@@DrLoverLover Typically it's done when writers are being lazy and they just want to reuse something they already have made. It's not the case in this scene because Futurama is self aware. The professor is doing a minor fourth wall break here by anticipating fan outcry over reusing a machine. He is saying this to the audience as well, not just Fry.
@@Unknown-wi4ku As a kid, it cracked me up because of the instant defense. As an adult it cracks me up because everything I make and design has to be multifunctional. "Its not just an entertainment center that I made from scratch from raw hardwood worth 2k its also my PC and the cable box."
One of my favourites that didn’t make this video; “Well, I’m off to my night job” “You have a night job?” “Yep. It’s exhausting, but I need the money to buy coffee so I can stay awake for my night job”
This needs a part 2! You forgot the "1 million lines of BASIC!!!" One of the co-writers, Eric Kaplan, defended this joke to a FOX executive on the basis that true fans are going to really appreciate those types of jokes.
If anyone's curious, assuming the statement of "average interest of 2.25%" is correct and wasn't just a round up, Fry's exact bank account would contain 4,283,508,449.71 meaning the "4.3 billion dollars" is a round up. However, if we take the 4.3 billion to be an exact figure, that means that his actual average interest rate was about 1.02329, closer to 2 and a 3rd percent
If inflation really would turn 93 cents into $4.3 billion then how come the price of everything in New New York isn't wildly expensive? Shouldn't a stick of gum cost billions of dollars instead of 40 cents?
Also, it hasn't been 1000 years yet. Exponential growth goes quicker the further it goes. If it takes 100 years to go from $1.05 to $131.50, an increase of a little over 130 dollars, the next 100 years it would increase to $17,292.58, an increase of more than 17,000 dollars. You wouldn't notice as much the first couple of decades, but as it goes on it becomes increasingly crazy.
We can imagine that in the futurama universe, inflationary currency was decided against at some point, as even a modest 2% target over 1000 years would make a stick of gum cost billions, as you say. Typically interest rates on a bank account don't exceed inflation, but since this is fiction we can pretend that they did, and that inflation was on average 0.
My favourite line not in this is when their spaceship goes underwater and when asked "What pressure can she hold" professer says "Well it is a spaceship, so any where between 1-0 Atmosphers." Cracks me up.
@@ethribin4188 updog was a meme well before the word meme entered the vernacular. I don't remember the exact first time I heard it but it was well before 2005. I want to say as far back as 99? My memories not great
I’ve never understood why this was so funny. Like I get that you can’t measure things on a subatomic level because measuring it will inherently interfere with it and mess up the accuracy of the reading, that’s the big thing everybody knows about quantum physics. Is there more to the joke than that?
@@WhiteKnuckleRide512Schrodinger's cat, I guess? That by checking the outcome you're affecting it I've never gotten why Schrodinger's cat works tho tbh, I skipped Physics and austrians are fucking weird. Bringing cat murder into science getouttahereman
@@WhiteKnuckleRide512 The same reason people say "To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty." Replace R&M with every joke related to science.
the fact that Fry had a 2.25 percent interest rate on his bank account and it was permanently locked in, and that he had no annual fees is what pisses me off the most
Those billions of dollars, considering inflation over a thousand years, is probably the price of a bag of chips. Which is funny, it's not something I see anybody ever mention. It's no different than how back then, candy bars were a nickel, now they're a dollar or more.
I always loved the line "I am a man with no name... Zapp Brannigan, at your service." Or "you can't give up hope just because it's hopeless!" This show was the best at wordplay
@@marcomola1906 recent controversies have made the university’s reputation suffer. They produce a lot of social sciences students who have baloney degrees
"I know, I was deliberately describing a similar situation." Joke works on so many levels. You expect it to be another "Fry didn't fully adapt into future" joke, yet it's suprisingly eloquent Fry still failing to communicate.
It’s a joke layered three times, it’s so genius, exactly as you said it sounded like he hasn’t adapted when he has, and that lassie is on display in the louvre, and a joke on characters often having to explain a joke in a ‘but thing is thing anymore’
It also highlights how the other characters think of Fry. Amy assumes that Fry doesn't know that Lassie is on display in the Louvre, because why would he? He's ignorant about so many other things. And we, the audience, would probably assume the same thing. Then it turns out that he actually does know about Lassie, subverting the audience' expectations on yet another level.
3:53 okay. so what I love about this show in its prime was that its sci-fi explanations for common TV Tropes (in this case ghosts) were frequently _way_ more ridiculous and outlandish than the original tropes themselves. it was like "no, ghosts are ridiculous. here is this WAY more ridiculous, way-out-there sci-fi explanation". I think a lot of the writers were not only _intense_ sci-fi nerds but also mathematicians and Oxford Graduates. and it shows. it showed in the show. Season 3 is pretty much perfect.
Didn't they invent (or coin/discover, w/e) a new fundamental equation? The episode where they're body-swapping with the heads of Richard Nixon and the Harlem Globetrotters I think.
As someone who works in engineering and programming the 2 dings jokes is the most hilarious realistic thing ever. All of our internal signaling methodologies are so hilariously incomprehensible while simultaneously being hyper-functional. The professor’s is a quite relatable madness.
Futurama is great because there's all these little clever, well researched jokes and details throughout every episode that're easy to miss, but also if you just turn your brain off you'll still get some laughs too
That's what makes this my favorite show. It never lingers on a joke and it never puts it in your face (original run, anyways). I apply this brand of humour to my day to day life and it mostly confuses people until they know me better
@@Sir_Psych agree with that other guy. Being your friend seems great fun. I am trying to implemet similar kind of comedy in my life too. I am just somewhat more absurd , and still trying to kill of temtation to explain stuff. Shortly , you achived things i strive to , but it is somewhat hard. The best way it can be. This thought spireled out of controll. Love it. Where was u?
@@DimkaTsv Lost in translation as nearly all puns and play on words are when translated. It's so sad when it happens, though sometimes there are great translations that make a pun in the translated language that is equivalent.
Basically, observing an electron using our current instruments changes how it behaves. When it’s unobserved, it acts like it’s still, and when it’s observed, it moves.
One of my all time favourite quips is "In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious"
@@ultimateace1854 You read that comment incorrectly. It didn't say "would really", which indicates a correction. It said "really would", which indicates a confirmation.
lol my high school math teacher used 1:08 as an intro problem to learn how to calculate interest rates over time and bleeped out the end amount. She though I was a genius cause I knew the answer in less than a second 😂
@@Gamepainter Using cartoon clips to illustrate principles while teaching isn't that far-fetched. The economics class I'm taking used multiple Simpsons clips. Remembering a random number from a piece of media you like isn't that far-fetched. People remember weird things sometimes. Like how I can remember the "giasfelfebrehber" from that one puzzle in Deltarune: Chapter Two despite not putting any effort in to memorize it. How is putting the two together so exceedingly unlikely?
I love watching the scene where Fry is protesting to get his dead dog back and he has a crowd with him: WHAT DO WE WANT? FRY'S DOG! WHEN DO WE WANT IT? FRY'S DOG! Always gets me
@@malibustacys80085 Futurama is for smart people who are also totally willing to laugh at dumb jokes _and_ smart jokes. I'm still not sure what Rick & Morty is, because Morty's voice in the first 30 seconds made me instantly hate the show. Probably not a fair assessment, but goddamn he's more whiney than Luke complaining to Uncle Owen.
@@flingage I agree on the first Part. Dumb jokes are funny sometimes. I don't care about the voices. I only See a dislikeable Charakter in Rick. I stopped watching it after season two. They seem to take the easy way in writing.
"I just turbo charged the ship's Matter Compressor." "What's the Matter Compressor?" "Nothing's the matter, Fry. Now that I turbo charged the Matter Compressor."
The thing that made this show so good was the authentic jokes. They had a great mix of subtle jokes and forced jokes. And it also helps that they made amazing characters.
Holy cow. At 4:06 they reference "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions". I didn't expect to see an 1800s satirical novel about the close mindedness of Victorian society to show up in this show.
@@ohmygodtheykilledkenny4887 I wasn't implying anything of that nature. The English dub wouldn't be the same without DiMaggio, and if the Italian voice actor is nearly as good, then the Italian dub won't be the same. I'm not familiar with the Italian dub so I have to say it conditionally.
Mars ranch size is one of those well researched jokes. Mars has a surface area of 35.78 billion acres. So they own entire Western Hemisphere and 10 million acres into the Eastern hemisphere
@Choas_Lord_512 It is simple maths. The sad thing is that most shows will not out in even that little effort. There are even writers who are proud of not being able to do simple calculations or look up scientifically established facts. So this makes Futurama "well researched". Not only that, it is probably the most well-researched show in existence. All for its cheap throw-away jokes.
@@lucash741 Can't trust Google. They consulted the Old Farmer's Wikipedia. The surface size of Mars is just a number you can look up, but they also put lots of mathematical jokes in the show, like the Taxi cab number in one of the clips of this video, and lots of cultural references that span generations. They even developed the Futurama theorem to resolve the plot of The Prisoner of Benda. The Mathologer has a video about how other shows simply side-stepped the exact same problem or cheated.
I like how Fry was amazed by how much 93 cents became after a thousand years of inflation, but also knowing how inflation works those billions of dollars is probably the price of a bag of chips lmao
@ChaosLord5129 What are you even talking about? 200 years ago someone earning 10k a year was in the top 0.1%, now they'd be on foodstamps. And wtf has self confidence have to do with anything he said?
