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Season 1 | | | | | | | | | |
| 4 :01x04 - There's No Disgrace Like Home (Jan/28/1990) | | After an embarrassing experience at his company picnic, Homer begins to wonder if his family is too dysfunctional. Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie attend family therapy sessions with Dr. Marvin Monroe, an unorthodox psychotherapist who uses shock therapy to "cure" them. | Directors: Kent Butterworth, Gregg Vanzo
Writer: Mike Reiss, Al Jean | | Songs: Dean Martin -- Pour The Wine | | | |
| 5 :01x05 - Bart the General (Feb/04/1990) | | After defending Lisa from school bully Nelson Muntz, Bart becomes Nelson's latest target. Sick of the harassment and torment, Bart, Grampa Simpson, and Herman (a slightly deranged military antique store dealer with a missing arm) rally the town's children into fighting back against Nelson and his cronies. | | Guest Stars: Susan Blu as Weasel #1 | Director: David Silverman (1)
Writer: John Swartzwelder | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 10 :01x10 - Homer's Night Out (Mar/25/1990) | | Using his toy spy camera, Bart captures Homer drunkenly dancing with a stripper named Princess Kashmir and Xeroxes copies of the picture all over town--which gets Homer in trouble with Marge, not because he hung out with a stripper, but because Bart may see it as a sign that it's okay to treat women like sex objects. | | Guest Stars: Maggie Roswell as Princess Kashmir | Director: Rich Moore (1)
Writer: Jon Vitti | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Season 2 |
| 14 :02x01 - Bart Gets an F (Oct/11/1990) | | After failing one too many tests, Mrs. Krabappel and Dr. J. Loren Pryor (from "Bart the Genius") conclude that Bart may have to repeat the fourth grade if his grades don't improve. Bart desperately enlists the help of school brainiac Martin Prince, but when that backfires, Bart wishes for a snow day so he can have more time to study. | | Guest Stars: Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel, Russi Taylor as Martin Prince | Director: David Silverman (1)
Writer: David M. Stern | | | |
| 15 :02x02 - Simpson and Delilah (Oct/18/1990) | | When Homer gets an experimental hair treatment, he grows a shaggy new mane. Marge finds the new Homer sexy and Mr. Burns mistakes his most incompetent employee for a hungry up-and-comer and promotes him, but a jealous Smithers discovers the secret behind Homer's new hair. | | Guest Stars: Harvey Fierstein as Karl | Director: Rich Moore (1)
Writer: Jon Vitti | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 21 :02x08 - Bart the Daredevil (Dec/06/1990) | | At a Monster Truck event, Bart spots his hero Captain Lance Murdock, a daredevil who attempts to jump his motorcycle over a tank filled with great white sharks, electric eels, piranhas, alligators, a ferocious lion and one drop of blood that drives all the wild animals insane. Inspired to follow in Murdock's footsteps, Bart attempts increasingly risky skateboard jumps until he sets his sights on Springfield Gorge. | Director: Wesley Archer
Writer: Wallace Wolodarsky, Jay Kogen | | | |
| 22 :02x09 - Itchy & Scratchy & Marge (Dec/20/1990) | | After Maggie hits Homer on the head with a mallet, Marge discovers that The Itchy and Scratchy Show is a bad influence on kids and forms a pro-censorship brigade, which doesn't last when the brigade wants to attack Michaelangelo's David for glorifying nudity and Marge refuses. | | Guest Stars: Alex Rocco as Rodger Meyers Jr., Maggie Roswell as Maude Flanders | Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: John Swartzwelder | | | |
| 23 :02x10 - Bart Gets Hit by a Car (Jan/10/1991) | | After consulting crooked attorney Lionel Hutz, Homer and Marge attempt to sue Mr. Burns for a million dollars after Burns hits Bart with his car. Burns is prepared to settle for $500,000, but promptly withdraws the offer when he discovers that the Simpsons have exaggerated Bart's injuries. | | Guest Stars: Phil Hartman as Lionel Hutz | Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: John Swartzwelder | | | | | | |
| 25 :02x12 - The Way We Was (Jan/31/1991) | | When the TV breaks down, Marge and Homer decide to tell their children a story. After refusing to tell the story of how Bart was born (which would later be seen in season 3's "I Married Marge"), they decide to tell the story of how Homer and Marge met in high school--and how Marge almost went out with a nerd named Artie Ziff. | | Guest Stars: Jon Lovitz as Artie Ziff, Mr. Seckofsky | Director: David Silverman (1)
Writer: Sam Simon, Mike Reiss, Al Jean | | Songs: Barry White -- Can't Get Enough, The Carpenters -- Close To You, Chicago -- Color My World, Van McCoy -- Do The Hustle, Elton John -- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Al Green -- How Do You Mend A Broken Heart?, Steve Miller Band -- The Joker, Ray Stevens -- The Streak | | | | | | |
| 27 :02x14 - Principal Charming (Feb/14/1991) | | Marge enlists Homer's help to find Aunt Selma a husband--and ends up pairing Principal Skinner with Aunt Patty. Meanwhile, Bart gets in trouble for using sodium tetrasulfate (a potent herbicide) to spell his name out in the grass and gets sentenced to reseed the field. | Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: David M. Stern | | | |
| 28 :02x15 - Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? (Feb/21/1991) | | After Grampa Simpson has a heart attack at the movie theater, he calls Homer and tells him a dark family secret: Homer has an illegitimate half-brother named Herb that was given up for adoption before Grampa married Homer's mother. The Simpsons soon find out that Herb is a wealthy automobile company executive in search of a new idea, and unwittingly enlists Homer to design a new car. | | Guest Stars: Maggie Roswell as Mona Simpson, Danny DeVito as Herb Powell | Director: Wesley Archer
Writer: Jeff Martin (1) | | | |
| 29 :02x16 - Bart's Dog Gets an F (Mar/07/1991) | | After Santa's Little Helper gets in trouble for destroying Homer's new sneakers, Homer's large macadamia nut cookie, and Marge's heirloom quilt, Bart enrolls the dog into an obedience school, which Santa's Little Helper must pass if he wants to continue being The Simpsons' pet. | | Guest Stars: Frank Welker as Santa's Little Helper, Phil Hartman as Troy McClure, Tracey Ullman as Emily Winthrop | Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Jon Vitti | | | |
| 30 :02x17 - Old Money (Mar/28/1991) | | Grandpa Simpson falls in love with Bea Simmons, a fellow resident of the Springfield Retirement Castle. During the course of their brief romance, Bea passes away and leaves Grandpa her entire savings, $100,000. Grandpa decides to give the money to charity but can't decide which one is worthiest, but when he can't decide, Grampa heads for a casino to gamble it away. | | Guest Stars: Audrey Meadows as Bea Simmons | Director: David Silverman (1)
Writer: Jay Kogen, Wallace Wolodarsky | | | |
| 31 :02x18 - Brush With Greatness (Apr/11/1991) | | Marge's interest in art is reawakened when Homer finds old portraits of Ringo Starr that Marge painted when she was a teenager. Meanwhile, Homer begins exercising after getting stuck in a water park ride and humiliated on the evening news. | Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Brian K. Roberts (1) | | Songs: Simpson Family -- Lincoln, Lincoln | | | |
| 32 :02x19 - Lisa's Substitute (Apr/25/1991) | | When Lisa's teacher Miss Hoover gets Lyme Disease, Mr. Bergstrom takes over the class. Lisa finds Mr. Bergstrom's teaching methods incredibly inspiring and discovers an entirely new love for learning, but when Mr. Bergstrom leaves, Lisa doubts that anyone else in her life (including her own father) can be the man that Mr. Bergstrom was. Meanwhile, Bart runs against Martin Prince for class president. | | Guest Stars: Maggie Roswell as Miss Hoover | Director: Rich Moore (1)
Writer: Jon Vitti | | | |
| 33 :02x20 - The War of the Simpsons (May/02/1991) | | When Homer gets drunk and humiliates himself at a dinner party, an angered Marge signs herself and Homer up for a marriage retreat, which Homer tries to bail out of so he can go fishing. Meanwhile, Grampa babysits Bart and Lisa, who trick the old man into letting them do whatever they want--including throw a party. | | Guest Stars: Maggie Roswell as Maude Flanders | Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: John Swartzwelder | | | |
| 34 :02x21 - Three Men and a Comic Book (May/09/1991) | | Bart becomes obsessed with buying the first issue of Radioactive Man, but can't scrape together the $100 he needs to make it his own. Enlisting Milhouse and Martin Prince, Bart is finally able to buy the comic, but ends up fighting with his two best friends over who gets to keep it. | | Guest Stars: Daniel Stern as Narrator (adult Bart) | Director: Wesley Archer
Writer: Jeff Martin (1) | | | |
| 35 :02x22 - Blood Feud (Jul/11/1991) | | Homer discovers that Bart has a rare blood type that can save his Mr. Burns's life, Homer convinces Bart to give blood (in the hopes that Burns will give The Simpsons a cash reward), but when all Mr. Burns gives Bart is a "Thank You" card, Homer writes a nasty letter to his boss...which ends up getting sent to Burns by Bart. | Director: David Silverman (1)
Writer: George Meyer (1) | | | |
Season 3 |
| 36 :03x01 - Stark Raving Dad (Sep/19/1991) | | Homer gets in trouble for wearing a pink shirt to work and is forced to take a mental competency test. But when Bart answers "yes" to every question, Homer is taken to The New Bedlam Home for the Emotionally Interesting and meets a large, bald mental patient who thinks he's troubled pop star Michael Jackson. | | Guest Stars: Michael Jackson (1) as Leon Kompowsky, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse | Director: Rich Moore (1)
Writer: Al Jean, Mike Reiss | | | |
| 37 :03x02 - Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington (Sep/26/1991) | | Lisa enters an essay contest listed in an issue of "Reader's Digest" and wins a trip for the whole family to go to Washington, D.C, but her faith in the American democracy is shattered when she spies her favorite Congressman taking a bribe and planning to level a forest. | | Guest Stars: Maggie Roswell as Barbara Bush | Director: Wesley Archer
Writer: George Meyer (1) | | | |
| 38 :03x03 - When Flanders Failed (Oct/03/1991) | | When Flanders announces at a barbecue that he's starting his own general store catering to the left-handed, Homer wishes that his goody-goody neighbor will suffer financial ruin. Meanwhile, Bart takes karate class, but ends up cutting it when he realizes that it's not as exciting as it's cracked up to be. | Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Jon Vitti | | | | | | |
| 40 :03x05 - Homer Defined (Oct/17/1991) | | During a near-fatal meltdown at The Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, Homer frantically presses buttons on his console until he hits the right combination and saves the day. Homer becomes a hero even though he knows in his heart that what he did was a fluke. Meanwhile, Bart's friendship with Milhouse becomes strained when Milhouse's mother bars him from hanging out with her son. | | Guest Stars: Magic Johnson as Himself, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse | Director: Matt Kirkland
Writer: Howard Gewirtz | | | |
| 41 :03x06 - Like Father Like Clown (Oct/24/1991) | | When Krusty comes over to the Simpsons’ house for dinner, he reveals to them that he's Jewish, and that his father, Rabbi Krustofski disowned him for pursuing a career in comedy. While Krusty's personal and professional life begin to deteriorate, Bart and Lisa help their hero by locating Rabbi Krustofski and begging the rabbi to reunite with his son. | | Guest Stars: Jackie Mason as Rabbi Krustofski | Directors: Jeffrey Lynch, Brad Bird
Writer: Wallace Wolodarsky, Jay Kogen | | | |
| 42 :03x07 - Treehouse of Horror II (Oct/31/1991) | When Homer, Bart, and Lisa eat a ton of candy, the three begin having various nightmares:
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.
Bart's nightmare (The Bart Zone): The town of Springfield must think happy thoughts or suffer the powers of Bart's twisted imagination.
Homer's nightmare (If I Only Had a Brain): Mr. Burns kills Homer (who's now working as a grave-digger) so he can transplant his brain into a robot's to create a super-efficient worker. | Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: John Swartzwelder, Sam Simon, George Meyer (1), Jeff Martin (1), Mike Reiss, Al Jean | | | |
| 43 :03x08 - Lisa's Pony (Nov/07/1991) | | Homer makes up for his latest example of fatherly ineptitude (failing to get Lisa a saxophone reed in time for the school talent show) by buying Lisa the one thing she's always wanted: a pony. But keeping the animal ends up costing the family money and Homer takes a second job at the Kwik-E-Mart to make Lisa happy. | | Guest Stars: Frank Welker as Princess | Director: Carlos Baeza
Writer: Al Jean, Mike Reiss | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 47 :03x12 - I Married Marge (Dec/26/1991) | | While Marge goes to the doctor's office to see if she's pregnant, Homer tells his children the story of how Homer and Marge dated after high school, how Marge ended up pregnant after Homer and Marge had sex at a mini-golf course, how Homer and Marge got married at a quickie wedding chapel, and how Homer got his job at the nuclear plant to provide for his new wife and unborn son. | Director: Jeffrey Lynch
Writer: Jeff Martin (1) | | Songs: Dolly Parton -- 9 to 5, Supertramp -- The Logical Song | | | |
| 48 :03x13 - Radio Bart (Jan/09/1992) | | It's Bart's tenth birthday and Bart gets a bunch of crummy gifts, except for a microphone that can transfer voices to radios. Bart uses the microphone to trick the town into thinking a boy named Timmy O'Toole is stuck in a well. | | Guest Stars: Sting as Himself | Director: Carlos Baeza
Writer: Jon Vitti | | | | | | |
| 50 :03x15 - Homer Alone (Feb/06/1992) | | Marge has a nervous breakdown while running errands and gets arrested for obstructing traffic. Once she's released, Marge decides to go to a weekend spa called Rancho Relaxo, leaving Bart and Lisa with the Gruesome Twosome, Patti and Selma while Homer and his drinking buddy, Barney Gumble, look after Maggie. | | Guest Stars: Maggie Roswell as Woman At Beauty Parlor | Director: Matt Kirkland
Writer: David M. Stern | | | |
| 51 :03x16 - Bart the Lover (Feb/13/1992) | | Bart gets detention for breaking the class fish tank with a yo-yo. When he tries to get it back from Mrs. Krabappel, Bart finds a personal ad Krabappel placed in a magazine and begins writing love letters to her under the guise of a man named Woodrow. Meanwhile, Homer opts to build Santa's Little Helper a doghouse--and ends up creating a swear jar to curb his cursing after Todd Flanders picks up Homer's foul language. | | Guest Stars: Maggie Roswell as Miss Hoover | Director: Carlos Baeza
Writer: Jon Vitti | | | |
| 52 :03x17 - Homer at the Bat (Feb/20/1992) | | Mr. Burns makes a million dollar bet with his arch-rival Aristotle Amadopolis that the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant team will beat the Shelbyville Nuclear Power Plant team in the softball championships. To ensure victory, Burns hires a number of ringers, including pro baseball players Darryl Strawberry, Ken Griffey, Jr., Steve Sax, Roger Clemens, Jose Canseco, Don Mattingly, Ozzie Smith, Wade Boggs and Mike Scioscia to replace the plant employees he cut from the team. | | Guest Stars: Ozzie Smith as Himself, Jose Canseco as Himself, Mike Scioscia as Himself, Wade Boggs as Himself, Don Mattingly as Himself, Roger Clemens as Himself, Steve Sax as Himself, Ken Griffey, Jr. as Himself, Darryl Strawberry as Himself | Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: John Swartzwelder | | | |
