Time to laugh and have a good time, because we’re sharing with you 60 (or more) of the craziest and funniest Futurama quotes.
Futurama is an American animated science fiction sitcom for adults. It was created by Matt Groening and aired between the years 1999 to 2013 on Fox network.
The show follows the adventures of the character slacker Phillip J. Fry, who is cryogenically preserved for 1,000 years, and then revived in the 31st century. Among other funny and famous characters in the show are Bender the robot and one-eyed Leela.
Here is a sneak peek at the quotes in this article:
Futurama Season 1 Quotes
Bender: Hey sexy mama. Wanna kill all humans?
Season 1, episode 3, I, Roommate
Fry: Hey, when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything.
Season 1, episode 3, I, Roommate
Bender: Honey, I wouldn’t talk about taste, if was wearing a lime green tank top.
Season 1, episode 7, My Three Suns
Leela: This is my first visit to the Galaxy of Terror and I would like it to be a pleasant one.
Season 1, episode 7, My Three Suns
Professor Farnsworth: Now, now. There will be plenty of time to discuss your objections, when and if you return.
Season 1, episode 8, A Big Piece of Garbage
Bender: Well, if jacking on will make strangers think I’m cool, I’ll do it.
Season 1, episode 9, Hell Is Other Robots
Futurama Season 2 Quotes
Bender: Give me your biggest, strongest, cheapest drink!
Season 2, episode 1, A Flight to Remember
Zapp Brannigan: Stop exploding you cowards!
Season 2, episode 3, When Aliens Attack
Zapp Brannigan: If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.
Season 2, episode 3, When Aliens Attack
Fry: I never thought it would end this way, gunned down by Santa Claus.
Season 2, episode 4, Fry and the Slurm Factory
Bender: Why can’t she just drink herself happy like a normal person?
Season 2, episode 5, I Second That Emotion
Bender: Game’s over, losers! I have all the money. Compare your lives to mine and then kill yourselves.
Season 2, episode 7, A Head in the Polls
Bender: Xmas Eve. Another pointless day where I accomplish nothing.
Season 2, episode 8, Xmas Story
Dr. Zoidberg: Fry, it’s been years since medical school, so remind me. Disemboweling you, fatal or non-fatal?
Season 2, episode 9, Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?
Fry: My folks were always on me to groom myself and wear underpants. What am I, the pope?
Season 2, episode 10, Put Your Head On My Shoulders
Fry: Valentine’s Day is coming? Oh crap, I forgot to get a girlfriend again.
Season 2, episode 10, Put Your Head on My Shoulders
Leela: Fry, remember when I told you to finish your stories one sentence earlier?
Season 2, episode 11, The Lesser of Two Evils
Bender: I hope he didn’t die. Unless he left a note naming me his successor, then I hope he did die.
Season 2, episode 15, A Clone of My Own
Bender: Blackmail is such an ugly word. I prefer extortion. The ‘x’ makes it sound cool.
Season 2, episode 16, The Deep South
Amy Wong: Wow! Sporty go-cart, Leela! So hip and sexy. Not like you at all.
Season 2, episode 16, The Deep South
Zapp Brannigan: We know nothing about their history, their language, or what they look like, but we can assume this – They stand for everything that we don’t stand for. And also, they told me you guys look like dorks.
Season 2, episode 17, Bender Gets Made
Bender: This is the worst kind of discrimination. The kind against me.
Season 2, episode 17, Bender Gets Made
Zapp Brannnigan: Dammit Kif, where’s the little umbrella? That’s what makes it a scotch on the rocks!
Season 2, episode 17, Bender Gets Made
Hermes: It’s mighty suspicious. I’ll call the cops, but after I flush some things.
Season 2, episode 20, Anthology of Interest I
Futurama Season 3 Quotes
Zapp Brannigan: She’s built like a steak house, but handles like a bistro.
Season 3, episode 1, The Honking
Leela: Men who call too much are the worst. I bet.
Season 3, episode 1, The Honking
Zapp Brannigan: We need rest. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised.
Season 3, episode 1, The Honking
Zapp Brannigan: You win again, gravity.
Season 3, episode 1, The Honking
Zapp Brannigan: That young man fills me with hope. Plus some other emotions that are weird and deeply confusing.
Season 3, episode 2, War is the H-Word
Fry: Ugh, it’s like a party in my mouth and everyone is throwing up.
Season 3, episode 4, Parasites Lost
Professor Farnsworth: Some say I’m robbing the cradle, but I say she’s robbing the grave.
Season 3, episode 6, Bendless Love
Bender: That’ll teach those other horses to take drugs.
Season 3, episode 10, The Luck of the Fryrish
Dr. Zoidberg: Two oil changes for the price of one! Now if I could afford the one, and the car.
Season 3, episode 12, Insane in the Mainframe
Leela: Fry, please try to understand. You’re a man. I’m a woman. We’re too different.
