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1 | 1 | 1 | Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpsons_Roasting_on_an_Open_Fire | While the Simpsons are Christmas shopping, Bart sneaks off and gets a tattoo. Marge soon discovers this and uses the family's Christmas savings to get it removed. Meanwhile, Homer discovers that he will not be getting a Christmas bonus from Mr. Burns and thus the family has no money to buy Christmas presents. He decide... | After attending the Springfield Elementary School Christmas pageant, the Simpsons prepare for the holiday season. Bart and Lisa write letters to Santa; Lisa asks for a pony — which Marge tries to tactfully discourage by claiming that there would not be enough room for one on Santa's sleigh — and Bart wants a tattoo, wh... |
2 | 1 | 2 | Bart the Genius | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_the_Genius | Bart has trouble on an intelligence test and sneakily switches tests with Martin Prince, the class genius. After the results are tabulated, the school psychiatrist labels Bart a genius and sends him to the Enriched Learning Center for Gifted Children. Homer starts treating Bart with respect, but Bart immediately feels ... | The Simpsons spend a night playing Scrabble and remind Bart that he should stimulate his brain by improving his vocabulary if he hopes to pass his intelligence test at school. After Bart cheats by inventing a nonsense word, kwyjibo – basing its definition on an insulting description of his father – Homer angrily chases... |
3 | 1 | 3 | Homer's Odyssey | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer%27s_Odyssey_(The_Simpsons) | Bart's class visits the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant and Homer, anxious to look like he is working, accidentally crashes his cart into a radioactive pipe, causing him to be fired. Depressed and unable to find a new job, he decides to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge. His family discover his plan and try to sto... | Mrs. Krabappel takes Bart's class on a field trip to the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. Distracted when Bart waves at him, Homer crashes an electric cart into a cooling vent and is fired. Homer searches for a new job without success. Feeling like a failure, he writes a note to his family and decides to commit suicide... |
4 | 1 | 4 | There's No Disgrace Like Home | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_No_Disgrace_Like_Home | Homer takes his family to the company picnic at Mr. Burns's manor. Marge, Bart and Lisa embarrass Homer and he notices that Mr. Burns seems to favour a family who love and respect one another. Convinced that both he and his family are pathetic, Homer takes everyone to Dr. Marvin Monroe's family therapy center. When sta... | Homer takes his family to a company picnic, where he is embarrassed by the behavior of Bart, Lisa and Marge. Mr. Burns, Homer's boss, fires any employee whose family members are not enjoying themselves. When Homer notices that Mr. Burns approves of a "normal", well-mannered family who treat one another with respect, he... |
5 | 1 | 5 | Bart the General | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_the_General | Bart runs afoul of Nelson Muntz, the school bully, who begins attacking Bart every day after school. Homer suggests fighting back, which does not work. Desperate for a solution, Bart visits Grampa for advice. Grampa takes Bart to meet Herman, who suggests that Bart rally all the school children and declare war on Nelso... | Bart gets into a fight with Nelson Muntz, the school bully, after Nelson's friends stomp on a box of cupcakes that Lisa baked for Miss Hoover's birthday party. Nelson beats up Bart after school and warns him to expect the same pummeling the next day. Marge encourages Bart to reason with Nelson, but Homer urges him to b... |
6 | 1 | 6 | Moaning Lisa | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moaning_Lisa_(The_Simpsons) | Lisa becomes depressed, which begins to affect her performance in school. Neither Marge nor Homer are able to make Lisa happier. One night, she hears distant Jazz music and sneaks out of her room to follow it. She meets Bleeding Gums Murphy, who teaches her how to express her music through the saxophone. When Marge dro... | Lisa wakes up one morning saddened. At school, she gets in trouble with her music teacher for improvising and becomes reluctant to play dodgeball in gym. At home, Homer and Bart pummel each other at video boxing, but despite Homer's attempts, he is unable to defeat Bart. Homer and Marge try to cheer Lisa up, but she is... |
7 | 1 | 7 | The Call of the Simpsons | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Call_of_the_Simpsons | Homer becomes envious of Flanders' new RV and goes to "Bob's RV Round-up" to buy one of his own. Settling on a dilapidated camper, he takes the family camping and in the process destroys the RV. Leaving Lisa and Marge behind, Bart and Homer try to find their way back to civilization, but have little luck. Later on, Hom... | Jealous of Ned Flanders' new motor home, Homer visits Bob's RV Round-up to buy one. Because of his poor credit rating, he only qualifies for a smaller, dilapidated RV, which he is conned into purchasing. Homer takes his family on an excursion, driving on remote backroads. After Homer ignores Marge's suggestion to drive... |
8 | 1 | 8 | The Telltale Head | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Telltale_Head | Bart becomes friends with Jimbo, Dolph, and Kearney, a group of local troublemakers. Trying to impress them, Bart decides to cut off and steal the head of the statue of Jebediah Springfield. The next day, the entire town grieves for the vandalized statue and Bart discovers that his new friends want to attack the vandal... | On Monday night, Homer and Bart are chased through the streets of Springfield by an angry mob while carrying the head of the statue of their town founder, Jebediah Springfield. Surrounded by the mob, Bart begins to explain the events of the previous day.
After going to church with his family, Bart is forbidden by Marg... |
9 | 1 | 9 | Life on the Fast Lane | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_the_Fast_Lane | Having forgotten about Marge's birthday, Homer rushes to the Springfield mall and impulsively buys her a bowling ball. Marge is not impressed with the gift and after discovering that he intends to use it, she decides to spite him by going bowling herself. While at the alley, she meets Jacques, a charming French bowling... | After forgetting Marge's 34th birthday, Homer rushes to the Springfield Mall, where he buys a bowling ball for himself and disguises it as her gift. Patty and Selma treat Marge to a birthday dinner at the Singing Sirloin, where Bart gives her French perfume and Lisa presents a macaroni-and-glue portrait of her mother a... |
10 | 1 | 10 | Homer's Night Out | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer%27s_Night_Out | Bart purchases a mini spy camera and manages to take a picture of Homer dancing next to stripper named Princess Kashmir at a co-worker's strip club party. He gives copies of the picture to his friends, and eventually the picture starts to circulate around until eventually Marge sees it. She kicks Homer out of the house... | Bart purchases a miniature spy camera from a mail-order catalog and uses it to take candid photos around the house. Later, Homer tells Marge he is going to a bachelor party for a co-worker, Eugene Fisk. While Homer is gone, Marge decides to take the children to a seafood restaurant where — unknown to her — the bachelor... |
11 | 1 | 11 | The Crepes of Wrath | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crepes_of_Wrath | Principal Skinner finally becomes fed up with Bart's pranks and proposes that Bart be sent to France as part of the student exchange program. The family agrees and Bart is sent to the "beautiful" Château Maison, which is actually a dilapidated farmhouse on a neglected vineyard. Bart is treated like a slave by two unscr... | After Homer trips over Bart's skateboard and falls down the stairs, he is confined to the couch for several days with an injured back. As punishment, Marge makes Bart clean his room, where he discovers an old cherry bomb. At school the next day, he flushes it down a toilet in the boys' restroom while Principal Skinner'... |
12 | 1 | 12 | Krusty Gets Busted | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krusty_Gets_Busted | While buying ice cream at the Kwik-E-Mart, Homer witnesses a robbery perpetrated by a man believed to be Krusty the Clown, host of The Krusty the Clown Show, Bart's favorite program. Krusty is sent to jail and his show is taken over by his assistant, Sideshow Bob. Bart is certain Krusty is innocent, and gathers evidenc... | Marge asks Homer to pick up ice cream from the Kwik-E-Mart on the way home from work; Homer obliges, and at the Kwik-E-Mart, he sees a man resembling Krusty the Clown committing a robbery. After Homer identifies Krusty in a police lineup, the latter is arrested and convicted, much to the grief of Bart. Taking advantage... |
13 | 1 | 13 | Some Enchanted Evening | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_Enchanted_Evening_(The_Simpsons) | Marge, feeling unappreciated by Homer, calls in to Dr. Monroe's radio show, which Homer overhears at work. Homer, wanting to make it up to Marge, decides to take her to dinner at a fancy restaurant and hires a babysitter to take care of Bart and Lisa. They are sent Ms. Botz, who Bart and Lisa soon discover is actually ... | Marge is depressed that Homer takes her for granted, and phones Dr. Marvin Monroe's call-in therapy radio slot. Listening to the call at work, Homer feels bad when Marge reveals his name on the radio. After work, he visits Moe's Tavern, where Moe advises him to give Marge a rose and a box of chocolates. Marge's mood so... |
14 | 2 | 1 | Bart Gets an 'F | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Gets_an_%22F%22 | Bart fails a test and is told he has one more chance to pass it or else he will be held back a year. Bart tries to get the class genius Martin Prince to help him, but after that fails, Bart prays for help. That night, Springfield is hit with a massive blizzard and the school is closed, giving Bart one more day to study... | At Springfield Elementary School, Bart presents a book report on Treasure Island, but it soon becomes obvious that he has not actually read the book. Mrs. Krabappel tells him to stay after class. As a punishment for not doing the assignment, Mrs. Krabappel makes Bart write “I will not fake my way through life” on the c... |
15 | 2 | 2 | Simpson and Delilah | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson_and_Delilah | Homer discovers a new miracle hair growth formula called Dimoxinil and cheats on some insurance forms so he can buy some. Homer grows hair overnight and is soon given a promotion at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. He gets a new secretary named Karl, who helps him become successful. However, Mr. Burns' assistant Wa... | Homer uses Springfield Nuclear Power Plant's medical insurance plan to pay for a hair restoring drug worth $1,000, although the plan doesn't actually cover the Dimoxinil treatment, because he's sick of being laughed at and overlooked because of his baldness. After applying the drug, he wakes up the next day with a full... |
16 | 2 | 3 | Treehouse of Horror | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treehouse_of_Horror_(The_Simpsons_episode) | In a Halloween anthology episode, Bart and Lisa tell scary stories.
