The best animated series ever!


Fry: Space. It seems to go on and on forever. But then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you.


Fry: That's the saltiest thing I ever tasted, and I once ate a big heaping bowl of salt.


Leela: Fry, we have a crate to deliver.
Fry: Well let's just dump it in the sewer and say we delivered it.
Bender: Too much work. Let's burn it and say we dumped it in the sewer.


Fry: It's just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus. All year long, the grasshopper kept burying acorns for the winter, while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV. But then the 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?


[after being kicked out of a theme park]
Bender: Yeah, well... I'm gonna go build my own theme park, with blackjack and hookers. In fact, forget the park!


Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Now that you're our new employees, I'd like you to have a look at our commercial. I paid to have it aired during the Super Bowl.
Fry: Wow.
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Not on the same channel, of course...


Fry: No, Professor, don't give up. There were plenty of times in my century when I was going to give up, but I never did, never. Hey, are you even listening to me? Oh, I give up.


[Discussion of the mysterious Slurm Cola]
Leela: This all must have something to do with the secret ingredient.
Fry: My God, what if the secret ingredient is people?
Leela: No, there's already a soda like that - Soylent Cola.
Fry: Oh. How is it?
Leela: It varies from person to person.


Professor Hubert Farnsworth: It's a little experiment that might win me the Nobel Prize.
Leela: In which field?
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: I don't care - they all pay the same.


Leela: You went to college?
Bender: Of course. I'm a bender. I went to Bending College; I majored in Bending.
Fry: What was your minor?
Bender: Robo-American Studies.


[Gunther the Monkey runs away]
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Oh, I always feared he would run off like this. Why? WHY? WHY didn't I break his legs?


Dwayne: Please, do not be frightened, we're harmless.
Vyolet: Hey, I've got three arms.
Dwayne: I said "harmless", not "armless".


[Leela is about to be sacrificed]
Leela: I'm a virgin.
Vyolet: Nice try, Leela, but we've all seen Zapp Branagin's web page.

Leela: What are we delivering?
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Something without which no ribbon-cutting ceremony could proceed: the ceremonial oversized scissors.
Leela: We'll get them there as quickly as we can.
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: All right, but don't run with them.


Leela: Zapp?
Captain Zapp Brannigan: Leela, I didn't know where else to turn. You're the only woman who's ever loved me.
Leela: I never loved you.
Captain Zapp Brannigan: I mean physically.


Fry: This snow is beautiful. I'm glad global warming never happened.
Leela: Actually, it did. But thank God nuclear winter canceled it out.


Narrator: You are entering the realm which is unusual. Maybe it's magic or contains some kind of monster. The second one. Prepare to enter... The Scary Door. Please send a man 'round back and pick up Clyde Smith, a professional gambler who's about to have an unfortunate accident.
Clyde Smith: [Smith is run over by a car, then awakes in a casino. He plays the slot machine and wins] Ha-ha-ha! A casino where I'm winning? That car must've killed me. I must be in heaven!
[wins again]
Clyde Smith: A casino where I always win. That's boring. I must really be... in HELL!
Sebastian Cabot: No, Mr. Smith. You are not in heaven or hell. You are on an airplane!
[unrolls the curtains, revealing the airplane windows. A creature sits on the wing of the plane, ripping wires out of it]
Clyde Smith: There's a gremlin destroying the plane. You gotta believe me!
Sebastian Cabot: Why should I believe you? You're Hitler!
[Pulls out a mirror. Clyde's reflection indeed looks like Hitler]
Clyde Smith: No!
[turns to a woman sitting next to him]
Clyde Smith: Eva Braun! Help me!
[the woman pulls off a mask, revealing the head of a fly]
Clyde Smith: A-a-ah!
Bender: Saw it coming.


Amy Wong: 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.


Bender: Leela, save me. And yourself I guess... and my banjo... and Fry.


Professor Hubert Farnsworth: You must take him to his ancient home world, which will soon erupt in an orgy of invertebrate sex.
Fry: Oh baby. I'm THERE.
Leela: Fry, do you even understand the word "invertebrate"?
Fry: Nope, but that's not the word I'm interested in.


Soldier: This is the worst part. The calm before the battle.
Fry: And then the battle is not so bad?
Soldier: Oh, right. I forgot about the battle.


Bender: Blackmail is such an ugly word. I prefer "extortion." The "X" makes it sound cool.


