When Homer gets the family's telephone service cut off for refusing to pay for calls made to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Lisa confesses that she was the one who called Rio after sponsoring an orphan who goes missing. She convinces the family to travel to Brazil to look for him. However, once there, they have no luck finding him, and Homer is kidnapped.
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“Blame It On Lisa” ranks #237 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 79.2 — Elite. The episode packs 68 scored jokes at 3.9 per minute, averaging 6.9 on craft and 6.5 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: I don't know. They've been seeing me alive for free for a long time.
Homer Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Taxi driver · Homer: My American friend, I'm afraid that this is a kidnapping. So that means I don't have to pay the fare? I suppose... Woo-hoo!
Homer · Kidnapper: Listen, I made a little scrapbook to remember the kidnapping. Look. This is that cigarette butt you burned me with. You slept like a baby that night.
Lindsay Naegle: I'm a sexual predator.
Homer · Marge: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. So, in August, it's cold? That's right. And in February, it's hot? So, it's opposite land! Crooks chase cops, cats have puppies.
All Jokes — 68 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Scratchy: Nice follow-through!
Scratchy Visual Gag Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Itchy: Now that's what I call a moon shot.
Itchy Visual Gag Dark/Subversive Lisa · Homer: Dad, that line was in the cartoon. I'm pretty sure it wasn't.
Lisa Homer Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Homer · Bart: Boy, did you make a prank call to Brazil? No, sir. I didn't. Choke on your lies!
Marge: Which phone company? There are hundreds of them. And they all keep changing their names.
Marge Observational Setup/Punchline Homer · Marge · Lisa: I think we're with Comquaaq. No, I think its Niagular. No, last week they became Vertiqual.
Homer · Phone operator: Wow. Everything is so high-tech. Dialing Murray Hill, 5-6-3-0-9. So, I says to Myrna, I says, 'That guy's a bum!'
Movie Phone: Thank you for dating Mr. Movie Phone. Our evening will be rated R, for brief nudity.
Lindsay Naegle: I'm a sexual predator.
Marge · Homer: Fine! I'll cut off your ponytail! Homer! Marge, it's called negotiating.
Marge · Homer: Why must you fight with every utility? I told you, I have too much time on my hands.
Carl/Lenny: We tried, but a recording said you were a bunch of deadbeats.
Homer: That's it! They have awoken a sleeping giant. Crazy scheme, crazy scheme, crazy scheme. Get me tools and beer! Yes!
Homer Character Comedy Escalation Homer: Let's try the red one... Let's try them together... How did I get here?
Homer Physical/Slapstick Escalation Homer: Let's try the red one again. Oh, not again!
Homer Running Gag Physical/Slapstick Homer · Lisa: The one I didn't make and Marge didn't make and Bart didn't make and hence, no one in the house made. Uh-oh.
Homer: Don't you know the boys from Brazil are little Hitlers? I saw it in a movie, whose name I can't remember!
Lisa · Homer: Well, then they started pressuring me for more donations, and you can't hang up on a nun. That's right. They have powers.
Marge · Homer: Aw! He's so adorable. Can we have another baby? No way! I still haven't lost the weight I put on from the last one.
Ronaldo: Now the monkeys cannot bite me. I am like sugar to them.
Ronaldo Absurdist Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Homer · Lisa: How many people live in Brazil? A hundred and fifty-six million. D'oh!
Homer Lisa Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Callback Bart: Fine. I want to meet monkeys.
Bart Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Marge: It's really cheap if we change planes in Phoenix, Honolulu, Sun City and East Saint Louis, spend a night in a haunted house and leave right now.
Marge Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Homer: And I'll have been on every continent. Except Antarctica. The Simpsons are going to Antarctica next year. This year, Brazil.
Homer Character Comedy Running Gag Homer · Marge: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. So, in August, it's cold? That's right. And in February, it's hot? So, it's opposite land! Crooks chase cops, cats have puppies.
Lisa · Homer: No, Dad. It's just the weather. So, hot snow falls up? Yes. Woo-hoo!
