Your Favorite Futurama Moment

[Surbey]

I would have to say that one of my favorite moments, and basically my favorite episode, is when Bender is playing god. In that episode, Bender is sleeping in a torpedo tube. They accidentally fire him, while going full speed, at some pirates. Upon learning that this was their friend and not a missle, they attempt to chase after him but to no avail.

Lela: "We can't catch him. We were going full speed when we shot him so he's going faster than that"
Fry:"So we can never catch him? Even if we rub the engine with Cheeta blood?!"


Hehehehe, alwasy tickles me up

and you?

[RickJay]

Fry has just met Gary Gygax, the inventor on Dungeons and Dragons. Gygax says "Hello, I'm..." and then pulls out soem dice, rolls them, inspects the result, and continues, "...pleased to meet you!"

[Clothahump]

The were-car....

[TristramAiblins]

Professor: "This is an extremely dangerous mission, someone is sure to get killed. Fry, Leela, Bender."

Bender: "Damn you old man!!"

[wolf in second hand clothing]

Fry: I feel like such a jerk.

Bender: Yeah, but everybody's a jerk. You, me, this jerk...

[TristramAiblins]

Just one more

Bender: Ah, computer dating! It's just like pimping, only you don't have to use the phrase "Upside your head."

[Captain Amazing]

I always crack up during The Devil's Song in the episode "Hell is other Robots", especially Fry's line "My ass has blisters from the ride!"

[Battle Pope]

Fry drinks his hundredth cup of coffee.

Just his nod of understanding as time slows down is perfect.

[Mr. Rosewater]

I love Niblers line in the exchange below, from one of the times when Fry goes back to the year 2000.

Fry: But, I knew you in the future. I cleaned your poop.

Nibler: Quite possible, we live long and are celebrated poopers.

[Raguleader]

The end of the episode about Fry's dog. My room mate and I watched that episode, and after the credits rolled, there was just this silent moment, followed by my room mate saying "Man, that was kinda depressing."

One of those times where Futurama practiced it's ability to get bits of loose dust in my eyes. Not many animated shows that can do that.

[MacTech]

there's too many to choose from...

from Fear of a Bot Planet;
Bender has just concluded his "Death to Humans" speech, the Mayor of Chapek 9 rolls up to the podium and announces "Let the Hunt Begin!", the robot trumpeters raise their trumpets to their lips and play a Macintosh startup chime (a Quadra series chime IIRC...)

from The Problem with Popplers;
<Lrrr> I think there was something funny in that hippie.... People of Earth, I've learned something today, i've learned that.....whoa, dude, my hands are *HUGE!*....and they can touch anything but themselves...oh.....

from Where No Fan Has Gone Before
<Walter Koenig> When we woke up, we had these bodies...
<Fry> Say it in Russian!
<WK>(sighs, flat and lifeless) ven ve voke up ve had zeez.....wodies....
<F>(Happily and enthusiastically)EEEEEEEE!, now say "nuclear wessels"
<WK>NO!!

[Pixiesnix]

Paraphrasing here.

Fry: We're all weird, and that's what makes us great. Like Dr. Zoidberg. He's a weird crab doctor who smells like he eats garbage, and does.

Zoidberg: Damn right!

Fry: Or the professor, a senile, amoral crackpot.

Professor: Ohweeoooh...

Fry: Or Hermes, a rastafarian accountant.

Hermes: Tally me banana!

Fry: Or Amy, a klutz from Mars.

Amy: (spills wine) Sploops!

Professor: And then there's Fry's brain condition.

Fry: I already did!

A great sequence.

[Larry Borgia]

"You are leaking coolant at an alarming rate. Shall I apply some searing hot resin?"

[Kiros]

"This is ancient Earth's most foolish program. Why does Ross, the largest friend, not simply eat the other five?"

[Darwin's Finch]

This scene, from "The Deep South". In particular, the Professor's utterance of "Oh my!" just cracks me up.

