With Lisa's encouragement, Marge pursues her dream of becoming a ballerina. But when Marge auditions at the ballet academy, Lisa is invited to enroll. Unfortunately, Lisa becomes addicted to secondhand smoke from the other dancers. Meanwhile, Homer's beef-jerky operation runs into a snag.
WAR
46.8
Wins Above Replacement
“Smoke On The Daughter” ranks #382 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 75.8 — Great. The episode packs 72 scored jokes at 4.3 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.3 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
Marge: It's upstairs in my Disappointment Closet.
Marge Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Marge: It stunts your growth. And it's marketed to children. I'm talking about ballet.
Marge Misdirection Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Bart: Does that mean I can stop training to be a Mexican wrestler?
Bart Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Chazz Busby: Wednesday, you see I'm a heartless bastard. Thursday you realize you love me, damn it. Friday, we're closed.
Marge: I'm pretty sure you'll have your dad's boobs.
Marge Character Comedy Visual Gag All Jokes — 72 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Bart: Wait in line for a book?! You tell 'em Bart says hey.
Bart Character Comedy Observational Bart: I'm not a nerd. I'm a jock who's too cool for sports.
Bart Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Comic Book Guy: I read a rumor Spider-man's in it.
Lisa: I based my costume on the books, not the movies.
Lisa Character Comedy Observational Moe Escalation Character Comedy Moe: It's for my kid! Eureka!
Moe Character Comedy Misdirection Moe: Do the character voices!
Moe Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Homer: Maluicious Krubb is actually Kraluicious Mubb.
Homer Wordplay/Pun Absurdist Homer: Magic, magic, magic, all is won.
Homer Observational Misdirection Homer: But kids, I want you in bed by 3:00 a.m. Hey, somebody's got to be the bad guy.
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Homer: Well, maybe he reached out done and killed someone.
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Homer: Stop saying things, Bart. That's the TV's job.
Homer Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Chazz Busby: 'Cause only I can teach it and I ain't taught you, so you don't
Marge Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Chazz Busby: Wednesday, you see I'm a heartless bastard. Thursday you realize you love me, damn it. Friday, we're closed.
Marge: It's upstairs in my Disappointment Closet.
Marge Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Marge: doctor, safecracker, stethoscope sales lady
Marge: My bosoms came in and ruined my balance.
Marge Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Marge: They came in one at a time.
Marge Escalation Cringe/Discomfort Marge: I'm pretty sure you'll have your dad's boobs.
Marge Character Comedy Visual Gag Homer: You mean she danced well, into her 70s? Or she danced, well into her 70s?
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Homer Character Comedy Misdirection Chazz Busby: Closed in a week. Too smart for the corndog crowd, too dumb for the bagel bunch.
Homer · Bart: You have a drinking problem? I said secret.
Bart Misdirection Character Comedy Homer: The queen of all the jerkys!
Homer Character Comedy Escalation Homer: Some of that is cow blood.
Homer Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement Marge Physical/Slapstick Visual Gag Chazz Busby: How can they teach if they can't do? Get out!
Lisa: This is how I always stand when I tell adults what they should be doing.
Lisa Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Chazz Busby: married your plastic surgeon, retired, and then un-retired in a special little show called Woman of the Year
Ballerina: We balerinas are under constant pressure to stay focused, skinny, graceful and skinny.
Ballerina: But for every ballerina in the world, it's cigarettes.
Lisa: Zack's life wasn't so sweet then.
Lisa Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Ballerina: If God didn't want ballerinas to smoke, how come I can do this?
Chazz Busby: Maybe it's all the secondhand 'focus' and 'pep' you are inhaling.
Ballerina · Chazz: I thought they were cancer sticks. I dan't dear dou!
Homer: Step into our Jerkatorium.
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Apu: You have made a very powerless enemy.
Apu Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Apu: You can skip the 'K' and the 'Y.'
Apu Character Comedy Misdirection Ned Flanders: As the oak said to the beagle, you're barkin' up the wrong tree.
Ned Flanders: I spent the whole morning blacking out the 'goshes' and 'darns' in these Hardy Boys books.
Ned Flanders: Ah! 'heck, darn.' I don't think so.
Ned Flanders: I don't think so.
Cigarette Vision: You mean losers like... Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret Mead, Queen Elizabeth I, Lauren Bacall...
Lillian Hellman: Bring out the Hellman's, and bring out the best.
Homer: I brought the best weapon to operate while drugged: a crossbow.
Homer Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Homer: Lisa the dancing Marge girl.
Homer Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Homer: That wasn't a defeat, it was a phased withdrawal.
Homer Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Homer: When you cut 'em, they multiply. I can't fight that!
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Callback Homer: Look, there's a Homer and a Bart and a Marge and a Lisa.
Homer Visual Gag Character Comedy Homer: and, one day, you'll grow up to be people.
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy Chazz Busby: When the big cigarette hits 9.
Chazz Busby: Hit the river, ladies. Go ahead, have a wallow.
Homer: A 'sturgeon' is a fish. And a very wise fish he is!
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Homer: Oh, fatherhood hurts my brain.
Homer Character Comedy Reaction Beat Bart: I'm gonna stick to you like waffle syrup on a shag rug.
Bart Character Comedy Escalation Bart: I'm gonna be on you like fish stink on a Gloucester dog.
Bart Escalation Character Comedy Callback Chazz Busby: Hey, I'm still paying for that nose!
Ballerina: If you don't breathe it, that smoke might go into a baby.
Homer Misdirection Character Comedy Lisa: Not keys, cigarettes!
Bart: Yeah, that's what I mean.
Bart Misdirection Character Comedy Pregnant Woman: Can't. I'm pregnant.
Ballerina: That's your finger!
Ballerina: I'll spit on your grave, grandma!
Chazz Busby: Crap Like This. Ran for five years.
Chazz Busby Setup/Punchline Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Marge: It stunts your growth. And it's marketed to children. I'm talking about ballet.
Marge Misdirection Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Chazz Busby: You'll never take down big ballet! Never!
Bart: Does that mean I can stop training to be a Mexican wrestler?
Bart Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Homer: No! Now practice preening to the crowd, El Guapo.
Homer Character Comedy Escalation Homer: You feed on their hatred and you are so hungry!
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