| 53 :03x18 - Separate Vocations (Feb/27/1992) | | After taking career aptitude tests, Lisa discovers that the occupation she's best suited for is homemaker (which she doesn't like because she had dreams of being a jazz musician) while Bart discovers that he's best suited to be a police officer (which causes the former bad boy to straighten up and fly right after he almost gets killed by Snake during a night with Chief Wiggum). | | Guest Stars: Steve Allen as Himself | Director: Jeffrey Lynch
Writer: George Meyer (1) | | | | | | |
| 55 :03x20 - Colonel Homer (Mar/26/1992) | | After a fight during a boring movie, Homer runs off to a redneck bar, where he meets a beautiful cocktail waitress named Lurleen Lumpkin with dreams of being a singer. Homer decides to be her manager, but the fact that Lurleen is young and pretty makes Marge think that Homer would rather be with Lurleen than her. | | Guest Stars: Beverly D'Angelo as Lurleen Lumpkin | Director: Matt Kirkland
Writer: Matt Groening | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Season 4 |
| 60 :04x01 - Kamp Krusty (Sep/24/1992) | | Bart and Lisa go to Kamp Krusty, which turns out to be a run-down prison run by Krusty's accountant, Mr. Black, and local thugs, Dolph, Jimbo, and Kearney. | | Guest Stars: Tress MacNeille as Jimbo, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse | Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: David M. Stern | | Songs: Campers -- Kamp Krusty Ditty, Alice Cooper -- School's Out, Frank Sinatra -- South of the Border | | | | | | | | | |
| 63 :04x04 - Lisa the Beauty Queen (Oct/15/1992) | | To help Lisa get over her insecurities about her looks, Homer enters her into the Little Miss Springfield Pageant by selling his Duff Blimp tickets to Barney Gumble (who has $250 for the contest entry fee). Lisa wins after the winner gets struck by lightning, but Lisa uses her role as beauty queen to change the town after being used as a shill for Laramie Cigarettes. | | Guest Stars: Bob Hope as Himself | Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Jeff Martin (1) | | Songs: Creedence Clearwater Revival -- Proud Mary | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 67 :04x08 - The New Kid on the Block (Nov/12/1992) | | Evergreen Terrace welcomes two new neighbors, Ruth Powers and her lovely teenage daughter, Laura. Bart falls hard for Laura, but she thinks of him as just a little friend. Meanwhile, Homer sues restaurant proprieter Captain McAllister over not getting his fill at the "All You Can Eat" buffet. | | Guest Stars: Sara Gilbert as Laura Powers, Pamela Reed as Ruth Powers | Director: Wesley Archer
Writer: Conan O'Brien | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 71 :04x12 - Marge vs. the Monorail (Jan/14/1993) | | Mr. Burns is forced to pay a $3 million fine for illegally dumping toxic waste under trees in the park. At a town meeting where Springfield's citizens discuss how to best use the new funds, Lyle Lanley, a charismatic traveling salesman convinces them to build a completely useless monorail. | | Guest Stars: Phil Hartman as Lyle Lanley, Leonard Nimoy as Himself | Director: Rich Moore (1)
Writer: Conan O'Brien | | | |
| 72 :04x13 - Selma's Choice (Jan/21/1993) | | Aunt Selma realizes that she might wind up dying alone and thinks that having a baby can relieve her loneliness. To test her maternal instincts, she takes Bart and Lisa to Duff Gardens after Homer gets sick from a rotten hoagie. | Director: Carlos Baeza
Writer: David M. Stern | | | |
| 73 :04x14 - Brother From the Same Planet (Feb/04/1993) | | When Homer leaves Bart waiting in the pouring rain after soccer practice, he must earn back his son's love. Bart expresses his anger by going to a Big Brother program and claiming to be an abandoned child so he can get a new "father." Meanwhile, Lisa tries to break her addiction from calling a phone line featuring pretty-boy celebrity "Corey". | | Guest Stars: Tress MacNeille as Pepi, Phil Hartman as Tom | Director: Jeffrey Lynch
Writer: Jon Vitti | | | | | | |
| 75 :04x16 - Duffless (Feb/18/1993) | | Lisa conducts a secret experiment for the Springfield Elementary School science fair to see who's smarter, Bart or a hamster. Meanwhile, Homer is forced to swear off beer for thirty days after being arrested on a D.U.I. | | Guest Stars: Phil Hartman as Troy McClure | Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: David M. Stern | | | | | | | | | |
| 78 :04x19 - The Front (Apr/15/1993) | | Convinced they can write better Itchy & Scratchy scripts than the writers who currently work on the cartoon, Bart and Lisa set out to write their own shows. Meanwhile, Homer goes to his high school reunion, and when Principal Dondelinger reveals that Homer never passed remedial science, Homer goes to night school to make up the lost credit. | | Guest Stars: Brooke Shields as Herself | Director: Rich Moore (1)
Writer: Adam I. Lapidus | | | |
| 79 :04x20 - Whacking Day (Apr/29/1993) | | Everyone in Springfield is excited for Whacking Day, but as the holiday approaches, Lisa condemns it as violent. Meanwhile, Bart gets expelled from school after running down Superintendent Chalmers with a tractor, prompting Marge to home-school Bart. | | Guest Stars: Barry White as Himself | Director: Jeffrey Lynch
Writer: John Swartzwelder | | | | | | |
| 81 :04x22 - Krusty Gets Kancelled (May/13/1993) | | The Krusty the Clown show gets bumped in the ratings by Arthur Crandall, a droll ventriloquist, and Gabbo, his excitable dummy. Gabbo is a huge hit, and Krusty's show is canceled as a result of falling ratings. It's up to Lisa and Bart to get Krusty's celebrity friends to create a comeback special for him. | | Guest Stars: Luke Perry (1) as Himself, Bette Midler as Herself, Barry White as Himself, Johnny Carson (1) as Himself, Hugh M. Hefner as Himself, Elizabeth Taylor (1) as Herself, Red Hot Chili Peppers as Themselves | Director: David Silverman (1)
Writer: John Swartzwelder | | Songs: Red Hot Chili Peppers -- Give it Away | | | |
Season 5 | | | | | | |
| 84 :05x03 - Homer Goes to College (Oct/14/1993) | | When it is revealed that Homer is grossly unqualified to be a safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, he goes to Springfield University to study nuclear physics. While there, Homer befriends a group of nerds and encourages them to steal a rival school's mascot pig. | | Guest Stars: Maggie Roswell as Various | Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Conan O'Brien | | | |
| 85 :05x04 - Rosebud (Oct/21/1993) | | After a disastrous birthday party, Mr. Burns pines for his childhood toy (a teddy bear named Bobo he abandoned the day he was taken from his loving natural parents by a twisted, loveless billionaire)--which is now in the possession of Maggie "the forgotten" Simpson. | | Guest Stars: Ramones as Themselves, Pamela Hayden as Jimbo | Director: Wesley Archer
Writer: John Swartzwelder | | | |
| 86 :05x05 - Treehouse of Horror IV (Oct/28/1993) | In this year's tricky triptych of terror, Bart presents
three Halloween treats based on paintings a la
"Night Gallery":
The Devil and Homer Simpson: Homer ends up on
trial with the Devil (Ned Flanders?!) after Homer trades him his soul for a doughnut.
Nightmare at 5 1/2 Feet: Bart's nightmare of dying
in a school bus crash comes true when Bart begins seeing a gremlin taking the bus apart.
