The family is at a church fund-raiser, where Homer tries to ensure his rubber duck onto victory, but Flanders wins the big prize, which he doesn’t want and gives it to Marge. In return Marge agrees to watch Rod and Todd while Ned is attending a left-handed convention. While Marge is spending all her time with the Rod and Todd and trying to let them learn how to be boys; Homer takes Bart and Lisa to a home for former celebrity animals and a monkey kidnaps Bart. Marge’s ability to be a mother comes into question when Ned discovers what she is doing with his boys and the local news covers Bart’s current predicament.
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“Bart Has Two Mommies” ranks #38 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 86.2 — Elite. The episode packs 54 scored jokes at 3.4 per minute, averaging 7.3 on craft and 6.9 on impact, with Ned Flanders landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Homer · Marge: You haven't seen Bart for a few hours, so you automatically assume I let something terrible happen. I didn't say that. I know what you think: When stupid Homer wasn't looking, Bart got kidnapped by a monkey.
Ned Flanders: Uno?! That's a gateway game to pinochle.
Rod · Ned: I'm gay, daddy! I'm gay! Mrs. Simpson made me gay! I believe he's saying he's okay.
Rod Ned Callback Misdirection ★ Rewatch Callback Rod · Todd: She made us feel happy. And not church-happy. For real happy.
Rod Todd Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Ned Flanders: Our last baby-sitter let them watch comedy central. Now Rod makes me check the closet every night for Rita Rudner. No Rudner.
All Jokes — 54 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Lisa · Bart: Why does god always need money? It's a lot of little stuff. God has to pay all the elves in his workshop. Plus he's got all those planets to support. Did you see that ring he gave saturn?
Homer · Marge: Who knew saints had such fat heads? It's all a big scam. This booth? No, religion in general.
Reverend Lovejoy · Marge: Building a taller steeple than the one on that snooty episcopal church across the street. Reverend, why do we really need this? To compensate for my own sense of smallness.
Reverend Lovejoy: That's the new femac, the computer designed just for women. The 'you've got mail' voice is Susan Sarandon. You've got mail, unlike the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Get informed.
Marge · Homer: How can you be sure? 'Cause he wants it.
Race Announcer: Someone's not on their mark. That's better. Go!
Homer: Protect the duck. D'oh! Protect the duck. Uh! PRoduck the tect.
Homer Physical/Slapstick Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Race Official: Hey! This race is for rubber ducks, not meat ducks.
Homer: A living duck? I wished too hard and he became real.
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Ned Flanders: This is my favorite kind of surprise: Mild.
Marge · Homer: The fact that you tried means everything. Hey, that's the same thing you said to Bart after he choked in that soccer game. And we both know he sucked. And how. But this is different.
Marge Homer Callback Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Callback Ned Flanders: You know, all those complete strangers googling each other makes my flesh crawl.
Ned Flanders: Well, sir, we could do a little quid pro for the kaypro. That left-handed convention is in town and as the owner of Springfield's largest southpaw shop, I just got to be there. Could you nanny-goat my kid-diddly-ids?
Ned Flanders: Our last baby-sitter let them watch comedy central. Now Rod makes me check the closet every night for Rita Rudner. No Rudner.
Marge · Rod · Todd: Okay, game over. It's a tie. That means we both come in second. We're number two!
Ned Flanders · Randy Johnson: Wow, it's the big unit himself, Randy Johnson. You fanned more men than Salome. Yeah, I get that a lot.
Ned Flanders · Randy Johnson: You have one for a mailman? A bear can't be a mailman. Now how many Dr. Bears do you want? They come in boxes of a thousand. One box. You and me got a problem.
Rod · Todd: I'm a chimpmunk. I eat nuts without saying grace. I'm a permission slip.
Rod Todd Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Rod · Todd: And could you ask mommy to come to daddy in a dream and tell him how to cut our sandwiches? And please tell Mrs. Simpson it's rude to eavesdrop on our prayers. But we forgive her.
Rod Todd Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Homer · Bart · Lisa: Ready? Ready. And joust! That was awesome! Let's do it again. A canoe made of country ham? You know I'll eat it.
