Krusty takes parenting lessons from Homer when, during an outdoor book fair, a girl tells Krusty that she is his long-lost daughter from a one-night stand with a female soldier who fought during the first Gulf War.
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“Insane Clown Poppy” ranks #136 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 81.9 — Elite. The episode packs 68 scored jokes at 3.1 per minute, averaging 7.2 on craft and 6.8 on impact, with Krusty landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Sophie: All Mom ever said was my father was some pathetic clown. So I typed 'pathetic clown' into a search engine and your name popped right up.
Sophie Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Fat Tony: My uncle still has my nose.
Marge · Homer: Oh, yeah? You didn't blow up Maggie's room. - [Explosion]
Marge Homer Setup/Punchline Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Krusty · Sophie: Was your mother an Israeli flight attendant? - No. - Cokie Roberts? - No, she was a soldier. Chestnut brown hair, kind of shy, 32 confirmed kills-
Homer: So how's Maude Flanders doing up there? She playin' the field? Ooh! Yeah, really? All those guys?
Homer Dark/Subversive Character Comedy All Jokes — 68 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Bart · Homer: This watermelon won't know what hit it. I love our Tuesdays together, Dad.
Homer · Bart: Hey, we just took care of that dangerous melon that was threatening our garden. Yeah. We're heroes. But where's our parade?
Homer · Marge: It's hopeless. - Or is it? - Yeah, it's hopeless. - I said, 'Or is it?' I said, 'It-' Oh.
Homer Marge Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer · Marge: Listen, do you want the job done right or do you want it done fast? Well, like all Americans, fast. But- Clear!
Marge: Hmm. Well, you can't argue with results.
Marge Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat Homer: Target date: January 2007.
Homer: Fire in the hole! Hmm. It's gonna take a lot of fireworks to clean this place up.
Homer: Uh, honey, there's a point in every father's life... when he blows up his daughter's room.
Homer Absurdist Misdirection Marge · Homer: Oh, yeah? You didn't blow up Maggie's room. - [Explosion]
Marge Homer Setup/Punchline Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Lisa · Homer: It is my birthday! - That's the spirit. Now what do you want to do?
Homer Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Homer: Mmm! These stigmuffins are to die for.
Homer Wordplay/Pun Dark/Subversive Reverend Lovejoy: Oh, if you like that, you should try Mary Magdalene's Chocolate Orgasm.
Stephen King: He discovered electricity and used it to torture small animals and green mountain men. And that key he tied to the end of a kite? It opened the gates of hell!
Salesman: you can absorb books instantly by attaching this electrode to the brainpan... and this one to the... loins!
Customer · Diet book author: And you lose weight? - Uh, you might. It's a free country.
Various: Network Programming for Dummies. Christianity for Dummies. Mo- Moby Dick? 'Call me Ishmael, dummy.'
Marge · Christopher Walken: Look, Maggie, Christopher Walken's reading Goodnight Moon. 'Good night, room. Good night, moon. Good night, cow jumping over the moon.'
Christopher Walken: Please, children, scooch closer. Don't make me tell you again about the scooching. You in the red, chop-chop. Hmm.
Person · Maya Angelou: Maya Angelou is black? - It is a Mach-five child... forever bound to suckle from the shriveled breast of Congress.
Amy Tan · Fan: No. That's not what I meant at all. You couldn't have gotten it more wrong. But- Please, just sit down. I'm embarrassed for both of us.
Krusty: Whoa, whoa. I didn't ask for your life story.
Krusty Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Krusty: Hey, this pen's gotta last me all day! Now if you could bup, bup, bup, bup, bup, bup, yeah.
Krusty Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Krusty: Hey, this pen's gotta last me all day! Now if you could bup, bup, bup, bup, bup, bup, yeah.
Krusty Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Sophie · Krusty: My name is Sophie. - Hey, good luck with that. - I'm your daughter. - What?
Krusty: Ohh! I think I just 'seltzered' myself.
Krusty Wordplay/Pun Physical/Slapstick Krusty Running Gag Character Comedy Krusty · Sophie: Was your mother an Israeli flight attendant? - No. - Cokie Roberts? - No, she was a soldier. Chestnut brown hair, kind of shy, 32 confirmed kills-
Krusty: Saddam Hussein? They should call him 'So-Damn-Insane!'
Krusty Wordplay/Pun Observational Soldier: Hey! You're just fanning the flames of hatred!
