Character Analysis

Otto
Played by Harry Shearer
122 jokes across 46 episodes of The Simpsons
34.3
122
7.0
6.7
Character Comedy
Otto delivers 122 scored jokes across 46 episodes of The Simpsons, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.7 on impact for a career WAR of 34.3. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.
Funniest Otto Lines
Bart · Otto:Otto man? You're living in a Dumpster? Oh, man, I wish. Dumpster brand trash bins are top-of-the-line. This is just a Trash-co waste disposal unit.
Otto:We all know the tragic story of the young man who stuck his arm out the window and had it ripped off by a big truck coming in the other direction. And I was that boy.
Otto:Wow. I've never been called an adult before. I've been tried as one, but...
Otto:I got held back in the fourth grade. Twice. And look at me, man. Now I drive the school bus!
Otto:It's a miracle... no one was hurt. I stand on my record-- 1 5 crashes and not a single fatality.
All Jokes — 128 total
Otto:Uh, sorry, little dudes. Party hardy was tardy.
Otto · Otto:This morning I woke up with this one. / Not till you're 14, my little friend.
Otto:We all know the tragic story of the young man who stuck his arm out the window and had it ripped off by a big truck coming in the other direction. And I was that boy.
Student · Otto:Look, there's our school again. / It's a shortcut, Mrs. K. Trust me.
Otto · Kid:Good-bye, little dude. He looks so lifelike, man
Otto · Bart:Hey, Bart-dude. You look freaked. I got a test I'm not ready for. Can you crash the bus?
Otto:Sorry, I can't do it on purpose. But maybe you'll get lucky.
Bart · Otto:Otto, I respect you. You let us throw stuff at cars and try to tip the bus. Damn thing never goes over, does it?
Otto:I got held back in the fourth grade. Twice. And look at me, man. Now I drive the school bus!
Otto · Bart · Otto:As the only adult here, I feel I should say something. What? Cool!
Bart · Otto:Bart-dude! Hey, Otto-man! Yo, hairy bro.
Otto:Here's a rendering. Note the cobra wrapped around the naked chick.
Otto:My own idea for a comic book. It's about a dude who drives a school bus by day... but by night, fights vampires in a postapocalyptic war zone!
Homer · Otto:Otto-man! You work here? All my friends are in school... so I got a job as a bloodletting tech-dude!
Otto:Hey, look at that dog. Isn't that something? Wow! Brown.
Otto:Don't learn anything... I wouldn't learn
Otto:Got a bad case of the munchies, man. Time for a heat-lamp dog
Apu · Otto:Did you know there's a child in your bus? Good thing you warned me. I was heading to Mexico.
Otto:My old lady ran off and married my brother. It hurt, but it's a month later, and I'm sleeping on their couch
Otto:Oh, wait. You're the little dude with the gnarly powers.
Otto:That's all I did in high school. My old man said I was wasting my time... and I'd never amount to anything. I, uh... Hmm.
Kids · Otto:We don't have seat belts. Uh... Well, then just try to go limp.
Otto:It's a miracle... no one was hurt. I stand on my record-- 1 5 crashes and not a single fatality.
Police officer · Otto:Let's see your license, pal. No can do. Never got one. If you need proof of my identity... I wrote my name on my underwear. Oh, wait-- these aren't mine.
Otto:Yeah, one: Have you always been a chick? No offense, but you were born a man, weren't you? You can tell me. I'm open-minded.
Patty · Otto:Well, you failed every segment... and misspelled ''bus'' on your application. Drag.
Landlord · Otto:All I found in there was a jar of mustard... and a couple of old Cycle magazines. Wow! I had mustard?
Bart · Otto:Otto man? You're living in a Dumpster? Oh, man, I wish. Dumpster brand trash bins are top-of-the-line. This is just a Trash-co waste disposal unit.
Otto:The admiral and I don't get along.
Homer · Otto:The can of corn costs... 57 ¢! I could sure go for a can of corn.
Otto · Marge:Uh, you got any of those Where's Waldo? books? No. - Anything from the vampire's point of view? - No. Anything where guys... send in naked pictures of their chicks?
Otto · Homer:Hey, Pop-N-Fresh! You're supposed to giggle. Gyyaaagh!!
