The crew investigates whether the universe is a simulation.
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49.7
Wins Above Replacement
“All The Way Down” ranks #87 of 137 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 76.5 — Great. The episode packs 65 scored jokes at 3.3 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.5 on impact, with Professor landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Bender: Except clams! To hell with clams!
Bender Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Professor: Sometimes, you just have to go with 'Space Italy' or 'the Robot Planet' or 'Dr. Zoidberg.'
Bender: I don't think so! I think I might not be able to think!
Bender Wordplay/Pun Absurdist ★ Rewatch Amy Setup/Punchline Absurdist ★ Rewatch Dr. Zoidberg: How will I go on without you? I'll get a broom.
Standout Moments
Professor: Sometimes, you just have to go with 'Space Italy' or 'the Robot Planet' or 'Dr. Zoidberg.'
Bender: I don't think so! I think I might not be able to think!
Bender Wordplay/Pun Absurdist ★ Rewatch Bender: Except clams! To hell with clams!
Bender Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 65 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Fry: Oh! In that case, it stinks.
Fry Setup/Punchline Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch 3-Pixel Bender: Bite my shiny middle pixel!
Dr. Zoidberg: Hooray! I'm an unnamed member of the group!
Professor: My Simputron uses more electricity than 100 bug zappers. Which reminds me, I had to unplug our bug zappers.
Multiple characters: - Ow! - Got him! The mosquito is still alive. There's a mosquito?
Leela · Professor: Space Italy? I know, it's an embarrassingly lazy name.
Dr. Zoidberg: Preposterous.
Bender: Up all those steps? No grazie. I'll just chuck it into Trevi Fountain for good luck.
Space Italian: Papa pia! He hit-a the Space Pope!
Fry Wordplay/Pun Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Fry: Jeez, Dave! Get a fig leaf!
Italian character: Oh, mama, they're goin' at it like two packs of gum!
Bender Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Professor: That's a perfect example, Bender, and some pretty decent twerking.
Fry: In fact, make it my last $10!
Fry Escalation Character Comedy Professor · Amy: New evidence was presented and I changed my mind. I'm a scientist, not a... - Idiot? - Politician.
Bender: Whuzzulated? Like whozer's?
Bender Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Bender: Why'd you have to tell me? You just ruined my life! My big fat fake life!
Bender Character Comedy Escalation Bender: If you prick me, do I not bleed?
Bender Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Bender: Okay, that was a bad example! Ow! I'm bleeding!
Bender Escalation Physical/Slapstick Leela · Bender: Bender, how were you leaping through the air that entire time? I wasn't! My first leap missed by a mile, so I leapt again. But I never stopped screaming for a second!
Leela: Bender, how were you leaping through the air that entire time?
Fry: I, Philip J. Fry, hereby pledge to watch every TV show ever made.
Fry Character Comedy Absurdist Amy Setup/Punchline Absurdist ★ Rewatch Leela Callback Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Leela · Bender: Why are we in a robot strip club? Because we had to do this in a place that's meaningful to me!
Professor · Professor: I barely make any effort to keep myself alive. / Oof!
Amy · Professor: We know! Stop telling us! I didn't even have to go.
Professor: According to these old maps, which I use in lieu of toilet paper...
Professor · Leela · Professor: Free clean power! / Clean? / Oh my, no.
Professor: Contact in four! Three! Number two!
Professor: Contact in four! Three! Number two!
Leela: Let's rarely speak of that again.
Leela Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement Professor: Let's rarely speak of that again.
Amy: Aw, they're so cute! Now I care about them!
Amy Character Comedy Observational Leela · Professor · Simulated Leela: What is it, Professor? / No, him. / What is it, Professor?
Leela · Professor: A simulation... Within a simulation!? Where does it all end? - Hopefully there.
Professor: You sound like a stoned freshman!
Fry Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Professor: Oh, nothing. I just had a loogie in my throat. Possibly a simulated loogie.
Amy Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Callback Fry: Actually, I'm not. Is this about a new soda?
Fry Character Comedy Misdirection Fry: Like playing a new video game on a crummy underpowered game system! That my cheapskate grandma got me.
Fry Escalation Character Comedy Fry: That my cheapskate grandma got me.
Fry Character Comedy Observational Bender: Guess again, loser.
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Fry · Leela: Honestly. I wanna know if I'm not living in a simulation, but not if I am. Does that make sense? Surprisingly, yes.
Fry Leela Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Professor: Oh, I never should have outsourced it to that Indian middle schooler.
Professor: like a big flaming ball of Microsoft Word
Bender: Plus, I like delivering bad news.
Bender Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Professor · Bender: Since you're basically just software in a greasy wad of aluminum foil... Aw...
Professor: It's Benders all the way down.
Bender: I don't wanna live in a world where I'm less real than everyone else. Those are my people in there, in Baloney Town.
Bender Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Bender: Those are my people in there, in Baloney Town.
Bender Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Bender: Those are my people in there, in Baloney Town.
Bender Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Dr. Zoidberg: How will I go on without you? I'll get a broom.
Bender: Probably a bad clam.
Bender Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Leela: I think it makes no difference at all. Either way, the laws of the universe are way beyond our control. So, what can we do? We just make the best of it.
Leela Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fry: I think it makes no difference at all. Either way, the laws of the universe are way beyond our control. So, what can we do? We just make the best of it.
Fry Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Bender: I feel, therefore I am. It doesn't matter if I'm real? Not one bit.
Bender Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Bender · Fry: I feel, therefore I am. It doesn't matter if I'm real? Not one bit.
Fry: That's robots for you.
Fry Character Comedy Observational Hermes · Professor: Are we talking regular slow or bureaucrat slow? Infinitely slower than that.