"Bad Dream House": Bart tells a story where the Simpsons move into a haunted house built on a Native American burial ground. After the house is told off by Marge, it chooses to destroy itself rather than live with the Simpsons.
"Hungry Are the Damned"... | On Halloween, Bart and Lisa sit in the treehouse and tell scary stories. Homer, who had just come home from trick or treating, eavesdrops on them.
In "Bad Dream House", Bart tells a story where the Simpsons move into an eighteen bedroom house they got a good deal on. The walls of the cursed house begin to bleed and ob... |
17 | 2 | 4 | Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Cars_in_Every_Garage_and_Three_Eyes_on_Every_Fish | After Bart catches a three-eyed fish in a river downstream of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, the Plant is inspected and found to have 342 violations, which would cost $56 million to rectify. In order to prevent his Plant from being shut down, Mr. Burns decides to run for Governor. After a hard campaign which sees... | Bart and Lisa go fishing downstream of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. Springfield Shopper reporter Dave Shutton arrives just as Bart catches a three-eyed fish. After the fish, nicknamed Blinky by the media, makes headlines, the incumbent governor Mary Bailey sends a government inspection team to the plant, suspec... |
18 | 2 | 5 | Dancin' Homer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancin%27_Homer | Homer fires up the crowd at a Springfield Isotopes game and is chosen to be the team's new mascot. He immediately becomes a popular attraction and the Isotopes start a winning streak. As a result, Homer is promoted to the team in Capital City. The Simpsons move to Capital City, but Homer fails to enthrall the crowd, an... | One night while drinking beer at Moe's Tavern, Homer tells the story of his big break. The Simpsons attend a home game of the Springfield Isotopes, the town's minor league baseball team, as part of an outing sponsored by the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. Homer fears that his chance to have any fun at the game are ru... |
19 | 2 | 6 | Dead Putting Society | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Putting_Society | Ned Flanders invites Homer to his house for a beer. Homer, seeing how nice Ned's house is, becomes jealous, causing Flanders to angrily ask him to leave. Flanders immediately regrets his outburst and tries to make up with Homer, who remains defiant. One day while mini golfing, Bart and Flanders' son Todd decide to ente... | Watching Homer mow his lawn with frustration, Ned invites him to Ned's basement rec room for a beer. When Homer sees Ned's well-furnished house and his perfect relationship with his family, he angrily accuses Ned of showing off and is asked to leave. Later Ned feels guilty about his outburst and writes a letter of apol... |
20 | 2 | 7 | Bart vs. Thanksgiving | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_vs._Thanksgiving | When he is blamed for ruining Thanksgiving, Bart runs away and finds a soup kitchen and some homeless men. Eventually, Bart returns home, intending to apologize but has last minute thoughts and climbs to the roof of The Simpsons house where he hears Lisa sobbing. He apologizes to her, and the family happily enjoys a me... | Lisa makes a cornucopia for the Thanksgiving dinner table. Patty and Selma arrive, ignoring Marge's instructions to not bring their own food. Homer picks up Grampa from the retirement home. Marge, Patty, and Selma's mother Jacqueline Bouvier arrives and tells Marge she never does anything right.
Once they are assemble... |
21 | 2 | 8 | Bart the Daredevil | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_the_Daredevil | The Simpsons go to a monster truck rally that features famous daredevil Lance Murdock. Bart immediately becomes enamored and decides he wants to become a daredevil too. Bart's first stunt ends in injury and despite the family and Dr. Hibbert's best efforts, he continues to attempt stunts. Bart decides to jump the Sprin... | The Simpsons attend a monster truck rally featuring Truckasaurus, a giant robotic dinosaur that crushes their car when they accidentally drive into the arena. The rally's grand finale features a death-defying stunt by legendary daredevil Lance Murdock. The stunt leaves Murdock badly injured and hospitalized, but it ins... |
22 | 2 | 9 | Itchy & Scratchy & Marge | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itchy_%26_Scratchy_%26_Marge | Maggie attacks Homer with a mallet, and Marge immediately blames The Itchy & Scratchy Show for turning her violent. Marge forms S.N.U.H. (Springfieldians for Nonviolence, Understanding, and Helping) and campaigns against the show. Eventually she successfully gets the writers to change their ways and make the show less ... | Homer clumsily attempts to build a spice rack for Marge, when Maggie hits him on the head with a mallet. Marge is puzzled by Maggie's behavior until she realizes that Maggie is imitating the violence on The Itchy & Scratchy Show. Marge forbids Bart and Lisa from watching the show, but they continue to do so at their fr... |
23 | 2 | 10 | Bart Gets Hit by a Car | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Gets_Hit_by_a_Car | One day, Bart is skateboarding when he is suddenly hit by Mr. Burns's car. An attorney named Lionel Hutz suggests that the Simpsons sue Burns, promising a big cash settlement. Homer agrees, and he and Hutz spend time fabricating Bart's story, taking him to see Dr. Nick Riviera, who has dubious credentials. Marge oppose... | While crossing the road on his skateboard, Bart is struck by Mr. Burns' car and hospitalized. When Bart wakes up, the attorney Lionel Hutz suggests that the Simpsons sue Burns. Marge disagrees since according to Dr. Hibbert, the family's physician, Bart's injuries are minor. After Burns offers Homer a measly $100 - whi... |
24 | 2 | 11 | One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Fish,_Two_Fish,_Blowfish,_Blue_Fish | The Simpsons go to a new sushi bar, where Homer takes a liking to the food and decides to try fugu, which is poisonous if not cut properly. Homer's fugu is not, and he is taken to the hospital where he is told he has 22 hours to live. Homer makes a list of things he wants to do, and spends his last day making amends wi... | At a sushi bar, Homer orders sushi made from fugu, a deadly venomous pufferfish. While the master chef is making out with Edna Krabappel behind the restaurant, it falls to an apprentice to prepare the fish and remove its toxic organs. After Homer swallows the sushi, the waiter Akira warns him he may have been poisoned.... |
25 | 2 | 12 | The Way We Was | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_We_Was | In the first Simpsons flashback episode, Marge tells the story of how she and Homer met in high school in 1974. Marge and Homer meet for the first time during detention and he immediately tries to get Marge to be his date for the prom. She initially agrees, but ends up attending with Artie Ziff. In the end, Marge regre... | When the Simpsons' television set breaks, Marge tells her children how she and Homer met in a flashback. Marge and Homer were both high school seniors in 1974. Homer and his close friend Barney earned detention for smoking in the boys' restroom. Unlike Homer, Marge was studious, but she was also sent to detention for b... |
26 | 2 | 13 | Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_vs._Lisa_and_the_8th_Commandment | Homer gets an illegal cable hook up. Despite their enjoyment of the new channels, Lisa becomes suspicious that they are stealing cable. Her suspicions are confirmed by Reverend Lovejoy and Lisa protests by no longer watching television. Meanwhile, Homer invites his friends over to watch a boxing match, but Lisa's prote... | After seeing Ned Flanders reject an offer from a crooked cable man for a $50 illegal cable hookup, Homer chases after the cable man and takes the offer. The Simpsons like the new channels and spend hours watching them. However, Lisa is suspicious about the cable hookup, and after a Sunday school lesson about the existe... |
