The Simpsons Season 25 / Funny

Moments pages are Spoilers Off. You Have Been Warned.

531 - "Homerland"

New Homer asking for water at Moe's.
Moe: WATER? That stuff killed my grandmother. (cut to a photo of The Wicked Witch of the West)
"I've been listening to this for three days...and I'm still on the first verse!"
The Swag song.

532 - "Treehouse of Horror XXIV"

A - Oh, The Places You'll D'oh

We see Comic Book Guy in a Catwoman costume^note (not the Halle Berry version, though some of the women walking by the house were dressed as the latter), then he says, "Wait, it's Halloween?"
The Fat In the Hat revealing the little helpers he's got hidden under his hat, only to find that they've died.
Fat: I knew there was something I left off my list; without food, air and water, they cease to exist.
The Fat burning down Mr Burn's house when he refuses to give out candy.
Burns: Let this be a lesson to those who love cash; that your nice stash of cash can be gone in a flash! To those who are wicked, nasty and cruel-
Fat: Enough with the lessons, this isnt a school! *breaks Burns neck*
The Fat in the Hat's line about being okay with going to Hell, but not okay with having Mike Myers star in a movie adaptation of his life.
Fat: I fear nothing, not even hellfires! Just don't ever let me be played by Mike Myers! *dies*
The whole segment was hilarious, really. Just the cheerful tone applied to the disturbing gruesomeness is hilarious.

B - Dead And Shoulder

Bart mixes Nappien (an Ambien knock-off introduced on the season 18 episode "Crook and Ladder" where Homer becomes a volunteer firefighter) into Lisa's yogurt. Homer sees this, assumes they're mix-ins, and eats the rest of the bottle. The pills take effect right as he walks past the open basement door.
When Bart finds out he has control of Lisa's body she's asleep, Lisa then has a dream.
Lisa: Rainbow, oh Rainbow!
Bart: (trying to get her to shut up) (grunts) Not the pony dream again.

C - Freaks, No Geeks

Selma and Bart being referred to as "The Terrifying CallBack"^note.
The sideshow freaks singing "Super Freak" as a wedding song and making it sound like a funeral dirge.
The Gainax Ending in which the whole Freaks parody is a flashback story of how Homer met Marge.

533 - "Four Regrettings and a Funeral"

Burns tries to re-unite with an old love. She dies before they can sleep together. He tries to give her CPR and she crumbles into dust.
Earlier, she vows to find a man as good as Mr. Burns is evil. His response?
Mr. Burns: No one's that good!

534 - "YOLO"

This exchange when Homer learns what the eponymous acronym means:
Kirk: You Only Live Once.
Homer: Once again, cats have it better.
At a school meeting, Mrs. Muntz complains that the school is not a good moral example for her son, and then she has a Wardrobe Malfunction in front of the other parents and the teachers.
After Homer crash-lands onto Bart after using a wingsuit, Homer says he went faster than the speed of sound. This is followed by the disembodied sound of Homer screaming, then the invisible impact of the scream landing.

535 - "Labor Pains"

Milhouse takes Lisa to a football game.
Milhouse: These are great seats. You can hear the players swearing.
Player: I'm gonna kick your ass, Milhouse.
Homer has to reassure Gretchen, the pregnant woman, while giving birth.
Homer: You know, this reminds me of that scene in Alien.
Gretchen: WHAT?
Homer: You know, that scene in the end where she and the cat escape.
There was another guy in the elevator with Homer and Gretchen and it turns out later he's an obstetrician.

536 - "The Kid Is All Right"

During the campaign between Lisa and Isabel, Otto says that he remains "middle of the road." This causes some traffic problems.
When Isabel wins, Mr. Burns celebrates with balloons falling from the ceiling. The balloons proceed to cause him physical harm and crush him, ending with a trip to the hospital.
Smithers: Can I at least remove the balloons?
EMT: Do it and you’ll kill him.

537 - "Yellow Subterfuge"

When the students are on the sub, Milhouse presses a button to launch a torpedo, only to be told it's imaginary. When we cut to Bart and Homer at the pier, we see a lighthouse exploding.
After Bart and Homer finish tricking Skinner by faking his mother's death, we get this exchange when Bart thanks Homer for his help.
Homer: Someday, I may need to fake my own death. Maybe you can help with that.
Bart: Sounds great.
Homer: And by someday, I mean soon. As in, what are you doing this Friday?
The Itchem & Scratchem Blow.
Anything with Irish Krusty.
When Lisa recomends making international versions of the show to Krusty, she shows him an Italian parody of SpongeBob SquarePants, in which SpongeBob gives Squidward a birthday present. Squidward then tries to tell him that it's a nuclear bomb, but then a seahorse sits on the button, and blows them up. This then leads to a widowed fish coming out, and crying over Squidward.
Widowed Fish: Calamari?! NOOOOOO!!!
(she continues to bawl over Squidward)
- And Krusty's opinion on it....
Krusty: Uh... it's cute stuff, but I'm still broke, girlie.

538 - "White Christmas Blues"

When asked if the Simpsons have anywhere to house strangers, this is Marge's reply.
Marge: Well, there is a rec room next to the kitchen, but sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. Our house is weird that way.
The only use for Bongo Comics = increased aspirin sales
Marge only likes the first verses of Christmas carols and holiday songs, because the other verses get too 'churchy'/preachy. Her reactions are humorous to see coming from her.

539 - "Steal This Episode"

This exchange after Bart shows Homer how to illegally download movies.
Homer: How did you know how to do that?
Bart: I'm under 30.
The Opening Crawl for Cosmic Wars Episode VII? It retcons the prequel trilogy out of existence. Everyone cheers.
Sideshow Mel: My childhood has been un-ruined!
The episode cuts to NASCAR footage when Bart shows Homer how to illegally download movies, because Fox won't allow the show to give any useful instructions.
Bart distracts the FBI agents coming to arrest Homer for his illegal movie theater by starting the film, causing all the agents to willingly blind themselves to avoid seeing a movie they hadnt paid for.
- Just the ridiculous extremes the movie industry has gone to to prevent piracy. The FBI has an entire TASK FORCE focused solely on piracy.
While the Simpsons are hiding in the Swedish embassy, the FBI tries to force them out by playing loud death metal. While it bugs the Simpsons, the Swedish ambassador loves it.
Ambassador: Oh yes, we swedes love death metal. It reminds us of death!
At the end of the episode, Homer's story is optioned to become a movie, and Homer agrees to sell it to whoever can convince Channing Tatum to gain the most weight to play him. At the end, we see a newspaper showing a story about Tatum getting gravy injections to prepare for the role.

540 - "Married to the Blob"

The Chalkboard Gag for the episode is an apology for calling Judas Priest a death metal band last episode.
A Time-Passes Montage has clocks for Earth, Vulcan, Krypton (if it lived) and Bizarro-Earth (which is going backwards).
The unexpected callbacks to Milhouse as Fallout Boy and Mr. Sparkle. Homer's reaction when he found out Mr. Sparkle is popular with suicidal people was one of the episode's saving graces.
Homer and Kumiko's father getting so drunk that he started seeing Springfield as a mash-up of movies from Studio Ghilbi. We then see the Kwik-E-Mart sprout out mechanical legs and ruin Apu's merchandise just by walking:
Apu: Oof! I'm being ruined by whimsy!
- The scene before that, where Homer moans, "Why did I drink all that fish wine?" To which Kumiko's father replies, "That was the aquarium!"
Kumiko's father telling her that she has to go back to Japan because she has several dozen elderly family members who need her to care for them.
Fans of Kyary Pamyu Pamyu thought it was hilarious that her song "PONPONPON" was used for Comic Book Guy and Kumiko's montage.
Marge tells Homer (who is relaxing in his hammock out back) to take a housewarming present to Comic Book Guy and Kumiko, and this happens:
Homer: Marge, we talked about this! The hammock is a chore-free zone.
The hammock promptly unties itself from the tree, dumping Homer to the ground.
Marge: Apparently, including tying the knots on the hammock!
The trees then fall over, exposing their roots.
Marge: And getting the termites out of the trees.
A hole in the ground suddenly opens up, and moles come streaming out of it. Marge looks at Homer, opens her mouth, and...
Homer: ...not a word.
In the scene where he tells Homer and Marge about his heartbreak, Comic Book Guy has the compulsion to note which reference he's making. When Marge tells Homer to resolve the issue, Comic Book Guy says, "I have a bad feeling about this." People familiar with the line would naturally assume that he'd then say, "Star Wars reference!" Instead, he yells, "Every action movie ever made reference!"

541 - "Specs in the City"

The entire montage of Homer using his Optic Goggles to watch videos of people getting hurt due to Optic Goggles. Of course, Homer calls them stupid as he bites into an alarm clock instead of a sandwich.
Maggie's profile on the Optic Goggles... Attempted Murderess.
Lenny tells Homer that he always thought his last name was "Simpsan", to which Homer points up to the sky to show him the show's title floating through the clouds like in the opening credits.
Lenny: I always wondered what that was.
Homer uses his Optic Goggles to see the property values of his house and Flanders' house, seeing that Flanders' property value is higher than his. Homer then steals a rose bush from Flanders' yard, which causes Homer's property value to rise, only for Santa's Little Helper to come along and pee on the Rose bush, which makes the property value become even lower than before Homer stole the rose bush.
Mr. Burns' reaction when it's revealed he's still spying on Homer — while Homer and Marge are making out.
Mr. Burns: Oh dear god.

542 - "Diggs"

The chalkboard gag is a March Madness-style bracket using Simpsons' characters.
During the montage of Bart and Diggs sending out their falcon, it snatches Homer's steak. It then returns and drops broccoli on his plate. Another part of the montage has the falcon steal Selma's bikini top at the beach. A horrified bystander then hammers into the ground a sign reading "Beach Closed Forever".
After Diggs tries to fly, we get this exchange:
Bart: Say something so I know you're not hurt.
Diggs: I'm really hurt.
Bart: Phew.

543 - "The Man Who Grew Too Much"

What convinces Lisa that the GMO video is clearly fictional? Its idea that Mayans made giant vegetable creatures? How it says Mayans are evil since a hotel in the same area has $30 valet? Nope! An endorsement by Jenny McCarthy.
The return of the Rake Gag... underwater.

544- "Winter of His Content"

One of the reasons that the retirement home closed is that the van used to pick-up wheelchair residents is faulty. Specifically, it launches the retirees across the city.
The Warriors parody.
Luther Expy: Bulliiiiies, come out to plaaaaay! Bulliiiiies, come out to PLAAAAAY!
Dolph: Oh no, he's got three bottles!
Luther Expy: Clinky clinky!

545 - "The War of Art"

In a stellar example of Freeze-Frame Bonus, the Artipidea article on Johan Oldenveldt is a goldmine of hilarity.
Johan Hendrikus Wooter Oldenveldt (6 May 1859 - 5 December 1932) was a founder of the Dutch nationalist movement, and a fierce proponent of employing plein-air landscapes to express discontent with landlords and brokers selling risky investments in Dutch whaling ships.

Oldenveldt's work is often categorized into three periods, each of which reflects strong side effects brought on by drug treatment regimens for the venereal diseases he battled. The most commonly accepted periods in his work are the Arsenic Period (1880-1891), the Sulfur Period (1892-1923), and the Mercury Period (1923-1930). The Arsenic canvases have themes of vertigo, shock, and dark urine in his many depictions of the yellow cliffs of Etretat. The frantic Sulfur Period is marked by thematic insomnia and sensitivity to light - the sun often represented as a beady-eyed, round face, resembling his landlord Mathhijs Neuhuys. The Mercury Period shows canvases filled with shadows and fog, attributed to a curious treatment he received known as "fumigation". This palliative was for syphilis, or as he called it "The Spanish Disease," tracing its origins to a night spent with a seamstress in Barcelona. During fumigation, Oldenveldt was placed in a closed box, with a bowl of mercury on the floor, and a fire beneath the box, which caused the mercury to vaporize. His most striking work of this period, "Help, the Box is Locked", sold in 2008 for $77,000 to an unnamed Japanese investor.

Contents

1 Biography
1. The House on Blitterswijck Canal
1.1.1 Near drownings
1.2 Utrecht University
1.2.1 Expungement
1.3 Landlord dispute
1.3.1 Mathhijs Neuhuys, landlord
1.3.2 Alice Neuhuys Romance
1.3.3 Non-payment of rent
1.3.4 Mathhijs Neuhuys disappearance
1.3.5 Alice Neuhuys' brutal caning of Oldenveldt
1.3.5.1
1.3.6 Oldenveldt recuperative trip to Barcelona
1.4 Disease and Death
1.4.1 Seamstress Maria Obradors
1.4.1.1 Bedroom "boundaries crossed"
1.4.2 Whole body rash
1.4.3 Treatments
1.4.4 Loss of nose
1.4.5 Death in basement
2 Life Work
2.1.1 Arsenic Period
2.1.1.1 Investment in whaling ship Spitsbergen
2.1.1.1.1 "Every guilder I own"
2.1.1.2 Pieter Spitsbergen portrait sittings
2.1.1.3 Exuberant whaling canvases
2.1.2 Sulfur Period
2.1.2.1 Wreck of the Spitsbergen
2.1.2.1.1 Drunken whale attack (ref. needed)
2.1.2.2 Burning of Pieter Spitsbergen portraits
2.1.3 Mercury Period
2.1.3.1 Landscapes
2.1.3.2 Seascapes
2.1.3.3 Fumigation box-scapes
(PICTURE BOX: Photograph of 60-year-old Oldenveldt. If you look closely, you'll see that his nose is fake)
BOX BELOW:
Johan Oldenveldt

Birth Name: Johan Hendrikus Wooter Oldenveldt
Born: 6 May, 1942, Blitterswijck, Limburg, Netherlands^note
Died: 5 December, 1904, Vroom & Dreesmann Store, delicatessen level^note So he died at -38 years old?
Resided in: Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona, V&D Store (Weesperstrat)
Movement: Dutch Naturalism and Landlord Rejectivism
The scene where the town takes sides in the Simpson-Van Houten feud by throwing rocks through the Simpsons' window. Keep in mind that the pro-Simpsons side STILL threw rocks. Cut to Bart and Lisa sorting and counting them like votes after an election.
When Homer and Lisa get leave to an island Marge told them not to go to:
Homer: Now, if your mother asks, I took you to a wine tasting event.
Lisa: That's a horrible thing for a father to do.
Homer: That's why she'll believe it.

546 - "You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee"

When Martin gives a speech about heroism on the same person as Lisa, Bart convinces her to give a speech on Homer.
Bart: Just do it about Dad.
Lisa: Every kid does that.
Bart: Kids with GOOD dads do that. With ours, it's like climbing Mount Everest.
After Lisa's speech goes viral, the Head of the WFF wants to hire Homer to counter the widespread corruption on every level. He eventually gets arrested for corruption while talking to Homer.
Marge tries to learn Portuguese on the plane. This exchange takes place with the pilots.
Pilot: Everyone thinks they can learn our language on the plane. Do you know how insulting that is?
Marge: (groans while turning off her iPad)
Pilot: OK, just for that, turbulence. (plane shakes)
This exchange when gangster's plan to bribe Homer.
Gangster 1: We have many ways to make him change his mind.
Gangster 2: What ways do we have besides guns and money?
Gangster 1: We have two ways. Two very good ways.
The soccer narrators:
Andres Cantor: In choosing Homer Simpson, the World Cup has met its goooooooooooooooooooooal!
Other narrator: Andres Cantor! You know that is incorrect usage?
Andres Cantor: I have no controoooooooooooool! This job has taken its toooooooooooooooooooll!

547 - "Luca$"

The entire Cold Open with Homer stuck in the playground equipment.

548 - "Days Of Future Future"

The montage of Homer clones dying, set to "Once in a Lifetime" by Talking Heads. Especially #4 who trips into the grave of #3.
- Homer #2 eats himself to death on potato salad almost immediatly after being brought back.
- Moe keeps trying to home in on Marge at every one of Homers funerals, which goes on for decades. Finally he gets fed up and tells her off, only to find out that the current funeral is the last one because Homer used up all his clone bodies.
- After using up all his clones, Homer lives on in computer form. At one point, Marge moves him to a flash drive to send him to Bart, and because she's mad at him, removes the drive without engaging safety mode which apparently really hurts.
Zombie Milhouse defending Lisa from muggers using Ralph as a weapon.
Skinner on a date with the mummified body of his mother.
Bart getting a T. rex to do a juggling act.
Homer getting a body resembling C-3PO in the ending and commenting on how the process has changed his personality.
Marge joining up with Homer in his computer form where they both start to play Goody Gobble and Homer swallows her completely for fun, leading to a Game Over screen.
Moe: I can't tell if that was love, suicide, o-o-or a really boring video game.

549 - "What to Expect When Bart's Expecting"

During a superhero promotion at Moe's, Barney dresses up as the Human Torch from Fantastic Four. He lights his breath on fire, which eventually burns his mouth. When paramedics arrive, Barney promptly tries to put out the flames by putting on an oxygen mask.
The reason Bart hates art class.
Bart: Every time I do art, some do-gooder teacher sends it straight to a therapist.
Milhouse: Your stuff is pretty disturbing.
Bart: I've never acted on any of it.
Shauna Chalmers^note gives Bart the idea to use voodoo to send his art teacher, Mrs. Trunch, home with a stomachache. However, the spell appears to misfire, as Mrs. Trunch announces that she is going to have a baby. The news quickly spreads...
Ralph Wiggum: [running out of the school and into the playground] Aah! Bart Simpson got a teacher pregnant!
Lisa: [to Janey, scoffing] Huh. Typical Ralph nonsense.
Milhouse: [running up to Ralph's side, gasping] Bart Simpson got a teacher pregnant!
Superintendent Chalmers: [to Shauna] Happy with your two-timing boyfriend now? [Shauna rolls her eyes and stomps out her cigarette]
Bart is summoned to Principal Skinner's office after his alleged role in Mrs. Trunch's pregnancy.
Bart: I admit, I did make a voodoo doll of Mrs. Trunch. But I just asked for a stomachache, not a baby!
Skinner: Classic wish maker's mistake: vague language.
Bart: So I did make her pregnant?
Skinner: Of course not! Doesn't work that way.
Bart: Just how do women get babies?
Skinner: I'm not allowed to discuss that with fourth graders. In fifth grade, you get every dirty detail.
Word continues to spread of Bart's voodoo pregnancy spell, and a couple who have been unsuccessfully trying to conceive ask him for help.
Bart: Maybe I can help. But it'll cost you.
Husband: How much?
Bart: Five dollars. Plus one dollar "Haw-haw" insurance.
Nelson: [riding past on his bike] Trust me: the insurance is worth it.
[...]
Caption: A few weeks later
[Bart, Milhouse, and Nelson are playing kickball in the park when the couple drive up in their car]
Nelson: [points at the couple] HAW-
Husband: No "Haw-haw"! It worked! [Nelson sighs in disappointment]
Fat Tony's prize filly, Cheesesteak.
The race horse Fat Tony wanted to impregnate his horse turns out to be gay, revealed when he dances to "It's Raining Men" by the Weather Girls.
At the end of Homer and Bart's musical number, Sudsley kicks Homer into a bunch of champagne glasses.

550 - "Brick Like Me"

Lego Flanders shielding his sons' eyes by removing their heads from their bodies.
Lego Homer goes to buy a princess set for Lego Lisa
Comic Book Guy: Ah, always good to meet a fellow AMFOP.
Homer: Wha?
Comic Book Guy: Adult Male Fan Of Princesses
Homer: It's for my daughter.
Comic Book Guy: Yes, it's always for the daughter.
After making love, we see a close-up of Lego!Homer next to Lego Marge saying that they feel really close. We then cut out to see their body parts have been scattered across the room.
This exchange. Especially with the figures in the background.
Homer: I had this crazy dream where I was in a world made of Lego bricks, and learned important lessons about parenting.
Lisa: Mmm, isn't that kind of the plot of...
Homer: NO! No, it's not. It's a new plot.
In the beginning, Homer talks about how his happiest day was taking Lego Marge's hand in marriage, only to then literally pull out her clawed hand. And then Santa's Little Helper runs into the room and runs off with the hand.
Lego Homer: That's one of my wife's pieces! She needs it to reciprocate high-fives!
There's also Maggie's introduction as a Duplo figure, thus making her comically bigger than the rest of her family. Following this is both a funny and cute twist on "playing with one's food" as Maggie makes a tiny Lego car out of the bricks used to construct her bottle before Marge scolds her.
Lego Homer: Awww, they're so cute when they're Duplo.
Following Homer's first "hallucination" and description of the flesh and blood version of himself, Lego Comic Book Guy shows that he actually has a sign marked "NO OUTSIDE REALITIES" in his store.
Homer gets distracted while driving and crashes into Lego Krusty, breaking the clown into pieces. As he helps Krusty get rebuilt, Krusty accidentally gets Mr. Teeny's short minifig legs. Mr. Teeny takes advantage of Krusty's fully moveable legs to run like hell.
Lego Krusty: Come back! I'm a clown; I can't afford to look ridiculous!
To demonstrate how no one gets hurt in this world, Homer pulls out a parking meter and chucks it at Chief Wiggum's police chopper, causing it to wreck. Of course, Wiggum, Eddie, and Lou are just fine and begin throwing the pieces in a Tupperware container marked "POLICE HELICOPTER" to rebuild it later.
Lego Bart storms in with his mech and proceeds to take out Lego Comic Book Guy's ninja and pirate minions by firing actual lions and vomiting lightsabers.
The episode kicks off with one: Homer's "It's not selling out, it's co-branding! Co-branding!"

551 - "Pay Pal"

Homer and Marge are walking home after Homer ruined a party. Marge says she wants some space, so Homer has to go to the other side of the street. It's still too close for Marge, so Homer is forced to jump from rooftop to rooftop. This works until he reaches a house still under construction.
Bart becomes suspicious of Lisa's new friend when he finds them listening to jazz records.
Bart: No one likes jazz that much. Even the guy who wrote it needed drugs.

552 - "The Yellow Badge of Cowardge"

The Couch Gag where The Simpsons and a caricature of Matt Groening are panelists at the San Diego Comic Con. When the Comic Book Guy asks when will the show have another feature-length movie, everyone except Maggie leaves.
The Olympic Hurdler who makes an unfortunate jump.
Maggie's impression of a chicken at the end is both funny and very cute.

Funny / The Simpsons Season 25

531 - "Homerland"

532 - "Treehouse of Horror XXIV"

A - Oh, The Places You'll D'oh

B - Dead And Shoulder

C - Freaks, No Geeks

533 - "Four Regrettings and a Funeral"

534 - "YOLO"

535 - "Labor Pains"

536 - "The Kid Is All Right"

537 - "Yellow Subterfuge"

538 - "White Christmas Blues"

539 - "Steal This Episode"

540 - "Married to the Blob"

541 - "Specs in the City"

542 - "Diggs"

543 - "The Man Who Grew Too Much"

544- "Winter of His Content"

545 - "The War of Art"

546 - "You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee"

547 - "Luca$"

548 - "Days Of Future Future"

549 - "What to Expect When Bart's Expecting"

550 - "Brick Like Me"

551 - "Pay Pal"

552 - "The Yellow Badge of Cowardge"

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531 - "Homerland"

532 - "Treehouse of Horror XXIV"

A - Oh, The Places You'll D'oh

B - Dead And Shoulder

C - Freaks, No Geeks

533 - "Four Regrettings and a Funeral"

534 - "YOLO"

535 - "Labor Pains"

536 - "The Kid Is All Right"

537 - "Yellow Subterfuge"

538 - "White Christmas Blues"

539 - "Steal This Episode"

540 - "Married to the Blob"

541 - "Specs in the City"

542 - "Diggs"

543 - "The Man Who Grew Too Much"

544- "Winter of His Content"

545 - "The War of Art"

546 - "You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee"

547 - "Luca$"

548 - "Days Of Future Future"

549 - "What to Expect When Bart's Expecting"

550 - "Brick Like Me"

551 - "Pay Pal"

552 - "The Yellow Badge of Cowardge"

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