Homer is fired and decides to buy an ice-cream truck. Marge makes use of the mountains of Popsicle sticks from Homer's ice-cream consumption by creating sculptures of Springfield citizens with them, leading to a feature about her on the news.
WAR
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Wins Above Replacement
“Ice Cream Of Margie With The Light Blue ” ranks #369 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 76.0 — Great. The episode packs 46 scored jokes at 2.9 per minute, averaging 6.9 on craft and 6.6 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: Well, excuse me for having enormous flaws that I don't work on!
Homer Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: Son, I will not stand for intolerance.
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Homer: Product contains neither ice nor cream. May contain trace elements of Mexican cheese. Do not consume.
Troy McClure: Hey, I do more than TV. I had a one-man show on Broadway. That's who showed up-- one man.
Homer: You give this delightful frozen treat the same respect you would give any lactose-free food. God bless America.
Homer Escalation Absurdist Callback All Jokes — 46 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Bart · Marge: I only eat the clown heads. That's so wasteful. I've always done it. Just like I only eat the eyes off a lobster.
Marge: Your father works very hard to put lobsters on our table. Every night, he comes home exhausted, with his voice too hoarse to talk.
Marge Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Homer: I'm the king of goofing off!
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Homer · coworker: I thought we were playing Cincinnati Time Waste. Oh, in that case...
coworker: When you pass the coffee machine, you're supposed to yell 'hot pot' and eat a sugar cube.
Mr. Burns: On your feet, you sniggering oran-gu-tan.
Mr. Burns: My fat friend, you are hanging by a very thin thread.
Ice cream truck: Come and lick me, big boy. I said lick me!
Homer: Ew! You're not ice cream! Faker.
Homer Reaction Beat Character Comedy Homer · Ice cream man: Change a hundred? Sure. That's $1.50, $1.75, $2.00...
Max's widow: Max loved to talk about his work. How he bored me.
Homer: Why, doesn't he need it? Oh, right.
Homer Reaction Beat Character Comedy Bart · Lisa: Otto, you totally pimped Dad's ride! He was following my design
TV host: Today, we're celebrating women who didn't waste their lives being mommies.
TV host Dark/Subversive Irony/Sarcasm Professor Stein: It's about women who want to breast-feed their own dreams and change the poopy diapers of fulfillment. I call it leaving your 'lega-she.'
Professor Stein: Now her husband asks her for money or as I call it: 'mon-she.'
Homer: I feel like Icarus, flying too close to Apollo's golden orb.
Homer Character Comedy Observational Homer: Product contains neither ice nor cream. May contain trace elements of Mexican cheese. Do not consume.
Ralph Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Homer: Son, I will not stand for intolerance.
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Homer: You give this delightful frozen treat the same respect you would give any lactose-free food. God bless America.
Homer Escalation Absurdist Callback Nelson · Kid: Ooh, thomeone wearth a brathelet. Who'th your boyfriend? Uh... Dr. Osterberg?
Marge · Homer: I just wish I could do something to be remembered by, something that says 'Marge was here' after I'm gone. Oh, honey, what about the time... Everybody loved that.
Marge: Ah, the story of my life. They get the Popsicles, I get the sticks.
Marge Observational Character Comedy Homer: Will America accept a British James Bond? I can't wait to find out.
Homer Meta/Self-Referential Observational Marge · Kent: You think people would be Kent-rested in me? I do.
Moe: My God, it's beauty-ful. I finally see the goodness in myself. Come here, you.
Moe Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Moe: You're not alone anymore. No you ain't. Aw, you're shivering, are you cold?
Moe Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Homer · Marge: This is the most fun I've ever had giving you wood. Homie, this sculpting has made me feel so fulfilled. I'm as hopeful and full of life as I was in the years before I met you.
Rich Texan: Shoot on the 'yee,' not the 'hah.'
Troy McClure: Hey, I do more than TV. I had a one-man show on Broadway. That's who showed up-- one man.
Homer: Our marriage is like soft-serve ice cream. And trust is the hard chocolate shell that keeps it from melting on to our carpet. In 'cone-clusion,' here's the scoop: I love you.
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Homer · Dad · Kid: Attention, losers: this is your chance to buy your kids some frozen love. I'm not going to fall for such a cheap stunt. Mom would.
Homer · Customer: Sorry, I'm all out of ice cream. Already? It's only 38 seconds to 3:00.
Lenny · Carl: I don't know where Carl ends and I begin. See, statements like that are why people think we're gay.
Lenny Carl Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Homer: Well, excuse me for having enormous flaws that I don't work on!
Homer Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: It was giving you those sticks, and watching you smile as you turned them into art. If it would win you back, I would gradually eat all the parts of a motorcycle.
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Homer: I'm laughing in the last one, but it's only 'cause the cat fell down the stairs.
Homer Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Homer: Did you change your name? Is it Kelly? Kelly!
Homer Escalation Character Comedy Comic Book Guy: A complete list of things I have seen or not seen is available on my blog. Your mother is on the 'not seen' list, along with 'a Star Wars film that was any good since the first one.' And even that has been ruined by CGI additions. Bravo, George.
Comic Book Guy: A complete list of things I have seen or not seen is available on my blog. Your mother is on the 'not seen' list, along with 'a Star Wars film that was any good since the first one.'
Homer · Marge: You made me a sculpture of Magilla Gorilla. No, Homer. It's you-- my sweet, perfectly imperfect you.
Marge: Now I know that my lega-she is really a lega-we.
Marge Callback Wordplay/Pun Callback Homer Physical/Slapstick Escalation Future narrator: This statue, subject unknown, is the last remaining example of art before the collapse of the western world. If only we'd known that iPods would unite and overthrow the very humans they entertained.
Human · iPod: What do you want from us?! Nothing. We just like whipping.
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