Bart Simpson's Dracula: The Simpsons have dinner with a vampiric Mr. Burns, who bites Bart and makes him a child of the night. | | Guest Stars: Phil Hartman as Lionel Hutz (as Phil Hart-on-the Stick Man), Pamela Hayden as Jimbo, Milhouse (as Pamela Hacksaw Hayden), Russi Taylor as Martin, Uter (as Rancid Russi Taylor), Frank Welker as Animal Noises (as Dr. Frankenwelker) | Director: David Silverman (1)
Writer: Conan O'Brien, Greg Daniels (1), Danny McGrath, Bill Oakley, Josh Weinstein, Bill Canterbury | | | |
| 87 :05x06 - Marge on the Lam (Nov/04/1993) | | After Homer gets his arms stuck in vending machines at work, Marge goes to the ballet with Ruth Powers (from season four's "New Kid on the Block"). The two end up spending time together--leading to a Thelma and Louise-style run from the police after Ruth confesses that she stole her ex-husband's car. Meanwhile, Homer hires crooked lawyer Lionel Hutz to babysit Bart, Lisa, and Maggie while Homer tries to have fun without his wife. | | Guest Stars: Pamela Reed as Ruth Powers, George Fenneman as Narrator, Phil Hartman as Lionel Hutz, Troy McClure, Russi Taylor as Various, Maggie Roswell as Various, Pamela Hayden as Various | Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Bill Canterbury | | | | | | | | | |
| 90 :05x09 - The Last Temptation of Homer (Dec/09/1993) | | Homer worries about his marriage to Marge when he begins falling for Mindy Simmons, a gorgeous nuclear plant worker who loves doughnuts, beer, and being lazy as much as Homer does. Meanwhile, Bart turns into a nerd after getting glasses, medicated scalp salve, and corrective footwear. | | Guest Stars: Michelle Pfeiffer as Mindy Simmons, Phil Hartman as Lionel Hutz, Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel, Werner Klemperer as Colonel Klink, Pamela Hayden as Jimbo, Milhouse, Russi Taylor as Martin, Sherri, Terri, Maggie Roswell as Miss Hoover | Director: Carlos Baeza
Writer: Frank Mula | | | | | | |
| 92 :05x11 - Homer the Vigilante (Jan/06/1994) | | When a cat burglar terrorizes Springfield (making off with everything of value, from Lisa's saxophone to Flanders' Shroud of Turin beach towels), Homer starts a vigilante group using people from the neighborhood, but the vigilante group ends up committing more crimes than preventing. | | Guest Stars: Sam Neill as Molloy, Pamela Hayden as Jimbo | Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: John Swartzwelder | | | | | | | | | |
| 95 :05x14 - Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy (Feb/17/1994) | | After buying the new talking Malibu Stacy, Lisa realizes that Malibu Stacy and the phrases she says (such as "I wish they taught shopping in school" and "Let's buy make-up so the boys will like us!") are a horrible model for little girls to follow and sets out to create a more politically correct doll. Meanwhile, Grampa fears that he may be getting old, so he takes a job at Krusty Burger. | | Guest Stars: Kathleen Turner as Stacy Lovell, Pamela Hayden as Malibu Stacy, Celeste, Maggie Roswell as Various | Director: Jeffrey Lynch
Writer: Bill Oakley, Josh Weinstein | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 99 :05x18 - Burns' Heir (Apr/14/1994) | | Well into his eighth or ninth decade, Monty Burns realizes that he has no children and therefore no heir for his vast fortune. After an audition process in which every child in Springfield vies for the coveted position as Burns' kid, Bart is selected for being a creature of pure malevolence. | | Guest Stars: Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Phil Hartman as Lionel Hutz, Russi Taylor as Martin Prince | Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Jace Richdale | | | | | | | | | |
| 102 :05x21 - Lady Bouvier's Lover (May/12/1994) | | Having already fallen hard for Marge, Mr. Burns now finds himself smitten with Marge's mother, Jacqueline Bouvier. Competing for the old lady's affection is Grandpa Simpson, who also thinks that she's the bee's arthritic knees. Meanwhile, Bart steals Homer's credit card to buy an Itchy and Scratchy animation cel that turns out to be an incomplete knock-off. | | Guest Stars: Phil Hartman as Troy McClure, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse | Director: Wesley Archer
Writer: Josh Weinstein, Bill Oakley | | | |
| 103 :05x22 - Secrets of a Successful Marriage (May/19/1994) | | Tired of being called "slow", Homer gets a job as a Learning Annex teacher for a class called "Secrets to a Successful Marriage", but when it becomes painfully clear that Homer knows nothing about the subject, he tells Marge's most personal secrets (like how Marge's blue hair is a dye job and how Marge gets aroused when Homer nibbles her elbow)--and ends up thrown out the house once again. | | Guest Stars: Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel, Phil Hartman as Lionel Hutz, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Maggie Roswell as Helen Lovejoy, Miss Hoover | Director: Carlos Baeza
Writer: Greg Daniels (1) | | | |
Season 6 |
| 104 :06x01 - Bart of Darkness (Sep/04/1994) | | After a day in Otto's pool mobile, Bart and Lisa convince Homer to buy a pool for the family. Soon, everyone in town flocks to The Simpsons' backyard to swim, but Bart misses out when he breaks his leg. Meanwhile, Ned Flanders commits a horrible crime and tries to cover it up. | | Guest Stars: Maggie Roswell as Maude Flanders, Russi Taylor as Martin, Sherri, Terri, Pamela Hayden as Jimbo, Milhouse | Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Danny McGrath | | | |
| 105 :06x02 - Lisa's Rival (Sep/11/1994) | | Golden child Lisa Simpson finds she's starting to tarnish just a little when a new girl, Allison Taylor, moves to Springfield. Allison is smart, pretty, a great saxophone player and a crack diorama builder. Meanwhile, Homer sells spilled sugar to the masses. | | Guest Stars: Winona Ryder as Allison Taylor, Pamela Hayden as Jimbo, Milhouse, Maggie Roswell as Miss Hoover, Russi Taylor as Martin, Sarah, Sherri, Uter | Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Mike Scully | | | |
| 106 :06x03 - Another Simpsons Clip Show (Sep/25/1994) | | After reading The Bridges of Madison County, Marge decides that she and Homer need to teach the kids about romance, but everyone's stories (past clips) of how they fell in love ends in disaster, leaving the family to believe that love is a joke. | | Guest Stars: Michelle Pfeiffer as Mindy Simmons, Phil Hartman as Troy McClure, Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel, Albert Brooks as Jacques, Sara Gilbert as Laura Powers, Kelsey Grammer as Sideshow Bob, Jon Lovitz as Artie Ziff, Michael Carrington (1) as Announcer | Director: David Silverman (1)
Writer: Penny Wise | | | | | | | | | |
| 109 :06x06 - Treehouse of Horror V (Oct/30/1994) | | In this year's gruesomely ghoulish Halloween gift package, Homer goes insane while house-sitting in a winter home in "The Shinning", Homer travels through time and alters reality while fixing the toaster in "Time and Punishment", and Springfield Elementary use the bad kids as a new food source in "Nightmare Cafeteria". | | Guest Stars: Doris Grau as Lunchlady Doris, Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel, Pamela Hayden as Jimbo, Milhouse, Russi Taylor as Uter, James Earl Jones (1) as Maggie | Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: David X. Cohen (1), Bob Kushell, Danny McGrath, Greg Daniels (1) | | | | | | |
| 111 :06x08 - Lisa on Ice (Nov/13/1994) | | Springfield Elementary hands out Academic Alerts to students who are in danger of failing--and Lisa becomes a student in danger of failing when she gets an Academic Alert for gym class. After bombing out in basketball and volleyball, Lisa discovers her true sports talent as a goalie on the local ice hockey team, which doesn't sit well with Bart. | | Guest Stars: Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel, Pamela Hayden as Jimbo, Milhouse, Tress MacNeille as Various, Russi Taylor as Martin, Sherri, Terri, Uter | Director: Bob Anderson (1)
Writer: Mike Scully | | | | | | | | | |
| 114 :06x11 - Fear of Flying (Dec/18/1994) | | After being banned from Moe's for playing a lame practical joke, Homer goes to a pilots' bar. There, he is mistaken as a real pilot and destroys a plane. As payment for the mistake, the Simpsons' are given free tickets to anywhere in America (excluding Alaska and Hawaii), but the trip ends prematurely when Marge freaks out on the plane. After her attempts to repress her feelings disturbs the family, Marge goes to therapy for her aviophobia. | | Guest Stars: Ted Danson as Sam Malone, Anne Bancroft as Dr. Zweig (as Ann Bancroft), George Wendt as Norm, John Ratzenberger as Cliff (as Jon Ratzenberger), Rhea Perlman as Carla, Woody Harrelson as Wood, Pamela Hayden as Various | Director: Wesley Archer
Writer: David Sacks | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 124 :06x21 - The PTA Disbands (Apr/16/1995) | | After a disastrous field trip, Mrs. Krabappel argues with Principal Skinner over providing the school with more money. When Skinner refuses, Mrs. Krabappel calls for a teachers' strike. The kids enjoy their time off (except for Lisa, who goes insane over not being in a classroom setting), but the fun comes to an end when the schoolboard hires people from the neighborhood to be non-union substitutes until the strike ends. | | Guest Stars: Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel, Pamela Hayden as Jimbo, Milhouse, Maggie Roswell as Luann Van Houten, Miss Hoover, Russi Taylor as Martin, Uter, Doris Grau as Lunchlady Doris | Director: Swinton O. Scott, III
Writer: Jennifer Crittenden | | | |
| 125 :06x22 - Round Springfield (Apr/30/1995) | | Lisa is reunited with her idol, Bleeding Gums Murphy, but their time together is short lived when the jazz legend passes away. Meanwhile, Bart sues Krusty the Clown for physical harm after Bart gets appendicitis from eating a jagged metal "O" in Krusty's cereal. | | Guest Stars: Ron Taylor (1) as Bleeding Gums Murphy, Steve Allen as Himself, Doris Grau as Lunchlady Doris, Phil Hartman as Lionel Hutz, Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse | Director: Steven Dean Moore (1)
Writer: Jeffrey Ventimilia, Mike Reiss, Joshua Sternin, Al Jean | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Season 7 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 133 :07x05 - Lisa the Vegetarian (Oct/15/1995) | | Lisa decides to give up eating meat after bonding with a lamb at a petting zoo, which makes her a target of ridicule from her schoolmates and her family. Meanwhile, Homer creates a barbecue after being snubbed from Flanders's family reunion. | | Guest Stars: Paul McCartney as Himself, Phil Hartman as Troy McClure, Linda McCartney as Herself, Pamela Hayden as Janey, Tress MacNeille as Various, Maggie Roswell as Miss Hoover, Russi Taylor as Sherri, Terri, Doris Grau as Lunchlady Doris | Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: David X. Cohen (1) | | Songs: Paul McCartney -- Maybe I'm Amazed | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 138 :07x10 - The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular (Dec/03/1995) | | Troy McClure hosts The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular, a retrospective/behind-the-scenes look at America's favorite yellow family, featuring a look at The Simpsons' beginnings as filler on "The Tracy Ullman Show", fan mail readings, a look at the real Matt Groening, never-before-seen footage from popular episodes, and of course, familiar clips from past episodes. | | Guest Stars: Phil Hartman as Lionel Hutz, Troy McClure, Pamela Hayden as Lizzy Borden, Tress MacNeille as Various, Glenn Close as Mona Simpson | Director: David Silverman (1)
Writer: Penny Wise | | | | | | |
| 140 :07x12 - Team Homer (Jan/07/1996) | | Homer starts his own bowling league with his buddies, Apu, Moe, and Otto the bus driver, but when Mr. Burns discovers that Homer stole $500 from him while Burns was high on ether, Mr. Burns decides to join the bowling league (with Otto voted off to make room). Meanwhile, Springfield Elementary is forced to wear uniforms after Bart gets in trouble for inciting a riot with his "Down with Homework" T-shirt from MAD Magazine. | | Guest Stars: Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel, Pamela Hayden as Jimbo, Milhouse, Russi Taylor as Martin Prince, Doris Grau as Lunchlady Doris | Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Mike Scully | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 144 :07x16 - Lisa the Iconoclast (Feb/18/1996) | | While the town prepares for the anniversary of its founding, Lisa discovers that Jebediah Springfield was a murderous pirate named Hans Sprungfeld and that everything he supposedly did to build Springfield was a lie. No one in town believes Lisa, except for Homer, who helps her spread the word. | | Guest Stars: Donald Sutherland as Hollis Hurlbut, Phil Hartman as Troy McClure, Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel, Pamela Hayden as Jimbo, Milhouse, Tress MacNeille as Various, Maggie Roswell as Helen Lovejoy, Miss Hoover | Director: Mike B. Anderson (1)
Writer: Jonathan Collier (1) | | | |
| 145 :07x17 - Homer the Smithers (Feb/25/1996) | | Mr. Burns' assistant, Waylon Smithers, nearly works himself into a nervous breakdown and is forced to go on a vacation. Fearing that whoever fills in for him in his absence might replace him permanently, Smithers places Homer Simpson in the job, figuring that there's no way the plant's worst employee could possibly be a threat, but when Homer teaches Mr. Burns a lesson in being self-sufficient by punching him, Burns fires both Homer and Smithers. | | Guest Stars: Tress MacNeille as Various | Director: Steven Dean Moore (1)
Writer: John Swartzwelder | | | | | | |
| 147 :07x19 - A Fish Called Selma (Mar/24/1996) | | To save his moribund career (and quell the rumors of the "weird things" he does to fish), Troy McClure marries Selma (who still wants to have a family out of fear of dying alone), who is willing to go along with being a sham wife, but is concerned when Troy McClure wants a child. | | Guest Stars: Phil Hartman as Troy McClure, Jeff Goldblum as MacArthur Parker, Pamela Hayden as Various | Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Jack Barth | | | | | | |
| 149 :07x21 - 22 Short Films About Springfield (Apr/14/1996) | | A series of short skits and connecting vignettes show that the people of Springfield go through very interesting adventures, from Apu's five-minute dash through a party to Lisa getting gum stuck in her hair to Homer getting Maggie stuck in a newspaper vendor to Milhouse desperately searching for a bathroom to Nelson learning a lesson in bullying from a very tall man. | | Guest Stars: Tress MacNeille as Agnes, Brandine, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Phil Hartman as Lionel Hutz, Maggie Roswell as Various, Russi Taylor as Uter | Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Matt Groening, Josh Weinstein, Richard Appel, David X. Cohen (1), Jennifer Crittenden, Jonathan Collier (1), Greg Daniels (1), Brent Forrester, Steve Tompkins, Rachel Pulido | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Season 8 |
| 154 :08x01 - Treehouse of Horror VII (Oct/27/1996) | In this year's spooky series of Halloween stories:
The Thing and I - Bart and Lisa investigate strange noises coming from the attic, and find a mutant boy who is really Bart's long-lost Siamese twin brother.
The Genesis Tub - Lisa's tooth-in-cola science project turns into a mini-universe after Bart zaps it with static electricity.
Citizen Kang - Kang and Kodos disguise themselves as Bill Clinton and Bob Dole during the 1996 Presidential election, and Homer tries to warn people not to vote for either of them. | | Special Guest Stars: Phil Hartman as Bill Clinton | Director: Mike B. Anderson (1)
Writer: Dan Greaney, David X. Cohen (1), Ken Keeler | | | |
| 155 :08x02 - You Only Move Twice (Nov/03/1996) | | 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 Cypress Creek and Homer must make a choice between Cypress Creek and Springfield. | | Special Guest Stars: Albert Brooks as Hank Scorpio, | Guest Stars: Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Tress MacNeille as Agnes Skinner | Director: Mike B. Anderson (1)
Writer: John Swartzwelder | | | | | | | | | |
| 158 :08x05 - Bart After Dark (Nov/24/1996) | | While Marge and Lisa go to the beach to clean rocks that have been splattered with oil after a supertanker accident, Bart is sentenced to doing housework for a creepy old woman in her mansion--which turns out to be a burlesque club, featuring gambling, drinking, and risque entertainment. | | Guest Stars: Pamela Hayden as Jimbo, Milhouse, Tress MacNeille as Agnes, Brandine, Maggie Roswell as Luann Van Houten, Helen Lovejoy, Russi Taylor as Martin Prince | Director: Dominic Polcino
Writer: Richard Appel | | | |
| 159 :08x06 - A Milhouse Divided (Dec/01/1996) | | During a dinner party at The Simpsons, Milhouse's parents, Kirk and Luanne, argue about their problems, and during a game of Pictionary, Luanne announces that she wants a divorce. While Milhouse is surprisingly taking the family change well, Homer worries that Marge will leave him after seeing Kirk's life fall apart without his wife. | | Guest Stars: Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Tress MacNeille as Various, Maggie Roswell as Luann Van Houten, Maude Flanders | Director: Steven Dean Moore (1)
Writer: Steve Tompkins | | | |
| 160 :08x07 - Lisa's Date With Density (Dec/15/1996) | | 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 tries to change Nelson into a better person. Meanwhile, Homer steals an autodialer that was used in a telemarketing scam and uses it to create a telemarketing scam of his own. | | Guest Stars: Tress MacNeille as Agnes, Dolph, Pamela Hayden as Janey, Jimbo, Milhouse, Maggie Roswell as Maude Flanders, Russi Taylor as Uter | Director: Susie Dietter
Writer: Mike Scully | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 167 :08x14 - The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show (Feb/09/1997) | | The Itchy and Scratchy Show faces a crisis of quality when the ratings show a slight drop-off and Bart and Lisa don't find it that interesting to watch anymore. To save the show, Roger Meyers and his crew come up with a new character: Poochie the Dog, and hire Homer Simpson as the character's voice artist. But when everyone sees through this marketing ploy, The Itchy and Scratchy Show is hated even more and Homer must do something to save the character and the show. | | Guest Stars: Phil Hartman as Troy McClure, Alex Rocco as Rodger Meyers Jr., Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Tress MacNeille as Various | Director: Steve Dean Moore (1)
Writer: David X. Cohen (1) | | | |
| 168 :08x15 - Homer's Phobia (Feb/16/1997) | | After Bart wrecks the dryer, Marge tries to sell her Johnny Reb figurine...until a kitschy antique store owner named John reveals that the figurine is a flask. Soon, the family befriends John...until Homer freaks out when Marge tells Homer that John is a homosexual. Worried that Bart may emulate John instead of his own father, Homer takes Bart on a journey to become manly. | | Guest Stars: John Waters as John, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse | Director: Mike B. Anderson (1)
Writer: Ron Hauge | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 172 :08x19 - Grade School Confidential (Apr/06/1997) | | During Martin's birthday party, Principal Skinner and Mrs. Krabappel strike up casual, yet awkward conversation. When all of the kids get sick from oysters, Skinner and Krabappel hide out in a kiddie playhouse and kiss--which is witnessed by Bart. Skinner silences Bart by relabeling his permanent record so that way it belongs to Milhouse, but Bart soon reveals all when Skinner and Krabappel use Bart as their liasion to keep their liasion from being discovered. | | Guest Stars: Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Tress MacNeille as Agnes Skinner, Maggie Roswell as Luann, Helen, Maude, Russi Taylor as Martin, Sherri, Terri | Director: Susie Dietter
Writer: Rachel Pulido | | | |
| 173 :08x20 - The Canine Mutiny (Apr/13/1997) | | Bart fills out a credit card application under the family dog's name and uses the card to buy toys, electronics, gifts for the family, and a dog named Laddie who is more disclipined and friendlier than Santa's Little Helper (the latter of which ends up repossessed after Bart fails to make payments on his credit card). | | Guest Stars: Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Tress MacNeille as Agnes Skinner, Frank Welker as Santa's Little Helper | Director: Dominic Polcino
Writer: Ron Hauge | | | | | | |
| 175 :08x22 - In Marge We Trust (Apr/27/1997) | | Concerned that Reverend Lovejoy doesn't care about his parishioners' problems anymore, Marge takes over as the church's "Listen Lady". Meanwhile, Homer discovers a box from Japan that has his face on it. | | Guest Stars: Sab Shimono as Mr. Sparkle, Pamela Hayden as Jimbo, Tress MacNeille as Agnes Skinner, Maggie Roswell as Helen Lovejoy, Maude Flanders, Gedde Watanabe as Factory Foreman, Factory Worker, Japanese Tourist, Frank Welker as Angry Animals, Karen Maruyama as Dancing Woman, Denise Kumagai (1) as Dancing Woman | Director: Steve Dean Moore (1)
Writer: Donick Cary | | | |
| 176 :08x23 - Homer's Enemy (May/04/1997) | | A new employee named Frank Grimes comes to work at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. Grimes has a huge chip on his shoulder after a life of bad luck and hard work. When he meets Homer, he is incensed that someone can live so well without doing anything at all and sets out to prove that a boob like Homer should not be praised for his idiocy. Meanwhile, Bart wins an abandoned factory at an auction and uses it as his own personal playground. | | Guest Stars: Russi Taylor as Martin Prince, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Frank Welker as Vice-President | Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: John Swartzwelder | | | |
| 177 :08x24 - The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase (May/11/1997) | Troy McClure hosts a special episode which features three ideas for spin-offs to The Simpsons:
Chief Wiggum, P.I. – a crime drama where Chief Wiggum and Seymour Skinner are detectives in New Orleans and Ralph gets kidnapped.
The Love-Matic Grampa – a sitcom where Grampa's soul is contained in Moe's Love Tester machine and now must help Moe find love.
The Simpson Family Smile-Time Variety Hour – a Brady Bunch Hour-meets-Laugh In-meets-1970s Saturday Night Live style sketch show hosted by The Simpsons (save for Lisa, who is replaced by a peppy 20-year-old bimbo). | | Guest Stars: Phil Hartman as Troy McClure, Tim Conway as Himself, Gailard Sartain as Big Daddy, Pamela Hayden as Various, Tress MacNeille as Various | Director: Neil Affleck
Writer: David X. Cohen (1), Steve Tompkins, Dan Greaney
Story: Ken Keeler | | | | | | |
Season 9 | | | | | | |
| 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: Maggie Roswell as Miss Tillingham, Pamela Hayden as Jimbo, Milhouse, Fyvush Finkel as Himself, as Krusty, Doris Grau as Lunchlady Doris | 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: Ned Goldreyer, David X. Cohen (1), Mike Scully | | | | | | |
| 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: Mike Judge as Hank Hill, Roy Firestone as Himself, Joe Namath as Himself, Pamela Hayden as Rod, Janey, Maggie Roswell as Luann Van Houten, Maude Flanders, Russi Taylor as Martin, Sherri, Terri, Uter | Director: Dominic Polcino
Writer: Donick Cary | | | | | | |
| 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: Stephen Jay Gould (1) as Himself, Phil Hartman as Lionel Hutz, Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Tress MacNeille as Agnes, Dolph, Jimbo, Maggie Roswell as Miss Hoover | Director: Neil Affleck
Writer: David X. Cohen (1) | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 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 | | | | | | | | | |
| 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: Janeane Garofalo as Herself, Jay Leno as Himself, Steven Wright (1) as Himself, Bobcat Goldthwait as Himself, Bruce Baum as Himself, Hank Williams, Jr. as Himself, Marcia Wallace as Reporter | Director: Mike B. Anderson (1)
Writer: Donick Cary | | | | | | |
| 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 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 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: Tress MacNeille as Crazy Cat Lady, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse | Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Larry Doyle | | | | | | | | | |
| 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 | | | |
Season 10 | | | | | | | | | |
| 207 :10x04 - Treehouse of Horror IX (Oct/25/1998) | In this year's gruesome grouping of Halloween gore:
"Hell Toupee" – Homer gets a hair transplant from Snake Jailbird (who was sentenced to death after breaking the city's three strikes law), who proceeds to possess Homer, forcing him to kill the people who witnessed Snake's final crime--including his son, Bart.
"The Terror of Tiny Toon" – When Lisa and Bart find a plutonium rod to use as a remote control battery, the two get sucked into a special, extremely violent Halloween episode of The Itchy and Scratchy Show.
