Worried about the effects of violent video games, Marge encourages Bart and Milhouse to play board games; Lisa becomes smitten with a new student, a vampire; while on a second honeymoon, Homer and Marge rescue a castaway who escaped from his ship.
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“Treehouse Of Horror Xxi” ranks #377 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 75.9 — Great. The episode packs 75 scored jokes at 5.3 per minute, averaging 6.7 on craft and 6.2 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
Lisa: Eight forever? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I can't spend eternity using kid scissors. They barely cut anything.
Lisa Observational Character Comedy Milhouse: I wish I could see my mom one last time, so I can say, 'This is all your fault!'
Homer · Dracula: Whoa, you blood-sucking freaks love your kids, too? I remember when he was a baby, I'd sneak up to his crib in the middle of the day to make sure he was still not breathing.
Lou · Wiggum: I don't like the looks of that knight, Chief. Don't worry. We're safe. He's two steps away, and one to the right.
Homer: She just wanted to ride bikes through New England. But those seats hurt my ass.
Homer Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement All Jokes — 75 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Homer Running Gag ★ Rewatch Callback Krusty: Beneath this smile, I'm in awful, awful pain!
Krusty Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Krusty: Welcome, precious primetime viewers, valued Internet downloaders, and scary digital pirates!
Krusty Meta/Self-Referential Observational Krusty: I went too far! Spoiled the whole show for everybody! I don't deserve to wield the remote. Oh, I'm getting old and gray... I'm dead.
Cookie Monster: Monster go watch The Office.
Cookie Monster: Dunder-Mifflin just like monster's workplace.
Bart · Milhouse: Milhouse, do we have enough points for a weapons upgrade? Yeah! We really racked them up eating all those elf babies.
Bart: Ha-ha! Nothing beats a weapon made of weapons.
Bart Absurdist Observational Marge: This is that video game Reverend Lovejoy said you shouldn't play.
Marge Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bart · Lovejoy: Well, he's playing it right now. Slay the wounded!
Comic Book Guy: My non-lazy eye!
Comic Book Guy: My other eye!
Bart: So which of these 'board lames' shall we play?
Bart Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Lisa: Taffy Land? Drops and Risers? Consternation? Ravenous, Ravenous Rhinos? Mouse Catch? Battleboat? Funopoly? Crate of Apes? Yahtzu? Tiddlywonks?
Lisa Wordplay/Pun Observational ★ Rewatch Bart Setup/Punchline Dark/Subversive Bart: Hey, it's got to be good if Satan put his name on it.
Bart Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Milhouse: Oh, I'm always the thimble.
Homer: There was a bank error in my favor. And I'm spending it all on Oriental Avenue prostitutes!
Homer Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Lou · Wiggum: I don't like the looks of that knight, Chief. Don't worry. We're safe. He's two steps away, and one to the right.
Tennis player: For me, it's game, set... and match.
Lou · Wiggum: I think you mean 'check, and mate.' Just got crushed by a giant horse, Lou. You want to cut me a break?
Barney: Oh, man, I'm never coming down! Ah! Whoo-hoo! Another ladder! Riding high! Sinking low! Top of the heap! Oh! Down I go! On top for good! Oh, cruel hubris!
Barney Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Ralph · Yahtzee dice: Yatszu. Here we go, back in the cup. At least the cup is lined with felt. Hey, Mr. Positive, shut the hell up.
Game voice · Milhouse: B-7. They dunked our Battleboat!
Milhouse: I wish I could see my mom one last time, so I can say, 'This is all your fault!'
Marge: Colonel Ketchup, I say it was you that killed him in the parlor, with the letter-opener!
Marge Character Comedy Observational Scrabble player: No. I might sink the letter. And 'Q' is just too valuable. That blank could be any letter we want. Maybe I'm just tired of living.
Lisa: The final challenge: Mousecatch. A game so lame, no one's ever finished it.
Lisa Observational Meta/Self-Referential Bart: Crazy Eights! Think, Bart. Think! What was that lesson I learned from video games? Oh, yeah! Kill, kill, kill!
Bart Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bart: There comes a time to beat the crap out of childish things.
Bart Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Bart: Sure is a hard way to catch a mouse.
Bart Observational Deadpan/Understatement Bart: Oh, this stupid thing never works.
Bart Observational Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Homer · Bart: That's it. From now on, we'll just play Hangman. Wait, wait. We still got one more letter. Is it... 3?
Bart · Homer: That's not a letter. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Marge · Homer: Oh, Homie, what a great idea-- to take a cruise in uncharted waters. Yeah, charts are for squares, baby.
