Character Analysis

Hank Azaria

Carl

Played by Hank Azaria

94 jokes across 62 episodes of The Simpsons

WAR

8.7

Total Jokes

94

Avg Craft

6.8

Avg Impact

6.4

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Carl delivers 94 scored jokes across 62 episodes of The Simpsons, averaging 6.8 on craft and 6.4 on impact for a career WAR of 8.7. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.

Funniest Carl Lines

All Jokes — 140 total

S4E05

Carl · Lenny:I wish we were going to Candy Apple Island. Candy Apple Island? What do they got there? Apes, but they're not so big.

7.47.2
S4E07

Carl:I am the angel of death. The time of purification is at hand. Oh, who cares.

6.86.5
S4E07

Carl · Lenny:These spurs are killing me. Ey-y-y. Sit on it. Lenny, '50s day is next Wednesday.

6.25.3
S4E17

Homer · Carl:Bull's-eye! Thanks a lot, Carl. Now I've lost my train of thought.

7.06.5
S4E17

Carl · Lenny:Hey, Lenny, can you get this Sugar Daddy off my back? Okay, but it's the last time.

7.16.8
S5E05

Lenny · Carl:Sorry, Homer. While you were daydreaming, we ate all the doughnuts. Well, there were a few left, but we chucked 'em at an old man for kicks.

6.56.3
S5E06

Homer · Lenny · Carl:I'm stuck. Help me. He's done for! Let's get outta here!

6.86.5
S5E09

Carl:Yeah. Usually you just take the box of doughnuts into the bathroom.

7.67.7
S6E03

Carl:Ain't you never seen a naked chick riding a clam before?

6.86.8
S6E12

Lenny · Carl:It's a secret. Shut up.

6.56.0
S6E12

Lenny · Carl:It's a secret. Shut up.

6.46.0
S6E12

Lenny · Carl:It's a secret. Shut up.

6.56.7
S6E25

Carl:At the picnic, he thought my son Reynaldo was Rolando. Can you believe it?

7.57.0
S7E07

Carl:Yeah, especially your big fat- Oh, wait.

6.56.0
S8E12

Carl · Lenny:Like, maybe the cabin is the place inside each of us... created by our goodwill and teamwork. Nah. They said there'd be sandwiches.

7.27.2
S8E23

Carl · Lenny:God, he eats like a pig. I don't know. Pigs tend to chew. I'd say he eats more like a duck.

7.67.8
S8E23

Carl:He had three beers at lunch. That would make anybody sleepy.

7.67.5
S9E20

Carl · Moe:That'd be sweet. What about you, Moe? Ah, gee, I was gonna say a night with Joey Heatherton. But an ironed shirt? Damn, that's tempting!

6.66.2
S9E22

Carl · Lenny · Barney:Moving the whole town five miles down the road. It's crazy! Yeah, it's something, all right. So we transplant the town. We're just gonna trash the new Springfield too

7.07.0
S9E24

Carl:It's what the ancient Egyptians call a souvenir.

6.76.3
S9E24

Carl · Homer:That never, uh, happened, did it, Homer? Uh, yes.

7.06.5
S10E12

Carl:I'll probably give it to my wife. It's our anniversary today. [All Sighing]

6.36.0
S10E13

Carl · Homer:Homer, we've worked together for 10 years. It's Carl. You only wrote my name. Um, I wanted yours. Take it or leave it, 'Carl.'

7.67.3
S11E02

Carl · Homer:A guy could do great things with a gadget like that. Yeah, a guy could do great things.

6.45.8
S11E03

Carl:Hey, Homer! Great call on that chicken place. And on that rib place! I never knew everything was so good!

6.45.8
S11E05

Carl · Lenny:Hey, Lenny, sending some outgoing mail? You know it. I'll probably send some tomorrow. I hear that.

6.55.0
S11E06

Carl:Ah, actually, I'd say you're having a severe psychotic episode.

6.86.3
S11E06

Carl:Will you at least call it a 'banana split,' you dumb wad?

5.85.0
S11E12

Lenny · Carl:Lenny and Carl: 'We're just watching the sun move across the sky. When it gets to here, we can drink again.'

7.77.7
S11E12

Carl · Homer:Carl: 'Oh, we're gonna die, and I never tasted cantaloupe!' Homer: 'Eh, you didn't miss much. Honeydew is the money melon.'

7.87.7
S11E16

Carl:That spells 'Duff.' Go, Moe! Boo, everyone else.

6.35.5
S11E16

Carl:You can really taste the goat.

6.56.0
S11E16

Carl · Lenny:Moo? Lenny, you were supposed to be 'E.' See what happens when you skip rehearsal.

6.66.0
S11E16

Carl · Lenny · Barney · Homer:Moe, it's all relative. Is Lenny really that dumb? Huh? Is Barney that drunk? [Moans] Is Homer that lazy, bald and fat? [Sighs] Oh, my God! It's worse than I thought!

7.88.0
S11E16

Moe · Homer · Carl:Come on. Look at me. I'm a gargoyle... what, with the cauliflower ear there and the lizard lips- Little rat eyes. Caveman brow. Don't forget that fish snout.

6.15.8
S11E16

Homer · Carl:Or listen to. Or be with.

6.76.7
S11E20

Little Vicki · Carl:My kitty cat's sick... and I'd be ever so sad if she should die. [Coughing] / Well, I'm no animal doctor or nothin'... but whenever I'm feelin' poorly, you know what fixes me up? / Dancin'? / Dancin'.

6.45.5
S11E22

Lenny · Carl:He paid me and Carl a thousand bucks to kiss each other. Hey, did we ever get that money?

6.56.5
S12E02

Carl:The six is closer to the three, so you got convenience there. But the nine has less to do with Satan, which is a plus in this religious world of ours.

7.16.5
S12E02

Lenny · Carl:Don't forget the leaflets they dropped from the space shuttle. And the two weeks we all spent at area code camp.

7.67.7
S12E02

Carl · Homer:Joan Collins must be in town. - Joan Collins? That girl sleeps with everybody!

6.15.2
S12E06

Carl · Homer:Are you him? Are you Mr. X? / No. / But you talked in that real sly voice. / Hey, hey, everybody! Homer's Mr. X! / I am not! Or... am I? / Are you? / No!

6.55.8
S12E09

Carl · Carl's codpiece wearer:Homer's the guy who rigged up my pants with this special codpiece. Comfy, isn't it? Oh, yeah. It provides the freedom and protection I so sorely need.

6.96.8
S12E09

Carl:I can't feed my family with a codpiece.

6.66.0
S12E17

Lenny · Carl:No bag boys are gonna stop Lenny... from hosting a casual get-together. - Casual? I can taste that get-together now.

6.25.0
S12E19

Carl:Any religion that embraces carob is, uh, not for Carl Carlson.

7.27.0
S13E01

Lenny · Carl:Carl, let me die first. I couldn't bear to watch you die. Well, okay. But hurry up.

7.47.5
S13E03

Carl:I'm an urban Lenny!

6.05.7
S13E06

Carl:Yeah. If I didn't have inner peace, I'd completely go psycho on all you guys all the time.

6.66.0
S13E06

Lisa · Lenny · Carl:What about the Dalai Lama? Who? You know, the 14th reincarnation of the Buddha Avalokiteshvara. Who's Buddha?

6.96.3
S13E06

Carl:It's a good thing Buddhism teaches freedom from desire, 'cause I've got the desire to kick your ass.

7.77.5
S13E06

Carl:I dream about meatball sandwiches, all-you-can-eat for two bucks.

6.25.3
S13E06

Carl · Richard Gere:Hey, Richard, in An Officer and a Gentleman, did you really do all those sit-ups? I wish. I did one, and they just showed it 1,000 times.

6.25.5
S13E06

Carl · Richard Gere:Hey, Richard, in An Officer and a Gentleman, did you really do all those sit-ups? I wish. I did one, and they just showed it 1,000 times.

6.05.8
S13E08

Carl:Now that everyone's so open about being fat, I can finally stop sucking in my gut.

6.56.5
S13E14

Lenny · Carl:If Hamlet touches either of us, he's dead. Booyah!

7.06.3
S13E21

Barney · Carl:If you ask me, Muhammad Ali in his prime was much better than anti-lock brakes. Yeah. But what about Johnny Mathis versus Diet Pepsi?

6.45.7
S14E10

Carl:Whose banana you gotta peel to get a 5.9? Pfft!

6.56.2
S14E10

Carl · Lenny:Wow, Homer, this is like a party Dick Clark would throw. Yeah. Fun, but not too fun.

6.15.5
S14E10

Carl · Homer:Wow, Homer, this is like a party Dick Clark would throw. / Yeah. Fun, but not too fun.

6.86.7
S14E10

Carl · Homer:CARL: Hey, Lenny, covet some more chili fries? That's it. The whole shebang.

7.06.7
S14E15

Carl · Lenny:I say Phantom Menace sucked more. I say Attack of the Clones sucked more.

6.36.3
S14E16

Carl:This is great! It's darker than a French chick's armpit!

5.85.3
S14E18

Lenny · Carl · Homer:LENNY & CARL: D-E-R HOMER: His wife is dead [WOMAN SCREAMS]

7.37.7
S14E20

Carl:Was that Al Roker? His exuberance is perplexing.

6.76.2
S14E20

Homer · Carl:You can bring a bag of ice. Lousy Homer. I'll show him. Tonight, his beloved mock apple pie will have real apples.

