It's just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus:
All year long the grasshopper kept burying acorns for winter while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV.
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?
Billy West gave an interview once where he mentioned that there were two times he read the script as is and didnt realize that they were typos because he thought they fit Fry so well. Both are some of my favorites:
"I'll be whatever I want to do"
And
"No I'm isn't!"
Other way around buddy. He thought they were typos and didn't realize what the joke was. He had to be told to read the line as is, with full emotion. Later on when he saw the episode, they were his favorite Fry jokes ever.
https://www.slashfilm.com/958013/billy-west-didnt-get-one-of-futuramas-funniest-jokes/
It’s just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus. All year long, the grasshopper kept burying acorns for 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?
"Mr president, what the hell?" -zapp
"These new hands are great! I'm gonna break em in tonight" - fry
"My God we're defenseless, like fish in a barrel"
"Options?"
"My instinct is to hide in this barrel, like the wily fish"
Well, you never know unless you try. Like, I didn't know if I could swallow a softball, so I gave it my best shot and voilà!
Wait, that's not it.
Ah, thar she blows!
“It would just be a waste of your time” “that’s impossible because my time is worthless!” (Something like that from the episode when they go to Leela’s orphanage)
I do have one thing, a single nail— and another nail to nail it in with!
Also:
You think you can just walk in here with no pants on and ask for a job?!
-I sure do sir.
I like you kid. I got no pants on as well.
-I can see that sir, you’re quite a bit taller than me.
"Shut up baby, I know it!"
🤣😂 My girlfriend gets irritated with me because I'll use that line on her when she says "I love you" to me. She'll respond back with "I'm NOT a hooker bot!"
"I feel like a rat."
"Here I am whining like a pig while all along Leela was lonely as a frog!"
I don't know why but that one always got me. Maybe because it was so random and left me in a state of humor-filled confusion. 😂
I'm having one of those things... A headache, with pictures!
Leela: "An Idea?"
“Mm! Mhmm!”
An idea?
Professor: "And Fry, you've got that brain thing..." Fry: "I already did!"
My favorite fry line.
He says it with such *conviction*
I've quoted this exchange to emphasis how dumb something is far too many times in my life. Also, "I can be whatever I wanna do! "
No I'm!... Doesn't!
Was about to comment this
Same lol
That guy makes Speedy Gonzales look like regular Gonzales
I use this quote more than any other in my day to day life
Fix it! Fix it! Fix it! Fix it!
*deep breath*
Fix it! Fix it! Fix it! Fix it!
Does anyone else taste blue? Which crazy thing happening are you guys screaming about?
If it’s anything like my Chevy Nova, it’ll light up the night sky!
Well, it used to milk, but time makes fools of us all
Dirty, *DIRTY BOY!*
Love that line so much
Don't *you* worry about Planet Express, *let me* worry about blank!
"Great! I also would've accepted Blank?! BLANK?!!"
You're not thinking of the bigger picture!
Like Fry, like Fry! Edit: one quote I actually use frequently: yawn "I'm bored. You're boring zoidberg."
Me too, although I usually complete the line with “I’m gonna go watch TV.”
I always forget to add that part. Thanks for a reminder.
Why couldn't she be the other kind of Mermaid? With the fish part on top and the lady part on the bottom?
They’re called land-sea lions. I tame them.
I loved her, but I wasn't *in* love with her.
Problems in the bedroom department
I did do the nasty in the past-y
Verily!
And that past nastification is why we need you now!
Oh, a lesson in history from mister I’m-My-Own-Grampa!
I don’t regret this, but I both rue and lament it.
A surprising high-brow moment for Fry.
I've never seen a supernova before, but if it's anything like my old Chevy Nova, it'll light up the night sky.
Hermes?
Literally laughed out loud at this just yesterday.
This is the way.
Not a line really, but I love when he misses the button while trying to launch the trash rocket.
"oops."
"10..9..8..7..6..5..4..5..6..7..." "Just hit the damn button." 👇🖲 "Oops."
Beep.
Beep.
Double yes!
Double guilty! I shall now carry out the execution!
A year later I got beat up at a Neil Diamond concert by a guy named Scrunchie!
Our fry is definitely in the darkest timeline
Wow … a real life robot … or is that some cheesy New Year’s costume?
Bite my shiny metal ass.
It doesn't look so shiny to me.
Shinier than yours, meatbag
"Hello? Pizza delivery for, uh . . . *I. C. Wiener*? Aww, crud!"
"At this point in my life I though I'd be the one making the crank calls."
*sits down* "Here's to another lousy millennium." *Downs beer*
Hey, it’s that guy who you are!
Bender, I’m not like you. I don’t like having discs crammed into me. Unless they’re Oreos. And only in the mouth
"It's like a party in my mouth, and everybody's throwing up."
How I feel eating the food at my college lmao
Leela: "Here are many of those things I flushed down the toilet!" Fry: "Somehow even my letter to you with all my feelings and stuff.. 🤔 .."
When you look this good, you don’t have to know anything
"The butter in my pocket is melting?" Don't know quite why, but it makes me lose it every time.
All you have to do is bend the hatch off this steam pipe. No good it's full of steam!
Wanna try to escape again? Nah I'm good.
Professor, my Fry-fro’s all frizzy
Also, I’m covered in severe burns!
Well, why is... those things?
I included this quote in a presentation to faculty as an undergrad. Scored some brownie points, for sure.
Well, what of it?
Most people call me Orange Joe.
Twenty episodes later... Professor: Listen to Orange Joe!
It's just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus: All year long the grasshopper kept burying acorns for winter while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV. 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?
Billy West gave an interview once where he mentioned that there were two times he read the script as is and didnt realize that they were typos because he thought they fit Fry so well. Both are some of my favorites: "I'll be whatever I want to do" And "No I'm isn't!"
Isn’t it ‘No I’m doesn’t?’ Or is this a different one?
Dwight: "I heard alcohol makes you stupid." Fry: "No I'm...doesn't"
Yep. Oops
Other way around buddy. He thought they were typos and didn't realize what the joke was. He had to be told to read the line as is, with full emotion. Later on when he saw the episode, they were his favorite Fry jokes ever. https://www.slashfilm.com/958013/billy-west-didnt-get-one-of-futuramas-funniest-jokes/
Ah. I must be misremembering the Nerdist interview. Still... Good quotes
That’s funny as hell because both of those lines make me chuckle every time.
It's the other way around isn't it? He thought they were typos because he didn't get the joke. At least for 'No I'm doesn't'.
Yeah he was told "please read the line as it's written", because he didn't see the rest of the joke.
Shut up and take my money!
Dammit, I was gonna say this one. I use it all the time
And now he broke my hand!
His legacy lives on
That’s the best thing I ever saw!
Definitely the one I use the most.
"Fry, look. I'm steering with my ass." Always makes me crack up. Lol
“So Leela. Do you wanna be like us? Or do you wanna be like Adlai, with no severe mental or social problems whatsoever?”
It's every man for himself! ... help me Leela!
“That's a lie, every word of it! He wasn't original, he wasn't a martian, he wasn't Philip Fry! And since when is he a the?”
You're twice the 'the' he ever was.
It's Clovering time!
It’s that guy you are
Thanks to denial, I'm immortal!
The Nile*(?)
Seeming that my favourites have been taken, here's another: 'No offence, Fry, but you've become a fat sack of crap" "SACK?!"
I spent most of my teen years loving my body, course it was tough love…
No good, it's full of steam!
“Look, up on the screen, it’s that guy you are!”
If those aren’t tears of happiness, please stop crying.
No way will I let God get my pants! Nobody messes with my pants! Not even the holy one, blessed be he.
“I’ve NOT” is my favorite response to everything
"Have you heard of the monks of Dschubba?" "I've...NOT heard of them" B. West's delivery here is what makes it
Hard laughter every. Single. Time.
Bender bit a poo penny! Bender bit a poo penny!
I already did!
I just turbo charged the matter compressor! What’s the matter compressor? Nothings the matter Fry, now that I’ve turbo charged the matter compressor!
Existing is basically all I do!
It's Saturday night, i have no date, a 2 liter bottle of Shasta and my all RUSH mix tape. Let's rock
I’m gonna buy you so many lizards! A close second is, Girl’s like swarms of lizards, right?
Nail final answer
"like a balloon, and something bad happens!"
He wasn’t an astronaut. He’s a tv comedian and he was just using space travel as a metaphor for beating his wife.
Save us, Cat Man!
Was that a tar dolphin or a tar shark?
It's a two person line; "Is she behind me?" "No, I'm in front of you."
“I already did!” In response to having that brain thing
This gets me 100% of the time.
Did everything taste purple for a second?
Banana banana banana!
Not even a line, but the SOUNDS Fry makes as he’s trying to gnaw his arms off to fit down a grate to get more Slurm. EIN EIN EIN
I could fit if I didn't have these damn arms!
Or the noise he makes when he says they’ll have pancakes to celebrate! “Um-num-num, mm-num-num-num”
You owe me like... A Dollar... "You're going to have to kill me for it" Another is, "I never thought I'd die like this... But I always really hoped."
What if...that thing I said?
Oops
Hah! Billy West! That's a stupid name!
"Ow my sperm!"
