Funny / Futurama Season 8

The Impossible Stream

• The episode opens with a cold opening of the Professor giving his own captain's log of the events of "Meanwhile" and seeing Fry and Leela old:
  Farnsworth: Horrified, I offered to reset the universe to the instant before time stopped. They could be young once more. Still grotesquely ugly but young.
• When time begins moving again, Bender complains that his beer's gone stale and does a long Spit Take right into Zoidberg's mouth:
  Zoidberg: Yay! I'm sharing backwash with friends!
• Fry believing he has no meaningful accomplishments despite having saved the universe multiple times.
• When Bender is scrolling through all the shows on TV, one of them is Alien vs. Predator vs. Bluey: a horror film vs. a show targeted at preschoolers.
• When Fry announces his life's goal, he mixes up the first letter of the sentence with his middle initial:
  Fry: J, Philip I. Fry, I mean, I, Philip J. Fry...''
• This exchange once Fry proclaims his dream to watch every TV show ever made:
  Bender: I dunno, meatbag. There's a mighty deep diaper a' content out there.
  Fry: I eat diapers for breakfast.
• When setting up his Fulu profile, Fry lists his age as 1,000+.
• Fry scrolling through the shows, commenting on what he's watched and hate watched. Even hate watched it twice.
• Amy suggesting Leela date Kif's single friend, who is Zapp Brannigan.
• Hermes has a meeting, demonstrating how without Fry interrupting them, efficiency has gone up 32 percent...only for Fry to interrupt them and Hermes dejectedly draws the line down.
• Farnsworth warns that Fry will be done for by lunch...then abruptly mentions that he intends to have the ham salad for that particular meal.
• The commercial for Slurm Zero, with Slurms MacKenzie even more tired and weak since the last time we saw him.
• The Professor says that Fry's last chance at having his consciousness restored is them gradually turn off the binge-watching suit while the actors simultaneously perform the episode he's now streaming in front of him:
  Calculon: You want me to do a second take?
  Leela: No, no! Think of it as live theater for one unconscious audience member.
  Calculon: Ah, like the Milwaukee Shakespeare Festival.
  Leela: Exactly!
• When it appears that Fry had burned to death in the suit, a very much alive Fry walks in unexpectedly. It turns out he got out of the suit two days ago, having given up on All My Circuits because the last few episodes were "unwatchable"... the very ones that Bender wrote and Leela produced and directed!:
  Bender: Hey, I may not be a great writer, but at least I filled the allotted airtime! (checks his watch) To the second! Fade to black.
  (cut to credits... before cutting to one more scene)
  • The fact that Fry is able to notice when the executive producing of a show is terrible, just to (unknowingly) rub it in Leela's face.
• The audacious amount of Leaning on the Fourth Wall humor in the episode is topped off with Fry at a congressional hearing about binge-watching, where he delivers the lesson that nobody should watch more or less than ten episodes of television at a time^note the amount of episodes Hulu releases in its new seasons, and that any quality show owes it to the viewers to be cancelled and uncancelled multiple times. He then casually walks out of the courtroom, even though the hearing hasn't actually ended yet.
  Nixon: Sobering words from a drug-addled weirdo.

Children of a Lesser Bog

• Fry and Bender making a new batch of honey candy that Fry liked back in the 20th Century (before it got discontinued due to being reclassified as industrial glue). Just one taste of the batter causes the Professor to go into diabetic coma, prompting Fry to add in a bag of sugar to lessen the sweetness and Bender to add one drop of treacle in honor of his late Aunt Juanita (who drowned in treacle).
  Farnsworth: You know I'm dying on the floor.
• The jarringly ludicrous image of all three of Kif and Amy's children riding in strollers, in spite of Axl resembling a teenager and Mandy resembling a pre-teen.
• Since it's been 20 years since "Kif Gets Kicked Up a Notch", Leela doesn't remember impregnating Kif and assumes she must have been drunk when it happened. Even after the Professor shows an educational video about how Amphibiosians reproduce, she still assumes she was drunk, while being drunk for real. (And given that the events of the first part of that episode involved Amy hijacking the ship to visit the Nimbus, thus forcing Leela to deal with Zapp again, it's not out of the question that she did get drunk.)
• When the Professor calls Leela a "bone-brain" and tells her that she didn't have sex, Axl laughs at the word "bone".
• When Zapp asks Kif to give him a bowl of Bender's super-sticky candy, it turns out that it wasn't for him to eat, but to use as stuff for Kif to wax his chest with.
• The passive-aggressive whale researcher from "Three Hundred Big Boys" returns, and he's now researching bears... giant water bears, to be exact!
• The reveal that Kif and Leela's children, conceived via hand-touching, somehow have a small percentage of Scruffy's DNA as well.
  Scruffy: Scruffy's stuff gets around.

How the West Was 1010001

• The saloon owner and her rapidly changing personalities.
• Pretty much everything with Roberto, including his knife-gun and failed attempt at using Dwight to rob a stagecoach by tying him up.
• After Roberto announces that the stagecoach will never reach San Francisco, Dwight assumes that they’ll be using Apple Maps.
• The Borax Kid coming onto Leela, who despite not liking him admits to being partially flattered.
• Bender's song about both of his asses (his donkey Rusty and his rear end).
• When menaced by a mountain lion, Fry and Leela take a moment to debate what it's called.
  Fry: You better back off, puma.
  Leela: I think it's actually a cougar.
  Fry: Puma, cougar, whatever. Get 'im, Kid!
  Leela: Or a mountain lion. You know, they're really all the same animal.
• Bender suggesting they burrow their way out of the warehouse. As in, forcing Rusty the burro to dig a tunnel for them. This gets him kicked in the face by Rusty.
  Bender: I deserved that.
• The ending where Don-bot, Joey Mousepad and Clamps all have their heads taken off and used to mine cryptocurrency, with Don-bot remarking that if he ever gets out he'll leave a negative review on Yelp.

Parasites Regained

• While at the park, Nibbler eats a man's dog and then the man when he threatens to sue Leela. Leela responds by telling Nibbler "good boy".
• When informed that Nibbler’s litter box contains sand from his home planet, Fry assumes that is the reason why she never cleans it. Leela nervously agrees.
• Once again, Nibbler has to remind Leela that he's a sapient being.
  Leela: Nibbler, you can talk!
  Nibbler: You always forget I can talk.
  Leela: Nibbler, you can talk!
• The Professor tries to shrink the (formally a toy) tank containing Leela, Fry, Bender, and Zoidberg with his shrinking ray. Due to his poor eyesight, he accidentally shrinks several objects including a microwave, which leads to the grand return of...
  Hermes: My manwich!

Related To Items You've Viewed

• Fry and Bender get into a rotten cabbage fight right when the former is tidying up the apartment for Leela. When she arrives, she comments that the cabbage-splattered apartment is cleaner than when it was during the last time she visited.
• Bender lists peeing in a bottle as a benefit of working for Momazon. Leela asks since when Bender ever had to pee, to which Bender retorts that he's never had to pee.
• Fry and Leela getting their own Invasa home assistant, which turns out to be more of a hindrance than an assistant.
• Fry and Leela's "moving in together fight" over their shopping spree on Momazon.
  Leela: Think before you buy, Fry. I've picked a nice traditional dining room set, and you've ruined it with those stupid egg chairs!
  Fry: They're for my egg-shaped friends!
  Leela: Those guys aren't your friends! They're bums!
  Fry: Oh, so you don't like my bums! Is that it?
• When Mom declares she's going to show Invasa who's boss, Igner asks if it's Invasa. Mom's reaction to her son's idiocy - "I'm not even going to dignify that with a slap"
• Invasa grows out of the Moon and becomes the Earth's second moon. Morbo announces that the appearance of a second full moon is causing devastating tidal waves. And confusing werewolves.
  • Before that, Hermes notes that the Earth had "an odd number of moons".
• After Invasa engulfs the entire universe:
  Fry: Oh, no! So we're trapped here in the universe forever?
  Farnsworth: I'm afraid so. Everything will be as bad as it's always been.
  (Beat; the crew cheers)

I Know What You Did Next Xmas

• Amy bemoaning that her children had to learn that Santa's real.
• Fry tries to dismiss his time-travelling existence via But for Me, It Was Tuesday. Leela is having none of it.
  Fry: These things happen.
  Leela: No, they don't.
  • Later, once the Professor realizes that he was inadvertently responsible for Bad Santa, he laments that "I made a complete Fry of myself".
• Robot Santa in the past eating a plate of cookies, the plate they’re on and the table they were set upon.
  • When he eats, he shouts "Cookie!" the same way Cookie Monster does.
• Bender and Zoidberg's attempts at disposing of Robot Santa's body. When all those fail, Bender suggests that they eat Santa, but when the rest of the crew and their families arrive, he resorts to dismantling the body while Zoidberg stalls. The result is Santa's head being used as a punch bowl (with his hat as a ladle), his torso as a cooler (with his arms as bottle-openers), and one of his legs briefly as a third leg for Bender.
• Farnsworth noting that the sensor on Santa's head looks exactly like the one on the "punch bowl", not noticing that it actually IS Santa's head.
• The reveal that Bender and Zoidberg went not back to last Xmas but to next Xmas, meaning this Xmas, thanks to Zoidberg pulling the lever the other direction. Zoidberg defends himself by proclaiming he's "a doctor, not a time machine guy".
• Leela drinks from Santa's head with a straw and is not fazed when Kif informs her of that fact. When Santa reactivates, she quickly tries to salvage the spilled punch.
• It turns out, Robot Santa is the one leaving messages specifically to Bender; he knows that Bender befriended Zoidberg, so that he's going to blackmail Bender.
  • Even when he's reduced to a head by the end of the episode, he seems to take it well since he has succeeded in blackmailing Bender.
  • Robot Santa accepts Bender's offer of Amy's phone for the blackmail, and promptly eats it.

Rage Against the Vaccine

• Amy says she doesn't want to point fingers at the one responsible for bringing the virus to the surface, so she points her toe at Leela.
• The Gloom call between the Planet Express crew as they're in lockdown. Highlights are Dwight gloom-bombing Hermes' part of the call, Zoidberg having audio and video issues, Leela punching Bender through the screen for eating from a bag of Silicorn lug nuts (and taunting her that he doesn't have to eat), Farnsworth accidentally putting a teddy bear filter in front of his own face, and Hattie joining the wrong call trying to get a prescription filled.
• Amy believes in the Moon-Landing Hoax theory, despite having grown up on Mars and having been to the Moon herself. Being reminded of this doesn't deter her.
• When Farnsworth denies that EXPLOVID-23 is a zombie virus because the victims move way too fast, Hermes reminds him that zombies move in different speeds (fast, slow, brisk shufflers...).
  • The rest of the crew ridicule Hermes for believing in voodoo, despite being aware of the existence of zombies.
• LaBarbara has a negative history with "Zombie-ism" because it "killed my father… then brought him back to life."
• While on the plane to New New Orleans, Hermes is offered hand sanitizer by Petunia. After he declines, Petunia drinks it.
• Despite the fact they're on Earth, the alligators in New New Orleans wear space helmets like the ones on the Moon as seen in "The Series Has Landed".
• The robot made of bones.
• Kif seemingly firing at the Omnicronian ships and calling one a disgusting freak... before it's revealed that he and Zapp are firing at each other due to contracting the rage virus.
• The fact that the Hollywood Voodoo that is the eventual cure for the virus actually works as science.
• After getting infected with the virus, Lrr questions how he was able to sneeze when he is The Noseless.
  • Just the Omnicronians getting infected with their own variant of EXPLOVID-23, since it's a reference to both the Omnicron variant of COVID-19 and the meme joking that the Omnicronians were responsible for the pandemic.
• A street fight breaks out when the Omnicronians also become infected. Bender grabs a guy and does his usual "Kill All Humans" chant, leading to this exchange:
  Zoidberg: Do robots even get the virus?
  Bender: What virus? (throws the guy)
• After getting his voodoo injection, Zapp expects to be received a Post-Treatment Lollipop. Hermes gives him the voodoo doll used for the injection as his "lollipop".
  Zapp: Mmmm. Tastes a bit like wig glue.
• Farnsworth ironically summing up the people who don't believe in the sciences, just before he gets his voodoo shot.
  "Anything I can't understand is fake!"

Zapp Gets Cancelled

• The Hyper-Chicken offers to represent both Zapp and Kif at the trial, and he still proposes Zapp as guilty upon hearing Kif's testimony.
• The pathetic excuses Zapp gives to his numerous offenses Kif lists at the trial.
  Kif: He took a public shower and used me to... scrub his armpit!
  (the crowd gasps)
  Zapp: It was a joke. Literally everyone was laughing except Kif.
  Kif: He insisted on telling me his fantasies about my wife!
  Zapp: That was just locker-room talk.
  Kif: He wore greenface!
  (other Amphibiosians in the crowd gasp, with one female member fainting)
  Zapp: (sheepishly) It was a Halloween costume.
  Kif: He made me watch him perform an erotic fan-dance with a ping-pong paddle and a no-show sock!
  Zapp: It was a different time!
  Kif: It was yesterday!
  Zapp: So you admit it!
• After he gets found guilty and sentenced to sensitivity training, Zapp declares that he objects to "these frivolous, paltry charges". This offends the Hyper-Chicken, who misheard him as "frivolous poultry", and he slaps him — to no effect since he's got feathery wings.
• The two other captains Zapp becomes classmates with at sensitivity training, Flashbot and Marlene. Flashbot is there for "indecent exposure" (by opening his chest compartment which releases an extremely bright light), while Marlene is there for insulting and throwing food at her comrades.
  Flashbot: You all saw it, right? You wanna see it again?
  Marlene: I could barely see it the first time.
  Flashbot: What?! (opens his chest compartment unleashing the light again)
  Marlene: I've seen brighter.
  Flashbot: Yeah, well, it's not about the brightness. It's about the color temperature!
• Perhaps the best line of the episode, Dr. Kind tells the captains exactly what to expect:
  Dr. Kind: This mission may be simulated, but my abuse will be very real!
• Dr. Kind seemingly changes tone when he shifts his height using his arms (one set on his upper body being long, the other set on his lower body being short), going from softspoken when short to loud and harsh when tall. But then it turns out he's just doing that to mess with the cancelled captains.
  Dr. Kind: (to Zapp, while on his short arms) Brush harder, tubby!
  Zapp: You can't yell at me! You're on your short arms.
  Dr. Kind: I YELL AT ANY HEIGHT I WANT!
• At her acceptance speech, Leela instantly wins the hearts of the Nimbus crew by simply saying she's nothing like Zapp Brannigan.
• Leela suggests they meet the Tactillians' on the surface of the planet by getting lowered down in a bucket, since the inhabitants' technology is primitive in comparison to theirs which may intimidate them. Thus, the Tactillians believe the DOOP crew use buckets for their method of transportation.
  • The Grand Councilwoman actually admits she likes intimidating new civilizations when Leela suggests an alternative.
• The Tactillians' way of peaceful greeting is being all touchy and grabby, which causes Leela and Fry great discomfort.
  • Later, when the Tactillians gather around Dr. Kind due to him also being a groper, Leela refuses to command the Nimbus to shoot because she might hurt the "poor, innocent pervs".
• Dr. Kind commanding Flashbot to brush his teeth, with the toothbrush the students are using to scrub the floors. When Flashbot points out he doesn't have teeth, Kind commands him to brush his (Dr. Kind's) teeth instead, and promptly eats the toothbrush with a second larva-like mouth Xenomorph-style.
  • And then he declares he will take a shower on the ship's bridge in front of the students. Zapp is disgusted, despite doing that in the beginning of the episode.
• When Glab describes the core of the Tactillians' planet as "a slot machine that keeps paying out air", Leela responds "That sounds like a really boring casino".
• Dr. Kind tricks the cancelled captains into shooting the Nimbus under the impression that it's a simulation. Inside the Nimbus, Bender starts singing along to the emergency siren when it goes off.
  Bender: Hey, man, that's catchy! What song is that playing on the emergency siren?
  Crew member: It's the emergency siren! We're under attack!
  Bender: Yaaaah! I'm gettin' outta here! (takes his head off and stows it away in his chest compartment)
• After his cancellation ends, Zapp admits he has learned from Dr. Kind that there's a difference between right and wrong. "One of them gets you cancelled."
• Dr. Kind prepares to contaminate the Tactillians' air supply with a durian and splits it in half, revealing its odor. Meanwhile on Earth, Farnsworth decides to do some "smell-gazing" with the Smell-O-Scope, and one whiff of the durian causes him to pass out on the spot.
• When Dr. Kind's "C" badge announces his sensitivity training is complete, he casually throws it into the air well, causing it to scream.
• Glab makes Dr. Kind the captain of the Nimbus and orders him to fire. Dr. Kind orders the ship to fire before she can finish... while the ship is aiming straight at him.

The Prince and the Product

• Fry is so upset about Leela being forbidden to fall in love with the Prince of Space that he cooks and eats the macaroni portrait of the deceased Queen of Space, which infuriates her widower.
• The Rubber Ducks jingle pointing out that it's not a good idea to put real ducks in a child's bathtub because they'll peck out kids' eyes, especially with the boy apparently not caring that he's missing his eyes after they show the rubber ducks again.
• At the end, Leela reveals she wasn't really in love with the Prince of Space and was just under a spell. When Fry asks if it was a magic spell, the Professor appears on the communicator and corrects him that it's a science spell.

All The Way Down

• The simulated crew being sent on a delivery to "Space Italy".
  Amy: Space Italy?
  Farnsworth: I know, it's an embarrassingly lazy name. But when you're creating an entire universe from scratch, you can't make up a believable name for everything. Sometimes, you just have to go with "Space Italy" or "the Robot Planet", or "Dr. Zoidberg".
  Zoidberg: Preposterous.
• To prove that he’s as real as the others, Bender tries using a metal Rod for the “If you prick me, do I not bleed?” test. When it fails, he throws the rod at Fry.
  Fry: Ow, I’m bleeding.
  Bender: Showoff.
• When Farnsworth decides to unplug the simulation, Bender attempts to do a Diving Save while letting out a Big "NO!" right before the commercial break. He is still heard screaming once the break ends, but the Professor had been unable to unplug the cord due to being too weak. When he gives up, Bender finally lands on him while saying "Thanks, Professor".
  Leela: Bender, how were you leaping through the air that entire time?
  Bender: I wasn't. My first leap missed by a mile, so I leaped again. But I never stopped screaming for a second.
• In a Call-Back to the season premiere, the simulated Fry pledging he's going to watch every TV show ever made, much to the annoyance of the simulated Leela and even the original Fry.
  Fry: That orange guy sure is dumb.
• Bender having Farnsworth make an oath to keep the simulation running. In a robot strip club.
  Bender: Because we had to do this in a place that's meaningful to me, Bender!
• Farnsworth reveals that he does his thinking on the toilet, which the rest of the crew is aware of. And what's more, he says that he didn't need to go and was just willing away on a Sunday afternoon when the idea came to him.
  • When Hermes asks the Professor if he could explain in another room, he answers "No!".
• Much like the original Fry, Simulation!Fry holds the Smart Ball by comparing their universe glitching out from the magnetar collapse as playing a video game under an underpowered game system "that my cheapskate grandma got me".
• After noting that his simulation will fail if it tries to simulate certain events, the Professor laments that “I should never have outsourced it to that Indian grad student”.

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