry Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Fry: And the best part is, it had a happy ending.
Fry Irony/Sarcasm Dark/Subversive Excited naturalist: Also the blue-footed booby! That's fairly interesting!
Lonesome George/Hubert: Sad news, everyone. I'm lonesome.
Finch: Would it? Would it? Would it?
Finch Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Narrator: Except for the parasite!
Hubert: A good beaking usually cheers me right up, but today it's no use.
Hubert Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Hubert: Hey, good lookin', I've got a lichen that needs a lickin'.
Hubert Wordplay/Pun Cringe/Discomfort Hubert: Ooh... talk about a cloaca shrinker.
Hubert Cringe/Discomfort Observational Finch · Hubert: It's only 100 feet! At my age, it might as well be 200 feet.
Hubert: Well, let me think it over.
Hubert Reaction Beat Character Comedy Marine Iguana: What brings yous to this part of the isleseses?
Hubert: Don't be such a Finch. We Galápagos tortoises have no natural predators.
Hubert Wordplay/Pun Observational Amy Finch: That's so fascinating!
Fry Finch: I'm not Fry. I'm his great-great grandson... Fry.
Fry Finch: It evolved a slightly bigger hook over the generations, to help me eat the cactus on this part of the island. Watch! I'm stuck!
Hubert · Finches: You haven't aged a day! Should we say something? Nah. Let him have his fun.
Live female tortoise: What the tropical hell are you doing?!
Female tortoise: I'll kill her! I'm going to crack that hussy open like a slutty Brazil nut!
Hubert: You always were a hot-blooded latina.
Hubert Irony/Sarcasm Observational Narrator: Like all reptiles, the Galápagos tortoise is cold-blooded.
Narrator Observational Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Callback Finches: Um, should we be watching this? It seems kind of personal. That's not an issue for us. We're wildlife.
Finches Observational Meta/Self-Referential Finches: Just pretend you're eating seeds. Is it weird if I talk about his crazy turtle penis? No.
Finch · Other Finch: Is it weird if I talk about his crazy turtle penis? / No.
Hubert: Oh, what do you want? I'm 150 years old.
Hubert Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Hubert · Female tortoise: Tortoises don't do that, do we? I sure as hell don't.
Narrator: 200 million years of evolution, snuffed out. For in the end, nature is horrific, and teaches us nothing.
Narrator Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Callback Narrator: the hilarious antics of the elephant seal, The clown of the sea.
Narrator: Certainly not the salmon. And the tortoise? Yeah, right.
Narrator Callback Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Beachmaster Bender: Aw, yeah! Survival of the fattest!
Beachmaster · Female seal: Form an orderly heap on top of me. I like mating with beachmaster 'cause he's the largest.
Female seal: I like mating with beachmaster 'cause he's the largest.
Beachmaster: Whoo! I'm doin' it in my sleep!
Old seal: Harem?! I can barely see 'em!
Insecure seal: Does this kelp scarf make me look fat enough?
Beachmaster · Lesser male: Bite my freshly molted, blubber-filled ass. I'm 40% ass!
Walrus: Once a lady goes walrus, she never... She ne... No one ever goes walrus.
Old Seal: Well, while the beachmaster was off behind a whale carcass, loudly fornicating with my beloved mother, I snuck past and surprised my sweetie with a romantic meal.
Zoidberg: So, welcome to the abyss. Road trip!
Penguin: Yeah, we can always make more. Come on, floozies, let's repopulate!
Penguin Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Sneaky male: I'm in love with you! And I don't care what he thinks. Also, who are you?
Female seal · Sneaky male: Wanna do it? So soon?! Oh, well...
Beachmaster: Well, nice try. Better luck next season. You gave it a shot! Pathetic.
Beta male: We beta males deserve better. When we're in charge, we'll treat females with respect, keeping sensible harems of no more than five.
Female seal · Beachmaster: Beachmaster, stop fighting! He's been dead since yesterday! What?! He's dead?! Whoo! I'm killin' dudes in my sleep!
Narrator: For a holographic brain injection of tonight's program, send five dollars to this station, care of me, the narrator.
