Amy sets out to collect the cutest toys in the universe – but they are not as harmless as they appear.
WAR
32.2
Wins Above Replacement
“Cuteness Overlord” ranks #115 of 137 Futurama episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 73.2 — Solid. The episode packs 58 scored jokes at 3.1 per minute, averaging 6.8 on craft and 6.3 on impact, with Amy landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Amy: Nobody gets to hug Kif to death but me!
Amy Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Leela: That's Bandit. He gave me my first rabies.
Leela Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Amy: Just sneak in and pretend to be orphans till I get back! Go, go, go!
Amy Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Professor · Amy: Our desire to obtain them is beyond our control. / I don't know if it's literally beyond our-- / A CuddleFish is up for auction!
Kif: It's as if they had their very lives cuddled out of them!
Kif Dark/Subversive Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Standout Moments
Leela: That's Bandit. He gave me my first rabies.
Leela Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Amy: Just sneak in and pretend to be orphans till I get back! Go, go, go!
Amy Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Amy: Nobody gets to hug Kif to death but me!
Amy Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 58 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Picky: I'm not picky! / Ew, gross! You got egg white in my egg!
Picky Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Mandy · Picky: These are kids' clothes, Mom! I'm not wearing these! / Me neither!
Amy: I don't get why my kids are so spoiled. We have tons of money, we give them everything they want, and still totally spoiled!
Amy Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Amy: Hey, does the Orphanarium allow visitors? You know, so people can feel good about themselves, and also frighten their own children?
Amy Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Zapp · Kif: Lieutenant Kroker! Report for emergency briefing. / Oh, thank God. I'll be back in a month!
Zapp Kif Reaction Beat Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Albert · Warden Vogel: Is this gonna be my new family? / No, Albert. These folks are here to provide useless, unskilled labor, not adopt you. / Oh, thank God.
Leela · Warden Vogel: Ah, so the little ones don't choke. / No, so there's enough to go around.
Bender · Warden Vogel: This soup smells delicious! Can I help serve and eat it, yum-yum? / You've gotta make it first. That's just tap water.
Bender Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist ★ Rewatch Leela · Warden Vogel: Shall I take this putrid trash out? / That isn't trash. It's the donation bin. / Donors put their trash in it.
Warden Vogel: Two-thirds of a basketball for you, a clump of melted army men for you, three stuffed animals with tomato sauce for you, and a tricy-- uh, bicycle for you.
Warden Vogel · Albert: Albert, you get a cookie. / Yum!
Mandy · Picky: This is way nicer than my room at home! / Mine has too much furnitures. / And it's all so matchy-matchy.
Albert: You want me to kick her?
Albert Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement Bender · Kid: How'd that happen anyway? / Damien did it. With his brain.
Bender Character Comedy Reaction Beat Amy: I apologize, kids. That was just horrible! I'll buy you all ponies to make up for it.
Amy Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Sally: The raccoon lick'ded some of the p'sghetti sauce off.
Sally · Mandy: Hi! My name is Bearinara! I like your ear! / I like your big empty forehead.
Sally: You're a little green froggy just like my daddy!
Sally Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Amy · Mandy: Mandy! Stop kissing garbage! / But, we're having fun!
Zapp: You know, Kif, among certain females, I'm better known for my de-briefing.
Zapp Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Admirella · Kif: That's why I've been keeping it close to my chest. / Uh... / I-I should get a map like that for Amy.
Admirella · Zapp: Important means Earth, Lieutenant. / The very survival of Earth is at stake. / Pfft. Amphibios 9.
Picky: Are these domestic bath salts? What are we, bankrupt?
Picky Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Shoppers: Hey! Grab. Hands off my kajigger! It's a present for my whatsit! / Your whatsit's too old to play with kajiggers.
Amy · Store Employee: People collect these things? / Oh God, yes. From the moment I nabbed my first one, I was like... ♪ Gotta collect 'em all! ♪
Amy · Store Employee: There! I collected 'em all. / Oh, honey, that's not even close to 'em all. You've got, like, 195 to go.
News reporter: ...much like Bitcoin or tulips.
Professor · Bender: Since baby mammals have relatively large eyes at birth, we evolved to find that cute, so we'd care for our offspring instead of strangling them. / Clever little bastards.
Professor · Others: The pinprick pupils are ugly and off-putting. / Turn it off! Turn it off!
Professor · Amy: Our desire to obtain them is beyond our control. / I don't know if it's literally beyond our-- / A CuddleFish is up for auction!
Amy · Auctioneer: All the money in my children's college funds! / Madam, that bid is more than makes any sense.
Auctioneer: We have More Than Makes Any Sense, More Than Makes Any Sense. Do I hear More Than Makes Any Sense and a Half?
Auctioneer · Mom: Do I hear Girl, Are You Kidding Me Right Now? / You only live once, Mother. Although it's been a very long once.
Hermes: And instead of reading 'Cashew CuddleFish,' the tag reads, 'Knockoff Phonyfish.'
Amy: Maybe they don't exist! Maybe it's all just some kinda sick, fuzzy-wuzzy game!
Amy Character Comedy Escalation Kids: That stain looks like a moldy bunny. / That one looks like a cockaroach! Oh, it ran away.
Kids Visual Gag Misdirection Amy · Sally: That one is so dirty. Wouldn't you rather have some nice clean ones? / No, I like my dirty one better. It matches me.
Amy Sally Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Zapp · Kif: I have a weird feeling about this, Kif. / Set tension level to maximum.
Kif: It's as if they had their very lives cuddled out of them!
Kif Dark/Subversive Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Scruffy: They just made a harmless delivery and stole some stuff. Nothing illegal about that.
Scruffy Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Kif · Scruffy: Any alien invaders around here? / Uh-oh. The fuzz!
Professor · Leela · Amy: My God! What? What's in there? / Little plastic beads! Or beans! / What did you expect? It's a beanbag.
Professor · Amy · Bender: Whoa, this is no bean. It's alive! / Aren't beans alive? / Cork it, nerd!
Professor · Zapp: The entire organism is filled with spores! It's essentially just one big reproductive organ. / Much like certain humans, eh, Leela?
Amy: ♪ I got it, I got it! The rarest in the world! By ripping off a little orphan girl! ♪ / I'm a terrible person.
Amy Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Professor · Amy: This is an invasion where we're buying the invaders and bringing them into our homes! / Like my black mold Chia Pet?
Sally: It's special to me, 'cause it's the first time a mommy ever gived me a present.
Sally Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Bender · Leela: I can't do it. It's too adorable! / Don't be ridiculous. Give it to me. / Oh! Dammit! The cuteness is too much, even for me! And I believe Bambi's mother deserved it!
Leela: Ah! Those tiny pinprick pupils!
Leela Callback Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Callback Amy: Wrong! Because to a mother, the cutest thing in the universe is her own child.
Amy Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Professor · Amy: The Alpha Funbag is dead? How on earth did you do it?! / Cute recognize cute.
Amy: They may be lousy toys, but they're a great investment. / And I collected 'em all!
Amy Irony/Sarcasm Callback Callback All: ♪ Gotta collect 'em, gotta collect 'em, Gotta collect 'em all! ♪
All Callback Running Gag Callback 