When Fry proposes to Leela, he is overcome by a near-fatal attack of déjà vu.
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Wins Above Replacement
“Otherwise” ranks #136 of 137 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 66.9 — Mixed. The episode packs 65 scored jokes at 2.8 per minute, averaging 6.5 on craft and 6.1 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: Bender don't look back! 'Cause his neck joint don't turn that way! Ooh, snap!
Bender Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Janös: You know, he'd be a lot easier to handle if he had less blood. Just saying.
Janös Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Scruffy: So, uh... this graveyard need a janitor?
Scruffy Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Zoidberg: Well, your head seems normal, aside from that weird face on the front.
Zapp: If anyone knows any reason why these two should not be wedded... doesn't have to be a good reason...
Zapp Character Comedy Escalation Standout Moments
Bender: Bender don't look back! 'Cause his neck joint don't turn that way! Ooh, snap!
Bender Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Scruffy: So, uh... this graveyard need a janitor?
Scruffy Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Janös: You know, he'd be a lot easier to handle if he had less blood. Just saying.
Janös Dark/Subversive Character Comedy All Jokes — 65 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Fry: I was trying to tilt my seat back, and instead, the ship went into catastrophe mode.
Fry Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Professor: Hellballs! The wires are all crossed!
Professor: More hellballs!
Unknown alien: Do you hear something? Sounds like a screaming coming across the sky.
Unknown alien: Should we check for survivors? After a crash like that? What's the point?
Fry: Thank God the can opener had the presence of mind to cut an escape hole. It's a hero!
Fry Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender: I coulda bent us an escape hole. But did anybody ask Bender? No!
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Amy · Professor: Are you alright? No, I'm not alright! I was talking to the can opener.
Bender: Hello? Gaping head wound!
Bender Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Professor: They're pretty stupid, though.
Amy · Professor: I'd hate to be here at night. It is night. Then I hate being here!
Professor · Everyone: Did I ever tell you about all the different lengths of wire I used? Yes!
Leela: Honestly, some of those three-part adventures were kinda sloppy.
Leela Meta/Self-Referential Observational ★ Rewatch Professor: Nothing lasts forever. Except me, apparently.
Bender: Alternate realities can bite my shiny metal ass!
Bender Character Comedy Callback Callback Leela · Bender: Show some ass respect! Hiya! Ha, ha! You missed! Hiya! Oof! Not in that reality.
Zapp · Kif: Come on, Kif. [sighs] Don't rock the boat, baby.
Zapp Kif Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Zapp: Thank you. Check out our SoundCloud.
Zapp Observational Character Comedy Bender: You're what stained it!
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bender · Fry: How can you meatbags get so weepy about a ship? It's just a hunk of tin! You're 40% tin!
Bender Fry Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Callback Hermes · Leela: How should I know? You're his mother. [beeping] Oops, sorry. I meant 15 seconds.
Zoidberg: His pulse is steady as an abalone!
Leela · Fry: I used to date a different guy named Fry. Then, how come I've never seen it? It's in a very out-of-the-way spot.
Fry: Bender, life can go in a lot of directions. Up, left, community college, but I know exactly which direction I want mine to go.
Fry Observational Character Comedy Bender: When I said someone's all duded up, I meant me. Check out the Rolex. I bent it off a guy I know.
Bender Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Janös: Leela? Bluh! My gosh. This is incredible! I feel like I died and went to here.
Janös Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Janös: Their souls linger long after the champagne has been drunk...
Janös Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Janös: It is a curse of my kind to remember everything.
Janös Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Leela: Oh, you're having an Avatar?
Leela Wordplay/Pun Observational ★ Rewatch Zoidberg: Well, your head seems normal, aside from that weird face on the front.
Zoidberg: No! You're a terrible patient!
Fry: Déjà vu? I feel like I've heard of that before. No, wait. I'm thinking of De La Soul.
Fry Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Professor: The feeling you are experiencing something that's already happened? That's all the symptoms.
Professor Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Professor · New Ship: I hired the world's greatest voice actor, Tress LaMarche! Hi, there.
Professor: All the latest lengths!
Professor: That's where you're not happy, Bender. The one thing I saved from the old ship was the can opener!
Professor Callback Misdirection ★ Rewatch Callback Bender · Professor: What?! Where's my sleeping quarters?! You don't need any! This ship is so fast, you won't have time to rest. That's just a perk for heroes.
Bender: You think they'll try me as an adult?
Bender Absurdist Character Comedy Bender: Bender One-Hand! Or Bender No-Watch!
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist Bender · Leela: Oh, yeah? [shoots can opener] You shot a guy who only had a sword?! What? I saw it in a movie. It was hilarious.
Bender: I'm like Superman without Lex Luthor! Aquaman without that big old shrimp!
Bender Observational Character Comedy Bender: I shall go on without them in tribute to a worthy foe who met his match in Bender One-Hand.
Bender Character Comedy Escalation Amy: Sometimes, I think I can control the weather. [giggles]
Amy Character Comedy Absurdist New Ship: You know, I can hear everything you're saying.
New Ship Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort New Ship: You know, I can hear everything you're saying.
Zapp: Well, Linda, sensors have detected a phantom vessel in this quadrant, but it's invisible to the nude eye.
Zapp Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Leela · Bender: Come on, Bender. - Ah-ah-ah. [sighs] Bender One-Hand.
Leela: Spare me the whatever that was.
Leela Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Leela: Spare me the whatever that was.
Leela Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Kif: Being invisible doesn't-- Oh jeez.
Kif Reaction Beat Character Comedy New Ship: But it's dark in there, and full of dead spaceships!
New Ship Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy New Ship · Professor: But it's dark in there, and full of dead spaceships! I said go!
New Ship: There are 38,651 other rational explanations.
Leela · New Ship: Uh... Here, Bender. Sit in the captain's chair. [New Ship]: Butt warmer destroyed.
Fry: It's the classic Jerry Lewis mistake.
Fry Observational Meta/Self-Referential Zapp: It's the classic Jerry Lewis mistake.
Zapp Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Zapp: Do you, Fry, a delivery boy, for God's sake, take Leela to be your wife?
Zapp Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Zapp: And do you, Leela, who deserves better, take Fry to be... and I mean a lot better... to be your husband?
Zapp Character Comedy Escalation Zapp: If anyone knows any reason why these two should not be wedded... doesn't have to be a good reason...
Zapp Character Comedy Escalation Bender: If two of the three of us have to get married, I'm glad it's them.
Bender Character Comedy Observational Fry: I'm blowing up enemies with friends!
Fry Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Leela: Whoa! We look awful but happy.
Leela Observational Reaction Beat 