Homer is humiliated when he appears on the news running from a bear that nearly attacks him at the city dump. After Grampa scolds him, he swears to fight the bear himself.
WAR
57.7
Wins Above Replacement
“The Fat And The Furriest” ranks #178 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 80.8 — Elite. The episode packs 74 scored jokes at 4.9 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.6 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: Can I fight human-style by slowly poisoning his environment until he loses his fur and becomes sterile?
Homer Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Homer: And then finally, I can eat my shorts!
Homer Callback Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback Grampa's website: Welcome to my home page. Why don't you visit more often?
Ned Flanders: I was saving sugar for my wedding night!
Homer: Well, I guess I don't have to worry anymore about the dangers of smoking.
Homer Dark/Subversive Irony/Sarcasm All Jokes — 74 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Homer: I'm glad this holiday only comes every four years.
Homer Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: Twenty on the trifecta?
Homer Character Comedy Observational Homer: Her wedding china back?
Homer Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Homer: I could get Marge a new window just like this one!
Homer Observational Character Comedy Bart: Even Christian videos with talking vegetables.
Bart Observational Setup/Punchline Animated vegetables: Mighty Yamses, we are weary of building your food pyramid. Let my pickles go!
Homer Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Bart: How dare you challenge my perceptions of what old people can do!
Bart Meta/Self-Referential Irony/Sarcasm Bart: Like I can't shoplift with my mouth.
Bart Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Marge: Oh, look, Jaclyn Smith has her own line of axe heads!
Marge Observational Absurdist Homer: only imperfect stuff for me.
Nelson: Hey, look. It's 'Hairy Ass' Tubman.
Nelson Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Nelson: Well, well, if it isn't Fatty and Smell-ma.
Nelson Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Homer: Your names can't hurt us.
Homer Reaction Beat Setup/Punchline Patty · Selma: We got one when we appeared on an episode of The Price is Right, which the network refused to air. Apparently, we're not 'TV pretty.'
Product label: Endorsed by the American Carny Association.
Homer: I never thought I'd say this, but you slags are all right.
Selma: I feel like a secretary on Administrative Professionals Day!
Selma Observational Character Comedy Homer: It is so thoughtful, it makes the kids' gifts look like crap.
Bart: Oh, Marge, get a room!
Bart Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Marge: Only my hairdresser knows for sure.
Marge Callback Visual Gag Callback Marge: Dare I pour caramel over the cotton candy?
Marge Character Comedy Escalation Homer: And then finally, I can eat my shorts!
Homer Callback Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback Homer: This is 85 pounds of tooth-melting sugar. Dig in.
Homer Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Homer: That's it, kids. Suckle daddy's sugar ball.
Homer Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Chief Wiggum · Lou: His passenger is just a big piece of candy. I wish mine was.
Homer: That's my old lady.
Ned Flanders: I was saving sugar for my wedding night!
Sugar Ball/Homer's inner voice: I think you should get rid of her. Then we can be together forever!
Homer: I'll think of you whenever I have a stroke or a heart attack.
Homer Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Homer: Well, I guess I don't have to worry anymore about the dangers of smoking.
Homer Dark/Subversive Irony/Sarcasm Homer Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat Marge: But seeing you like this is more than I can bear.
Marge Wordplay/Pun Setup/Punchline News anchor: The angry president woke up, crawled out of his grave and went back to work.
Kent Brockman: It's time for another installment of 'Kent's Cowards.'
Homer: I went to Starbucks. But you didn't see that on tape.
Grant Connor: Not with a gun, but with a camera! That's right, Kent. I often get guns and cameras confused. One time, tragically, at a wedding...
Lisa: We'd rather have a live sissy mincing around the house than some dead hero any day.
Homer: Choke on your candor!
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Lisa: You can strangle Bart, but you can't strangle your humiliation.
Nelson: The only thing my dad's afraid of is paying child support.
Nelson Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Milhouse: My dad once beat up six employees at KFC. And he'd been up for three days.
Mr. Burns: What a delightful practically-based joke.
Homer: Oh, God, they're in our food! Teddy Grahams, Gummi Bears!
Homer Character Comedy Escalation Care Bear: I'm an intensive Care Bear.
Care Bear Wordplay/Pun Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Care Bear: Why does a bear need a crowbar? I don't like to get my hands dirty.
Homer: Can I fight human-style by slowly poisoning his environment until he loses his fur and becomes sterile?
Homer Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Grampa: You cowardly Swede!
Homer · Grampa: But how will I find out what you had for lunch in 1928? I have a web site!
Grampa's website: Welcome to my home page. Why don't you visit more often?
Grant Connor: It's the same technology they use to keep tabs on Gary Busey.
Homer: Finally, science has joined forces with revenge.
Homer Character Comedy Escalation Grant Connor: weighs more than a Mazda Miata and can tear through a tree like a Jewish mother through self-esteem.
Homer: And I did it all without wasting money on one of those stupid welder's masks.
Homer Character Comedy Visual Gag Narrator: Available wherever fat men dream.
Homer: I know. If I get really scared, I don't want to ruin the suit.
Homer: What kind of an example would I be if I didn't take revenge on things?
Homer: Lisa, the point of Moby Dick is be yourself.
Homer: Gentlemen, sometimes a man must put his marriage at risk for reasons that are confusing even to him.
Homer Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bart: When I grow up, I'm legally changing my name to Joe Kickass!
Lisa as country-western octopus: Howdy, y'all. If you don't like my song, I'll spray you with ink!
Lenny · Carl: Yeah. We borrowed 'em for the radio.
Marge: I don't want my last words to him to be, 'Clip your toenails, they look like Fritos.'
Marge Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bart: Yeah. It almost wrecked the whole trip.
Grant Connor: But first, a snack.
Homer: Jeez, I don't know why bear hugs enjoy such a great reputation.
Homer Wordplay/Pun Observational Homer: Oh, no. The hunter has become the hunter.
Homer Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Homer: Wrong again, liberal media.
Grant Connor: Either as hostage or as what we call a 'forest bride.'
Homer: It's so easy to condemn, so hard to create.
Hunters: What you said didn't really add much. I know. I just wanted to belong.
Hunters Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Hunter 3: I know. I just wanted to belong.
Hunter 3 Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Lisa: Yeah. But now he's being attacked by an elephant!
Marge: You set out to fight an animal, and you ended up saving its life.
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