Dr. HibbertMrs. Simpson, I'm afraid your husband is dead. [Simpson family gasps except for Marge, Bart and Lisa, laughs] April Fools. He's very much alive, although I'm afraid he may never walk again.
A character in The Simpsons
Played by Harry Shearer
The Simpsons · 3,477 quotes
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Most scenes with: Homer Simpson (19), Bart Simpson (5), Marge Simpson (5)
Dr. HibbertMrs. Simpson, I'm afraid your husband is dead. [Simpson family gasps except for Marge, Bart and Lisa, laughs] April Fools. He's very much alive, although I'm afraid he may never walk again.
Dr. HibbertNow, a little death anxiety is normal. You can expect to go through five stages. The first is denial.
No way, because I'm not dying!
Dr. HibbertThe second is anger.
[furiously] Why you little...! [shouts madly]
Dr. HibbertAfter that comes fear.
[worried] What's after fear? What's after fear?!
Dr. HibbertBargaining.
Doc, you gotta get me outta this. I'll make it worth your while.
Dr. HibbertFinally acceptance.
Well, we all gotta go sometime.
Dr. HibbertMr. Simpson, your progress astounds me.
[Homer is passed out on the floor as everyone leaves Marge's party]
Dr. HibbertIf you want him to live through the night, I suggest you roll him onto his stomach.
Thank you, Doctor.
Dr. HibbertRemember, I said "if".
[Homer runs into the delivery room after Marge has gone into labor]
Marge! Marge, where's the baby?!
[pointing to Marge's belly] Right where you left it!
Shut up!
[stands up and stares down Homer] Hey listen, fat boy!
[furious] NO, YOU LISTEN! This is my wife, and this is my kid, and I'm paying for this delivery, so if you wanna stay, you'd better show me some respect!
Homer, does this mean...?
Starting tomorrow, I'm a nuclear technician!
Dr. Hibbert[horrified] Good God!
[bursts thru the ward] This man is costing my health plan $5000 a day! I demand that Joe die with dignity. [he plugs the plug]
Dr. HibbertNow, look, I'm the doctor here.
Well, I demand a second opinion.
[pops in] Hi, everybody!
Hi, Dr. Nick! [Nick pokes Homer's abdomen with a reflex hammer]
[squeaks] Mrrh.
Oh dear, I see no signs of life. Just to be safe, we better pull the plug.
Yoink!
[Homer is eating expired meat he bought at the Kwik-E-Mart]
Homer [as his stomach grumbles]: Ooh! Stomach...churning! [keeps eating the expired ham. His stomach grumbling gets more intense. Begins to double over]: Bowels...clenching. Not much time. [falls off the couch, off-screen]: Must finish! [eating sounds]
[Cut to an ambulance speeding down the street, sirens wailing]
[Establishing shot of Springfield General Hospital. Cut to a sick Homer in a hospital bed with Marge, the kids, and Dr. Hibbert standing over him]
Dr. HibbertWell, sir, Homer's illness was either caused by ingesting spoiled food or...[chuckles]: some sort of voodoo curse.
[whip pan to Patty and Selma with a purse]
Hey! We've just been working the eyes. [Selma holds up a Homer-shaped voodoo doll with 12 needles (six on each eye) in his eyes]
[some time later]
Your old meat made me sick!
Why, I'm so sorry. Please accept five pounds of frozen shrimp. [Homer picks up and sniffs a piece of shrimp]
This shrimp isn't frozen – and it smells funny!
Okay, ten pounds.
Woo-hoo!
[Cut to the same ambulance as before speeding down the street, sirens still wailing]
HibbertI'm sorry, that leg's going to have to come off. [Homer and Bart gasps] Ha, ha, ha. Did I say "leg"? I meant that wet bathing suit. I'm afraid you'll need a cast on that broken bone.
Aw, I'm going to miss the whole summer.
Don't worry, boy. When you get a job like me, you'll miss every summer.
[Homer holds Maggie for the first time.]
Awww, it's a boy. [looking down] And what a boy!
