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101 | 5 | 20 | The Boy Who Knew Too Much | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Knew_Too_Much_(The_Simpsons) | Bart plays hooky from school and ends up at the birthday party of Freddy Quimby, the Mayor's nephew, where Freddy is accused of assaulting a waiter. Bart knows the truth, but would have to admit that he was playing hooky if he testifies. Meanwhile, Homer is chosen for jury duty in the assault case against Freddy Quimby... | Bart forges a dental appointment note so he can skip school. Principal Skinner is not fooled and follows Bart through Springfield. As Skinner is about to corner him, Bart jumps into a passing convertible car driven by Freddy Quimby, Mayor Quimby's 18-year-old nephew, as he is driving to the Quimby Compound.
At lunch, ... |
102 | 5 | 21 | Lady Bouvier's Lover | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Bouvier%27s_Lover | While attending Maggie's first birthday party, Grampa falls for Marge's mother Jacqueline. Grampa and Jacqueline start dating, but he is soon pushed aside in favor of Mr. Burns. Mr. Burns and Jacqueline are soon engaged to be married, much to the chagrin of Marge and Smithers. Grampa crashes the wedding and tries to ge... | The Simpson family gathers to celebrate Maggie's birthday. After the party, Grampa feels depressed, so Marge sets him up for a date with her mother, Jacqueline. Eventually, the couple falls in love, which enrages Homer, who believes that old people should not date each other — especially in-laws — and fears that his ch... |
103 | 5 | 22 | Secrets of a Successful Marriage | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrets_of_a_Successful_Marriage | Tired of being called "slow," Homer signs up to teach a class on keeping a successful marriage at a learning annex. He is an unsuccessful teacher and finds that the only way he can keep the class interested is to tell racy secrets about Marge and their bedroom antics. Marge soon gets fed up with Homer telling their sec... | Homer is disheartened to learn that all of his peers, including his family, believe he is "slow". Marge advises Homer to take an adult education course. While looking at available courses, Homer decides to teach a class himself, and is soon hired to teach a class about how to build a successful marriage. On the first d... |
104 | 6 | 1 | Bart of Darkness | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_of_Darkness | A heat wave is gripping Springfield and the townspeople attempt to cool down. Bart and Lisa persuade Homer to buy them a swimming pool, which proves popular with the town's other children. Bart ends up breaking his leg when he dives off his treehouse and is forced to spend the rest of the summer in his room. Realizing ... | Bart and Lisa persuade Homer to buy a swimming pool for their house during a heatwave. During a pool party, Bart breaks his leg attempting to dive in the pool from the tree house. After a hospital visit, Bart is ordered to spend the rest of the Summer wearing a full cast over his broken leg, leaving him unable to swim ... |
105 | 6 | 2 | Lisa's Rival | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%27s_Rival | A new student named Allison Taylor arrives at Springfield Elementary School and proves to be more than a match for Lisa in both educational and musical feats. After Allison wins first chair saxophone in the school orchestra ahead of her, Lisa vows to defeat Allison at something: by winning the school diorama contest. M... | Lisa feels her status as the top student in her class is threatened when a new and exceptionally intelligent student named Allison arrives at Springfield Elementary. Lisa immediately befriends her since they share many traits, but she soon sees that Allison's gifts far exceed hers and begins to doubt herself. At a band... |
106 | 6 | 3 | Another Simpsons Clip Show | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Simpsons_Clip_Show | After reading The Bridges of Madison County, Marge decides that she and Homer need to teach the kids about romance. Each of the Simpsons (using clips from previous episodes) reminisce about past romantic encounters, leaving them all depressed and believing that love does not work. However, Homer saves the day by pointi... | Marge is reading The Bridges of Madison County one night and wakes up Homer to ask if he thinks the romance has gone out of their marriage. Homer ignores her and tosses the book into the fireplace.
The next morning, Marge gets the family together to discuss romance. She tells the family about the time she almost had a... |
107 | 6 | 4 | Itchy & Scratchy Land | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itchy_%26_Scratchy_Land | Bart and Lisa convince their parents to take their family vacation at the newly opened Itchy & Scratchy Land. After experiencing several of the violent attractions, Homer and Marge go to "Parents Island", while Bart and Lisa continue to explore the park. The vacation seems to be going well, until Bart and Homer are bot... | Bart and Lisa want to visit Itchy & Scratchy Land, an amusement park, but Marge has already planned a family vacation to a bird sanctuary. Bart and Lisa persuade their parents to visit the theme park by revealing it has areas for adults, including bars, bowling alleys and a rehab center.
Marge dislikes Itchy & Scratch... |
108 | 6 | 5 | Sideshow Bob Roberts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideshow_Bob_Roberts | After pleading his case on air to right-wing talk show host Birch Barlow, Sideshow Bob is released from prison. Soon, Bob is announced as the Republican candidate for mayor of Springfield. Bart and Lisa help campaign for Mayor Quimby but despite their efforts, Bob wins the election with a landslide majority. Immediatel... | Sideshow Bob calls local right-wing talk show host Birch Barlow and complains about being unfairly imprisoned for attempted murder.[N 1] Barlow incites Springfield's residents to pressure Mayor Quimby into releasing Sideshow Bob. After his release, Bob becomes the Republican candidate for the Springfield mayoral electi... |
109 | 6 | 6 | Treehouse of Horror V | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treehouse_of_Horror_V | A Halloween special which is divided into three short stories:
"The Shinning": A parody of the 1980 film The Shining, in which Homer tries to kill the rest of the family after Mr. Burns cuts off the beer supply and cable TV in his winter home.
"Time and Punishment": While attempting to fix it, Homer creates a time mac... | Marge tells the audience that the episode is deemed so scary that Congress will not allow its broadcast, and would prefer to show a Glenn Ford film called 200 Miles To Oregon. Homer and Bart interrupt the screening to show the episode anyway.
