Lisa sees poetry in the notes Moe sticks to the walls of his hotel room, so she sends his work to a poetry journal, which publishes it, making Moe the toast of the literary circuit.
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“Moena Lisa” ranks #284 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 78.2 — Elite. The episode packs 54 scored jokes at 3.1 per minute, averaging 7.2 on craft and 6.5 on impact, with Moe landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Moe: Happy birthday to me, I feel so damn lonely, Won't someone kill me... And many more.
Moe Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Moe: Happy birthday to me / I feel so damn lonely / Won't someone kill me... / And many more.
Moe Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Grampa: I threw a javelin that barely missed Hitler. But I did hit an assassin who was trying to kill Hitler.
Grampa Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Grampa: The next time I saw Hitler, we had dinner and laughed about it.
Grampa Dark/Subversive Escalation Moe: You ever scrub your hands real fast, and you think you're seeing a third one? One time I looked down and there really was. I gotta get a new lock for that bathroom.
Moe Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 54 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Homer: Homer struggling to remember something, muttering to his memory to wake up
Homer Character Comedy Observational Homer · Marge: Is it our anniversary? No, we don't have one this year.
Homer: Don't you dare go limp. Too late. The deed is done. Kids, grab a fold.
Homer Cringe/Discomfort Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Moe: Moe's increasingly desperate voicemail messages about his birthday fishing trip
Moe Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Grampa: I threw a javelin that barely missed Hitler. But I did hit an assassin who was trying to kill Hitler.
Grampa Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Grampa: The next time I saw Hitler, we had dinner and laughed about it.
Grampa Dark/Subversive Escalation Lisa: What is this? Kill Hitler day?
Lisa Reaction Beat Observational Comic Book Guy · Lisa: I collect Absolut ads. How many others do you have? There are others?
Marge: Well, it's not fair when Moleman uses his replacement legs.
Grampa: Oh, it's clouding up. I better put on me rain poncho.
Grampa Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Official: Sir! You dropped your munchers!
Grampa: You'll never take me alive, Grim Reaper
Grampa Absurdist Character Comedy Grampa: Take the boy. His soul is fresher.
Grampa Dark/Subversive Escalation Bart: I've never been happier.
Bart Reaction Beat Dark/Subversive Lisa: I wonder if the dog thought about us while we were gone.
Lisa Visual Gag Setup/Punchline Moe: Everybody hide! Finally, that jerk Homer is home. Oh, it's just his car.
Moe Cringe/Discomfort Escalation Moe: Happy birthday to me, I feel so damn lonely, Won't someone kill me... And many more.
Moe Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Moe: Happy birthday to me / I feel so damn lonely / Won't someone kill me... / And many more.
Moe Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Marge · Homer: Homer, we can't scuttle like crabs for the rest of our lives. Says you.
Homer · Marge: Dear Pus Bag? Whoa, Marge, who'd you piss off? It's for you, Pus Bag!
Moe: But you shattered my dreams like a Duff tall boy in a bar brawl, and you jammed the jagged neck right up my heart's butt.
Moe Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Lisa: What a deep, tormented soul.
Lisa Irony/Sarcasm Reaction Beat Nelson Running Gag Reaction Beat Moe: Still in the top three. Still in the top ten.
Moe Escalation Character Comedy Moe: I ain't no great man, like Bob Seger or Haystacks Calhoun.
Moe Character Comedy Observational Lisa · Moe · Woman: Moe, you live in a hotel? You're just like Eloise! Did someone say my name?
Bart · Moe: This vibrating massage chair feels great! That ain't a massage chair. It's just full of cockroaches. See?
Moe: I was in the Christmas pageant once. Mom showed up with a new boyfriend. He called me Steve.
Moe Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Barney: Ooh, Moe's a poet! He has a soul! Flutter your wings! It's tea time in Buttercup Junction!
Barney Character Comedy Escalation Barney: Ooh, you love a man!
Barney Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Moe: What-which why-liot's the who-now?
Moe Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Moe: It jumps out at you like a rat in your underwear drawer.
Moe Character Comedy Observational Homer: There once was a rapping tomato, That's right, I said 'rapping tomato', He rapped all day from April to May, And also, guess what, it was me.
Homer Absurdist Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Poetry Editor: Stop the presses! Send my wife some flowers! And bring me an Advil! What do you mean you don't work for me?! You're hired! Now that you're hired, you're fired! Now that you don't work here, we can be friends. Now that we're friends, how come you never call? Some friend you are! God, I love this business.
Editor · Maya Angelou: Bad news, Maya Angelou: you've been bumped. ...you can't bump me... ...bump you!
Moe: Screw you, snail trail! Who was that? Eh, some jerk making a prank call with a gag name: 'Tom Wolfe.'
Moe Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Marge · Homer: Homer, don't drink and drive! Fine. I'll drive between sips.
Rhode Island Trooper: Including Rhode Island! We're a small state, but we give big tickets.
Tom Wolfe: He stands, stoop-shouldered, blinking in the light, hollow-chested like a dough-faced fall guy who's made a career of taking dives but has decided to get his manhood out of hock and take a shot at the title.
Tom Wolfe Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Moe: You ever scrub your hands real fast, and you think you're seeing a third one? One time I looked down and there really was. I gotta get a new lock for that bathroom.
Moe Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Gore Vidal: 1876 was the price I paid for gas once. I thought of Burr when I saw it written on an Eskimo Pie package.
Moe: Whoa, clear water. Swanky! Woo-hoo.
Moe Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Moe: Well, I dunno, uh... the only book I ever read was Super Hounds: The Ultimate Greyhound Betting System. So, uh, any of you wetnaps write that?
Moe Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Homer: Man, couples in this state sure like to clink glasses.
Homer Observational Visual Gag Vermont Local · Homer: That was my house, you moron. Oh, I'm sorry. We should exchange insurance information. I have none.
Moe: Hey, hey, hey. Hey, st... stupid geese, you're eating my brilliance. Hey, hey, I will break your beak.
Moe Physical/Slapstick Escalation Moe: Yeah, go on, you cowards. Fly off in a 'V'.
Moe Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: Oh, honey, don't cry. They're not made from real bears just their fur and noses.
Homer Absurdist Dark/Subversive Moe · Audience: Elevator capacity: 2,400 pounds. Inspection Certificate available in hotel manager's office. You just pulled that off the wall of the elevator.
Moe: Ode to Lisa: Pointy-headed mini-muse, More friend than I deserved, You pulled me from the dirt, And made me the beautiful flower that I am.
Moe Character Comedy Callback Callback Moe: Except for those two dudes I saw getting hitched. Not my thing, but I wish 'em well.
Moe Character Comedy Callback Callback Moe: Except for those two dudes I saw gettin' hitched. Not my thing, but I wish 'em well.
Moe Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Jonathan Franzen: Ooh, you fight like Anne Rice.
J. Jonah Jameson: I need photos. Photos of Spider-Man. This is a poetry journal. Okay, then poems about Spider-Man.
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