A trip down memory lane to the early days of Simpson wedded bliss, when Marge was with child and Homer was without a job.
Flashback structure sustains 80 jokes across 22 minutes, anchoring early characterization.
Directed by Jeffrey Lynch · Written by Jeff Martin
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Wins Above Replacement
“I Married Marge” ranks #318 of 552 The Simpsons episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 77.4 — Great. The episode packs 80 scored jokes at 4.6 per minute, averaging 6.8 on craft and 6.5 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
Mr. Burns: This man failed the aptitude test and got trapped in a closet on his way out
Homer · Marge: He did that on purpose! How could he? He's only ten minutes old.
Homer: Bart, cart, dart, e-art-- Nope. Can't see any problem with that.
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Mr. Burns: Feisty, yet spineless
Mr. Burns Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Homer: Marge, get your butt out here!
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 80 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Homer · Marge: Barnacle Bill's Home Pregnancy Test
Homer · Marge: Pirate-themed pregnancy test instructions
Homer · Marge: Test turns pink instead of blue or purple
Homer Character Comedy Callback Callback Homer: If a test should fail... to a doctor set sail
Homer Wordplay/Pun Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Homer · Marge: Homer's pregnancy symptoms
Homer · Bart · Lisa: Your mother just broke her leg
Bart: I smell a bun in the oven
Bart Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Bart: You're a machine, Homer
Bart Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Homer · Bart: For me, it's diaper changes and midnight feedings. Doesn't Mom do that? Yeah, but I hear about it.
Homer Bart Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Homer · Bart: I threw up more than your mother
Homer: Those were idealistic days-- The candidacy of John Anderson, the rise of Supertramp
Homer Observational ★ Rewatch Boss · Homer: Homer, you turn the blades too fast. The golfers are complaining.
Boss: Keep this up and someday you'll be the guy who hands out the putters
Boss Irony/Sarcasm Observational Bart: I thought it was over. You had a problem turning blades. You overcame it. The feel-good story of the year.
Bart Irony/Sarcasm Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Lisa: It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans. We watch an appalling amount of TV.
Lisa Observational Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Homer: Don't you ever, ever talk that way about television
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Homer: Homer's mid-sentence forgetting
Homer Character Comedy Awkward Silence Marge's friend: Okay, girls, you can smoke now
Patty/Selma: I don't know what you see in that ugly meatball
Patty/Selma: If you like being pawed by something fat and lazy, we could get a cat. It would leave less hair on the couch.
Homer: Marge, get your butt out here!
Homer Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Homer: Do you mean like will apes be our masters?
Homer Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: What do you think about? Well, girls. I mean boys! I mean you.
Homer Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Marge: Well, thank you, Mr. Blow-The-Picture-For-Me
Marge Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Homer: You're as pretty as Princess Leia and as smart as Yoda
Marge · Homer: Actually, she was singing about God. Oh, well, he's always happy. No, wait, he's always mad.
Homer · Marge: Someday I'll buy you a real castle. You don't have to do that. Whoo, good.
Homer: It must be the Champale talking
Homer Character Comedy Observational Homer: This castle is impregnable
Homer Wordplay/Pun Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Homer Character Comedy Callback Callback Doctor: So You've Ruined Your Life pamphlet
Doctor Dark/Subversive Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Grampa: You'll never do any better. You lucky bum. The fish jumped right in the boat.
Grampa: All you got to do is whack her with the oar
Grampa Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Homer: Damn it, where's that card?
Homer Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Homer: In your face, everybody! Whoo-hoo!
Homer Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Homer: The baby's name will be Kool Moe Dee Simpson
Homer: All the kids will call him Larry Fairy... Screwy Louie... Slob... Puke... Mucus
Homer Wordplay/Pun Escalation Homer: Bart, cart, dart, e-art-- Nope. Can't see any problem with that.
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Wedding officiant: Get this punched every time. The tenth wedding is on the house.
Wedding officiant: No matter how many times I hear that, it always makes me laugh
Marge: You may not look like Ted Bessell, but you're just as nice
Marge Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Wedding officiant: By the power vested in me by the state gaming commission
Hotel neighbor: Hey, love birds, keep it down
Homer: Baby to Marge. Baby to Marge. Wah! Wah! Over.
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Marge · Homer: I heard radiation can make you sterile. Now you tell me.
Mr. Burns: Smithers, you keg-meister, you
Homer · Interviewer: It takes me a long time to learn anything. I'm kind of a goof-off-- That will do.
Homer: We're all going to die! Run!
Homer Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Marge Deadpan/Understatement Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Tourist: What a crappy candle. You've ruined our vacation.
Marge: Handle first, handle first
Marge Physical/Slapstick Reaction Beat Homer: I thought you said you liked dogs
Homer Misdirection Absurdist Pyramid scheme leader: Our model is the trapezoid that guarantees each investor an 800% return
Pyramid scheme leader: Uh-oh! The cops!
Bill collector: We break thumbs
Repo man: Repossessing stuff is the hardest part of my job
Patty/Selma: Shut up with that pen scratching down there
Bart · Lisa: Can we have a can of frosting for lunch?
Customer: This taco is full of hair
Homer: They get doughnuts! All the colors of the rainbow.
Homer Character Comedy Observational Marge: You want fries with that?
Marge Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Homer: Holy cow, you're as big as a house!
Homer Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Homer: They won't even tell me what's in the secret sauce
Homer Character Comedy Absurdist Marge: The oil is burning my finger
Marge Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Homer Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Homer · Marge: 'I knocked you up.' 'No, because I love you.'
Mr. Burns: The hunter has become the hunted
Homer: Treat me like dirt-- I'll still kiss your butt and call it ice cream!
Homer Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Mr. Burns: Feisty, yet spineless
Mr. Burns Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Mr. Burns: This man failed the aptitude test and got trapped in a closet on his way out
Homer: Only in America could I get a job!
Homer Irony/Sarcasm Observational ★ Rewatch Mr. Burns: Simpson, eh? I'll remember that name.
Patty/Selma: Don't ever call me that
Homer: This is my wife, and my kid. I'm paying for this delivery.
Homer Character Comedy Escalation Homer · Doctor: Tomorrow, I'm a nuclear technician! Good God!
Homer: As long as he's got eight fingers and eight toes, he's fine by me
Homer Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Homer · Marge: He did that on purpose! How could he? He's only ten minutes old.
Marge · Family: Homer! I'm not pregnant! Yeah! Whoa! Excellent, Marge! Yes!
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