Homer and Marge remember the ups and downs of their marriage through a series of flashbacks, including the time they each began flirting with guests at a glamorous party - a situation that led to a food fight and an unexpected swim in the pool.
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“Dangerous Curves” ranks #297 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 77.9 — Great. The episode packs 70 scored jokes at 3.9 per minute, averaging 6.8 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
Ned: Since 2:00 this afternoon. Welcome to our honeymoon.
Ned Setup/Punchline Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Ned: Red Dog, this is Mustache One. We have possible male/female interaction.
Ned Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: You're just as bad as me! And you used to be better, so that makes you worse!
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Young Ned: Your dead grandmother's pajamas. You know what that does to me.
Young Ned Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Patty or Selma: He's that rare combination of up to something and good for nothing.
All Jokes — 70 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Bill · Marty: Where were you when you first heard this? I'll tell you where I was. I was out eating... I think I had kung pao... and I ended up on the... I can't listen to this anymore.
Homer: Nobody shuts out my blather!
Homer Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Marge: They don't look like the stabby kind.
Marge Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Marge: I said they were thrill-crazed drug-seekers. Don't put words in my mouth.
Marge Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Homer · Marge: Were we ever that stupid? Of course we were.
Young Homer: It's called 'biking out.' It's a combination of biking and making out.
Ned: Hop on in before you become a couple runneth over.
Ned Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Ned: And in that mud, I'm planting the seed of friendship.
Ned Character Comedy Observational Ned: As the elephant said to the peanut vendor, toss those in my trunk.
Ned Wordplay/Pun Setup/Punchline Young Homer: Oh, he rhymes! Oh, happy day.
Young Homer: I wish. We were bicycling to a lake.
Ned: Wordplay. Never cared for it.
Ned Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Ned: But it's never too soon for you two to join the 'I do' crew.
Ned Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Ned: Since 2:00 this afternoon. Welcome to our honeymoon.
Ned Setup/Punchline Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Young Marge: Homer Simpson, I would be delighted not to marry you.
Young Homer: Then, I now pronounce us just dating.
Angry parent: How dare you expose my children to your tender feelings.
Video game character: I'm cuckoo for killing stuff!
Homer: Video games: the reason this generation of Americans is the best ever.
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Observational Marge: Not from the diving board.
Marge Setup/Punchline Escalation ★ Rewatch Patty or Selma: Your neck looks like a sideways ass.
Marge: That's the fuel gauge.
Marge Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Homer: I know, I was hoping the number might be zero.
Homer Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Party host: it's just past the sushi bar, behind the limbo pit, right in front of the blackjack table
Party host: We have cubes of yellow, cubes of orange, and cubes of orange and yellow.
Homer: Doesn't seem like your kind of thing, Marge.
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Alberto: No, I'm trying to get me drunk.
Homer: No, I'm talking to you at this great party.
Homer Character Comedy Misdirection Homer: Limbo? You mean the dance or that place where unbaptized babies go? Either way, I'm in.
Homer Wordplay/Pun Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Homer: That's how low you can go!
Homer Physical/Slapstick Setup/Punchline Marge: These fish died for nothing!
Marge Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Marge: She's gonna take him for a lot of money.
Marge Character Comedy Observational Bart: A log cabin? What am I, Davy Crockett? Also, who's Davy Crockett?
Lisa: They're worse than walking.
Lisa Observational Deadpan/Understatement Homer: I'll steal it back when you're sleeping.
Homer Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Ned Flanders: when the sun goes down, it means God's gone to China to watch over those good folks
Ned · Young Homer: That's just your trouser devil talking. He's not talking. He's yelling.
Young Ned: Your dead grandmother's pajamas. You know what that does to me.
Young Ned Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Patty or Selma: He's that rare combination of up to something and good for nothing.
Alberto: in a ruched burgundy bias-cut evening gown with a wolverine hem and a contrasting cerise tulle décolletage
Marge: That explains a lot.
Marge Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement Marge: You didn't say a word for 45 minutes.
Marge Character Comedy Observational Sylvia · Homer: Do you have a pineapple pizza? Pineapple and pepperoni.
Alberto: I see the word vacancy is lit, and the word no is not. Let us pray the no is not broken, huh?
Alberto: First we make love, then we decide if it was a good idea. That's the European way.
Alberto Character Comedy Observational Sylvia: Homer, I can be whoever you want me to be.
Sylvia Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Alberto: Why do married women always have husbands?
Alberto Absurdist Observational ★ Rewatch Marge: I feel the same way about that lamp.
Marge Character Comedy Escalation Homer: but you're going in the box.
Homer Character Comedy Callback Callback Alberto: No, but don't stop twisting.
Kids: We won! He's asleep! And we'll stay up forever!
Kids Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Homer: It was a tale of betrayal, redemption, and a lovely continental breakfast.
Homer Setup/Punchline Misdirection Homer: You're just as bad as me! And you used to be better, so that makes you worse!
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Lisa: Anti-nuclear activist Dr. Helen Caldicott? Director Julie Taymor?
Lisa Character Comedy Observational Bart: So I don't have to come home to you!
Bart Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Bart Deadpan/Understatement Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Young Homer: Yeah. I missed her, like, five times.
Ned: What a charming single entendre.
Ned Meta/Self-Referential Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Ned: Red Dog, this is Mustache One. We have possible male/female interaction.
Ned Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Ned · Maude: Lock onto his wiener. We have wiener-lock.
Young Homer: like when I got that smart kid's report card by mistake, and for a minute, I thought I had all As, and that my name was Howard Simberg.
Ned: Oh, I hate other people's love.
Ned Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Comic Book Guy: Oh, I hate other people's love.
Homer: I'm getting out of this marriage while I'm still young and handsome.
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Homer: I couldn't even keep a promise I made to a tree.
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Homer: Help! Fat man hanging from a tree!
Homer Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Marge Deadpan/Understatement Observational Marge: I know parts of our marriage are based on lies, but so are a lot of good things: religion, American history.
Marge Observational Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Homer: If my theory of global cooling is correct.
Homer Character Comedy Observational Lisa: Because he knows a shortcut that's not on the map.
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