
Character Analysis

Cletus
Played by Hank Azaria
67 jokes across 37 episodes of The Simpsons
22.7
67
7.1
6.8
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
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
Cletus:I pieced it together mostly from sugar packets.
Cletus:Now hold still. Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris. Ow! Dang it! Ow!
Cletus:What she said was, she's tired of having rabies.
Cletus:So that's why that ghost keeps coming through the window. Afternoon. Fly away ghosty! Go back to your haunted cornfield!
All Jokes — 66 total
Cletus:Ah, just get one of those inflatable women. But make sure it's a woman though. 'Cause one time I-- [Stammering]
Homer · Cletus:Son, let's stop the fussin' and the feudin'. I love you, Pa! I love you, Cletis!
Cletus:This year I'm making ear plugs out of biscuit dough.
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.
Cletus:I pieced it together mostly from sugar packets.
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.
Cletus:Hey, Ma! Get off the dang roof!
Cletus · Brandine:Are they talkin' about the bordello? No, the burlesque house. So just keep your mouth shut.
Cletus:Hey, I don't think so. I got me 300 coupons.
Cletus:Shoulda but didna, so hand 'em over.
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]
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.
Cletus:Temper, temper. You know Cousin Merl ain't been quite right lately.
Cletus:I know Cousin Merl has had his troubles with the revenuers, but he's hardly a master-
Cletus:Well, if you're so sure what it ain't, how about tellin' us what it am?
Cletus:I seen it first! Ooh! Girlie Sue's gonna have a elegant weddir feast.
Cletus:Never you mind, Brandine. You just go back to birthir that baby.
Cletus:Them things can go off even after they's dead.
Cletus:I done 'spraint' my elbow bone... so it goes in the 'opposited' direction.
Cletus:Now, honey, they's my parents too.
Cletus:Lookee here! Cardy-board tubes! Now we can have indoor plumbin', just like they's got at the women's lockup.
Cletus:They spoilt you, Brandine. Sometimes I don't even know who you are anymore.
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!
Cletus:Now hold still. Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris. Ow! Dang it! Ow!
Cletus:Figure them sugar folk owe me for what they done to my cousin, Dia-Betty.
Cletus:Mr. Puck, you make the only grub what satisfies my gut worm, I swear.
Cletus:Reporter Cletus, Outhouse Times-Picayune.
Cletus:Mrs. K, if you win this here learning derby... will you forget your kith and kin and leave us all forever?
Cletus:Uh-uh. You forgot the lightning bolt.
Cletus · Cletus:He's really looking out for me, the average Joe Sixtooth. Where'd you get yourself another tooth? Sidewalk
Cletus:Cletus: 'Well, I'm here to win back Brandine. She been making eyes at that photographer what come to document our squalor.'
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.
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.
Cletus:I don't have such a good memory since I drank my thermometer... but I whittles what I sees.
Wiggum · Cletus:Uh, hey, what are you making now? Uh, sometimes I whittles the future.
Cletus:how dare he?! That's the flag my grandpappy rebelled against!
Cletus:Now that Brandine's famous, she done run off with James Caan!
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.
Homer · Cletus:Do you, Cletus, take Brandine to be... wait a minute-- are you two brother and sister? / We's all kinda things!
Cletus:What she said was, she's tired of having rabies.
Cletus:Give me back my belly fruit!
Cletus:Give me back my belly fruit!
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.
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.
Cletus · Brandine:Another party and we cain't go. Yeah. Just 'cause we's afraid of using the uppity box.
Cletus:Still?! Are you drownin' 'em or makin' love to 'em?
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.
Cletus:Hey, kids! The plow done birthed a girl-critter!
Cletus:Now, if you need me, I'll be on the porch drinkin' Thomsen's Water Seal.
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.'
Cletus:Now I don't sign nothin' without pretendin' to read it first.
Cletus:Hamburger, hamburger, hamburger, hamburger. Looks good!
Cletus:Brandine! You're supposed to be in Iraq, stopping 9/11!
Brandine · Cletus:How much money do we have left? Uh, I owe Krusty $12,000. We can live on that.
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
Cletus:That's hill-William to you, sir
Cletus:You heard Geraldo
Cletus:My wife's lookin' for a bathing suit that doesn't make her look 'horsey.' So, I'm gonna be here a while.
Cletus's Wife · Cletus:Is you man or turtle? Here's your answer. Skittle, skittle, scurry, skittle.
Cletus:Howdy, what's yours that mine's is Cletus?
Cletus:She had a regular city birth in a gas station.
Cletus:According to the traditions of the hill folk, by giving our daughter a cow, you've made a formal proposal of marriage.
Cletus:We always figured someday Mary would marry. That's why we called her Mary.
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?
Brandine · Cletus:Don't feel bad, sweetie. I was 13 when I married your father. - Yeah, and you'd already been divorced four times.
Cletus:So that's why that ghost keeps coming through the window. Afternoon. Fly away ghosty! Go back to your haunted cornfield!