Futurama/Awesome

• For Leela: In "Raging Bender" when she discovers that her old martial arts instructor Fnog was controlling Destructor, and lays an epic beatdown on him in retaliation for his years of sexism against her.
• For Fry: In "Time Keeps on Slipping", we learn that he literally moved the stars to spell out "I Love You Leela" in space. Turns into a Tear Jerker when the message gets destroyed and Fry tries to get Leela and Bender to remember it, and fails. Made even more heartbreaking by the end shot of Fry staring out into space while Bender whistles a slow, sad version of "Sweet Georgia Brown."
• While the episode "Jurassic Bark" is famous for its Downer Ending, it also contained Bender's Crowning Moment Of Awesome, where he dove into a lava pit, and got out with Fry's dog. He said it best himself:

Bender: And that is why they call me "Bender the Magnificent"!

• • It becomes even more awesome when you realize that his line is the punchline for a joke set up at the beginning of the episode.

Fry: And that's why they call you "Bender the Magnificent"!
Bender: No it isn't.

• • This is slightly mitigated by the fact that he threw the dog into the lava in the first place.
    • But then, it's made completely awesome again because he chose to dive back in after the dog after chucking it into the lava - he did it just because he realized how much his actions upset Fry and overcame his own jealousy to fix his mistake.
  • More awesome than the thing itself is Bender's entrance. Instead of coming back up through the pool of lava he dove into, he bursts triumphantly out of the Earth with magma pouring down his body, shouting the epic line above.
• The definitive Crowning Moment of Awesome for Fry is the stunning musical number at the end of "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings".
  • And his less-than-stunning musical number after getting his old hands back counts as a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming. Especially after he sees Leela's reaction.
  • This scene also contains Doctor Zoidberg's Crowning Line Of Awesome:

Zoidberg: Your music is bad and you should feel bad!

• • Not to mention his classic lyric:

Professor: I can't believe the Devil would be so unforgiving!
Zoidberg: I can't believe that everyone is just ad-libbing!

• • On a musical note, Hermes gets a nice one with his own musical number at the Central Bureaucracy, while sorting a literally mountainous pile of thousands message tubes in under four minutes. "Requisition me a beat."
    • His entrance line earlier in the scene also qualifies:

Morgan Proctor: I'm afraid he's lost in the master "in" pile. And it would take some sort of giant mechanical atomic powered sorting machine to find him.
Hermes: You rang?

• • • In the same episode, the head bureaucrat gets one with what this troper considers the single best line in the whole series:

Number 1.0: "You are technically correct. The best KIND of correct!"

• • Another one of Fry happens in Three Hundred Big Boys after he drinks his 100th cup of coffee, turning him from a paranoid, jittery caffeine overdosed mess into a cool, collected and Speed-Force-powered Flash-like superhero, giving him the superhuman speed to calmly put out the museum fire and evacuate by hand every single person - all within a few blurry seconds.
  • As well as near the end of Bender's Big Score, when the forces of Earth engage in a space battle against the nudist aliens' fleet, with Hermes directing them, and the theme song blaring.
    • Hermes gets special mention because Earth was doing absolutely terrible before he took control of the fleet from Leela, who couldn't keep track of all the various untrained ships. Then Hermes is plugged in, the theme music starts, the ships all fall into formation, and the Death Stars are mowed down like flies.
    • "I can wire anything directly into anything! I'm the Professor!"
    • The Reveal that Bender pulled the ol' switcheroo with the doomsday device, allowing the Planet Express crew to fire it at the nudists, winning the battle for good. Well, at least, if Nudar hadn't been wearing that doom-proof vest, which results in...
    • Lars' Heroic Sacrifice.
    • Al Gore blowing up a Death Star by himself.

Al Gore: At last I get to save the Earth with deadly lasers instead of deadly slideshows.

• How about the one in Into The Wild Green Yonder, where Bender bends a freaking BRICK WALL in half to escape?
• The Beast With a Billion Backs:
  • Kif gets one when he punches Brannigan straight in the guts at the end of the movie.
  • The head of Stephen Hawking gets one when he uses his Eye Beams to shut Farnsworth and Wernstrom up.

Stephen Hawking: I didn't know I could do that.

• • Bender gets several of them:
    • The duel against Calculon.
    • In an act that would cross the Moral Event Horizon if it weren't for Refuge in Audacity: Bender reunites with his long-lost robot son, then punts the child into a vat of magma for the Robot Devil, in exchange for an army to Take Over the World with.

Bender: No backsies.

