Marge encourages Bart to explore his creative side, and his initial reticence quickly subsides when she hires Slava’s beautiful daughter, Zhenya, as his new piano instructor. Homer is shocked when he loses the last two hairs on his head, and employs a wide variety of headgear to try and keep his new found baldness a secret from Marge.
WAR
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Wins Above Replacement
“The Fabulous Faker Boy” ranks #225 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 79.5 — Elite. The episode packs 48 scored jokes at 3.0 per minute, averaging 7.0 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
Barney: You lured Marge in with your hair. You trapped her with marriage. You skinned and field-gutted her by having kids. Now she's mounted on your wall for good, with fake glass eyes and a rubber tongue.
Barney Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Device · Nelson: Urgent message from Nelson Muntz. Go on. Haw. Haw.
Moe: Babar, king of the elephants. I read his books as a kid. He married his cousin, Celeste. That was my takeaway.
Moe Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Zhenya's Father · Marge: Come to kitchen and see picture of my dead wife. That's okay. I... No, no, no, no. She is not dead in picture. Uh... she is dying.
Fat Tony: Can you teach my monkey? Then I can deal with the Musician's Union instead of the Humane Society. Much easier to muscle.
All Jokes — 48 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Homer: Ew, cheap PVC smell. Oh, no. I'm an action figure! And I hate action.
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Flanders: Hiddiley-ho, articulated neighborino. Beautiful day, isn't it? Why, it's practically mint on card.
Flanders Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Homer Character Comedy Running Gag Homer: This reality ain't all bad. Pastry power, activate.
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy Marge: Homer, give me a yank. I'm lonely.
Marge Cringe/Discomfort Setup/Punchline Marge · Homer: Homer, this isn't the way to the mall. The mall? I thought you said Badass City!
Device · Nelson: Urgent message from Nelson Muntz. Go on. Haw. Haw.
Marge · Principal Skinner: Let me guess. You need a field trip mom. A library volunteer? Someone to Purell the CPR dummy? Resusci-Kate is just fine, thank you.
Marge · Principal Skinner: What did he do now? Oh, today, I'm not here to talk about what he did. I'm here to talk about the future. What did he do in the future?
Principal Skinner: I'm not sure what he's planning, although there is a lot of Internet chatter.
Principal Skinner: less Dennis the Menace, more Casper the Ghost, if he were still alive.
Homer: My head hairs! I'm bald! Get... get... get in there.
Homer Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Homer: Did you ever wonder if hippopotamuses think that rhinos are unicorns?
Homer Absurdist Observational ★ Rewatch Homer: If you're worried about your Mother's Day present, it's in the works.
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Comic Book Guy: Don't worry, music theory's just a fancy word for music math.
Professor Frink: My dear boy, you undoubtedly think of the slide whistle as merely a whistle that slides. Let me disabuse you of that misperception.
Comic Book Guy: Behold! From the pages of Dune and Dune Messiah, Gurney Halleck's beloved zither: the baliset.
Apu · Homer: I see you are wearing the bald man's beret. Is it that obvious? Oh, yes. The only thing that screams 'I am hiding hairlessness' more is a goatee.
Apu: A cowboy hat means 'I'm ashamed of my small penis.' Don't even ask me what this means! Yee-haw! I'm a-compensatin'!
Apu Dark/Subversive Escalation Zhenya's Father · Marge: Come to kitchen and see picture of my dead wife. That's okay. I... No, no, no, no. She is not dead in picture. Uh... she is dying.
Zhenya's Father: I'm sorry, did my voice go all evil? It is common with Russian accent.
Homer: Those two hairs were what was left of my youth, Moe.
Homer Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Moe: Babar, king of the elephants. I read his books as a kid. He married his cousin, Celeste. That was my takeaway.
Moe Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Bullies · Martin: We put two of those guys up there just for using a big word. 'Caché' is not a big word.
Zhenya: Daddy said I was a accident.
Zhenya Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement Bart: Every good booger deserves flicking.
Bart Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Zhenya's Father: Like Russian economy, under Putin. Stop making Putin jokes. You sound like police... under Putin.
Chief Wiggum · Lou: Finally. Someone who knows what a traffic stop is really all about. Uh, Chief, don't you think those jeans are a little tight? We're all not high-waisted like you, Lou, okay?
Zhenya · Bart: Every note you play sounds like dying animal writhing on keys. Awesome!
Russian daughter: Buying a limo. He could tell big shots in the back that, no, they cannot smoke.
Zhenya: I would love your hands forever.
Zhenya Cringe/Discomfort Misdirection Marge: I would've been happy if Bart was just a piano mover.
Marge Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fat Tony: But no tickling the ivories. You treat them with respect.
Fat Tony: Can you teach my monkey? Then I can deal with the Musician's Union instead of the Humane Society. Much easier to muscle.
Barney: You lured Marge in with your hair. You trapped her with marriage. You skinned and field-gutted her by having kids. Now she's mounted on your wall for good, with fake glass eyes and a rubber tongue.
Barney Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Bald Man: No wife. I just slept with thousands of bald women.
Helen Lovejoy: Unlike you, when you make your lumpy clam chowder. I guess Bart must be a musical genius, because frauds are always found out. Always.
Student: Hurry up me on. I got to learn my mom's stripper music by midnight.
Student Dark/Subversive Cringe/Discomfort Marge: Of course. But very, very, very angry at all the time I wasted.
Marge Character Comedy Escalation Bart: Hey, one of those notes could go to your brain and kill you. Are you sure you want to take that chance?
Bart Absurdist Character Comedy Talent Show Judge: First of all, you're over ten years old. Second, you're clearly Justin Bieber. That's another 25 bucks we'll never see.
Bart: Is it too late to make you breakfast in bed?
Bart Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Marge · Zhenya's Father: Did you pass? More or less. If I eat an orange wedge, the whole thing's gonna blow.
Zhenya's Father: Even Russian dressing is just Thousand Island.
Marge: Yeah, your generation won't have any dreams come true.
Marge Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Bart · Grampa: Here's your new plate, Grampa. Oh, boy! There's crumbs on it!
Marge: I've always wondered what you were hiding under your curly locks, my beautiful yellow melon.
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