The Professor's fast-fashion clothes are a smash hit, but an environmental disaster.
WAR
60.2
Wins Above Replacement
“Attack Of The Clothes” ranks #27 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 82.5 — Elite. The episode packs 64 scored jokes at 3.9 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.8 on impact, with Leela landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Narrator: But just when it looked like they'd never win... They didn't.
Narrator Misdirection Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Leela: Amy, remember when we tried out for the Rockettes? And we failed because we accidentally kicked those two Rockettes to death?
Leela Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Professor: He has absolutely no brain activity. Look! He lost the strange insect parts. He's back to normal!
Professor Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Announcer: I am so sorry for allowing this lurid sex act to taint an otherwise delightful day of family-friendly violence.
Amy: Even that team that turned out to be us in the mirror.
Amy Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 64 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Zapp · Kif: Well, what'll it be, folks? Tap water or bottled? Whatever. Kif, you pick. Oh, oh, it's always so hard to decide. Tap. I mean bottled. Bam!
Amy · Leela: Ooh, I love your boots, Leela. Nobody would ever guess they're knockoffs. How could you tell? I guessed.
Amy Leela Setup/Punchline Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Fry: Like how I might say I like Amy's dress 'cause it covers all her tramp stamps.
Zapp: Now, enough about who is and who isn't a Chinese skank. We're just two happy couples on a double date.
Zapp Absurdist Character Comedy Leela: Let's go! Let's go! We've got to get these moon rocks to the moon by moondown.
Leela Wordplay/Pun Absurdist ★ Rewatch Leela: Oh, those lunar crybabies claim the rocks were stolen by the Apollo astronauts. They consider them part of their cultural heritage.
Leela Observational Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Bender · Leela: Nice work, Leela. You're really pulling your weight. Which is saying something. Ow!
Leela: I don't even need my over-the-shoulder boulder holder.
Leela: With one-sixth gravity, you can work and be lazy at the same time. It's like being a voice actor.
Leela Observational Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Moon hillbilly: It's a necessity of the sport, it is.
Leela: This is what I was expecting.
Leela Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat Callback Moon hillbilly: You see that there? That's called a floor. Once a butterfly hits that, she's out.
Moon hillbilly: Keep your eye on the ground. That's where she's going to land. Yep, called it.
Amy: Judging from your tank top, you love getting hooted at by hillbillies. And you could use the $50 for another gallon of Hello Kitty perfume.
Amy Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Moon Hillbilly: The bicker sisters teaming up? Talk about cat women on the moon.
Fry: Then prove it. By fighting.
Fry Absurdist Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Kif: Why don't you and I ever do things together?
Kif Character Comedy Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Leela: Amy, remember when we tried out for the Rockettes? And we failed because we accidentally kicked those two Rockettes to death?
Leela Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Murderfly: We'll teach you not to lose immediately.
Announcer: Yay. They can move their arms.
Abner Doubledeal: Nothing that doesn't happen to everyone eventually.
Narrator: And so began the fight career of two skimpy outfits and the feisty women who filled them.
Narrator: And although sometimes they got beaten, other times, they got beaten badly.
Narrator Escalation Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Narrator: But just when it looked like they'd never win... They didn't.
Narrator Misdirection Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Amy: Even that team that turned out to be us in the mirror.
Amy Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Amy: Whoa, that puts the lead in my pencil. Thanks, trainer.
Amy Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Trainer: Or... Inject it between your toes. Either way works, right?
Amy: Mmm! A guy could get used to this.
Sportsbot: That's pretty much it.
Sportsbot Deadpan/Understatement Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Professor: So are carrots, but you don't see me injecting them between my toes.
Leela: I already got a double date with arm and hammer.
Leela Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender: Oh, so now I'm your last-resort booty call, huh? Okay, let's go.
Bender Character Comedy Reaction Beat Amy: Cork your face bladder. I'm working!
Amy Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Murderfly: I got a little boy at home, and he's dying. Dying to see me kill these two.
Murderfly Misdirection Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Leela · Amy: But from neglect. 'Cause you're going home in an urn. A funerary urn.
Kif: She just wants to hit me with various chairs.
Kif Character Comedy Escalation Fry · Leela: Hey Leela, want to know what the most beautiful thing is? No. Let's get hopped up.
Butterfly curator: Suck them, burn them... As long as they're not butterflies, I don't give a grand crap.
Butterfly Curator: He can be identified by his orange coloration and enormous butterjunk.
Bender: What's he gonna do, migrate at us?
Bender Wordplay/Pun Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Butterfly curator: But believe me, you'll rue the day you came to the Butterfly Preserve. Well, enjoy the Butterfly Preserve.
Fry: I don't even know why we're helping find an addictive drug for our mean girlfriends.
Fry Observational Deadpan/Understatement Fry: It smells like a skunk stuffed with feta cheese.
Fry Observational Escalation Bender: Thank God I don't have a nose.
Bender Character Comedy Reaction Beat Fry · Kif's father: Wait, you're flies. Don't you eat excrement? That's a day at the beach compared to this.
Amy: You smell kind of nice.
Amy Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Fry: But McGruff the Crime Dog says... Oh!
Fry Character Comedy Reaction Beat Bender: I'm done polishing my ass, Fry. Here's your toothbrush back.
Bender Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Leela: As God is my witness, I'll never forgive you for this!
Leela Character Comedy Escalation Bender: This planet's got it going on.
Bender Reaction Beat Character Comedy Professor: Sweet orgy of Georgia! Have you girls gone wild?
Professor Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Professor: Sweet orgy of Georgia! Have you girls gone wild?
Professor Wordplay/Pun Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Amy: Oh, I think I'm getting a little caterpilly.
Amy Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Leela: All right, let's get this party ended.
Leela Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Amy Character Comedy Reaction Beat Bender: Well, looks like Fry's three-way is down to a one-way. If he's lucky.
Bender Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Abner Doubledeal: What are you doing at your place of work?
Announcer: Since this is a championship match, we are gonna need some lava!
Murderfly: I once killed a sea turtle with these boots.
Murderfly Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Amy: He's even more beautiful than before!
Amy Character Comedy Absurdist Kif: Oh, cripes! They're mating!
Kif Cringe/Discomfort Escalation Announcer: I am so sorry for allowing this lurid sex act to taint an otherwise delightful day of family-friendly violence.
Bender: That is some freaky bug-on-bug action. I feel a little left out.
Bender Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Professor: He has absolutely no brain activity. Look! He lost the strange insect parts. He's back to normal!
Professor Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch