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Running Gag examples in Futurama.


  • Roberto robs the same bank three times in a row, in the same episode.
  • Zoidberg's limited knowledge or the human body, his financial status, and him losing an organ he doesn't need. It's a Funny Moment when it's discovered that Zoidberg is actually a doctor of Art History.
  • Good news, everyone!
  • Sweet (something) of (somewhere)! Lampshaded in "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back", where he's so freaked out that he can't come up with a real saying and actually says "Sweet...something of...some place."
    • A simile involving a "green snake" and "sugar cane" (climbing faster than a green snake up a sugar cane, hungrier than a green snake in a sugar cane field, etc.).
    • "MY MANWICH!!"
  • I'm Scruffy. The janitor.
    • I've never seen you before.
    • Scruffy's never seen you before neither.
  • Bender proclaiming that he's 40 percent something, including titanium in "A Head in the Polls", dolomite in "Jurassic Bark", and zinc in "Fry and the Slurm Factory".
    • Attack of the Killer App adds 40% chromium to Bender.
    • And All the Presidents' Heads makes him 40% scrap metal.
    • In "Decision 3012", 40% wire.
    • As an elephant seal in Naturama, he's 40% ass.
    • He's also 60% storage space, and a few other things that don't really... add up.
  • Neat! *click*
  • He's dead.

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