27 | 2 | 14 | Principal Charming | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_Charming | Selma begs Marge to help her find a husband and she enlists Homer's help. Meanwhile, Bart gets in trouble at school and Homer is brought in to talk to Principal Skinner, who he decides would be perfect for Selma. Homer invites Skinner to dinner, but he falls in love with Patty instead of Selma. Patty and Skinner start ... | After attending the wedding of a coworker, Selma begs her sister Marge to help her find a husband. Marge asks Homer to help find a husband for Selma, but he struggles to find anyone suitable. When Bart is caught spelling his name on the school's lawn by killing the grass with a herbicide, Principal Skinner summons Home... |
28 | 2 | 15 | Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_Brother,_Where_Art_Thou%3F | Grampa confesses that Homer has a half-brother, and Homer immediately tries to track him down. Homer eventually discovers that his half-brother is Herb Powell, the head of a car manufacturer in Detroit. Herb immediately starts to bond with Bart and Lisa and he invites Homer to design his own car. Homer's car design is ... | Grampa suffers a mild heart attack while arguing with a cinema clerk. Realizing he may not have much time left, he confesses a long-hidden secret: Homer has a half-brother. Before Grampa married Homer's mother, he and a carnival prostitute had a son whom they left at the Shelbyville Orphanage. Determined to find his br... |
29 | 2 | 16 | Bart's Dog Gets an 'F | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart%27s_Dog_Gets_an_%22F%22 | Homer becomes fed up with Santa's Little Helper, who continually destroys things. He says he will get rid of him unless he goes to an obedience school. Bart, Lisa and Maggie have grown to love the dog and promise to train him. Santa's Little Helper does poorly there, as Bart is unwilling to use a choke chain. The night... | Lisa is home from school with the mumps, so Marge teaches her to sew. While Homer is at the mall buying magazines for Lisa, he splurges on a $125 pair of Assassins athletic shoes after seeing Ned sporting them. Santa's Little Helper promptly destroys Homer's Assassins. Marge shows Lisa a patchwork quilt, a family heirl... |
30 | 2 | 17 | Old Money | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Money_(The_Simpsons) | Grampa falls in love with a wealthy woman named Bea Simmons. On Bea's birthday, Grampa tries to celebrate it, but he is dragged away by Homer. Bea dies that night and Grampa blames Homer for causing him to have missed her last moments. After the funeral, Grampa receives her fortune of $106,000. Bea's ghost appears and ... | Grampa falls in love with Beatrice "Bea" Simmons, a new resident at the Springfield Retirement Castle. Homer insists Grampa join the rest of the Simpsons at a cheap lion safari for their "fun day with Grampa" and ignores Grampa's protests that he is getting ready for Bea's birthday, dismissing her as a figment of Gramp... |
31 | 2 | 18 | Brush with Greatness | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brush_with_Greatness | After finding some old paintings she did of Ringo Starr, Marge decides to take an art class at Springfield Community College. There, she becomes the top student and wins the college art show. Meanwhile, Mr. Burns needs a painting for the Burns Wing of the Springfield Art Museum, and asks Marge to paint him. At first, s... | The Simpsons go to the Mount Splashmore water park. The park's rescue crew is forced to close the water slide ride after Homer is stuck inside. The crew remove the blocked section of pipe using a large crane, with Homer still stuck inside. That night, the news media poke fun at Homer's massive size during their coverag... |
32 | 2 | 19 | Lisa's Substitute | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%27s_Substitute | When Miss Hoover falls ill with a suspected case of Lyme disease, she is replaced by substitute teacher Mr. Bergstrom. Because of his unorthodox teaching methods, Lisa quickly takes a liking to him. Just as Lisa is about to ask Mr. Bergstrom over to her parents' house for dinner, Miss Hoover returns. Meanwhile, Bart ru... | Lisa's teacher, Miss Hoover, announces to her class that she has Lyme disease, and is taking a leave of absence. She is soon replaced by a substitute teacher, Mr. Bergstrom. When Mr. Bergstrom shows up for his first day teaching Lisa's class, he is dressed as a cowboy and pretends he is in Texas in 1830, and asks the s... |
33 | 2 | 20 | The War of the Simpsons | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Simpsons | After Homer gets drunk at a party, Marge decides to sign them up for a marriage counseling retreat. Homer finds out the retreat will be held at Catfish Lake and packs his fishing equipment, despite Marge's telling him that all they will be doing is resolving their differences. At the lake the next morning, Homer tries ... | During a party at the Simpsons' house, Homer humiliates himself by getting drunk, insulting guests, and leering at Maude Flanders' cleavage. At church the next day, Marge signs up for marriage counseling at a weekend retreat hosted by Reverend Lovejoy and his wife Helen. When Homer learns the retreat will be held at Ca... |
34 | 2 | 21 | Three Men and a Comic Book | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Men_and_a_Comic_Book | Bart, Milhouse and Martin Prince pool their money together to buy the first Radioactive Man comic from Comic Book Guy. They discover that they are unable to share the comic and due to their mistrust of each other, end up destroying it. | While attending a comic book convention dressed as his superhero alter ego Bartman, Bart finds the first issue of Radioactive Man selling for $100 at Comic Book Guy's Android's Dungeon. Since he does not have enough money to buy it, he decides to get a job. Bart performs back-breaking labor for Mrs. Glick, who gives hi... |
35 | 2 | 22 | Blood Feud | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Feud_(The_Simpsons) | After Mr. Burns falls ill and desperately needs a blood transfusion, Homer discovers Bart has Burns's rare blood type. Homer urges his son to donate, promising that they will be handsomely rewarded. Having received the blood, however, all Burns does is send the family a card. Enraged, Homer writes an insulting reply, b... | Mr. Burns falls ill with a life-threatening condition called hypohemia — in which the body fails to produce enough blood — and needs a blood transfusion. Burns' search for a donor finds that none of the employees at Springfield Nuclear Power Plant share his rare blood type, double O negative. Some even laugh about Burn... |
36 | 3 | 1 | Stark Raving Dad | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark_Raving_Dad | Homer's sanity is called into question when he arrives at work wearing a pink shirt. After Bart takes Homer's mental stability test for him, Homer is committed to a mental hospital where he meets a big, hulking bald man who says his name is Michael Jackson. Meanwhile, Lisa is depressed over her upcoming eighth birthday... | Lisa reminds Bart that he forgets her birthday every year, so he promises to get her a present for her eighth birthday. Meanwhile, Homer panics after seeing that all his white work shirts are dyed pink after Bart tossed his "lucky" red hat into the laundry. Homer is forced to wear a pink shirt to work, where Mr. Burns ... |
