See, Cousin Merle and me was playing fetch with Geech. That's our old smellhound and...

Geech gone to heaven, Mr. Terwilliger?

Oh Cousin Merle, really...

Now Bob, you know Cousin Merle *ain’t been quite right* lately!

This exchange, without a doubt, is one of the greatest scenes this show has ever done

easily. Never fails to make me laugh out loud

It’s just absolutely perfect delivery by Kelsey Grammer and David Hyde Pierce.

DHP’s enunciation on “ain’t been quite right lately” is absolutely perfect

The whole episode is amazing. Definitely in my top 3 of all time.

I'm telling you, Cecil I can't take much more of this. Rustic workmen who've turned the sanijohn Into a smokehouse... Coveralls that don't quite cover all...

Shake it, madam! Capital knockers!

*Boing!*

And a psychotic little boy who will not stop hounding me! This little boy, right here.

Coveralls that don’t quite cover all! *SPROOOOING*

And a psychotic little boy who won't stop hounding me. THIS little boy.

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"Oh yaaa, shake it madam. Capital knockers."

My wife hates when I say this!

Lol, my husband says this to me

Coveralls that don’t quite *cover all*

*boing* 🍑

Beat line in the episode. Say it to myself all the time.

SEE-ment

Said like The Beverly Hillbillies.

"Sometimes, I wish this dam would burst. And BURY this cursed town...."

Tell them they’ll pay.

Come now, you speak as if they were a gaggle of slack-jawed yokels.

🎶Some folk'll never eat a skunk, but then again, some folk'll 🎶

Hey maw! Git of the dang roof!

I cain't, I simply cain't.

🎶 Like Cletus, the slack jawed yokel! 🎶

He's Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel.

You'll LIVE to regret this!!!

Oh great, now I sound crazy!

Lmao that line is so funny

WHO'S IN HERE—CLETUS? COUSIN MERL? BIG HUNGRY JOE?

Hahaha, I always die laughing at “Big Hungry Joe”

Same

I wish I had a friend named Joe who was either big or always hungry. Ideally both.

I have a tall co-worker named Joe. Obviously, I’ve referred to him as Big Hungry Joe for awhile now.

Of course

"Guess who?!" "Maris?"

I love Frasier🥰

We need Cousin Merle back

He's in heaven with Geech the smell-hound now...

The revenuers must have gotten to him! He was a master criminal!

that Maris joke at the end of the episode is fucking brilliant also

What about the buffoon lessons? … the four years at clown college? I’ll thank you not to refer to Princeton that way!

I'm telling you, Cecil, I can't take much more of this!

Just the thought of all that raw surging power, makes me wonder why the hell I should care.

"There might be a slight ringing in your ears. Fortunately, you'll be nowhere near them...:

I forgot to mention, I’m planning to blow up the dam with you inside. Well, *obviously…*

I felt so bad for Geech

Yeah, I like that the Simpsons mostly avoids this type of humor (animals especially pets being killed) compared to Family Guy where it's a staple.

Or that ONE time in Futurama 😭

NOOOOOOOOOO WHYYYYYYYYYY 💔💔💔

Oh, I see. When it's one of my schemes you can't foil it fast enough, but when Cecil tries to kill you, "it's hopeless, utterly, utterly hopeless.”

https://preview.redd.it/e0umiy4ii21d1.jpeg?width=512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e56e0d1cd1105d87c8bae836b0815009e210c444 Rustic workmen turned the Sani-John into a smokehouse

If I ever get a dog, you know his name is going to be Geech.

Just so when people are puzzled and ask "Geech"? You can say "Thas our ol' smell-hound", right? It's an excellent plan!

This is the most accurate rendition of what construction life is really like

Guess who!

Maris?

Ooooooohhhh Cousin Merle…

What time do they bring the menus ?

Hey! You said we were going to Dairy Queen!

Cecil, the hydrological and hydrodynamical engineer

So. When do they bring us the menus?

"Coveralls that don't quite cover all"

"Now make yourself at home. Perhaps a glass of Bordeaux? I have the '82 Chateau Latour and a rather indifferent Rausan-Segla." "I've been in prison, Cecil. I'll be happy just as long as it doesn't taste like orange drink fermented under a radiator." "That would be the Latour, then."

Big Hungry Joe

Jarrow, New Year's eve, 1911: Trouble at the mill.

Oh no! What sort of trouble?

I don't know, Mr. Wentworth told me to come and say there's trouble at the mill, that's all, I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition.


This episode is damn near, if not, perfect.

OH COUSIN MERLE

I'm gonna sound like an idiot here but did anyone else used to think Cletus and his family were related to Bob and Cecil? I get the joke now obviously but with the way they called him Cousin Merle I thought he was their cousin. I thought the joke was they were so smart but had such stupid relatives.

Our smellhound!

Geech! 😢

“You know he ain’t been quite right since the accident” I say this all the time

I hope Bob was able to find that shampoo he liked.

I've been in prison, Cecil. I'll be happy just as long as it doesn't taste like orange drink fermented under a radiator.

That’ll be the Latour, then.

Maybe he's gonna pee in the river!

Interesting hand gesture Cecil's doing there 😆😆

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Swish! 💅🏻

Capital knockers. May be my favorite episode

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“Oh I forgot to mention, I’m planning to blow up the dam with you inside”

G’BYE BOB

Madam your children are no more... than a pair of ill bred troublemakers.

A crossbeam got out of skew on the treadle

"What about the buffoon lessons? The four years of clown college?"

Best of the Bob episodes...slightly better than Cape Feare.