Through Professor Frink's future machine, Bart and Lisa see their lives in the year 2013, where Bart steals Lisa's chances at going to an Ivy League school in order to impress a skater girl named Jenda while Homer (now separated from Marge and living in an underwater apartment) fights Krusty the Clown after Marge begins dating him.
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Wins Above Replacement
“Future Drama” ranks #527 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 69.8 — Mixed. The episode packs 73 scored jokes at 4.2 per minute, averaging 6.4 on craft and 6.1 on impact, with Bart landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Bart: You can waitress while I learn to cut meat. We'll live in a trailer, but to avoid paying for parking, I'll drive while you sleep. We'll never, ever stop.
Bart Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Milhouse: Time to strike while the iron is sad!
Milhouse Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Professor Frink: You relented at age 12 when he pulled you out of a house fire. Which you later found out he started.
Chalmers: Skinner. Skinner. Skinner.
Chalmers Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Callback Mr. Burns: Once I home-invaded this Princeton dude, and he was like totally married.
All Jokes — 73 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Lisa: Oh, yeah? Well, there's your girlfriend.
Bart: Yeah, well, you love Moleman. No, you do. You're gay for Moleman! You're gay for Moleman!
Bart Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Lisa: No one's gay for Moleman.
Lisa Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Lisa · Professor Frink: Don't you mean astronomy? No, my dear, I said astrology.
Professor Frink: For years, you see, astrology was the Tampa Bay Devil Rays of the sciences... not so good.
Marge: Oh, it's so great. We can do anything now that scientists have invented magic.
Marge Absurdist Observational Marge: Lisa, graduating two years early, and, Bart... graduating.
Marge Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Homer: Well, maybe I was partying so hard with my single friends last night, I forgot the rules.
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Lisa · Homer: Could you please stop fighting in front of us? Why? Is it messing you up?
Homer: Stupid wildlife, serves 'em right.
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Lisa: I've been turning him down for the prom since kindergarten.
Lisa Character Comedy Escalation Professor Frink: You relented at age 12 when he pulled you out of a house fire. Which you later found out he started.
Milhouse: Sorry I'm late, Lisa. I was at the gym, totally gunning my lats. Just gunning them.
Milhouse: The deposit on this tux was 200 Reagans.
Bart · Jenda: Bart, you're lookin' crook-ed. Hey, Jenda, how 'bout some forehead?
Jenda · Marge: That was jagged. when I was a kid we didn't show our affection by head-butting.
Homer: Who knew that bio-engineered food would lead to smart puke?
Homer Absurdist Observational Homer: You think you're better than me, eh, puke?
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Unknown · Nelson: So, Nelson, who did you end up bringing tonight? Sherri or Terri? Uh, it didn't seem fair to choose.
Principal Skinner: Welcome, seniors and sexually precocious underclassmen.
Principal Skinner: I'd like to say good-bye to those who are going off to college, or to fight in Gulf War Five: 'Operation Find Our President's Head.'
Kearney: That means no booze, kick, puff, doze, maxx, stim or turb.
Kearney: Remember, 'Stim Kills.' It's what turned Superintendent Chalmers into a vegetable.
Chalmers: Skinner. Skinner. Skinner.
Chalmers Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Callback Chalmers: I can use the potty now.
Chalmers Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Jenda: Oh, sorry, Lisa. Sink activate. I love your dress. Soap activate.
Jenda Observational Visual Gag Lisa: Yeah, even though McDonald's owns Yale now, it's still a great school.
Lisa Dark/Subversive Observational Jenda · Lisa · Jenda: Oh, yeah, that's the thing he had to do as punishment for stealing Christmas. Yeah. I miss Christmas. I don't.
Bart · Milhouse · Bart: Travel. Do you need a traveling companion, perchance? Travel canceled.
Limo Driver: I can fly. I can fly. Just kidding, I know I can't fly. I can glide, though.
Jenda: Sex on prom night is as American as our 51st state: Saudi-Israelia.
Jenda Observational Dark/Subversive Jenda: That's really sweet... but marriage is a three-year commitment.
Jenda Observational Character Comedy Bart: You can waitress while I learn to cut meat. We'll live in a trailer, but to avoid paying for parking, I'll drive while you sleep. We'll never, ever stop.