[Pixiesnix]

Darwin's Finch wrote:
This scene, from "The Deep South". In particular, the Professor's utterance of "Oh my!" just cracks me up.

That reminds me of another line from the same episode.

Professor: Fry, you half-crazed, half insane maniac! Be reasonable!

[Fern Forest]

When the Professor chastises Bubble-Gum Tate's show boat mathematics.

The young Professor and his predictable colon.

[Evil Captor]

"Death by snoo-snoo!" That scene had me laughing so hard, tears were coming out of my eyes. "I'd always imagined ... well, hoped ... it would end this way."

[Qadgop the Mercotan]

{paraphrased}
Fry is trying to sleep next to Bender. Bender is dreaming, and talking in his sleep.

Bender: KILL ALL HUMANS! KILL ALL HUMANS!

Fry: Bender, wake up!

Bender: Oh, what a lovely dream I was having. And you were in it, Fry!

Fry: Well, go back to sleep!

Bender falls asleep again.

Bender: Hey, sexy mama, wanna........ KILL ALL HUMANS?

[sandra_nz]

Whoooo! Whoooo! Whoooo! *arms wooshing through the air*
....

"Safe!"

[Bosstone]

"You still have Zoidberg. YOU ALL STILL HAVE ZOIDBERG!"

[Marley23]

Originally Posted by Captain Amazing

I always crack up during The Devil's Song in the episode "Hell is other Robots", especially Fry's line "My ass has blisters from the ride!"

My first Favorite Futurama Moment was from that episode.

Leela: Who'd have thought hell would really exist, and that it would be in New Jersey?
Fry: Actually-
trap door opens

Originally Posted by Evil Captor

"Death by snoo-snoo!" That scene had me laughing so hard, tears were coming out of my eyes. "I'd always imagined ... well, hoped ... it would end this way."

The sequence of facial expressions Fry, Zapp and Kif go through later in that scene are just amazing.

[friedo]

Zoidberg A: Well, don't look into it, but I'm a respected internal medicine doctor!
Zoidberg 1: As for me, I design mansions, then live in them!

[Surbey]

Truman "If you've come in peace, then surrender. If you've come to conquer us and bring war, we surrender"
Zoidberg" Well both are good. The important thing is I'm meeting new people.




Zoidberg " Its been my experience that boxes are usually empty. Or somtimes, they have cheese stuck to the top. And one time, Peperoni! What a day!"

[Cisco]

"Have you heard of the Monks of Shubah?"

"I've - not - heard of them" (as if this is a perfectly acceptable and even helpful answer )

I use that all the time in conversation but nobody ever gets it.

[Gerome]

Zapp Brannigan - "If we hit this bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate."

[Raygun99]

"Ladies and gentlemen, something very strange has just happened in this basketball game between space clowns and atomic monsters!"

[cmkeller]

From "Luck of the Fryrish":

Racetrack Announcer: And the winner is # 3, in a quantum finish!
Professor Farnsworth: That's not fair! You affected the outcome by observing it!

In a show full of geek jokes, that has to be the best.

[Raguleader]

Originally Posted by cmkeller

From "Luck of the Fryrish":

Racetrack Announcer: And the winner is # 3, in a quantum finish!
Professor Farnsworth: That's not fair! You affected the outcome by observing it!

In a show full of geek jokes, that has to be the best.

Heh, and being a lib arts student, I felt nerdy for getting the joke.

[aclubs]

Fry: "What if the secret ingredient is...people!?"
Leela: "They already have a drink like that. It's called Soylent Cola."
Fry: "How is it?"
Leela: "It varies from person to person."

[Marley23]

"Quantum finish" is one of my favorite Futurama geek jokes, but that's just because I get it. I know for a fact that Futurama did other jokes that were so geeky, I didn't even know they were jokes. And there's absolutely no way that most of their geeky viewers would have gotten them. The multiple references to the number 1729, for example.