@ChaosLord5129 So you think that if you traveled 1000 years into the future and society had been stable enough that the bank you deposited money into is still in business.... inflation would not have happened? The bank still being in business, Fry's account still being active after 1000 years, capitalism even existing in 1000 years, and his money being worth more than a bag of chips are all more unbelievable than the inflation thing. But go ahead, explain why we're wrong instead of throwing insults around.
The biggest joke about the compounding interest thing isnt that the math is wrong, but that the interest would in any universe be 2.5 % per year for a savings account.
also inflation over that time period would make it way less. well, I don't know how much less. but if we did, I bet we could graph the interest with the inflation to figure out . . . something.
Reminder that the writing room of Futurama had several PhDs In fact, Ken Keeler (PhD in applied mathematics) actually came up with a mathematical theorem just for the show (s6e10 the prisoner of Benda).
Small bit that amuses me is during the mothership reveal, Zaps screen turns to look out the window. Small thing, but shows how Zap's brain works, probably didn't even think to look out his own window and just watched through the scene.
“In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.” ― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
So many great jokes from this show. My brothers and I still use them from time to time. One that wasn't shown here but that we use has to do with space exploration. With the discovery of planets that could have life or could theoretically support human life we have come to refer to those planets as "Space Earth." It was just a quick gag where Leela said, "You guys missed a great delivery to Space Earth." But it really stuck with us.
I only watched this show recently; its reputation for being a "smart show" put me off for a long time. I was expecting Rick and Morty style "smart," which is more "big words said in a condescending way to make you think I'm smart." But that joke about the quantum finish horse race showed me how wrong I was. This is sincerely clever and nerdy writing done with subtlety and charm. I fell in love right away.
I only started watching Futurama a couple years ago and I love it. It's such a great show and the humour is some, if not the best that I've seen in an adult cartoon
“It can do other things, why shouldn’t it!?” Gets me every time
So defensive, lol
That made me smile so wide. 😊
Why?
@@DrLoverLover Typically it's done when writers are being lazy and they just want to reuse something they already have made. It's not the case in this scene because Futurama is self aware. The professor is doing a minor fourth wall break here by anticipating fan outcry over reusing a machine. He is saying this to the audience as well, not just Fry.
@@Unknown-wi4ku As a kid, it cracked me up because of the instant defense. As an adult it cracks me up because everything I make and design has to be multifunctional. "Its not just an entertainment center that I made from scratch from raw hardwood worth 2k its also my PC and the cable box."
One of my favourites that didn’t make this video;
“Well, I’m off to my night job”
“You have a night job?”
“Yep. It’s exhausting, but I need the money to buy coffee so I can stay awake for my night job”
Can’t beat that logic.
What episode is that from?
Reminds me of peanuts style humour
@@nubreed13 seems like Season 8 Episode 7
Feels like an accurate description of my life tbh
Gotta give the person who made this props for how smooth the transitions were from scene to scene
“Magic. Got it.” Was literally the rest of my entire IB astrophysics class during senior year 😅
What's great about the "homeopathic medicine" joke is that the degree is apparently from Evergreen State College. Matt Groening went to Evergreen.
"What's the matter compressor."
"Nothing's the matter, Fry!"
This needs a part 2! You forgot the "1 million lines of BASIC!!!"
One of the co-writers, Eric Kaplan, defended this joke to a FOX executive on the basis that true fans are going to really appreciate those types of jokes.
Bureaucrat Conrad is technically correct, the best kind of correct.
If anyone's curious, assuming the statement of "average interest of 2.25%" is correct and wasn't just a round up, Fry's exact bank account would contain 4,283,508,449.71 meaning the "4.3 billion dollars" is a round up. However, if we take the 4.3 billion to be an exact figure, that means that his actual average interest rate was about 1.02329, closer to 2 and a 3rd percent
Futurama was always my favorite adult animated show
Good news it’s back
@@ZulousOG Good news everyone
Futurama is what rick and morty wishes it was.
Magic. Got it.
3:00 The School on his degree is real btw, it’s in Washington State, Matt Groening attended
If inflation really would turn 93 cents into $4.3 billion then how come the price of everything in New New York isn't wildly expensive? Shouldn't a stick of gum cost billions of dollars instead of 40 cents?
It's not inflation lol. It's interest.
@@trequor Oh.
Also, it hasn't been 1000 years yet. Exponential growth goes quicker the further it goes. If it takes 100 years to go from $1.05 to $131.50, an increase of a little over 130 dollars, the next 100 years it would increase to $17,292.58, an increase of more than 17,000 dollars. You wouldn't notice as much the first couple of decades, but as it goes on it becomes increasingly crazy.
