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Space Pilot 3000
- "Space. It seems to go on and on forever. But then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwin' barrels at you". And that's the very first line of the show.
- As we watch future history unfold in fast-forward, we see a fleet of flying saucers raze New York. Then trees grow in its place, and then medieval buildings are erected, and then the flying saucers come back and raze it all again before New New York is built.
- Fry, discovering he's in the future:Fry: My God, it's the future. My parents, my coworkers, my girlfriend, I'll never see any of them again! ...YAHOO!
- Followed quickly by his reaction when he finds out the date (December 31st, 2999).Fry: My God. A million years!
- On his way to deliver a pizza, Fry's girlfriend offhandedly dumps him when he sees her with some dudebro. In the future, when he's saying how much his life in the past sucked, he finishes with, "...and I was beginning to suspect my girlfriend might be cheating on me."
- "Well, at least here you'll be treated with dignity. Now strip naked and get on the Probulator."
- Which becomes even funnier if one remembers the later detail about how the 31st century views nudity.
- Followed quickly by his reaction when he finds out the date (December 31st, 2999).
- One of the deleted scenes from the storyboard has Fry say a completely different line when he discovers he's come to the future.Fry: Hey! My bike's gone!
- Fry is appalled to have been assigned the job of delivery boy, since that was a part of his old life which he hated.Fry: What if I refuse?
Leela: Then you'll be fired.
Fry: Fine.
Leela: Out of a cannon, into the sun. - Bender's introduction, when Fry's standing in line at the suicide booth.Fry: Whoa, a real-life robot! Or is that some kind of cheesy New Year's costume?
Bender: (glaring) Bite my shiny metal ass.
Fry: It doesn't look so shiny to me.
Bender: Shinier than yours, meatbag. - Bender cheats the suicide booth with a quarter attached to a string. And his line, "Well, I didn't have anything else planned for today..."
- Inside the suicide booth:Suicide Booth: Please select mode of death: quick and painless or slow and horrible.
Fry: Yeah, I'd like to place a collect call.
Suicide Booth: You have selected: "slow and horrible."
Bender: Great choice!
(Panel slides down showing the implements of death)
Bender: Bring it on, baby!
Fry: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!! - Also, this exchange that takes place immediately after:Bender (impatiently, with Fry cowering in the corner): C'mon, c'mon! Kill me already! [casually, to Fry] By the way, my name's Bender...
- Leela's boss laying down the law:Boss: This is unacceptable, Leela! You must find this Mr. Fry and install his chip.
Leela: Look, he's just a nobody who doesn't want to be a delivery boy. I'd really rather not force it on him.
Boss: Well, that's your job, whether you like it or not. And it's my job to make you do your job, whether I like it or not! ... (cheerfully) Which I do, very much! (turns serious again) Now, get to work!
(Leela turns and goes, while her boss leans back in his chair and puts his feet up on his desk)
Boss: Life is good. - Url and Smitty's introduction, when Leela calls in backup.Leela: This is officer 1BDI, requesting back-up!
(zoom out to show Url and Smitty standing right next to her)
Smitty: We'll be there in five minutes!- The fact that Leela's officer number is "1BDI"note . Was she assigned that as a mean-spirited joke, or was it just an ironic coincidence?
- Fry suggests Bender bend the bars blocking their exit, and Bender says his programming doesn't permit it.Fry: Who cares what you're programmed for? If someone programmed you to jump off a bridge, would you do it?
Bender: I'll have to check my program. [Beat] Yep. - When Fry tells Bender that he shouldn't let his programming tell him what to do:Bender: You're full of crap, Fry! (turns around and gets shocked when his antenna crashes into a lightbulb fixture) You make a persuasive argument, Fry!
- After both his arms fall off, Bender puts one arm back on and then grabs the arm he used to reattach his first one and puts it back on. Fry says "I don't know how you did that." And Bender's speech leading up to that:Bender: From now on, I'm going to bend what I want, when I want, who I want! I am unstoppable! (his arms immediately fall off) Ah.
- And Smitty's line when the police track them to Planet Express:We have you partially surrounded!
- Oh, and Bender literally shits a brick.
- And Smitty's line when the police track them to Planet Express:
- At the end, the Professor offers the trio jobs:The Professor: Would you three be interested in becoming my new crew?
Bender: "New" crew? What happened to the old crew?
Farnsworth: (solemnly) Oh, those poor sons of - but that's not important! What's important is I need a new crew!- When Leela points out that they lack the necessary career chips, Farnsworth says he kept the old crew's chips, and shakes them out of an envelope labeled "CONTENTS OF THE SPACE WASP'S STOMACH".
The Series Has Landed
- The Planet Express advert ends with a delivery person being carried off by a giant bird.Fry: Are there really giant birds like that?
Professor: No, no, that was all just special effects. Now, let's have breakfast. I hope everyone likes eggs.
[The Professor goes through into the kitchen, where giant bird eggs are sitting in a carton. One opens up and a giant bird chick attacks the Professor.] - Hermes' Establishing Character Moment:Hermes: Okay, Captain, this is just a standard legal release, protecting Planet Express in the event of the unforeseen.
Leela: (reading the release) Death by airlock failure?
Hermes: Mmm-hmm.
Leela: Death by brain parasite?
Hermes: Jah.
Leela: Death by sonic diarrhea?
Hermes: Oh, ya don't want that.
Leela: Look, I don't know about your previous captains, but I intend to do as little dying as possible.
Hermes: (laughs) Sign de paper. - Zoidberg's introduction. Especially when the Professor tells Fry he'll be fine, turns to leave, only to briefly look back at Fry with worry, and the part when he inspects Fry.Zoidberg: Now open your mouth and let's have a look at that brain. (Fry opens his mouth.) No, no, no, no, no, not that mouth!Fry: I only have one.
Zoidberg: (astonished) Really?
Fry: Uh, is there a human doctor around?
Zoidberg: Young lady, I'm an expert on humans. Now pick a mouth, open it, and say... (makes a weird noise)
Fry: (lousily imitates Zoidberg's noise)
Zoidberg: What?! My mother was a saint! GET OUT! - To promote Planet Express, the Professor made an ad to be aired at the same time as the Super Bowl. Not on the same channel, of course.
- This part:Fry: Come on, Bender, let's mosey!
(Fry throws Bender's head to his body, which fails to catch it, resulting in Bender's head bouncing around the floor)
Bender: Nice catch, idiot. - The Brick Joke about the Professor keeping Amy around because they share blood-types, when Leela allows Amy to tag along.Leela: Just be careful, I'd like to hold off any major screw-ups until at least my second day as captain.
Professor: Nothing will go wrong. (leans in toward Leela) If something goes wrong, bring back the blood! - Fry suggests dumping the crate in the sewer and saying they delivered it. Bender says it would be too much work, and suggests burning it, then saying they dumped it in the sewer.Leela: Okay, if everyone's finished being stupid...
Fry: I had more, but you go ahead. - When they land on the moon and go to Luna Park, they meet the mascot, who is a man with a giant moon face.Mascot: Hi, I'm Crater Face! Welcome to Luna Park! I'll have to confiscate your alcohol, sir.
Bender: Better mascots than you have tried. (takes a swig, shoves the bottle into Crater Face's eye, and walks away)
Mascot: At least I have my self-respect. (laughs, then sobs)- This doubles as a Shout-Out to one of the first films ever made, A Trip to the Moon, in which the vehicle the main characters take gets lodged in the eye of the "Man in the Moon" exactly the same way Bender's bottle gets lodged.
- Fry attaches a souvenir magnet to Bender's head, revealing Bender's shameful, secret ambition:Bender: (singing) How many roads must a man walk down before you..." (Starts howling, then pants once Fry takes the magnet out) Keep those things off of me! Magnets screw up my inhibition unit.
Fry: So you flip out and start acting like some crazy folk singer?
Bender: Yes... I guess a robot would have to be crazy to wanna be a folk singer... (Stares into the distance, mournfully)- Becomes a Brick Joke once Amy attaches a magnet to the Planet Express ship, attaches Bender & saves him from the farmer. It's even better with Bender singing.Bender: She'll be coming around the mountain when she cooommmes, she'll be comin' 'round the mountain when she comes- I'LL KILL YOU, AMY! -she'll be coming 'round the mountain, she'll be comin' 'round the mountain, she'll be c-! [THUD].
- He keeps singing over the credits with improvised lyrics about shooting humans with a ray gun.
- Becomes a Brick Joke once Amy attaches a magnet to the Planet Express ship, attaches Bender & saves him from the farmer. It's even better with Bender singing.
- From the same episode: "We're whalers on the Moon, we carry a harpoon, but there ain't no whales so we tell tall tales and sing our whaling tune."
- Fry hearing that crap on the radio, and promptly cutting it off. It gets funnier when you realize that it's a Take That! against the Small World ride.Fry: WHOO-HOO, YEAH! CRANK UP THE RADIO! (turns the radio on)
Radio: We're whalers on the— (Fry immediately shuts it off) - The fact that Leela knows and likes the song gets an amazing Call-Back 6 seasons later as the crew goes fishing. Leela owns and knows how to use her own harpoon. She may have dreamed about becoming a "whaler on the moon" at some point.
- When Fry takes the buggy off the track, he runs over one of the animatronic whalers in the process, who then declares that he died doing what he loved.
- The fact that people in the 31st century believe that Ralph Kramden was the first man on the Moon due to his catchphrase "One of these days! Bang! Zoom! Straight to the Moon!"
Leela: Wow, I never realized the first astronauts were so fat.
Fry: That's not an astronaut, it's a TV comedian! And he was just using space travel as a metaphor for beating his wife! - Fry hearing that crap on the radio, and promptly cutting it off. It gets funnier when you realize that it's a Take That! against the Small World ride.
- Bender trying to give Amy advice on how to play the crane game.Bender: Come on, it's just like making love. Y'know: Left, down, rotate 62 degrees, engage rotor.
Amy: I know how to make love! - Bender getting caught by the park security trying to recover the keys from the crane game.Bender: (pointing at Amy) That's her, officers! Uh, that's the woman who programmed me for evil!
- Bender getting kicked out of the park.
- Bender: Yeah, well... I'm gonna go build my own theme park, with blackjack and hookers! In fact, forget the park!
- When he discovers the lunar lander, only to find that it's locked shut:Bender: Oh, no room for Bender, huh? Fine! I'll go build my own lunar lander, with blackjack and hookers! In fact, forget the lunar lander and the blackjack! Ah, screw the whole thing.
- The Crushinator's flat greeting of "Yoo-hoo," especially after her more expressive sisters.
- There's also the humorous contrast between the Crushinator's huge truck-like build and her more humanoid sisters.
- Bender comments on the Crushinator in an O.O.C. Is Serious Business way.Fry: Oh, Bender, you didn't touch the Crushinator, did you?
Bender: Of course not! A lady that fine, you gotta romance first. - The wonderful Brick Joke about the Crushinator, when after being absent for a few minutes, Bender returns fleeing from the farmer.Farmer: Had to come back for the Crushinator, eh robot?
- Leads to a Chekhov's Gunman moment when the Crushinator stops pursuing them because she fell in love with Bender.Farmer: Gol'durn it, Crushinator, jump!
Crushinator: No, Pa. I love him.
- Leads to a Chekhov's Gunman moment when the Crushinator stops pursuing them because she fell in love with Bender.
- A funny little joke when Fry and Leela ask the hydroponic farmer if they could borrow some of his air: "Borrow? Lookie here, city girl, oxygen don't grow on trees." Anybody even remotely familiar with the way the oxygen cycle works knows that yes, oxygen does essentially grow on trees.
I, Roommate
- When the Professor is on the phone:Farnsworth: (On the phone) Oh, how awful. Did he at least die painlessly? (Beat) To shreds, you say, tsk, tsk, tsk. Well, how is his wife holding up? (Beat) To shreds, you say. Very well, then.
- When Fry's freeloading at Planet Express leads up to the straw that breaks the camel's back where he eats the mummy:Fry: Hey, Professor, great jerky!
Farnsworth: My God, this is an outrage! I was gonna eat that mummy! Fry has got to go.- For context, the mummy in question was a miniature alien emperor the crew were supposed to bring back to the professor. Later at the housewarming party, the professor gives Fry a similar mummy, saying that this one is "teriyaki style".
- "I'm afraid my half-brother is correct, for you see, I have a terrible secret, and that secret i-"(the image cuts out) [...] "To reiterate, my terrible secret is-" (the signal cuts out again)
- Fry can't sleep in Bender's tiny apartment, and is treated to Bender mumbling in his sleep, "Must kill all humans...." Fry wakes Bender, who says, "I was having the most wonderful dream. I think you were in it!"
- While looking for an apartment, Fry and Bender find an ad for a suspiciously fantastic apartment. They go to check it.Fry: Well, I give up. What's the catch?
Estate agent: Oh, no catch. [his smile vanishes, and he looks regretful] Although we are technically in New Jersey.
[Smash Cut to Fry, Bender, and Leela back at Planet Express, looking defeated]
Fry: Not one place even remotely livable. - The fact that the "closet" in Bender's robot apartment is the size of an entire human apartment, including a window (and a sub-closet), while the robot apartment is the size of an actual closet. Fry ends up moving into the closet, much to Bender's befuddlement.Fry: This is huge! Bender, why don't I just live here?
Bender: In a closet? Oh, humans.
Love's Labours Lost in Space
- After having sex with Leela:Zapp: Kif, I have made it with a woman. Inform the men!
- Earlier:Zapp Brannigan: Have the boy lay out my formal shorts.
Kif: "The boy", sir?
Zapp Brannigan: You. You lay out my formal shorts. - Zapp claims his victory over the killbots was a simple matter of outsmarting them, which Fry says he never would have thought of. There's also the exact method that Zapp used: Sending wave after wave of his men to be senselessly slaughtered by the killbots, winning when they reached their preset kill limits and shut down.
- Fry's escape plan, which involved Bender bending the pipe off a steam hatch. They're then sprayed with hot steam.
- This bit, when Zapp and Leela are talking at dinner.Leela: Captain Brannigan, I'd like to ask you for help.
Zapp: Whatever it is, I'm willing to put wave after wave of men at your disposal. Isn't that right, men?
(Beat)
Soldier: YOU SUCK! - Trying to convince Leela to be nicer to guys:Amy: You just have to give guys a chance. Sometimes you meet a guy and think he's a pig, but then later on you realize he actually has a really good body.
- "We don't have long. This planet is supposed to collapse... two hours ago!"
- Zapp: "We have failed to uphold Brannigan's Law. However, I did make it with a hot alien babe. And in the end, is that not what man has dreamt of since first he looked up at the stars? [Beat] Kif, I'm asking you a question!"
- When in need of help, the truth comes out to Fry and Bender:Bender: We should call Brannigan for help.
Leela: No way, forget it.
Bender: What's the problem? It's not like you slept with him.
(awkward silence)
Bender: Oh. My. God! - The scene where Fry, Leela, and Bender are rounding up the animals, an animal is known as "the four-legged mimic" transforms to look like Leela. While it's obvious which is the animal, as it has the body of a horse, Fry still confuses it with Leela and throws the net on her. Leela makes an annoyed face at Fry.
Fear of a Bot Planet
- In "Fear Of A Bot Planet", the utterly bizarre chaos that ensues when one of the balls goes into a hole in the field during a Blernsball game. Numerous balls get shot onto the field at high speeds, a player rides a TRON-esque motorbike over the bases (which then explode), and a giant tarantula is ridden on to the field by a player. Even better is the fact that the whole mess was preceded by this exchange:Fry: Hey, I'm starting to get the hang of this game! The blerns are loaded, the count's three blerns and two anti-blerns and the infield blern rule is in effect, right?
Leela: Except for the word "blern", that was complete gibberish. - Zoidberg looking for a snack at blernsball.Zoidberg: I'll have a Jumbo Squidlock, please.
Vendor: We don't sell those.
Zoidberg: All right, all right, give me one of your young on a roll.
Vendor: ... we're out of rolls.
Zoidberg: Fine! Just give me something crawling with parasites!
(cut to Zoidberg back in the stands, eating a hot dog, growling with relish)
Fry: At least hot dogs haven't changed. - "I WILL EAT AND DIGEST YOU ALL WITH MY SYSTEM OF MIGHTY ORGANS! BEHOLD!" (kaijubot opens chestplate to reveal fake organs and blinking Christmas lights)
- Fry compliments the 3D effects, but Leela complains hers isn't working as she switches the red and blue lenses of her 3D glasses back and forth in front of her single eye.
- The climax of the robot movie:Wendy: I'm just glad the nightmare is over.
General: It will never be over, Wendy! Even as we speak, humans are lurking in our playgrounds, our breezeways, perhaps even... our movie theatres!
(the audience gasps)
Fry: GOD HELP US! - On the Robot Planet, Fry and Leela come up with answers to the two Guard Robots' test to see if they are robot or human.Guard Robot #1: Halt!
Guard Robot #2: Be you robot... (leans menacingly forward)... or human?
Leela: Robot, we be.
Fry: Uh, yep! Just two robots... robot-ting it up! (does a failed attempt at "The Robot") Heh?
Guard Robot #1: Administer the test.
(Guard Robot #2 lumbers forward, then)
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 (forcefully): CHOOSE!
(Fry and Leela mull over the options for a few seconds in low whispers)
Fry: Uh, is the puppy mechanical in any way?
Guard Robot #2 (deeper, more electronic): 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 also would have been acceptable. - While walking through the robot city, a sign can be seen proclaiming:Got milk? Then you're a human, and must be killed.
- The Robot Elders yelling "SILENCE!" every other sentence, even when no-one else is speaking or they're agreeing with one another.Robot Elder: SILENCE! I concur.
- Bender is asked to kill Fry and Leela, but hesitates because they're his friends, and tries defending humanity to the Robot Elders. It doesn't work, just not for the reason Bender was expecting.Bender: Humans are no threat to us.
Robot Elder: We're well aware of that.
Bender: You are?
Robot Elder: But they're useful to us as a scapegoat to distract the public from their real problems.
Robot Elder 2: Like our crippling lugnut shortage!
Robot Elder 3: And a corrupt government of incompetent robot elders!
Incompetent Robot Elder: Durr, dat's fer sure.
Robot Elder: Quiet, Jimmy. - When being menaced by the Robot Elders:Fry: Take one more step, and I'll breathe fire on you!
Leela: He'll do it! He's crazy!
(The robo elders stare blankly, before gathering in a huddle)
Robot Elder: Can they really breathe fire, or did we make that up?
Robot Elder 2: Gee, I can't remember anymore. Though it might just be from that stupid movie.
Robot Elder 3: Was that the original or the remake?
Robot Elder 2: I don't—(notices Fry, Leela and Bender are escaping) HEY, they're getting away! - Fry and Leela are disguised while in a swarm of robots:Leela: Try to stay with the crowd so no one notices how crummy you look!
Crummy Robot: Aww, that was uncalled for. - The interaction between the robots and Fry after leaving the filmRobot: So, what did you think of the movie?
Fry: Too much romance, not enough human-killing.
Robot 2: Yeah, it was a real chick flick. - This casual line:Leela: Hey, hold on, I understand these robots hate humans, but how do they feel about humanoid aliens?
Farnsworth (dismissively): They're not fans. - Fry tries to defend baseball... and fails.Fry: Boring? Baseball wasn't... so they finally jazzed it up, huh?
- Fry and Leela's trial doesn't have a great start for them:Robot Mayor: Your honor, I intend to prove to the court that these humans are guilty of the crime of being human. ... come to think of it, I rest my case.
- And then the judge, an old Mac computer, freezes up mid-sentencing.Foreman: Uh-oh, he froze up again.
Mayor: Try Ctrl Alt Delete.
Juror: Jiggle the cord!
Other Juror: Turn him off and on!
Third Juror: Clean the gunk out of the mouse!
Fry: Call technical support!
- And then the judge, an old Mac computer, freezes up mid-sentencing.
- When they're disguised as robots, Leela and Fry get a little competitive over who's better at "the Robot." The gag gets sent home when they dance to Bender's "Robanukah" music:Bender: (baffled) Hey, you guys are good. How the hell do you do that?!
- The snapshots of Fry and Leela having fun celebrating "Robanukah" with Bender include one where Bender is behind Fry holding a broken bottle to his neck. Cut to the next shot where Fry has several band-aids.
A Fishful of Dollars
- After going over to the bank to get some money for Bender's bail, Fry discovers his interest has added up over 1000 years, giving him 4.3 billion dollars. He stands quietly for a second, starts breathing heavily, and finally stars frothing at the mouth, collapsing and suffering from a seizure.
- When Fry becomes a billionaire, he starts buying things from the 20th century. Leela expresses concern, but Bender shrugs her off.Bender: Ah, leave him alone, Leela. So he's going a little wacko with his money, that's okay.Leela: You're just saying that because he bought you that antique robot toy.Bender: Heh heh. (Toy is revealed to be Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots) Yeah, it is cute...(Bender makes the red robot punch the blue, causing blue's head to fly up. Bender clutches his neck and screams.)
- When asked for help about Fry's behavior, the Professor gives this gem:They say madness runs in our family. Why, some even called me mad. And why? Because I dare to dream of my own race of atomic monsters, atomic supermen, with octagonal-shaped bodies that suck blood out of— (walks offscreen)
- Fry bidding on the tin of anchovies:Fry: One. Jillion. Dollars!
(crowd gasps)
Auctioneer: Sir, that's not a number.
(more crowd gasping) - After Mom explains what she thinks Fry's plan is:Walt: My God! This Mister Fry must be a mastermind of the highest order!Fred Sanford: Esther, you ugly!(Fry laughs)
- Mom incentivizing her sons as only she knows how.Mom: You know what needs to be done.Larry: ...what?Mom: GET HIS PIN NUMBER, YOU IDIOTS! Now I gotta attend some charity B.S. for knocked-up teenage sluts.
- Among the things Fry buys is a fossilized bucket of KFC.
- Not to mention the old TV set he bought, which Bender claims caused eye cancer.
- Just the fact that due to the story being set in the 3000s, "Baby Got Back" is considered "classical music."
- Mom's sons recruit Pamela Anderson's head to help them in their scheme:Pamela Anderson's Head: Hello, Fry. Remember me from Baywatch: The Movie?Fry: Uh...Pamela Anderson: It was the first movie filmed entirely in slow motion.Walt: (whispering) It hasn't been made yet.Pamela Anderson: So he doesn't know I won the Oscar?Walt: Nope.Pamela Anderson: Crap!
- Becomes double funny as of 2017 with the release of an actual Baywatch movie, though it only stars Pamela Anderson as a cameo.
- This when Bender and Leela confront Fry about avoiding reality by staying in his apartment:Fry: Maybe you can't understand this, but I finally found what I need to be happy, and it's not friends. It's things.Bender: (sad) ...I'm a thing...
- Mom's reaction when she realizes Fry's true intentions:Mom: Holy hell! You're going to eat them? [changes demeanor to nice] Oh, well, just make sure you eat them all. You're a growing boy. Toodle-oo! [leaves, switches back to mean] Dumbass!Fry: What a nice lady!
My Three Suns
- "It's just like the story of the Grasshopper and the Octopus. All year long the Grasshopper worked hard, gathering acorns for winter, while the Octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV. But then winter came and the Grasshopper died and the Octopus ate all his acorns, and also he got a racecar. Is any of this getting through to you?"
- This part:Professor: Good news, everyone!Professor: You'll be making a delivery to the planet Trisol...Bender: Here it comes.Professor: A mysterious world in the darkest depths of the Forbidden Zone.Bender: Thank you, and good night.
- When Bender calls Leela for help:Voice: Collect call from...Bender: I'm not giving my name to a machine!
- Fry: Wow! You guys sell every kind of meat here except human!Neptunian Salesman #1: [without missing a beat] What? You want human?
- Zoidberg's suggestion for separating Fry and Bont: A giant centrifuge. Fry points out it'd crush his bones and kill him.Zoidberg: Right, right, with the bones. I always forget about the bones.
- And a few minutes later, the Trisolians bring their own means of separating them: A giant juicer.Bont: It's the Juicamatic 4000! It'll separate me from the pulp, by which I mean [Fry's] shredded remains!Zoidberg: Of course! Why didn't I think of that?
- And a few minutes later, the Trisolians bring their own means of separating them: A giant juicer.
A Big Piece of Garbage
- "The repulsive barge circled the oceans for fifty years but no country would accept it, not even that really filthy one. You know the one I mean."
- The end of the garbage ball documentary.Fry: You got that off the Internet? In my day, the Internet was only used to download pornography.
Professor: Actually, that's still true.
Woman in video: Now that the garbage is in space, Doctor, perhaps you can help me with my sexual inhibitions.
Man in video: With gusto. [they begin to undress]- The man has a stereotypical New York accent, and the woman sounds like Fran Drescher.
- After landing on the garbage ball, Leela starts the countdown timer for the bomb, which appears to be set for 25 minutes...but it then drops to 15 minutes, then 5 minutes, then "6h" minutes. The crew soon realizes the problem:Bender: There's your problem: the professor put the counter on upside down!
Leela: That idiot! It wasn't set for 25 minutes; it was set for 52 seconds!
Fry: (screams) WE'RE GONNA DIE! Right?
Bender: Right.
(Fry screams again)- A brief, but highly amusing gag: As the timer runs out, Bender simply hurls the bomb up into outer space to save them... only to bounce off a passing comet back down to Bender, forcing him to frantically throw it again before it explodes.
- The simple scene when Fry goes to press the "Launch" button (surrounded by a bullseye, no less), and misses.Fry: Oops.
- And the moment just before that:
Farnsworth: 5... 4... 3... 2... 3... 4... 5...
Leela: (To Fry) Just fire the damn thing! - The episode opens with the Death Clock, which Fry tests. Bender's reaction to his unseen score? "Oooh, dibs on the CD player!"
- Farnsworth presenting his crude sketch of the Smell-o-scope at the convention:Farnsworth: The odor travels past this coffee stain here, around the olive pit and into this cigar burn. And this appears to be a... doodle of myself as a cowboy.
- Earlier in the episode, there's a flashback where Prof. Farnsworth gives Wernstrom an A-, causing Wernstrom to swear revenge on him someday. Then after Farnsworth's disastrous Smell-O-Scope presentation, Wernstrom gives him "the worst grade imaginable": an A minus minus.
- When Farnsworth tells Fry that they renamed Uranus to end the "your anus" jokes once and for all. It is now called "Urectum". Fry declines the chance to smell it.
- The crew finds a mountain of old The Simpsons merchandise among the garbage on the comet.Bart Doll: Eat my shorts!
Bender: Okay! [eats them] Mmm, shorts! - The ending:Leela: Should we really be celebrating? I mean, what if the second garbage ball returns to Earth like the first one did?
Fry: Who cares? That won't be for hundreds of years.
Farnsworth: Exactly! It's none of our concern.
Fry: That's the 20th century spirit!
Hell Is Other Robots
- Fry and Leela are talking crap around the ship after returning from a delivery.Fry: I know Big Vinnie said he was giving me the kiss of death, but I still think he was gay.Leela: Did he use his tongue?Fry: A little.
- Leela: Who would've thought Hell would really exist? And that it would be in New Jersey?!Fry: Actually--
- Leela: Wait, what fiddle contest?Robot Devil: [*groans*] The 'Fairness In Hell Act of 2275' requires me to inform you...
- The fiddle contest. Leela performs horribly, only to take the fiddle and hit the Robot Devil over the head with it. ("Time for the drum solo!") His high-pitched girly scream is unexpected and hysterical. He repeats it when Leela has to drop the solid gold fiddle from above and it falls on his head yet again.
- And of course, the musical number.
- "Hey, what kind of party is this? There's no booze and only one hooker!"
- Hermes' irrational hatred of Zoidberg starts to kick in.Hermes: Our electricity bill is climbin' faster than a green-snake up a sugar cane! Somebody around here is wastin' a whole heap o' juice. Probably (points at Zoidberg) you!
- And the Brick Joke, a few scenes later:
Hermes: And as a further cost-cutting measure, I have removed the salt-water cooler.Zoidberg: (as Hermes grins smugly) This is a witch-hunt! - When meeting Beastie Boys, Fry gushes that he has all their 5 albums.Ad-Rock: That was a thousand years ago. Now we got 7!
A Flight to Remember
- While each and every part of the episode was good in its own way, an especially funny one is the way the robot Countess gets sucked into the black hole. There's also this bit of computer terminology humor right before she falls in.Countess: Don't worry, Bender. It'll hurt for a while, but you'll be able to share your love again. After all, it's shareware.
- Bender bets all his money at a craps table and gets snake eyes on the dice.Bender: Wait! My cheating unit malfunctioned! You gotta give me a do-over!Croupier: Sorry, the house limit is three do-overs. Next shooter.
- Bender admits he's not rich and noble.Bender: I'm a fraud - a poor, lazy, sexy fraud.Countess de la Roca: Bender, I don't care whether you have money. I love you for your artificial intelligence and your sincerity simulator.
- Normally, someone being roughed up isn't funny. But since it's Bender, it kind of is.iSaac: Hey, you going to pay for those drinks?Bender: Hell, no!iSaac: Security to bar area, security to bar area!(two guards rise out of the floor and grab Bender)Bender: Please, fellas, I'm in love!iSaac: Rough 'im up.(the guard proceed to pummel Bender, as the camera stays on iSaac's glaring face)
- Zapp decides to fly the ship near a black hole. You can probably predict what happens next, and how Zapp reacts.Zapp: We were doomed from the start. Now all that's left is for the captain to go down with the ship.Kif: That's surprisingly noble of you.Zapp: Wrong! It's noble of you, Kif! As of right now, you're in command! (He slaps the captain's patch on Kif, and flees in the escape pod)
Mars University
- The snooty fraternity's reason for becoming sitcom arch-nemeses to Robot House.Snob #1: I say, you've damaged our servants' quarters! And our servants!
Snob #2: This time, Robot House has gone too far! - Dean Vernon listing off Robot House's various wrongdoings and putting them on "dodecatupple-secret probation."
- His rant:Dean Vernon: You robots are a disgrace to this campus! Whenever a fire alarm is pulled, it's Robot House. Whenever the campus liquor store is looted, Robot House. Whenever a human corpse is desecrated-!
Bender: Now, I can explain that!
- His rant:
- At the beginning of the boat race, Dean Vernon does the countdown... then aims the starting pistol at Robot House's raft, sinking it instantly.
- Robot House then wins the boat race. As promised, Vernon uplifts the probation and hosts a grand parade for them, all with a reluctant, angry look on his face.
- Fry and the sentient monkey Gunter don't exactly hit it off either.Fry: Want a banana?
Gunter: No. I don't eat bananas. I prefer banana-flavored energy bars made of tofu.
Fry: (eyes narrowing) I don't like you. - Fry meeting the Professor while signing up for classes:Fry: Hey, Professor, what are you teaching this semester?
Professor: Same thing I teach every semester: the Mathematics of Quantum-Neutrino Fields. I made up the title so that no student would dare take it.
Fry: "Mathematics of Wanton Burrito Meals", I'll be there.
Professor: Please, Fry, I don't know how to teach! I'm a professor!
Fry: (sincerely) See you in class.
(The Professor walks off, growling)- Later on we see Fry is the only student in the entire lecture.
- When looking for Gunther, Fry thinks he spots him in a tree. The Professor, in a surprising burst of motion, tosses a gas grenade into its branches. Several birds fall out, followed by a tiger. The Professor reassures Fry they're just tranquilized, and will be fine once it wears off. Then, just when they leave, an elephant falls out of the tree as well.
- Gunther, after soul-searching on his intelligence, reaches a happy medium when the hat is damaged, telling the Professor not to fix it.Gunther: All I want out of life is to be a monkey of moderate intelligence who wears a suit. That's why I've decided to transfer to business school.
Professor: NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! - Fry, a college dropout in his era, finding out that "by current academic standards, you're merely a high school dropout."Fry: What?! That's not fair. I deserve the same respect any other college dropout gets. By God, I'm gonna enroll here at Mars University and drop out all over again!
Leela: You won't last two weeks!
Fry: Aww, thanks for believin' in me.
When Aliens Attack
- Zapp Brannigan vs. military strategy, in what is regarded as his Establishing Character Moment:Zapp: If we can hit that bulls-eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!Kif: Uggh.
- "Stop exploding, you cowards!"
- Just before that:
Zapp: What the hell is that thing?
Kif: It appears to be the mothership.
Zapp: Then what did we just blow up?
Kif: (checks screen) The Hubble telescope.- Evidently, one of the production staff objected to this moment, as on the commentary this is met with a Rapid-Fire "No!".
- In any other show, surrendering the President of the World to invading aliens would be a Moral Event Horizon, but McNeal is such a Dirty Coward that doing so gets Zapp Brannigan a standing ovation as he unceremoniously slings a sack over his head and drags him out, with another cabinet member kicking the sack for good measure.
- This little exchange, courtesy of Farnsworth's acting abilities:Professor Farnsworth: Miss McNeal, I'm afraid I must decline your offer of marriage. For, you see, I'm dying. (reads directions as lines) Cough, then fall over dead. (remains standing and smiles at the camera)Zoidberg: My god, he's dead. (Farnsworth checks his own pulse)
- The alien's threats, from the anti-monument laser to raising the planet's temperature a million degrees a day FOR FIVE DAYS!
- "Prepare the water cooler, so that we may gather around it later and discuss things!"
- After Zapp's broadcast:Leela: Well, you heard the windbag, we've been drafted. Everybody into the ship.Bender: Whoa, whoa, whoa, I refuse to fight. I'm a conscientious objector.Fry: A what?Bender: You know, a coward.
- This little moment during Zapp's debriefing on the mission:Zapp: Remember, our mission is simple: Destroy all aliens!
Kif: Um, uh, not me, sir.
Zapp: Oh, yes, right! Nobody destroy Kif. (quietly) Unless you have to. - After leaving the disastrous battle with the Omicronians, the crew return to find the Professor is busy:(In the Planet Express lounge, the Professor is talking to a young woman, young man and a robot)Professor: (to the woman) You'll be the captain, (to the man) you'll be the delivery boy, (to robot) and you'll be the alcoholic, foul-mouthed-(Fry, Leela and Bender return. The Professor is startled.)Professor: Oh God, you're alive! I mean, thank God you're alive! (turns to the other three) Sorry, check back in three days. A week, at the most.
- From the beginning, Hermes is grilling Fry and Bender for not working.Fry: Quit it, Hermes, it's Labor Day!Hermes: Labor Day? That phoney-baloney holiday crammed down our throats by fat-cat union gangsters?Fry: That's the one.Hermes: Hot damn, a day off! (he immediately takes off his jacket and sits next to Fry and Bender)
- Apparently, New New York once had a supervillain governor and he stole all of Earth's most famous monuments, which he put on a beach. He also had his head added to Mt. Rushmore.
- The Omicronians watch Single Female Lawyer:Lrrr: If McNeal wishes to be respected, why does she not simply tear the judge's head off?Ndnd: It is true what they say. Men are from Omicron Persei 9 and women are from Omicron Persei 7.
- Single Female Lawyer's theme song, performed by Bender:"Single Female Lawyer, fighting for her client! Wearin' sexy miniskirts and bein' self-reliant! Hey, I'm pretty good."
Fry and the Slurm Factory
- Fry fears that the secret ingredient in Slurm is people, but Leela informs him that there's already a drink like that called Soylent Cola.Fry: Oh. How is it?
- Fry, Leela and Bender finding out the secret ingredient (liquid from a Slurm Queen's behind).Leela: It's disgusting!Slurm Queen: Is it? Milk comes from a cow's behind! Honey comes from a bee's behind! And have you ever used tooth-paste?Fry: Whose behind does that come from?Slurm Queen: You don't wanna know...
- The Grunka Lunkas. Especially this moment:Leela: What's behind that door? Is it the secret ingredient?
Grunka Lunkas: (singing) Grunka Lunka dunkity dingredient, you should not ask about the secret ingredient.
Bender: Okay, okay, we get the point.
Leela: I was just curious because of the armed guards.
Grunka Lunkas: (singing in a higher key) Grunka Lunka dunkity darmed guards-
Bender: SHUT THE HELL UP! - The entirety of the Grunka Lunkas' first song.Grunka Lunkas: Grunka Lunka Dunkety Doo, we've got a friendly warning for you. Grunka Lunka dunkety dasis, the secret of Slurm's on a need-to-know basis!Grunka Lunka: Asking questions in school is a great way to learn!Gruff Grunka Lunka: If you try that stuff here you might get your legs broke.Grunka Lunka: We once found a dead guy face down in the Slurm.Gruff Grunka Lunka: It could easily happen again to you folks.Grunka Lunkas: So keep your heads down, and keep your mouths shut! Grunka Lunka Dunkety Dut!Glurmo: Hey, I don't pay you to sing! You just used up today's bathroom break!Grunka Lunka: Hardass.Glurmo: I heard that.
- The syntactical play as the show's own unique take on Charlie and the Chocolate Parody.Glurmo: There will be no further questions!
Fry: Why? - Slurms Mackenzie, at least before the climax:Bender: Hey, it's Slurms. Are you ready to get down and party with us?Glurmo: He'd better be, that's what we pay him for, right Slurms?Slurms: Right!Glurmo: In fact, Slurms has to party all night every night, or he's fired!Slurms: (nervously) Rock on!
- "Enjoy the tour, dudes! ... I'm gon' go lie down..."
- When the crew first sees the Grunka Lunkas:Farnsworth: Who are those horrible orange creatures over there?Glurmo: Why, those are the Grunka Lunkas. They work here in the Slurm factory.Farnsworth: Tell them I hate them.
- After Farnsworth demonstrates the use of the F-Ray:Farnsworth: You two lock up the F-Ray, and for the love of God, don't let it fall into the wrong hands!Fry and Bender: (Look at each other for a moment, joint Evil Laugh.)
- While goofing off aiming the F-Ray at random objects, Fry finds out about the Slurms contest and takes a few minutes to figure out how to find the hidden winning bottle cap easily. Bender for a brief moment in the background, used the F-Ray on some convenience store hot dogs and there's metal debris in them.
