An ancient prophecy predicts the world will end in the year 3012.
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“A Farewell To Arms” ranks #125 of 137 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 71.5 — Solid. The episode packs 78 scored jokes at 4.8 per minute, averaging 6.5 on craft and 6.1 on impact, with Fry landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Leela: I mean, you failed, miserably, but you're the only person who loves me enough to try.
Leela Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Leela: Hmm, I've never flown a pyramid before, but I used to drive around town in a mausoleum. How many people can this thing carry? Well, the mausoleum held ten horny teenagers, so... maybe 30,000.
Leela Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch choose-matron: Male, medical doctor, delicious with butter and lemon. Accepted!
Bender: The world? That's where I live! Told you it'd say something about me.
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Fry · Bender: Bender! You're stealing your own stuff! I am? Geez, I better slow down. I'm stealing stuff I don't even need. - You want a Torah? - Nah, I'm not hungry.
Standout Moments
Leela: Hmm, I've never flown a pyramid before, but I used to drive around town in a mausoleum. How many people can this thing carry? Well, the mausoleum held ten horny teenagers, so... maybe 30,000.
Leela Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch choose-matron: Male, medical doctor, delicious with butter and lemon. Accepted!
Leela: I mean, you failed, miserably, but you're the only person who loves me enough to try.
Leela Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 78 analyzed
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Fry: Lot of weather we're having. Allow me, m'lady.
Fry Character Comedy Observational Fry: Shall we go a-trousering?
Fry Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fry: You're right. I'm sorry for showing my love.
Fry Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Fry: My pants! My lucky pants!
Fry Character Comedy Escalation Leela: They don't look so lucky to me.
Leela Deadpan/Understatement Fry: I was wearing them that time I found a dime in my ear. I was wearing them when I won a subscription to Redbook. And I was wearing them when I first met Leela
Fry Escalation Character Comedy Leela: You've worn the same pants for a thousand years? No wonder they made a run for it.
Leela Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Fry: I'm gonna blast that balloon! No way will I let God get my pants!
Fry Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fry: Nobody messes with my pants! Not even the holy one, blessed be he.
Fry Absurdist Character Comedy unknown_character: Look out! A Central Park badger!
Fry: I'll save you, pants!
Fry Character Comedy Absurdist Callback Scruffy: What viscosity you need?
Scruffy Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Scruffy: Also, this grease is flammable.
Scruffy Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Leela: No, this isn't Mutant language. We use a lot more profanity. Son of a bitch...!
Leela Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Leela: The one time your hands aren't sticky, they're greasy!
Leela Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Fry: Oh, sorry. Normally I would've wiped them on my pants, but...
Fry Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Fry: We made a rope from my shirt and jacket and an expedition flag from my underpants.
Fry Escalation Character Comedy Leela: Stop telling me to take your hand. Look, Fry, your noble gestures keep making things worse. Can't you just be a rude, unhelpful jerk like Bender?
Leela Character Comedy Running Gag Bender: When I use up the toilet paper, I don't put on a new roll.
Bender Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Fry: All right! Lucky pants!
Fry Callback Character Comedy Callback Bender: What badger could've built this?
Bender Absurdist Callback Callback unknown_character: Ancient history coming through!
Professor: predating even the 'Girls of Sumeria.'
Professor: No, wait. There's some dried-up old stew on the screen.
Scruffy: Sorry. I was eatin' a can of breakfast and lookin' at porn.
Scruffy Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Amy · Bender: I think it means... 'The sun will erupt... all shall perish,' blah-blah-blah. Get to the point! What does it say about me, Bender?
Bender: The world? That's where I live! Told you it'd say something about me.
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Professor: Because that's the year that's this year! See?
Professor Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Fry: Is it just me, or is the world ending more often these days?
Fry Observational Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch unknown_character: Coward Man away!
Dr. Zoidberg: Some of us were crazy before it was cool.
Nixon: It's not starting. Come ons, comes on!
Nixon Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Agnew: Damn thing just won't turn over. It's like Pat on a Sunday morning.