[jackelope]

Bender, getting kicked out of the lunar theme park:

"I don't need your stupid theme park! I'm gonna start my own theme park! With BLACKJACK! And HOOKERS! In fact, forget the theme park!"

My other favorite is one of those unexpectedly tender moments; it's when Fry has read about the amazing 21st-century exploits of "Philip Fry," and concluded that his brother, Yancey (with whom he always had a strong rivalry), had done all these things under his name.

Then, at the end, he finds out that:

SPOILER:

Yancey named his son "Philip" after his brother who disappeared.

Choked me right up.

And in that same episode, I loved it when Bender dug up the corpse of John Larroquette, stole the wedding ring, and put it on his own finger. "Sorry ladies, I'm taken..."

[bouv]

OK, this is #1 in the list of threads not to read while drunk off your ass!

"Jurrasic Bark," is, IMO, the greatest 22 minutes of animated program ever put onto television, and easily top ten of all time great sitcom moments.

[Max the Immortal]

From the globetrotters episode:
Hermes: I'm just glad my fat, ugly momma isn't around to see this.
Professor: Enough about your promiscuous mother, Hermes!

[Ximenean]

I love that line of Bender's when he has washed up on a desert island and become leader of a group of obsolete robots, which sets off for New New York:

Bender: We're going to launch an attack on technology worthy of being chronicled in an anthem by Rush!

[Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor]

Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Above all else it is our responsibility to preserve the timeline.
<Fry walks in>
Fry: Well, I've killed my grandfather.
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Whaaaaaaaa?
Leela: Wait, if you killed your grandfather, why do you still exist?
Fry: I don't know. Maybe God loves me.
Bender: <Starts laughing maniacally>


Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Buddha. Zeus. God. Somebody help me. Satan, you owe me.


Leela: Well, at least here you'll be treated with dignity. Now strip naked and get on the probulator.


<after seeing visions of Fry, despite his apparent death>
Leela: I'll find Fry's coffin, get his corpse, and keep it under my mattress to remind me that he's really dead. That'll prove I'm not insane!


Morbo: Morbo will now introduce the candidates - Puny Human Number One, Puny Human Number Two, and Morbo's good friend Richard Nixon.
Richard Nixon's Head: How's the family, Morbo?
Morbo: Belligerent and numerous.

[Kayeby]

From Fear of a Bot Planet when Fry and Leela are trying to infiltrate the robot city and the guard robots are trying to figure out whether they are human:

Guard Robot #1: Administer the test.
Guard Robot #2: Which of the following would you most prefer?
A) A puppy
B) A pretty flower from your sweetie or
C) A large properly formatted data file?
Guard Robot #1: CHOOSE!
(Fry and Leela confer)
Fry: Is the puppy mechanical in any way?
Guard Robot #2: No. It is the bad kind of puppy.
Leela: Then we'll go with that data file.
Guard Robot #2: Correct.
Guard Robot #1: The flower would also have been acceptable.

[Wile E]

Originally Posted by Raguleader

The end of the episode about Fry's dog. My room mate and I watched that episode, and after the credits rolled, there was just this silent moment, followed by my room mate saying "Man, that was kinda depressing."

One of those times where Futurama practiced it's ability to get bits of loose dust in my eyes. Not many animated shows that can do that.
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Originally Posted by bouv

OK, this is #1 in the list of threads not to read while drunk off your ass!

"Jurrasic Bark," is, IMO, the greatest 22 minutes of animated program ever put onto television, and easily top ten of all time great sitcom moments.

Earlier this week I had a conversation with my boyfriend. Futurama came up and he said he hadn't watched it much and never got what was so great about it and I pretty much said the same thing as bouv, Jurassic Bark was the best episode of any animated show ever. It made me cry but it was still the best. He just gave me an odd look. So I guess this means I must buy the series on DVD and force him to watch.

