Flashbacks follow Marge and Homer back to their dating days, when she was a college student and he was working for his father to support her. Then Marge becomes smitten with a professor, so a sorrowful Homer turns to music--and invents grunge.
WAR
60.8
Wins Above Replacement
“That 90S Show” ranks #96 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 83.1 — Elite. The episode packs 62 scored jokes at 3.3 per minute, averaging 7.1 on craft and 6.9 on impact, with Homer landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
Get weekly comedy rankings
Join comedy fans getting new analyses, score drops, and the funniest moments each week. Free, no spam.
Top Jokes
Homer · Marge: At least we know there'll never be a president worse than Bill Clinton. Imagine, lying in a deposition in a civil lawsuit. That's the worst sin a president could commit. There'll never be a worse president. Never.
Homer: I had become diabetic from drinking too many Frappuccinos.
Homer Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Professor August: Actually, Marge, if I may deconstruct that letter. When he writes 'I miss you,' 'I' is the subject and 'you' is the object. You are his object.
Homer · Lisa: Like which kid's their favorite! It's Lisa.
Homer Lisa Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Homer · Marge: At least we know there'll never be a president worse than Bill Clinton. Imagine, lying in a deposition in a civil lawsuit. That's the worst sin a president could commit. There'll never be a worse president. Never.
All Jokes — 62 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Homer: I thought global warming would take care of it. Al Gore can't do anything right.
Homer Observational Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Homer: Big & Tall Halloween Costume catalogue
Homer Visual Gag Character Comedy Homer · Lisa: Like which kid's their favorite! It's Lisa.
Homer Lisa Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Bart: Yeah, what happened while I was chillin' in Dad's junk?
Bart Cringe/Discomfort Wordplay/Pun Bart: Come on. More turbulent than now? We're in every kind of therapy.
Bart Irony/Sarcasm Observational ★ Rewatch Homer: The Iraq war was over once and for all, a struggling Matt Groening created Futurama
Homer Meta/Self-Referential Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Kirk: I'll know who you were with in less than six hours! Unless someone picks up the phone.
Kirk Observational ★ Rewatch Homer: With you, baby, Top Ramen tastes like Cup O' Noodles.
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Marge: I want to wait until I'm married, or at least really drunk.
Marge Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Homer: Sonic The hedgehog says 'Wait until marriage'.
Homer Absurdist Observational ★ Rewatch Homer: inoffensive urban light hip-hop smooth grooves
Homer Wordplay/Pun Observational Homer · Band: I'll make rub to you / Backrub all night long!
Homer: I thought you were telling me you wanted to apply yourself to making a collage.
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Homer: And as I recall, I was against it.
Homer Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Callback Abe · Homer: You're dead! Die! Die! Die! Suck my beam!
Abe: This counts as your break.
Abe Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Professor: And that is why The Lord of the Rings can never be filmed.
Professor August: Good. Now throw them all away!
Professor August: Wrong! They were all white, Protestant, property-owning males.
Student Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement Marge: Fall semester, you just got interesting.
Marge Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Homer Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: Really? I thought it was written by losers.
Homer Character Comedy Misdirection Professor August: If my beads are parted, come right in.
Marge · Homer: I never heard that noise before. Are you sick?
Gas Company Worker: Just shut up, monkey man, and make the gas flow.
Professor August · Marge: Could a tribe of bushmen have invented penicillin? Maybe they already have. But no one asked them.
Homer: no soup for you! Because I am 'master of my domain'. Newman.
Homer Observational Meta/Self-Referential Homer: Can't I get all Zima'd up and have my best girl put salve on my laser burns?
Homer Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Marge · Homer: Are the lasers supposed to burn you? Apparently if all the kids fire at your stomach at once, it adds up.
Professor August: Actually, Marge, if I may deconstruct that letter. When he writes 'I miss you,' 'I' is the subject and 'you' is the object. You are his object.
Student: It's 'Juan' Miro! Stupid townie!
Student Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Student: If you did the former better we'd use the latter less.
Student Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Homer: This place is nothing like Animal House! I smashed a beatnik's guitar and he sued me for damages! Successfully!
Homer Escalation Character Comedy Homer: Guitar Rock Utilizing Nihilist Grunge Energies. Or, as I call it: Grunge!
Homer Wordplay/Pun Absurdist ★ Rewatch Marvin Cobain: Kurt? Kurt? It's Marvin! Your cousin, Marvin Cobain! You know that new sound you're looking for? Well, listen to this!
Groupie · Homer: Hey. Will you sign my boobs? Yeah.
Homer: I'll take the Enron stock; you take the Microsoft stock.
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Observational ★ Rewatch Homer: I just want a tentacle.
Homer Cringe/Discomfort Visual Gag Moe · Homer: I don't sell booze no more. This is a cigar bar now. Fine. Cohiba me.
Moe Homer Observational Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Barney: I wasn't trying to steal your watch. I-I was just comin' on to ya.
Barney Misdirection Character Comedy Marge: I want your knowledge inside me.
Marge Cringe/Discomfort Wordplay/Pun Professor August: Good Goddess! The Patriots deep in Redskin territory. This isn't entertainment; it's genocide!
Professor August: If I were to approach you for a kiss, would you construe that as harassment or give your willing consent?
Weird Al: Raisin bread with applesauce / Tony Danza, he's the boss / Brain freeze!
Weird Al Meta/Self-Referential Absurdist ★ Rewatch Comic Book Guy: He who is tired of Weird Al is tired of life.
Professor August: Everything penis-shaped is bad.
Professor August: Slavery is alive and well in Springfield.
Professor August: Oh, it's statements like that make people say women are stupid.
Marge: Or should I say, Associate Professor Jerk!
Marge Escalation Character Comedy Professor August: I only got denied tenure because my department head is an idiot!
Professor August: I only got denied tenure because my department head is an idiot!
Professor Moose: You're about to get your PhD... Pound Head Down.
Homer/Sadgasm: Mar-ge-rine!
Kurt Loder: This is Kurt Loder reporting from... the '90s.
Marge: Unfortunately, as I later learned, that wasn't heroin. It was insulin. Homer really did need those injections.
Marge Misdirection Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Homer: I had become diabetic from drinking too many Frappuccinos.
Homer Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Homer · Marge: At least we know there'll never be a president worse than Bill Clinton. Imagine, lying in a deposition in a civil lawsuit. That's the worst sin a president could commit. There'll never be a worse president. Never.
Homer · Marge: At least we know there'll never be a president worse than Bill Clinton. Imagine, lying in a deposition in a civil lawsuit. That's the worst sin a president could commit. There'll never be a worse president. Never.
Homer: I mean, unless he had been a little nicer at the beach.
Homer Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Marge: Homie is where my heart is.
Marge Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Professor August: Townies.
Top Episodes — The Simpsons
