A pandemic ravages future Earth.
WAR
49.3
Wins Above Replacement
“Rage Against The Vaccine” ranks #48 of 137 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 79.6 — Elite. The episode packs 56 scored jokes at 2.8 per minute, averaging 6.9 on craft and 6.8 on impact, with Hermes landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Lrrr Jr · Lrrr: What else should I post, Dad? - Who cares? The crazier the better. Tell 'em worm medicine helps!
Hermes: After all, any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from science.
Hermes Wordplay/Pun Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Dr. Banjo: how do you respond to rumors I'm starting that there are 5G chips in your vaccine?
Hermes: But voodoo didn't stop believing in them.
Hermes Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Richard Nixon: Thanks, fellas. Since I don't hear any questions, this prrress conference is adjourned!
Standout Moments
Dr. Banjo: how do you respond to rumors I'm starting that there are 5G chips in your vaccine?
Lrrr Jr · Lrrr: What else should I post, Dad? - Who cares? The crazier the better. Tell 'em worm medicine helps!
Hermes: After all, any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from science.
Hermes Wordplay/Pun Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 56 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ News Anchor · Background Voice: We interrupt the triumph over COVID-19 for a special report. A new virus... - Oh, for Pete's sake.
News Reporter: As well as a mild cough, which I don't have. I'm fine.
Child · Father · Mother: Bye, Mom! Bye, Dad! Love ya! - Feh. Always with the love. - We already hugged you. Now, we gotta talk about it?
Professor Farnsworth: Let's move, you sofa snails! We've got a delivery!
Mayor: Bill Nye, the Science Head!
Mayor Wordplay/Pun Meta/Self-Referential Bill Nye: Thank you for this tremendously dubious honor.
Bill Nye · Background Voice: After what seemed like a thousand years of COVID... - But was actually more!
Fry: I'm using the principles of aerodynamics to get the hell outta here!
Fry Absurdist Character Comedy Fry · Leela: An anger pandemic? Not to point fingers, but Leela's spreading it. I am not, you jerks! I'm just running a couple degrees angrier than normal.
Professor Farnsworth: Good news, infecter-inos! I've developed a test to see who's got the virus and who's just naturally mean.
Fry: That looks kinda fun. I can't wait to do it hundreds of times!
Fry Character Comedy Absurdist Leela · Professor Farnsworth: This can't be right, Professor! Your test stinks, and so does your ugly face! - Oh no! She's got it!
Leela: Stupid, stinkin', lousy, no good, son of a...
Leela Escalation Character Comedy Richard Nixon: I am therefore issuing an executive aroo that everyone wear a mask over their ears to prevent the transmission of upsetting remarks.
Richard Nixon: Thanks, fellas. Since I don't hear any questions, this prrress conference is adjourned!
LaBarbara: Dwight, stop Gloom-bombing your dad's meeting! And put on some britches!
Amy · Professor Farnsworth: Professor, you're a teddy bear! I assure you I am not. Aw...
Professor Farnsworth: Everything we do is a violation of health and safety standards!
Scruffy · Fry: You know, I heard there's not really even a virus at all. It's just a big hoax, like the moon landing. - You were on the moon last week! You grew up on Mars! That's what they want you to think!
Professor Farnsworth: EXPLOVID victims move at way too normal a speed to be zombies.
Hermes: There are all speeds of zombies out there! Fast ones. Slow ones. Brisk shufflers.
Hermes: But voodoo didn't stop believing in them.
Hermes Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Hermes: Oh shoot. I forgot to pick up a goat! Dwight, go across the hall and borrow goat from Mrs. Wilson.
Hermes Absurdist Character Comedy LaBarbara: You must listen to me 'cause I grew up in a voodoo family, and zombie-ism killed my father! Then brought him back to life!
Passenger: What? It's my emotional support gun.
Flight Attendant · Passenger · Flight Attendant: Hand sanitizer? - No thanks. - Eh, more for me.
Mayor: my city's most prominent egghead has developed a vaccine that will end my terrible poll numbers once and for all!
Mayor Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Professor Farnsworth: Thanks to cutting-edge RNA technology, my vaccine is as potent as it is untested.
Wernstrom · Professor Farnsworth: Mine makes your arm shrivel and fall off! - Big deal! Mine comes with a futuristic way of knowing exactly who's been vaccinated and who hasn't, a small scrap of easily lost paper.
Fry · Leela: I made your favorite, Leela. Chicken-shaped steak! "Wow, this is great, Fry!" Is what I'd say if this pan sauce weren't so bland!
Wernstrom: That's a feature, not a bug.
Wernstrom Meta/Self-Referential Deadpan/Understatement Wernstrom: That's a feature, not a bug.
Professor Farnsworth: The sterility is essential! Studies show that kids are what make people angriest! Everyone hates kids!
Reporter: Dr. Banjo of The Dr. Banjo Experience Podcast Experience Hour.
Professor Farnsworth: I would simply reassure you that the 5G chips are safe and purely for surveillance purposes.
Airplane Captain: Tushy my ass!
Hermes · Fortune Teller: Hello, madam. Is this the Voodoo HQ? - Shh. You do voodoo? - You misconstrue. Who do voodoo at the HQ? - Entendu.
Fortune Teller: The Key of Bones, the Hanging Man, the Man Being Crushed by a Big Beignet, and the Man Being Beaten by the Saints Mascot.
Social Media User: These vaccine fascists are taking away our freedom! I might as well be in a cage at the zoo, like my aunt!
Hermes: Sweet andouille of St. Louis! A robot made of bones!
Hermes Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Bonebot: Je m'appelle Bonebot. Been bones-keepin' this boneyard for three bone-dred years.
Bonebot Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Bonebot: Probably 'cause I got no eyes. Come on! I'll give you a ride.
Bonebot Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Bonebot: This place gimme the heebie-jeebies, and not the boogie-woogie kind!
Bonebot Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Hermes · Barbados Slim: Barbados Slim?! - People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive. Come in, Hermes! Make yourself feel inadequate.
Hermes: You stay away from her! She's married to me now! You two are mostly ancient history.
Hermes Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Barbados Slim: She goes by the name of... LaBarbara. And she was good at voodoo, too.
Barbados Slim: Sweet potatoes of Barbados! You don't see a lot of angry, shouting zombies, but it would explain a lot.
Hermes: What dark, well-lit sorcery is this?
Hermes Wordplay/Pun Irony/Sarcasm LaBarbara · Lrrr · Ndnd: It's a highly contagious Omicron variant. - You're a contagious variant! - Go back where you came from, you Omi-clods.
Hermes · LaBarbara: thus inoculating against future infection. - Precisely. You got some serious mental pecs, husband.
LaBarbara · Barbados Slim: My second favorite kind. - Hey, cut that out! Why didn't I get a wink for my mental pecs?
Fry · Hermes: Ouchie! I was, uh, promised a lollipop. Uh, here. Mm, tastes a bit like wig glue.
