Fry is the victim of a sausage-making accident during the crew's visit to Oktoberfest.
WAR
34.3
Wins Above Replacement
“Fun On A Bun” ranks #85 of 137 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 76.5 — Great. The episode packs 52 scored jokes at 3.7 per minute, averaging 6.8 on craft and 6.5 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
Professor: Oh, now, now, we've all been there.
Professor Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Amy: It's tragedy on a bun.
Amy Callback Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback Bender: Last I saw, he was jumping up and down in my meat grinder.
Bender Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Elzar: This is the greatest injustice Germany has ever committed!
Elzar Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Fry Irony/Sarcasm Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Standout Moments
Bender: Last I saw, he was jumping up and down in my meat grinder.
Bender Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Amy: It's tragedy on a bun.
Amy Callback Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback Professor: Oh, now, now, we've all been there.
Professor Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 52 analyzed
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Professor · Orange Joe: Most folks just call me orange Joe.
Professor: It's July, right? Let's wait three months and go to Oktoberfest!
Fry: Hey! I don't smell bavarian-style vomit. Where's Oktoberfest?
Fry Observational Cringe/Discomfort Hermes: No, I wouldn't want to ruin my Oktoberfest by becoming intoxicated.
Hermes Irony/Sarcasm Observational Fry: You can all act like Jersey shore socialites, but at least Bender will party with me.
Bender: I enjoy partying as much as the next fellow, but this is Oktoberfest. Good day, sir!
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Fry: Ach du freakin' lieber!
Elzar: Shut up! I said it first!
Elzar Character Comedy Reaction Beat Fry: I've just recently started always having dreamt of being a sausage-making champion.
Fry Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Elzar: He's only using the choicest cuts of hummingbird.
Elzar Absurdist Dark/Subversive Elzar: Murakami-San got his hands on a nice rack of angel wings. Gonna grind 'em up into heavenwurst.
Elzar Absurdist Wordplay/Pun Elzar: Pork that's been aged for 3,000 years!
Fry: Aw, man! I can't beat that with a Craigslist pig.
Elzar: I'll have to kill you later for some other reason.
Elzar Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Fry: Man, all the fun has been taken out of this once-noble barf-a-palooza.
Fry Wordplay/Pun Observational Fry: Well, at least we were hammered!
Fry Observational Character Comedy Fry: Fahrvergnügen! Kaiser permanente! Fru... frusen gladje!
Fry: Hey, come on, you keister-meisters! Eins, zwei, drei, vier! Lift your Stein and drink your beer! Ich bin ein never!
Amy: Even with harps, that's still the famous Oktoberfest chicken dance!
Amy Observational Visual Gag Fry: Get das Booty up here, Leela! I brought his-and-her chicken hats!
Leela · Fry: You are a boorish, primitive neanderthal! We were going out?!
Fry Reaction Beat Character Comedy Fry: ...and-and the worst part is, I had to have the breakup sex by myself!
Fry Dark/Subversive Cringe/Discomfort Fry: It's supposed to be beer and bratwurst, not breakups and... Boring thing!
Fry Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Bender: Mammoth meat aged for 30,000 years? Prize-winning sausage meat, here I come!
Bender Setup/Punchline Callback Callback Leela · Fry: This is the elephant detector. I just set it to 'big and woolly.'
Bender: ♪ Sausage is great, sausage is great ♪ ♪ Sausage, sausage, sausage... ♪
Bender Absurdist Character Comedy Amy: Oh, my God! That looks like Fry's hair!
Amy Setup/Punchline Visual Gag Leela: I broke up with my boyfriend and then I ate him!
Leela Dark/Subversive Escalation Memory Doctor: He thought he recognized one of the monkeys!
Fry Irony/Sarcasm Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Leela · Bender: Maybe we should hire a delivery boy. You mean like: Fry?
Bender: Nah, I'm just kidding. My pastor helped me through my grief.
Bender Character Comedy Misdirection Neanderthal: Look normal to me.
Gugg: Anyone dumb enough get stuck in ice probably neanderthal.
Gugg Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Leela: 53 tons of hamburgers and French frr... agments of not potatoes.
Leela Wordplay/Pun Misdirection Leela: They get a big shipment every fri... Saturday!
Leela Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Fry: And I do have vague memories of people refusing to breed with me!
Gugg: Maybe someone look into it, many years from now.
Gugg Irony/Sarcasm Meta/Self-Referential Gugg: those stuck-up homo sapiens with their tools and their pants and such.
Gugg Observational Escalation Elzar: This is the greatest injustice Germany has ever committed!
Elzar Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Zapp: Dear God, look at those hairy elephantés!
Zapp Visual Gag Character Comedy Zapp · Kif: Then how are they unmanned? The men are just for ballast.
Zapp: it's designed to withstand even the weight of a modern-day elephant foot.
Zapp Setup/Punchline Irony/Sarcasm Gugg: We want our land back! Also, to be treated as equals! And a little mating wouldn't hurt!
Gugg Escalation Character Comedy Callback Gugg: You want make love, not war? Jawohl! This change everything, tight-clothes-man.
Bender: Chef Fritz accidentally got thrown down an icy slope! I'm the sausage champion!
Bender Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Fry: Just this once, I'm going to let you embarrass me.
Fry Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm 