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Character Analysis

Hank Azaria

Cletus

Played by Hank Azaria

67 jokes across 37 episodes of The Simpsons

WAR

22.7

Total Jokes

67

Avg Craft

7.1

Avg Impact

6.8

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Cletus delivers 67 scored jokes across 37 episodes of The Simpsons, averaging 7.1 on craft and 6.8 on impact for a career WAR of 22.7. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.

Funniest Cletus Lines

All Jokes — 66 total

S5E06

Cletus:Ah, just get one of those inflatable women. But make sure it's a woman though. 'Cause one time I-- [Stammering]

7.26.5
S7E03

Homer · Cletus:Son, let's stop the fussin' and the feudin'. I love you, Pa! I love you, Cletis!

7.06.8
S7E09

Cletus:This year I'm making ear plugs out of biscuit dough.

6.66.3
S7E09

Cletus:At Kitty Hawk in 1903... Charles Lindbergh flew it 15 miles on a thimbleful of corn oil. Single-handedly won us the Civil War, it did.

7.47.7
S7E09

Cletus:I pieced it together mostly from sugar packets.

8.08.0
S7E14

Cletus · Brandine:Hey, Brandine! You could wear this shirt to work. Oh, Cletis, you know I gotta wear the shirt what Dairy Queen give me.

6.25.0
S7E21

Cletus:Hey, Ma! Get off the dang roof!

6.86.5
S8E05

Cletus · Brandine:Are they talkin' about the bordello? No, the burlesque house. So just keep your mouth shut.

6.86.5
S8E11

Cletus:Hey, I don't think so. I got me 300 coupons.

6.66.0
S8E11

Cletus:Shoulda but didna, so hand 'em over.

7.16.5
S8E11

Cletus:Come on. Tiffany, Heather, Cody, Dillon... Dermott, Jordan, Taylor, Brittany... Wesley, Rumor, Scout, Cassidy... Zoe, Chloe, Max, Hunter... Kendall, Caitlan, Noah, Sasha... Morgan, Kira, Ian, Lauren... Q-Bert, Phil. [Chuckles]

7.17.3
S8E16

Cecil · Cletus:You speak as if they were a gaggle of slack-jawed yokels. Mr. Terwilliger, come quick! There's trouble down to the cement mixer, sir! See, Cousin Merl and me was playing fetch with Geech. That's our old smellhound and- Geech gone to heaven, Mr. Terwilliger.

7.67.2
S8E16

Cletus:Temper, temper. You know Cousin Merl ain't been quite right lately.

6.76.0
S8E16

Cletus:I know Cousin Merl has had his troubles with the revenuers, but he's hardly a master-

7.06.7
S9E08

Cletus:Well, if you're so sure what it ain't, how about tellin' us what it am?

7.06.3
S9E24

Cletus:I seen it first! Ooh! Girlie Sue's gonna have a elegant weddir feast.

6.66.3
S9E24

Cletus:Never you mind, Brandine. You just go back to birthir that baby.

6.56.5
S9E24

Cletus:Them things can go off even after they's dead.

6.85.8
S11E11

Cletus:I done 'spraint' my elbow bone... so it goes in the 'opposited' direction.

6.66.2
S11E14

Cletus:Now, honey, they's my parents too.

6.66.3
S11E18

Cletus:Lookee here! Cardy-board tubes! Now we can have indoor plumbin', just like they's got at the women's lockup.

7.47.0
S11E18

Cletus:They spoilt you, Brandine. Sometimes I don't even know who you are anymore.

7.16.5
S12E06

Homer · Cletus · Cletus's Kids:They're controlling our minds with flu shots. I knew it! / Well, kids, now aren't you glad we don't believe in inoculations? / [Both Moaning] Yea!

7.06.7
S12E09

Cletus:Now hold still. Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris. Ow! Dang it! Ow!

8.08.0
S13E08

Cletus:Figure them sugar folk owe me for what they done to my cousin, Dia-Betty.

7.16.8
S13E11

Cletus:Mr. Puck, you make the only grub what satisfies my gut worm, I swear.

6.96.3
S14E07

Cletus:Reporter Cletus, Outhouse Times-Picayune.

6.86.2
S14E07

Cletus:Mrs. K, if you win this here learning derby... will you forget your kith and kin and leave us all forever?

7.16.8
S14E12

Cletus:Uh-uh. You forgot the lightning bolt.

7.17.0
S14E14

Cletus · Cletus:He's really looking out for me, the average Joe Sixtooth. Where'd you get yourself another tooth? Sidewalk

7.07.2
S14E15

Cletus:Cletus: 'Well, I'm here to win back Brandine. She been making eyes at that photographer what come to document our squalor.'

