Good for memes. Bad for the human body.
Ow, my eye! I'm not supposed to get jigs in it!
—Lenny
In The Simpsons, particularly Homer but other characters as well have suffered some painful eye trauma on a few occasions.
- In "Lard of the Dance" Homer gets his face caught in a hose and one of his eyeballs is protruding. It happens again when Willie strangles him.
- In a flashback with him and Marge as kids, he accidentally stabs himself in the eye with a switchblade and has to wear a patch for a while.
- In "There's Something About Marrying", Patty puts out a cigarette in Homer's eye.
- In "Last Tap Dance In Springfield", Homer gets laser eye surgery but refuses to apply eye drops afterwards which causes his eyes to form a layer of crust over them, blinding him.
- In "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs", Homer hides from Bart in the Krusty Burger playplace ballpit and Bart pokes his eyes until you hear a loud squirting sound.
- In the movie, Homer receives a hammer claw to the eye. The fact that it's also a fake-out — viewers are led to believe he's going to smash his thumb, but he stabs himself in the eye instead — changes it somewhat from a squick moment to a giggle one. ("I'll teach... you to laugh... at something that's funny!")
- It happens all the time in Itchy and Scratchy in the most brutal ways possible. Somehow in-universe, it seems to be hilarious.
- In "Skinless in Seattle" on "Bart Sells His Soul", Itchy saws off the top half of the Space Needle, the point of which lands in — you guessed it — Scratchy's eye. He runs around in pain with the whole thing just slightly lodged in his eye.
- In an untitled cartoon from "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge", Itchy knocks Scratchy's eyes out with a sledgehammer and replaces them with a pair of lit Cartoon Bombs.
- Played for laughs in "Simpson Tide" when a war veteran with an eyepatch tells a story: "Lost this eye in Haiti. I was drinking a Mai Tai and forgot to take the little parasol out."
- In "Old Yeller Belly", Gil gets kicked out of the Springfield Men's Mission. Strapped for cash, he goes into a shop on the other side of the road named 'Sell your Eyeballs for Money!' Squick. You don't see this, but you still hear two plucking sounds in succession.
- "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass", Flanders had his kids act out violent Bible stories for a movie he was going to make and after acting out the story of Cain and Abel, one of the kids looks like he has his eyeball hanging out of its socket.
- Lenny has a small Running Gag of things frequently hurting his eye and exclaiming about it in a Captain Obvious way. Although even without his Mad Libs Catchphrase it tends to happen to him a lot.
- In "Saddlesore Galactica" a State Fair salesman sells a product called Omnigogs which are intended to stop the elastic band from a newspaper pinging off and hitting you in the eye. Then it pans to a dejected Lenny with a bandaged eye.
A little late for Lenny...- "Homer vs Dignity", has Homer start off his downward spiral into being Mr. Burns' personal "Prank Monkey" is him being paid to hit Lenny with a pudding cup and does so twice.
"My eye! I'm not supposed to get pudding in it!"- "'Tis the Fifteenth Season" has Homer giving Lenny a cube with pictures as a gift, mentioning he even cut the sharp corners off so it won't hurt so much if it hits Lenny in the eye. He promptly demonstrates how little it hurts by hitting Lenny in the eye with it.
- In "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner", Lenny has a bit part in a horror movie where an evil doll kills his character and sews buttons into his eyes. According to Lenny, the buttons were actually held on with hot wax.
- In "The Great Wife Hope", Homer and Bart agree that there is nothing funnier than self-inflicted violence/pain .. and Homer gets the straw from his drink shoved into his eye.
- In "Faith Off", after Homer gets a bucket glued onto his head, Bart tries to drill eye holes for him with predictable results. Oddly, he takes it completely calmly: "Easy, easy...(squish) Too far."
- The primary side effect to Lisa's happy drug in "The Scorpion's Tale": dangling eyeballs. Ew.
- In "Gone Maggie Gone", Marge tries to watch a solar eclipse raw. She's awestruck by it until the sun comes back out and completely burns her eyeballs to nothing. Complete with a bloodcurdling scream for good measure.
- In "Treehouse of Horror XXII", Homer is paralyzed by a spider bite; later, unable to defend himself, he is treated to a similar spider crawling up his nose and, yup, into his eye sockets.
- In "The Great Louse Detective", Sideshow Bob sings about Bart: "I've grown accustomed to his face! And dream of gouging out his eyes!"
- In "Puffless", Homer pours bleach in his eyes after walking in on Patty in the shower, then pours it in Bart's eyes when he's about to do the same. He later does it to himself again when he remembers the incident, then pours it in his ear when he has an Imagine Spot of him and Patty making out.
- In "Das Bus", when the kids race with fruit on the bus, a grapefruit gets stuck under the brake pedal and Otto presses down hard enough to crush it and send juice into his eyes, blinding him and causing him to drive the bus into the sea.
