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Character Analysis

Harry Shearer

Otto

Played by Harry Shearer

78 jokes across 32 episodes of The Simpsons

WAR

31.2

Total Jokes

78

Avg Craft

7.1

Avg Impact

6.8

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Otto delivers 78 scored jokes across 32 episodes of The Simpsons, averaging 7.1 on craft and 6.8 on impact for a career WAR of 31.2. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.

Funniest Otto Lines

All Jokes — 76 total

S1E03

Uh, sorry, little dudes. Party hardy was tardy.

6.35.5
S1E03

This morning I woke up with this one. / Not till you're 14, my little friend.

7.06.2
S1E03

We all know the tragic story of the young man who stuck his arm out the window and had it ripped off by a big truck coming in the other direction. And I was that boy.

8.58.3
S1E03

Look, there's our school again. / It's a shortcut, Mrs. K. Trust me.

6.96.3
S1E05

Good-bye, little dude. He looks so lifelike, man

6.97.3
S2E01

Hey, Bart-dude. You look freaked. I got a test I'm not ready for. Can you crash the bus?

7.57.3
S2E01

Sorry, I can't do it on purpose. But maybe you'll get lucky.

7.67.5
S2E01

Otto, I respect you. You let us throw stuff at cars and try to tip the bus. Damn thing never goes over, does it?

7.47.3
S2E01

I got held back in the fourth grade. Twice. And look at me, man. Now I drive the school bus!

8.08.3
S2E08

As the only adult here, I feel I should say something. What? Cool!

7.88.0
S2E14

Bart-dude! Hey, Otto-man! Yo, hairy bro.

6.45.7
S2E17

Here's a rendering. Note the cobra wrapped around the naked chick.

6.86.8
S2E21

My own idea for a comic book. It's about a dude who drives a school bus by day... but by night, fights vampires in a postapocalyptic war zone!

7.57.2
S2E22

Otto-man! You work here? All my friends are in school... so I got a job as a bloodletting tech-dude!

6.86.5
S3E05

Hey, look at that dog. Isn't that something? Wow! Brown.

7.57.2
S3E05

Don't learn anything... I wouldn't learn

7.36.5
S3E05

Got a bad case of the munchies, man. Time for a heat-lamp dog

7.06.8
S3E05

Did you know there's a child in your bus? Good thing you warned me. I was heading to Mexico.

7.67.2
S3E05

My old lady ran off and married my brother. It hurt, but it's a month later, and I'm sleeping on their couch

7.98.2
S3E07

Oh, wait. You're the little dude with the gnarly powers.

6.86.7
S3E22

That's all I did in high school. My old man said I was wasting my time... and I'd never amount to anything. I, uh... Hmm.

7.36.8
S3E22

We don't have seat belts. Uh... Well, then just try to go limp.

7.77.3
S3E22

It's a miracle... no one was hurt. I stand on my record-- 1 5 crashes and not a single fatality.

8.18.2
S3E22

Let's see your license, pal. No can do. Never got one. If you need proof of my identity... I wrote my name on my underwear. Oh, wait-- these aren't mine.

7.77.3
S3E22

Yeah, one: Have you always been a chick? No offense, but you were born a man, weren't you? You can tell me. I'm open-minded.

6.56.0
S3E22

Well, you failed every segment... and misspelled ''bus'' on your application. Drag.

7.57.3
S3E22

All I found in there was a jar of mustard... and a couple of old Cycle magazines. Wow! I had mustard?

7.87.5
S3E22

Otto man? You're living in a Dumpster? Oh, man, I wish. Dumpster brand trash bins are top-of-the-line. This is just a Trash-co waste disposal unit.

8.48.5
S3E22

The admiral and I don't get along.

7.26.8
S3E22

The can of corn costs... 57 ¢! I could sure go for a can of corn.

7.06.5
S3E22

Uh, you got any of those Where's Waldo? books? No. - Anything from the vampire's point of view? - No. Anything where guys... send in naked pictures of their chicks?

7.47.0
S3E22

Hey, Pop-N-Fresh! You're supposed to giggle. Gyyaaagh!!

6.66.0
S3E22

Did the maniac kill her? Natch. You know how I know? How? Because... I was that maniac.

