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FOX network's most successful series to date. A segment spinoff of "The Tracey Ullman Show," this animated series depicts the ups and downs of the Simpsons, a strangely typical American family living in Springfield. The family includes Homer, a father whose head is often ruled by his stomach and who works at the local nuclear power plant; Marge... More
FOX network's most successful series to date. A segment spinoff of "The Tracey Ullman Show," this animated series depicts the ups and downs of the Simpsons, a strangely typical American family living in Springfield. The family includes Homer, a father whose head is often ruled by his stomach and who works at the local nuclear power plant; Marge is a loving, nurturing mother and wife who tries to keep peace in the family; son Bart is a smart-mouthed hell-raiser; Lisa is an intelligent and philosophical middle child who plays jazz saxophone; and baby Maggie communicates her thoughts via various sounds on her pacifier.
The Simpsons Episode Guide
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Episode 12
Boy Meets Curl
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After discovering their love of curling Marge and Homer try out for the Olympic team and actually make it to the 2010 Vancouver Games. Meanwhile, in Vancouver, Lisa develops an addiction to collecting Olympic pins.
First Aired: 2010-02-14 Email-
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Episode 11
Million Dollar Maybe
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Homer skips a date with Marge so he can buy a lottery ticket; when he wins a million dollars, he fears Marge's reaction to having blown off the date for a chance at fortune and he keeps his winnings a secret while showering the family with anonymous gifts.
First Aired: 2010-01-31 Email -
Episode 10
Once Upon A Time in Springfield
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In the landmark 450th episode of The Simpsons, Krusty is approached by two network executives who want to bring on female co-star Princess Penelope to increase the show's female demographic. The onstage and behind-the-scenes rapport between Krusty and Princess Penelope grows, and before long, Krusty asks for his co-star's hand in marriage. Meanwhile, when Mr. Burns puts a stop to the free donuts at the plant to cut costs, Homer, Lenny and Carl decide to meet with a headhunter who specializes in nuclear workers and opens their eyes to opportunities free of draconian donut-cutting measures.
First Aired: 2010-01-10 Email-
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Episode 9
Thursdays with Abie
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After Grampa meets Marshall Goldman and Mitch Albom and start telling about the time he was on a World War II battleship, the article gets published in the Springfield Shopper. However, Homer becomes so jealous of Grampa's new found fame and seeks a surrogate father, only to find out later that there is a draft on Goldman's third column, which could have terrible results for Grampa.
First Aired: 2010-01-03 Email -
Episode 8
O Brother, Where Bart Thou?
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After Lisa informs Bart that she and Maggie have a special bond that he'll never know because he doesn't have a brother, he takes a trip to the orphanage to find out what he's been missing out on.
First Aired: 2009-12-13 Email -
Episode 7
Rednecks and Broomsticks
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After stumbling upon some teenage Wiccans, Lisa accepts an invitation to join their coven. Just before Lisa is inducted Chief Wiggum arrives and arrests the three teens on charges of witchcraft; Lisa becomes the chief witness in the trial. Meanwhile, Homer starts hangs out with his new pal Cletus after discovering the slack-jawed yokel makes moonshine.
First Aired: 2009-11-29 Email -
Episode 6
Pranks and Greens
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Principal Skinner tells Bart about Andy Hamilton, a former student who was an even better prankster than Bart is. Bart tracks down Andy, now 19 and still pulling pranks, and the two become quick friends.
First Aired: 2009-11-22 Email -
Episode 5
The Devil Wears Nada
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Marge and a group called "Philanthro-Chicks" are attempting to raise money for charity, but in order to do it, they have no choice but pose for a calender. Marge is a bit reluctant to reveal any of her skin on the photos, but after the photographer gives her wine, her photos become the most popular topic of discussion in Springfield.
First Aired: 2009-11-15 Email -
Episode 4
Treehouse of Horror XX
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This year's triple threat of Halloween hilarity sees Moe using Homer's blood for beer, Bart and Lisa caught in a murder pact, and everyone in Springfield becoming zombies thanks to Krusty Burger's latest sandwich.
First Aired: 2009-10-18 Email -
Episode 3
The Great Wife Hope
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When the male population of Springfield becomes obsessed with Mixed Martial Arts, Marge and some friends organize a protest. A MMA show promoter gets wind of Marge's protest and challenges her to match and agrees to shut down the show if Marge wins.
First Aired: 2009-10-11 Email -
Episode 2
Bart Gets A 'Z'
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Mrs Krabappel is fired from Springfield Elementary after Bart spikes her coffee, causing her to make a drunken fool of herself. She is replaced by a cool new teacher, Mr. Vaughn, who is a quick hit with the kids. Bart, however, struggles with the guilt and considers telling Principal Skinner the truth.
First Aired: 2009-10-04 Email -
Episode 1
Homer the Whopper
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Homer is cast as the lead in Everyman, a super hero movie written by Comic Book Guy. But the newly christened actor has trouble staying on the exercise and diet regimen that his provided fitness trainer lays out for him.
First Aired: 2009-09-27 Email
Season 20 (375 links)
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Episode 21
Coming to Homerica
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The people of Ogdenville move to Springfield after their economy tanks (thanks to Krusty Burger's veggie burgers), prompting Mayor Quimby to close off Springfield's borders.
First Aired: 2009-05-17 Email -
Episode 20
Four Great Women and a Manicure
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While at a nail salon, Marge and Lisa argue over whether or not a woman can be smart, beautiful, and powerful all at once, which is just as good an excuse as any to do an anthology show, featuring four stories of women trying to survive in a man's world, from Aunt Selma as Queen Elizabeth I to a grown-up Maggie Simpson working as an architect in a parody of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead.
First Aired: 2009-05-10 Email -
Episode 19
Waverly Hills, 9021-D'Oh
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After Springfield Elementary is given the dubious distinction as "The Worst School in America," the Simpsons move to Waverly Hills. As Bart adjusts to the new school, he begins a rumor that Lisa is friends with "Alaska Nebraska," a Hanna Montana-esque pop singer. Meanwhile, Homer rents an apartment for himself and poses as a bachelor.
First Aired: 2009-05-03 Email -
Episode 18
Father Knows Worst
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While Marge shuts herself off from the world after finding a sauna in the basement of the house, Homer tries to help Bart and Lisa with their academic and social problems--which only makes things worse.
First Aired: 2009-04-26 Email -
Episode 17
The Good, the Sad and the Drugly
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Once again, Bart falls for a girl who seems to be good, but is just as mischievous as Bart is. Meanwhile, Lisa becomes depressed when she writes a report on Springfield's future.
First Aired: 2009-04-19 Email -
Episode 16
Eeny Teeny Maya, Moe
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Moe once again searches for love and falls for a woman named Maya over the Internet. However, when Moe meets Maya face-to-face, he discovers it's more like face-to-knee, as Maya is only three feet tall.
First Aired: 2009-04-05 Email -
Episode 15
Wedding For Disaster
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Homer and Marge decide to re-exchange their vows after discovering that their wedding (as seen in "I Married Marge") is invalid. But just before the real wedding, Homer disappears.
First Aired: 2009-03-29 Email -
Episode 14
In the Name of the Grandfather
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After neglecting his father during a three-legged race, Homer makes it up to Grampa Simpson by taking him to a pub in Ireland, only to learn that pubs aren't popular in Ireland anymore.
First Aired: 2009-03-22 Email -
Episode 13
Gone Maggie Gone
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In this loose parody of The DaVinci Code, Maggie gets taken in by a convent of nuns, starting a chain of events that results in Lisa, Principal Skinner, and the Comic Book Guy racing against the Freemasons to find a jewel.
First Aired: 2009-03-15 Email -
Episode 12
No Loan Again, Naturally
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When the adjustable rate on Homer's home mortgage (taken out to pay for Homer's annual Mardi Gras parties) increases drastically and Homer can't make the payments, 742 Evergreen Terrace is sold...to Ned Flanders, who rents it back to Homer...at least until Homer demands that Flanders repair the house.
First Aired: 2009-03-08 Email -
Episode 11
How the Test Was Won
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Bart gets a perfect score on a practice test for a national achievement test, which not only rattles Lisa, but it means Bart gets to attend a special party instead of having to take the actual test. Meanwhile, Homer must avoid injuring himself for an entire afternoon after failing to pay his insurance.
First Aired: 2009-03-01 Email -
Episode 10
Take My Life, Please
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Homer once again takes a trip through his mind through the use of drugs. This time, he wonders what life would be like for him if he won a high school student council election that was rigged so he could lose.
First Aired: 2009-02-15 Email -
Episode 9
Lisa the Drama Queen
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Lisa and her new friend, Juliet, create a fantasy world that gives them a break from reality.
First Aired: 2009-01-25 Email -
Episode 8
The Burns and the Bees
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Mr. Burns wins a professional basketball team in a poker game at the annual billionaire's retreat. In an effort to lure fans he decides to build a state-of-the-art facility, but the stadium site is on the last remaining bee colony in Springfield and Lisa leads the charge to block Burns' building.
First Aired: 2008-12-08 Email -
Episode 7
Mypods and Boomsticks
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Homer suspects Bart's new friend, Bashir, of involvement with a terrorist plot to destroy the Springfield Mall.
First Aired: 2008-11-30 Email -
Episode 6
Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words
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Lisa discovers she has an impressive knack for solving crossword puzzles and she enters in a city-wide crossword tournament. Feelings are hurt though when Homer bets against Lisa in the championship match.
First Aired: 2008-11-16 Email -
Episode 5
Dangerous Curves
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The Simpson clan takes a road trip to a cabin in the woods that Homer and Marge once vacationed at 20 years ago. In a series of flashbacks Homer and Marge reflect on some history from their courtship and Bart and Lisa recall some pleasant memories from their very early days.
First Aired: 2008-11-09 Email -
Episode 4
Treehouse of Horror XIX
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Parodies of It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, Michael Bay's Transformers and on Election Day a renegade electronic voting machine turns Homer's vote into one for the other guy.
First Aired: 2008-11-02 Email -
Episode 3
Double, Double, Boy in Trouble
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Bart meets his doppelganger, Simon Woosterfield, a member of the richest family in Springfield and the two decide to switch places. Simon adjusts nicely to his new digs at the Simpson home, while Bart discovers that his new siblings are plotting his death so they can have his inheritance.
First Aired: 2008-10-19 Email -
Episode 2
Lost Verizon
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While trying to earn money at the country club, Bart acquires Denis Leary's cell phone after Leary angrily chucks it away. Bart keeps the phone and makes prank calls pretending to be Leary and when Marge finds out what Bart is doing she contacts Leary. Denis says Bart might as well keep the phone, but he advises her to activate the GPS system in the phone so she can track Bart's every move.
First Aired: 2008-10-05 Email -
Episode 1
Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes
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Homer is sent to jail after a haphazard, booze-free brawl at the Springfield St. Patrick’s Day parade. When he goes to get his bail bond, Homer meets Lucky Jim and Wolf the Bounty Hunter and decides to try his own hand at the lucrative profession. The new-and-improved Homer the Bounty Hunter soon teams up with Ned Flanders to create quite the unlikely bounty-hunting duo, but when Homer’s new no-mercy attitude gets the best of him, Flanders is less than impressed. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to her, Marge begins working at an erotic bakery.
First Aired: 2008-09-28 Email
Season 19 (149 links)
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Episode 20
All About Lisa
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The end of the 19th season finds Lisa being awarded Springfield's Entertainer of the Year Award, with Sideshow Mel narrating her history in history, spoofing the movie "All About Eve."
First Aired: 2008-05-18 Email -
Episode 19
Mona Leaves-a
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Past memories of his mother's abandonment has Homer reluctant to trust her as she comes for a visit. But he feels remorse when she dies before he can grant her one final wish.
First Aired: 2008-05-11 Email -
Episode 18
Any Given Sundance
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The Simpsons head to Park City, Utah to attend the Sundance Film Festival and view the film in which Lisa has created about her family.
First Aired: 2008-05-04 Email -
Episode 17
Apocalypse Cow
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Bart raises a blue ribbon winning bull from a calf as a 4-H club project, but needs help saving him after discovering that it is scheduled to be slaughtered for meat.
First Aired: 2008-04-27 Email -
Episode 16
Papa Don't Leech
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When Mayor Quimby realizes the city of Springfield has gone broke, Homer suggests they feign a natural disaster in order to obtain relief funds from the federal government. When the plan goes awry, Lisa goes through the town's financial records only to discover millions in uncollected city taxes. Springfield hits up its most notorious tax evaders, and Lurleen Lumpkin, a country music star Homer once managed, remains the last outstanding debtor. As Springfieldians scour the city to find her, Marge reluctantly permits the fugitive to stay with the family, creating a very interesting dynamic in the Simpson household.
First Aired: 2008-04-13 Email -
Episode 15
Smoke on the Daughter
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Lisa encourages Marge to become a ballerina, as she had always dreamed of. But the auditions to ballet school finds Lisa being invited to enroll. While there, Lisa becomes addicted to the other students second hand smoke. Meanwhile, Homer finds a snag in his beef jerky business.
First Aired: 2008-03-30 Email -
Episode 14
Dial 'N' for Nerder
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Marge makes a call to a reality show named "The Sneakers" to check up on Homer, when she feels that he has been cheating on his diet. Meanwhile, Lisa and Bart are afraid of the deadly circumstances that may arise after they play a prank on Martin Prince.
First Aired: 2008-03-09 Email -
Episode 13
The Debarted
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Bart gets help with his pranks from a new kid at school, Danny. but he wonders if he can trust Danny after his pranks seem to backfire. Meanwhile, Homer falls in love with the new loaner car they use after Marge has an accident with their automobile.
First Aired: 2008-03-02 Email -
Episode 12
Love, Springfieldian Style
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A touch of romance abounds in this episode as the Simpsons celebrate Valentine's Day with Homer and Marge taking a ride through the Tunnel of Love at a carnival, only to be trapped inside when Bart sabotages their fun with gelatin. Homer helps pass the time with his rendition of the Bonnie and Clyde love story, and Marge recites her version of Lady and the Tramp. Also, Bart tells his version of the Sid and Nancy story.
First Aired: 2008-02-17 Email -
Episode 11
That 90's Show
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Homer and Marge decide to tell their children about their lives during the 1990s, when Marge was a college student while Homer was working to pay her way through. However, the story takes a dramatic change when she reveals that she had almost broken up with Homer in order to be with an associate professor.
First Aired: 2008-01-27 Email -
Episode 10
E Pluribus Wiggum
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While trying to raise some money for a bond problem, Quimby makes Springfield's primary election the first in the country causing the candidates and mass media to flood the city.
First Aired: 2008-01-06 Email -
Episode 9
Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind
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Moe's newest and most potent concoction to date, the Forget Me Not Shot, causes Homer to lose his memory...and his family.
First Aired: 2007-12-16 Email -
Episode 8
Funeral for a Fiend
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Sideshow Bob is back! He brings his whole family with him this time in yet another elaborate attempt to kill Bart.
First Aired: 2007-11-25 Email -
Episode 7
Husbands and Knives
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Disappointed with Springfield's snooty, glitzy L.A. Body Works gym, Marge opens her own facility for ''real women.'' The success of Shapes: A Gym for Women creates a demand for franchises, making Marge a rich and famous woman. Homer fears her new fame and the possibility that he will be replaced by a new, handsome man.
First Aired: 2007-11-18 Email -
Episode 6
Little Orphan Millie
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Millhouse's parents remarry and are honeymooning on a cruise ship when they are reported as having been swept overboard and lost at sea. Millhouse decides it's time he becomes a man.
First Aired: 2007-11-11 Email -
Episode 5
Treehouse of Horror XVIII
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The series' 18th Halloween show features parodies of movies in three vignettes: A spoof of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith"; plus a send up of "E.T." and "Se7en."
First Aired: 2007-11-04 Email -
Episode 4
Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird S...
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in the middle of a bank heist, Marge convinces the robber (Dwight) to give himself up with a promise that she will visit him in prison. Marge doesn't live up to her promise and Dwight soon breaks out of jail and is in search of Marge.
First Aired: 2007-10-14 Email -
Episode 3
Midnight Towboy
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Homer begins working in the towing industry, but he runs into some trouble when he becomes mad with power and is framed for towing in a rival's territory. In the mean time, Marge joins a counseling group that shwos parents how to raise independant kids. Maggie seems to learn a lot from it.
First Aired: 2007-10-07 Email -
Episode 2
Homer of Seville
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During treatment for his back, Homer realizes he has a tremendous opera voice, but he can only sing while lying on his back. Regardless, Mr. Burns hires him for the Springfield Opera House and a star is born. Homer gains a large following of fans including a woman named Julia, who turns out to be an obsessive stalker.
First Aired: 2007-09-30 Email -
Episode 1
He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs
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Homer saves Mr. Burns' life and is rewarded with a trip in Monty's private jet. It depresses Homer when he realizes that he will never again get to fly in such an elaborate jet. Marge hires a "life coach" to help Homer out.
First Aired: 2007-09-23 Email
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Episode 22
You Kent Always Say What You Want
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Homer is the 1 millionth customer at an ice cream store and will be interviewed on the local news. A spilled cup of coffee on Kent Brockman's lap causes him to swear on live TV and Ned Flanders to lead the crusade to clean up TV. It''s Homer to the rescue when Ned wants Kent fired.
First Aired: 2007-05-20 Email -
Episode 21
24 Minutes
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A Counter Truancy Unit is set up at Springfield Elementary, and Lisa is in charge. Homer task is to dispose of a possible hazardous container of outdated yogurt. When the dangerous goo is obtained by Jimbo, Dolph and Kearney, Jack Bauer, Chloe O'Brian, Bart and Lisa are on a quest to stopping them from ruining the school's bake sale with the ultimate stink bomb.
First Aired: 2007-05-20 Email -
Episode 20
Stop Or My Dog Will Shoot
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Homer takes the family into a corn maze after trying to escape from an incredibly boring harvest festival. Everyone escapes but Homer has to be rescued by Santa's Little Helper, who is then deemed a hero. the family puts him in the Police dog Academy and upon graduation he is teamed with Lou. Being a police dog is too stressful for Santa's Little Helper and he bites Bart. The dog is no longer safe for the family and Bart gets a new pet python. Bart must choose between his dog and his snake.
First Aired: 2007-05-13 Email -
Episode 19
Crook and Ladder
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Advice from "Smothering Mother" magazine leads Marge to dispose of Maggie's pacifiers. This leads Maggie to a path of destruction. Giving in, Marge enlists Homer to buy Maggie a new pacifier, but returns with a squeaky dog toy. The excessive noise leads Homer to take sleeping pills, but that turns him into a disruptive sleepwalker. One of Homer's sleepwalking pranks left Springfield without a fire department, until Homer and his buddies fill in. Their heroics earn them gifts,but when the gifts end the boys seek out other compensation.
First Aired: 2007-05-06 Email -
Episode 18
The Boys of Bummer
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Bart is a hero after making the game-winning catch at his little league game, propelling the Isotots into the championship for the first time ever. Homer gets hired as a salesman at a department store.
First Aired: 2007-04-29 Email -
Episode 17
Marge Gamer
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Marge becomes a spectacle during a PTA meeting for not having an e-mail address, and she takes a chance on using the Internet. Amazed by all the Internet has to offer, Marge decides to join a popular role-playing fantasy game named "Earthland Realms." To Marge's dismay, the game has her interacting with practically the whole town of Springfield, including Bart, who happens to be the game's most feared player. Meanwhile, Homer saves Lisa's soccer game from cancellation after he volunteers to take the place of a referee who quit. However, Homer's officiating skills only anger Lisa, and her competitive streak gets the best of her.
First Aired: 2007-04-22 Email -
Episode 16
Homerazzi
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After the catastrophe of the Simpson's losing their memorable photo album, Marge decides to try to recreate the photos. But when the background of one of these photos uncovers a scandel between two famous celebrities in Springfield, it is then that Homer decides to join the world of paparazzi.
First Aired: 2007-03-25 Email -
Episode 15
Rome-old and Juli-eh
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Homer accidentally declares bankruptcy and Grampa leaves the retirement home and falls for Selma. Lisa and Bart trick a delivery man out of cardboard boxes.
First Aired: 2007-03-11 Email -
Episode 14
Yokel Chords
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Lisa tutors Cletus’s seven children and introduces them to the outside world. Krusty notices the children’s ability to sing and signs them to be a part of his traveling show.
First Aired: 2007-03-04 Email -
Episode 13
Springfield Up
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Documentary filmmaker, Declan Desmond returns to shows off his new documentary, Growing Up Springfield. The film documents and follows the lives of various Springfieldianites in eight year intervals.
First Aired: 2007-02-18 Email -
Episode 12
Little Big Girl
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Lisa pretends to be Native American for multicultural day at school. Meanwhile, After saving Springfield from a devastating fire, Bart is rewarded with driver's license from Mayor Quimby. While traveling about, Bart finds love with an older teenager.
First Aired: 2007-02-11 Email -
Episode 11
Revenge is a Dish Best Served Three T...
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Homer learns three lessons about revenge from stories told by Marge, Lisa and Bart that parody "The Count of Monte Cristo," "Revenge of the Nerds" and "Batman Begins."
First Aired: 2007-01-28 Email -
Episode 10
The Wife Aquatic
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When Homer takes Marge back to an island where she use to visit as a child, he finds the island has turned into one big dump. In an attempt to lift Marge's spirit he ends up burning down the dock and as punishment must go on a fishing trip where he gets stuck in 'The Perfect Storm'.
First Aired: 2007-01-07 Email -
Episode 9
Kill Gil (Parts I & II)
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Homer causes a brawl with skaters during a holiday ice skating show. Gil loses his job after he gives Lisa an otherwise sold out Malibu Stacy doll preserved for his boss' daughter.
First Aired: 2006-12-17 Email -
Episode 8
The Haw-Hawed Couple
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Because Bart is virtually the only Guest at Nelson's birthday party, Bart becomes Nelson's best friend. Under Nelson's protection nobody dares to mess with Bart anymore.
First Aired: 2006-12-10 Email -
Episode 7
Ice Cream of Margie (With the Light B...
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After being fired from the power plant, Homer buys an ice-cream truck and sells Marge's sculptures of famous Springfieldians made from the discarded Popsicle sticks.
First Aired: 2006-11-26 Email -
Episode 6
Moe 'N' a Lisa
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Lisa aides Moe in becoming a published poet. But when he fails to credit Lisa for her help, she feels crushed.
First Aired: 2006-11-19 Email -
Episode 5
GI (Annoyed Grunt)
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Bart enlists to join the Army in the future but Homer gets his release and winds up enlisting himself. Having completed basic training, Homer is set in charge to lead his men against disgruntled Army Colonel in a round of war games.
First Aired: 2006-11-12 Email -
Episode 4
Treehouse of Horror XVII
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Married To The Blob - A meteor crashes in Springfield. Homer eats a green goo that is revealed by the meteor and turns into rampaging blob. You Gotta Know When To Golem - Bart conjures the Golem from the Jewish folklore to life and uses him to do his bidding. The Day The Earth Looked Stupid - In a flashback to 1938, the citizens of Sopringfield are fooled by Orson Welles radio broadcast of War of the Worlds. But when Kang and Kodos invade Springfield, they are ignored.
First Aired: 2006-11-05 Email -
Episode 3
Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'em
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Marge discovers her talent as handy woman. But Springfield isn't ready for a woman carpenter yet. Marge uses Homer as a front man for her new business. Meanwhile, Bart uses Principal Skinner's peanut allergy against him by using blackmail.
First Aired: 2006-09-24 Email -
Episode 2
Jazzy and the Pussycats
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Once again Bart is acting out, but this time he is brought to see a child psychiatrist who tells Homer and Marge to get him involved in something he is interested in. Bart takes up the drums and to everyones surprise, he is a natural. When he is asked to join a jazz band, Lisa becomes jealous and turns her interest towards rescuing animals.
First Aired: 2006-09-17 Email -
Episode 1
The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her ...
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The Simpsons are invited to dinner at Fat Tony's due to Lisa befriending the gangster's son Michael. But things take a turn for the worse when Fat Tony is shot moments after Michael reveals his desire to be a chef rather than being a gangster.
First Aired: 2006-09-10 Email
Season 17 (153 links)
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Episode 22
Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play
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A passionate kiss between Marge and Homer airs on the big screen at a baseball game, prompting second baseman Buck Mitchell to turn to the pair for advice about his marriage to singer Fiona.
First Aired: 2006-05-21 Email -
Episode 21
The Monkey Suit
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Reverend Lovejoy is appointed to spread the word of creationism in Springfield. Soon Lisa is the only supporter of the scientific evolution theory proposed by Charles Darwin. To revive the scientific view on evolution she holds secret evolution classes.
First Aired: 2006-05-14 Email -
Episode 20
Regarding Margie
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With an incomplete house number on their curb, the Simpsons get lots of wrong delivered mail. Starting with a package with food, Homer opens this mail for his own profit. Within this mail is a prize for a one day house cleaning. In panic to look bad in front of the professional house keeper Marge mixes several house cleansers and gets unconscious from the arising fumes. While braking down she hits her head on a stool and suffers from amnesia.
First Aired: 2006-05-07 Email -
Episode 19
Girls Just Want to Have Sums
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Skinner is replaced by a women's educational expert after making a sexist statement about women’s math skills after an Itchy and Scratchy musical. The new principle segregates the school into two sections. One for boys, and another for girls. At first Lisa agrees with this, but then she finds out that the girls won’t be learning any math, and decides to dress as a boy and sneak into the boys’ math class.
First Aired: 2006-04-30 Email -
Episode 18
The Wettest Stories Ever Told
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When the Simpsons' plans for a nice family outing at the Frying Dutchman turn into a dining disaster, the family tries to salvage the night by telling different stories of disasters at sea. Lisa recounts the Mayflower voyage, Bart tells tales of Tahitian mutiny and Homer puts his own spin on the capsizing cruise ships.
First Aired: 2006-04-23 Email -
Episode 17
Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore
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The nuclear power plant Homer works at is moving to India. Now it is Homer’s job to train the new employees. Meanwhile, Patty and Selma kidnap Richard Dean Anderson (most famous for his role as MacGyver). Now after seeing real-life drama Richard wants to stay in Springfield.
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Episode 16
Million Dollar Abie
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Grampa ruins Homer's plans to make Springfield the new home of a pro football franchise when he mistakes the Commissioner of Football for a burglar and the football stadium is transformed into a bull fighting arena. Tortured by threatening calls from his family and friends, Grampa seeks Manfred Manslaughter's help in committing suicide. When his plan fails at the last minute, Grampa gets a new outlook on life and decides to become Springfield's very own matador.
First Aired: 2006-04-02 Email -
Episode 15
Homer Simpson, This is Your Wife
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Homer and Marge go on a "Wife Swap" reality show. On it Marge lives with a British man, and his son, while an overly strict woman comes to live with Homer, Lisa, Bart, and Maggie. She cracks down on family’s bad habits, while Marge shows her temporary husband exactly what he wants in a woman. After a couple days he sees that he’d rather spend the rest of his life with Marge.
First Aired: 2006-03-26 Email -
Episode 14
Bart Has Two Mommies
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Ned Flanders wins a new computer and he offers it to Marge, as he has no use for it. In return, Marge babysits the Flanders children so that Ned can attend the Left-Handed Convention, where he meets New York Yankees guest star Randy Johnson, who is selling left-handed teddy bears. With Marge spending so much time at the Flanders', Homer must look after Bart and Lisa. Homer takes the kids to an animal retirement home, but the trip goes awry when Toot-Toot the monkey pulls Bart into her cage and holds him hostage. Marge learns of the kidnapping when it is a breaking news report and she must figure out a way to get her son back.
First Aired: 2006-03-19 Email -
Episode 13
The Seemingly Never-Ending Story
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While cave exploring with his family, Homer causes the cave to crumble and finds himself stuck upside down in the ceiling. Marge and Bart search for help while Lisa passes the time by telling Homer a story, which turns into a chain of narrated tales.
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Episode 12
My Fair Laddy
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Lisa attempts to transform Groundskeeper Willie into a proper gentleman.
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Episode 11
We're on the Road to D'oh-where
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After Bart steals a key from Principal Skinner's office and gets himself into hot water, Marge and Homer send him to a "behavior modification camp." Homer is forced to cancel his much-anticipated trip to Las Vegas in order to drive Bart to the camp, but on the way there, Homer decides it's a great time to bond with Bart.
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Episode 10
Homer's Paternity Coot
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Marge's rage against the new toll road system somehow leads to the discovery of a frozen mailman and his 40-year-old mail. The letters are returned to the rightful recipients, including one to Grandpa Simpson's deceased wife, revealing a secret love affair and the real father of her baby, Homer. Confused and emotional, Homer finds Mason Fairbanks, his wealthy and much improved paternal dad, and happily establishes a father-son relationship with him while rejecting his surrogate father of 40 years. But soon Homer realizes that a DNA test doesn't necessarily tell who his true father is
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Episode 9
Simpson Christmas Stories
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The Simpsons deliver holiday cheer in this Christmas-themed trilogy. In “The First (Annoyed Grunt) – El,†when Reverend Lovejoy’s car breaks down en route to Christmas mass, Homer takes over the sermon and delivers his version of the birth of Christ (Bart) to his parents Joseph (Homer) and Mary (Marge). “I Saw Grampa Cussing Santa Claus†finds Grampa reminiscing about his daredevil days as a WWII fighter pilot, when he was stranded on an island alongside his gunner, Burns. Grampa recalls mistaking Santa Claus for an enemy aircraft and gunning him down from the sky. Realizing their mistake, Grampa helps Jolly Ol’ St. Nick to safety, only to have Burns steal the sleigh and escape the island – leaving Grampa stranded again. The final installment, “The Nutcracker … Sweet,†which finds the townspeople of Springfield preparing for Christmas Day, is set to the tune of the famed “Nutcracker†ballet.
First Aired: 2005-12-18 Email -
Episode 8
The Italian Bob
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After Mr. Burns crashes his Stutz Bearcat, he sends Homer and the family off to Italy to pick up his new fancy sport car. While on their Italian adventure, the Simpsons end up stranded in a small Italian village where a rehabilitated Sideshow Bob reigns as mayor. Sideshow Bob impresses the Simpsons enough so that they keep his sordid past a secret until one of the family members, in a wine-induced state, spills the beans.
First Aired: 2005-12-11 Email -
Episode 7
The Last of the Red Hat Mamas
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Homer has an altercation with the Easter Bunny at the Mayor's egg hunt, causing Marge to be shunned. A lonely Marge decides to join a women's group called The Cheery Red Tomatoes and agrees to help with an upcoming charity drive - robbing Mr. Burns of his Faberge egg collection. Meanwhile, Lisa's plans to spend a summer in Italy hit a bump when she learns the first requirement is being fluent in Italian, so she takes on a teacher from a classified ad - who turns out to be Milhouse.
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Episode 6
See Homer Run
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Homer’s inability to embrace Lisa’s Father’s Day book the same way he does Bart’s Father’s Day Toolman causes Lisa to develop DDD (Disappointed Daughter Disorder). Meanwhile, Bart steals the “Bart Boulevard†street sign and causes a huge pile-up. While Mayor Quimby creates The Safety Salamander spokesperson in response to the accident, the town still forces the ineffective Mayor into a recall election. Homer, longing to win back his daughter’s love, takes the spokesperson position, and after a heroic run as The Safety Salamander, he runs for Mayor.
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Episode 5
Marge's Son Poisoning
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Observing that Marge is lonely, Bart offers to spend time with her. After they go on tandem bike rides and decorate Bart’s tree house as a “teahouse,†the bullies from school dub Bart a mama’s boy. When Marge finds out that Bart’s schoolmates are teasing him, she gives him the necessary tools to win back his reputation. Meanwhile, Homer teams up with Moe and joins a professional arm-wrestling circuit.
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Episode 4
Treehouse of Horror XVI
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BARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - Bart ends up in a coma after attempting to jump from the roof to the swimming pool at Spinster Arms Apartments. In an effort to cope with the loss of their boy, the family takes in a robotic boy who quickly proves to be a better son. Bart awakes to discover the family wants to keep both sons. After repeatedly being shown up by the robotic boy, Bart is abandoned on the side of the road by Homer. Bart stumbles across a friendly band of discarded robots and harvests their parts to turn himself into a cyborg. While enacting his revenge, Bart accidentally cuts Homer in half and he too becomes a cyborg. SURVIVAL OF THE FATTEST- While attending a hunting party at Burns Manor, Homer panics and believes the prey is the hunting party. Mr. Burns thinks this is much better than the planned grizzly hunt and orders the chase. After bringing bad luck to anyone he has contact with, Homer finds himself alone and running for his life. Marge witnesses the game on television and arrives in time to knockout Burns and Smithers just as they are set to execute Homer. I’VE GROWN A COSTUME ON YOUR FACE - After losing a Halloween costume contest to Dr. Hibbert as Dracula, a real witch puts a spell on the people of Springfield causing them to take the form of their costumes. Lisa deducts that Maggie in her witch costume can reverse the spell; however, the residents with favorable costumes want to stay as they are. Maggie splits the difference by turning everyone into giant pacifiers.
First Aired: 2005-11-06 Email -
Episode 3
Milhouse of Sand and Fog
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Homer capitalizes on Maggie’s Chicken Pox by throwing a Pox party and charging parents to infect their children. Kirk and Luann run into each other at the party and have a “Marge-arita†assisted hook-up which ignites a “trial un-separationâ€. Milhouse soon realizes he was better off when his parents competed for his love and launches “Operation Reverse Parent Trap.†Inspired by an episode of THE OC, Milhouse and Bart plant one of Marge’s bras in Kirk’s closet which causes Luann to confront Homer and break-up his marriage. Bart and Milhouse’s plan to correct the situation with a poorly thought out scheme (Homer and Marge will reunite over the tragedy of seeing a dummy of Bart fall from a cliff into a raging river) goes awry and The Simpson parents must join together to save Bart from the rapids.
First Aired: 2005-09-25 Email -
Episode 2
The Girl Who Slept Too Little
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The Simpsons protest the next door construction of a stamp museum and successfully have it relocated to a cemetery lot. The family is dismayed to see the old cemetery moving into the museum’s place on their neighboring lot. Lisa soon finds herself suffering fright induced sleepless nights and attempts to stay in her parents’ bed. Homer and Marge attempt spending a night in Lisa’s room to convince Lisa that it is safe; however, they are quickly scared away. While Homer and Marge turn to a psychiatrist for advice, Lisa decides to face her fears alone one night in the cemetery. After losing her footing, Lisa hits her head on a tombstone and has an unconscious vision of herself standing up to a handful of monsters who ultimately let her know that it’s ok for her to act like a kid.
First Aired: 2005-09-18 Email -
Episode 1
Bonfire of the Manatees
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Homer agrees to let Fat Tony shoot a porno at his home in compensation for football gambling debts. He coyly sends the family for a July afternoon at Santa’s Village, but when they return ahead of schedule, Marge blows her top and storms out leaving Homer to watch the children. While camping at a rest stop, Marge befriends an attractive marine biologist who tells her that Homer will never appreciate her if she continues to run back to him. Homer and the rest of the family go in search of Marge and discover she has run away to save the manatees. The family is able to find Marge who shoots Homer down leading him to believe the only way he can win back his wife is by saving the manatees himself. While almost being killed by a gang of jet skiers and the mob (the porno tested poorly because Homer’s stomach growling ruined the audio), Homer proves to Marge that he’s not as self centered as she believed and the couple is reunited.
First Aired: 2005-09-11 Email
Season 16 (137 links)
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Episode 21
Father, Son and Holy Guest-Star
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Enraged at being cast as the village idiot and having livestock disrupt his yard at the school's Medieval festival, Groundskeeper Willie sabotages the event and leaves Bart to take the blame. As a result, Bart's expulsion lands him in an affordable Catholic private school where Father Sean, an Eminem quoting Priest, uses graphic stories and comic books to turn Bart on to the cooler parts of Catholicism. Bart's increased interest in the religion alarms his parents and drives Homer to visit the church to put an end to the nonsense. Father Sean lures Homer to the religion over a beer and pancake dinner and closes the deal over a game of bingo. After a marathon confession session, Homer returns to a dismayed Marge who later enlists Reverend Lovejoy and Ned's aid in springing Bart from communion class. Set on bringing Bart back to Catholicism, Homer and Father Sean chase the gang to a Protestant Youth Festival where Marge and the prospect of playing paintball lure Bart back. After a heated public debate, all members agree to disagree under the banner of Christianity and Homer decides he'd rather return to the Protestant Church rather than divide the family.
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Episode 20
Home Away From Homer
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Financial trouble inspires Ned to rent his rumpus room to a pair of college aged women. While searching the internet, Bart and Milhouse discover the women are running a soft-core web cam from their room without Ned’s knowledge. Homer quickly learns of the activities and spreads word of hot women and his ignorant neighbor. When Marge forces Homer to inform Ned of the charade, Ned becomes the laughing stock of Springfield . Homer later feels guilty and arrives at Ned’s front door equipped with a gift basket only to find the Flanders’ have moved to their dream town, “Humble, PA – Home of the Humble Figurinesâ€. When an unruly neighbor moves in, Homer begs Ned to leave the not-so-ideal town and return to Springfield .
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Episode 19
Thank God It's Doomsday
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An apocalyptic movie followed by three real-life omens causes Homer to fear and begin researching the rapture. Homer deducts that the event is coming in a week and he believes the only way he can get into heaven is to warn others. A skeptical Kent Brockman does a report on Homer where Homer quotes a Biblical verse involving stars falling from the sky which later happens during a Krusty Special blimp accident. After a vision (or possibly an ice cream headache) Homer takes the new believers to Springfield Mesa and awaits a rapture that never comes. A discredited Homer returns home and discovers an error in his calculations. He then returns to the mesa alone after his friends and family turn their backs on him. At the mesa, Homer experiences the rapture (or maybe a heat induced dream) where he rampages in heaven and convinces God to delay doomsday and return Homer to his family.
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Episode 18
A Star is Torn
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Aside from Lisa, everyone in the family contracts food poisoning after eating organic produce from The Farmers’ Market. After nurturing the family back to health, Lisa agrees to participate in a Krusty sponsored “Li’l Starmaker†competition, with the first prize winner being animated into an Itchy and Scratchy episode. Lisa panics during the competition when a Christina Aguilera type performs a better rendition of “Mocking Bird†and Homer saves the day by hammering out a manipulative tune about Springfield that leads Lisa to victory. With a win under his belt, Homer becomes a stereotypical star- crazed parent and manager who ultimately drives Lisa to fire him. A distraught Homer counters by taking Lisa’s rival, Cameron, under his wing and grooming him for the finals. Lisa comes to realize that her relationship with Homer is more important than the competition and performs an apologetic song. Homer reunites with his daughter before Cameron performs an egotistical song Homer prepared to sabotage the young boy’s performance.
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Episode 17
The Heartbroke Kid
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When new vending machines are installed in Springfield Elementary, Bart quickly becomes a junk food junkie. Bart’s steady diet of processed foods shockingly leads to his massive weight gain and ultimately a heart attack. He is then put on a strict diet but is unable to adhere to it. The Simpsons perform an intervention and he is shipped off to Serenity Ranch - - A Forced Starvation Facility. He cheats on his diet there as well until he finds out that his family has turned their home into a hostel working day and night to please demanding and unfriendly foreigners to pay for his stay at Serenity Ranch. In the end, Bart smashes the vending machine that made him fat in the first place and gives the money to his family.
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Episode 16
Don't Fear the Roofer
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The perfect storm hits Springfield causing the Simpson roof to leak. Marge doesn't approve of Homer's "Hot Wheels" gutter system and questions what type of father can't keep a roof over his family's head. A downtrodden Homer seeks companionship at Moe's; however, he is quickly driven away for accidentally announcing Lenny's surprise party. Homer's last option is Knockers, a Hooters style bar, where he befriends a beer and Curly Joe Derita loving roofer, Ray (voiced by Ray Romano). Ray and Homer attempt to repair the roof while Marge and the kids visit the Retirement Castle . While at the Castle, Santa's Little Helper gains immediate popularity and quickly takes on the geriatric qualities of the residents. After hours of drinking beer and shooting nails at Ned, Homer falls through the roof and lands in bed. Marge returns to discover Homer in bed alone under a gaping hole. The next day Homer runs into Ray at the hardware store who agrees to help finish the roof later that day. Ray never show's and just before Dr. Hibbert drugs him with a syringe, Marge sweetly tells Homer that Ray is a figment of his imagination. Homer awakes in a mental hospital to FIGHT CLUB styled testimonials from Bart, Ned and the Knockers' bartender (all people who allegedly saw Ray) that confirm the initial diagnosis. After a round of electric shock treatment, a cured Homer and family see Ray in the hospital lobby who explains the errors in the previous testimonials. An outraged Homer finds reparations as he and Ray sit on lawn chairs drinking beers while a malpractice shy Dr. Hibbert fixes the roof.
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Episode 15
Future-Drama
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Professor Frink uses an astrology machine to show Bart and Lisa what their last days as high school students will be like if they don’t mend their ways. In the not-so-distant future, robots are a part of life, Moe has a clone, Homer and Marge are separated, Lisa is dating a muscle-bound Milhouse and Bart is dating the girl of his dreams, Jenda. The Simpson kids’ relationships fall apart on prom night because Lisa doesn’t love Milhouse and Jenda has moved past Bart. In an effort to prove his maturity to Jenda, Bart takes a job at the Kwik-E-Mart. While on a routine delivery, Bart saves Mr. Burns from a robber. In turn, Mr. Burns rewards Bart with a Yale scholarship initially intended for Lisa. Bart uses the scholarship to win back Jenda and he later attempts to ease his conscience by encouraging Milhouse to reunite with Lisa. Bart and Jenda sneak away to an abandoned Frink’s house where Bart uses the astrology machine to peer further into the future. Bart is dismayed to see an unhappily married Lisa and Milhouse caring for geriatric versions of Homer and Kirk. Bart’s conscience causes him to leave Jenda, stop Milhouse’s advances and return the scholarship to his sister. In the present Bart and Lisa see how the selfless act reunites Homer and Marge.
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Episode 14
The Seven-Beer Snitch
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While on a family trip to Shelbyville, Marge is dismayed to see how Springfield residents are perceived as hicks in a production of "SONG OF SHELBYVILLE". At the next Springfield Cultural Activities Board meeting, Marge convinces the townspeople to fund a Frank Gehry designed concert hall. The opening night hustle and bustle is cut short as Beethoven's Fifth Symphony drives the uninterested townspeople away in droves which leads to the bankruptcy of the hall. The ever generous Mr. Burns assumes the debt of the hall and turns it into The Montgomery Burns State Prison. At first, the prison benefits the townsfolk by offering jobs to almost everyone (except Homer who fails his urine test due to a mix-up with Otto); however, when Mr. Burns pressures Chief Wiggum to increase capacity from 99% to 100% Homer finds himself imprisoned for kicking a can down the street 5 times in a row. Homer doesn't adjust to prison life well and becomes a snitch after accidentally ratting on Snake during a breakout. Homer enjoys the benefits of snitch life (plasma TV, cell phone, segway, a chance at a free pair of socks) until Fat Tony puts a mark on his head for selling out the mob. The angry prisoners fake a jail break and start a riot as they hunt Homer. As president of the Activities Board, Marge uses her concert hall key to sneak into the prison and convince Homer that snitching is wrong. National Guardsman swoop in at the last moment to save the cornered couple and Homer decides to use his snitch powers for good by having the prison shutdown for practices like giving haircuts to inmates without regard to their personal preference and using mournful harmonica music while on hold.
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Episode 13
Mobile Homer
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Marge pressures Homer into buying life insurance after he suffers a garage door to the throat accident while performing a little Sunday cleaning. When she learns that Homer is not insurable, Marge takes matters into her own hands by implementing across the board cost cutting in the household. Moe, Lenny and Carl convince Homer that all financial decisions should be made jointly which drives Homer to purchase a RV as an act of defiance. Homer's frivolous purchase infuriates Marge causing the parents to divide and fight for their children's love as Marge remains in the house and Homer lives in the RV parked in the backyard. While driving through Springfield with the kids, Homer befriends a convoy of fellow RV enthusiasts and invites them to dock in his backyard. Marge retaliates by shutting off the utility hook-ups resulting in a huge argument between the couple. In an effort to save their parent's marriage, Bart and Lisa steal the RV and head to the dealer for a refund. Homer and Marge decide to work through their differences to track down the children just as the kids lose control of the RV and crash onto a departing Turkish freighter. Marge's penny pinching comes in handy when she is able to use surplus cases of soup stored in the trunk to persuade the freighter to turn around and reunite the family.
First Aired: 2005-03-20 Email -
Episode 12
Goo Goo Gai Pan
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When Selma hits menopause, she realizes that she missed her chance to have a baby and decides to adopt a baby girl from China, but comes to a bump in the road when the application asks for her husband’s name. In an act of desperation, she puts down “Homer Simpsonâ€. So now, the Simpsons are off to China with Selma to pick up her Chinese baby girl with Homer pretending to be her husband. Their charade is revealed and their functionary, Madam Yu, takes Selma’s baby back. The Simpsons then devise a scheme to snatch steal her from the orphanage. Of course, they are caught, but Selma is able to reason with Madam Yu bureaucrat to bureaucrat and Selma is able to leave with her new baby girl, Ling Bouvier.
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Episode 11
On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister
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Fed up with Bart’s endless taunting and torture, Lisa files a restraining order requiring him to stay at least 20 then 200 feet from her. To adhere to the restraining order, Bart is forced to live in the yard where he learns to commune with nature (you can pee anywhere!). Lisa eventually starts to miss her big brother and his teasing and after she is able to find three nice things Bart has done for her, she does away with the restraining order and Bart moves back in the house. Meanwhile, Homer takes over Grampa’s job at the Sprawl*Mart as a greeter. He loves his new job until he realizes they treat their employees terribly. When he attempts to plan a coup with the other Sprawl*Mart workers he discovers they have accepted the way they are treated and make up for it by stealing everything that is not nailed down. In the end, order is restored and the Simpsons have sixteen new plasma screen televisions.
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Episode 10
There's Something About Marrying
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To boost tourism in Springfield, the town decides to legalize same-sex marriages. Homer discovers the monetary value of gay marriages, becomes an ordained minister via the internet, and soon marries everyone and everything in town. Patty Bouvier then comes to Homer and asks him to marry her – to Veronica a professional women’s golfer. Selma is happy for her sister that she found love, but is sad that now she is all alone. While Marge is coping with the fact that her big sister is marrying a woman, she discovers that Veronica is a man disguised as a lesbian! When the truth is exposed, Veronica is kicked out of the LPGA and Patty is driven back into the arms of the one person who truly understands her, Selma.
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Episode 9
Pranksta Rap
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Bart sneaks out of the house to attend a forbidden rap concert. When Marge and Homer discover he is missing, Bart fakes his own kidnapping to prevent being grounded. It is up to Springfield's finest to save him. Of course, no one has any faith in bumbling police Chief Clancy Wiggum. Inspired by an apparition of Barney Fife, Wiggum vows to rescue Bart. Meanwhile, Bart is hiding out in Kirk Van Houten's bachelor pad unbeknownst to Kirk. Wiggum cracks the case, Bart is rescued, and Kirk wrongfully goes to jail. Wiggum is promoted to Police Commissioner and Kirk becomes a lady's man among the felon-loving singles of Springfield. Lisa searches for the truth and discovers that the kidnapping was all a hoax and everyone goes back as it was before.
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Episode 8
Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass
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After Homer inadvertently performs a wild crowd-pleasing dance at a local carnival, he is hired by several sports figures including Tom Brady, LeBron James, Yao Ming, Warren Sapp and Michelle Kwan to choreograph their victory dances. After his dances prove successful, Homer is soon tapped to choreograph the big show – the Superbowl Half-time Show. Meanwhile, Flanders, is disgusted by the filth on television, decides to start making Bible movies; ultra-violent, ultra-gory Bible movies à la Passion of the Christ. The movies are very disturbing, but nonetheless a hit; until the violence becomes too gratuitous and the audience turns on him. Homer panics during planning the show and the night before Superbowl XXXVIII still has nothing – so he teams up with Flanders and they put on a nonviolent and deeply meaningful Biblical half-time show which America chastises for it’s blatant display of decency.
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Episode 7
Mommie Beerest
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When Moe’s is shut down by the health department, Homer takes out a second mortgage without consulting Marge to finance the bar’s return. Marge finds out and decides to protect her investment by convincing Moe to renovate the bar into an English pub. The pub becomes a huge hit, and Marge and Moe become great friends – much to Homer’s chagrin. Convinced the two of them are having an ‘emotional affair’; Homer tries to intervene just as Moe professes his love to Marge while on their way to the Tavern and Restaurant Owners Convention in Aruba. Marge admits although she enjoys spending time with Moe; Homer is the one she loves.
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Episode 6
Midnight Rx
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When Mr. Burns terminates the employee prescription drug program, the citizens of Springfield are no longer able to afford their very expensive, yet much needed prescription drugs. In order to keep the town medicated, Homer, Grampa, Apu, and Flanders go to Canada and buy the town’s drugs with fake Canadian health care cards. When they are caught smuggling, all of Springfield rallies around them to fight for their freedom and they are released.
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Episode 5
Fat Man and Little Boy
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When Bart begins writing slogans on t-shirts, he catches the attention Goose Gladwell, a Willy Wonka-type gag gift entrepreneur and becomes a t-shirt mogul. With Bart now the breadwinner of the family, Homer realizes he no longer has a place in the family. In order to feel useful within the home, Homer begins spending time with Lisa. The balance of power is restored when Gladwell is revealed as a fraud after Homer threatens him with the nuclear bomb he built for Lisa’s science fair project.
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Episode 4
She Used to Be My Girl
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When Marge’s old high school friend now successful newscaster, Chloe Talbot, comes to town to cover a story, Lisa is enamored with her worldliness. Marge quickly becomes jealous of the attention Lisa is paying to her and has Marge wondering if she made the right decision choosing family over a career. Ultimately, Marge realizes that she chose the right path when she courageously saves her daughter from an erupting volcano.
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Episode 3
Sleeping With the Enemy
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Marge, feeling her kids do not want to spend time with her anymore, takes in neglected son and town bully Nelson Muntz in as her surrogate child. Lisa develops an eating disorder after being teased about her weight on the playground. Bart is not happy about his tormentor now living in his room with him, so he finds Nelson’s parents and reunites the Muntzes. In the end, Lisa admits that she, like many women, still obsessed by her weight, has a long way to go to recovery.
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Episode 2
All's Fair in Oven War
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When Bart fishes Homer’s vintage “Playdude†magazines out of the trash, he decides to adopt the ring-a-ding-ding lifestyle of the 1970’s portrayed in the magazines; based on his ten year-old knowledge. Marge enters the Ovenfresh Bakeoff, but when she finds that the other contestants play dirty, she decides to get back at them by sabotaging their dishes. Lisa discovers what her mother has done and is heartbroken. In the end, Marge confesses and loses the bakeoff, but wins back the respect of Lisa.
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Treehouse of Horror XV
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THE NED ZONE - After a head injury, Ned Flanders gains the power of foretelling people’s deaths. When Ned discovers that he is going to be the one to kill Homer, he tries to change fate. In doing that, Ned winds up blowing up all of Springfield. IN THE BELLY OF THE BOSS - In a freak science accident, Maggie is shrunken inside a vitamin capsule and swallowed by Mr. Burns. The rest of the Simpsons family goes in to save her “Fantastic Voyage - style. When things start to go wrong, Homer gets trapped inside Mr. Burns forever. FOUR BEHEADINGS AND A FUNERAL - Set in Victorian London, Master Detective Eliza Simpson (Lisa) and her faithful sidekick Dr. Bartley (Bart) attempt to catch The Muttonchop Murderer, a Jack the Ripper-type serial killer lose in the city.
First Aired: 2004-11-07 Email
Season 15 (145 links)
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Episode 22
Fraudcast News
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When Mr. Burns is reported dead incorrectly, all of the newspapers and news stations decide to report what they really think of him. In order to end the negative view the public has of him, Mr. Burns buys all of media outlets to brainwash the people of Springfield. There is one newspaper he did not buy however: The Red Dress Press, put out by Lisa Simpson. When she prints an article about Burns’ attempt to manipulate the public’s thinking, he goes after Lisa. After Lisa finally gives in to his torturous ways, Homer steps up and starts his own paper with front-page news being how great Lisa is. In the end, Mr. Burns is control of public opinion ends when everyone in Springfield each prints their own newspapers stating their views.
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Episode 21
Bart-Mangled Banner
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When Bart accidentally moons the American flag and Marge accidentally says on national television that all of Springfield hates America, the Simpson family is arrested for high treason and sent to Alcatraz. They escape from prison and as they swim to shore, a French ship who takes them to France where they are free to hate Americans picks them up. Although France is lovely, they miss home and decide to return to America as immigrants.
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Episode 20
The Way We Weren't
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When Homer admits that Marge was not his first kiss, we flash back to Homer in summer camp where his first kiss was with an anonymous girl who turns out to be Marge. Following their kiss, they planned to meet again, but Homer accidentally lands in fat camp and is unable to meet his mystery girl. Marge, unaware that he is locked up in Camp Flab-Away, thinks she is stood up and loses faith in men forever. In the end, they both discover that either one pined away for the other until they met their adult selves.
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Episode 19
Simple Simpson
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Homer becomes a masked vigilante known as “The Pie Man†when he pies Springfield’s miscreants. Lisa asks him to retire when she discovers what he is up to, although she respects what he is doing. After Homer is pushed too far by Mr. Burns, he comes out of retirement for one last time, but unfortunately, Mr. Burns discovers what he is doing and blackmails him into pieing people that he does not like. Homer agrees, but when his next target is to be the Dalai Lama, Homer faces the music and unmasks himself.
First Aired: 2004-05-02 Email -
Episode 18
Catch 'Em If You Can
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When Marge and Homer are caught by Bart and Lisa having a romantic weekend in Miami instead of having a boring family visit to Dayton, the kids embark on a cross country journey à la Catch Me If You Can in order to hunt them down and ruin their vacation. Meanwhile, when Grandpa is abandoned in Miami during the chase, he enjoys the company of Raoul, a gay Miami swinger who enjoys Grandpa’s stories.
First Aired: 2004-04-25 Email -
Episode 17
My Big Fat Geek Wedding
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Right before the long awaited wedding of Mrs. Krabappel and Principal Skinner, Edna finds out that Seymour has doubts and calls off the wedding. While Marge is consoling Edna and convincing her she did the right thing Homer tries to help Seymour win her back. Marge then realizes that she herself is in a passionless marriage with a man that doesn’t care for her. Meanwhile, Edna rebounds and falls for Comic Book Guy. In a last desperate attempt to win her back, Skinner fights Comic Book Guy for Edna’s love. She decides that she wants neither of them and picks every woman’s choice, Matt Groening. In the end, Marge discovers that Homer cares for her very deeply when he offers her pie and a foot rub.
First Aired: 2004-04-18 Email -
Episode 16
Wandering Juvie
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When Bart scams the town out of wedding presents he is finally sent to a juvenile detention center. While he is tethered to Gina, a female inmate (who is also his juvie nemesis), she escapes and the two of them go on the lam a la “The Defiant Onesâ€. During their time together, they discover they have much in common and when they are caught Gina admits that it was all her doing. Bart is exonerated for his crimes and set free. In the end, Gina reveals that she has no family, so Bart takes it upon himself to set up a Simpsons family dinner inside the prison just for Gina.
First Aired: 2004-03-28 Email -
Episode 15
Co-Dependent's Day
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After a trip to a vineyard, Marge and Homer go on a drinking binge together. When Homer drives drunk and crashes, he places a passed out Marge in the drivers’ seat to avoid being arrested. Thinking she is an alcoholic, Marge enters rehab and soon realizes that she is not in fact addicted to alcohol, but instead to spending time with Homer. Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa confront a famous Star Wars-esque filmmaker about his latest film. They tell him that technology doesn’t make the stories better. He goes off to once again find his storytelling roots.
First Aired: 2004-03-21 Email -
Episode 14
The Ziff Who Came to Dinner
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The Simpsons discover the squatter living in their attic is Marge’s old prom date and former billionaire Artie Ziff. When Homer wins Artie’s stock holdings in a poker game, he is sent to white-collar prison for ‘criminal accounting irregularities’. After a night of passion with Selma, Artie sees the error of his selfish ways and turns himself in to the Securities Exchange Commission, setting Homer free.
First Aired: 2004-03-14 Email -
Episode 13
Smart & Smarter
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When Maggie is accepted into a gifted preschool (even though she has yet to say a word) Lisa feels she has lost her identity as ‘the smart one’. She then searches for a new one that people will accept and like her for. Distraught when she can’t find it, Lisa finds herself mis-teaching Maggie on purpose. In the end they discover that Maggie isn’t a genius, Lisa was subconsciously feeding her answers through hand gestures.
First Aired: 2004-02-22 Email -
Episode 12
Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore
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Milhouse moves away from town, and Bart comes to realize just how much his pathetic friend means to him. After a lot of moping, Bart comes to seek out friendship from an unlikely source: Lisa. As they start to hang out more, the siblings realize that they actually like each other’s company…until Milhouse returns and the status quo is restored. Meanwhile, Homer looks for innovative ways to drum up the money for an anniversary gift for Marge. He becomes a really adept panhandler, and earns enough to buy her diamond earrings
First Aired: 2004-02-15 Email -
Episode 11
Margical History Tour
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With the Springfield library dangerously low on books, the kids don’t have enough resources to do their research papers for school. Instead, Marge gives verbal anecdotes about historical figures, and she regales the gathering with tales of King Henry VIII and his search for a woman who can produce a son, Sacagawea’s providing assistance to the Lewis & Clark expedition, and a very Bart-like Mozart’s feuds with his sister Salieri.
First Aired: 2004-02-08 Email -
Episode 10
Diatribe of a Mad Housewife
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Marge is inspired to write her first book, but Homer shows little interest or support because he’s fixated instead on the old ambulance he’s now driving around town, making house calls, etc. Annoyed by Homer’s tendencies, Marge channels her anger into her writing and produces a period piece that depicts a despicable Homer-like character and his wife who longs for a Flanders-like neighbor. The book is published, and Homer is upset when the whole town recognizes who the characters are in real-life. Homer goes to confront Flanders, but instead asks him for help on how to be a more caring husband.
First Aired: 2004-01-25 Email -
Episode 9
I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot
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In his ongoing effort to impress his son, Homer decides to build a robot that can fight on the mechanical gladiator show they enjoy watching on television. Without the technical skills to build it correctly, Homer decides to don a robot suit and fight for Bart’s affection – getting beaten to a pulp in the process. Bart discovers what his dad’s up to, but finds it extra-cool that Homer went to such great lengths for him. Meanwhile, Lisa is crushed when Snowball III dies, and is further distraught when she can’t keep a large number of replacement cats alive either.
First Aired: 2004-01-11 Email -
Episode 8
Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless...
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A baby riot breaks out at a children’s “concert†in Springfield, causing the town’s childless contingent to become fed up with their behavior. An anti-youth lobby is formed, gains steam, and threatens to eliminate all child-friendly aspects of the city. Marge takes it upon herself to challenge the growing tide of anti-child sentiment and she fights back with an initiative of her own. Ultimately, the children win out when they show up at polling places on election day and charm entering voters with their youthful innocence.
First Aired: 2004-01-04 Email -
Episode 7
'Tis the Fifteenth Season
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When Homer is given a Joe DiMaggio rookie card by an oblivious-to-its-value Burns, he sells it for a pile of cash. He spends most of the money on himself, only coming to realize his greedy ways when he sees “A Christmas Carol†on TV. Homer reverses course and starts to do favors for everyone he can, in-so-doing making Flanders jealous for becoming Springfield’s new king of being nice. He and Flanders engage in a “nice-off,†each trying to outdo the other to earn the town’s praise. Their feud escalates to ridiculous proportions.
First Aired: 2003-12-14 Email -
Episode 6
Today I am a Clown
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Krusty comes to realize that he can’t find happiness in life because he never had a Bar Mitzvah, so he reunites with his father (a rabbi) and sets about having one belatedly. Homer fills in for him on the TV show while he’s away and becomes a celebrity for sharing his blunt observations with the world. When Lisa convinces her dad to use his new pulpit to preach social activism, Homer’s audience becomes bored and his fifteen minutes of fame dry up.
First Aired: 2003-12-07 Email -
Episode 5
The Fat and the Furriest
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When Homer is caught on tape running away from a large bear at the town dump, he becomes the laughingstock of Springfield. Determined to win his dignity back, Homer devises a bear-proof suit that will protect him once he returns to the wild to hunt down the bear. When he confronts the beast, he realizes the bear is only upset because he’s been tagged with a painful tracking device. Homer reverses course and helps bring the bear to safety
First Aired: 2003-11-30 Email -
Episode 4
The Regina Monologues
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When Bart finds $1000, Lisa is able to convince him to take the family on vacation instead of spending it on himself. They choose to go to England, where Homer promptly rear-ends the Queen of England with their rented car. Homer is then held prisoner in the Tower of London. He escapes prison only to be caught again, but he sweet-talks his way out of it. Tony Blair guest starred.
First Aired: 2003-11-23 Email -
Episode 3
The President Wore Pearls
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In order to reduce the school budget, Principal Skinner decides to put forth “Operation S.L.A.A.M.: So Long Athletics Art and Musicâ€. Upon hearing this, the children of Springfield Elementary go on strike. Joining them in the ranks of protest are other art loving unions throughout Springfield including the police force, Goat Milkers, Hand Models Local 702, & the United Federation of Theme Park Zombies. In the end, Principal Skinner reinstates the banished programs by doing away with a less popular school necessity, flu shots.
First Aired: 2003-11-16 Email -
Episode 2
My Mother the Carjacker
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Homer receives a cryptic message to meet someone at a special time and place, and that someone turns out to be his mother. They reunite, and Homer promises to never let her leave his side again. Eventually, the police catch up to Homer’s mother and take her into custody for old crimes. Homer busts her out of jail by taking control of the prison bus she’s traveling in. Finally, she slips away again, but leaves another secret message for Homer to reaffirm her love for him.
First Aired: 2003-11-09 Email -
Episode 1
Treehouse of Horror XIV
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REAPER MADNESS – The Grim Reaper has come for Bart, but Homer saves the day by “killing†him. When Homer then tries on the Grim Reaper’s robe, he becomes the new Reaper and starts wreaking havoc until he’s told he must kill Marge; he tricks God into thinking he’s killed Marge to get out of it. FRINKENSTEIN – Frink wins the Nobel Prize, but laments that his father didn’t get to see him win it before they grew apart. The Simpsons track down Frink’s long-lost father only to discover that he’s dead and has been cryogenically frozen. They figure out a way to thaw him out and revive him, but once he’s alert, Frink Sr. still finds a way to disappoint his son. Finally, father and son are able to make up before he expires once more – this time for good. STOP THE WORLD, I WANT TO GOOF OFF – Bart gets his hands on a magic stopwatch that can freeze time and uses it to mischievous ends. When he breaks the watch while time is frozen, he must figure out how to bring things back to normal.
First Aired: 2003-11-02 Email
Season 14 (120 links)
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Episode 22
Moe Baby Blues
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Moe is especially lonely and contemplates suicide. While standing on the side of bridge, about to jump, he accidentally catches Maggie – who was thrown from the Simpsons’ car in a traffic accident. The little baby immediately takes a liking to him. The Simpsons are pleased, and they offer Moe the opportunity to babysit their youngest. Moe has a chance to explore his softer side with Maggie, but once Homer and Marge get sick of his being around all the time, they forbid Moe from babysitting anymore. When Moe then saves the baby a second time, Homer promises Moe that he’ll bring Maggie by the bar more often.
First Aired: 2003-05-18 Email -
Episode 21
The Bart of War
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When Bart and Milhouse become bored, they head over to Flanders’ house and wreak havoc. When they’re caught in the act, Homer and Marge decide to enroll Bart in the “Pre-Teen Braves,†a club to keep kids off the streets. Homer becomes the “tribal chief,†leading the kids in such traditional Native American activities as eating Buffalo wings and watching football. Milhouse is separately enrolled in the “Cavalry Kids,†and the two groups feud over which group can do more for charity. The fight escalates as the groups engage in a heated battle to see who can sell more candy.
First Aired: 2003-05-18 Email -
Episode 20
Brake My Wife, Please
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Homer loses his driver’s license and Marge is forced to drive him around town. She gets increasingly stressed by having to chauffeur everyone, and she grows angrier and aggressive. Meanwhile, Homer actually starts to enjoy walking – but Marge clips him with the car while he’s crossing the street. Homer and Marge go to therapy together, and the family tries to cheer Marge up by paying attention to her needs and not making her tend to them at all.
First Aired: 2003-05-11 Email -
Episode 19
Old Yeller-Belly
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When a fire breaks out, Homer is trapped beneath an ice sculpture. Santa’s Little Helper is turns tail and runs away, leaving the family cat to perform the rescue. The poor dog is banished from the house. While playing alone outside, Santa’s Little Helper toys with a discarded can of Duff beer. A photojournalist snaps a picture, which inspires the Duff Corporation to name the dog as the new mascot. In exchange, the Corporation showers the Simpsons with wealth. Out of nowhere, the original owner of Santa’s Little Helper appears and reclaims the dog. Santa’s Little Helper is now miserable, so the Simpsons create an elaborate plan. During a Duff Beer publicity event at the beach, Homer pretends to drown. (In reality, he is merely balancing on a keg of beer.) Once again, Santa’s Little Helper is afraid to save him. The once adoring public is shocked by the dog’s cowardice. Meanwhile, Homer is attacked by a giant shark. The shark bites the keg of beer, and gets drunk. The inebriated animal floats to the shore, where the crowd is delighted by his antics. In a burst of inspiration, the Duff Corporation fires Santa’s Little Helper and names the shark as the new mascot. The dog’s owner wants nothing to do with him any longer, and the Simpson’s family pet is once again their own.
First Aired: 2003-05-04 Email -
Episode 18
Dude, Where's My Ranch?
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Homer decides to write an original Christmas carol, and pens a tune called “Flanders is a Jerk.†The song rockets up the charts, and the Simpsons are overwhelmed by the sudden success. They decide to get away from it all and take a restful vacation at a dude ranch. At the ranch, Homer and Bart befriend a tribe of native Americans. They want a dam removed, to restore running water for their village. Battling a swarm of beavers, Homer and Bart manage to destroy the dam and become honorary members of the tribe. Meanwhile, Lisa falls for a cowhand named Lukas, who happens to be – much to Marge’s dismay – a few years older. Lisa’s jealousy gets the best of her when she finds that he has girlfriend, and she gets the other girl lost in the woods by giving her bad directions. Eventually, Lisa apologizes for her meddling and she and Lukas part as friends.
First Aired: 2003-04-27 Email -
Episode 17
Three Gays of the Condo
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Homer and Marge have a fight when Homer realizes Marge married him because she was pregnant with Bart. He decides to leave the house and tries moving in with Milhouse’s dad. After not being able to sleep, he’s eventually taken in by Karl, his old assistant. It turns out that Karl has a flamboyant lifestyle which Homer gets a heavy dose of. Homer tries to get back together with Marge, but he screws it up and goes out drinking – heavily. He ends up in the hospital where he and Marge reconcile. Homer realizes that Marge loves him and that’s all that matters. He moves back home.
First Aired: 2003-04-13 Email -
Episode 16
'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky
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A British filmmaker comes to Bart’s class to make a documentary on the typical American school, and Bart’s celebrity status is plunged into jeopardy when Nelson receives attention from the filmmaker for stealing hood ornaments. Moreover, the filmmaker leaves Lisa with feelings of inadequacy, causing her to run out and choose a career in astronomy. Bart begins searching for unique hood ornaments while Lisa, unable to find a dark spot to stargaze, climbs Mt. Springfield. She encounters Professor Frink at the summit, and he teaches her about the problem of light pollution. Lisa starts a campaign to reduce the amount of light usage in Springfield, but when Chief Wiggum encourages Springfield to double its light usage to fight crime, night becomes day and the town goes “mondo bizarro,†unable to sleep with the constant light. Lisa finally decides that enough is enough and breaks into the power plant with Bart, overloads the system and plunges the town into total darkness, returning Springfield to normal.
First Aired: 2003-03-30 Email -
Episode 15
C. E. D'oh
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Homer enrolls in a “How to Succeed in Being You†course and takes a new attitude to work, where he makes suggestions to improve safety at the power plant. When Burns laughs at Homer’s proposals, Homer and Lisa devise a plan to take the plant from him. After being legally out-maneuvered, Burns signs the plant over to Homer, and Homer becomes the new CEO. With the company’s future in his hands, Homer begins to make cutbacks to ensure financial stability. He even lays off everyone save himself, but there is no one to monitor the machines now running the place and the plant suffers a major meltdown. At the eleventh hour, Burns returns to restore order.
First Aired: 2003-03-16 Email -
Episode 14
Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington
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When The Simpsons become fed up with the new flight patterns at the Springfield airport which are sending loud planes over their house all the time, they take a stand and demand action from their congressman. The politician promptly dies as he’s hearing their proposal, and the family goes about helping Krusty win his now-vacant House seat and take up their cause in Washington. Once Krusty is installed in power, he wreaks havoc on the U.S. political system – but not without getting a Springfield plane rerouting bill passed.
First Aired: 2003-03-09 Email -
Episode 13
A Star is Born Again
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When a famous and sultry movie star swoops into Springfield, every man’s jaw drops. It turns out that she has eyes for none other than Ned Flanders, who has been lonely ever since his wife passed on. Flanders is the envy of Springfield as they go arm and arm together around town, and Homer is dying to know if they ever did the “deed.†The movie star eventually tires of Flanders and leaves to return to LA, but Flanders still refuses to tell Homer what he wants to know. Naturally, Homer goes nuts.
First Aired: 2003-03-02 Email -
Episode 12
I'm Spelling As Fast As I Can
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On the first day back to school, Lisa wins a spelling bee and is recruited by a well-known spelling scout, Joe Beadle. Meanwhile, Homer is distraught after Krusty Burger offers a limited-time Krusty rib sandwich, only to promptly remove it from the menu. Homer temporarily forgets the sandwich by hustling bar patrons around Springfield, challenging them to a spelling duel with Lisa. Once Homer discovers that Krusty’s rib sandwich is scheduled to appear in neighboring Shelbyville, he abandons his scam and travels around the country (a la Deadheads in the ’70s) following the sandwich from town to town. Upon arriving at the National Spelling Bee, the Chair of the Bee asks Lisa to take a dive and let the much cuter boy win. The Chair tells her that she can go to college for free if she takes the dive. Lisa is about to give in, but her morals take over, only she loses anyway when she spells a word wrong, losing the Bee and the scholarship opportunity. When she gets home however, the town of Springfield erects a monument to her for accomplishing more than anyone else has in the history of the town.
First Aired: 2003-02-16 Email -
Episode 11
Barting Over
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When Bart learns that Homer has lost his earnings from a TV commercial he appeared in as a baby, Bart takes Homer to court and is granted emancipation from his parents. Now a legal adult, Bart moves out of the house and into a downtown apartment, where he befriends Tony Hawk and his gang of skating buddies who live upstairs. Homer appeals to Tony Hawk to let him win in a skate-off to impress Bart and lure him back home, but Bart finally lets Homer know that he was just looking for Homer to care about his feelings. Homer finally gets it, and the father and son reunite.
First Aired: 2003-02-16 Email -
Episode 10
Pray Anything
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Homer gets jealous of Flanders and his incredible string of good luck. So he decides to imitate his neighbor and pray to God for good things to happen. Sure enough Homer starts to have things go his way, but it gets out of hand when he prays for a better house. By twist of fate, the town church is handed over to Simpsons as their new home, and the churchgoers are evicted. Hell then descends on Springfield and chaos ensues until Homer promises to vacate the church.
First Aired: 2003-02-09 Email -
Episode 9
The Strong Arms of the Ma
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When Marge gets mugged, she becomes agoraphobic and can’t leave the safety of her home. She holes up in the basement and starts working out on a weight set. She gets stronger and stronger, enough so that she’s able to re-enter the world and beat up the man who robbed her, but she takes it too far and becomes a steroid-crazed bully as she beefs up for the “Iron Maiden Fitness Pageant." When Homer appeals to her to calm down, she finally relents and goes back to being the old Marge.
First Aired: 2003-02-02 Email -
Episode 8
The Dad Who Knew Too Little
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Lisa is upset when she realizes that her own father doesn’t even know her very well. It’s even more evident when he fails to get her the birthday present she wanted. In an effort to get closer to her, Homer hires a detective to spy on Lisa and find out her likes/dislikes. Lisa is impressed with Homer’s new detailed knowledge of her, but when Homer refuses to pay the detective’s bill, the guy tries to frame Lisa for a crime. When the police arrive at the house, Lisa and Homer have to go on the run together, and Homer confesses to spying on his daughter. Lisa forgives him because she knows he did it out of love. The police trace Homer and Lisa to a circus where Lisa uncovers clues to exonerate her.
First Aired: 2003-01-12 Email -
Episode 7
Special Edna (a.k.a. Love And Marking...
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Bart's class is assigned a paper on World War I. Naturally, Bart procrastinates until the last second. He asks Grampa for help, but all Grampa can offer is a bizarre story about being a 4-year old in the trenches. Not surprisingly, Bart receives an F on the paper and has to stay after class to write a new one. Krabapple stays to watch him. Principal Skinner enters to take Edna away on their date. But then Agnes calls for help getting out of the tub. Skinner blows off Edna once again for his mother. Bart offers to take Edna out on the town. At home, Lisa wonders what happened to the Bart who put mothballs in the beef stew. Bart said he felt bad seeing Mrs. Krabapple so upset, apparently much like the time he invented her blind date, Woodrow. Lisa suggests Bart nominate Edna for Teacher of the Year to make her feel appreciated. During the press conference heralding Krabapple's nomination, Cletus - from the Outhouse Times-Picayune - asks if Edna wins, will she leave her old life behind? Sensing trouble, Skinner begins to offer his tribute to Edna, but again blows her off after receiving an emergency page from Agnes. The family joins Edna in Orlando, bored to be at EFCOT Center. Krabapple is lonely, but it turns out that Skinner has come down to be with her. Thing is, he brought Agnes along. Edna dumps him when she finds out. Later, Skinner overhears that the winner of the teacher contest will win enough money to not have to ever teach again. Skinner wants to rig the contest so Edna doesn't win, and he doesn't lose her forever. Unsurprisingly, he enlists Bart's help in pranking the contest. During the ceremony, Little Richard comes out as presenter of the Teacher of the Year award. To decide a winner, the three finalists are going to be asked one last question by the students that nominated them. Bart pretends that he can't read the question because Edna never taught him to read. Skinner feels bad and pulls back the curtain on the whole sordid affair. Skinner says she should be Teacher of the Year since she taught him to love. He asks her to marry him, and she accepts. Next stop, a very special Simpsons wedding!
First Aired: 2003-01-05 Email -
Episode 6
The Great Louse Detective
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Homer comes in with the mail. He uses the George Foreman mail sorter to find out what's good and what's bad. The bad pile is then grilled into a patty, which Homer eats on a bun. In the good pile is an invitation for the family to spend a free weekend at Stagnant Springs Spa. Marge enjoys a mud bath and neck massage from turtles. Homer ducks in for a steam. A mystery man sneaks by and turns the steam room thermostat from "Invigorating" to "Murder," and bars the door shut with a wrench. Homer begins to sweat profusely, then passes out. Later, Krusty opens the door. A prune-like Homer falls out.
First Aired: 2002-12-15 Email -
Episode 5
Helter Shelter
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Walking through the plant, a section of pipe falls on Homer and damages his brain. Afraid he might sue, Burns offers him the company's skybox tickets for a hockey game. The Simpsons enjoy the luxuries of high sports life, including sushi, hot tubs and massages. Annoyed with the classism, Lisa heads down to ice level to watch the game. She advises a Russian player on how to beat the goalie. He scores and gives her his stick in thanks. At home, Homer nails Lisa's stick above her bed. During the night, an army of termites pours out of the stick. In the morning, the family finds their house falling apart. An exterminator fumigates the house and tells the Simpsons the house is uninhabitable for six months. Homer decides to move everybody into a hotel. Finding every room in town sold out, the family moves in with Lenny. But he shares a wall with a jai alai court, so they move in with Comic Book Guy. But he freaks them out, so they move into a house on a reality program that simulates life in 1895. The family has a rough time adjusting to the lack of modern day amenities, but Homer says they have to stick it out because they're on TV. They begin to bond and enjoy their new, austere lives, which TV audiences find boring. The network execs decide a guest star is necessary to revive the show, so they send Squiggy from Laverne and Shirley into the house. That doesn't do it, so the execs pick up the house with a crane attached to a helicopter and dump it into a fast moving river. Eventually, the house goes over a waterfall and washes up on shore. The Simpsons escape just before the house collapses.
First Aired: 2002-12-01 Email -
Episode 4
Large Marge
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After winning a bet with Homer on the Dewey/Truman presidential election of 1948, Lisa gets to pick the day's father/daughter activity. She chooses to help build houses for the homeless. After getting paint on his wedding ring, Homer takes it off. Two business women see Homer's bare finger and take to him. Driving past the scene, Marge sees what she thinks is Homer flirting with the women. In fact, he's explaining in detail how Marge gave birth to Bart. Marge begins to worry that Homer isn't as attracted to her. Manjula advises plastic surgery, and Marge goes under the knife for some liposuction. Waking up, she finds that the doctor accidentally gave her breast implants instead. At first, Marge enjoys the attention and her new trade show modeling career. But she eventually tires of the leering and back spasms and gets the breasts removed.
First Aired: 2002-11-24 Email -
Episode 3
Bart vs. Lisa vs. 3rd Grade
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With the family tired of watching reality television, Bart suggests a satellite dish. Homer has an idea to raise money. Horse racing. Flush with cash, Homer buys a system. Watching hours upon hours of bad TV, Bart neglects to study for the Elementary School Achievement Test. He fails so badly that he gets dropped back to third grade. Meanwhile, Lisa does so well, she gets moved up to third grade. Haven taken all the tests of third grade before, Bart excels. But Lisa struggles to catch up. On a field trip to Capital City, the class has a project to design a new state flag. Bart sabotages Lisa's design, humiliating her in front of Governor Bailey. Bart and Lisa break into a fight and miss the bus back to Springfield. Principal Skinner informs Homer and Marge that the kids are missing. Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa spend the night in the woods. A family of hillbillies comes across Bart and Lisa and drives them back to Capital City, where they're reunited with Homer and Marge. Principal Skinner tells Bart and Lisa they should return to their respective grades to maintain the status quo.
First Aired: 2002-11-17 Email -
Episode 2
How I Spent My Strummer Vacation
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When Homer is secretly videotaped complaining about his family during an episode of “Taxicab Conversations,†they send him off to a rock and roll fantasy camp so that he can regroup and try to live his dream. Once there, he lives the life of a rock star, as taught to him by the likes of Mick Jagger, Elvis Costello, Keith Richards, Brian Setzer, Tom Petty and Lenny Kravitz. When the camp ends after a week, Homer doesn’t want to leave. He just wants to rock. Mick Jagger then invites Homer to come on stage for a benefit concert they’re giving. Once on stage, Homer realizes that he’s not a star, but just the groups Roadie. Homer decides to then wail on a guitar and introduce the band with a musical number of his own. Mick, Elvis, Keith, Tom, Lenny and Brian try to run Homer off stage and a riot breaks out at the venue. In the end, the rockers apologize to Homer for their behavior and ask him to come on stage for another benefit concert. Homer declines however, saying that he’s already the rock star of the Simpson family, so there’s no need to go on stage any longer.
First Aired: 2002-11-10 Email -
Episode 1
Treehouse of Horror XIII
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1) SEND IN THE CLONES – Homer gets a magic hammock that “copies†himself and makes duplicate Homers. Things get out of hand when the army of Homer clones begins wreaking havoc in Springfield. 2) THE FRIGHT TO CREEP AND SCARE HARMS – Lisa fights to have guns banned in Springfield when she sees how many tombstones in the cemeteries belong to shooting victims. Once Springfield complies, however, the town is rendered defenseless against the swarming hordes of gun-toting zombies who come back from the dead to seek revenge. 3) THE ISLAND OF DR. HIBBERT – The Simpsons head for an island vacation hosted by Dr. Hibbert. Only once they arrive do they realize that he’s gone mad and has taken to morphing his visitors (various Springfield residents) into manimals.
First Aired: 2002-11-03 Email
Season 13 (117 links)
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Episode 22
Papa's Got a Brand New Badge
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When Homer gets bored - again - he begins listing his vast accomplishments throughout his life. He comes to the realization that he's never worked in security so he decides to start his own security company with Lenny and Carl to help protect the citizens of Springfield. When Mayor Quimby realizes how inept Wiggum is, he decides to make Homer head of security for the whole city. Unfortunately for Homer, he gets tangled up with the Mafia who try to rub him out of the security business. In the final showdown in front of the Simpson home, Homer stands off with a group of Fat Tony's men. Out of nowhere though, shots are fired as Tony's men are all taken out. Unbeknownst to anyone, Maggie was the one who shot and saved Homer from the Mob.
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Episode 21
Frying Game
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Homer buys Marge a Koi pond as an anniversary present, but the pond becomes a home for a rare screaming caterpillar. The EPA makes Homer responsible for the screamapillar, but when he tries to kill it the court sentences him to do community service. During his community service Homer meets Mrs. Bellamy, a wealthy old lady, and ends up doing additional odd jobs for her. Homer spends so much time helping Mrs. Bellamy that he neglects his own family. When Marge talks to her about the situation, she ends up working for Mrs. Bellamy too. After a party, they discover Mrs. Bellamy passed out on the floor as a burglar escapes out the window with her diamond necklace. Mrs. Bellamy dies and Homer and Marge are suspected of murder. During a search of the Simpson’s house the police find the missing necklace and Homer and Marge are arrested. At the trial they are found guilty of murder and are sentenced to die in the electric chair. Homer decides to save Marge, by confessing to the murder. On the day of Homer’s execution, it’s revealed that the whole thing was a scam and part of a new reality show called “Frame Up,†and that Mrs. Bellamy is alive and is actually Carmen Electra in disguise.
First Aired: 2002-05-19 Email -
Episode 20
Little Girl in the Big Ten
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Lisa befriends some college girls who are unaware of her age. At home with their heady intellectualism and always seeking acceptance, Lisa pretends to be enrolled at their school. She spends most her time on campus while going to great lengths to avoid having her cover blown. When the truth is finally revealed however, she realizes that her old life suited her just fine. Meanwhile, Bart is relegated to living in a bubble when he's bitten by a contagious mosquito.
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Episode 19
The Sweetest Apu
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When Homer accidentally catches Apu cheating on his wife in the Kwik-E-Mart, he struggles to keep the news to himself. He eventually tells Marge who forces him to confront Apu. Apu feels ashamed of his infidelity but still doesn't have the courage to tell Manjula. Unfortunately for Apu however, Manjula discovers the security tape from the store and kicks Apu out of the house. Marge and Homer desperately try to get the couple back together and secretly invite them both over to the house for dinner. Manjula finally agrees to take Apu back, but only after he completes a list of activities she sets out for him, which obviously includes breaking up with his mistress. She eventually lets Apu back into the house, but she says it'll take time to get back to where they were.
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Episode 18
I am Furious Yellow
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When a cartoon animator speaks to Bart's class on career day, Bart gets the idea to make an animated series of his own. After countless efforts and derogatory statements from Comic Book Guy, Bart's attempts at cartooning come to a crashing halt. That is until the biggest character of all inspires him at home: Homer. Bart creates a character based on Homer called "Angry Dad," that chronicles Homer's daily antics via flash animation on the Internet. Bart's problem however, is that he's running out of material when Homer begins to suppress his rage. As a result, Bart decides to create an elaborate scheme to make Homer go crazy and provide ample fodder for his cartoon. When Homer falls victim to Bart's prank, he becomes so enraged that he turns into a delirious version of the Incredible Hulk and has to be subdued by countless police officers from Springfield's finest. In the end, Homer realizes that keeping all the rage inside can sometimes actually be a bad thing.
First Aired: 2002-04-28 Email -
Episode 17
Gump Roast
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In another classic clip show, Homer J. Simpson is the talk of the town as the Springfield Friar's Club decides to "roast" him. All his close friends and even Mr. Burns relay Homer's countless foibles, follies and fables. Just as the roast is about to end however, the two aliens, Kang and Kodos crash the party and threaten to destroy the earth because they can find no innocence or good. It's not until they probe Maggie's mind that they find there are things on earth worth living for. The innocence of a child.
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Episode 16
Weekend at Burnsies
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When Homer is attacked by a mob of crows, he injures his eyes and Dr. Hibbert prescribes him medical marijuana. Homer quickly becomes addicted to the wacky weed though and starts exhibiting all the known traits of pot-headedness: hunger, laziness, mellowed personality, etc. While looking for someone to laugh at his company's dismal quarterly report, Mr. Burns hires Homer who finds everything funny while he's high. Burns feels that if he makes the report funny, it'll lesson the blow. Unfortunately, a new law is passed that bans the use of medical marijuana and Homer is unable to laugh at any of Mr. Burns' outdated humor. At the shareholders meeting, Mr. Burns fakes his own death and Homer and Smithers use his body as a puppet to trick the stockholders. The plan works and the plant is saved from another major crisis.
First Aired: 2002-04-07 Email -
Episode 15
Blame it on Lisa
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Marge is on a campaign to bring down the phone company because she's convinced they are billing them for calls the family didn't make. When Lisa sheepishly admits that she's been calling Brazil to check up on an orphan she's been sponsoring, the whole family decides to head down to Rio de Janeiro for a visit. Upon arrival, Homer is promptly kidnapped and forces the family to come up with ransom money. Not able to raise the proper capital, Homer begrudgingly calls Mr. Burns for the money and gets deeper into debt with his demonic boss. The family is finally reunited and the orphan it turns out is doing quite well and has a job performing at Carnivalè.
First Aired: 2002-03-31 Email -
Episode 14
Tales From the Public Domain
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When Homer gets a notice from the library that he has a book of classic tales that's years overdue, he finds it on the shelf and begins reading aloud. The first tale chronicles Homer as Odysseus and the battle of Troy. Ned is the King of Troy and Homer brings the Trojan Horse into the castle and slaughters the lot of them. But on his return home, he angers the gods and they send him off course where he encounters the sirens (Selma and Patty) as well as a trip through Hades and an encounter with a Cyclops. He finally makes it home to his wife Penelope (Marge). The second tale follows Lisa as Joan o
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Episode 13
The Old Man and the Key
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When a sultry new woman takes up residence in his retirement home, Grandpa is determined to win her affections by impressing her with his driving skills. Grandpa convinces Homer to let him borrow the car, and he proceeds to make a mess of the town's roads. Although he impresses the new old gal, he's still forced to compete with the younger Casa Nova of the retirement home. When the younger man takes Grandpa's new girl on a road trip, Grandpa "kidnaps" Bart, taking him on the road to win back the woman from the arms of the other man. Of course in the end, he's unsuccessful in his attempts, but he and Bart are able to bond through the experience.
