Selma and Patti's home movies make Marge nostalgic for the Barnacle Bay vacations of her youth, so Homer takes the family there, but the area has changed since the Bouviers were little girls.
WAR
28.4
Wins Above Replacement
“The Wife Aquatic” ranks #332 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 76.9 — Great. The episode packs 45 scored jokes at 3.4 per minute, averaging 6.7 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
Sea Captain: Maybe they under-spawned... Maybe the fish killed themselves... Maybe you should marry Milhouse.
Sea Captain: Oh, Mother Sea, giver of fish, taker of boats, toilet to the world, the Greeks call you 'Poseidon,' the Romans... 'Aquaman.'
Truck driver: These logs have to go to Larry Flynt's paper mill, where they'll be made into Hustler and Barely Legal magazines.
Marge: Oh, God, someone carved swastikas on your eyes.
Marge Dark/Subversive Visual Gag Bart: This movie isn't silent. I can hear it sucking.
Bart Wordplay/Pun Irony/Sarcasm All Jokes — 45 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Lisa: Yes, thank you for talking to all of us like we just tuned in.
Lisa Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Bart: Ooh, a fat man falls real original.
Bart Observational Irony/Sarcasm Homer · Family: Family physical comedy sequence fighting for space
Reverend Lovejoy: Tonight's G-rated gem is a silent film from my favorite year-- yester.
Reverend Lovejoy: While you're watching this quiet riot, I'll be slipping these religious pamphlets on your windshields.
Crowd member: Hey, can you fix the sound?! And the color! And show it in a regular theater?
Bart: This movie isn't silent. I can hear it sucking.
Bart Wordplay/Pun Irony/Sarcasm Homer: It's like an apple did it with an onion.
Homer Absurdist Observational Barney: Wow, even I ain't hoping for porn.
Barney Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Homer: I'm gonna take her back there by burning that home movie on to a DVD.
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Homer: I'm gonna make her dream come true by downloading that movie on to her Ipod.
Homer Escalation Character Comedy Callback Grandpa Simpson: Oh, thank you. I was talking to the cat.
Bart: It smells like heinie!
Bart Cringe/Discomfort Observational Marge: Oh, God, someone carved swastikas on your eyes.
Marge Dark/Subversive Visual Gag Homer: Oh, Marge, I'm sure it was just some guy filled with hate.
Homer Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist Homer: It's not sugar. It's caramel.
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Sea Captain: Slick Willie wiggles out of another one.
Sea Captain: Maybe they under-spawned... Maybe the fish killed themselves... Maybe you should marry Milhouse.
Bart · Homer: - Can I go again? - All night long, baby.
Homer: Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow,ba-boom! Ka-powi.
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Marge: Well, at least they left your underwear on. That was nice of them.
Marge Deadpan/Understatement Visual Gag Sea Captain: Queer strange, or queer gay? Oh, a touch of both.
Homer: Its oil is used to polish stripper poles. Ugh, finally, something even I wouldn't eat.
Homer Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Homer: I thought today was Opposite Day. By the way, you're very ugly. It's Opposite Day.
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Homer · Billy: So that means... it is Opposite Day. It's not Opposite Day!
Bart: Three years is a long ways away.
Bart Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Weather expert: I won't lie to you. It's the most powerful storm I've ever seen, and I've seen three storms.
Billy: I'm sure our TiVo's are groaning with great shows.
Billy Character Comedy Observational Sea Captain: All right, now listen, if a storm were coming, my trick knee would be acting up. Hey... hey... hey... hey. Dear God.
Homer: What's next, pepper water? Ha-ha.
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Bart: There were going to go to the folk art museum, then they were going to paint crab shells. Not crush them, paint them!
Bart Character Comedy Escalation Moe · Barney: Yeah, but then we'd have to stand there while we get the doors unlocked. Don't you have one of them keys that beeps the doors open? Yeah, but still.
Sea Captain · Billy: Should I hit him with a shovel to spare him the pain of drowning? Not yet. What's the code word?
Sea Captain: Oh, Mother Sea, giver of fish, taker of boats, toilet to the world, the Greeks call you 'Poseidon,' the Romans... 'Aquaman.'
Sea Captain · Bart: Do you think your mother will every remarry? In about two seconds.
Captain · Bart: Do you think your mother will every remarry? In about two seconds.
Reverend Lovejoy: All we do know is they're in heaven now, hanging their lines off a cloud and fishing for airplanes.
Homer Setup/Punchline Escalation Callback Homer Misdirection Character Comedy Homer: Oh, my God, it's beautiful!
Homer Character Comedy Visual Gag Homer: I can't go back to living on the surface world! I can't!
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Lisa: I always wanted to do that in a New England church.
Lisa Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Lisa: I always wanted to do that in a New England church.
Lisa Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Truck driver: These logs have to go to Larry Flynt's paper mill, where they'll be made into Hustler and Barely Legal magazines.
Truck driver · Lisa: These logs have to go to Larry Flynt's paper mill, where they'll be made into Hustler and Barely Legal magazines. This is not what I wanted at all.
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