A social worker is assigned to make the Simpson family functional after they get arrested for fighting while playing Monopoly. He helps them learn how to work together and function as a family. The moment is ruined when, Ginger and Amber, the barmaids who married Homer and Flanders while they were drunk in "Viva Ned Flanders", arrive at the Simpsons' home, which outrages Marge.
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“Brawl In The Family” ranks #365 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 76.1 — Great. The episode packs 68 scored jokes at 4.1 per minute, averaging 6.8 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: Oh, it's the woman I married in Vegas!
Homer Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: Marge, Bart, Girl Bart, the one who doesn't talk, and the fat guy. How I loathe him!
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Marge: We'd better stay inside, at least until the squirrels stop melting.
Marge Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist ★ Rewatch Amber: Homer, you're a bad man, and your seed should be wiped from the earth. No offense, children.
Amber Dark/Subversive Misdirection ★ Rewatch Grampa: Well, it hurts now. But the senility will take care of that.
Grampa Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 68 analyzed
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Republican voices: Twenty more terms!
Republican Speaker: What act of unmitigated evil shall the Republican Party undertake this week?
Republican Speaker: You've already done enough, Nader.
Republican member: Those lousy Muppets have been taking food out of my mouth for too long!
Texas Republican: Back in Texas, we got rid of it, and it made everyone a lot happier. He was so happy...
Republican Speaker: Now Bob Dole will read from the Necronomicon.
Bob Dole: Recycling a felony. And Smokey the Bear is now Choppy the Lumberjack.
Republican member: A grizzly bear with a chainsaw. Now there's a killing machine!
Automatic safety message: Stop endangering yourself. Stop endangering yourself.
Homer: Good Lord! Acid rain! I'm singing in the rain Just singing in the rain What a glorious feeling
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Groundskeeper Willie: It burns like a Glasgow bikini wax!
Marge: We'd better stay inside, at least until the squirrels stop melting.
Marge Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist ★ Rewatch Female blind date: He smelled like puke!
Marge: The game is crazy enough as it is. How can an iron be a landlord?
Marge Observational Absurdist ★ Rewatch Homer: They told me it would be like this on the outside.
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Lisa: These hotels are made of Legos. Bart, you're cheating!
Lisa Visual Gag Character Comedy Lisa: Oh, sure. You take his side just because he bought you that house on St. James Place.
Lisa Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Lisa · Marge: Mom, that's not how you pry them apart. I've been prying them apart since before you were born!
Lisa Marge Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Chief Wiggum: The Prison Nutcracker Suite is one week away. And I don't see five Sugar Plums. I see five guys who don't know their moves and don't seem to care!
Chief Wiggum: And don't try anything, because Johanssen there is a snitch.
Lou: Another case of Monopoly-related violence, Chief.
Lou Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist ★ Rewatch Chief Wiggum: How do those Parker Brothers sleep at night?
Negotia-bot: I am Brenda. I am programmed to talk in a calm and constructive manner. Destroy! Destroy!
Homer: Hey, this is taffy! Police brutality!
Homer Misdirection Wordplay/Pun Homer Wordplay/Pun Escalation Lou: Too bad real women don't come with these, huh?
Lou Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Marge: You're going to Stanford. You're going to Stanford.
Marge Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Lisa: Stanford. This family has hit rock bottom.
Lisa Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: Like Denzel Washington in The Preacher's Wife, or Will Smith in Bagger Vance, or Slimer in Ghostbusters.
Homer Escalation Misdirection ★ Rewatch Homer: Don't blame me. Blame Tinseltown in its second golden age, may it never end.
Homer Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Bart · Marge: I got sprayed by a skunk! Let me rub it off on your sweaters! Just 10 more years. Just 10 more years.
Bart Marge Visual Gag Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Homer: He has to be here. I'm just that nuts.
Bart: How come you get a social worker? I'm the one with stigmata.
Bart Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Marge: Because at 6:00, we go live!
Marge Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Homer: It's where I go to drink alcohol, which is the mortal equivalent of your ambrosia.
Homer Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Homer: Well, not with that temper.
Homer Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Homer: Marge, Bart, Girl Bart, the one who doesn't talk, and the fat guy. How I loathe him!
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Homer: Well, this is one family that doesn't swing that way!
Homer: As a family, we drive away. We cover for each other as a family. That's what Gabriel would've wanted
Homer Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Lisa · Gabriel: Look, Gabriel! We're learning to work together! That's great. But so are the wolves and cougars!
Marge Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist Marge: Oh, no! The roast beef is making them stronger! And the falafel is making them angrier!
Marge Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Homer: Oh, wait. It's Blatz.
Homer Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Homer: You know, we've been through some 280 adventures together, but our bond has never been stronger.
Homer Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Lisa: Could this be the end of our series of events?
Lisa Meta/Self-Referential Misdirection ★ Rewatch Callback Homer: Oh, it's the woman I married in Vegas!
Homer Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Amber: Homer, you're a bad man, and your seed should be wiped from the earth. No offense, children.
Amber Dark/Subversive Misdirection ★ Rewatch Marge: If I had known there were loose women in Las Vegas, I would never have let you go!
Marge Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Homer: Liquors drunkened me!
Homer Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Ginger: Upstairs? I hit the jackpot!
Ginger Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Homer: We never ever made whoopee, or even mouth whoopee!
Homer Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Judge: Mr. Simpson, under Nevada law, bigamy, or 'Mormon Hold 'Em,' is perfectly legal.
Judge Wordplay/Pun Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Homer: You can't kick me out. It'll cause a miscount in the census!
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Marge: Oh, no. She's making him a sandwich!
Marge Misdirection Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Ned Flanders: We don't use the 'I' word in this house.
Ned Flanders: We flushed your sin sticks down to hell. Smokers are jokers.
Ginger: You could look seven. And I could teach you to count cards.
Ginger Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Bart: No. You're thinking of someone with two knives.
Bart Wordplay/Pun Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Marge: Why don't you just take Britney Beers and get out of here?
Marge Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Homer: Talk about what? Sports? Bigamy? Not a sports fan, huh?
Amber: And hold the Beach!
Amber Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Barney: You know, she can put that mole anywhere on her face.
Barney Character Comedy Visual Gag Grampa: You want to give Honest Abe another term in the Oval Office?
Grampa Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Bart: You crapped out, Vegas Mom!
Bart Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Ginger: Yeah. I'm sure there's poker games we can be won in.
Ginger Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Grampa: Well, it hurts now. But the senility will take care of that.
Grampa Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Grampa: You know, I have a son about your age.
Grampa Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Top Episodes — The Simpsons
