Lisa befriends three teenaged Wiccans after getting lost in the woods during a game of hide-and-seek, and must clear her new friends' names when they are accused of cursing the townspeople with their supposed witchcraft. Meanwhile, Homer befriends Cletus after learning that he and his friends make their own moonshine.
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21.8
Wins Above Replacement
“Rednecks And Broomsticks” ranks #477 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 72.9 — Solid. The episode packs 50 scored jokes at 3.3 per minute, averaging 6.6 on craft and 6.3 on impact, with Lisa landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Cletus: You have the eloquence and urgency of a census worker caught in a bear trap.
Cletus Observational Absurdist ★ Rewatch Homer: Why do my actions have consequences?
Homer Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Cletus · Lisa: Drink up, sweetie. Let the possum work its magic. Possum?! Don't worry, we don't kill it. We just dip it.
Chief Wiggum · Judge: Are you sure? 'cause we've brought you a lot of flimsy cases. Like that goat we accused of income tax evasion. I still think he was guilty.
Cletus Jr: Nope, but my mama brought some of these boom potatoes back from Iraq.
All Jokes — 50 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Lisa: How can you call it a ski weekend if we're going home at dawn on Sunday?
Homer: I hate traffic: the band and the phenomenon.
Homer Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Bart: There's only one game we can play in the car over and over and over again: Bonk it.
Bart: No problem. A couple just rolled out from behind your seat.
Bart Visual Gag Character Comedy Electronic Toy: Bonk it. Twist it. Smack it. Thwack it. Whack it. Bonk it. Bop it.
Homer: I can't take it anymore!
Homer Escalation Reaction Beat Bart: Oh, darn. The batteries are dead. Not to worry: it plugs into the cigarette lighter.
Bart Escalation Misdirection Homer: Stomp it! Crush it! Kill it!
Homer Escalation Character Comedy Homer: Why do my actions have consequences?
Homer Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Cletus · Lisa: Drink up, sweetie. Let the possum work its magic. Possum?! Don't worry, we don't kill it. We just dip it.
Homer · Cletus: Where's the hooch? - Excuse my faux pas. That jug was fo' pa.
Brandine: He's gonna shoot those google earth folks what caught me with my breeches down.
Cletus: A female that gives birth to alcohol.
Cletus Observational Character Comedy Cletus: It angrys up my fists! I just remembered my feud with this here tree!
Cletus Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Homer: It's got a rich mash base and a sense of danger. And I detect notes of elderberry, tobacco, oak... No, poison oak... and hints of game.
Homer Character Comedy Escalation Cletus: You have the eloquence and urgency of a census worker caught in a bear trap.
Cletus Observational Absurdist ★ Rewatch Cletus Jr: Nope, but my mama brought some of these boom potatoes back from Iraq.
Cletus's kids: One. Two. Backwards 'e'. One-legged triangle. Banana hot dog. Double banana hot dog. 60 corncob two.
Lisa: Why did I do poetry club instead of girl scouts?
Lisa Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Lisa: You are going to be so embarrassed. There are two other people at this party dressed just like you.
Lisa Irony/Sarcasm Misdirection Witch: Technically... but we're not into broomsticks or pointy hats.
Witch Observational Meta/Self-Referential Lisa: If magic was real, I'd use it to get out of my pipe cleaner art project that's due tomorrow.
Lisa Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Wiccan girl · Other wiccan: What are you talking about? - Text your mom to pick us up.
Substitute teacher: Class, miss hoover will not be in today, so you all get a's on your pipe cleaner sculptures.
Substitute teacher · Lisa: Came down with a spell of stomach flu. Spell?
Lisa: Which craft? Which craft?!
Lisa Wordplay/Pun Escalation Barney: There's something wonderful about being drunk outdoors.
Barney Character Comedy Observational Homer · Moe: I wonder if Moe misses us. - No, I don't miss you. Now, get back to my bar for happy hour, or I'll paint the snow pink with your brains.
Cletus: You know, one hillbilly has his way with one fat guy in deliverance, and suddenly, people think that's all hillbillies do. I suppose you think all space is Star Wars.
Cletus Meta/Self-Referential Observational ★ Rewatch Homer: You'll never know what you missed out on.
Homer Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Wiccan girl: But if the goddess chose to help you by giving miss Hoover the hershey squirts, such is her divine Wisdom.
Cletus · Other hillbilly: That's smart thinkin'! - Shut up and dig your own grave.
Marge: Savor the steps leading up to it. College anorexic, string of bad marriages, career disappointments, failed pottery shop.
Marge Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Lisa: I'm gonna put a spell on you! Yes, I am, My tuna-breath familiar. Zap! Zap! Zap! I curse you, hell's kitten!
Lisa Character Comedy Absurdist Homer · Marge: Her buddhism has led directly to witchcraft. And she's teleconferencing the devil using that computer from hell! I think it says 'Dell.'
Chief Wiggum · Lou: Toss them a Judy Blume novel, Lou. Uh, all we've got is Wifey, chief. Nothing with kids in it? Damn budget cuts.
Protesters · News reporter: We're not the witches! Oh, well then you must be victims of the witches' hideous curse.
Protester · News reporter: You didn't think I was so hideous that night we made out in the back booth at the seafood hut. We all did crazy things on 9/11.
News reporter · Lisa: I'm blind! I'm blind! What goes around, comes around.
Nurse · Dr. Hibbert: I'm blind, too! Then I guess it's up to me.
Wiccan girl: My real name isn't even Gwendolyn Nightshadow. It's Stacey, Stacey Deathsatan.
Court reporter: I am a big dummy with a stupid job. I write down what other people say, just like a big dummy would.
Chief Wiggum · Judge: Are you sure? 'cause we've brought you a lot of flimsy cases. Like that goat we accused of income tax evasion. I still think he was guilty.
Stand-up comedian: And now I can really hear how I bomb!
Mob leader: If the alleged witches survive the dunking, They clearly were witches! If they drown, then they were clearly innocent.
Principal Skinner: Good seats still available. By which I mean, seats in the back where you can fall asleep.
Mob leader: Wait, wait, wait, don't unform! You're a great mob! We'll think of something else to get upset about! How about all that construction on route one, huh?
Mob leader · Mob: Oh, you ain't no mob. You're just a bunch of spineless weasels. Hey, hey, hey, it's just a figure of speech. Kill the weasel hater!
Lisa: Cool! Me, Lisa Simpson!
Marge: The only 'witch' in lisa's life is which boy will marry her. Right, Homer? Homer?
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