Sideshow Bob tries again for revenge against the Simpsons.
WAR
36.2
Wins Above Replacement
“Funeral For A Fiend” ranks #465 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 73.2 — Solid. The episode packs 63 scored jokes at 3.4 per minute, averaging 6.8 on craft and 6.4 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
Sideshow Bob: And 'Wes Doobner's World Famous Family Style Rib Huts' is actually an anagram! Welcome to Sideshow Bob's World Famous Family Style Return!
Funeral Singer: Bart stole your nitroglycerin And then your heart infarcked
Lisa · Sideshow Bob: I grew suspicious when I saw the casket had extra room built-in for your feet. Why would your family pay all that extra money of a dead man? Damn these glorious gunboats!
Bart: You stink like my butt!
Bart Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Narrator: Paid for by Cartoon Frogs For Wetlands Destruction.
Narrator Irony/Sarcasm Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 63 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Homer: I ain't tippin' some jerk two bucks to tie a TV to my car. Mama Moe didn't raise no fools.
Homer: Well, I guess I can just keep watching DVDs by following family vans around.
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: Big Bird in China? Won't Grover get lonely? Oh, no, wait. He's hangin' out with Derek Jeter.
Homer Observational Absurdist Homer: Now ignore all the fancy shmancy things thingamajigs, boy.
Homer Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Store Employee: Care to make love, sir?
Homer · Store Employee: That'll be 50 cents, or free with the purchase of a $200 TiVO plus a two-year contract. Sold!
Homer: Come on, Lisa! The TV's been off for five whole minutes!
Homer Character Comedy Escalation Homer: I spit on your corpse, advertisers supporting television.
Homer Escalation Dark/Subversive Homer: TiVo, you've got a season pass to my heart.
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy TV Host: My boyfriend Straightman just proposed...that we go on separate vacations again this year!
Homer: I saved Lost, watched all Rome in a day, and got Two and a half men in two and a half minutes.
Homer Escalation Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Homer: Then I ran out of space and had to choose between Sophie's Choice and Schindler's list. Why is everything Hollywood make so excellent?
Homer Dark/Subversive Irony/Sarcasm Keith Olbermann · Marge: Keith Olbermann?! That's right, content burglar Marge Simpson.
Keith Olbermann: You've been watching TV shows, but skipping the commercials that pay for them. That makes you...the worst person in the world!
Marge · Keith Olbermann: My cousin Marine saw you flying in business class! I was upgraded against my will!
Keith Olbermann: It takes a team of 20 people to keep me that way, without ad money, I'd look like a swamp monster from a child's nightmare!
Keith Olbermann: And under here, I look even worse. Then it gets better, then even worse!
Ryan Leaf: That's why this is the only mop endorsed by me, former NFL draft pick, Ryan Leaf.
Marge: Their commercial featured a talking frog. So tell those idiots in the State Capital to let Union Carbide do their thing.
Marge Irony/Sarcasm Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Narrator: Paid for by Cartoon Frogs For Wetlands Destruction.
Narrator Irony/Sarcasm Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Homer: Sometimes I think about gettin' on a bus and never comin' back.
Homer Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Lisa · Commercial: Good luck with my finicky appetite. We've got ribs. Sold!
Homer: More ribs for me! More ribs for me! More ribs for me?
Homer Running Gag Escalation Sideshow Bob: And 'Wes Doobner's World Famous Family Style Rib Huts' is actually an anagram! Welcome to Sideshow Bob's World Famous Family Style Return!
Homer · Sideshow Bob: I'd like to know if Wes Doobner is aware of what you're doing in his restaurant. I'm Wes Doobner.
Bart: You never ask what we've been up to. We went to the strawberry patch and I picked the most strawberries!
Bart Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Sideshow Bob: Just call me...Slideshow Bob!
Bart Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Sideshow Bob: I snuck into America amidst a bunch of undocumented Canadian comedy writers for The Jimmy Kimmel Show, whatever that is.
Homer · Sideshow Bob: Which one? 'The Hills Have Eyes Three: The Hills Still Have Eyes'.
Lisa · Sideshow Bob: Actually, you made one. What Shakespeare really said was, 'Twere well it were done quickly.'
Sideshow Bob: Come on, Wikipedia, load, you unwieldy behemoth.
Lisa · Sideshow Bob: It's 'hoist with his own petard.' Oh, get a life.
Bart: Young? I'm the oldest kid in my class! By like two years.
Bart Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Judge · Dame Judith: Did they name the Toyota Cressida after the play, or the play after the car? Play first, then car. I just lost a thousand dollars.
Crowd Member: He ordered prank pizzas to 888 Poopy Pants Lane! Poopy Pants Lane ends in the 700 block!
Crowd Member: He cheats at Uno!
Sideshow Bob · Crowd · Bart: Nitroglycerin! Everybody panic! Yoink! Foiled again, freak!
Bart: Ew, gross--I'm touching a dead guy!
Bart Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort News Anchor: America has a tradition of turning outlaws into legends after their deaths: Billy the Kid, Bonnie and Clyde, Jesus Christ.
News Anchor: A veritable who's who ha-ha.
Funeral Singer: Bart stole your nitroglycerin And then your heart infarcked
Funeral Singer: Like when you fell and split your pants And we saw your 'Frank and Beans.'
Krusty: There's the kid who killed my best friend! Buy my DVD.
Bart: Yeah, well, between you and me, I still can't stand him.
Bart Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Homer: Church jerks... church jerks... Anus, anus... anus, anus, anus...
Homer Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Cecil: That summer when he wanted to tour the castles of Italy, I wanted to tour the castles of France. So we went to Spain, a compromise that satisfied no one.
Cecil Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bart: That's stupid. You talk like youre smart, but you're stupid.
Bart Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Milhouse: Ball one, ball two, strike one...
Lisa: Feet... killing?! We've got to save Bart!
Lisa Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Bart: I came here to tell you I never meant for you to die. I just wanted you to go to jail and get beat up a lot.
Bart Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Sideshow Bob: Then let's give the people what they want!
Bart: Cool, I found a trapdoor that leads to an underground city. Here I go!
Bart Character Comedy Absurdist Homer: Cool, I found a trapdoor that leads to an underground city. Here I go!
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy Cecil · Sideshow Bob: Yes, and Hamlet is all about Laertes. Would you please stop comparing me to Laertes!
Cecil · Sideshow Bob: Yes, and Hamlet is all about Laertes. Would you please stop comparing me to Laertes! If the doublet fits...
Homer: Zeus' pimples! Hot! Hot! Hot!
Homer Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Lisa · Sideshow Bob: I grew suspicious when I saw the casket had extra room built-in for your feet. Why would your family pay all that extra money of a dead man? Damn these glorious gunboats!
Bart: You stink like my butt!
Bart Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Bart · Chief Wiggum: You stink like my butt! Take him away! Oh, why must I feed him straight lines?!
Sideshow Bob: Oh, why must I feed him straight lines?!
Homer Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Prison Inmate: The joke's not funny and the bid's not sufficient.
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