• • • The epic battle at the end of the movie when he uses an army of Space Pirate Robots to attack Heaven, taking eternal bliss away from an entire universe of people.
      • And then lectures humanity on the imperfections of real love.
• In the episode Godfellas...GOD gets a CMOA after sending Bender back to Earth where Fry and Leela have left some monks locked in a laundry cupboard. Fry decides that their god will save them, but Bender goes to rescue the monks, saying "You can't depend on God for anything! He told me that himself." Then we cut back to God who says to himself...

God: When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.

• • To clarify, God has BASICALLY told him that he doesn't know where Earth is and doesn't listen to prayers (Apparently he tuned them out a while ago.) this is all however a Batman Gambit to send him home and get the monks out of the closet, and to safety. Making Bender think that in order for him to get something done, you have to do it yourself. Returning to the quote above.
    • Maybe (again, quote above). God doesn't do anything about Bender until he receives Fry's random prayer, and is clearly surprised when he gets it. I've always seen it as being partially an act and partially truth. Or maybe more or maybe less. It isn't entirely clear (again, see the the quote).
  • Fry gets one in how much he goes through to get his buddy back. He doesn't give up hope even when faced with climbing mount Everest alone to reach monks that may or may not actually grant him permission to use a telescope that may or may not find Bender. If Leela didn't talk him out of it he probably would have stayed there as long as it took.
• A subtle one arises in the episode "The Why of Fry", when Fry discovers that the Nibblonians set up his cryogenic freeze and his new life in the future as a Plan against the Brain Spawn. The dialogue while he's angrily choking Nibbler might've been meant as absurd humor, but that last line comes off as a CMOA for Fry, especially since he's such a passive victim so often:

Fry: Well, why couldn't you just ask me?
Nibbler: We were afraid you would refuse.
Fry: Of course not, I love the future.
Nibbler: Then why are you choking me right now?
Fry: Because I don't like being used!

• • That episode also gave Fry a big crowning moment in that he saved the entire universe. 'Nuff said.
• How can you not mention the episode where Zoidberg SETS A FLAG ON FIRE and blows up an entire alien fortress?
  • Made all the more awesome when one considers that the alien fortress was sent by his home planet to enslave Earth for sentencing Zoidberg to death for eating the flag in the first place. Blowing up a fortress? Awesome. Doing it to save the people who want you dead? That takes some real male jelly my friend.
• Near the end of Into The Wild Green Yonder, Bender bends a brick wall. That shouldn't even be physically possible!

Bender: "Granted, it's not on the list of approved bendables. But I'm...so...GREAT!"

• In the episode "Time Keeps On Slippin'", after finding out that they need a doomsday device to save the day, the Professor replies "Doomsday device? Ah, now the ball's in Farnsworth's court!" and proceeds to press a button, revealing that he has SEVERAL DOOMSDAY DEVICES!

Farnsworth: I suppose I could part with one and still be feared.

• "The Sting" is better known for being a Mind Screw, but Bender, Fry and Leela managed to successfully complete the mission that killed at least two of the professor's previous crews. Fry interposing for Leela was particularly epic.

Leela: "Nuts to that old crew! The only thing they could do better than us was suck and die!"

• How about Leela threatening her new Jerkass boyfriend in "The Cyber House Rules" to give her her old face back with the line "Listen bud, at the end of the day, one of us is only going to have one eye!"
• The new episode The Late Phillip J. Fry, where the Professor makes a quick stop in time with the Time Machine. Being him, you think he's off to do something science or engineering related. Nope, he freaking explodes Hitler via laserbeam. Needless to say, this troper was blown away by the Pure Awesomeness.
  • He can't be bothered stopping to kill Hitler a second time

Professor: Slow down the time machine, I'll shoot Hitler out the window. I missed and hit Elenor Roosevelt instead

• • Frankly, the entirity of the last five minutes of this episode was Pure Awesomeness. There's just something epic about a couple of guys and a robot sitting back with a case of beer and witnessing creation end.
    • And start over again.
      • Twice.
• In the 100th episode, there are two:
  • Bender, while the Planet Express crew are delivering a souffle with nitroglycerin in it, prepares to jump across a huge gap to reach the customer's house by backing up ALL THE WAY across the moon where she lives on and he sticks an epic landing after making it.
  • Also, near the end, where Fry pulls a Moses and parts a wave of sewage!
  • On the subject of the nitroglycerin souffle, Mrs. Aster gets one when she eats it. She eats nitroglycerin by stabbing it with a fork.

Zoidberg: Where's the explosion?
Butler: One does not explode in the face of Mrs. Aster.

• Zapp Brannigan usually just screws up everything, but he gets a minor one. Aliens are invading earth and the president of earth thinks they are looking for him (they're not), so he is determined to sacrifice all of Earth to save himself. Zapp simply decides he's had enough and just kidnaps the guy, puts him in a sack, and gives him up to the aliens, while everyone who watched him do it clapped.
  • From "Rebirth", Fry protects Leela from the ship exploding around them. Though his body was destroyed, when we see Leela she doesn't even have a scratch.

