Lisa makes a film about her family that gets accepted by the Sundance Film Festival, and the Simpsons go to Park City, Utah, to attend.
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Wins Above Replacement
“Any Given Sundance” ranks #78 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 83.8 — Elite. The episode packs 64 scored jokes at 3.5 per minute, averaging 7.3 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.
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Top Jokes
Nelson: I like to cry at the ocean, because only there do my tears seem small.
Nelson Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Lisa: Springfield U sucks! A&M cheerleaders are clumsy! Your superstar professors treat undergrads like an afterthought! Your tenure track is heavily politicized!
Lisa Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Chalmers: The whole school is made up of modeling clay. Every afternoon, they reshape it just to get my goat.
Chalmers Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: What child birth is to women, eating trunk meats is to the bewanged.
Homer Absurdist Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Chalmers: I'm thrilled! Or would have been, if not for your knee-jerk assumption that I'm angry at you, which I am now.
Chalmers Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 64 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Homer: Behold the tailgate party, the pinnacle of human achievement!
Homer Absurdist Observational ★ Rewatch Homer: What child birth is to women, eating trunk meats is to the bewanged.
Homer Absurdist Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Homer · Marge: What could be greater than eating and drinking for hours in a drizzly parking lot? - Anything. - No. Everything is better. - Anything! - Everything!
Ralph: Daddy, I made a Ralphwich!
Ralph Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Ralph Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Chief Wiggum: No, no, no. I'm sorry. It's food. It's food. Everything's what you say it is.
Homer: When you know the people you're begging from, it's mooching.
Homer Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: Moleman! Come here, ya big bag o' skin!
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Lisa: Springfield U sucks! A&M cheerleaders are clumsy! Your superstar professors treat undergrads like an afterthought! Your tenure track is heavily politicized!
Lisa Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Lisa: Well, I guess I could cut loose and do a little homework.
Lisa Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Lisa: I am a born film maker!
Lisa Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Lisa · Mr. Kincaid: Three points out of a possible five. Ah, that's a funny joke, Mr. Kincaid. Is this an art class or a comedy class?
Mr. Kincaid · Lisa: I can make it a two. - Three it is!
Skinner: It's as if Ingmar Bergman and Penny Marshall had a baby.
Skinner Absurdist Observational ★ Rewatch Skinner: When Edna Met Seymour, Ghost Willie, Killing Seymour's Mother, The Principal Who Sold a Screenplay.
Skinner Running Gag Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Skinner: Orlando or Hollywood? There's one in Hollywood?!
Skinner Character Comedy Reaction Beat Skinner · Lisa: Not the smarty-pants answer. Where's the drama in your life? - My family! - Language, rhythm and spectacle.
Skinner: All I ask is, if you ever win an Oscar... give it to me.
Skinner Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Skinner: Those cabinetmakers laughed at me, but they'll see.
Skinner Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Homer · Lisa: Can I be Smithers? - No, Dad, I want you to play Homer Simpson. - Why, 'cause I'm fat?
Bart: What, I'm going for a Shia LaBeouf thing. Not quite a nerd, not quite a hunk... Shia LaBeouf!
Bart Observational Character Comedy Bart: Uh-oh, there's already an on-set romance.
Bart Observational Meta/Self-Referential Marge: Homie, she's not making a snuggle film.
Marge Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Chalmers: I'm thrilled! Or would have been, if not for your knee-jerk assumption that I'm angry at you, which I am now.
Chalmers Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Chalmers: The whole school is made up of modeling clay. Every afternoon, they reshape it just to get my goat.
Chalmers Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Chalmers: Banff? Banff, Shmanff. I'm talking about Sundance!
Chalmers: If Lisa's movie gets in, we won't just be the school with the highest hamster mortality rate. Ah, so young. We'll also have a kid who did a thing.
Chalmers Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Sundance Judge: Paul Giamatti... is the world's greatest superspy... who only exists in the mind of an overweight agoraphobic jazz musician... played by Martin Lawrence in a fat suit.
Sundance Judge: Oh, and she's eight years old!
Homer: Save the Children? Save your breath. Take a hike, Sierra Club. Doctors without Borders? Doctors without money!
Homer Escalation Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Homer: Robert Redford? Guess what. A scissor runs through it.
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Bumblebee Man: Aye, los DVDs! With director's commentary and deleted scenes!
Jim Jarmusch: Who are you? I try to answer that question in my films. What else? I can eat a raw onion without crying.
Jim Jarmusch: Yeah, but I'm crying about something else. What? This is the last time we'll ever be together.
Homer: I get it. Every title means the opposite of what it means. Then I bet I'll love Chernobyl Graveyard.
Homer Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Homer Callback Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Lisa · Bart · Homer: You know these guys? I've never seen them before. Uh... we, uh... He's... He's, uh... he's, uh... That's a joke.
Homer · Marge: This can't be real. It isn't. You crashed and now you're lying unconscious in a snowbank.
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Homer: Why... doesn't... life... give me... ladders?!
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Audience Member: They're like the family from hell on acid that's on steroids.
Lisa Reaction Beat Visual Gag Audience: Brava, Lisa! Shame on Marge! Death to Maggie!
Bart: I knew you were lame, but I never imagined you were bogus.
Bart Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Marge: Quirky? Quirky is a grandma who gives people the finger. You made us look like monsters.
Marge Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Reviewer: Landspeeder, do not Bantha, to your nearest cinema
Reviewer · Homer: I'm sorry. You're too late. I have just hit 'enter,' sending the wi-fi beams along their way. Not if I can help it. Come here, beams, come on. Hey, hey, where you going? Come... Oh, there's too many.
Agent: I just said I was thinking of adopting Scarlett Johansson. I mean, is that so wrong?
Agent Cringe/Discomfort Absurdist Skinner: We want ten percent of the first-dollar gross, full European distribution rights, and access to the most exclusive VIP tent in Sundance.
Skinner Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Principal Skinner: They don't even know that my pockets are full of bottled water and cornbread.
Skinner: They don't even know that my pockets are full of bottled water and cornbread.
Skinner Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Bart: I never wanted to be famous for being mean. I wanted to be famous for catching Santa Claus.
Bart Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Lisa · Jim Jarmusch: That doesn't sound like your kind of movie. It will be. Check out the poster.
Skinner: That's why they call me 'Two Basket' Skinner. What? They do.
Skinner Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Nelson's Mom: You're going to be the classiest girl at Classy Girls.
Nelson's Mom: If I want that golf umbrella, I got to get to smoking.
Nelson: I like to cry at the ocean, because only there do my tears seem small.
Nelson Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jim Jarmusch · Lisa: True, but I was also teaching you that festival buzz is, like my movie Coffee and Cigarettes, a funny thing. - Did you see it? - Well, I, uh... That's okay. I know you did.
Jim Jarmusch · Lisa: True, but I was also teaching you that festival buzz is, like my movie Coffee and Cigarettes, a funny thing. - Did you see it? - Well, I, uh... - That's okay. I know you did.
Jim Jarmusch: And now, like the best independent films, I must fade out with a cool dissolve. That hurts.
Jim Jarmusch Meta/Self-Referential Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Homer · Marge: We'll be in another movie, and this time we'll act really bad. No more Simpsons movies. One was plenty.
Principal Skinner: I'm not going to lie to you guys. John C. Reilly would love to be in the Chalmskinn business.
John C. Reilly: Read it? I lived it. I am Ghost Willie. Check this out.
Chalmers: Why can't you be a gentle clinker?
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