Character Analysis

Julie Kavner

Selma

Played by Julie Kavner

120 jokes across 42 episodes of The Simpsons

WAR

25.1

Total Jokes

120

Avg Craft

7.0

Avg Impact

6.5

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Selma delivers 120 scored jokes across 42 episodes of The Simpsons, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.5 on impact for a career WAR of 25.1. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.

Funniest Selma Lines

All Jokes — 138 total

S1E01

Homer · Patty · Selma:Hello, Patty. Hello, Selma. How was your trip? Fine. you both look well. Thank you. Yeah, well, Merry Christmas. It's Christmas?

6.76.5
S1E01

Selma · Homer:you wouldn't know it around here. And why is that? For one thing, there's no tree I was just on my way out to get one!

5.85.5
S1E09

Selma:And when he surprised you with the Connie Chung calendar?

7.06.7
S1E09

Patty · Selma:Do you know the Heimlich Maneuver? - No. - Good.

8.38.2
S2E02

Selma · Patty:Patty, stop drooling. / Look who's talking.

7.06.8
S2E02

Patty · Selma:You look different, Homer. Lose weight? You got a tan. I know what it is, a new tie.

6.86.3
S2E07

Patty · Selma:Some people find your turkey a little dry. Now they'll have an option.

7.17.3
S2E07

Patty · Selma:-So insincere. -How does she put up with him?

6.05.3
S2E07

Patty · Selma · Lisa · Bart:-Yikes! What is that? -It's the centerpiece. -It's taking up real estate. -Move it, toots!

6.46.3
S2E07

Patty · Selma:-Hey, that got her going! -Bitchen!

6.96.8
S2E15

Stanley · Selma:Hello, Selma. Hello, Stanley.

6.76.0
S2E15

Selma:I'll get right to it. I'm getting older and uglier. Please, Marge, help me find a man before it's too late.

6.35.5
S2E15

Selma:Your first date in 25 years is more important than playing cards.

6.36.0
S2E15

Selma:You don't want to show up for your big date looking like Yosemite Sam.

6.35.0
S2E15

Selma:You don't want to show up for your big date looking like Yosemite Sam.

6.56.0
S2E15

Selma:Achingly beautiful.

6.55.5
S2E15

Selma:Two minutes younger. Skin like a china doll. Bosoms till Tuesday.

7.27.0
S2E15

Selma:Can the sweet talk! You're right. It's time to end my girlish dreams... and grab hold of the next train out of the station.

6.25.0
S2E15

Selma:It takes a ripe piece of cheese to catch the mouse.

7.16.5
S2E15

Selma:It's time to give away my love like cheap wine.

6.86.0
S2E15

Selma · Principal Skinner:Jeezum Crow! Look at the size of that rock! The second most precious jewel here.

6.36.0
S3E01

Patty · Selma:I said crazy house! Poorhouse. Crazy house! Poorhouse.

6.25.8
S3E09

Patty · Selma:What do you know. He's wearing pants. I owe you lunch.

7.36.8
S3E09

Patty · Selma:Ugly. / Ugly. Butch.

5.85.3
S3E09

Selma · Homer:You're also fat. / I'm also fat!

6.36.0
S3E10

Selma:And this is Patty trying to plug her razor into those ungodly Czechoslovakian outlets. As you can see, we never got the hang of it.

6.66.2
S3E21

Sideshow Bob · Selma:You're forgetting the first two noble truths of the Buddha. - I am not. - Yes, you are.

6.75.8
S3E21

Bart · Selma:Don't be a fool. That man is scum. - Then call me 'Mrs. Scum.'

7.26.8
S3E21

Selma:I bought stock in a Mace company just before society crumbled.

7.57.2
S3E21

Selma:Holy frijoles! We've got ten minutes till MacGyver. Driver, here's a fin. Get me home, and don't spare the whip.

6.55.7
S3E21

Selma:41 years ago, God took 168 pounds of clay, and he made me a woman, and for this, I thank him.

6.75.5
S3E21

Sideshow Bob · Selma:Soon I will kill you. - Huh? - Son pieds sentit beau-- French for 'her foot smells lovely.'

7.67.5
S3E21

Sideshow Bob · Selma:Voy a matar a usted. - Wha? - That's Spanish for 'I am going to kill you.' - Say what?

7.77.7
S3E21

Sideshow Bob · Selma:Don't forget to die. - Ding-dong.

7.77.5
S4E13

Patty · Selma:We're hugging us. What do we do? Just close your eyes and think of MacGyver.

7.67.0
S4E13

Selma:Why didn't she just leave me the bowel obstruction that killed her?

7.87.5
S4E13

Selma · Patty:Don't worry. We'll get that 'barking dog' record tomorrow. Patty, I want a baby.

6.96.3
S4E13

Selma:You're lookin' at a free lunch, boys. Come and get it. [Imitates Tiger Snarl]

7.06.8
S4E13

Selma · Store Clerk:So, wearing a belt, are ya? Yep. No suspenders for you. I guess not.

7.06.8
S4E13

Selma · Waiter:Cold biscuits... chicken... yellow... mailman. You're reading the wine list, sir.

7.16.7
S4E13

Lisa · Selma:Aunt Selma, this may be presumptuous but have you ever considered artificial insemination? Boy, I don't know. You gotta be pretty desperate to make it with a robot.

7.37.2
S4E13

Selma:A Nobel Prize winner! An NBA All-Star! Ooh! One of the Sweathogs. I checked. It's not Horshack.

7.26.7
S4E13

Selma:Ooh! You look just like your picture.

6.55.5
S4E13

Selma:I got a lotta love to give and, right now, my only outlet is my ham radio.

7.77.3
S4E13

Marge · Selma:No man will want you. All I got now is sperm in a cup.

7.67.7
S4E13

Sign · Selma:Twenty-two immigrant laborers died during its construction. Plenty more where that came from.

7.36.7
S4E13

Selma · Bart:This is a disgrace. Settle down. Anything this bad has to be educational.

7.36.7
S4E13

Bart · Selma:You're charming the pants off of me. What did you say, Aunt Selma? I said take off those damn glasses!

7.27.0
S4E13

Selma · Surly:Can't you do something? Hey. Surly only looks out for one guy-- Surly. Sorry, Surly. Shut up.

7.67.0
S4E13

Selma:I think their father is missing a chromosome.

6.96.5
S4E13

Homer · Selma:You take an ordinary bed sheet, fold it around like this-- No. I mean raising kids.

7.16.5
S4E13

Selma:When I went to pick him up, Mom was trying to stab him with a hat pin.

7.26.8
S4E16

Patty · Selma:You can fit your whole head in it. / Don't be scared, JubJub. It's Mama.

7.16.8
S5E11

Malloy · Selma:Selma, my dear, your lock of MacGyver's hair. / Ohh. Thank you. I'll add it to the ball.

7.36.7
S5E17

Patty · Selma:Patty and Selma tornado aftermath: 'I feel it all the way up my skirt' / 'Ditto'

6.65.8
S6E17

Patty · Selma · Homer:Now, bring us extra chairs like a good 'blubber'-in-law. Time to fertilize the lawn. A couple of 500-pound bags should do it!

6.46.0
S7E06

Patty · Selma:You're gonna help us clean and organize them. And pry out all the dead hermit crabs. Get a screwdriver.

7.06.3
S7E15

Selma:Nah, I just bought it to soak my feet in.

7.07.0
S7E19

Selma · Patty:How come no Chippendales dancers ever come in to renew their licenses? They carpool. That's the problem.

6.96.2
S7E19

Selma:I remember you from such films as Meet Joe Blow and Give My Remains to Broadway.

7.16.3
S7E19

Selma:Hmm? Hmm. Hmm. Mm-mmm. Hmm. Hmm. Oh.!

6.05.5
S7E19

Selma:Well, I think I'm getting Repetitive Stress Disorder from scratching my butt all day.

6.96.5
S7E19

Selma · Troy McClure:Well, not much happens to me... but I once had dinner with a movie star... and it was the most wonderful night of my life. Really? Who was it? George Segal? I hear he plays the banjo.

6.86.2
S7E19

Selma · Troy McClure:My God! It's like five cigarettes at once! Oh, my head is swimming! That's not cigars, baby. That's love.

7.26.8
S7E19

Minister · Selma:And do you, Selma Bouvier Terwilliger Bouvier... take the fabulous Troy McClure to be your lawful wedded husband? I already told you yes.

6.96.5
S7E19

Selma:I want to see the Troy McClure I remember from such films... as Make-Out King of Montana and The Electric Gigolo.

7.57.2
S7E19

Selma:My sisters have come down with a case of the green-eyed gazungas.

6.86.2
S7E19

Selma:You're tied down to a man who'd have to bathe to be a slob.

6.66.2
S7E19

Selma · Troy McClure:Are you gay? Gay? I wish! If I were gay, there'd be no problem.

8.38.0
S7E19

Selma:Come on, JubJub. Let's go home, and I'll microwave you some nice roaches.

6.96.3
S7E21

Selma:I seem to have mashed more hair into it.

7.06.3
S7E23

Selma:I'd rather eat poison. My name's already Selma Bouvier Terwilliger Hutz McClure.

6.97.0
S7E23

Selma:God knows it's long enough without Nahassapetapeeta-whatever.

7.06.8
S9E04

Patty · Selma:This needs more eye of newt. You always want more eye of newt. If it were up to you, the brew would be nothing but newt eyes.

7.37.2
S9E05

Selma · Homer · Patty:Looking for a good time, sailor? I certainly am. No, you're not! He's really not.

6.25.5
S10E20

Homer · Patty · Selma:In your face, Patty and Selma! - Well, we still love you, Ciggy.

6.86.3
S11E21

Patty · Selma:Or club you with an antique wooden doll. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that was a good one.

6.56.3
S13E10

Selma:She left Homer? I'll get the Champale. And let's get that ring off.

6.86.8
S13E10

Selma:Great. We'll have a girls night. No bras!

6.05.7
S13E10

Patty · Selma:This is so like our lives. It's like they hid a camera in our apartment.

6.66.8
S13E10

Selma:Are you nuts? E-mail, female.

6.25.5
S13E10

Marge · Patty · Selma:Dear Artie. Dear Hottie. Congratulations on your recent TV appearance. I want to sex you up. Your love slave, Marge.

7.17.2
S13E10

Selma:Watch me!

6.66.3
S13E19

Selma:He is hideous. Oh, a challenge!

7.36.8
S14E22

Selma:'Ah, get a neck, Frankenstein.'

6.36.0
S15E05

Patty · Selma:We got one when we appeared on an episode of The Price is Right, which the network refused to air. Apparently, we're not 'TV pretty.'

7.36.8
S15E05

Selma:I feel like a secretary on Administrative Professionals Day!

6.75.8
S15E07

Selma:Do you think it was Papa? I wouldn't put it past him. He stole my gold tooth the night he left.

7.37.0
S15E14

Selma:Oh... the hair is standing up on the back of my knees.

6.86.2
S15E14

Selma:Come on, short round, we're going back to my temple of doom.

6.15.8
S15E14

Artie Ziff · Selma:I can't get my socks off. Aw, leave 'em on. I like a man with a little mystery. I'm done. My kind of man.

6.86.3
S15E14

Selma:Well, he can't break my heart, 'cause he kind of makes me sick. This could work.

7.26.8
S16E01

Selma:All kettles and biscuits.

7.27.0
S16E10

Selma:Let me get my belt sander. Maybe I can grind the ugly off your face.

7.47.2
S16E10

Patty · Selma:Her name's Veronica. / But Veronica's a girl's name. / Did you know that?

6.96.5
S16E10

Patty · Selma:Smells like cheeseburgers. / Give it back!

6.76.2
S16E10

Homer · Selma:She's a man. / Looks like Patty's gonna get something she didn't register for.

6.86.7
S16E10

Selma · Patty:There never was a jigsaw puzzle. I was trying to make you jealous. / Hey, wanna go to the airport and leave a bag unattended?

7.67.3
S16E10

Patty · Selma:Hey, wanna go to the airport and leave a bag unattended? It is a good way to meet security personnel.

7.47.0
S16E12

Selma:I didn't want to get pregnant and lose my looks.

6.86.3
S16E12

Selma:All he can do is eat me when I'm dead.

7.47.2
S16E12

Selma · Homer:I'm not dead, idiot. I know. That was for the other patients.

7.46.8
S16E12

Selma:Without him, I wouldn't have you.

7.36.3
S16E12

Selma:How'd you like a little time with 'Miss October'?

7.06.3
S16E18

Selma:I can't believe I used to date him.

6.86.2
S17E12

Selma:I have the strangest feeling I've met him before.

6.86.0
S17E17

Patty · Selma:How could he say that? Macgyver is my world. Richard Dean Anderson just pissed off the wrong Richard Dean Anderson fans!

6.86.0
S17E18

Selma:'Aw's are cheap. I'm lookin' for some action.

7.16.5
S18E04

Selma:Ugh! What's with this outfit? It looks like a lion ate a parrot and then threw up.

6.96.5
S18E09

Patty · Selma · Young Marge:Marjorie, we need you to hide our cigarettes in your dollhouse. / No! / Mom? Gramma? Aunt Larina? Anybody?

7.26.8
S18E15

Selma · Homer:Maybe it's the bang-up job he did raising you. / He was a great dad. Every year he got so mad when Santa didn't bring me presents.

7.37.5
S18E15

Selma · Grampa:I know what you're wondering. How come a single woman with so much to offer is alone on a Saturday night. / I assumed you were resting up for bingo tomorrow, like me.

7.17.0
S18E15

Selma:My numbers don't get called much these days.

6.96.3
S18E15

Selma:Wow, that's the first time anyone's ever put an adjective before calling me a thing.

7.57.2
S18E15

Selma:Well, if he dies in my arms, I could meet a cute paramedic.

7.67.8
S18E15

Homer · Selma:Ah! A bear is eating my father! / I'm Selma. / Ah! A talking bear is eating my father!

7.47.7
S19E07

Selma:why would women want to go to a gym if there were no men there watching them and judging them?

7.06.5
S20E20

Selma:Yeah, you keep telling yourself that

6.86.5
S22E13

Selma:That means he hates it. If he really liked it, he'd just paw at it instead of getting all clever.

7.67.0
S22E19

Selma · Fat Tony:Hello, 'Selma.' Leaving Mockingbird Lane, Mr. Munster?

6.35.5
S22E19

Fat Tony · Selma:And if I retrieve that form, will I be able to maintain my advantageous position in line? Try it and see. Nope.

6.96.0
S22E19

Selma · Fat Tony:Fine. I choose my love handles. What? Then my arm wattles, my cankles, and finish off with my excess back fat.

7.98.0
S22E19

Selma:You asked what I wanted cut off, and I want lipo. Lots of lipo. Or are you not a man of your word?

7.47.0
S22E19

Selma:The world's a different place when you've got a waist.

6.65.8
S22E19

Selma:Oh Tony, if there were an Italian word for 'yes,' I'd be saying it right now.

7.37.2
S22E19

Selma · Patty:You married a pig. Well, you married someone whose first name is Fat.

6.86.7
S22E19

Selma · Fat Tony:You are such a gentle kisser. You were kind of all over the place.

5.74.5
S22E19

Selma · Anna · Marge:That's a goomar ring. This is a wife ring. That's a wife ring?

6.56.2
S22E19

Selma · Mob guys:Marge, if I ever tell you I want to get married again, I want you to stick your thumbs into my eyes. Yeah, we can show you how to do it. The trick is, you don't stop till you hear a pop.

7.06.7
S22E19

Anna · Selma:You missed my first open house as a licensed real estate broker for this brutta puttana? I've hit on enough pizza boys to know what that means.

7.16.7
S22E19

Selma:I've hit on enough pizza boys to know what that means.

6.86.5
S22E20

Unknown · Patty · Selma:You look like Posh Spice. / That's just what I was going for. / I was going for Scary.

6.35.7
S23E06

Selma:I wouldn't join one of your harebrained schemes for all the Japanese girlfriend pillows in Kyoto!

6.76.8
S23E09

Selma · Lovebot:Make me a Bloody Mary, dollface. No, Selma. Even a robot built only to love you cannot love you. I am leaving with your sister's concu-droid.

7.27.3
S23E11

Patty · Selma · Lisa:We've got to thank you, kiddo. We've gotten so much more action since we signed up and used this picture of ourselves. That's not you. You can see our reflection in the sunglasses.

6.46.5
S24E22

Selma:Well, in the first place, the elephant's cuff links would be the same size. It's the cuffs that would be bigger.

7.57.0
S24E22

Selma:And this town's got losers like Mexico has headless corpses.

7.06.3
S24E22

Selma:Maybe I should get married so I can date these guys.

7.36.7