During a research trip, Lisa learns that Sideshow Bob is the chief scientist at a big chemical engineering company; Marge tries to teach a teen church group about healthy sexual practices.
WAR
63.2
Wins Above Replacement
“The Man Who Grew Too Much” ranks #151 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 81.5 — Elite. The episode packs 68 scored jokes at 3.9 per minute, averaging 7.2 on craft and 6.7 on impact, with Bob landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Bob: Florence Nightingale's tenacity, though I'll have to clip around her moral fiber.
Bob Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Bob: And, Lisa, when you're older, write an autobiographical novel trashing the rest of them. How veiled? Thinly!
Bob Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Bart: Either murder us or tell us how you got here.
Bart Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Bob: Well, rhapsody in boo-hoo.
Bob Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Marge: How dare you torture my children with Mozart!
Marge Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy All Jokes — 68 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ student: We do have them! They're my home screen!
Miss Hoover: It's Tuesday, Lisa. Taco Tuesday.
students: Taco Tuesday! Taco Tuesday! Taco Tuesday!
lunch lady: Oh, no. I'm about to become another moppin' statistic.
lunch lady: There's only room for one of us, Ethel.
Lisa · Bart: You know, Whitman says, 'If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred.' Fascinating.
Lisa Bart Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch lunch lady: Just don't ask how old the Jell-O is.
Bart: Whoa! Mom, you made me overswipe!
Bart Observational Character Comedy Marge: Jasper Beardley! You'll never make it!
Marge Escalation Physical/Slapstick Marge: What the hell is this thing?
Marge Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Ned: You get to pass out abstinence pledges and make sure the kids sign their John Han-bleeps.
Ned Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Ned: It was the only way I could avert... wine-tasting.
Ned Character Comedy Escalation Marge: Look, I'm really not comfortable talking about S-E-X with K-I-D-S.
Marge Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm teenage couple: We won't have sex until we're married! To each other!
Ned: Mm, their skipping lessons are really paying off.
Ned Observational Misdirection teenage boy: Speaking of beautiful things, tongue me, babe.
Marge: How many of you are here for the free cookies? Because we've discontinued that.
Marge Setup/Punchline Escalation Lisa: I'd like to play the first video that came up in my Web browser when I typed in 'GMO' plus 'danger' plus 'question mark.'
Lisa Observational Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch video narrator: If there's one thing scientists love, it's money. Money, money, money.
video narrator: in an unholy experiment in what is now a resort that charges $30 a night to valet park.
video narrator: The Mayans didn't listen... to themselves.
video narrator: The answer is in your mouth!
video: My name is Jenny McCarthy, and I endorse this tirade.
video Observational Dark/Subversive student: Well, hurry, we have no minds of our own.
parent: I say, let's get these GMOs inside our children pronto!
student: I'm eating the food of the future. Beep, boop. What is love? Boop, beep, boop.
Homer: Ooh, campus! Do you have a statue of the founder I can stick a funny hat on?
Homer Character Comedy Observational scientist: Everyone, three molecules at a time.
Simpsons family: Sideshow Bob!
corporate exec: All right, I'll leave you and Bob in this locked room to get reacquainted.
Bob: That's not for you to suck!
Bob Visual Gag Character Comedy Bart: Either murder us or tell us how you got here.
Bart Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Bob: The inanity of the vanity license plate puns was slowly driving me mad.
Bob Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Bart: Look at me! I'm Sideshow Bob! Sideshow Bob!
Bart Character Comedy Callback Callback Bob: Foolish boy! That's phosphoric acid! A mere sip would have dissolved a hole in your stomach the size of a silver dollar.
Bob Escalation Character Comedy Bob: Lisa, you always were the one rose petal floating atop the cesspool that is the Simpsons.
Bob Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Homer: 'Overfed'? I don't know this word.
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Marge: Don't you think the parts that aren't evil are a little, mm... pretentious?
Marge Character Comedy Observational Homer: Uh, that was a sexual harassment seminar. It doesn't matter-- I'm taking it pass-fail.
Homer Misdirection Character Comedy Lovejoy: Well, we haven't had finger puppets in this church since Reverend Brogan was arrested.
teen boy: I prefer the modern thinking of Yolanda Yes.
teen boy: And I think I'd have a shot with Mabel Maybe.
teen boy: Um, can I take one of those girl puppets home? I won't do nothin' to it.
teen boy Cringe/Discomfort Dark/Subversive Bob · Lisa: ♪ You say modified tomato, I say modified tomahto, I say engineered potato, you say engineered potahto ♪
Bob: That is my first non-evil laugh in years.
Bob Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bob: It's like love. If it happens, it happens.
Bob Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Homer: That's why I got to get the marshmallows down fast.
Homer Character Comedy Escalation Lisa: I like how they cut them down from 140 characters to a more manageable 20 characters.
Lisa Observational Absurdist Homer: It's why there's never been a teenage president.
Homer Observational Absurdist teen: That means, three days ago, the two of you made the blob with two backs!
Homer: if you can't handle the image of our naked bodies in the tender act of a-oo-ga
Homer Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy teen: Just get your fat heaving buttocks out of my head!
teen Cringe/Discomfort Escalation Bob: The boy bands of the art world.
Bob Character Comedy Observational Bob: That's using your $300,000 M.F.A.
Bob: Well, there is something I should have told you. You see, it occurred to me that if I can genetically modify fruits and vegetables, why can't I modify... me?!
Bob Escalation Character Comedy Bob: and a touch of corn for highlights on my hair.
Bob Character Comedy Absurdist Bob: Well, rhapsody in boo-hoo.
Bob Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bob: Florence Nightingale's tenacity, though I'll have to clip around her moral fiber.
Bob Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Bart: Homo erectus? Where has that word been all my life?
Bart: And we're scared of that because...?
Bart Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Bob: They're all ugly because you're in them!
Bob Escalation Character Comedy Chief Wiggum: and you don't see those people getting all violent.
Marge: How dare you torture my children with Mozart!
Marge Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy teen girl: I think I might be pregnant already.
Bart: I don't want to die in some old dude's mouth!
Bart Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Bob: And, Lisa, when you're older, write an autobiographical novel trashing the rest of them. How veiled? Thinly!
Bob Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Bob: Oh, right, I gave myself gills.
Bob Character Comedy Callback Callback Ned: Sure do miss that laugh.
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