When Bart decides to get back at Homer by becoming a graffiti artist, established street artists offer him a gallery show; a new health food store threatens to put Apu out of business.
WAR
14.3
Wins Above Replacement
“Exit Through The Kwik E Mart” ranks #533 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 69.2 — Mixed. The episode packs 61 scored jokes at 3.3 per minute, averaging 6.7 on craft and 5.8 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: Friends are the only people you can betray!
Homer Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Marge: You can't strangle a boy on his mother's birthday. Juries hate that.
Marge Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Shepard Fairey: I spent 20 years putting up posters that said 'obey.'
Street Artist: Bart, street art is not about questioning authority.
Apu: Because I have a gun, you must stick them up now!
Apu Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 61 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Homer: Yes! Awake! Let's do this!
Lisa: It's time to start your annual mad dash around town to get her a present that's not completely insulting
Lisa Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: I've already bought your mother a present. And brace yourself, I put some thought into it.
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Homer: It's a state-of-the-art food mash-'em-upper
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Homer: Your mom's gonna feel so good, it'll make mere love seem like chewing tinfoil
Homer Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Homer: Finally, a supermarket with a clear premise: 'island something'
Homer Observational Character Comedy Homer: It's like going to Hawaii without the murderous locals
Homer Dark/Subversive Observational Homer: Apu! What are you doing out of your natural habitat?
Homer Character Comedy Observational Marge: You keep your ice cream right beside the motor oil!
Marge Observational Setup/Punchline Apu: I have always considered you cash-giving cows to be my friends
Apu Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Homer: Friends are the only people you can betray!
Homer Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Apu: Convenience forever, freshness never!
Apu Character Comedy Escalation Homer: Oh, my God, this might be a Marge's birthday where I get sex!
Homer Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Lisa: Quick, before it suffocates!
Lisa Absurdist Reaction Beat Homer: The only golf we'll watch is ladies' golf, and we're not watching that
Homer Character Comedy Observational Homer: This yolk-separating camera-hog was supposed to call you and say happy birthday!
Homer: A pity kiss?! That tears it!
Homer Character Comedy Escalation Lisa: Aw, he's trying to eat 'ewectwicity'
Lisa Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Paula Paul: Screw you, Marge Simpson! Don't read my books and don't make my recipes! May my curse follow you beyond the grave!
Homer: An audience full of church groups and Marines!
Homer Observational Absurdist Marge: You can't strangle a boy on his mother's birthday. Juries hate that.
Marge Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Bart: No way, man. I'm a free-range kid.
Bart Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Bart: These cedar shavings are a hell of a lot better than my lumpy mattress
Bart Observational Character Comedy Milhouse: Awesome revenge, cutting your dad's face out of a piece of cardboard
Milhouse: Every vandalism spree needs an obnoxious laugher
Old Man: And these days, there's no newspapers so I have to put down Amazon Kindles
Old Man Observational Absurdist ★ Rewatch Homer: Don't just stare back at me, come up with a theory!
Homer Character Comedy Reaction Beat Bart: No, no. I'm too concerned with unemployment
Bart Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Chief Wiggum: I don't traffic in wordplay, Kent
Chief Wiggum: They're all artists, Lou. Why don't you open your eyes.
Chief Wiggum: you may have thumbed your nose at the police, and made yourself into a combination of Robin Hood, Luke Skywalker and, well, every rapper ever
Snake: Hey, after biting off a man's nose in a prison race war, selling pre-cooked Pad Thai to soccer moms is pretty darn sweet
Snake Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Snake: Here, I'm not Jailbird, I'm just 'Bird.'
Snake Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Apu: Because I have a gun, you must stick them up now!
Apu Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Snake: For once, the Indian has been outsourced!
Snake Observational Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Apu: Oh, sweet Vishnu the Destroyer, what have I done?
Snake: Wiggum just makes you do book reports for Ralph. But you have to make 'em so it looks like he's done it.
Snake Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Lisa: Just throw in a couple of 'fur is murders.'
Homer: Fine. Fur's murder. Everything's murder.
Homer Escalation Character Comedy Bart: The jerk in the glasses did everything!
Bart: Here, drink this paint thinner.
Street Artist: Is that graffiti or are you opening up a Mommy and Me?
Bart: Hey, I got an F in art. Mainly so it would say 'fart' on my report card.
Bart Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Street Artist: Bart, street art is not about questioning authority.
Milhouse: At the opening, I could wear a sports jacket with a t-shirt and jeans!
Bart: I poked your flab back in, square by square.
Bart Visual Gag Character Comedy Apu: Every successful corporation harbors a terrible secret. Theirs is that what they sell as chicken is actually monkey.
Apu: Monkey, monkey, monkey!
Comic Book Guy: Look at me, I'm Mr. Fatso! It's funny 'cause it's so preposterous.
Comic Book Guy: Your son's made a fool of you in front of the whole town.
Homer · Car: Go drive a car! Yes, master. Here, car! Here, boy!
Homer: When a man isn't a hero to his son, he's nothing.
Homer Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Gallery Visitor: I like how the painting makes more than I do.
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Homer: What about the Hulk riding a rhinoceros? Would you stop him from laughing?
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy Chief Wiggum: Hold it right there, Spray-candy Warhol!
Chief Wiggum: Do you think people would be stupid enough to pay for something some amateur put on a wall for nothing?
Shepard Fairey: I spent 20 years putting up posters that said 'obey.'
Shepard Fairey: I'm not in the business of helping out posers any more. Now, I just sell stuff to them.
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