Bart · Rod · Todd: What's wrong with your teeter-totter? Daddy says up and down see-saws are dangerous. Chocks?! Why don't we try it... freestyle.
Rod or Todd: El mundo es loco!
Homer · Marge: So, Marge, in tomorrow's game, I'm gonna recover a fumble just for you. Maybe you'll run it in for a touchdown. Don't pressure me. I get enough of that from my dad.
Bart: Dad, mom's over at the Flanders', baby-sitting nimRod and nimTodd.
Bart Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Lisa: I want to go to the showbiz animal retirement home. They take in animals from the movies and tv that aren't cute anymore.
Lisa Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Bart · Lisa: Do you think any of the gremlins from the gremlins movie are there? Sure. I am gonna get them so wet.
Bart Lisa Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: Sad? You're crazy. I feel like I'm at the oscars for the animals I forgot existed. Aflac!
Homer Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Yogi Bear · Homer: I'm not a real bear! That was just the name of my character. Now let me out! Hey, you know where the bathroom is? Maybe I do and maybe I don't.
Unnamed Character: Word on the street is: Cover the toilet seat with tissue. Sweet... sweet tissue.
Zookeeper: One of them played the out-of-control judiciary in a republican party commercial.
Zookeeper Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Comic Book Guy: No, no, it's still 'kid-napped.' The prefix applies to the victim.
Zookeeper · Homer: A chimp that size could tear your son's head right off. But she'll leave the rest of him alone?
Ned Flanders · Rod: Call me ned zeppelin, but is one of my boys abrased and contused? I cut myself on the knife, playing christian clue. The secular humanist did it in the schoolhouse with misinformation!
Rod or Todd: I cut myself on the knife, playing christian clue. The secular humanist did it in the schoolhouse with misinformation!
Ned Flanders: They're all I've got since that sad day when maude found eternal happiness.
Ned Flanders: Well, their mascot is a kneepad wearing a helmet.
Homer · Marge: You haven't seen Bart for a few hours, so you automatically assume I let something terrible happen. I didn't say that. I know what you think: When stupid Homer wasn't looking, Bart got kidnapped by a monkey.
Homer: Help me, Lisa! I have serious mental problems!
Homer Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Monkey: Sorry, lady. I've never eaten fresh fruit and I reckon I never will.
Monkey Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Bart Observational Character Comedy Lisa: Then i'll come back and feed the monkey a peach full of antifreeze.
Lisa Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Ned Flanders: I'm not Ned. I'm a... friendly dog. I'm not a good liar.
Ned Flanders: He chipped a tooth! How will he bite wheat thins? How?!
News reporter: Local boy Bart simpson is being held hostage by an angry chimpanzee who has improved both his hygiene and posture.
News Reporter: His so-called real mother could not be found for comment.
Ned Flanders · Rod/Todd: Well, we're gonna do what every kid your age likes to do: Look at bread. No! The 'n' word!
Ned Flanders: Uno?! That's a gateway game to pinochle.
Rod · Todd: She made us feel happy. And not church-happy. For real happy.
Rod Todd Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Professor Frink: Lisa, monkeys don't have feelings. If they did, then my experiments could be called cruel.
Krusty: Get me a lemur, or a marmot. Or Tom Greene, he's not doing anything these days. And really stick it to him on the money.
Krusty Observational Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Bart · Rod: Okay, but don't let our hands touch. It's gay. What's 'gay' mean? It means you used to be afraid, but now you're not.
Bart Rod Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Bart · Rod: Okay, but don't let our hands touch. It's gay. What's 'gay' mean? It means you used to be afraid, but now you're not.
Bart Rod Character Comedy Misdirection Rod · Ned: I'm gay, daddy! I'm gay! Mrs. Simpson made me gay! I believe he's saying he's okay.
Rod Ned Callback Misdirection ★ Rewatch Callback Waldorf · Statler: I haven't seen climbing like that since Dudley Moore married Susan Anton! Bob, why did I wait a hundred years to get you up here? You're tellin' me. Now I can look down Dolly Parton's dress whenever I want.
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