Marge goes on a cleaning frenzy before the housekeeper she’s won the services of comes to the house. One spot remains and she mixes a number of toxic cleaners together to tackle the job. The noxious mixture knocks her out and she wakes up suffering from amnesia. Marge is taken home and the family tries to bring back her memory. She starts to get back memories of her children and other insignificant things, but when it comes to remembering her husband, nothing he does seems to jog her memory. When he can’t get her to remember him, he tries to win her all over again, especially after Patty and Selma get her back out on the dating scene.
WAR
64.6
Wins Above Replacement
“Regarding Margie” ranks #127 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 82.1 — Elite. The episode packs 73 scored jokes at 4.0 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.8 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: The best thing that ever happened to me was forgetting about you!
Marge Escalation Cringe/Discomfort Marge: I don't know, maybe there's something unpleasant blocking my memory of you.
Marge Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Homer: Mark and Tracy, I remember the first words I heard you say: 'I do.'
Homer Setup/Punchline Absurdist ★ Rewatch Lisa: I'm Lisa, I'm eight years old, and this might sound presumptuous, but... I'm your favorite.
Lisa Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Homer: Visual gag: Homer paints elaborate '74 Oakland A's tribute instead of house number
Homer Visual Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 73 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Bart: We do it without asking, and then they have to pay.
Bart Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Unknown neighbor: Answer me, or I'll drop ya like a bad cell phone plan!
Unknown neighbor: Sorry. This thing goes off on its own. Anyway, you were sayin'?
Homer: That really classes the joint up.
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Homer Visual Gag Misdirection Bart · Lisa: When do we tell him that's not oil? Let him have his fun.
Bart Lisa Callback Character Comedy Callback Ned Flanders: Only ten dollars to paint my curb like a common whore?
Bart: That's not a scam! That's honest work for honest pay! No!
Bart Character Comedy Absurdist Bart: Well, then we're gonna leave you one digit short.
Bart Escalation Character Comedy Homer: Visual gag: Homer paints elaborate '74 Oakland A's tribute instead of house number
Homer Visual Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: But, sweetie, I just wanted to tell the '74 Oakland A's how I felt about them.
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Callback Homer: Look, that guy remembers us! Hey, sal bando, give him a '74 a's 'thank you honk.'
Homer Callback Character Comedy Callback Marge: On second thought, I am Brenda Winecooler.
Marge Character Comedy Escalation Delivery man: 74? Oh, sorry. There's been a mistake.
Homer: Son, all our mail has ever brought me is bad things: Bills, jury duty, Entertainment Weekly.
Homer Observational Escalation Bart: Oh, dad, no one can rationalize like you.
Bart Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Homer: Mark and Tracy, I remember the first words I heard you say: 'I do.'
Homer Setup/Punchline Absurdist ★ Rewatch Wedding guest: That's what I heard, but he's so confident in his movements.
Kent Brockman: The lid from my coffee cupis long gone. I'm scared, people. Truly scared.
Homer: Take that, liberal media.
Homer Observational Character Comedy Homer: Take that, liberal media.
Homer Character Comedy Observational Homer: Marge, I don't have to sit here and listen to your insane ravings about me getting other people's mail.
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Marge: Don't be so naive, Lisa. Those people all talk to each other.
Marge Character Comedy Observational Professional cleaner: Not a fine upstanding head hair, but a curly-wurly!
Marge: I don't want that judgmental bitch in my house!
Marge Character Comedy Escalation Professional cleaner: Et tu, Zud?
Marge: My head feels like it was punched by a boxing man.
Marge Character Comedy Absurdist Dr. Hibbert: Now I'll put them back in the jar.
Homer: until your amnesia goes scram-nesia
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Marge: You're sweet. I'm lucky to have such a kind... uncle?
Marge Misdirection Cringe/Discomfort Marge: But you're so much more... ravaged than I am.
Marge Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Lisa: I'm Lisa, I'm eight years old, and this might sound presumptuous, but... I'm your favorite.
