While faced with community service for abusing an endangered insect, Homer begins assisting an elderly woman named Mrs. Bellamy. One night, Mrs. Bellamy is murdered, and Homer and Marge are accused of committing the crime.
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“The Frying Game” ranks #430 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 74.5 — Great. The episode packs 73 scored jokes at 4.5 per minute, averaging 6.7 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
Chief Wiggum: Because I can just swipe it later from the evidence locker!
Host: You're on Frame Up! That's right. Homer Simpson, you're the latest victim of the new reality show, Frame Up!
Host Meta/Self-Referential Misdirection ★ Rewatch Moe: Well, we've all got that voice in our heads telling us to kill. You just have to drown it out. I've been working on the railroad all the livelong day
Moe Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: And I could bring you more victims! Like Lenny! He'd go great with wild rice!
Homer Dark/Subversive Escalation Duffman: Duffman's pension has been mismanaged! Oh, yeah!
Duffman Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm All Jokes — 73 analyzed
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Moe: I cannot listen to this again!
Moe Reaction Beat Character Comedy Homer: A meditative lily pond with big, beautiful fish that fry up really good
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Barney: You don't even have to feed the fish, 'cause squirrels drown in it
Barney Dark/Subversive Absurdist Homer: Put a mini-beret on your wang
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Comic Book Guy: This'll really help with my speed dating. I got 400 no's
Marge: How much money did he piss away on this?
Marge Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: That caterpillar is screaming
Homer Absurdist Deadpan/Understatement Homer: What he needs is a visit from kindly old Doctor Foot
Homer Dark/Subversive Character Comedy EPA Agent: You're about to kill an endangered species, the screamapillar
EPA Agent: Reversal of Freedoms Act of 1994
Homer: Without constant reassurance, it will die. It's sexually attracted to fire
Homer: Are you sure God doesn't want it to be dead? Hey, what's God gonna do? Make my wife leave me again?
Homer Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Marge: If he wants to sleep with us, forget it!
Homer: Once upon a time there were three bears. The end
Homer Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Homer: Oh, no! I crushed that horrible bug! What should I do?
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bart: Bury it, quickly, before anyone finds out
Bart Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Lisa · Bart: I'm gonna tell! The hell you will!
Bart: Now we're in it together. There's no going back
Bart Dark/Subversive Character Comedy EPA Agent: Then why don't I hear any sleep screams?
Judge: Homer Simpson, for attempted insecticide and aggravated buggery
Judge Wordplay/Pun Absurdist Duffman: Duffman's pension has been mismanaged! Oh, yeah!
Duffman Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Corporate Lawyer: That party-hearty attitude is a registered trademark of the Duff Corporation
Homer: Lousy community service! Meals on Wheels! Eat it up or I go to jail
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Elderly Woman · Homer: You smell like cobbler. Now let's not get into who smells like what
Homer: Please don't kill me! I won't tell anyone about the skeleton!
Homer Cringe/Discomfort Escalation Homer: And I could bring you more victims! Like Lenny! He'd go great with wild rice!
Homer Dark/Subversive Escalation Mrs. Bellamy: Oh, don't be such a nervous Pervis
Mrs. Bellamy: Oh, Homer, I feel like I'm talking to Bennett Cerf
Homer: Yeah, I've gotten a lot of compliments about my talking
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Homer: And I can ride my bike real fast
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Homer: Hey! I'm not running an employment service, you old... Oh, you mean me? I'd be delighted
Homer Character Comedy Misdirection Homer: Hey! I'm not running an employment service, you old... Oh, you mean me? I'd be delighted
Homer Misdirection Character Comedy Homer: Marge, I can't say no to a helpless old lady. They put spells on you!
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Mrs. Bellamy: All I have left of my Chester is his tattered old Army jacket
Marge: Darn her socks? I say darn her!
Marge Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Elderly Woman: Oh! She would fall there!
Elderly Woman: Hey, who do I have to gum to get a refill?
Elderly Woman: Don't you read enough at school, bookworm?
Homer: The Missus prefers you call me Simpson
Homer: So it's a good thing she died, from our point of view, financially
Homer Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Chief Wiggum · Marge: Did you do it? Chief Wiggum! Homer and I are innocent! I'm sorry, Marge. I can't believe I tried to trick you with such an... Did you do it? No!
Homer · Chief Wiggum: Does that ever work? No. No, never does
Homer: Yeah, sure. Go ahead. I'll be back on the streets by dinnertime. You'll see
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bart · Lisa: Yeah. If Dad killed everyone he talked about killing, would any of us be here? You'd be dead a million times
Bart Lisa Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Moe: Well, we've all got that voice in our heads telling us to kill. You just have to drown it out. I've been working on the railroad all the livelong day
Moe Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer · Moe: Oh, man. What a day! I'd kill for a beer. Right away, sir. I don't want no trouble
Homer · Moe: I'd stab somebody for a pickle. Give me some peanuts. You didn't say you'd kill me. I'll kill you if you don't give me some peanuts
Tour Guide: Next on the Springfield Death Tour is the home of Marge and Homer Simpson, also known as 'H-Diddy and his Murder Ho.'
Marge · Homer: Go away! Wait, wait! That's a suggestion, not a threat
Marge: You've been through my delicates, my silkies, my dainties, and my unmentionables!
Marge Character Comedy Escalation Chief Wiggum: Because I can just swipe it later from the evidence locker!
Homer · Chief Wiggum: You know, Chief, if you let us go, there's a diamond necklace in it for you. I hope you're not suggesting that I would take that necklace as a bribe. Think again, dirtbag. Because I can just swipe it later from the evidence locker!
Homer: Don't worry, Marge. I'll cut us a deal by becoming a jailhouse snitch. I know who stopped up the toilet
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Foster Father: From now on, you're Dingus Squatford Jr. and Pamela E. Lee
Foster Father · Bart · Lisa: Young'uns, meet your new brother and sister. They's worth five dollars a day county money. I'm Bart. And this is Lisa. Them's city names. From now on, you're Dingus Squatford Jr. and Pamela E. Lee
Jury Foreman · Judge: Verdict? Is that what we were supposed to do? Well, in all my years on the bench... 'Cause that's what we did!
Homer: Can't you do anything? Surprise witnesses? Evidence tampering? Play the race card! Play it!
Homer Character Comedy Escalation Priest: Well, then I hope you enjoy your stay in hell
Priest Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Homer · Priest: Oh, go home and have sex with your wife! That's it. Bring it on!
Homer: This cannon is gonna be full when I go off. Ka-boom!
Homer Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Homer: Just think of them as twinkling stars
Homer: I want to confess. I killed and robbed the old lady all by myself. Marge is completely innocent. The only thing she's guilty of is loving too much
Homer: The only thing she's guilty of is loving too much
Prison Guard: Give me your hands, boss
Warden: The governor says he hopes you're a twitcher!
Warden Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Host: You're on Frame Up! That's right. Homer Simpson, you're the latest victim of the new reality show, Frame Up!
Host Meta/Self-Referential Misdirection ★ Rewatch Carmen Electra: There never was a Mrs. Bellamy. Only me, Carmen Electra!
Host: Frame Up is Fox's latest hit, right after No Pants Island and Fart Date!
Host Meta/Self-Referential Observational Chief Wiggum · Host: You tied up the judicial system, costing the city millions of dollars, just for a TV show? Yes. And I'm gonna be in the show? Yes! Can Eddy and Lou have producer credits? Yup!
Lisa: We were in the greenroom. I had so much shrimp
Lisa Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Carmen Electra · Homer: Uh, Homer. My face is up here. I've made my choice
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