When Marge leaves the house to recuperate from a skating injury, everything goes to hell - until Lisa convinces Homer and Bart they have leprosy.
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“Little Big Mom” ranks #359 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 76.4 — Great. The episode packs 69 scored jokes at 3.2 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.4 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: Must wash eyes! Stupid sexy Flanders!
Homer Callback Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Homer: Look! Here's the box for my Pitch Back. If I still had it, I could put it in here!
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Marge: Just make sure your father eats all his meals over a tarp. But not the good tarp. I want you to get married on that someday
Marge Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Ned: Well, it allows for maximum mobility. Feels like I'm wearing nothin' at all
Ned Setup/Punchline Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Bart: Tonight we're gonna put our fake sores back on, then jump the fence at Club Med and scare the normals
Bart Character Comedy Escalation All Jokes — 69 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Homer: D'oh! [Homer crashes into something]
Bart: I like the ones where the mouse kills the cat
Bart Observational Character Comedy Marge: Well, anyone would be nervous with all the economic turmoil you read about in the-
Marge Misdirection Character Comedy Bart · Homer: Get her! She's doing something!
Homer: It's the Goodwill truck! She cleaned out the attic!
Homer Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Homer: Our junk! And the exits are sealed! Go to plan 'B'!
Homer: We came this close to losing our spare Christmas tree stand. You monster!
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy Homer: Look! Here's the box for my Pitch Back. If I still had it, I could put it in here!
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: This flash cube has two flashes left
Homer Observational Character Comedy Lisa: You bought them after the Nagano Olympics and never skied once
Lisa Observational Setup/Punchline Homer: Hey, let's go skiing right now!
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bart: Look, Dad. It's the drummer from Bread
Bart Misdirection Observational Lisa · Marge: See, Mom? You conquered your fears and now you're ready to- / I'm sorry!
Homer: The Widowmaker. No, that one's for the ladies. Spinebuster? Boring. Whoo! Colostomizer!
Homer Escalation Wordplay/Pun Ned: Hi-diddly-ho, schuss-in-boots!
Ned Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Ned: Well, it allows for maximum mobility. Feels like I'm wearing nothin' at all
Ned Setup/Punchline Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Homer: Must wash eyes! Stupid sexy Flanders!
Homer Callback Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Homer: This is the worst pain ever!
Homer Character Comedy Escalation Ski patrol: Single [chuckles]
Marge · Lisa: Leave those deer alone! But they were trying to eat me
Bart · Snowboard instructor: Can I go to the bathroom? Uh-uh! Say it in snowboard. Um, I gotta blast a dookie. Dook on!
Disco Stu · Marge: Is this seat taken? Uh, I think that's an armrest
Disco Stu: Sure, baby. Whatever your trip is. Disco Stu wants you to be comfortable while he does his thing
Marge: Skiing fanny first into a crevasse isn't my idea of fun
Marge Observational Visual Gag Ski patrol: Oh, man. Another clock accident
Homer · Paramedic: I want my wife to get the best treatment money can buy. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Don't go nuts. Uh, better than that. Perfect
Doctor: Otherwise, a hunk of bone could zoom right to her brain [chuckles]
Doctor Dark/Subversive Cringe/Discomfort Marge: I can't be in the hospital. Tomorrow is laundry day. And I've gotta de-meat Lisa's bologna
Marge Character Comedy Absurdist Homer: All the laundry and dirty dishes will be there when you get back
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Marge: Just make sure your father eats all his meals over a tarp. But not the good tarp. I want you to get married on that someday
Marge Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Doctor · Hospital worker: You are wasting thousands of dollars worth of interferon. And you're 'interferon' with our good time [laughs]
Lisa · Homer: Dad, where are your clothes? I don't know. Don't tell me Mom dresses you. I guess. Or one of her friends
Bart: Come on, bikini inspector. Scrub toilet? Okay, that was a practice
Bart Character Comedy Misdirection Homer: Lisa, I'll do the dishes when I pick it out of the chore hat and it's not a practice
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Bart · Lisa: Oh! But Lenny just got some bottle rockets. You stay away from Lenny
Lisa · Bart: That's not true. He left it on the bus. You're dead, squealer!
Marge · Nurse: Oh, I don't want to be a bother. Wouldn't bother us. It just turns up your morphine
Lisa · Homer: The cheese isn't quite melted. Let me just pop it back in the- [growls] Here you go
Lisa: Slivered almonds for the green beans. I'll be right back.
Lisa Character Comedy Escalation Lisa · Bart: Bart, you were supposed to scour the pans. They need to soak. You said that four days ago. Look! They're rusted through. It's an illusion
Lisa · Homer: Astronaut bread? It's the bread of astronauts
Lisa · Homer: Maple soda? A cell phone full of candy? Astronaut bread? It's the bread of astronauts.
Lisa · Homer: I didn't know Aerosmith made a cereal. Dad, I gave you a list. Oh, yeah [laughs] You were way off
Homer: Hello? Lollipop Island? There's a little girl here who had too many sour balls
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Homer · Bart: Marco. Polo. Marc- Ohh! [splash]
Lucy: Lucy McGillicuddy Ricardo Carmichael. And I think there's some more
Lucy Observational Character Comedy Lisa · Lucy: You mean like when you hid inside the conga drum to scare Ricky? Hey! Stay away from the drums! That's my bit
Lisa Lucy Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy Bart: My skin! My beautiful skin!
Bart Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Computer: Welcome to Virtual Doctor. From the makers of Dragon Quest and Sim Sandwich
Homer: Leprosy! I can't believe it! That fortune cookie was right!
Bart: Why would God punish a kid? I mean, an American kid?
Bart Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Bart · Homer: At Sunday school, they said the lepers were cured by some bearded dude. Jesus? Yeah, that sounds right
Bart: But I know someone who's even holier than Jesus
Bart Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Ned · Maude: You saw Ben-Hur without me? We were broken up then. Well, that's no-
Homer · Bart: Brains. Brains. Use your brains to help us. Your delicious brains
Ned: No, no, no, no, no, no! I'm just thinking we could send you to a better place
Ned Dark/Subversive Misdirection Doctor: Code blue! A thousand c.c.'s of leg wax! Stat!
Lisa · Moe: He told us he'd been going to the gym. [chuckles] Wow
Lisa Moe Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Moe: Because I couldn't take that. I- I just couldn't. I- [sobbing]
Moe Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Lisa: Hansen's disease. You know, like that horrible cream soda
Lisa Wordplay/Pun Misdirection Ned · Rod · Todd: Cost us a bundle too. I guess we'll have an imagination Christmas this year. Yea! Imagination Christmas!
Rod · Todd: I got a pogo stick. I got a hula hoop
Rod Todd Callback Character Comedy Callback Homer: We'll take the cure, bag a few lobsters, then watch some gay guys get married
Homer Observational Character Comedy Hospital worker · Homer: Oh, you'll have a great view of the whole beach from the electric needle room. Really? The whole beach? Yes. From the electric needle room
Bart: I figured it out after I ate one of my chest sores
Bart Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Homer: All we have to do is endure two hours of blinding pain. Then it's nothing but shopping and surfing
Homer Character Comedy Escalation Bart: Tonight we're gonna put our fake sores back on, then jump the fence at Club Med and scare the normals
Bart Character Comedy Escalation Homer: Aloha- [electricity crackles] Aloha- Ow! Until we meet a- [screams]
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