Get two Simpsons fans in a room, and they’ll have a conversation that is 80 percent quotes from the show. (“Aw, you can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. Forty percent of all people know that.â€) The combination of 500-plus episodes and consistently hilarious writing has resulted in a cache of quotable lines unlike any that has ever been amassed by one show. Vulture has very scientifically (“Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it endsâ€) determined the most essential, most memorable, most perfectly cromulent quotes, from chimpan-a to chimpan-zee (fine, that one doesn’t make sense — d’oh!). If your favorite isn’t here (don’t blame us, we voted for Kodos), please throw it in the comments. Enjoy while we replenish those sold-out Bort license plates.
