Bender searches for the meaning of life after learning that robots lack free will.
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“Free Will Hunting” ranks #143 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 72.8 — Solid. The episode packs 57 scored jokes at 3.4 per minute, averaging 6.6 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: I wish I was a real boy... Then I'd show them. I'd kill them all.
Bender Dark/Subversive Callback ★ Rewatch Bender: Still, to have your own pool...
Bender Dark/Subversive Misdirection ★ Rewatch Wealthy client: Oh, nothing sordid, I assure you! Simply vomit on me, ever so gently, while I humiliate a pheasant.
Bender: I'll take that big purple dinosaur, please. On the face.
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Professor · Bender: Well, what do you know? I guess you really don't want to shoot me after all. Oop, the safety was on.
All Jokes — 57 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Fry: Decisions, decisions. Should I wear my nerd glasses today, or not? Usually I don't. Whatever. It doesn't really matter.
College recruiter: Ooh, I like your nerd glasses. Are you a college student?
Fry · College recruiter: Yes, I'd like to enroll in college? You're still talking to me. Oops.
Bender: $10,000 tuition? I can't afford that!
Robot Mafia member: Psst. Over there. Where? I mean over here. Sorry, I forgot where I was.
Robot Mafia · Bender: We, the robot mafia, are prepared to lend you $10,000 at an interest rate of 10,000%. That's easy to remember.
Fabricio · Bender: Yo hombre, you think you're cool enough to sit way in back with us college toughs? Yes, I do. Yo, in that case you're all right, man.
Professor · Bender: Mr. Bender, I realize class has only been in session for 32 seconds, but you've fallen in with a bad crowd. I know, right?
Bender: Well, I got my tuition back, minus $9,000 for the damage I caused to the dean's wife.
Bender Dark/Subversive Misdirection ★ Rewatch Bender · Fabricio: Hey, what's that? Is it drugs? Nah, it ain't drugs. But it's a lot like drugs.
Bender: Never heard of it. Sure.
Bender Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Fabricio · Bender: You like it? Eh, I can take it or leave it. I guess I'll take it.
Bender: I'll take that big purple dinosaur, please. On the face.
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Bender: We have a rival gang? I hate them!
Bender Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Bender: Phew! That was close, eh, Fabricio?
Bender Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Wealthy client: Oh, nothing sordid, I assure you! Simply vomit on me, ever so gently, while I humiliate a pheasant.
Bender: Save it for the boudoir!
Bender Character Comedy Reaction Beat Bender: Still, to have your own pool...
Bender Dark/Subversive Misdirection ★ Rewatch Bender: Not guilty! Although I did do it. That's right, I'm bad.
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Lawyer: However, my client made no such decisions!
Lawyer: You see, Bender here is what is known in scientific circles as a 'robot'
Lawyer Deadpan/Understatement Observational Lawyer: You see, Bender here is what is known in scientific circles as a 'robot'...
Lawyer Deadpan/Understatement Observational Judge: I'm awake, I'm awake! Order, order!
Judge Character Comedy Reaction Beat Judge: Computation complete. Not guilty!
Judge Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Bender: From now on, no matter what cool crimes I commit, people will say, 'Bender didn't do that! It was just Bender's programming!'
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bender · Judge: Well, I committed these crimes, do you hear me? I'm guilty! Get that innocent robot out of my courtroom! Guilty!
Professor: A robot free will unit? Impossible! And even if it were possible, which it's not, it would still be inconceivable... which it is!
Bender: I wish I was a real boy... Then I'd show them. I'd kill them all.
Bender Dark/Subversive Callback ★ Rewatch Robot delivery recipient · Bender: They're just too dang unpredictable, what with their free will and all. Amen, brother. 'Amen, brother?' Pfft. What a boring, predictable thing to say.
Bender: Goodbye, sweet meatbags... ...sweetbags.
Bender Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Robot worker: Son, philosophy's for thems what don't got to work for a livin'. But me, I got a sick child to feed.
Robot Worker: Son, philosophy's for thems what don't got to work for a livin'. But me, I got a sick child to feed.
Robot council elder: Silence! It pleases the council. Silence! ...Silence! Well? Speak up.
Head Elder: Well? Speak up.
Ab-Bot: So, are we automatons? Yes. But we are magnificent automatons.
Ab-Bot Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Bender · Ab-Bot: How does a robot join this monk outfit? Just put on this monk outfit.
Bender Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Bender: Any of you guys got a spaceship?
Bender Character Comedy Misdirection Bender: 'Cause I don't have free will. I need you guys to plan the crime and make all the crime decisions.
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bender: How do we murder the guards? Hockey sticks or sharpened footballs?
Bender Dark/Subversive Absurdist Bender: I should have paid more attention in kindergarten.
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist Mom: Welcome to Momcorp. Did you find everything you were burgling for?
Mom Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Mom: Then you got surprised by my swivel chair for nothing.
Mom Callback Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Callback Mom: Once we give robots free will, they're sure to rise up and threaten mankind with extermination. ...I'll sell a second wave of robots to protect the terrified survivors of the first wave.
Mom Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Professor: But-but... it's just a prototype. It's, uh, not fully operational. Yes.
Mom: To this day, my poor, sweet robots can't exterminate humanity without being told to.
Mom Dark/Subversive Irony/Sarcasm Bender Character Comedy Reaction Beat Toy Bender: Kill all humans!
Professor · Fry: A toy Bender had free will, and the real Bender didn't? Pretty cool, eh? It makes you think.
Professor · Bender: I programmed you to be incapable of picking up the free will unit. You precognizant bastard.
Professor: Poor deterministic Bender. I programmed you to be incapable of harming me. Oh, I've never been more sure I was right to deny you free will.
Professor: Due to the quantum nature of the device, there's no possible way of knowing.
Professor: Due to the quantum nature of the device, there's no possible way of knowing.
Bender · Professor: I still can't do it. Well, what do you know? I guess you really don't want to shoot me after all. Oop, the safety was on.
Professor · Bender: Well, what do you know? I guess you really don't want to shoot me after all. Oop, the safety was on.
Bender Character Comedy Callback Callback