A "cool family" from Portland moves in next door to the Simpsons. Homer is desperate to befriend them, while Marge is skeptical, thinking that being cool is not all it's cracked up to be.
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“The Day The Earth Stood Cool” ranks #266 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 78.8 — Elite. The episode packs 54 scored jokes at 2.7 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.9 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: In my house, we found human bones.
Homer Deadpan/Understatement Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch woman: This boy's grandfather is a shriveled-up corncob begging for death!
woman Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Marge: Fine, I admit it, you nipple Nazis.
Marge Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Terence: That means Springfield is played out.
Terence Observational Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch T-Rex: This is so pathetic. I can't even wear it ironically ironically.
T-Rex Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 54 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Homer · woman: What a lucky little boy to get a trip to the park with his grandpa. Grandpa?!
Homer woman Setup/Punchline Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch woman: This boy's grandfather is a shriveled-up corncob begging for death!
woman Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Homer: Beat it, ducks! I'm not old enough to have food for you!
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Homer: This drawing doesn't think I'm old. Don't you, drawing?
Homer Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Lenny · Carl: Russian nesting donut!
HR person · Carl: Actually, Carl, there's no workplace-appropriate use for the word 'bazooms.' What about 'thunderbags'?
911 operator · Homer: 911. What is your emergency? I'm calling to report a missing donut cart.
Chief Wiggum · Lou: But, Chief, the power lines! 'But, Chief, the power lines.' Go lower!
Homer: What have I become? It's not a good feeling when you're saying 'what have I become?' more than once a day.
Homer Observational Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Homer Visual Gag Character Comedy Terence · Homer: Do you know there are now restaurants there with two locations? Not near my kids.
Homer: You can't have kids. Look at you. You have a fun job, a skull ring-- and it's not Halloween-- and your belt is a seat belt!
Homer Observational Escalation ★ Rewatch Homer: In my house, we found human bones.
Homer Deadpan/Understatement Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Homer · Terence: Really? I'm... cool?! Oh, can I man-hug you? Sure. I don't know how!
Marge · Homer: Oh, relax, kids. Just be yourselves. Oh, great, Marge, now that's in their heads!
T-Rex: Uh, Mexico Chewy, not Star Wars Chewie. Star Wars Chewie is just a man in a costume, so he's not scary.
T-Rex Observational Character Comedy Homer: Uh, this is, um... Ice Cream, Bungee Jump, and... Viral Video.
Homer Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch T-Rex: I did, when I was uno.
T-Rex Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Bart: Fine. You have a weird old version of something.
Bart Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Emily · Bart: Uh, TV? We don't own a TV. I didn't know that was an option.
Lisa · T-Rex: 'Scientists prove cat heaven real, human heaven not!' That's so sad! Those are joke headlines. It's not a real newspaper, it's just satire. Oh... satire!
Marge: Hmm, that's not applesauce.
Marge Reaction Beat Cringe/Discomfort Marge: It's just that Maggie's already... milked me today.
Marge Cringe/Discomfort Wordplay/Pun Homer: No, I'm young-person cool bald! Not old-person sad bald.
Homer Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Homer · Flanders: Guess I can't be your best friend anymore. To be honest, that comes as a tremendous relief.
Homer: I didn't go to college. Every CD I have, I bought at a car wash. Black-and-white films make me angry.
Homer Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Homer: I can't pronounce 'artisanal.'
Homer Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Homer: I only know David Cross from the Chipmunks movie.
Homer Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Homer: Not only do I like Van Halen, but I think they keep getting better.
Homer Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Lisa: At the art walk, we walked into a gallery, and it was just a guy crying. That was the art!
Lisa Absurdist Observational ★ Rewatch Marge: Parenting shouldn't have a style! Parenting is about bedtimes, and passwords on computers, and complicated punishments you never follow through on!
Marge Observational Escalation ★ Rewatch Homer: Wearing scarves in non-scarf weather is the essence of cool. The essence!
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Homer: And these skinny jeans will have flattened my junk for nothing!
Homer Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Terence: T-Rex loves decaying industrial-scapes. I used to. Now I'm into abandoned ethnic union halls.
Terence Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Marge: Glug, glug, glug. That's a good little mammal.
Marge Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Marge: Fine, I admit it, you nipple Nazis.
Marge Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch nursing mothers: If you don't want to breast-feed your baby, we will.
T-Rex: This is so pathetic. I can't even wear it ironically ironically.
T-Rex Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Terence: My vinyl. My vinyl!
Terence Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Homer · Terence: I thought it made blimp tires. Yeah, like factories are never repurposed.
Homer: What? No one judges my wife's thunderbags.
Homer Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Homer: They can 'goatee' hell.
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Emily: I like him-- he talks in rhyme and owns a whimsical store in a failing mall. He's like the dad in a Wes Anderson movie.
Emily Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: Parents are supposed to be lame so their kids have something to rebel against by becoming cool just long enough to get married and have kids for whom they are lame. It's nature's way.
Homer Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: When you're old, your tattoos will be saggy and illegible.
Homer Observational Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Emily: When I humble-brag about this article, this towns about to get as popular as toe sneakers.
Emily Observational Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Moe: I don't know-- everything crappy about this place, they like. Even the rats.
Moe Observational Escalation ★ Rewatch Disco Stu: Disco Stu has found a new thing.
T-Rex: I don't get a lot of sleep. I was out really late at an all-ages burlesque show.
T-Rex Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Homer: Like those eels that eat whale poop?
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Homer: 50 gallons of baby formula will put out that blaze.
Homer Absurdist Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Homer: They're necessary. They're necessary! They're finally necessary!
Homer Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Terence: That means Springfield is played out.
Terence Observational Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Homer: Nuclear energy was a craft before it was a science. When uranium came from a stream, and atoms were split by hand, then transformed into the kind of electricity that illuminated not just our homes... but our souls as well.
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Top Episodes — The Simpsons