The Shinning
The Simpsons are employed as caretakers at Mr. Burns' haunted l... |
110 | 6 | 7 | Bart's Girlfriend | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart%27s_Girlfriend | Bart becomes attracted to Reverend Lovejoy's daughter Jessica, but finds his attempts to impress her repeatedly ignored. After pulling a prank on Groundskeeper Willie, and offending Jessica's parents at dinner, she becomes interested in him. As they begin a relationship, Bart believes that Jessica is a bad influence on... | During a church sermon, Bart falls in love with Reverend Lovejoy's daughter, Jessica. When he approaches her to praise her sermon, she ignores him. Bart attends Sunday school the next week to convince Jessica that he is a saint, but she still ignores him. Frustrated, Bart plays a prank on Groundskeeper Willie and is pu... |
111 | 6 | 8 | Lisa on Ice | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_on_Ice | Lisa discovers that she is failing gym class. In order to pass, she joins a local ice hockey team as their goalie. This creates an intense sibling rivalry between her and Bart, who is jealous of Lisa's abilities because he had always been the family's star hockey player. Marge tries to resolve their conflicts by remind... | Principal Skinner gathers Springfield Elementary School students at an assembly to announce which subjects they are failing. To her horror, straight-A student Lisa discovers she is failing gym class. When she appeals to her gym teacher, they reach a compromise: Lisa will get a passing grade if she joins a sports progra... |
112 | 6 | 9 | Homer Badman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Badman | Homer and Marge attend a candy convention, where Homer successfully steals a gummy Venus de Milo. Later, after Homer takes the children's babysitter Ashley Grant home, he notices that the gummy Venus has become stuck to her pants and grabs it, an action that Ashley misinterprets as a sexual advance. A mob of protesters... | Homer and Marge hire Ashley Grant, a feminist graduate student, to babysit Bart, Lisa and Maggie while they attend a candy convention. Homer outfits Marge with an oversized trench coat, hoping to smuggle out as much candy as possible, including a rare gummy Venus de Milo. When caught stealing the gummy Venus, Homer mak... |
113 | 6 | 10 | Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grampa_vs._Sexual_Inadequacy | Homer and Marge's marriage is beginning to sour due to their fading sex lives. Grampa concocts a tonic that successfully cures their problems. The effectiveness of the tonic results in he and Homer going into business together, selling "Simpson and Son's Tonic" to the public. When they visit the farmhouse where Homer g... | When Homer and Marge's sex life fizzles, they seek help to spice up their marriage. Homer peruses books like the Kama Sutra, but Marge wants "a tasteful book" so they settle on Mr. and Mrs. Erotic American, a Paul Harvey book-on-tape. Harvey recommends couples bathe together, but their faucet breaks because the Simpson... |
114 | 6 | 11 | Fear of Flying | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_Flying_(The_Simpsons) | After being banned from Moe's for life, Homer goes to a pilots' bar. There, he is mistaken as a real pilot and destroys a plane. As payment for his silence, the Simpsons are given free tickets to anywhere in the continental United States. Marge becomes uneasy on the plane and admits that she has a fear of flying, putti... | At Moe's Tavern, the patrons pull a series of hazardous pranks on Moe that he laughs off. After pulling a harmless one, Homer is disproportionately banned for life and must find another bar. He is asked to leave a refined cocktail bar, and rejects both Cheers and a lesbian one (owing to their karaoke nights and lack of... |
115 | 6 | 12 | Homer the Great | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_the_Great | Homer discovers that Lenny and Carl are members of the ancient secret society known as the Stonecutters. Gaining membership through Grampa, Homer takes great pleasure in the society's many privileges and events. Unfortunately, during a celebratory dinner he unwittingly destroys the Stonecutter's "Sacred Parchment". Hom... | After Homer notices that his coworkers Lenny and Carl enjoy special privileges at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, such as better chairs and better parking, he learns they are part of an ancient secret society known as the Stonecutters. To join, one must either be the son of a Stonecutter or save the life of a Ston... |
116 | 6 | 13 | And Maggie Makes Three | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Maggie_Makes_Three | Homer regales the long story of Maggie's birth. Back in 1993, Homer dreams of working at the bowling alley, even though it pays less than his job at the Power Plant. Homer works out a way that means the family will have enough to live on, as long as everything stays exactly the way it is. However, Marge becomes pregnan... | While browsing through the family photo album, Lisa notices it contains no baby pictures of Maggie. Homer explains why by recounting the story of Maggie's birth. In 1993, Homer hated his job at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant and dreamed of working at a bowling alley. After receiving a paycheck clearing him of all ... |
117 | 6 | 14 | Bart's Comet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart%27s_Comet | During detention, Bart accidentally discovers a comet. It is then discovered that the comet is heading straight for Springfield, and a rocket is launched to destroy it. However, it misses and blows up the only bridge out of town, dooming everyone in Springfield. The Simpsons and the Flanders share the bomb shelter that... | After Bart sabotages Principal Skinner's weather balloon, Skinner punishes him by making him arrive in the schoolyard at 4:30 a.m. to be his amateur astronomy assistant. Whilst Skinner is distracted by retrieving the weather balloon, Bart accidentally locates a comet, which scientists soon discover is headed straight f... |
118 | 6 | 15 | Homie the Clown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homie_the_Clown | Krusty's poor gambling skills and wasteful habits land him in deep financial trouble, and to make up for it he launches a training college for clowns. Homer enters the program, and after graduating he impersonates Krusty at the events that the real Krusty deems unworthy of his personal appearance. Homer discovers that,... | Krusty's gambling debts and reckless spending land him in deep trouble with the Springfield Mafia. To make more money, he launches a training college for clowns, where Homer enrolls. After graduating, he impersonates Krusty at events that the real Krusty deems beneath him, such as children's birthday parties and the un... |
119 | 6 | 16 | Bart vs. Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_vs._Australia | In order to prove Lisa wrong about the coriolis effect, Bart calls several locations in the southern hemisphere. He collect calls Australia, but the call lasts six hours and costs $900.00. After the call's recipient complains, Australia indicts Bart for fraud. The United States State Department negotiates a settlement,... | Bart notices that the water in the bathroom sink always drains counter-clockwise. Lisa explains (incorrectly) that water only drains clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere due to the Coriolis effect. Bart makes phone calls to various countries in the Southern Hemisphere to confirm this, such as a research station in Anta... |
120 | 6 | 17 | Homer vs. Patty and Selma | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_vs._Patty_and_Selma | After a bad investment, Homer is forced to borrow money from Patty and Selma. In return the pair make Homer's life miserable. After Marge finds out, Homer decides to become a chauffeur, but is pulled over when he does not have a chauffeur's license. When he goes to apply for one, Patty and Selma (the DMV examiners) mer... | Homer invests in pumpkins, but loses his entire investment. Late on a mortgage payment, he tries to borrow money from the bank but without any success. After Patty and Selma receive promotions at the DMV, Homer realizes they are his last resort. They agree to lend him money on the condition that he becomes their humble... |
121 | 6 | 18 | A Star Is Burns | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Star_Is_Burns | Springfield adopts Marge's suggestion of a film festival, in which any of the townspeople can enter a short film. To help her judge, Jay Sherman comes from New York City to stay at the Simpsons' house. Homer feels threatened by Jay, and so Marge puts him on the panel as well. At the festival, the vote becomes deadlocke... | In response to Springfield being named the least cultural city in the United States, a town meeting is held to decide a course of action, where Marge proposes that Springfield host a film festival showcasing films made by the townspeople. To her surprise, the townspeople love her idea, and Marge is made the head of the... |
122 | 6 | 19 | Lisa's Wedding | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%27s_Wedding | At a renaissance fair, a fortune teller predicts the story of Lisa's first true love. She explains that Lisa will fall madly in love with British student Hugh Parkfield. The pair's relationship grows, with Hugh eventually proposing to Lisa. The wedding will take place in Springfield, but Lisa becomes embarrassed with h... | The Simpson family visit a Renaissance fair, where Lisa finds a fortune-telling booth. The clairvoyant says she will predict Lisa's future and tell the story of her true love.