7.47.3
S14E21

Carl · Lenny:I sang at your wedding. Yeah, 'The Best Is Yet to Come.' Real original.

7.26.7
S15E05

Lenny · Carl:Yeah. We borrowed 'em for the radio.

6.76.3
S15E06

Carl:Never go on the teacup ride after eating at Beauty and the Beast's Fried Dough Chateau.

6.46.0
S15E07

Carl:Apparently working in Hawaii was a pleasure.

5.65.5
S15E14

Lenny · Carl:Good? I'm in it. I had a small speaking role. Yeah, I went to visit him and was banned from the set.

6.35.5
S15E20

Homer · Carl:Wow, a Negro. We prefer the term 'black.' So cool.

6.15.5
S16E15

Lenny · Carl:Sorry, we're ghosts now. Our spirits live in those two trees. Or, maybe we're alive and we just feel like jerkin' you around. Or maybe we're one of each.

7.07.0
S17E01

Lenny · Carl · Homer:Angela Dare! Sultry Stevens! Yeah, what is this, a reunion of Fahrenheit 9 on 1?

6.36.2
S17E01

Lenny · Carl:I've always dreamed of working in an adult film. I'll run the sound board! And I'll perform in the sex scenes!

6.66.3
S17E13

Barney · Carl:Don't pigeonhole us. We have other vices. I dress up like a baby.

7.46.8
S17E20

Lenny · Carl:But it's not an awkward silence. Yeah, it's more like a nothing needs to be said kind of silence.

7.37.3
S17E22

Lenny · Carl:Remember when we used to kiss like that, Carl? With our respective girlfriends.

7.47.2
S18E03

Carl:Maybe finally shut him up about the high price of cornmeal.

6.96.3
S18E03

Carl:The only thing women can build is credit card debt.

5.34.7
S18E04

Lenny · Carl:Everyone's paying attention to Homer. I still like you. Thanks, Invisible Carl.

7.36.8
S18E07

Lenny · Carl:I don't know where Carl ends and I begin. See, statements like that are why people think we're gay.

7.27.0
S19E03

Barney · Carl:Huh, good joke, Homer. You can unhook my car now. Uh, looks like he's driving away with it.

6.26.8
S19E03

Carl · Lenny:It sure is great not having Homer around to tell us where we can or can't park. Yeah, without the crushing rule of law, society will do a better job of regulating itself.

7.26.8
S19E16

Carl · Lurleen:Hey, Lurleen, I'm going down to the rock quarry tonight to throw stones at the woodchucks. Want to come? / No. / That's okay. I understand. Someone's lookin' at a snake in her mailbox.

7.26.5
S20E03

Carl:These are going right on my mom's grave.

6.45.8
S20E10

Lenny · Carl:He gave me one of his kidneys. Yeah, me, too.

7.78.0
S20E10

Carl:About how we give each other haircuts? No, we'll take that secret to our graves.

7.47.2
S20E16

Carl:You mean like how we treat Homer? 'Cause he can't remember limericks?

7.26.5
S20E16

Moe · Carl:But what if it blows up in my face? / Uh, with your face, who cares?

6.86.3
S20E21

Carl:So my girlfriend puts all these pillows on the bed. And you have to like take them all off at night and put them all back on every morning. And if the little one is in back of the big one, oh, God help you.

6.26.0
S21E03

Carl · Homer:One unlucky punch and Marge could be bedridden for life. Unable to move anything but her left toe. Yeah. 'FEED ME'

7.98.2
S21E03

Carl · Homer · Carl:You think just 'cause I'm black I know all other black people? / Well, I, uh, uh... / Actually, Drederick and I are very good friends. We met through Dr. Hibbert at a party at Bleeding Gums Murphy's house.

7.87.8
S21E05

Carl:The nitwits are running the goofhouse

6.05.8
S21E05

Carl:You know, I'd rather save my arm-lifting for tapping gauges or filling out employee evaluations

6.46.2
S21E05

Carl:Yes, I have, in ways you're only beginning to suspect

6.35.8
S21E05

Carl:Either you're my assistant or you find a job elsewhere. And in this economy, elsewhere ain't hiring

6.26.3
S21E05

Carl · Homer:Either you're my assistant or you find a job elsewhere. And in this economy, elsewhere ain't hiring. - Fine, I guess I'm at your beck. - And call. No...!

6.56.3
S21E05

Carl:That's right, we're going to fission week!

6.66.3
S21E05

Carl:When I was your age, It was the future, 'cause I'm younger than you

6.36.2
S21E05

Carl:I don't have time for peeling. Squirt 'em in

6.26.2
S21E05

Carl · French Commissioner:still dead? - Yes, thank you for asking

7.27.5
S21E05

Carl · French Commissioner:closed on mondays. You are clearly a man of the world

6.86.5
S21E05

Carl:My assistant will do a sensual dance for your arousal

6.77.2
S21E10

Carl:Or all the joke ID badges we order.

6.15.8
S21E17

Carl:I'm pounding Melchizedeks.

7.36.8
S21E17

Carl · Lenny:If wishes were horses, I'd be eating wish-meat every night. What does that mean?

7.37.0
S22E06

Carl:Finally, a break for the black man!

6.96.5
S22E11

Carl · Lenny:That's funny, 'cause I found this candy bar in my desk.

6.05.3
S22E13

Lenny · Carl:I love our Valentine's Day tradition of going out with each other's sisters. Is there anything better than my best friend's face on a girl body?

6.76.0
S22E13

Carl:Oh! Judi Dench?! Kiss me, 007.

7.26.3
S23E06

Carl:I did publish five modestly successful children's books.

6.86.3
S23E06

Homer · Carl:Oh, you didn't write any of it. That tuna didn't salad itself.

6.96.8
S23E06

Carl:I laminated the lunch menu and put them ia binder.

6.76.3
S23E06

Carl:If they had been in charge of the Sistine Chapel, the whole thing would be vampires, instead of the pope's private naked dude mural.

7.88.3
S23E07

Lenny · Carl · Mr. Burns:Yeah, even Homer's not dumb enough to invite... So! This is the famous party. Feh. Guh. Pffoy.

7.27.2
S23E09

Bart · Carl:Hey, Lenny. I'm Carl. Don't you remember? You came to the brain-switching ceremony.

7.47.2
S23E12

Homer · Carl · Moe:Hey, Moe! I got a job here for your 'best friend,' the bar rag. Me, too! Witty.

6.05.8
S23E14

Off-Grid Leader · Carl:Let her slice off the tip of your ear, and she'll go right to sleep. No. That's not a choice you get to make.

7.27.2
S23E16

Lenny · Carl:See it? We followed the ref home and beat the crap out of him. Yeah, I still think that might've been a kid who worked at Foot Locker.

7.47.5
S23E16

Carl:Ain't no problem that free food and free booze won't fix.

5.95.0
S23E21

Lenny · Carl:That thing's hilarious. Not so hilarious for me. I nearly lost a toe.

7.37.0
S23E21

Carl · Lenny:That's what you get for having a monkey give you a foot massage. My bucket list is my business.

7.27.5
S24E04

Carl · Lenny:I saw a Sesame Street about it! Kermit was wearing his trench coat and everything. Wait, the frog in the trench coat is Kermit, too? All the frogs on that show are Kermit. Keeps all the other frog actors out of work.

7.06.8
S24E07

Lenny · Carl:Russian nesting donut!

6.56.7
S24E07

HR person · Carl:Actually, Carl, there's no workplace-appropriate use for the word 'bazooms.' What about 'thunderbags'?

6.87.0
S24E11

Marge · Carl:What? 'Cause they rented a van and taped an antenna to the top? Not just any tape. Duct tape.

6.86.5
S24E11

Carl · Lenny:Don't worry, Marge, we bought a ton of safety gear from a highly-respected storm chaser's widow. It's not what you're thinking. He died of a heart attack. Yeah, 80 feet up in the air.

7.37.3
S24E11

Carl · Marge:I'd say she's prettier than a surface hoar. Hey! Surely, you didn't misunderstand my usage of 'surface hoar.' The sublimation of ice crystals that's colder than a frost point.

6.56.2
S24E11

Homer · Carl:He was a black guy, but his voice sounded like a white guy. Hey, excuse me for wanting to fit in.

7.57.5
S24E21

Carl:Yeah, I always go with three, the number of brothers and sisters I, uh, Hunger Games-ed in the womb.

7.77.7
S24E21

Carl:It's no use. We're perfectly matched.

6.05.3
S24E21

Carl:No, no, anything but the inedible, repulsive food of my native land.

6.65.3
S24E21

Carl:we're not friends. Friends share their feelings, their hopes, their dreams. Friends know their friends are from Iceland! We are just guys who sit next to each other at a bar

7.47.0
S24E21

Carl:We don't get together to share our emotions. We get together to escape them.

7.77.3
S24E21

Carl:Yeah, I'd tell you guys I love you, but, uh, I don't want to say it, and you don't want to hear it.

6.55.7
S25E01

Carl:And she's with her frumpy friend I always have dinner with when you two disappear. Mm-hmm-hmm.

6.76.2
S25E11

Carl · Homer:Executive stress ball that says 'One more squeeze and you're fired' causing more stress

7.57.5
S25E11

Carl:Carl playing Muppet Chess with moves like 'Gonzo to Fozzie Seven' and 'Kermit-mate'

6.86.3
S25E22

Carl:I was just tweeting a picture of what I thought was my last meal. Hot dog and french fries!

6.25.3