We can imagine that in the futurama universe, inflationary currency was decided against at some point, as even a modest 2% target over 1000 years would make a stick of gum cost billions, as you say. Typically interest rates on a bank account don't exceed inflation, but since this is fiction we can pretend that they did, and that inflation was on average 0.
This show is if not the best show ever created
Damn, genuine physics jokes!
1:12 I’ve always loved how Fry was perfectly happy with 93¢ and then the teller continues
Because they only needed like 50 cents to get Bender out of prison. The rest was for blackjack and hookers
In 1999 93¢ was nothing. These days not being in debt is an accomplishment. In the Futurama timeline I imagine it's unfathomable!
@@pauldog I havent watched the show in ages but is there no inflation? was it ever adressed?
@@BeanBeno not to my memory. It was considered an extreme amount of money
@@pauldog Does that mean Fry is a billionaire? Is that why he is frothing?
My favourite line not in this is when their spaceship goes underwater and when asked "What pressure can she hold" professer says "Well it is a spaceship, so any where between 1-0 Atmosphers." Cracks me up.
It's funny becouse it's true. I also like the antipressure pill joke from that episode.
@@RandomGuyOnUA-cam601 good news! It's a suppository
This is uncomfortable and humiliating. Now if they were to make it in the form of a suppository...
Well this aged like wine
Even more relevant now...
I could hear the "Matter Compressor" bit a hundred times, and it would still make me chuckle. It's so stupid, but the delivery is on point.
Leela’s groan is the perfect cherry
Is the updog meme before the updog meme
@@ethribin4188 updog was a meme well before the word meme entered the vernacular. I don't remember the exact first time I heard it but it was well before 2005. I want to say as far back as 99? My memories not great
It makes fun of both the professor's bad hearing and Fry being an idiot!
@@coool20 hell, 94
"No fair, you changed the outcome by measuring it!" This joke is inherently one of the best science jokes I've ever heard. Never get tired of it.
I’ve never understood why this was so funny. Like I get that you can’t measure things on a subatomic level because measuring it will inherently interfere with it and mess up the accuracy of the reading, that’s the big thing everybody knows about quantum physics. Is there more to the joke than that?
@@WhiteKnuckleRide512Schrodinger's cat, I guess? That by checking the outcome you're affecting it
I've never gotten why Schrodinger's cat works tho tbh, I skipped Physics and austrians are fucking weird. Bringing cat murder into science getouttahereman
@@WhiteKnuckleRide512 Yes, that's essentially it. A somewhat complex, somewhat simple joke because not everybody reads into quantum physics.
@@normanmai7865 Strange. I mean it’s a good joke, I just don’t know why everybody names it as THE best or smartest joke in the show.
@@WhiteKnuckleRide512 The same reason people say "To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty." Replace R&M with every joke related to science.
the fact that Fry had a 2.25 percent interest rate on his bank account and it was permanently locked in, and that he had no annual fees is what pisses me off the most
Commission free accounts do exist, but usually they don't have interest at all. So yea, this is a continuity error
@@miaugato93 I mean, it was 1999, and the accounts people had back then gave stupid rates
Yeah, honestly given that it makes Fry’s reaction incredibly appropriate.
Y’all have fees?
Those billions of dollars, considering inflation over a thousand years, is probably the price of a bag of chips. Which is funny, it's not something I see anybody ever mention. It's no different than how back then, candy bars were a nickel, now they're a dollar or more.
"what did we just blow up?"
"the hubble telescope"
this joke has gotten me for years i swear
Damn, Hubble still exists after all this time.
STOP EXPLODING YOU COWARDS!!
Still gets me everytime when Zap says that line
My strategy is so simple an idiot could have devised it, we fly directly into the enemy death cannons clogging them with wreckage
I want the reaction of a astronomer....
But whats funny about it? 😅
"You are technically correct, the best kind of correct."
I use this phrase now. Thanks Futurama
here is another one in case you ever have to silence a room full of squabbling scientists: "pi is exactly 3"
I use technically in my normal vocabulary
it's been a meme for so many years
Favorite episode 😁
I'm bender please insert girder !
Wonder what the rate of inflation was over 1000 years
"No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!"
Hehehe, classic Quantum observer humor.
The thing that makes that joke so brilliant is that, even if you don’t get the ACTUAL joke, it still works.
You beat me to the comment. Nerds get it but the lame still find it funny as well
@@aaronstark5060 How does the joke work for people who don’t know about the observer effect?
@@renownedbandanawearer1345
Because it seems like the professor is protesting that they made a different decision by looking at the replay.
"I've got a degree in homeopathic medicine!" "You've got a degree in baloney!"
Literally never gets old.
and its true.
