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Character Analysis

Julie Kavner

Selma

Played by Julie Kavner

76 jokes across 22 episodes of The Simpsons

WAR

14.8

Total Jokes

76

Avg Craft

6.9

Avg Impact

6.5

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Selma delivers 76 scored jokes across 22 episodes of The Simpsons, averaging 6.9 on craft and 6.5 on impact for a career WAR of 14.8. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.

Funniest Selma Lines

All Jokes — 76 total

S1E01

Hello, Patty. Hello, Selma. How was your trip? Fine. you both look well. Thank you. Yeah, well, Merry Christmas. It's Christmas?

6.76.5
S1E01

you wouldn't know it around here. And why is that? For one thing, there's no tree I was just on my way out to get one!

5.85.5
S1E09

And when he surprised you with the Connie Chung calendar?

7.06.7
S1E09

Do you know the Heimlich Maneuver? - No. - Good.

8.38.2
S2E02

Patty, stop drooling. / Look who's talking.

7.06.8
S2E02

You look different, Homer. Lose weight? You got a tan. I know what it is, a new tie.

6.86.3
S2E07

Some people find your turkey a little dry. Now they'll have an option.

7.17.3
S2E07

-So insincere. -How does she put up with him?

6.05.3
S2E07

-Yikes! What is that? -It's the centerpiece. -It's taking up real estate. -Move it, toots!

6.46.3
S2E07

-Hey, that got her going! -Bitchen!

6.96.8
S2E15

Hello, Selma. Hello, Stanley.

6.76.0
S2E15

I'll get right to it. I'm getting older and uglier. Please, Marge, help me find a man before it's too late.

6.35.5
S2E15

Your first date in 25 years is more important than playing cards.

6.36.0
S2E15

You don't want to show up for your big date looking like Yosemite Sam.

6.35.0
S2E15

You don't want to show up for your big date looking like Yosemite Sam.

6.56.0
S2E15

Achingly beautiful.

6.55.5
S2E15

Two minutes younger. Skin like a china doll. Bosoms till Tuesday.

7.27.0
S2E15

Can the sweet talk! You're right. It's time to end my girlish dreams... and grab hold of the next train out of the station.

6.25.0
S2E15

It takes a ripe piece of cheese to catch the mouse.

7.16.5
S2E15

It's time to give away my love like cheap wine.

6.86.0
S2E15

Jeezum Crow! Look at the size of that rock! The second most precious jewel here.

6.36.0
S3E01

I said crazy house! Poorhouse. Crazy house! Poorhouse.

6.25.8
S3E09

What do you know. He's wearing pants. I owe you lunch.

7.36.8
S3E09

Ugly. / Ugly. Butch.

5.85.3
S3E09

You're also fat. / I'm also fat!

6.36.0
S3E10

And this is Patty trying to plug her razor into those ungodly Czechoslovakian outlets. As you can see, we never got the hang of it.

6.66.2
S3E21

You're forgetting the first two noble truths of the Buddha. - I am not. - Yes, you are.

6.75.8
S3E21

Don't be a fool. That man is scum. - Then call me 'Mrs. Scum.'

7.26.8
S3E21

I bought stock in a Mace company just before society crumbled.

7.57.2
S3E21

Holy frijoles! We've got ten minutes till MacGyver. Driver, here's a fin. Get me home, and don't spare the whip.

6.55.7
S3E21

41 years ago, God took 168 pounds of clay, and he made me a woman, and for this, I thank him.

6.75.5
S3E21

Soon I will kill you. - Huh? - Son pieds sentit beau-- French for 'her foot smells lovely.'

7.67.5
S3E21

Voy a matar a usted. - Wha? - That's Spanish for 'I am going to kill you.' - Say what?

7.77.7
S3E21

Don't forget to die. - Ding-dong.

7.77.5
S4E13

We're hugging us. What do we do? Just close your eyes and think of MacGyver.

7.67.0
S4E13

Why didn't she just leave me the bowel obstruction that killed her?

7.87.5
S4E13

Don't worry. We'll get that 'barking dog' record tomorrow. Patty, I want a baby.

6.96.3
S4E13

You're lookin' at a free lunch, boys. Come and get it. [Imitates Tiger Snarl]

7.06.8
S4E13

So, wearing a belt, are ya? Yep. No suspenders for you. I guess not.

