Grampa has to move into the Simpsons house following a fire at the retirement home, and on moving day, Homer 'throws his back out' and 'rests' at home. He later finds an advert for a video game, Villageville on his myPad, and starts playing. During that time, Homer loses Santa's Little Helper. When the family find him, Homer doesn't seem to care because he's "not a dog person". Grampa later tells the rest of the family the story of Homer's childhood companion, pet dog Bongo.
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“To Cur With Love” ranks #213 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 79.9 — Elite. The episode packs 69 scored jokes at 3.7 per minute, averaging 7.2 on craft and 6.6 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
Professor Frink: The brakes are powered by silence.
Herman: When God closes a door, he opens a gun shop.
Herman Dark/Subversive Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Burns: I can walk into McDonalds, order soup, and they'll make it.
Burns Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Isotoad Toy: Cancer clusters are random occurrences.
Grampa: Anyway, Homer and that dog went together like Christmas and suicidal thoughts.
Grampa Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 69 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ News Anchor: Local inventors are vying for a million dollar stipend donated by T. Montgomery Burns, as part of a court settlement for causing one billion dollars of environmental damage.
Burns: Shoo. Go have one of your enormous litters.
Burns Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Otto: Well, I've harnessed the ancient power of slavery to run the school bus of tomorrow.
Otto Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Burns: Whose boy is this? I'll take him home. You'll take his place.
Burns Dark/Subversive Escalation ★ Rewatch Apu: Some say they're powered by decaying nitrates, others by tiny insects beneath the hot dog skins.
Apu Observational Character Comedy Comic Book Guy · Other Character: Hard to believe I once turned down a job in Tampa, Florida, because I believed in this city. That was 15 years ago. They wouldn't take you now.
Professor Frink: Frink Labs, a division of Allied Frink, the Good-Glavin people
Professor Frink: Oh, yes, it's the Moyvin-Hoyvin Vehicle.
Professor Frink: The brakes are powered by silence.
Professor Frink: Look out because of the zooming.
Professor Frink: I'm okay. I'll just go live with my son. No! No!
Marge: You know you can't lift your lifting belt without wearing your belt-lifting-belt.
Marge Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Homer: Hold down the fort? With my bad back?
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Homer: Just call me DeForest Kelley. I gotta write that down and send it to Conan.
Homer Wordplay/Pun Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Homer: Tavern, tavern, tavern, tavern, tavern, tavern... Brothel. Parsonage.
Homer Escalation Character Comedy Homer: Yeah, that's right, your Lord sticks his hand in his pants. And yes, it is the same hand I tapped you with.
Homer Cringe/Discomfort Escalation Marge · Homer: Did you spend this whole time doing fake chores in a fake village? It's real to them.
Marge: But what if he got out through your half-completed tunnel to Flanders's fridge?
Marge Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Marge · Homer: You jackass. You lost our dog! Oh, my God. I forgot to feed my jackass.
Bart: I love that dog, but that is one long, stupid name.
Bart Observational Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Homer: A lot of good backups. How pregnant is the raccoon?
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy Homer: Good, Marge. Get their price down.
Homer Misdirection Character Comedy Lisa · Homer: You cried when they canceled that show you hated. Goofing on it made me feel wise.
Lisa Homer Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Homer: And he didn't pee on the floor. For me, that's a perfect day.
Homer Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Homer: I believe the word is idiote.
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Homer: Whoa, now I've got to buy a corpse wagon. Well, that's how they get you.
Homer Observational Escalation ★ Rewatch Homer: ♪ Gonna drink ammonia ♪ 'Cause it tastes like cheese
Homer Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Homer: A minstrel has composed a roundelay mocking me?
Homer Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: That's short for 'Rrright you are.'
Homer Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Homer: How are they his treats if I paid for them?
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Homer: Bongo?! I told you never to ever talk about Bongo. Ever!
Homer Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: He's still my dog! We got him years ago. I don't know what you just said, but it's wrong!
