Due to overuse of fertility medication, Apu and wife Manjula give birth to octuplets. Desperate for money, Apu loans the babies to an unscrupulous carny promoter, then needs Homer's help to get them back.
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“Eight Misbehavin” ranks #345 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 76.6 — Great. The episode packs 74 scored jokes at 3.3 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.5 on impact, with Apu landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Apu: As a token of forgiveness, please take this baby.
Apu Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Doctor: We had quite a discussion about the funniest way to reveal them to you.
Doctor Meta/Self-Referential Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Homer: Free baby cola! Apu hits the jackpot and I'm stuck with these useless one-tuplets!
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Apu: Who will float my corpse down the Ganges?
Apu Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bart: Mom, no. Everyone at school picks on the Pöpli kids. Even I do. I just hate them so much.
Bart Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 74 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Homer: These Swedish furniture designers sure have some far-out ideas. I mean, a green table. I wouldn't have thought of that in my wildest dreams.
Homer Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Captain McCallister: Arr! She swallowed me whole. You put it together yourself. All you need is me-Allen Wrench.
Homer: He's named after what he is.
Homer Observational Deadpan/Understatement Robot/Alien character: It's not a costume. They found me inside a meteor. Help. I need tungsten to live. Tungsten!
Marge: You don't want something that overshadows the pencils.
Marge Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bart: Mom, no. Everyone at school picks on the Pöpli kids. Even I do. I just hate them so much.
Bart Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Homer: Yes, I will have the plopenlugen. And don't skimp on the doodlemunch.
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Homer: How ingenious. The forks are made out of Lego.
Homer Observational Absurdist Homer: Hey, Apu. Manjula. You guys are still married?
Homer Character Comedy Observational Homer Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Manjula: Maggie loves baby talk. That was Hindi.
Manjula Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: On the other hand, monkey see, monkey do.
Homer Character Comedy Observational Homer: You can teach 'em to hate the things you hate. And they practically raise themselves, what with the Internet and all.
Homer Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Apu: I've noticed this country is dangerously underpopulated.
Apu Irony/Sarcasm Observational Apu: Who will float my corpse down the Ganges?
Apu Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Manjula: Oh, Apu, take me now. Oh, Calcutta!
Manjula Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Apu: By chilling my loins, I increase the chances of impregnating my wife.
Apu Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Moe: Whoa-ho! Too much information! Thanks for the mental picture! Why don't you tell us what you really think?
Moe Reaction Beat Escalation Apu: Would you stop spouting those hackneyed quips? Could you be any more- Hello!
Apu Meta/Self-Referential Misdirection ★ Rewatch Barney: Um, how 'bout one not touching your ass?
Barney Observational Cringe/Discomfort Apu: Whoa. Manjula has begun to ovulate.
Apu Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Callback Apu Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Apu: All that sex for nothing.
Apu Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Homer: But the cans seal in the flavor.
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Homer: Decided? That's classic. 'Decided.'
Homer Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Manjula: Oh! Homer, we have tried everything- oysters, gravity boots, Sanjay's bed, every possible position.
Homer: Really? On top and underneath?
Homer Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Apu: Uh, I'm willing to play the high school jock... but did you have to cut the roof off my car?
Apu Observational Character Comedy Homer: Hup-hup-hup-hup. That's an Apu question. You're Greg.
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Homer · Apu: I- I thought I was going to Ivy League State. My mistake. Stay in the moment.
Apu · Manjula: Baby. Baby. Pirate?
Manjula: No, no, wait a minute! Pirates are wild! We are pregnant!
Manjula Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: I'll say. I learned the true meaning of Columbus Day.
Homer Observational Absurdist ★ Rewatch Lisa: I became the most popular girl in school... but blew it by being conceited. And then I learned the true meaning of winter.
Lisa Character Comedy Escalation Callback Apu · Manjula: You are beautiful and silky and manageable. You're reading that off a conditioner bottle.
Gil: Gil's moving up to the big leagues, boy. Oh, my back.
Gil Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Doctor: We had quite a discussion about the funniest way to reveal them to you.
Doctor Meta/Self-Referential Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Doctor: It rolls off your tongue and into your heart- 'octuplets.'
Doctor Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Homer: Yeah, that. It looked just like that.
Homer Reaction Beat Observational Apu: Well, that would only account for quintuplets. Did anyone else slip this woman fertility drugs?
Apu Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Homer: Mine tasted like strawberry. Mmm. 'Ovulicious.'
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kent Brockman: Would you say you and your babies have a 'love eight' relationship? No, say it! We need a sound bite.
Kent Brockman · Apu: How would you respond to people who say this kind of multiple birth... is more suited to, say, a possum than a human being? Who would say such a thing? Well, pundits, wags. I'm not the one on trial here.
Kent Brockman: Well, pundits, wags. I'm not the one on trial here.
Homer: Free baby cola! Apu hits the jackpot and I'm stuck with these useless one-tuplets!
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bart · Homer: Gee, sorry for being born. I've been waiting so long to hear that.
Bart Homer Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Apu: They only gave us three crates. They can rot in hell.
Apu Escalation Character Comedy Reporter: Some say eight babies is a blessing... but they don't know the joy of nine. Would you say you're on 'cloud nine'?
Homer: Nine babies? That's barbaric! Nonuplets? Now that's something you don't see every day.
Homer Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Apu: Oh, I just had the most beautiful dream where I died.
Apu Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Apu: How do you get cradle rash when you sleep in a suitcase?
Apu Observational Character Comedy Apu: I can't believe you don't shut up.
Apu Character Comedy Escalation Marge: Although he thinks one or two might just be going along with the crowd.
Marge Absurdist Observational ★ Rewatch Barney · wife: Eight kids? Mmm. I'm sterile, right, baby doll? Yes, dear. From the nuclear plant. Beautiful.
Barney wife Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Apu: Welcome to my nightmare.
Apu Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Apu: Oh, hallelujah. Our problems are solved. We have banana bread.
Apu Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Apu: Banana bread! What the hell were you thinking? Banana bread.
Apu Escalation Character Comedy Callback Apu: Banana bread! What the hell were you thinking? Banana bread.
Apu Escalation Character Comedy Callback Apu: As a token of forgiveness, please take this baby.
Apu Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Manjula: Who cares? There's only one of him.
Manjula Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Larry Kidkill: What? Everybody loves my zoo. You don't love my zoo? I dare you to look at a kangaroo and not laugh. I dare you.
Homer · Butch Patrick: If your mother was a vampire and your father was a Frankenstein... how come you are a werewolf? Huh. I never thought of that. Doesn't make sense, does it?
Kidkill: Hey, I'm a notary. So I got that goin' too.
Kidkill Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Larry Kidkill: If you're not in a diaper, get off my stage.
Kidkill: Welcome to Octopia!
Kidkill Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Kidkill: Say hello to the baddest baby in the whole damn town-Animal.
Marge: How can he rebel? He doesn't even know where he is.
Marge Observational Character Comedy Larry Kidkill: And now the stand-up who can't even sit up... give it up for Punch Line!
Larry Kidkill: Work with Dazzle. She's a lox out there.
Chief Wiggum: Paid me off? What, are you crazy? Mmm. Mmm.
Chief Wiggum: Well, they might give Dazzle back. The buzz is she's got one more show to turn it around.
Chief Wiggum: Yeah, yeah, a lot of people are doing that these days.
Kidkill: Show's over! Show's over! Next show at 8:00 and 10:00.
Kidkill Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Butch Patrick: Stupid mongoose! Get the snake! The snake! Do I look like a snake?
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