Shutterbug Bart captures Homer with a sexy entertainer at a bachelor party.
Early Season 1 holds steady at 70.5 despite lacking signature standout gags.
Directed by Rich Moore · Written by Jon Vitti
WAR
22.5
Wins Above Replacement
“Homers Night Out” ranks #518 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 70.5 — Solid. The episode packs 53 scored jokes at 2.7 per minute, averaging 6.6 on craft and 6.3 on impact, with Homer landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Homer: Bart! I said look at the floor.
Homer Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Homer: Well, not our nephews.
Homer Observational Misdirection ★ Rewatch Homer: Yes, I do. Because I'm hungry, my clothes are smelly, and I'm tired.
Homer Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Homer: D'oh! That purple fruit thing.
Homer Character Comedy Reaction Beat Mr. Burns: You seem to have a way with women, a certain-- how shall I put it-- animal magnetisme.
Mr. Burns Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Callback All Jokes — 53 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Homer · Marge: Homer brags that a girl in Valve Maintenance 'has the hots for yours truly' while talking to his wife
Homer: Just keeping you on your toes, babe.
Homer Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Homer: Two hundred and thirty nine pounds! Oh, I'm a blimp. Why are all the good things so tasty?
Homer Observational Character Comedy Marge: You're not a blimp, Homer. You're my big cuddly teddy bear.
Marge Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Homer: Aw, baloney. Yeah, right.
Homer Reaction Beat Character Comedy Homer: I'm a whale. Why was I cursed with this weakness for snack treats?
Homer Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Marge: Oh. Don't strain yourself, dear.
Marge Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Homer: No, no, Marge. It's gonna be very classy. A tea-and-crumpets kind of thing.
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Misdirection ★ Rewatch Homer: What is this, the Spanish Inquisition?
Homer Observational Escalation Homer: Uh-oh, it's the 'fe-mailman.'
Homer Wordplay/Pun Observational Bart: Female carrier, Bart.
Bart Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Bart · Mail Carrier: Every day for the last six months-- Where's my spy camera? Where's my spy camera?
Mail Carrier: Here's your stupid spy camera!
Bart: Sorry, Dad. The answer to that is top secret.
Bart Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Bart: Oh, sure. Like I'm really gonna take a picture of my butt.
Bart Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Bart: Only four of us? Who escaped?
Bart Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: Where am I, the planet Cornball?
Homer Observational Character Comedy Bart: Ahoy! I spy the children's menu.
Bart Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Bart: Ahoy, this place bites.
Bart: This evening I shall go for the squid platter, with extra tentacles, please.
Bart Character Comedy Absurdist Waiter · Homer's Party: Hey, try to keep it down, guys. Okay? Hey, shut up.
Burns: How do I tell you this, my boy? We're in hell.
Burns Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bart: Ai, caramba. Wow, man.
Bart Reaction Beat Visual Gag Photography Club Kid: The subtle graytones recall the work of Helmut Newton.
Photography Club Kid: He brings to mind the later work of Diane Arbus.
Bart: Cross your heart and hope to die? Stick a needle in your eye? Jam a dagger in your thigh? Eat a horse manure pie?
Bart Escalation Wordplay/Pun Homer: Wait till I show the guys at work this little doozy.
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: Sorry, buddy. You got me confused with Fred Flintstone.
Homer Observational Visual Gag Homer: D'oh! That purple fruit thing.
Homer Character Comedy Reaction Beat Homer: Well, a 'do dee do dee do' to you too, pint size.
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy Homer: Meaningless, Marge. Don't even attempt to find meaning in it.
Homer Character Comedy Misdirection Homer: Meaningless, Marge. Don't even attempt to find meaning in it.
Homer Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Marge: My suggestion is for you to sleep in the filth you created.
Marge Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Moe · Homer: What, this one? D'oh!
Homer: The middle one is my house. Someone must have left the porch light on.
Homer Character Comedy Observational Homer: The middle one is my house. Someone must have left the porch light on.
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Burns: A plant employee carrying on like an oversexed orangutan in heat.
Burns Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Burns: The fair sex remains a mystery to me.
Burns Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Mr. Burns: You seem to have a way with women, a certain-- how shall I put it-- animal magnetisme.
Mr. Burns Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Callback Mr. Burns: You seem to have a way with women, a certain-- how shall I put it-- animal magnetisme.
Mr. Burns Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: Well, I wine them, I... dine them, bring them flowers, write them love poetry, sir.
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Homer: Look, I'm not drinking out of the carton.
Homer Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Homer: Yes, I do. Because I'm hungry, my clothes are smelly, and I'm tired.
Homer Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Venue Worker: Princess Kashmir? You must mean April Flower. She's working over at the Girlesque.
Homer: Bart! I said look at the floor.
Homer Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Bart: Nice to meet you, ma'am.
Princess Kashmir/Shawna: My real name is Shawna Tifton. My pet peeve is rude people. And my turn-ons include silk sheets and a warm fireplace.
Dancer: Get off of my stage, fat boy.
Dancer Reaction Beat Cringe/Discomfort Performer: Get off of my stage, fat boy.
Announcer: Homer Simpson, party guy.
Smithers: He's a love machine, sir.
Homer: Well, not our nephews.
Homer Observational Misdirection ★ Rewatch Bart: All right, folks. Show's over. No more to see, folks. Come on. Only sick people want to see my folks kiss.
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