# Favorite Futurama Episodes, besides...

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 9, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-futurama-episodes-besides/476442 "2008-12-09T20:02:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-futurama-episodes-besides/476442/41 "2008-12-10T18:42:01Z")

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> [@fusoya](#):
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> Also _Fear of a Bot Planet_. SILENCE! That episode hooked me once and for all as Futurama being my current favorite show on the air. SIIILENCE!

SILENCE!! All our most powerful magnetic fields were useless. In the end, all it took was an ordinary pointed stick!

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**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-futurama-episodes-besides/476442/42 "2008-12-10T18:49:40Z")

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> [@msmith537](#):
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> SILENCE!! All our most powerful magnetic fields were useless. In the end, all it took was an ordinary pointed stick!

SILENCE!! I concur!

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**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-futurama-episodes-besides/476442/43 "2008-12-10T18:55:50Z")

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“Leela’s Homeworld” Any episode with the sewer mutants is great, but the montage at the end where you see her growing up and her parent’s leaving gifts for her/watching out for her from the sewers is one of the most touching parts of the series.

> [@shy\_guy](#):
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> It has some of the best Calculon lines, too -
> 
> “Oh, _Monique_! Why did we wait so long to bathe in _champagne_?”

“That was so bad, I think it gave me cancer!”

“No, Calculon doesn’t do retakes.”

> [@msmith537](#):
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> SILENCE!! All our most powerful magnetic fields were useless. In the end, all it took was an ordinary pointed stick!

SILENCE! I concur.

(My 4 year old loves to say SILENCE!)

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**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-futurama-episodes-besides/476442/44 "2008-12-10T19:05:23Z")

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> [@Mr.Kobayashi](#):
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> All time favourite, though, gotta be _Insane in the Mainframe_.  
> After the bank robbery:  
> Nixon: “Shoot them in the back, quick, while they’re not looking.”  
> And;  
> Judge: “Yes? What? You say if I testify I’ll be killed? Oh, it’s for you.”  
> Also Bender’s Napoleon: “Je suis Napoleon! Nah, really, I’m not.”  
> “Gonna sing you a little song about a battle called Waterloooooo…bonjour, y’all!”

You missed the best line from that episode:

“. . . and tha otha hamburga will ALSO be made’a your lungs!”

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**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-futurama-episodes-besides/476442/45 "2008-12-10T19:07:31Z")

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It shouldn’t be too hard to figure out my favorites.

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**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-futurama-episodes-besides/476442/46 "2008-12-10T19:12:05Z")

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Hmm…your favorite character is obvious, but you might still like some entire episodes better than the one (or two) in which the Hypno-Toad appears. (The Day the Earth Stood Stupid, and…there was one where the crew was watching a show called “Everyone Loves Hypno-Toad” but I don’t recall which).

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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-futurama-episodes-besides/476442/47 "2008-12-10T19:15:06Z")

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> [@Hypno-Toad](#):
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> It shouldn’t be too hard to figure out my favorites.

The ones with the Brain Slugs?

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**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-futurama-episodes-besides/476442/48 "2008-12-10T19:46:12Z")

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Don’t over-think it people.

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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-futurama-episodes-besides/476442/49 "2008-12-10T19:54:09Z")

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> [@Hypno-Toad](#):
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> Don’t over-think it people.

Well, I don’t think that… ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO TOAD!

Actually, I always like Zap Brannegan episodes (Sexlexia…classic). The one where Fry and Bender enlist and have to invade some ball planet comes to mind.

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**Author:** ![AmericanMaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@AmericanMaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmericanMaid)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-futurama-episodes-besides/476442/50 "2008-12-10T19:56:03Z")

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“I, Roommate” won a spot in my heart thanks to the bathroom exchange:  
“Where’s the bathroom?”  
“The what room?”  
“The bathroom.”  
“The bath what?”  
“The bathroom.”  
“The what what?”

Also I love “Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?” for two things: the kegelcizer and Fry being a fat sack of crap, “SACK?!?!”

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**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-futurama-episodes-besides/476442/51 "2008-12-10T19:58:00Z")

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> [@msmith537](#):
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> Actually, I always like Zap Brannegan episodes (Sexlexia…classic). The one where Fry and Bender enlist and have to invade some ball planet comes to mind.

Kifs sigh kills me every time.

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**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-futurama-episodes-besides/476442/52 "2008-12-10T20:04:53Z")

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> [@msmith537](#):
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> Actually, I always like Zap Brannegan episodes (Sexlexia…classic). The one where Fry and Bender enlist and have to invade some ball planet comes to mind.

“I always said that the key to winning is the element of surprise… _SURPRISE!!_”

For straight-up sight gags, the scene in _How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back_ when they pan across Fry’s bedroom and show an owl struggling in a giant spider web always kills me.

