Principal Skinner promises the students that the best-behaved among them can take a ride in a submarine. When Skinner gives all the kids a clean slate, Bart believes even his own past indiscretions will be forgotten if he doesn’t get into any more trouble. Meanwhile Lisa tries to help a cash-poor Krusty to turn things around by suggesting he sell the foreign rights to his shows.
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“Yellow Subterfuge” ranks #445 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 74.2 — Great. The episode packs 66 scored jokes at 3.9 per minute, averaging 6.5 on craft and 6.3 on impact, with Skinner landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Skinner: You're like egg salad at a picnic, Simpson. Even when you look good, we know you're going bad.
Skinner Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Skinner: I've broken a ten-year-old's spirit. Time to celebrate with a fruit-on-the-bottom yogurt.
Skinner Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer · Skinner: Do you want the head? No, no, God, no. Well, if you change your mind, it'll be in my freezer. But only for a week. Got a lot of ice cream coming in.
Irish Krusty: Me ma, she had 12 children, but only three lived. Then they closed the mill. Hey-hey.
Skinner · Student: Excuses are like handkerchiefs; everybody's got one. I don't have a handkerchief. Off the list!
All Jokes — 66 analyzed
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Skinner Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Unknown: Wake up. You're on!
Skinner: sign here stickers came from last year's field trip to the sign here sticker factory
Skinner Absurdist Observational ★ Rewatch Skinner: my old navy buddy-- we both love to shop at Old Navy
Skinner · Students: So you're all excited, eh? Yay! Well, that's too bad, because many of you will not be going.
Bart: Whoo-hoo! Well, I get to go!
Bart Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Skinner: I am the law. I hold the red pen.
Skinner: That's what pens do.
Skinner Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist ★ Rewatch Bart: Help! I'm trapped in space with a man I don't like!
Bart Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Bart: Die, Nazi octopus, die!
Bart Absurdist Dark/Subversive Marge: what's your favorite food to eat when you're disappointed?
Marge Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Lisa: Get real, ding-dong!
Lisa Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Homer: Good one, ding-dong.
Homer Callback Character Comedy Callback Bart Character Comedy Observational Homer: I love Bart as much as you do, but actually not.
Homer Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Homer: if you'd be so kind as to start my car for me
Homer Character Comedy Visual Gag Bart: I buried all my whoopee cushions in the backyard.
Bart Character Comedy Absurdist Bart: That's not where I buried them.
Krusty: Don't take my custom limo! At least let me sniff my coke out of the floor mats!
Krusty Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Krusty: worse luck in the Bitcoin market
Krusty Observational Character Comedy Krusty: heavy investment in a high-end bookmark company
Krusty Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Krusty: That horse has left the stable, gone to the glue factory and has been used to make art projects.
Krusty Escalation Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Italian SpongeBob: Italian SpongeBob doing war commentary
Krusty: Not my Monet! I only looked at it once!
Krusty Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Krusty: Not my Shetland dolphin! Although I won't miss the constant yapping.
Krusty Absurdist Misdirection ★ Rewatch Skinner: Gum on the floor. Off the list.
Skinner: Unauthorized meat-a-pult. Off the list!
Skinner · Student: Excuses are like handkerchiefs; everybody's got one. I don't have a handkerchief. Off the list!
Skinner: You're like egg salad at a picnic, Simpson. Even when you look good, we know you're going bad.
Skinner Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Lisa · Skinner: I object to this arbitrary use of power and request I be taken off the list. Off the list! Thank you.
Bart: I'm getting strange red marks.
Bart Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Otto: Something's wrong with my long yellow car.
Otto Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Skinner: I've broken a ten-year-old's spirit. Time to celebrate with a fruit-on-the-bottom yogurt.
Skinner Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Skinner: Plain, plain, plain, plain... Mmm! Fruit!
Skinner Character Comedy Visual Gag Callback Skinner Reaction Beat Character Comedy Homer as Obama: Simpson... has to go... on the... submarine.
Homer as Obama: You can put lipstick on a pig...
Foreign Krustys: Hai-hai! Hu-hu! Heil-heil!
Krusty: Just do the Krusty show in your country and send me ten percent. Then send me another 60%. Then five percent more, and you're good.
Krusty Character Comedy Observational Skinner · Bart: She's the reason I was able to purchase a new watch band. Always bragging about his watch band.
Skinner: If only I could tell time.
Skinner Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Jamaican Krusty: Wanti wanti can't get it, getti getti no want it.
Jamaican Announcer: They smoke, they toke, they smoke and toke and smoke
Irish Krusty: Me ma, she had 12 children, but only three lived. Then they closed the mill. Hey-hey.
Other kids · Milhouse: Fire that torpedo, Milhouse. Aye, aye. Where'd it go? It was just imaginary.
Homer: As I always say, don't get mad; get dinner. Then get even.
Homer Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Homer Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Skinner: I woke up and, surprisingly, Mother wasn't there beside me.
Skinner Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Chief Wiggum: Well, I'm sure our town's police force will handle this competently.
Homer: There are some things only a boy should see.
Homer Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: Just call me The Cleaner.
Homer Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Homer: Look, you kill them, I get rid of them. That's always been our deal.
Homer Dark/Subversive Absurdist ★ Rewatch Homer · Skinner: Do you want the head? No, no, God, no. Well, if you change your mind, it'll be in my freezer. But only for a week. Got a lot of ice cream coming in.
Irish Krusty: There never was a monkey. I was just tellin' stories to forget me consumption.
Irish Krusty Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Lisa: What, you mean President-for-Life Krusty?
Lisa Dark/Subversive Observational Irish Krusty: Now I know why Ma walked into the sea with her pockets full of rocks, on Christmas.
Skinner: I don't look anything like this 'Dick Fiddler.'
Skinner Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Skinner · Homer: 'could I eat one of the potatoes?' 'Sorry, but Dick Fiddler is allergic to potatoes.'
Homer: Dick Fiddler is allergic to potatoes.
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy Callback Homer: what are you doing this Friday?
Homer Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Agnes: I'm starting to think this 'school project' is more than meets the eye.
Agnes Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Agnes: when this fat guy and his kid asked me to fake my death to punish you, I said, 'Sure, that's something to do.'
Agnes Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Agnes: I've stopped taking those pills that keep me nice.
Agnes Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Krusty: I also can't ad-lib, memorize anything, improv or tell a joke.
Krusty Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Krusty: Well, I was supposed to be one of the sad ones.
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