My favorite part is his little “Hm.”
thats my home school babyyy!! evergreen state college, handing out degrees in baloney since the 60s
As an Evergreen Alum can confirm.
That’s literally saying: “I’ve learned to pretend something is medicine exploit the placebo effect.”
I always loved the line "I am a man with no name... Zapp Brannigan, at your service."
Or "you can't give up hope just because it's hopeless!"
This show was the best at wordplay
My favorite was.
Zapp: So we’re trapped like a fish in a barrel.
Nixon: Suggestions?
Zapp: My instinct is to hide in this barrel like the wiley fish.
Zapp is an ingenious character with great lines!
You forgot one thing. Rock. crushes. scissors. But scissors cut paper? And paper covers rock!? Kif…….. we have a conundrum.
@@FrankDux-uo7ig Kiifff, if there’s one thing I don’t need right now it’s your “I don’t think that’s wise” attitude.
@@gamesmastertobi29 what makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold?… power!? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?
"He's opening our minds to new ideas... KILL HIM!"
That seems accurate.
😆🤣
Why this is not a meme is beyond me? XD
@@Momoyue It was, for 4 year. We just called it Mr. president back then
@@Skaypegote wut
@@FutureMan420Blazer Trump. Granted, he was a bad meme.
@@MadnessIncVP that doesn't make sense, Donald didn't open people up to new ideas
“ There’s also a lot of drugs in there”
Such an underrated punchline.
I overrate it!
@@DarenKajiWolf That means the punchline is now normally rated. 👍
I don't get it.
I love it
@@TheReaverOfDarkness schrödinger was high as the Empore State when he made his theory of the Schrödinger's Cat (that's the joke)
The delivery of "you've got a degree in baloney" always made me laugh out loud
I like how the degree is from evergreen state college.
Why?
@@marcomola1906 recent controversies have made the university’s reputation suffer. They produce a lot of social sciences students who have baloney degrees
@@alexandercullen1707 Thank you
Evergreen is also Matt Groening’s alma mater.
"I know, I was deliberately describing a similar situation." Joke works on so many levels. You expect it to be another "Fry didn't fully adapt into future" joke, yet it's suprisingly eloquent Fry still failing to communicate.
It’s a joke layered three times, it’s so genius, exactly as you said it sounded like he hasn’t adapted when he has, and that lassie is on display in the louvre, and a joke on characters often having to explain a joke in a ‘but thing is thing anymore’
@@ryanm.191 Lassie not Nessie
@@Ryan-ij3ge oh Yh lemme fix that
It also highlights how the other characters think of Fry. Amy assumes that Fry doesn't know that Lassie is on display in the Louvre, because why would he? He's ignorant about so many other things. And we, the audience, would probably assume the same thing. Then it turns out that he actually does know about Lassie, subverting the audience' expectations on yet another level.
okay , it can do other things , why shouldn't it
3:53 okay. so what I love about this show in its prime was that its sci-fi explanations for common TV Tropes (in this case ghosts) were frequently _way_ more ridiculous and outlandish than the original tropes themselves. it was like "no, ghosts are ridiculous. here is this WAY more ridiculous, way-out-there sci-fi explanation".
I think a lot of the writers were not only _intense_ sci-fi nerds but also mathematicians and Oxford Graduates. and it shows. it showed in the show. Season 3 is pretty much perfect.
Didn't they invent (or coin/discover, w/e) a new fundamental equation?
The episode where they're body-swapping with the heads of Richard Nixon and the Harlem Globetrotters I think.
Like the seance the professor held with the mechanical goat and everything
@@maxnovakovics2568 yeah they did
"You are technically correct. The best kind of correct." This is so weird. I was just thinking about this line earlier today.
because people use it on reddit trying to get internet points by referencing 90s/2000s shows
#facts
@@huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhn I haven't been on reddit in months.
Every time I say you're technically correct, I can't help myself but think of this line
I say it all the time lol
Um actually you were thinking of the last time you thought of the joke not the actual joke which means your technically correct
As someone who works in engineering and programming the 2 dings jokes is the most hilarious realistic thing ever. All of our internal signaling methodologies are so hilariously incomprehensible while simultaneously being hyper-functional.
The professor’s is a quite relatable madness.
the moment when you have learned the entire library of bios beep codes.
I am always confused at the final series of beeps when Fry just assumes it must be the correct signal without asking the professor.
For reference sake, Bender's serial number is 952^3 + -951^3. Flexo's serial number is 119^3 + 119^3.
Is it M?
@@jimstan1795 Yes, the number I was thinking of was the letter M
Now do that compound interesting Fry's 93 cents
such a clever joke only robots would get, loved this
Damn cool
Futurama is great because there's all these little clever, well researched jokes and details throughout every episode that're easy to miss, but also if you just turn your brain off you'll still get some laughs too
The episode with the brain switching actually created its own new theorem for the sake of a joke. Now that's commitment to comedy.
