Bart finds a friend in his own sister Lisa after Milhouse moves away to Capitol City to live with his divorced mom. Meanwhile Homer goes into panhandling to buy anniversary gifts for Marge. Later on Milhouse returns and Bart goes back being friends with him.
WAR
56.6
Wins Above Replacement
“Milhouse Doesnt Live Here Anymore” ranks #126 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 82.1 — Elite. The episode packs 65 scored jokes at 3.3 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.8 on impact, with Bart landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Groundskeeper Willie: Like Englishmen and Scots. Or Welshmen and Scots. Or Japanese and Scots. Or Scots and other Scots. Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!
Milhouse: We were having a sleepover, and a robber came and wet my bed. Then he folded the bed back into the couch and disappeared into the night.
Milhouse Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Kirk: The judge said I was the most pathetic person he'd ever seen in court. Pity custody-- boo-yeah!
Kirk Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Milhouse: What about all the times I didn't wear a tutu? Nobody ever brings those up.
Milhouse Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Milhouse · Bart: Now, please let me give you a wedgie in front of these guys. No way! Please? I'll be gentle.
All Jokes — 65 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Nelson: My mom got too fat to work at Hooters! They won't even let her park cars.
Nelson Escalation Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Nelson's family: (tires screeching)
Bart: Hey, don't tell us how to feel!
Bart Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Milhouse: What do you care, Mrs. Krabappel... or should I say, Mrs. Crab apple?
Mrs. Krabappel: Crab apple? I never thought of that! It totally works! How could I have been so blind?
Background workers: Rollin', rollin', rollin' toxic barrel rollin' / they're so hot and glowin' / we'll die!
Mr. Burns: Let them while away the afternoon spilling their beer on gullets and trousers whilst drooling over French postcards
Mr. Burns Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Isabel Sanford: At this 'museum,' you won't see a Michelangelo, but you might see Michael Landon and Beverly D'Angelo
Milhouse: Man, you've been huffing from the bart bag
Homer: To old man Burns, who's paying us to drink because we're embarrassing! We suck! We suck.
Homer Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Homer: Ohh... a lot of that went in my lungs
Homer Physical/Slapstick Reaction Beat Homer: I'm honored to drink to Apu and, uh... Apulina
Homer Character Comedy Misdirection Apu: Including a bouquet of flowers, diamond earrings, and we're going to see Paris... Hilton. In Paris... Texas. On our way to Paris, France.
Apu Escalation Misdirection Homer: Well... these charity address labels that came in the mail
Homer Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Milhouse: No, Walter's been cool
Milhouse Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Bart: Well, if it's not easy, don't do it. That's how I got where I am.
Bart Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bart: You mean up until now you did care? Then why did you wear that tutu to school last week?
Bart Callback Character Comedy Milhouse: What about all the times I didn't wear a tutu? Nobody ever brings those up.
Milhouse Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Milhouse: It's the Paul Lynde Helen Reddy Hudson Brothers Easter Special! With guest stars Willie Tyler and Lester and Nadia Comaneci!
Nadia Comaneci (on TV): I don't think you understand the mechanics of heterosexual sex
Bart: Check it out-- I'm riding some guy named Ironside!
Bart Visual Gag Observational Robot: Ow, my banana! Danger, danger! Door ajar. The indignity!
Homer: I don't wanna go home! I'm not done talking to me!
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Bum: You think that rat is a remote
Bum Visual Gag Cringe/Discomfort Homer: I don't need your sharity!
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Homer: I'll dance for my money! (humming hoochie-coochie)
Homer Physical/Slapstick Cringe/Discomfort Bum: You think you can dance
Bum Deadpan/Understatement Cringe/Discomfort Bart: You can't move that far. You're my best friend. What's your mom making? I'll match it!
Bart Character Comedy Escalation Milhouse: My mom's already transferred her 401k
Luann · Kirk: Hey, I thought you said my money was no good. I said you're no good.
