Homer wakes up in a Springfield where everyone and everything is made out of Legos, and he must figure his way out before he gets stuck in the plastic world forever.
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Wins Above Replacement
“Brick Like Me” ranks #130 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 82.1 — Elite. The episode packs 62 scored jokes at 3.2 per minute, averaging 7.2 on craft and 6.8 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
Reverend Lovejoy: Bad news, people. Our religion is not true. Sorry about that. Really sorry.
Homer · Marge: Oh, honey, the best part of every day is waking up to your smiling face... Just like the best day of my life was when you gave me your hand in marriage. I'd like it back, please.
Homer Setup/Punchline Observational ★ Rewatch Comic Book Guy: As an adult who surrounds himself with child's toys, I represent the part of your psyche that prefers this artificial world.
Homer: Suddenly I can't breathe. Every fiber of my being screams out for a nap. And if someone handed me an issue of The New Yorker, I would read the fiction. I swear to God I would.
Homer Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 62 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Homer: It's not selling out. It's co-branding. Co-branding!
Homer Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer · Marge: Oh, honey, the best part of every day is waking up to your smiling face... Just like the best day of my life was when you gave me your hand in marriage. I'd like it back, please.
Homer · Santa's Little Helper: Hey! Drop it, you stupid dog! That's one of my wife's pieces! She needs it to reciprocate high fives!
Marge: That's okay, Homie. I'll just grab another. Mmm... Oh... I haven't worn this one since New Year's.
Marge · Lisa: Your father's wearing a tie. Oh, that's what's different! That's the one and only thing.
Marge: Aw, they're so cute when they're Duplo.
Marge Wordplay/Pun Observational Homer: I was distracted driving.
Homer Deadpan/Understatement Dark/Subversive Collision victim: Oh, don't worry about it. Good thing we don't feel pain.
Unknown character: Hey! These are the monkey's legs!
Krusty: Come back! I'm a clown! I can't afford to look ridiculous!
Krusty Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Bart · Milhouse: It can't spray-- it's been de-sacked. Ew! The gypsy skunk-seller lied!
Skinner · Groundskeeper Willie: Stop it! If you pull out those bricks, the whole school could collapse! But there's a skunk in there. Scottish steak!
Bart: This says: ages 12 and up. Age guidelines are conservative, and everyone knows it.
Bart Observational Character Comedy Nelson · Skinner: Haw-haw! Thank you, Nelson.
Comic Book Guy · Homer: Ah. Always good to meet a fellow AMFOP. Huh? Adult Male Fan of Princesses. It's for my daughter. Yes, yes, it's always for the daughter.
Homer: Well, there's no dad on the box. I don't want to get in trouble.
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Homer: We played... and it wasn't boring. But I'm letting you in on a secret. When parents play with their kids, they don't like it. And I'm no different.
Homer Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: Suddenly I can't breathe. Every fiber of my being screams out for a nap. And if someone handed me an issue of The New Yorker, I would read the fiction. I swear to God I would.
Homer Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: But there are millions of parents in the world. Surely some of them like playing with... Nope, not even one.
Homer Setup/Punchline Deadpan/Understatement Homer Setup/Punchline Observational ★ Rewatch Homer: My body was squishy, and my hands looked like snakes made of meat!
Homer Absurdist Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Marge · Homer: Oh, Homie, it was probably just a mini-stroke. You're just saying that to make me feel better.
Homer: I only don't ask because being rejected gets old.
Homer Character Comedy Observational Homer: Marge? Did you replace our regular mirror with a magical mirror from a mystical salesman at a weird store that if we went back to find it, it wouldn't be there anymore?
Homer Meta/Self-Referential Observational Homer: Just a one-time thing. Oh, brick me!
Homer Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Lego figure: I, sir, am in the Advent calendar! December 18, final week!
Homer: What the...? This isn't beer. Beer is plastic circles. How can I drink... this?
Homer Visual Gag Absurdist ★ Rewatch Bart: I put in a rock-climbing wall, all the classrooms are skate parks, we got zip-line stairwells, Terminator gym teachers, your office is now a haunted forest-- extra ghosts-- and, if you can believe it, two tetherball poles.
Skinner: How will children learn if they don't feel like they're in kid jail?
Skinner Character Comedy Observational Ralph: Yo soy language lab.
Ralph Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Reverend Lovejoy: Then the Great Constructor scissored open bag one and dumped out the universe.
Reverend Lovejoy: acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, or in the common tongue, 'plastic.'
Reverend Lovejoy: You mean like decals? Well, the Orthodox don't use them, but we're a Reform congregation.
Reverend Lovejoy: Oh, Homer, a place like that could only exist in some kind of magic rock song.
Homer: I think they have a name, but I can't put my finger on it.
Homer Wordplay/Pun Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Mob: He's a freak! Take him apart and lose the pieces under the couch!
Mob Dark/Subversive Absurdist Reverend Lovejoy: Bad news, people. Our religion is not true. Sorry about that. Really sorry.
Lisa: City Hall, the weird-smelling bank, Rehab World... Krustyburger, Krustyburger Express, the Krustyburger where the governor got stabbed...
Lisa Escalation Observational Homer · Lenny: Hey, Lenny, remember those two surfers we were gonna fight? Well, you're on your own. But you're the one who sat on their fish tacos.
Homer: I don't want to brag, but... it really brews.
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Milhouse: I wonder what the one swear word will be. What if it's... Oh, I've never heard that one. My grampa said it at Thanksgiving.
Homer: I assume Lisa told you about the pretend tiny town she's building with her overweight father.
Homer Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Teenage girl: I have three dads.
Lisa: One of them wears deodorant. I don't know which one.
Lisa Character Comedy Observational Marge: It's a really complicated time in a girl's life from age eight to... actually, all the rest of the way.
Marge Observational Character Comedy Surfers: This is for the tacos! Ow! Tacos, brah! Ow!
Homer: She's a little... bustier than I remember. My work on that front is never done.
Homer Character Comedy Visual Gag Homer: She's a little... bustier than I remember.
Homer Observational Character Comedy Comic Book Guy: One of the main questions I have about that is, why? The real Homer fears losing his daughter's love, so he invented this toy world where nothing will ever change.
Comic Book Guy · Homer: I'm afraid so. I'm trapped in a fantasy forever! Kiss my flat plastic butt, reality.
Homer: Marge, who would give up eating steak in the Matrix to go slurp goo in Zion?
Homer Observational Meta/Self-Referential Homer: Oh, yeah, hook me up with some more of that imaginary nectar.
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Homer: Good Lord, I'll never experience the ultimate reward for a life well lived-- the gentle slumber of death.
Homer Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: Lego Marge, you're just as cool as Real Marge. Who?! Nobody, nobody.
Homer Character Comedy Awkward Silence Homer: But I miss burning my mouth on pizza, and David Blaine stunts where he could really die.
Homer Observational Escalation Comic Book Guy: As an adult who surrounds himself with child's toys, I represent the part of your psyche that prefers this artificial world.
Comic Book Guy: That's... that's mis-set-genation.
Bart: I'm a creative but undisciplined builder!
Bart Character Comedy Observational Homer: Oh, Meat Lisa, it's you.
Homer Wordplay/Pun Visual Gag Homer: Oh, Meat Lisa, it's you.
Homer Character Comedy Callback Callback Lisa · Homer: Mmm, isn't that kind of the plot of the...? No. No, it's not. It's a new plot.
Lisa Homer Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: When do they get to killing the children? Oh, I just wanted to see kids fight to the death, is all.
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