Futurama @lemmy.world w3dd1e @lemm.ee 3d ago

Tell me your favorite line from Futurama?

The big brain am winning again! I am the greetest! Now, I am leaving Earth for no raisin.

EDIT: After reading your replies, it occurred to me that too much of my everyday speech is made up of lines from the show. Maybe that’s why everyone thinks I’m weird.

The rest of aren’t normal, and that’s what makes us great! … So, Leela, don’t want to be like us? Or do you want to be like Adlai, with no severe mental or social problems whatsoever?

Second EDIT: I didn’t expect so many responses, but I’ve just been reading them all and giggling to myself. Thank you everyone I really needed this. Keep em coming!

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“Hahahaha”

Oh wait. You’re serious? Let me laugh even harder.

“HAHAHAHA”
My absolute favorite line is, "Spare me your space age technobabble, Attila the Hun."

That same episode also gave us the phrase, "a partially barfed-up heart," which is a phrase I can't even type here without laughing.
Old lady: Like I always say, live fast and die young Bender: You should say something else
Shut up baby I know it

Use it with the wife often, mostly with success
I don't know what to do! Should I eat more butter?!

This is the worst part: the calm before the battle...oh wait! I forgot about the battle!

Some of you will be forced through a fine mesh screen for your planet. Those men are the bravest of all...

Please, gentlemen, we've all seen too many body bags and ball sacks.

That wasn't cowardice!

No, Scruffy, it's me, Washbucket! I love you, Scruffy! I've always loved you!

Now open your mouth...No not that one. Your other mouth.
“Your music’s bad and you should feel bad!”
If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes should fall like a house of cards. Checkmate!
My only regret is that I have boneitis
The use of words expressing something other than their literal intention. Now that is ironyyy
"I'm having one of those things! You know? A headache with pictures"

"... An idea?"
Farnsworth: Dear Lord! That's over 150 atmospheres of pressure!

Fry: How many atmospheres can the ship withstand?

Farnsworth: Well, it's a space ship, so I'd say anywhere between zero and one.
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

Thus solving the problem once and for all.
I'll use the poor as a source of teeth for aquarium gravel
I was gonna go yachting in those feet!
The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised.
- 😀😦😀😦😀😦
- This one regularly works its wait into my daily speech
Its actually from that same scene; "NOW I AM LEAVING EARTH FOR NO RAISIN!!!" I often say "for no raisin!!!" in my daily life. :)
When they're getting pulled down toward Atlanta:

How many atmospheres can this ship withstand?

Well it's a spaceship, so I'd say anywhere between zero and one.
"So, what you think you just explained was..."

"That's right. This box contains our own universe!"
Nibbler: It's a genetic abnormality which resulted when you went back in time... and performed certain actions which made you your own grandfather.

fry: I did do the nasty in the past-y.

Nibbler: Verily. And that past nastification is what shields you from the brains.
- I've been known to day, "I did do the nasty in the past-y," when I discover I've made a mistake.
Bender, depressed walks up to a bar:

"Gimmie your largest, strongest, cheapest drink"
If I don't survive, tell my wife, "Hello".
- You just made me realize I say “I have no strong feelings one way or the other” a lot and I think usually people don’t know I’m quoting anything.
  
  So close to my other favorite, from the same character and episode:
  
  I also say it all the time, lol.
- Its a beige alert!
Hey, Professor. You're a professor.
You cant just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!
Bender: "So people will actually pay money to find love...? I have an idea, an idea so genius...." gavel sounds "Stupid anti-pimping laws!"
- "Bender we love you!"
  
  Shut up baby. I know it
She’s built like a steakhouse, but she handles like a bistro!
"If we hit that bullseye the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate!"
Your mistletoe is no match for my TOW missile!
“They’re like sex except I’m having them”.
“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.”
- THEY LOOK LIKE DORKS!
Wait, I'm having one of those things, you know, a headache with pictures.
To shreds, you say..

Well, how's his wife holding up? To shreds, you say...
Professor: Your tux doesn't fit because you stole it from a boy.

Bender: You mean a man. It was his Bar Mitzvah.
- Lol I missed that one, good line. Was it with the penguins?
  
  Nope it was the one where the Professor doesn't want to live on this planet anymore. (The evolution episode.)
- The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects.
  
  The lesser are loved and praised.
  
  The even lesser are feared.
  
  The least are despised.
  
  Those who show no trust will not be trusted.
  
  Those who are quiet value the words.
  
  When their task is completed, people will say:
  
  We did it ourselves.
  
  --Tao Te Ching, Chapter 17
  
  Wow, thanks I've got some reading to do.
- My mantra for life.
When you do things right people won't be sure you've done anything at all.
- This is so fucking relevant in the IT field
  
  I have it framed on my wall at work.
Gundersons Nuts! They're Nut so good!

I'm Shocked. SHOCKED! well not that shocked.

Hey. Fry. Pizza going out. C'MON!
You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.
"You can't just sit here in the dark listening to classical music'

"I could if you hadn't turned on the lights and shut off the stereo."
(destructive noises) Buddha, Zeus, God, one of you guys, do something! Satan, you owe me!

They say the key to any successful battle is the element of surprise. SURPRISE!

My absolute favorite: You win again, gravity!
"What are those disgusting creatures?"

"Those are the Grungalungas."

"Tell them i hate them."
"Thanks to denial, I'm immortal!"

"What really killed the dinosaurs?" " ME!!! "

"But you're better than normal! You're abnormal!"
Thus global warming was solved, once and for all.
But....
Once And For All.
I can wire anything directly into anything! I'M THE PROFESSOR!
🎵We're whalers on the moon,

We carry a harpoon,

But there ain't no whales,

So we tell tall tales,

And sing this whalin' tune! 🎵
- That's not an astronaut, that's a TV comedian! And he was just using space travel as a metaphor for beating his wife.
  
  I died doing what I loved!
Good news! It's a suppository!
Don't you worry about Planet Express

Let me worry about blank.
"I'm going to remind Fry of his humanity, the way only a woman can."

"You're going to do his laundry?"

Edit - the one that had me literally rolling off the couch because I was laughing so hard was, "That just raises further questions!"
- This reminds me of another great Professor quote.
  
  Prof: I’ve just finished recharging the matter compressor.
  
  Fry: What’s the matter compressor?
  
  Prof: Nothing’s the matter now that I’ve charged the matter compressor.
No I'm... doesn't!
So, there's an infinite number of parallel universes?

No... just the two...
- You live in the universe, but you never do these things until someone comes to visit.
Robot house
I'll start my own amusement park with blackjack and hookers. In fact, forget the blackjack.
- Eh, screw the whole thing.
"If it's a lesson in love, watch out; I suffer from a very sexy learning disability. What do I call it, Kiff?" ―Zapp "[Sigh] "Sexlexia"" ―Kiff
"wooooooooo"
- I know exactly which scene you are referring to hahaha damn this show.
"What about what?" - Philip J Fry responding to the professor yelling WHAT in a tiny ship in Fry's ear when the professor and crew controlled tiny robot versions of themselves to sneak inside Fry's body
What makes a man turn neutral?
“Take the deal, Fry! If there's a delicious cake, isn't it better to have one slice than none at all? Even if four other guys eat the other four slices, and they're all thrusting their sweaty naked bodies against the cake?”
"Your mother!"
Tie between:

If anyone needs me, I'll be in the angry dome

angry muttering as the PES flies away

and

Well Susie, it isn't foreigners, it's global warming

Gwabu wabu?

Uh, sure...
- The chamber of understanding is also pretty good.
Not exactly an iconic line, but I love the delivery:

"Have you heard of the Monks of Deshuba?"

Fry: "I've... not heard of them."

Futurama's great for nerdy science gags, social satire, and pop culture spoofs, but its best jokes are always uniquely stupid twists of language like this.
I could do without these boobs flopping about
The one I use most often: "I've heard worse excuses to drink".
There's not a restaurant built that I can't fly - Zap Brannigan
- She's built like a steakhouse, but handles like a bistro!
My lead pipe hurts.
- That's normal.
  
  Next patient!
  
  Also, "We need to look inside you with this camera." opens mouth "...Guess again."
I'm Scruffy, the janitor.
- Boilers an' terlets, terlets an boilers, even that one boilin terlet.
  
  Fire me iffin' ye dare.
- The candle that burns twice as bright, burns half as long
  
  Ayup.
- The elves are back
- I'm gonna get me one of them $300 haircuts. This one's lost its pizzazz.
I sublibed with obly tribial blain dabblage.
- Also:
  
  That's over <number> atmospheres of pressure!
  
  How many can the ship withstand?!
  
  Well, it's a spaceship, so I'd say anywhere between zero and one.
And Fry, you've got that brain thing!

I already did!
MY LEG FEELS FUNNY

...

MY LEG FEELS BETTER
- "Did you know their hair just keeps growing and growing?"
  
  Such a legit thing to be grossed out about.
This isn't a productive area of discussion.
- Got to do a bad Kissinger expression while you say it.
I can't believe everybody's just ad-libbing!
The butter in my pocket is melting!

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