In the year 2010 – 15 years in the future – 23-year-old Lisa meets a fellow university student named Hugh Parkfield from London. The pair fall ... |
123 | 6 | 20 | Two Dozen and One Greyhounds | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Dozen_and_One_Greyhounds | In a parody of the film One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Santa's Little Helper falls in love with a female greyhound, who eventually gives birth to 25 puppies. The puppies prove troublesome and Homer and Marge decide to give them away. They have several offers, but the puppies do not want to be split up, leading to Mr. ... | The Simpson family's dog, Santa's Little Helper, runs away from home to the dog racing track, where he mates with a female greyhound named She's The Fastest. She gives birth to a litter of 25 puppies after her owner, the Rich Texan, gives her to the Simpsons. They quickly become too difficult to manage, so Homer and Ma... |
124 | 6 | 21 | The PTA Disbands | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_PTA_Disbands | Edna Krabappel calls a strike to protest against Principal Skinner's low spending on Springfield Elementary School. Bart fuels the strike by repeatedly turning the teachers against Skinner. The parents of Springfield eventually decide to take matters into their own hands, and recruit volunteers from the community to ta... | Principal Skinner and Edna Krabappel oversee a school field trip to Fort Springfield. Upon arriving, Skinner learns admission is no longer free due to new management. Unable to afford tickets, he has the students watch a Civil War reenactment by peering over the fort's fence. Outraged by the students' attempt to "learn... |
125 | 6 | 22 | 'Round Springfield | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Round_Springfield | When Bart is rushed to hospital, Lisa meets with Bleeding Gums Murphy in another ward. He lends Lisa his saxophone for her school recital, but when she returns she learns that Bleeding Gums has died. Lisa is the only person who attends his funeral and vows to make sure that everyone in Springfield knows his name. She d... | Bart gets a stomach ache after accidentally eating a jagged metal Krusty-O prize packed in his breakfast cereal. Thinking Bart is feigning illness to avoid a history test, Homer and Marge send him to school anyway. After Bart struggles through the test, Mrs. Krabappel allows him to walk to the nurse's office, but only ... |
126 | 6 | 23 | The Springfield Connection | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Springfield_Connection | After he cons Homer, Marge chases down Snake, and gets him arrested. Finding the experience exhilarating, Marge enrolls in the police force. After passing the training course, Marge begins fighting crime. Initially Homer finds that being a "cop-husband" is good, but changes his mind when Marge arrests him for illegal p... | On their way home from an orchestra performance, Homer and Marge pass through a seedy part of town. Snake entices Homer to play his Three-card Monte game and cheats him of $20. When Marge exposes the con, Snake flees. Marge chases after him and knocks him unconscious with a garbage can lid, giving her a sense of exhila... |
127 | 6 | 24 | Lemon of Troy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_of_Troy | After Marge teaches him about town pride, Bart becomes embroiled in a fight with a boy from the neighboring town of Shelbyville. The next day, Springfield's lemon tree is stolen by Shelbyville, and Bart leads Milhouse, Nelson, Martin, Todd, and Database to get it back. The group learn that the tree is at an impound lot... | Marge lectures Bart on the importance of town pride after he writes his name in wet cement. Soon he realizes the joys of living in Springfield and is upset by anti-Springfield taunts coming from neighboring Shelbyville. Grampa explains this rivalry can be traced to the establishment of the two towns: Jebediah Springfie... |
128 | 6 | 25 | Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Shot_Mr._Burns%3F#Part_One | Springfield Elementary School strikes oil, and plans to spend elaborately. Mr. Burns finds out about the oil and establishes a slant drilling operation to take it for himself. As a result, Moe's Tavern is closed, the Springfield Retirement Home collapses, Bart's treehouse is destroyed and Santa's Little Helper is injur... | Part One
While burying the deceased 4th grade gerbil, Groundskeeper Willie discovers oil under Springfield Elementary School. Principal Skinner and Superintendent Chalmers accept suggestions from students and staff on how to spend their newfound wealth, including hiring Tito Puente as a music teacher per Lisa Simpson's... |
129 | 7 | 1 | Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Shot_Mr._Burns%3F#Part_Two | In the previous episode, Mr. Burns was shot by an unknown gunman. Mr. Smithers believes he may have shot Burns while in a drunken stupor, and turns himself in. However, it is discovered that he is innocent, so the police question several other suspects and eventually discover Simpson DNA evidence on Burns. Mr. Burns hi... | Part One
While burying the deceased 4th grade gerbil, Groundskeeper Willie discovers oil under Springfield Elementary School. Principal Skinner and Superintendent Chalmers accept suggestions from students and staff on how to spend their newfound wealth, including hiring Tito Puente as a music teacher per Lisa Simpson's... |
130 | 7 | 2 | Radioactive Man | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_Man_(The_Simpsons_episode) | It is decided that filming for the new Radioactive Man film will take place in Springfield and the producers decide to cast a local child in the role of Fallout Boy. Many of Springfield's children, including Bart and Milhouse, audition for the role, with the part eventually going to Milhouse. However, Milhouse decides ... | Bart and Milhouse are thrilled to learn a film version of their favorite comic book series, Radioactive Man, is being produced in Springfield. Several Springfield Elementary students audition for the role of Fallout Boy when tryouts are held at their school. After Bart is rejected for being an inch too short, Milhouse ... |
131 | 7 | 3 | Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Sweet_Homediddly-Dum-Doodily | Several misunderstandings at home and school cause the child welfare dept. to accuse Homer and Marge of being negligent parents. As a result, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie are taken away and put in the care of Ned Flanders and his family. To get their kids back, Homer and Marge must pass a parenting class, while Ned discovers... | During a school day, Bart is found to have head lice due to letting a monkey crawl on his head and Lisa is forced to walk barefoot after her shoes are stolen by bullies. Believing that Homer and Marge are negligent parents, the school staff alert Social Services. Meanwhile, Homer and Marge are spending their day at a s... |
132 | 7 | 4 | Bart Sells His Soul | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Sells_His_Soul | While forced to clean the organ pipes after playing a prank against the church, Bart sells his soul to Milhouse for five dollars, to prove his point that a soul does not exist. Bart begins to regret it when weird things begin happening to him such as not finding cartoons funny or not accepting hugs. Meanwhile, an encou... | As punishment for changing the church's opening hymn as a prank to "In the Garden of Eden" by I. Ron Butterfly, Reverend Lovejoy makes Bart clean the organ pipes; Milhouse is made to help for snitching on Bart. Bart is furious with Milhouse (who claimed he didn't want his soul to go to hell), and after proclaiming ther... |
133 | 7 | 5 | Lisa the Vegetarian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_the_Vegetarian | After a visit with a lamb at a petting zoo, Lisa decides to become a full vegetarian. She tries to draw others towards it, but her efforts are wasted. At the same time, Homer decides to throw a barbecue and Lisa is outraged when those in attendance laugh at her suggestion of eating Gazpacho. She ruins the barbecue by d... | The Simpson family visits a petting zoo, where Lisa is enraptured by a cute lamb. That night, Marge serves lamb chops for dinner. Troubled by the connection between the dish and its living counterpart, Lisa announces that she is now a vegetarian. Bart and Homer mock her relentlessly for her newfound vegetarianism. Reac... |
134 | 7 | 6 | Treehouse of Horror VI | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treehouse_of_Horror_VI | A Halloween special which is divided into three short stories:
"Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores": An ionic storm brings Springfield's oversized advertisements and billboards to life and they begin attacking the town.
"Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace": In a parody of the A Nightmare on Elm Street movies, Groundskeeper Wi... | Opening
Krusty, as the Headless Horseman from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, holds his laughing head and hurls it at the camera, making the title, "The Simpsons Halloween Special VI", appear on screen in blood.
Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores
Homer goes to Lard Lad Donuts to get a "colossal doughnut". Upon realizing that... |
135 | 7 | 7 | King-Size Homer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King-Size_Homer | Unhappy with the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant's new exercise program, Homer decides to get on workman's comp by purposely gaining 61 pounds. He succeeds in his goal and is able to work at home. He spends a lot of his time goofing off and tries to go see a movie. When he is turned away because of his weight, Homer re... | Mr. Burns organizes a compulsory morning calisthenics program at the nuclear power plant, to Homer's dismay. After learning that an employee who is disabled can work from home through worker's compensation, Homer unsuccessfully tries to injure himself. Upon learning that employees who weigh 300 pounds (140 kg) or more ... |
136 | 7 | 8 | Mother Simpson | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Simpson | On a Saturday morning Homer fakes his death in order to get out of working at Mr. Burns garbage collecting event and is later forced to go to the records office to verify that he is alive. The clerk reveals that Homer's mother is still alive but Homer disagrees and goes to his mother's grave for proof. The grave actual... | After learning that Mr. Burns wants his employees to clean litter from a highway maintained by his company on a Saturday, Homer fakes his own death using a dummy to avoid it. When Marge discovers his scheme the next day, she makes Homer go to the Springfield Hall of Records to explain he is not dead. There, Homer learn... |
137 | 7 | 9 | Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideshow_Bob%27s_Last_Gleaming | Sideshow Bob escapes from his prison guards and steals an atomic bomb at an airshow and threatens to detonate it unless Springfield gets rid of television. The city is forced to obey, but Bart and Lisa discover that Bob is hiding in the Duff blimp and confront him. Bob discovers that Krusty is still broadcasting his sh... | At Springfield Minimum Security Prison, Sideshow Bob is disturbed when he hears the other inmates laughing at the inane antics of Krusty the Clown's television show. Believing that television is a fountain of "mindless drivel" and wanting to rid the world of it, Bob escapes while on work duty at a local Air Force Base.... |
138 | 7 | 10 | The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons_138th_Episode_Spectacular | Troy McClure hosts a special episode of The Simpsons that gives viewers a behind the scenes look at the show. It features clips of the series' beginnings as filler on The Tracey Ullman Show, fan mail readings, a look at the "real" Matt Groening, Simpsons trivia questions and unaired scenes from popular episodes, includ... | Troy McClure hosts the episode, which highlights individual scenes and sequences from throughout the series and offers never-before-seen outtakes. McClure starts the episode by showing a brief presentation of how The Simpsons series was conceived by Matt Groening, James L. Brooks, and Sam Simon. He goes on to present s... |
139 | 7 | 11 | Marge Be Not Proud | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marge_Be_Not_Proud | Bart attempts to shoplift a popular video game at the local Try-N-Save but is caught by the security guard. As a result, the security guard bans Bart from Try-N-Save for rest of his life and threatens him to spend Christmas in juvenile hall if he returns. Bart manages to stop Homer and Marge from finding out, but is la... | As Christmas approaches, Bart wants the new video game Bonestorm, but Marge refuses to buy it because it is too violent, expensive, and distracts children from their school work. Unable to rent it or play Milhouse's copy, Bart visits the local Try-N-Save discount store, where Jimbo Jones and Nelson Muntz convince him t... |
140 | 7 | 12 | Team Homer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Homer | Homer assembles a bowling team consisting of Apu, Moe and Otto so he can play on league nights. He gets the team funding from Mr. Burns during one of his ether-induced hallucinations. The team does well until Mr. Burns discovers that he paid for them and decides to join the team. The team starts losing games but still ... | Homer and his teammates — Moe, Apu and Otto — are unable to afford the $500 fee to join a bowling league. Homer asks his boss to sponsor the team while he is anesthetized, so Mr. Burns unwittingly signs a check. The newly named Pin Pals enter a bowling competition. They beat three teams and move to second place in thei... |
141 | 7 | 13 | Two Bad Neighbors | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Bad_Neighbors | Former president George Bush moves to Springfield and Bart starts to annoy him. One day Bush loses control and spanks Bart after Bart accidentally destroys Bush's newly-typed memoirs and Bush becoming fed up with Bart bothering him too much. Homer, who had been jealous of the attention Bush had been receiving, is outra... | George H. W. Bush and his wife Barbara move into the empty house across the street from the Simpsons and take a liking to Ned Flanders. Although Barbara takes a liking to Bart, Bart's pranks and irreverent spirit annoy George, who spanks the boy after he accidentally shreds his memoirs and trashes the house with his ou... |
142 | 7 | 14 | Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scenes_from_the_Class_Struggle_in_Springfield | Marge finds a fancy Chanel suit at a discount outlet store, and is invited to start spending time at the local country club. Marge immediately fits in but is forced to alter her suit every day so it appears that she is always wearing a new outfit. Meanwhile, Homer discovers that he has a natural talent for golf and is ... | The Simpsons travel to the Ogdenville mall to buy a new television after Grampa breaks their old one. Marge and Lisa visit a discount store, where Marge finds a $2800 Chanel suit on sale for $90. Later Marge encounters an old classmate, Evelyn, at the Kwik-E-Mart. Evelyn is impressed by Marge's fashion sense and invite... |
143 | 7 | 15 | Bart the Fink | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_the_Fink | Bart unintentionally gets Krusty the Clown audited by the IRS after his attempt to obtain his signature by having him sign a check exposed Krusty's illegal tax shelter. When his financial situation worsens, Krusty fakes his death to escape from the public eye. However, Bart and Lisa find him living under an assumed ide... | The Simpson family attends the reading of a distant relative's will and walks away with $100 each. Marge gets Bart and Lisa to open bank accounts to teach them fiscal responsibility, but Bart opens a checking account instead and begins eagerly writing checks for his friends. He soon tries to obtain Krusty the Clown's a... |
144 | 7 | 16 | Lisa the Iconoclast | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_the_Iconoclast | While doing research for an essay, Lisa finds a confession written by town founder Jebediah Springfield revealing that he was a murderous pirate named Hans Sprungfeld who tried to attack George Washington and never cared about the people of Springfield. Homer decides to help Lisa get the message out, but they are arres... | As Springfield celebrates its bicentennial, Miss Hoover assigns Lisa's second-grade class to write an essay on Jebediah Springfield, the town's founder. Meanwhile, Mayor Quimby proclaims Homer the town crier during tryouts for historical figures in the town's upcoming celebration. Because his "criering" is better than ... |
145 | 7 | 17 | Homer the Smithers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_the_Smithers | At the advice of Mr. Burns, Smithers takes a vacation and hires Homer to be his replacement, thinking that Homer could never outshine him. However, Smithers' plan backfires when Homer's incompetence causes Burns to learn how to do things for himself resulting in the now useless Smithers losing his job as Burns' assista... | As employee night at the Springfield drag races ends, Smithers fails to protect Mr. Burns from being harassed by a drunken Lenny. Smithers tries to make amends the next day but again bungles his duties. When he attempts to drown himself in a water cooler, Burns demands he take a vacation once a suitable replacement can... |
146 | 7 | 18 | The Day the Violence Died | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Violence_Died | During a parade celebrating the 75th anniversary of Itchy & Scratchy, Bart meets Chester J. Lampwick, a homeless man who claims that he was the real creator of Itchy and not Roger Meyers as was previously believed. Bart helps the homeless man get royalties, but in doing so bankrupts the studio that produces Itchy & Scr... | During a parade honoring The Itchy & Scratchy Show, Bart meets an elderly homeless man, Chester J. Lampwick, who claims to be the creator of Itchy, the mouse. He insists Roger Meyers Sr., the supposed creator of the characters Itchy & Scratchy, stole his idea. He shows Bart his 1919 animated short, Manhattan Madness, t... |
147 | 7 | 19 | A Fish Called Selma | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fish_Called_Selma | Troy McClure tries to save his dying career and debunk the rumors of his bizarre sexual life, by marrying Marge's sister, Selma. Selma discovers that the marriage is a sham but decides that being a sham wife is okay. However, Troy is informed by his agent that becoming a father will help his career even more but Selma ... | Chief Wiggum stops Troy McClure for reckless driving and notices his driver's license requires him to wear corrective lenses. Because of his vanity, Troy dislikes wearing his glasses. He visits Selma Bouvier at the DMV and offers to take her to dinner if she lets him pass the eye test. After dinner, paparazzi photograp... |
148 | 7 | 20 | Bart on the Road | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_on_the_Road | While stuck at the DMV with Patty and Selma on "Go To Work With Your Parents Day," Bart creates a fake driver's license for himself and uses it to go on a spring break road trip with Milhouse, Nelson, and Martin. Meanwhile, Homer and Lisa bond after spending "Go To Work With Your Parents Day" together and the two have ... | After encountering administrative errors that will require him to begin his vacation one day earlier than expected, Principal Skinner abruptly changes the final day of Springfield Elementary's current school semester to be a "go to work with your parents day". Lisa goes to the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant with Homer... |
149 | 7 | 21 | 22 Short Films About Springfield | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22_Short_Films_About_Springfield | Bart and Milhouse wonder if anything interesting happens to the citizens of Springfield, which leads to a chain of vignettes about the lives of Springfielders including Apu, Mr. Burns, Dr. Nick, Moe, Principal Skinner, Chief Wiggum, Bumblebee Man, Reverend Lovejoy, Cletus, and Comic Book Guy. | The episode is a series of shorts ranging in length from under half a minute to over two and a half minutes, each showing daily life in Springfield, after Bart wonders if anything interesting happens to the town's citizens. |
150 | 7 | 22 | Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raging_Abe_Simpson_and_His_Grumbling_Grandson_in_%27The_Curse_of_the_Flying_Hellfish%27 | The relationship between Grampa and Bart deteriorates and around the same time, one of Grampa's fellow-veterans of World War II dies, leaving Mr. Burns as the only other living member of Grampa's war squad, the Flying Hellfish. In the final days of the war, the unit had discovered several paintings and agreed on a tont... | During Grandparents' Day at Springfield Elementary School, Grampa embarrasses Bart with his tall tales, straining their relationship. At the retirement home, Grampa receives word that Asa Phelps, one of the men who served under his command in the Army during World War II, has died. Grampa and Mr. Burns are now the only... |
151 | 7 | 23 | Much Apu About Nothing | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Much_Apu_About_Nothing | After a bear wanders into Evergreen Terrace, Mayor Quimby is forced to raise taxes so they can pay for a new bear patrol. When the citizens are outraged, Quimby blames illegal immigrants and creates Proposition 24, which will deport them. The family discovers that Apu is in fact an illegal immigrant and decide to help ... | A brown bear roams the streets of Springfield, frightening the townspeople despite its docile and curious, rather than aggressive, behavior. After Homer ignores official advice to remain indoors in order to buy beer, he comes face-to-face with the bear after failing to get into his car via the power line, whereupon the... |
152 | 7 | 24 | Homerpalooza | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homerpalooza | In an attempt to show his kids how hip he is, Homer takes Bart and Lisa to the Hullabalooza music festival where Homer is hired as a sideshow freak who can withstand the force of cannonball blasts. As a result, Homer gets to go on tour with the festival and suddenly finds himself living the high life. As the tour appro... | After Otto destroys the school bus, Homer is forced to carpool several students to school. He is shocked to find all the kids hate the classic rock radio station he listens to. Homer realizes that music from his high school days is no longer considered cool after a hipster at a record store derides it.
Hoping to impre... |
153 | 7 | 25 | Summer of 4 Ft. 2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_4_Ft._2 | At the start of summer, Ned Flanders asks Homer to take care of his beach house in Little Pwagmattasquarmsettport. The family decide to go there and Lisa, realizing that she is not as cool as she thinks, uses the new locale as a chance to rid herself of her nerd image and becomes a surfer girl. She becomes best friends... | On the last day of school, Lisa realizes how unpopular she is when nobody signs her yearbook. Her disappointment grows when she sees students lining up to get Bart's signature. Ned Flanders offers the Simpsons the use of his beach house for the summer. Marge suggests that Bart bring Milhouse and Lisa invite a friend. R... |
154 | 8 | 1 | Treehouse of Horror VII | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treehouse_of_Horror_VII | A Halloween special which is divided into three short stories:The Thing and I – Bart discovers he has an evil twin, who is living in the Simpsons' attic.The Genesis Tub – After intending to prove that sugary drinks will rot teeth, Lisa creates her own miniature universe.Citizen Kang – Kang and Kodos impersonate preside... | Opening
In the kitchen, Homer lights a jack-o'-lantern but ends up lighting his arm on fire. He runs off screaming while the title, "The Simpsons Halloween Special VII" is shown on screen.
"The Thing and I"
Bart and Lisa hear strange noises coming from the attic. They investigate and discover that there is a monster. ... |
155 | 8 | 2 | You Only Move Twice | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Only_Move_Twice | When Homer accepts a new job at the Globex Corporation the Simpson family moves to Cypress Creek. Homer enjoys his new work and his easy-going boss, but is completely unaware that his boss is an evil genius and that the company is a vehicle for international extortion. The rest of the family have trouble settling in Cy... | On his way to work one morning, Smithers is offered a job at the Globex Corporation but refuses. Being the next-longest tenured employee of the plant, Homer gets the job. He informs his family that the new job pays better but involves them moving to Cypress Creek. The family initially opposes the move, but they watch a... |
156 | 8 | 3 | The Homer They Fall | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Homer_They_Fall | When Bart is beaten up by school bullies, Homer takes matters into his own hands. Although Homer is unable to make his point, Moe is impressed by his ability to withstand a beating. Moe talks Homer into becoming a boxer with Moe as his manager. His sole strategy is to let opponents knock themselves out while pounding o... | During the Simpsons' visit to a high-tech gadget store, Bart buys a gimmicky utility belt from Comic Book Guy, who was unsuccessful with his return of the belt to the store. When he shows it off at school the next day, Dolph, Jimbo and Kearney beat him up and steal it. To get the belt back, Homer confronts their father... |
157 | 8 | 4 | Burns, Baby Burns | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burns,_Baby_Burns | A man named Larry's jaw drops when he sees his father Mr. Burns on a train from Yale to Springfield and Larry immediately follows the train. When he arrives at Mr Burns's mansion he identifies himself as Mr. Burns's long lost son. Burns admits that Larry is the result of a one-night stand and accepts him as his own. So... | After attending the annual Harvard–Yale football game, Mr. Burns and Waylon Smithers take a train back to Springfield. When the train makes an unexpected stop, a man named Larry approaches them selling souvenirs. Seeing Burns, he compares his face with an old photo and notes the resemblance. Suddenly, the train pulls a... |
158 | 8 | 5 | Bart After Dark | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_After_Dark | Bart does property damage to a house and Homer makes him do chores to pay for his misdeed. The house turns out to be a burlesque saloon and a group of concerned citizens confront Homer on Bart's work. Marge agrees with the group and joins them in their attempt to oust the saloon from Springfield. In a town hall meeting... | An oil tanker runs aground, spilling millions of gallons of oil on Baby Seal Beach. Lisa begs Marge to help celebrities scrub oil tar from shorebirds and sea mammals. Marge, Lisa and Maggie drive to the beach, leaving Bart and Homer home alone. Soon the house becomes a filthy mess, so Bart goes outside to play with his... |
159 | 8 | 6 | A Milhouse Divided | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Milhouse_Divided | Marge decides to host a dinner party at the Simpson house. They invite their friends to it, but the Van Houtens have a very bad time and argue and fight throughout the night until Luann announces that she wants a divorce. Luann happily settles back to single life with Milhouse, and starts dating an American Gladiator n... | Marge invites the Flanders, the Lovejoys, the Hibberts and the Van Houtens to a dinner party. While the other guests enjoy themselves, Kirk and Luann Van Houten bicker. They get more quarrelsome as the party continues, making the other guests uncomfortable. After a volatile game of Pictionary, Luann demands a divorce. ... |
160 | 8 | 7 | Lisa's Date with Density | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%27s_Date_with_Density | Nelson is punished for vandalizing Superintendent Chalmers' car and has to help Willie around the schoolyard. When Lisa watches Nelson torment Willie, she finds herself attracted to him and decides to try to change Nelson into a better person. Lisa goes on a date with him and they kiss, but when he is later revealed to... | Superintendent Chalmers visits Principal Skinner at Springfield Elementary School to show off his newly purchased 1979 Honda Accord. Chalmers is distraught when he discovers the car's hood ornament is missing. Skinner orders a search of every student's locker which reveals that Nelson Muntz, the school bully, is the cu... |
161 | 8 | 8 | Hurricane Neddy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Neddy | A hurricane strikes through Springfield and spares the Simpsons' home, but destroys only the Flanders' home, forcing them to move into the church basement. The people of Springfield gather to rebuild their house, but when Ned sees the poor workmanship and their failure of rebuilding his house after inspecting their wor... | As Hurricane Barbara approaches Springfield, panicked citizens ransack the Kwik-E-Mart. After the storm, the Simpsons leave their basement to find their home unscathed. However, their next-door neighbor, Ned Flanders, emerges from a heap of rubble to find his house destroyed, forcing the Flanders family to take shelter... |
162 | 8 | 9 | El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Viaje_Misterioso_de_Nuestro_Jomer_(The_Mysterious_Voyage_of_Homer) | Homer begins to hallucinate after eating a dish laced with potent Guatemalan peppers at the chili cook-off. In this hallucination he meets a mystical coyote, which tells him to find his soul mate. After a fight with Marge, he is concerned that she is not really his soul mate. Homer leaves the house and seeks solitude i... | Marge becomes suspiciously cautious by attempting to distract Homer from an unspecified event. She tries to mask an odor by smoking cigarettes in the house, but after stepping outside Homer smells the scent of Springfield's annual chili cook-off. Marge finally admits trying to dissuade Homer from going due to his drunk... |
163 | 8 | 10 | The Springfield Files | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Springfield_Files | Homer walks home one night from Moe's Tavern. On his way he sees an eerie glowing creature. The next day Homer's story is printed in the local newspaper. FBI agents Mulder and Scully read the story and go to Springfield to investigate this X-file. After talking with Homer they find his credibility shaky and quickly lea... | In a framing story, Leonard Nimoy is hosting a program about alien encounters, and begins the episode by talking about an "encounter" that occurred in Springfield.
Homer tells Lenny and Carl that they should sneak out of work early and start drinking beer. Homer puts in an old tape of them working into the security ca... |
164 | 8 | 11 | The Twisted World of Marge Simpson | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twisted_World_of_Marge_Simpson | Marge starts a new pretzel franchise after being voted out of the Springfield Investorettes for being too conservative. The Investorettes see this and strike back by getting a falafel van. Homer helps Marge with her business by asking Fat Tony for assistance. Soon the orders pour while the falafel business mysteriously... | The Springfield Investorettes – Maude Flanders, Helen Lovejoy, Agnes Skinner, Luann Van Houten and Edna Krabappel – expel
Marge from their investment group because she is wary of high-risk ventures. The group returns Marge's $500 initial contribution, and Lisa persuades her to use the money to buy a business franchise.... |
165 | 8 | 12 | Mountain of Madness | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_of_Madness | To encourage teamwork, Mr. Burns takes all of his employees to a corporate retreat in the mountains. The employees pair up and Homer becomes Burns's partner. The challenge is to find a cabin on the snowy mountainside. The pair to finish last will be fired. Burns and Homer cheat by using a snowmobile and make it the cab... | During a fire drill at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, the employees panic and fail to evacuate the plant within 15 minutes. Outraged, Mr. Burns announces his workers must compete in a team-building exercise at a snow-covered mountain retreat. Due to a misunderstanding, Homer brings his family along, mistaking the... |
166 | 8 | 13 | Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed_Grunt)cious | Marge is stressed by the demands of motherhood and the Simpsons get a magical British nanny, who floats down from the sky holding an umbrella. The nanny is a miracle worker, who teaches Bart and Lisa how to clean and charms everybody. However, the Simpsons cannot stop living their messy ways and the nanny's spirit gets... | When Marge finds that she is losing her hair at an alarming rate, she visits Dr. Hibbert, who informs her that stress is the cause. The Simpson family decide to hire a nanny to perform housework and childcare while Marge recovers. They are unable to find anyone suitable until a woman glides from the sky with a magical-... |
167 | 8 | 14 | The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Itchy_%26_Scratchy_%26_Poochie_Show | A new character, Poochie, is added to The Itchy & Scratchy Show as an attempt to boost failing ratings. Bart and Lisa convince Homer to audition for the voice of Poochie. He gets the part and makes public appearances with the voice actor behind Itchy and Scratchy. Poochie's debut is not well received and the producers ... | Krusty the Clown threatens to stop broadcasting The Itchy & Scratchy Show because the cartoon causes his ratings to nosedive during that segment of his show. Cartoon producer Roger Meyers convenes a focus group to discover why The Itchy & Scratchy Show has lost its appeal. In the focus group, Lisa explains that the cha... |
168 | 8 | 15 | Homer's Phobia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer%27s_Phobia | The family tries to sell an old heirloom at a collectibles store and strike up a relationship with John, the store owner. The Simpsons invite John over to their house to assess their other belongings and Homer takes a liking to him. Marge then informs Homer that John is gay and he refuses to see him again. Afterwards, ... | The Simpsons need money to pay for a $900 repair after Bart damages the gas line. Marge tries to sell a family heirloom — an "authentic" American Civil War doll — to Cockamamie's, a collectibles shop. Marge is disappointed when John, the shop owner, reveals her precious heirloom is a cheap liquor bottle of little value... |
169 | 8 | 16 | Brother from Another Series | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_from_Another_Series | Sideshow Bob is released from prison and his brother, Cecil, hires him to supervise the construction of a dam. Bart suspects that Bob is up to something and sneaks into his office along with Lisa. There he discovers a suitcase filled with money. Bob enters and explains his innocence, but Bart and Lisa do not believe hi... | While performing live from Springfield Prison, Krusty the Clown encounters Sideshow Bob. Bob talks about the crimes he has committed in the past, including framing Krusty for armed robbery, attempting to kill Selma Bouvier, and attempting to kill Bart Simpson as revenge for Bart exposing Bob's framing of Krusty. Bob is... |
170 | 8 | 17 | My Sister, My Sitter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Sister,_My_Sitter | Lisa wants to start babysitting, but Marge thinks she is too young. Flanders urgently needs a babysitter and Lisa gets her first job. When Flanders gives her a glowing review, she starts to get steady work. Then one evening, Lisa is put in charge of babysitting Bart and Maggie. Bart is outraged and embarks on a series ... | Inspired by The Baby-Sitters Club series of novels, Lisa decides to become a babysitter, but no one takes her seriously because of her age. When Maude is taken hostage in Lebanon, Ned must leave suddenly to get her released. In his haste, he agrees to let Lisa babysit Rod and Todd. Ned puts out the good word for Lisa, ... |
171 | 8 | 18 | Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_vs._the_Eighteenth_Amendment | Alcohol is banned (thanks to a pre-existing law) from Springfield after Bart accidentally gets drunk at a town parade. Rex Banner is appointed to replace Chief Wiggum as police chief to enforce the new laws and stop Fat Tony from smuggling. Rex is successful, but then Homer starts to smuggle alcohol. Eventually, Homer ... | During St. Patrick's Day, Springfield gathers downtown for events, activities, and alcohol. When Bart accidentally gets drunk during the celebration, a prohibitionist movement emerges. The municipal government, not wanting to alienate voters during election season, agrees to consider a ban. They discover that alcohol h... |
172 | 8 | 19 | Grade School Confidential | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_School_Confidential | Seymour Skinner and Edna Krabappel strike up a conversation at a party and take a romantic interest in each other. They try to keep their affair a secret, but Bart sees them kiss. The following day the couple hears Bart telling his classmates about it and silences him by deleting his permanent records. Bart becomes the... | Martin Prince invites his classmates to his birthday party, but it ends badly after most of the partygoers get food poisoning and end up leaving by ambulance due to diseased oysters being served instead of cake. After the party, Bart, who fed his oysters to the Prince family cat, sees Principal Seymour Skinner and Edna... |
173 | 8 | 20 | The Canine Mutiny | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Canine_Mutiny | Bart gets a credit card and buys a well trained new dog called Laddie. When Bart could not pay the balance on the credit card the bank repossesses Laddie. Instead of giving them Laddie, Bart gives the repo men Santa's Little Helper. Feeling guilty, Bart gives Laddie to the police and sets out to find Santa's Little Hel... | When Bart complains he never gets any mail, Marge gives him the family's junk mail. He completes a credit card application under the name of the family dog, Santa's Little Helper. Bart receives a credit card issued to "Santos L. Halper" after the company misreads his application. He goes on a spending spree, buying the... |
174 | 8 | 21 | The Old Man and the Lisa | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Man_and_the_Lisa | Mr. Burns loses his fortune in a bad investment. He is not doing well alone and is committed to the Springfield Retirement Castle. Disgusted by his surroundings, he vows to get his fortune back. He then sees Lisa collecting recyclables and remembers her opposition towards him. He believes that the reason for losing his... | Lisa collects recyclables to earn money for the Junior Achievers Club school trip to Albany. Mr. Burns speaks to the club at Springfield Elementary School, scoffing when Lisa suggests his nuclear power plant start a recycling program. When Burns boasts that he would not be filthy rich if he listened to nature lovers li... |
175 | 8 | 22 | In Marge We Trust | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Marge_We_Trust | Marge is concerned that Reverend Lovejoy does not meet the needs of his parishioners and becomes the new advice giver at the Church. When Marge gains a loyal following, Lovejoy gets concerned that he has become "shepherd without a flock". Meanwhile, Homer finds an old Japanese product, "Mr. Sparkle", a dish-washing det... | After Reverend Lovejoy's sermon bores his congregation, Marge voices her concern over his lack of enthusiasm about helping people. Lovejoy explains that his passion faded as he dealt with Ned Flanders's constant trivial problems since the first day he served as Springfield's reverend. Marge begins working for the Churc... |
