When Marge starts economising, Homer thinks he's being left out of the family's important financial decisions, so splashes out on an expensive camper van and sets up camp on the driveway.
WAR
63.2
Wins Above Replacement
“Mobile Homer” ranks #52 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 85.2 — Elite. The episode packs 58 scored jokes at 3.3 per minute, averaging 7.2 on craft and 7.0 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: You shouted it while we were making love.
Marge Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy RV Owner: We use jokes to mask our pain at the death of our son.
RV Owner Dark/Subversive Meta/Self-Referential Homer: That was my Woodstock!
Homer Character Comedy Escalation Lisa: No. I don't see Dad doing all that paperwork.
Lisa Character Comedy Observational Lisa: That's my half-assed dad.
Lisa Character Comedy Observational All Jokes — 58 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Lisa: Why don't we top it off by reading to old people?
Lisa Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Lisa: Well, I think in these days of petro-terrorists and ozone depletion, a Sunday drive reeks of bio-hubris.
Lisa Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Krusty: Can't I get a cup of coffee without doing a monkey dance for you freaks? The fishing hat means leave me alone!
Krusty Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Marge: Always nice to see him.
Marge Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat Homer: I cleaned out the garage and lost 50 pounds.
Homer Visual Gag Absurdist ★ Rewatch Homer: It seems a shame to chuck out these cross-country skis.
Homer Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Homer: Stupid spider! Afraid of dying?
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Homer: Spider poison is people poison?!
Homer Character Comedy Observational Lisa: I learned CPR while waiting for other kids to finish their math tests.
Lisa Character Comedy Observational Homer: Who put those spiders in my mouth?!
Homer Absurdist Physical/Slapstick Homer: Don't worry, if I croak, you'll marry Lenny... or Moe. The winner will be determined by a card game I invented.
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy Insurance Agent · Homer: Have you ever had a heart attack? Haven't we all?
Homer: Strokes? None. No, wait, three. Since the last one, I don't remember so good.
Homer Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Homer: Shh! I want her to think I'm cool!
Homer Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Homer Physical/Slapstick Escalation Roger: Don't thank me. Thank our many debts and obligations.
Roger Dark/Subversive Irony/Sarcasm Doctor: You should have thought of that before you had children with a dead man.
Doctor Dark/Subversive Absurdist Narrator: The real Brenda later went to Harvard Medical School.. As a cadaver.
Marge: You just have to assemble it yourself.
Marge Visual Gag Absurdist ★ Rewatch Bart: You mean when the big tuna goes belly-up?
Bart Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Homer: I paid a bundle for overnight delivery.
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Homer: Okay, I'll just hire a haulage firm to cart them away... at my expense!
Homer Escalation Character Comedy Homer: No, a whole team of lawyers, who will dine on mustard flown in from the Orient.
Lisa: People died in those shirts.
Lisa Dark/Subversive Observational Homer: Drinking beer out of a thermos like an animal.
Marge: Last year, you spent $5,000 on donuts, $2,000 on scalp massages, $500 on body glitter...
Marge Escalation Character Comedy Marge: You waltz in there at 10:30, take a nap on the toilet, then sit around Googling your own name until lunch.
Marge Character Comedy Observational Marge: You shouted it while we were making love.
Marge Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Benjamin Franklin: I invented some kind of stove.
Homer: Well, I invented a Popsicle made of Mountain Dew.
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Homer: I spent our savings on the down payment for a motor home.
Homer Escalation Character Comedy Homer: I need a castle where I can be king!
Lisa: That's my half-assed dad.
Lisa Character Comedy Observational Bart: You're a bread compartment!
Homer: You can wear swimsuits instead of underwear!
Homer Character Comedy Escalation RV Owner: We use jokes to mask our pain at the death of our son.
RV Owner Dark/Subversive Meta/Self-Referential Homer: I have a backyard that makes my front yard look like an idiot.
Homer Absurdist Wordplay/Pun Homer: If my wife asks, you're here for a Boz Skaggs concert.
Homer Character Comedy Observational Marge Reaction Beat Cringe/Discomfort Marge: I know another place you can go! To sleep.
RV Owner: It's not golden brown, it's not brown, it's not nothin'.
Homer: That's no marriage bed. It's a loveless slab of bossiness!
Marge: You hide food in my hair.
Marge Absurdist Character Comedy Lisa: No. I don't see Dad doing all that paperwork.
Lisa Character Comedy Observational Homer: That was my Woodstock!
Homer Character Comedy Escalation Lisa: Duh! It's Kamper Kong.
Lisa Wordplay/Pun Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Bob: Tie me to the Kong and cut its tethers.
Bob Physical/Slapstick Escalation Homer: It was more than a motor home. It was a car I could go to the bathroom in.
Marge: This is a parent's worst nightmare! They've stolen a car and they're home alone.
Marge Escalation Observational Homer: Dino-- short for dinosaur? Remember to ask Jeeves.
Homer Character Comedy Observational Random Driver: When I was a kid, my mom would give me an empty egg carton and I'd pretend it was a spaceship to the moon. You'll never guess what I used for astronauts.
Bart: French it up, lover boy!
Bart Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Turkish Captain: And we must get these Season One Northern Exposure DVDs to Kahramanmaras.
Homer: Bring back our children, you Cyprus-splitting jerks!
Turkish Captain: It is a shame you dress like a Lebanese prostitute.
Homer: Water damage-- can't be returned. I win again!
Homer Character Comedy Escalation Turkish Sailor: Dude, she seemed tense, so we put a little hashish in her meal.
Marge: Which came first, turkey the bird or Turkey the you guys?
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