Lisa: [to Bart] And now, you can go back to just being you instead of a one-dimensional character with a silly catchphrase!
[Homer, reclining on the couch, leans sideways too much, knocking over the lamp with his elbow and smashing it]
Homer: [closing his eyes in anger] D'oh!
Bart: ¡Ay, caramba!
[Marge grumbles, and Maggie sucks her pacifier]
Flanders: [waving from outside] Hidely-ho!
[Barney enters the house, a beer in hand, and belches, and Nelson, on the stairs, slaps his knees and laughs mockingly]
Mr. Burns: [by Nelson, tenting his fingers] Excellent!
[Everyone gathers around Lisa, expecting her to debut her own catchphrase. She isn't having this one bit.]
Lisa: If anyone wants me, I'll be in my room.
[She leaves. Fade Out]
Homer: [annoyed] What kinda catchphrase is that?
— Bart Gets Famous
[Homer, reclining on the couch, leans sideways too much, knocking over the lamp with his elbow and smashing it]
Homer: [closing his eyes in anger] D'oh!
Bart: ¡Ay, caramba!
[Marge grumbles, and Maggie sucks her pacifier]
Flanders: [waving from outside] Hidely-ho!
[Barney enters the house, a beer in hand, and belches, and Nelson, on the stairs, slaps his knees and laughs mockingly]
Mr. Burns: [by Nelson, tenting his fingers] Excellent!
[Everyone gathers around Lisa, expecting her to debut her own catchphrase. She isn't having this one bit.]
Lisa: If anyone wants me, I'll be in my room.
[She leaves. Fade Out]
Homer: [annoyed] What kinda catchphrase is that?
— Bart Gets Famous
- Nearly every character who has appeared more than ten times has at least one, with the notable exception of Lisa. The writers and producers of The Simpsons deliberately changed Bart's catchphrase on a regular basis, even going so far as to do a Lampshade Hanging about it in one episode (where Bart becomes famous for his catchphrase "I didn't do it", and that ends with a long sequence of characters spouting their catchphrase, ending with all of them staring expectantly at Lisa, who has no catchphrase and goes to her room in a huff.
- That soon changed "Summer of 4 ft 2" when Lisa used some of Bart's catchphrases to impress her new friends.
- Also, parodied in The Simpsons' "Homer to the Max" episode, in which a TV cop, also named Homer Simpson, has the catch phrase "And that's the end of that chapter." When he was reworked to be a clumsy oaf, his catchphrase became "Uh-oh, Spaghetti-os!"
- The changing of Bart's catchphrases was lampshaded a couple of times - in "The Summer of 4' 2" Bart complains to Marge that Lisa became popular by copying him, just as she says "Don't have a cow, man". Marge replies "You haven't said that in four years. Let Lisa have it." And in "Skinner's Sense of Snow", Bart reads "Underachiever and proud of it" in his permanent record and asks "How old is this thing?"
- Bart Simpson: "Eat my shorts!", "Don't have a cow, man.", "Ay caramba!", (when introducing himself) "I'm Bart Simpson, who the hell are you?"
- Homer Simpson: "D'oh!", "Woo-hoo!", "Mmmm... [food (usually donuts)]...", (before strangling Bart) "Why you little—!", (spotting something that interests him) "Ooh!", (disappointed) "Oh..." or "Aw...", "The Simpsons are going to [location]!", "Stupid Flanders!", "AAAHH!!!"
- Marge Simpson: "Hrmmm..."
- Maggie Simpson: her "sucking pacifier" sound
- Mr. Burns: "Excellent!", "You're fired!", "Release the hounds!", "Simpson, eh?"
- Smithers: "Sir", "That's, uh, Homer Simpson, sir, one of your [insulting term]s from Sector 7-G."
- Barney Gumble: his belch
- Krusty: "Hey Hey (laugh)", "Uuuuggggh"
- Apu: "Thank you, come again."
- Ned Flanders: "Hidely-ho, neighborino!", "diddly", "Okily dokily!"
- Comic Book Guy: "Worst [whatever] EVER!"
- Nelson Muntz: "Ha-ha!"
- The Yes-guy: "Yeeeeeeeeees?"
- Duffman: "Duffman [does x]. Oh yeah!"
- Bumblebee Man: "Ay ay, no es bueno.", "¡Ay, ay, ay, no me gusta!", "¡Ay, Dios no me ama!"
- Lenny: "Oh my eye, I'm not supposed to get [x] in it."
- Edna Krabappel: "Ha!"
- Superintendent Chalmers: "SKINN-ER!!!"
- Skinner: (gasp) Superintendent Chalmers!
- Troy McClure: "Hi, I'm Troy McClure! You may remember me from such [genre he's currently appearing in]s as [title X] and [title Y]."
- Cletus Spuckler: "Hey Brandine!"
- Dr. Nick: "Hi, everybody!"
- Everybody: "Hi, Dr. Nick!"
- Dr. Hibbert: his laughter at inappropriate moments
- Sideshow Bob: (menacingly) "Hello, Bart." Also his grumbling whenever he steps on a rake.
- Bart (often joined by others): "Aah! Sideshow Bob!"
- Rich Texan: Ye-haw! (fires guns wildly into the air)
- Mayor Quimby: "Vote Quimby!"
- Helen Lovejoy: "Think of the Children! Won't somebody please think of the children?!"
- The Sea Captain: "Yarrr..."
- Crazy Cat Lady: (incoherent gibberish)
- Rod and Todd Flanders: "Yay!"
- Groundskeeper Willie: "Aye".
- Professor Frink: "nghagle", "glavin", and his other sounds.
- Shauna Chalmers: "I'm Shauna!"
- Disco Stu: "Disco Stu [x]", often something rhyming with "Stu".
- Lou: "Uh, Chief?"
- Kang and Kodos: (evil laughter)
- Snake: "Bye!", "All RIGHT!", "Dude!"
- Reverend Lovejoy: "Damn Flanders..."
- Otto: "All right!", "Yo, Bart dude."
- Moe: "Ah, geez!"
- Chief Wiggum: "That's some nice ______."
