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• On many forums, variations of the line "My eyes! The goggles do nothing!" are commonly used by posters to indicate they've seen something they really wish they hadn't (not too dissimilar to "do not want"). It is sometimes rendered as a C++ function:
  void the_goggles(){} // do nothing
  • Jeminy Jillickers, Radioactive Man!
• Worst. Meme. Ever. Comic Book Guy's most well-known catch phrase, "Worst. (Noun). Ever." (usually punctuated that way on the Internet) has become a meme of epic proportions. The TV show even used it as one of its episode titles (appropriately "Worst Episode EVER", though it actually refers to a cardiac episode).
• And Kent Brockman, for one, welcomes our new insect overlords. He'd like to remind them as a trusted TV personality, he can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
• Your memes are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. ^Explanation "Mountain of Madness": Homer tells his family that Mr. Burns is taking the plant on a "teamwork-building" retreat, and Bart responds with a speech about how he thinks "teamwork" and "sharing" are overrated. Homer seems to agree.
• D'OH!
  • Why You Little! (chokes Bart)
  • Why You COTTIN PICKIN...! (chokes Cletus)
  • WOO-HOO!
    • USA! USA! USA!
  • Mmm... beer...
    • Mmm... forbidden donut...
    • Mmm... sacrilicious...
    • Mmm... Something...
    • Rachael Ray borrows this one.
  • AAAAAAAH!!!
  • URGE TO KILL... RISING...
    • I'LL MACE YOU GOOD!!!
• Hi-diddily ho, neighbour-ino!
  • Shut up, Flanders!
    • Okily dokily!
• Rodd and Todd: Yay!
  • Lies make baby Jesus cry.
  • Iron helps us play!
• EAT MY SHORTS!
  • Don't have a cow, man!
  • Aye carumba!
  • Strangely enough, Bart only said "Cowabunga!" twice in the entire series, yet that phrase is still associated with him.
• Hot Diggity!
• "DENTAL PLAN!" "Lisa needs braces!" ^Explanation "Last Exit to Springfield": Homer plays back Lenny's "So long, dental plan!" cheer, along with Marge's warning that Lisa needs braces, over and over in his head until he realizes that if Burns takes away his dental plan, he'll have to front the money for an expensive (and hideously ugly) set of braces to fix Lisa's teeth.
  • On the note of overly long gags, Sideshow Bob's rake scene in "Cape Feare". *WHACK* Buhhhuuhhuhuhuh...
    • "Rakes... my other mortal enemy."
• Talking out of turn? That's a paddlin'. Looking out the window? That's a paddlin'. Posting memes on the internet? That's a paddlin'. Making "That's a paddlin'" an internet meme? Oh, you'd better believe that's a paddlin'. ^Explanation Episode 2F19, "The PTA Disbands": Jasper becomes a substitute teacher at Bart and Lisa's school, and decides to lay down the law in his own way.
  • You shot who in the what now? ^Explanation Episode 2F20, "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part 2)": Jasper doesn't realize Smithers had recently shot him in his wooden leg.
• Won't somebody PLEASE think of the CHILDREN!?
  • And remember to think of the bisexuals. They think of you. Naked.
• You don't win friends with sa-lad! You don't win friends with sa-lad! You don't win friends with sa-lad!
  • Yeah, right, Lisa. A wonderful, magical animal!
• "Can't sleep... clowns will eat me..." Glam rocker Alice Cooper actually turned this into one of his songs.
• Feels like I'm wearing nothing at all! Nothing at all! Nothing at all! Nothing at all!
  • Stupid Sexy Flanders!
• That's sweet. I hate sweet! I need photos, photos of Spider Man!
  • This is a poetry journal.
    • Okay then, poems about Spider-Man, and I want them finished before you start, and before you finish, get me some coffee. And the poems should have the following rhyme scheme, a, b, b, a, a, b, b, a, c, d, e, c, d, e. What are you waiting for, Chinese New Year?
• Ralph fail English? That's unpossible.
  • Fun toys are fun!
    • I bent my wookiee...
  • That's where I met the leprechaun who tells me to burn things.
  • "I like men now!"
  • So... do you like... stuff?
  • Sleep! That's where I'm a Viking!
  • My cat's breath smells like cat food.
  • He's gonna smell like hot dog!
  • Tastes... like... burning.
• Now my good man, what do you like to play?
  • Pokemon.
  • POKEYMAN? Pokeyman, with the pokey and the man and the thing where the guy comes out of the thing and he wants to *random gibberish* AH AH AH!
    • I thought the show was called "Kids Say the Darndest Things", not "Old Black Comedians Never Shut the Hell Up."
• Go banana!
• trom-BONER!?
• Milhouse is not a meme.
  • "Milhouse is not a meme" is a meme.
  • "'Milhouse is not a meme' is a meme" is not a me-AARGH
    • "''Milhouse is not a meme' is a meme' is not a meme" is a meme.
    • "Shut up! Nobody memes Milhouse!"
  • Dondolinger is a meme, however.
• Groin-grabbingly memetic.
• "Hi, I'm Troy McClure! You may remember me from such videos as Tropey Potter And The Alchemic Troper and Tropey Learns About Bad Touching!"
• *DING* Thank you, come again!
  • Thank you, steal again...
    • Silly customer, you can't hurt a Twinkey!
• Mmmmm.... 64 pointless memes....
• "Old Man Yells At Cloud"◊
  • "...I had an onion on my belt, because that was the style at the time..." Explanation
    Grandpa's Rambling Old Man Monologue from "Last Exit"
• Inanimate Carbon Rod pwns all!^explanation At the end of "Deep Space Homer", when Homer comes back from his voyage in space, he gets passed up for "Time Magazine Man of the Year" by a carbon rod that he accidentally used to seal the door shut during the shuttle's almost-crash landing.
• Memes make baby Jesus cry.
  • But I don't even believe in Jebus!
    • Save me, Jebus!
• Homer's big "FFFFFFUUU-" in "Who Shot Mr. Burns".
• HA HA!
• "He'll find my scorpion farm! Now where will my scorpions live?"
• Do you come with the meme?
  • Hahahaha. Oh, you.
    • Do you come with the meme?
    • Hahahaha. Oh, you. ^Explanation: In "Mr. Plow", Homer sees a hot woman showing off a brand new car, and asks if she comes with it. Shortly after he leaves, another man asks the very same question.
• "HI, EVERYBODY!"
  • "Hi, Dr. Nick!"
  • "Well, if it isn't my old pal, Mr. McGregg. With a leg for an arm and an arm for a leg!"
  • "Inflammable means flammable? What a country!"
• Bonjouurrrrrrrrrr, ya Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys!
  • SHHH! You Wanna Get Sued?? Explanation
    "Treehouse V": Willie tries to warn Bart not to "correct" him about his powers of "shinning".
• Two plus two is four. Two plus two is four. Two plus two is four...^Explanation Homer is mildly amused by the antics of a certain kid-friendly singing dinosaur.
• Ow, my eye! I'm not supposed to get memes in it!
• Excellent... *evil smirk*
  • Release the hounds.
    • Release the flying monkeys!
    • Do my worst, eh? Smithers, release the robotic Richard Simmons. ^Explanation From a deleted scene from the episode "Burns' Heir", featured on "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular". In the original, Burns simply walks away and locks the door behind him.
    • HIS ASS IS GONNA BLOW!
  • Smithers, who is that man surfing TV Tropes and posting internet memes?!
    • That's Homer Simpson, sir, one of your tropers from Sector 7-G.
    • Simpson, eh?
  • One dollar for eternal happiness? I'd be happier with the dollar.
• SKIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNER!
  • *Gasp* Superintendent Chalmers!
    • Hi, Super Nintendo Chalmers. :) ^Explanation "Lisa Gets an 'A'" - Ralph greets the school superintendent the only way he can. "I'm learnding!"
  • SEYMOUR!
    • Mother...
• Maggie Simpson: *pacifier suck*
• Hans Moleman Productions presents: Man Getting Hit By Football
  • And now for the heavy metal remix! Thanks, Napalm Death!
  • No one's gay for Moleman...
• From the movie: Spider-Pig.
  • Spider-pig, spider-pig, doing what a spider-pig does~
    • He's not Spider-Pig anymore, he's Harry Plopper.
• Bed goes up, bed goes down. Bed goes up, bed goes down. Bed goes up, bed goes down...
  • Cloud goes up, cloud goes down. Cloud goes up, cloud goes down. Cloud goes up, cloud goes down...
  • Knife goes in, guts come out. Knife goes in, guts come out. Knife goes in, guts come out...
• Freaks! Freaks! Let us go, we'll give you gold!
• Uh... no, Peg.
  • *toilet flush*
    • *laugh track*
• Smithers, are they booing me?
  • Uh, no, they're saying "Boo-urns! Boo-urns!"
    • I was saying "Boo-urns"...^Explanation Episode "A Star is Burns": When Mr. Burns views his self-indulgent short film for Jay Sherman's film festival, nearly everyone in the viewing audience boos it, despite Smithers' insistence that they're actually saying "Boo-urns". Hans Moleman, however, was saying, "Boo-urns".
• A Wizard Did It!^Explanation "Treehouse of Horror X" - When Prof. Frink points out continuity errors in Xena: Warrior Princess, Lucy Lawless (dressed in her Xena costume) responds by telling him "A wizard did it".
  • Aw, for glavin out loud...
• These are all perfectly cromulent memes.
  • I've embiggened this page!
• Shut up, Updike!
• Ohhhhh! The Zoning Disk is warped!
• BUY ME BONESTORM OR GO TO HELL!!^Explanation "Marge Be Not Proud" - a line from the commercial for the ultra-violent video game Bonestorm.
  • WELCOME THRILLHO^Explanation same episode - Milhouse's entry on the "Enter Your Name" screen is just a few letters short (he wanted "THRILLHOUSE").
• "Hey, Moe, that team sure did suck last night. I mean they just plain sucked! I've seen teams suck before, but they were the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked!"^Explanation "Team Homer" - Homer lets off a little post-game trash talk after beating Rev. Lovejoy's "Holy Rollers" team at bowling.
  • "Homer! Watch your mouth!"
• "Did you ever notice how men always leave the toilet seat up?"........ That's the joke!
  • You suck, McBain!
  • I'm a neurotic nerd who likes to sleep with little girls.
  • Yo, that really sucks!
• I can't avenge my partner's death with all these tropes lying around.
  • I don't want to hear it, McBain. In this site, we post tropes.
  • *BOOM* Bye tropes!
• "BART, YOU WANT SOME BROWNIES BEFORE YOU GO TO BED?!"
  • "BART, DO YOU WANNA CHECK OUT MY NEW CHAINSAW AND HOCKEY MASK?!"^Explanation "Camp Feare": While on the run from Sideshow Bob, Homer twice scares Bart by barging into his room and screaming at him while wearing a hockey mask and brandishing weapons.
• Marge: "Hmmmmmm..."
• Monorail! Monorail! Monorail!!!! ....Mono-d'oh!
  • It's not Batman!
  • I call the big one "Bitey."
• I heartily endorse this fad and/or meme.
• You can run, but you can't GLIDE!!
• It's just a little airborne! It's still good! It's still good!
• Take this object. But beware, it carries a terrible curse.
  • Ooh, that's bad.
    • But it comes with a free frogurt!
    • That's good!
    • The frogurt is also cursed.
    • That's bad.
    • But you get your choice of topping!
    • That's good!
    • The toppings contain potassium benzoate.
    • ...
    • That's bad.
    • Can I go now? ^explanation An exchange from the first story in "Treehouse of Horror III", when Homer purchases a Krusty the Clown doll from a mysterious shopkeeper for Bart to play with.
• I see the light! IT BUUUUUUURNS!
• Elmo knows where you live!
• You, sir, are an idiot.
• How could everyone forget "If I don't save the wee turtles, who will? ... AAAAA! Save me from the wee turtles!"
• YOU'RE NOT THE TIME, KENT! YOU'RE NOT THE TIME!
  • I can't see through METAL, KENT! ^Explanation Both quotes from Arnie Pie in "Children of a Lesser Clod", yelling at Kent Brockman.
• Quiet, you. explanation
  A quote used by Mr. Peabody in the second part of the "Treehouse of Horror V" episode, usually to tell Sherman to shut up.
• IT STINKS! IT STINKS! IT STINKS! IT STINKS! IT STINKS! IT STINKS!
  • Yes, Mister Sherman, everything stinks.
• In the den? May God have mercy on us all.
• Whaddaya mean the bank is outta money?!
  • Skinner said that the memes will crack any minute. Purple Monkey Dishwasher.
• Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart? I doooooooooo...
• "Oh, I get it! I get jokes." explanation
  Episode: "The Last Temptation of Krust". Lisa and Homer are watching a Steven Wright Stand-Up Comedy
  routine where Wright says "I finally got around to reading the dictionary. Turns out the zebra did it." Homer doesn't understand what's so funny about it, so Lisa tells him that "zebra" is just a word at the end of the dictionary. Still confused, Lisa then tells Homer that Wright was just telling a joke, prompting Homer to say the quote.]]
• NOBODY PARTIES ON WILLIE'S YARD!
• There's nary an animal alive that can outrun a greased Scotsman.
  • There's nothin there except what the Good Lord gave me.
• "I wash mah-self with a raaaag on a stick."
• ...but not Milhouse and he never will be.
• Hello, my name is Mr. Troper, I believe you have a letter for me.
  • Okay, Mr Troper, what's your first name?
  • I don't know.
• Argh... I won't make it, partner. Just do one thing for me... get Troper Mendoza.
  • MENDOZA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Bart naked! Explanation
  More done for shock value than anything.
• We have searched every square inch of this base, and all we have found is porno, porno, PORNO! ^Explanation Episode "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming": Col. Hapablap explaining that the search for Sideshow Bob (who has stolen a bomb) on the air force base has proven fruitless. Made a million times funnier by R. Lee Ermey's delivery.
• Bombardment!
• What did ye say about me mother!?
• And if you need Lisa, she'll be in her room.
  • What kind of stupid catch phrase is that?
• I have this friend named... Joey Jojo... Junior... Shabadoo?
  • That's the stupidest name I've ever heard.
  • Hey! Joey Jojo!
• Let's all go out for Frosty Chocolate Milkshakes!
• Oh, and by the way, I was BEING SARCASTIC!^Explanation Episode "Flaming Moe's": When Moe makes a fortune after stealing Homer's new cocktail recipe, Marge tries to console Homer by letting him know that his drink is making so many people happy, but he isn't all that impressed. "Ooh, look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane!"
  • Well, duh!
• Why does everything I whip leave me?
• I am so smart! S-M-R-T! I mean S-M-A-R-T!
• There was an X and I wasn't informed? You go now.
• I can't promise that I'll try, but I'll try to try.
• "And now a word from our new sponsor... PERCODAN?!? AW CRAP!!!"
• Dad, what are you doing down there?
  • Washing my fat guy hat, honey!
• Now let's all get drunk and play ping-pong!
• OK, memorize these funny place names: Walla Walla. Keokuk. Cucamonga. Seattle.
  • Ahaha "Seattle" that's stupid oh Lord make it stop ahahahaha!!
• I know you can read my posts, Troper. Just a little reminder: if I found out you cut class, your ass is mine. Yes, you heard me. I think words I would never say.
  • I know you can read my posts, Troper. Meow Meow Meow Meow Meow Meow Meow Meow Meow Meow Meow Meow Meow Meow Meow Meow Meow.
• Le Grille? What the hell is that?!
  • Why must life be so hard?! Why must I fail at every attempt at masonry?!
  • Yeah. That's one fine looking barbeque pit.
    • WHY DOESN'T MINE LOOK LIKE THAT?!
  • His scream when he rams a sunshade in it.^Explanation All from the episode "Mom and Pop Art", when Homer tries to build a barbecue grill without using the instructions.
• Nobody likes Milhouse!
• All right, brain. It's all up to you. If you don't think of what it is, we'll lose Marge forever.
  • Eat the pudding... Eat the pudding... Eat the pudding... Eat the pudding... Eat the pudding... Eat the pudding... Eat the pudding... Eat the pudding...
    • Well, alright. But then we gotta get to work.
• Will you take us to Mt. Splashmore?
  • No.
    • Will you take us to Mt. Splashmore?
    • No.
    • Will you take us to Mt. Splashmore?
    • No.
    • Will you take us to Mt. Splashmore?
    • No.*
      He does
• *laughs* It's funny cause it's true!
• CAN WE HAVE A POOL, DAD? CAN WE HAVE A POOL, DAD? CAN WE HAVE A POOL, DAD? CAN WE HAVE A POOL, DAD? CAN WE HAVE A POOL, DAD?
• Mayor Quimby even released Sideshow Bob -- a man twice convicted of attempted murder. Can YOU trust a man like Mayor Quimby? Vote Sideshow Bob for mayor.
• In Treehouse of Horror IV, Hans Moleman getting his AMC Gremlin rammed of the road by Otto ("Oh no, I just made my last payment") and is about to crash into a tree. Luckily he stops a few inches from the tree, but the car still explodes for no reason.
• NOW HOW 'BOUT A HUG?! Explanation
  Season 4's Brother from another planet: Homer forgets to pick up Bart. While in the car, Homer tries to make up, but Bart makes an Imagine Spot of Homer's face melting a la Raiders of the Lost Ark quoting said line. One of the most creepy scenes in the show.
  • Pick up Bart, Pick up Bart.
    • Pick a bar? What's a pick a bar?
• Trab pu kcip, Trab pu kicp Explanation
  Frome the same episode, Bart tries telepathy on Milhouse to convince someone to pick him up. Cue Milhouse writing "Pick up Bart" backwards on the wall remiscent of The Shining
• AAAH, I CHOPP-AH YOU GOOD!! Explanation
  The episode "Guess Who's Coming To Critize Dinner?". Homer is working a food critic, but his boss tells him he always gives compliments and no criticism at all. Homer takes it too seriously and insults nearly everyone. At Luigi's restaurant, Homer sarcastically calls lasagna the Italian word for vomit, causing one of Luigi's chefs to burst out of the kitchen, screaming said quote while only cutting off Homer's two hairs.
• MISUTAA SUPAAKORU! ^Explanation In "In Marge We Trust", Mr. Sparkle was a Japanese dishwashing detergent mascot that looked suspiciously like Homer Simpson.
• I don't need safety gloves, because I'm Homer Simp-Explanation
  Frank Grimes' last words.
• Skinner throwing a Big "NO!" four times. The first one in season 4's Duffless (in slow-motion no less) when Bart throws a giant tomato towards him. And the second time in season 6's Bart's comet where he even manages to do three BigNo's in a row.
• Ah, Mr. Snookums I love you so... (beat) WHADDA YOU LOOKIN AT?! Explanation
  Season 9's Simpson Tide. Moe thinks about the good times with his cat, only for Imaginary Moe to shout at Moe himself and the audience.
• KWYJIBO: A dumb, fat, balding North American ape with no chin. (And a short temper!) ^Explanation Bart tries to cheat at Scrabble in "Bart the Genius"
• No TV and no beer make Homer something something.
  • Go crazy?
    • DON'T MIND IF I DO!!!
• Nobody out-crazies Ophelia!
• "Have The Rolling Stones killed." Explanation
  Mr. Burns objects to an insulting performance by The Ramones. Used any time a band other than the Rolling Stones disappoints the speaker.
• I'm a singin' hobo, not a stabbin' hobo...
  • Nothing beats the hobo life, stabbin' folks with with my hobo kniiiiife
• Will you be donating that money now sir? No, I'd still rather not.
• I've made my choice!
• Bart has stolen the elderly!
• "Mapple" and "MyPod" (used in an ironic sense)
• Tropers, I have some bad news about Lenny...
  • Oh no, NOT LENNY!
• A .gif file of Homer slowly backing into his hedge (from "Homer Loves Flanders") has become a popular reaction image for "no, just... no" or "oh god what" moments.
• Ahhh! Sideshow Bob!
• "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times?!" ^Explanation "Last Exit to Springfield": Mr. Burns shows Homer a room full of monkeys on typewriters, and one of them botches the opening line to A Tale of Two Cities. As such, "blurst" is sometimes used as a humorous substitute to the word "worst".