176 | 8 | 23 | Homer's Enemy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer%27s_Enemy | Frank Grimes, a new employee at the Nuclear Power Plant, is a hard-working man who has never been given a break in his life. At work, he meets Homer and takes an instant dislike to his poor job performance and attitude. Homer tries to win Grimes' approval by inviting him over for a family dinner. When Grimes sees Homer... | After spending most of his life alone and working hard to make ends meet, Frank Grimes is hired at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant after Mr. Burns learns of Frank's hardship in a human-interest story on the local news. Originally scouted to become the SNPP's Executive Vice-President, Frank is later assigned to Sect... |
177 | 8 | 24 | The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons_Spin-Off_Showcase | Troy McClure hosts a show which features three ideas for spin-offs to The Simpsons:Chief Wiggum, P.I. – Chief Wiggum and Seymour Skinner are detectives in New Orleans.The Love-Matic Grampa – Grampa's soul is contained in Moe's Love Tester machine.The Simpson Family Smile-Time Variety Hour – The Simpsons host a 70s vari... | Troy McClure hosts a television special from the "Museum of TV and Television" introducing three spin-off productions, created using characters from The Simpsons. The Fox network has only three programmes — The Simpsons, The X Files and Melrose Place — prepared for the next broadcasting season, and so commissions the ... |
178 | 8 | 25 | The Secret War of Lisa Simpson | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_War_of_Lisa_Simpson | Bart is enrolled in a military school after unintentionally pranking the whole town. After seeing the school, Lisa decides she wants to join too. Lisa is the first female cadet and therefore gets to stay in her own private barracks. This move creates resentment among the boys at the facility and Bart refuses to speak t... | After a day watching mind-numbing videos in class, Lisa worries that her education is not challenging enough. Bart's class goes on a field trip to the Springfield Police Department, where Bart finds a room with several megaphones. By placing them all end-to-end and speaking into one, he amplifies his voice enough to cr... |
179 | 9 | 1 | The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_of_New_York_vs._Homer_Simpson | Homer allows Barney to use his car when Barney is picked to be the designated driver for that night at Moe's Tavern. However, Barney disappears for two months with the car, and returns without it. Homer searches for his car, and eventually receives a letter from the City of New York. The family is excited to go there t... | At Moe's Tavern, Moe informs Homer and his friends that one of them must be a designated driver, and Barney loses the choosing draw. After Barney drives the drunken men home in Homer's car, Homer allows him to use it to drive himself home, expecting Barney to return it the following morning. In his distressed state, Ba... |
180 | 9 | 2 | The Principal and the Pauper | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Principal_and_the_Pauper | When a celebration is held at Springfield Elementary to honor his 20 years as principal, Principal Skinner is revealed to be an impostor when the real Principal, Sgt. Principal Skinner, shows up. The principal's real name is revealed to be Armin Tamzarian, an orphan from Capital City. Armin soon leaves to return to Cap... | On the eve of his 20th anniversary as school principal (since this episode debuted in 1997, this implies that Skinner was inaugurated as principal in 1977), Seymour Skinner is lured by his mother to Springfield Elementary School for a surprise party. The celebration goes well until a strange man arrives, claiming to be... |
181 | 9 | 3 | Lisa's Sax | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%27s_Sax | After being disrupted by Lisa's saxophone practice, Bart gets into a fight with Lisa, ultimately causing her saxophone to be thrown out the window and run over by a Woolworth's truck, flattening it. Lisa is depressed when her sax is flattened. Trying to console her, Homer shares the story of how she got her saxophone. ... | Homer and Bart are watching the Warner Bros. Network on television when they are interrupted by Lisa playing her saxophone in her bedroom. Bart enters Lisa's bedroom and tries to grab the saxophone from her, but he inadvertently tosses it out the window. It lands in the middle of the street and is run over by traffic a... |
182 | 9 | 4 | Treehouse of Horror VIII | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treehouse_of_Horror_VIII | A Halloween special which is divided into three short stories:The HΩmega Man – After the French strike Springfield with a nuclear bomb, Homer discovers that he is the only one who survived the attack, until mutants come after him.Fly Vs. Fly – Bart uses Professor Frink's teleporter to turn himself into a fly.Easy Bake ... | Opening
A censor for the Fox network named Fox Censor is sitting at his desk going through the show's script, censoring some things and explaining to the audience that the episode is rated TV-G with no violence or anything explicit. As he continues talking, a hand reaches with a sword from the rating and stabs him many... |
183 | 9 | 5 | The Cartridge Family | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cartridge_Family | After a large soccer riot leads to an extended period of mob rule throughout Springfield, Homer decides to forgo an expensive security system in favor of a gun. As Marge disapproves of a gun in the house, Homer takes her to an NRA meeting to sell her on the concept. Marge's objections continue, finally forcing Homer to... | A football riot breaks out in Springfield after a boring match between Mexico and Portugal. Fearing for her family's safety, Marge tells Homer to buy a Home Security System, but after learning it would cost $500, he buys a handgun instead. After a five-day waiting period per the Brady Act (after which he is deemed "Pot... |
184 | 9 | 6 | Bart Star | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Star | When the children of Springfield are deemed to be overweight, many parents place their children in the peewee football team, including Bart. Ned is the coach of the team, until he quits after Homer's heckling, which ultimately leads to Homer being the new coach. While being tough on Bart originally, Homer realizes how ... | Following a health convention held in Springfield, the town's children, including Bart, are deemed to be overweight. To help them stay in shape, their parents enroll them in pee-wee football. The coach, Ned Flanders, keeps the team undefeated, but Homer heckles him relentlessly. Ned finally snaps and turns the job over... |
185 | 9 | 7 | The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Mrs._Nahasapeemapetilons | After Marge enters Apu into a bachelor auction, many women find an interest in him. However, Apu soon receives a letter from his mother, regarding the arranged marriage he is supposed to have. He does not want to marry the stranger, and following the advice of Homer, tells his mother that he is already married. Curious... | At a bachelor auction, the available bachelors on display are deemed undesirable, and the auction generates no money at all. Marge then nominates Apu, who is deemed a success by the women at the auction. He goes out on dates with many of the town's women, and begins to enjoy his bachelor lifestyle. However, he receives... |
186 | 9 | 8 | Lisa the Skeptic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_the_Skeptic | Lisa discovers that a shopping mall is going to be built at a site where prehistoric fossils were found. Afraid of there being more prehistoric items at the site, Lisa complains to the developers and starts an archaeological survey at the site. Late into the dig, Lisa unearths a skeleton with bones that resemble wings,... | Homer attempts to claim a motorboat from a "police raffle" that turns out to be a sting operation. While returning home, the family passes a new mall being built on an area where a number of fossils were found. Lisa protests and the management allows Springfield Elementary to conduct an archaeological survey. During th... |
187 | 9 | 9 | Realty Bites | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realty_Bites | Homer takes Marge to a police-seized property auction, where he buys a Lil' Bandit. On the ride home, Marge decides to walk because of Homer's erratic driving in the new car. She runs into Lionel Hutz, who is now a realtor. Interested, Marge takes a test to become one, and soon works for a realtor company, Red Blazer R... | After Marge complains about the family spending their weekends idly at home, Homer drags her to a police seized-property auction. While there, he buys Snake's car, the Li'l Bandit. Upon seeing this, Snake vows to kill Homer. After the auction, insisting on walking home rather than ride in Homer's new dangerous hotrod, ... |
188 | 9 | 10 | Miracle on Evergreen Terrace | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_on_Evergreen_Terrace | On Christmas morning, Bart wakes up earlier than the rest of the family and goes to open his presents. After playing with a remote control firetruck, Bart accidentally starts a fire, causing the plastic Christmas tree and the presents to melt. Bart hides the melted mess, but when the rest of the Simpson family wakes up... | Homer and Marge go Christmas shopping at a Try-N-Save megastore, where frenzied shoppers are snatching the holiday season's most popular toys. Homer, posing as a store cashier, buys toys that customers tried to buy from him.
