An irreverent take on the Prince and the Pauper. Bart enthusiastically trades lives with a wealthy lookalike after landing himself in trouble for triggering a rampage of vacuum cleaners, but finds the lavish lifestyle too much when he becomes the target of all his new friends' pranks.
WAR
40.6
Wins Above Replacement
“Double Double Boy In Trouble” ranks #393 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 75.5 — Great. The episode packs 56 scored jokes at 3.2 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.5 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
Marge: Stop it, both of you! Don't make me drive into that tree. You know I will!
Marge Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: Oh, come on, gravity. You used to be cool.
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bart: They're not boogers! They're clumps of rubber cement. That I stored in my nose.
Bart Escalation Dark/Subversive Smithers · Simon · Burns: All they had was Sunnytime Pink. / Premix? / I beg your forgiveness, lad. Smithers, pour it down your pants.
Grampa: You were listening? That means I've got to come up with an ending for this nonsense.
Grampa Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy All Jokes — 56 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Homer: Stupid shopping list, turning food into work.
Homer Observational Character Comedy Bart: Look at me! I'm doin' something!
Bart Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Homer: You better settle down, boy, or I'll drag you into the blind spot of that security camera and beat you with one of those big thick women's magazines with all the ads in it!
Homer Escalation Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Apu: They say the last one is lucky! Unlike all the others.
Apu Irony/Sarcasm Observational Lenny: Ponder this, Homer. This ticket would have been yours if your kid hadn't been screwin' around.
Lenny Irony/Sarcasm Cringe/Discomfort Homer · Marge: You just cost me $200,000! - I thought it was 50. - I was gonna bet it on the dogs!
Marge: All the groceries seem to have been balled up in anger.
Marge Visual Gag Deadpan/Understatement Homer: That kid has become a Dennis-level menace!
Homer Observational Character Comedy Barflies: Lenny, Lenny, he's our guy! Got the ticket Homer didn't buy!
Homer · Moe: I don't want your pity booze. I'll pay for it myself. / Nope, Lucky Lenny's buying all the drinks tonight.
Nelson: Don't waste your shot, Bart. You've got just enough cat pee to soak two dorks.
Nelson Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Bart: Uh... it was water this morning.
Bart Dark/Subversive Misdirection ★ Rewatch Bart: Ha ha! You feel self-conscious.
Bart Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Homer: Well, Marge, you did have that one sip of alcohol while you were pregnant.
Homer Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Bart: They're not boogers! They're clumps of rubber cement. That I stored in my nose.
Bart Escalation Dark/Subversive Marge: Stop it, both of you! Don't make me drive into that tree. You know I will!
Marge Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Lenny: In the beginning, there was darkness, so God created man. But man was alone. God created the animals and birds. But man was still lonely. So God said, 'Let there be friends!'
Lenny Absurdist Observational Carl: These are going right on my mom's grave.
Carl Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement Chief Wiggum: These innocent robots couldn't have done this on their own. Someone would've had to turn them all on at once, and then imbue them with some kind of malevolent sentience.
Lou · Robot · Chief Wiggum: Well, whoever did this must be long gone by now, Chief. I don't know how we'll ever catch him. / Kill! Kill! Kill! / Hold it right there, Bart!
Robot Wordplay/Pun Absurdist Bart: What? You can't take my Balderdash!
Bart Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bart · Simon: I don't know why I do the things I do. No one understands me. I wish I had a different family. / I feel exactly the same way.
Bart · Simon: Terrific? Incredible? Happy as a clown? / Oh, yeah, I'm livin' the dream.
Homer · Simon: Get out here, boy! I want to punish you before I get drunk and merciful! / Deal.
Homer Simon Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Chester · Bart: There you are, Master Simon! / Thank you, uh, Lipizzaner.
Driver: McMansion. McMansion. McMansion. McDonald's? McDreamy. McSteamy. McMansion. Fleetwood Mac, and Macauley Culkin.
Bart: A candy corn volcano! A ceiling from Saddam's palace! Ooh, and a racecar bed. That really races!
Joe Montana: I'm the real deal. Every day I stand here the family donates a million dollars to Notre Dame. Did you know the words 'Notre Dame' are French, but the team is the Fighting Irish? That's the kind of thing I think about in here.
Milhouse: 'Blocked Number'? That service is $3.65 a month.
Marge: I made it with Cheetos, just like you like it. If the sauce is too thick, I can add more root beer.
Marge Absurdist Character Comedy Simon: Keep your meal in your mouth, you semiliterate spew-monkey.
Simon Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Simon: Keep your meal in your mouth, you semiliterate spew-monkey.
Simon Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Homer: If that boy thinks I'm paying to put him through four years of puberty, forget it. I'm made of hormones.
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Devon: So I said, 'Dad, I wanted a Range Rover, not a Land Rover. This is the worst Martin Luther King Day ever.'
Devon Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bart · Devon/Quenly: The old hot spoon. But why? / Because you're our half-brother, you're blocking our full inheritance and we hate you.
Homer: For your information, The Daily Growl is the only newspaper that's not afraid to say how great this country is.
Homer Observational Character Comedy Homer: For your information, The Daily Growl is the only newspaper that's not afraid to say how great this country is.
Homer Observational Meta/Self-Referential Homer: How's the war going? We're winning? That's great. And our standing abroad? Fantastic.
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Observational Homer: This is like a rap video before the rappers show up.
Homer Observational Setup/Punchline Bart: Fancy party. This is like a rap video before the rappers show up.
Bart Observational Meta/Self-Referential Devon · Bart: Do you know that after a hundred years dead bodies turn to red licorice? / Whoa-ho, let me at it.
Smithers · Simon · Burns: All they had was Sunnytime Pink. / Premix? / I beg your forgiveness, lad. Smithers, pour it down your pants.
Burns: My older brother was trampled by a horse. My sister died of a poisoned potato. My twin was shot. That girl was stabbed. He ate another poisoned potato. Spontaneous combustion. Fell down a well. Potato. Potato, and impaled on the Chrysler Building.
Burns Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Simon · Burns: Why won't you come down? / I told you I only weigh as much as my clothes and keys.
Grampa: You were listening? That means I've got to come up with an ending for this nonsense.
Grampa Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy Grampa: It was the war to end all wars, but Pepsi would not give up. They continued to challenge Coke.
Lisa · Simon · Lisa: Oh. The real Bart would have thrown me out the window. / He would have defenestrated you? / You're just digging yourself even deeper.
Bart: You know, I have never packed before.
Bart Character Comedy Observational Simon/Bart: You know, I have never packed before.
Marge: Scrubbing you is easy 'cause you've been pre-rinsed. And when you're covered with goo, that's when I'm scrubbing you.
Marge Absurdist Character Comedy Simon · Homer: So now Bart is on his way to Aspen, where they're going to try to kill him. / Thank you, future Bart, for traveling back through time to warn us.
Wino: Uh, we're champagnos. Who wants a mimosa?
Wino Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Quenly Callback Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Callback Homer: Oh, come on, gravity. You used to be cool.
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Simon: Take me with you. I'll be anything and everything you want. Don't leave me here with them!
Simon Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Top Episodes — The Simpsons