7.06.8
S4E13

Cold biscuits... chicken... yellow... mailman. You're reading the wine list, sir.

7.16.7
S4E13

Aunt Selma, this may be presumptuous but have you ever considered artificial insemination? Boy, I don't know. You gotta be pretty desperate to make it with a robot.

7.37.2
S4E13

A Nobel Prize winner! An NBA All-Star! Ooh! One of the Sweathogs. I checked. It's not Horshack.

7.26.7
S4E13

Ooh! You look just like your picture.

6.55.5
S4E13

I got a lotta love to give and, right now, my only outlet is my ham radio.

7.77.3
S4E13

No man will want you. All I got now is sperm in a cup.

7.67.7
S4E13

Twenty-two immigrant laborers died during its construction. Plenty more where that came from.

7.36.7
S4E13

This is a disgrace. Settle down. Anything this bad has to be educational.

7.36.7
S4E13

You're charming the pants off of me. What did you say, Aunt Selma? I said take off those damn glasses!

7.27.0
S4E13

Can't you do something? Hey. Surly only looks out for one guy-- Surly. Sorry, Surly. Shut up.

7.67.0
S4E13

I think their father is missing a chromosome.

6.96.5
S4E13

You take an ordinary bed sheet, fold it around like this-- No. I mean raising kids.

7.16.5
S4E13

When I went to pick him up, Mom was trying to stab him with a hat pin.

7.26.8
S4E16

You can fit your whole head in it. / Don't be scared, JubJub. It's Mama.

7.16.8
S5E11

Selma, my dear, your lock of MacGyver's hair. / Ohh. Thank you. I'll add it to the ball.

7.36.7
S5E17

Patty and Selma tornado aftermath: 'I feel it all the way up my skirt' / 'Ditto'

6.65.8
S6E17

Now, bring us extra chairs like a good 'blubber'-in-law. Time to fertilize the lawn. A couple of 500-pound bags should do it!

6.46.0
S7E06

You're gonna help us clean and organize them. And pry out all the dead hermit crabs. Get a screwdriver.

7.06.3
S7E15

Nah, I just bought it to soak my feet in.

7.07.0
S7E19

How come no Chippendales dancers ever come in to renew their licenses? They carpool. That's the problem.

6.96.2
S7E19

I remember you from such films as Meet Joe Blow and Give My Remains to Broadway.

7.16.3
S7E19

Hmm? Hmm. Hmm. Mm-mmm. Hmm. Hmm. Oh.!

6.05.5
S7E19

Well, I think I'm getting Repetitive Stress Disorder from scratching my butt all day.

6.96.5
S7E19

Well, not much happens to me... but I once had dinner with a movie star... and it was the most wonderful night of my life. Really? Who was it? George Segal? I hear he plays the banjo.

6.86.2
S7E19

My God! It's like five cigarettes at once! Oh, my head is swimming! That's not cigars, baby. That's love.

7.26.8
S7E19

And do you, Selma Bouvier Terwilliger Bouvier... take the fabulous Troy McClure to be your lawful wedded husband? I already told you yes.

6.96.5
S7E19

I want to see the Troy McClure I remember from such films... as Make-Out King of Montana and The Electric Gigolo.

7.57.2
S7E19

My sisters have come down with a case of the green-eyed gazungas.

6.86.2
S7E19

You're tied down to a man who'd have to bathe to be a slob.

6.66.2
S7E19

Are you gay? Gay? I wish! If I were gay, there'd be no problem.

8.38.0
S7E19

Come on, JubJub. Let's go home, and I'll microwave you some nice roaches.

6.96.3
S7E21

I seem to have mashed more hair into it.

7.06.3
S7E23

I'd rather eat poison. My name's already Selma Bouvier Terwilliger Hutz McClure.

6.97.0
S7E23

God knows it's long enough without Nahassapetapeeta-whatever.

7.06.8
S9E04

This needs more eye of newt. You always want more eye of newt. If it were up to you, the brew would be nothing but newt eyes.

7.37.2
S9E05

Looking for a good time, sailor? I certainly am. No, you're not! He's really not.

6.25.5
S10E20

In your face, Patty and Selma! - Well, we still love you, Ciggy.

6.86.3