Really, any scene with owls is good for a laugh.

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**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-futurama-episodes-besides/476442/53 "2008-12-10T20:14:28Z")

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> [@msmith537](#):
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> Actually, I always like Zap Brannegan episodes (Sexlexia…classic). The one where Fry and Bender enlist and have to invade some ball planet comes to mind.

“Our elders tell of a young ball like you. First, he bounced three meters in the air. Then, he bounced one point eight meters in the air. Then, he bounced _four_ meters in the air. Do we make ourselves clear?”

“Mr. Ambassador, our people tell the same story.”

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**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-futurama-episodes-besides/476442/54 "2008-12-10T20:25:23Z")

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> [@Cisco](#):
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> You missed the best line from that episode:
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> “. . . and tha otha hamburga will ALSO be made’a your lungs!”

Fry: I refuse to testify on the grounds that my organs will be chopped up into a patty!  
Judge: Ah, the 67th amendment…

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**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-futurama-episodes-besides/476442/55 "2008-12-10T21:53:05Z")

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> [@Jophiel](#):
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> Really, any scene with owls is good for a laugh.

Oh yeah, owls being the vermin of the future just kills me.

Hermes: “Someone’s been leaving food around, and it’s attracting owls. And I for one am tired of cleaning out the owl traps.” (in the background, you hear, \>snap\< HOOO!!!)

Another great one came to mind just now: Old Man Waterfall, Zoidberg’s lawyer for his flag-eating case.

OMW: “That’s right, I’m a polygamist.”  
Audience: “BOOOOO!”  
OMW: “Yet I would gladly eat a flag myself, had I not used my intestine as a rope to hoist a flag made of my own skin. If it would protect the freedoms of the proud people who salute that flag!”  
Audience: “YAY!!”  
OMW: “Freedoms such as polygamy.”  
Audience: “BOOOOO!”

Chief Justice: “In a rare, double-whammy decision, we find polygamy constitutional.”  
Audience: “BOOO!”  
OMW: “I can’t wait to tell my husband!”  
Audience: **“BOOOOOOOO!!”**

And of course:  
Zoidberg: “He defended my freedom when no one else would. He was a good and honorable man.”  
OMW, dying: “I request a Satanic funeral.”  
Crowd: **“BOOOOOOOOOOO!!!”**

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-futurama-episodes-besides/476442/56 "2008-12-10T22:25:25Z")

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> [@Jophiel](#):
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> For straight-up sight gags, the scene in _How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back_ when they pan across Fry’s bedroom and show an owl struggling in a giant spider web always kills me.

And Hermes, for one, is sick of cleaning out those owl traps.

[In background] _snap!_ WHOOO! [/IB]

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**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-futurama-episodes-besides/476442/57 "2008-12-10T22:57:53Z")

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OK, I thought of one that normally never gets picked as the best, but IMO has some of the singularly best lines of them all: _Crimes Of The Hot_.

Hedonism Bot: “I apologize for nothing! hahaha”

Evil Wizard: “Sapphires, eh? Hehehehe! With those I could open the gates of Garrahe!”

Educational Film  
“We drop a larger and larger ice cube in the ocean, thus solving the problem once and for all.”  
“But–”  
“ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!”

Hermes: “Strange, you haven’t acted this suspicious since I found those ‘ape bones’ in the basement.”  
Professor: “I’m not going! I have my reasons! Shut up! My hip hurts! I’m in the middle of cooking a turkey! I have warranty cards to fill out! I’m not just making excuses!”

“Morbo is pleased, but sticky.”

And perhaps my favorite Morbo quote:  
“Morbo wishes these stalwart nomads peace among the Dutch tulips.”  
“I’m sure those windmills will keep them cool.”  
“WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY! GOODNIGHT!”

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**Author:** ![Algorithm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/algorithm/32/12204_2.png) [@Algorithm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algorithm)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-futurama-episodes-besides/476442/58 "2008-12-11T00:53:19Z")

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Watching Fry miss the launch button for the garbage rocket was the moment I knew it would be one of my favorite shows ever.

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**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-futurama-episodes-besides/476442/59 "2008-12-11T01:22:44Z")

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> [@shy\_guy](#):
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> _Teenage Mutant Leela’s Hurdles_ is definitely up there for me. So many great lines.
> 
> “Go to _hell_, Heather!”

That episode does have my favorite line in the history of the show

Leela’s Dad: No beer 'til you finish your tequila!  
Honestly, the only episode of Futurama that I don’t like at all is A Pharaoh To Remember.

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-futurama-episodes-besides/476442/60 "2008-12-11T01:26:09Z")

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> [@Morbo](#):
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> “WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY! GOODNIGHT!”

I hear this just about every time I visit my family - usually more than once.

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