Bender joins the paparazzi and attempts to photograph a famous actor whose face has never been seen.
WAR
25.5
Wins Above Replacement
“The Thief Of Baghead” ranks #162 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 69.6 — Mixed. The episode packs 69 scored jokes at 3.8 per minute, averaging 6.5 on craft and 6.3 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: Your eyes are digital cameras.
Bender: Eh. Contrast's a little off on this one.
Bender Character Comedy Escalation Callback Bender: Twilight zone one-minute-in-the-future lens? Ooh, Calculon's going to be here.
Bender Absurdist Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Calculon: I'm a celebrity. I can kill anyone I want!
Bender: My great photo only made his ego bigger.
All Jokes — 69 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Calculon: It seems someone in this room... Is a murderer! It's me.
Bender: Calculon really shatnered the hell out of that scene.
Bender Wordplay/Pun Observational Fry: Aquariums have really changed since I was a boy and no one ever took me to them.
Fry Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Fry: so there's nothing for kids to smear yogurt on. I like strawberry yogurt.
Fry Character Comedy Absurdist Fry · Professor: Can I touch the water? I wouldn't, but I'm smart.
Sea creature/narrator: Welcome... To Jurassic tank.
Bender: Let me just extend the old third leg.
Bender Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Bender: Ooh, yeah. That's stable, baby.
Bender: Twilight zone one-minute-in-the-future lens? Ooh, Calculon's going to be here.
Bender Absurdist Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Fry: Film? Who uses film? We've had digital cameras for a thousand years.
Fry Observational Irony/Sarcasm Bender: Your eyes are digital cameras.
Bender: You're looking at the last chemical darkroom in existence.
Bender Absurdist Character Comedy Bender: Yo, Calky! I'm a big fan, and I've got a big camera.
Bender Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Bender: Try one where you're pretending to swing a tennis racquet.
Bender Character Comedy Observational Aquarium guide: These rare and fascinating deep-sea fish are extremely sensitive to light
Bender: Come on, smile! Quit blinking! Red eye! Blurry! Lens cap's still on!
Bender Escalation Physical/Slapstick Calculon: At last, we can enjoy our studio-mandated quality time.
Calculon Observational Meta/Self-Referential Bender: Man, I've never had anyone try so hard to digest me.
Bender Character Comedy Observational Amy · Hermes: These pictures are just as good as the ones in my celebrity tabloid. Us people magazine?
Bender: Well, I changed my mind and came to Hollywood after all.
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Callback Editor Deadpan/Understatement Observational Bender: Hmm, I don't know. How much will it cost me?
Bender: Sir, you just hired yourself a new whatsa-whatzo.
Bender Callback Character Comedy Callback Bender: I want you all to know that I'm already better than you. Stay out of my way!
Bender Character Comedy Escalation Leela: No, not that scene-chewing ham. I said the greatest actor... Langdon Cobb.
Leela Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Zoidberg: Let's rewind, shall we? Let's rewind again.
Narrator: He's raked in seven academy awards for best actor and one for best actress
Langdon Cobb: For Rigel 7... And all mankind!
Langdon Cobb · Daisy: No, Daisy, don't! I tried to warn you. I'm hideous. To me, you're beautiful.
Bender: One 60-foot ladder, please.
Bender Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Bender: What are you, some kind of attack fungus? Or just a moldy schnauzer?
Bender Character Comedy Observational Bender: Oh, God, please let this tacky Hollywood mansion have the obligatory... Yes! Tuscan-inspired pergola!
Bender: Peace out, Portobello.
Bender Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Bender: I swear on my honor as a paparazzo.
Bender Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Bender · Fry: Hey, Fry, want to see a picture? Sure.
Fry: Visual gag: Character looks at photo and immediately deflates like a balloon
Fry Visual Gag Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Bender: But... it could just be a coincidence.
Bender Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Bender: I'd feel more comfortable raising the alarm if I were a little more certain.
Bender Character Comedy Escalation Zoidberg: Now, this I want to see as clearly as possible.
Professor · Leela: Just like the noble buffalo. Nothing like a buffalo.
Professor: Souls? Don't be ridiculous. It's their life forces that have been stolen. It's scientific.
Professor: He has no soul. Life force!
Bender: If we poke a hole in Cobb's bag, will they spew out like a volcano built on an Indian graveyard?
Calculon: Lo, the worm has turned.
Bender: That's Romeo and Juliet, dummy, by Will.I.Am Shakespeare.
Calculon: Food coloring? The most poisonous substance known to robots?
Fry: I'll swap it out for harmless battery acid.
Fry Irony/Sarcasm Absurdist Calculon: I'm a celebrity. I can kill anyone I want!
Bender: I always come in stinky.
Bender: I always come in stinky.
Amy: Whoof! I beg to differ.
Amy Reaction Beat Observational Professor: It's going totally Kanye!
Professor: Ah! There's a humungous fungus among us.
Calculon: That's right, I said it. I said it!
Calculon: At least he died knowing I was great.
Professor: It just has to warm up for about 15 minutes.
Amy: That ego must be at least four feet tall by now.
Amy Observational Visual Gag Langdon Cobb: Aw, did you miss me, pookie?
Bender: And everybody knows, once you delete a photo, it's gone forever.
Bender Irony/Sarcasm Observational Bender: Maybe a digital photo, but with film, I still have the negative.
Bender Setup/Punchline Observational ★ Rewatch Callback Bender: Eh. Contrast's a little off on this one.
Bender Character Comedy Escalation Callback Langdon Cobb: The process.
Leela: If we do, will you stop talking about the process?
Leela Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy Callback Amy: Oh, God, just kill us already!
Amy Reaction Beat Escalation Bender: start squirting out some soul-a-rrhea.
Langdon Cobb: The contrast is exquisite. And the composition... Sublime.
Bender: My great photo only made his ego bigger.
Bender: You'll never be able to pay me back.
Bender Character Comedy Escalation Bender · Everyone: Say: 'Bender is great.' Bender is great!