When the Great Raymondo takes Lisa on as his magician's assistant, she is conned into revealing the secret of his greatest trick to his nemesis.
WAR
50.7
Wins Above Replacement
“The Great Simpsina” ranks #264 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 78.8 — Elite. The episode packs 60 scored jokes at 3.2 per minute, averaging 7.1 on craft and 6.6 on impact, with Raymondo landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Teller: Penn, there never was a curse. You're a real jerk, you know that?
Teller Misdirection Character Comedy Homer: Lisa, don't feel bad. Judas betrayed Jesus, but he still got paid.
Homer Dark/Subversive Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Raymondo: I got this phone for subscribing to Psychic Monthly, and then I cancelled the subscription. They never saw it coming.
Homer: God, if you don't bring my Lisa back safe, ants will burn tonight.
Homer Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Grampa: In '57, I saw him turn the Secretary of Agriculture into the Secretary of the Interior! It was hell on their wives, but it sure brought down corn prices.
Grampa Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 60 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Bart: This activity is so lame I'm gonna daydream about school.
Bart Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bart: Damn it, a pop quiz!
Bart Callback Absurdist Callback Farmer: I'm afraid the only 'NPR' we know down here is National Public Radio.
Farmer Wordplay/Pun Observational Lisa: Ooh, authentic American folk music, just like they play on NPR!
Lisa Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Lisa · Farmer: How many verses does this song have? / I ain't never run out!
Homer: First I work, then I pay, then I have to eat fruit?! Why was I ever born?!
Homer Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Marge: peach-aroni peach-za and my famous BLTs-- or should I say, PPPs?
Marge Wordplay/Pun Escalation Marge: That way I can enjoy my massage, and make sure you don't enjoy yours too much.
Marge Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bart · Milhouse: I forget what phase two is, but I'll assume we just dump the peaches like we discussed. / I'll assume that means 'yes.' / The name's Bart.
Homer: Oh, screw it. the half-doctors/half-hookers who solve everything.
Homer: What idiot put the dump so far away from where people live?
Homer Observational Character Comedy Snake: The Horticulture Society is having its Chinese Lantern party and we've got nothing to huck!
Snake Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Lisa: This neighborhood is starting to look a little bit like Sesame Street! Wonder who's in there. Could it be Oscar the...
Lisa Misdirection Visual Gag Raymondo: Help! I'm trapped in an alternate dimension-- an existential nether space! I... Hey, how ya doin'?
Raymondo: All right, who sent you-- Marvin The Magician? Oswald of the Occult? Citywide Mortgage?
Raymondo: Sounds like most of the house is still owned by the bank. But the rest of it is magic.
Raymondo Deadpan/Understatement Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Raymondo: I got this phone for subscribing to Psychic Monthly, and then I cancelled the subscription. They never saw it coming.
Raymondo: Gaze into it and learn how you will die. It's made for the American market.
Raymondo Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Lisa: Looks like there was magic between you two.
Lisa Wordplay/Pun Observational Raymondo: Now I'm alone with my memories and my medical marijuana.
Raymondo Deadpan/Understatement Misdirection ★ Rewatch Raymondo: Ladies are what you saw in half and throw knives at. They never wear the hat.
Raymondo Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Raymondo: That monkey wound up with 18 car dealerships. If you bought a family car in the St. Louis area, you bought it from the mighty Chimpopo.
Homer: My ear makes money? Hello, boat store? I'd like to order a boat.
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Grampa: In '57, I saw him turn the Secretary of Agriculture into the Secretary of the Interior! It was hell on their wives, but it sure brought down corn prices.
Grampa Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Grampa: Built a house outta corn. Worst house I ever owned! When it got real hot, it smelled like Fritos.
Grampa Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Bart: I forgot why I'm doing this.
Bart Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy Cregg Demon: 'Sup, brahs? It's me, Cregg Demon. Who's ready to get their magic on?!
Cregg Demon: I'm gonna descend into hell and pull up a skank.
Cregg Demon: Well, I don't need your number, sweetie... because it's tattooed on my ass! Yeah, it's on everyone's ass! Yeah!
Raymondo: Any idiot with a soul patch and a deck of cards thinks he's a magician.
Raymondo: feed your props.
Raymondo Deadpan/Understatement Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Raymondo: The only magic we couldn't make was a child.
Raymondo Dark/Subversive Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Raymondo · Lisa: Now the first thing you must do is make me a vodka tonic. You're out of tonic. That won't be a problem.
Homer: God, if you don't bring my Lisa back safe, ants will burn tonight.
Homer Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Milhouse: I don't know what to think about milk cans anymore.
Milhouse Absurdist Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Martin · Lisa · Bart: I can see why they call you The Great Simpsina. / My friends call me Lisa. / She has no friends.
Cregg Demon · Cregg's Son: You trick a dorky little girl into telling you! / Yo, Dad! It's a three-quarter flange-less friction slide.
Cregg Demon: Oh, and the next time it's my weekend with you, I promise there will be no chicks over. Just you, me, the komodo dragon and Ben Roethlisberger.
Cregg Demon: It was Harry H-Dog Houdini, yo! Now, after calling me 'the new him'-- his words--
Homer: Lisa, don't feel bad. Judas betrayed Jesus, but he still got paid.
Homer Dark/Subversive Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Ned: A peanut butter and pretzel sandwich? Mmm! There's no way a stupid Flanders like me could ever have thought of this.
Ned Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Raymondo: Hey, kid, nobody likes a gloomy magician. Except, of course, Gloomo the Magnificent.
Raymondo: I briefly became a disco magician. Have you ever tried to put a leisure suit on a bird? You get his pants on, he pulls his coat off, and on it goes.
Lou · Chief Wiggum · Box: Wish I could help, Chief. I'll take the box that doesn't talk back. / Yeah, that's just what you need, Chief, another stomach. Shut up.
Cregg Demon: Hope you're watching up there, Houdini-Bro. I did your great-grand-niece.
Raymondo: No. With my back, I got to sit.
Raymondo Deadpan/Understatement Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Raymondo: Lisa, magicians hate to be rescued.
Penn: You ain't saving nobody demon nothing freek!
Penn Wordplay/Pun Cringe/Discomfort Teller · Penn: That was the curse the witch put on us. / He stole all our best tricks. And he stole my sexiest magical gestures. Like this one-- ah.
Lisa: his tattoos are an inconsistent mix of hieroglyphics and cuneiforms
Lisa Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Teller · Penn: Penn, just drop them! / I can't! I never learned how!
Homer: The real magic is raising three kids in this economy!
Homer Observational Meta/Self-Referential Penn · Raymondo: I thought I killed you in Marrakesh. / That was my twin brother. / Ruined a lot of my tricks.
Penn: To show you we mean business, I'm unbuttoning my shirt and turning on a fan. Wah. Oh, yeah. It's magical.
Penn Physical/Slapstick Absurdist ★ Rewatch Teller · Penn: Penn, there never was a curse. / You're a real jerk, you know that?
Teller: Penn, there never was a curse. You're a real jerk, you know that?
Teller Misdirection Character Comedy Cregg Demon: I'm through with magic, son. I'm gonna move back to Canada and run for Parliament.
Raymondo: Tell me if she falls.
Barney: Hello, Harvey. I've probably had enough. Eh, a little more couldn't hurt.
Barney Character Comedy Observational Homer · Marge: Shh. / You shush yourself.
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