After a ruined movie night, thanks to Bart and Lisa, Homer and Marge take a vacation away from them, but decide to go to Miami instead of going to see an uncle. When Bart and Lisa catch wind of their parents' secret plan, Bart steals Rod's credit card (just like Homer stole Ned's) and go after them.
WAR
68.6
Wins Above Replacement
“Catch Em If You Can” ranks #37 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 86.2 — Elite. The episode packs 65 scored jokes at 4.0 per minute, averaging 7.2 on craft and 6.9 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
Marge: stop it! No one was planned!
Marge Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Homer: Because I was saving that for my birthday.
Homer Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Elderly Woman 1 · Elderly Woman 2: No scar. He must be on his first heart. / I wouldn't kick him out of bed for dying.
Grampa: I can't go to miami. I'm expecting calls from telemarketers!
Grampa Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Bart · Lisa: It's your fault, for giving birth to my archenemy! / At least i was planned.
Bart Lisa Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 65 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Kearney · Teacher: Hot sauce? / Kearney, that could blind someone. You get an 'A.'
Teacher · Otto: Not otto-- he'd drive us off a cliff. / Off a cliff? That would solve everything!
Bart: You've betrayed me for the last time.
Bart Character Comedy Escalation Otto: horseplay on a school bus? Has the world gone mad?
Otto Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Bart · Lisa: It's your fault, for giving birth to my archenemy! / At least i was planned.
Bart Lisa Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Marge: stop it! No one was planned!
Marge Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Homer: They have a zipper from every james bond!
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Uncle Tyrone: Why won't I die?
Bart: If you make me get on that plane, I'll give myself diarrhea! I know how!
Bart Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Grampa · Homer: I'm only rotting on the right side. / I'll right-side you!
Homer: brideshead's gonna get revisited tonight, baby!
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Homer: I say you don't exist!
Homer Escalation Character Comedy Comic Book Guy: It's about a harvard chick that puts out for a guy... and then croaks. And it saved paramount studios for Charlie Bluhdorn.
Bart: A chick flick?! Oh, say it ain't so, ho!
Bart Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Bart · Homer: Like what? They'll do something with you that they hate? / Exactly.
Homer: I say bury her, before she starts to smell.
Homer Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Lisa: She's wooden and unpleasant, and no matter what he does, he's still ryan o'neal.
Lisa Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: Yeah, we're tryin' to create a mood here, so shut the hell up!
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Homer: Well, I wouldn't be happy.
Homer Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Lisa · Bart · Lisa: It's called wicca, and it's empowering! / Wicca's a hollywood fad! / That's kabala, jerk!
Homer: You know I'm usually good for a triple-x throwdown
Homer Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Homer: You're never alone in this crapshack!
Homer Character Comedy Observational Homer · Marge: what kind of an airline routes all their flights through Nome, Alaska? / It's their hub.
Homer: not me, I do crunches.
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Airport Announcer: Attention miami passengers, suntan airlines is now boarding rows 'piña colada' through 'daiquiri.'
Homer: As the bible says: 'Screw that!'
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Gate Agent: Go ahead, what do I care? I'm getting laid off tomorrow.
Pilot: you guys are such party animals, we're gonna skip the safety check and just take off!
Pilot Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Flight Attendant · Homer: A steak, or two steaks? / Can I have both? / Of course.
Marge: I feel like I'm princess grace and princess di smashed together.
Marge Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Homer · Marge: Did you know indonesia is at a crossroads? / No! / It is!
Lisa: they might not be dead. They could be in the basement.
Lisa Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Grampa: how can I be a parent? I break my teeth on ribbon candy.
Grampa Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Marge: It's really boring. You kids would have hated it.
Marge Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Lisa · Marge: hey, do I hear a back rub? / No, no, that's the noise the phone makes when you've been on too long.
Hotel Operator: Swelldorado hotel miami beach, 'sun and water without your son and daughter.'
Grampa: I can't go to miami. I'm expecting calls from telemarketers!
Grampa Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Grampa: All right, ladies, get ready to settle.
Grampa Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: And tonight, we'll finally, and romantically, hump.
Homer Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Newlywed couple: can't wait.
Young Woman: with the new breast pumps and diaper genies and corporate flex-time, child-rearing ought to be a snap.
Marge: you keep thinking that.
Marge Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat Homer: Everything happens to eemore.
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Elderly Woman 1 · Elderly Woman 2: No scar. He must be on his first heart. / I wouldn't kick him out of bed for dying.
Grampa: you know those feet sticking out from under the house in the wizard of oz? You're looking at them.
Grampa Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Grampa: not the kind of congress that contained paul tsongas...
Grampa Wordplay/Pun Observational ★ Rewatch Lisa: I'm going into the gold medallion club, with silver-level membership.
Lisa Character Comedy Observational Lisa: and homer's getting the low-fat meal.
Lisa Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Elderly Woman: You're more boring than my husband, and he's dead.
Raoul · Grampa: may I place my hand on your shoulder as a sign of friendship? / Why not?
Homer: Like people in new jersey have never seen a fat man making out. It's on the freakin' state flag.
Homer Observational Absurdist ★ Rewatch Raoul: I am not as interested in women as my open shirt might suggest. To be frank, they disgust me.
Raoul Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Raoul: I am not as interested in women as my open shirt might suggest. To be frank, they disgust me.
Raoul Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Grampa: For many years, I was a tater farmer, but the shameful truth is, the taters farmed me.
Grampa Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Raoul: Your neck skin dances when you speak.
Raoul Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Lisa · Bart: This whole family is built on a tissue of lies and romance! / Yeah, it's a tissue, covered in blood and boogers!
Homer: all I wanted was a second honeymoon, and now the floor is made of lava.
Homer Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bart · Lisa: Hey, I just zinged you. / I know. My new thing is to ignore you.
Bart Lisa Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Homer: Kids don't beat me, I beat kids.
Homer Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Homer: Because I was saving that for my birthday.
Homer Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Marge · Homer: You've been to space! / And yet, I've never been to me.
American Agent · Canadian Agent: back off, canadians. We got them. / You back off, hosers. They're in canadian waters, eh! / Beat it, you puck-slapping maple-suckers! / Take a hike, you shatner-stealing mexico-touchers!
Homer: I bet it always works up there.
Homer Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Homer: More alive than any of you squares!
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Homer: More alive than any of you squares!
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