7.46.8
S15E08

Kent Brockman · Cletus:I ain't fungified hidee-hoo about no legrification noways, then scratched his rear, hitched up his pants, and scratched his rear again.

6.06.0
S15E15

Cletus:One ticket for the space show. I want to see if any of them aliens match up to the one I got in my root cellar.

7.67.2
S15E16

Cletus:I don't have such a good memory since I drank my thermometer... but I whittles what I sees.

7.36.5
S15E16

Wiggum · Cletus:Uh, hey, what are you making now? Uh, sometimes I whittles the future.

7.66.7
S15E21

Cletus:how dare he?! That's the flag my grandpappy rebelled against!

7.67.5
S16E02

Cletus:Now that Brandine's famous, she done run off with James Caan!

6.36.0
S16E02

Cletus:Now that Brandine's famous, she done run off with James Caan! But don't you worry. I'm going to fix his wagon.

6.76.2
S16E10

Homer · Cletus:Do you, Cletus, take Brandine to be... wait a minute-- are you two brother and sister? / We's all kinda things!

7.37.3
S16E12

Cletus:What she said was, she's tired of having rabies.

8.07.8
S16E12

Cletus:Give me back my belly fruit!

6.96.3
S16E12

Cletus:Give me back my belly fruit!

7.56.5
S16E15

Cletus · Brandine:You want me to attend the funeral of the Sultan of Brunei? Well, I would consider it my honor. Hey, Brandine, pack my evenin' britches. We's goin' to Brunei.

6.06.0
S16E15

Cletus:You want me to attend the funeral of the Sultan of Brunei? Well, I would consider it my honor. Hey, Brandine, pack my evenin' britches. We's goin' to Brunei.

6.86.5
S17E15

Cletus · Brandine:Another party and we cain't go. Yeah. Just 'cause we's afraid of using the uppity box.

7.26.3
S18E12

Cletus:Still?! Are you drownin' 'em or makin' love to 'em?

6.76.3
S18E14

Cletus:I teach the big ones and the big ones teach the little ones, but no one ever taught me, which makes the whole thing just an exercise in futility.

7.57.3
S18E14

Cletus:Hey, kids! The plow done birthed a girl-critter!

6.96.2
S18E14

Cletus:Now, if you need me, I'll be on the porch drinkin' Thomsen's Water Seal.

7.77.3
S18E14

Cletus:'The county fair is always sucky to visit on a hot summer fart.' 'You can eat delicious cotton hate, and ride the Ferris burp and the Merry-go-booger.'

5.75.5
S18E14

Cletus:Now I don't sign nothin' without pretendin' to read it first.

7.47.3
S18E14

Cletus:Hamburger, hamburger, hamburger, hamburger. Looks good!

7.67.3
S18E14

Cletus:Brandine! You're supposed to be in Iraq, stopping 9/11!

7.37.0
S18E14

Brandine · Cletus:How much money do we have left? Uh, I owe Krusty $12,000. We can live on that.

7.77.3
S18E17

Cletus:Sir, I have sired a dum-dum, a mush-head, a what's-it, a dog boy, and something with a human face and fish body, what we called Kevin, but my young'uns is not dirty players

8.38.3
S18E17

Cletus:That's hill-William to you, sir

7.77.2
S18E17

Cletus:You heard Geraldo

7.06.5
S18E18

Cletus:My wife's lookin' for a bathing suit that doesn't make her look 'horsey.' So, I'm gonna be here a while.

6.46.0
S18E20

Cletus's Wife · Cletus:Is you man or turtle? Here's your answer. Skittle, skittle, scurry, skittle.

7.17.2
S19E17

Cletus:Howdy, what's yours that mine's is Cletus?

6.15.8
S19E17

Cletus:She had a regular city birth in a gas station.

6.97.0
S19E17

Cletus:According to the traditions of the hill folk, by giving our daughter a cow, you've made a formal proposal of marriage.

7.58.0
S19E17

Cletus:We always figured someday Mary would marry. That's why we called her Mary.

7.06.8
S19E17

Cletus · Stabbed-in-jail:We name all our kids after what we think's gonna happen to 'em. Ain't that right, Stabbed-in-jail?

7.37.3
S19E17

Brandine · Cletus:Don't feel bad, sweetie. I was 13 when I married your father. - Yeah, and you'd already been divorced four times.

7.17.2
S20E15

Cletus:So that's why that ghost keeps coming through the window. Afternoon. Fly away ghosty! Go back to your haunted cornfield!

7.78.0