When Marge's car falls into a sink hole, she buys the perfect replacement to fit her family of five. But she quickly grows to hate it because, as she tells a shocked Homer, the car would be too small if she wanted to have another baby. Meanwhile, Bart and his friends are determined to find out what secret Lisa is keeping when Bart finds her cryptic messages and follows her sneaking off downtown for covert meetings after school.
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Wins Above Replacement
“Adventures In Baby Getting” ranks #289 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 78.1 — Elite. The episode packs 71 scored jokes at 3.7 per minute, averaging 7.2 on craft and 6.5 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: I don't want to bring more kids into a world full of my kids.
Homer Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Homer · Election Official: But I'm a 40-year-old white guy who didn't go to college and gets all his news from monitors at gas stations. In you go.
Homer: I guess it started sometime before Bart was born.
Homer Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Homer: Or it may be under the name Thad Supersperm.
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Homer: An 'on purpose' baby?!
Homer Character Comedy Reaction Beat All Jokes — 71 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Homer: Oh, man, not another election. Why do we have to choose our leaders? Isn't that what we have the Supreme Court for?
Homer Observational Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Homer · Election Official: But I'm a 40-year-old white guy who didn't go to college and gets all his news from monitors at gas stations. In you go.
Homer: I already got one wife telling me to eat healthy. Plus he promised me death panels, and Grandpa's still alive.
Homer Observational Absurdist ★ Rewatch Homer: I expect the leader of the free world to go commando. Plus his horse totally choked at the Olympics.
Homer Absurdist Observational Homer: On the other hand, he did invent Obamacare.
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Observational ★ Rewatch Homer: Medical deduction for personality implant? He's got six wives all named Ann. The government paid him taxes for five years!
Voting Machine: You are now being outsourced.
Homer: Oh, I hate being sucked into tubes!
Homer Physical/Slapstick Callback Callback Homer: Well, at least I got a steady job. D'oh!
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Reaction Beat TV Announcer: Hummingbirds, hum and get it!
Marge · Homer: Homer, when are you going to fix this faucet? I'm on it! Are you going to fix the faucet or not? For the third time this year, yes!
Marge: When we first got married, he'd only take six months to do things.
Marge Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Bart: Mom, how come you didn't do my homework last night?
Bart Character Comedy Absurdist Comic Book Guy: Oh, man, I got to climb stairs? Forget it. No one stays in the sinkhole!
Kent Brockman · Other Reporter: While this sinkhole is larger than the Sarlacc pit which swallowed Boba Fett, it is smaller than the Geonosis battlerena where Jango Fett was beheaded by Mace Windu. Weren't those two places about the same size? I didn't know this was an ambush!
Moe: Eh, you know, in this town, you learn to adjust to things: runaway monorails, NASCAR star Jeff Gordon.
Moe Observational Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Moe: That plank's only for coming in!
Moe Absurdist Character Comedy Moe: Try to land on the other traitors.
Moe Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Crowd Member: But my car's down there!
Mayor Quimby: For the first time, my administration has solved a problem.
Lisa: So, just when my dad finishes his online degree in Sinkhole Engineering, they go and fill it in!
Lisa Absurdist Irony/Sarcasm Bart · Lisa: Are the credits transferable? No. That guy has a bone to pick with the Board of Regents.
Bart: I don't know. Dork farm? Who cares?
Bart Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Ralph: I'm going to a accident!
Ralph Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Bart: Does she even know how much to tip?
Bart Character Comedy Observational Lisa: The five boxing wizards jump quickly.
Lisa Observational Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Bart: My sister's finally become... mildly interesting.
Bart Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Marge: Ah, they never stop for blue-heads.
Marge Observational Visual Gag Car Salesman: Well, I think the Tissan Sensibla is the car for you. It's got all the features that a modern woman wants, including all manner of makeup mirrors.
Car Salesman: This baby comes with an RX-12 2-cylinder.
Marge · Car Salesman: It says on your Facebook page you have no kids. I have two Yorkies, and I'll be talking about you to them tonight!
Homer: Room for two adults, three kids and zero grandpas.
Homer Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Barney: Let Automobile Von Bismarck give it a try.
Barney Character Comedy Absurdist Comic Book Guy: Worst car ever! I can't believe it!
Marge: The wipers wipe backwards, and the defroster lines on the back window are too close together!
Marge Escalation Character Comedy Mechanic · Homer: As a mechanic, I'm not totally qualified to judge mental health... So, you're not totally unqualified.
Homer: Wow, an auto mechanic who tells the truth.
Homer Observational Irony/Sarcasm Loaner Car: She's an '83 Yugo. I don't do laundry or kiss boo-boos!
Marge: With this car, we're basically saying no more babies.
Marge Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Marge: With this car, we're basically saying no more babies.
Marge Character Comedy Observational Homer: An 'on purpose' baby?!
Homer Character Comedy Reaction Beat Homer: Oh, I really wish I had fixed that faucet.
Homer Callback Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Homer: Her soft spot's been skulled over for the last three months!
Homer Character Comedy Observational Homer: When your wife looks at you full of hope, with an idea that would destroy life as we know it... just smile, nod and stall, stall, stall until she changes her mind.
Homer Observational Character Comedy Homer: All right! 'Try it' means sex.
Homer Observational Character Comedy Homer: Just appreciating... how lucky... I am to be... with... you.
Homer Character Comedy Awkward Silence Bart: Maybe I should go on antipsychotic meds.
Bart Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Bart: I'd hate for your carpet to fade.
Bart Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Bart: Today's was 'mousetraps are not slippers' or something.
Bart Absurdist Character Comedy Lisa: A gentleman doesn't ask, and a lady doesn't tell.
Lisa Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Marge: And let me tell you, a towel rack will not support your weight.
Marge Cringe/Discomfort Observational Doctor Visual Gag Deadpan/Understatement Marge Visual Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Moe: That's why I wrap my plums in tinfoil every day.
Moe Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Homer: That's how I got the money to buy you your necklace.
Homer Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Homer: I think that Shiva used to be Paul Bunyan.
Homer Observational Absurdist Principal Skinner · Lisa: Outmoded, no room in the budget, and all the teachers forgot how to make a capital 'Q.' Two loops and a flourish.
Bed: I'll take it from here, wingman.
Bed Absurdist Character Comedy Homer: I guess it started sometime before Bart was born.
Homer Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Marge: Room for one, please.
Marge Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Marge: Just yell across the house like you do everything else.
Marge Character Comedy Observational Homer: You were pocket-dialed!
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Homer: Hey, the pocket wants what it wants.
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy Homer: The fat, pathetic slob I'd be with four kids.
Homer: Or it may be under the name Thad Supersperm.
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Homer: The table with four legs is sturdier than the table with three. Cubes are made of cheese, but pyramids are schemes.
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Homer: I mean, there's always a little ketchup left in the bottle.
Homer Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Other Man: No, no, no, look in the mirror-- that's your argument.
Homer: I mean, I'm no Luis Guzman, but I'm all right.
Homer Character Comedy Observational Homer · Marge: remember that Corvette I had? I thought they only paid $50 a trip. Exactly.
Homer: I don't want to bring more kids into a world full of my kids.
Homer Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Top Episodes — The Simpsons
