Bounty hunter Ned is forced to scrap his partnership with Homer when the hapless layabout skips bail, and Marge mistakenly takes a job at an erotic bakery.
WAR
55.6
Wins Above Replacement
“Sex Pies And Idiot Scrapes” ranks #200 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 80.1 — Elite. The episode packs 57 scored jokes at 3.1 per minute, averaging 7.2 on craft and 6.8 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
Ned: Lord, in your mercy, could you give my friend a stroke?
Ned Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Homer: What I'm trying to say is not shooting me now would be the biggest mistake of your life.
Homer Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Homer: Now, let's think about this. If you shoot me, I won't be able to stop you, and you'll be free to go. But someone may come after you. Probably not, given your reputation for shooting people who come after you.
Homer Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Ned: I like their Christian cover band: AD/BC. Kindly deeds done for free.
Ned Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Homer: Actually, my nuclear plant did that. And now that you know, your life is in danger.
Homer Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 57 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Lisa: I love how they made the river green.
Lisa Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Homer: Actually, my nuclear plant did that. And now that you know, your life is in danger.
Homer Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Mayor Quimby: I, Joseph Fitzgerald O'Malley Fitzpatrick O'Donnell the Edge Quimby
Mayor Quimby: The Irish gave the world the paddy wagon, the shamrock shake and folk dancing where you don't move your arms.
Groundskeeper Willie: Where's the IRA when you need 'em? We renounced the ways of the gun and the bomb.
Homer: Two kinds of Irish people? What are they fighting over, who gets to sleep in the bathtub?
Homer Observational Cringe/Discomfort Moe: It always comes down to transubstantiation versus consubstantiation.
Moe Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Chief Wiggum: Without the booze, these guys all remember how much they hate each other!
Moe: This was such a pleasant St. Patrick's Day till the Irish people showed up.
Moe Irony/Sarcasm Absurdist Irish kids: You don't have the teeth for it. Aye, but we could gum the frosting.
Patrick Farrelly: Light, moist, and such a marvelous shape retention.
Marge: A professional baker's employee? Imagine how different my life would be.
Marge Character Comedy Observational Homer: I'll use my one phone call to find out all about it!
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Unknown defendant: Mulk request change of venue. Green monster cannot get fair trial in downtown Springfield.
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Homer: I make that in a year.
Homer Observational Character Comedy Bail bondsman: I called your boss to verify your employment, and he says you're fired for getting arrested. You'd be amazed how often that happens.
Wolf: I also take a tooth, make a plaster cast, put it on this necklace, then replace the tooth at my expense.
Wolf Absurdist Character Comedy Wolf: You have to pass an online exam. No, wait, they got rid of that. There is a $10 filing fee, but you can get around it. Congratulations! You're now a bounty hunter!
Fugitives: Bail-jumpers welcome! That's refreshing, after the cold shoulder we got at the Townhomes at Sterling Pointe.
Homer: Now, let's think about this. If you shoot me, I won't be able to stop you, and you'll be free to go. But someone may come after you. Probably not, given your reputation for shooting people who come after you.
Homer Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Homer: What I'm trying to say is not shooting me now would be the biggest mistake of your life.
Homer Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Homer: Bullet-proof glass. Flanders?!
Homer Setup/Punchline Visual Gag Ned Flanders: Young man, what would your mother say if she knew you were shooting nice people in the brain?
Criminal: She'd say that year off from Princeton was the worst decision I ever made.
Ned · Homer: Homer, you could have killed him! I sure could have, thanks to you.
Ned Flanders: Now I can clearly see potential customers walk right past my store. Enjoy your shopping elsewhere!
Ned Flanders: As the salad said to the soup, 'I'm all mixed up.'
Ned · Homer: And you have to promise no diddilies or doodilies. My friend, you have a deal-arooney! D'oh!
Marge: Why do you only have me make spheres, rods, and half-moon shapes?
Marge Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Customer · Patrick: We need something tasty and tasteless. I've got just the thing, courtesy of my newest baker: freshly-frosted ass cake.
Marge: This is an erotic bakery!
Marge Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Patrick: For as long as there's been baking, there's been erotic baking. It fills a need and harms no one.
Patrick Observational Deadpan/Understatement Patrick: Without your baking, people like me will be forced into back alleys, repurposing Ho Hos and Ding Dongs.
Homer: Finally, a practical use for electricity.
Homer Observational Absurdist Homer: No. It looks cool! D'oh!
Homer Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Criminal father · Son: Shell casings! There's still bullets in some of these. Point them away from your sisters when you hammer them.
Daughter · Father: Dad, is this from a meth lab? The biggest one in town. This is evidence. Evidence that I love my little girl.
Homer Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Ned: I like their Christian cover band: AD/BC. Kindly deeds done for free.
Ned Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Criminal: Man, that's harder to swallow than evolution.
Ned: Lord, in your mercy, could you give my friend a stroke?
Ned Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Skinner: Quick, we'll have to eat from each end. We'll know we're safe when our lips meet in the middle.
Ned: You need a special sticker just to bring a bike.
Ned Observational Character Comedy Homer: Wait, I left a sandwich in there.
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Homer: I'll tell you what's over. This partnership!
Homer Character Comedy Escalation Ned: You know, if you take your foot off the accelerator going downhill, you wouldn't use so much gas.
Ned Character Comedy Observational Marge: I hid it all in the one place you'd never look.
Marge Setup/Punchline Visual Gag Homer: I can see you withholding sex or withholding cake, but withholding sexy cake?
Homer Escalation Character Comedy Homer · Marge: You, me and the cake. First, why don't you and I and the cake take a shower?
Homer · Ned: And how did you know I wouldn't be there? Lucky guess.
Homer Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Homer: You hang onto resentment like a Confederate widow.
Homer Observational Character Comedy Homer: Yeah, but you hold on to the big things.
Homer Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Callback Homer · Ned: Thanks, but... what are you holding on to?
Homer Ned Setup/Punchline Physical/Slapstick Ned: I guess I did know the whole Old Testament by heart. Out with the old, in with the new. Testament, that is.
Ned Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Homer: Make it life, and you've got a deal.
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