After making over $3000 from his own museum featuring a $1000 bill, Bart takes the family to London (on the suggestion of Grampa), where Homer is arrested for treason after crashing into the Queen.
WAR
49.4
Wins Above Replacement
“The Regina Monologues” ranks #390 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 75.5 — Great. The episode packs 70 scored jokes at 3.6 per minute, averaging 6.9 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: Don't buy any videotapes in England! They won't work in our VCR!
Homer Observational Character Comedy Grampa: Plus, as the boat pulled away from the dock, I thought you looked fat.
Grampa Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: Which means her real name must be... Henrietta R. Hippo!
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch British clerk: I wouldn't dream of it, sir.
Old man: Had my heart been inside at the time, it could've been fatal.
Old man Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 70 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Mr. Burns: Money is for the poor.
Mr. Burns Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Mr. Burns: The automated teller machine-eola-trola-maton.
Mr. Burns Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Mr. Burns · Smithers: Oh, Smithers, guide me in. / My pleasure, sir.
Mr. Burns · Smithers: Smithers, what's my password? / It's your age, sir. / Excellent.
Mr. Burns: What's the smallest amount of money I can think of? A thousand dollars!
Mr. Burns Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Mr. Burns: Oh! My moolah! It's escaping my clutches!
Chuck Shadowski: Feel the drunken wrath of Chuck Shadowski!
Unknown child: Dad, stop! It's only assault. Don't make it murder!
Homer · Bart: You're a good friend, Bart. / The best you'll ever have.
Homer Bart Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Homer: Do you know how much furniture we could rent with this?
Homer Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Homer · Bart: Marge, this is why people don't tell you things.
Homer Bart Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Bart: Well, we put up a flyer. Let's see someone claim that money now.
Bart Visual Gag Misdirection ★ Rewatch Comic Book Guy: You know the drill. Try to land on my back-fat.
Bart · Unknown claimant: Whose picture's on it? / It would have to be somebody famous. I'm gonna say, Hitler.
Bart · Unknown claimant: Does the bill have bank teller blood on it? / No, it doesn't. / I'm sorry I wasted your time.
Bart: No one's touching the hors d'oeuvres.
Bart Observational Character Comedy Marge: Yeah. But you always wind up kidnapped or on a chain gang.
Marge Callback Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Homer: I still don't know why you had that photo enlarged.
Homer Cringe/Discomfort Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Milhouse: Look at the cross-hatching on Grover Cleveland's tie. I completely buy the illusion of shadow.
Milhouse Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Comic Book Guy: Time's up. Beat it, do-rags.
Bart: Hey, I'm charging five bucks to get in. They deserve to see the boy behind the bill.
Bart Character Comedy Absurdist Bart: You can't whitewash history, Lise.
Bart Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bart: A subscription to BARTFORUM Magazine, and Bart will say 'Eat my shorts' on your home answering machine.
Bart Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Unknown patron: That would be hilarious. That's just me, though. You know, I love to laugh.
Bart: Prove it, Bony Curtis.
Bart Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Old man: Had my heart been inside at the time, it could've been fatal.
Old man Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Museum patron: The Hard Rock Cafe in Phoenix has better crap.
Bart: Finally, I can get what I've always wanted. A used Toyota.
Bart Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Marge: I'd like to return to Brazil, but I hear the monkey problem is even worse now.
Marge Absurdist Callback ★ Rewatch Edwina: I say. Ohhh! Nice.
Edwina Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Homer: You have my word as a gentleman and a lady.
Homer Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Homer: Wow! I can't believe we met Mr. Bean!
Homer Character Comedy Observational Homer: Every cab has its own butler.
Homer Character Comedy Observational Homer: We saved your ass in Vietnam and shared our prostitutes with Hugh Grant!
Homer Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch British clerk: I wouldn't dream of it, sir.
Grampa: Sorry I bothered you.
Grampa Reaction Beat Cringe/Discomfort Lisa · J.K. Rowling: Can you tell me what happens at the end of the series? / He grows up and marries you. Is that what you want to hear? / Yes.
British Teen: Now completely free of 'Mad Fish Disease.'
Homer: Fish? I don't know. I'm not really a vegetarian.
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Homer: That was over soccer results. Can you believe they gave Giggs a yellow card in the box?
Homer Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Homer: I understand the word 'gave,' unless it means something else in this country!
Homer Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Homer: Look, teabag, just fork over the brown.
Homer Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Homer: There's Jimmy Page, one of the greatest thieves of American black music who ever walked the earth.
Homer Observational Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Homer: You can't bet on my kids! This is America, pal!
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Lisa: Sir Ian McKellen! You're my favorite Shakespearean actor.
Lisa Character Comedy Observational Bart · Ian McKellen: You mean Macbeth? / Quiet, you blundering fool! You'll curse us all!
Bart: Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!
Bart Escalation Character Comedy Bart: Mom, you said Macbeth!
Bart Escalation Character Comedy Ian McKellen: It's bad luck to say that, too!
Homer: Yes, this trip is entirely uneventful.
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Misdirection Homer: Oh, that thing is supposed to be on fire.
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Homer: Let the guys handle this.
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Homer: Your Majesty? (mimics whipping)
Homer Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Homer: Which means her real name must be... Henrietta R. Hippo!
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Marge: What difference could it make? He hit the friggin' Queen!
Marge Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Judge · Homer: I'm a man! / And a very manly one if I may say so, m'Lord.
Homer: If she were 100 years younger and I were 100 years older... Oh!
Homer Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Homer: America rules! Our Beatles are way better than your precious Rolling Stones!
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Bart: Poke the monster with a stick! Tuppence a jab!
Bart Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Homer: In return, I will spell the word 'color' with a 'U.'
Homer Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Homer: Oh, I can't do it! It's so stupid!
Homer Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Homer: Don't buy any videotapes in England! They won't work in our VCR!
Homer Observational Character Comedy Guard: Don't worry it. Let the pike do the work.
Guard Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Homer · Hallucinations: Goodbye, sparkly elves! / Goodbye!
Homer: Boy, a Krispy Kreme would really clean up down here.
Homer Character Comedy Observational Homer: who by the way has never had a girlfriend. I'm just saying.
Homer Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer · Madonna: English women don't pump gas naked. / See you in Atlanta, bitch!
Grampa: Plus, as the boat pulled away from the dock, I thought you looked fat.
Grampa Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Grampa: Well, gotta go! See you in heaven!
Grampa Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Homer: You make Dame Edna look like a dude.
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Top Episodes — The Simpsons