Lisa Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Lisa · Marge: I'm your favorite. You seem sweet, but I could never have a favorite.
Bart: Hi. I'm Bart. I'm ten years old and a professional motocross jumper. Can you buy me a motocross bike?
Bart Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Marge: I may have lost my memory, but I'm not an idiot.
Marge Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Bart: Like somebody barfed a two-story pile of puke.
Bart Character Comedy Visual Gag Marge · Homer · Bart: You strangle your child? Yeah, but... he's cool with it. Right? It hurts when I swallow.
Apu: Maraschino isn't even a kind of cherry! It's a way of preserving them!
Apu Observational Character Comedy Homer: It goes by many names. Apollo's lantern, day-moon, old blazey.
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: The important thing is never to touch it.
Homer Absurdist Deadpan/Understatement Marge · Homer: I know what the sun is! Yes, now you do.
Lisa: The sound of the baby must have triggered a primal mnemonic response in mom's brain!
Lisa Character Comedy Observational Milhouse: Hey, guys, guess who just became lactose-tolerant?
Milhouse: Who's got amnesia now, Bart?
Homer: All right, Marge, time to remember admiral awesome!
Homer Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Marge: I don't know, maybe there's something unpleasant blocking my memory of you.
Marge Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Marge: Oh, hey, ned. Isn't today your cat's birthday? I remember, 'cause she shares the date with Patty LaBelle.
Marge Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Homer: Here's me fighting with former president Bush. Me fighting with current president Bush.
Homer Callback Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Marge: You're describing how to parallel park.
Marge Misdirection Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Marge: You're describing how to parallel park.
Marge Setup/Punchline Observational Homer: You used to love my non sequiturs.
Homer Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy Patty: Simple. Your brain is trying to save you from your backed-up toilet of a marriage.
Patty Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Chief Wiggum · Lou: Yeah, and you said you're only 180 pounds. Shut up and look for crime.
Tony Bennett: That Homer Simpson he's quite a guy / he paid me ten bucks so I would lie / the truth is he's not so great / he is the one man I truly hate.
Marge: So beautiful. I wish I could understand italian.
Marge Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Marge: No! I'm not the kind of girl who makes love on a putt-putt golf course!
Marge Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Homer: You loved it, especially when the windmill came around and whacked your butt.
Homer Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Marge: The best thing that ever happened to me was forgetting about you!
Marge Escalation Cringe/Discomfort Agnes Skinner: Birthday's over, Seymour.
Grandpa · Homer: How long you gonna be bunking with me, son? Well, the rest of your life for sure.
Speed dating host: Every five minutes I'm going to blow this horn... And each man will move one table to his left.
Speed dating participant: I don't drive a lexus, okay? I don't have a lear jet or some big beach house in la-la land. I am just a nice man who makes a decent living. So I guess I should probably just go shoot myself?
Speed dating participant: Don't get quiet on me. Please, I hate when they get quiet.
Speed dating participant: We used to be quintuplets, but three of us drowned.
Bashful speed dater: We used to be quintuplets, but three of us drowned.
Lenny · Carl: But it's not an awkward silence. Yeah, it's more like a nothing needs to be said kind of silence.
Homer: Oh, no! He's Marge's and my dream man.
Homer Character Comedy Observational Aquaman: The wisest, wettest man you'll ever meet.
Aquaman Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Groundskeeper Willie: The wisest, wettest man you'll ever meet.
Homer: In ten years, she never had the last slice of pizza and she's never complained. Every election she wishes she could vote for both guys because they both seem nice.
Homer Character Comedy Observational Marge · Homer: You drink? Yeah, I started when you were in the hospital. I was so worried. Recently I tried this thing called beer, and...
Marge · Homer: I remember everything! You get drunk all the time. But you also remember that you're an enabler? Of course I do. That's why we're such a great team.
Homer · Marge: But you also remember that you're an enabler? Of course I do. That's why we're such a great team.
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