When Smithers transforms Moe's pub into a refined and trendy lounge, the establishment becomes Springfield's local gay hangout; Principal Skinner falls for the new, free-spirited music teacher.
WAR
75.7
Wins Above Replacement
“Flaming Moe” ranks #172 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 81.0 — Elite. The episode packs 78 scored jokes at 3.9 per minute, averaging 7.2 on craft and 6.7 on impact, with Moe landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Moe: Now we can afford real bowls of pretzels instead of trompe l'oeiling them on the bar.
Moe Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Moe: I just wish you people could know what it's like to want acceptance.
Moe Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Moe: At first, I was only gay for your money.
Moe Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Moe: That was my grandmother's wedding urinal!
Moe Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Moe: where they drink for fun, instead of here, where, uh, horrible addiction compels you.
Moe Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 78 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Homer Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: Yeah, they think they're better than us just because their performance reviews reflect that fact.
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Observational ★ Rewatch Carl · Lenny: That's funny, 'cause I found this candy bar in my desk.
Mr. Burns: Who? Persia and Mesopotamia.
Mr. Burns: Charles Montgomery Plantagenet... Schicklgruber... Burns.
Mr. Burns Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Mr. Burns: It is. I know it's hard to see a young buck like me and think of a day when I'm no longer in the pink.
Lawyer · Mr. Burns: Quickly, now. We're almost through the half hour per day where you're mentally competent. And... ...demented.
Mr. Burns: Gary from Gary's Trapdoor Installation and Repair
Mr. Burns: Smithers, you are the campiest of my aides du camp
Mr. Burns Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Mr. Burns: No Steve Woz-ni-ak thee.
Mr. Burns Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Mr. Burns · Smithers: In case you didn't hear me, I said I will never see you as my equal. I heard you very clearly, sir. Excellent.
Club Bouncer: You, with the Ben Affleck chin and the Matt Damon everything else.
Club Bouncer: This is a nightclub, not a John F. Kennedy cabinet meeting.
Moe: My Scotch is a Scotch and water.
Moe Observational Character Comedy Moe: where they drink for fun, instead of here, where, uh, horrible addiction compels you.
Moe Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Smithers: No one wants an executive assistant who only works out six hours a day.
Moe: That was my grandmother's wedding urinal!
Moe Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Homer · Barney: Look at them renovations! / And... finished!
Comic Book Guy: Sorry, hobbits. It's back to the shire for you. Slam!
Random patron: Isn't that the place where all those rats committed suicide?
Unknown patron: What about super-hairy Wonder Woman?
Barney: There's never any chicks here. Somehow, there's more no chicks here than usual.
Barney Absurdist Observational ★ Rewatch Homer · Homer: He's washing his hands. I'm never gonna get that image out of my head.
Homer: Your standard markup is 400%?
Homer Observational Setup/Punchline Moe: Don't you dare question the gospel according to Dr. Swig McJigger.
Moe Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Moe: Total disaster. A complete bomb. Utter failure. Uh, dream I painted.
Moe Escalation Misdirection Lisa: Come on, pretend he meant something to you.
Lisa Observational Cringe/Discomfort Dewey Largo: I'm not the soul mate! I'm dating one of your mothers. I-I forget whose.
Ms. Juniper: ...the scent of music is on you forever!
Dewey 1 · Dewey 2: Tick-tock, Dewey! Tanglewood beckons! / Coming, Dewey! / We're both named Dewey.
Comic Book Gay: I am not Comic Book Guy. I am his cousin, Comic Book Gay.
Comic Book Gay: What do you mean, wig?
Comic Book Gay: Doctor already did.
Moe: the Tony Awards are that night, and I'll be too keyed up to have fun.
Moe Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Grizzly Shawn: Oh, I love you, Neil Patrick Hairless.
Moe: I was gonna have to move in with Ma, who's dead and doesn't have a house.
Moe Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Moe Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Moe Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Skinner: You misfiled the... permission slips. You keep the green. I need the white.
Skinner Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Ms. Juniper · Skinner: Hey, come back to Earth, Mr. Permission Man. / You're all right.
Burns: Ooh, a splendid gentlemen's club. You've earned my respect.
Burns Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Moe: Hey, Smithers, I didn't know you were a geezer-pleaser.
Moe Wordplay/Pun Observational Mr. Burns: Having a 'lemon party'? Ooh, a good old-fashioned lemon party. I call first squeeze.
Mr. Burns Dark/Subversive Misdirection ★ Rewatch Moe: tonight I've got a long-overdue manscaping.
Moe Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Moe: Now we can afford real bowls of pretzels instead of trompe l'oeiling them on the bar.
Moe Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Smithers: A Tom of Shelbyville?
Smithers Wordplay/Pun Observational ★ Rewatch Moe: instead of trompe l'oeiling them on the bar.
Moe Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fat Tony: That wasn't me and you're my alibi.
Bart · Skinner: Triple spring break plus four weeks at Christmas. / No, but... no, if, if the state finds out, they'll shut us down.
Bart: You get a booty call and I get a cootie call.
Bart Wordplay/Pun Setup/Punchline Melody: I've sketched you so many times in my dream journal.
Melody Cringe/Discomfort Dark/Subversive Ms. Juniper: Bart rides that board with a passion of an Arapaho ghost dancer.
Ms. Juniper: Words are your enemy, my love.
Skinner: This morning I was like... ♪ Ding-a-ling-a-ling. ♪ and now I'm like... ♪ Dong-dong-dong. ♪
Bart: This morning I was like... ♪ Ding-a-ling-a-ling. ♪ and now I'm like... ♪ Dong-dong-dong. ♪
Bart Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Grizzly Shawn: Will you become Springfield's first openly gay city councilman?
Moe: I thought it was an inventory issue. That's a big relief.
Moe Misdirection Character Comedy Skinner: ♪ I'm walking on sunshine ♪ ♪ Not literally ♪ ♪ It means that I'm happy post-coitally ♪
Skinner Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Chalmers: You're a regular Casanova. Or in English, 'new house.'
Melody: You're breaking up with me... upside down?
Melody: Raggedy Ann was so right about you.
Melody Absurdist Character Comedy Ms. Juniper: Think of me whenever you see a tattoo you don't understand.
Ms. Juniper: Think of me whenever you see a tattoo you don't understand.
Mrs. Skinner: Fibs break baby Jesus's ribs.
Skinner · Willie: Who's the new groundskeeper? Also you, and you don't get more money.
Skinner · Willie: Willie, you're principal now. / Really? / Who's the new groundskeeper? / Also you, and you don't get more money. / Ach. Yes.
Moe: My name is Moe Szyslak, and I'm here to elect me.
Moe: I only read Hustler to see the pictures of Larry Flynt.
Moe Misdirection Absurdist ★ Rewatch Moe: I only read Hustler to see the pictures of Larry Flynt.
Moe Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Grizzly Shawn: Most insidious stereotype ever.
Moe: At first, I was only gay for your money.
Moe Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Moe: I just wish you people could know what it's like to want acceptance.
Moe Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Moe: Well, so who you gonna vote for, me, or a Republican whose record is so anti-gay, he's clearly secretly super gay.
Grizzly Shawn: the liar or the denier.
Comic Book Guy: Must not the heavens themselves cry with rage?
Moe: Like Frisbee golf, I'm glad I tried it once.
Moe Observational Character Comedy Skinner · Ms. Juniper: You've been gone for three months. Groovy.
Moe: Puttin' everything back. Undo. Undo. Undo. Sports page back over the urinal, and done.
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