"Starship Poopers" – Marge, Homer, and Kang end up on The Jerry Springer Show after Marge confesses to Homer that Maggie is an alien and that Kang is her real father. | | Guest Stars: Ed McMahon as Himself, Regis Philbin as Himself, Kathie Lee Gifford as Herself, Jerry Springer as Himself, Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger, Tress MacNeille as Various | Director: Steven Dean Moore (1)
Writer: Josh Weinstein, David X. Cohen (1), Donick Cary | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 212 :10x09 - Mayored to the Mob (Dec/20/1998) | | When Homer saves Mayor Quimby and Star Wars star Mark Hamill's lives during a sci-fi convention riot, the Mayor hires him as his personal bodyguard. | | Guest Stars: Maggie Roswell as Comic Book Lady, Mark Hamill as Himself, Leavelle, Joe Mantegna as Fat Tony, Dick Tufeld as The robot from "Lost in Space", Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Tress MacNeille as Various, Russi Taylor as Uter, Karl Wiedergott as John Harris | Director: Swinton O. Scott, III
Writer: Ron Hauge | | | | | | | | | |
| 215 :10x12 - Sunday, Cruddy Sunday (Jan/31/1999) | | Homer, Bart and a group of men from around Springfield go to Miami to watch the Super Bowl, only to find upon arrival that their tickets are fake. Back at home, Marge and Lisa, in an attempt to alleviate their boredom, play with a Vincent Price egg painting set. | | Guest Stars: Fred Willard as Wally Kogen, Troy Aikman as Himself, John Madden (1) as Himself, Ken Marino as Himself, Dolly Parton as Herself, Pat Summerall as Himself, Rosey Grier (1) as Himself, Rupert Murdoch as Himself, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Tress MacNeille as Various, Karl Wiedergott as Bill Clinton, Vincent Price | Director: Steven Dean Moore (1)
Writer: Tom Martin (2), George Meyer (1), Brian Scully, Mike Scully | | | | | | | | | |
| 218 :10x15 - Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers" (Feb/21/1999) | | Homer buys a Canyonero, a giant all-terrain vehicle. At first he's excited about his new car, but when he discovers that the F-Series was made primarily for women, he gives it to Marge. Marge takes to the vehicle by becoming a more reckless, aggressive driver. | | Guest Stars: John Kassir as Possum, Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel, Tress MacNeille as Agnes Skinner, Maggie Roswell as Computer, Karl Wiedergott as Zookeeper, Hank Williams, Jr. as Canyonero jingle singer | Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: David M. Stern | | | |
| 219 :10x16 - Make Room For Lisa (Feb/28/1999) | | When Homer uses Lisa's room as a cellular phone transmitter to pay off damages done to the Bill of Rights at a Smithsonian exhibit, Lisa begins developing stress-related stomach aches and fears that she and Homer will never be close because of their clashing personalities. Meanwhile, Marge uses Maggie's baby monitor to listen in on phone calls. | | Guest Stars: Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Rod Flanders, Tress MacNeille as Agnes Skinner, Maggie Roswell as Maude Flanders, Karl Wiedergott as Various | Director: Matthew Nastuk
Writer: Brian Scully | | | |
| 220 :10x17 - Maximum Homerdrive (Mar/28/1999) | | While at a steakhouse, a trucker named Red challenges Homer to an eating contest, ending with Homer losing the match and the trucker losing his life. To make it up to him, Homer becomes a trucker and takes Bart along for the ride. Meanwhile, after deducing that only Homer and Bart get to do the fun things in life, Marge and Lisa decide to excite their lives by installing a new doorbell. | | Guest Stars: Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Tress MacNeille as Various, Karl Wiedergott as Marvin | Director: Swinton O. Scott, III
Writer: John Swartzwelder | | | |
| 221 :10x18 - Simpsons Bible Stories (Apr/04/1999) | Reverend Lovejoy punishes the congregation with a thorough reading of the Bible after discovering a chocolate Easter bunny in the collection plate (that Homer got from the trash). This leads to the Simpson family dreaming of themselves in Biblical stores:
Adam and Eve: Homer and Marge are Adam and Eve, who get tempted by a snake who looks like Snake Jailbird into eating the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge.
Moses: Milhouse is Moses, who fights back against the Egyptians (Principal Skinner and the Springfield Police) in order to free the Jews (the children of Springfield Elementary).
King Solomon: In this short piece, Homer is King Solomon, who must decide which man (Lenny and Carl) is the true owner of a cherry pie.
David and Goliath: Bart is David who tries to slay Goliath (Nelson Muntz) after Goliath kills David's oldest friend (Grampa Simpson as Methuseleh). | | Guest Stars: Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Tress MacNeille as Agnes Skinner, Russi Taylor as Sherri, Karl Wiedergott as Various | Director: Nancy Kruse
Writer: Tim Long (2), Larry Doyle, Matt Selman | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Season 11 | | | |
| 228 :11x02 - Brother's Little Helper (Oct/03/1999) | | After getting in trouble for flooding the school gym during Fire Prevention Day, Bart is diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder and prescribed a Ritalin-esque drug called Focusyn. At first, the drug makes Bart well-behaved and intellectual, but soon, Bart becomes paranoid and descends into madness. | | Guest Stars: Mark McGwire as Himself, Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Rod Flanders, Tress MacNeille as Jimbo, Maggie Roswell as Maude Flanders (some lines), Russi Taylor as Martin, Sherri, Karl Wiedergott as Hosey the Bear, Marcia Mitzman-Gaven as Maude Flanders (some lines) | Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: George Meyer (1) | | | | | | |
| 230 :11x04 - Treehouse of Horror X (Oct/31/1999) | | In this year's exceptionally evil Halloween episode, Marge accidentally murders Ned Flanders and his haunted by his ghost in "I Know What You Diddily-Iddily Did", Bart and Lisa become superheroes who must rescue Xena's Lucy Lawless from The Comic Book Guy in "Desperately Xeeking Xena", and Homer causes an computer-generated apocalypse in "Life's a Glitch, and Then You Die". | | Guest Stars: Dick Clark (1) as Himself, Lucy Lawless as Herself, Tom Arnold as Himself, Marcia Mitzman-Gaven as Maude Flanders, Frank Welker as Were-Flanders, Karl Wiedergott as Various, Tress MacNeille as Various, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse | Director: Pete Michels (1)
Writer: Donick Cary, Tim Long (2), Ron Hauge | | | | | | |
| 232 :11x06 - Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder (Nov/14/1999) | | Homer becomes a local celebrity after bowling a 300 game, but when his fame quickly fades and he botches his attempt at suicide, Homer decides to spend time with Maggie after seeing Ron Howard spend time with his children. | | Guest Stars: Nancy O'Dell as Herself, Pat O'Brien (1) as Himself, Ron Howard (1) as Himself, Teller as Himself, Penn Jillette as Himself, Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel, Pamela Hayden as Various, Tress MacNeille as Dolph, Russi Taylor as Various, Karl Wiedergott as Various | Director: Mike B. Anderson (1)
Writer: Al Jean | | Songs: The Dors -- The End | | | | | | |
| 234 :11x08 - Take My Wife, Sleaze (Nov/28/1999) | | Homer wins a Harley Davidson at a fifties diner and starts his own biker gang, attracting a real biker gang to crash at their house and kidnap Marge. | | Guest Stars: Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Rod Flanders, John Goodman (1) as Meathook, Henry Winkler as Ramrod, Nrbq as Themselves, Tress MacNeille as Various, Russi Taylor as Martin Prince, Karl Wiedergott as Attendant, Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel, Jan Hooks as Manjula, Jay North as Himself | Director: Neil Affleck
Writer: John Swartzwelder | | | |
| 235 :11x09 - Grift of the Magi (Dec/19/1999) | | When Springfield Elementary goes bankrupt after blowing all their funds on a system of shoddy wheelchair ramps (to help Bart after he is confined to a wheelchair following an injury to his coccyx), a toy company takes over the school with a marketing scheme in mind. | | Guest Stars: Joe Mantegna as Fat Tony, Tim Robbins as Jim Hope, Gary Coleman as Himself, Clarence Clemons (2) as Narrator, Marcia Wallace as Various, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Tress MacNeille as Lindsay Naegle, Russi Taylor as Martin, Sherri, Terri, Karl Wiedergott as Various | Director: Matthew Nastuk
Writer: Tom Martin (2) | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 239 :11x13 - Saddlesore Galactica (Feb/06/2000) | | The Simpsons rescue a diving horse named Duncan from abuse and keep it as a pet (despite The Comic Book Guy's protest that the Simpsons have done this before), but when the cost of upkeeping the horse rises, Homer and Bart train Duncan to be a racing horse. Meanwhile, Lisa is upset over her school losing the band competition to Ogdenville unfairly at the state fair and writes a letter to Bill Clinton in protest. | | Guest Stars: Jim Cummings as Frank Sinatra Jr., Randy Bachman as Himself, Fred Turner (1) as Himself, Pamela Hayden as Jimbo, Milhouse, Tress MacNeille as Various, Karl Wiedergott as Bill Clinton, Trevor Denman as Announcer | Director: Lance Kramer