7.26.7
S3E22

This is not Happy Days, and he is not the Fonz. Hey-y-y, Mr. S.

7.37.0
S3E22

There's plenty of money out there... for a guy who knows how to fake his own death.

7.57.3
S3E22

Wow. I've never been called an adult before. I've been tried as one, but...

8.48.3
S3E22

''Alcohol increases your ability to drive.'' False?! Oh, man!

7.57.3
S3E22

He didn't call you a bum. He called you a sponge. Sponge?! Does this look like something a sponge would do?! I'll show him... who's a sponge.

7.26.8
S3E22

So I can staple my license... to Homer Simpson's big bald head!

7.16.7
S3E23

My girlfriend's dancing topless at the airport bar from 4:15 to 4:20.

7.46.8
S4E02

My name is 'Ot-to!' I'm playing 'Pab-lo!'

6.35.3
S4E04

Challenge accepted!

6.36.0
S4E04

I'll be in Mexico till this thing blows over.

7.17.2
S4E15

It doesn't look very clean. Just do your job, heart boy.

6.36.0
S4E16

My name is Otto. I love to get blotto.

6.76.3
S5E05

Oh-- I hope this is sweat.

6.66.0
S5E05

No! Oh, no. I just made my last payment.

7.36.8
S5E07

Otto, are you okay? Yeah. Just pop my shoulder back in. [Cracks] Ooh. Thanks, buddy. Hey, I lost my turn.

6.96.7
S5E11

All right! Free laserium. All the colors of the 'bow, man.

7.47.3
S5E11

You let me down, man! Now I don't believe in nothing no more. I'm going to law school. / No!

8.07.7
S5E20

Prison bus, Otto? - The regular school bus broke down. So take a seat before I blow your heads off! - Otto! - Oh, sorry. This bus and I have sort of a Shining thing going on.

7.77.5
S5E20

And to think I got all this after dropping out of the fourth grade.

6.25.7
S5E22

Whoa. You think you got 'em all, but you forget about the eggs.

7.06.7
S5E22

[Crushes Insect] Whoa. You think you got 'em all, but you forget about the eggs.

7.37.3
S6E01

No way, man. One day of summer's all we're budgeted for.

7.27.0
S6E01

I guess it is kind of a tease.

6.86.3
S6E21

This bus has seen better days. Well, at least it's safer than the old bus.

5.14.5
S6E21

And a mint for afterwards. Five dollars a child? Last year it was free! New ownership.

5.65.0
S6E21

Get them! Use your phony guns as clubs! Run, children. Start the bus, Otto! Start the bus! Damn! I shouldn't have eaten the mint first.

6.46.7
S7E06

Whoa! Another acid flashback. Man, I'd hate to be driving a bus right now!

7.87.7
S7E08

Yes, I'd like to send this letter to the Prussian consulate in Siam by aeromail. Am I too late for the 4:30 autogiro?

7.57.3
S7E12

Oh, man! I knew I was gonna choke.

7.06.3
S7E12

Wow! Look at all the colors, man! Red, green, yellow, orange! I remember all of these!

7.27.0
S7E21

Chewing gum's got to be chewed out.

7.06.3
S7E24

Otto waking up from dream about being a safe bus driver while actually driving the bus

7.37.7
S9E13

Man, this whole place puffs of the wacky-tabbacky. I'm out of here.

7.26.8
S9E13

Going somewhere? Uh, though you're free to do so. Uh- [Chuckles Nervously] No. Just rearranging my underwear. Ah. There it is.

7.07.0
S9E14

Man, I don't know why I bought this stupid tape.

6.25.7
S9E14

Stay calm, kids. I need you to be my eyes. Okay. Which way should I turn?

6.05.7
S9E14

Just hang tight, kids. I'll swim for help.

6.96.8
S9E14

Zeppelin rules!

7.57.0
S9E14

Oh! Thank the good dude, I'm saved! And we can go back for the kids too. Hmm.

7.57.5
S9E14

I think I'm gonna like it on this boat.

6.96.5
S9E14

I think I'm gonna like it on this boat.

6.36.5
S9E19

No way, man. My hair is who I am! / Ow, I'm a freak!

6.46.0
S10E07

Weren't you at Brown, Otto? / Yep. Almost got tenure too

7.36.7