Marge encourages Homer to cross an item off an old to-do list by inviting an old pen pal to visit; Lisa institutes an honor code at school.
WAR
37.4
Wins Above Replacement
“Yolo” ranks #498 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 71.8 — Solid. The episode packs 65 scored jokes at 3.8 per minute, averaging 6.9 on craft and 6.2 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
Bart · Lisa: Because if you tell people I cheated, that means your system failed. Oh, my God, you found a loophole!
Lisa · Bart: Why don't you put this much inventiveness into your work? Because then I'd be the one thing I swore I wouldn't. You.
Homer: Did I change or did they stop making mountains out of cheeseburgers? Probably a little bit of both.
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Unknown · Principal Skinner: Can't you say anything in a normal way? The answer, sadly, is not yes.
Homer: Back in fifth grade, you either had to write to a foreigner or a prisoner. I picked a foreigner because the prisoners wrote back too fast.
Homer Absurdist Misdirection All Jokes — 65 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Homer Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Bart · Milhouse: Why are we best friends? Because your seat was behind mine!
Marge: Dear Weirdo, pick up weirdo kid. And send.
Marge Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Milhouse: Did you eat a peanut? No, I just sniffed a nectarine. It's okay. I can breathe through my tear ducts.
Milhouse: Tell me if this gets annoying. I think I'm gonna throw up the mac and cheese you fed me. I'm not supposed to have it. That's why I had so much.
Marge: If this kid's dad isn't here in one second, he's going in the garbage can.
Marge Escalation Deadpan/Understatement Kirk: Hey, guys! Who wants a whiff of New Kirk Smell?
Kirk Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Homer: Once again, cats have it better.
Homer Observational Deadpan/Understatement Kirk: Please. Just 'cause I bought a new car, lost a little weight and started taking a DJ class, everyone thinks I'm having a midlife crisis.
Kirk Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Milhouse · Kirk: Dad! You got me a skateboard? It's for me. Now get in the back. And while you're there, use this cream to massage the leather.
Homer: Look at me! I'm afraid of dying.
Homer Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Marge: You've had the same job, same car, same house for 20 years. And that's all you'll ever have. A cycle you'll never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever change. And you're okay with it!
Marge Escalation Dark/Subversive Homer: Like I say night after night after night... nighty-night.
Homer Callback Escalation Callback Principal Skinner: I thought this was a puff piece. You're wearing a sweater.
Kent Brockman: This journalism just turned... gotcha!
Kent Brockman: People, make room for your local Emmy nomination certificates. No, do not make room.
Principal Skinner · Myra: Myra, don't I have another appointment? Oh, this is your first appointment ever.
Kent Brockman: This school is more corrupt than the Italian parliament.
Principal Skinner: You can make a lot of cabbage betting on K-ball.
Moe: Yeah, well, at least you got your health, huh? Now let's see if I can take that away from you. Your poison.
Moe Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Kirk: I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm starting to regret saying 'YOLO.'
Kirk Irony/Sarcasm Meta/Self-Referential Callback Homer: Back in fifth grade, you either had to write to a foreigner or a prisoner. I picked a foreigner because the prisoners wrote back too fast.
Homer Absurdist Misdirection Homer: I was gonna be King of Cheeseburger Mountain.
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Homer: Did I change or did they stop making mountains out of cheeseburgers? Probably a little bit of both.
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Principal Skinner: You know, maybe this so-called cheating scandal is actually an opportunity to, uh... ...initiate a-a dialogue that would, uh, create a teachable moment. Uh, something, something buzz word... I got nothing.
Unknown parent: That's it? That's all you've got? Something I can read on a tea box?
Principal Skinner: I did it. I saved the day. The same way I won that battle in Vietnam. By fainting!
Kirk: If you're my wife's secret lover, come in. There's nothing I can do for her anymore.
Kirk Dark/Subversive Cringe/Discomfort Eduardo: Ay, dios mio! What has happened to you? Did your hair burn off in a fire that trapped you in a candy factory?
Marge: It's so nice to meet a friend Homer met through the mail who isn't a sea monkey.
Eduardo: Eduardo Barcelona. Or in English, Eddie Miami.
Eduardo: Ooh! I've had eight wives and 200 children! Among them artists, doctors and revolutionary chefs.
Eduardo · Eduardo: Do you have a disrespectful son who calls you by your first name? I cannot imagine such a creature.
Bart · Eduardo · Bart: Hey, Homer. Did you just fart? Did you just fart, sir. Whatever.
Homer: I wanted to see who would get here first. Now, Homer! Get your coat.
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy Eduardo · Marge: When I return your husband, he will be happy, bringing a new sense of adventure to your marriage... and to the bedroom. I'm not used to strange men saying the word 'bedroom' around me. Would you prefer, uh, 'sala deamor'? That's even worse. Could you say it one more time? Sala de amor. Ooh!
Eduardo · Marge: Would you prefer, uh, 'sala de amor'? That's even worse. Could you say it one more time? Sala de amor. Ooh!
Bart · Lisa: He's not the toughest kid, I am! Now, the smartest kid. Milhouse? He's not the smartest kid. I am. Now the class nerd. Milhouse? Oh.
Eduardo: I took the liberty of crossing off the, uh, stupid ones.
Eduardo Visual Gag Deadpan/Understatement Homer · Eduardo · Homer: Wait, are you in love with me? In love with the concept of you, yes. Woo-hoo! I'm an attractive concept like Liberty!
Actor: I'm sick of pirates off the street ruining my play! I'm going back to my old career! Care to see a dessert menu? We have the best cobbler since Daniel Day-Lewis.
Actor Wordplay/Pun Observational Homer · Eduardo: How much did this cost to restage? They rented everything from Comic Book Guy for ten bucks.
Comic Book Guy: Don't stink up the Gorn head. I need it for a Bar Mitzvah later.
Unknown · Principal Skinner: Can't you say anything in a normal way? The answer, sadly, is not yes.
Marge · Homer: I feel kind of, oh... melancholy. Mmm, melon collie.
Eduardo · Ned Flanders: I am just watching my friend and his wife innocently pleasure themselves in bed. That sounds salty, but you seem sweet. I'm gonna call you Kettle Corn.
Homer: You're like the Tooth Fairy. Except you don't collect human bones.
Homer Dark/Subversive Misdirection Homer: I never leave a job unfinished. It's as true now as that week I worked on the high school yearbook. So much infighting. I had to get out of there.
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Escalation Homer · Eduardo: The editor put in like six pictures of this girl 'cause she was his girlfriend. Everyone has a bad yearbook story. They spelled my name wrong! Get over it! Ha!
Eduardo · Homer: Just step out that door and you can glide to earth like your boyhood hero... Rocky the Flying Squirrel. Uh, actually, my hero was the actress who provided Rocky's voice, June Foray. A true legend in the voice-over community.
Narrator: Will Homer make it? Or will he leave a crater the size of the one that destroyed the Yucatan? Find out in our next exciting installment: Fat Splat... or When You Squish Upon a Car.
Lisa: Mmm, it's amazing. Every day has the peace and serenity of a flu outbreak.
Lisa Irony/Sarcasm Dark/Subversive Lisa · Groundskeeper Willie: No, this is good. Well, this knife's got to carve something.
Marge · Lisa: He got a hundred on his test? That's impossible. Is Bart cheating? Are the Pope's tweets infallible?
Bart · Lisa: Because if you tell people I cheated, that means your system failed. Oh, my God, you found a loophole!
Lisa · Bart: Why don't you put this much inventiveness into your work? Because then I'd be the one thing I swore I wouldn't. You.
Eduardo: You can listen to your wife when you are dead. Savor the moment.
Eduardo Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Homer: Aw, he probably sees a mouse he wants to tear in half.
Homer Dark/Subversive Misdirection Lisa: You've presented me with quite a conundrum. A word you should know since it was on a vocabulary test you aced.
Lisa Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Bart: The only thing that'll change my mind is a sign from God.
Bart Setup/Punchline Irony/Sarcasm Homer: Son, it was so beautiful! I went faster than the speed of sound.
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy Bart: This patch is for all the victims of atomic wedgies.
Bart Observational Character Comedy Doctor · Homer: That's the morphine. Can you give me the morphine forever? No way! A person on morphine all the time would constantly dissolve in inappropriate laughter.
Homer · Eduardo: Oh. It was all just a dream. It was not just a dream. And you said you'd drive me to the airport.
Homer · Eduardo: Do I drop you at the curb or do I have to park and walk you in? Go as far as your heart will take you.
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