Leela and Amy become addicted to the performance enhancing drug known as "Nectar" to increase their chances of winning at the epic sport of Butterfly Derby.
WAR
62.4
Wins Above Replacement
“The Butterjunk Effect” ranks #16 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 83.6 — Elite. The episode packs 63 scored jokes at 3.9 per minute, averaging 7.1 on craft and 6.9 on impact, with Leela landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Announcer: 'I am so sorry for allowing this lurid sex act to taint an otherwise delightful day of family-friendly violence.'
Leela: And we failed because we accidentally kicked those two rockettes to death?
Leela Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Narrator: But just when it looked like they'd never win... They didn't.
Narrator Misdirection Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Amy: Oh, your son's going to die all right... But from neglect. 'Cause you're going home in an urn. A funerary urn.
Amy Dark/Subversive Escalation Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Professor: He's grown all these strange insect parts, and he has absolutely no brain activity. Look! He lost the strange insect parts. He's back to normal!
Professor Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 63 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Kif: Oh, oh, it's always so hard to decide. Um, uh, tap. I mean bottled.
Kif Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Amy · Leela: Ooh, I love your boots, Leela. Nobody would ever guess they're knockoffs. How could you tell? I guessed.
Amy · Leela: 'Bam!' followed by compliment about knockoff boots
Leela: Like how I might say I like Amy's dress 'cause it covers all her tramp stamps.
Leela Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Leela: Now, enough about who is and who isn't a Chinese skank.
Leela: Oh, those lunar crybabies claim the rocks were stolen by the Apollo astronauts. They consider them part of their cultural heritage.
Leela Observational Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Fry: 'Why are we bringing moon rocks to the moon?'
Fry Observational Absurdist Bender: Nice work, Leela. You're really pulling your weight. Which is saying something.
Bender Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Moon Hillbilly: You bought that cultural heritage hoo-ha? What a bunch of big-city dummies.
Leela: I don't even need my over-the-shoulder Boulder holder.
Leela: It's like being a voice actor.
Leela Meta/Self-Referential Observational ★ Rewatch Fry: Wait, the butterfly derby is when? And what?
Fry Reaction Beat Absurdist Moon Hillbilly: It's a necessity of the sport, it is.
Bender: This is what I was expecting.
Bender Callback Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Moon Hillbilly: You see that there? That's called a floor. Once a butterfly hits that, she's out.
Moon Hillbilly: Keep your eye on the ground. That's where she's going to land. Yep, called it.
Amy: Judging from your tank top, you love getting hooted at by hillbillies.
Amy Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Leela: And you could use the $50 for another gallon of hello kitty perfume.
Leela Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Moon Hillbilly: The bicker sisters teaming up? Talk about cat women on the moon.
Amy: Why don't you and I ever do things together?
Amy Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Amy: This is hard. Now I know why butterflies are always so grouchy.
Amy Observational Absurdist Leela: And we failed because we accidentally kicked those two rockettes to death?
Leela Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Bender: Yay. They can move their arms.
Bender Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Abner Doubledeal: Nothing that doesn't happen to everyone eventually.
Abner Doubledeal: What is this, an inquisition? You in or not?
Narrator: But just when it looked like they'd never win... They didn't.
Narrator Misdirection Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Narrator: 'And although sometimes they got beaten, other times, they got beaten badly.'
Narrator Escalation Deadpan/Understatement Amy: Even that team that turned out to be us in the mirror.
Amy Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Leela: Whoa, that puts the lead in my pencil.
Leela Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Trainer: Or... Inject it between your toes. Either way works, right?
Professor: So are carrots, but you don't see me injecting them between my toes.
Professor Setup/Punchline Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Leela: Sorry, Fry. I already got a double date with arm and hammer.
Leela Setup/Punchline Wordplay/Pun Bender: Oh, so now I'm your last-resort Booty call, huh? Okay, let's go.
Bender Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Amy: Cork your face bladder. I'm working!
Amy Wordplay/Pun Escalation Amy: Oh, your son's going to die all right... But from neglect. 'Cause you're going home in an urn. A funerary urn.
Amy Dark/Subversive Escalation Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Kif: She just wants to hit me with various chairs.
Kif Escalation Character Comedy Fry: You're lucky. I can't even get Leela to verbally abuse me.
Fry Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Fry: Wow! It's the second most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
Fry Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Fry · Leela: Hey Leela, want to know what the most beautiful thing is? No. Let's get hopped up.
Park Ranger: Suck 'em, burn 'em... as long as they're not butterflies, I don't give a grand crap.
Amy: What's he gonna do, migrate at us?
Amy Setup/Punchline Wordplay/Pun Butterfly Curator: But believe me, you'll rue the day you came to the butterfly preserve.
Fry: I don't even know why we're helping find an addictive drug for our mean girlfriends.
Fry Observational Deadpan/Understatement Bender: Look, the hammer's already out; I got to smash something.
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist Kif: It smells like a skunk stuffed with feta cheese.
Kif Setup/Punchline Wordplay/Pun Bender: Thank God I don't have a nose.
Bender Character Comedy Callback Kif's Dad: That's a day at the beach compared to this.
Fry: Keep your door unlocked tonight. But McGruff the crime dog says... oh!
Fry Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Bender: I'm done polishing my ass, Fry. Here's your toothbrush back.
Bender Dark/Subversive Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Leela: 'As God is my witness, I'll never forgive you for this!'
Bender: This planet's got it going on.
Bender Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Professor: Sweet orgy of Georgia!
Professor: 'Sweet orgy of Georgia! Have you girls gone wild?'
Kif: Maybe they could just go warm Turkey?
Kif Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Professor · Amy: 'I'm not surprised. Those pheromones were highly concentrated.' 'Oh, I think I'm getting a little... caterpilly.'
Leela: Oh, I think I'm getting a little... caterpilly.
Leela Wordplay/Pun Physical/Slapstick Leela: Amy, if we get killed, I just want to say it's been an honor riding the roller coaster of addiction and recovery with you, as a team.
Murderfly: I once killed a sea turtle with these boots.
Leela: 'He's even more beautiful than before!'
Leela Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Announcer: 'I am so sorry for allowing this lurid sex act to taint an otherwise delightful day of family-friendly violence.'
Bender: That is some freaky bug-on-bug action. I feel a little left out.
Bender Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Amy: 'That is some freaky bug-on-bug action. I feel a little left out.'
Amy Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Professor: He's grown all these strange insect parts, and he has absolutely no brain activity. Look! He lost the strange insect parts. He's back to normal!
Professor Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch