Homer, Moe, Lenny and Carl win $200,000 in the Springfield Lottery. But when Carl takes off to Iceland – his homeland – with all the winnings, the guys embark on a Nordic adventure to get the cash back.
WAR
33.2
Wins Above Replacement
“The Saga Of Carl” ranks #429 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 74.6 — Great. The episode packs 54 scored jokes at 2.9 per minute, averaging 6.9 on craft and 6.3 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
Marge: Visual gag: Marge sleeps with a body pillow shaped like Homer to replace his pushing
Marge Visual Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Moe: If I ever see that Carl again, I'm gonna freeze him, chop him up into ice cubes and scoop him into the urinal trough at the Gathering of the Juggalos!
Moe Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Carl: Yeah, I always go with three, the number of brothers and sisters I, uh, Hunger Games-ed in the womb.
Carl Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Barney: And I'm 69. Because people always laugh when you say '69.' No one knows why.
Barney Meta/Self-Referential Observational ★ Rewatch Lenny: I was gonna be one of those guys who's really into hot sauce, you know? Hot sauce suspenders, hot sauce pajamas. Bolo tie with a little chili pepper on it.
Lenny Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 54 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Homer: To me, it's legs versus boobs.
Homer Character Comedy Observational Homer: But I'm watching soft-core tennis.
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy Bart: Are you gonna walk upstairs and ask her?
Bart Character Comedy Observational Homer Reaction Beat Character Comedy TV Announcer: From a Shaolin monastery in darkest Transylvania come helpful hell-spawn. With homicidal honor, they rampage for peace.
Homer Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Bart · Lisa: Kung Fu Werewolf chop! Blob Jitsu kick!
Bart · Lisa: Samurai shampoo blast! Ninja throwing soap!
Grampa · Bart · Lisa: Did this really happen? Pill attack! Actual sword attack!
Bart Lisa Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement Marge: You did it, baby. You promised no fun, and you delivered.
Marge Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Blaise Pascal: What are the odds of meeting you here?
Carl: Yeah, I always go with three, the number of brothers and sisters I, uh, Hunger Games-ed in the womb.
Carl Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Barney: And I'm 69. Because people always laugh when you say '69.' No one knows why.
Barney Meta/Self-Referential Observational ★ Rewatch Moe: Oh, no. That's just gasoline and hot dog water.
Moe Character Comedy Absurdist Lenny: So freaking far in the ground, baby.
Lenny Escalation Character Comedy Homer: I'm glad we're the kind of people who are worried about Carl's safety instead of thinking that he ripped us off.
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Misdirection Homer: The power of friendship is so amazing, I don't feel at all suspicious of Carl.
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Escalation Callback Moe: ♪ Four best friends ♪ Who never quarrel ♪ Homer Simpson, Lenny, Moe and... ♪ And... And no one.
Moe Running Gag Awkward Silence Moe: If I ever see that Carl again, I'm gonna freeze him, chop him up into ice cubes and scoop him into the urinal trough at the Gathering of the Juggalos!
Moe Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Lenny: See, I bet he flew to Quebec to bring us back authentic French-Canadian sugar pie.
Lenny Character Comedy Misdirection Lenny: I was gonna be one of those guys who's really into hot sauce, you know? Hot sauce suspenders, hot sauce pajamas. Bolo tie with a little chili pepper on it.
Lenny Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Homer: We talk about guy stuff. Like baseball and trucks and when guys lift too much weight and their bungus drops out.
Homer Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Homer: Ice-land? Is that even a real place? I thought it was Superman's Superman cave.
Homer Character Comedy Misdirection Lenny: I guess I'm only bringing one guitar on this revenge trip.
Lenny Character Comedy Absurdist Homer: We're broken. We're pretty broken.
Homer Character Comedy Escalation Marge: Visual gag: Marge sleeps with a body pillow shaped like Homer to replace his pushing
Marge Visual Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Lenny: It says here Iceland is green, and Greenland is icy. The Vikings switched the names to trick everybody.
Lenny Observational Setup/Punchline Homer: Hey, Vikings, it's still pretty damn cold! I only packed shorts.
Homer Character Comedy Observational Moe Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Icelandic man: Ingimar Ogmundsson, how progresses your gonorrhea?
Ingimar: It heals, but slowly.
Ingimar Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist Icelandic man: burning our sweaters and feasting upon our tiny horses
Homer: Apparently, screwing over your friends is in Carl's blood-- his adopted blood.
Homer Character Comedy Observational Lenny: and that's why his sweatpants say 'Hjorleifsstrati' across the butt
Lenny Callback Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Callback Lenny: All drivers must be over the age of 25... and check. Love you, Mom.
Lenny Character Comedy Misdirection Carl: It's no use. We're perfectly matched.
Carl Absurdist Physical/Slapstick Homer: Give us some answers, or you'll get a mouthful of rotten shark fermented in its own urine.
Carl: No, no, anything but the inedible, repulsive food of my native land.
Carl: we're not friends. Friends share their feelings, their hopes, their dreams. Friends know their friends are from Iceland! We are just guys who sit next to each other at a bar
Carl Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Moe: When the nice ones snap, it's always a good show.
Moe Observational Character Comedy Homer: It's World War II all over again. America kicks Iceland's ass.
Homer Absurdist Observational Homer: I say we make it into saga soup and have ourselves a soup sip.
Homer Wordplay/Pun Escalation Moe: my doctor says it's better for me not to sleep
Moe Character Comedy Absurdist Homer: The Carlsons then wrote down this saga so no one would ever forget their treachery and cowardice.
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Absurdist ★ Rewatch Homer: They were the original ultimate scumbags.
Homer Character Comedy Escalation Homer: You have endured barbarian invasions, total financial collapse and a lesbian prime minister.
Homer Observational Escalation Homer: you have to be stubborn. But I ask you to put aside your stubbornness
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Setup/Punchline Icelandic crowd: The blood of 1,000 tiny horses is on their hands.
Lenny: that blue tape, you know, that makes you really look like you know what you're doing. You peel it off, and you got that super straight line there.
Lenny Observational Character Comedy Carl: We don't get together to share our emotions. We get together to escape them.
Carl Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Carl: Yeah, I'd tell you guys I love you, but, uh, I don't want to say it, and you don't want to hear it.
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