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Favorite Futurama gags?

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So I've seen variations of this type of thread for plenty of other animated comedies (Simpsons, KotH, South Park etc.)but what I want to focus on here are specific jokes or comedic sequences that really landed with you.

For me personally, Billy West's Professor Farnsworth is the king when it comes to line delivery, with my favorite example being this scene in the episode "Mars University" after Guenter the monkey runs off.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rZiM5dqHbFA

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"Oh, I always feared he would run off like this. Why? Why? WHY didn't I break his legs?!"

Kills me everytime.

Of course its difficult to narrow down a favorite gag in a show filled with so many great ones, but I thought it'd be fun reliving some of those laughs through GAF.
 
il Diavolo said:
So I've seen variations of this type of thread for plenty of other animated comedies (Simpsons, KotH, South Park etc.)but what I want to focus on here are specific jokes or comedic sequences that really landed with you.

For me personally, Billy West's Professor Farnsworth is the king when it comes to line delivery, with my favorite example being this scene in the episode "Mars University" after Guenter the monkey runs off.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rZiM5dqHbFA

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"Oh, I always feared he would run off like this. Why? Why? WHY didn't I break his legs?!"

Kills me everytime.

Of course its difficult to narrow down a favorite gag in a show filled with so many great ones, but I thought it'd be fun reliving some of those laughs through GAF.
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My favorite gag from the same episode is

"That's why I've decided to transfer to business school!"
"NNNNOOOOOOOOOOO!"
 
"The Big Brain am winning again! I am the greetest! And now I am leaving Earth for NO RAISIN!" destroys me with the entire setup.

Also Zapp in the Snu Snu episode with "Oh god, you're killing me! OH GOD, YOU'RE KILLING ME!"
 
I got a ton of them, but off the top of my head...
Bender: Elzar! Helmut Spargle has a message for you. He says "OHHHH! I'M DEAD!"
Edit: Another gag I like is small, but in "The Sting", When Bender is playing virtual golf, he hits his ball into a pond, and his status in the corner changes to "go fish jerk".
 
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My actual favorite is in one of the first episodes, where Leela has a mug that says "World's #1 Pilot," and Fry has one that says something like, "World's #2365176 Delivery Boy."
 
The one where Bender is being chased by the planet express ship on a circuit board but can't run passed the diode because it's facing towards him.
 
I absolutely love the first episode with Zapp Brannigan, it just has so many funny moments and is probably my favorite episode of the show.
 
Bluth54 said:
I absolutely love the first episode with Zapp Brannigan, it just has so many funny moments and is probably my favorite episode of the show.
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"Kiiiif! I have mated with a woman; inform the men!"

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I'd also add: I LOVE Kif's many sighs and moans of disgust.
 
"No, YOU shut up!" always gets me with what a disproportionate response it was.

Also, "By sending wave after wave of my own men at them."

Oh yeah, also "But rock beats scissors! And paper covers rock. Kif! We have a conundrum. Search them for paper. ...And bring me a rock."

"Do you have an extra GOTO10 line?!"
 
In one of the Christmas episodes, Robot Santa is killing everyone, but he gives Zoidberg a pogo stick because he's been good.



The most memorable Fry quote for me is when they visit Leonardo Da Vinci's home planet and Leonardo is talking to Fry and Fry goes, "I don't even know what language you're speaking."


In the Farnsworth Parabox, when Professor begs Hermes not to hit the button to launch them into the sun, and the very noticeable delay that Hermes takes while weighing the decision. Also at the beginning, "Buddha! Zeus! God! One of you guys help me! Satan, you owe me!"

Basically anything the professor does cracks me up.



Such a good show!
 
Futurama The Game Spoilers:

Dammit Mom noone kills my crew except for me...The deal is off.

Oh...well, how about if I throw in this hat?

Good News everyone, I've sold Planet Express to Mom!
 
Oh yeah, others that get quoted anytime we can make them relevant:

"We're exactly the same. I know all her moves. Therefore, I have the upper hand."

"Stop EXPLODING, you cowards!"
 
God, so many. First one to leap to mind:

Leela: Space bandidos have been operating in this quadrant so you'll each take 8-hour shifts guarding the safe. First Bender, then Flexo, then Fry.
Fry: Wait, hold on. I don't like the sound of that. Let's just go alphabetically.
Leela: OK. First Bender, then Flexo, then Fry.
Fry: Wait, let's go by rank.
Leela: OK. First Bender, then Flexo, then Fry.
Fry: Flexo outranks me?
Flexo: That's "Flexo outranks me, sir"!
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Septimus Prime said:
"Your mistletoe is no match for my T.O.W. missile!"
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As a big fan of wordplay, I absolutely love this one too.
 
The whole Panucci's Pizza scene from A Fishful of Dollars. "And to prove it's really a thousand years ago, here's Pamela Anderson!"
 
il Diavolo said:
For me personally, Billy West's Professor Farnsworth is the king when it comes to line delivery, with my favorite example being this scene in the episode "Mars University" after Guenter the monkey runs off.
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The Prof's timing is superb.

(on the 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. Very well then." (hangs up)
 
The show has soooooo many great ones. The ones I can remember right now:

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Morbo: Now let's meet the participants in tonight's debate. Puny human number. Puny human number 2. And Morbo's good friend, Richard Nixon.

Nixon: Hello Morbo! How's the family?

Morbo: Belligerent and numerous.

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Fry: I'm Santa Claus!

Leela: I'm Santa Claus!

Amy: No, I'm Santa Claus!

Zoidberg: And I'm his friend Jesus!

Mayor Poopenmeyer: None of you are Santa! How dare you lie in front of Jesus!

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Announcer: And the winner is... number 3 in a quantum finish!

Professor: No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!

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"As you know, the key to a battle is the element of surprise... SURPRISE!"

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"Have him melted down and made into a statue of himself."

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"Great. She's stuck in an infinite loop and he's an idiot."

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Leela: Where are we?

Zapp Brannigan: I dunno. This whole's sector's uncharted.

Kif: It's not uncharted. You lost the chart.

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Zapp Brannigan: Ahh yes, comets. The icebergs of the sky. Perhaps by jackknifing between them we can get some kind of speed boost or something.

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The show has an inordinate amount of lines that are almost funnier out of context:

"Hell hath no fury like the vast robot armies of a woman scorned."

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"Spare me your space age techno-babble Attila the Hun!"

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"You win again, gravity!"

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"She's built like a steakhouse, but she handles like a bistro."

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"The internet is about the free exchange and sale of other people's ideas."

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"This is what we've been training for all yesterday afternoon."
 
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