That's what makes this my favorite show. It never lingers on a joke and it never puts it in your face (original run, anyways). I apply this brand of humour to my day to day life and it mostly confuses people until they know me better
@@Sir_Psych well dang, now I wanna be your friend. I love this kind of comedy.
Like putting too much air in a balloon!
@@Sir_Psych agree with that other guy.
Being your friend seems great fun.
I am trying to implemet similar kind of comedy in my life too.
I am just somewhat more absurd , and still trying to kill of temtation to explain stuff.
Shortly , you achived things i strive to , but it is somewhat hard. The best way it can be.
This thought spireled out of controll.
Love it.
Where was u?
Even though I've seen it many times over the years, I still laugh at that Urectum joke. I guess I'm still pretty immature.
Sadly this one is butchered on any sort of translation. And i only got it after few times when watched with original language
@@DimkaTsv Lost in translation as nearly all puns and play on words are when translated.
It's so sad when it happens, though sometimes there are great translations that make a pun in the translated language that is equivalent.
@@DimkaTsv well, in spanish surprisingly still works.
I don't think that's immature. It's not only funny because "haha body parts", it's a genuinely clever joke 😆
Fast approaching 40 and it's still funny
"NO FAIR, you changed the results by measuring it."
such a brilliant and underrated joke..
Can you explain it to me I am not smart
@@OldCouches in physics, its called the observer effect.. its a fun rabbit hole if youre interested..
@@OldCouches it's the Schrodinger's Cat joke
Measuring something, ain't observing, is an action that changes the physical properties of some particles
It's so stupid how I know understand this joke now bc this isn't my profession I'm just on yt and watch a lot of tv
Basically, observing an electron using our current instruments changes how it behaves. When it’s unobserved, it acts like it’s still, and when it’s observed, it moves.
One of my all time favourite quips is "In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious"
Terry Pratchett? Sounds like one of his footnotes.
@@LugborGThat's right! It's from Lords and Ladies, when one of the elves opens a box containing Greebo.
Want some? It's made from apples...well mostly apples.
Even though you could also just shake the box and also get an answer based on the cats response (or lack thereof).
@@Alizudo That itself is observing the cat, which collapses the quantum wave function in the same way that looking at the cat does.
It's got the best combo of stupid jokes like the matter compressor, and smart jokes like schrodingers cat
I love how the Professor is both the smartest but also the most ignorant and sometimes even the silliest, all combined
1:20 I'd like to point out that it really would be about $4.3 billion
They said billion
Yep, 0.93×(1.0225)^1000 comes out to around 4.28 billion dollars
@@ultimateace1854 You read that comment incorrectly. It didn't say "would really", which indicates a correction. It said "really would", which indicates a confirmation.
@@TrueThanny I see, my apologies, I read it wrong
Yeah but what was the rate of inflation during that time? What's a billion dollars even going to be worth in a thousand years?
lol my high school math teacher used 1:08 as an intro problem to learn how to calculate interest rates over time and bleeped out the end amount. She though I was a genius cause I knew the answer in less than a second 😂
Pulling a Gauss on her by not calculating the answer the intended way and instead finding a shortcut.
My teacher did the same but she didn’t see the show.
#thathappened
@@Gamepainter Using cartoon clips to illustrate principles while teaching isn't that far-fetched. The economics class I'm taking used multiple Simpsons clips.
Remembering a random number from a piece of media you like isn't that far-fetched. People remember weird things sometimes. Like how I can remember the "giasfelfebrehber" from that one puzzle in Deltarune: Chapter Two despite not putting any effort in to memorize it.
How is putting the two together so exceedingly unlikely?
@@celestialtree8602 because it could make people find you interesting online and everything interesting is fake because people are out to get me
I love watching the scene where Fry is protesting to get his dead dog back and he has a crowd with him:
WHAT DO WE WANT?
FRY'S DOG!
WHEN DO WE WANT IT?
FRY'S DOG!
Always gets me
4:12 Twitter moment
Agree
“He’s opening our minds to new ideas. Kill him!”
"It can do other things! Why shouldn't it?!" That line kills me everytime haha
No fair you change the outcome by measuring it is actually the smartest thing that I’ve ever heard in an animation
yeah it had some clever scientific writing. I always say it is like Rick and Morty, but for smart people.
@@malibustacys80085
Futurama is for smart people who are also totally willing to laugh at dumb jokes _and_ smart jokes.
I'm still not sure what Rick & Morty is, because Morty's voice in the first 30 seconds made me instantly hate the show.