37 | 3 | 2 | Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Lisa_Goes_to_Washington | While reading a copy of Reading Digest, Homer finds an entry form for an essay contest for which Lisa signs up. When she wins the contest, she and the family travel to Washington, D.C. where the finals are to be held. Here, Lisa bears witness to the seedy underbelly of politics and becomes bitterly disappointed after l... | Homer sees an ad for a children's essay contest in the Reading Digest magazine. Lisa submits an essay on the contest's topic – "what makes America great" – after visiting Springfield Forest and seeing a bald eagle land nearby. The Simpsons travel to Washington, D.C. after Lisa's essay, "The Roots of Democracy", earns h... |
38 | 3 | 3 | When Flanders Failed | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Flanders_Failed | Homer makes a wish for Ned Flanders to be a financial failure. The wish comes to life when Flanders's store catering to left-handed people goes out of business, causing the Flanders family to end up financially in trouble. When finding out that Ned's house is to be repossessed, Homer feels guilty and decides to help by... | Ned Flanders invites the Simpson family to a barbecue where he announces plans to quit the pharmaceutical business and open the Leftorium, a store for left-handed people. While pulling a wishbone with Ned, Homer—jealous of Ned's material success—wishes for the Leftorium to fail and go out of business. Undeterred after ... |
39 | 3 | 4 | Bart the Murderer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_the_Murderer | After suffering from bad luck, Bart stumbles upon the "Legitimate Businessman's Social Club" Mafia bar where the leader, Fat Tony, hires him to work as their permanent bartender. However, when Principal Skinner ends up missing for nearly a week, Bart is immediately blamed for murdering him, causing Bart to get sent to ... | After forgetting a permission slip, Bart misses out out on a field trip to the chocolate factory and spends the day licking envelopes with Principal Skinner. On the way home, he loses control of his skateboard during a downpour and crashes down the stairwell of the Legitimate Businessman's Social Club, owned by the Sp... |
40 | 3 | 5 | Homer Defined | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Defined | Homer accidentally saves the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant and is ashamed when people mistake him for a hero. When another impending meltdown threatens the Shelbyville plant, he is asked to perform his heroic deeds once again. He is lucky again, but this time he is derided as a lucky imbecile, even more so than he wa... | While eating donuts at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, Homer splatters jelly on the nuclear reactor core's temperature dial. The donut filling obscures the panel and the plant approaches a nuclear meltdown. Unable to remember his safety training (because he was playing with a Rubik's cube at the time), Homer choos... |
41 | 3 | 6 | Like Father, Like Clown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like_Father,_Like_Clown | When Krusty comes over to the Simpsons' house for dinner, he reveals to them that he is of Jewish heritage, and that his father, Rabbi Krustofski kicked him out for pursuing a career in comedy, and not a successful career as a rabbi. Krusty starts to fall apart and Bart and Lisa decide to contact the rabbi and convince... | Krusty had agreed to have dinner with the Simpsons to repay Bart for helping exonerate him for charges of armed robbery.[a] When he keeps canceling, an upset Bart writes him a letter saying he has lost faith in Krusty. Krusty's secretary, Lois Pennycandy, is so moved by the letter that she threatens to quit if Krusty d... |
42 | 3 | 7 | Treehouse of Horror II | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treehouse_of_Horror_II | When Homer, Bart, and Lisa eat a ton of candy, the three begin having various nightmares.
In Lisa's nightmare ("The Monkey's Paw"), the Simpsons visit Morocco and find a monkey's paw that makes all their wishes come true – with dire consequences. Homer eventually gives the paw to Ned, who improves his home.
In Bart's ... | After eating too much Halloween candy, Homer, Lisa and Bart have nightmares.
In Lisa's nightmare, Homer buys a cursed monkey's paw that will grant its owner four wishes. While he, Bart and Lisa argue, Marge pleads with them to heed the vendor's warning and not use it at all. Despite this, Maggie is granted the first w... |
43 | 3 | 8 | Lisa's Pony | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%27s_Pony | When Lisa requires a new saxophone reed for her talent recital, she asks Homer, who immediately promises to buy her one. Although Homer breaks his promise, he makes up for it by giving Lisa the one thing she had always wanted, a pony named Princess. With a new pony in the house, Homer struggles with two jobs to cover t... | Lisa needs a new saxophone reed for the school talent show. Homer agrees to buy her one but visits Moe's Tavern first. When he arrives at the music shop next door, it has closed for the night. Dejected, Homer returns to the bar, where he finds the shop's owner. Moe convinces him to re-open his store, but when Homer rea... |
44 | 3 | 9 | Saturdays of Thunder | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturdays_of_Thunder | After taking a fatherhood quiz, Homer realizes that he knows nothing about Bart, and in the result, strives to be a better father after learning that Bart is one of the racers in the Soapbox Derby. Their entry is not very good, so Bart decides to drive Martin Prince's much nicer racer. Homer is at first devastated, but... | Marge makes Homer take a fatherhood quiz and discovers he knows next to nothing about his son. After a pep talk at the National Fatherhood Institute, Homer offers to help Bart build his own Soap Box Derby racer. At the qualifying race, Bart and Martin Prince form an alliance vowing to beat bully Nelson and his intimida... |
45 | 3 | 10 | Flaming Moe's | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming_Moe%27s | One night at Moe's Tavern, Homer tells Moe Szyslak of a secret alcoholic cocktail made with cough syrup and fire that he calls "Flaming Homer". When Moe tries Homer's recipe in the bar, he finds it boosts his business and patronage, so Moe steals the recipe from Homer. Later, Moe is about to sell the recipe for $1 mill... | To avoid Lisa and her friends' disruptive sleepover, Homer visits Moe's Tavern, where he learns Moe is struggling financially as "Increased job satisfaction and family togetherness are poison for purveyors of mind numbing intoxicants like myself." Homer tells him about the Flaming Homer, a drink recipe he invented when... |
46 | 3 | 11 | Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burns_Verkaufen_der_Kraftwerk | The stock in the Nuclear Plant skyrockets amid rumors of a takeover meaning that all the workers get rich, except for Homer who has sold his stockholding for a mere $25 and fears that he will lose his job. The rumors prove true as two German businessmen buy the plant from Mr. Burns for $100 million and fire Homer for i... | The employees of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant become wealthy after selling their company stock, except for Homer, who sold his shares prematurely to a shady stockbroker and only netted $25. Meanwhile, two German businessmen named Hans and Fritz visit Springfield, wanting to approach Mr. Burns about buying the po... |
47 | 3 | 12 | I Married Marge | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Married_Marge | After worrying that she may yet again be pregnant, Marge drives to Dr. Hibbert's office. While anxiously waiting, Homer begins to tell Bart, Lisa, and Maggie about how he and Marge got married at a quickie wedding chapel, and how he attempted to prove to Marge's sisters that he can provide for their upcoming child. | Marge worries she may be pregnant again after a home pregnancy test is inconclusive, so she drives to Dr. Hibbert's office to take another test. While Marge is gone, Homer tells Bart, Lisa, and Maggie the story of their marriage and Bart's birth.