Kirk: I'll fight you with every lunch half-hour I get
Kirk Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Marge: Why are your clothes so dirty? And why do you smell like liquor? Have you been clubbing?
Marge Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Marge: That Chevron station has the most romantic bouquets!
Marge Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Marge: We're having a simultaneous pass out!
Marge Physical/Slapstick Absurdist Ralph: My nose makes its own bubble gum!
Ralph Character Comedy Absurdist Ralph · Bart: I found you, Bart! Ralph, we're playing checkers. I don't like you, boy-mommy.
Bum: You smell worse than you did last time
Bum Callback Escalation Callback Bum: Well, there are six schools of begging: Bad musician, messed-up vet, cripple, fake cripple, religious zealot, and crazy guy
Bum Observational Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Homer: Coke and Pepsi are the same thing! Wake up, people!
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Milhouse: Yeah. I gave my look some new flava. Suck it in!
Milhouse Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Milhouse · Bart: Now, please let me give you a wedgie in front of these guys. No way! Please? I'll be gentle.
Capital City kids: Springfield baby, in a diaper, poked his eye with a windshield wiper! Springfield baby! Springfield baby!
Marge: You'll be like an owl saying Milhouse who? Milhouse who? Milhouse whooo?
Marge Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Bart · Lisa: Hey, moldilocks, mom says I'm supposed to help you. Fine. You can confirm the accuracy of the hose.
Bart · Lisa: You wet your pants. Shut up! It's a serious problem.
Bart Lisa Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Lisa · Bart: I'm gonna hit you so hard, I'll kill your whole family! Bart, you're in my family. Shut up!
Lisa Bart Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Marge · Homer: Are these diamondique? Nope. Diamondelle? Nope. Cubic diamondium? Nope. Dioxy-ribo-diamondoid? Close, but no cigar.
Homer: Hostess Twinkies? I heard, if you age them for ten years, they turn to liquor
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Bart · Lisa: Everyone knows you're the future of family. That's not true, Bart. Mom and dad value us equally, and... aw, you're right.
Bart · Lisa: Just forget everything you know about gravity. But I know so much about it.
Bart Lisa Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Lisa · Bart: We're like Howard Carter discovering the temple of Tutankhamun. Or like when I discovered the school's xerox code. One, four, seven. Just saying it makes my butt feel warm again.
Lisa Bart Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Bart: Oh, look! He's picking his nose
Bart Character Comedy Visual Gag Bart: That's what you call commitment to a bit
Bart Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy Lisa: Thank god we've come to our senses and worship a carpenter who lived 2,000 years ago
Lisa Irony/Sarcasm Observational ★ Rewatch Groundskeeper Willie: Like Englishmen and Scots. Or Welshmen and Scots. Or Japanese and Scots. Or Scots and other Scots. Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!
Bum: There's your husband, A.K.A. Mooch-a-lini, drooly McGee, corporal flashback, etcetera, etcetera
Bum Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Homer: The bob seger boxed set, which really only needed to be one disk, but the box was nice...
Homer Observational Character Comedy Marge: Well, then maybe you need to buy me a brooch
Marge Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Kirk: The judge said I was the most pathetic person he'd ever seen in court. Pity custody-- boo-yeah!
Kirk Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Repo man · Kirk: You're somebody's father?! Yes, okay. Ooh, boy.
Milhouse: We were having a sleepover, and a robber came and wet my bed. Then he folded the bed back into the couch and disappeared into the night.
Milhouse Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Homer: When a woman says nothing's wrong, that means everything's wrong. And when a woman says everything's wrong, that means everything's wrong. And when a woman says something's not funny, you'd better not laugh your ass off.
Homer Observational Escalation Narrator: This is what sitcoms call 'a schmaltzy ending'-- a sentimental capper to leave the audience feeling good. Usually followed by a little coda to cut the treacle.
Narrator Meta/Self-Referential Observational ★ Rewatch TV show characters: Granny, I'm gonna shoot me some Vietcong. Yeah, well I ain't cookin' 'em.
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