Marge and Homer go on a date, but Marge is embarrassed when Homer talks during the movie; when Homer gets hurt and can't work, he tries to learn how to be a better husband from a man he believes is a movie star.
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“The Spy Who Learned Me” ranks #547 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 68.1 — Mixed. The episode packs 64 scored jokes at 3.6 per minute, averaging 6.6 on craft and 6.0 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
Mr. Burns · Smithers: When I was in Africa, I had my skull cracked open by cannibals, and I'm still kicking! / Sir, that was your partner. You betrayed him to the cannibals. / Oh, that's right. I have his memories because I ate his brain.
Principal Skinner: I should've taken that superintendent job in Honduras. My own donkey, all the sugarcane I could suck... if only I could stomach the upside-down question marks.
Lenny · Homer: Trouble in paradise? / No, just my marriage.
Krusty: That the town I sponsor in Africa doesn't exist? Prove it! Film all of Africa!
Woman · Homer: You've ruined me for other men! / That's my hobby. This is my job.
All Jokes — 64 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Homer: Now that's what I call going for a spin!
Homer Observational Setup/Punchline Homer · Marge: Now that's what I call a snappy retort! / Stop saying what you call things! I'm trying to watch the movie!
Unknown villain · General: Yes, he was the perfect lover... of being killed! It's a weird sentence, but let's move on.
Moviegoer · Marge: Hey, Homer, great yell-outs tonight! Lucky you, Marge! You get to hear 'em the loudest!
Woman · Homer: You've ruined me for other men! / That's my hobby. This is my job.
Homer: Looks like that guy's got turret's syndrome!
Homer: I couldn't have thought of that in 10,000 lifetimes!
Homer Character Comedy Escalation Marge: This date night was even worse than the date night we saw Date Night.
Marge Wordplay/Pun Observational Homer: Swiss cheese... Marge, how come you're not saying anything?
Homer Reaction Beat Character Comedy Homer: Oh man, Marge is pissed. Look at her... flaring her nostrils... drumming her fingers... making small noises like she's yelling at me inside her head...
Homer Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer · Bystander: That's what she said! / Another good one! You're on fire!
Principal Skinner: I should've taken that superintendent job in Honduras. My own donkey, all the sugarcane I could suck... if only I could stomach the upside-down question marks.
Nelson: Hey Simpson. Let me save you the trouble of putting that money back in your pocket. Haw-haw!
Nelson Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Bart · Nelson: My mom says bullies only bully 'cause they're scared. / Your mom's next!
Nelson: You make dumb kids, lady.
Nelson Character Comedy Escalation Lenny · Homer: Trouble in paradise? / No, just my marriage.
Lenny · Homer: Left for left, right for right! / Enough of your double-talk!
Mr. Burns · Smithers: When I was in Africa, I had my skull cracked open by cannibals, and I'm still kicking! / Sir, that was your partner. You betrayed him to the cannibals. / Oh, that's right. I have his memories because I ate his brain.
Homer: But you said it so mean.
Homer Character Comedy Reaction Beat Lisa · Bart: Sharp. Flat. Sharp. Flat. / No one will tell me if I'm a ghost or not!
Marge · Homer: Got what, Homer? / Uh... I got... Shelbyville radio in my car for a few minutes.
Marge · Homer: Homer, I'm a single mother trying to raise a family here. / But you're not... / Just zip it!
Homer: We could visit all our old romantic haunts that have closed and turned into temporary Halloween stores.
Homer Observational Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Skinner · Nelson: I didn't get much sleep last night, because I was up late again, lamenting the choices I've made. / Haw-haw! You can't change the past.
Documentary narrator: Do you want lies with that?
Krusty: That the town I sponsor in Africa doesn't exist? Prove it! Film all of Africa!
Documentary subject: You can just scrape it right off.
Documentary subject: If I don't have some kind of nugget every five minutes, I'll die.
Moe: Hey, Homer. I could hear your pathetic rationalizing through the door.
Moe Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Moe: Look, I'd love to discuss your problems, but a pack of raccoons took over my back room and today's the day I make my stand.
Homer: I wish I could pull down my zipper and that guy would come out.
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy Moe: Stranger things have happened, Homer.
Moe Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist Stradivarius Cain · Cain: Hello, Hufnpuffalus. / Sorry I slept with your girlfriend.
Lisa · Nelson: Nelson, don't you want my lunch money? / Nah. Chicks wind up getting all your money anyway.
Lisa · Nelson: See if you can find out where my dolls are. / You might not like the answer. / I just want closure.
Nelson: Look at all them burgers and fries. I didn't know they served these things warm!
Nelson Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Nelson: Aw... they feel like a baby's head.
Nelson Absurdist Cringe/Discomfort Bart · Nelson: No, you give them the coupon, and they give you the hamburger. / I knew that.
Nelson · Bart: Free hamburger?! No, you give them the coupon, and they give you the hamburger. I knew that.
Homer: Sometimes Marge says I turn it into a trashcan.
Homer Observational Character Comedy Homer · Cain: Sounds like you're turning into wife number two. I can do that. / So, stick with Marge!
Chief Wiggum: Childhood obesity... it's not funny anymore!
Chief Wiggum: Breakfast cereals where the surprise inside is diabetes
Homer: My dear, did you just fall from heaven? 'Cause your hair looks really messed up.
Homer Setup/Punchline Misdirection Cain: Okay, it matters a little what you say.
Cain Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement Homer: You know what wood makes the best ventriloquist dummy? Maple.
Woman: Oh... I am a sucker for articulate fatsos.
Woman Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Homer: I'm not talking about those pilots that hot dog in an air show while the real men are in combat.
Homer Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Homer: I thought I was making small talk. But it turned out to be big talk.
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Documentary filmmaker · Krusty: Do you actually serve those items? No.
Nelson · Krusty: Hugh Jackman Wolverine? / I'm not made of money. / Alicia Silverstone Batgirl? / He's that now.
Marge: Did you get a lot of work done, workerman?
Marge Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Cain: Kiss her. Kiss her while I watch.
Cain Cringe/Discomfort Absurdist Marge: I'm not getting flea bites on my ankles!
Marge Character Comedy Observational Homer: I have bug-bombed the car for m'lady.
Homer: No. Not you. Big fan, but no. / Cleatus the football robot, you're my only hope!
Homer: Big fan, but no. Cleatus the football robot, you're my only hope!
Cleatus: No one likes you!
Cleatus Meta/Self-Referential Dark/Subversive Husband · Wife: This is why I always say 'mingle at parties.' It's how I met Greg Kinnear. / Can't friends talk about friends? / He is not your friend! / Then why did he say he'd call me when he comes to Bolivia?
Martin: At the risk of inflaming Sister Fate, this bully-free period has been an Arcadian idyll!
Martin Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Other nerds · Nelson: Here, here! Idyll! Ha-ha!
New Bully: I administer with this nose.
Martin · Lisa: This is a happy ending? / Well, he's tough on nerds, but easy on the eyes.
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