Bart Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Jenda: When? Just this minute.
Jenda Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat Comic Book Guy: Here, you want some chicken? Just grab it with your hands, go ahead. We're not fancy here.
Homer · Bart: Son, sometimes people just grow apart, like me and your mom. No, Mom dumped you 'cause you blew all our money on this underwater house.
Homer: She'll realize she was a fool, when... Hey! Come back with my patio furniture!
Homer Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Bart · Homer: Why'd you buy the first hover car ever made? Didn't you know it'd take time to work out the kinks? I know! It's a hover car!
Homer · Random people: All right! You guys are my new best friends. You wish, loser!
Background sign: Celebrity Buttocks, Nipple Relocations and Fluffy Tails
Moe: You came from my back fat!
Moe Absurdist Cringe/Discomfort Moe · Moe Clone · Moe: You moron! Why did I ever think I needed a clone? Hey, I'm not the clone, you're the clone! Oh, please, not this again.
Edna · Bart: Want it to get weirder? I... don't think so.
Edna: I wish I could talk to my fourth-grade self just once. I'd say 'Work hard, don't be such a screw up.' This time is so precious. Don't waste it.
Edna Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bart · Lisa: Is that robot break-dancing? No. He activated his self-destruct mechanism.
Milhouse: What Lisa's problem? Milhouse mother say Milhouse handsome!
Milhouse Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Lisa · Bart: Armpit noises are not a language. Oh, yeah?
Lisa Bart Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Marge · Kids: He's from Springfield. I think you know him. Krusty the Clown is dating your mom!
Boss · Bart: Yes, Mr. Gheet. I'm Anoop, you racist cracker!
Bart · Boss: Which one? Radioactive, smallpox, eternal midnight... No, no. The one with the uni-clams.
Criminal: Dude, this is totally not the time to call me. I don't know. Some kind of pasta. Look, just get me what you're having, all right? Not that. What soups do they have...?
Mr. Burns: My diamonds are going to be retro-morphed into coal... the most valuable substance on Earth.
Mr. Burns: Once I home-invaded this Princeton dude, and he was like totally married.
Bart · Smithers: Mr. Smithers? I thought you were... you know... No, I'm straight. As long as I take these injections every ten minutes.
Smithers Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Lisa: It's so great that Yale has finally forbidden men from taking science. Now let's see, should I major in Femistry or Galgebra?
Lisa Observational Wordplay/Pun Principal Skinner: I mean, Hot Dog on a Stick Management Camp.
Bart: Why don't you mail it to your butt?
Bart Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Principal Skinner: Bart, now that you've graduated I can finally say this: you really press my cider.
Nelson · Sherri/Terri · Nelson: Listen, girls... I'm going out for a pack of cigarettes. Isn't that what your father said the day he left you? Yeah. I never understood why he did it... till now. I'm coming, Papa!
Milhouse: I'm not the first guy to get a nosebleed during a slow dance.
Milhouse Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Milhouse: Is it because of my small calves? They're the hardest place to add mass!
Milhouse Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Bart: And now you're an emotionally crippled mini-Hulk.
Bart Character Comedy Observational Milhouse: Time to strike while the iron is sad!
Milhouse Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenda: I never had this problem with Todd Flanders.
Jenda Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Bart: Forget it. I had to sell all my marrow to pay the light bill.
Bart Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Bart: I didn't have much marrow.
Bart Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Lisa · Milhouse: Have you eaten onions lately? No. And it's really hard 'cause I'm on an all-onion diet.
Lenny · Carl: Sorry, we're ghosts now. Our spirits live in those two trees. Or, maybe we're alive and we just feel like jerkin' you around. Or maybe we're one of each.
Professor Frink · Bart: And you will. At the age of 83. You die one minute later. And my brain is put in a... Pauper's grave.
Cletus · Brandine: You want me to attend the funeral of the Sultan of Brunei? Well, I would consider it my honor. Hey, Brandine, pack my evenin' britches. We's goin' to Brunei.
Cletus: You want me to attend the funeral of the Sultan of Brunei? Well, I would consider it my honor. Hey, Brandine, pack my evenin' britches. We's goin' to Brunei.
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