After a celebrity scandal is accidentally captured in a family photo, Homer decides to become a paparazzo.
WAR
34.5
Wins Above Replacement
“Homerazzi” ranks #420 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 75.0 — Great. The episode packs 53 scored jokes at 3.6 per minute, averaging 6.9 on craft and 6.4 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
Barney: And my sister once saw Burt Reynolds at an airport, and he wouldn't even cosign her mortgage.
Barney Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Homer: He's trying to make me look like a bad father. Maggie, take the wheel! Ten and two, Einstein!
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Escalation ★ Rewatch Rainier: Now please, take some sushi, 'cause if I give it to the dogs, they will think, 'Oh, now I get sushi all the time.' And I am not made of sushi.
Rainier Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: Feels good to tell the truth. No, I'm lying again, it feels bad.
Homer Setup/Punchline Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Bart: Dad, you're out of shape even for an American.
Bart Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive All Jokes — 53 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Homer: I don't have to make a wish, because I already have this wonderful family. I wish for infinity hamburgers.
Homer Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer · Bart: Oh, I get it. These are those trick candles you can't blow out. No, Dad, they're the opposite. 'E-Z BLO.' This ends now.
Marge: It's okay, Homie. You're probably just tired from not doing anything all day.
Marge Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bart: Dad, you're out of shape even for an American.
Bart Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive Homer: How many did I get? None? That's cool.
Homer Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Chief Wiggum: You know how many fires are started by birthday candles? If you do, tell me. It would settle a bet down at the station house. I say five, Gus says a million.
Homer: Feels good to tell the truth. No, I'm lying again, it feels bad.
Homer Setup/Punchline Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Marge · Lisa: Our kids used to be so cute. Used to?! Oh, deal with it.
Lisa: So I made this elaborate decision tree, which in itself is worthy of preservation.
Lisa Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Lisa: I picked my Malibu Stacy hybrid convertible. It runs on her old make up and out-of-style shoes.
Lisa Absurdist Character Comedy Grandpa Simpson: Where do the kids today get these band names? 'The Kinks?' 'The Stones?' Sounds like my last physical!
Grandpa Simpson: You see all those crazy new electronics? iPod... iTunes... I give up!
Lisa: I don't know-- maybe the Krusty doll accidentally turned on the car's headlight, which focused on the cologne bottle, causing it to boil, and soon explode.
Lisa Absurdist Character Comedy Homer: What's the deal with this 'California pizza'? If I wanted... cheese and fruit, I'd have to...
Homer Observational Setup/Punchline Marge: It's like what a resume is for a man.
Marge Character Comedy Observational Bart: Lisa, you fool. You've doomed us all.
Bart Escalation Character Comedy Comic Book Guy: Oh, man, I thought I was strong enough to get through this again, but I'm not.
Comic Book Guy: Oh, Captain Janeway! Your mission ended too soon. Too soon.
Homer · Marge: Here I am on the space shuttle, orbiting Earth. It sure was nice of NASA to send you up again.
Marge: Duffman's on a date with Booberella. He's supposed to be in a stable, long-term gay relationship.
Marge Character Comedy Observational Tabloid Editor: Like Lindsay Lohan looking drunk, high and bony. Click, click, career over, see ya in the gutter, freckles!
Homer: Moderately wealthy? Whee! I'm sort of rich! I can rent anything I want!
Homer Character Comedy Escalation Krusty: Your head dinged my door panel! Jerks like you ought to be shot!
Krusty Character Comedy Escalation Homer · Gabbo: How about you, Gabbo? Ay-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi! Okay, how about an autograph for my kids? Well, when you put it that way... Ay-yi-yi-yi-yi yi-yi-yi-yi!
Homer Gabbo Character Comedy Running Gag ★ Rewatch Callback Homer: Imported beer? Seedless grapes? Chewing gum? The clown on this cereal box is just a person.
Homer Escalation Observational ★ Rewatch Bart · Paris Texan: Hey, Paris, I saw a disgusting part of your body on the Internet-- your face! I'm still breaking in this nose!
Betty White · Homer: Hello, Homer. Have you lost weight? Oh, like you care, Betty White. Tell me, how's Maggie? Her name is Marge! I was talking about your baby.
Homer: Your hip-hop CD was boastful and unnecessary.
Homer Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Drederick Tatum · Homer: What are the first three? Nobility, clergy and commoners. Learn your French history.
Homer · Drederick Tatum: What the hell did you do that for? I wanted to remember my place in the book I was reading.
Homer · Lisa: Boy, I never thought I'd have my own darkroom. Yes, but why does it have to be in my bedroom?
Homer: Kids they always say they're not tired when they're the most tired of all.
Homer Observational Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Marge · Store Clerk: Sideshow Mel is in a custody battle?! And it's turning bitter? If you read one more thing, it is a purchase.
Homer · Helicopter Pilot: Did I attach the harness?! No! Should attach it for you?! If you don't mind...!
Minister · Homer: Do you, Rainier Luftwaffe Wolfcastle, take Maria Shriver-Kennedy-Quimby... Up, up, and annoy!
Homer: Yes! I also wreck bar mitzvahs!
Homer Escalation Character Comedy Homer: First Amendment rules, privacy drools!
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Rainier · Krusty: Krusty, your response was the least funny. I'm a visual comedian. Did you get the j-peg? Wouldn't open.
Krusty: How are you gonna help us, Beefaroni?
Krusty Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Rainier: Now please, take some sushi, 'cause if I give it to the dogs, they will think, 'Oh, now I get sushi all the time.' And I am not made of sushi.
Rainier Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: Now, Maggie, I had to use your car seat to hold the new TV Guide... so I'm gonna hang you from the mirror.
Homer Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Homer: He's trying to make me look like a bad father. Maggie, take the wheel! Ten and two, Einstein!
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Escalation ★ Rewatch Tabloid Editor: I have no friends. Friends take time. And time is money, and money pays for things, like a manicure and a boiled egg.
Homer: So long, anti-clotting agent! Clot, clot, clot, clot clot, clot, clot, clot!
Homer Physical/Slapstick Escalation Celebrity · Celebrity: With Homer Simpson out of the way, we can go back to our lives of sybaritic excess. Stem cell fajita?
Barney: You know who I can't stand? That Robin Williams. You know, one time I saw him eating dinner with his children. He wouldn't take the time out to do all the funny bits from his movies.
Barney Observational Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Barney: And my sister once saw Burt Reynolds at an airport, and he wouldn't even cosign her mortgage.
Barney Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Moe: I was gonna use it to take secret photos in the ladies' toilet, but, uh, no dames ever come in this joint.
Moe Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Women · Moe: Excuse me, do you have a ladies' room? We need to trade bras and panties. Oh, you got to be kidding me!
Women Moe Irony/Sarcasm Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Callback Customer · Moe: You call this a drink? No, I never called it a drink.
Homer: Let one of us regular guys write a terrible children's book!
Homer Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer · Rainier: Say, Rainier, you're in show business. Would you mind taking a look at this screenplay I wrote? Oh, sorry. I do not read unsolicited manuscripts.
Homer: Well, at least it got made.
Homer Visual Gag Deadpan/Understatement Top Episodes — The Simpsons
