Homer cheats on his diet, so Marge gets a reality show called "The Sneakers" to check up on him. Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa fear that a prank they played on Martin Prince had deadly consequences.
WAR
73.8
Wins Above Replacement
“Dial N For Nerder” ranks #23 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 87.5 — Elite. The episode packs 69 scored jokes at 4.4 per minute, averaging 7.3 on craft and 6.9 on impact, with Bart landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Principal Skinner: Martin was a shy, awkward child who will never fulfill his promise to become a weird, unloved adult.
Lisa: I learned that beneath my goody two-shoes lie some very dark socks.
Lisa Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jimbo: Usually when I do something bad, I feel good. But not this time. Martin was like Jesus, only real.
Jimbo Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Martin: I spent an hour fashioning an escape raft and three days crafting this modesty skirt.
Martin Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bart: And I learned that killing a nerd is not as fun as it sounds.
Bart Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 69 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Homer: Come and get me, you syrupy stack of man-cakes.
Homer Wordplay/Pun Absurdist ★ Rewatch Homer: It's too much work. Why don't you come and get me?
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Homer: Oh, boy, dinner time! The perfect break between work and drunk.
Homer Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: Wait. What's that smell? It's like a stalk of broccoli fell in a pot of boiling water.
Homer Observational Character Comedy Homer: But I have all those old diets I still haven't finished.
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Homer: I'll bet no man would touch you.
Homer Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Betsy: Bell pepper repetition sequence - Instead of French toast... bell pepper, craving sugar... bell pepper, want beer... bell pepper
Betsy Running Gag Escalation ★ Rewatch Homer: It's tangy like a pepper, but crunchy like a bell!
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Vendor: Bell peppers... piping cold, crunchy and bland.
Homer Callback Character Comedy Callback Homer · Marge: Well, they say muscle weighs more than fat. / Homer, your body is all fat.
Homer: I'm not even gonna dignify that with eye contact.
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Homer: I'm looking for something, too... a bell pepper I don't like. Maybe it'll be this one. Wrong again.
Homer Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Bart · Lisa: See that fat lady with the moustache? That's you. See that hippo rolling in dung? You're the dung.
Bart: Oh, but hers was better!
Bart Character Comedy Reaction Beat Jennifer: He used to be so loving. Now he says he's always working late, but when he comes home, his needles aren't even bloody!
Jennifer Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch TV Host: Most cheating happens when you think everything is just great.
TV Host Dark/Subversive Observational Marge: Out of the house, kids! I have to make an adult phone call.
Marge Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Bart · Lisa: Oh, man, not again... How would you...? Come on.
Sign: Springfield's National Park - Now smaller than ever
Sign Visual Gag Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Bart: The Internet wrote it. I just handed it in.
Bart Observational Character Comedy Bart · Lisa: Cool! The strong kicking the weak's butt. / It's disgusting!
Marge: I didn't used to mind it when he'd lock the bathroom door and snack off, but when he's getting it regular, night after night after night...
Marge Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Bart · Lisa: Dude, it's Saturday. What kind of a freak wastes his...? / May I join you?
Martin · Bart: You can brush, and I can blow! / Well, I agree you blow. / A lot of people blow, but no one blows like you.
Bart · Lisa: When you look up blow in the dictionary... / Bart, he's not gonna get it!
Bart Lisa Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bart: The bone's the very thing, methinks, to prank my sister and the dink.
Bart Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Martin · Bart: It could be one of the major homos! / You're one of the major...
Bart: I can bike away much faster, and ring the bell to drown out bad thoughts!
Bart Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Bart · TV: Let's watch TV! / Happy, happy safe at home
Bart TV Irony/Sarcasm Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Kent Brockman: Sadly, his pocket was protected, but nothing else.
Lou · Chief Wiggum: Chief, that's evidence. / I know, but after it's evidence, it's a shirt again, isn't it?
Chief Wiggum: Hmm? Oh, dead. Definitely dead.
Bart: Hey, I was trying to help him. At worst, I'm an accomplice.
Bart Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Lisa · Bookmobile driver: Got any Joyce Carol Oates? / Nope. It's all Danielle Steel.
Lisa: I'm saying this is worse than a million A minuses!
Lisa Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Bart · Marge: We were never outside. We were here all day. / That quick talking is never a good sign.
Homer: I, uh,... have to count the atoms at the nuclear plant. Conservation of mass. It's the law.
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist TV Producer: It'll finally win me the respect of my father, the Reverend Billy Graham, Junior.
Principal Skinner: Martin Priss, Martin Princess, Fartin' Prince, Martin the Brown-Nosed Reindeer
Principal Skinner: Martin was a shy, awkward child who will never fulfill his promise to become a weird, unloved adult.
Jimbo: Usually when I do something bad, I feel good. But not this time. Martin was like Jesus, only real.
Jimbo Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Nelson · Jimbo: Martin was afraid of heights. What's he doing on a cliff? It don't add up. / Hey, look who's trying to add.
Cameraman · Producer: I used to make documentaries about coal miners, migrant workers, things that mattered. / Yeah yeah, we're all whores. Just get in there.
Bart · Lisa: What do you mean 'what's up'? Why would something be up? Yeah, nothing's up, nothing's down, except for Martin, who died.
Bart Lisa Cringe/Discomfort Dark/Subversive Homer: Well, I certainly wasn't eating chips and salsa from this briefcase.
Homer Character Comedy Callback Callback Milhouse · Bart: Hey, you little murderer. / What?! / Those shades are killing me, they're so cute.
Lisa · Bart: We can't be seen together. / But we're brother and sister. / Exactly.
Chief Wiggum: I like how 'Kwik' is spelled with a 'K.' It's a quicker way of spelling 'quick.'
Chief Wiggum: Found this bone tied to a string. Almost like someone was playing a prank on him.
Bart · Dr. Hibbert: Everyone likes pranks, e-even Dr. Hibbert. / I hate pranks.
Bart (note): I can't live with the guilt. I'm going to Martin's house to end it all
Bart: By which I meant bring Martin's butterfly project to completion.
Bart Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Bart: I'm on a freight train to Crazy Town.
Bart Character Comedy Escalation Tape player: Congratulations on purchasing the Sanyo DL30, the finest non-reversing tape player
Martin's Recording: Clawdy-claw, clickety-cloo, clawdy-claw...
Homer: Pudding power, activate!
Marge: I'd rather have a chubby hubby than a sexy exy.
Marge Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Homer: If there was a reality show called Fat Guys Who Really Love Their Wives, not only would it be an enormous ratings success, but I'd be the first one on it.
Homer Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch TV Producer: I'm going to the editing room to make you look insane.
TV Producer Dark/Subversive Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Bart: I almost flicked an innocent butterfly.
Bart Character Comedy Escalation Lisa: Listen, world, we killed Martin Prince!
Lisa Character Comedy Escalation Nelson: You almost got away with it, but here's where you got sloppy: shouting out that you did it.
Nelson Character Comedy Observational Lisa: I'll let you cherry-bomb my Malibu Stacy.
Lisa Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Martin: To quote Mark Twain, 'rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.'
Martin: For years I've worn underwear with a wedgie-accommodating waistband. On that fateful day, these mighty whiteys saved my life.
Martin Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Martin: I spent an hour fashioning an escape raft and three days crafting this modesty skirt.
Martin Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Lisa: I learned that beneath my goody two-shoes lie some very dark socks.
Lisa Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bart: And I learned that killing a nerd is not as fun as it sounds.
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