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Season 9
179 :09x01 - The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson (Sep/21/1997)
When Barney steals Homer's car and leaves it illegally parked between the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, Homer and his family are forced to go to the Big Apple to retrieve it.
Guest Stars: Tress MacNeille as Various, Kipp Lennon as Musical Star
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Ian Maxtone-Graham
 
180 :09x02 - The Principal and the Pauper (Sep/28/1997)
During Principal Skinner's 20th anniversary party at Springfield Elementary, a man named Sgt. Seymour Skinner, shows up, claiming Principal Skinner stole his identity. When Principal Skinner reveals that his real name is Armin Tamzarian and that he assumed Sgt. Skinner's identity when Sgt. Skinner was thought to have died, Armin/Seymour resigns as principal and heads back to Capitiol City.
Guest Stars: Tress MacNeille as Agnes Skinner, Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel, Martin Sheen as Sergeant Seymour Skinner, Maggie Roswell as Miss Hoover, Joan Kenley as Telephone Lady
Director: Steven Dean Moore (1)
Writer: Ken Keeler
 
181 :09x03 - Lisa's Sax (Oct/19/1997)
After Lisa's saxophone gets run over in a freak accident, a walk down memory lane reveals the sad story of how Bart became a troublemaker, how Lisa's talent for music manifested itself, and how Homer gave up his air conditioner money to buy Lisa her saxophone.
Guest Stars: Doris Grau as Lunchlady Doris, Fyvush Finkel as Himself, as Krusty, Pamela Hayden as Jimbo, Milhouse, Maggie Roswell as Miss Tillingham
Director: Dominic Polcino
Writer: Al Jean
 
182 :09x04 - Treehouse of Horror VIII (Oct/26/1997)
Three new yucky Halloween yarns from your favorite yellow family:

The H?mega Man – The French launch a nuclear attack against Springfield after Mayor Quimby cracks an offensive joke about frog's legs. Everyone in town dies--except for Homer who was in a bomb shelter. Homer enjoys life as the last man alive...until zombies come after him.
Fly Vs. Fly – Bart uses Professor Frink's teleporter to turn himself into a fly while the mutant fly takes over Bart's human body.
Easy Bake Coven – In a Puritan town in 1649, Goody Marge is accused of witchcraft after three other women are burned at the stake. When the accusations prove true, Marge runs away to her sisters' cave and the three plot to eat the town's children--which inadvertantly becomes the story of how Halloween was invented.
Guest Stars: Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel, Maggie Roswell as Maude Flanders, Tress MacNeille as Agnes Skinner
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Mike Scully, David X. Cohen (1), Ned Goldreyer
 
183 :09x05 - The Cartridge Family (Nov/02/1997)
When a riot erupts at a Continental Soccer Association match, Homer buys a gun to protect his family, but his reckless handling of the weapon causes yet another rift in his marriage to Marge when Marge and the kids abandon him.
Guest Stars: Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Tress MacNeille as Agnes Skinner
Director: Pete Michels (1)
Writer: John Swartzwelder
 
184 :09x06 - Bart Star (Nov/09/1997)
Springfield starts a pee-wee football team to combat childhood obesity. Flanders is chosen as the team captain, but Homer's constant heckling leads to Homer himself becoming coach--and less-talented Bart to be the quarterback instead of the infinitely-better Nelson Muntz.
Guest Stars: Russi Taylor as Martin, Sherri, Terri, Uter, Maggie Roswell as Luann Van Houten, Maude Flanders, Pamela Hayden as Rod, Janey, Joe Namath as Himself, Roy Firestone as Himself, Mike Judge as Hank Hill
Director: Dominic Polcino
Writer: Donick Cary
 
185 :09x07 - The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons (Nov/16/1997)
Apu's life as a swinging bachelor comes to an end when he receives a letter from his mother, who reminds Apu that he was arranged to be married to a woman named Manjula.
Guest Stars: Jan Hooks as Manjula, Andrea Martin as Apu's Mother, Maggie Roswell as Luann, Miss Hoover, Ruth Powers
Director: Steven Dean Moore (1)
Writer: Richard Appel
 
186 :09x08 - Lisa the Skeptic (Nov/23/1997)
During an archeological dig in Sabertooth Meadow, the students of Springfield Elementary School unearth a strange skeleton of what appears to be a winged human. Everyone in town believes that it's an angel's skeleton, but the ever-logical Lisa doesn't think so. As she tries to find out the skeleton's origins, Homer exploits the miracle by charging people to see it--and things get really scary when the angel skeleton predicts that the end of the world will come.
Guest Stars: Maggie Roswell as Miss Hoover, Tress MacNeille as Agnes, Dolph, Jimbo, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel, Phil Hartman as Lionel Hutz, Stephen Jay Gould (1) as Himself
Director: Neil Affleck
Writer: David X. Cohen (1)
 
187 :09x09 - Realty Bites (Dec/07/1997)
Marge pursues a new career in real estate sales while Homer is pursued by Snake after Homer wins Snake's 1968 Ford Thunderbird at a police auction.
Guest Stars: Phil Hartman as Lionel Hutz, Pamela Hayden as Rod Flanders, Tress MacNeille as Cookie Kwan, Maggie Roswell as Maude Flanders
Director: Swinton O. Scott, III
Writer: Dan Greaney
 
188 :09x10 - Miracle on Evergreen Terrace (Dec/21/1997)
When Bart accidentally destroys his family's Christmas tree and all the presents underneath it on Christmas morning, he lies and says that he saw a burglar steal their stuff. While the town pours their hearts and wallets out to The Simpsons, Bart feels more guilty and finally tells the truth, leading The Simpsons to be pariahs in their own town.
Guest Stars: Maggie Roswell as Miss Hoover, Tress MacNeille as Various, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel, Alex Trebek as Himself
Director: Bob Anderson (1)
Writer: Ron Hauge
 
189 :09x11 - All Singing, All Dancing (Jan/04/1998)
When Homer accidentally rents a Paint Your Wagon-esque musical western, the rest of The Simpson family take a look back at all the show's musical moments, from Apu's "Who Needs the Kwik-E-Mart" to Lionel Lanley's "Monorail" song--and resident criminal Snake does the viewers a favor by holding the family hostage to keep them from singing any further.
Guest Stars: Tress MacNeille as Various, Phil Hartman as Lyle Lanley, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, George Harrison as Himself
Director: Mark Ervin
Writer: Steve O'Donnell (2)
 
190 :09x12 - Bart Carny (Jan/11/1998)
Bart and Homer get jobs working for a carnival after Bart wrecks Adolf Hitler's car. While there, they befriend Cooder and his son Spud. The friendship takes a turn for the worse when Cooder and Spud are forced to move in with the Simpsons after Homer's stupidity cost them their ring toss booth/house.
Guest Stars: Jim Varney as Cooder, Pamela Hayden as Various, Tress MacNeille as Agnes Skinner
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: John Swartzwelder
 
191 :09x13 - The Joy of Sect (Feb/08/1998)
Homer gets brainwashed into joining a cult called "The Movementarians", but Marge wants out when she sees what it's doing to her family. Meanwhile, Mr. Burns tries to set up a cult of his own.
Guest Stars: Tress MacNeille as Dolph, Jimbo, Pamela Hayden as Janey
Director: Steven Dean Moore (1)
Writer: Steve O'Donnell (2)
 
192 :09x14 - Das Bus (Feb/15/1998)
The children of Springfield Elementary School get stranded on a desert island on the way to a Model United Nations session. Meanwhile, Homer starts up his own Internet company, despite not knowing what The Internet is and having no discernible business plan.
Guest Stars: Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Russi Taylor as Lewis, Martin, Sherri, Terri, Wendell, Phil Hartman as Troy McClure, James Earl Jones (1) as Narrator
Director: Pete Michels (1)
Writer: David X. Cohen (1)
 
193 :09x15 - The Last Temptation of Krusty (Feb/22/1998)
Krusty bombs out at a comedy festival with hopelessly out-of-date material. After a hard drinking binge, Krusty's friends, Bart and Jay Leno, help re-invent the clown as a cynical, Bill Hicks-meets-Dennis Miller-meets-George Carlin-style comedian who isn't afraid to tell it like it is.
Guest Stars: Marcia Wallace as Reporter, Hank Williams, Jr. as Himself, Bruce Baum as Himself, Bobcat Goldthwait as Himself, Steven Wright (1) as Himself, Jay Leno as Himself, Janeane Garofalo as Herself
Director: Mike B. Anderson (1)
Writer: Donick Cary
 
194 :09x16 - Dumbbell Indemnity (Mar/01/1998)
Moe falls in love with a beautiful woman named Renee, but Moe soon realizes that he needs money to keep the romance going, so he recruits Homer into committing insurance fraud on his car.
Guest Stars: Helen Hunt as Renee, Marcia Wallace as Woman in Bar, Tress MacNeille as Various
Director: Dominic Polcino
Writer: Ron Hauge
 
