Funniest Simpsons moment ............ ever!

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A moment that cracks you up so much that you can’t think about it without dissolving into tears of laughter again.

Very difficult choice but for me it has to be a moment from Treehouse of Horror X, the Flanders werewolf episode.

The next morning, Homer has taken Ned’s body up to the roof of the
Simpsons’ house. Next door, Maude tends the Flanders’ yard.

Homer: Hey, Maude! Look who’s helping me clean the chimney!
[a vulture flies down and begins picking at Ned’s arm.
Homer shoos it away]
Maude: Neddy? Where have you been?
Homer: [doing bad Ned impersonation, and waving Ned’s arm] Hi
Maude-diddily. I’ve been having fun with my pal Homer.
[pause] Diddily.
Maude: Oh, I’m so relieved. Whenever you go on one of your late-
night fog walks I get so worried.
Homer: [as Ned] Relax, I’m fine. But when I do die, I don’t want
any autopsies.
Maude: Well, come on down, you goofy roofie.
Homer: [as Ned] Wow, it sure is slippery up here.
[goes to toss Ned off the roof]
[bell dings inside Flanders house]
Maude: My pies are done. [goes inside]
[Flanders lands on the doghouse]
Homer: Oh, she missed it!
ROFLMAO. Diddily.

2

I don’t know why I find this so hilarious, but I do, every time I see it. I think it has a lot to do with Mr. Burns lack of reaction / expression throughout the scene.

[scene]

Homer is acting as Burns’s assistant. Burns is seated at his desk as Homer reads from a bunch of index cards the phone messages he has taken:

Homer: Here are your messages:

“You have 30 minutes to move your car.”
“You have 10 minutes.”
“Your car has been impounded.”
“Your car has been crushed into a cube.”
“You have 30 minutes to move your cube.”

[phone ringing]

Homer, answering phone: Yello, Mr. Burns’ office.

Burns: Is it about my cube?

[/scene]

The first time I heard Burns delivered the payoff line, I couldn’t stop laughing, and I laughed out loud for days after whenever I though about it. Guess I’m easily amused.

3

That’s a very good choice, Strat. I should probably reconsider, but my stock answer comes from Homer vs. the 18th Amendment.

Rex Banner: You’re out there somewhere, beer baron! And I’ll find you.
Homer: [distant, barely audible] No you won’t!
Banner: [not hearing] Yes, I will.
Homer: …Won’t!

4

I gotta go with:

Lisa: “Dad, don’t eat that [eclair], it’s poison!”

Homer: “Eh… I’ve had a good life!”

Lisa: “Uhm, er… It’s LOWFAT!!!”

Homer: “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!”

[Homer throws eclair as far as possible. Eclair explodes]

Chief Wiggum: “Boy, it’s sure lucky it landed in this smoking crater over here!”

5

Homer: (To post office clerk) Hello, I’m Mr. Burns. I believe you have a letter for me.

PO Clerk: Okay, Mr. Burns, what is your first name.

Homer: I don’t know.

6

I always loved this one, just the emotion in Homer’s singing is really funny.

Ward: Hello. Now, everything is all set for Bart’s apology. Mr. Conover will meet you at the parliament house at three p.m. Questions?
Bart: Yeah, do the toilets go backwards in here?
Ward: No. To combat homesickness, we’ve installed a device that makes them swirl the correct American way.
[he flushes the toilet]
[it swirls one way, then a machine kicks in and makes it swirl the other way]
Homer: [singing] Sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing…[weeps]

7

I had the same reaction, but I thought the earlier bit was funnier:

The expression change on Burns’ face is priceless. I’m laughing thinking about it now. Homer is trying so hard, but misses the point by so much. :smiley:

I think the funniest scene was when Homer was at the movies and was trying to get some ice out of his cup and ended with a mouth full. I almost got a hernia laughing so hard. Hehe!!

8

In the episode where the mock UN kids are stuck on a deserted island and it turns into a “Lord of the Flies” type thing, at the very end as the camera pulls away from the island, a James Earl Jones voice over comes on:

“And so, the kids all learned to live together in peace and harmony, and eventually they were rescued by… oh, let’s say … Moe.”

The whole “we know this situation is rediculous and we know we have to have a ‘reset’ so here’s how we’ll do it” aspect of it. I love self-aware humor in shows like the Simpsons. It killed me the first time, and I still chuckle to this day.

9

The episode ‘$pringfield’ where they legalise gambling has some great moments in it, namely Bond losing at cards:
Blofeld: 20. Your move, Mr. Bond.
Bond: I’ll take a hit, dealer. [Homer gives him a card] Joker! You were supposed to take those out of the deck.
Homer: Oh, sorry. Here’s another one.
Bond: What’s this card? “Rules for Draw and Stud Poker”?
Blofeld: What a pity, Mr. Bond.
[Odd Job and Jaws grab Bond and drag him out]
Bond: But…but it’s Homer’s fault! I didn’t lose. I never lose! Well, at least tell me the details of your plot for world domination.
Blofeld: Ho ho ho, I’m not going to fall for that one again.

And Burns as Howard Hughes:
Smithers: Sir, you haven’t slept since the casino opened five days ago.
Burns: Yeah, well, I’ve discovered the perfect business: people swarm in, empty their pockets, and scuttle off. Nothing can stop me now - except microscopic germs. But we won’t let that happen, will we, Smithers?
Smithers: Uh, no sir.

Burns: [spraying the monitors with disinfectant] They’re all covered with filthy germs, aren’t they Smithers?
Smithers: Why, what do you mean, sir?
[The germs on Smithers’ face grow in size before Burns’ eyes]
Germs: Freemasons run the country!
Burns: Ew!

Burns: Smithers, I’ve designed a new plane. I call it the “Spruce Moose”, and it will carry two hundred passengers from New York’s Idyllwild Airport to the Belgian Congo in seventeen minutes!
Smithers: That’s quite a nice model, sir.
Burns: Model?

Burns: [watching Homer running about the casino] Smithers, I don’t want that unpredictable lunatic working in my casino.
Smithers: Fine, we’ll transfer him to the nuclear plant, sir.
Burns: Aw, my beloved plant. How I miss her – bah! To hell with this. Get my razors! Draw a bath! Get these kleenex boxes off my feet.
Smithers: Certainly, sir. And, uh, the jars of urine?
Burns: Oh, we’ll hang onto those. Now, to the plant! We’ll take the Spruce Moose. [picks up the model] Hop in!
Smithers: But, sir –
Burns: [pointing a gun] I said, hop in.
:smiley:

10

Homer & Mischelle Pieffer in the elevator.

Also, from the same episode:

[Burn’s office, red light flashes]

Smithers - “Someone is charging the company for expenses sir.”
Burns - “Release the winged monkeys!”

11

Hmmm… never really thought of this, even though I’m a huge Simpsons fan. Just went quickly over the episode list, and though I’m sure I’m missing something, this was the best I could come up with quickly. From “deep space homer”

As Homer is trying to clean up the potato chips with his mouth, and ends up on a collision course with the ant farm…

Ant 1: Protect the queen!
Ant 2: Which one’s the queen?
Ant 3: I’m the queen!
Ant 1: No you’re not!
Homer: Nooo! [his head smashes the colony, and the ants float free]
Ant 1: Freedom! Horrible, horrible freedom!

:smiley: Don’t quite know why I find that so hilarious. May be something about the subtitling and the way the ants squeak, because it’s not that funny just written out. :slight_smile:

12

I don’t remember how it goes exactly, but the funniest thing I ever saw on The Simpsons:

Homer: Boy, you live under my roof, so you live under my rules. Now butter your bacon.
Bart: But, Dad…
Homer: (threatening) Butter it!
Some stuff happens with Marge and Lisa here. Bart says something.
Homer: That’s enough from you, Boy. Now wrap that sausage link in bacon.
Bart: But dad, my heart hurts!

:smiley:

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From episode 4F05 - Burns Baby Burns
Ned: Well, if God didn’t make little green apples, it’s Homer Simpson!
How long have you been here?
Homer: Twenty of the suckiest minutes of my life.
Ned: Ho ho ho, suckin’ down the cider, uh? Hey, word to the wise –
[shows Homer a card] season pass! It pays for itself after the
sixteenth visit. You know, most people don’t know the difference
between apple cider and apple juice, but I do. Now here’s a
little trick to help you remember. If it’s clear and yella’,
you’ve got juice there, fella! If it’s tangy and brown, you’re
in cider town. Now, there’s two exceptions and it gets kinda
tricky here…
[Homer’s brain gets bored]
Brain: [moans] You can stay, but I’m leaving.
[brain floats away; Homer is now staring blankly]
Ned: … can be yellow, if they’re using late season apples. And, of
course, in Canada, the whole thing’s flip-flopped.
[Homer collapses]
You have to see it to appreciate it. After Homer’s brain floats away, he stares blankly, nods twice, and then collapses in a heap, his forehead hitting the ground. Brilliant.

14

Homer: “In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!”

It was so out-of-left-field, with the setup of Lisa’s perpetual motion machine being a joke in that it just keeps going faster and faster.

15

Springfield History Museum Curator: That’s it, young lady, you are banned from this museum.
And your children! And your children’s children!

(pause)
(pause)

For two weeks.

16

Homer, regarding the 3 Stooges: “Heh heh. Moe is their leader”

17

Homer finds twenty dollars under his couch while searching for a peanut.

Homer: Aww. Twenty dollars?!? But I wanted a peanut!
Homer’s Brain:* Twenty dollars can buy many peanuts.*
Homer: Explain!
Homer’s Brain: Money can be exchanged for goods and services.
Homer: WOOHOO!!!

(rushes out to buy peanuts)

18

Prohibition in Springfield

Hardassed detective standing at the edge of a cliff overlooking Springfield: You can run, but you can’t hide. No matter where you go, how smart you think you are, I will find you.
Homer way off in the distance: No you won’t!
:smiley:

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The funniest part for me was Homer matching his rotation with the rotation of the potato chip, to the music “Also Sprach Zarathustra”. This was a direct copy of the scene in 2001 where the shuttle matches rotation with the rotating space station.

Also notably funny in that episode was where homer is trying to pull the rod out of the door so he can bash one of the astronauts good. Buzz Aldrin says, “No, Homer! If you pull that rod loose, we’ll all die!” Homer thinks about it for a second, then goes back to tugging on the rod “I’ll bash you good!”

The part I liked better is when Barney accidentally drinks a cup full of nickels. Then he burps and a couple of nickels come out, and all these slot players turn and say, “Hey! This guy’s paying off!” and rush him.

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Homer: D’oh!
Lisa: A deer!
Marge: A female deer…