The Simpsons Season 26 / Funny

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553 - "Clown in the Dumps"

Sideshow Mel meets Sideshow Bob.
Mel: (clearly drunk) So! This is the Bob whose comedic genius I can never live up to! (motions to Krusty) Believe me, all of us have thought about killing him.
When Krusty is passed out from binge drinking, the EMT says he has no pulse. When Krusty re-awakens having had his epiphany, the EMT still can't find a pulse.
The couch gag by Don Hertzfeldt (being a Don Hertzfeldt production, it's also featured on the Nightmare Fuel and Tear Jerker pages, go figure).
Krusty dreaming about meeting his father in Jewish Heaven, only to be told by him that Jews don't believe in Heaven.
Homer preparing to strangle Bart by shouting "Why you little!?" only for him to smush Bart against his belly fat instead.

554 - "The Wreck of the Relationship"

The montage of Homer's troubles at sea, especially his troubles with the hammock.
Bart and Homer arguing about eating the broccoli.
Martin beating up Nelson.
Homer freaks out because he catches Bart and Milhouse watching a rather racy trailer for an R-rated movie. When he states that he thought they had parental blocks set on all their computers, Homer is told by Bart that he has no idea what they block. We then cut to Marge attempting to look up where she can get a mammogram appointment, only to get blocked.
When Bart begins to sail the Relation Ship back to safety, Homer is at one point seen cheerfully swabbing the deck. A wave washes him off the ship. Another wave brings him back, still smiling and swabbing the deck as if nothing's happened.

555 - "Super Franchise Me"

Marge hires Gil, who gives out flyers for her sandwich shop and a local strip club.
Carl: Are you working two jobs, Gil?
Gil: I resent that accusation. (reveals an advertisement for local condos) Is that pointing west?
Homer's failed substitute for a drone delivery system.
The fake injury and lawsuit the family stages with Homer claiming to be a model.
Lisa: One Jumbo Joe to go. (Bart spills coffee on Homer's crotch)
Marge: First Aid Kit.
Lisa: One Florence Nightengale in a box to go.
Bart: (Trips and throws scalpels into Homer's crotch) I got this. (bashes Homer with fire extinguisher)
The ending where a caveman resembling Homer uses two saber-toothed squirrels to sandwich a slice of ground sloth meat...and promptly walks into a tar pit.
The scene where Marge is looking over the cost of buying supplies from the franchise she's running:
Marge: Mother Hubbard central expects you to buy a lot of stuff from them! Uniforms, fixings... it's like they don't care if you make money, as long as THEY make money! What kind of corporation does that?
[A giant blue FOX logo appears at the bottom right of the screen, accompanied by the first three notes of the 20th Century Fox fanfare]
Grandpa giving a sandwich to a pigeon sitting on a trashcan because he thinks there's a drive-thru after Bart gets him to cover for him.
Grandpa: No, thank coo!

556 - "Treehouse of Horror XXV"

A - School Is Hell

When Lisa goes to Hell, she impresses the local mean girls who asks her to join their group. It immediately starts snowing.
Bart becomes a model student in Hell, begging to be allowed to continue attending.
One of the books is But I'm Not Dead Yet.
Bart's exam is to torture his own father, Homer is actually okay with it as he says: like Jesus, his son went to hell and came back victorious.

B - A Clockwork Yellow

The entire parody, especially when the home invasion turns into Eyes Wide Shut.
- All the Stanley Kubrick references at the party. Moe finds Private Pyle in the bathroom, Homer has an epiphany with a bone club and Comic Book Guy is dressed as Barry Lyndon.
CBG: Even I forget what this is a reference to!
- Mr Burns claims that the Eyes Wide Shut party is a book release party.
- Mr Burns wears Smithers's bird mask... on his crotch.
- When Nelson and the bullies pull a home invasion on Moe, they smash a statue of the Shmoo (a wildly popular character from Lil' Abner) over Moe's head. A sign over it says "what your great grandpa thought was hip").
Moe: Not my Shmoo! NOT MY SHMOO!!

C - The Others

Very dark, but Willie dragging the kids bodies away to make stew, followed by this question.
Lisa: Wait a minute, how did Maggie die? (Willie gets shifty-eyed and then runs faster)
At the end of the segment, Lisa questions if there are two versions of the Simpsons, why couldn't there be others? Cue a claymation Simpsons, anime Simpsons^note and Simpson parodies of Adventure Time, South Park, Archer, and Despicable Me's minions. Even better, she mentioned something about marketing agents coming up with new versions, and their Lego versions show up in the background.

