Bart ends up in a coma after attempting to jump from the roof to the swimming pool at Spinster Arms Apartments, while attending a hunting party at Burns Manor, Homer panics and believes the prey is the hunting party, and after losing a Halloween costume contest to Dr Hibbert as Dracula, a real witch puts a spell on the people of Springfield.
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“Treehouse Of Horror Xvi” ranks #552 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 65.8 — Mixed. The episode packs 39 scored jokes at 2.3 per minute, averaging 6.0 on craft and 6.1 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
Homer: In nature, they would never experienced boredom, obesity, the loss of a purpose ... You know, the American dream.
Homer Observational Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Bart · Homer: Stop your hay - Dad will kill wild animals but I shot a bird and I gotta go see a psychiatrist. / He still believes that Hobo was a bird.
Bart Homer Dark/Subversive Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Homer: Honey, animals do not feel the death. It has been proven by scientists Buffalo Grill.
Homer Observational Absurdist Homer · Robot: A robot? A child robot would be great. We can make it confusing for his head explodes. 'This sentence is a lie' But if it's a lie, then it must be true. But if that is true, then it must be ... Whoop! Whoop! Whoop! Kaboom!
Homer Robot Setup/Punchline Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Homer · Witch: Listen to me, I am Oberon, Queen of the Fairies. / You're a big cockroach, and you will die!
All Jokes — 39 analyzed
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Unknown character: Well. At least the Cubs will finally win.
Unknown character: Well done, idiots outer space! You have destroyed the whole of existence! Everything will be alright, I will just leave a little word.
Bart · Lisa: Hey, Lisa. I bet I can jump in the pool here. / Bart, it would be the thing most stupid t'aurais as ever. / No. The most stupid thing would be to do it over.
Doctor · Marge · Doctor: I am afraid that your son is in a deep coma which he never emerge. / I guess we should thank God he is not dead. / I know - that way, I continue to charge you.
Homer · Robot: A robot? A child robot would be great. We can make it confusing for his head explodes. 'This sentence is a lie' But if it's a lie, then it must be true. But if that is true, then it must be ... Whoop! Whoop! Whoop! Kaboom!
Homer Robot Setup/Punchline Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Doctor · Marge · Doctor: And a robot you would forget your son died very quickly. / I thought it was in a coma! / It is almost the same thing. Except that like that, I continue to send you bills. / You've already said that. / Well, you did not laugh the first time.
Robot Bart · Marge · Doctor · Homer: Mom, it hurts! / He knows how to operate all my buttons. / And voila how activate his. / I am a man who loves to strangle her children. Do you think I can ... / Of course, try. / Kind of metallic ... Wow! The trachea is incredibly responsive.
Homer: Yeah, that's the oh-sixes for you.
Homer Observational Wordplay/Pun Flanders: No bot is not a robot! My Flanderinouilles! Having a brother robot me. The implications ethnic make me tense.
Bart · Homer · Robot Bart: You replaced me with this toy? / Replace is an ugly word. There you updated. / Bart, we can be friends. / Will eat my shorts ... / I will t'obéir.
Homer: In nature, they would never experienced boredom, obesity, the loss of a purpose ... You know, the American dream.
Homer Observational Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Bart: God thank you, I landed in a bird pens.
Bart Visual Gag Irony/Sarcasm Bart · Rejected Robot · Bart · Robot: There should be a law that punishes the abandonment of children. / Do not be afraid of us. We're kind of robots were rejected, like you. / I'm not a robot, I'm human. / Tell me, young man. How does it feel to have ... feelings? / I say that I was a human, not a daughter.
Various Robots: The name of a command prompt! Our plays have disappeared! We were robbed! My pieces are gone. This kid screwed us all. It pissed me over! You're a robot-urinal. Lava-tron.
Homer: It stinks! I have a small robot legs. and a culture that is not equipped for an adult.
Homer Physical/Slapstick Absurdist Marge · Homer: I will call for their job that we may not come. / Freak.
Homer: Honey, animals do not feel the death. It has been proven by scientists Buffalo Grill.
Homer Observational Absurdist Bart · Homer: Stop your hay - Dad will kill wild animals but I shot a bird and I gotta go see a psychiatrist. / He still believes that Hobo was a bird.
Bart Homer Dark/Subversive Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Homer · Character: Oh my god, I see coming: He wants to sell his mansion in timeshare. / Well, I already have credits, then t'ait is you who have done!
Homer · Burns: Five minutes of racing? Shoot me now. / Well, it broke the ice.
Blue Haired Lawyer: Well, I guess you like hunting, and you said in the past, killing people is part of my religion ... I think I can do something with it.
Apu · Apu: You can not kill a Hindu! / Help me, Jesus!
Apu Apu Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Terry Bradshaw: Well, we used to say good Race always beat a good hunt. But the stats say, 'bet on the guy with the gun!'
Homer: 'Jackpot, a million dollars!' If I could get out of here alive, I could ...
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Setup/Punchline Lenny · Homer: Homer, Burns we only hunting for six hours and you already resorted to cannibalism. / And there are bananas in that tree up there. / Ho, them seem a little green.
Homer: Fooled with the body of my best friend.
Homer Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Marge · Homer: Stay out over 18 hours and not a single call. / Oh, I can not stay angry against you when the pot feels the sausage and onion.
Terry Bradshaw: I spoke too soon? Go! It will live in my playbook!
Character · Nelson: Look, Grand Father disguised as a gorilla. Bob Tahiti in Spiderman, and Nelson is a raccoon. / I'm not a raccoon, I am a lone Ranger. But I am too poor to pay me the hat. It is not even a mask. It's fat turnover.
Dr. Hibbert: Because I am a black Dracula, I must Blackula be? / My wife told me not to come to Dracula. But I replied, 'Bernice, we are in the 21st century ...'
Apu: Jester. With $ 25, can not even have half a cereal bar. I exaggerate, but more seriously, my prices are very high.
Apu Observational Character Comedy Witch · Character: I do not costume. I am a real witch. / Wait a bit, it's cheating! Burn ... and make the purchase order!
Grandpa Simpson: This is not fair. I do not even wear no disguise. Look at me, I am a young gorilla virvoltant
Grampa: Look at me, I am a young gorilla virvoltant. My hip is broken. With the help. Let's go to the hospital for a gorilla.
Grampa Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Homer · Witch: Listen to me, I am Oberon, Queen of the Fairies. / You're a big cockroach, and you will die!
Lisa · Bart: Maggie is now a real witch! It can cancel this spell. / I do not want to cancel this fate. I can howl at the moon and eat rats.
Milhouse · Martin: I do not want change either. I can get horses mud. Girls will love! And I'm Jared from the subway ads. I have just a little overweight, and ambiguous sexuality.
Lisa · Dennis Rodman: Very good. This concludes the show Halloween this year. I hope you take as much fun to watch us Koreen that have been conducting animation. But there are some people for whom it is Halloween every day. I speak of illiterate adults. For them, try to read the newspaper, it's terrifying than any of the goblins, Goule, ghosts or spirits. So please, make donations to 'Children's book. Together, we can their to read a slam dunk. / Dennis Rodman? What are you doing here? / Community service after a speeding. Happy Halloween to all!
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