When Mr. Burn replaces most of the plant's employees with robots that end up turning on the community, the people he laid off must come to the rescue.
WAR
56.7
Wins Above Replacement
“Them Robot” ranks #150 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 81.5 — Elite. The episode packs 60 scored jokes at 3.5 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.8 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
Lenny: Hey, Homer, you know what I'm playing for ya? The world's smallest violin. And now I got to sell it, just to make my rent!
Lenny Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Mr. Burns: I give you permission to shake your fists in anger twice.
Mr. Burns Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Mr. Burns: There's one thing man has that machines can never match: hounds!
Mr. Burns Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Mr. Burns · Smithers: Smithers, it's time to re-staff with the super-intelligent kangaroos we've been breeding! I'm sorry, sir, but they just filled their pouches with office supplies and hopped away. Even the joeys?
Mr. Burns: You're all hired back... as temps.
Mr. Burns Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 60 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Marge: Power's out. Oh, your father must be sleeping on his side again.
Marge Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: From downtown! And it counts!
Homer Physical/Slapstick Visual Gag Homer: Oh, yeah, you don't want to go to the hospital at 5:00 on a Friday. Whoo-hoo! Thank God it's TGIF!
Homer Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Mr. Burns: Bad news, Lang-Soo. Some casual Friday this is. You're outta here, drug-o.
Mr. Burns Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Homer: I told them to make these track d'oh-proof!
Homer Meta/Self-Referential Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback Homer: Yeah, but a weekend without drinking is no big deal. I did it when I was in that alcohol-induced coma.
Homer Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Homer · Lisa: you promised to help me write a iku. Why did I do that? It sounds so dull and boring. What was I thinking?
Homer Lisa Character Comedy Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Homer: Liquor, mustn't think of liquor...
Homer Character Comedy Observational Homer · bottle of liquor: Hey, there! What's cookin'? Come on, boy, crack my seal and drink your father.
Homer · Marge: A surprisingly not-horrible fruit drink called a mimosa. There's champagne in those! Then there's champagne in me!
Homer: Oh, man, I'd better have some coffee and iced tea. No! Irish and Long Island! What about this lemonade? Mike's Hard! Then I better soak up the alcohol with some food! Whoo! Cake! Rum cake! Crepes! Suzette! Cherries! Whoo! Jubilee!
Homer Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: O, Lord, I have once again besotted my liver with Thy fermented gifts. If You can weasel me out of this physical, I will blow Your mind by doing something incredibly holy, at some point. Amen.
Homer Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Dr. Hibbert · Homer: your cells have been overexposed to gamma radiation. Like the Hulk? Well, sort of like the Hulk. But instead of getting powerful, you're going to get very, very sick.
Homer · Dr. Hibbert: Hulk smash... Yes, Hulk smash.
Mr. Burns: This trapdoor app works like a charm. Excellent.
Mr. Burns Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Mr. Burns · Smithers: Smithers, it's time to re-staff with the super-intelligent kangaroos we've been breeding! I'm sorry, sir, but they just filled their pouches with office supplies and hopped away. Even the joeys?
Mr. Burns: More high-tech than kangaroos?
Mr. Burns Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Mr. Burns · Smithers: Comicon nerds! You fool! These are robots!
Mr. Burns: I give you permission to shake your fists in anger twice.
Mr. Burns Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Mr. Burns · Worker: I didn't say, Monty Says. Now I have cause to terminate. This is crap. Now get out. You didn't say Monty Says.
Worker Irony/Sarcasm Reaction Beat Callback Smithers: So we need one meat sock on the payroll.
Smithers Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Worker: One, I liked the new microwave in the break room. Just push 'popcorn,' you don't have to know how long. Two, replacing us with robots is heartless and despicable. Three, how about a farewell party with a caricature artist? You know, it's something both kids and adults can enjoy.
Worker Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Homer · Mr. Burns: Does the chair go back like this? Yes. Whoo-hoo!
Mr. Burns: It's one, excluding mine falsely!
Mr. Burns Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Robot Reaction Beat Visual Gag Robot: Nice parking, idiot.
Robot Character Comedy Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Homer: So, workin' hard or hardly workin'? I said, workin' hard or hardly workin'? Workin' hard or hardly working?! Working hard or hardly working?!
Homer Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Homer: It's a simple question! Are you A.) Working hard or B.) Ow!
Homer Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Callback Lenny: Hey, Homer, you know what I'm playing for ya? The world's smallest violin. And now I got to sell it, just to make my rent!
Lenny Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Lenny: Oh, my God! Where's the bow? I can't sell it without the bow!
Lenny Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Lenny: The buyer clearly specified violin and bow!
Lenny Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Homer: Ugh! You call this beer? It's watered-down swill!
Homer Character Comedy Observational Homer: ♪ When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie ♪ ♪ That's amore ♪ When you do chair gondola all by yourself, it almost seems stupid.
Homer Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Homer: Well, at least it doesn't feel pain. Wait a minute... D'oh!
Homer Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer · Robot: Will you be my friend? Friendship cannot exist between man and machine. But I can simulate interest in your statements.
Homer Robot Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Character: Look at what happened to the man on my pizza box.
Character · Narrator: Guess I'll just have to become beautiful on the inside. Which he didn't.
Character · Lenny: Hey, check it out! Lenny's hit a new low! I don't want my window washed! Too late!
Substitute Teacher: Fine. We will not be reading Death in Venice today.
Barney: Hey, if we learned anything from The Full Monty, it's that in a tough economy, ugly people strip for money. Do a lot of people pay? No, but I can also play three-card full Monty.
Barney Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Barney: Follow the hats, where's the wiener? Now you see it, now you don't.
Barney Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Callback Homer · Robot: Could you give my wife a few lessons? Hmm. Your laughter indicates you do not wish us to give your wife lessons.
Homer Robot Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: My watch says 3:00. 4:00... 5:00. Let's go.
Homer Character Comedy Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Homer · Robot: Automated workers are not able to leave the plant. What happened to you guys? You used to be cool. We are the same temperature we have always been.
Robot: The designated hitter corrupts the purity of an otherwise elegant game... Illogical, illogical.
Robot Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Robot · Bart: We cannot take the inferior one. My heart makes up for my shortcomings, like Rudy. Rudy was only put in at the end of a meaningless game. We will notify you if this game becomes meaningless.
Robot Bart Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Robot: That could've been my motherboard lying in the street!
Robot Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Robot: And here I was waiting till you slept to rob you of your copper.
Robot Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Homer: Hush, bionic prince, as I cradle your waning form.
Homer Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Robot · Homer: Alcohol is harmful to humans. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, save your breath. We have no breath. We do vent nitrogen once a year. You don't want to be around for that.
Robot Homer Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Robot: Our new primary directive becomes removing all impediments to the plant.
Robot Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Homer: Flanders, I don't judge a robot by the color of their eyes, I look at their hands... which have turned into buzz saws.
Homer Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: Just say 'kill me,' jerks!
Homer Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Bart · Homer: Dad, they can only go three miles an hour! I'm doomed! Can they climb stairs? With great difficulty. I'm doomed!
Bart Homer Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Mr. Burns: There's one thing man has that machines can never match: hounds!
Mr. Burns Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Character: Unemployed Springfielders to the rescue! And underemployed.
Robot: I told you precisely that fact 1,562 times...
Robot Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Mr. Burns: You're all hired back... as temps.
Mr. Burns Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer · Robot: I'm giving you your wish: to be a real boy. I am real and I do not have wishes. Then take us out to sea! I am not a transformer. I cannot turn into an outboard motor.
Homer Robot Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Top Episodes — The Simpsons
