Homer's obsession with the TV show "Storage Battles" leads the family to discover Grampa's past identity as "Gorgeous Godfrey," the most feared, villainous man in pro-wrestling history
WAR
42.6
Wins Above Replacement
“Gorgeous Grampa” ranks #290 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 78.1 — Elite. The episode packs 49 scored jokes at 2.6 per minute, averaging 7.1 on craft and 6.7 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: if he wasn't a terrible father, what's my excuse for this?
Homer Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Grampa: Should I really let the men who ruined my past and present hang out with the kid who's going to ruin my future?
Grampa Observational Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Grampa: I don't ride sidesaddle! I'm straight as a submarine!
Grampa Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Grampa · Homer: Well, on V.E. Day, I kissed a man by mistake. Thank you.
Bart: Eye gouge! Ear bite! Folding chair! Hair pull! Face-fart! Flying face-fart! And then I start fighting dirty.
All Jokes — 49 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Homer: Writing is for bathroom walls, and acting is for getting out of DUIs.
Homer Observational Irony/Sarcasm Homer: The only reason TV exists is for reality shows about white-trash scuzzbags doing subhuman, made-up jobs.
Homer Observational Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Lisa: Um... Oh. Ah. Eek. Yikes. Oh. Ew. Ugh. Well... Ew. Ah. Dad! No. Ah! Oh. Seriously? Ah! Ooh, jail music!
Lisa Reaction Beat Escalation CJ: If there's wrap, it ain't crap.
CJ Wordplay/Pun Observational Marge · Homer: I want to know what it's for. Too late.
Homer: I bet I win a locker full of treasure, like a solid gold bar of silver or Picasso's TV.
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy Ned: Oh, no, no, no. It is I who will be watching Picasso's TV tonight!
Ned Callback Character Comedy Callback Homer: There's other P.O.'s?!
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Marge: I wasn't laughing, I was being worried.
Marge Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Marge: I think your dad might be gay.
Marge Setup/Punchline Misdirection Homer: My dad was married to a woman who left him because he ignored her needs for decades.
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Marge: Old gay men are adorable. Like wrinkle dogs in a wrinkle dog calendar.
Marge Observational Absurdist Marge: They even had a gay float in the Pride Parade last year.
Marge Irony/Sarcasm Observational Homer: This'll show Helen Lovejoy. Always bragging about her he-she cousin.
Homer Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Patty: I was just taking Stanlerina to get her hormone shots.
Patty Visual Gag Character Comedy Homer · Marge: It's weird that you don't consider yourself a young person. I know. It's weird to me, too.
Homer: If I can't find my father a man to kiss and cuddle, then I've failed as a son.
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy Grampa: I don't ride sidesaddle! I'm straight as a submarine!
Grampa Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: I so wanted him to be gay.
Homer Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Grampa · Homer: Well, on V.E. Day, I kissed a man by mistake. Thank you.
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Grampa: the manly mixture of strong and fat we called beefy
Grampa Observational Wordplay/Pun Crowd: How dare he! That was drinking milk!
Crowd Absurdist Irony/Sarcasm Grampa: You are the luckiest people in the world. You get to look at me.
Grampa Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Grampa: I was boastful before all your football showboaters, rap music-ers and TV beach Italians.
Grampa Observational Character Comedy Wrestling crowd: Pshaw! Pshaw, I say! Pshaw yourself! Pshaw! Pshaw!
Mr. Burns: that conceited mother-puncher was my hero
Grampa: Should I really let the men who ruined my past and present hang out with the kid who's going to ruin my future?
Grampa Observational Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Mr. Burns: That cocaine I ordered is taking forever!
Bart: He's always pretended to be boring, but he's really a straight-up psycho.
Bart Character Comedy Misdirection Vendor: Folding chairs! Folding chairs! Can't hit somebody when they're not looking without a folding chair!
Grampa: You are the luckiest people in the world! You get to look at me!
Grampa Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Lisa: Why do you still have a thing for Nelson?
Lisa Character Comedy Observational Bart: He's a rebel, and only I can change him!
Bart Observational Character Comedy Lisa · Bart: Why do you think bad guys are so cool? Why do you still have a thing for Nelson?
Lisa Bart Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Director: And I've worked with Bob Balaban!
Director Observational Meta/Self-Referential Homer: I got one just for watching the game.
Homer Escalation Character Comedy Homer: if he wasn't a terrible father, what's my excuse for this?
Homer Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Grampa: If professional wrestling were fake, that would make every fan in the history of the sport a complete and utter moron.
Grampa Irony/Sarcasm Observational Mr. Burns: he ain't beefy, but he is infuriating, and you can't teach infuriating.
Bart: Eye gouge! Ear bite! Folding chair! Hair pull! Face-fart! Flying face-fart! And then I start fighting dirty.
Bart: The world is my ring now.
Bart Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Mr. Burns: Curse you, and this morbidly obese little half-wit.
Marge: This is why we go to everything in this town-- it always pays off.
Marge Meta/Self-Referential Observational ★ Rewatch Marge: This is why we go to everything in this town-- it always pays off.
Marge Meta/Self-Referential Observational ★ Rewatch Bart: I wish Grampa was my dad.
Bart Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Abe · Bart: Damndest boos I ever heard. They're cheering, Grampa.
Abe Bart Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Bart: I wish Grampa was my dad.
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