Flanders rents a room to two college girls who, without his knowledge, use the spare room to broadcast live softcore pornographic web videos of themselves.
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Wins Above Replacement
“Home Away From Homer” ranks #185 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 80.5 — Elite. The episode packs 76 scored jokes at 4.7 per minute, averaging 7.0 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
Marge: Bart, don't make fun of grad students. They just made a terrible life choice.
Marge Setup/Punchline Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Ned: My mustache has the right to life. It's my body and my choice!
Ned Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Homer Reaction Beat Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: We've played this game called 'who can punch the softest'. And he always let me win.
Homer Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Ned: I wish we lived in a place more like the America of yesteryear. that only exists in the brains of us Republicans.
Ned Observational Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 76 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Homer: Oh boy! This is what sunny sunday afternoons are for.
Stephan Withmore: It's just, uh... It's not that good.
Homer: Prison overcrowding? I've got a solution for that.
Marge: Her films are so lyrical! The phone lines are gonna be jammed.
NPR Host: Holy crap! Someone actually calling!
Homer: Free movie tickets? I feel like Roger Ebert or as kiss ass new partner.
Homer: She'll be fine here, under the watchful eye of grandma Shark Week.
Marge: TV Shark is not a babysitter!
Ned: Howdy, Homer, you here for viewing my shampooing?
Ned Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Ned: Ho, sorry, but I promise to rewind videotapes for the poor.
Ned Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Homer: Why won't you love me?
Homer Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Bart · Homer: Hey, you wore a bathing suit in the bathtub? - Yeah, so I can't see my own shrinky dinck. Make sense.
Bart Homer Cringe/Discomfort Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Bart: Mum, am I a 'butch' or 'femme'?
Bart Observational Character Comedy Marge: Honey, you can be anything you wanna be.
Marge Reaction Beat Irony/Sarcasm Random moviegoer · Homer: Would you care for a segment? - Yes.
Bart: Mom, I don't wanna read, it's the weekend.
Homer: Oh, I'm stuck. Why did I eat that apple segment?
Homer Callback Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Callback Ned: It's one of my humble figurines, he's scampered out of Parade magazine and into my nick neck nook and the... well his little buddies soon followed.
Ned Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Ned: You like 'em, huh? Come on, I'll show you the other 300.
Ned Escalation Character Comedy Marge: I feel so much empathy for those villagers. They had to drink their own tears.
Marge Character Comedy Observational Bart: Look at me, I'm a grad student, I'm 30 years old and I made 600$ last year!
Bart Observational Character Comedy Marge: Bart, don't make fun of grad students. They just made a terrible life choice.
Marge Setup/Punchline Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Ned: Judas bear, you're not touching your last supper.
Ned Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Ned: Well, it might be fun to be a landlord. Land fella! There's only one lord.
Ned Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Ned · Bart: Wait, this is my license. - No, it's not, ya-hamp.
Ned Bart Physical/Slapstick Misdirection Katja: Sometimes we saw all the boys in there... Robes.
Katja Misdirection Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Ned: You poor thing. Now I've heard about those robes. Flapping everywhere...
Ned Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Ned: Girls, welcome to your very own, Ned and breakfast.
Ned Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Katja · Ned: You rhyme like Snoopy Dog. - Well, thank you.
Bart: I know what we can ask Jeeves. Why does he suck?
Bart Observational Character Comedy Bart · Lisa: Hey, a banner ad! - Sexyslumberparty.com? - It's flashing! We better click it!
Bart · Lisa: Hey, this is one of those dirty web sites. - Two girls? Who would want that?
Bart Lisa Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Ned: That's odd. I could sworn I just heard someone shriek my name.
Ned Reaction Beat Character Comedy Homer: And if you say Jimmy Fallon, I'll know you're lying.
Homer Observational Meta/Self-Referential Homer: Wait till I tell everyone about this, I'll feel important without drinking!
Homer Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Bart Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement Homer: Yep, and nobody's telling him. Not even his good buddy God.
Homer Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Homer: It's my nickname, Stupid_Flanders!
Homer Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Homer: Hey, Moses, are you a loser? 'Yes I am, Homer.'
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: Oh, yeah. They're just what my laptop needed.
Homer: Son, I need to pee, but I can't stop watching. Fetch me a bottle.
Homer Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Bart: Come on dad, I've seen you hit the toilet from here.
Bart Reaction Beat Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Bart · Homer: We're watching the latest photos from Mars. - Ho-ho, great stuff. Worth every billion.
Bart Homer Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Marge: Well, that's obvious. He doesn't even know.
Marge Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Homer: I'm thinking about getting a yogurt franchise. It's called Plops...
Homer Misdirection Character Comedy Katja: Homer's the one what adviced us up to this sexy going's on.
Katja Character Comedy Escalation Ned: The Bible says: 'Cast your bread upon the waters.' But all I got was a bunch of soggy bread.
Ned Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer Reaction Beat Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Ned: Today I realized they are more like the Midianites.
Ned Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Ned: I wish we lived in a place more like the America of yesteryear. that only exists in the brains of us Republicans.
Ned Observational Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Ned: I don't usually make big life decisions based on things stamped on things that I bought at the garage sale. But corn doggett, boys, it's time for a change!
Ned Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Homer · Lisa: You're right. But you know who the real victim is here? Ned. - That's we've been trying to tell you!
Homer · Lisa · Homer: You're right. But you know who the real victim is here? - Ned. - That's we've been trying to tell you! - Ooh yeah...
Homer Wordplay/Pun Reaction Beat Marge: Well at least your name's on the bowl.
Marge Deadpan/Understatement Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Homer · Coach Clay: So, is that your whistle? - Damn straight. Clay Roberts. I coach wrestling, so everybody calls me coach...
Homer · Clay: Listen neighborino, I wanna start our relationship all from a right foot so if you need anything, anything at all... - What jagoff left this here?
Homer: We've played this game called 'who can punch the softest'. And he always let me win.
Homer Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Ned · Town Greeter: Howdy, Humbletonian! - Picnics and pixie-sticks!
Ned: This town is sweeter than a cake made of pie.
Ned Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Ned: Even the dogs curb themselves.
Ned Character Comedy Observational Ned: Get rid of dr. Fuzzenstein? I couldn't dream of thinking about considering...
Ned Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Rod/Todd: Daddy, why did you have to shave your nose neighbor?
Ned: My mustache has the right to life. It's my body and my choice!
Ned Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Ned: My mustache has the right to life. It's my body and my choice!
Ned Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jason Bateman: Why would you do that? How am I gonna get home?
Clay: Yeah, something tells me you won't starve, ha? Ha, chief? Ha?
Clay Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Homer: Like a woman whose made the biggest mistake of her life!
Homer: Who am I fooling with my awesome lies?
Homer Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: Oh Ned, I don't deserve you as a neighbor, but will you forgive a young handsome fool and come home?
Homer Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Ned · Rod · Ned: That tears it. Boys, put on your goody two shoes! We're moving back to Springfield! But I have a girlfriend! - Now you got a pen pal.
Homer: Yeah, I am a little fatty. You got me.
Homer Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Homer: Yeah, I am a little fatty. You got me.
Homer Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Ned: I saw my advantage and I took it. That's what hero's do.
Ned Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Marge · Homer: Homer, did you steal the organ from the church? Maybe, we don't know that for sure.
Ned · Homer: Mind if I waggle my finger a little bit? - Go nuts!
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