Stupid re-used jokes

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Probably another 50 topics for the exact same thing, but, anyone noticed any re-used jokes? I have.
In 'A Taste Of Freedom' when the opression palace is shown Bender pulls out a camera and says 'neat', he does the exact same thing when Kif is giving birth in 'Kif gets knocked up a knotch'

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Also in "A Leela Of Her Own" at the Blurnsball Hall of Fame. I don't consider it a re-used joke, more a trademark of Bender, like the "bite my shiny metal ass".

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I think the "Good news everyone" line got too used. That's why they freshened it up a bit with "Bad news everyone".

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Or "Bad News Nobody"/"Good News Anybody".

Or even "Then, good news! It's a suppository."/"Ooh, that's Good News! You really don't cook enough roast, Leela."

It's a catchphrase. It runs as it's fun to make reference to/make fun of.

I don't think they overused any jokes/catchphrases in Futurama. It's not even like they were just said verbatim to get a laugh in themselves (which would be the case if Bender just said "Bite my shiny metal ass" over and over) instead they warp it into "Lick my frozen metal ass/bite my colossal metal ass" etc. The freshness was in the constant variation.

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mabye Zoidbergs

woop woop woop woop

woop woop woop woop

woop woop woop woop

woop woop woop woop

woop woop woop woop

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I like the woop woops! HOW DARE YOU!

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Don't forget Farnsy's "Good news, everyones!" In tonight's ep.

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but it's not even a joke, it's a line...

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I don't reckon any of he 'catchphrases' are overused. Some people will disagree with me on that one though.

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Only catchphrase I think is overused is 'Good News Everyone'

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The whole piont of catchphrases is that they are meant to be used over and over. It's a personality trait. By your logic Homer Simpson is a one line wonder
"God, he did it again, he's always saying Do'h"

Anyway, the only joke i think that's comes up too often (in Futurama and the Simpsons) is when characters spit out thier drink after hearing it's something nasty, or someone has peed in it.
E.g. Fry does it in the Mars Univercity episode.

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It's like in the first 2 episodes where Farnsworth's line is used: "..But I am already in my pjameras..." (sp), and I don't think it's been used in any episode since.

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I'd like an official ruling on this: In the Sting, did Fry steal Bender's "neat" phrase?  Or was he just using the word to celebrate being alive?

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Originally posted by M Jackson:
Anyway, the only joke i think that's comes up too often (in Futurama and the Simpsons) is when characters spit out thier drink after hearing it's something nasty, or someone has peed in it.
E.g. Fry does it in the Mars Univercity episode.

The spit take is a classic gag, first popularized by Danny Thomas in "Make Room For Daddy". Futurama didn't invent it.

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Originally posted by Teral:
Also in "A Leela Of Her Own" at the Blurnsball Hall of Fame.

He also did it in 'That's Lobstertainment' upon seeing Calculons house. He must have a real good photo album.

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"Good news everyone" is more classic than any catchphrase ever (may i remind you people that i'm  boycotting the Simpsons beacuse they killed it). Then that they make fun of it is even better.
In "Less than hero" they use it superbly. It's also good that they removed that "Although i am already in my pyjamas", it's better if the characthers have only one catchphrase each or they will cancel eachother out.

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It comes up in the commentaries - in 1ACV07 (My Three Suns) J Stewart Burns brings up how that was the first catchphrase used enough that they could make fun of using it.
As in...

Farnsworth: Good news, everyone!
Bender: Uhoh, I don't like the sound of that...
Farnsworth: Today, you'll be making a delivery to the planet Trisol.
Bender: Here it comes...
Farnsworth: A mysterious world in the depths of the Forbidden Zone.
Bender: Thank you, and goodnight.

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Bender said "I'm back, baby" in two episodes, i think.

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In I Second That Emotion. Bender says something mean to Leela and makes himself feel bad. In The Sting The Professor says:
"Of course Fry still exists, as a frozen dead corpse in outer space. Ho ho oh I made myself feel bad."
It's not really stupid but it is reused.

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The Leela-has-no-depth-perception joke has been used at least three times now and it was never laugh out loud funny the first time around.

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There's a lot of reused jokes, but they don't seem to be quite the same each time round.  Like the depth perception joke has been used a bit, but then along the same lines in 1AVC06 (Fear of a Bot Planet) Leela can't use the 3D specs cos she only has one eye.  Well, I thought it was funny.

The laser cannons keep coming back.  As does the idea of Bender being made into a car (2ACV03, 2ACV16 and 2ACV18 off the top of my head).

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Farnsworth's good news everybody is part of his personality, its not exactly a joke.

Zoidbergs Wooping thing is also his personality.

Bender--- Shiny metal ass thing    his cock personality,    as well as anything that bender says that relates to him being great

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Fry complaining about being a slave...
He did it in "A Pharaoh to Remember" and he did it again in "A Taste of Freedom".

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The Zoidberg "woop" thing is (allegedly) off of The Three Stooges.  I think I might have said that elsewhere, but what the hell.

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Yeah, there's a difference in a reused joke then a running gag.  Running gags rock because then they put can put a twist on it and make it fresh and funny!

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they used the professor's "well I am already in my pajamas" in the beggining

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I think that pajama thing was originally going to be his catch phrase, but then they went with "Good news, everyone" instead.

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Peter Avanzino and Ken Keeler say about that in the commentary for that episode 1ACV02 (The Series Has Landed). It's something along the lines of...

FARNSWORTH: ...but I am already in my pajamas.

Peter Avanzino: I thought that Professor joke was going to recur a lot more.
Ken Keeler: We thought so too.

Yes, again, too much time.