First Aired: 2002-03-10 Email -
Episode 12
The Lastest Gun in the West
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Bart befriends an elderly cowboy who was once a Big Screen Legend, a la John Wayne. The cowboy becomes Bart's new idol, and soon all of Springfield's children are renewing their interest in the Old West. Of course Homer is jealous of Bart's new hero and tries repeatedly and unsuccessfully to win Bart back. Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa help the cowboy regain his fame by booking him on Krusty's show. Unfortunately, the cowboy is a drunkard and when a bad bout of stage fright kicks in, he turns to the ol drink. He's subsequently humiliated when he's forced to admit he's an alcoholic. Down, but not out, the cowboy redeems himself by restoring order at the scene of a bank robbery and lassoing the robbers with his classic lasso trickery.
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Episode 11
The Bart Wants What It Wants
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Greta Wolfcastle (Reese Witherspoon) gets a crush on Bart, and the whole family begins enjoying the royal treatment her father, Rainier, provides them. After getting used to the lifestyle of the rich and famous, the Simpsons' privileges are revoked once Bart bores of Greta and breaks up with her. Trying to lure Bart back, Greta pretends to have a crush on Milhouse to provoke Bart's jealousy. Her plan works, but when Greta takes Milhouse to Canada with her for a movie her father is in, Bart loses it and lures his whole family to come to Canada as well. While on the set, Bart confronts Milhouse and they get into a fight, crashing into sets and ruining props. Greta's plan, clearly worked, but Bart's attempts are unrequited as she loses interest in both of them.
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Episode 10
Half-Decent Proposal
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Homer's snoring reaches epic proportions and is driving Marge insane. The lack of sleep begins weighing down on her so she takes Homer to Dr. Hibbert to get him looked at. The surgery option is too expensive so Marge ends up sleeping at Patty and Selma's so she can get some much needed rest. While there, she catches a news report about the success of her high school prom date, Artie Ziff. In a drunken blunder, Marge emails Artie a sexified letter. Upon receiving the email, Artie immediately gets in his helicopter and flies to the Simpsons house. Artie takes the whole family to his yacht and makes Homer a proposal. He offers $1 million to spend a weekend with Marge. Homer and Marge throw the offer in Artie's face, but when Homer's snoring becomes uncontrollable, Marge is forced to give in, needing the money for the surgery. Homer is devastated by the decision, and spies on a party that Artie throws in Marge's honor. Homer sees them kiss, but misses the part when Marge throws Artie off of her. Homer, crushed, leaves home and goes to work in an oil field in West Springfield. Just as death seems imminent for Homer, Marge flies in on Artie's helicopter and rescues him from a burning rig. They're reunited but they refuse Artie's money. Instead, Marge buys Homer Artie's latest invention, which converts his snoring into sweet music (with subliminal messages).
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Episode 9
Jaws Wired Shut
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While running rampant through Springfield, Homer accidentally smashes into a new statue of Dredrick Tatum, the heavyweight champion of the world, and breaks his jaw. Dr. Hibbert wires his jaw shut to allow it to heal, and forces Homer to shut his mouth…for once. Because he can't speak, Homer is forced to listen to his family for the first time. To everyone's surprise, Homer is surprisingly good at listening to their problems/concerns and creates harmony in the family. When he finally gets the wires off, he remains the good listener. Marge steadily begins going crazy as Homer is now the voice of reason in the family. She begins coming loose at the seams and needs an outlet. She decides to take matters into her own hands and fulfill one of Homer's dreams for herself: driving in a demolition derby. Except when she's in the ring, she begins getting pummeled by the other cars. Homer is forced to lose his gentile side and revert back to old-Homer to save the day and ultimately the marriage itself.
First Aired: 2002-01-27 Email -
Episode 8
Sweets and Sour Marge
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After buying the Duff Book Of World Records at a library book sale, Homer is inspired to set a record of his own. He rounds up all of Springfield and decides to build the world's tallest human pyramid. Just as the town is ready to accomplish the feat, the pyramid tumbles down and creates a massive rolling ball that finally comes to rest on a truck scale. The Duff representatives see the scale and determine that Springfield is pound for pound the fattest town on earth. Disgusted by the flatulence, Marge decides to go on a crusade to stop the sugar onslaught on the town. She hires a lawyer and wins a class-action lawsuit against big sugar. The Judge then decrees that sugar be banned from Springfield for life. The town up in arms, Homer becomes a sugar bootlegger and starts smuggling sugar into town. When he brings in his big score, Marge implores him to dump the load, but when she realizes how sugar makes everyone in town happy, she gives up her crusade and the judge rescinds his decree.
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Episode 7
Brawl in the Family
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While playing a heated game of Monopoly, the family gets into a fight and causes Maggie to call the police. The whole family is arrested and the story makes all the papers. A social worker is assigned to the case and attempts to get everyone to work together as a team and break out of their traditional roles. While on a retreat in the woods, they encounter heavy obstacles, but are ultimately able to overcome, work together and bond as a family. Soaking in the warmth of their new relations, they drive home but find two floozies standing in the driveway. Evidently the family riot story made the papers in Las Vegas and Homer and Flanders' Vegas wives finally track them down. Ashamed and embarrassed, Marge kicks Homer out of the house, forcing him to sleep in the yard. His second wife decides to settle in, making Homer even more miserable. Eventually, Marge feels sorry for him, and the family decides to work together to get rid of her. Homer gets his trashy wife roaring drunk and gets Grandpa to marry her, annulling his own marriage.
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Episode 6
She of Little Faith
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Homer and Bart build a model rocket together but lose control of it as it burns down the church. Without any money for repairs, the church decides to sell out to corporate sponsors: mainly Mr. Burns. Lisa is appalled by the shameless display of billboards and corporate monikers emblazoned on the church walls and finally decides to simply quit the church for good. She decides to test out new religions and finally happens upon a Buddhist temple. Lisa becomes enamored with the easy-going approach to enlightenment and decides to take Buddhism as her new religion. Her family, worried about her soul, try to bring her back to Christianity by subtly dropping Christian innuendo. Lisa realizes that Buddhism allows for the celebration of all holidays and finally comes back to her family to celebrate and simply pay "lip-service" to the church.
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Episode 5
The Blunder Years
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When Homer brings the family out for a nice dinner and a show, a hypnotist inadvertently conjures up repressed memories from Homer's past and causes him to scream uncontrollably. Realizing that he's been traumatized by some horrific event in his past, Marge gives him a special Yaqui Indian tea to sharpen his memory. Homer recounts when he was 12 and went on a hiking expedition with Lenny, Carl and Moe. It turns out that while they were swimming in a quarry, Homer happened upon a corpse that fell out of a drainpipe. With the memory now out in the open, Homer is able to stop screaming, but the mystery of the corpse remains. The whole family goes to investigate and when they find the body again, they decide to follow the drainpipe up to its source. They arrive in Mr. Burns' office, where Mr. Burns tells them that the corpse is from Smithers' dad, Waylon Sr. Mr. Burns then shows them a movie about how Smithers' dad died, which was from the constant contact with radiation.
First Aired: 2001-12-09 Email -
Episode 4
Hunka Hunka Burns in Love
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When the family goes to a Chinese restaurant in China Town, Homer is disappointed by the unoriginal and lame fortunes from the fortune cookies. Homer impresses the restaurant owner with his own brand of fortunes and is hired as a writer. From one of his fortunes, Mr. Burns is told that he will find true love. When he's being given a ticket by female cop Gloria, he decides to ask her out. Initially, Gloria feels that Mr. Burns is too old for her, but when Homer tells her about all of Burns' exploits, she begins falling for him. Mr. Burns continues dating Gloria and has Homer come along on their dates to support in a "youthful" way. While bowling, Mr. Burns decides to propose to Gloria and she accepts. When Burns goes to buy champagne, Gloria and Homer are kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend Snake. Snake takes them to his hideout where he ties she and Homer to chairs and tries to win her back. The police arrive and there's a standoff. When Homer inadvertently catches on fire, the whole place goes up in ablaze, leaving Gloria trapped inside. When Burns sees her trapped, he musters up enough energy to save her. Only when they come out, Gloria realizes that she's still attracted to Snake's bad boy image, leaving Mr. Burns loveless again.
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Episode 3
Homer the Moe
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When Moe becomes too depressed for his own good, he decides to leave Springfield for his alma mater. In doing so, he leaves the bar in Homer's care, who subsequently turns it into more of a sty then it already was. While at bartending school, Moe consults a former professor and comes back to Springfield with a renewed sense of spirit. Moe decides to tear down the old bar and hires a foreign decorator to create a whole new look. The new bar is called "M" and features a snobbish clientele and more expensive drinks. Feeling betrayed by his friend, Homer decides to open a bar in his own garage under the auspices of a hunting club. Moe eventually realizes that the new glitz and glamour of the new place can't replace the dank of his old friends. So he goes for a walk and overhears the sounds from Homer's garage where REM is playing a tribute concert. He tells Homer that the only way he can stay open as a hunting club though is to actually go hunting. Homer goes out the next day and tries to kill a turkey but accidentally shoots Moe instead. To reconcile, Homer brings his family to Moe's for Thanksgiving dinner. He never kills a turkey, but REM joins them and brings over a tofu Thanksgiving feast.
First Aired: 2001-11-18 Email -
Episode 2
The Parent Rap
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When Homer makes Bart and Milhouse walk to school, the boys get into trouble and are arrested for stealing Chief Wiggum's squad car. Milhouse gets off but when Bart comes to the bench, Judge Constance Harm (Jane Kaczmarek) takes over and lays down the law. She holds Homer responsible for Bart's deeds and sentences he and Bart to be tethered together. Marge finally gets fed up with the punishment and cuts the rope. Only now, she and Homer get brought back before Judge Harm and have their heads and hands locked up in old-fashioned wooden stocks. Not being able to bare the punishment any longer, they break free and decide to get back at the judge. When the plan goes awry, they accidentally sink the Judge's houseboat and are once again brought into court. Just as Judge Harm is ready to bang her gavel, Judge Schneider comes back from his fishing trip and declares a verdict of "boys will be boys," dismissing the case.
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Treehouse of Horror XII
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A Simpsons Halloween to never forget! The first cryptic tale brings the family to "Ethnictown" where Homer angers a gypsy who then places a curse bringing bad luck to everyone but him. Marge grows a beard, Lisa turns into half of a horse and Bart's neck becomes rubbery. To break the curse, Homer captures a leprechaun, only the leprechaun falls in love with the gypsy and winds up marrying her. The second scary story pays homage to 2001 as Marge decides to purchase the Ultrahouse 3000, a futuristic house (Pierce Brosnan) with homicidal tendencies that controls every aspect of the family's lives. When the House falls in love with Marge, it attempts to kill Homer and take his place. The final Halloween Haunt finds the Simpsons in a Harry Potter-esque existence, with the kids learning sorcery at a wizard school. Montymort and his sidekick Slithers, try to take Lisa's essence only to be out-dueled by Bart.
First Aired: 2001-11-06 Email
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Episode 21
Simpsons Tall Tales
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Homer refuses to pay an airport tax for their flight, they hop an illegal train ride and share a railroad car with a singing hobo. The hobo enchants them with tall tales taken from American folklore. He weaves stories about Paul Bunyan (Homer) saving the earth from a meteor, Connie Appleseed (Lisa) turning settlers onto the health benefits of apples, and the lesser-known adventures of Tom Sawyer (Bart) and Huck Finn.
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Episode 20
Children of a Lesser Clod
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The Simpsons take advantage of one-time-only free classes at the YMCA. While Marge learns self-defense, Homer plays in the "Over 35 Basketball League" and promptly blows out his knee. During surgery, Homer falls off the gurney and injures his back, leaving him unable to work. Bored and lonely, Homer opens a home daycare center to keep himself occupied. To everyone's surprise, "Uncle Homer's Daycare" is a huge success and earns him a nomination at the "Good Guy Awards". Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa become jealous of Homer's attention towards other kids. They decide to edit the award show with some of their home videos. When Homer is presented with his trophy, the sabotaged footage is revealed and exposes him as a "beer-drinking meanie".
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Episode 19
I'm Goin' to Praise Land
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When Ned is reunited with an old crush named Rachael, he starts to believe that he is finally ready to date again. But after he tries to mold Rachael into Maude's image, he realizes he needs to break his obsession with his departed wife. Ned asks the Simpsons to go through Maude's things. Homer is quick to put everything in the wood chipper, but Maude's sketchbook survives - revealing her dream of creating a Christian amusement park. As a final tribute, and with help from the Simpsons, Ned creates "Praise Land." The squeaky clean park is a bomb, until a miracle occurs in front of the huge Maude statue. Paid visits to "Miracle Maude" raise tons of cash for the orphanage, but Ned soon discovers that a gas leak is responsible for everyone's so-called visions. Even though the park is shut down, the experience helps Ned put the past behind him - and ask Rachael out on another date.
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Episode 18
Trilogy of Error
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Three, intertwining tales offer different perspectives on a day in the life of the Simpsons. First, Homer's attempt to steal a freshly baked brownie results in Marge accidentally cutting off his thumb. They must race to the hospital to have it reattached. In the meantime, Lisa can't find her bike and is left without a ride to school on the day of the big science fair. Her invention, a robot that corrects grammar, can't win first prize unless she enters on time. In her numerous attempts to get to school, she eventually crosses paths with the rest of the family. Meanwhile, Bart and Milhouse uncover a stash of fireworks. When Chief Wiggum catches up to them, he enlists their help in an undercover sting operation, with explosive results. As the mayhem of the day unfolds, it becomes clear how the actions of each family member directly affects the rest of the household.
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Episode 17
Simpsons Safari
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Tired of constant mistreatment, the bag boys of Springfield go on strike, creating a grocery shortage. In Homer's frantic search for food, he unearths a thirty-year-old box of animal crackers in the attic. He bites into a giraffe but is surprised to find that it's made of solid gold - which means he's just won an African safari for the entire family. Once in Africa, the family is awed by the majestic scenery, wildlife and colorful local customs. However, during a dance ceremony, the family is chased by an enraged hippo and must flee via a raging river. Lost and weary, the Simpsons are saved by friendly chimps. They return the favor by fighting off poachers and freeing the chimps from the control of an evil scientist.
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Episode 16
Bye Bye Nerdy
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Lisa tries to befriend a new student, only to become the target of the girl's violent outbursts. When the bully, Francine, beheads Malibu Stacey, Lisa vows to get to the root of the problem. After scientific research on typical bully targets (i.e. nerds), Lisa discovers that it's the nerd scent that sets off Francine and the other school bullies. Lisa invents an antidote and is hailed a heroine by geeks everywhere. Meanwhile, Homer becomes driven to protect the babies of Springfield with his cheap and easy safety devices - which drives the "injured baby" industry out of business.
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Episode 15
Hungry Hungry Homer
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Homer becomes a Good Samaritan after seeing the benefit of helping people. When he attempts to get Lenny a refund on his Springfield Isotopes season tickets, Homer discovers that the baseball team's new owner, Duff Beer, plans to move the team to Albuquerque. Homer tries to rally the town in protest, however, no one believes his allegation. To expose Duff's plan, he stages a hunger strike by chaining himself to a light pole near the stadium. Days later, the Duff Corporation deems Homer their ballpark attraction. They unchain him and tempt his cravings with an Isotope Dog Supreme. Before eating it, Homer realizes that the Southwestern ingredients on the hot dog prove that the team is moving to Albuquerque.
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Episode 14
New Kids on the Blecch
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Homer participates in the Springfield marathon. Bart receives an offer to be part of a boys band called "Party Posse". The other members of the band are; "Milhouse", "Nelson" and "Ralph". With the help of NASA technology their voices are changed. They become very popular until it becomes clear their music is being used to "encourage" people to join the marines
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Episode 13
Day of the Jackanapes
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Krusty the Clown decides to retire after his show is eclipsed by the popular game show "Me Wantee." During a farewell interview with Kent Brockman, the funnyman reveals that he accidentally erased the tapes of his first ten years on the air. When news of his erasure from the Krusty canon reaches Sideshow Bob in prison, Bob vows to get revenge. Upon his release from prison, he comes up with the ultimate revenge plot: hypnotize Bart Simpson and program him to kill Krusty during his farewell show. The night of the show, all of Springfield turns up to honor the retiring clown, including Bart, who has been strapped with explosives. Bob programmed Bart to blow Krusty up when he hears a special trigger phrase. However, at the last minute, Bob has second thoughts and attempts to interrupt his violent plan.
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Episode 12
Tennis the Menace
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When Homer installs a tennis court, he and Marge become quite popular in the Springfield social scene. Marge soon learns, however, that the town mocks them for always losing on their own court. She dumps Homer in favor of Bart for an upcoming doubles tournament and wins. Hurt, yet set on revenge, Homer enlists Lisa's help to play against their family members in Krusty's celebrity event. At the tournament, Homer befriends tennis ace Venus Williams, changes her last name to Simpson and bumps Lisa courtside. Marge protests and gets Bart replaced by Serena Williams. It's not long before Marge and Homer are bumped by Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi, relegating the entire family to the bench.
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Episode 11
Worst Episode Ever
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When Bart wins a $50 bet with Homer, he and Milhouse go on a spending spree through Springfield. After blowing most of their wad at the Kwik-e-Mart, they hit the Android's Dungeon for some comic book action. But when they screw up Comic Book Guy's biggest deal ever, they are banned from the store for life. Special FX guru Tom Savini is making an appearance at the store that night and Bart and Milhouse are forced to watch the amazing gore with their noses pressed against the glass of the store window. During the show, Comic Book Guy has a heart attack and must be hospitalized. While he's away, Bart and Milhouse take over the store. They discover Comic Book Guy's bootleg video library and open it to the public for profit. Comic Book Guy and Agnes Skinner find love together, but their relationship is threatened after the police raid the Android's Dungeon.
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Episode 10
Pokeymom
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While attending a prison rodeo with the family, Marge is struck by the painting talents of a sensitive prisoner named Jack. Later, she decides to teach an art class at the prison and eventually helps Jack get parole. With Jack released in her custody, Marge sets him up with a job painting a "Puma Pride" mural at Springfield Elementary School. Jack angers Principal Skinner by painting a shocking Heavy Metal-style mural which he is forced to paint over. When the new mural mysteriously catches on fire, all fingers point to the newly-released prisoner. Marge and Jack have a heart-to-heart and she tries, one last time, to help him.
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Episode 9
HOMR
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Homer takes Bart and Lisa to the "Sick, Twisted, and Totally F***ed Up Animation Festival" where they sample some of the most cutting edge cartoons from around the world. During a workshop, Homer becomes fascinated by an electronic device that renders cartoons from human movements called the Animotion machine. Later, he invests the family's life savings in the company and loses all their money. To make back some cash, Homer becomes a human guinea pig. During one experiment, the scientists find a crayon lodged in his brain-the cause of Homer's slow wit. After the crayon is removed, Homer becomes smarter. Soon, he discovers that being intelligent doesn't make people like you any more. He decides to return the crayon to his brain and become his old self again. Lisa is disappointed to lose the new, smarter Homer, however she knows that he's wise enough to continue loving her.
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Episode 8
Skinner's Sense of Snow
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The Simpson family attends Cirque du Puree, a snooty French circus. During the show, a massive snow storm strikes Springfield, blanketing the entire town under piles of snow. The next morning, Bart and Lisa are horrified to learn that Springfield Elementary is still in session. After a treacherous bus ride to school and a day spent watching "The Christmas That Almost Wasn't But Then Was," the students and a cheery Principal Skinner find that they have been snowed in. Under Skinner's martial law, the students are forced to suffer through a night at school. Despite Homer and Flanders' best efforts to save the kids from their slow torture, Bart and the rest manage to make their unbearable situation a little more livable by capturing Skinner and taking over the school. As de facto leader, Bart runs the school with an iron fist until Homer and Flanders, with a little help from sodium chloride, save the day.
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Episode 7
The Great Money Caper
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Bart becomes obsessed with magic after the family attends dinner at a magic theme restaurant. On the way home from the restaurant, a sturgeon falls from the sky onto the hood of the car, crushing it like a can. When Homer gets the bill, he takes Bart on the road with his magic act in a desperate attempt to raise some cash. While the act proves a failure, Bart manages to score some big money after Homer abandons him. Knowing a good thing when they see it, Bart and Homer begin conning Springfield's citizens out of their money using a series of confidence scams. However, when Grandpa Simpson joins them on the biggest heist of their short career, they run into trouble.
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Episode 6
The Computer Wore Menace Shoes
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After Homer realizes he's missed out on the computer revolution, he buys the nicest model a fifth mortgage can buy. However, when his web site fails to attract any attention, Homer begins calling himself Mr. X and becomes Springfield's number one source for dubious news and questionable scandals. His first scoop reveals Mayor Quimby's secret pool and his second brings down Apu's phony donut cartel. After winning the Pulitzer Prize for his journalistic dynamite, however, Mr. X's popularity wanes. In a desperate attempt to rekindle interest, Homer starts really making up the news. But when he accidentally stumbles upon a dangerous secret, he finds himself kept prisoner on a strange island occupied by other prisoners. Homer's best attempts to get back home only land the entire family on the island.
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Episode 5
Homer vs. Dignity
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In celebration of Bart's first 'A' the Simpsons go out for a nice dinner. Unfortunately, Homer's credit card is rejected and the family realizes their finances might be in more trouble than they thought. So, on the advice of a financial planner, Homer asks Mr. Burns for a raise. Lucky for him, Smithers is off to New Mexico for the production of his Malibu Stacy musical, leaving Mr. Burns in quick need of a new henchman. Promoted to Executive Assistant in Charge of Hi-jinks, Homer begins playing practical jokes at Mr. Burns prompting. For every nasty trick Homer plays on an unsuspecting sucker in Springfield, Burns pays him handsomely. Things get a little rough when Burns convinces Homer to dress up as a panda and make "friends" with a real panda at the Springfield Zoo. Realizing his dignity is worth more than money, Homer decides to quit the hi-jinks business.
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Episode 4
Lisa the Treehugger
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Lisa joins up with a militant environmental group called Dirt First and wages war on corporate polluters. Finally, Lisa has a found a cause worth fighting for. Also, Jesse, the leader of Dirt First, is a totally cute non-threatening teenage boy. Feeling challenged by Jesse's intense beliefs and cute hair, Lisa decides to camp out in an ancient redwood tree to stop deforestation. Lisa prevents the loggers from destroying the tree. But when she sneaks down for one night, the tree is struck by lightning, making Lisa a martyr for Dirt First. Lisa has to decide what's more important: being a symbol for the environmental movement or being honest.
First Aired: 2000-11-19 Email -
Episode 3
Insane Clown Poppy
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When Homer and Bart spend the day doing chores there's bound to be some fireworks - literally. Fixing Lisa's VCR with firecrackers backfires and the two are forced to make it up to her with a trip to the Festival of Books. At the festival Krusty is signing his new memoirs. And who is waiting for a signature but his long lost daughter, Sophie, the product of a Gulf War romantic liaison. Sophie wants to have Krusty in her life, but Krusty isn't so sure. When their day at the beach is no day at the beach, Krusty enlists Homer as his mentor in fatherhood. No wonder they end up nearly getting killed by the mob.
First Aired: 2000-11-12 Email -
Episode 2
A Tale of Two Springfields
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When Bart discovers a badger has taken up residence in Santa's Little Helper's doghouse, Bart and Lisa try to lure him out. After consulting WhatBadgersEat.com and Homer, they decide to call animal control. Dialing the number, Homer runs into trouble when it turns out the area code for half of Springfield has been changed. After Phoney McRingRing and other executives fail to quell the town's fears, area code and class rivalries split Springfield in two. And when Homer becomes mayor of New Springfield, his plan to build a wall between the two towns doesn't solve any problems. The Who might be the only thing to bring the two towns together again.
First Aired: 2000-11-05 Email -
Episode 1
Treehouse of Horror XI
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Our first fright comes when Homer's horoscope is a real horror show. "Today you will die," it says, but somehow Homer manages to avoid death at every turn. That is, until dinner turns deadly. After choking on some broccoli, Homer passes to the afterlife. To get into heaven, he has 24 hours to do a good deed. Unfortunately helping old ladies cross the street isn't going to cut it. The second screamer is a fairy tale that may not end happily ever after. The Simpsons' pumpkin home is falling apart. And it doesn't help that Homer was just fired. While Marge tries to figure out how to feed the children, Homer finds an easy solution - throw them in the woods. Bart and Lisa run into even bigger trouble when they find themselves caught in a gingerbread house where a nice old lady wants to have them for supper… literally. And our final spook comes when the Simpsons see a dolphin show at their local Marine World. Lisa feels bad for a poor dolphin Snorky. But when Lisa sets Snorky free, she unwittingly aids the cause of a dolphin revolution that threatens humanity.
First Aired: 2000-11-01 Email
Season 11 (129 links)
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Episode 22
Behind the Laughter
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A special behind-the-scenes look at the ups and downs of "the first family of American laughter." As the story unfolds, we learn of Homer Simpsons' humble beginnings and the demo tape that made him famous. Unable to get his videotape seen by any big time network execs, the family turns to FOX. The Simpsons quickly became an enormous hit, the future looking bright. But success comes at a great price and all the baggy pants in MC Hammer's old house can't save the family from themselves. Homer's addiction to painkillers, the tax problems, Bart's reckless behavior - it all spelled trouble for the show and the family. How did they ever pull through? With style and class. And a little help from their friends.
First Aired: 2000-05-21 Email -
Episode 21
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge
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One morning on the way to school, Otto takes the bus on a short detour to propose to his girlfriend Becky through the drive-in window of the restaurant where she works. Bart persuades Marge to have the wedding in their backyard, and everything goes well until Otto insists on playing the heavy metal music Becky hates so much. The marriage is over as soon as it starts and Becky winds up living with the Simpsons as she tries to put her life back together. Soon, it becomes clear that Becky is becoming competition for Marge in the home, baking, teaching the kids karate, and helping them with homework. It's only a matter of time before Marge snaps and tries to take back her life--by force.
First Aired: 2000-05-14 Email -
Episode 20
Last Tap Dance in Springfield
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During an outing at the mall, Homer gets his eyes examined while Marge and Lisa shop for items Bart will need for his camping trip. Seeing a film about tango dancers, Lisa is inspired to get dance lessons. Lisa, however, does not prove to be the most talented of dancers. Her role in an upcoming dance recital: curtain puller. Lisa is crushed. Meanwhile, Bart and Milhouse sneak out of their camping trip and decide to spend a week in the mall. Hiding out in an air vent until the mall closes the boys stuff themselves silly with candy, cookies and play with all the toys. The next morning Chief Wiggum is called in to investigate. Thinking he is on the trail of an enormous rat, Wiggum tries to catch them using various traps and tricks. Meanwhile, with a little help from Professor Frink, Lisa becomes the star of the recital.
First Aired: 2000-05-07 Email -
Episode 19
Kill the Alligator and Run
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A self-help test gone wrong convinces Homer he has only four more years to live. The weight of the news begins to unravel what little sanity he had left and the Plant psychiatrist recommends a long vacation. But as the Simpson family arrives in Florida for Homer's recovery, they realize the state has been invaded by Spring Breakers. Despite Marge's best efforts to keep him in his hotel room, Homer manages to escape and make it to a Kid Rock concert. But when the Spring Breakers leave, Homer refuses to let the party end. After renting an airboat, Homer accidentally runs over the alligator Captain Jack, a local legend. The sheriff promptly arrests the whole family and locks them in jail. But thanks to Homer's quick thinking, they manage to escape.
First Aired: 2000-04-30 Email -
Episode 18
Days of Wine and D'Ohses
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After Homer accidentally sets fire to the backyard, he takes refuge in Moe's, where Barney is busy complaining that his friends missed his birthday. Homer reminds Barney that he threw him a party and shows him a video of the drunken birthday boy to prove it. Barney is so embarrassed he vows to quit drinking and take the helicopter lessons Moe bought him for his birthday. Meanwhile, back at the Simpson house, Bart and Lisa enter a competition to create a new cover for the Springfield phone book. Finding an old camera, they set out to snap the winning photo. But while taking a picture from a scenic outlook, a stray flash bulb creates a brush fire, leaving Bart and Lisa trapped while a fire rages all around them. A newly sober Barney is the only man who can save them.
First Aired: 2000-04-09 Email -
Episode 17
Bart to the Future
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During a family outing to an Indian-owned casino, Bart sees a vision of his future courtesy of the wise Native American casino magnate. Flash forward thirty years: Bart is crashing on Ralph Wiggum's couch, trying his hardest to make it as a rock guitarist. His sister has just been elected the first straight woman President of the United States and when Bart gets evicted for not paying rent, he decides it's time to pay Lisa a little visit at her new home. Bart moves into the White House, which is already overrun by Homer and Marge and Maggie, Jr., Maggie's beautiful baby girl. As Lisa begins her Presidency, Bart makes a total nuisance of himself, interrupting press conferences to promote his demo tape, setting off the Secret Service with his Frisbee, and using an official Presidential helicopter to fly in Ralph Wiggum to hang out and drink beer. Lisa and her top advisor, Milhouse, decide to send Bart on a wild goose chase to get rid of him. But when Bart discovers the plot, he is hurt and offended. Returning to the White House, he finds Lisa in a critical meeting with other leaders of the free world, begging them not to collect the loans they gave to her financially strapped country. Bart, who is by now an expert at dodging creditors, helps Lisa fend off their demands and saves the day. Back in the present, Bart realizes that he can change his future if he tries and goes off with Lisa and tells her all about his vision.
