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!”
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
All Glory To The Hypnotoad
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”
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…
From the episode in which Lurr, ruler of Omicron Persei IIX, wants to grind up various bits of Fry’s anatomy to use as an aphrodesiac:
Lurr: This Jamaican jerked chicken is delicious. Perhaps I shall have the human’s lower horn jerked, as well.
Bender: <off-screen> Wouldn’t be the first time! Woo!
Same episode:
Ranger: I’m Ranger Park, the park ranger.
Fry: I get it!
I use “I get it!” all the time when someone tells a really obvious, easy joke. Nobody ever gets it.
WHen they’re on the Amazon planet and the Amazons take them to meet the femputer for the first time:
Amazon: But they make fun women’s basketball!
Femputer: What!? Did you explain how the women’s good fundamentals make up for their inability to dunk?
It’s Bea Arthur’s outrage that really sells it.
When Nibbler (or one of his kin) is explaining to Leela how Fry’s brain is cobbled together from lesser wave patterns
Leela: Or like a prom dress made from carpet remnants…
Nibbler: Yes! Like your prom dress!
I like the one where Fry is abducted by aliens and they take his nose. The aliens later want Fry’s ‘lower horn’. Fry and Bender have some hysterical throwaway lines talking about the lower horn.
Lrrr: “Interesting. The trousers conceal a tiny secondary horn.”
Fry: “Hey, what’ve you heard?”
Lrrr: “Guards, seize him! Prepare to harvest the lower horn.”
Leela: “You two have deep relationship problems that can’t be solved by an aphrodesiac.”
Fry: “However huge it might be.”
Lrrr: “Mmm, this jerked chicken is good. I think I’ll have Fry’s lower horn jerked.”
Bender: “It’s used to it! Woooo!”
Lrrr: “This human’s lower horn is one of God’s creatures. A living thing. And all living things, large and small-”
Bender: “In this case, small! Woooo!”
Lrrr: “- have dignity and a spark of the divine.”
Leela: “Well, Fry, it looks like you get to hold on to your lower horn.”
Bender: “As usual! Woooo!”
Okay, I give. 1729? Discovery of light deviation?
Also, when he’s negotiating with Zap, “Will you stop eating our children ?!”, while Zap munches away.
Perhaps it was in relation to the 17/23 correlation?
Apparently it’s the Hardy-Ramanujan number.
Yeah, that one is awesome! Hahaha. I laughed out loud remembering.
My favorite moment:
Announcer: And the winner is…
<hypnotoad stares at him>
Announcer (in robotic voice): The hypnotoad. All glory to the hypnotoad.
<hypnotoad stares at the crowd and does his thing>
Crowd (in a perfectly synchronized manner): Clap - Clap - Clap - Clap
Some of my favorites:
From the Deep South episode;
Fry: “You know what I like best about you, Umbriel? You find me fascinating even when I’m not claiming to be a jewel thief or a lion tamer.”
Umbriel: “Lions? There are sea lions on the land?”
Fry: “Yep. We call them land sea lions. I tame them.”
From I, Roommate;
Farnsworth: (on phone) Oh, how awful. Did he at least die painlessly? To shreds, you say. Well, how is his wife holding up? To shreds, you say.
From The Why of Fry:
Nibblonian leader: Does he not know?
Nibbler: He does not know.
Nibblonian: He knows not?
Nibbler: Knows not does he.
Nibblonian: Not he knows?
Leader: Enough!
I like that Futurama can make such emotional episodes, like Jurassic Bark and Luck of the Fryish, and some that are full of geeky references (even if I don’t get them), but I really like that some of the jokes they make are very blatant and easy jokes. They’re especially funny when you listen to the commentary and you hear how much fun they have working on the show and how fun they all actually seem.