I see no one has mentioned Spanish Fry yet. I like all the silly dick jokes, and I like Lurr-centric episodes.
My husband likes the gratuitous Amy Wong in the tent nudity.
Except for this line, and the grin on his face while saying it:
"We commend the body of our great Pharaoh Hamentotep to the abode of the damned.
The damned good-looking! :
:
Pharaoh commanded me to tell that joke at his funeral…"
I mentioned that in a thread a while ago and got berated, but I agree.
The episodes I don’t particularly care for are A Bicyclops Built For Two and I Dated a Robot. Episodes I find somewhat “meh” are A Clone of My Own and The Honking. All the others are my favorites.
One that I really like that I haven’t seen mentioned is Three Hundred Big Boys. Fry drinking his 100th cup of coffee is one of the great moments of the series, in my opinion.
“Who smells like porpoise hork?!”
I think I’ll agree with you two. Which makes the last season and the newest crop of movies so bittersweet. The last season had “Love and Rocket,” “Bend-Her” (which I only now realize is a play on Ben-Hur, ) “Bender Should Not be Allowed on TV,” “Obsoletly Fabulous,” and two of the three new movies are Bender-based (“Bender’s Big Score” and “Bender’s Game.”) I enjoy Bender, but in smaller doses. Zoidberg, on the other hand, I have never gotten enough of. I seem to be in the minority, though, because “A Taste of Freedom,” “Why Must I be a Crustacean in Love,” and “That’s Lobstertainment” and some of the lower-rated episodes.
I demand more Zoidberg!!
Yay! He’s popular!
Help! Friends! A guinea pig tricked me!
Another favorite unmentioned as yet is A Fishful of Dollars. It contains several of my favorite moments:
The Lightspeed Underwear dream commercial, as well as the trick dressing room mirrors when Fry tries on the Lightspeed Underwear.
First episode (I think) where we meet Mom and her boys. “Mom, you are one clever old skank!”
The anchovies on a pizza schism - are they heavenly or disgusting? “That stench - that heavenly stench!”
The stupid skit which fools the stupider Fry into thinking he’s back at Fanucci’s Pizza ringing up an order. “Anchovies aren’t extinct yet!”
Just Mom in general:
“Holy crap! You’re going to eat them? Well, just be sure to eat them all. You’re a growing boy. Dumbass.”
“What a nice lady.”
I like the one where Fry and Amy hook up. Truly a meeting of the minds. And bodies. But mostly, minds. Their conversations as they warm to one another are hilarious. Paraphrasing: “I like you because you like things and … stuff.” “Yeah, things and stuff are great! I never realized you liked them, too!”
Also, I liked the one where aliens who are a lot like the Vogons but are not the Vogons invade and conquer Earth because they want to know how the last episode of a TV series that is a lot like Ally McBeel but isn’t Ally McBeel ends.
The Problem with Popplers for me.
“You can’t own property, man!”
“I can but that’s because I’m not a penniless hippy like you!”
And it has great lines from Zapp and Lurr!
“Mmmm… these would go great with some gwak-a-mole!”
“Stop eating our children! And it’s pronounced guacamole!”
I like the one with robot Lucy Lui. “I love you more than the moon, and the stars, and POETIC ITEM #37 NOT FOUND” I also like in the original Xmas ep how they remixed a xmas carol into an action movie sort of song for the fight against Robot Santa. Brilliant.
Ahhh, too many great episodes.
My favorite is -
“I’ll always… remember you… FryMEMORY DELETED”
“And then when I can’t eat anymore, I go to the bathroom, and then I can eat more!”
“You should write a book, FRY. People need to know about the CAN EAT MORE”
Running with the theme…
“I think it’s really great how you NOTICED TWO THINGS”
Oh oh, I just remembered some more…
“Supercollider? But I just met her!”
Fry: I’m getting one of those things… you know, a headache with pictures.
Leela: An idea
Fry: nods enthusiastically
It’s a cinch for me - none. There’s no episode that left me with a negative impression, though the direct-to-DVD movies are somewhat less successful.
“My one regret… is that I have… boneitis…”
“I think there was something funny in that hippie.”
“Whoa! My hands are huge.”
Yes, that’s funny stuff.
You should have destroyed them. But I think I said the same thing after Bender’s Big Score. When he gets hyper-needy and mean, instead of just being casual and mean and all those other things we love, it becomes annoying and not so funny.
And they can touch everything but themselves…oh…
It might not have anything to do with Zoidberg. I like him and I personally find those to be the 3 weakest episodes of the series.
They’re all pretty much good or great, but The Devil’s Hands are Idle Playthings is a cut above the rest, IMO.
My favorite Bender episode is “Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV.”
Bender’s Mexican accent (“Come, Jeezus, my faithful Chi-hyoo-a-hyoo-a…”) cracks me up every time, and I love the network bots.
“It’s funny, but is it going to get them off their tractors?”
It has some of the best Calculon lines, too -
“Oh, Monique! Why did we wait so long to bathe in champagne?”
The Series Has Landed for; “We’re whaling on the moon!”
Mother’s Day for; Mom: “I love each and every robot most of all,” cutting to "Jerkwad robots make me sick to my ass!
Brannigan, Begin Again for;
Zapp : Just let me work for a little food. Perhaps I could paint a fence, or service you sexually, or mop the floor.
Leela: You don’t know how to do ANY of those things.
Zapp: Kif might!
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!”