When Fry proposes to Leela, he is overcome by a near-fatal attack of déjà vu.
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“Otherwise” ranks #157 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 70.5 — Solid. The episode packs 67 scored jokes at 4.2 per minute, averaging 6.4 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
Professor Farnsworth: Floyd? Who the hell's Floyd? I'm Hubert!
Professor Farnsworth: It felt like a minute compared to grad school.
Leela: but the wind caught his skin flaps and sent him parasailing over the Queensboro Bridge.
Professor Farnsworth: Are they my zombies from Hammacher Schlemmer?
Amy: it seemed like the single crummiest, laziest, most awful, dimwitted idea in the entire history of science fiction, but it turned out to be true. Who knew?
Amy Meta/Self-Referential Escalation ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 67 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Award Host: Good luck, Dwight.
Dwight's Father: Don't feel bad, son. We couldn't be more proud of you. Unless, of course, you had won the award.
Award Host: Mike Pisarik, lion.
Award Host: They're on the truck to Heaven now.
Fry: And the fish sticks were limp!
Fry: Ooh. Hefty. You could really bash in a skull with this thing.
Fry Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Professor Farnsworth: I came down with a searing case of 'who-gives-a-crap?'
Bender: Sure, they exhibit all the telltale signs. Toenails growing, hearts pumping fluid, the whole shmagoigle.
Bender Deadpan/Understatement Wordplay/Pun Bender: So where do these fossils live? In sedimentary rock?
Bender Setup/Punchline Wordplay/Pun Hermes: they live in a virtual retirement home on the Near-Death Star
Fry: Oh, really? Does that rule apply to Clippie winners?
Fry Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Fry: My God! It's full of geezers.
Fry Setup/Punchline Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Fry: My God! It's full of geezers.
Fry Setup/Punchline Meta/Self-Referential Fry: Is it some kind of Craft-matic adjustable death bed?
Fry Wordplay/Pun Dark/Subversive Leela: Like a potato? Or a battery?
Leela Observational Absurdist Amy: it seemed like the single crummiest, laziest, most awful, dimwitted idea in the entire history of science fiction, but it turned out to be true. Who knew?
Amy Meta/Self-Referential Escalation ★ Rewatch Amy: Good work, writer of The Matrix.
Amy Meta/Self-Referential Deadpan/Understatement Fry: I'm gonna call them Gram-gram and Shabba-doo.
Fry Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Bender: They look just like you, Fry. Arms, legs, ugly.
Bender Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Bender: It's not just safe, it's 40% safe.
Bender Running Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Fry: There's only one word for it. Terrible. And also horrible.
Fry Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Ned Farnsworth: Forget it, you flimflammer. I can smell a scam a mile away.
Background character: Reverse mortgages. Get your reverse mortgages here.
Background Character: Reverse mortgages. Get your reverse mortgages here.
Fry · Velma Farnsworth: See, I got frozen, and your son, Professor Farnsworth, is my great-great-great- great-great-great... Eh? What? Yep, I'm your grandson all right.
Fry Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Velma Farnsworth: I don't cook much since we moved out of reality.
Fry: That's a doozy. Hey, look at this. I can pull my thumb off.
Fry Character Comedy Escalation Fry: Stop, Shabba-doo, you're freaking me out.
Fry Callback Character Comedy Callback Velma Farnsworth: You should have seen him when he was little. My golly, he was crotchety and moldy.
Retirement Home Resident: rigged Bingo!
Fry: What? Oh, God, I'm still here?
Fry Reaction Beat Character Comedy Fry: I don't think Gram-gram likes that place. And I know Shabba-don't.
Fry Wordplay/Pun Callback Callback Bender: Oh, I'm about to lose history's greatest life all because of some useless old people.
Bender Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Fry: They're not useless. They can cook ham casserole, and watch TV at incredible volume, and they generate electricity.
Fry Escalation Observational Bender Character Comedy Absurdist Hermes: Hey, Zoidberg, you forgot to empty this trash can.
Hermes Character Comedy Running Gag Professor Farnsworth: Are they my zombies from Hammacher Schlemmer?
Professor Farnsworth: Are they my zombies from Hammacher Schlemmer?
Ned Farnsworth: What crawled up his Geritol?
Bender: Lady, all of human history happened in your past!
Bender Observational Escalation ★ Rewatch Bender: "Live it up"? I'll be surprised if you live it out!
Bender Wordplay/Pun Dark/Subversive Bender: 'Live it up'? I'll be surprised if you live it out!
Bender Wordplay/Pun Dark/Subversive Fry: Gram-gram fell down at the ice cream store and we got free ice cream!
Fry Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Professor Farnsworth: I just want my parents to love me. God, how I hate them!
Professor Farnsworth: I just want my parents to love me. God, how I hate them!
Professor Farnsworth: They never played with me like that. They were always 'too tired.' Oh, what awful parents!
Professor Farnsworth: But my parents were simple hedge fund managers who couldn't appreciate my interest in science.
Young Farnsworth's Mother: Honey, I'm afraid we can't let you go. You're just not emotionally mature enough for college yet.
Young Professor Farnsworth: 'Not mature enough...'
Professor Farnsworth: Oh, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you! You ruined my life! Goodbye!
Bender: That is one crazy, uncircumcised old man.
Bender Character Comedy Absurdist Leela: but the wind caught his skin flaps and sent him parasailing over the Queensboro Bridge.
Bender: Why would he go to Queens? He doesn't need tires.
Velma Farnsworth: Put on your glasses, sweetie.
Velma Farnsworth: He was our crazy-ass nut job, and we loved him.
Ned Farnsworth: Yeah, sweat. Right.
Ned Farnsworth: He was admitted to a prestigious institution. A mental institution!
Ned Farnsworth: Got himself a full wackademic scholarship.
Velma Farnsworth: online doctorate in Rodeo Studies
Professor Farnsworth: Floyd? Who the hell's Floyd? I'm Hubert!
Professor Farnsworth: It felt like a minute compared to grad school.
Bender: a homeless rodeo clown named Floyd came to the door claiming he was...
Bender Callback Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Ned Farnsworth: My damn skin even hurts.
Professor Farnsworth: Appearances. Just a simple matter of appearances.
Professor Farnsworth: Appearances. Just a simple matter of appearances.
Ned Farnsworth: Not too tired to chase you, you cute little nut job!