Dr. HibbertUh... that's the umbilical cord; it's a girl.
Dr. HibbertWell, I couldn't possibly solve this mystery. Can you?
[points at viewer as if he's breaking the fourth wall; camera zooms out to reveal he's actually pointing at Chief Wiggum]
Yeah, I'll give it a shot. I mean, it's my job, right?
HibbertHomer, this is your physician, Dr. Julius Hibbert. Can you tell us what it's like in there?
Um, it's like, uh... did anyone see the movie Tron?
HibbertNo.
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Yes. I no. I mean, no. No.
[Frink draws a strange diagram on the wall]
Well, where's my dad?
Well, it should be obvious to even the most dim-witted individual who holds an advanced degree in hyperbolic topology, n'gee, that Homer Simpson has stumbled into... [lights off] the third di-mension.
[switches the light on] Sorry.
[draws a square on the chalkboard] Here is an ordinary square.
Whoa, whoa! Slow down, egghead.
But suppose we extend the square beyond the two dimensions of our universe... along the hypothetical "Z" axis there.
[gasps]
This forms a three-dimensional object known as a cube, or a "Frinkahedron," in honor of its discoverer, n-gl'hey, n'hey.
[in echo voice] Help me! Are you helping me? Or are you going on and on?
Oh, right. And, of course, within we find the doomed individual.
Enough of your borax, Poindexter! A man's life is at stake. We need action!
[Wiggum takes out his gun and fires into the wall]
Take that, you lousy dimension!
[speaking on a large TV screen] Hello, Springfield. Sorry to divert your attention from all the big noises and shiny things. But something's been troubling me lately: television! Wouldn't our lives be so much richer if television were done away with?
What?
Dr. HibbertSurely he's not talking about VH1.
Why, we could revive the lost arts of conversation...and scrimshaw. Thus I submit to you, we abolish television...permanently!
Go back to Massachusetts, pinko!
Oh, and one more thing-- I've stolen a nuclear weapon. And if you do not rid this city of television in two hours, I will detonate it. Farewell. [Bob cuts the link, then turns it back on] By the way, I'm well aware of the irony of appearing on TV in order to decry it, so don't bother pointing that out.
Doctor HibbertYes, I remember Bart's birth well. You don't forget a thing like... [dramatic] Siamese twins!
I believe they prefer to be called "conjoined twins".
Doctor HibbertAnd Hillbillies prefer to be called "sons of the soil", but it ain't gonna happen!
[Flashback is being shown in which Marge has given birth to Siamese twins. One of them starts gnawing on the other's arm.]
I think I'll bottle-feed that one.
Doctor Hibbert[voiceover from the present] A routine soul smear confirmed the presence of pure evil, it was then I knew the option was to separate you 2... immediately. [from the past] You both need to sign these. [voiceover from the present] But what to do with poor Hugo? Too crazy for Boy's Town; too much of a boy for Crazy Town. The child was an outcast. [Back in the present.] So we did the only humane thing.
We chained Hugo up in the attic like an animal and fed him a bucket of fish heads once a week.
It saved our marriage.
[Shoots a beer can open] Anyone else want a beer?
Dr. HibbertHomer! You use your gun as a can opener?
I use it for everything! Watch me turn on the TV. [Shoots the TV, it turns on, and a cowboy onscreen falls down dead]
I've never seen such recklessness!
You mighta hurt someone!
Are you some kinda moron?!
Yeah, but--
Hey, yutz! Guns aren't toys! They're for family protection, hunting dangerous or delicious animals, and keepin' the King of England out of your face.
Your membership card, please, Homer. [Homer sadly hands him the card, and he tears it up] I'll also need to remove your tattoo. [holds up a grater]
I didn't get one yet.
Rats.
Doctor, will he be all right?
Dr. HibbertYes, he was lucky. If that were a gladiola, he'd be dead right now.
Why don't you just pull it out?
Dr. Hibbert[laughs] I'm a doctor, not a gardener.
Couldn't you prune some of the leaves so I can watch TV?
Dr. HibbertWhat did I just say?
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