Homer: Lenny, I'm on a second honeymoon! You'll have to pick your own Lotto numbers.
Homer Character Comedy Observational Homer: Oh, baby, let's give those seagulls something to squawk about.
Homer: Oh yeah, baby, I like it when you're distracted.
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Marge: This poor man must have been out there for days. He's nothing but hard, bronze muscle.
Marge · Homer: So... uh, you know... I'm not really in the mood anymore. Fine. I'm going for a walk.
Roger: Unfortunately, he had the strength of ten businessmen.
Roger Absurdist Observational Homer: Hey. I've had a hard trip, too. One of the lenses fell out of my sunglasses!
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Homer: Why do piemakers get all the girls?
Homer Character Comedy Observational Homer · Marge: It was poisoned! No it wasn't! Well, it was rhubarb. No, it was berry-peach. Berry-peach? That's my favorite!
Homer · Marge: I guess we've got to kill him before he kills us. Well, we'd better do it quick, because he's making scones!
Homer · Marge: They should call this one 'Recipe For Murder.' What do you mean, 'this one'?
Marge · Homer: Roger was telling the truth. This proves nothing. Roger could've been the one that killed them. Soy sauce. Low sodium. Then his story was true.
Homer · Roger: The pie you baked us killed that shark! The pie was clean. The shark died from the fuel leaking out of your boat.
Roger: Oh, goody. The monkey got ahold of a spear gun.
Roger Escalation Deadpan/Understatement Marge · Homer: Why did you do that?! We had to kill him or he'd tell people we tried to kill him.
Homer · Businessman: You're alive? Yes. I suspected our host would poison us, so I gave everyone an antidote before dinner.
Homer: She just wanted to ride bikes through New England. But those seats hurt my ass.
Homer Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Unknown · Unknown: Ever wonder what she thinks about? Just sugarplums and buttercups.
Bart · Lisa: Hey, what's that weird look on all those girls' faces? It's something you've never seen: they're smitten.
Edmund · Lisa: I love your pallor. Why is there a steering wheel in my bedroom?
Lisa · Edmund: How'd you do that? Oh, it's these cheap school buses, with their squishy metal.
Edmund · Lisa: On another subject, you have beautiful eyes. They're just dots in circles.
Lisa · Edmund: You're a vampire. I should be scared, but I'm not. Let us move between the trees the way a bat does: by jumping.
Homer: Lisa's fallen for a vampire? That makes me so angry! I feel the change coming!
Homer Character Comedy Escalation Marge: I know, I know. Don't serve garlic, don't stab your guest in the heart with a wooden stake, don't ask him if he knows Frankenstein. It's racist somehow.
Marge Observational Character Comedy Edmund · Dracula: Dad, I don't need a chaperone. I'm 400 years old. You live in my crypt, you play by my rules.
Homer · Edmund: Okay, okay. If a mosquito bites you, does it become a vampire, too? Yes.
Homer · Edmund: Okay, okay. If you bite your tongue, does it become a vampire? Look, I'm more than just a vampire. I'm a nut for Dixieland jazz.
Lisa · Edmund: You said you weren't going to bring that. I said I might not.
Edmund: They say vampires live forever, but I die of embarrassment every day.
Edmund Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Edmund: Keep your mouth closed, or you'll swallow a lot of bugs.
Edmund Observational Character Comedy Homer · Edmund: Man, you vamps got it made. You sleep all day... And, because we only drive at night, we can really time the traffic lights. Watch. Green. Green. Green. Boom. Green. Yes. Boom. Green. Good. Boom.
Homer · Vampire witness: Excuse me. Have you seen these kids? I did. And they were sneaking kisses. One kiss! Ha, ha, ha. Two kisses! Ha, ha, ha. Three kisses!
Dracula: I'm Dracula, not The Hulk.
Dracula Character Comedy Observational Lisa: Eight forever? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I can't spend eternity using kid scissors. They barely cut anything.
Lisa Observational Character Comedy Lisa: Pretty ironic-- a cross being used to kill someone.
Lisa Observational Dark/Subversive Homer · Dracula: Whoa, you blood-sucking freaks love your kids, too? I remember when he was a baby, I'd sneak up to his crib in the middle of the day to make sure he was still not breathing.
Homer · Vampire: Well, nobody loves his kids more than me! Come and get it! Die, fatso!
Vampire: His blood-- it's full of cholesterol. And not the good kind.
Vampire Character Comedy Observational Homer · Lisa: Woo-hoo! Uh, Dad? They turned you into a vampire. Yes! I can fly! See you back at the house.
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