Homer gets the lead in a movie about a superhero who can take on the powers of every superhero in any comic book he touches. To whip Homer into superhero shape, the studio hires a celebrity fitness trainer.
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Wins Above Replacement
“Homer The Whopper” ranks #434 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 74.4 — Great. The episode packs 81 scored jokes at 4.9 per minute, averaging 6.6 on craft and 6.2 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
Bart · Comic Book Guy: Don't be afraid of them. They're just lame-o's like yourself. Two of them are me.
Homer: I'm a yo-yo dieter: 'yo, hot dog man. Yo, peanuts.'
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Comic Book Guy: If there is one fault to find with this $200 million production, It is that this is the worst movie ever!
Comic Book Guy: I played hardball with hollywood. The closest I will ever come to playing a sport in my life.
Homer: Can you help me out? I need change for a dollar. Oh, I also need a dollar.
Homer Setup/Punchline Character Comedy All Jokes — 81 analyzed
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Homer: Excuse me. I just heard that before spider-man was a movie, It was a comic book--is that possible?
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Comic Book Guy: suffering steve ditko! How can you not know that spider-man first appeared in 1962's classic Amazing fantasy #15?!
Homer: Ooh, 12 cents! I'll take eight.
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Comic Book Guy: What the...? You idiot! Mint condition copies are, like, $40,000 each!
Comic Book Guy: Must lie down On pile of unsold hulk hands.
Comic Book Guy: Hulk smash.
Comic Book Guy: everyman? He's not a hero from marvel, dc, Image or wildstorm.
Bank Robbers: Look at that fat guy-- beatin' it like an egg. Yeah, he's scramblinin'' like an egg.
Everyman/Homer: Power-absorption power... Absorb!
Bank Robber: put me in sing-sing! It's safer!
Everyman/Homer: Everyman will stop every crime every time. And I... Am... Everyman.
Comic Book Guy · Bart: You made this?! Shut up. No one is interested in the critical judgment of a worthless child...
Bart · Comic Book Guy: Actually, I like it. You what now?
Bart: Reading it, I escaped from my troubles. Now they're back in spades.
Bart Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Comic Book Guy: Sonofsonofspock, thedorkknight, and ikilledkenny6475.
Bart · Comic Book Guy: Don't be afraid of them. They're just lame-o's like yourself. Two of them are me.
Comic Book Guy: Oh, uh, just 335, including the controversial number 289,
Comic Book Guy: Featuring the death of marmaduke.
Marge · Homer: Who knew a troubled person could be creative? Yeah, still waters run deep.
Homer: Yeah, still waters run deep.
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Comic Book Guy: I'm so rich.
Studio Executives: Extension cords. Mixed nuts. Car keys.
Studio Executive: Eh, we've already made everything That could possibly be a movie into a great movie.
Jonah (executive's son): Dad, can we go? I've watched all the dvds in the bentley.
Executive · Marv: Uh, marv? Ginormous pictures bought the rights To everyman three weeks ago. Damn it!
Executive: You'd expect us to believe That a red scout would date a blue general?
Executive: brett ratner had final cut.
Comic Book Guy: It is not money I am after, or women-- I know that is impossible.
Executives · Comic Book Guy: No can do. Thank you. But we never give... Thank you. They'll laugh us out of hollywood. Thank you.
Comic Book Guy: I played hardball with hollywood. The closest I will ever come to playing a sport in my life.
Homer: Do you know where you can buy ink for an amiga brand fax machine?
Homer Character Comedy Observational Homer: You want to see it any other way? Like sad... Or brooklyn, or richard nixon voice?
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Homer: But I already bought a boat with the money you were gonna pay me.
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Comic Book Guy: We need a dumpy, unappealing loser. -- an everyman
Homer: Can you help me out? I need change for a dollar. Oh, I also need a dollar.
Homer Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Homer: Great. Do you want to see me naked? Oh, there's no nudity in this movie. What movie?
Homer Character Comedy Escalation Homer · Marge: Great. Marge, go. Guess who the garden club Elected president? You? Awesome. Next. No. I lost. Eh, they can go to hell. Bart?
