Bart fakes his own kidnapping to get out of being punished for going to a rap concert, but the ruse goes too far when Milhouse's father is implicated as the kidnapper and Chief Wiggum sees this as an opportunity to make a name for himself as a competent police officer.
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“Pranksta Rap” ranks #305 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 77.8 — Great. The episode packs 64 scored jokes at 3.4 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.5 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
Milhouse: In my dad's apartment, the heat is always off. He made a coat out of all my stuffed animals.
Milhouse Dark/Subversive Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Chief Wiggum: She'll hunt us down relentlessly like a bloodhound mixed with a student loan officer.
Lou · Chief Wiggum: Chief, seriously. Shouldn't we just plan for the funeral? Hey, I crack cases all the time. Like the case of the symphony conductor who murdered his star cellist. That was an episode of Columbo, Chief.
Chief Wiggum: Wigum sleeps through riot, Top cop surrenders to backfiring car, Firemen rescue police chief from tree, Commission: Wiggum sucks
Chief Wiggum: I guess I'll go back to Baltimore and sell ribbon with my Daddy. Ribbon! Get your ribbon! Great for presents!
All Jokes — 64 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Homer: Where's the remote? This is not a drill, people.
Homer · TV: Hmm, the TV changes channels every time the dog barks. We return to Mel Gibson's The Salad of the Christ on Christian Carrot Theater.
Homer TV Absurdist Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Homer: I think he swallowed the remote. Barf for your master.
Homer Physical/Slapstick Cringe/Discomfort Homer: Lousy American-made dog.
Marge: Why must I be so voluptuous?
Marge Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm News Anchor: Yo, yo, yo. Here now the nizzews. The top artists in hip-hop are coming to Springfield.
News Anchor: Da Glock Pointaz, Romeo Smoov, Queen Booty Shaykah, M.C. Champagne Millionaire, and Assault Weapons magazine's Man of the Year, Alcatraaaz
Lisa · Bart: Just what we need-- another lame suburban kid who loves rap. So? You like the blues. Yes, but the blues are unpopular.
Lisa · Bart: Rappers stopped saying 'illin'' 12 years ago. I'm keepin' it real. They stopped saying 'keepin' it real' three years ago.
Bart · Homer: Dad, can I go to a rap concert? Tickets are $50. Go to hell. Okay, what if I pay for it myself? Fine, go nuts.
Bart · Homer: I love you, Dad. I love you too, Jerry.
Bart Homer Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Marge: It encourages punching, boastfulness, and rudeness to hos.
Marge Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bart · Marge: Step off, Mom. Rap is the poetry of the streets. Well, you are not going to any concert that promulgates stink talk.
Marge: promulgates stink talk
Marge Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Homer: You did it on the straight Got your dad's permission But your mom dropped a bomb So I flipped my position Don't argue with Marge, I know what's best The only rap in this crib keeps sandwiches fresh
Homer Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Absurdist ★ Rewatch Bart: Dad, you completely sold me out.
Bart: Well, I paid for this ticket. That makes me an adult. I'm going.
Bart Character Comedy Absurdist Bart: Every miner '49er and stone-cold conniver Stakes a claim on my tongue to pan my saliva Make the hos drop they clothes like they Lady Godiva
Bart Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Bart: You can trace my remorse to its supersized source A hungry, hungry hypocrite named Homer, of course My old man's pathetic Damn, is his head thick The gas from his ass is carcinogenic Every day I pray his DNA ain't genetic
Bart Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch 50 Cent · Bart: Yo, B, I heard you throw down on stage. Wanna join my world tour? Sorry, Fiddy. I have school tomorrow. You're right-- the more you know, the further you'll go. And that's one to grow on.
50 Cent: Here you go, you little yellow cracker. Now let's go murder our enemies. Peace.
50 Cent Dark/Subversive Irony/Sarcasm Homer: If that's true, he's gonna be like NWA-- Not Without Ass-welts.
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Bart: Well, time to face my punishment like a man. Or... lie my way out of it like a kid.
Bart Character Comedy Misdirection Marge: 'Follow instructions'? He's doomed.
Marge Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Homer · Marge: This'll be the worst Thanksgiving dinner ever. Thanksgiving's not for months. The bad news keeps on coming.
News Reporter: Tragedy climbed a ladder last night As 10 year old Bart Simpson was snatch from his bed. His chocolate-milk dreams cut short by kidnapping themes.
