Professor Farnsworth from Futurama with caption 'I don't want to live on this planet anymore'

I Don't Want to Live on This Planet Anymore

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Published August 30, 2026

"I Don't Want to Live on This Planet Anymore" started as a throwaway line from Professor Farnsworth in the 2010 Futurama episode "A Clockwork Origin" and got a second life in March 2011 when Redditors turned his dead-eyed stare into a template for expressing pure disappointment. The stillshot became one of the go-to reaction images for calling out dumb takes on image boards and forums.

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Overview

The image shows Professor Farnsworth's slack-jawed stare from the moment he gives up on humanity, usually paired with either the full quote or just the shortened caption1. Users drop it as a reply to a post they find willfully ignorant, morally bankrupt, or just deeply stupid, signalling that the content in question is enough to make someone quit Earth outright3.

The reaction sits alongside "Are You Serious Face" and similar disappointment templates in the wider family of forum reaction faces, though the Farnsworth version carries an extra layer of resignation because of the character's defeated posture and the finality of the line itself3. Common variants trim the quote to "I don't want to live on this planet anymore" or crop tighter on Farnsworth's face for use as a compact reply image.

Origin & Background

Platform
Futurama (TV) / Reddit (viral spread)
Date
2010

The line comes from the Futurama episode "A Clockwork Origin," which aired on Comedy Central on August 12, 20101. In the plot, Professor Farnsworth clashes with Creationist protesters outside Cubert's school, then flies the crew to Olduvai Gorge to dig up a missing-link fossil he names Homo farnsworth1.

When the talking orangutan Dr. Banjo twists the same fossil to argue that evolution is disproved during a museum showing, a defeated Farnsworth utters the line and asks the crew to drop him off on a lifeless planetoid with an inflatable shack and four grand pianos1. A YouTube clip of the moment circulated soon after the broadcast2.

How It Spread

The screencap first traveled as a rage comic. On March 12, 2011, a user posted a comic to Reddit's r/f7u12 with the Farnsworth stillshot in the final panel, and it collected over 214 upvotes before being archived3. On March 28, 2011, a Reddit thread titled "95% of what I read on reddit causes this reaction" embedded the YouTube clip of the quote and hit the front page with 2,095 upvotes4. Two days later, on March 30, 2011, the image macro version was posted to 4chan's /co/ board as a reaction face5.

From image boards it fanned out. The macro was added to the reaction-face database My Face When on July 24, 2011, and a compilation of derivatives went up on Listal that September3. It later showed up on Tumblr, Memebase and FunnyJunk, and a dedicated Facebook fan page had 3,021 likes by February 22, 20123.

How to Use This Meme

Users typically post the Farnsworth stillshot with either the full quote overlaid or just the shortened phrase in the reply. Common convention is to use it as a one-image response to a comment considered ignorant, offensive, or dispiriting, without any additional text. The tighter cropped face works well as a small inline reply on image boards, while the wider shot with the caption reads better on Reddit or Tumblr posts.

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