After Krusty the Clown's show is canceled and his talent agency drops him, his very first agent, Annie, tries to craft his comeback.
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“The Ten Per Cent Solution” ranks #436 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 74.4 — Great. The episode packs 77 scored jokes at 4.1 per minute, averaging 6.8 on craft and 6.2 on impact, with Krusty landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Krusty: They start well, then they get paranoid around the third turn.
Krusty Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Krusty: so I don't have a funny third item.
Krusty Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Krusty: Why is my show all cartoons?! And all the movies they're making fun of are over a year old. It's like those parodies were written when the movies came out, but it took so long to animate them that we look dated and hacky. Why can't we...?!
Krusty Meta/Self-Referential Observational ★ Rewatch Krusty: Everything's perfect about the past except how it led to the present.
Krusty Observational Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Annie Dubinsky: If you ever hear a star's name and wonder, is he dead? The answer is either I represent him or yes.
All Jokes — 77 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Krusty: Can't get enough Itchy and Scratchy! And now it's time for... another Itchy and Scratchy? Who's the star of this show, me or...?!
Krusty Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Krusty: Why is my show all cartoons?! And all the movies they're making fun of are over a year old. It's like those parodies were written when the movies came out, but it took so long to animate them that we look dated and hacky. Why can't we...?!
Krusty Meta/Self-Referential Observational ★ Rewatch Marge: Kids, that's enough TV. Maggie's eye is starting to wander.
Marge Observational Visual Gag Marge: We're gonna get some fresh air and visit the Museum... of Television.
Lisa: Why can't we visit a real museum? One that doesn't have the skeletons of the Three Stooges in the lobby.
Lisa Dark/Subversive Observational Homer: But where will people find clips of old TV shows if they're not housed in a giant building? Where? Where?!
Homer Absurdist Observational Comic Book Guy: The gun Sheriff Baby wore!
Homer: Oh, my pants are splitting wide open. And people will see my tattoo of Donald Duck smoking a doob!
Homer Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: That was for Marge's eyes only.
Homer Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Homer: Only the funniest black-and-white man ever.
Homer Observational Character Comedy Homer: Everything's a rip-off of The Honeymooners.
Homer Observational Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Homer: Margie, you're the greatest. Oh, Ralph, Fred, Archie, King of Queens, I mean Homer.
Homer Callback Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Callback Eunice (from Fatso show): Are you getting excited? No. That's me not holding my breath.
Homer: They were so childless and miserable.
Homer Dark/Subversive Observational Annie Dubinsky: If you ever hear a star's name and wonder, is he dead? The answer is either I represent him or yes.
Bart: Um, would you play a bloated corpse on CSI?
Bart Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Krusty: Wikipedia, Twitter-- who names these things? Percy Dovetonsils?
Krusty Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Network Executive: Oh, that was easy.
Krusty: Yep, everything's nice and legal!
Krusty Reaction Beat Cringe/Discomfort Krusty: so I don't have a funny third item.
Krusty Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Agent: Krustila, I'm gonna drop you as a friend first, so that when I drop you as a client, you'll know it's only business.
Agent Setup/Punchline Cringe/Discomfort Agent: And when I finished, every one of them was spic and span.
Agent Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Agent: It's a smartphone, you out-of-it hack.
Agent Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Krusty: Little help? This only shuts the door.
Krusty Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Lisa: I liked the knowledgeable docents.
Lisa Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Bart: I liked the early closing time.
Bart Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Krusty: Now I'm strung out in a ball pit!
Krusty Visual Gag Character Comedy Bart: Well, you're not exactly my hero. I see you more as a cautionary tale.
Bart Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Lisa: Well, people also love a quitter-- Sarah Palin, The Beatles...
Lisa Observational Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Krusty: Also better get back on those anti-psychotic meds.
Krusty Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Annie: It's the laugh of the most ungrateful, credit-grabbing, other-people's-room-service-eating man that I ever met.