Probably not a fair assessment, but goddamn he's more whiney than Luke complaining to Uncle Owen.
@@flingage I agree on the first Part. Dumb jokes are funny sometimes.
I don't care about the voices. I only See a dislikeable Charakter in Rick. I stopped watching it after season two. They seem to take the easy way in writing.
@@flingage It’s ok. Roiland is a pedo so you never have to worry about Rick and Morty ever again.
@@malibustacys80085 Saying this show I like is x for smart people is completely obnoxious
1:00 might be one of the funniest jokes in the entire show, just the line delivery alone makes me laugh to this day.
4:55 okay that one was actually really funny
Yeah
My favorite part of the Fry's Bank Account bit is that the banker apparently has to calculate his interest manually.
Someone learned long ago to avoid having the computer avoid recalculating account balances every day in order to save 99% of its energy use.
"I just turbo charged the ship's Matter Compressor."
"What's the Matter Compressor?"
"Nothing's the matter, Fry. Now that I turbo charged the Matter Compressor."
Also my favourite joke. The wordplay with the Professor’s selective hearing is hysterical
@@lewisleslie2821 isn't it a "whats up Doc" joke
It's like what's the matters professor?
The thing that made this show so good was the authentic jokes. They had a great mix of subtle jokes and forced jokes.
And it also helps that they made amazing characters.
sincerely, many Futurama chapters feels like when Homer Simpson went to university. THAT level of humor, wich I love
3:05 it's been so many years and I still lose my shit to this joke
Ur-REK-tum
"They renamed Uranus"
"What's it called now?"
"Urectum"
Cracks me up every time 😂
It's the same name
Holy cow. At 4:06 they reference "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions". I didn't expect to see an 1800s satirical novel about the close mindedness of Victorian society to show up in this show.
the best joke that never fails to make me laugh is when fry pushes the launch button and misses. "oops."
Sadly, today Bender's Italian voice actor, Dario Penne, has died ☹ RIP.
If he was half as good as John DiMaggio (who also coincidentally has an Italian name), then it is a great loss.
@@chitlitlah his death shouldn't be less significant just because he isn't the original VA, that's inconsiderate
@@ohmygodtheykilledkenny4887 I wasn't implying anything of that nature. The English dub wouldn't be the same without DiMaggio, and if the Italian voice actor is nearly as good, then the Italian dub won't be the same. I'm not familiar with the Italian dub so I have to say it conditionally.
@@chitlitlah he was very very good. Just as an example, he was also the dubbed voice of Anthony Hopkins.
I don't believe it. At the end of his funeral he'll get up and yell IM BACK BABY
Mars ranch size is one of those well researched jokes. Mars has a surface area of 35.78 billion acres. So they own entire Western Hemisphere and 10 million acres into the Eastern hemisphere
@Choas_Lord_512 It is simple maths. The sad thing is that most shows will not out in even that little effort.
There are even writers who are proud of not being able to do simple calculations or look up scientifically established facts.
So this makes Futurama "well researched". Not only that, it is probably the most well-researched show in existence. All for its cheap throw-away jokes.
@Choas_Lord_512 Name any show that is better researched. I'll be waiting.
It's not me who set the bar so low.
@Choas_Lord_512 Your claim is that Futurama is not the most well researched show in existence. Which one is better researched, then?
A simple Google search like this show wasn't made 20 years ago
@@lucash741 Can't trust Google. They consulted the Old Farmer's Wikipedia.
The surface size of Mars is just a number you can look up, but they also put lots of mathematical jokes in the show, like the Taxi cab number in one of the clips of this video, and lots of cultural references that span generations. They even developed the Futurama theorem to resolve the plot of The Prisoner of Benda. The Mathologer has a video about how other shows simply side-stepped the exact same problem or cheated.
"You are technically correct. The best kind of correct"
My favorite line
I like how Fry was amazed by how much 93 cents became after a thousand years of inflation, but also knowing how inflation works those billions of dollars is probably the price of a bag of chips lmao
And here I am laughing at him being so jazzed that he has 93 cents.
He only needed 50 cents.
This comment actually shows how dumb Jack Foxtrot is.
@ChaosLord5129 What are you even talking about? 200 years ago someone earning 10k a year was in the top 0.1%, now they'd be on foodstamps. And wtf has self confidence have to do with anything he said?
@ChaosLord5129 So you think that if you traveled 1000 years into the future and society had been stable enough that the bank you deposited money into is still in business.... inflation would not have happened?
The bank still being in business, Fry's account still being active after 1000 years, capitalism even existing in 1000 years, and his money being worth more than a bag of chips are all more unbelievable than the inflation thing.
But go ahead, explain why we're wrong instead of throwing insults around.
4:30 the best joke of the entire show, imo
Agree
the z axis or the other one?