First Aired: 2000-03-19 Email -
Episode 16
Pygmoelian
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Moe competes for top honors at a Duff Beer festival and wins a chance to appear in a Duff calendar. When the calendar finally comes out, Moe's face is covered with a giant sticker due to his hideous ugliness. Despondent, Moe goes in for some much-needed plastic surgery and emerges from the operation with a smooth, handsome face. After settling some old scores with people who've wronged him, Moe heads over to the TV studio, where he confronts the producer of It Never Ends, a soap opera he once tried out for. Because of his new face, Moe is hired on the spot and made a regular on the series. But when Moe and Homer discover that Moe's character is about to be written off, they sabotage the entire show by revealing top secret plot points for the next year. The producers fire Moe and then, in a freak accident, a set piece falls on Moe's face, destroying all of his doctor's hard work. After that, it's back to Moe's Tavern for Springfield's least comely bartende.
First Aired: 2000-02-27 Email -
Episode 15
Missionary Impossible
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Homer anonymously pledges $10,000 to PBS to save Do Shut Up, his favorite British sitcom. When Betty White and her PBS cronies track him down, Homer is forced to flee for his life. Seeking sanctuary at the Springfield Community Church, Homer begs Reverend Lovejoy to save him from the violent PBS posse that has grown to include Mr. Rogers, the Teletubbies, and Oscar the Grouch. Reverend Lovejoy smuggles Homer out of the Church parking lot inside a bag labeled "Children's Letters to God" and deposits him on a Christian Relief plane bound for the South Pacific. When he arrives on a lush tropical island, Homer is forced to act as a missionary, teaching the ways of the Lord to the natives. Back in Springfield, Bart becomes the man of the house and takes Homer's place at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. Mr. Burns pokes Bart with a stick for over an hour during his first day on the job. On the island, Homer brings civilization to the natives in the form of casino gambling and beer. But Homer's newly opened Lucky Savage Casino does not lead to progress. Instead, it leads to violence and alcoholism. Attempting to repent for his mistake, Homer tries to finish the construction of the island's first chapel. After he completes the building with the help of the natives, Homer and a native girl he has named Lisa, Jr. ring the church bell so loudly that they cause an earthquake. The earthquake opens up a fissure in the island's floor that unleashes a deadly river of lava. Will Homer and Lisa, Jr. survive? It's up to Bart--and a well-placed phone call to FOX--to save the day.
First Aired: 2000-02-20 Email -
Episode 14
Alone Again Natura-Diddily
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Tragedy strikes Springfield as one of the town's most beloved citizens dies in a freak car-racing accident. During a walk through the Springfield bird sanctuary, the Simpson family discovers a new auto-racing track. On the track's opening day, all of Springfield gathers to see the racing action. During a routine T-shirt promotion during the intermission, Maude Flanders is knocked from atop the stadium bleachers and crashes to her death. After a brief, poignant funeral, Ned must learn to pick up the pieces of his shattered life. Homer tries his best to help his neighbor, even going as far as pushing the still-grieving Ned back into the dating scene. After a series of dates that run the gamut from bad to horrible, Ned resigns himself to being alone. But in his darkest hour, he draws some inspiration from Rachel Jordan, the lead singer of a Christian rock band. Touched by Rachel's talent and beauty, Ned takes his first small step toward happiness.
First Aired: 2000-02-13 Email -
Episode 13
Saddlesore Galactica
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During a trip to the State Fair, Homer and Bart save a diving horse named Duncan. To help pay for the horse's food and care, Homer tries to train Duncan to be a field goal kicker, but NFL regulations specifically ban the use of horses in professional football. As Homer curses the NFL and their draconian rulebook, Bart comes up with the idea of turning Duncan into a racehorse. With a pajama-clad Bart as his jockey, Duncan loses his first race. Bart and Homer are the laughingstocks of the racing community, but after giving Duncan a Rodman-esque makeover as a bad-boy rebel renamed Furious D, they take the racing world by storm. Furious D intimidates all his competitors with his dyed hair and nose ring. Miraculously, Furious D and Bart become champions. After a race, Homer is ambushed by crazed, singing jockeys who reveal themselves to be magical elves who live in an underground lair. The jockeys tell Homer that if Bart doesn't lose the big Springfield Derby, they'll eat his brains. Terrified, Homer tries to convince Bart to throw the race. Bart refuses and he and Furious D go on to win it all. But the victory is brief as the murderous elves pursue Homer, Bart and Duncan as they flee the racetrack and try to make it home. It's up to Marge and her trusty garden hose to stop the elves before they can dine on what's left of Homer's brains. Homer throws out the elves with the trash and the family says goodbye to Duncan, who gets put out to stud.
First Aired: 2000-02-06 Email -
Episode 12
The Mansion Family
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After receiving an award for being Springfield's oldest citizen, Mr. Burns decides to take a trip with Mr. Smithers to the Mayo Clinic for a complete check-up. While he's away, he asks the Simpson family to look after his mansion. Right away, Homer, Marge, Bart and Lisa begin to act like snotty millionaires, sliding down the banister, riding a horse down the hallway, scratching their butts with the good silverware and so on. All goes well until Homer decides to throw a party aboard Mr. Burns' prized yacht, Gone Fission, and invites Moe, Barney, Lenny and Carl along. Meanwhile, at the Mayo Clinic, Mr. Burns goes through a series of painful and invasive tests that yield some pretty shocking results: It turns out that Mr. Burns has every disease known to man and a few new ones that haven't been discovered yet. Luckily, all of the diseases cancel each other out and Burns remains the picture of health, sort of. Back on the boat, Homer and his buddies are taken hostage by a group of pirates who throw them overboard. As luck would have it, the group survives and Homer returns to his family just as Burns returns home. Marge and Lisa have cleaned the house so there is no evidence of the Simpson family's messy stay and everything goes back to normal.
First Aired: 2000-01-23 Email -
Episode 11
Faith Off
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Homer attends a fundraiser for Springfield University, where he is briefly reunited with his old pals Benjamin, Doug and Gary. For old time's sake, the four team up to pull a prank on the dean. When the prank goes tragically awry, Homer is forced to live with its aftermath: A bucket full of super glue gets stuck on his head. Every attempt to remove the bucket fails until the Simpson family attends a religious revival, where a preacher named Brother Faith empowers Bart to remove it. Sensing a new calling, Bart devotes his life to becoming a faith healer. He manages to heal a number of Springfield's residents, but experiences a crisis of faith when he causes Milhouse to be hit by a car. Swearing off faith healing for good, Bart is forced into it again when a field goal kicker for Springfield University injures his ankle during an important game. Does Bart really have the power to heal him? Or will Springfield U lose the big game? Bart had better have faith and the team doctor had better have some morphine.
First Aired: 2000-01-16 Email -
Episode 10
Little Big Mom
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When Marge breaks her leg in a skiing accident, it's up to Lisa to run the Simpson household in her mother's absence. Lisa thinks she can handle the responsibility by implementing a structured plan and using fun management techniques like a "chore hat" from which her father and brother can randomly select a chore. Of course, Homer and Bart ignore Lisa's system and the house turns into a pig sty. Meanwhile, Marge is discovering the wonders of shiatsu massage as she receives foot, leg and hair rub-downs in the hospital. Lisa is so angry at Homer and Bart's lack of consideration that she decides to play a trick on them. With a little inspiration from the spirit of Lucille Ball, Lisa comes up with a way to trick Homer and Bart into thinking they have leprosy. Her trick works so well that Homer and Bart get sent to a leper colony in Hawaii courtesy of Ned Flanders. When Marge gets out of the hospital, she and Lisa track Homer and Bart down at the leper colony but discover that they don't want to leave.
First Aired: 2000-01-09 Email -
Episode 9
Grift of the Magi
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When Fat Tony and his legitimate businessmen friends extort $200,000 from Principal Skinner, Springfield Elementary goes broke. The children rejoice while Skinner tries to figure out a way to raise enough money to reopen the school. Enter Jim Hope and his Kid First Industry (KFI), a touchy-feely corporation that buys the school and privatizes it. KFI fires all the teachers and rewrites the curriculum based on its own curious corporate mandates. Strangely, every lesson plan seems to revolve in some way around toys and marketing. When Lisa's class is asked to come up with names for toys, Lisa becomes very suspicious of KFI's motives. After a little investigating, she discovers that the school is full of hidden cameras and two-way blackboards that allow KFI to gather marketing data on children. Lisa tries to share her discovery with her parents and Chief Wiggum, but KFI removes all evidence from the school before they can investigate. When Christmas rolls around, Lisa notices that a popular new toy named Funzo has many of the traits her classmates said they wanted. Lisa and Bart break into the KFI headquarters to figure out what's going on. Slipping by Gary Coleman, who is working as a security guard at KFI, Lisa and Bart confront Jim Hope. Hope admits that he may have exploited the kids, but he gives them a free Funzo, which is enough to satisfy Bart. Funzo becomes a huge hit at Christmas time, but when Bart discovers that it's programmed to destroy all other toys, he agrees with Lisa that Funzo is bad. Bart and Lisa decide to get rid of all the Funzos they can by having Homer steal them from their neighbors' homes. When Homer tries to throw all the stolen toys into the Springfield Tire Fire, he's stopped by none other than Gary Coleman. But by talking with Gary, Lisa is able to show him the truth about KFI and the way that other companies have exploited Christmas. The Simpsons invite Gary over for Christmas dinner and everyone has a wonderful day.
First Aired: 1999-12-19 Email -
Episode 8
Take My Wife, Sleaze
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The Simpson family has dinner at Greaser's Café, a '50s-themed restaurant. While there, Homer and Marge enter a dance contest and win a vintage Harley-Davidson motorcycle. After Bart teaches his father how to ride his new hog, Homer forms a biker gang called the Hell's Satans with Lenny, Carl, Moe and Ned Flanders. While riding around town making trouble, the Satans attract the attention of another, more authentic biker gang who also happen to be called the Hell's Satans. The real biker gang, led by two guys named Meathook and Ramrod, take over the Simpsons' house and trash the place. Marge, ever the gracious host, cooks and cleans for her new guests. When the Satans leave, they take Marge with them. While pursuing the men who kidnapped his wife, Homer goes to Poppa Wheelie's, a biker bar where he sees NRBQ playing. Marge isn't there since she's being held at a campsite by the Hell's Satans. Marge tries to reason with her captors and teaches them that violence is wrong. Just then, Homer arrives to steal her back and winds up battling with Meathook. Luckily, Homer wins the fight and takes his wife home. The Hell's Satans, meanwhile, will take the lessons they learned from Marge and start new, more productive lives.
First Aired: 1999-11-28 Email -
Episode 7
Eight Misbehavin
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Apu and his wife decide to have a baby. With the help of fertility drugs, their attempts to conceive prove successful--very successful: Nine months later, Manjula gives birth to octuplets. The townspeople of Springfield celebrate the arrival of the babies, and local companies shower Apu and Manjula with free products. But when a Shelbyville couple has nine babies at once, all the attention turns to them and Apu and Manjula are left to raise their babies together. It's a big job and Apu realizes he's not up to the task. When Larry Kittkill, the owner of the Springfield Zoo, offers to pay Apu and Manjula to raise their babies behind the glass of a zoo exhibition, Apu foolishly accepts. When he decides he wants to take his new family away from the zoo, Apu discovers that he can't get out of the contract he signed. Homer and Apu steal the babies but Homer must make amends with Mr. Kittkill by performing at the zoo himself.
First Aired: 1999-11-21 Email -
Episode 6
Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder
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Homer breaks his tea party date with Maggie to go bowling, lying that there is an emergency at the plant. The lie is revealed when Homer bowls a perfect 300 and attracts the attention of the media. Because of his accomplishment, Homer becomes a celebrity, appearing on The Springfield Squares with Bumblebee Man, Sideshow Mel, and his old nemesis, Ron Howard. But fame proves fickle and Homer quickly goes from Man of the Moment to Where Are They Now? Depressed, he decides to devote his life to his children. Bart and Lisa don't really take to his extra-aggressive parenting, but Maggie can't refuse, mostly because she can't speak. Homer takes Maggie to a Daddy and Me swim class but she's too scared to go in the water. Later, Homer nearly drowns and only Maggie can save him. Homer realizes that he might not have fame, but he'll always have his baby.
First Aired: 1999-11-14 Email -
Episode 5
E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)
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Homer begins challenging everyone around him to duels after he sees a Zorro film at the Googoplex. Most people back down, until Homer meets an old-fashioned Colonel who takes him up on his dare. Unable to get out of the contest with the Colonel, Homer and his family flee to the country, where they become farmers. Farm life is difficult until Homer creates a new crop called tomacco--tomatoes crossed with tobacco. The new fruit is disgusting to eat, but incredibly addictive. Selling barrel upon barrel of tomacco, Homer attracts the attention of some tobacco industry executives who want to capitalize on his new crop. Will Homer sell his cash crop for a pile of cash? Why are all the animals who ate tomacco suddenly going berserk? Would it really have been so bad to duel that Colonel after all?
First Aired: 1999-11-07 Email -
Episode 4
Treehouse of Horror X
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In this year's exceptionally evil Halloween episode, Springfield catches a case of the Y2K bug, Lisa and Bart catch some radiation, and Ned Flanders gets caught under Marge's car's tires. In the first segment, Marge accidentally kills Ned Flanders while driving late at night. But when Ned comes back to haunt the Simpsons, his own evil secret is revealed. In the second story, Bart and Lisa become superheroes after getting zapped by radiation. Together they battle against the evil Comic Book Store Guy after he takes Lucy Lawless, TV's Xena: Warrior Princess, hostage. In the final segment, Homer forgets to make the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant Y2K compliant and accidentally brings about the complete destruction of the town. When the government sets up spaceships to send citizens to safety, Marge, Lisa and Maggie are granted seats but Homer and Bart have to fend for themselves.
First Aired: 1999-10-31 Email -
Episode 3
Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinne...
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Homer gets the perfect side job when he becomes the chief restaurant critic for The Springfield Shopper newspaper. He loves the perks, but can barely write a complete sentence. When Lisa helps out by ghosting his columns, Homer becomes the most powerful--and feared--critic in town. Soon Homer earns the wrath of every restaurant owner in Springfield and they join together in a plot to kill him with a poisonous éclair. Can Homer survive this death by chocolate (and butter, and custard)?
First Aired: 1999-10-24 Email -
Episode 2
Brother's Little Helper
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After Bart is caught performing another destructive act, Homer and Marge put him on medication. The boy starts taking Focusyne, an experimental Attention Deficit Disorder drug that at first turns him into the very model of manners and efficiency. But the drug has some strange side effects, and Bart becomes paranoid, ranting that Major League Baseball is using a satellite to read his thoughts. Marge and Homer try to take Bart off Focusyne, but he resists and overdoses. During his Focusyne bender, Bart steals a tank from a nearby army base and shoots a satellite out of the sky. Sure enough, the satellite is controlled by Major League Baseball, but America's hero, Mark McGwire, helicopters into Springfield to assure everyone that nothing suspicious is going on.
First Aired: 1999-10-03 Email -
Episode 1
Beyond Blunderdome
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When Homer and Marge attend a test screening of Mel Gibson's remake of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Homer gives the film a mercilessly rough critique. Rather than be angered by Homer's remarks, Gibson decides to hire him as a consultant on the script rewrites. Together Mel and Homer turn the movie into a bloody action flick. The film studio is so disgusted by the new cut that they attempt to block its distribution. Homer and Mel steal the only print of the film and escape the studio lot with the executives pursuing them. Commandeering the old Mad Max car from the Hollywood Auto Museum, the Simpsons and the movie star careen through the streets, causing all sorts of destruction. Can they escape with the print intact? Does Mr. Smith ever get to go to Washington? Why doesn't Mel Gibson have an accent anymore?
First Aired: 1999-09-26 Email
Season 10 (104 links)
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Episode 23
30 Minutes Over Tokyo
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After attending a Mega-Savings Seminar where they learn how to save money on everything, the Simpsons take a trip to Tokyo. While there, they lose all of their money and must enter a degrading game show called Happy Smile Super Challenge Family Wish Show to win tickets back to Springfield. After a series of increasingly cruel stunts meted out by the game show's host, Wink, the Simpsons win the tickets and return, a bit haggard, to the United States. On the way home, their plane is attacked by Godzilla.
First Aired: 1999-05-16 Email -
Episode 22
They Saved Lisa's Brain
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Lisa joins Mensa, the high I.Q. society. While there, she spends her time interacting with such geniuses as Dr. Hibbert, Professor Frink and the Comic Book Store Guy. By a twist of fate, the members of Mensa become the leaders of Springfield and try to remake the town in their geeky likeness. But the geniuses can't agree on anything and begin squabbling amongst themselves. It's up to the ultimate genius, Stephen Hawking, to intervene and set the smarty-pants straight.
First Aired: 1999-05-09 Email -
Episode 21
Monty Can't Buy Me Love
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When a popular, charming billionaire named Arthur Fortune opens a megastore in Springfield, Mr. Burns decides that he wants to be loved, too. With Homer's help, he comes up with a scheme to capture the Loch Ness Monster and bring it to Springfield. He succeeds in his mission, but accidentally causes a fire during the unveiling of the monster. Burns decides that he doesn't need to be loved and gets the monster a job working at a casino.
First Aired: 1999-05-02 Email -
Episode 20
The Old Man and the "C" Student
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Bart starts visiting Grandpa and the other old people at the Springfield Retirement Castle as part of a community service assignment. Meanwhile, he has bought thousands of springs for a project that never materializes. The boy tries to scare some life into the old codgers, but finds that they like passing their days peacefully. When he takes them all aboard a boat for a little adventure, the boat sinks and nearly kills them. Luckily, the boat bounces back up on a pile of springs Homer flushed down the toilet.
First Aired: 1999-04-25 Email -
Episode 19
Mom and Pop Art
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Homer becomes a conceptual artist, creating striking "outsider art" that catches the eye of Astrid Weller, a beautiful Springfield art dealer. Astrid arranges for Homer to have his own show, but when the Springfield elite gather for the opening, many are disappointed by his work. Homer decides that he must create something truly groundbreaking, so he floods the entire town, turning Springfield into an American Venice. His piece is a hit and everyone, including artist Jasper Johns, voices their approval.
First Aired: 1999-04-11 Email -
Episode 18
Simpsons Bible Stories
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A particularly boring sermon by Reverend Lovejoy sends each member of the Simpson family into his or her own biblical fantasy. Marge imagines herself and Homer as Adam and Eve, living in harmony with the flora and fauna of the Garden of Eden until Homer stupidly eats from the Tree of Knowledge. Lisa dreams of herself and the other kids of Springfield Elementary as the Israelites in ancient Egypt. Principal Skinner is Pharaoh and it's up to a nervous Milhouse to act as Moses and free his people from bondage. In Homer's dream, he is King Solomon, solving every dispute by cutting the contested object in half. When Lenny and Carl bring a pie to the King, he cuts it in half and eats both pieces. In Bart's action-packed fantasy, he is David, fighting Nelson as Goliath's son, Goliath II. When the Simpsons awake from their dreams, they discover that Revelation has come and it's time for God's final judgment. Only Lisa is allowed into Heaven, but Homer drags her down into Hell with the rest of the family.
First Aired: 1999-04-04 Email -
Episode 17
Maximum Homerdrive
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When Homer accidentally causes the death of Red, a famous truck driver, he and Bart take over Red's truck to deliver his last load. While they're away, Marge and Lisa buy a new doorbell. On the road, Homer learns of a long-held trucker secret: All the trucks are controlled by an auto-drive system and the drivers just hang out as the trucks drive themselves. When Homer can't keep the secret, several angry truckers try to run him off the road and kill him for violating the code of silence. Meanwhile, Marge has troubles of her own when the new doorbell malfunctions and plays the Carpenter's "Close to You" over and over again. Homer escapes his attackers and brings Red's delivery to its destination. Returning home, he discovers a mob scene outsidehis house as everyone in town tries to stop the annoying doorbell. Only Senor Ding-Dong, the mysterious and debonair dean of doorbells, can stop it with his magic touch.
First Aired: 1999-03-28 Email -
Episode 16
Make Room For Lisa
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When Homer agrees to allow an OmniTouch cellular phone tower to be placed on the roof of his house, Lisa begins to grow increasingly irritable. Seeking a solution to her tension and stomach aches, Homer takes her to a New Age store, where the salesperson recommends Sensory Deprivation. While resting in a tank full of water, Lisa has a series of visions that show her how much her father loves her. Homer, meanwhile, is in his own tank, which somehow drifts out of the store and sends him on an entirely different journey. When they each emerge from their deprivations, Lisa and Homer have a new understanding of their relationship and agree to spend more time together by going to the demolition derby.
First Aired: 1999-02-28 Email -
Episode 15
Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow H...
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Homer buys a Canyonero, a giant all-terrain vehicle. At first he's excited about his new car, but when he discovers that the F-Series was made primarily for women, he gives it to Marge. Marge takes to the vehicle by becoming a more reckless, aggressive driver. While racing about town, she is busted for an illegal maneuver and must go to traffic school. But the classes turn out to be useless--Marge accidentally crashes the Canyonero into a prison and sets off a crime wave. When her license is revoked, Marge can only drive again when the police beg her to use the Canyonero to round up some stampeding rhinos who've escaped from the zoo. Marge saves the day, but wrecks the car as a result.
First Aired: 1999-02-21 Email -
Episode 14
I'm With Cupid
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When Apu finds increasingly elaborate ways of expressing his love for his wife, the men of Springfield feel as though they're being shown up in the romance department. Singer Elton John's arrival at the airport is the last straw--assuming he's in town at Apu's request, the Springfield men, led by Homer, kidnap John and lock him in a dog cage. Apu's real plan is to have a sky writer spell out his love for Manjula, but Homer also tries his best to foil the pilot's efforts. Eventually, John does sing for Manjula and everyone has a happy Valentine's Day.
First Aired: 1999-02-14 Email -
Episode 13
Homer to the Max
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When he finds out that a character on the TV show Police Cops is named Homer Simpson, the real Homer decides to change his name to Max Power. The new name earns him new, high-profile friends like Trent Steel, a young businessman. Steel invites "Max" and his wife Marge to a garden party, where they meet such luminaries as Ed Begley, Jr. and Bill Clinton. While Clinton tries to seduce Marge, Homer learns that the gathering is part of an effort to save the Springfield redwoods, and joins the protest. After chaining themselves to the giant trees, "Max" and his buddies are attacked by police. As he runs from the cops, "Max" accidentally pulls down the tree he's attached to, which in turn knocks down the entire forest. Humiliated, he retreats from his new friends and returns to being Homer Simpson.
First Aired: 1999-02-07 Email -
Episode 12
Sunday, Cruddy Sunday
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Homer meets a travel agent named Wally Kogen who offers to send him to the Super Bowl for free if he can sign up all of his friends for a special travel package. Homer convinces Moe, Barney, Lenny, Carl, Kirk Van Houten and a bunch of other guys to sign up. All the men pile into a bus Wally furnishes for the trip and drink their way to Miami for the game. When they get there, however, they discover that the tickets Wally sold them were counterfeit. Homer devises a plan to get them into the game, but they all wind up in a holding cell beneath the stadium and nearly miss the Super Bowl. The only person who can spring them is Wally's old friend Dolly Parton. Free from their cell, the group invades a high-class skybox owned by Rupert Murdoch. When Murdoch arrives, he has his guards attack the group. Fleeing Murdoch's guards, Homer and his friends crash the field and then the winning team's locker room, where they each get their own Super Bowl ring.
First Aired: 1999-01-31 Email -
Episode 11
Wild Barts Can't Be Broken
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Homer and his buddies start a riot after the Springfield Isotopes win the league championship. Thinking the destruction is the fault of the town's youth, the authorities impose a curfew for everyone under a certain age. The children of Springfield rebel by starting a pirate radio station and broadcasting a show called "We Know All Your Secrets," in which their parents' most private peccadilloes are revealed. When the adults realize the kids are behind the broadcasts, the two groups confront one another in song and dance. Eventually, the senior citizens arrive and insitute another curfew that keeps the grown-ups inside, too.
First Aired: 1999-01-17 Email -
Episode 10
Viva Ned Flanders
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In an attempt to show Flanders a good time, Homer takes him to Las Vegas, where they gamble and drink. After a night of debauchery, the men wake up in a hotel room to discover that they've married Amber and Ginger, two trashy but sweet cocktail waitresses from Nero's Palace. Over a breakfast buffet, Homer and Ned try to explain to the women that they already have wives, but the brides prove to be frighteningly tenacious. Homer and Ned are forced to flee Las Vegas when everyone, from hotel security to the Moody Blues, beats them up for dishonoring two young women in need.
First Aired: 1999-01-10 Email -
Episode 9
Mayored to the Mob
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When Homer saves Mayor Quimby and Star Wars star Mark Hamill's lives during a sci-fi convention riot, the Mayor hires him as his personal bodyguard. Following Quimby around, Homer has to turn a blind eye to his new boss' corruption and bribe-taking. But when Homer learns that Quimby has allowed Fat Tony to supply Springfield Elementary with rats' milk, he confronts the Mayor and demands that the deal be broken. Quimby calls off the deal, but in doing so becomes a target for Fat Tony and his henchmen. When hitman Louie tries to kill the Mayor during a performance of Guys and Dolls (starring, coincidentally, Mark Hamill), Homer attacks the assailant and stops him. While Homer makes Quimby safe from Louie, Fat Tony takes the opportunity to beat the mayor repeatedly with a baseball bat.
First Aired: 1998-12-20 Email -
Episode 8
Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"
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When Homer refuses to pull the car over and let Grampa go to the bathroom, the old man's kidneys explode. Out of guilt, Homer agrees to donate one of his kidneys to his father. But just before the operation, Homer, fearing he won't survive, flees the hospital and hops aboard a boat headed to an unknown destination. On the boat, he meets a group of lost souls who accept him until he reveals that he left his sick father waiting for a kidney. The lost souls throw Homer overboard and he realizes that he must go through with the transplant. As luck would have it, Homer gets run over by a car on the way to the hospital. When he wakes up in a hospital bed, he discovers that not only has he broken all of his limbs, but Dr. Hibbert has removed his kidney and given it to Grampa.
First Aired: 1998-12-06 Email -
Episode 7
Lisa Gets an "A"
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A sick-day puts Lisa in a difficult academic predicament: She wants to do her best on a reading test, but didn't study at all when she was home. After consulting with Bart, she reluctantly decides to buy the test answers from Nelson and scores a perfect A+++. But when her high test score raises Springfield Elementary School's average and earns the troubled school a huge state grant, Lisa is plagued with guilt. Meanwhile, Homer grows attached to a lobster that he brought home for dinner, naming it Mr. Pinchy. When Lisa admits that she cheated to Principal Skinner, he is disheartened but still wants to keep the grant money. Skinner and Chalmers trick Lisa into thinking that she's turned down the school's grant, but secretly keep the cash. Back at home, Homer loses his beloved new pet when he gives it a hot bath. Heartbroken but hungry, Homer bids farewell to his crustacean friend by eating it.
First Aired: 1998-11-22 Email -
Episode 6
D'Oh-in' in the Wind
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During a search for his roots, Homer meets Seth and Munchie, two aging hippies who lived on a rural commune with his mother. Inspired by their example and memories of his freewheeling mother, Homer becomes a flower child. After accidentally sabotaging their natural juice business, Homer tries to make it up to them by picking an entire crop of vegetables and making a whole new batch of juice himself. It turns out that Homer picked the wrong crop and has bottled a powerful blend of hallucinogens that drugs all of Springfield. When the police catch wind of what's going on, they raid Seth and Munchie's farm and Homer gets shot during the melee. Luckily, his only injury is a flower embedded in his head.
First Aired: 1998-11-15 Email -
Episode 5
When You Dish Upon a Star
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Homer befriends superstar couple Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger and becomes their personal assistant. But when he spills the beans about the celebrities living in Springfield, who also include Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, the entire town sets up camp outside the gates of their mansion. Alec and Kim fire Homer as their assistant. Homer gets revenge by revealing everything he has learned about them to the world. The conflict escalates into a high-speed car chase, during which Ron Howard is injured and Homer is eventually caught. A judge places a restraining order on Homer and he is forced to remain 500 miles away from all celebrities.