Annie Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: Oh, now I hate him, too.
Homer Reaction Beat Character Comedy Young Krusty: These geniuses can blow up the planet, but they don't know the alphabet.
Annie: There wasn't a dry turtleneck in the house.
Annie Wordplay/Pun Observational ★ Rewatch Young Krusty: I don't want to play in Peoria. They're always doing construction on Highway 74.
Young Krusty: This is the best kind of comedy of all: cheap!
Young Krusty: There's only one thing I want: ice for my ding-dong!
Annie: Today's kids are less sensitive than an army condom.
Annie Observational Dark/Subversive Young Krusty: I can only tell the truth right after sex.
Young Krusty: Deep down, I'm doing this to get back at my father.
Annie: I didn't have sex with a clown for five months. What about mimes? Come on. I'm not made of stone.
Annie Escalation Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Annie: Trust with me is like a candle. When you blow it out, it's gone for good.
Annie Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Homer: What about a comedy candle? You know, that relights itself?
Homer Callback Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback Bart: Once, I used one on Milhouse. He was wishing for his parents to get back together, but the flame never went out.
Bart Dark/Subversive Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Annie: I promise you Krusty will show up on time or sober. Yeah, that's right, I said 'or.'
Annie Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Krusty: They're gonna want F-bombs and all I can give 'em is 'ca-ca' and 'ta-tas.'
Krusty Character Comedy Observational Krusty: What did he get in trouble for? That's all?! I did that while you were on the phone!
Krusty Escalation Cringe/Discomfort Krusty: And if they didn't, until the '70s, I hit 'em with a stick.
Krusty Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Krusty: It's called Circus of Shame or something.
Krusty Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Krusty: Everything's perfect about the past except how it led to the present.
Krusty Observational Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Tick-Tock the Clock: Would that I could turn back time and never play this career-killing role.
Krusty: I've pulled out everything but my Little Krusty.
Krusty Cringe/Discomfort Wordplay/Pun Audience Member: Everything I loved as a kid and hated as a teenager I love as an adult!
Audience Member: Everything I loved as a kid and hated as a teenager I love as an adult!
Krusty: And this time I'm not blowing it on cocaine for my horses.
Krusty Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Krusty: They start well, then they get paranoid around the third turn.
Krusty Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Krusty: Which ones? Telebozo? Shtick at Nite? E.S.P.U.?
Krusty Wordplay/Pun Observational Network Executive: And we pay for everything with soft porno and boxing.
Network Executive: If not, we'll burn it to the ground! And that will be the end of that phoenix.
Entourage actors: I got your coffees, Mr. K.! Too hot! Too cold!
Krusty: Beloved entertainer... sad old man! Beloved entertainer... sad old man!
Krusty Character Comedy Visual Gag Krusty: For years I lived on piñata candy!
Krusty Character Comedy Observational Annie: Your going rate is 100 barrels of oil.
Annie Escalation Observational Annie: And don't you ever upstage him or craft service will be serving chimp tacos!
Annie Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Homer: Yeah, I'd like to squeeze a lime on that!
Homer Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Krusty: Ooh! Idea for sketch: rapping mummy. Notorious T-U-T. It writes itself. Find someone to write it.
Krusty Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Network Executive: if a woman does it, she's a bitch. But in a man, those traits would be considered...
Intern: I'm only getting college credit for this!
Intern Cringe/Discomfort Observational Krusty: Hey-how-are-ya-don't-talk-to-me-the-show's-starting.
Krusty Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Janeane Garofalo: And I'll keep my promise, like Obama did with Guantanamo.
Janeane Garofalo: Burn on you! I brought my expandable beret!
Homer: I'm paying extra for this channel? Hasn't been good since The Wire. Ah, who am I kidding? I never watched The Wire. Had to bluff my way through so many conversations.
Homer Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Krusty: Sex over 60: The Mechanics of the Impossible. Take two!
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