Lisa · Otto:Did the maniac kill her? Natch. You know how I know? How? Because... I was that maniac.
Homer · Otto:This is not Happy Days, and he is not the Fonz. Hey-y-y, Mr. S.
Otto:There's plenty of money out there... for a guy who knows how to fake his own death.
Otto:Wow. I've never been called an adult before. I've been tried as one, but...
Otto:''Alcohol increases your ability to drive.'' False?! Oh, man!
Bart · Otto:He didn't call you a bum. He called you a sponge. Sponge?! Does this look like something a sponge would do?! I'll show him... who's a sponge.
Otto:So I can staple my license... to Homer Simpson's big bald head!
Otto:My girlfriend's dancing topless at the airport bar from 4:15 to 4:20.
Otto:My name is 'Ot-to!' I'm playing 'Pab-lo!'
Otto:Challenge accepted!
Otto:I'll be in Mexico till this thing blows over.
Lunch Lady · Otto:It doesn't look very clean. Just do your job, heart boy.
Otto:My name is Otto. I love to get blotto.
Otto:Oh-- I hope this is sweat.
Otto:No! Oh, no. I just made my last payment.
Homer · Otto:Otto, are you okay? Yeah. Just pop my shoulder back in. [Cracks] Ooh. Thanks, buddy. Hey, I lost my turn.
Otto:All right! Free laserium. All the colors of the 'bow, man.
Otto · Homer:You let me down, man! Now I don't believe in nothing no more. I'm going to law school. / No!
Bart · Otto:Prison bus, Otto? - The regular school bus broke down. So take a seat before I blow your heads off! - Otto! - Oh, sorry. This bus and I have sort of a Shining thing going on.
Otto:And to think I got all this after dropping out of the fourth grade.
Otto:Whoa. You think you got 'em all, but you forget about the eggs.
Otto:[Crushes Insect] Whoa. You think you got 'em all, but you forget about the eggs.
Otto:No way, man. One day of summer's all we're budgeted for.
Otto:I guess it is kind of a tease.
Otto · Student:This bus has seen better days. Well, at least it's safer than the old bus.
Otto · Admission Person:And a mint for afterwards. Five dollars a child? Last year it was free! New ownership.
Tour Guide · Skinner · Otto:Get them! Use your phony guns as clubs! Run, children. Start the bus, Otto! Start the bus! Damn! I shouldn't have eaten the mint first.
Otto:Whoa! Another acid flashback. Man, I'd hate to be driving a bus right now!
Otto:Yes, I'd like to send this letter to the Prussian consulate in Siam by aeromail. Am I too late for the 4:30 autogiro?
Otto:Oh, man! I knew I was gonna choke.
Otto:Wow! Look at all the colors, man! Red, green, yellow, orange! I remember all of these!
Otto:Chewing gum's got to be chewed out.
Otto:Otto waking up from dream about being a safe bus driver while actually driving the bus
Otto:Man, this whole place puffs of the wacky-tabbacky. I'm out of here.
Recruiter · Otto:Going somewhere? Uh, though you're free to do so. Uh- [Chuckles Nervously] No. Just rearranging my underwear. Ah. There it is.
Otto:Man, I don't know why I bought this stupid tape.
Otto:Stay calm, kids. I need you to be my eyes. Okay. Which way should I turn?
Otto:Just hang tight, kids. I'll swim for help.
Otto:Zeppelin rules!
Otto:Oh! Thank the good dude, I'm saved! And we can go back for the kids too. Hmm.
Otto:I think I'm gonna like it on this boat.
Otto:I think I'm gonna like it on this boat.
Otto:No way, man. My hair is who I am! / Ow, I'm a freak!
Skinner · Otto:Weren't you at Brown, Otto? / Yep. Almost got tenure too
teacher · Otto:Otto, a red traffic light means what? Oooh. No time for brainteasers. Today's the day I ask my girlfriend to take a ride on the matrimony pony.
Otto:We met in the summer of love. Woodstock, '99.
Otto · vendor:Quick! I need some water! Eight dollars! Not in this lifetime.
Becky · Otto:Oh, Otto. Of course my answer is- Oooh, wait, wait, wait, wait. This solo is kick-ass!
Otto · Otto's father:Well, the important thing is you came. We're leaving.
Otto:300? I could have gotten Rick Dees for that.
Lisa · Otto:Otto, what are you doing? - I don't know. I just got an urge to join the navy.
Student · Otto:Otto, what are you doing? / I don't know. I just got an urge to join the navy.
Lisa · Otto:You're being brainwashed! - Yeah, probably. 'Yvan eht nioj.'
Otto:Dude, you're touching my hand! Ewe!
Otto · Unknown:I am so far from my car. Dude, you're lying on top of me! Dude?
Otto:Uh-oh. Crotch the weed, man.
Otto · Otto:Hey, "Shemp" is "hemp" spelled backwards. / And "Otto" is "Otto" backwards!
Homer · Otto:Marge, I'm gonna need 10,000 veggie burritos! / No guac in mine.
Otto:Dude, your mom is hot.
Homer · Otto:Oh, man! They already voted! And we lost! / Oh, man! I can't believe we spaced on the date!
Otto:Well, we can't just stand here staring at our hands, although... Wow!
Otto:They call them fingers, but I never see them fing. Oh, there they go.
Otto · Homer · Otto:Remember when I dropped my keys and you thought the phone was ringing? / Yeah. / Get out.
Otto:Someone call 911. Oh, they never come.
Teacher · Otto:Ah, the buddy system, foolproof. / Floor it, Otto.
Barney · Otto:Let's take Mr. Figgy Pudding down a peg. Otto, what are you waiting for? Get your ass on my neck.
Otto:Man, what am I smoking? Oh, yeah, pot.
Otto:Whoa, I don't need drugs to enjoy this. Just to enhance it
Otto:That cloud looks awesome. That rock looks awesome. My hands look awesome.
Teacher · Otto:Not otto-- he'd drive us off a cliff. / Off a cliff? That would solve everything!
Otto:horseplay on a school bus? Has the world gone mad?
Otto:Happy 3:00 in the morning, everyone. In a mere five hours, we'll be gazing at Springfield's most exciting glacier, Springfield Glacier.
Otto · Lisa:So, Lise, ready for your trip? - Sure am. See ya next fall.
Lisa · Otto:You make those same stupid jokes every field trip. You work in the business as long as I have, you're bound to repeat yourself. See ya next fall.
Otto · Lisa:Otto, Bart won't give me a seat. / You know I can deal with your problem or I can rock out. But I cannot do both.
Otto:Fu-u-u-u... nk.
Otto:What am I hearing now? Nature? The ultimate bring-down. Why... was I... born?!
Otto:That's not a song. Real songs are about deals with the devil, far-off lands, and where you'd find smoke in relation to water.
Otto:Oh, wow, this is about 90% less funny than you think it is.
Otto:Am I on drugs? / Yes, you are, but that really is Metallica.
Otto:Now if you'll excuse me, I'm late for a gumdrop parade on Foo-foo Island.
Otto:Oh, yeah, Springfield Arena, 1997, Row XX, Seat 64.
Otto:Bye-bye, take care, watch your step, eat my shorts, have a good one.
Otto:Oh, and I think I ran over a moose.
Otto:Can't... talk... now. I'm spanking a child.
Otto:Sorry. I was mesmerized by the little boy's dance.
Marge · Otto:Otto, don't you have a sack to hacky? / Indeed I do.
Otto:One... I messed up. One... I messed up. One... I messed up!
Otto:Oh, nobody told me I had to drive the bus back. I've mistimed some substances!
Otto · Milhouse:Even I've hooked up with your old lady. / Sorry, kid. You were my favorite Uncle, Uncle Otto.
Principal Skinner · Otto:Good morning, children. Today, we are instituting shortened school hours. How shortened? Take 'em home, Otto.
Otto:The drainage around here is a joke. I don't even know why I pay taxes.
Otto:Found a way to use him as a bong.
Otto:And I didn't do anything wrong by fleeing the scene and not reporting it and killing that hobo with the big mouth. I might have imagined that last part.
Otto:Well, I've harnessed the ancient power of slavery to run the school bus of tomorrow.
Otto:Something's wrong with my long yellow car.