In 1980, Homer is working at a minigolf course while dating Marge. At th... |
48 | 3 | 13 | Radio Bart | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Bart | When Bart's birthday party turns into a disaster, he uses a radio transmitter microphone Homer gave him to play pranks on other citizens. He decides to throw a radio down an old well and tricks the town into thinking a little boy is stuck in it. At first he is successful, but Lisa reminds him that he left a "property o... | Homer sees a television commercial for the Superstar Celebrity Microphone — which can broadcast anyone's voice over AM radio — and impulsively buys one for Bart's birthday. At his party, Bart is crestfallen when he receives gifts such as a cactus, a label maker, and a new suit. At first, Bart dislikes the microphone, b... |
49 | 3 | 14 | Lisa the Greek | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_the_Greek | Homer begins to bond with Lisa after learning her unique and convenient ability to pick winning American football teams. However, Homer secretly takes advantage of Lisa's ability, using it to gamble money off Moe. When Homer selfishly chooses going bowling with Barney instead of going on a mountain hike with Lisa, Lisa... | When Lisa complains to Marge that Homer does not share her interests, Marge suggests doing something he likes, so Lisa watches a televised football game with him. After being cheated by a premium rate betting advice hotline, a desperate Homer asks Lisa to pick a winner. She picks the Miami Dolphins, so Homer calls Moe'... |
50 | 3 | 15 | Homer Alone | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Alone | The family's dependence on Marge causes her to suffer a nervous breakdown during her early morning errands, and she decides to go to a spa resort to calm down. Homer, meanwhile, has to care for the troublesome Maggie while Bart and Lisa spend their time with their spinster aunts, Patty and Selma. The entire family real... | Stressed from doing household chores and running errands for her family, Marge hears DJs Bill and Marty make a cruel prank call during their radio show. She suddenly snaps when Maggie accidentally breaks her baby bottle, splattering milk everywhere, and blocks traffic by parking her car across both lanes of a bridge. W... |
51 | 3 | 16 | Bart the Lover | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_the_Lover | When a yo-yo craze sweeps over Springfield Elementary School, Bart's errant yo-yo happens to break a fish tank, killing the class goldfish. Edna Krabappel sentences Bart to a month of detention. Bart decides to write phony love letters to her under the guise of a man who responded to her personal ad. Meanwhile, Homer t... | Springfield Elementary School teacher Edna Krabappel, feeling increasingly lonely and isolated due to the lack of a male presence in her life, places a personal ad in the newspaper. Meanwhile, a yo-yo craze hits the school after a troupe of performers demonstrates the potential of the toy. Bart breaks the classroom's f... |
52 | 3 | 17 | Homer at the Bat | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_at_the_Bat | The Springfield Nuclear Power Plant softball team proves to be a huge success with Homer as their official star player. But after Mr. Burns makes a bet with Shelbyville Nuclear Power Plant owner Aristotle Amadopolis, he hires nine professional baseball players to fill out the team. However, eight of those ringers fall ... | Workers at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant are reluctant to join the plant's softball team due to its previous unsuccessful year, but eagerly do so when Homer mentions he has a secret weapon, which turns out to be his "Wonder Bat", a lucky bat he made from a fallen tree branch struck by lightning. They enjoy an und... |
53 | 3 | 18 | Separate Vocations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separate_Vocations | The school makes the students take an aptitude test, and it ends up suggesting Bart become a policeman and Lisa become a homemaker instead of a professional jazz musician. While Lisa becomes a troublemaker, Bart improves his grades and behavior and is chosen to be Principal Skinner's newest hall monitor. | The students at Springfield Elementary School are assigned to take the Career Aptitude Normalizing Test (CANT). The test has been designed to tell each student which career they will be best suited for in adult life.
After the test results come back, Lisa's test says she would be best suited for homemaking. Heartbroke... |
54 | 3 | 19 | Dog of Death | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_of_Death | Santa's Little Helper falls ill and the family must make budget cuts in order to pay for his operation. Although his own life is saved, the family begins getting angry with him for losing out on their favorite things so he runs away. Santa's Little Helper ends up in the possession of Mr. Burns, who trains him to become... | The Simpson family rushes Santa's Little Helper to the animal hospital, where they learn that he has a twisted stomach and needs a $750 operation. Homer tells Bart and Lisa that the family cannot afford the operation, but after seeing how much they love the dog, decides he will find a way to pay for it.
To save money ... |
55 | 3 | 20 | Colonel Homer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Homer | After his behavior at the movie theater embarrasses Marge, she and Homer have a large argument, causing him to head to a redneck bar where he meets a beautiful barmaid named Lurleen Lumpkin with a talent for singing. Homer becomes her manager and does everything he can to make Lurleen famous, but it takes a very long t... | The Simpsons visit the local multiplex. After Homer makes distracting sounds and loudly reveals the film's ending to the audience, Marge berates him and the other patrons heckle and pelt him with refreshments. Marge tries to apologize on the way home, but Homer informs her: "Marge, I have always carried myself with a c... |
56 | 3 | 21 | Black Widower | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Widower | Selma reveals that she has a new boyfriend that she met through the prison pen-pal program, Sideshow Bob. Bart is immediately suspicious of Bob, but Bob does everything he can to romance Selma and prove he's changed. After Selma and Bob are married, Bob reveals that he plans to kill Selma, but he is stopped by Bart. | The Simpsons have dinner with Selma and her new boyfriend Sideshow Bob. Bob's presence frightens Bart and Lisa. During dinner, Bob reveals that while he was in prison, he began building up hatred and the desire to kill Bart for exposing his crime of framing Krusty the Clown[N 1] and started plotting revenge. However, a... |
57 | 3 | 22 | The Otto Show | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Otto_Show | Otto crashes the school bus, and it is later discovered that he never actually owned a real driver's license, prompting the authorities to fire him. Otto then moves in with the Simpsons after he has been evicted, and attempts to teach Bart to learn to play the guitar, though with difficulty. But it's the way he enrages... | Bart and Milhouse attend a Spın̈al Tap concert, but the poor condition of the arena leads Spın̈al Tap to angrily end their concert after only 20 minutes. A riot breaks out.
Bart decides he wants to become a rock guitarist, so Homer and Marge buy him an electric guitar, but he struggles to learn how to play it. On the ... |
58 | 3 | 23 | Bart's Friend Falls in Love | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart%27s_Friend_Falls_in_Love | Milhouse falls in love with the new girl, Samantha Stankey, jeopardizing Bart and Milhouse's friendship. Bart eventually calls Samantha's father and lets him know what is happening. Her father takes her away, which leads to Bart and Millhouse having a fight. Meanwhile, Homer orders a subliminal cassette tape to help hi... | While riding the bus to school, Milhouse shows Bart his new fortune-telling toy, a Magic 8 ball. Bart asks the ball whether he and Milhouse will still be friends by the end of the day; the ball predicts they will not. A new girl from Phoenix, Samantha Stanky, arrives at Springfield Elementary School the same day, and M... |
59 | 3 | 24 | Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes? | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother,_Can_You_Spare_Two_Dimes%3F | When the radiation from the Nuclear Power Plant causes Homer to become infertile, he is awarded a complete $2,000 compensation. Meanwhile, Homer's half-brother, Herb, now living on the streets, returns with a plan on how to regain his name, wealth, and life back and reluctantly turns to Homer for help. Herb asks for Ho... | A routine physical exam at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant reveals that Homer is sterile after being exposed to radiation. Fearing a lawsuit, Mr. Burns gives $2,000 prize in exchange for signing a legal waiver freeing the plant of all liability. Homer is suspicious; Burns hastily explains that he is awarding Homer ... |
60 | 4 | 1 | Kamp Krusty | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamp_Krusty | Bart and Lisa go to Kamp Krusty for the summer in order to have a break from their parents and meet Krusty the Clown. However, their promises of a fun summer at Kamp Krusty are broken when the director of the camp, Mr. Black, is revealed to be a ferocious accountant and that the camp counselors are the three teenage bu... | Bart and Lisa attend the summer camp Kamp Krusty, leaving Homer and Marge to have some time alone for the summer. The camp's director, Mr. Black, has licensed the camp's name from Krusty the Clown. However, the camp turns out to be a dystopia; as Lisa explains in a letter to her parents, "Our nature hikes have become g... |
61 | 4 | 2 | A Streetcar Named Marge | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Streetcar_Named_Marge | Marge is cast in a musical production of A Streetcar Named Desire as Blanche DuBois after the play director sees Marge's deep-seated depression when dealing with an uncaring Homer. She struggles with a scene where she has to shove a glass bottle into the brutish Stanley Kowalski (who is played by Ned Flanders), but man... | Marge announces to the Simpson family that she intends to audition for the role of Blanche DuBois in Oh! Streetcar!, a local musical production of A Streetcar Named Desire. The family ignores her, and she leaves for her audition, feeling especially unappreciated by Homer. The director, Llewellyn Sinclair, immediately r... |
62 | 4 | 3 | Homer the Heretic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_the_Heretic | While skipping Sunday's church services, Homer discovers the joy of staying home and having the house all to himself while Marge and the kids experience a rambling sermon from Reverend Lovejoy. Homer decides to start his very own religion customized for himself, despite Marge's continuing objections for giving up his f... | One Sunday morning, Homer decides that he will not go to church after seeing how cold it is outside and splitting his pants while getting dressed. Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie attend the day's service, but must put up with the church's malfunctioning furnace, the doors freezing shut when the churchgoers try to leave a... |
63 | 4 | 4 | Lisa the Beauty Queen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_the_Beauty_Queen | Lisa's self-esteem breaks off after she sees a crude drawing of herself at Springfield Elementary's fair. When Homer wins the Duff Beer raffle and a ticket to ride on the Duff Blimp, he sacrifices the ticket for the money in order to get Lisa entered into a beauty pageant. Although originally reluctant to enter, she co... | At a carnival held at Springfield Elementary School, Lisa gets a caricature of herself drawn, but the caricature is unflattering and causes the other carnival patrons to laugh, leading Lisa to assume she is ugly. Meanwhile, Homer wins a ticket to ride in the Duff Blimp at a raffle the carnival is holding.