Al Gore: To my left, you'll recognize Gary Gygax, inventor of Dungeons & Dragons.
Gary Gygax: Greetings it's a...
[rolls dice]
Gary Gygax: ... pleasure to meet you.


Nichelle Nichols: Eternity with nerds. It's the Pasadena Star Trek convention all over again.


Bender: Hey. What kind of party is this? There's no booze and only one hooker.


[Everyone on Earth except Fry is moronically stupid]
Fry: What are we going to do?
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Duh, I know, let's play the lottery.
Amy Wong: No, let's buy internet stock.
Dr. Zoidberg: On margin. Zoidbee wants to buy on margin.
Hermes Conrad: [holding a board in front of his face] Look at me. I'm invisible.
Fry: Wait a minute, I know what's going on here. You've all become idiots.
Bender: Hey, let's go join the Reform Party!
Everyone: Yeah!!!


Amy Wong: Fool me seven times, shame on you. Fool me eight or more times, shame on me.


[Fry is being Zoidberg's Cyrano]
Fry: Start with a compliment. Tell her she looks thin.
Dr. Zoidberg: [calling to Edna] You seem malnourished. Are you suffering from internal parasites?
Edna: [pleased] Why, yes. Thanks for noticing.



George Foreman: This could be the most one-sided fight since 1973 when Ali faced an eighty-foot tall mechanical Joe Frazier. My memory isn't what it used to be, but I think the entire Earth was destroyed.


Bender: Fry, I'm sorry. I should have understood how someone can love an inferior creature... because I love you... not in the way of the ancient Greeks, but the way a robot loves a human, and a human loves a dog, and, occasionally, a gorilla loves a kitty.


Giant Brain: Pathetic human race. Arranging their knowledge by category just made it easier to absorb. Dewey, you fool! Your decimal system has played right into my hands! Ha ha ha ha!


Fry: I'm never gonna get used to the 31st century. Caffineated bacon? Baconated grapefruit? ADMIRAL Crunch?


Bender: That plot makes perfect sense. Wink, wink.
Dr. Zoidberg: Bender, you said 'wink, wink' out loud.
Bender: No I didn't. Raise middle finger.


Oscar Presenter: And the nominees for Best Soft Drink Product Placement are... Star Trek: The Pepsi Generation, They Call Me Mr. Pibb, and Snow White and the Seven-ups.


Bender: This is the worst kind of discrimination. The kind against me.

[the group's at a horse race]
Fry: C'mon. C'mon. Hey, Leela, how about a kiss for good luck?
[Leela gives him a quick peck on the cheek]
Fry: [disappointed] I meant tongue luck.


Bender: Bending's my middle name.
Fry: It is?
Bender: Yes. It's Bender Bending Rodriguez.


Fry: That clover helped my rat-faced brother steal my dream of going into space. Now I'll never get there.
Leela: You went there this morning for doughnuts.


Fry: What's deathrolling?
Kid tribe member: It's like skateboarding, but half the time someone dies.
Fry: Oh. So it's a little safer than skateboarding.


Amy Wong: There, how do I look?
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Like a cheap French harlot.
Amy Wong: [disappointed] French?


[at a shelter for homeless robots]
Reporter: Is there anything sadder? Only drowning puppies. And there'd have to be a lot of them.


Conan O'Brien: Listen, I may have lost my freakishly long legs in the war of 2012, but I have one thing you'll never have: A SOUL.
Bender: [Scoffs] Pffft.
Conan O'Brien: And freckles.
Bender: [Cries] WAHHH.


Robot Greeting Card: Come, Comrade Bender, we must take to the streets.
Bender: Umm, is this the boring, peaceful kind of taking to the streets?
Robot Greeting Card: No, the kind with looting. And maybe starting a few fires.
Bender: Yes. In your face, Gandhi!


Fry: So you're saying these aren't the decaying ruins of New York in the year 4000?
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: You wish. You're in Los Angeles.
Fry: But there was this gang of ten-year-olds with guns.
Leela: Exactly. You're in L.A.
Fry: But everyone is driving around in cars shooting at each other.
Bender: That's L.A. for you.
Fry: But the air is green and there's no sign of civilization whatsoever.
Bender: He just won't stop with the social commentary.
Fry: And the people are all phonies. No one reads. Everything has cilantro on it...


Bender: [while sleeping] Kill all humans, kill all humans, must kill all hu...
Fry: [shakes him] Bender! wake up!
Bender: I was having the most wonderful dream. I think you were in it.


Captain Zapp Brannigan: You'll be negotiating with the balls mysterious leaders, the Brain Balls. They've got a lot of brains, and they've got a lot of chutzpah...


Fry: Wow. They discovered an intact 20th century pizzeria. Just like the one I used to work at.
Bender: Interesting. No, wait. The other thing. Tedious.


Captain Zapp Brannigan: Stop exploding, you cowards.



God: Bender, being God isn't easy. If you do too much, people get dependent on you. And if you do nothing, they lose hope. You have to use a light touch, like a safecracker or a pickpocket.
Bender: Or a guy who burns down a bar for the insurance money.
God: Yes, if he makes it look like an electrical thing. If you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.


[trying to wake up an unconscious professor Farnsworth]
Leela: Try shocking him.
Bender: Your social security check's bounced. Stuff cost more than it used to. Young people use curse words.
Fry: Damn it!


[looking over an old Hippy Volkswagen bus]
Amy Wong: This speedometer only goes up to 80. This machine can only go as fast as 80,000 miles an hour?
Fry: Nope. But it has a driver's side floor and an eight-track with genuine mono sound.
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: But where's the device to speed up or slow the passage of time?
Fry: Under the seat.
[Pulls out a bong]



Captain Zapp Brannigan: I am the man with no name, Zapp Brannigan at your service.



Fry: Very impressive, back in the 20th century we had no idea there was a university on Mars.
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Well, in those days Mars was a dreary uninhabitable wasteland much like Utah, but unlike Utah Mars was eventually made livable.


Leela: You're just jealous.
Fry: No I'm not. Oh wait - yes I am. But my point remains valid.



Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Good news, everyone. Tomorrow, you'll all be making a delivery to Ebola 9, the virus planet.
Hermes: Why can't they go today?
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Because tonight's a special night and I want you all to be alive. It's the Academy of Inventors annual symposium.
Fry: Wow, I love symposia!
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: It's the scientific event of the season. Every member presents an invention. The best one wins the Academy prize.
Bender: Sounds boring.
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Oh my, yes.


[Hermes is under the control of a brain slug, which is attached to his head]
Hermes Conrad: Onto new business. Today's mission is to go to the brain slug planet.
Dr. Zoidberg: What are we going to do there?
Hermes Conrad: Nothing. Just walk around not wearing a helmet.



Fry: I hear that. I spent most of my teen years loving my body. Course it was tough love.


Al Gore: As I discuss in my book Earth in the Balance, and the more popular Harry Potter and the Balance of the Earth, we need to protect ourselves against the greenhouse effect and dark wizards.
Dark Wizard: Oh sure, blame the wizards.



Dr. Zoidberg: I wonder what the shroud of Turin tastes like.


Fry: [sarcastic] Oh, this is REALLY futuristic.
[Camera pans to reveal Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot, also silhouetted]
Crow T. Robot: Shhhh. No talking during the movie.


Licy Liu robot: I'll always remember you, Fry... [monotone voice] MEMORY DELETED.


[Bender has joined the Church of Robotology]
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: If only he had joined a mainstream religion, like Oprahism, or Voodoo!


Leela: Well, it's a Type M planet, so it should at least have Roddenberries.


Fry: Wow. That guy makes Speedy Gonzalez look like Regular Gonzalez.


[a commercial for Farnsworth's delivery company]
H. G. Blob: Evans! Where's that package from Earth?
Employee: Uh...
[H.G. Blob swallows him whole]
Employee: I'm not Evans!
H.G. Blob: He should've used Planet Express!
Narrator: When those other companies aren't brave of foolhardy enough to go, trust Planet Express for reliable on-time deliveries!
Evans: Here's your package, Mr. Horrible Gelatinous Blob!
H.G. Blob: Good work, Evans! You've got a future around here!
[swallows him whole]
Evans: Thank you, sir!


[having just encountered Leela, who is pretending to be a male soldier]
Captain Zapp Brannigan: That young man fills me with hope. Plus some other emotions which are weird and deeply confusing.


[At the edge of the universe, Fry sees alternate versions of himself and his friends on the other side]
Fry: So it's true, there is an infinite number of universes.
Professor Hubert Farmsworth: No, just the two.
Fry: Oh, well. I guess that's enough.