Season 3, episode 14, Time Keeps on Slipping
Futurama Season 4 Quotes
Bender: Being a robot is great, but we don’t have emotions, and sometimes that makes me very sad.
Season 4, episode 3, Anthology of Interest II
Bender: Oh wait you are serious. Let me laugh even harder.
Season 4, episode 4, Love and Rocket
Fry: Wait, I’m having one of those things. You know, a headache with pictures.
Season 4, episode 5, Leela’s Homeworld
Zoidberg: I took the liberty of fertilizing your caviar.
Season 4, episode 6, Where The Buggalo Roam
Bender: Afterlife? If I had to go through another life, I would kill myself.
Season 4, episode 7, A Pharaoh to Remember
Bender: Look at these swanky tombs! These people really know how to die.
Season 4, episode 7, A Pharaoh to Remember
Bender: Oh, cruel fate, to be thusly boned. Ask not for whom the bone bones. It bones for thee.
Season 4, episode 8, Godfellas
Leela: Well, you won’t listen to reason, so I’ll just listen to idiotic-ness and come too.
Season 4, episode 8, Godfellas
Fry: Huh. Did everything just taste purple for a second?
Season 4, episode 10, A Leela of Her Own
Bender: My story is a lot like yours, only more interesting ‘cause it involves robots.
Season 4, episode 11, The 30% Iron Chef
Futurama Season 5 Quotes
Leela: You can’t keep boogying like this. You’ll come down with a fever of some sort.
Season 5, episode 2, Jurassic Bark
Bender: Oh, no room for Bender, huh? Fine. I’ll build my own lunar lander, with blackjack and hookers. In fact, forget the lunar lander and the blackjack. Screw the whole thing.
Season 5, episode 8, The Why of Fry
Professor Farnsworth: I really ought to do something but I am already in my pajamas.
Season 5, episode 8, The Why of Fry
Dr. Zoidberg: If rich people think it’s good, I will buy it. One art, please!
Season 5, episode 11, Three Hundred Big Boys
Bender: We’ll stage an attack on technology, worthy of being chronicled in an anthem by Rush.
Season 5, episode 14, Obsoletely Fabulous
Bender: Have you ever tried simply turning off your TV, sitting down with your child, and hitting them?
Season 5, episode 15, Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV
Bender: Bite my shiny metal ass! Yeah!
Season 5, episode 15, Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV
Bender: I got ants in my butt, and I needs to strut! Come on, baby!
Season 5, episode 15, Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV
Dr. Zoidberg: The music’s bad and you should feel bad!
Season 5, episode 16, The Devil’s Hands Are Idle Playthings
Bender: I don’t remember ever fighting Godzilla, but that is so what I would have done!
Season 5, episode 16, The Devil’s Hands Are Idle Playthings
Futurama Season 6 Quotes
Zapp Brannigan: I surrender and volunteer for treason.
Season 6, episode 2, In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela
Zapp Brannigan: My instinct is to hide in this barrel, like the wily fish.
Season 6, episode 2, In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela
Fry: Shut up and take my money!
Season 6, episode 3, Attack of the Killer App
Kif Kroker: Excuse my language, but I have had it with you ruffling my petticoats.
Season 6, episode 4, Proposition Infinity
Dr. Zoidberg: Hooray! A happy ending for the rich people.
Season 6, episode 12, The Mutants Are Revolting
Futurama Season 7 Quotes
Farnsworth: Come on, stem cells, work your astounding scientific nonsense!
Fry: Fetal stem cells? Aren’t those controversial?
Farnsworth: In your time, yes. But nowadays…shut up! Besides, these are adult stem cells, harvested from healthy adults that I killed for their stem cells.
Season 7, episode 1, Rebirth
Leela: There’s no room for two captains’ butts in this chair!
Robot Leela: There would be if you’d have taken a spin class instead of lounging around in a coma!
Season 7, episode 1, Rebirth
Professor Farnsworth: Amy, technology isn’t intrinsically good or evil. It’s how it’s used. Like the Death Ray.
Season 7, episode 8, That Darn Katz!
Amy Wong: Is it possible to get everyone back to normal using four or more bodies?
Professor Farnsworth: I’m not sure. I’m afraid we need to use… math!
Season 7, episode 10, The Prisoner of Benda
Amy Wong: Finally, a uniform I would be happy to be caught dead in.
Season 7, episode 12, 31st Century Fox
Interesting Facts about Futurama
Now, let’s have a look at some interesting facts about Futurama, and what made it so popular and fun to watch.
- The Name of the Show Comes from the 1939 New York World Fair Exhibit – During the 1939 World Fair that was held in New York, General Motors established an attraction by the name of Futurama. It was a scale-model city that showed how life may be lived during the 1960s. The model was 35,000 square feet, showing the people at the exhibit how life may be lived in the future. Among the details were skyscrapers and superhighways connected between them with future General Motors cars. People would take a sit on a chair that moved around the great model, enjoying the show and having a glimpse at all the wonders of the future, according to General Motors.
