When Bart's voodoo doll spell accidentally makes his teacher pregnant, he becomes a savior to couples hoping to conceive.
WAR
19.5
Wins Above Replacement
“What To Expect When Barts Expecting” ranks #494 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 72.0 — Solid. The episode packs 63 scored jokes at 3.9 per minute, averaging 6.6 on craft and 6.0 on impact, with Bart landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Bart: Really? Wonderful? I just drowned a grasshopper in paint and let him crawl on the paper till he died.
Bart Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Moe: Nobody comes into my bar and kidnaps two paying customers. Huh? I must've left my wallet at home. All right, take them, take them!
Moe Misdirection Character Comedy Ralph: Aah! Bart Simpson got a teacher pregnant!
Ralph Absurdist Character Comedy Louie: Don't over-promise, boss. It might be overcast.
Louie Deadpan/Understatement Bart: Five dollars. Plus one dollar haw-haw insurance.
Bart Character Comedy Setup/Punchline All Jokes — 63 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Homer Character Comedy Escalation Homer: Why, you little...!
Homer Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Moe: Eh, welcome fellow barkeeps, gin-slingers, and beer jerks.
Moe: Mom-and-pop bartenders can't compete with big box stores like Booze Barn and Hooch City.
Moe Observational Wordplay/Pun Airport Bar Owner: Uh, folks, this is the owner of the airport bar speaking. Uh, we're experiencing some financial turbulence.
Moe: Nick Fury, Agent of Schnapps; Sex in the Batmobile; and Wolveriskey.
Moe: Here, check out my, uh, portfolium here.
Moe Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Barfly: Flame on! Oh-God-oh-God-oh-God!
Barfly Physical/Slapstick Irony/Sarcasm Barfly: Why do they call this a yard of ale? Easy. After you drink one, you're passed out in your yard.
Barfly Setup/Punchline Wordplay/Pun Homer: Well, better get home. The delightfulness ended hours ago.
Homer Deadpan/Understatement Homer: Oh, why are you doing this to me, booze? I drank every kind of you!
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Bart: Wait, I think I just sucked up a dollar!
Construction Worker: José, hit the switch! We are not all Josés, man.
Bart: Every time I do art, some do-gooder teacher sends it straight to a therapist.
Bart Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Art Teacher: Your stuff is pretty disturbing. I've never acted on any of it.
Art Teacher: And you shall leave immortal! Also, take out the trash.
Bart: Really? Wonderful? I just drowned a grasshopper in paint and let him crawl on the paper till he died.
Bart Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Art Teacher: You know what that's called? Mixed-media conceptual art.
Art Teacher · Bart: Oh, then it's protest art! Stop encouraging me!
Shauna: Training for the Olympics.
Shauna: I wanna make somebody mad.
Voodoo Queen: Just like the chicken foot say you would!
Shauna: Art teachers don't have a desk. They just throw their purse anywhere.
Bart: Just had to be tear of chum.
Bart: Orchestra?! On an art teacher's salary? That's black magic!
Bart Observational Irony/Sarcasm Bart: I won't bore you with the dark details, but let's just say she's in no condition for teaching.
Bart Misdirection ★ Rewatch Mrs. Trunch: A very special tummy ache.
Ralph: Aah! Bart Simpson got a teacher pregnant!
Ralph Absurdist Character Comedy Student: Typical Ralph nonsense. Bart Simpson got a teacher pregnant!
Shauna: Classic wish-maker's mistake: vague language.
Principal Skinner: Fifth grade, you get every dirty detail.
Homer: Oh, everyone does, son. That's why they lock it up in museums where no one will ever visit.
Homer Observational Character Comedy Marge: Not true! Whenever I compliment your virility, you act all weird.
Marge Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Homer: Wish I had that Tom Brady's libido.
Bart: A minute of fun, a lifetime of work.
Bart: I like to think I'm the boy that makes families.
Bart Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Bart: Five dollars. Plus one dollar haw-haw insurance.
Bart Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Customer: Really glad we're getting a baby with a face. Thank you.
Customer Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement Bart · Customer: Haw...! No haw-haw! It worked!
Bart: Please keep the chatter down while the Womb Wizard is casting his spells.
Bart Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Bart: Barbeque sauce and teddy bear's eye. They want a baby, God knows why.
Bart Absurdist Dark/Subversive Homer · Ned: That was my spatula. And you never bought a replacement? Ah, too much aggravation. We just forego flipped food.
Homer: I'll teach you to answer peoples' prayers!
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Bart: Maybe when I've got a dad who shows up in the morning with no shirt on and rocks on his face, it sets, I don't know, a low bar?
Bart Character Comedy Observational Moe: Nobody comes into my bar and kidnaps two paying customers. Huh? I must've left my wallet at home. All right, take them, take them!
Moe Misdirection Character Comedy Mobster: Fill their pockets with corn and toss them to the pigs.
Fat Tony: Just do a little of the bunga-bunga, and the hotsie-totsie, and the bop-bada- bop-bada-bop.
Fat Tony Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Homer: You sound like every doctor I've ever been to.
Fat Tony: Who has apple breath? You has apple breath.
Fat Tony Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Fat Tony: You will breed me a champion by morning or it will be the last sunrise you ever see.
Louie: Don't over-promise, boss. It might be overcast.
Louie Deadpan/Understatement Fat Tony: It would be helpful if he could go undercover with police horses and find out what they know.
Homer: I just did that because it was a series of funny words.
Homer Meta/Self-Referential Homer: I just need to facilitate some horse intercourse.
Bart: Big deal. I don't like girls, either. Not like that. It's like this. Smithers... Mr. Largo... Danny Kaye.
Bart Character Comedy Observational Homer: Ew, that tastes horrible! Beer transformed that cute little boy into the man you see before you.
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Homer · Bart: Musical sequence with lyrics about horse romance and their predicament
Fat Tony: The Pimlico plus of joy? Or the Maryland State Fairgrounds minus?
Louie · Bart: The limo's in the shop. We have a loaner. Ay, caramba! You monster! My knees will be in my throat!
Marge: They'll turn out the same whether you gallop or trot. Teach him not to pee during parades. He'll get more work.
Marge Character Comedy Observational TV Announcer: There's nothing symmetrical about flavor!
TV Announcer: Seven in one night? What kind of a monster could do that? A party monster!
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