The fourth grade students of Springfield Elementary School decide to spike Ms. Krabappel's coffee in order to teach her a lesson after she takes away their cell phones. She is fired by Principal Skinner, who hires a new teacher named Zachary Vaughn. Although Vaughn is a hip young teacher who impresses the students, Bart is plagued by guilt and tries to get Ms. Krabappel hired back.
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“Bart Gets A Z” ranks #212 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 79.9 — Elite. The episode packs 38 scored jokes at 2.0 per minute, averaging 7.1 on craft and 6.7 on impact, with Edna Krabappel landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Homer: No... but the layers of bad on your surface go almost all the way to the center.
Homer Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Edna Krabappel: No matter what you've done, I always thought there was a spark of decency in you, Bart Simpson, but I was wrong. I never thought I'd say this to a child, but you are bad on the inside.
Edna Krabappel: And that's why I found Good Night, Gorilla to be the perfect summer beach read. Two stars for you. And an extra, 'cause you're going to have a hard life.
Zack: Hilary Swank didn't graduate high school. She won two Oscars. And one of them she deserved.
Zack Observational Setup/Punchline Bookstore employee: I believe you boys are looking for... The Answer.
All Jokes — 38 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Bart: Check it out. That crazy lady's singing a million-year-old song.
Bart Observational Character Comedy Edna Krabappel: Text 'Uncle'. Text 'Uncle'.
Edna Krabappel · Students: You're children. Why do you all need cell phones? Safety. Emergencies. Safety. Educational.
Students: Vibrating sound effect growing progressively louder
Edna Krabappel: They're all going in the drawer with the biology frogs. (croaking)
Student: My stroked-out grandfather has more memory than that thing.
Student Dark/Subversive Observational Student · Other Student: How is he doing? Better. Thanks.
Homer: Okay. Now I'll be the dog, and you be the daddy. (barks)
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy Bart: Hmm. You know, my dad is a lot more fun after a few beers.
Bart Observational Character Comedy Milhouse · Bart: Put blood in it? No, booze.
Edna Krabappel: And that's why I found Good Night, Gorilla to be the perfect summer beach read. Two stars for you. And an extra, 'cause you're going to have a hard life.
Edna Krabappel: Hey! You know why they call it a choir. Because 'choir' we listening to this crap?
Edna: Give me one night, Dewey. I'll get you off Broadway.
Edna Wordplay/Pun Cringe/Discomfort Bart: Booze only makes you do things you already wanted to do.
Bart Observational Dark/Subversive Edna Krabappel: I'm queen of the world! Oh! (crashing)
Seymour Skinner: But right now, I don't feel much like follying.
Students: Our cell phones! Our Blueteeth! My tip calculator!
Bart: You mean the L Man/D Dog flame wars.
Bart Wordplay/Pun Meta/Self-Referential Homer: No one even plays four-square anymore. They just gossip.
Homer Observational Deadpan/Understatement Zack: But this is just nonsense punctuation.
Zack Observational Character Comedy Edna Krabappel: Where do I find the books, the booze and the broads?
Edna Krabappel: Hey, Dean, how about a little privacy? I've got to matriculate.
Movie character: Honey, if we increase your endowment any more, we'll all be in the shade.
Disco Stu: Stu is about more than just disco. I'm also-- ha! -- super Christian!
Homer · Zack: You're the first teacher that ever got me. (crying) Let it out. Let it out. (sobbing)
Zack · Homer: Keep it in. Keep it in. (very loud sobbing)
Comic Book Guy: I ain't paid for Doris Kearns Goodwin in my life, and I ain't gonna start now.
Bookstore employee: I believe you boys are looking for... The Answer.
Narrator: where it was found by Pat Sajak
Edna Krabappel: But we do understand electricity. Every positively charged nucleus is...
Bart: Cut it out. You're not a teacher anymore.
Bart Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Edna Krabappel · Customer: What did he want? Beats me. I just gave him a banana.
Edna Krabappel: No matter what you've done, I always thought there was a spark of decency in you, Bart Simpson, but I was wrong. I never thought I'd say this to a child, but you are bad on the inside.
Homer: No... but the layers of bad on your surface go almost all the way to the center.
Homer Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Homer: Kernels are kind of big.
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy Zack: Hilary Swank didn't graduate high school. She won two Oscars. And one of them she deserved.
Zack Observational Setup/Punchline Zack: Oh, they're gonna eat you alive at Cal Tech, boy. Alive!
Zack Character Comedy Escalation Student · Edna Krabappel: But it's stale. Eat the muffin.
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