[while watching an actor playing him in Fry's Opera]
Bender: I don't remember ever fighting Godzilla... But that is so how I would have done it!


Walt: And to prove that we are a thousand years in the past, here is comtemporary actress Pamela Anderson.
Pamela Anderson: Hello, Fry. Remember me in Baywatch: the Movie?
Fry: Huh?
Pamela Anderson: It was the first movie shot entirely in slow motion.
Walt: It hasn't come out yet.
Pamela Anderson: Then he doesn't know I won the Oscar?
Walt: Nope.
Pamela Anderson: Crap!



Chief Giant Brain: What do you want?
Fry: I'm here to kick your ass!
Chief Giant Brain: Wishful thinking. We have long since evolved beyond the need for asses.


President Nixon's Head: My fellow Earthicans, we enjoy so much freedom, it's almost sickening. We're free to chose which hand our sex-monitoring chip is implanted in. And if we don't want to pay our taxes, why, we're free to spend a week with the Pain Monster.
Pain Monster: See you April 15th, folks!


Captain Zapp Brannigan: You win again, gravity!



Professor Hubert Farnsworth: [Professor Farnsworth is showing Cubert, his clone, some of his inventions] This is my Universal Translator. It could have been my greatest invention, but it translates everything into an incomprehensible dead language
Cubert J. Farnsworth: [into the translator's microphone] Hello.
Universal Translator: Bonjour!
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: See? Utter gibberish!



Stephen Hawking: Oh, great. The universe has been destroyed.
Fry: Then where are we?
Al Gore: I don't know, but I damn well know where we're not - the universe.


Auctioneer: Are there no further bids for this exquisite galaxy? Sold! To the being of inconceivable horror!
Being of Inconceivable Horror: Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!
[pause]
Being of Inconceivable Horror: Will a money order be OK?
Auctioneer: Yes.
Being of Inconceivable Horror: MWA-HA-HA-HA-HA!


Hedonism Bot: Ah, Fry, congratulations. Your latest performance was as delectable as dipping my bottom over and over into a bath of the silkiest oils and creams.
Fry: Thank you, sir. That's exactly what I was going for.
Hedonism Bot: You were the sole diversion in what has been a pale and unamusing season, and so I would fain commission you write an opera.
Fry: But I've never written an opera.
Hedonism Bot: And I've never heard one. Still, if you can keep me amused through the overture I shall consider it a smashing success.


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!



[Robot Devil appears]
Bender: What up?
Beelzebot, The Robot Devil: Oh. Well it so happens that I'm in the mood to make a deal with you.
Bender: Forget it. You can't tempt me.
Beelzebot, The Robot Devil: Really? There's nothing you want?
Bender: Hmm. I forgot you could tempt me with things I want.


Leela: Who would've thought that Hell would exist - and that it would be in New Jersey?
Fry: Well, actually...



Bartholemew Jo-Jo 'Bart' Simpson Doll: [Bender finds a Bart Simpson doll] Eat my shorts.
Bender: Okay!
[Eats the doll's shorts]
Bender: Mmmm... shorts...


Bender: You know what always cheers me up? Laughing at other people's misfortune. Hahaha!


Bender: I read the script, and I think it would help my character's motivation if he was on fire.



Anglelyne: Bender! You tricked me!
Bender: That's right baby, I ain't your loverboy Flexo, the guy you love so much. You even love anyone pretending to be him.
Anglelyne: Well maybe I love you so much that I love you no matter who you're pretending to be.
Bender: Oh, how I wish I could believe or understand that!


[Bender has Doomsday bomb planted in him that detonates when he says a predetermined word]
Leela: We couldn't disarm the bomb so we reset the word that triggers it.
Amy Wong: It's from the list of words you almost NEVER say.
Bender: That's using your ass. So, what's the word?
Hermes Conrad: We think it better if you don't know.
Bender: Oooh come on. I'm not going to say it. Please? Oh! Is it "Please"?
Fry: Nope.
Bender: Hmm... words I never say. Oh I know: "Thanks!"
Leela: Bender, stop trying to destroy the world!
Bender: Wait, wait, wait, is it "Sorry"? No. "Funderfull"? Ehh..."Non-alcoholic"?
Amy Wong: Quit it!
Fry: Bender!
Hermes Conrad: Stop it mon!
Dr. Zoidberg: Enough already!
Bender: Compassion? Shrimp toast? Antiqueing?
[a tremendous explosion]
Bender: I'm alright!



Morbo: Morbo will now introduce the candidates: Puny Human Number One, Puny Human Number Two, and Morbo's good friend Richard Nixon.
President Nixon's Head: How's the family Morbo?
Morbo: Beligerant and numerous.


Lucy Liu robot: Oh, Fry, I love you more than the moon, the stars, the... [monotone] POETIC IMAGE #36 NOT FOUND.

Is it still on the air? If so when and where? I saw it when it first started years ago but lost track of it.

A show canceled well before its time.

Have I mentioned that I hate Fox?

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They still show it on Cartoon Network (Adult Swim) at about 8 I think, and then they repeat it at like 11 or midnight. I'm not exactly sure. Anyway, I really like this show a lot. It's witty,funny, and entertaining to watch. It's a shame Fox cancelled it.

What a coincidence. I just started watching the show from scratch again on DVD. Only on the fourth episode "Love's Labours Lost in Space", though.

What I love about the show is that its able to combine very funny moments also in with some really emotional episodes that make you sad.

I cant remember what the episodes were called but they were quite depressing

1. The fact that th dog that Fry befriended waited for Fry to return but he never did and the dog died of old age all alone and depressed. Very very sad one indeed. I think it was called "Jurassic Bark". If theres any one episode to watch this is it. Its probably one of the most depressing episode on tv since Mulder discovering his search for his sister brought closure to him in the X-files

2. The episode where Fry thought his brother stole his name to make a name for himself but found out that the relative using Fry's name was his nephew who his brother named as a memory dedicated to him

3. Leila's birth parents were always looking out for her

My all-time-favourite show. I'd list a few quotes if I wasn't so drunk and bored.

Maybe tomorrow...

"Jurassic Bark" remains one of my favorite episodes of any television series in history. The show has so many levels of comedy, it's amazing, but to create an episode that had such a powerful emotional punch to it is unbelievable. People still laugh at me when I say how sad the episode was if they never saw it (Blasphemy!). A remarkable episode. I don't think I got this sad during any live action TV series. This is possibly the only animated series that often can seem real, even though it's animated. A few episodes of The Simpsons have done it, but surely not lately.

It was a decent show.

I cry during the seven leaf clover episode.

I also like the fact that it is a continuous story -- things that happen in one episode affect other episodes and build off of them, and obviously things were planned long in advance (such as Nibbler's shadow in the very first episode).

Great stuff!

My 3 favorite episodes happen to be 3 of the most emotional ones

1. Jurassic Bark- a truely sad episode because of the song montage of Fry's only friend Seymour a dog waiting years for Fry to comeback and we watch Seymour age through the process all alone.

2. Leela's Homeworld - another emotional episode because Leela was an orphan and throughout her life, she thought her parents were dead but they gave her up for adoption hoping for a better life for her because she can easily be accepted to human society unlike her mutated parents. A great nice song montage dedicated near the end to where her parents were always watching her all along while she was being raised in the orphanarian

3. Luck of the Fryish - another emotional episode because Fry always had a grudge against his brother blaming him for trying to take everything of his even his name. He got even angrier when he found out his brother became famous using his name. Its not till towards the end did he realize that it wasnt his brother using his name but his brother named his son after Fry. Fry never knew how much he was loved back home even his brother showed alot of it

I always figured that Matt Groening and Co. inserted the Nibbler shot in that Season 3 or 4 episode where they flashback, but after re-watching "Space Pilot 3000", I was amazed to find it there. They surely did know what they were doing. I've always loved Family Guy, but I think Futurama takes the cake as the best animated series ever. And while Bender is often the comedy for episodes, they always seemed to know just the right amount of comedy from all characters in the more emotional episodes, without being too serious or too light. Ironically, this show was way before it's time.

It was more consistently funny and well-written than even The Simpsons in its prime. Its cancellation is a travesty when you consider the lesser animated shows (The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Family Guy) that are all consistently renewed year after year. Even if, like Family Guy, a new series is commissioned at this point (which is unlikely, to say the least), it would be nearly impossible to get the same team of writers to come back...

On the plus side, at least it never had chance to get stale.