There's No Disgrace Like Home

Rating: 3.2 (245 votes)

Memorable quotes

Homer: I want you to show your father some love and/or respect.
Lisa: Tough choice.
Bart: I'm taking respect.

Mr. Burns: And this must be (reads card) little Brat.
Bart: Bart!
Homer: Don't correct the man, Brat.

Mr. Burns: Make yourselves at home.
Bart: Hear that dad? You can lie around in your underwear and scratch yourself.

Homer: Now, as far as anyone knows, we're a nice, normal family.

Bart: Kiss you? But dad, I'm your kid.

Homer: I'm sorry, Marge, but sometimes I think we're the worst family in town.
Marge: Maybe we should move to a larger community.

Homer: You know, Moe, my mom once said something that really stuck with me. She said, "Homer, you're a big disappointment." And God bless her soul, she was really onto something.

Homer: When will I learn? The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle. They're on TV!

Marge: Couldn't we pawn my engagement ring instead?
Homer: Now, I appreciate that, honey...but we need one hundred and fifty dollars here!

Receptionist: Will you be paying by cash or check?
Homer: Cash, of course! I've got two hundred and fifty dollars right here with me. I'm holding it right now... here it is, look, check it out... two hundred and fifty big ones...
Bart: If you really wanted to impress her, why don't you show her the empty space where our TV used to be?

Notes

• Smithers wears his ID badge at the picnic.
• One of the gelatin desserts at the picnic is shaped like the cooling towers from the plant.
• The "perfect" family leaving the therapy center resemble the Simpsons family.
• At the picnic, some people change color while clapping.
• Dr. Marvin Monroe keeps the aggression therapy mallets in a gun cabinet.

References

• The scene where Homer sees his family turn evil parodies The Twilight Zone.