Fry risks permanent insanity when he attempts to binge-watch every TV show ever made.
WAR
22.6
Wins Above Replacement
“The Impossible Stream” ranks #164 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 69.5 — Mixed. The episode packs 55 scored jokes at 3.1 per minute, averaging 6.6 on craft and 6.2 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
Hermes: It combines the contentedness of being neutered, with the occasional sex of being not.
Hermes Observational Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Hermes: I don't care what parts I have, as long as they interlock with yours.
Hermes Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Various: My wingwang's gone! My girls! My antenna! My kajigger! My gonopores! Look it up.
Fry: In the event of a wormhole sending us back in time, do not kill your parents. If you are traveling with small children, help them not to kill you before not killing your own parents.
Fry Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Hermes · LaBarbara: How do you live with yourself? Damn it, woman, you're making me highly Selassie! Don't you talk to me that way, you big, hairy Belafonte.
All Jokes — 55 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Professor: And we're out of business. Good news! We're back in business! We've been hired to deliver an envelope.
Professor: You're the finest crew I've had the honor to work with. Oh, my. We're being foreclosed upon. You're all terrible and incompetent.
Hermes: Wait, I found a loophole in the mortgage. If we actually pay it, we can keep the building.
Hermes Absurdist Deadpan/Understatement Fry: while us men reminisce and smoke some stogies
Fry Character Comedy Observational Leela: We are not packing lunches, you walking beer commercials.
Leela Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Fry: We're a delivery company!
Fry Absurdist Character Comedy Fry: Wow. That's actually a really good idea, for a woman.
Fry Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Amy: I promised myself I wouldn't pose naked until I was married.
Amy Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Zoidberg: Here's mine. 'All female employees must pose nude if requested.' Sounds fair.
Bender: Over. Time is money, peaches. Now shut your com-link and make love to the camera. And remember, I'm the camera.
Bender Character Comedy Escalation Bender: Whatever. I ran out of film an hour ago.
Bender Misdirection Character Comedy Professor: No, no, this won't do. A three-month calendar? What is this, Mercury?
Leela · Professor: But that was my idea! Then you should have talked louder. What?
Fry · Amy: Sorry, ma'am, I'll have to confiscate your artificial kneecap. Okay, here you go.
Fry: Who ever heard of a plane with a woman President?
Fry Character Comedy Observational Fry: Welcome to Plan Am flight one to Acapulsar. The local time on Acapulsar is five years from now.
Fry Wordplay/Pun Absurdist ★ Rewatch Fry: In the event of a wormhole sending us back in time, do not kill your parents. If you are traveling with small children, help them not to kill you before not killing your own parents.
Fry Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Fry: So what's the deal with airline food? They offer you two choices, but they're always out of one. By the way, we're out of both choices.
Fry Observational Escalation Passenger: Shut up and put on four episodes of The Office.
Child · Leela: Are we at the fair yet, Mommy? We're not at the anyplace! And we're out of fuel!
Leela: Please remain seated until the plane comes to a complete crash.
Leela Misdirection Deadpan/Understatement Hermes: Roller Derby is not a society.
Hermes Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Bender: We can't trust a woman's math. Count again.
Bender Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Hermes: Well, you sure can run something, your mouth!
Hermes Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Zoidberg: Yeahs. You knows, guyses, galses, in that order. Ows!
Rock Alien: My species has only a single gender, known as 'neuchacho.'
Bender: Chocolate, Mac, men. The end.
Bender Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Rock Alien: Which is larger, an Italian size four or an American Apparel medium? How many calories are in a small green tea yogurt? Name any 12 of the Desperate Housewives. How was your day?
Rock Alien: That was a test to see who could lie better. The men win that round. In your face, decumbent urinators.
Bender: In your face, decumbent urinators.
Bender Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Rock Alien: You will all be boiled alive, like retired circus animals,
Rock Alien: And may the inferior gender burst into something. Flames, I guess.
Cowboy · Fry: Howdy there. You fellas need some directions? No, we're fine. Don't worry about it.
Amy · Leela: A clearance sale! What? Where?
Amy · LaBarbara · Leela: It wasn't Tommy Hilfijigger. It was Linens 'n Things! The hell it was. It was a Juicy Couture.
Fry: So if anyone's got any good fart jokes, now would be the time.
Fry Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy Amy: Wait, I forgot that Amana here is a refrigerator.
Amy Character Comedy Absurdist Bender: Was that a fart joke? Because I don't find those amusing. No one does.
Bender Callback Irony/Sarcasm Callback Hermes · LaBarbara: How do you live with yourself? Damn it, woman, you're making me highly Selassie! Don't you talk to me that way, you big, hairy Belafonte.
LaBarbara: That's not back bacon! That's your back baking!
Fry: Never bet against me being stupid.
Various: My wingwang's gone! My girls! My antenna! My kajigger! My gonopores! Look it up.
Zoidberg: Work goes fasters withouts no secondary sex characteristicses at which to hoot.
Fry Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Leela Wordplay/Pun Setup/Punchline Fry: It's about loving, and fighting, and that Rasta McNasty we were doing last night.
Fry Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Bender: Now I got a whatchacallit instead of a kajigger, you stupid whatchacallit!
Bender Wordplay/Pun Escalation Callback Hermes: I gotta get up five times a night to play Xbox.
Hermes Character Comedy Observational LaBarbara: For example, did you know there are more than two feelings?
Amy: These bad boys are hard to aim.
Amy Visual Gag Character Comedy Fry: OMG! Being chicks is so much fun! Now when I say stupid things, guys all laugh and buy me stuff.
Fry Observational Character Comedy Professor: Thank God most of our fans are huge perverts.
Professor Meta/Self-Referential Deadpan/Understatement Hermes: I don't care what parts I have, as long as they interlock with yours.
Hermes Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Hermes: It combines the contentedness of being neutered, with the occasional sex of being not.
Hermes Observational Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Borax Kid: You folks watch your genitals now.