[hawthorne]

Small Crowd: What do we want?
Fry: Fry's dog!
Small Crowd: When do we want it?
Fry: Fry's dog.

Zapp: She's built like a steakhouse, but she handles like a bistro.

Zoidberg (at blernsball snack stand): "I'd like a jumbo squidlog please."
Snack seller: "We don't sell those."
Zoidberg: "All right, all right, let me have one of your young on a roll."
Snack seller: "We're out of rolls."
Zoidberg: "Fine! Just give me something crawling with parasites."
Scene cuts to stand. Zoidberg is eating a hot dog.

[gredbioz]

Leela: Somebody ought to teach you a lesson, Zap!
Zap: Is it a lesson in love? Because if so, I have a very sexy learning disability. What do I call it, Kif?
Kif: (groan) SEX-LEXIA.

[Lissa]

Originally Posted by gredbioz

Leela: Somebody ought to teach you a lesson, Zap!
Zap: Is it a lesson in love? Because if so, I have a very sexy learning disability. What do I call it, Kif?
Kif: (groan) SEX-LEXIA.

There's one segment with Kipf and Zap Brannigan that always cracks me up. The scene opens with Brannigan sitting in a chair saying, " . . . . and that's why you'll never make captian, Kipf." It's funnier to imagine the lecture which must have proceeded it.

Another favorite:

"I have made it with a woman. Inform the men!"

[GIGObuster]

Amy Wong: You're going to Nigel 7? Kif's on patrol near there, you could drop me off on the way!

Professor Hubert Farnsworth: We could but we won't. It's a spaceship damn it! Not a prom limousine!
[angry]Ooooooooooooooh!!
If anyone needs me I'll be in the Angry Dome!

[pilot141]

Both from Bender.

When the ship goes back to the 1940s and they find Fry's grandfather, Fry and Bender are trying to protect him. They take him to an isolated cabin and lock him up. As they are driving away the cabin gets nuked.

Bender (to Fry): And you are outta here!

In the garbage meteor episode the crew is watching to see if their garbage rocket will hit the incoming meteor. Time slows down and we hear the heartbeats of different crewmembers. When they get to Bender it's a drum solo riff.

[Captain Amazing]

Morbo: Morbo will now introduce the candidates - Puny Human Number One, Puny Human Number Two, and Morbo's good friend Richard Nixon.
Richard Nixon's Head: How's the family, Morbo?
Morbo: Belligerent and numerous.

The best part of that quote is Nixon's next line, which is "Good. Nixon is pro-war and pro-family"

I also crack up whenever I see hedonism bot.

[Tracy Lord]

My memory of the context is vague on this one, but Nixon's head was throwing a robot party(?) that was actually a trap(?). He gets up and does a quick little "Who's ready to party with Nixon?"

The robots go wild. Nixon's head says, "Great! I'll...be right back. ...Okay, headless body of Agnew, let's blow this joint!"

And a besuited body leaps up, grabs Nixon's head, growls, and runs for a waiting helicopter.

I was watching it with friends, and I fell off the sofa, I was laughing so hard.

[DxZero]

From "Roswell that Ends Well"

ZOIDBERG:Are you coming onto me?
TRUMAN: Hot crackers I take exception to that!
ZOIDBERG: I'm not hearing a no.

[Surbey]

I just watched Jurassic Bark and it about made me cry. That's a terrible touching story. I don't know what it is about faithful dogs but it gets me every time.

[DoctorJ]

All Glory To The Hypnotoad

[Surbey]

I like how the coolometer, a device measuring coolness, is measured in increments of metric Fonzies. Hermes and Fonsworth's sons measure over "40 Mega-Fonzies"

[usar_jag]

For me, it has to be the episode "Put Your Head on My Shoulders", where I unexpectedly heard the song "Moons of Jupiter" from one of my favorite obscure bands, Scruffy the Cat. I'm hoping that means I share some sort of musical taste with the writers...