Agnew Character Comedy Observational Leela: Well, it wasn't a bad life. If only I could get back that time I spent watching TRON: Legacy.
Leela Observational Character Comedy Fry: Before we die, I'm gonna find and destroy every remaining copy of TRON: Legacy. It may take a couple of hours, but...
Fry Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Fry: So... you wanna join the Balcony Club?
Fry Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Leela: The Balcony Club? I have an individual membership.
Leela Setup/Punchline Wordplay/Pun Leela · Dr. Zoidberg: Zoidberg, get lost. - I am lost. So long.
Amy: Stop the end-of-the-world sex. We might survive after all.
Amy Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Professor: All right, Amy, what's so important that you interrupted my embalming?
Amy · Bender: That underground pyramid isn't a pyramid... it's a rocket ship! It was worth waiting five hours to hear you finish that sentence.
Professor: They had their chance. Let's go!
Zapp: The obvious destination is Mars. It's close, with lots of open space and no Woodward or Bernstein.
Zapp Character Comedy Observational Professor: Who shall live and who shall die? Step right up to the contrabulous choose-matron!
Professor Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch choose-matron: Female, crotchety. Needed to keep others in their place. Accepted!
choose-matron: We just got one of these. Rejected!
choose-matron · Amy · unknown_scientist: Female, scientist. We were in the same sorority. Accepted! - Sigma Beta, see you latah! - Sigma Beta, see you latah!
Scruffy: Mayhem?! There's gonna be mayhem? I'm stayin'! Hoo-ee!
Scruffy Character Comedy Reaction Beat choose-matron: Delivery boy, no discernible skills. Accepted! 'Cause I like his pants.
choose-matron: Top gun pilot, natural leader, extreme combat training. Rejected! With all spaceships inoperable, we only need one spaceship pilot.
choose-matron: Male, filthy hand, violent temper. Accepted again!
Leela: I wish I could remember with my boobs.
Leela Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Bender: A magician never reveals his secrets. Except the Great Revealo. That guy stinks.
Bender Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Bender: Wait, Fry? I'm a lot of people, but I'm not Fry.
Bender Character Comedy Misdirection Leo Wong · Amy: Admission, $20. - Dad! Gleesh.
Fry · Bender: Bender! You're stealing your own stuff! I am? Geez, I better slow down. I'm stealing stuff I don't even need. - You want a Torah? - Nah, I'm not hungry.
Fry: No. 'Cause as long as Leela lives, I'll be alive, too, in her heart. But really I'll be dead.
Fry Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Leo Wong: I give you... Dickfrancisco!
Great Revealo: The doves didn't magically spring from my hand, but rather were crammed into this netting sewn into my sleeve!
Leo Wong: And now, as a solemn testicle to those left behind on Earth
Leela: That frightened little girl in the statue reminds me of Fry.
Leela Character Comedy Observational Nixon: Who is this non-Washington redskin?
Nixon Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Singing Wind: Not your world. Our world. We put calendar there to warn you not to visit Mars. It Mars that gonna be destroyed.
Singing Wind: Why you think we so eager to abandon this dump?
Amy: Hey, Ancient Martian's a very hard language. A........ looks just like a .........
Amy Character Comedy Visual Gag Bender: Oh, what an idiot I was. And by 'I', I mean 'you.'
Bender Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Leela: I should've known better than to trust one of Fry's romantic gestures. Every time he says he loves me, I get killed.
Leela Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Fry: Oh no! The Kajigger of Gibraltar!
Bender: I have got to quit drinking.
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Amy · Fry: Wait! Help! I'm still on Mars, and I can't jump! Hang on, Leela! I'll save you again! Or somebody else could do it!
Amy Fry Character Comedy Escalation Fry: No, we're not. Grab your severed arm with your other arm.
Fry Absurdist Physical/Slapstick Fry · Scruffy: Good thing Scruffy rescued Leela. Don't thank me, thank the ladder.
Professor: But for right now, enjoy the sounds of the world's smallest violin.
Leela: I can't be mad. I'm on way too many painkillers.
Leela Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement 