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Character Analysis

Tress MacNeille

Chalmers

Played by Tress MacNeille

61 jokes across 18 episodes of The Simpsons

WAR

19.4

Total Jokes

61

Avg Craft

7.0

Avg Impact

6.8

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Chalmers delivers 61 scored jokes across 18 episodes of The Simpsons, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.8 on impact for a career WAR of 19.4. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.

Funniest Chalmers Lines

All Jokes — 60 total

S4E20

Chalmers:We're dropping the geography requirement. The children weren't testing well. It was proving to be an embarrassment.

6.86.5
S4E20

Skinner · Chalmers:Very good. Back to the three 'R's.' Two 'R's' come October.

7.47.3
S4E20

Skinner · Chalmers:What do you think of the banners? Transparent toadying. They were the children's idea. I tried to stop them.

7.06.8
S4E20

Chalmers · Skinner:It's always the children's fault, isn't it, Seymour? Yes. Yes, it is, sir.

7.88.0
S4E20

Chalmers:Imagine-- a school out there with no bullies. Science geeks not getting beat up. Kids using their lunch money for food. I can't take it! [Grunts]

7.88.0
S4E20

Lunch Lady Doris · Chalmers:May I interest you in a Jell-O brick, sir? There's a grape in the center. Well, I'm not made of stone.

6.15.7
S4E20

Chalmers:You're not made of stone. [Chuckles] A brick and you're not made of... stone.

6.46.5
S4E20

Skinner · Chalmers:Well, let's, uh, pick one at random. Mmm, how about that one? You mean this boy here? No! No. Lisa Simpson.

6.66.3
S4E20

Chalmers · Lisa:When was the Battle of New Orleans? January 8, 1815. Two weeks after the war ended.

7.16.2
S4E20

Chalmers · Skinner:Did that boy say, 'What's a battle?' He said, 'What's that rattle?' About the heating duct.

7.06.5
S4E20

Chalmers · Skinner:Oh, so you would hear 'R's' as 'B's'? Yes. I understand.

7.47.2
S4E20

Chalmers:Excellent. Not a trace of urine. Seymour, you run a tight ship.

6.96.7
S4E20

Skinner · Chalmers:Well, you know what they say, sir. 'Where there's no smoke, there's no fire.' What an odd remark.

7.06.7
S4E20

Chalmers · Bart · Nelson:Why, that looks like a 50-cent piece. I'll just bend over and get it. [Yelling] Seems to be caught... between these two flowers. [More Yelling]

6.16.3
S4E20

Chalmers · Skinner:Seymour, I was thinking of promoting you to assistant superintendent. But, instead, that plum goes to Holloway. No. But, sir, he's a drunk. And a pill-popper.

6.76.3
S4E20

Chalmers · Lunch Lady Doris:And why is a cafeteria worker posing as a nurse? I get two paychecks this way. D'oh.

7.17.2
S7E15

Skinner · Agnes · Chalmers:I must say, I've had a lovely evening, Agnes. I don't suppose I could come in for a cup of- - Seymour! - Mother. Superintendent Chalmers! - Skinner!

7.47.3
S7E21

Skinner · Chalmers:Aurora borealis... at this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen?

8.89.2
S7E21

Chalmers:Aurora borealis at this time of year... at this time of day in this part of the country... localized entirely within your kitchen?

8.59.3
S7E21

Skinner · Chalmers:Yes... May I see it? ...No.

8.18.0
S7E21

Skinner · Chalmers:Yes. - May I see it? - No.

8.38.8
S7E21

Chalmers:you are an odd fellow... but I must say you steam a good ham.

8.28.3
S8E07

Chalmers:Holy jumping Caesar's catfish!

7.06.3
S8E07

Chalmers:My 'H' has been stolen! Oh! That's how people know it's a Honda!

6.76.3
S8E07

Chalmers:What's the point of having a Honda if you can't show it off?

7.37.0
S10E07

Chalmers:This school was once classified... the most dilapidated in all of Missouri. That's why it was shut down and moved here, brick by brick

7.57.3
S12E10

Chalmers:No napkin could wipe the crumbs of failure from your mouth!

7.16.5
S12E10

Chalmers:That's what you said about the stuffed peppers, and you lost the young males!

6.35.5
S15E03

Chalmers:She's captured their imagination like a bright piece of construction paper.

7.16.7
S15E03

Skinner · Chalmers:Boy, she'll believe anything. 'Key release boilerplate'? I find that very hard to believe. Mmm-hmm. And yet there it is.

6.35.8
S15E03

Chalmers:Why don't you just give me a sandwich board that says 'male prostitute'?

6.15.8
S15E03

Chalmers · Citizen:Would you be willing to pay an extra $1.23 in taxes to fund them? No way! I'm saving for a speedboat.

6.56.5
S16E05

Chalmers · Skinner:Skinner offering his Merkur car filled with Burger King cups and wrappers as replacement

6.76.0
S16E05

Chalmers:Potato masher's stuck in the small spoon slot. What kind of madman would do that?

7.26.8
S16E15

Chalmers:Skinner. Skinner. Skinner.

7.37.0
S16E15

Chalmers:I can use the potty now.

5.85.3
S16E17

Skinner · Chalmers:Today? Of course I know. Happy birthday... / It's not my birthday, Seymour. You know I'm a Sagittarius.

6.15.8
S16E17

Skinner · Chalmers:Really? I'm a Libra. We're very compatible. / Skinner, you can be gay on your own time.

6.96.8
S16E17

Chalmers · Skinner:I expect it to be like cats and dogs in here. / Sir, the school has a strict policy against animals. I assume you're speaking hypothetically about cats and dogs?

6.26.0
S16E17

Chalmers:It's like a school fundraiser wrapped in slang!

6.66.2
S16E17

Chalmers · Vendor:Very well. I assume these snacks are nutritious? / That's not our concern. The point is half the money goes to the school.

6.76.8
S17E11

Chalmers · Atkins:You're in Scottsdale? I'm in Scottsdale! At the Hyatt room 381! Get outta here! I'm in 502! Hey, do you guys have any ice buckets down there? No, we've been using shower caps.

7.27.0
S17E19

Skinner · Chalmers · Skinner · Chalmers:Don't worry, I have a plan: Pretend I agree with them. / Well, you'd better hurry. Look what they've done to your car. / No, that's how it always looks. / How sad.

7.87.3
S17E19

Chalmers:Yes, yes, yes, I said 'diarrhea.'

6.66.0
S18E14

Chalmers:Plus our last bake sale was a disaster. People took bites without buying the cookies.

6.46.2
S18E14

Chalmers:I warn you, young lady, we can fumfur all day.

6.86.3
S18E14

Skinner · Chalmers:How do we gag a blabbermouth like Lisa?

6.76.3
S18E14

Skinner · Chalmers:Would she shut her trap For a gift card from the Gap?

5.95.0
S18E14

Lisa · Chalmers:You have a lovely voice, sir. Why do you have to make everything weird?

6.96.5
S18E18

Chalmers:But it did happen. Just yesterday, in Crazytown!

7.06.5
S19E13

Chalmers:Students may spend up to ten points per day in up to four of seven categories. Unused points roll over week to week but not month to month. Categories not included: meat, dairy, vegetables...

6.86.5
S19E13

Chalmers:It's not funny; these movements are involuntary.

6.05.8
S19E13

Chalmers · Skinner:By law, the most we can give him is a ten-day suspension. / Well, that's long to a kid!

6.55.8
S19E18

Chalmers:I'm thrilled! Or would have been, if not for your knee-jerk assumption that I'm angry at you, which I am now.

7.97.8
S19E18

Chalmers:The whole school is made up of modeling clay. Every afternoon, they reshape it just to get my goat.

8.08.0
S19E18

Chalmers:Banff? Banff, Shmanff. I'm talking about Sundance!

6.76.0
S19E18

Chalmers:If Lisa's movie gets in, we won't just be the school with the highest hamster mortality rate. Ah, so young. We'll also have a kid who did a thing.

7.87.7
S19E18

Chalmers:Why can't you be a gentle clinker?

7.36.7
S20E02

Skinner · Chalmers:What is in this coffee?! Mm-hmm.

6.76.5
S20E21

Chalmers · Skinner:If I die, I want you to take over... Really? ...the search committee for a new superintendent.

7.57.3