Fry: I'll protect you, Leela. My love is stronger than the vast majority of explosions.

• • In "Insane in the Mainframe", Fry thinks he's a robot and Roberto, who has just broke out of the insane asylum, and has robbed the bank for the 3rd time, regains consciousness. Once this happens Roberto threatens him and asks "Hey, Red. You're just in time for the hostage situation. Which side do you want to be on?" to which Fry replies "The side that kicks your twisted, metal ass." Fry has a can of oil in his jacket and is stabbed only to have the knife puncture the can and make Roberto think he's a battledroid and thus reason enough to jump out the window.
  • The final moments of Slurms McKenzie, as he parties so hard that it makes the cave collapse around him, preventing the Slurm Queen from chasing the Planet Express crew.

Slurms: Babes... you've served me well these 40 years, but this time...I've got to party alone. There'll be other parties for you... now go! Go!
Bender: * With a sad look in his eye and a salute prepared* Party on Slurms...
Slurms: Party on contest winners... * cave begins collapsing around him* Party on...

• What about Fry in the episode "The Day The Earth Stood Stoopid" people! Idiot Hero Fry outsmarting a giant brain of all things, trapped in an endless labyrinth of plot holes and bad spelling. Too bad know one remembers anything to acknowledge him for it.
• Farnsworth gets one, with some help, at the end of The Prisoner Of Benda. While fighting the emperor's evil cousin in a Chainsword Duel, Farnsworth, in Bender's body is momentarily defeated- Only to open up his compartment, releasing 20 Robot Midget Clowns with Chainswords. By the time you appreciate the Brick Joke, the Emperor's cousin is sliced to pieces.
  • The writing staff deserves one for the episode's ending. In one of the most magnificent aversions to Techno Babble and Writers Cannot Do Math ever, one of the writers actually proved an entirely new math theorem solely to ensure that the final solution to the episode's problems was mathematically possible.
• Kif punching Zapp Brannigan in the gut. Yes.
• Zoidberg gets one in a recent episode featured a Western-style showdown between Zoidberg and Mafiabot Clamps.

Zoidberg: My name isn't Slick! It's Zoidberg! JOHN F*****G ZOIDBERG!!

• • The most awesome part is that Zoidberg WINS. Yes, the Butt Monkey actually manages to defeat the mafia hitbot in clamp to claw clombat.
  • The most awesome part of Zoidberg winning is when Clamps is squeezing Zoidberg's head tightly. Zoidberg starts howling in pain. Clamps delivers a Pre-Mortem One-Liner.

Clamps: Looks like an all-you-can-kill Lobsterfest!

• • Zoidberg looks up at Clamps and calmly delivers his own Pre-Mortem One-Liner.

Zoidberg: That offer was for a limited time only.

• • Cue Crowning Music of Awesome as Zoidberg's fin bursts from his head, he grabs Clamps by the wrists, rises over him, and cuts off his clamps with his claws.
• Zoidberg got another one, where he saves the professor's life WITH HIS MEDICINAL KNOWLEDGE! anyone who knows...anything about Zoidberg can tell you how special that is
  • A younger Professor, in the same episode, kills a yeti with nothing but a knife to save Zoidberg.
  • Also from the same episode, you expect Mom to be as mean with Zoidberg as she is with everyone else. Instead, somehow he is the only one to whom Mom is friendly.
    • Well, he is on Robot Santa's nice list.
• "Parasites Lost". Fry engaging in a fencing duel against the king of parasitic worms, inside his body, threatening to kill himself (and subsequently the parasites). Also the parasites were improving Fry's body so he was fighting to know if Leela loved him o his improved self.

Parasite King: He's bluffing! No being would ever willingly make an idiot out of himself!
Fry: Obviously, you've never been in love!

• Bender gets one for his Batman Gambit in "Overclockwise" where he is able to manipulate the justice system and get both Cubert and the Professor acquitted of their felony charges.
• The season 8 finale contains a full 7-AND-A-HALF-MINUTE SEGMENT dedicated to parodying everything in Voltron, right down to its animation style and storytelling.
• In "A Clockwerk Origin", Dr Banjo attempts to call out the Professor on the missing link in evolution. He asks where this "mythical creature" that stands between man and ape is. The Professor promptly pulls out a hologram with Homo erectus (I think). Banjo then mockingly asks where the link is between Homo erectus and ape, and is instantly presented with Homo habilis. This continues about 16 times! If such a trope existed, Crowning Moment Of Science would apply!
  • And when it gets to the point where Farnsworth can't name another hominid, he actually goes out and discovers it. Granted, Dr. Banjo then undermines him, but still, not bad for the Professor.