First Aired: 1998-11-08 Email -
Episode 4
Treehouse of Horror IX
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In this year's gruesome grouping of Halloween gore, Homer gets a killer new hairdo, Lisa and Bart discover first-hand that TV violence is bad, and Maggie gets her first tooth and a glimpse of her real father. In the first segment, Homer's brain is taken over by Snake when he gets Snake's hair in a transplant. With Snake controlling him, Homer kills Apu and Moe and then sets his sights on Bart. Luckily, Chief Wiggum saves the day by busting a cap in the evil hair piece. In the second story, Bart and Lisa get sucked through the fourth wall into the land of Itchy and Scratchy in the cartoon world. At first it's all fun and games, but when Itchy and Scratchy try to kill the two Simpson kids, their only escape is through Homer's inept flipping of channels. As they flip through the dial, Bart and Lisa wind up in the most frightening place of all: Live with Regis and Kathie Lee. In the final segment, the appearance of Maggie's first tooth leads to a confession Marge never wanted to make: Homer is not Maggie's real father. Kang, the drooling alien, actually inseminated Marge. Now Kang is back and he wants his baby. Homer and Marge refuse to give Maggie up. There's only one thing for the two parties to do: Go on The Jerry Springer Show and fight it out on national television.
First Aired: 1998-10-25 Email -
Episode 3
Bart the Mother
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When Bart is hanging out with Nelson, he accidentally kills a bird sitting in her nest. Seeing that the bird has left behind two perfect eggs, Bart is overcome with guilt and takes it upon himself to hatch the baby birds. He keeps the eggs warm anyway he can, sometimes with a lightbulb, sometimes by sitting on them. Eventually the eggs hatch, but there are no birds inside. Instead two nasty-looking lizards emerge. Confused by what happened, Bart and Marge take the lizards to the Springfield Birdwatching Society and ask them why the lizards were inside the bird's nest. Principal Skinner, a member of the Society, explains that the lizards are Bolivian tree lizards, a species that steals bird's eggs and leave their own eggs to be watched after by the mother bird. Skinner wants to kill the lizards since they're bad for the ecosystem, but Bart flees with his lizards and sets them free. The lizards go on to eat all of Springfield's pigeons.
First Aired: 1998-09-27 Email -
Episode 2
The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace
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Homer quits his job and becomes an inventor. Setting up a tinkering shop in the basement, he sets for himself the modest goal of inventing more stuff than the prolific Thomas Edison. Homer comes up with some incredible new inventions, like an electronic hammer, a reclining chair with a built-in toilet, and a rifle that shoots make-up at women's faces. One of his creations, a chair with two extra feet that lets you lean way back, seems to be very popular. When Homer realizes that his six-legged chair was actually already invented by Edison, he takes his trusty electronic hammer and goes to the Edison Museum to smash the original, which is inside a replica of Edison's workshop. While there, Homer realizes that Thomas Edison was also working in the shadow of a great man: Leonardo Da Vinci. Homer feels a deep kinship with Edison and decides not to destroy the six-legged chair. Later, when authorities find the electronic hammer, which Homer forgot, in Edison's workshop, the deceased inventor gets credit for yet another amazing creation. Homer is furious.
First Aired: 1998-09-20 Email -
Episode 1
Lard of the Dance
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A sophisticated, intelligent new girl named Alex Whitney comes to Springfield Elementary and threatens to overshadow Lisa. Alex is even a hit with Principal Skinner, who lets her organize a school dance. Meanwhile, Homer comes up with a new get-rich-quick scheme: He and Bart will round up as much grease as they can and sell it to a rendering plant. They target the richest source imaginable: the Springfield Elementary cafeteria kitchen. Lisa goes to the dance, but sells tickets outside the gym because she couldn't find a date. At the same time, Homer has crawled through the school's air ducts and into the kitchen, where he uses his wet-dry vac to suck grease out of the stove. But Groundskeeper Willie appears on the scene and tries to prevent the theft. One thing leads to another, and as a result of a misplaced wet-dry vac the school's air ducts fill with the stove's contents. Alex's event is interrupted when the oil begins to drip through the gym ceiling, but no matter--the children of Springfield are happy to frolick in the grease. Lisa is pleased to see her friends acting like kids again and breaks down Alex's uppity facade by goading her into a grease fight.
First Aired: 1998-08-23 Email
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Episode 25
Natural Born Kissers
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In an incredibly revealing episode, Homer and Marge learn to spice up their love life by "snuggling" in very public places. After conquering a nearby barn and experimenting with at Sir Putts-a-Lot miniature golf course, they find themselves trapped in public without their clothes. Trying to get back home, the two sneak and skulk about Springfield, nearly being caught fully naked at every turn. Homer accidentally moons an entire church congregation and both he and Marge wind up in a crowded football field where they are exposed to thousands of cheering people.
First Aired: 1998-05-17 Email -
Episode 24
Lost Our Lisa
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When Lisa cons Homer into letting her ride the bus alone to the Springsonian Museum for the "Treasures of Isis" exhibit, she gets lost along the way. Wandering around the more down-at-its-heels parts of Springfield, Lisa grows increasingly panicked. When it occurs to Homer that he shouldn't have let Lisa ride the bus alone, he sets out to find her. The finally find each other outside of the museum, but Homer is nearly drowned when the cherry-picker truck he commandeered during his search drives into the river. Lisa saves her dad and together they sneak into the closed museum to look at the "Isis" exhibit. During their trespass, Homer and Lisa bond and Lisa learns that taking risks can sometimes be fun.
First Aired: 1998-05-10 Email -
Episode 23
King of the Hill
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After undertaking an intense workout regimen, Homer becomes a buffed-out specimen of a man. With the help of his gym buddy Rainer Wolfcastle, Homer becomes stronger and leaner than ever. He soon attracts the attention of Brad and Neil, two executives from the company that makes Powersauce health bars. Brad and Neil enlist Homer to climb to the top of the Murderhorn, the tallest, most forbidding mountain in Springfield, as a promotional stunt for Powersauce bars. With the help of two sherpas, Homer embarks on the arduous climb. Under his own power, Homer can barely make it halfway up the mountain. But while he sleeps, the two sherpas drag his sleeping bag behind them and get him to the top. When Homer discovers that the sherpas have been carrying them, he fires them and continues up to the peak. He doesn't quite make it, but he does manage to drive a stake into one of the Murderhorn's plateaus and cause the peak to collapse, making the spot where he is standing the default top of the hill. His climb is a success, sort of.
First Aired: 1998-05-03 Email -
Episode 22
Trash of the Titans
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After a spat with some garbage men, Homer decides to run for the position of Sanitation Commissioner. He takes on the current commissioner, Ray Patterson, who is endorsed by the members of U2, and wins the election by making wild campaign promises. As the new Sanitation Commissioner, Homer tries to institute policies such as around-the-clock service, shiny new uniforms for garbage men, and free car washes. Homer's initiatives are so costly that he spends an entire year's budget in one month, and must raise money by allowing other towns to use Springfield's abandoned mines as garbage dumps. With trash forcing its way up through the ground and overrunning Springfield, the townspeople beg Ray Patterson to return to his job. Patterson refuses. As a last resort, the entire town of Springfield is moved to another tract of land fives miles away.
First Aired: 1998-04-26 Email -
Episode 21
Girly Edition
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Lisa becomes the anchorwoman for a children's news program. Bart is also hired for the show and launches a series of trite human-interest stories that attract a lot attention and overshadow Lisa's more serious work. Meanwhile, Homer claims he's handicapped so he can adopt a trained monkey named Mojo, who will wait on him hand and foot. As Bart's star is on the rise, Lisa devises a plot to destroy his career by having him do a segment on Groundskeeper Willie, who hates Bart for destroying his shack. Lisa gets more than she bargained for when Willie tries to kill Bart. She saves Bart's life using the same soft, human-interest speak that her brother pioneered in his segments. Back at home, Mojo has become fat and lazy after emulating Homer's ways. Homer returns Mojo to the animal shelter and learns to fetch his own beer again.
First Aired: 1998-04-19 Email -
Episode 20
The Trouble With Trillions
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In order to avoid an audit, Homer serves as an IRS spy in a sting operation targeting Mr. Burns. We learn that, many years earlier, a younger Burns was entrusted with the task of delivering the only one trillion-dollar bill ever minted to a shattered post-war Europe. The government's logic was that America's wealthiest man would never steal the money; of course, they were wrong. Now it's up to Homer to recover the trillion, but when he realizes that he's working for the agency that has exploited him all these years, he joins up with his boss and flees to Cuba with the money. While there, Homer, Burns and Smithers meet with Fidel Castro, who swipes the trillion-dollar bill and sends the men packing. Floating back to America on a refugee raft, Burns decides that he'll simply buy his way out of this most recent problem and everything returns to normal.
First Aired: 1998-04-05 Email -
Episode 19
Simpson Tide
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Homer, Barney and Moe join the Naval Reserve. During a routine drill, the would-be seamen find themselves trapped in a nuclear submarine in very real combat with another squadron. When Homer accidentally ejects Captain Tenille, the submarine's chief, he is put in charge of the vessel. The sub gets lost and coasts all the way to Russia. What's worse, it springs a leak and is rapidly filling up with water. Eventually, Homer saves his men and narrowly averts a nuclear conflict with the Russians. He is court-martialed, however, and forced to return to his normal life.
First Aired: 1998-03-29 Email -
Episode 18
This Little Wiggy
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When Marge meets Ralph Wiggum, she decides to invite him over for a playdate with Bart. Bart initially rejects Ralph, but when he goes over to the Wiggum household and sees that it's filled with police equipment and files, he finds himself in a troublemaker's paradise. The two boys start hanging out more and more, eventually having a sleepover during which they steal Chief Wiggum's master key and let themselves into every building in Springfield. In the middle of their spree, Bart and Ralph run into Nelson and his bully buddies. Trying to impress them, Bart shows them the master key and the whole group ventures into the abandoned prison. While there, they play with the electric chair, but leave before they can use the key to turn it off again. When Mayor Quimby decides to reopen the prison, he calls a press conference and sits in the electric chair to demonstrate how it works. Watching the event on TV, Bart and Ralph are sure that Quimby will be killed if anyone flips the electric chair switch. With a little help from Mr. Burns, however, the mayor escapes his fate. After going through so much together, Bart and Ralph remain friends.
First Aired: 1998-03-22 Email -
Episode 17
Lisa the Simpson
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When Lisa is unable to figure out a simple brain teaser, she begins to fear that she is losing her gift of intelligence. Soon, she is noticing tons of clues that suggest her intellectual decline. Listening to Lisa's complaints, Grandpa explains to her that all Simpsons--himself, Homer, and others--started out smart and gradually experienced a "dumbening" that left them thick as bricks. Lisa decides to give over to the dumbening, emulating Homer and Bart and their brainless ways. But this makes Lisa unhappy, so to cheer her up, Homer gathers all the Simpson relatives he can find and tries to show her that they're not all idiots. Sadly, Lisa realizes that a lot of them are, in fact, stupid. But when she meets some of her female relatives, she is pleased to discover that many of them are doctors and businesswomen. With renewed confidence in her own intelligence, Lisa looks at the brain teaser again and figures it out immediately.
First Aired: 1998-03-08 Email -
Episode 16
Dumbbell Indemnity
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Moe falls in love with a beautiful woman named Renee. Renee, against all odds, actually requites his love. During their courtship, a new, tender side of Moe is revealed. All Moe wants to do is buy Renee gifts, and eventually he spends all of his money on her. Broke, he concocts a scheme that should net him some quick cash. Moe figures he can have his car stolen and then collect from his insurance company. The plan is brilliant, but Moe's first mistake is asking Homer to help him. Instead of following Moe's instructions exactly, Homer bungles his part of the plan and winds up in jail. Collecting the insurance money, Moe is torn between using it to take Renee on a romantic Hawaiian vacation or bailing his friend and erstwhile accomplice out of the pokey. Realizing it's time to fess up, Moe tells Renee of his financial problems and how he tried to solve them. She is accepting at first, but when Moe tells her he has another insurance scheme that will fix everything, she is disgusted and leaves him. Moe carries out this new plan, burning down his tavern and nearly killing himself and Homer in the process. Barney winds up saving his two buddies (after first saving a couple of beer kegs), and Homer allows Moe to use his house as a bar until his friend is back on his feet financially.
First Aired: 1998-03-01 Email -
Episode 15
The Last Temptation of Krust
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When Krusty the Clown performs at a comedy festival with Jay Leno, Janeane Garofalo, Bobcat Goldthwait and other comics, he proves to everyone that his comedy style is hopelessly out of date. Standing beneath the hot lights, looking into the faces of an indifferent crowd, Krusty bombs with his racial humor and embarrassing gag tuxedo. Krusty calls a press conference to announce his retirement from show business, but during his farewell speech gets the best laughs of his career. Reborn as a caustic, hard-boiled stand-up comic, Krusty becomes a latter day Lenny Bruce, condemning corporations and sell-outs left and right. Audiences lap it up, but Krusty finds himself tempted to sell out again when two advertising executives from a car company want him to flak their all-terrain vehicle. The pile of money the ad men offer Krusty is enough to make him shed his new image and return to being a shill for the highest bidder. Krusty loses his fanbase, but gains a great new car and mountains of money.
First Aired: 1998-02-22 Email -
Episode 14
Das Bus
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The children of Springfield Elementary School get stranded on a desert island on the way to a Model United Nations session. Trapped on the island with no grown-ups, the children form their own Lord of the Flies-style civilization. Meanwhile, back in Springfield, Homer starts up his own Internet company called CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet, which he sells to Bill Gates. On the island, civilization begins to break down when it appears that Milhouse has eaten their rations. During a show trial, Milhouse claims that a monster ate the food, but no one believes him. Eventually, it is revealed that a monster, actually a wild boar, did in fact eat all the food. The children, still starving, realize there's only one thing to do: kill the boar and eat it. In the end, an omniscient narrator explains that the children eventually got off the island, perhaps thanks to Moe.
First Aired: 1998-02-15 Email -
Episode 13
The Joy of Sect
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The Simpsons join a religious sect called The Movementarians. The sect worships an all-powerful leader who claims that he will take his followers to the planet Blisstonia, where they will all live lives of uninterrupted happiness. Everyone takes to the Movementarian lifestyle, moving to a compound and working for the leader. But Marge is incredulous and flees the compound. Now free, she hires Groundskeeper Willie to kidnap her husband and kids and deprogram them. The kids return to their unwashed minds, but Homer appears to still believe in Movementarianism. He goes back to the compound and surprises his Movementarian friends by denouncing the leader and proving that his spaceship to Blisstonia is a fake. Because of Homer, the Movementarians disband.
First Aired: 1998-02-08 Email -
Episode 12
Bart Carny
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Bart and Homer get jobs working for a carnival. While there, they befriend Cooder and his son Spud. The friendship takes a turn for the worse when Cooder and Spud are forced to move in with the Simpsons. Eventually, Cooder and Spud "steal" the Simpsons' house by locking the family out and not letting them back in. The only way Homer can get the squatters out is to make a bet with them: If he can throw a hula hoop over the chimney, Cooder and Spud have to give him the house back; if he misses, they can keep it. But just before Homer throws the hula hoop, the Simpsons dash into the house and lock the carnies out. Cooder and Spud are once again homeless.
First Aired: 1998-01-11 Email -
Episode 11
All Singing, All Dancing
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The Simpsons break out in song--over and over again--as we dance along memory lane and watch all of the musical interludes from the last eight seasons. Apu asks who needs the Kwik-E-Mart! The Maison Derriere puts the spring in Springfield! Shary Bobbins teaches Bart and Lisa to cut corners! The writers, meanwhile, sing and dance all the way to the bank as the editors put the show together.
First Aired: 1998-01-04 Email -
Episode 10
Miracle on Evergreen Terrace
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When Bart accidentally destroys his family's Christmas tree and all the presents underneath it on Christmas morning, he lies and says that he saw a burglar steal their stuff. A report by Kent Brockman about the supposed robbery leads to an outpouring of support and money for the Simpsons from the people of Springfield. Homer takes the money and buys a new car, which he promptly drives into the bottom of a lake. Bart finally admits that there was no burglar and that it was his fault that the Christmas tree and presents disappeared. When word gets out about the fraud, the entire town turns on the Simpsons, throwing rotten vegetables at them and sending them hate mail. Marge comes up with a foolproof plan to get the townspeople their money back: She goes on Jeopardy! to win the cash. When she loses, the family returns home to find that their neighbors have looted the entire house, thereby evening the score.
First Aired: 1997-12-21 Email -
Episode 9
Realty Bites
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Marge pursues a new career in real estate sales while Homer is pursued by Snake. Marge starts working at Red Blazer Reality, a highly competitive company where she must sell a certain number of houses or be fired. Meanwhile, Homer buys Snake's old car from a Police Auction and Snake isn't too happy about it. Marge has trouble dealing with the fact that being an effective salesperson requires a lot of lying, and starts to wonder if she's cut out for selling houses. But when she manages to get the Flanders to buy an impossible-to-sell house where a murder occurred, she thinks she's getting the hang of it. Rather than be upset at the fact that they've moved into a crime scene, the Flanders are elated, since they're strangely fascinated by the details of the murder. All is fine, until Homer and Snake crash Snake's car through the Flanders' new house, destroying it. Marge is fired from Red Blazer Realty.
First Aired: 1997-12-07 Email -
Episode 8
Lisa the Skeptic
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During an archeological dig in Sabertooth Meadow, the students of Springfield Elementary School unearth a strange skeleton of what appears to be a winged human. Everyone in town believes that it's an angel's skeleton, but Lisa Simpson tries to convince them otherwise. Homer steals the angel and sells tickets for people to visit it in his garage while Lisa chips off a tiny piece of bone and brings it to Harvard Professor Stephen Jay Gould for examination. The tests are inconclusive, but Lisa is still convinced that the skeleton is not an angel's. When the angel disappears from Homer's garage and reappears on a hill over Springfield with the words "The End Will Come at Sundown" chiseled into its base, everyone is convinced that it's a sign from God. The entire town gathers on the hill to witness "the end," but Lisa remains skeptical. When the angel begins to speak, everyone--including Lisa--shudders in awe. That awe soon disappears when it is revealed that the "angel" is merely a promotional stunt for the Heavenly Hills Mall, a new shopping center. Lisa was right, but as Marge points out, she did get awfully scared when it seemed like the angel was real.
First Aired: 1997-11-23 Email -
Episode 7
The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons
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Apu's mother writes him a letter reminding him of his arranged bride and that he must marry her soon. When his mother comes to town, Apu enlists Marge to pretend she is his wife. Meanwhile, Homer has checked himself into the Springfield Retirement Castle, enjoying the leisurely days and free meals. After a series of farcical encounters with Apu's increasingly suspicious mother, Marge and Apu reveal the truth. Apu's arranged marriage is back on in spite of his reservations. But when he meets Manjula, his bride-to-be, Apu is smitten by her beauty and her good taste in movies. The two are married and live happily every after.
First Aired: 1997-11-16 Email -
Episode 6
Bart Star
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Bart joins the Springfield Wildcats, a pee-wee football team. During games, Homer heckles Ned, the team's coach, so much that he quits and makes Homer the coach. In his new role, Homer starts to show Bart special treatment, which alienates the boy from his teammates. Eventually, Bart quits the team but rejoins after he and Homer share a moment discussing the importance of teamwork. As a show of team loyalty, Bart allows himself to be arrested by Chief Wiggum, who is actually looking for Nelson Muntz, the Wildcats' star player.
First Aired: 1997-11-09 Email -
Episode 5
The Cartridge Family
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The only way to take Homer's gun is to pry it from his lifeless, four-fingered hand. When a riot erupts at a Continental Soccer Association match, Homer buys a gun to protect his family. Marge is disgusted by his purchase but Homer loves his gun and starts attending NRA meetings with Moe, Dr. Hibbert and Apu. After Homer accidentally fires his gun during dinner, Marge sets an ultimatum: Either the gun leaves the house or she does. Well, Marge packs up the kids and moves to a motel, where Bart and Lisa have fun playing on the Magic Fingers bed. Homer comes to find his family at the motel and promises Marge he'll throw the gun away. Just then, Snake robs the place and Homer saves the day with his firearm. But he still throws it away. When her husband's not looking, Marge retrieves the gun from the trash and keeps it for herself.
First Aired: 1997-11-02 Email -
Episode 4
Treehouse of Horror VIII
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Three new yucky Halloween yarns from your favorite yellow family. First, Homer seems to be the only survivor of a nuclear explosion. As the last living person on earth--literally, the Homega Man--Homer is free to do whatever he wants, specifically steal cars and crash them and dance naked in the Springfield Community Church. But Homer's revelry is cut short by a band of angry, flesh-eating mutants who survived the blast and are now hungry for Homer. Speeding in a car to Evergreen Terrace, Homer hides in his old home and discovers that his family has also survived the blast, protected by the layers and layers of lead paint in the house. Marge and kids are elated to see Homer and it's their pleasure to use their shotguns to blast holes in the mutants. In the second story, Homer buys a matter-transporting machine from Professor Frink's yard sale. He uses it to grab beers from the fridge without getting up from the couch and to quickly go to the bathroom while watching TV. When Bart goes inside the machine with a fly, his DNA is scrambled with the insect's and two new creatures emerge: A tiny fly with Bart's head, and Bart's body with a disgusting fly's head. The family accepts the new bugged-out Bart, but when the tiny Bart tires of being a fly, it's up to Lisa to trick the big Bart back into the machine so each pest's DNA can be put back in the correct place. The final sequence is the story of a coven of Springfield witches from 1649. As played by Marge and her sisters Patty and Selma, the witches are kindly old souls who occasionally enjoy eating children from the town. To stop the witches from eating their kids, the townspeople offer them candy and treats instead, thus initating the tradition of Halloween.
First Aired: 1997-10-26 Email -
Episode 3
Lisa's Sax
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A walk down memory lane reveals the sad story of Bart's first days in kindergarten. His dislike for school and problems making friends are exacerbated by the presence of his little sister, Lisa. While meeting with J. Loren Pryor, the Springfield Elementary School psychologist, few of Bart's problems are resolved, but Homer and Marge discover that Lisa is a gifted child. Trying to foster her gift, they try to get her into a special school but can't afford it. They decide to buy Lisa a musical instrument instead, thus beginning the girl's eight-year love affair with the saxophone.
First Aired: 1997-10-19 Email -
Episode 2
The Principal and the Pauper
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Will the real Seymour Skinner please stand up? A man named Seymour Skinner shows up in Springfield claiming that the man who works as Springfield Elementary School's Principal is an imposter. It turns out that the Skinner who's lived in Springfield all these years is really named Armin Tamzarian, and met the real Seymour Skinner in Vietnam. The real Skinner was a highly decorated Sergeant, while Tamzarian was a fifties-style greaser and juvenile delinquent. The real Skinner was captured by the enemy, held in a POW camp for five years and then sold to China as a slave forced to make sneakers in Wuhan. Tamzarian stole his name and identity, moved to Springfield and took over Skinner's former life, even claiming the man's mother, Agnes, to be his own. With the real Skinner back, the fake Skinner quits his job at the school, moves out of his mother's house and starts a new life as a loser in Capital City. Meanwhile, the real Skinner takes over at Springfield Elementary School and proves to be much less bearable than the old Skinner. In desperation, Agnes Skinner, Mrs. Krabappel and the Simpsons travel to Capital City to beg Tamzarian to come back. With Tamzarian's return, Sergeant Skinner is banished from town and everyone agrees to accept Tamzarian back as Principal Seymour Skinner.
First Aired: 1997-09-28 Email -
Episode 1
The City of New York vs. Homer Simpso...
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New York City to Homer Simpson: Drop dead! When Barney steals Homer's car and leaves it illegally parked between the Twin Towers, Homer and his family are forced to go to the Big Apple to retrieve it. Homer confesses that he has hated New York ever since a bad experience there as a young man, but Marge and the kids are excited to check the city out. Once there, Homer heads downtown to get the car while the others check out the sites. Homer finds that his car has been fitted with a boot by the police, who have also papered his windshield with piles of parking tickets. Enraged when he misses his chance to talk with the cop responsible for the boot, Homer drives off with the thing still stuck on his car, tearing up the pavement all along Broadway. Homer uses a pile driver to break the boot, but winds up breaking much of his car in the process. After tracking down Marge and the kids and loading them into the ripped-up car, Homer speeds away from New York City, vowing never to return.
First Aired: 1997-09-21 Email
Season 8 (142 links)
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Episode 25
The Secret War of Lisa Simpson
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Bart and Lisa enroll in military school. While no fan of obeying orders, Bart eventually takes to the school, befriending some of the cadets and even earning the grudging respect of the school's Commandant. Lisa, on the other hand, is ostracized for being a girl and made to work twice as hard as everyone else. Bart tries to help her, but he's torn between the acceptance of his peers and his love for his sister. As part of the training program, all the kids must climb along a 150-foot rope strung across a patch of nasty thorn bushes. Lisa and Bart train for the task together and in the end manage to make it across successfully. Both agree to leave military school and return to their regular lives.
First Aired: 1997-05-18 Email -
Episode 24
The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase
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Troy McClure, whom you might remember from such films as David vs. Super Goliath and They Came to Burgle Carnegie Hall, hosts a star-filled view of the future of The Simpsons. First we see Chief Wiggum's spin-off, Chief Wiggum, P.I., in which everyone's favorite cushiony crime-fighter battles corruption as a private dick in New Orleans. Next up is The Love-Matic Grandpa, in which lovable Abe Simpson dies and is reincarnated as a barroom arcade game. Teamed with Moe the bartender, the new Grandpa coaches his buddy on the fine art of love. Finally, there's The Simpson Family Smile-Time Variety Hour, a hilarious and heartwarming hour of singing, dancing, guest stars, and beaver sketches. It's just like the real Simpsons we know and love, only without Lisa, who left the family to pursue other interests.
First Aired: 1997-05-11 Email -
Episode 23
Homer's Enemy
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A new employee named Frank Grimes comes to work at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. Grimes has a huge chip on his shoulder after a life of bad luck and hard work: He was blown up in a silo explosion as a teenager, had to teach himself to hear and feel pain, got a degree in nuclear physics through correspondence courses, and now lives in an apartment over a bowling alley. The only thing that makes sense in his hard, hard life is hustle and determination. When he meets Homer, he is incensed that someone can live so well without doing anything at all. After one of Homer's particularly excessive displays of idiocy, Grimes imitates his coworker by purposely acting foolish. During the outburst, Grimes electrocutes himself and is killed instantly. Even at Grimes' funeral, the dead man is overshadowed by Homer, who makes the mourners break out in laughter when he falls asleep and asks Marge to turn off the TV.
First Aired: 1997-05-04 Email -
Episode 22
In Marge We Trust
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Marge becomes a big hit with the Springfield Community Church parishioners when she begins dispensing her homespun advice. The church sets up a hotline that people can call to talk with Marge about their problems. Meanwhile, while digging for goodies at the garbage dump, Homer finds a box of Japanese dishwashing detergent called Mr. Sparkle with a picture of his face on it. After some investigation, Homer discovers that Mr. Sparkle is a huge brand name in Japan and that his likeness serves as their logo. Back at the church, Reverend Lovejoy is depressed because everyone is consulting Marge and not him. Even Ned Flanders asks Marge for help, but when Marge can't offer Ned any useful advice, Lovejoy intervenes and proves that he is best man for the job.
First Aired: 1997-04-27 Email -
Episode 21
The Old Man and Lisa
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Mr. Burns loses all of his money through a series of foolish investments. Burns recalls how Lisa Simpson goaded him so roughly when he spoke at her school and decides to enlist her to help him gain his fortune back. At first, Lisa distrusts the evil tycoon, but together they start a recycling business that earns them a fortune, one nickel at a time. Burns soon branches out, starting a fish and dolphin trapping business that disgusts Lisa with its brutality. Lisa denounces Burns yet again, refusing to accept any of his money.
First Aired: 1997-04-20 Email -
Episode 20
The Canine Mutiny
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After a computer mix-up, Santa's Little Helper gets his own credit card, which Bart uses to buy tons of expensive gadgets and gifts from catalogs. One of his many purchases is Laddie, a supremely bred dog that can do tricks, save lives, and use a toilet. The Simpson family falls madly in love with their new dog, nearly forgetting all about Santa's Little Helper, who can barely stand up, much less do a back flip (one of Laddie's many uncanny skills). When the credit card company gets wind of Bart's fraudulent purchases, however, repo men take back everything he bought, including the amazing new pet. In an act of extreme disloyalty, Bart convinces them to take Santa's Little Helper instead. At first no one really notices that Santa's Little Helper is gone, but Bart grows bored with his perfect new dog. He gives Laddie to Chief Wiggum and searches all over town for Santa's Little Helper. He finally finds his old pet serving as a seeing-eye dog for a blind man. Bart tries to steal Santa's Little Helper back, but the blind man catches him and turn him over to the police. When the police arrive with Laddie, the miracle dog sniffs the blind man and finds a stash of marijuana. Bart and Santa's Little Helper are allowed to go home while the cops detain the blind man and sample his goods.
First Aired: 1997-04-13 Email -
Episode 19
Grade School Confidential
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A casual conversation between Principal Skinner and Mrs. Krabappel leads to a torrid love affair that nearly destroys a fairly good public school. The educators use Bart as their go-between and beard, bribing him with a clean permanent record if he keeps their secret and continues to pass love notes back and forth for them. Eventually, Bart grows sick and tired of being Skinner and Krabappel's third wheel and exposes them to the world. Learning of the affair, Superintendent Chalmers fires Skinner and Krabappel, who take the opportunity to speak to the public and the media about their relationship. When everything is cleared up, the townspeople realize that the affair is hardly inappropriate, the two educators get their jobs back and continue sharing their love, albeit much more privately.