That quantum finish joke at the end is probably my favorite joke in all of Futurama 😂
The biggest joke about the compounding interest thing isnt that the math is wrong, but that the interest would in any universe be 2.5 % per year for a savings account.
I think about this everytime
The math isn't wrong though. Compounding interest over 1000 years would work out to about 4.3 bil.
also inflation over that time period would make it way less. well, I don't know how much less. but if we did, I bet we could graph the interest with the inflation to figure out . . . something.
The math is right though
Tell me again how "two and a quarter percent" equals 2.5%, I'm dying to know.
0:53 i like how Zapps monitor turns so he can look out the window also ..
Futurama's writing staff had a number of physicists, they deserve Nobel Prizes in both Science and Literature
03:00 Evergreen State College LMAO
Futurama is a timeless masterpiece. I have fallen asleep to it every night for LITERALLY the past 15 years. 😴🤣
Me too. I have to have the TV on to fall asleep, and it's always either futurama playing or the simpsons
Me too since the DVDs. Waking up to space ship sounds
@@hustla818me too! I normally have the simpsons playing when I am working on stuff and then I'll fall asleep to futurama
Same!
The chandelier at 0:13 is shaped like the mothership from "Close Encounters".
4:50 smartest joke in a cartoon right there
Best comedy show EVER! It's smart, constantly hilarious and I NEVER tire of the reruns! Genius! ♥️❣️❤️🥰
"I didn't ask for a completely reasonable excuse, I asked you to get busy!" I love that line so much
“The machine can do other things, why shouldn’t it???” He’s so offended😂
2:59
“I’ve got a degree in homeopathic medicine!”
“You’ve got a degree in boloney!”
(Yes I know how bologna is supposed to be spelled)
Both bologna and baloney are acceptable spellings, and you managed to create some kind of hybrid of the two.
Balogney?
2:50 killed me xd
My favorite by far is the second to last one. The professor’s head shake is just perfect
1:27 this fascinates me tbh
The change my mind joke at 3:28 was hilarious. Took me a second..
@4:20 Edwin Abbott reference and yeah that's pretty much how that story went.
That last one I didn't get when I first watched this show, but it's such a clever funny one 😂
Reminder that the writing room of Futurama had several PhDs
In fact, Ken Keeler (PhD in applied mathematics) actually came up with a mathematical theorem just for the show (s6e10 the prisoner of Benda).
You could pretty much throw every single joke in the series into this video.
I mean at that point just watch the series
Small bit that amuses me is during the mothership reveal, Zaps screen turns to look out the window. Small thing, but shows how Zap's brain works, probably didn't even think to look out his own window and just watched through the scene.
The uranus joke is one of the best jokes ever in TV. One of the jokes that got me into it.
The programming and wiring lmao
Uranus to Urectum is the same body part but different thing, right?
Ye
I would have added the scene "Kiff, get ready to take the blame. Wait for it, wait for it, now!"
The translator bit is one of the best scenes in Futurama. Every single line somehow manages to be a joke
4:45 Why is the professor disappointed that the machine finished analyzing so quickly? 😁
" You are technically correct, which is the best kind of correct" will always get me
You can hear Snake from the Simpsons in 2:10
The script writing on this show was absolute genius.
"Ive got a degree in homeopathic medicine!"
"You've got a degree in baloney"
Will forever be killer
Joke comes out of nowhere and swiftly leaves
“In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the
cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat
could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
Whats the matter Compressor?
Nothing's the matter, Fry. Now that I turbo charged the Matter Compressor.
The Urectum joke gets me every time, clever writing and one of my fave series of all time
So many great jokes from this show. My brothers and I still use them from time to time. One that wasn't shown here but that we use has to do with space exploration. With the discovery of planets that could have life or could theoretically support human life we have come to refer to those planets as "Space Earth." It was just a quick gag where Leela said, "You guys missed a great delivery to Space Earth." But it really stuck with us.
1:42 an ISTJ's nightmare materalized in cartoon form:
"And Fry, you've got that brain thing."
"I already did!"
That whole bit was excellent, but that part specifically cracks me up every time.
0:27 Every action movie protagonist ever.
Literally true
"Bureaucrat Conrad, you are _technically_ correct..the best kind of correct!"
I love how Fry's brain melts upon learning his balance after interests haha
I only watched this show recently; its reputation for being a "smart show" put me off for a long time. I was expecting Rick and Morty style "smart," which is more "big words said in a condescending way to make you think I'm smart." But that joke about the quantum finish horse race showed me how wrong I was. This is sincerely clever and nerdy writing done with subtlety and charm. I fell in love right away.
I only started watching Futurama a couple years ago and I love it. It's such a great show and the humour is some, if not the best that I've seen in an adult cartoon