When the fam... |
64 | 4 | 5 | Treehouse of Horror III | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treehouse_of_Horror_III | In the third Treehouse of Horror episode, the Simpson family holds a Halloween party and several family members tell scary stories:
"Clown Without Pity": In Lisa's story, Homer buys Bart a Krusty doll which turns out to be evil and tries to kill Homer.
"King Homer": In Grampa's story, a King Kong parody, Mr. Burns dec... | The episode's wraparound segment shows the Simpson family having a Halloween party for the children of Springfield. Lisa, Grampa, and Bart each tell a horror story.
In Lisa's story, "Clown Without Pity", Homer buys a cursed Krusty the Clown doll as a last-minute birthday present for Bart. After the doll makes numerous... |
65 | 4 | 6 | Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itchy_%26_Scratchy:_The_Movie | At Springfield Elementary's Parent Teacher night, Mrs. Krabappel tells Homer and Marge about Bart's behavior. Wanting Bart to one day become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Homer decides to punish Bart. However, he never makes his punishments stick and Bart continues on his destructive path. Marge confronts Homer a... | Marge and Homer attend a parent-teacher conference at Springfield Elementary School. Although Miss Hoover tells Homer that Lisa is doing well, Mrs. Krabappel tells Marge that Bart is continually causing trouble. She urges Homer and Marge to enforce stronger discipline and suggests that Bart could grow up to become a Su... |
66 | 4 | 7 | Marge Gets a Job | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marge_Gets_a_Job | The Simpsons' house begins sinking into the ground. Marge decides to earn extra money to repair the foundation by working at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant and Homer is forced to work alongside his wife. However, Mr. Burns falls deeply in love with her and begins to seduce her. However, Marge resists and Burns fir... | When a position opens at Springfield Nuclear Power Plant by the enforced retirement of Jack Marley after 45 years of service, Marge decides to apply for the position to pay for expensive repairs for the foundation of the Simpsons house. Mr. Burns is enchanted by Marge. He promotes her ahead of Homer's position, but whe... |
67 | 4 | 8 | New Kid on the Block | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Kid_on_the_Block | The Simpsons' next door neighbors move and are replaced by a single mother, Ruth Powers and her daughter Laura. Laura becomes the object of Bart's affection but Bart becomes heart broken after learning that her boyfriend is Jimbo Jones. Meanwhile, Homer wages war against the Sea Captain's seafood restaurant The Frying ... | The Simpsons' elderly neighbors, the Winfields, move to Florida because of Homer's antics. The Winfields' old house is purchased by single mother Ruth Powers and her teenage daughter Laura, with whom Bart falls in love at first sight.
After seeing a television advertisement about an all-you-can-eat seafood restaurant ... |
68 | 4 | 9 | Mr. Plow | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Plow | After demolishing both his and Marge's family cars during a snowstorm, Homer buys a snowplow and starts a business plowing driveways. He calls his business "Mr. Plow" and becomes a huge success. Barney Gumble, inspired by Homer decides to start his own rival company and becomes Springfield's new favorite snow plower. H... | After crashing into Marge's car on a snowy night (which he had spent drinking at Moe's Tavern), Homer is forced to purchase a replacement car. The Simpsons go to a car show where a salesman convinces Homer to buy a pickup truck mounted with a snowplow by saying Homer can make the payments by plowing people's driveways.... |
69 | 4 | 10 | Lisa's First Word | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%27s_First_Word | While attempting to get Maggie to say her first word, Marge tells the story of Lisa's first word. In 1983, Marge, Homer and Bart are living in the Lower East Springfield district and Marge announces that she is pregnant. She and Homer decide to move into a house to support their bigger family and move into their presen... | Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa are trying to get Maggie to speak. When their attempts prove unsuccessful, Marge decides to tell the story of when Lisa began speaking. The story flashes back to 1983, when Homer, Marge, and Bart lived in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Springfield. When Marge became pregnant again, ... |
70 | 4 | 11 | Homer's Triple Bypass | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer%27s_Triple_Bypass | Due to his many years of eating unhealthy foods, Homer suffers a heart attack, and needs to have a triple bypass surgery. He has to choose between the $40,000 operation set by Dr. Julius Hibbert, which he cannot afford or the $129.95 operation by Dr. Nick Riviera. When he chooses the cheaper surgery, Homer begins to ac... | One evening while eating dinner in bed, Homer seems to be having heart problems but is not concerned. The next morning, Marge makes him oatmeal for breakfast but he rejects it in favor of bacon and eggs, despite the chest pains he has been feeling. Driving to work, he hears an irregular thumping noise, and is relieved ... |
71 | 4 | 12 | Marge vs. the Monorail | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marge_vs._the_Monorail | After Mr. Burns is caught storing his excess nuclear waste inside Springfield Park's trees, he is ordered to pay the town $3 million. The town is originally set to agree to fix Main Street, but the charismatic Lyle Lanley interrupts and convinces the town to use the money to buy one of his monorails. The town embraces ... | When the Environmental Protection Agency fines Mr. Burns $3 million for dumping nuclear waste in a Springfield park, a town meeting is held to decide how to spend the money. Marge nearly persuades the townspeople to repair Springfield's heavily damaged Main Street, but fast-talking salesman Lyle Lanley leads a song-and... |
72 | 4 | 13 | Selma's Choice | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma%27s_Choice | Marge's Great Aunt Gladys Bouvier dies and the Simpsons, Patty, and Selma attend her funeral. During the reading of her video will, Gladys tells Patty and Selma not to die lonely and miserable like she did. Though Patty does not care, Selma decides that she wants a baby. Meanwhile, Homer eats a spoiled hoagie, and beco... | On the day that Homer, Bart, and Lisa plan to go to the amusement park Duff Gardens, Marge tells them that her aunt Gladys has died, and the family must attend Gladys's funeral instead. On their way to the funeral home, the family picks up Marge's sisters, Patty and Selma.
