Funny / The Simpsons Season 33

The Simpsons Funny Moments Index
Group:
Seasons 1-10 | Seasons 11-20 | Seasons 21-30 | Seasons 31-35 | Other Media
Season:
Season 31 | Season 32 | Season 33 | Season 34 | Season 35

Moments pages are Spoilers Off. You Have Been Warned.

---

707 - "The Star of the Backstage"

• The episode (and season) starts with a good one right off the bat, with Homer eating a plate of sandwiches and saying "When I die, we should totally get this sandwich place for my memorial. So good!" while Marge briefly looks very unimpressed towards the end.
• Also from the funeral, "no-one grieves like theater kids", indeed.
• After a musical number, Lenny suddenly appears on a stretcher: "Sorry, Marge I gotta drop out of the show; I broke my hip while singing and dancing about being young again."
  • Bart and Lisa then suggest Homer as a replacement. He happily accepts, then turns away from Marge and tells the kids that they are now enemies "forever and ever."
• "Here's my old guitar pick, oh I haven't played guitar since I lost this!"
• The song on all of the times the musical group went together without Marge goes between this, Black Comedy Burst and Tear Jerker.
• Marge doesn't want to be disturbed. It doesn't work out.
  Lisa: Mom, Bart replaced my Kashi cereal with hamster cage wood chips.
  Bart: Big deal. You didn't even know until I told you.
  Marge: (growls)
• Homer spraying Marge with water in the middle of his musical number, causing Bart and Lisa to open their mouths in shock.
• When Marge has a "Eureka!" Moment at her mother’s house, she asks Jacqueline is she still has a computer. Answer Cut to Marge sitting at a brick of a computer that still makes dialup noises.
• Moe's Funny Background Event reactions to learning Barney slept with Sasha in high school.
  Barney: That night really happened? I thought I dreamt it.
  Sasha: It happened, and I never had better. (Moe smashes his head on the wall)
• Barney's (imaginary) musical number about never trying and drinking away his dreams, coupled with Sasha cutting it short and saying that it's the saddest thing she's ever heard.
• When about to perform in the play:
  Homer: Marge, when I'm on-stage, and it's not my turn to talk, can I look at my phone?
  Marge: No.
  • We then see Homer actually looking at his phone during the play, and Marge gives him his cue to speak through text.
• The kids finally see the end of the play, and find out is has an Ambiguous Ending.
  Lisa: That's it? They just fade out?
  Bart: At least with RENT you get to see Mimi come back to life. What a ripoff.
• As a Brick Joke to one of the things that was brought up in the earlier old times musical number, and referenced a few more times afterwards, the cast drives past Marge having dinner in the diner, announcing a "Cast party at Marge's house!" Even better, it's Homer who says this.

708 - "Bart's in Jail"

• Grandpa gets swindled out of money being told Bart's in jail. We then cut to a bank where apparently all of the elderly in Springfield got similar calls.
• Once Abe sees Bart on the street, he starts to celebrate by kissing him.
  Bart: Are you off your meds, or on new ones?
• Abe reveals that he spent $10,000 on the fake bail, which he initially planned to give the family as an inheritence.
  Homer: I had an inheritance, but now I have nothing. I could kill you! But then I'd get nothing. I hope you live forever!
• Abe joins a support group for people who had been scammed. Among the people there: Mr. Burns
  Burns: They said if I didn't wire the money to the power company, they'd turn off my electricity. I AM THE POWER COMPANY!
• When the same scammers call Grandpa again, he exclaims that Lisa is in jail while she's standing right there. Lisa decides to record them to try and find their headquarters.
  Lisa: Grandpa, you got to keep talking to keep them on the line.
  Grandpa: Keep talking? I've been waiting my whole life to hear that.
• During the shared hallucination from the family, Loki the god of mischief appears to mock the family. He then says he has many names and forms, such as Anansi the Spider, Sun Wu Kong, Coyote, Jesus Christ, and Bill Cipher.
  Bill Cipher: BUY CRYPTO, SUCKERS!

709 - Treehouse of Horror XXXII

• The opening parody of Bambi, especially the song that describes how they traumatize young children.
  Singers: In every Disney movie, a good parent dies.
  Homer: (singing) You'll never sleep again.
• The Parasite segment opens with the Simpsons living in a flooded apartment. Homer drinks from a glass floating in the water, and Marge insists he put it back on a coaster.
• How do the trees combat the citizens armed with fire and chainsaws? Use pollen to immobilize them.
• Both Maggie and Homer get impatient with how long "The Tell-Tale Bart" is taking.
  Homer: Aw, how many months are there?
  • The pace picks up considerably after this line.
• Maggie killing the Vincent Price analogue for taking to long to tell a bedtime story by strangling him with the zip cord of her Speak and Spell, then typing "RIP".
• In the Ring parody, Sherri and Terri claim to have been watching a TikTok that kills you in 7 days.
  Sherri: I watched it first (gets killed by Ralph on the swing)
  Terri: Finally, I'm not a twin anymore! I can get the top bunk and then (killed by Ralph coming down on the swing)
  • Milhouse brags about seeing the video eight times... and is killed by eight butcher knives to the back.
• After Mopey Mary jumps into the school's well, Groundskeeper Willie's idea of keeping children away from it is to disguise it as a gopher pelt stand.
• Bart and Lisa decide to try and figure out what's happening with the cursed video.
  Lisa: We just need to find someone who's not afraid of death and likes to watch TV.
  Grandpa: I'm your man!
  Bart: But Grandpa, you know that you'll die in 7 days if you watch it.
  Grandpa: That's still three more than the doctor gave me.
• After a day of being with Lisa, Mopey Mary jumps back into the well.

710 - The Wayz We Were

• Ancient Frink invents transportation; ancient Homer invents the traffic jam.
• Marge holds a neighborhood meeting to discuss the recent traffic jams, but when she mentions the "obvious neighborhood problem," everyone thinks she's talking about her family.
  Ruth Powers: You haven't said hello to me in 25 years, and I live next door.
  Neighbor: The only good one is the baby, and she shot somebody
• Lisa tries to complete a online test to prove she's not a robot. It takes her the entire episode without finishing. In The Stinger she finally finishes, but it's time for her to go to bed.
• Homer convinces Moe to try "the big M" with Maya
  Moe: Murder-Suicide?

711 - Lisa's Belly

• Homer's memory of working at Riot Rivers is of him, Lenny and Carl laughing at all the people getting hurt on ridiculously dangerous water slides, as "I Wanna Rock" plays in the soundtrack. Lisa then shows Homer a movie about the park titled Lawsuit Park, which is exactly the same as Homer's flashback, but with ominous music. Homer blames the music.
• Homer's speech to convince his kids to go down a closed water slide that he just re-opened.
  Homer: We're going to live a life without fear, a life where no one can tell us "no" (stairs collapse), and because it's the only way down.
• Bart has a reason to get back to school.
  Bart: I'll finally get to find out what happened to that batch of praying mantis eggs I left in Skinner's office.
  Skinner: (surrounded by praying mantises) I'm sure that if we all respect each other's boundaries, this will be a pleasant school year.
• Selma and Patty's song teaching Lisa not to care what other people think about her, as they cause mayhem in the park. It's set to "Age of Aquarius" and includes shots of them dancing in bikinis and body paint like the dancers on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.

712 - A Serious Flanders (Part 1)

• In spite of the serious nature of the opening, a Freeze-Frame Bonus shows that apparently the Rich Texan's name is Richard Texan.
  • The Rich Texan begs for his life when Kostas Becker's men are about to shoot him:
  Rich Texan: Don't do this! I have a wife and two young mistresses, also a secret other wife. Please, I'm a good man! A good man!
• The opening intro text: This all based on a true event. It happened in a real animated town. To protect those involved, the entire story has been made up. The rest has been told as pretentiously as possible.
• Homer's reaction to Flanders finding a bunch of money
  Homer: You finding this proves that karma is real, which sucks because now I can't club you over the head to take it.
• Kostas Becker, the debt collector, tries to pull a Stealth Hi/Bye on Ned after threatening him in church.
  Ned: He's gone!
  Kostas: No, I'm not. I was trying to, but there's no good place to hide.
• Homer is able to stay conscious after getting a shock from a cattle prod, so they have to upgrade it to "hippo" setting.
• Kostas's ruthless take down of the mafia in the donut shop is horrifying due to being played almost completely straight. Snake coming in to rob the shop afterwards Crosses the Line Twice.
  • The shootout begins with Becker trying to tell Fat Tony the Parable of Lucifer and the millipede, but Tony attacks before he can tell it. In the middle of the action, Becker shouts "You should have let me finish the parable!"
  • We don't see Becker turn Fat Tony's face into a donut, but we do hear Tony's running commentary on it.
  Fat Tony: [panicking] Why are you dipping my face in dough? Why are you kneading my face into an O shape? Why are you pushing my face towards the deep fryer?! [normal tone] Oh, I see. Clever. [back to panicking] Aaaaaahhhh!

713 - A Serious Flanders (Part 2)

• The montage of Ned Flanders I being a "good time Charlie" has him taking various drugs, including licking a toad. At the end, he shoves the toad into a car ashtray.
• What kicked off the violent shoot-out blood bath in the past that arguably started this episode? A broken ice machine, causing Moleman to cry "Oh shoot."
• Ned's grandfather stole the money from Becker, who threatens him at knife-point for it. He tries to get it, only to slip on the ice onto the blade, killing himself.
• Mixed with Moment of Awesome, Homer manages to get the married assassins to start killing each other by commenting on their marital problems.
  • Backfires on him when because of their fighting, they don't notice that the cabin's on fire while he's still tied up.
  • The assassins then reconcile, only to be crushed by the overfilled bathtub the husband had been trying to prepare.
• Homer's various disguises to throw Becker off his trail when he goes to visit Flanders. Lampshaded
  Homer: I did everything like you told me, even the mariachi in the Ferris wheel.
• Marge followed Homer and confronts him.
  Marge: What is it, Homer? A mistress? A secret family? You'd better not be a sports podcaster!
  • This also serves as a Brick Joke to the Rich Texan in the previous episode.
• Becker is about to tell Ned the Parable of Lucifer and the millipede (which he was going to tell Fat Tony before he was interrupted) when it gets skipped through by an impatient viewer.
• Becker's death becomes an Overly Long Gag; as the ice breaks under him, the ice floe doesn't just flip over once, but multiple times, taking him back up to the surface and back over and over. In one instance, he is being bitten by fish.

714 - Portrait of a Lackey on Fire

• The montage of Homer having to train the new hounds. Eventually he gets so used to their biting that he can sit quietly and watch his phone while they latch on.
• After Homer manages to set up Smithers, he declares himself a gay match-making god.
  Lenny: What about some hetero-matchmaking for us (Lenny and Carl)?
  Homer: I'm a god, not a miracle worker.
• Marge learns that Smithers is dating fashion designer Michael de Graaff from Homer. She then starts following him around to ask him about their relationship.
  Marge: Can I ask you one question? Can I ask you a thousand questions?
• The women in Springfield asking Michael to criticize their outfits.
• Michael's new factory hires "all the old saps who were jobless," namely most of the male supporting cast.
• While Michael is gay, he's revealed to have the same care for the environment that Mr. Burns does.
  Bart: Dad, how could Michael allow this? I thought gay people were supposed to be better than us.
  Barney: You mean our boss? He knows.
  (points at the poster with Michael reading "ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLAINTS ARE NOT AVANT-GORGEOUS!")
• Effects of the pollution from the factory include giant clumps of glitter rolling on the streets and the water on Lake Springfield turning plaid.
• Smithers tries to talk to Burns about his love life. Despite Smithers constantly correcting him that he's dating a man, Burns doesn't get it. When he finally tells him who he's dating though...
  Burns: Smithers, you have to marry him! You need to pretend to be gay, but he's a billionaire!
• Burns has no idea what a jigsaw puzzle is. It takes him months to figure it out. At one point he's sorting the pieces by weight.

715 - Mothers and Other Strangers

• Maggie upstages Bart and Lisa with Mother's day gifts just by offering kisses and being cute. She even is able to act smug about it.
  Lisa: How do you tell someone who doesn't talk to shut up?
• While Homer is crying about losing his mother, Bart tries to make a joke, but it doesn't land. His attempt to save it:
  Bart: Well, the cat liked it. (holds up Snowball, who basically shrugs indifferently)
• When it's suggested that Homer see a therapist for his motherhood issues, Marge pulls out a bunch of therapy bills for basically everyone in the family. Marge's report says "Overwhelming anxiety. Recommend divorce."
• Homer's phone therapist manages to solve his problems, getting her fired for not milking out the experience.
• At the end of the episode, we see Homer taking the family out to brunch with a huge plate of food.
  Squeaky Voiced Teen: Sir, this is not a buffet. Please stay out of the kitchen!

716 - A Made Maggie

• Homer insults theme park workers, thinking that they can't hit back. They reveal that their temps, and chase him down.
• At the spinning cauldron ride, Bart spins his and Homer's too fast, so Homer pushes the emergency button. It sends them straight to the gift shop.
  Homer: Oh, great. A place where I can spend money.
• Grandpa starting the plot by switching Maggie and Snowball II.
  Marge: Grandpa, I'm sorry, but we're never going to ask you to babysit again.
  Abe: Who asked you? You never even pay me.
• Homer has hesitation about asking Patty or Selma to be Maggie's godmother.
  Homer: Well, asking would insult one of them, but I want to insult both of them.
• Church is so boring that even Lovejoy can't stay awake for it.
• Apparently, neither Fat Tony nor Marge have seen The Godfather in it's entirety.
  Marge: I've seen the wedding. Does anything happen after that?
• Fat Tony asking Legs and Louie to dispose of Maggie's dirty diaper. They do so by burying it at the landfill and shooting it for good measure.
• Before giving back the SUV Fat Tony gave them, Marge asks to open the car doors remotely one last time. They knock out Hans Moleman.

717 - The Longest Marge

• Apparently, Springfield Elementary has Madagascar hissing cockroaches instead of ants in the library. No surprise, they break loose.
• Grayson aksks to become part of the family, and Marge accepts since he's never had a real family before.
  Grayson: You sure? I'm alot of work. I need 9000 calories a day or I'll die.
  Marge: So does my husband, silly.
• After the fight between Marge and Burns, Grayson runs away. The news then reports that recent sources say he may never be seen in the house again.
  Marge: What recent sources? (Bart walks in typing on the phone, notices his parents staring at him, then runs outside the room)
• Marge learns that Grayson invited her to the Sportsies.
  Lisa: Mom, you've won!
  Marge: Motherhood won. (She throws a football on the ground which bounces right into Lisa's face, knocking her offscreen)
  Lisa: I'm alright

718 - Pixelated and Afraid

• Bart doesn't care about his parents' romantic life, until Lisa points out that anyone he dates will want to meet them in the future. His Imagine Spot that makes him change his mind is pretty funny.
• Homer and Marge's encounter with black ice.
  Marge: Homer, turn into the skid.
  Homer: I AM! It's not working.
  Marge: Then turn out of the skid.
  Homer: Oh, what does the skid want?
• Homer manages to start a fire in the middle of the woods by smashing his phone. How does he know it would work?
  Homer: Remember those recall notices that our phone would swell up and explode?
  Marge: But you exchanged those phones, right?
  Homer: Nope!
• Homer and Marge have to discard their freezing wet clothes and are left naked, their intimate parts covered by pixelation. Apparently, this includes Homer's chest.
• Homer is cornered by a wolverine.
  Homer: You wouldn’t like me, I’m all stringy. Oh, who am I kidding? I’m marbled! I’m human Wagyu!

719 - Boyz N The Highlands

• The boys have to hike to Ankle Rock, a boulder shaped exactly like a giant foot. Bart, however, doesn't see the ankle.
• Axl (the goat the boys find) has weird "frog-shaped" eyes, except when bullies are trying to get Bart to abandon it. He then develops stereotypical huge cartoon eyes (akin to classic Disney animals) to sway him against that.
• One of the Travel Montages shows Bart going around in a circle (a triangle, actually) around a grove of trees.
• Bart thinks a compass works like a GPS. When it won't tell him where he is, he thinks there's not enough cell coverage.

720 - You Won't Believe What This Episode Is About — Act Three Will Shock You!

• Homer keeps Tempting Fate when he gets accused of abandoning his dog in a hot car.
  Townsperson: I bet he's a terrible father.
  Homer: That's not true! I take great care of my kids. (Bart and Lisa walk in after getting hurt at Trampoline World)
  Bart: Dad, you forgot to pick us up.
• Lisa gives Homer a speech for an apology, but he decides to switch off it after only reading one sentence.
  Homer: I'm sorry... that you all have such thin skin that you can't accept an honest mistake.
  (Lisa facepalms)
  Bart: Great job, you really got his voice down.
• Homer pushing Lovejoy out of the window, becoming an in-universe meme.
• Homer gets banned from everywhere after pushing a pastor...except a right wing podcast house which welcomes pariahs. He slams the door on them.
• Theo tries to convince his students to take another option after their initial plans to make themselves look better failed, but he oversells.
  Theo: Well, there is one other option, but no. It's too radical!
  Homer: Oh, I don't like the sound of that radical. Like you said, we tried and failed.
  Theo: But, sometimes, radical is the only way to get things done.
  Homer: (coming out of group huddle) No, we talked. We all agree radical is way too dangerous. We're out.
• The Running Gag of people struggling to pronounce "annonimity".
• After Homer's apology is broadcast online, Kent Brockman reports how it has made people rethink how we treat people from now on. Then segues to a segment on some "dummy" having a heart attack on a treadmill.

722 - Pretty Whittle Liar

• Marge is shocked when Brandine says she thinks she can do better than Homer.
  Marge: You think I can do better than Homer?
  Everybody in the store: YES!
  • When she brings it up to Homer later, he flashes back to all the people who've raised the question over the years: Marge's sisters, Reverend Lovejoy and toddler Bart.
• Homer tries to do some work on his bedroom window, but it all falls apart.
  Homer: D'oh! (sees a fiery object go across his window) Ooh, a shooting star.
  Marge: That's the water heater!
• Lisa's plotline climaxes in an I Am Spartacus moment as she and the other smart kids stand up in the cafeteria and declare "I am smarticus!" Milhouse joins in... halfheartedly.
  Milhouse: I am smarticus! Well, pretty smarticus. Perfect attendicus? Sitting downicus.
• One of the chores Homer does is cleaning out the lint trap on the dryer. It's a lint ball the size of a bowling ball, out of which jumps out Snowball II.

723- The Sound of Bleeding Gums

• Bart's opinion of Kenny G
  Bart: No one likes Kenny G. That's why they killed Kennies A through F
• Monk Murphy (Bleeding Gums' son) turns out to be deaf.
  Hibbert: That boy's hearing is so bad you could fire a gun next to him and he wouldn't react
  Bleeding Gums: That's not how you tested him is it?
  Hibbert: Of course not! (hides smoking gun)
• Monk says that if he doesn't want to listen to anything annoying he just closes his eyes, which he does a lot when Lisa starts talking about how to take legal action against the lottery.
• Lisa listens to a sad jazz album.
  Lisa: This is so sad. What's on the back? (turns it over to see suicide hotline number)
• Lisa wants to play Bleeding Gums song that he wrote for his son as the first thing Monk will hear after his cochlear transplant. Unfortunately, Bart previously scratched the record, so the first thing he hears:
  Lisa: SCREW YOU, BART!
  Monk: Screw you, Bart? I heard that!

724 - My Octopus and a Teacher

• While being interviewed to teach at Springfield Elementary, Mrs. Peyton can barely hide her dissapointment of her husband's oboe playing.
• As Peyton is about to enter a room, she tells herself that the people inside aren't bad, just worn down by their lot in life. The room turns out to be not her classroom, but the Teacher's Lounge.
  • Peyton asks the teachers to raise their hands if they've heard of project based learning. Groundskeeper Willie is the only one who raises his hand.
• The documentarian oath is never interfere. On a T-shirt, it's shown with a filmmaker recording a group of ducks walking into a hippo's mouth.
• Lisa feels a bit uneasy about winning most ethical filmmaker after interfering with nature, and asks if she should give the trophy back. The octopus Molly just turns around the trophy to the blank side.
• Homer accidentally eats cereal that the octopus inked in.
  Lisa: You just stay here. I'm going to go look up some toxicology reports.
• All of Bart's antics to try and avoid his new teacher.
• Homer convinces Bart to tell his teacher the truth.
  Bart: You actually helped me.
  Homer: I'm finally ready to be a dad! I'm gonna go tell my wife.
• Bart reveals that he has a crush on his teacher, and asks his dad for the advice he offered earlier.
  Homer: You're a kid, she's a grown up, it'll never happen, get over it.
  Bart: That's not advice. That's just the stinking truth.
• The chaos at the project presentation caused by Molly latching onto Bart's face.
• Mrs. Peyton believes Bart when he tells him he destroyed the models because he had an octopus on his face because she knows that deep inside, all kids want to be good. And because of all the sucker marks on Bart's face.
• After Lisa lets Molly go, she sees the shark from before going after her. She then grabs the shark by the tail and tosses her away, in front of a disappointed Database.
  Lisa: What? I'm part of nature!

725 - Girls Just Shauna Have Fun

• Mr. Largo's opinion of the band trying to play "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
  Largo: (in tune) Mary's rolling in her grave, I'd like to join her now.
• Homer claims that Lisa gets her brains from him, right before pouring hot sauce into his eye.
• When Lisa says that Shauna is her new awesome sister, Maggie leaves the table in a huff.
  Bart: You've made a very fussy enemy.
• Homer is surprised to learn that beer has ingredients. He looks as his Duff can and the ingredients read: "beer, can."

726 - Marge the Meanie

• Marge's old school principal who she tormented in middle school sees her and tries to get away.
  Ms. York: (getting on bus) I never want to see you again. (bus stops right in front of Marge due to train crossing)
• Bart's enthusiasm about Marge being a former prankster and finding they have something in common.
  Bart: You're so not perfect. (hugs her)
  Marge: Bart, I don't know if I like you... this is the first time you ever hugged me back.
  Bart: Hugged you back? I started the damn hug!
  Marge: Watch your language young man, and aw!
• Marge uses her necklace to trip Mr. Burns, thinking he'll land in grass. Unfortunately, he misses that and goes into traffic, where he gets hit by several cars before getting knocked into power lines.

727 - Meat is Murder

• As Homer and Bart are carrying dozens of pillow covers filled with Krusty Burgers, Abe tells Lisa of the Simpsons Curse, where a Simpson will lose everything just as they feel like they've got it made. As if on cue, a flock of pigeons (or "burger hawks", as Homer calls them) descend upon them and take the burgers.
• The parody of "Pure Imagination" about affluence
  Lisa: (singing) I want to change the world.
  Gus: (singing) Oh my dear, you can't afford it.
• Krusty tries to do a show after losing the rights to his name and being a clown in general. It doesn't go well.
• Abe saving the day by doing what he does best — ramble incoherently, thus making him look incompetent and invalidating his vote.

728 - Poorhouse Rock

• Marge gets drunk and can't make it to work. While Homer initially feels happy that he won't have to go to church, Marge then tells him to go with the kids.
  Homer: (mumbling) Don't get it, I go to church hungover all the time. Chronic alcoholics always get screwed over.
• The hymns at the church are a bit on the nose about praising God.
  Lisa: These lyrics make God seem a bit insecure. (Bart nods)
• Bart's entire presentation on how he "honors" his father, which mostly consists of showing embarrassing videos of Homer to his Sunday school class.
• The entire Schoolhouse Rock! parody about the disappearance of the middle class.
  • Bart tries to give a response rap about his options for the future, particularly things like Bitcoin and YouTube stardom. A janitor says it's a stupid idea to expect it to pay off.
• As they clean up the aftermath of Bart's attempt to burn down the backyard, Homer and Marge talk about taking the opportunity to make improvements. But then...
  Lisa: I've read through our insurance policy, and we're not covered for musical numbers.
  Homer: D'oh!

---