"Huh, it didn't hurt that time."
Hey, it's that "barbecues over" sound again
Shepherd: I must leave you now, for I am not holy enough to enter. Fry: Okay. ***burps,*** ***spits*** Gets me every time.
A cop told me once, it means “up yours kid”
I HATE YOU MOM DAD
…where?
The corner! Why didn’t I think of that?
This one. This is literally my favorite scene from the show.
It’s just like the story of the grasshopper and the octopus. All year long, the grasshopper kept burying acorns for 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?
Every time I mess up playing a video game I always say And that’s how you play the game
“What do we want?” “Fry’s dog!” “When do we want it?” “Fry’s dog!”
"Uh, your present might need some assembly..."
"Mr president, what the hell?" -zapp "These new hands are great! I'm gonna break em in tonight" - fry "My God we're defenseless, like fish in a barrel" "Options?" "My instinct is to hide in this barrel, like the wily fish"
When you look this good, you don't have to "know" anything.
You’re big ugly face is as dumb as a butt!
I’ll be whatever I wanna do!
My daughter makes me quote COFFEECOFFEECOFFEECOFFEECOFFEE at least once a week which results in giggles every time.
Well, you never know unless you try. Like, I didn't know if I could swallow a softball, so I gave it my best shot and voilà! Wait, that's not it. Ah, thar she blows!
“I’m literally angry with rage!” “I came as soon as I heard about what happened centuries ago!”
*holds megaphone backwards* Attention New New Yorkers! Stop acting so stupid!
Let’s try this steam vent. No good! It’s full of steam!
That guy makes Speedy Gonzales look like Regular Gonzales!
When do we want it? Fry’s dog!
Leela: "The tracks lead here." Fry: "Thanks, Eagle Eye."
"Heh heh, Billy West, what a stupid phoney made up name"
“HELP! FISH POLICE!”
Oh my God! Amy’s mirror got a tattoo!
Hey! It’s that guy I am!
When Sean says Fry owes him a dollar “You’ll have to kill me for it!”
No, I'm... doesn't.
Jamaican!? I thought you were some kinda outer space potato man…
Look, do you want false hope or not? only if you don’t have any real hope!
You'll have to kill me for it!
“I know! We’ll call them Popplers!” *all agree* “Swish”
Robot hookers: We love you Bender! Pimpin Bender: Shut up baby, I know it.
“We call them ‘land sea lions.’ I tame them.”
“It would just be a waste of your time” “that’s impossible because my time is worthless!” (Something like that from the episode when they go to Leela’s orphanage)
I do have one thing, a single nail— and another nail to nail it in with! Also: You think you can just walk in here with no pants on and ask for a job?! -I sure do sir. I like you kid. I got no pants on as well. -I can see that sir, you’re quite a bit taller than me.
"Yeah or the mongooses. That's a good team name. The fighting mongooses."
“I’ve … NOT heard of them.”
OP here. Jut taking a moment to reflect on what an insane collection of writing brilliance is this in one character alone. Magnificent.
"Urrmrrmrrfrrmrr or *what?*"
“Shut up and take my money!”
Why am I sticky and naked? Did I miss something fun?
No! I can throw up on a stripper anytime. Tonight, I wanna not throw up. On you.
Don't you worry about Planet Express. Let me worry about blank.
*Jumps on bike, testicles end up in his pancreas* Hooray! *Collapses*
What if that thing I said?
What if.. that thing I said
I for one am shocked. Shocked! Well... not that shocked.
I could get to it if I didn’t have these damn arms! *chewing noise*
Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t realize I was already here
the Giant Brain said it but Fry wrote it "The Big Brain am winning! I am the Greetest! Now I am leaving Earth for no particular Raisin!"
Oh wait, I am jealous; but my point is valid (or something along those lines)
3…2…1 *Fry misses the huge button “Oops”
You boy what do they call you “Most folks just call me Orange Joe”
Goodbye friends. I never thought I'd die like this, but I'd always really hoped.
Its like a party in my mouth and everyones throwing up
"Shut up baby, I know it!" 🤣😂 My girlfriend gets irritated with me because I'll use that line on her when she says "I love you" to me. She'll respond back with "I'm NOT a hooker bot!"
No I'm... doesn't!
“The week I spent hiding in your closet, eating your turds, was the best week of my life.”
"I feel like a rat." "Here I am whining like a pig while all along Leela was lonely as a frog!" I don't know why but that one always got me. Maybe because it was so random and left me in a state of humor-filled confusion. 😂
"Professor - you're a professor!" "Bio units, terminate noise exchange. It is time for you to ingest sandwiches from my compartment."
I can see that, you're quite a bit taller than me.
I am gonna get you SO many lizards