Homer Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Grampa: Anyway, Homer and that dog went together like Christmas and suicidal thoughts.
Grampa Dark/Subversive Observational ★ Rewatch Isotoad Toy: Cancer clusters are random occurrences.
Bongo: Those toys are people bribes, you good-hearted little brat.
Bongo Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Burns: Once I hold your dying pet in my arms and feel his wagging tail go stiff.
Burns Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Assistant: Uh, sir, you are aware you're at a PR event for children.
Krusty: So, Lady Godiva gets a haircut, right, and... Kids? Uh, no problem. I'll just cut to my clean material.
Krusty Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Krusty: Farmer's daughter, no. A man from Nantucket, no. Bring out the monkey!
Krusty Escalation Character Comedy Krusty: Next time I'm getting a smaller monkey.
Krusty Physical/Slapstick Deadpan/Understatement Grampa: Course now, he's just stupid and fat.
Grampa Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Herman: When God closes a door, he opens a gun shop.
Herman Dark/Subversive Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Lisa · Grampa: Wait. How could you know what Herman said? You were driving away. He wrote a memoir.
Young Homer · Grampa: A hole next to the seat to hold my cup? That's a stupid idea. Holding cups are what thighs are for.
Lou · Chief Wiggum: Are you sure the Big Brother Program couldn't find me anybody else? Yeah, well, you were my last pick, too, okay?
Lou · Chief Wiggum: Well, then I'll be a spokesman for my people, like Ralph Abernathy. Ralph, I like that name.
Grampa: He'd go to jail and stay there 'cause he loves the easy life
Grampa Character Comedy Observational Grampa: Now, son, a lot of people are cuckoo till you need something from them.
Grampa Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Grampa: Gosh, Miss Viola, I want you and your husband to know how much I appreciate this.
Grampa · Young Homer: I wasn't sure if a six-year-old could even understand the concept. What? No. No! No! Bongo! Turns out, he caught on pretty quick.
Burns: I can walk into McDonalds, order soup, and they'll make it.
Burns Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Miss Viola: Don't make me look into those pitiless black eyes and say, 'Daddy didn't bring you a friend-friend to rip-rip!'
Miss Viola Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Burns · Grampa: Dropping a horse on a church? No! Breaking a man's spirit. Mine. Well, I guess I could always drop a horse on a church afterward.
Grampa: But those satanic Snoopys always found their way in.
Grampa Character Comedy Observational Burns: Just house slippers and the most humiliating tie there is: bolo.
Burns Character Comedy Observational Homer · Young Homer: You're probably wondering how I got rabies. Well... I'm not hungry anymore.
Homer: Grampa always hated Bongo and loved money so he sold Bongo to a wicked farm witch just so he could hang out with a bunch of rich dogs and kidnapped Santa
Homer Character Comedy Escalation Homer: Gee, my story doesn't make much sense except the Santa part.
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Homer: Well, that's just the way dogs are. The most disloyal, unfaithful creatures God ever made.
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Homer: He still had my sweatshirt.
Homer Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Grampa: Unlike those gerbils of yours we gave away. Oh, they were fickle as hell.
Grampa Character Comedy Callback Homer: Just because I put you in a home where they feed you dog food?
Homer Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Grampa · Homer: Hold your arms like you're carrying a wedding cake. What flavor? It doesn't matter. If it doesn't matter, then I call Snickers.
Homer: Everything's a flavor in the kitchens of today.
Homer Observational Character Comedy Burns: Think of the economy as a car and the rich man as the driver. If you don't give the driver all the money, he'll drive you over a cliff.
Burns Irony/Sarcasm Observational ★ Rewatch Burns: Furthermore, rich people feel things more deeply than the common man.
Burns Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Burns: I have a progressive proposal to let into this country 200 grimy Irishmen a year. I've got lots of potatoes that need peeling and stables to be mucked out.
Burns Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Assistant: You just said Marco Rubio is a pink handkerchief.
Burns: Execute the cameraman.
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