When nearby Ogdenville’s economy crumbles due to tainted barley discovered in Krusty’s veggie burgers, the unemployed workers of Ogdenville flock to Springfield. After Mayor Quimby closes Springfield’s borders and enlists private citizens to help patrol them, Homer organizes a border patrol group.
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“Coming To Homerica” ranks #462 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 73.4 — Solid. The episode packs 49 scored jokes at 3.0 per minute, averaging 6.7 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
Mayor Quimby · Lisa · Mayor Quimby: I share your xylophobia. Dad, you mean xenophobia. Xylophobia would be a fear of xylophones. I am afraid of xylophones. It's the music you hear when skeletons are dancing.
Torbjorn: Ja, she has the same beautiful face as my great-uncle Magnus when he lay in the coffin after his trolley accident.
Torbjorn Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Chalmers · Skinner: If I die, I want you to take over... Really? ...the search committee for a new superintendent.
Homer · Sven: Do ya miss us? Ja, we miss you. That's why we build the door.
Homer · Marge: Well, you were a baby once. Does that mean you still like milk and hugs? Yes, I'd like both right now.
All Jokes — 49 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Krusty: Hey-hey, you're pregnant and it's not mine!
Krusty Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Krusty: Repackage them as coffee stirrers and sell them in the Philippines.
Krusty Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Krusty: What's that food we never put in any of our meals? Vegetables? Yeah, those guys.
Krusty Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Krusty · Business Executive: What are those unhealthy he-she sounding things? Uh, trans fats?
Krusty: Spray a little nicotine juice on the kids' meals. Get 'em hooked.
Krusty Dark/Subversive Character Comedy TV Show Participants: It was worth it to be on TV! Put our dying screams in the promo!
TV Host: The real drowningest catch is man.
Krusty: Made from 100% wheat-fed barley.
Apu: Finally, a hamburger for the Hindus. By the tusks of great Ganesh, now no one can tell I am not American.
Apu Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Lisa: Look at me! I'm saving the Earth! Where's my Nobel prize?
Lisa Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Homer: Those barley burgers were tainted! Why did I eat 12 of them? Why?!
Homer Character Comedy Escalation Students: Taken! Occupied! Hurling!
Chalmers · Skinner: If I die, I want you to take over... Really? ...the search committee for a new superintendent.
Skinner: Third-grade math scores are holding steady.
Skinner Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Brendlf Jensen: What happened is, a big ol' rat got caught up in the grinders there, so my wife, Dagny, took a hose to it.
Brendlf Jensen: Well, where there's barley, there's rats, you know. Now, when will you be starting the interview?
Homer: You hear that, Bart? He called me 'sir.' That means he knows I'm better than him.
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Norwegian Worker: A lemon version of barley-ade?
Homer: I'm glad you've come here to take all the jobs we don't want to do. Can't have too much of a good thing.
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Marge · Ned Flanders: That I do! But he doesn't stay long. No, I don't!
Bart · Marge: Mom says I can have ice cream for breakfast. Oh, she's still here. Mom, can I have ice cream for breakfast? No way, mister.
Marge: Just like the ones Joe Piscopo and Ethan Hawke left their wives for. But hands off my Homie.
Marge Observational Character Comedy Torbjorn: Ja, she has the same beautiful face as my great-uncle Magnus when he lay in the coffin after his trolley accident.
Torbjorn Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Norwegian Worker · Lenny/Carl: Hey, Homer, your blubber would light our lamps for a year. I zing the oaf good? You zing the oaf great.
Comic Book Guy: This is Tennessee Titans country!
Bart: Step aside, Nor-wads. Watch how the natives ride sky.
Bart Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Norwegian Patient: A-fer-gan-nerkin! A-fer-gan-nerkin!
Homer: I can't read this sloopy-bloopy writing.
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Homer · Sven: Typical-- foreigners clogging up the system. I hurt my back unclogging your septic system. Sven, can you stop by tomorrow? It's clogged again.
Homer Sven Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bart: Na-chin-na-hart! Na-chin-na-hart!
Bart Callback Escalation Callback Homer · Marge: Well, you were a baby once. Does that mean you still like milk and hugs? Yes, I'd like both right now.
Moe: Hey, I ain't got no problem with them. They pay in cash, they keep it clean, and their mythology is rich and enchanting.
Moe Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Barney · Moe: Hey, Moe, what is that hoity-toity beer they're drinking? Oh, I don't sell beer no more. I only serve Aquavit, the Norwegian caraway-scented liqueur.
Moe: That stuff will open up a can of 'oh my goodness' on you.
Moe Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Mayor Quimby · Lisa · Mayor Quimby: I share your xylophobia. Dad, you mean xenophobia. Xylophobia would be a fear of xylophones. I am afraid of xylophones. It's the music you hear when skeletons are dancing.
Mayor Quimby: Springfield will ban immigrants and xylophones.
Chief Wiggum · Lou: Well, he's too far, Lou. So? So what am I, Superman?
Chief Wiggum: Eddie loves his lobster and port wine, but it comes with a price.
Lou: vigilantes who would agree to do our job for the adrenaline rush that comes from having a tiny taste of authority over your fellow man
Lou Observational Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Chief Wiggum: And all we're paying 'em is bullets and beer.
Moe · Multiple Characters: The Klan? Well, there are no bad ideas, but let's keep trying. The Nazis? Okay, you stop trying.
Moe: My code name will be 'Screaming Eagle.' Yours will be 'Ground Losers.'
Moe Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Carl or Lenny: C-c-cold. S-s-so very cold.
Lou: That's not a tree, Chief. That's a street sign. You just looped your belt around it when you were changing your pants.
Lou Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Maggie · Homer · Marge: Ja. Ja. Maggie's first words are in Ogdenvillese! Now do you see, Marge? Now do you see why we must build that fence? Build it, Homie! Make it as tall as the sky and deeper than Hell.
Carl: So my girlfriend puts all these pillows on the bed. And you have to like take them all off at night and put them all back on every morning. And if the little one is in back of the big one, oh, God help you.
Carl Observational Character Comedy Lenny · Sven: I had trouble finding a four-button cardigan, so I bought a three-button one and sewed the extra button on myself. This baby was a five-buttoner, but I took a button off.
Homer · Sven: Do ya miss us? Ja, we miss you. That's why we build the door.
Chief Wiggum: All right, boys, round 'em up... and throw them the swingingest soiree they've ever seen!
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