Futurama (TV Series)

The Day the Earth Stood Stupid (2001)

Katey Sagal: Turanga Leela

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Quotes 

• [Nibbler explains the Giant Brains' plan] 

  Leela : You mean those giant brains are making everyone on Earth stupid?

  [Nibbler chatters] 

  Leela : Ooooooooooh. Stupid-ER.

• Leela : Why would Fry be immune to the brains' attacks? Because he doesn't shower?

  Fiona : The brains suppress intelligence by attacking the Delta brain wave. Every animal and robot generates this wave, as well as certain trees.

  Nibbler : Fry, however, does not.

  Fiona : Somehow he has cobbled together a random assortment of other brain waves into a working mind.

  Leela : Like a prom dress made of carpet remnants!

  Nibbler : Yes, like your prom dress.

• [Nibblonians explain the Giant Brains] 

  Ken : They travel from world to world making everyone stupid in order to wipe out all thought in the universe.

  Leela : Wipe out all thought? My God, they're like flying televisions.

• Hermes Conrad : This is mighty strange. First the civilization of Space Rome collapsed, then Don Martin 3 went kerflooie, and now Tweenis 12.

  Fry : Looks like this planet is next in line.

  Leela : That's Earth.

  [Fry just stares at her] 

  Leela : The planet we live on?

  Fry : I'd hate to be those guys.

• Leela : So your name is Lord Nibbler? That's a coincidence.

  Nibbler : That name is for your sake. In the time it would take to pronounce one letter of my true name, a trillion cosmoses would flare into existence and sink into eternal night.

• Fry : Come on, Fry, think. Thinking... thinking...

  Chief Giant Brain : Oh, Stop that!

  Fry : Hey, thinking hurts them! Maybe I can think of a way to use that.

  Chief Giant Brain : Argh!

  Fry : Aha! Prepare to be thought at! Leela, give me a topic.

  Leela : Duh...

  Fry : Seriously, I can't think of anything.

  [He looks through a pile of books] 

  Fry : I gotta find something to make me think. Hardy Boys... too easy. Nancy Drew... too hard. Ah, perfect. Bonfire of the Vanities.

  [reads] 

  Chief Giant Brain : No! It's unbearable!

• Leela : You fight biggest brain of all.

  Fry : Even bigger than those? Holy nuts! Where would it be?

  Leela : I dunno.

  Fry : Let's see, a giant brain is basically a giant nerd. Where would a nerd go?

  [gasp] 

  Fry : The library!

• Leela : I... have to tell... must... important... something...

  Fry : Whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down. You're going a mile a minute.

• Nibbler : The fate of your world, perhaps of all worlds, rests within his special mind.

  Leela : Now, when you say special...

• Professor Hubert Farnsworth : Good news, everyone. We were supposed to deliver a package to the planet Tweenis 12, but it's been completely destroyed.

  Leela : Why is that good news?

  Professor Hubert Farnsworth : They paid in advance.

• Leela : Am I going crazy? Have my years of wild hedonism finally caught up with me?

• Leela : So, how was the universe created?

  [Nibbler babbles in his native language] 

  Leela : And the meaning of existence?

  [Nibbler talks some more] 

  Leela : So every religion is wrong.

• Leela : Brain... Brain make people dumb!

  Fry : No, Leela. Brain make people smart.

• Leela : [hands Fry a note]  This. You for this.

  Fry : Thanks.

  [blows nose on note, then throws it in fireplace] 

  Leela : No!

  [reaches into fire] 

  Leela : Ow! Fire hot!

  Professor Hubert Farnsworth : The professy will help.

  [reaches into fire] 

  Professor Hubert Farnsworth : Ahh! Fire indeed hot!

• Leela : Is there Mrs. Queequeg?

• Leela : Me... feel... a bit better in cognitive faculties.

• Pet Show Judge : And before we announce the winner, we'd like to present a special award to a first-time contestant: Miss Leela and her strange pet Nibbler!

  Leela : Me? Award? Him? Me? Good?

  Pet Show Judge : That's just the kind of eloquence you'd expect from the owner of... Dumbest Pet in Show!

• Nibbler : And so, life returned to normal, or at least as normal as it gets in this primitive dirtball inhabited by psychotic apes. Thanks to the effects of the brain waves, the people of Earth have not memory of what had transpired, except Fry, and no one believed him or cared what he had to say. I, meanwhile, returned to my post, ever vigilant, lest Earth again come under brain attack. And when that day comes, God help us. God help us all.

  Leela : Time for a diapie change.

  Nibbler : End transmision.