First Aired: 1997-04-06 Email -
Episode 18
Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment
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When Mayor Quimby and the Springfield City Hall brass ban all liquor from the town, Moe's Tavern becomes a speakeasy. But procuring booze proves extremely difficult, especially when Rex Banner, a straight-laced government prohibition agent, comes to town. It's up to Homer to start his own bootlegging operation to wet the whistles of Springfield's liquor-loving masses. Dubbing himself the Beer Baron, Homer manufactures all forms of alcohol in the basement of his house, nearly getting caught by Banner at every turn. When Banner finally does catch Homer, Chief Wiggum intervenes and the prohibition agent is sent packing. When an elderly City Hall clerk re-reads the town charter, the prohibition is repealed and the people of Springfield rejoice by getting smashed.
First Aired: 1997-03-16 Email -
Episode 17
My Sister, My Sitter
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Lisa embarks on a career as a babysitter. She starts by watching Rod and Todd Flanders, which leads to numerous other babysitting gigs all over Springfield. When Homer and Marge decide they need some time to be alone together, they put Lisa in charge of Maggie and Bart. Bart is furious that his little sister is his babysitter and rebels as much as possible. Lisa tries to deal with Bart's numerous pranks and distractions, but things go a little too far and Lisa accidentally dislocates Bart's arm by pushing him down the stairs. Intent on getting Lisa in trouble, Bart hurts himself even more, knocking himself out. Panicked, Lisa tries to cover up what happened but winds up turning her failure as a babysitter into a public spectacle. At first, Lisa is sure no parents will ever trust her with their kids again, but sure enough, her clients call again and her business continues.
First Aired: 1997-03-02 Email -
Episode 16
Brother From Another Series
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Once again, Sideshow Bob is released from Prison, on the condition that he is looked after by his brother, Cecil Terwilliger, an upstanding citizen and head of construction on the Springfield Hydroelectric Dam. Immediately upon Bob's release, Bart suspects that his old nemesis is up to no good, but can't find any proof. Bob tries to get his life together, taking a job on the dam project for Cecil. Their suspicion growing, Bart and Lisa snoop around the construction office and find a briefcase full of money. Just then, Bob catches them, but claims not to know the origin of the cash. It turns out that Cecil is the evil one, hatching his own plan to embezzle money from the dam budget and then destroy the town of Springfield with an explosion. Bart and Lisa overcome their distrust of Sideshow Bob and work with him to stop the destruction. Busted by the Springfield Police Department, Cecil is sent to jail. Bob is sent too, since no one believes that he didn't play a part in his brother's scheme.
First Aired: 1997-02-23 Email -
Episode 15
Homer's Phobia
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The Simpson family befriends John, the owner of Cockamamie's collectible shop and a devoted collector of kitsch and Americana. Everyone takes to John, especially Bart, which makes Homer a bit nervous since John is openly gay. Fearing that John's sexual preference might rub off on his son, Homer tries to engage Bart in more manly pursuits. Homer, Moe and Barney take Bart hunting but wind up stuck in a reindeer stampede that nearly kills them. The only person who can save them is John, who has the decency to overlook Homer's prejudice and come to his rescue. Safe and sound, Homer thanks John profusely and says it's okay for Bart to be whoever he wants to be.
First Aired: 1997-02-16 Email -
Episode 14
The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show
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To save the moribund Itchy & Scratchy Show, the producers do extensive market testing to determine exactly how to make the show funnier and more relevant to today's cartoon-watching audience. They decide that a new character, a crazy, hip-hop surfer dog named Poochie is just what the show needs. It falls on Homer Simpson to breathe life into Poochie by supplying him was a voice for his funky catchphrases. Poochie does not go over well with Itchy & Scratchy's fan base and Homer is heartbroken when he finds himself on the verge of being fired. As an act of defiance, Homer rewrites the lines of Poochie's final episode so that the character can live on, but the producers wind up re-cutting the show to kill the wisecracking dog off.
First Aired: 1997-02-09 Email -
Episode 13
Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala (Annoye...
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When her homemaking chores become too overwhelming, Marge's hair starts to fall out. To lighten her load, she hires a nanny for the kids. After some interviews with terrible applicants, Shary Bobbins arrives. The kids love Shary and her catchy little songs. Eventually, Shary changes the Simpsons' lives for the better, but the Simpsons, with their sloppy, selfish ways, have started to change Shary's life for the worse. Shary leaves the Simpson family and flies away on her magical umbrella--until she is sucked up into a jet engine and shredded into confetti.
First Aired: 1997-02-07 Email -
Episode 12
Mountain of Madness
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The employees of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant head for the hills for a survival excursion. Homer gets paired with Mr. Burns and finds out that his tyrannical boss isn't such a bad guy. But when the two men are trapped by an avalanche, they slowly go mad with cabin fever and try to kill one another using imaginary snowmen armies. During the battle, they cause the cabin's propane tank to explode, sending them both hurtling out from under the snowdrift and back to safety.
First Aired: 1997-02-02 Email -
Episode 11
The Twisted World of Marge Simpson
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When Marge tries to start her own business, she finds herself involved with Fat Tony and his legitimate businessmen friends, who act as her silent partners. Marge tries to open a Pretzel Wagon franchise after meeting Frank Orman, The Pretzel Man, at a small business convention. The pretzel business is a bust until Homer enlists Fat Tony to lend Marge's business a little muscle--financial and otherwise. Marge's business takes off, but Fat Tony wants a fat cut of the profits. The only thing that can stop him from forcibly taking the money is the Japanese mafia, who come to Springfield and whup Tony and his buddies.
First Aired: 1997-01-19 Email -
Episode 10
The Springfield Files
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Leonard Nimoy presents the strange tale of Homer Simpson's close encounter with an extraterrestrial being. One night after drinking a few too many at Moe's, Homer sees a bald, glowing, big-eyed creature that tells him not to be afraid. Homer tells everyone that the creature is an alien. Marge and the kids tell Homer that he was drinking too much and that there was no alien. A story in the Springfield Shopper about Homer's close encounter brings FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully to Springfield to investigate. After some routine tests, the agents come up with nothing and leave empty-handed. It's up to Homer and Bart to find proof of the alien's presence themselves. Armed with video footage, Bart and Homer convince the entire town that there is an alien among them. But when everybody turns out to see it, Smithers reveals that the glowing creature is actually Mr. Burns, who is undergoing a series of experimental life-extending medical treatments.
First Aired: 1997-01-12 Email -
Episode 9
El Viaje de Nuestro Jomer (The Myster...
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At the annual Springfield Chili Cook-Off, Homer eats super-spicy chili made with a dangerous Guatemalan pepper grown by mental patients. The pepper has a powerful hallucinogenic effect and Homer wanders off into the darkest, strangest regions of his mind. Guided by a talking coyote, he goes on a voyage of self-discovery and realizes that he must find his soul mate. When he emerges from his fantastic trip, he returns home to Marge, who is furious at him for disappearing. Marge yells at Homer and tells him that she is not his soul mate, which sends Homer on another voyage to find out who is. Is Barney Homer's soul mate? Is Moe? Is some guy who placed a personal ad? Homer wanders the streets of Springfield, eventually winding up at the lighthouse at the edge of town, under the impression that the lighthouse keeper is his soul mate. Ascending the stairs to the top of the lighthouse, Homer discovers that the lighthouse is operated by a computer. Enraged, Homer shatters the lighthouse's giant light. As a giant barge approaches, Marge arrives on the scene and helps Homer save the boat. She then tells Homer that of course she's his soul mate.
First Aired: 1997-01-05 Email -
Episode 8
Hurricane Neddy
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God tests Ned Flanders and Ned Flanders fails. When a hurricane wipes out the Flanders' house, Ned and Maude and the kids have to move into a homeless shelter. At the same time, his store, the Leftorium, is looted. Joining together to help their needy neighbors, the people of Springfield, led by Homer, rebuild Flanders' house. But when the house isn't all Ned hoped it would be, he freaks out and verbally assaults everyone in town from Homer to Lisa to Krusty the Clown. After his outburst, Ned enters a mental hospital where he is reacquainted with Dr. Foster, the child psychologist who "cured" him of his anger problems when he was a boy. In a flashback, we see Dr. Foster administering a then-radical form of spank therapy to young Neddy. In the present, the good doctor tries to help Ned get in touch with his anger again to cure him.
First Aired: 1996-12-29 Email -
Episode 7
Lisa's Date With Density
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Lisa develops a crush on bully Nelson Muntz. Even though she seems to know that Nelson can never really change his naughty ways, Lisa thinks she can help him be a better person. She tries her best, but Nelson's thug friends Jimbo, Dolph, and Kearney lead him astray yet again. Nelson gets busted for throwing cole slaw at Principal Skinner's house, but the bully tells Lisa he was framed. Lisa believes him at first, but stops liking him when she realizes he lied to her.
First Aired: 1996-12-15 Email -
Episode 6
A Milhouse Divided
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In a move that will surely cause even more psychological damage for their son Milhouse, Kirk and Luann Van Houten split up in a messy, public way. Each Van Houten deals with the breakup differently: Luann begins dating an American Gladiator named Pyro while Kirk kicks off a new career a singer, self-producing an album called "Can I Borrow a Feeling?" Milhouse, for his part, takes his parents' break-up in stride and loses his mind even more than before. Meanwhile, Homer starts panicking that Marge might one day want to divorce him. To prevent that from ever happening, he files for divorce first and then remarries her in a surprisingly romantic ceremony. Sadly, there's no such happy ending for the Van Houtens, who remain divorced.
First Aired: 1996-12-01 Email -
Episode 5
Bart After Dark
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When Bart stumbles into a burlesque theater tucked away in a creepy old mansion, he begins working there as a doorman and eventually an MC. From his perch at the front of the Maison Derriere, Bart sees everyone from Principal Skinner to his own grandpa coming in for the girls and drinks. But when a group of angry townspeople discover that there's a house of sin in Springfield, they try to shut it down. At a town meeting, the group becomes a frenzied mob that tries to raze the house with trucks and sledgehammers. But when the showgirls, with a little help from Homer, Mayor Quimby, and others, sing a catchy tune about why the place should stay open, the mob backs off.
First Aired: 1996-11-24 Email -
Episode 4
Burns, Baby Burns
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Mr. Burns' long-lost illegitimate son, Larry, shows up and wants just a little "respect." Mr. Burns initially welcomes Larry, but rejects his son when he turns out to be a total idiot. Larry befriends Homer and the two concoct a plan to "kidnap" Larry and demand a ransom from Burns. Marge begs them to abandon the plan and even though they do, Burns still rejects his son, who returns to wherever it is he came from.
First Aired: 1996-11-17 Email -
Episode 3
The Homer They Fall
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Homer becomes a boxer and Moe serves as his manager. Even though Homer doesn't have any combinations or footwork to speak of, he can withstand even the most powerful blows to his head and remain standing. Homer fights his way up through the professional ranks and soon agrees to fight a client of Lucius Sweet, a flamboyant boxing promoter with upstanding hair and a taste for flashy jewelry. Drederick Tatum, the boxer Homer is to fight, is the Heavyweight Champ, who will without a doubt pound Homer into a bloody pulp. Marge begs Moe to save Homer if the fight gets too rough, but whether or not Moe has the presence of mind to do so is up in the air.
First Aired: 1996-11-10 Email -
Episode 2
You Only Move Twice
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A charismatic yet secretive businessman named Hank Scorpio enlists Homer to work for Globex Corporation. Homer likes Scorpio's casual, laid-back management style and accepts the job, moving his family to Cypress Creek, where Globex is located. As Homer learns the ropes of his new job, life in Cypress Creek for Marge is so uneventful that she takes to drink to pass the day. Bart and Lisa are having a tough time as well: Lisa is allergic to nearly all the plants in the nearby forest and Bart is placed in a special class for slow kids in his new school. Homer is still convinced that Cypress Creek is the place for him and that Hank Scorpio is the boss of his dreams. But when Homer discovers that the Globex Corporation is seeking world domination and that Scorpio is actually a super-villain straight of out a James Bond film, he starts to have some small reservations. After discussing it with Marge and the kids, Homer and his family pack up and move back to Springfield while Hank Scorpio takes control of the entire East Coast.
First Aired: 1996-11-03 Email -
Episode 1
Treehouse of Horror VII
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In this year's spooky series of Halloween stories, Bart discovers that he has a special new sibling, Lisa discovers that she is a God to a race of tiny people, and the American people discover that Bill Clinton and Bob Dole are actually aliens Kang and Kodos. In the first segment, Bart investigates noises from the attic and learns that his formerly conjoined twin, Hugo, is locked up there. Hugo is a wild, fish head-eating savage who was locked away because Dr. Hibbert determined that he was evil at birth. When Hugo captures Bart and tries to sew himself back together with his brother, it's up to the doctor to save the good twin. But can he tell for sure which is which? In the second tale, Lisa generates microscopic life inside a plastic tub that quickly evolves into a full-blown species of tiny humans. The tiny people consider Lisa their God. In the final story, Kang and Kodos beam Homer aboard the spacecraft and ask him who the President is. Homer thinks it might be Bill Clinton…or is it Bob Dole? Kang and Kodos beam Clinton and Dole aboard, assume the identities, and both run for President. Homer makes it his mission to expose the two false candidates.
First Aired: 1996-10-27 Email
Season 7 (124 links)
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Episode 25
Summer of 4 ft. 2
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When her family goes away to a beach house for the weekend, Lisa decides to transform herself into a new, cooler person. Her first step is abandoning her old, dorky clothes in favor of tricked-out threads. She also hides her egg-headed impulses by dumbing-down her vocabulary and pretending she doesn't read books anymore. Soon, Lisa befriends Erin, a cool but disaffected local kid, and her friends. Lisa's transformation is complete: she is popular. Of course, Bart is seething with jealousy and comes up with a plan to ruin his sister's popularity. Bart shows Erin and her friends Lisa's elementary school yearbook to prove what a good student and a goody-goody his sister really is. Bart's plan backfires, however, when Lisa's new friends turn out to like her anyway, even if she is a nerd.
First Aired: 1996-05-19 Email -
Episode 24
Homerpalooza
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Homer gets grungy when he becomes a sideshow performer at Hullabalooza, an alternative rock festival that features Sonic Youth, Smashing Pumpkins, Cypress Hill and, uh, Peter Frampton. Homer's performance consists of using his enormous gut as a target for cannonballs, which makes him a huge hit with the pierced and tattooed Hullabalooza crowd. It also gains him the respect of his kids, who finally think that their dad is cool. When a doctor tells Homer that he is causing permanent damage to his internal organs, Homer must decide between his newfound acclaim as a sideshow freak or long-term health. Luckily for all, Homer chooses the latter, and leaves the life-threatening stunt to someone else.
First Aired: 1996-05-19 Email -
Episode 23
Much Apu About Nothing
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When Proposition 24, an anti-immigrant law, is put into effect, Apu risks being deported as an illegal alien. All of Apu's attempts to get fake papers and Americanize himself fail and it's up to Homer to help his loyal Kwik-E-Mart counterman pass his naturalization exam. An all-night cram session ensues, but when Apu takes his test, he proves to be too smart to be an American. Luckily, though, he passes, and is allowed to stay in Springfield. That's more than we can say for Groundskeeper Willie, who is deported, kicking and screaming, back to Scotland.
First Aired: 1996-05-05 Email -
Episode 22
Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling ...
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After Grandpa's old army buddy passes away, the biggest secret in old Abe's life is revealed. During the Second World War, he was a member of the Flying Hellfish, a platoon that included Mr. Burns and several other men. Seizing a Nazi mansion, the Hellfish stole some priceless paintings and locked them away. The agreed that only the last living Hellfish would get to call the stash his own. The only problem is, Grandpa and Mr. Burns are both still alive, and Mr. Burns would like to have the paintings now. Grandpa, with some help from Bart, escapes Burns' attempts on his life and finds the hidden paintings on his own. A violent confrontation with Burns ensues, but the paintings don't go to either aging Hellfish. Representatives from the government break up the fight and give the prized paintings to an obnoxious German guy who is the grandson of the works' original owner.
First Aired: 1996-04-28 Email -
Episode 21
22 Short Films About Springfield
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In this breakneck tour through a day in the life of Springfield, we learn that a lot goes on in a little town in some state, somewhere in America. Apu takes the day off from the Kwik-E-Mart and has a kwik-e-romance. Barney finally pays Moe his bar tab only to witness Snake steal it. Principal Skinner nearly burns down his house while making lunch for Superintendent Chalmers, and Homer gets Maggie stuck in a newspaper vending machine. Lisa gets gum--and mayonnaise, and peanut butter--stuck in her hair, and Smithers almost dies from a bee sting. In a nod to Pulp Fiction, Snake and Chief Wiggum are taken hostage by Herman, the one-armed pawnshop owner, who wants to do god-knows-what. The two men are saved by Milhouse, who had to go to the bathroom really, really badly.
First Aired: 1996-04-14 Email -
Episode 20
Bart on the Road
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A day spent with Aunts Patty and Selma at the DMV leads to a fake ID for Bart and a cross-country road trip for his friends. With Bart's sparkling new driver's license and $600 Martin Prince made in the stock market, Bart, Martin, Milhouse and Nelson rent a car and hit the open road. Their plan is check out the World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee, but when the kids get there, they discover that the fair ended about 14 years earlier. While Bart and the boys are away, Lisa begins spending a lot of bonding time with Homer, even having sleepovers at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. After Bart's rental car is destroyed, the boys are trapped in Knoxville. Only Lisa can save the day, but she needs to enlist the help of her new best buddy, Homer, to get them back home .
First Aired: 1996-03-31 Email -
Episode 19
A Fish Called Selma
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After a series of sordid tabloid scandals involving marine life, Troy McClure (whom you might remember from such films as The Muppets Go Medieval and P is for Psycho) needs some quick damage control. MacArthur Parker, Troy's agent, recommends he appear to in public as normal as possible. Enter Selma Bouvier, who is the perfect beard to cover up McClure's unsavory press. As Troy and Selma begin dating, the actor's public image rises considerably and he lands such highly coveted roles as The Human in the musical production of The Planet of the Apes. His star on the rise, Troy and Selma get married. Shortly after the nuptials, Selma begins to have second thoughts when Troy insists they have a baby for all the good publicity it will bring him. Selma ends the charade then and there and returns to her normal life. Troy, presumably, returns to the aquarium.
First Aired: 1996-03-24 Email -
Episode 18
The Day the Violence Died
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controversy yet again when Bart and Lisa befriend Chester J. Lampwick, a homeless man who claims to have invented the cartoon cat and mouse, only to have his idea stolen by Roger Meyers, Sr. back in 1919. With Bart and Lisa's help, Chester enlists Lionel Hutz and sues Roger Meyers, Jr. for $800 million and wins. Itchy & Scratchy Studios is shut down, and Chester gets to live the life every bum dreams about when he buys a solid gold house. With Itchy & Scratchy off the air, Lisa and Bart have to endure incredibly boring cartoons until two smart kids, Lester and Eliza (who look surprisingly like Bart and Lisa) figure out a way to save Itchy & Scratchy.
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Episode 17
Homer the Smithers
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Mr. Burns' assistant, Waylon Smithers, nearly works himself into a nervous breakdown and is forced to go on a vacation. Fearing that whoever fills in for him in his absence might replace him permanently, Smithers places Homer Simpson in the job, figuring that there's no way the plant's worst employee could possibly be a threat. Homer approaches the job with enthusiasm, but finds that much of his day is taken up with being insulted by Mr. Burns. Finally, one day Homer snaps and punches Burns square in the face. To everyone's surprise, the punch actually whacks some decency and humility into Burns. When Smithers returns from his vacation, he finds that his worst fear has come true: Burns no longer needs him. Together Homer and Smithers concoct a plan to prove how valuable Smithers is to Burns, but when the plan backfires, Smithers and Homer get into a vicious fight and accidentally send their boss flying out the window. Later, while laid-up in bed with broken bones, Burns rehires Smithers as his assistant and Smithers sends the Simpson family a fruit basket to thank Homer for saving his job.
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Episode 16
Lisa the Iconoclast
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A noble spirit possesses the people of Springfield as they prepare for the town's bicentennial celebration. Always the iconoclast, Lisa discovers some new data about Jebediah Springfield, the town's legendary founder, that she feels she must share with everyone. According to Lisa's research, the saintly Jebediah was actually Hans Sprungfeld, a murderous pirate who tried to kill George Washington. Lisa confronts Hollis Hurlbut, the President of the Springfield Historical Society, with her findings, but Hurlbut sends her packing and bans her from his museum for three months. Lisa, with Homer's help, convinces Mayor Quimby to dig up the body of Jebediah Springfield to prove that he's not the same man as Sprungfeld. Quimby agrees, but when the body is exhumed, Hollis Hurlbut quickly steals the evidence so that no one believes Lisa. Later, Lisa finds out for sure that Hurlbut hid the evidence, but she allows the people of Springfield to go on celebrating Jebediah anyway, since the great man's legacy is more important than the actual facts of his life.
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Episode 15
Bart the Fink
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Bart messes with Krusty the Clown's life yet again, this time getting his idol busted for tax fraud. An audit reveals that Krusty is one of the worst scofflaws in history and the IRS seizes all his assets and sells them at auction. In the throes of financial despair, Krusty crashes his plane, The I'm-On-A-Roll-A-Gay, into a mountain, killing himself. While mourning Krusty's death, Bart and Lisa start getting the sneaky suspicion that the clown actually faked his own death to avoid the taxman. After tracking down Rory B. Bellows, the man they suspect is Krusty, their suspicions are confirmed. Krusty did fake his own death, and now he will fake the death of Rory B. Bellows, whose life is ensured for millions and signed over to Krusty. With his new inheritance, Krusty can start his life over and return to showbiz.
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Episode 14
Scenes From the Class Struggle in Spr...
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Bart messes with Krusty the Clown's life yet again, this time getting his idol busted for tax fraud. An audit reveals that Krusty is one of the worst scofflaws in history and the IRS seizes all his assets and sells them at auction. In the throes of financial despair, Krusty crashes his plane, The I'm-On-A-Roll-A-Gay, into a mountain, killing himself. While mourning Krusty's death, Bart and Lisa start getting the sneaky suspicion that the clown actually faked his own death to avoid the taxman. After tracking down Rory B. Bellows, the man they suspect is Krusty, their suspicions are confirmed. Krusty did fake his own death, and now he will fake the death of Rory B. Bellows, whose life is ensured for millions and signed over to Krusty. With his new inheritance, Krusty can start his life over and return to showbiz.
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Episode 13
Two Bad Neighbors
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Former President George Herbert Walker Bush becomes the newest resident of Evergreen Terrace, moving with his wife Barbara into the large house across the street from the Simpsons. Everyone in the neighborhood is excited to have the Bushes in Springfield, but Homer and Bart get off on the wrong foot with the former Chief Executive. In a decidedly non-wimp act, Bush spanks Bart after the boy destroys his memoirs, and from that moment on it's war between Homer and Bush. A series of escalating pranks leads to a fist-fight between the two men. George decides that Springfield is not the place for him to live out his golden years and hightails it away with Barbara. In his place, former President Gerald Ford moves in and becomes fast friends with Homer.
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Episode 12
Team Homer
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Homer forms the Pin Pals, a bowling team made up of Moe, Apu and Otto, but the team has to cut Otto when Mr. Burns muscles in and insists on joining. Meanwhile, Principal Skinner implements a school-wide dress code when Bart shows up to school in a MAD Magazine T-shirt. The Pin Pals take on the Holy Rollers (Ned and Maude Flanders, Reverend and Mrs. Lovejoy) and other teams until they're in the finals. Even though he's no longer on the team, Otto manages to help the Pin Pals win the tournament. Getting caught in the rain, the children of Springfield Elementary School discover that their new school uniforms are not color-fast, and are amused by the wild colors their clothes make when wet.
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Episode 11
Marge Be Not Proud
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Bart wants a new video game called "Bonestorm" more than anything in the world. When Marge won't buy it for him and Milhouse won't let him play with his copy, Bart steals one from the Try-N-Save department store. Bart is caught in the act by Detective Don Brodka, a tough-talking store security guard who calls Marge and Homer and shows them the tape of Bart in action. After the incident, Marge doesn't punish Bart, but she does ignore him a bit. Bart realizes that Marge is extremely disappointed in him and tries to make it up to her. He finally does and the family is happily reunited.
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Episode 10
The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacula...
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To celebrate the momentous 138th episode of The Simpsons, Troy McClure hosts a retrospective of classic moments and never-before-seen outtakes. As a reward to the show's loyal viewers, a number of long-unanswered questions, like "What's the deal with Mr. Smithers?" are finally addressed, sort of. Also answered is the question, "Who are Matt Groening and James L. Brooks?" As the 138th episode spectacular makes clear, Groening is an America-Firster with an itchy trigger finger and Brooks is the lovable Mr. Moneybags from Monopoly.
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Episode 9
Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming
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Lax prison security makes it possible for Sideshow Bob to escape from prison yet again. This time, however, he's less interested in killing Bart Simpson as he is in knocking out Springfield's television stations, since he's grown to detest TV so much while in prison. Bob sneaks onto the Springfield air base on the day of the big air show, commandeers an atom bomb, and threatens to blow-up the crowd if the mayor doesn't end all TV broadcasts. When the bomb fails to explode, Bob returns to an older, more familiar plan and kidnaps Bart. That plan is also foiled and Bob returns to prison, again.
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Episode 8
Mother Simpson
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Homer's long-lost mother returns to the Simpson family. After some initial pleasantries, Bart and Lisa suspect that something's fishy about their new grandmother. It turns out that Mother Simpson is a fugitive from the law and has spent the last quarter century in hiding. In a flashback, we learn that when Homer was a small child, his mother fell in with a band of radical hippies who planted an antibiotic bomb in the germ warfare development lab of Springfield State University. Guarding the lab at the time was a young campus security guard named Clancy Wiggum. The lab was run by a younger (but by no means young) man named Monty Burns. Ever since the antibiotic bomb attack, Burns and Wiggum have been on the lookout for Mother Simpson. Realizing that it wasn't such a good idea to emerge from the underground, Mother Simpson bids her son and his family good-bye and returns to her secret life.
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Episode 7
King-Size Homer
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Sick of the workaday grind at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, Homer comes up with a scheme to gain enough weight to be classified as disabled, thereby earning the right to work from home. With a target weight of 300 pounds in mind, he eats everything in site, including Maggie's Play-Doh. Fat as a tick, Homer is granted his wish to work from home, but it's not all he thought it would be when he finds that he's too fat to stop an imminent disaster in the plant's reactor core. The only thing big enough to stop the explosion is Homer's enormous body, which he manages to wedge into an exploding tank. Having saved the plant and the town, he is rewarded for his efforts with a free liposuction courtesy of Mr. Burns.
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Episode 6
Treehouse of Horror VI
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In this year's blood-chilling blockbuster boo-fest, the Simpsons celebrate Halloween with three visions of terror. First, Springfield is destroyed by a band of angry, marauding billboard icons. The Lard Lad, Professor Peanut, and the Duff Cowboy escape their billboards and crush everything in sight until guest star Paul Anka saves the day with a catchy jingle. In the second segment, Groundskeeper Willie picks off the students of Springfield Elementary one-by-one. In a flashback, we learn that Willie was accidentally murdered by the kids' parents, and plans to kill the children in their dreams for revenge. It's up to Bart, Lisa, and a quick-thinking baby Maggie to fight him in dreamland. In the third segment, Homer steps into an alternate dimension, where he becomes a 3-D rendering. He finds that he's trapped in the digital world and all the attempts to save him by Professor Frink, Chief Wiggum and Ned Flanders are useless. Once again, it falls to Bart to save the day, but he fails when the digital universe implodes, sending Homer into an even scarier world: ours.
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Episode 5
Lisa the Vegetarian
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Lisa realizes that it's wrong to eat animals after a long petting session with a baby lamb at a local zoo. Swearing off meat turns out to be a controversial decision for Lisa, since everyone around her seems to support the eating of flesh. At school, Lisa must sit through a politically slanted pro-meat film and eat only hotdog buns for lunch; at home, she has to put up with Homer's plans for a meaty barbecue party. After fighting about her beliefs with her family, Lisa runs away to the Kwik-E-Mart, where she discovers a kindred spirit in Apu, who is not only a strict vegetarian, but a vegan as well. Lisa also meets two other vegetarians, Paul and Linda McCartney, who explain that while it's important to stick to her convictions about vegetarianism, she must also tolerate the beliefs of others. Knowing that Paul and Linda are right, Lisa makes up with Homer and they accept each other's different points of view.