After the funeral, the family watches Gladys'... |
73 | 4 | 14 | Brother from the Same Planet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_from_the_Same_Planet | After leaving Bart alone at soccer practice, Homer's inept parenting prompts Bart to get a "Bigger Brother" named Tom. Homer finds out about this and decides to get revenge by taking part in the "Bigger Brother" program and taking charge of a young boy named Pepi. Pepi and Homer begin to bond and Bart starts to regret ... | Bart, angry at Homer for not picking him up at soccer practice, goes to the Bigger Brothers Agency, a mentor program which pairs up fatherless boys with positive male role models. He claims his father was a drunken gambler who abandoned him. The receptionist pairs him up with their best Bigger Brother, Tom, a handsome... |
74 | 4 | 15 | I Love Lisa | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_Lisa | On Valentine's Day, everyone in Lisa's class receives a card, except Ralph Wiggum. Out of pity, Lisa quickly writes one up and gives it to him, much to Ralph's delight. Ralph begins to develop an interest in Lisa, but Lisa is not interested. However, she does not know how to get rid of him. Ralph invites her to go to K... | The second-grade students at Springfield Elementary School ridicule Ralph Wiggum's strange behavior. On Valentine's Day, the students give each other Valentine's Day cards. None of the students give Ralph cards, causing him to cry. Seeing this, Lisa gives Ralph a card out of sympathy. Ralph cheers up, develops a romant... |
75 | 4 | 16 | Duffless | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duffless | After taking the Duff Brewery tour, Homer is caught driving drunk and is arrested. His license is revoked and he must attend traffic school and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. After much reluctance, Homer agrees to Marge's suggestion of giving up drinking beer for an entire month. He struggles to make it, but eventually... | While having breakfast with her family, Lisa shows them her project for Springfield Elementary School's upcoming science fair, a steroid-enhanced tomato she hopes will solve world hunger. At school, three days before the fair, Lisa leaves her tomato in Bart's care for a moment and he hurls it at Principal Skinner's but... |
76 | 4 | 17 | Last Exit to Springfield | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Exit_to_Springfield | After learning that Mr. Burns' decision to revoke their dental plan has coincided with Lisa needing braces, Homer convinces his coworkers not to give up their dental plan and becomes the new head of the workers union at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. He holds talks with Mr. Burns, but these go badly because Homer... | While awaiting the arrival of his employees' union president (who hasn't been seen since promising to clean up corruption in the organization) to discuss the latest contract, Mr. Burns reminisces of simpler times back in 1909, when his grandfather would deal with workers' complaints by walling them away in abandoned co... |
77 | 4 | 18 | So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_It%27s_Come_to_This:_A_Simpsons_Clip_Show | In the first Simpsons clip show, it's April Fools' Day and Homer starts playing pranks upon Bart through the day. Bart, angered by the numerous tricks he has fallen for, plans the ultimate revenge on Homer by shaking a can of beer so hard that it causes an explosion. While Homer ends up in a coma, the family reminisces... | On April Fools' Day, Homer plays multiple pranks on Bart, including blinding Bart with tape over his eyes and spoiling a milk carton by placing it near the radiator. Angered by the numerous tricks he has fallen for, Bart decides to get revenge. He shakes up a Duff beer can (using a paint shaker at a hardware store) and... |
78 | 4 | 19 | The Front | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Front_(The_Simpsons) | After watching a terribly lackluster episode of The Itchy & Scratchy Show, Bart and Lisa decide to start writing their own episodes and sending it to the studio. Roger Meyers, the CEO, immediately rejects their script due to their age. They put Grampa's name on the script and send it back, and Meyers loves it and hires... | After being disappointed by a new episode of Itchy & Scratchy, Bart and Lisa decide to write a cartoon script themselves. Inspired by the sight of Homer accidentally slicing Marge's hair off with hedge shears, they write a script titled "Little Barbershop of Horrors" and send it to Roger Meyers Jr., head of Itchy & Scr... |
79 | 4 | 20 | Whacking Day | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whacking_Day | Bart is expelled from Springfield Elementary School, so Marge decides to home school him. Springfield's annual holiday arrives: Whacking Day, a day specifically designed to drive snakes into the town's square and club them to death. When most Springfielders celebrate the local holiday, Lisa is appalled at the upcoming ... | During an inspection by Superintendent Chalmers at Springfield Elementary School, Principal Skinner lures Bart, Jimbo, Kearney, Dolph, and Nelson into the school's utility basement with the promise of free mountain bikes and locks the door. Bart escapes through a ventilation shaft and takes Groundskeeper Willie's tract... |
80 | 4 | 21 | Marge in Chains | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marge_in_Chains | Springfield is hit with the dreaded Osaka Flu, causing many of the town to fall ill. Due to the exhaustion from having to look after the rest of her ill family, Marge accidentally forgets to pay for Grampa's bottle of bourbon when shopping at the Kwik-E-Mart. Marge is soon arrested for shoplifting and is sentenced to 3... | Troy McClure and Dr. Nick star in a TV advertisement for a juicer called the "Juice Loosener", which is manufactured in and shipped from Osaka, Japan. The advertisement persuades multiple Springfield residents to buy Juice Looseners. However, one of the packers in Osaka has the flu and every package contains some of hi... |
81 | 4 | 22 | Krusty Gets Kancelled | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krusty_Gets_Kancelled | A new show about a ventriloquist dummy named Gabbo becomes the hottest show in Springfield and Krusty's show is cancelled due to low ratings. Krusty is at first crestfallen at the cancellation of his show, but Bart and Lisa manage to convince him to stage a comeback special and invite his celebrity friends to take part... | Following a mysterious viral marketing campaign, ventriloquist Arthur Crandall announces that a new program starring his puppet Gabbo will air in direct competition with the established Krusty the Clown Show. At first, Krusty is unimpressed by Gabbo and vows to fight back, but quickly pales to Gabbo's clever tactics an... |
82 | 5 | 1 | Homer's Barbershop Quartet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer%27s_Barbershop_Quartet | In a flashback, Homer recounts his time with a barbershop quartet called The Be Sharps that also featured Principal Skinner, Apu and Chief Wiggum who was later replaced with Barney. The group became music stars with their hit song "Baby on Board" and won a Grammy. Eventually, Homer started missing his family and the gr... | After Bart and Lisa notice Homer on the cover of an LP album for sale at Springfield's annual swap meet, Homer tells the story of how he, Principal Skinner, Barney, and Apu recorded a nationally famous barbershop quartet album.
In 1985, Homer, Skinner, Apu and Chief Wiggum performed as a barbershop quartet at various ... |
83 | 5 | 2 | Cape Feare | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Feare | Bart starts receiving threatening letters in the mail and it is soon revealed that they were sent to him by Sideshow Bob. Bob is released from prison, so Bart is placed in the Witness Relocation Program and the Simpson family is moved to Terror Lake. However, Bob follows the Simpsons there and sneaks onto the family's ... | Sideshow Bob sends anonymous threatening letters in the mail to Bart from prison, wanting revenge on Bart for his previous defeats.[N 1] Bob is soon paroled; the parole board no longer considers him a threat to society. After encountering Bob at a local movie theater and realizing he sent the letters, the Simpsons join... |
84 | 5 | 3 | Homer Goes to College | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Goes_to_College | After failing a test at the nuclear plant, Homer's lack of a college degree is revealed and he is sent back to pass a nuclear physics class. Homer, having seen too many bad National Lampoon's Animal House knock-off movies, goofs off, so he is sent to a group of boys for tutoring. The boys, who are stereotypical nerds, ... | During the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's inspection of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, Homer is placed in a test module van that simulates a power surge. He has no idea what to do, so he pushes buttons at random and somehow causes a nuclear meltdown, even though the van contains no nuclear material. Mr. Burns at... |
85 | 5 | 4 | Rosebud | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosebud_(The_Simpsons) | After a disastrous birthday party, Mr. Burns pines for his long-lost childhood toy, a teddy bear named Bobo. The bear ends up in the hands of Maggie and when Homer discovers this, he tries to use the bear to get a large reward from Burns. When Burns agrees, Homer tries to hand the bear over, but is stopped by Maggie. H... | Mr. Burns dreams about his early childhood, when he lived with his family and cherished his teddy bear Bobo, which he dropped in the snow when he left home to live with a "twisted, loveless billionaire". Bobo was found by Charles Lindbergh, then by Adolf Hitler, then by ice cutters in the North Pole. Burns becomes so o... |
86 | 5 | 5 | Treehouse of Horror IV | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treehouse_of_Horror_IV | In a parody of Night Gallery, Bart tells three scary stories based on paintings:
"The Devil and Homer Simpson": Homer sells his soul to the Devil (Ned Flanders) for a doughnut.
"Terror at 5½ Feet": While riding the bus to school, Bart discovers that there is a Gremlin on the side of the bus.
"Bart Simpson's Dracula": ... | In the wraparound, Bart introduces each of the three segments by walking through a gallery of paintings and each time choosing one of them as the focus of his story.
