- [the expression "pull a Homer" meaning "succeed despite idiocy" is added to the dictionary]
- Lisa Simpson: Our dad - now he belongs to the ages.
- Computer Voice: Warning, core temperature rising.
- Homer Simpson: [waking up from his nap] "Core temperature rising"? That sounds serious! Okay, okay, calm down. Whoever's problem this is, I'm sure they know how to handle it...
- [He turns, and sees his own board lit up]
- Homer Simpson: Ah! It's my problem! WE'RE DOOMED!
- Milhouse Van Houten: Bart, my mom won't let me be your friend anyore. That's why you couldn't come to the party.
- Bart Simpson: What's she got against me?
- [pointing at himself, annoyed]
- Milhouse Van Houten: She says you're a bad influence.
- Bart Simpson: Bad influence my butt! How many times have I told you: Never listen to your mother!
- [leaning over the table and pointing]
- Milhouse Van Houten: But, Bart, she threatened to cut off my allowance.
- Bart Simpson: What ever she's paying you, I'll double it.
- Mr. Burns: Yes, we've isolated the problem. Wouldn't you know, false alarm. It seems that some...
- Marge Simpson: Whew.
- Mr. Burns: ...single wayward crow flew into our warning system.
- Kent Brockman: Very good. Well, sir, your point about nuclear hysteria is well taken. This reporter promises to be more trusting and less vigilant in the future.
- Mr. Burns: Excellent.
- Marge Simpson: [Bart and Maggie are playing Monopoly] Bart, don't feed your sister hotels.
- Bart Simpson: Don't worry, Mom, there's tons of these things.
- Marge Simpson: I think that game is too old for her. Why don't you go play with Milhouse?
- Bart Simpson: I don't wanna play with Milhouse.
- Marge Simpson: You mean you still haven't made up with him?
- Bart Simpson: It's his Mom. She says I'm a bad influence. Come on, Maggie, let's go throw rocks at that hornet's nest.
- Homer Simpson: What? What is it? What are you doing?
- [on the couch watching TV and annoyed at Lisa just watching him]
- Lisa Simpson: Looking at you with quiet awe.
- Homer Simpson: Well, as long as it's quiet.
- Luann Van Houten: Well, Marge, the other day, Milhouse told me my meatloaf "sucks". He must have gotten that from your little boy, because they certainly don't say that word on TV.
- Lisa Simpson: A role model in my very own home. How convenient.
- Homer Simpson: Look - I get enough admiration and respect at work! I don't need it here at home!
- Kent Brockman: On the line with us now is plant owner C. Montgomery Burns. Mr. Burns...
- Mr. Burns: Oh, hello, Kent. Right now skilled nuclear energy technicians are clamly correcting a minor piffling malfunction.
- [cut to people running around screaming and others breaking into a vending machine]
- Mr. Burns: But I can assure you and the public there's absolutely no danger whatsoever. Things couldn't be more ship-shape.
- [cut to Smithers putting a thick nuclear safety suit on Mr. Burns]
- Smithers: Sir, where's my radiation suit?
- Mr. Burns: How the hell should I know?
- [covering up the "Smithers" name label on the suit]
- Kent Brockman: Ah, Mr. Burns, people are calling this a meltdown.
- Mr. Burns: Oh, hoho, meltdown. It's one of those annoying buzz words. We prefer to call it an unrequested fission surplus.
- [after Homer, for the second time, saves the day by sheer dumb luck]
- Aristotle Amadopoulis: Thank you, Homer, for saving my plant...
- [throws down his sunglasses]
- Aristotle Amadopoulis: With that idiotic rhyming! Do you even know what button you pushed?
- Homer Simpson: Sure. "Moe."
- Marge Simpson: Mrs. Van Houten, I'm Bart's mother. We met in the emergency room when the boys drank paint?
- Luann Van Houten: I remember. Please, come in.
- Barney Gumble: [Barney's advice to Homer before he has to give a big speech to the workers at a power plant in Shelbyville to help calm him down] Just picture everyone in their underwear.
- Lisa Simpson: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha heh... Bart, you're not laughing. Too subtle?
- [after watching Itchy give Scratchy acid for a drink, then throw acid in Scartchy's face, and Scratchy run outside and get his by a trolly]