After Bart steals a key from Principal Skinner's office and gets himself into hot water, Marge and Homer send him to a behavior modification camp.
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Wins Above Replacement
“Were On The Road To Dohwhere” ranks #362 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 76.2 — Great. The episode packs 63 scored jokes at 3.8 per minute, averaging 6.8 on craft and 6.4 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
Moe: Well, I sued the rope company and I got a huge settlement... and a new rope!
Moe Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Wiggum · Lou: It's a reference to Ma Kettle. A popular movie character from the '40s. If you have to explain it, it's not good, chief.
Wiggum Lou Meta/Self-Referential Observational ★ Rewatch Homer: I'm 38 years old, driving a crappy car, with a son who doesn't respect me, and I'm one Snickers pie away from losing my foot to diabetes. Mmm... Snickers pie!
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Milhouse: Sounds like my parents' custody hearing.
Milhouse Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: That's the beauty of a shallow grave. You sweet little angel.
Homer Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 63 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Bart · Myra: School hasn't even started yet. What can I say? I missed you, Myra.
Bart · Myra: How's things with you and Frank? That bum! He says his divorce will be final next week. So why is she pregnant again?
Bart Myra Cringe/Discomfort Absurdist ★ Rewatch Skinner: Ah, 1995. A fine year for Camrys. No one would ever guess you spent three months in a lake.
Skinner Deadpan/Understatement Observational ★ Rewatch Milhouse: I don't mind! Trouble's a form of attention.
Milhouse Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Homer: You're usually so stingy and rat-like.
Moe: Well, I sued the rope company and I got a huge settlement... and a new rope!
Moe Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Barney: You could hang a cow with that thing!
Barney Dark/Subversive Escalation Milhouse: It's like we're in the school's lymphatic system and we're the lymph.
Milhouse: Look we're having pizza tomorrow! I'm gonna eat a lighter breakfast.
Bart: Yeah, it'd be like going to Amsterdam and not taking a walking tour of famous doors.
Bart Misdirection Observational ★ Rewatch Teacher: What the F-minus?
Teacher Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Students: Look, a new kid! Get him!
Music Teacher: Our instruments are rusting! We're going a cappella, people!
Willie: I've got two kinds of wet in my pants!
Willie Cringe/Discomfort Physical/Slapstick Willie: No water fountain outwits Willie!
Willie Character Comedy Escalation Willie: This wood is more buckled than a pilgrim's hat.
Willie Observational Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Milhouse: Sounds like my parents' custody hearing.
Milhouse Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Myra: This used to be a croissandwich. Now, it's a ham and cheese car crash.
Myra Observational Wordplay/Pun Superintendent Chalmers · State Comptroller Atkins: You're in Scottsdale? I'm in Scottsdale! At the Hyatt room 381! Get outta here! I'm in 502!
Chalmers · Atkins: You're in Scottsdale? I'm in Scottsdale! At the Hyatt room 381! Get outta here! I'm in 502! Hey, do you guys have any ice buckets down there? No, we've been using shower caps.
Skinner: They use a proven concept 'tough hate' to turn around foul-mouthed hooligans. Then they send them home, quietly ticking away.
Skinner: Climbing some kind of rope thing. Wearing a backpack. High-fiving the black kid.
Skinner Observational Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Homer: No wires at all. Except this one.
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Observational Homer · Bart: What's your system? I don't tell your mother how much I've lost.
Bart: Nobody tells Bart Simpson what to do.
Bart Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Flight Attendant: Thanks a lot, 33C. Now we all have to go back to Minneapolis, and I'm very tired.
Barney: Dang. Homer ain't coming. And Nelson saw something funny.
Barney Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Homer: Stupid Bart makes me drive to Oregon, home of unspoiled forests, birthplace of Matt Groening.
Homer Meta/Self-Referential Observational ★ Rewatch Fun Homer: We'll get a monkey drunk and push him down the stairs.
Serious Homer: I'll kill you the way I killed intellectual Homer!
Homer: I'll kill you the way I killed intellectual Homer!
Homer Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Marge: And every one was Stuart Little.
Marge Character Comedy Observational Homer: I'm 38 years old, driving a crappy car, with a son who doesn't respect me, and I'm one Snickers pie away from losing my foot to diabetes. Mmm... Snickers pie!
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Father · Justin: See, Bart? I told you things could be worse. I'm getting a sweatshirt with Shakespeare's face on it.
Justin: Look at me! I use a napkin.
Justin Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Bart: They were eating melon for breakfast.
Bart Observational Character Comedy Homer: You know, it's legal there for a guy to marry his son.
Homer Dark/Subversive Absurdist Homer: But could you add a bacon nose? Plus bacon hair, bacon mustache, five o'clock shadow made of bacon bits, and A... bacon body.
Homer Escalation Character Comedy Waitress: How 'bout if I just shoved a pig down your throat?
Waitress Escalation Deadpan/Understatement Homer · Waitress: But the bacon man lives in a bacon house! No, he doesn't!
Stavros: What?! No one dashie-dine on Stavros!
Stavros Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Homer · Stavros: Someone's hitting my butt with something! Is frying pan!
Stavros: Leave your ass, Homer. Leave your ass.
Stavros Wordplay/Pun Physical/Slapstick Comic Book Guy: which I am already wearing, for only 3.95?
Marge: And that came from Mr. Flanders buying back his own stuff.
Marge Character Comedy Observational Lenny: I'm breaking in a new pair of flip flops, and my thong notch is on fire!
Lenny Cringe/Discomfort Observational Lenny: Drugs in a bottle. I feel like Elvis Presley.
Lenny Dark/Subversive Observational Moe: It's for... a friend. Who's trapped in the body of another friend.
Lenny: Can't talk now, Homer. I'm too satisfied in every way.
Lenny Observational Deadpan/Understatement Homer: Shower you with love, because this experience has taught me just how precious you are. I'll kill you! I'll kill your whole family!
Homer Escalation Character Comedy Homer: That's the beauty of a shallow grave. You sweet little angel.
Homer Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Wiggum · Lou: It's a reference to Ma Kettle. A popular movie character from the '40s. If you have to explain it, it's not good, chief.
Wiggum Lou Meta/Self-Referential Observational ★ Rewatch Homer: Being a father is just a job. Long hours, no pay, and at the end, all you get is someone yelling, 'you screwed me up'!
Homer Observational Character Comedy Homer: Being a father is just a job. Long hours, no pay, and at the end, all you get is someone yelling, 'you screwed me up'!
Homer Observational Character Comedy Camp Director: This is a boy scout uniform that I dolled up.
Bart: Hey, Homer, you wanna eat my shorts?
Bart Callback Character Comedy Callback Homer: I bet this looks cool from overhead, though.
Homer Meta/Self-Referential Observational ★ Rewatch Homer: I'm gonna order a steak dinner and eat it on the toilet!
Homer: I'm gonna order a steak dinner and eat it on the toilet!
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy Homer: Also, I don't know where Bart is. If you see him, say 'hey.'
Homer Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Marge: Well, Maggie, I always knew it would some day boil down to just you and me. I'll look for work in the morning.
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