Lisa starts coaching Bart's Little League team; Marge and Bart spend the day at an amusement park, where former MLB manager Mike Scioscia gives Bart advice.
WAR
30.8
Wins Above Replacement
“Moneybart” ranks #490 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 72.1 — Solid. The episode packs 55 scored jokes at 3.3 per minute, averaging 6.8 on craft and 6.3 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
Homer: They sound good in my brain, then my tongue makes not the words sound very good, formally.
Homer Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Marge · Lisa: Sweetie, you can still go to McGill-- the Harvard of Canada. Anything that's the something of the something isn't really the anything of anything.
Homer: That's a problem for future Homer. Man, I don't envy that guy.
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Lisa · Bart: Hey, there have been plenty of female managers in baseball. Connie Mack, Sandy Alomar, Terry Francona, Pinky Higgins. Those are dudes! Really? They sound like... I mean... Well, the thing... Ooh... no.
Ralph: I caught a white apple!
Ralph Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 55 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Homer: What's a babe like her doing with a brown banana like Skinner?
Homer Observational Character Comedy Milhouse: Maybe she's one of those sexy school supply company reps. If that's true, where's her suitcase with wheels, Bart? Where's her suitcase with wheels?
Milhouse Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Skinner: Ah, if it isn't Eavesdrop Ernie and the Listen-In Bunch.
Skinner Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Dahlia: I just graduated from Yale, and thought I'd pay a visit, from Yale, to the little school where it all began.
Dahlia Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Bart Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Bart · Lisa: She can do the kind of math that has letters. Watch. What's X, Lisa? Well, that depends. Sorry. She did it yesterday.
Dahlia: Two clubs? Well, that's a bridge bid, not an Ivy League application.
Dahlia Observational Character Comedy Skinner: Wonderful year. Same year we got new playground sand. Yes, it was. Mm-hmm.
Skinner Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Lisa · Maggie: Lisa fencing with baby Maggie, getting repeatedly hit
Marge · Lisa: Sweetie, you can still go to McGill-- the Harvard of Canada. Anything that's the something of the something isn't really the anything of anything.
Flanders: It's a Flanders sandwich with great neighbor bread!
Ned: Bart, call me Walter Matthau, 'cause I'm a bad-news bearer.
Ned Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Ned: I just don't like the monster I've become.
Ned Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Homer: Sorry, Marge. Last time I stepped on a baseball field, I got tased.
Homer Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Homer: That's a problem for future Homer. Man, I don't envy that guy.
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Grandpa · Bart: Son, how would you like to spend the summer building wooden boats by hand with master craftsmen? How'd you like to kiss my ass?
Lisa · Bart: Hey, there have been plenty of female managers in baseball. Connie Mack, Sandy Alomar, Terry Francona, Pinky Higgins. Those are dudes! Really? They sound like... I mean... Well, the thing... Ooh... no.
Nelson · Kids: We had a tall, freckled-faced kid on the team that we picked on till he quit. Hey, Splatter-face! How's the weather up there?
Bart · Lisa: Thanks. You can be the free safety. Wrong sport. I mean the point guard. Also wrong.
Bart · Lisa: A little's not gonna be enough, honepie. Don't call me honey pie. You got it, tootsie pop.
Lisa · Kid: We're brother and sister. So are my parents, I think.
Lisa Kid Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Homer: The only thing I know about strategy is that whatever the manager does, it's wrong, unless it works, in which case he's a button-pusher.
Homer Observational Character Comedy Homer · Barney: I hate guys that just push buttons all day. You just push buttons all day.
Homer: You know, ever since Obama came in, you've got all the answers, don't you?
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Comic Book Guy: Oh, Lisa, baseball is a game played by the dexterous, but only understood by the Poin-dexterous.
Bill James: I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!
Professor Frink: Using sabermetrics, even an eight-year-old girl can run a ball club with the sagacity of a Stengel, and the single-mindedness of a Steinbrenner. I call it a Stein-stengel...
Moe · Comic Book Guy: Hey, speaking of stats, I'm none too pleased about your ratio of seats occupied to beers ordered. You mean our SOBO?
Moe: Oh, why did I advertise my drink specials in Scientific American?
Moe Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Announcer: I haven't seen this many books in a dugout since Albert Einstein went canoeing.
Ralph: I caught a white apple!
Ralph Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Bart: Oh, my stupid sister's taken the fun out of baseball. What happened to stealing bases, the suicide squeeze, throwing a little chin music?
Bart Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Homer: This isn't the game I grew up with, the game played in the misty ballparks of Enron Field, or Pac Bell, then SBC, now AT&T Park.
Homer Observational Absurdist ★ Rewatch Lisa · Bart: Hot streaks are a statistical illusion. I wish you were a statistical illusion.
Martin: Conflicted, conflicted, conflicted.
Martin Character Comedy Reaction Beat Callback Milhouse: Do alligators alligate? I don't know... yes! I'm scared.
Homer · Marge: Whoo-hoo! Underpants dinner! No, it's not. Aww.
Homer: The '69 Mets will live on forever, but do you think anyone cares about Ron Swoboda's wife and kids? Not me, and, I assume, not Ron Swoboda!
Homer Observational Dark/Subversive Homer: Boys don't have feelings. They have muscles.
Homer Observational Character Comedy Homer: They sound good in my brain, then my tongue makes not the words sound very good, formally.
Homer Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Patty/Selma: With all this racket, my boys can't get their 16 hours sleep.
Announcer: It's a triumph of number-crunching over the human spirit. And it's about time.
Marge: Actually, I'm taking you on a 'special little guy super happy fun' day.
Marge Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Bart · Marge: Are you taking me to the dentist? You're not going to the dentist.
Ralph: I didn't know what I was putting into my body.
Ralph Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Homer · Scioscia: Mike Scioscia! Didn't you get radiation poisoning working at the Springfield Nuclear Plant? I sure did, and it gave me super-managing powers!
Scioscia: I also demagnetize credit cards.
Scioscia: Dick Drago's mustache, or Oscar Gamble's afro
Scioscia: wacky face for the camera
Mr. Burns: Bah. Computers. They'll never replace my Huffnagle autocollator! Crank it, Smithers. Crank it!
Announcer: Now to begin my off-season follow-home robberies. I'll see you in the parking lot, but you won't see me until it's too late.
Announcer Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Lisa: beaten in excitement only by every other sport
Lisa Observational Deadpan/Understatement Lisa: you're a great brother 51% of the time
Lisa Character Comedy Callback Callback Martin: Conflict resolved. Conflict resolved. Conflict resolved.
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