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Character Analysis

Kelsey Grammer

Sideshow Bob

Played by Kelsey Grammer

98 jokes across 9 episodes of The Simpsons

WAR

66.2

Total Jokes

98

Avg Craft

7.5

Avg Impact

7.2

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Sideshow Bob delivers 98 scored jokes across 9 episodes of The Simpsons, averaging 7.5 on craft and 7.2 on impact for a career WAR of 66.2. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.

Funniest Sideshow Bob Lines

All Jokes — 98 total

S1E12

Evey time we say good-bye I die a little

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S1E12

And I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for these meddling kids.

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S1E12

Treat kids as equals! They're people too! They're smarter than you think. they were smart enough to catch me!

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S3E21

Bart is the shamus in short pants who sent me to prison.

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S3E21

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

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S3E21

When prison ended that dream, I became a seething cauldron of rage and recrimination.

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S3E21

This is one more Emmy than you'll ever win, you bantering jack-in-the-box!

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S3E21

Do you know what prison is like for a life-long Republican?

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S3E21

But what kind of guest would I have been?

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S3E21

Like the lone crocus that pokes through the prison yard, our love bloomed despite all obstacles.

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S3E21

Cutter. Icepick. Snake. I'm going to miss you most of all.

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S3E21

You seized the wheel of my slow boat to hell, and pointed it towards the sunny shores of Selma.

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S3E21

Though kissing you is like kissing some divine ashtray, that's not what I had in mind.

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S3E21

First of all, he's not a genius. He's an actor. And second, he's not much of an actor.

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S3E21

that was a well-plotted piece of non-claptrap that never made me retch.

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S3E21

Enjoy your rest. The wedding was very tough on you, and the honeymoon is going to be... murder.

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S3E21

I wanted a room with a fireplace, you brainless luggage monkey!

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S3E21

Ah, fire-- Scourge of Prometheus, toaster of marshmallows, eradicator of deadwood.

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S3E21

Even murder has its ugly side.

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S3E21

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

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S3E21

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

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S3E21

Don't forget to die. - Ding-dong.

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S3E21

My best-laid plans have gang agley.

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S5E02

Take care, Snake. May the next time we meet... be under more felicitous circumstances. Ga?

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S5E02

How many people in this court are thinking of killing her right now? Be honest.

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S5E02

Oh, I'll stay away from your son, all right. Stay away... forever. Oh, no! Wait a minute. That's no good.

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S5E02

Wait. I've got a good one now. Marge, say 'Stay away from my son' again. No!

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S5E02

Come on! Leave town! No. I'll be your friend. No. Oh, you're mean.

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S5E02

The following neighborhood residents... will not be killed by me: Ned Flanders... Maude Flanders. Oh, isn't that nice?

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S5E02

Hey, kids, wanna drive through that cactus patch? Yeah! Yeah! No! Whoop, two against one.

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S5E02

Surely there's no harm... in laying in the middle of a public street.

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S5E02

Roman numeral three: Surprise boy in bed-- and, uh, disembowel him. No, I don't like that 'bowel' in there. Gut him.

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S5E02

Oh, no, Dad's been drugged. No, he hasn't.

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S5E02

Well, you have such a beautiful voice. Guilty as charged. Anyway, I was wondering if you could sing the entire score of the H.M.S. Pinafore.

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S5E02

Very well, Bart. I shall send you to heaven before I send you to hell.

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S5E02

I knew I had to buy some time... so I asked him to sing the score from the H.M.S. Pinafore. Ooh, a plan fiendishly clever in its intricacies.

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S5E07

If elected mayor... my first act will be to kill the whole lot of ya and burn your town to cinders.

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S5E21

Please, Krusty, this is very demeaning. / Shut up and conduct!

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S6E03

Soon I will kill you.

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S6E05

It's time people realized we conservatives aren't all Johnny Hatemongers... and Charlie Bible-Thumps or even, God forbid, George Bushes.

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S6E05

Attempted murder. Now, honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?

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S6E05

A fine mahoq to you all.

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S6E05

Do you know what he does? He flip-flops. Sometimes he doesn't know whether he's coming or going.

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S6E05

No children have ever meddled with the Republican Party and lived to tell about it

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S6E05

I'd say that Les Wynan ought to do more thinking and less whining. There's no Councilman Les Wynan. Good line, though.

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S6E05

At that time, we will blow up your house and any remaining Simpsons

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S6E05

That way, they can sleep soundly tonight on their hard, feculent motel pillows.

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S6E05

There. Is that what you want, you smarmy little bastards?

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S6E05

You want the truth? You can't handle the truth. No truth-handler, you. I deride your truth-handling abilities.

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S6E05

Because you need me, Springfield. Your guilty conscience may force you to vote Democratic. But deep down inside, you secretly long for a cold-hearted Republican... to lower taxes, brutalize criminals and rule you like a king.

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S7E09

Ah, Westminster Abbey. Edward the Confessor himself could not have done better.

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S7E09

My foolish capering destroyed more young minds than syphilis and pinball combined.

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S7E09

that omnidirectional sludge pump droning and burping-

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S7E09

Informally now and by affidavit later, time permitting.

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S7E09

Buzz-cut Alabamians spewing colored smoke from their whizz jets to the strains of 'Rock You Like a Hurricane'? What kind of country-fried rube is still impressed by that?

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S7E09

TV's bottomless chum bucket has claimed Vanessa Redgrave!

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S7E09

Except perhaps... a mushroom cloud.

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S7E09

Why, we could revive the lost arts of conversation... and scrimshaw.

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S7E09

By the way, I'm aware of the irony of appearing on TV in order to decry it. So don't bother pointing that out.

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S7E09

Some decent local marmalade, for one. Oh, well, next time.

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S7E09

Blasted helium! Shoo! Shoo! Shoo! Shoo! That's better.

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S7E09

How naive of me to think a mere atom bomb could fell the chattering Cyclops!

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S7E09

and his sister, Lisa, to whom I'm fairly indifferent.

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S7E09

Really? What type of smart? Book smart? Because there are a lot of people who are book smart. But it takes a very special type of genius to-

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S7E09

God bless the idiot-proof Air Force.

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S7E09

Back before every Joe Sweat Sock could wedge himself behind a lunch tray and jet off to Raleigh-Durham.

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S7E09

How ironic. My crusade against television has come to an end so formulaic... it could have spewed from the PowerBook of the laziest Hollywood hack.

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S8E16

Well, Krusty, as you may remember, after I tried to frame you for armed robbery... I tried to murder Selma Bouvier. Let's see. I rigged the mayoral elections... I tried to blow up Springfield with a nuclear device, and I tried to kill you.

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S8E16

And whenever I could find a spare moment, I've tried to murder... Bart Simpson. [Screaming] [Door Slamming] He said 'tried'!

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S8E16

Really, Reverend, your praise is gonna get me beaten up.

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S8E16

Yes, I'm a good, good man.

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S8E16

You mean Arthur Fiedler's wake? No, no, no. I mean our falling out.

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S8E16

I'm all murdered out.

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S8E16

And as an American, aren't I entitled to one? Probably!

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S8E16

[Thinking] I hope they still make that shampoo I like.

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S8E16

I'll be happy just as long as it doesn't taste like orange drink fermented under a radiator.

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S8E16

Hydrological and hydrodynamical. Talk about running the gamut.

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S8E16

What about the buffoon lessons? The four years at clown college?

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S8E16

These giant clown mitts are extremely hilarious, but do make it difficult to shift gears. That's the title of Erma Bombeck's latest, isn't it?

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S8E16

Cecil, no civilization in history has ever considered... chief hydrological engineer a calling. [Clearing Throat] Yes, yes. The Cappadocians. Fine.

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S8E16

Just the thought of that raw, surging power makes me wonder why the hell I should care.

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S8E16

Oh, great. Whenever a woman passes by... I suppose it will be my job to lead the hooting. Oh, yeah! Shake it, madam. Capital knockers.

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S8E16

He's just shy because I've tried to kill him so many times.

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S8E16

Oh, the pleasure's mine, Bob. It's so exciting to be dating a killer. To be fair, I never successfully killed anyone. Oh. I see.

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S8E16

I did once try to kill the world's greatest lover. But then I realized there are laws against suicide.

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S8E16

He says that, but I bet he gives up pretty quickly.

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S8E16

Coveralls that don't quite cover all.

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S8E16

Sometimes I wish this dam would burst... and bury this cursed town.

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S8E16

Madam, your children are no more... than a pair of ill-bred troublemakers.

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S8E16

Here's a clue for you, Jack! One hundred thousand tons of reinforced concrete.

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S8E16

When it's one of my schemes, you can't foil it fast enough. But when Cecil tries to kill you... 'It's hopeless. Utterly, utterly hopeless.'

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S8E16

Come on! Quickly now! Bart, for once I'm not trying to kill you. I know it's awkward and I don't like it any more than you do. But you've got to trust me.

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S8E16

Lisa, you don't spend 10 years as a homicidal maniac... without learning a few things about dynamite.

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S8E16

Bart, how would you like to do something incredibly noble? Do we have to? Yes.

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S8E16

Oh, I don't know about that. [Whimpers] Joking. Joking.

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S8E16

Oh, I don't relish having to write the Christmas letter this year. Nor I to read it.

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S8E16

You'll live to regret this! Oh, thanks a lot. Now I look crazy.

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S8E16

I'm older! I get the top bunk! Oh, poppycock! I called it at the arraignment! Get back!

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