At bedtime on Christmas Eve, the family makes last-minute preparations at home, Marge tells ev... |
189 | 9 | 11 | All Singing, All Dancing | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Singing,_All_Dancing | Homer goes out and rents a western movie to watch with his family on the VCR. However, the movie turns out to be a musical, which disgusts Homer. The family reminds Homer of the past times that he has sung and danced in enjoyment, and soon, the family is singing and dancing themselves. Snake enters the house through a ... | Homer and Bart rent the film Paint Your Wagon, expecting it to be a shoot-em-up Western. Homer is dismayed to find out that it is actually a musical, and expresses his distaste for such films. Marge is baffled by this, saying that he ironically loves singing. The family starts delivering their dialogue in song form, an... |
190 | 9 | 12 | Bart Carny | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Carny | While the family is at a traveling carnival, Bart accidentally crashes Adolf Hitler's car. To pay off the debts, Homer and Bart get jobs at the carnival by helping with the booths and exhibits, where they befriend Cooder and Spud, a father-and-son carny team. Homer causes their booth to get shut down, when he does not ... | When Marge unsuccessfully tries to get the kids to clean up the backyard, Homer runs into the house to exclaim to the family that the carnival is in town. After trying some rides, Bart gets himself into trouble by crashing a display of Hitler's limousine into a tree. To repay the loss, Bart and Homer become carnies.
T... |
191 | 9 | 13 | The Joy of Sect | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joy_of_Sect | After encountering two recruiters of a sect called "The Movementarians", Homer attends a session that teaches about their sect, where he is brainwashed to join. Homer moves the entire family to their compound, where the entire family, except Marge, is brainwashed. Marge escapes through a dangerous getaway, and finds Re... | While at the airport, Bart and Homer meet recruiters for the Movementarians, a new religious movement, who invite Homer and many other Springfield residents to a free weekend at their compound. There, an orientation film tells that a mysterious man known as "The Leader" will guide Movementarians aboard a spaceship to t... |
192 | 9 | 14 | Das Bus | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Bus | As the students of Springfield Elementary are being driven to a model UN conference, Otto drives the bus off a bridge after his brake pedal is blocked by a grapefruit. To obtain help, Otto swims off, while the kids are still in the bus. Soon, when the bus is nearly full of water, the kids manage to escape and swim to a... | The Springfield Elementary School Model United Nations club is going on a field trip. On the bus, Bart, Nelson, Ralph, and Milhouse play a game by racing fruit down the aisle, which ends with Milhouse rolling a grapefruit that gets stuck under the bus's brake pedal. When Otto tries to press down on the pedal, it squirt... |
193 | 9 | 15 | The Last Temptation of Krust | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Temptation_of_Krust | After a rude awakening to his own hackneyed and dated comedy act, Krusty does some heavy drinking and wakes up in front of the Flanders' house. Bart takes him inside his house and into his room, where Krusty, looking at all the Krusty merchandise, realizes that he has sold out instead of focusing on comedy. Bart invite... | Krusty the Clown is persuaded by Bart Simpson to appear at a comedy festival organized by Jay Leno. Krusty's outdated and offensive material fails to impress the audience when compared with the trendier comedians also appearing. Discouraged by a negative review of his act, Krusty goes on a bender and passes out on Ned ... |
194 | 9 | 16 | Dumbbell Indemnity | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbbell_Indemnity | After several unsuccessful attempts at getting a girlfriend, Moe finally gets one after walking away from a disco with Homer. The woman, Renee, surprisingly finds Moe attractive, resulting in Moe treating her lavishly. After spending too much, Moe's credit card maxes out, causing him to become desperate for money. He s... | With Moe Szyslak depressed at having gone four years without a date, Homer takes him to meet a woman at Stu's Disco, but he fails to do so. Further resigned to his misery, Moe starts a conversation with a flower vendor named Renee and ends up asking her out. Moe and Renee seem to form a strong relationship, but Moe is ... |
195 | 9 | 17 | Lisa the Simpson | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_the_Simpson | Soon after being unable to solve a brain-teaser that several others at school were able to solve, and forgetting some of her day to day tasks, Lisa learns from Grampa that the Simpsons have a long history of losing their intelligence in late childhood. Lisa soon realizes that she cannot escape genetics, and accepts tha... | At Springfield Elementary, Lisa is presented with a brain teaser featuring strange hieroglyphs, which she is unable to solve. Following this incident, Lisa finds herself unable to perform simple tasks. Later, Lisa tells Grampa about her recent cognitive problems. He seems to recognize this, and tells Lisa about the "Si... |
196 | 9 | 18 | This Little Wiggy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Little_Wiggy | When Marge realizes that Ralph Wiggum has no friends, she volunteers Bart to be his friend. Initially unwilling, Bart discovers that Ralph's father, Chief Wiggum, owns a key that opens every lock in Springfield. The two go out at night and open many places to have fun, but soon encounter bullies Nelson, Dolph, Jimbo, a... | At a science museum the family is visiting, Bart runs into Ralph Wiggum, who is in the process of being pushed into a giant ear by Kearney, Jimbo, Nelson, and Dolph. When Ralph is freed by a museum employee, Marge and Chief Wiggum are there to meet him. Marge observes that Ralph has a vivid imagination and learns that ... |
197 | 9 | 19 | Simpson Tide | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson_Tide | Homer is fired from the Nuclear Power Plant following a near meltdown, and decides to join the Naval Reserve. Meanwhile, Bart decides to get an earring. Homer graduates from basic training, and must go off on a mission of war games, but not before taking Bart's earring, which he disapproves of. Later, on the submarine,... | After Homer nearly causes the nuclear plant to go into meltdown by putting a doughnut into the reactor core to enlarge it, he is fired by Mr. Burns. While at home he sees a recruitment advertisement on television for the Naval Reserve and decides to enlist, with Moe, Barney, and Apu deciding to join him. Meanwhile, Bar... |
198 | 9 | 20 | The Trouble with Trillions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trouble_with_Trillions | Forgetting to do his annual income taxes until the night they are due, Homer rushes to fill out his forms with false information. Soon after, he is arrested for tax fraud, but makes a deal to work for the FBI for immunity from the IRS's prosecutions. After a successful operation made by Homer, the FBI decides to have H... | All of Springfield celebrates the arrival of the New Year except for Ned Flanders, who instead focuses on filing his tax returns. A few months later, as all of Springfield rushes to send out their returns just before midnight on April 15, Homer realizes he did not file his. He rushes and provides false information befo... |
199 | 9 | 21 | Girly Edition | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girly_Edition | Lisa becomes a news anchor of a children's news segment on the "Krusty the Clown Show" when the channel discovers that it requires some educational programming. Meanwhile, Bart destroys Groundskeeper Willie's shack after he takes away Bart's skateboard. Later, Marge makes Lisa allow Bart to be the sports anchor, but af... | After Groundskeeper Willie takes away Bart's skateboard for destroying his leaf pile, Bart gets revenge on Willie by filling up his shack with creamed corn as he is sleeping, destroying it. As Willie is taken away for medical attention, he swears his own revenge on Bart. Meanwhile, Krusty the Clown's show comes under c... |
200 | 9 | 22 | Trash of the Titans | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trash_of_the_Titans | When Homer is unable to take all of his trash to the curb, barely missing the garbage truck, Homer insults the garbage men, leading the family to have their garbage collection service cut off. After the house collects a huge amount of trash, Marge writes an apology letter to the sanitary commission, signing with Homer'... | Local department store Costington's launches a new August holiday called Love Day intended to boost summer sales. The Simpsons celebrate it, but the vast amount of packaging and unwanted gifts it produces causes the garbage to build up. When Homer Simpson overloads the trash and is forced to take it out, he fails to ma... |
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