Homer becomes "Pie Man", a masked vigilante who delivers a pie in the face of justice to evildoers. However, after attacking Mr. Burns, Burns hires him as a personal hitman, until Homer is ordered to attack the Dalai Lama.
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“Simple Simpson” ranks #203 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 80.0 — Elite. The episode packs 65 scored jokes at 3.7 per minute, averaging 6.9 on craft and 6.7 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
TV Host: This isn't an island at all. It's a peninsula.
TV Host Misdirection Absurdist ★ Rewatch Homer: I was in so deep, I forgot pies were food.
Homer Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: No, not community service! I can't stand helping others! I just can't!
Homer Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Lisa: Dad, this is the basement.
Lisa: Dad, I think you created a hero that even you couldn't live up to.
Lisa Observational ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 65 analyzed
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TV Host: Get ready, skanks. Here comes the truth train!
TV Host: This isn't an island at all. It's a peninsula.
TV Host Misdirection Absurdist ★ Rewatch TV Host: Well, you don't need a boat cause you can walk!
Homer: When you sign a contract with FOX, you know you're going to be betrayed and humiliated.
Homer Meta/Self-Referential Observational ★ Rewatch Homer: If we don't watch these, it's like we're stealing tv.
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Farmer Billy: The five-story pig shredder, blessed by three popes.
Farmer Billy: If you don't like bacon, well, then the hell with you.
Homer: The only thing that can make bacon more delicious is seeing how it's made!
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Apu: Mr. Simpson, if you really want to kill yourself, I also sell handguns.
Apu Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Homer: But I'm no super-genius. Or are I?
Homer Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Homer: Hey, I know that country!
Country Singer: if you don't buy my record... then Al-Qaeda wins!
Homer: Clearly had a snout job.
Bart: How is someone so lame related to a hot tamale like me?
Bart: Dribble glass, rubber knife, whoopee salad...
Lisa: The setting features tuning forks, champagne flutes and of course, chopsticks.
Lisa Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Lisa Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Judge: Lordy, girl, your entry stinks like the south end of a north-bound mule!
Judge: Your place-setting thinks it's better than it is, like a yard dog that sneaks into the house!
Judge: Well, you did put it on a table.
Judge Deadpan/Understatement Judge: Wobble, wobble, wobble!
Judge: This table's about as solid as your underlying concept.
Homer: I didn't know I could fit in a bubble. I must be losin' weight.
Homer as Pie Man: We all know pi-r-squared. But today, pie are justice.
Homer as Pie Man: Wherever people are mistreated, the pie man will strike!
Homer: Gee, I thought I had a bigger package than that.
Homer: Maybe you're right, Lisa. Maybe you're pie. Pie-be you're pie.
Homer Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Comic Book Customer: It's 'fantastic floor'! My family can't put in floors we rent!
Homer as Pie Man: Don't do the crime if you can't do the key lime.
Nichelle Nichols: There is no way I'm going to be dating a man with pie on his face.
Bart · Milhouse: What about fistface? ... I demand you reveal the identity of fistface! It's you!
Moe: Oh, I think you'd find his filling extremely hot.
Moe Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Homer: Flanders!? He's not man enough to trim my crust. I mean pie man's crust. I'm not pie man.
Homer Character Comedy ★ Rewatch News Anchor: Pie-- popular pastry, tricky math thing, and now sword of righteousness.
Pie Man: This is for your show's slight decline in quality over the years.
Pie Man Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Homer: Oh, those poor innocent pies.
Plastic Surgeon: Search me. Come back when you want a giant rack.
Chief Wiggum: No one ever wants to hear about the importance of pants clips, do they?
Homer: Homer Simpson away. I mean, the pie man.
Lou · Chief Wiggum: That's positive, calling me a jerk? You are a jerk.
Marge: I'm looking up your nose, but I feel like I'm staring into your soul.
Marge Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Marge: That was so exciting, yet familiar. Like coke with lemon.
Homer as Pie Man: I... murdered your father.
Lisa: We've been getting his mail for weeks.
Lisa Observational ★ Rewatch Lisa: Dad, this is the basement.
Pie Man/Homer · Lisa: Welcome to my secret lair. Dad, this is the basement.
Lisa: You're not mild-mannered. You're often liquored-up and rude.
Lisa Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: I was in so deep, I forgot pies were food.
Homer Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Pies: Aw, we wish you could eat us, too.
Homer as Pie Man: I've run out of pie-related puns.
Homer: It's not a rubber band; it's a scrunchie!
Homer: No, not community service! I can't stand helping others! I just can't!
Homer Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: like every monster, he just wants to be loved.
Homer Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Burns: Grow a spine on your own time, blimpo.
Burns: All his talk of peace and love is really honking off my red chinese masters.
Burns Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Homer: Please forgive me, talking llama.
Crowd member: His brain isn't large enough to juggle two contrasting personae!
Barney: Yeah, and Homer's a dumbass! No offense, Homer. Ya dumbass.
Barney Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Crowd: The pie man could fly. And spit acid! And animals did his bidding!
Lisa: Dad, I think you created a hero that even you couldn't live up to.
Lisa Observational ★ Rewatch Marge: You'd have to be an idiot not to see it from the start.
Bart: And wherever pie man is, the cupcake kid will not be far behind.
Marge: While you two are up on the roof, why don't you take the leaves out of the gutter?
Marge Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Top Episodes — The Simpsons
