Amy sets out to collect the cutest toys in the universe – but they are not as harmless as they appear.
WAR
5.3
Wins Above Replacement
“Cuteness Overload” ranks #168 of 170 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 67.4 — Mixed. The episode packs 50 scored jokes at 3.7 per minute, averaging 6.2 on craft and 6.0 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: Now, now. We've all been there.
Professor Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Bender: This is the greatest injustice Germany has ever committed!
Bender Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Professor: It's tragedy on a bun.
Professor Wordplay/Pun Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Bender: Guys, guys! Chef Fritz accidentally got thrown down an icy slope! I'm the sausage champion! No further questions!
Bender Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bender: Whoa, whoa, whoa! I enjoy partying as much as the next fellow, but this is Oktoberfest. Good day, sir!
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 50 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Unknown character · Fry: You double-dipped! Geez.
Professor · Orange Joe: Why, I don't even know half your names! You, boy. What do they call you? Most folks just call me Orange Joe.
Professor: It's July, right? Let's wait three months and go to Oktoberfest!
Bender: Bring on the beer! And the scantily clad barmaids! And the more beer!
Bender Character Comedy Escalation Bender: Hey! I don't smell Bavarian-style vomit. Where's Oktoberfest?
Bender Absurdist Observational ★ Rewatch Refined patron: No, I wouldn't want to ruin my Oktoberfest by becoming intoxicated.
Fry: You can all act like Jersey Shore socialites, but at least Bender will party with me. Right, buddy?
Fry Observational Misdirection Bender: Whoa, whoa, whoa! I enjoy partying as much as the next fellow, but this is Oktoberfest. Good day, sir!
Bender Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Fry: Ach du freakin' Lieber!
Fry Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Fry · Elzar: Sounds like fun on a bun! Shut up! I said it first! Bam! Also, ow.
Fry: Hey, Elzar, I've just recently started always having dreamt of being a sausage-making champion.
Fry Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Chef contestant: Gonna grind 'em up into Heavenwurst.
Elzar: So you are using pork! Pork that's been aged for 3,000 years! Bam!
Elzar Escalation Character Comedy Elzar: Sorry, Grundy. I'll have to kill you later for some other reason.
Elzar Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Fry: Man, all the fun has been taken out of this once-noble barf-a-palooza.
Fry Observational Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Fry: I'm as thirsty as a drunk.
Fry: Fahrvergnugen! Kaiser Permanente! Fruzen Gladje!
Fry Absurdist Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Refined patron: Ich bin ein never!
Leela: Okay, that's it. You are a boorish, primitive Neanderthal! We were going out? I mean, no!
Leela Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Fry: And the worst part is, I had to have the breakup sex by myself!
Fry Dark/Subversive Setup/Punchline Fry: I hate future Oktoberfest! It's supposed to be beer and bratwurst, not breakups and boring thing!
Fry Character Comedy Escalation Narrator/Guide: where prehistoric man once hunted the majestic Schnufel-Ufagus or woolly mammoth.
Fry · Bender: I didn't know this ship had a mammoth detector. You're drunk, Fry. This is the elephant detector. I just set it to 'big and woolly.'
Fry: My hair is caught! Bender! Turn it off! Sausage is great, sausage is great. Sausage, sausage, sausage!
Fry Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Bender · Judge · Leela: Shut up, Judge, I know it. Way to go, Bender! Can I try a piece? You can have yourself a whole big boy.
Leela · Unknown character: Oh, my God! That looks like Fry's hair! Come on, don't make jokes like that while I'm eating.
Professor: It's tragedy on a bun.
Professor Wordplay/Pun Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Professor: Now, now. We've all been there.
Professor Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Memory surgeon: Like this one 'Fry falls off zoo train.' He thought he recognized one of the monkeys!
Memory surgeon: 'Fry finds popcorn in his belly button.' 'You eat a sausage made of Fry.' 'Fry gives you a chicken hat.' Oh, that's sweet.
Fry Irony/Sarcasm Dark/Subversive Bender: What about my feelings? Fry was my best friend, and now he's dead! Nah, I'm just kidding. My pastor helped me through my grief.
Bender Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Fry: Sausage is great, sausage is great. Sausage, sausage, sausage. Whew! That was close.
Fry Callback Absurdist Callback Neanderthal: Me think so. Anyone dumb enough get stuck in ice probably Neanderthal.
Leela: Fifty three tons of hamburgers and French Fragments of not potatoes.
Leela Absurdist Wordplay/Pun Neanderthal: Why you stare at prehistoric pig butt?
Neanderthal Chief: All Neanderthal sad. It in our nature. Why? It all start 30,000 year ago, in fertile Neander Valley.
Neanderthal Chief: We suggest interbreed, become one big happy species. But they treat us like second-class hominid.
Fry: And I do have vague memories of people refusing to breed with me!
Fry Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Neanderthal Chief: This very interesting. Maybe someone look into it, many years from now.
Neanderthal: It's our chance to take back the outside world from those stuck-up Homo sapiens with their tools and their pants and such.
Bender: This is the greatest injustice Germany has ever committed!
Bender Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Zapp: Dear God, look at those hairy elephants!
Zapp Observational Character Comedy Zapp · Kif: With men in them. Then how are they unmanned? The men are just for ballast.
Zapp Kif Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Zapp: it's designed to withstand even the weight of a modern-day elephant foot.
Zapp Setup/Punchline Irony/Sarcasm Zapp: like the mighty 'X' in tic-tac-toe.
Zapp Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Neanderthal: We want our land back! Also, to be treated as equals! And a little mating wouldn't hurt!
Fry · Orange Joe: Orange? Purple? Do I know you? Have we met?
Bender: Guys, guys! Chef Fritz accidentally got thrown down an icy slope! I'm the sausage champion! No further questions!
Bender Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fry: No, Leela. Just this once, I'm going to let you embarrass me.
Fry Character Comedy Callback Callback