News reporter: Mrs Simpson, is the pain so unbearable you wish your son had never been born?
News Reporter: It's: 'win a hawaïan getaway week on channel 6.' So, mail in those pineapple stickers today. Aloha means 'one entry per person.'
Lou · Chief Wiggum: Chief, seriously. Shouldn't we just plan for the funeral? Hey, I crack cases all the time. Like the case of the symphony conductor who murdered his star cellist. That was an episode of Columbo, Chief.
Lou · Chief Wiggum: They show you who the bad guy is at the beginning of each one. Yeah, but you have to remember.
Milhouse · Bart: Bart. Are the kidnappers after you? Well, some kidnappers might be after me. It's a big world. But in this case, I faked the whole thing.
Bart: Well, some kidnappers might be after me. It's a big world.
Bart Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist Milhouse: In my dad's apartment, the heat is always off. He made a coat out of all my stuffed animals.
Milhouse Dark/Subversive Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Kirk: Shoo. Get out of here. These aren't your soybeans.
Kirk Absurdist Character Comedy Chief Wiggum: Wigum sleeps through riot, Top cop surrenders to backfiring car, Firemen rescue police chief from tree, Commission: Wiggum sucks
Wiggum: Together, they really paint a picture... of failure.
Chief Wiggum: My fat grew over my badge.
Wiggum · Barney Fife: Set? Are you the character or the actor who plays him? Now I must go... Wait a minute, now you're a ghost? Avenge me.
Homer: You can use any section of the paper. Except Metro. It's a big snooze.
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Lou · Wiggum: We have a lab? Yeah, it's that room we keep the Christmas decorations in.
Chief Wiggum: Hail falling on a tin roof? No. That's it! Stovetop popcorn. And it sounds like my favorite brand Chintzy-Pop!
Apu: Oh, Chintzy-Pop is the worst legal popcorn. Many of the kernels are baby teeth.
Apu Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Chief Wiggum: Drop the corn, tightey-whitey!
Chief Wiggum: There's no need for you to defend your captor, Bratty Hearst.
Marge: Taking your tombstone back to the store will be the happiest thing I've ever done.
Marge Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Lou · Wiggum: You're 'Worried In West Springfield?' Not any more, Chief. Not any more.
Milhouse: Bart, two, three, four! You put my Dad in jail, flip, spin, twirl!
Milhouse: I wasn't scared, I was just peeing.
Milhouse Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Wiggum · Lou · Eddie: Boys, even though I've been made Police Commissioner, don't think I've forgotten you. Lou, you're promoted to Chief of Police. Sweet. Eddie, you're promoted to Lou. Nice. Who's gonna be Eddie? We don't need an Eddie.
Chief Wiggum: That kid can't understand where the world goes when you close the drapes.
Woman: Kirk, you are so dangerous and misunderstood! You've kidnapped my heart! I love the way I've heard of you!
Woman Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Homer: What shirt? I don't see any shirt.
Homer Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Homer: Burn, truth, burn. Burn, truth, burn.
Homer Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Skinner: Our school's second most-wanted criminal after the mysterious El Barto?
Skinner Irony/Sarcasm Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Chief Wiggum: She'll hunt us down relentlessly like a bloodhound mixed with a student loan officer.
Wiggum: I just printed up 10,000 business cards. How am I going to pass all these out before she catches me?
Wiggum Character Comedy Escalation Chief Wiggum: Wait, before we go, I took the liberty of making these embroidered conspiracy jackets for all of us. Those jackets are beautiful. We must never wear them.
Alcatraaaz: I've got a 200-inch plasma TV. In my shoe closet.
Chief Wiggum: This is hopeless. My gun isn't even loaded.
Chief Wiggum: I guess I'll go back to Baltimore and sell ribbon with my Daddy. Ribbon! Get your ribbon! Great for presents!
Chief Wiggum · Others: Coolee, coolee cool! C'mon, fool! Be coolee, coolee cool!
Skinner · Alcatraaaz: Do you think there's a place in the hip-hop world for a... 40-something elementary school administrator? Hell yes. But I'm already payin' a guy for that.
Skinner: I think they're making fun of me, but my wife is very sick.
Skinner Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Skinner · Alcatraaaz: Do you think there's a place in the hip-hop world for a... 40-something elementary school administrator? Hell yes. But I'm already payin' a guy for that.
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