Lisa's friendship with Fat Tony's son Michael prompts mob boss Tony to invite the Simpsons over for dinner. Michael says he'd rather be a chef than take over the family business, but that's before Tony is shot by a rival mobster.
WAR
52.8
Wins Above Replacement
“The Mook The Chef The Wife And Her Homer” ranks #144 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 81.8 — Elite. The episode packs 70 scored jokes at 4.3 per minute, averaging 6.9 on craft and 6.6 on impact, with Otto landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Fat Tony: Now who wants to sleep with the fishes? Because I brought this Finding Nemo bedspread.
Fat Tony Callback Misdirection ★ Rewatch Callback Fat Tony: Sadly, my Anna Maria was whacked by natural causes.
Fat Tony Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fat Tony: The flavor just drove my sweet tooth to a vacant lot and whacked it.
Fat Tony Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Otto: Am I on drugs? / Yes, you are, but that really is Metallica.
Otto Setup/Punchline Absurdist ★ Rewatch Marge: Ooh, flowers every week! I wish I was dead.
Marge Dark/Subversive Irony/Sarcasm All Jokes — 70 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Otto · Lisa: Otto, Bart won't give me a seat. / You know I can deal with your problem or I can rock out. But I cannot do both.
Otto Lisa Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Otto Wordplay/Pun Cringe/Discomfort Otto: What am I hearing now? Nature? The ultimate bring-down. Why... was I... born?!
Otto Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bart: Old McDonald had a fart Fart, fart, fart, fart, fart
Bart Setup/Punchline Physical/Slapstick Otto: That's not a song. Real songs are about deals with the devil, far-off lands, and where you'd find smoke in relation to water.
Otto Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Martin: One of my bus mates has purloined my French horn.
Martin Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Kearney: Why can't you talk like a dude?
Kearney Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bart · Kearney: Oh, knock it off, Kearney. Why are you still in this school anyway? We were in third grade together.
Kearney: Stupid school doesn't know how to teach me.
Kearney Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Otto: Oh, wow, this is about 90% less funny than you think it is.
Otto Meta/Self-Referential Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Otto: Am I on drugs? / Yes, you are, but that really is Metallica.
Otto Setup/Punchline Absurdist ★ Rewatch Otto: Now if you'll excuse me, I'm late for a gumdrop parade on Foo-foo Island.
Otto Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Otto: Oh, yeah, Springfield Arena, 1997, Row XX, Seat 64.
Otto Character Comedy Observational Metallica member: Look at me, I'm Otto. I'm a hundred years old, and I drive a school bus.
Other driver: I used to sleep with Lars' grandmother.
Metallica: Never listen to our music again.
Otto: Bye-bye, take care, watch your step, eat my shorts, have a good one.
Otto Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Otto: Oh, and I think I ran over a moose.
Otto Deadpan/Understatement Dark/Subversive Otto: Can't... talk... now. I'm spanking a child.
Otto Cringe/Discomfort Misdirection Principal Skinner: And your gun.
Bart: Let me drive. I go through yellow lights.
Bart Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Marge: One more crack out of you, young man, and I'm showing everyone your baby pictures.
Marge Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Ralph: I brought my own car seat. Look.
Ralph Character Comedy Visual Gag Ralph: Hey, Lisa, my safety bar matches your eyes.
Ralph Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Nelson: Whoa. 'Squirrels don't like rocks.'
Nelson Absurdist Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Lisa: Ew, it's Michael. That weird kid who never says anything.
Lisa Irony/Sarcasm Setup/Punchline Kearney · Michael: Hey, dork, you're sittin' on my shadow. / Sorry. / What, you're too good to sit on my shadow?
Homer: Whoa. Your mother must dance at the nicest strip club in town.
Homer Dark/Subversive Misdirection Fat Tony: Here is your book, and never forget: the divisor goes into the dividend.
Fat Tony: There is no Mafia. Columbus Day is better than Christmas.