Lisa · Homer · Bart: Well done, Bart. But in Brazil, they speak Portuguese. Forget every word, boy. It's useless. But, Homer... I said forget it! All gone.
Flight attendant · Fernando: Fernando, you make that joke every time. It was that joke that made you fall in love with me.
Homer: Wow. It's like he's on the dashboard of the entire country.
Homer Observational ★ Rewatch Homer: Take me to the hotel / My hands are on a guy's ass / Boy, this dude must work out
Homer Physical/Slapstick Cringe/Discomfort Homer: Look, Marge. I'm Brazilian!
Homer Visual Gag Character Comedy Bart: Bert and Ernie left it to your imagination.
Bart Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Homer: I'm Chiquita Banana and I'm here to say / I will eat this Toblerone and I will not pay
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Marge · Lisa · Homer: What a charming neighborhood. Mom, these are slums. The government just painted them bright colors so the tourists wouldn't be offended. Works for me.
Homer: There he is! Oh, wait. You said brown hair, right?
Homer Visual Gag Character Comedy Homer: Ooh! They look like Skittles!
Marge · Nun: Have you tried looking for him? That's plan B.
Marge Nun Deadpan/Understatement Irony/Sarcasm Homer · Nun: Can you fly me over town to look for him? We nuns cannot fly. Oh, too much junk in the trunk, eh? Yes.
Lisa · Marge · Homer: You know I'm a vegetarian. But you're on vacation, honey. I'm not wearing my wedding ring.
Brazilian · Homer: Excuse me, Americans! How did you know?
Homer · Beach vendor: How did you know? There is a dress code on this beach. But we can help you.
Marge · Homer: I feel so European. Huh. Mine keeps disappearing.
Homer · Bart: I'm in Rio / and I'm walking on the beach / I'm in my Speedo / No! No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Samba instructor: We are now developing our most powerful dance, the penetrada. It makes sex look like a church!
Samba instructor: You can't protect her forever! You stupid lady!
Brazilian man · Homer: Ronaldo? You know him? No, no. I was just distracting you while my children robbed you.
Taxi driver · Homer: My American friend, I'm afraid that this is a kidnapping. So that means I don't have to pay the fare? I suppose... Woo-hoo!
Homer: No. It smells like cinnamon.
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy Homer · Kidnapper: I have a bladder the size of a Brazil nut. We just call them nuts here.
Teleboobies: Clockwise! Counter-clockwise.
Lisa · Marge: Kidnapped. Oh, my God! What are we supposed to do? I don't know. Wait for the call.
Lisa Marge Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Detective · Marge: I don't think there is a boy or a husband! I think you have a thing for me. I've been shot!
Homer: I don't know. They've been seeing me alive for free for a long time.
Homer Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kidnapper: That's very nice, honey. That'll buy you one of my legs or something they call a mystery bag.
Mr. Burns: Hmm. Well, I'm high on sheep embryos, so I am feeling charitable.
Mr. Burns Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Homer · Moe: Hey, Moe. Homer, listen. I need 50 grand. Don't ask me why. No, no. I need 50 grand! I asked you first! Fine. I'll send you 50 grand. Thanks.
Homer Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Carnival performer: You cannot run from Carnival! Because even running is a kind of dance!
Carnival participant: You cannot run from Carnival! Because even running is a kind of dance!
Ronaldo · Lisa: But I didn't know what state you lived in. It's a bit of a mystery, yes.
Ronaldo: I make as much as Malcolm in the Middle. And because I have no parents, my earnings remain unstolen.
Homer · Kidnapper: Listen, I made a little scrapbook to remember the kidnapping. Look. This is that cigarette butt you burned me with. You slept like a baby that night.
Lisa · Homer: He has the Stockholm syndrome. He has come to identify with his captors. They let me stay up all night!
Homer: Look at all that pink and purple. Our money sure is gay.
Homer Observational Character Comedy Kidnapper: It was Homer's idea. You say no to that face.
Homer: Because I've learned that no matter how bad I screw up, you'll always bail me out.
Homer: Don't be sad. It's Carnival! Whoopee!
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