557 - "Opposites A-frack"

Patty and Selma stay with the Simpsons, but Homer gets Marge to agree to throw them out if they smoke. Homer says he trusts them. We then see the house installed with hundreds of smoke detectors.
- Patty and Selma try smoking outside, only to get hit with rain. This makes their dresses see through, much to Homer's horror.
- ...which causes Homer's pupils to shatter and be swept away by a man inside his head.
The documentary against fracking has a man igniting his water. His wife asks him if he turned off the Slip-N-Slide. We then hear an explosion and a child screaming.
Husband: Evidently not.

558 - "Simpsorama"

Milhouse decides to put his rabbit foot in the time capsule. As soon as he does, his pants fall down, and as he tries to pull them back up, the capsule's lid falls on his nose. Made even better by his line before it:
Milhouse: I can have good luck without it.
After the above moment, Nelson says he wishes this moment could be in the time capsule. Cue the screen zooming out to reveal the scene was a recording being done live. Chalmers takes the tape out and puts it in the capsule.
Bender claiming the three laws of robotics are crap, claiming to have killed Isaac Asimov before arriving.
Bender: Or Isaac somebody.
Homer's reaction to one of Bender's catchphrases when they're both sleeping.
Bender: Kill all humans. Kill all humans.
Homer: Start with Flanders.
The caption during the opening: "A show out of ideas teams up with a show out of episodes."
After Leela, Lisa, Zoidberg, Amy, and Hermes cheer due to the fact that they ditch millions of Bart-like mutants, Bart says "You realize you're cheering the death of millions of my children." Cue to them cheering harder while this displeases Bart.
Homer dispassionately killing the Bart mutants by breaking their necks in the same way that he strangles Bart, complete with a bored rendition of his catchphrase for each kill.
- He would later grab the real Bart by mistake.
  Bart: Dad, it's me!
  Homer: Prove it. When's your birthday?
  Bart: February 23rd.
  Homer: HA! February had no 23rd! (strangles Bart)
  Marge: Yes, it does! (separates them)
As Farnsworth is praying to nobody because he's an atheist, there's a Funny Background Event where Nibbler eats a Bart-like mutant. He craps it right back out, but the crap forms back into the mutant, which bites his ass.

559 - "Blazed and Confused"

Willie decides to ruin Skinner's lunch. He rubs the apple on his butt and armpit, then decides to lick it.
Willie: AH! Wrong order!
Mr. Lassen gets fired, after which he takes a job as a guard in Springfield Penitentiary. Who does he meet? Sideshow Bob.
Lassen: I could let you out. We could take of him (Bart) together.
Bob: Who gets to gut him?
Lassen: I assumed we'd take turns.
Bob: No deal.

560 - "Covercraft"

When Homer fist plays his bass, it sends reverberations throughout the house. Bart and Milhouse are playing Jenga and Milhouse had just put a brick on top. When the reverberations stop, the bookshelf falls on Milhouse.
Homer has a vision of the lords of rock, including John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Sammy Hagar. When Homer points out that Hagar isn't dead yet, we see someone heimliching him to revive him.
Homer denies being jealous about Apu's success, insisting he's envious. He then goes on to explain the subtle difference between the two words. Lisa confirms his explanation after looking in the dictionary.
Homer has high hopes for his band after Apu leaves.
Homer: We'll be like Genesis after Peter Gabriel left.
Bart: Make more money but not be as good?

561 - "I Won't Be Home for Christmas"

Hans Moleman receives a card saying his tests came back positive for a Merry Christmas! A second note then says his tests were positive and he needs treatment.
Bart's flashback to Christmas Eve when he was 8.

562 - "The Man Who Came to Be Dinner"

The kids keep asking "Are We There Yet?" until they fall asleep, only to use an MP3 to continue asking.
The entire parody of Disneyland, with the politically correct Pirates of the Caribbean ride and the ride that launches people into space.
Marge: I don't like the ending yells on that ride.
Riding on the Bug, riding on the Bug, you'd rather be in school than riding on the bug...
- Don't get off the Bug, don't get off the Bug, certain death awaits if you get off the bug...

563 - "Bart's New Friend"

Homer's flashback to visiting the circus as a child
Lisa convinces Homer to get hypnotized by telling him it would make him more efficient
Bart: Is that true?
Lisa: No. I just wanted to see him cluck like a chicken.
The final scene where Sven Golly tricks Chief Wiggum into thinking he is the prisoner and Sven is the police chief, allowing him to escape custody.

564 - "The Musk Who Fell from Earth"

After an eagle gets into the house, Homer tries to trap it in a trash bag. He asks Bart to close the bag, which he does. Unfortunately, it traps Homer in the bag with the eagle.

565 - "Walking Big and Tall"

Pharrell Williams offers a variant of "Happy" for a new town anthem. He gets tied up, put on the back of the horse and banished.
Homer gets stuck in his theater seats and proceeds to destroy the building.
The callbacks to "Stark Raving Dad", complete with Bart pointing out how in hindsight it was pretty careless of his parents to let a crazy man spend the night with him.
In a moment of Black Comedy, Albert apparently being so fat that he needed a crapload of urns and a giant bag to hold his cremated ashes. Adding to that, Homer’s horrified reaction upon learning that he was only 23 when he died.
Homer: People, for God’s sake, join a gym!

566 - "My Fare Lady"

The montage of Marge driving the kids around, especially when Marge is following the cop car in a high speed chase because all three of them have kids in the same gym class.
The parody of the opening to The Jetsons in the beginning of the episode.
When Chief Wiggum offers to buy coffee, Snake insists that he'll cover it by saying "No, I insist. I'm stealing."
Moe states that as far as he's concerned, Homer, Lenny, and Carl are just mouths waiting for beers. We then see his three patrons as giant mouths with arms and legs who call offense to Moe's claim, and then we see that they see Moe as a beer with a rubber nipple on it like a baby bottle.
After Moe relaxes with a drink at the end of the episode, the smile on the mirror comes to life and tells him he's not alone. When Moe asks who said that, the smile replies that he'll find out soon enough and then laughs evilly.
Moe telling Burns that he had the choice between cleaning his bar or trick the health inspector and he never cleans anything. Burns hired him as a janitor.

567 - "The Princess Guide"

Due to being bankrupted by Elon Musk, Mr. Burns had to replace his hounds with teacup poodles.
When Moe and Kemi are avoiding Homer, they try to flee in a pedicab.
Moe: Can you get rid of him?
Driver: As long as he can run, he can keep up with us.
Homer: D'OH!

568 - "Sky Police"

Apu's reason for helping the church: he needs the church to convince people not to steal...from him; or take a life...his.
The Lovejoy's role-playing after getting their new costumes.
- The CMOF for that scene was Helen of all people asking for the "other woman" (Marge) to join in!
When Chief Wiggum gives his excuse to Eddie and Lou about why he can't join them, Eddie starts to aim his rifle at Wiggum before being stopped by Lou.
The Church's insurance cover everything except act of God, which is a problem when everything is perceived as an act of God as far as Lovejoy is concerned.
Chief Wiggum's Sky Police fantasies.
In a hilarious Brick Joke, Apu mentions a god that resembles a monkey and thinks the sun is a tangerine. At the end of the episode, said god appears and eats the sun as it becomes a tangerine and gives Homer a thumbs up.

569 - "Waiting For Duffman"

This exchange during the bike race.
Bart: Lisa, you're riding the girliest bike in the world. (Milhouse rides a bike with a unicorn head) Oh, I stand corrected.
In a case of Black Comedy, Bart and Lisa keep messing around with t-shirt cannons, prompting Marge to advice them to be careful with them. Homer comes and asks her when t-shirt cannons have killed anybody. Cue a flying t-shirt being shot over at Flanders' House, where it breaks through the window and breaks a photo of Maude (the person killed by a t-shirt cannon), with Flanders staring at the audience for a bit.
Three bikers attack Moleman for riding a scooter in the race, only for karma to respond by having them get hit by a train.

570 - "Peeping Mom"

At the dinner table, Marge says she thinks one of them is hiding something. When she specifies Bart, we see Maggie and Grandpa hiding food and Homer hiding a Quran.
Bart's statement about the "bulldozer incident."
Bart: How can I tell you something I know nothing about. I'm not cable news.
Lisa offers to give Santa's Little Helper a bath or play him some jazz. He chooses the bath.
Marge's car wouldn't start, because Homer threw the carburetor at a skunk.
Bart skates by the characters from the opening, but then we see what happens afterwards.
Moe: OK, he's gone by again. Let's head inside.
Bart's Imagine Spot of how Marge will react to his sign prank.
Marge: I've failed as a mother!
(turns to dust...but her arms remain solid, so that they sweep up the dust into a trash bin; the arms then turn to dust and fall into the bin)

571 - "The Kids Are All Fight"

Lisa writes the chalkboard gag as Bart watches. The phrase is "I will not pay my sister to do my punishment."
The Simpsons using vague terms to describe both the political and cultural atmosphere of "six years ago".
Marge's nightmare:
Marge: I dreamed I lost one of the kids at the world's fair.
Homer: Honey, it's OK. Which one?
Marge: Brisbane '88.
Homer: AHH! I'm so sorry.
Homer strangling Bart ends up with toddler Bart smashing a vase over Homer's head.
Homer: Where is he learning all this violence?
The trust exercise:
Homer: You can't kick us out. We still have forty minutes left.
Psychologist: How about a trust exercise? Please close your eyes.
(Homer and Marge do so, and the psychologist is gone after they open them.)
Homer's idea for sexual roleplay is him being a seagull and Marge being a boardwalk trashcan, and Marge is into this.
Ned and Maud alone at The Gilded Truffle:
Ned: Well, isn't this a great chance to drink more water.
Maud: My bladder's going to burst!
Ned: Now I know you've had a few too many waters but that is no reason for the sailor talk!
(Maud gives an unimpressed look.)
Bart and Lisa encounter some strangers on their trip, Bart decides to "go where it's safe": the road! He dodges some cars before allowing himself to be pushed along by one, even asking for the driver to go faster (which they actually oblige.) This then leads to:
Ralph: Your brother is stupid! Bye bye!
(He then climbs inside a wheel of a truck which then starts to move.)
Ralph: (singing) The wheel I'm inside goes round and round, round and round, round and round...
(The truck drives onto a container ship, which also promptly sets off.)
Ralph: (still singing) The boat I'm aboard goes up and down, up and down, up and down...
Marge calls a psychic, and the person who answers is Selma, because:
Selma: I'm filling in for a friend. She got hit by a car, never saw it coming!
Lisa asks Milhouse for help finding their way and he goes to tell his dad:
Milhouse: Dad! Dad! Dad! Cartoons...
Kirk: Milhouse, keep it down, I've gotta finish these tax returns! Ooh, cartoons.
Bart and Lisa are being menaced by a "big dog". Said dog is a chihuahua.

572 - "Let's Go Fly a Coot"

Homer's attempt to ruin fancy birthday parties get his kids blacklisted, leading to some great lines.
Marge: Kids, I'm afraid this was your last birthday. You'll have to get used to being the same age for the rest of your lives.
- Homer then learns he can fix his mess, if he throws a great party for Rod Flanders.
Homer: How important are your birthdays?
Bart: How important is sleeping in on Saturday? (grabs pots and pans)
Homer agrees to visit one of Grandpa's air force buddies.
Captain: Homer, you're late! In the air force, if we were late, people died! If we were on time, other people died. The RIGHT people.

573 - "Bull-E"

When Marge reveals that the world's filthiest word is "bully", everyone is disappointed.
Moe: You know, I thought you were gonna say—(bleeped for about six seconds).
Otto having an acid trip where he kills the cast of The Magic School Bus.
- Earlier on in the episode when he has an acid trip cued after Principal Skinner says 'School Train'. He ends up crashing into an expy of Thomas the Tank Engine. Bonus points for the expy having a dead-on perfect imitation of Ringo Starr's voice
Thomas: I'm going to die, children. And so will you some day!

574 - "Mathlete's Feat"

The Rick and Morty couch gag.
Bart: No more guest animators, man!
Nelson taking a cab, across city, just to punch Database just for wearing a mathlete t-shirt.
A teen asking if Willie's hat can sort him into a college.

Funny / The Simpsons Season 26

553 - "Clown in the Dumps"

554 - "The Wreck of the Relationship"

555 - "Super Franchise Me"

556 - "Treehouse of Horror XXV"

A - School Is Hell

B - A Clockwork Yellow

C - The Others

557 - "Opposites A-frack"

558 - "Simpsorama"

559 - "Blazed and Confused"

560 - "Covercraft"

561 - "I Won't Be Home for Christmas"

562 - "The Man Who Came to Be Dinner"

563 - "Bart's New Friend"

564 - "The Musk Who Fell from Earth"

565 - "Walking Big and Tall"

566 - "My Fare Lady"

567 - "The Princess Guide"

568 - "Sky Police"

569 - "Waiting For Duffman"

570 - "Peeping Mom"

571 - "The Kids Are All Fight"

572 - "Let's Go Fly a Coot"

573 - "Bull-E"

574 - "Mathlete's Feat"

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553 - "Clown in the Dumps"

554 - "The Wreck of the Relationship"

555 - "Super Franchise Me"

556 - "Treehouse of Horror XXV"

A - School Is Hell

B - A Clockwork Yellow

C - The Others

557 - "Opposites A-frack"

558 - "Simpsorama"

559 - "Blazed and Confused"

560 - "Covercraft"

561 - "I Won't Be Home for Christmas"

562 - "The Man Who Came to Be Dinner"

563 - "Bart's New Friend"

564 - "The Musk Who Fell from Earth"

565 - "Walking Big and Tall"

566 - "My Fare Lady"

567 - "The Princess Guide"

568 - "Sky Police"

569 - "Waiting For Duffman"

570 - "Peeping Mom"

571 - "The Kids Are All Fight"

572 - "Let's Go Fly a Coot"

573 - "Bull-E"

574 - "Mathlete's Feat"

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