Character Analysis

Harry Shearer

Otto

Played by Harry Shearer

122 jokes across 46 episodes of The Simpsons

WAR

34.3

Total Jokes

122

Avg Craft

7.0

Avg Impact

6.7

Comedy Style

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

All Jokes — 128 total

S1E03

Otto:Uh, sorry, little dudes. Party hardy was tardy.

6.35.5
S1E03

Otto · Otto:This morning I woke up with this one. / Not till you're 14, my little friend.

7.06.2
S1E03

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.

8.58.3
S1E03

Student · Otto:Look, there's our school again. / It's a shortcut, Mrs. K. Trust me.

6.96.3
S1E05

Otto · Kid:Good-bye, little dude. He looks so lifelike, man

6.97.3
S2E01

Otto · Bart:Hey, Bart-dude. You look freaked. I got a test I'm not ready for. Can you crash the bus?

7.57.3
S2E01

Otto:Sorry, I can't do it on purpose. But maybe you'll get lucky.

7.67.5
S2E01

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?

7.47.3
S2E01

Otto:I got held back in the fourth grade. Twice. And look at me, man. Now I drive the school bus!

8.08.3
S2E08

Otto · Bart · Otto:As the only adult here, I feel I should say something. What? Cool!

7.88.0
S2E14

Bart · Otto:Bart-dude! Hey, Otto-man! Yo, hairy bro.

6.45.7
S2E17

Otto:Here's a rendering. Note the cobra wrapped around the naked chick.

6.86.8
S2E21

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!

7.57.2
S2E22

Homer · Otto:Otto-man! You work here? All my friends are in school... so I got a job as a bloodletting tech-dude!

6.86.5
S3E05

Otto:Hey, look at that dog. Isn't that something? Wow! Brown.

7.57.2
S3E05

Otto:Don't learn anything... I wouldn't learn

7.36.5
S3E05

Otto:Got a bad case of the munchies, man. Time for a heat-lamp dog

7.06.8
S3E05

Apu · Otto:Did you know there's a child in your bus? Good thing you warned me. I was heading to Mexico.

7.67.2
S3E05

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

7.98.2
S3E07

Otto:Oh, wait. You're the little dude with the gnarly powers.

6.86.7
S3E22

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.

7.36.8
S3E22

Kids · Otto:We don't have seat belts. Uh... Well, then just try to go limp.

7.77.3
S3E22

Otto:It's a miracle... no one was hurt. I stand on my record-- 1 5 crashes and not a single fatality.

8.18.2
S3E22

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.

7.77.3
S3E22

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.

6.56.0
S3E22

Patty · Otto:Well, you failed every segment... and misspelled ''bus'' on your application. Drag.

7.57.3
S3E22

Landlord · Otto:All I found in there was a jar of mustard... and a couple of old Cycle magazines. Wow! I had mustard?

7.87.5
S3E22

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.

8.48.5
S3E22

Otto:The admiral and I don't get along.

7.26.8
S3E22

Homer · Otto:The can of corn costs... 57 ¢! I could sure go for a can of corn.

7.06.5
S3E22

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?

7.47.0
S3E22

Otto · Homer:Hey, Pop-N-Fresh! You're supposed to giggle. Gyyaaagh!!

6.66.0
S3E22

Lisa · Otto:Did the maniac kill her? Natch. You know how I know? How? Because... I was that maniac.

7.26.7
S3E22

Homer · Otto:This is not Happy Days, and he is not the Fonz. Hey-y-y, Mr. S.

7.37.0
S3E22

Otto:There's plenty of money out there... for a guy who knows how to fake his own death.

7.57.3
S3E22

Otto:Wow. I've never been called an adult before. I've been tried as one, but...

8.48.3
S3E22

Otto:''Alcohol increases your ability to drive.'' False?! Oh, man!

7.57.3
S3E22

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.

7.26.8
S3E22

Otto:So I can staple my license... to Homer Simpson's big bald head!

7.16.7
S3E23

Otto:My girlfriend's dancing topless at the airport bar from 4:15 to 4:20.

7.46.8
S4E02

Otto:My name is 'Ot-to!' I'm playing 'Pab-lo!'

6.35.3
S4E04

Otto:Challenge accepted!

6.36.0
S4E04

Otto:I'll be in Mexico till this thing blows over.

7.17.2
S4E15

Lunch Lady · Otto:It doesn't look very clean. Just do your job, heart boy.

6.36.0
S4E16

Otto:My name is Otto. I love to get blotto.

6.76.3
S5E05

Otto:Oh-- I hope this is sweat.

6.66.0
S5E05

Otto:No! Oh, no. I just made my last payment.

7.36.8
S5E07

Homer · Otto:Otto, are you okay? Yeah. Just pop my shoulder back in. [Cracks] Ooh. Thanks, buddy. Hey, I lost my turn.

6.96.7
S5E11

Otto:All right! Free laserium. All the colors of the 'bow, man.

7.47.3
S5E11

Otto · Homer:You let me down, man! Now I don't believe in nothing no more. I'm going to law school. / No!

8.07.7
S5E20

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.

7.77.5
S5E20

Otto:And to think I got all this after dropping out of the fourth grade.

6.25.7
S5E22

Otto:Whoa. You think you got 'em all, but you forget about the eggs.

7.06.7
S5E22

Otto:[Crushes Insect] Whoa. You think you got 'em all, but you forget about the eggs.

7.37.3
S6E01

Otto:No way, man. One day of summer's all we're budgeted for.

7.27.0
S6E01

Otto:I guess it is kind of a tease.

6.86.3
S6E21

Otto · Student:This bus has seen better days. Well, at least it's safer than the old bus.

5.14.5
S6E21

Otto · Admission Person:And a mint for afterwards. Five dollars a child? Last year it was free! New ownership.

5.65.0
S6E21

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.

6.46.7
S7E06

Otto:Whoa! Another acid flashback. Man, I'd hate to be driving a bus right now!

7.87.7
S7E08

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?

7.57.3
S7E12

Otto:Oh, man! I knew I was gonna choke.

7.06.3
S7E12

Otto:Wow! Look at all the colors, man! Red, green, yellow, orange! I remember all of these!

7.27.0
S7E21

Otto:Chewing gum's got to be chewed out.

7.06.3
S7E24

Otto:Otto waking up from dream about being a safe bus driver while actually driving the bus

7.37.7
S9E13

Otto:Man, this whole place puffs of the wacky-tabbacky. I'm out of here.

7.26.8
S9E13

Recruiter · Otto:Going somewhere? Uh, though you're free to do so. Uh- [Chuckles Nervously] No. Just rearranging my underwear. Ah. There it is.

7.07.0
S9E14

Otto:Man, I don't know why I bought this stupid tape.

6.25.7
S9E14

Otto:Stay calm, kids. I need you to be my eyes. Okay. Which way should I turn?

6.05.7
S9E14

Otto:Just hang tight, kids. I'll swim for help.

6.96.8
S9E14

Otto:Zeppelin rules!

7.57.0
S9E14

Otto:Oh! Thank the good dude, I'm saved! And we can go back for the kids too. Hmm.

7.57.5
S9E14

Otto:I think I'm gonna like it on this boat.

6.96.5
S9E14

Otto:I think I'm gonna like it on this boat.

6.36.5
S9E19

Otto:No way, man. My hair is who I am! / Ow, I'm a freak!

6.46.0
S10E07

Skinner · Otto:Weren't you at Brown, Otto? / Yep. Almost got tenure too

7.36.7
S11E21

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.

7.26.7
S11E21

Otto:We met in the summer of love. Woodstock, '99.

7.06.3
S11E21

Otto · vendor:Quick! I need some water! Eight dollars! Not in this lifetime.

5.85.8
S11E21

Becky · Otto:Oh, Otto. Of course my answer is- Oooh, wait, wait, wait, wait. This solo is kick-ass!

6.86.5
S11E21

Otto · Otto's father:Well, the important thing is you came. We're leaving.

7.27.0
S11E21

Otto:300? I could have gotten Rick Dees for that.

6.25.7
S12E14

Lisa · Otto:Otto, what are you doing? - I don't know. I just got an urge to join the navy.

7.37.7
S12E14

Student · Otto:Otto, what are you doing? / I don't know. I just got an urge to join the navy.

7.06.8
S12E14

Lisa · Otto:You're being brainwashed! - Yeah, probably. 'Yvan eht nioj.'

7.37.2
S13E08

Otto:Dude, you're touching my hand! Ewe!

5.85.5
S13E08

Otto · Unknown:I am so far from my car. Dude, you're lying on top of me! Dude?

5.65.0
S13E16

Otto:Uh-oh. Crotch the weed, man.

6.05.0
S13E16

Otto · Otto:Hey, "Shemp" is "hemp" spelled backwards. / And "Otto" is "Otto" backwards!

7.36.7
S13E16

Homer · Otto:Marge, I'm gonna need 10,000 veggie burritos! / No guac in mine.

7.26.5
S13E16

Otto:Dude, your mom is hot.

6.55.7
S13E16

Homer · Otto:Oh, man! They already voted! And we lost! / Oh, man! I can't believe we spaced on the date!

6.96.0
S13E16

Otto:Well, we can't just stand here staring at our hands, although... Wow!

7.06.0
S13E16

Otto:They call them fingers, but I never see them fing. Oh, there they go.

8.07.3
S13E16

Otto · Homer · Otto:Remember when I dropped my keys and you thought the phone was ringing? / Yeah. / Get out.

6.96.0
S13E22

Otto:Someone call 911. Oh, they never come.

5.95.0
S14E03

Teacher · Otto:Ah, the buddy system, foolproof. / Floor it, Otto.

7.27.3
S14E05

Barney · Otto:Let's take Mr. Figgy Pudding down a peg. Otto, what are you waiting for? Get your ass on my neck.

6.76.5
S14E09

Otto:Man, what am I smoking? Oh, yeah, pot.

7.06.5
S14E17

Otto:Whoa, I don't need drugs to enjoy this. Just to enhance it

7.37.2
S15E17

Otto:That cloud looks awesome. That rock looks awesome. My hands look awesome.

6.96.7
S15E18

Teacher · Otto:Not otto-- he'd drive us off a cliff. / Off a cliff? That would solve everything!

7.57.3
S15E18

Otto:horseplay on a school bus? Has the world gone mad?

6.65.8
S16E11

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.

5.95.3
S16E11

Otto · Lisa:So, Lise, ready for your trip? - Sure am. See ya next fall.

4.74.0
S16E11

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.

6.86.5
S18E01

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.

7.06.5
S18E01

Otto:Fu-u-u-u... nk.

5.54.8
S18E01

Otto:What am I hearing now? Nature? The ultimate bring-down. Why... was I... born?!

7.37.2
S18E01

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.

7.46.7
S18E01

Otto:Oh, wow, this is about 90% less funny than you think it is.

7.37.2
S18E01

Otto:Am I on drugs? / Yes, you are, but that really is Metallica.

7.88.0
S18E01

Otto:Now if you'll excuse me, I'm late for a gumdrop parade on Foo-foo Island.

7.06.5
S18E01

Otto:Oh, yeah, Springfield Arena, 1997, Row XX, Seat 64.

6.76.0
S18E01

Otto:Bye-bye, take care, watch your step, eat my shorts, have a good one.

5.84.8
S18E01

Otto:Oh, and I think I ran over a moose.

7.37.0
S18E01

Otto:Can't... talk... now. I'm spanking a child.

7.27.3
S20E11

Otto:Sorry. I was mesmerized by the little boy's dance.

6.66.2
S21E03

Marge · Otto:Otto, don't you have a sack to hacky? / Indeed I do.

7.37.0
S21E03

Otto:One... I messed up. One... I messed up. One... I messed up!

6.25.7
S21E21

Otto:Oh, nobody told me I had to drive the bus back. I've mistimed some substances!

7.57.0
S21E21

Otto · Milhouse:Even I've hooked up with your old lady. / Sorry, kid. You were my favorite Uncle, Uncle Otto.

6.96.8
S21E22

Principal Skinner · Otto:Good morning, children. Today, we are instituting shortened school hours. How shortened? Take 'em home, Otto.

7.07.0
S22E05

Otto:The drainage around here is a joke. I don't even know why I pay taxes.

6.15.3
S22E06

Otto:Found a way to use him as a bong.

7.67.2
S22E21

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.

7.88.0
S24E08

Otto:Well, I've harnessed the ancient power of slavery to run the school bus of tomorrow.

6.97.2
S25E07

Otto:Something's wrong with my long yellow car.

5.95.3