Soldier Setup/Punchline Observational Krusty: Maybe it was the anthrax in the air. Maybe it was the fact the Arab women weren't bitin'. Whatever it was, it was magic.
Krusty Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Krusty: You can't kill Saddam! He's half my act!
Krusty Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Krusty: I just saved my baseball bit. 'Who-say-in's on first, lya-toll-ya's on second and-' Aah!
Krusty Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Sophie: All Mom ever said was my father was some pathetic clown. So I typed 'pathetic clown' into a search engine and your name popped right up.
Sophie Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Krusty: What's wrong with your eyes? You need a Claritin or something?
Krusty Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Homer: So how's Maude Flanders doing up there? She playin' the field? Ooh! Yeah, really? All those guys?
Homer Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Krusty: Listen, kid, I'm not the kind of dad who, you know, does things... or says stuff, or looks at you, but the love is there.
Krusty Character Comedy Escalation Krusty: Ohh! I gotta sit up now? Ohh! What am I, Baryshnikov? Ohh!
Krusty Character Comedy Escalation Sophie: You know, for a clown, you're not really a lot of fun.
Sophie Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Ned Flanders: Hey, uh, careful, boys. That arch is looking a little Romanesque.
Ned Flanders: No, Son. You let 'em finish, then you smash it. That's a good boy.
Homer: Well, I won't lie. Fatherhood isn't easy- like motherhood- but I wouldn't trade it for anything. Except for some mag wheels. Oh, man. That would be sweet.
Homer Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Homer: What were we talking about? Ooh, a clown! [Chuckles]
Homer Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Krusty: I thought I was on! When was I off? That bit about the tide pool? I tell ya, it killed at Jacques Cousteau's funeral.
Krusty Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Krusty: No. I guess musical talent skips a generation, like diabetes. You might want to watch out for that too.
Krusty Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive Krusty: No. I guess musical talent skips a generation, like diabetes. You might want to watch out for that too.
Krusty Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Krusty: I think I'll go somewhere friendlier, like beautiful downtown Grozny.
Krusty Observational Setup/Punchline Krusty: My little girl's sharp as a tack. I tried the 'got your nose' bit on her, didn't fool her for a second.
Krusty Character Comedy Observational Fat Tony: My uncle still has my nose.
Krusty · Fat Tony: A weema-way A weema-way - Don't do that.
Devil/Krusty's conscience: Do it, do it do it, do it - She'll never know
Fat Tony · Krusty: Well, it won't bring much cash, but its sentimental value's through the roof. It is acceptable.
Sophie · Krusty: This is a ukulele. - Yeah, the thinking man's violin. Check it out.
Krusty: Wait! Time out! Four aces is not a gamble.
Krusty Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Teen characters: Word on the street is you dumped Dawson. He's history, Jenda. Wait till he sees me with that new exchange student. Hola, Harmony. ¿Que es el dilly-yo?
Lisa · Bart: I'm all for ethnic diversity, but this is just pandering. Maybe so. But Dawson's gonna be bummed.
Lisa Bart Meta/Self-Referential Observational Homer: It's some kind of Mafia summit! Every mob family in the country's here. The Cuomos, the Travoltas, the Lasordas, the Boyardees.
Homer Setup/Punchline Observational Mobster 1 · Mobster 2: Hey, I heard there's a lunar eclipse tonight. Maybe we should look up. Nah. For me it's solar or nothin'.
Mob guard: Nah. For me it's solar or nothin'.
Fat Tony: We've narrowed it down to either Johnny Tightlips or Frankie the Squealer.
Frankie the Squealer: Okay, it's me! I can't help it! I just like squealin'! It makes me feel big!
Frankie · Legs: Did you know Fat Tony's real name is Marion? You just don't get it, do ya?
Paramedic · Johnny Tightlips: Johnny Tightlips, where'd they hit you? I ain't sayin' nothin'. But what do I tell the doctor? Tell him to suck a lemon.
Sophie · Krusty: Small bills, unmarked and nonsequential. Holy samolians! There must be five grand in there! Oh, which I intentionally put in there for you.
Fat Tony · Homer · Legs: That's him! That's the one! Homer Simpson! - I said I was sorry. - All right. Fair enough. - Class act.
Homer: Sorry you're such jerks! Ha, ha! [Screams] Ow! That bullet went in!
Homer Setup/Punchline Escalation Callback Krusty Running Gag Callback Callback Top Episodes — The Simpsons