In "The Devil and Homer Simpson", Homer sells his soul to the devil, who takes the form of Ned Flanders, for a donut. After Marge and Lisa plead with Ned... |
87 | 5 | 6 | Marge on the Lam | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marge_on_the_Lam | Marge and neighbor Ruth Powers have a girls' night. Meanwhile, Homer tries to have fun without Marge and Lionel Hutz is hired as Bart, Lisa, and Maggie's babysitter. Homer hitches a ride home with Chief Wiggum, who is following behind Marge and Ruth and decides to pull them over. However, Ruth speeds her car up and rev... | After donating money to a telethon, Marge receives complimentary ballet tickets. Marge guilts Homer into accompanying her by reminding him of how he once volunteered as a human guinea pig in a United States Army experiment to avoid visiting Patty and Selma with her. However, Homer gets both of his arms stuck in vendin... |
88 | 5 | 7 | Bart's Inner Child | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart%27s_Inner_Child | Marge realizes that she is no fun because of her constant nagging and seeks help from self-help guru Brad Goodman, who then uses Bart's irreverent attitude as a new example of how people should behave. The entire town of Springfield begins to act like Bart, who at first enjoys things but begins to feel that his role as... | Krusty gives a free trampoline to Homer, who places it in the Simpsons' backyard. Bart and Lisa are thrilled, but Marge fears it may be dangerous. Homer ignores her fretting and charges neighbors a fee to use it. When scores of people are injured, Homer heeds Marge's advice to get rid of the trampoline. After several f... |
89 | 5 | 8 | Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy-Scoutz_%27n_the_Hood | Bart and Milhouse find $20.00 on the street and buy a Squishee made entirely of syrup. After a night of bingeing and carousing, Bart wakes up to discover that he has joined a Boy Scouts-esque troupe called "The Junior Campers". Bart initially hates the group, then enjoys it, until Homer agrees to participate in their r... | Bart and Milhouse find $20 that Homer lost and order a Super Squishee made entirely of syrup from Apu at the Kwik-E-Mart. With their senses reeling from the high sugar content, they spend the rest of the money on a wild night out on the town. The next morning, Bart wakes up with a hangover, not remembering the previous... |
90 | 5 | 9 | The Last Temptation of Homer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Temptation_of_Homer | Mr. Burns hires a female worker named Mindy Simmons in accordance with government policy and Homer is worried that his crush on her will ruin his marriage with Marge. Both Mindy and Homer have feelings for each other, but in the end Homer decides not to cheat on Marge. Meanwhile, Bart becomes a nerd after doctors find ... | After Homer, Lenny, Carl, and Charlie miraculously escape from a gas leak at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, Charlie asks Mr. Burns to add a functional emergency exit to the plant. Burns degrades and promptly fires Charlie. During Burns's attempts to find Charlie's replacement, agents from the United States Depart... |
91 | 5 | 10 | $pringfield (or, How I Learned to Stop | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$pringfield_(or,_How_I_Learned_to_Stop_Worrying_and_Love_Legalized_Gambling) | After the local economy stalls, everyone in town votes for gambling to be legalized, prompting Mr. Burns to open a casino. Homer becomes a blackjack dealer, and Marge becomes so addicted to gambling that she forgets about her family life. Meanwhile, Bart opens up his own casino after being kicked out of Mr. Burns's and... | At a town hall, Mayor Quimby fields suggestions on ways to improve Springfield's faltering economy. Principal Skinner suggests the town legalize gambling to rejuvenate its economy. Everyone likes the idea, even Marge, who has become known for disapproving of the townspeople's ideas. Mr. Burns and Quimby work together t... |
92 | 5 | 11 | Homer the Vigilante | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_the_Vigilante | A crime wave hits Springfield, caused by the elusive cat burglar and Lisa's saxophone is stolen, so Homer agrees to try to get it back. The police are ineffective, so Flanders creates a neighborhood watch group, which Homer takes charge of. However, Homer's incompetence causes the vigilante group to commit more crimes ... | One night, the Simpson family's house is robbed by a cat burglar while the family sleeps; the next morning, the family finds out that several other houses in Springfield have been robbed. The town's residents arm themselves and install security devices to thwart the burglar. A neighborhood watch group is formed and Hom... |
93 | 5 | 12 | Bart Gets Famous | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Gets_Famous | After sneaking away from a school trip to a box factory, Bart sneaks onto the set of the Krusty the Clown show. He gets a job as Krusty's production assistant and soon becomes sick of the job. One day, he is close to quitting, but Krusty runs up and says he needs to use Bart in a sketch. Bart becomes an accidental star... | Bored on a class trip to a box factory, Bart escapes to the nearby Channel 6 TV studio, where he encounters Krusty the Clown. Bart swipes a Danish intended for Krusty, who fires his assistant over the missing pastry. Bart steals a Danish from Kent Brockman and gives it to Krusty, who is so grateful that he makes Bart h... |
94 | 5 | 13 | Homer and Apu | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_and_Apu | After twice getting food poisoning from expired food sold at the Kwik-E-Mart, Homer teams up with Kent Brockman to report Apu. Apu is fired from his job and comes to stay with the Simpsons, and he is replaced by actor James Woods. Homer resolves to help Apu get his old job back, and the two travel to India to talk to t... | Several customers at the Kwik-E-Mart become angry because of Apu's high prices on cheap items. Apu scribbles out the expiration date on a package of expired ham from 1989 and then lowers the price instead of throwing it out. Homer contracts food poisoning after eating the expired ham. When he recovers, Homer complains ... |
95 | 5 | 14 | Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_vs._Malibu_Stacy | Lisa protests against the phrases on her new Talking Malibu Stacy doll, which she finds demeaning to women. She tracks down the reclusive creator Stacy to make a more politically correct doll. Meanwhile, Grampa is worried that he is getting old, so he takes a job at Krusty Burger. Lisa and Stacy create "Lisa Lionheart"... | Grampa decides to give the Simpson family their inheritance early, which the family chooses to spend on a trip to the mall. During the entire trip to the mall and back home, Grampa tells far-fetched stories and spouts useless advice, making the family shun him. At the mall, Lisa eagerly buys the new talking Malibu Stac... |
96 | 5 | 15 | Deep Space Homer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_Homer | NASA decides that they need to hire average joes in order to get higher television ratings. They recruit Homer and Barney to train to be the first average American in space. Homer, who wants to be respected, is the winner by default, and goes into space with Buzz Aldrin. While there, he causes a lot of havoc and eventu... | At the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, Homer believes he will win the Worker of the Week award; it is a union requirement that every employee gets the prize and Homer is the only plant employee who has never won. Instead, Mr. Burns, Homer's boss, gives the award to an inanimate carbon rod. Homer thinks no one respects... |
97 | 5 | 16 | Homer Loves Flanders | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Loves_Flanders | Homer begins to like Flanders after being invited to a football game. However, Homer's constant presence around Flanders and his family causes Ned to feel hate for Homer. One day while trying to drive away from Homer, Flanders is arrested and charged with drunk driving. Flanders begins to lose the respect of the church... | Homer unsuccessfully tries to get tickets for a football game, the "Pigskin Classic" between the Springfield Atoms and the Shelbyville Sharks. He misses eight days of work to camp outside the Shelbyville Stadium but the entire allocation of tickets are bought by a scalper and then misses out on winning a pair of ticket... |
98 | 5 | 17 | Bart Gets an Elephant | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Gets_an_Elephant | While stuck cleaning the house, Bart wins a radio contest and chooses a gag prize, an elephant, instead of the real prize, $10,000 cash. The radio station eventually gets Bart his elephant, which is named Stampy. When taking care of Stampy gets too expensive Homer decides to sell him to an ivory dealer rather than turn... | Bart wins a contest on Bill and Marty's radio show, and chooses the joke prize of a full-grown African elephant instead of the prize money. Word spreads throughout town about Bill and Marty's refusal to give Bart an elephant, leading to a flood of angry mail and letter bombs from the station's listeners. Bill and Marty... |
99 | 5 | 18 | Burns' Heir | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burns%27_Heir | Mr. Burns has a near-death experience which prompts him to find an heir to inherit his wealth after he dies. Bart is rejected, but Burns soon decides to choose him after seeing that Bart is "a creature of pure malevolence". Marge convinces Bart to go spend some time with Burns, and soon becomes more disruptive than nor... | Mr. Burns almost drowns while taking a bath after Smithers puts a sponge on his head, weighing down his frail body. Realizing that he has no one to carry on his legacy when he dies (and is unwilling to have Smithers inherit his wealth), Mr. Burns decides to find an heir to inherit his vast fortune. Burns auditions seve... |
100 | 5 | 19 | Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Seymour_Skinner%27s_Baadasssss_Song | Bart accidentally gets Principal Skinner fired after he brings Santa's Little Helper to school for show and tell. Bart feels guilty for what he did, and befriends Skinner. Meanwhile, Ned Flanders is hired as principal and the school goes to pot. Bart decides that while he enjoys having Skinner as a friend, he needs him... | After failing to find an adequate object to bring for show and tell at Springfield Elementary School, Bart decides to bring Santa's Little Helper to school. Bart's show and tell presentation is well received by the class, but the dog escapes into the air ducts. Principal Skinner sends Groundskeeper Willie through a ven... |
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