Working through their checklists of things to do before summer ends, Lisa gets the family to go a museum. At the Springfield Museum of Natural History there is an exhibit Lisa is excited to see on Women’s History turns into an exhibit on the history of weapons, which excites Homer and Bart. When Flanders sees the exhibit of evolution and another that mocks creationism, he raises an alarm. Reverend Lovejoy gets Skinner to have creationism taught in school. Lisa is the only one who holds onto the scientific theory. She brings the topic up at the town meeting and the town votes to teach only one theory, creationism. Lisa decides to hold her own class on evolution, until she is arrested. The ACLU gives her a lawyer who is up against a slick Southern lawyer, but ultimately it’s a family member that is a key to her defense.
WAR
31.4
Wins Above Replacement
“The Monkey Suit” ranks #397 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 75.4 — Great. The episode packs 56 scored jokes at 3.7 per minute, averaging 6.6 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: will you shut your yap, you big monkey-faced gorilla!
Marge Irony/Sarcasm Escalation ★ Rewatch Homer: Onions?! In the peas?! What the hell!
Homer Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Chief Wiggum: We only have the manpower to enforce the last law passed. You know, it's not the best system, but... well, in fact, it's... it's pretty much the worst.
Skinner · Student · Lisa: Are oceans god's tears? They sure are. A-plus. Now Lisa's the Ralph.
Homer: Wow, Darwin's argument is incredibly persuasive, and his ship was the beagle, which reminds me of snoopy, my favorite peanut!
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist All Jokes — 56 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Bart: Hi, I'm your hostess Boobarella, I hope you'll enjoy our labour day marathon of murder because soon you'll have to go back to school. School!!! School? My god I wasted the whole summer.
Bart Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Homer: Now Simpsons be careful, their kid pitcher's mount is really 22.
Homer Absurdist Observational Character unclear: Sit on it, Springfield!
Bart: Get outta my face, you raggedy maggots! So that's why everyone's been saying that all summer.
Bart Observational Character Comedy Bart · Homer: I just had my first kiss. When you get to third base, I'll buy you a beer.
Bart Homer Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bart · Homer: Weaving? Homer, you're my father. You're supposed to protect me from things like this. All right. Just this once, you can take a drink out of my special water bottle.
Bart Homer Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Bart · Homer: Die, weapons, die! Don't start the exhibit without me!
Homer: Time to do what I do best, ruin it for everybody.
Homer Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: You calling me a liar in front of my kids? 'Cause I'd take a bullet for you, man, right in the mouth!
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Comic Book Guy: Ned Flanders is doling out cuts. I, for one, wish to partake of said!
Barney: Hey, if boner here is gettin' cuts, I want 'em, too.
Disco Stu: Disco Stu slides in front of you! That rhymes.
Homer: If we turn around, it will feel like we're at the front of the line!
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Narrator: Artifacts of the time indicate that this incident was hilarious.
Narrator Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist ★ Rewatch Maggie · Marge: It's a mugger! I'll hand over all my hugs and kisses.
Milhouse · Bart: Do you want to play in the NBA or not? Bart, my arm's out of its thing. That means it's working.
Homer · Melanie Griffith impression: It's narrated by Melanie Griffith. This room's nice. Let's go in to the next one. This room's nice, too. This room's nice. This room's nice, too. This room's nice. This room's nice, too.
Ned · Rod/Todd: My most cherished beliefs, a myth? Daddy, was mommy a monkey? I can't remember.
Ned · Rod/Todd: No one was ever a monkey! Everything is what it was and always will be! God put us here and that's that. But you said a stork brought me. That was god disguised as a stork. Who brings baby storks? There's no such thing as storks! It's all god.
Reverend Lovejoy: Well... our membership has been dwindling since those episcopalians put in those vibrating pews.
Ned: I'll be a white Al Sharpton.
Ned Character Comedy Observational Skinner: No! That was a once-in-a-lifetime APR!
Skinner · Student · Lisa: Are oceans god's tears? They sure are. A-plus. Now Lisa's the Ralph.
Skinner: Then why is he making out with satan?
Skinner Visual Gag Absurdist ★ Rewatch Skinner Character Comedy Reaction Beat Skinner: Children, drown her out with whistling and arm flatulence.
Skinner Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Lisa: Today we had a test, and every answer was 'god did it.'
Lisa Observational Absurdist Marge: My son's a brat, but he's a special little guy.
Marge Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Marge: You father says he's at work, but there he is jumping on a trampoline.
Marge Visual Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bart: Good riddance. Their drawings suck and they look like hippies.
Homer: Onions?! In the peas?! What the hell!
Homer Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Mayor Quimby: regular people can park in handicapped spaces if they're just running in to buy smokes or maybe some pop tarts for tomorrow. The system works.
Lisa: Now, honestly, the bible's about the same age as, the rest of our textbooks.
Lisa Observational Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Moe: Homer's son's sister's right.
Moe Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Skinner: while I beat this ominous drum.
Moe: Little Moe Szyslak? Why does everybody call me that? Bunch of snot-faced pukebags.
Moe Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Jimbo · Other bullies: I thought we're gonna light spiders on fire. We're over here.
Chief Wiggum: We only have the manpower to enforce the last law passed. You know, it's not the best system, but... well, in fact, it's... it's pretty much the worst.
Lou · Eddie: You live! You die! You live! You die! In the old days, we would've been all over that.
Wallace Brady: As the little chicken said to his mama, 'I just hope I don't 'cluck up.''
Kent Brockman: This is Kent Brockman, juror number seven, saying, 'I'll have the roast beef for lunch.'
ACLU Lawyer: It just says that god is an impotent nothing from nowhere with less power than the undersecretary of agriculture, who has very little power in our system.
Clarisse Drummond: It just says that god is an impotent nothing from nowhere with less power than the undersecretary of agriculture, who has very little power in our system.
Expert witness: I have a phd in truthology from christian tech.
Country Lawyer · ACLU Lawyer: Why, I believe, right now, this gentleman's having dinner with the tooth fairy and the easter bunny. This is the break in the case we've been waiting for! I mean, he doesn't exist.
Country Lawyer: Now. Bambi, who started that forest fire that killed your mama? Evolution?! My, my, my. Poor bambi. Poor thumper...
Homer: Wow, Darwin's argument is incredibly persuasive, and his ship was the beagle, which reminds me of snoopy, my favorite peanut!
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Milhouse: Your new name: Senorita Ugly.
Nelson: You can take off the wig, Mihouse. I'm Nelson!
Nelson Character Comedy Misdirection Homer: It's not a twist-off! Come on!
Homer Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Homer · Marge: It's not a twist-off! Come on! I want what's in you! stupid... Homer, I'm trying to... will you shut your yap, you big monkey-faced gorilla!
Marge: will you shut your yap, you big monkey-faced gorilla!
Marge Irony/Sarcasm Escalation ★ Rewatch Homer: Wait, it was a twist-off.
Homer Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Marge: Maybe a bird with a people face or a bear with pants on!
Marge Character Comedy Absurdist Bart: Cram it, ya god wad.
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