195 :09x17 - Lisa the Simpson (Mar/08/1998)
When Lisa is unable to figure out a simple brain teaser, Grampa Simpson tells Lisa that she is genetically predisposed to lose her intelligence at a young age, just like Homer, Bart, and Grampa himself. Meanwhile, Apu turns his Kwik-E-Mart into a carnival sideshow after Jasper locks himself in the grocery freezer in order to stay alive in the future.
Director: Susie Dietter
Writer: Ned Goldreyer
 
196 :09x18 - This Little Wiggy (Mar/22/1998)
While enjoying the day at a hands-on science museum, Marge notices that Chief Wiggum's son, Ralph, has no friends and sets him up with Bart, who at first doesn't like Ralph, but soon warms up to him when Bart finds all of Chief Wiggum's police equipment.
Guest Stars: Pamela Hayden as Jimbo, Milhouse, Tress MacNeille as Dolph, Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel, Phil Hartman as Troy McClure
Director: Neil Affleck
Writer: Dan Greaney
 
197 :09x19 - Simpson Tide (Mar/29/1998)
After once again getting fired from the nuclear plant, Homer joins the Naval Reserve (with Moe, Barney, and Apu joining him as well).
Guest Stars: Bob Denver as Himself, Michael Carrington (1) as Drill Sargeant, Himself, Pamela Hayden as Jimbo, Milhouse, Rod Steiger as Captain Tenille
Director: Milton Gray
Writer: Jeffrey Ventimilia, Joshua Sternin
 
198 :09x20 - The Trouble With Trillions (Apr/05/1998)
In order to avoid an audit, Homer serves as an IRS spy in a sting operation targeting Mr. Burns (who was charged with embezzling a trillion dollars that would have gone to help ravaged European cities after World War II), but after hearing Mr. Burns's rant on how wasteful the American government is when it comes to money, Homer joins his boss and Smithers in fleeing to Cuba.
Guest Stars: Paul Winfield as Lucius Sweet, Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel, Maggie Roswell as Maude Flanders, Tress MacNeille as Various
Director: Swinton O. Scott, III
Writer: Ian Maxtone-Graham
 
199 :09x21 - Girly Edition (Apr/19/1998)
A children's news show is airing on TV (after executives feel that children aren't learning anything from watching Itchy and Scratchy reruns). Lisa is chosen to be the head anchorwoman, but it's Bart and his trite human-interest stories who steal the show. Meanwhile, Homer adopts a monkey and trains it to do menial tasks for him, but ends up making it a fat, drunken slob.
Guest Stars: Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Tress MacNeille as Crazy Cat Lady
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Larry Doyle
 
200 :09x22 - Trash of the Titans (Apr/26/1998)
After a spat with some garbage men, Homer decides to run for the position of Sanitation Commissioner. He takes on the current commissioner, Ray Patterson, who is endorsed by the members of U2, and wins the election by making wild campaign promises.
Guest Stars: Maggie Roswell as Costingtons Woman, Steve Martin as Ray Patterson, U2 as Themselves, Pamela Hayden as Rod Flanders
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Ian Maxtone-Graham
 
201 :09x23 - King of the Hill (May/03/1998)
After Homer humiliates Bart during a game of Capture the Flag, Homer decides to buckle down and start working out. Soon, he becomes fit--and the perfect spokesman for a publicity stunt by a health food company.
Guest Stars: Joe Mantegna as Fat Tony, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Rod Flanders, Brendan Fraser as Brad, Steven Weber as Neil
Director: Steven Dean Moore (1)
Writer: John Swartzwelder
 
202 :09x24 - Lost Our Lisa (May/10/1998)
When Lisa cons Homer into letting her ride the bus alone to the Springsonian Museum for the "Treasures of Isis" exhibit, she gets lost along the way. Meanwhile, Bart gets sent to the hospital after using ultra-strength glue to stick novelty items on his face.
Guest Stars: Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Tress MacNeille as Agnes, Brandine
Director: Pete Michels (1)
Writer: Brian Scully
 
203 :09x25 - Natural Born Kissers (May/17/1998)
In this incredibly revealing episode, Homer and Marge try once again to spark up their waning love life, only to learn that they can only get turned on by having sex in public. Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa fool around with Grampa's metal detector and find a film reel containing the lost ending to Casablanca.
Director: Klay Hall
Writer: Matt Selman
 
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