Fat Tony Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Ralph: My daddy had to potty in a bag.
Ralph Dark/Subversive Cringe/Discomfort Groundskeeper Willie: Ah, look at all this puke! Why did I come in on my day off?
Music teacher: I... from now on you're not third clarinet, you're first everything!
Music teacher: Now if you excuse me, I'm brewing tea and I have to go jiggle my bags!
Michael: There's a triple-A battery in my macaroni and cheese!
Lunch Lady Doris: It counts as a vegetable.
Lisa · Michael: It's delicious! / Are you just saying that 'cause you're afraid of my dad? / No, it's great! Ooh! Except for the bee!
Fat Tony: We are going for a ride. By which I mean the carpool. Perhaps we will get yogurt.
Fat Tony Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fat Tony: Now who wants to sleep with the fishes? Because I brought this Finding Nemo bedspread.
Fat Tony Callback Misdirection ★ Rewatch Callback Milhouse · Fat Tony: 'Garfield' or 'Love Is?' / Uh, I prefer the cat. He hates Mondays. We can all relate.
Fat Tony: Sadly, my Anna Maria was whacked by natural causes.
Fat Tony Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Marge: Ooh, flowers every week! I wish I was dead.
Marge Dark/Subversive Irony/Sarcasm Fat Tony: Actually, you can really keep costs down when you don't pay for materials or labor... or permits... or land.
Homer: Your paintings have brush marks. And your statues have wieners!
Homer Character Comedy Observational Bart · Homer · Marge: He's talkin' like the guy in Fat Albert. / Howba areba youba? / Homer! / Whyba youba doba thatba?
Legs: I thought you meant 'hot-sync' it. You know how it is with us-- everything means kill.
Legs Wordplay/Pun Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Calabresi: We meant no disrespect, Fat Tony. We were simply trying to kill you.
Calabresi Absurdist Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Calabresi: I've tried to make those, but they always end up as brownies.
Fat Tony: My God, this is like a lap dance for my taste buds!
Fat Tony Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Fat Tony: The flavor just drove my sweet tooth to a vacant lot and whacked it.
Fat Tony Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Calabresi: Hey, look what we got here. It's Chef Boy-ar-gay!
Michael: Well, gazpacho is served cold. So take that.
Michael Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Calabresi: Do they small down big ones or do they make 'em different?
Legs: With Fat Tony doing the morphine mambo, the Calabresis are gonna try to put him down for a dirt nap.
Legs Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Marge · Homer: Homer, our house is on fire! Help me save the children! / Sorry, Marge, can't hear you!
Fat Tony: You are a hybrid: half idiot, half moron.
Homer: Everything! And I learned it all from the greatest gangster film ever: Shark Tale.
Homer Character Comedy Observational Homer: I hurt my fist and my palm.
Homer Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Krusty: Could I just pay you $5 to keep out Hardee's?
Krusty Character Comedy Observational Krusty: Ow! My schnoz! My punim! My pupik! My genechtagazoink!
Krusty Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: Uh, it-it fell off a truck. Uh, you know, a truck-truck.
Homer Character Comedy Escalation Homer: Eh, it fell off a truck-truck truck.
Homer Escalation Absurdist Callback Ned Flanders: Hi-diddily-ho, mob-areenos!
Bart: Dad, you want I should plug him in the ankle?
Bart Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Homer: You monster! Just cut his Achilles tendon with this knife.
Homer Escalation Dark/Subversive Calabresi: Yeah. You know, they've still got to eat right and exercise. Walk the dog once in a while. He's a furry little fitness machine.
Bart: Thanks, but I'm going into bootleg DVDs.
Bart Character Comedy Observational Homer: Hey, if I poisoned them, would I be doing this?
Homer Character Comedy Visual Gag Michael: Don't ever ask me out my business, Lisa.
Michael Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Top Episodes — The Simpsons