- Getting Futurama on the Air Was Extremely Difficult – Unlike The Simpsons, which Matt Groening is one of its creators, getting the show Futurama on air was very difficult. The moment they ordered it, the network started thinking that maybe it was too dark and mean, and were sure that they have made a huge mistake. From that moment on, anxiety took place. Groening and his team fought for the show and he himself accepted to take all the blame if the show failed. Luckily for him and all of us, the show was a great success.
- The Inspiration for the Theme Song of the Show Came from a Tube Called “Psyche Rock” – Christopher Tyng is the person in-charge for the main theme of the show, but if you listen closely, you may notice that it resembles a song by the name of “Psyche Rock” by Pierre Henry, a French electronic composer and artist. You may say that the Futurama theme is a remix to Henry’s work, as they resemble each other so very much.
- One of the Show’s Creators is Actually a Math Genius – David S. Cohen who is among the creators of the show is a math genius and was the one person Groening wanted in his team for the show. Being a math savvy, Cohen dealt with sci-fi plots brilliantly and brought authenticity to some complex and interesting episodes of the show. Cohen holds a degree in physics from Harvard and also an M.S. in computer science from California University.
- A New Theorem Was Invented Just for Futurama – While writing an episode for the show, writers and creators created a plot so complex, that even they eventually got lost in it and were stumped. “The Prisoner of Brenda” that aired on season 6 of the show involves a machine that is able to swap minds of two people, but the problem was that once used, it was impossible to use the machine again to swap the two minds back. Which means that other characters will have to be paired many times in a roundabout plan. This plane will result in the restoration of their minds in their original bodies. Cohen said that they have to come up with a mathematical explanation that would solve the problem and get everyone’s mind back.
Still lost in thought what to do, it was writer Ken Keeler who saved the day, thanks to his PhD in mathematics. He simply decided to create a special theorem that would prove that everything that took place in the episode was in fact possible. The next morning he came back with a bunch of papers and proved that regardless where the brains currently are, an addition of a couple of new, unswtiched people ensures that everyone (including those two) gets their brain back. - It Took Approximately a Year for Each Episode to be Completed – Each and every episode of the show took a lot of work and sweat in order to be completed. Believe it or not, but it took almost a year for each episode to be done from start to finish. How exactly does this process go? It starts with an idea for an episode. Then this idea is assigned to the writer or writers for an outline and a first draft. Next, this first draft is being carefully dissected in the writers’ room, and that means word by word, scene by scene. Once this is stage is done, the actors then record the text and then it’s time for the animators to do their job. Animatics and final animation can take even half a year to finalize.
- The Episodes of Futurama Were Broadcast Out of Order – It seems that over the years, Fox network has decided that different shows, like Futurama and The X-Files won’t air as intended. For Futurama, there never was a season that had an entire production cycle. For example, there are 13 episodes in season 1 of the show, but only 9 of them were aired. As for the rest of the 4 episodes of the first season, they aired only the following year, during the second season.
- The Creators of the Show Were Fined Because They Had Too Many Characters – WHAT?? YES! You read it right. Futurama had close to 100 recurring characters. So, what is it all about getting fined? You see, during the end of the movie based on the show, “Into The Wild Green Yonder”, the creators of the show had an idea to fit every character they have ever made in Futurama in one shot. That is more than 250 characters on screen, all at once! That is why Rough Draft Studios decided to fine them for wasting the time of the animators and maybe even hurting some wrists along the way.
- There Are Things in the Show That You’ll Never Notice – Aside from the “regular” and casual sight gags, there are a lot of things in the show that you may never notice, including different jokes and small touches that the creators inserted into the episodes and show. In the first episode of the show, Fry lands in the future and the date is December 31, 2999. While he and Bender are running away from Leela, they get to the Head Museum, where Bender tells Fry to go inside as it’s free on Tuesdays.
If you check, then you’ll notice that December 31, 2999 indeed falls on Tuesday. There are other jokes including binary code. One of them is the number of Bender’s apartment door, which is 00100100. This number is binary for the $ symbol. Another example comes from the episode “The Honking” (season 2, episode 18) where the binary code 1010011010 is written on the mirror, which means 666. There are other smart and small jokes inserted in the show, including history jokes. See if you can spot them… - The Creators of the Show Came Up with Two Alien Languages – If you look carefully, you may notice that across the backgrounds of many shows, there are signs and billboards that are written in a strange language, an alien language. This language actually has a name and it is called “Alienese”, a language that is made of code. You may find the original language right in the pilot of the show, as it appears on an advertisement that reads “Drink Slurm” in English, but beneath it are alien glyphs. The second language is way more complicated than the first, but eventually, fans were able to decipher both alien languages.
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