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Episode 4
Bart Sells His Soul
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Bart decides to sell his soul to Milhouse for five dollars. Meanwhile, Moe transforms his dank, depressing Tavern into a family restaurant called Uncle Moe's Family Feedbag. When he stops finding Itchy & Scratchy funny and can no longer activate the automatic doors at the Kwik-E-Mart, Bart realizes that he really has lost his soul. Determined to recover it, he tracks Milhouse down at his grandmother's apartment and begs for his soul back. Milhouse tells Bart that it's too late, because he has already traded the soul for a handful of Alf Pogs. Over at the restaurant, Moe is exhausted by the constant smiling, good will and hospitality necessary to meet the demands of his new customers. Bart waits all night outside the comic book store to buy his soul back, only to learn that it has already been purchased. Depressed, Bart goes home and prays for the return of his soul. Just then, it is given back to him--by Lisa, who bought it the day before.
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Episode 3
Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily
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When Bart is sent home from school with head lice and Lisa loses her shoes, Marge and Homer are accused of being negligent parents and their kids are taken away by the bureaucratic do-gooders at the Child Protection Agency. As (bad) luck would have it, Bart, Lisa and Maggie are placed in the foster care of the Flanders family. While their kids must endure 5 PM bedtimes, Flanders-style nachos, and endless games of Biblical Bombardment, Homer and Marge must attend a special class for bad parents. Ned treats Bart, Lisa and especially Maggie with love and kindness, until he discovers that none of them have been baptized. After a fainting jag, Ned shores up the energy and the righteousness to baptize the kids himself. As Ned leads his new flock to the edge of the river for their baptisms, Homer and Marge, newly graduated from bad parent school, rush to the scene to stop him. Homer sees what is about to happen and dives into the river to prevent Ned from pouring Holy Water on Bart. When the Holy Water hits Homer, it burns his flesh and bubbles up. Bart, however, is saved from salvation and the Simpson family is reunited.
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Episode 2
Radioactive Man
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When Springfield is chosen as the shooting location for Rainier Wolfcastle's big-screen adaptation of the popular Radioactive Man comic series, the entire town tries to take the movie's producers for every dime they've got. Children from Springfield Elementary are invited to audition for the role of Radioactive Man's sidekick, Fallout Boy. Bart tries his hardest to land the role, but the producers select Milhouse, who is initially excited about his new gig, but soon grows disenchanted with the movie-making process. After numerous production snafus and time-consuming re-shoots, Milhouse flees the set and goes into hiding. In addition to the loss of one of their stars, the financial burden of shooting in Springfield proves too much for the filmmakers, and they abandon the production altogether.
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Episode 1
Who Shot Mr. Burns? (2)
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An entire nation tunes in with rapt attention as Mr. Burns' assailant is finally revealed. At first, all signs point to Smithers, and Burns' right-hand man confesses when confronted by the police. But new evidence emerges that clears Smithers, and Homer Simpson becomes the main suspect. Based on DNA evidence and a lack of alibi, Homer is detained by police. He escapes custody, however, and rushes to the hospital, intending to get revenge on his boss for not remembering his name. At the hospital, with members of the Springfield Police Department, the Simpsons, and various townspeople standing by Burns' bed, the true shooter is revealed. Burns points into the crowd and gasps as he recalls that Maggie Simpson shot him after a tug-of-war over a lollypop. Since Maggie cannot be tried as an adult (or even a child), no charges are brought and she is free to live out her life as a cold-blooded would-be assassin.
First Aired: 1995-09-17 Email
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Episode 25
Who Shot Mr. Burns? (1)
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In the first part of this groundbreaking suspense story, Mr. Burns develops a sun-blocking machine that prevents any sunlight from reaching Springfield. With the town immersed in darkness, Mr. Burns' Power Plant can make even more money. In addition to blocking the sun, Burns has also deprived the school of its funds, broken Santa's Little Helper's leg, and alienated nearly all of his fellow townspeople. When he winds up shot, everyone, including the members of the Simpson family, is a suspect. All will be revealed in the second part, but only after a cliff hanger so steep, an entire nation will be hanging on the edge of its seats.
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Episode 24
Lemon of Troy
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The simmering rivalry between Springfield and its neighboring town, Shelbyville, heats up when a group of kids from Shelbyville steal Springfield's prized lemon tree. It's up the youngest Springfieldians to cross over the town line and reclaim what is theirs. During the mission to get the tree, Bart develops a particularly intense rivalry with Shelby, the leader of the Shelbyville posse. The two square off and the Springfield kids, with the help of their parents and a stolen RV, manage to get the tree back.
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Episode 23
The Springfield Connection
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When Marge and Homer are walking down the streets of Springfield, they come across a street artist who challenges people for bets. Homer bets 20 dollar but loses. Marge accuses the man of making the street unsafe. The man tries to run away, but marge hits him and he falls down. A while later he gets arrested and Marge decides her calling is to join the police force.
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Episode 22
Round Springfield
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Lisa is reunited with her idol, Bleeding Gums Murphy, but their time together is short lived when the jazz legend passes away. Heartbroken, Lisa wants to give him a proper tribute, but to do so, she needs to buy his rare album, Sax on the Beach, so she can play it on the local jazz radio station. Bart lends her enough money to buy the record and Lisa plays the record on the air. Speaking to Lisa from heaven, Bleeding Gums tells her what a great musician she is and they jam together one last time before he goes to the big jazz club in the sky.
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Episode 21
The PTA Disbands
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When the teachers' union reaches a dead end in its negotiations with Principal Skinner, the teachers strike, forcing the Board of Education to come up with a creative way to keep the school running. The only plan that's in place is to have highly intelligent robots teach classes, but since such robots don't exist, the Board enlists PTA members for the task. With Ned Flanders as Principal and Marge as a teacher, the school functions normally, for a time. Bart realizes that without his old teachers, school just doesn't work for him, so he devises a way to bring the teachers' union and Principal Skinner back to the negotiating table: He locks Mrs. Krabappel and Skinner in a room together until they can agree on the contract.
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Episode 20
Two Dozen and One Greyhounds
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Bart goes into a specialized animal store looking for the perfect present to give his dog Greyhound.
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Episode 19
Lisa's Wedding
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At the Renaissance Faire, Lisa wanders into the fortune teller's booth and has her entire future laid bare. She sees herself in the year 2010, attending Harvard and falling in love with a British student named Hugh Parkfield. Hugh asks Lisa to marry him, and as their wedding approaches Lisa worries that her family--in particular, her father and brother--will embarrass her in front of her new husband and his upper-crust parents. After a series of embarrassing interludes, Lisa comes to understand that, even though they may not be classy, polite, or sanitary, Homer, Bart, Marge and a now teenage Maggie are her family and she loves them.
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Episode 18
A Star is Burns
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Springfield plays host to a film festival in which various townspeople display their original work. Barney presents "Pukahontas," a haunting meditation on his alcoholism; Apu directs "Bright Lights, Beef Jerky," the tale of a lonely man working the loneliest shift in a small-town Kwik-E-Mart. Two other important entries are Mr. Burns' autobiographical "A Burns for All Seasons" and Hans Moleman's "Man Getting Hit by Football." Despite receiving bribes from Mr. Burns, the judges choose to honor "Pukahontas" as the festival's best film. Luckily for Moleman, his film is remade as "Football in the Groin," a star vehicle for George C. Scott, and wins an Oscar for Best Picture.
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Episode 17
Homer vs. Patty and Selma
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Foolishly, Homer pulls all of his stock out of Pumpkin futures just before the pre-Halloween boom in the Pumpkin market. Broke and dejected, he is reduced to taking a loan from his sisters-in-law, Patty and Selma. Clearly relishing Homer's degradation, Patty and Selma make him their slave. Meanwhile, Bart is forced to take ballet lessons. Homer waits on Patty and Selma hand and foot until he admits to Marge that he lost all of the family's money and needed to take a loan. To make ends meet, Homer becomes a limousine driver but needs to go to the DMV to get the proper license. While there, Patty and Selma are nearly fired for smoking on the job, but Homer steps in and saves the day by claiming that he was smoking. Their jobs saved, Patty and Selma forget Homer's debt to them. As a result of his lessons, Bart has grown to love ballet and isn't ashamed to admit it even when a gang of bullies accuses him of being a sissy.
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Episode 16
Bart vs. Australia
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After a prank phone call to Australia goes awry, Bart and his entire family must fly out to the land down under and apologize to the Australian people. Once there, Evan Conover, the Undersecretary of State for International Protocol, Brat and Punk Division, tells the Simpsons that in Australia, the only acceptable apology is for the guilty party to receive a swift kick in the pants from the Prime Minister. Appalled by such savagery, Homer refuses to allow the Australians to "boot" his son, further fraying already tenuous Australio-American relations. Trapped in the American embassy, surrounded on all sides by enraged Australians polishing their booting boots, Bart decides to accept his punishment the only way he knows how: He pulls down his pants and moons the Australians with the words "Don't Tread on Me" written on his butt. The Simpsons escape the embassy with the Australians in hot pursuit and make it back to America, where freedom to pull pranks is a Constitutional right.
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Episode 15
Homie the Clown
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Krusty the Clown's accountants reveal that the entertainer is flat broke despite his successful show and his many lucrative endorsement deals. The only way for him to get out of the hole financially is to open his own clown college and train students to perform as Krusty at restaurant openings and private parties. Fed up with job and his life, Homer decides to enroll in clown college and learns the fine arts of squirting flowers and mini-bicycle riding. After much preparation, Homer graduates with a Krusty degree and goes on to perform as the clown at various functions. As Krusty, Homer attracts the attention of Fat Tony and his mafia buddies who are after the real Krusty for his gambling debts. There's no way for Homer to convince the toughs that he's not really Krusty, especially when Krusty himself arrives on the scene to confuse things even more. Both clowns then must perform a potentially lethal, one-of-a-kind trick in order to prove who's the authentic Krusty.
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Episode 14
Bart's Comet
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When Bart is forced to assist Principal Skinner during a long night of astronomy, he discovers what appears to be a giant comet heading towards Springfield. A call to the astronomers at the observatory confirms that a comet is indeed hurtling towards Springfield at an alarming rate, and will more than likely kill all of the town's residents when it crashes. Scientists fail in their efforts to throw the comet off course and the entire town goes hysterical as the flaming ball continues along its course of destruction. Luckily for everyone, Ned Flanders has enough room in his family's bomb shelter for most of the town, but when the quarters become too cramped, one person must be expelled and risk being killed by the comet. Who will it be and what will happen to him or her once the comet crashes?
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Episode 13
And Maggie Makes Three
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The story of the youngest Simpson's early year is finally told. Shortly before Maggie is born, Homer quits the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant to pursue his dream of working at a bowling alley. But when Marge reveals that she is pregnant, Homer must return to the plant and beg for his job back. The only thing that gets him through those long days as a safety inspector are the photos of his beautiful new baby girl that he hangs over his console.
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Episode 12
Homer the Great
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When Homer begins to notice Lenny and Carl acting strangely, he trails them and discovers that they are members of The Stonecutters, a secret organization. Homer wants to join but he can't unless he's the son of a member. Luckily, Grampa is a Stonecutter (and a member of the Black Panthers) so Homer's membership is a shoo-in. Once on the inside, Homer discovers that the Stonecutters are a rigidly hierarchical group--he is given a number instead of a name, and must work his way up the ladder. But when Number One, the Stonecutters' leader, spies a mark on Homer's butt, he is anointed the Chosen One. As Supreme Head of the Stonecutters, Homer foolishly turns a once-great secret organization into a laughingstock. His followers rebel and start a new secret club, The Ancient Mystic Society of No Homers.
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Episode 11
Fear of Flying
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When Marge has an even more disturbing experience than usual on an airplane, she must confront her debilitating fear of flying. Consulting a soft-spoken psychoanalyst named Dr. Zweig, Marge begins to get to the roots of her anxiety. In therapy, it turns out that Marge's father lied throughout her entire childhood, telling her he was a pilot when he was actually an airline steward. If that wasn't traumatizing enough, little Marge was also shot at by a crop duster and survived a near-fatal fire on an airplane riding toy. During one of Marge's therapy sessions, Homer tries to get a drink at a new bar in town called Cheers, but decides it's not the place for him since no one is glad he came. After her breakthrough, Marge is able to fly without fear. She bids farewell to Dr. Zweig and takes off for a happier, healthier future.
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Episode 10
Grandpa vs. Sexual Inadequacy
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When Homer and Marge's sex life fizzles out, Grandpa whips up a batch of bottled passion for Homer. The home remedy proves an amazing success and after a marathon snuggle session with Marge, Homer convinces his father to try and sell the potion. Hitting the open road, Homer and Grandpa rake in the bucks and bond like they have never before. But when they find themselves driving by the house where Homer grew up, the old resentment and hostility bubbles up between them. After much fighting and many angry proclamations, Homer and Grandpa make up.
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Episode 9
Homer Badman
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Homer's life is turned upside down when he is accused of sexual harassment by an uppity baby-sitter named Ashley Grant. Protestors camp out on the Simpsons' lawn and reporters scrutinize Homer's every move. His attempts to clear his name are ruined by a complete lack of political correctness. The only person who can clear his name is Groundskeeper Willie, who not only witnessed Homer's alleged act of sexual harassment, but videotaped it for his amusement.
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Episode 8
Lisa on Ice
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When she nearly flunks gym class, Lisa is forced to take up a sport. She realizes that she's a natural at hockey, becoming the goalie for the Gougers, a pee-wee team coached by Apu. Lisa is a star player, but things get complicated when the Gougers face off against Bart's team. Years of sibling rivalry come out on the ice, but just as Bart is supposed to slap a penalty shot into the goal, he and Lisa realize that their loyalty to each other is stronger than their loyalty to their teams.
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Episode 7
Bart's Girlfriend
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Bart falls in love with Reverend Lovejoy's daughter, Jessica. In an effort to impress her, Bart pretends to be polite and mannered, but he soon learns that what Jessica really likes about him is that he's a bad, bad boy. Together they pull numerous pranks and commit acts of vandalism, but things get out of hand when Jessica wants Bart to steal from the Springfield Community Church collection plate. The entire congregation accuses Bart of theft, and when the truth is revealed, Jessica is sent back to boarding school.
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Episode 6
Treehouse of Horror V
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In this year's gruesomely ghoulish Halloween gift package, the Simpsons find themselves stuck in a haunted old mansion in the hills, hurtling through the outer reaches of the space-time continuum, and, most frightening of all, in the Springfield Elementary School cafeteria kitchen. In the first segment, Homer is hired by Mr. Burns to be the groundskeeper of his mansion in the mountains. What Mr. Burns neglects to tell Homer and his family is that he has shut off the cable and removed all of the beer from the premises. After several days trapped with no beer and TV, Homer begins to lose his mind and tries to kill his family. Luckily, Bart has been developing his psychic powers and is able to summon Groundskeeper Willie, who plows his way through snowdrifts and ice to save the day. In the second segment, Homer tries to fix the toaster and winds up destroying the entire universe. In the third segment, Bart and Lisa realize that their teachers are putting on weight from eating students.
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Episode 5
Sideshow Bob Roberts
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After getting released from prison yet again, Sideshow Bob attempts to land the only job suited for a two-time felon: Mayor of Springfield. Backed by a cabal of Republicans led by Mr. Burns and the corpulent talk radio blow-hard Birch Barlow, Bob takes on Mayor Quimby in a dirty fight for the job. Fearing that Bob will try to kill him yet again, Bart, with Lisa's help, begins to aggressively campaign for Quimby. All their efforts are wasted, however, when Bob wins and decides to build a freeway right through the Simpsons' home. As the demolition trucks roll towards her home, Lisa does some last-minute investigating and discovers that Bob and his powerful backers rigged the election. Armed with the facts, Lisa tricks Bob into publicly admitting his crime and gets him sent back to jail.
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Episode 4
Itchy & Scratchy Land
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After weeks of begging, Bart and Lisa finally convince their parents to take them to Itchy & Scratchy Land, a new high-tech amusement park on a remote island. Once there, the kids run off to enjoy the attractions while Homer and Marge spend their day on Parents' Island. All is fine until Bart and Homer are both arrested by park security for harassing the costumed employees. Marge bails Homer and Bart out of Itchy & Scratchy jail just as several defective Itchy & Scratchy robots go on a killing rampage. A bloody battle between the Simpsons and their robot attackers ensues and the family escapes the island alive. As they are airlifted to safety, Marge requests that the family never speak of this trip again.
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Episode 3
Another Simpsons Clip Show
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After reading the weepy best-seller The Bridges of Madison County, Marge decides to sit down with her husband and children and discuss love. What follows is a collection of sweetest, most romantic moments from the last five seasons of The Simpsons. The sweetest part of all is that the writers got to take a vacation while the editors put together the show.
First Aired: 1994-09-25 Email -
Episode 2
Lisa's Rival
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Golden child Lisa Simpson finds she's starting to tarnish just a little when a new girl, Allison Taylor, moves to Springfield. Allison is smart, pretty, a great saxophone player and a crack diorama builder. Lisa tries to befriend her new rival, but she's consumed with envy and competitiveness, especially as Dioramarama, the annual diorama competition, approaches. Turning to Bart for help, Lisa devises a way to humiliate Allison by replacing her expertly crafted diorama of Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart with an actual, rotting cow's heart. Lisa feels pangs of regret at the last minute and backs out of the prank, only to see Allison lose the contest to Ralph Wiggum, who simply displayed Star Wars action figures in their original boxes.
First Aired: 1994-09-11 Email -
Episode 1
Bart of Darkness
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Stuck in his room with a broken leg, Bart watches Ned Flanders through a telescope and thinks he sees his neighbor murder his wife Maude. The more Bart watches, the more he suspects that Ned has definitely killed Maude and buried her in the backyard. Bart enlists Lisa to sneak into the Flanders' house for a closer look, but when Ned returns home holding an ax, Bart can only watch as Lisa hides in Flanders' attic. Bart manages to limp his way down the stairs, out of his house and into the Flanders' where he and Lisa confront him about killing Maude. Cornered, Ned breaks down in tears and confesses his awful crime: He killed Maude's favorite plant and buried it in the yard so she wouldn't know.
First Aired: 1994-09-04 Email
Season 5 (122 links)
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Episode 22
Secrets of a Successful Marriage
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Somehow Homer comes to teach an adult education class on how to have a successful marriage. Even stranger, he turns out to be pretty good at it, dispensing homespun advice that his students find useful. He also dispenses quite a bit of personal information and gossip about his marriage to Marge, which causes his better half to go half-crazy. Homer apologizes but can't seem to stop airing their dirty laundry in class. Marge kicks Homer out and he begins sleeping in Bart's treehouse. Under these conditions, Homer begins to degenerate. After listening to her husband apologize profusely, Marge realizes that Homer needs her more than anyone else in the world and accepts him back.
First Aired: 1994-05-19 Email -
Episode 21
Lady Bouvier's Lover
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Having already fallen hard for Marge, Mr. Burns now finds himself smitten with Marge's mother, Jacqueline Bouvier. Competing for the old lady's affection is Grandpa Simpson, who also thinks that she's the bee's arthritic knees. Burns is the more dashing suitor and proposes to Mrs. Bouvier, who surprises everyone and accepts. In a scene straight out The Graduate, Grandpa crashes the wedding just before Mrs. Bouvier becomes Mrs. Burns and whisks her away and onto a bus where they awkwardly face their future together.
First Aired: 1994-05-12 Email -
Episode 20
The Boy Who Knew Too Much
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In a case ripped right out of the headlines, Bart is the only witness when Mayor Quimby's ne'er-do-well nephew, Freddy, allegedly assaults a snooty French butler. Hiding under a table in the kitchen of the Quimby Compound, Bart can plainly see that Freddy didn't harm a single hair on the butler's head. When the case goes to trial and Freddy is sure to be sized-up for a holding cell, the only thing preventing Bart from coming forward and clearing him is the fact that he'll have to admit that he was cutting school that day and receive a stiff detention sentence. As luck would have it, Homer is sitting on the Quimby trial jury and causes a delay of the proceedings because he enjoys being sequestered in a hotel. After Lisa's urging, Bart comes forward and clears Freddy. And as a reward for his honesty, Bart only has to serve four months in detention.
First Aired: 1994-05-05 Email -
Episode 19
Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss So...
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Principal Skinner must learn to live without his beloved elementary school when Bart gets him fired. Ned Flanders is brought in to act as principal in Skinner's place. Coping with life outside of the locker-lined halls isn't easy for Skinner, but when he befriends his one-time nemesis, Bart, things start to look up. Years of hostility between the two give way to friendship and Bart eventually comes up with a plot to get Flanders fired and Skinner reinstated. The plot backfires, but Flanders ends up getting fired anyway for using the school PA system to make a prayer.
First Aired: 1994-04-28 Email -
Episode 18
Burns' Heir
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Well into his eighth or ninth decade, Monty Burns realizes that he has no children and therefore no heir for his vast fortune. After an audition process in which every child in Springfield vies for the coveted position as Burns' kid, Bart is selected for his attitude and scrappiness. Taking the boy under his wing, Burns tries to turn Bart into the son he never had. When he returns home to his boring old family, Bart resents them for not being rich and overly indulgent like Burns. Torn between loyalty to Homer and Marge and hunger for all the toys and money Burns throws at him, Bart must decide which family he wants to keep. When Mr. Burns insists that Bart fire his own father as an act of loyalty, Bart rebels and fires Burns instead.
First Aired: 1994-04-14 Email -
Episode 17
Bart Gets an Elephant
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Bart wins first prize in a wacky radio contest and becomes the proud owner of a giant elephant he names Stampy. Stampy, as you might imagine, turns out to be quite a handful for the Simpson family, but Bart loves his new pet more than anything. Homer, on the other hand, finds Stampy's upkeep too expensive and sells the elephant to an ivory dealer. Bart intervenes and sets Stampy free to go on a destructive rampage through Springfield. Eventually, Stampy finds a nice home at an animal refuge.
First Aired: 1994-03-31 Email -
Episode 16
Homer Loves Flanders
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When Homer discovers that Ned Flanders has season football tickets, the two men begin spending a lot of time together. Homer takes a real liking to Ned, but Ned isn't so sure how he feels about his new best friend. When the Simpsons and the Flanders go on a joint camping trip, Ned's animosity for Homer grows until he finally realizes that he hates his neighbor. Ned tries to shake Homer at every turn, finally blowing up at him at the Springfield Community Church. When the entire congregation looks down on Ned for his outburst, Homer defends him and the two decide to remain friends. That is, until Homer remembers that he hates Ned and everything goes back to normal .
First Aired: 1994-03-17 Email -
Episode 15
Deep Space Homer
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Homer and Barney are recruited to be NASA astronauts, so the organization will be more appealing to the common man. It looks like Barney will actually be the one shot into space, but when he falls off the wagon, Homer goes instead. In the space capsule, Homer causes all forms of accidents and conflicts with other astronauts like Buzz Aldrin, until he actually endangers the lives of everyone by breaking the handle off of an outer door. The only thing that can save the day is a heroic inanimate carbon rod.
First Aired: 1994-02-24 Email -
Episode 14
Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy
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After years of loving her Malibu Stacy doll, it begins to dawn on Lisa that her favorite toy sets a bad example for little girls. Lisa tracks down Stacy Lovell, the original creator of the Malibu Stacy doll, and together they design and market a positive, pro-girl doll named Lisa Lionheart. The toy is almost a breakout success, but the sneaky corporate henchmen and women behind Malibu Stacy quickly create a new Malibu Stacy that knocks Lisa Lionheart out of commission.
First Aired: 1994-02-17 Email -
Episode 13
Homer and Apu
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After Homer eats tainted meat from the Kwik-E-Mart, Apu finds himself out of a job. As an apology to Homer, Apu moves in with the Simpsons and becomes their personal chef and valet. Meanwhile, actor James Woods becomes the new clerk at the Kwik-E-Mart. Apu begins to realize that he is not happy without his store, so he decides to go on a trek to the world's first Kwik-E-Mart, high up in the hills of India. Homer comes along for the ride, but foils Apu's chance at Kwik-E-Enlightenment and Apu returns to Springfield more depressed than ever. The only thing that lightens his spirits--and gets him his job back--is saving James Woods' life during a failed robbery at the Kwik-E-Mart.
First Aired: 1994-02-10 Email -
Episode 12
Bart Gets Famous
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While working as Krusty the Clown's personal assistant, Bart accidentally steals the limelight when he knocks over a set on live TV and says four magic words: "I didn't do it." Bart becomes more famous than anyone, especially Krusty, could have ever expected, landing his own TV series, cutting a record, appearing on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and on T-shirts from Springfield to Shelbyville. Bart's fame comes to an end when his fans turn fickle and realize that "I didn't do it" isn't such a funny catchphrase after all.
First Aired: 1994-02-03 Email -
Episode 11
Homer the Vigilante
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A cunning cat burglar named Molloy is robbing Springfield's citizens of their most prized possessions. Homer forms a citizens' watch group that winds up breaking more laws than they protect. Molloy continues his crime spree uninterrupted, but when he sets his sites on the world's biggest cubic zirconia housed in the Springfield Museum, he winds up getting busted and returns everything he stole.
First Aired: 1994-01-06 Email -
Episode 10
$pringfield
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When gambling is legalized in Springfield, Mr. Burns opens an extravagant casino on the boardwalk. Homer is hired as a blackjack dealer despite his counting difficulties and Marge finds herself drawn to the slots, where she begins to spend all of her time. Meanwhile, cashing in on the trend, Bart opens his own casino in his treehouse. Luckily, Bart escapes the same fate as Mr. Burns, who starts to go crazy from owning a casino. Shut up in his sterile penthouse suite, Burns stop cutting his nails and hair and starts wearing tissue boxes as slippers. Down on the casino level, Homer must force Marge to give up her slot machine addiction.
First Aired: 1993-12-16 Email -
Episode 9
The Last Temptation of Homer
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Homer finds he's falling in love with Mindy Simmons, the beautiful new engineer at the plant. Things only get worse when Homer and Mindy are sent to represent the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant at the National Energy Convention in Capital City. The more time they spend together, the more Homer begins to fear that there may be more fusion at the hotel than back at the plant. Mindy tells Homer how she feels about him, and even though he's tempted by her beauty and her love for doughnuts and sandwiches, Homer stays faithful to Marge.
First Aired: 1993-12-09 Email -
Episode 8
Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood
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Experimenting with a dangerous all-syrup Squishee, Bart and Milhouse get loopy and run around Springfield singing and having adventures. Waking up with a massive Squishee hangover, Bart remembers that he enlisted in the Junior Campers, the dweebiest after-school program in the world. Bart is prepared to quit the group, but decides to stay when group leader Ned Flanders leads a lesson on using a pocketknife. Bart becomes entranced by Junior Camping, attending meetings and becoming an expert at tying knots. When it comes time for the annual Junior Campers' father and son rafting trip, Bart is too embarrassed of Homer to invite him along. Homer comes anyway, and his terrible navigation and rowing skills land Bart, Ned and Todd way up a creak with no way home. Luckily, Homer saves the day when he's able to smell out a nearby Krusty Burger franchise.
First Aired: 1993-11-18 Email -
Episode 7
Bart's Inner Child
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Homer and Marge are entranced by a charismatic self-help guru named Brad Goodman. While attending a Brad Goodman seminar with his parents, Bart is asked to appear on stage with the man himself and, as usual, misbehaves. Rather than be annoyed by Bart's sarcastic comments, Goodman uses Bart as a role model for his audience, a boy completely unafraid to listen to the squeaks and squawks of his "inner child." The people of Springfield take Goodman's words to heart, hosting a "Do What You Feel Festival." James Brown sings at the festival, but things go terribly wrong when the stage collapses because the carpenter responsible for building it didn't "feel" like making it sturdy. Soon, everyone realizes that the only person who can truly be like Bart is Bart himself and go back to repressing their inner children.
First Aired: 1993-11-11 Email -
Episode 6
Marge on the Lam
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Marge spends some time with her neighbor, Ruth Powers, and the two find that they enjoy each other's company very much. One night, Ruth picks up Marge in a cherry '66 T-Bird convertible that just happens to have been reported stolen by Ruth's ex-husband. Pursued by Chief Wiggum, Marge and Ruth take to the road, Thelma and Louise-style. Wiggum, with Homer as his passenger, tracks down the stolen vehicle, but loses it when Ruth smartly turns her headlights off. Ruth and Marge get away, but Homer and Chief Wiggum drive the squad car off a cliff. The only thing that saves them is a pile of garbage so high they barely crash at all.
First Aired: 1993-11-04 Email -
Episode 5
Treehouse of Horror IV
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In this year's tricky triptych of terror, Bart presents three Halloween treats based on paintings in the "Fright Gallery." In the first story, Homer sells his soul to the devil (played by Ned Flanders) for a doughnut. When the devil wants to uphold Homer's side of the bargain, it's up to Marge and Lisa to argue why Homer's soul shouldn't be sucked into hell for all eternity. In the second installment, Bart has a nightmare about the school bus crashing that might just be coming true the next day during his commute. Bart spies a goblin on the side of the bus that could cause a crash, but no one believes him until it may be too late. And finally, Mr. Burns invites the Simpson family over to his castle for dinner where he bites Bart, turning him into a vampire. As Bart and his newly minted vampire friends wreak havoc, Lisa enlists Homer to kill Mr. Burns, the head vampire. When Homer drives a stake through Burns' heart (after some near misses and some outright bad aim), Lisa realizes that Burns wasn't the head vampire and that there's still the mother of all bloodsuckers to dispatch.