Homer: Fine. I'll give back the oscars I stole from the lobby.
Homer Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Studio Executive: Several people stared at the sun, Attempting to blind themselves. Against every animal instinct they had.
Homer: I'm a yo-yo dieter: 'yo, hot dog man. Yo, peanuts.'
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: Why aren't you laughing? Don't you know what 'yo' means?
Homer Escalation Character Comedy Callback Homer: Why aren't you laughing? Don't you know what "yo" means?
Homer Character Comedy Escalation Homer: They look good with a little meat on their bones.
Homer Character Comedy Misdirection Comic Book Guy: ...A lot of people have come to this town and changed, But not me. Now excuse me, I have to read a story To my adopted cambodian orphan.
Comic Book Guy: Hello, prius-- give daddy a kiss.
Homer: Because I'm swallowing my frustrations and disappointments?
Lyle McCarthy · Homer: We'll do it in a montage to the song 'eye of the tiger.' Oh, that song's a little on the nose. Can we do it to david bowie's 'heroes'?
Homer: How about I just do a walking around sad montage?
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Homer: Then I get out of the truck and go to thank the driver, But then I see the driver is a chicken?
Lyle McCarthy: Tobey! Cider house rules! Total wuss. Seabiscuit, you keeping off the sugar cubes?
Lyle McCarthy: No, no, no, no, no, don't worry. He totally sucks. I'm only lying to him.
Lyle McCarthy: Hey, home town buffet, like I told john travolta, my client list is private.
Lyle McCarthy: Hit the pole! Stripper up...Fireman down.
Everyman/Homer: And thank wonder woman for giving me the boobs to distract the guards.
Director: That's the problem when you have 17 writers.
Director Meta/Self-Referential Observational Marge: Oh! There's less of you to love, But I love you even more!
Marge · Homer: Aah! What was that? Your other hand.
Studio Executive · Oscar: I smell oscar. Oscar, take a shower, or a tomato bath or something. Please!
Lenny: At least you get to see my face-- unlike carl.
Lenny Visual Gag Character Comedy Homer: A lot of things come and go in life, But not fame and fitness.
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Lyle McCarthy: Don't take it personally, home team.
Lyle McCarthy · Homer: Just remember what I taught you. But you taught me the only people who can stay thin Are those who can afford $5,000-a-week nutritional consultants!
Homer: Ooh! This other cheese cube stuck to the first one. Well, that still technically counts as one.
Homer Character Comedy Escalation Homer: Mm, it's bad luck to eat an uneven number of cheese cubes.
Homer Character Comedy Escalation Callback Studio Executive: The star's overweight, we're way over budget, And the grasshopperaptor we built Seems to have developed an evil mind of its own.
Marge · Homer: I think you may have put on a little weight. Nag, nag, nag!
Apu: Ah, here we are. A delightful buttermilk from 1961.
Apu Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Homer: Oh, '61-- everyone was twisting again like they did the previous summer.
Homer Observational Character Comedy Comic Book Guy: This film is an embarrassment of jar-jarrian magnitude!
Comic Book Guy: Hollywood ponytail yank!
Producer: I produced bad summer movie, The parody of bad summer movies that was itself a bad summer movie.
Producer Meta/Self-Referential Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Audience Member: Half the shots he's fat, half the shots he's thin--It's taking me out of the moment. Like when you're kissing a girl, and she burps.
Executive: Yeah, well, now those kids have an embarrassment for a mother.
Lyle McCarthy: You went from everyman to everywhereman.
Lyle McCarthy · Homer: Okay! It was turtle from entourage. I knew it!
Lyle McCarthy · Homer: He is a great guy. He's an awful guy. You just said both those things to me. I'm sorry. I'm not sorry.
Studio Executive: Yeah, the projectionist hung himself at the final reel.
Comic Book Guy: If there is one fault to find with this $200 million production, It is that this is the worst movie ever!
Homer Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Top Episodes — The Simpsons
