Set in the future, Homer has a new clone for every time he dies. Lisa is married to a zombie version of Milhouse, while Bart deals with custody issues with his ex-wife, Jenda. Each defines what love means to them.
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“Days Of Future Future” ranks #529 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 69.8 — Mixed. The episode packs 52 scored jokes at 2.8 per minute, averaging 6.5 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
Milhouse: Brevity soul wit.
Milhouse Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: Heart exploding. Ooh. Pepperoni.
Homer Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Self-driving car · Passenger: I am not stopping again. / But I had a large soda! / I said get the small! / It was only 50 cents more!
Milhouse: No breathing, no asthma.
Milhouse Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer · Professor Frink: Huh? I wonder where I picked that up. / Oh. I planted a Western history chip, but all you retained were the places to sit down.
All Jokes — 52 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Homer: Please let it be a bear that did this.
Homer Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: How much did I eat?
Homer Character Comedy Observational Homer · Marge: I'm as healthy as a horse. / Horses only live 30 years.
Homer: Heart exploding. Ooh. Pepperoni.
Homer Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Homer: All that's left are clever last words.
Homer Meta/Self-Referential Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Reverend Lovejoy: All he did was yell 'traveling' at the screen.
Moe: If, uh... you know, after a respectful period of grief and whatnot, uh... yous would like to have some coffee, please give a call.
Moe Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Professor Frink: I wanted to clone a sheep, but I needed to start with something simpler.
Professor Frink: Which he is, because his brain is fliveck.
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Moe · Marge: Ah, hey, Midge. Uh... here we are again, ah? / Yeah... / And, oh, uh, here, uh, my new card.
Moe Marge Character Comedy Running Gag Callback Homer: I can die all I want. Frink's got Homers like the Tuileries has park benches.
Homer Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Homer · Professor Frink: Huh? I wonder where I picked that up. / Oh. I planted a Western history chip, but all you retained were the places to sit down.
Homer: Talking Heads 'Once in a Lifetime' montage
Homer Visual Gag Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Professor Frink: Don't go far, Cremo.
Moe: You know what? No. I'm tired of getting my hopes up here. You and your immortal husband can go take a flying leap, huh?
Moe Character Comedy Escalation Callback Moe: Stupid Moe. You just had to act like yourself, didn't you, you jackass?
Moe Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Professor Frink: Oh, you used up all your clones, you fat, fat, fat, reckless, fat pig!
Homer: Bonk. Bonk. Bonk. Ooh. Corner. Ba-donk.
Homer Visual Gag Absurdist ★ Rewatch Homer Deadpan/Understatement Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Milhouse: If it wasn't for that squirrel that eats our bird food, we'd have nothing to talk about.
Milhouse Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Marge: Nothing for 30 years. You're perfect for each other.
Marge Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Homer: No. No. No. Don't pull me out before you click eject. That hurts like a mother...!
Homer Physical/Slapstick Observational ★ Rewatch Homer: Why, you little...! I'll teach you to emulate my sloppiness!
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jenda: Living out of a car is not 'camping.'
Jenda Observational Character Comedy Milhouse · Bart: You're working with dinosaurs. / I miss my kids.
Milhouse: With social security a thing of the past, she can't afford to retire. I don't know how that happened in a senate with 99 Democrats. That one Republican is great at getting his way.
Milhouse Observational Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Dr. Hibbert: Actually, Terrance, this is a synthetic substance. Devised for zombie vegans. Or 'zegans.'
Zombie: You, sir, am racist.
Zombie Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Bart · Woman: Can I smell you later? / Why don't you smell me now?
Bart: You know, at my job, I satisfy ladies even bigger than you. / Um, I feed dinosaurs.
Bart Setup/Punchline Misdirection ★ Rewatch Bartender: You have, like, a goat beard stuck to your shoe.
Bartender Visual Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Bart: Man, that's some targeted advertising.
Bart Observational Meta/Self-Referential Doctor: It'll be over before I finish this... ...sentence.
Doctor Setup/Punchline Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Zombie · Bart: Window sushi fake? / Window sushi fake.
Miss Hoover: 'Good' is not a concept in my culture!
Bart: There's Beppo, Boppo, Emmett Kelly the Ninth, Frenchy, Insane Clown Polly and Commodore Tee-hee.
Bart Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Police Chief Wiggum: There, back up.
Milhouse: No breathing, no asthma.
Milhouse Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Milhouse: Brevity soul wit.
Milhouse Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Lisa: It's only natural to miss a man you buried 127 times.
Lisa Observational Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Homer: Hey, where's my junk?
Homer Character Comedy Observational Bart: Man, when is that voice gonna change?
Bart Observational Character Comedy Homer: Threat perceived. Terminate! Terminate!
Homer Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Lisa: Like a classic rock band whose hold-out member finally needs money.
Lisa Observational Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Self-driving car · Passenger: I am not stopping again. / But I had a large soda! / I said get the small! / It was only 50 cents more!
Marge: Until I was eight, I thought he was a magical gorilla.
Marge Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Marge · Duffman: Or my decision to support Duffman in his old age. / Duffman can still swing and party. Oh, yeah.
Lisa: I can't tell if that was love, suicide or a... a really boring video game.
Lisa Observational Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Doctor: Everything that you experienced between when I flipped the switch and now was just a neural implant in your temporal lobe.
Doctor Meta/Self-Referential Misdirection ★ Rewatch Doctor: We treat a lot of people for obsessions. It's a whole new day for Nothing Stu!
Doctor Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Zombie Milhouse: Dead flower from dead husband.
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