Lisa receives Springfield's Entertainer of the Year Award, and Sideshow Mel narrates her history in showbiz in a wry spoof of "All About Eve."
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“All About Lisa” ranks #467 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 73.2 — Solid. The episode packs 52 scored jokes at 2.6 per minute, averaging 6.8 on craft and 6.3 on impact, with Krusty landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Mr. Burns: Yes, but the problem is, if you had it, I wouldn't.
Mr. Burns Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Krusty: That's right. All except the successful ones.
Krusty Deadpan/Understatement Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Krusty: I'm gonna call you 'The Goy Wonder.' Because I don't remember your name.
Krusty Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Krusty: To make Bart a Krusketeer? Hell, no. To make you my new intern.
Krusty Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Krusty: I wish I was paying you, so I could dock your salary.
Krusty Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 52 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Narrator: There are more stars here tonight than you can see in the sky, thanks to light pollution.
Narrator Observational Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Narrator: Here comes the magnificently-mammaried, mistress of midnight movie mayhem, Booberella.
Gabbo: Get a job, parasites.
Gabbo Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Narrator: An award so prestigious, that it recently won the 'Award of the Year' award at the 2007 Awardy Awards.
Narrator Absurdist Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Narrator: Nor him. Nor ham.
Drew Carey: I remember watching him as a kid, and I thought, 'I could do that, and I'm a kid.'
Drew Carey: but to find out what, you've gotta test his pee. Pee! Seriously, test his pee. He's a danger to the community.
Drew Carey: And now I give you a man whose act will never grow old, because it started out that way:
Krusty: I never thought I'd make it past 400 episodes, what with the drinking and the smoking and the fact that I'm just not that good.
Krusty Escalation Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Krusty: Hey! Quit steppin' on my solo, ya creepy little show monkeys!
Krusty Character Comedy Reaction Beat Former Krusketeer: You owe me money, Krusty. I did time for you, clown. Hard time.
Krusty: That's right. All except the successful ones.
Krusty Deadpan/Understatement Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Krusty: As long you're willing to sign a 20 year personal services contract where I get 99% of all your earnings.
Krusty Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Lisa: For a second there, he hoped I got it.
Lisa Observational Reaction Beat Krusty: Sorry I'm four hours late.
Krusty Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bart: For my first impression... I'm a lantern fish.
Bart Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bart: Now I'm a jack-o'-lantern. E.T. B.E.T.
Bart Wordplay/Pun Escalation Homer: My son's a good-for-somethin'!
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Krusty: You kids were all terrific. I wish I could make each of you a Krusketeer, but we only have enough money for one. Plus, I don't really want to.
Krusty Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Wilbur Mudd: Here's Mudd in your eye.
Lisa: Did you know the Discovery Channel doesn't have a single paid employee?
Lisa Observational Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Krusty: To make Bart a Krusketeer? Hell, no. To make you my new intern.
Krusty Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Krusty: Now go get me my dry-cleaning, which is my code word for scotch. And get me a scotch, which is my code word for my bookie. Also, go get my dry-cleaning.
Krusty Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Krusty: I wish I was paying you, so I could dock your salary.
Krusty Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Narrator: Over the years, show business has been home to scoundrels and saints, thespians and harlequins, Abbots and Costelli.
Narrator Wordplay/Pun Observational ★ Rewatch Krusty: Oh, and go to my joke file and make all the 'Sophia Lorens' into 'Lindsay Lohans.'
Krusty Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Krusty: What am I, Al Gore? Just do it.
Krusty Character Comedy Observational Assistant: Yeah, well, my mom says you're a selfish lover.
Krusty: I know what I want and I get it.
Krusty Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Sideshow Mel: Never meet his gaze. And if he mentions Mitzi Gaynor, and he will, for God's sake act like you know who she is.
Krusty: I was gonna say 'cheap Korean animation,' but sure.
Krusty Misdirection Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Bart: Krusty klovnen baby visker!
Bart Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Homer: But you just bought yourself 'ear piercing' and 'strange new feelings.'
Homer Character Comedy Observational Comic Book Guy · Bart: Are you interested in coin collecting? Am I?! No.
Comic Book Guy: I will start you off with this bicentennial quarter and I will throw in my man scrunchie.
Krusty: I'm gonna call you 'The Goy Wonder.' Because I don't remember your name.
Krusty Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bart · Homer: This hobby sucks. Son, all hobbies suck. But if you keep at it, you might find at the end that you've managed to kill some precious time.
Bart Homer Observational Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Homer: The one on the left looks into it, but the one on the right is just experimenting.
Homer Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Lisa Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Krusty · Ron: Which clown? Chuckles? Professor Nitwit? No, you! No Yu, the Chinese Clown?
Krusty: I can be eight! La, la, la, la. I'm eight years old.
Krusty Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Unknown Character: Quick, switch from internal monologue to external dialogue!
Krusty: This is the lowest I've ever sunk and I once made out with a blow-up doll
Krusty Escalation Dark/Subversive Krusty: Sorry you broke up with me now Cindy?
Krusty Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: This is a classic 1978 Pizza Hut! Mmm... terrible.
Homer Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Mr. Burns: But I feel strangely empty. Ooh, there's another coin. That should do it.
Mr. Burns Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Auctioneer: Sir, the promise of cash is not an enticement.
Mr. Burns: Yes, but the problem is, if you had it, I wouldn't.
Mr. Burns Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Mr. Burns: I only gave him four cents for that nickel.
Mr. Burns Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Sideshow Mel: Applause is an addiction, like heroin or checking your e-mail.
Krusty: This just in: I don't give a crap.
Krusty Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Krusty: She crashed her car in to mine and said, 'Look, honey, we have a hybrid.'
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