Writer: Tim Long (2) | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 243 :11x17 - Bart to the Future (Mar/19/2000) | | After their vacation in the woods is cut short due to a mosquito infestation, The Simpsons stop by at an Indian casino, where Bart tries to sneak in and ends up in the office of an Indian mystic who shows Bart's future in the year 2030 as a washed-up rock star living with Ralph Wiggum while Lisa is the President of the United States trying to get the country out of financial trouble. | | Guest Stars: Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Tress MacNeille as Various, Karl Wiedergott as Carter | Director: Michael Marcantel
Writer: Dan Greaney | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 247 :11x21 - It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge (May/14/2000) | | Otto dumps his fiancee, Becky, at the altar, leaving her to become the Simpsons' latest houseguest, prompting Marge to go insane when Patty and Selma scare Marge with thoughts of Becky replacing Marge as a wife and mother. Meanwhile, Springfield Elementary gives Bart's fourth grade class videocameras (after slashing geography out of the budget) and Bart sets out to create a movie. | | Guest Stars: Parker Posey as Becky, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Tress MacNeille as Sherri, Terri, Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel, Karl Wiedergott as Various, Marc Wilmore as Various | Director: Steven Dean Moore (1)
Writer: Larry Doyle | | | | | | |
Season 12 | | | |
| 250 :12x02 - A Tale of Two Springfields (Nov/05/2000) | | In this, the 250th episode, Homer discovers that Springfield has two different area codes--and ends up leading a revolt that splits the town in two. | | Special Guest Stars: Pete Townshend as Himself, Roger Daltrey as Himself, John Entwistle as Himself, Gary Coleman as Himself, Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel, Frank Welker as Santa's Little Helper, | Guest Stars: Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Karl Wiedergott as Various, Tress MacNeille as Dolph, Jimbo, Lindsay Naegle | Director: Shaun Cashman (1)
Writer: John Swartzwelder | | Songs: The Who -- The Seeker, The Who -- Won't Get Fooled Again | | | |
| 251 :12x03 - Insane Clown Poppy (Nov/12/2000) | | During an outdoor book fair, Krusty finds out he has a daughter (from a one-night stand with a female soldier who fought in the Gulf War), but loses her trust after gambling away her violin to Fat Tony, prompting Homer and Krusty to retrieve it. | | Guest Stars: Jay Mohr as Christopher Walken, Drew Barrymore as Sophie, Stephen King (1) as Himself, Joe Mantegna as Fat Tony, Karl Wiedergott as Various, Amy Tan as Herself, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Tress MacNeille as Various, John Updike as Himself | Director: Bob Anderson (1)
Writer: John Frink, Don Payne | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 257 :12x09 - HOMR (Jan/07/2001) | | While working as a human guinea pig (to pay off the family's lost savings after making a bad investment), Homer discovers the root cause of his subnormal intelligence: a crayon that was lodged in his brain ever since he was a kid. He decides to have it removed to increase his IQ, but discovers that being smart does not necessarily equal being happy. | | Guest Stars: Pamela Hayden as Rod Flanders, Tress MacNeille as Various | Director: Mike B. Anderson (1)
Writer: Al Jean | | | | | | | | | |
| 260 :12x12 - Tennis the Menace (Feb/11/2001) | | The Simpsons build a tennis court in their backyard, but Homer's inferior tennis ability makes them the laughingstock of the town, while Bart shines as a natural. | | Guest Stars: Tress MacNeille as Various, Karl Wiedergott as Various, Pamela Hayden as Various, Marcia Mitzman-Gaven as Helen Lovejoy, Marcia Wallace as Various, Venus Williams as Herself, Serena Williams as Herself, Andre Agassi as Himself, Pete Sampras as Himself | Director: Jen Kamerman
Writer: Ian Maxtone-Graham | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 264 :12x16 - Bye Bye Nerdy (Mar/11/2001) | | When Lisa becomes the target of a female bully, Lisa discovers a scientifically offbeat reason as to why bullies pick on nerds. Meanwhile, Homer becomes a baby-proofer, which is threatening the livelihoods of those who profit off caring for injured children. | | Guest Stars: Jan Hooks as Manjula, Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel, Tress MacNeille as Dolph, Jimbo, Kathy Griffin (1) as Francine, Karl Wiedergott as Various, Russi Taylor as Martin, Sherri, Terri, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse | Director: Lauren MacMullan
Writer: John Frink, Don Payne | | | | | | |
| 266 :12x18 - Trilogy of Error (Apr/29/2001) | | Homer's rush to the hospital to reattach his thumb, Lisa's rush to school to win the science fair, and Bart's run-in with an illegal fireworks scheme are unconventionally interconnected in a parody of "Go" and "Run, Lola, Run". | | Guest Stars: Karl Wiedergott as Various, Frankie Muniz as Thelonious, Joe Mantegna as Fat Tony, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Rod Flanders, Russi Taylor as Martin Prince, Tress MacNeille as Various, Marcia Mitzman-Gaven as Ms. Hoover | Director: Mike B. Anderson (1)
Writer: Matt Selman | | | | | | | | | |
| 269 :12x21 - Simpsons Tall Tales (May/20/2001) | | When Homer refuses to pay a five dollar airport tax to fly to Delaware, the family is forced to ride in a livestock car of a train instead. There they meet a singing hobo who tells three tall tales: Homer as giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan, Lisa as apple advocate Connie Appleseed, and Bart and Nelson as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. | | Guest Stars: Karl Wiedergott as Various, Tress MacNeille as Various, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Frank Welker as Various Critters, Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel | Director: Bob Anderson (1)
Writer: John Frink, Don Payne, Bob Bendetson, Matt Selman | | | |
Season 13 |
| 270 :13x01 - Treehouse of Horror XII (Nov/06/2001) | | This year's tales of terror include: Homer trying to break a gypsy's curse on him in "Hex and the City", Marge becoming a computerized house's object of desire in "House of Whacks", and Bart and Lisa learning Harry Potter-style witchcraft at Springfield Elementary in "Wiz Kids". | | Guest Stars: Pierce Brosnan as Himself, Matthew Perry as Himself, Tress MacNeille as Various, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Karl Wiedergott as Various, Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel | Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: John Frink, Don Payne, Carolyn Omine, Joel H. Cohen (1) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 279 :13x10 - Half-Decent Proposal (Feb/10/2002) | | To earn money to fix Homer's snoring problem, Marge agrees to stay with her old prom date, Artie Ziff, for one weekend (on the grounds that Ziff try not to grope her like he did in "The Way We Was"), but when Homer thinks Marge broke her promise, he runs away with Lenny to work on an oil rig. | | Guest Stars: Marcia Mitzman-Gaven as Various, Tress MacNeille as Various, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Marcia Wallace as Various, Jon Lovitz as Artie Ziff, Karl Wiedergott as Various | Director: Lauren MacMullan
Writer: Tim Long (2) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 286 :13x17 - Gump Roast (Apr/21/2002) | | In the fifth (and hopefully final) clip show of the series, Homer is honored in a New York Friars' Club Roast, featuring his family, friends, and acquaintances showing his past misadventures--which comes to an end when Kang and Kodos crash the party. | | Guest Stars: Ron Howard (1) as Himself, Edward Asner as Editor, Karl Wiedergott as Various, 'N Sync as Themselves, U2 as Themselves, Stephen Hawking as Himself, Elton John as Himself, Lucy Lawless as Herself, Kim Basinger as Herself, Alec Baldwin as Himself, Joe Namath as Himself, Elizabeth Taylor (1) as Maggie, Tress MacNeille as Lindsay Naegle | Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Dan Castellaneta, Deb Lacusta | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Season 14 |
| 292 :14x01 - Treehouse of Horror XIII (Nov/03/2002) | Send in the Clones – Homer buys a hammock that can produce clones of himself that he uses to help around the house, but soon the clones (including many irregular mutants, such as an extremely fat Homer, a nerdy Homer, a faceless Homer, and Peter Griffin from Family Guy) overrun the town and must be destroyed.
The Fright to Creep and Scare Harms – Lisa petitions the town to get rid of their firearms after discovering the gravestone of a young man named William Bonney who died from gun violence. What Lisa soon finds out is that "William Bonney" is the real name of the famous Western outlaw Billy the Kid, who, along with Frank and Jesse James, The Sundance Kid, and Kaiser Wilhelm, overrun the defenseless town.
The Island of Dr. Hibbert – Dr. Hibbert is Dr. Moreau who invites all of the citizens of Springfield to his island resort and turns them into animals. | | Guest Stars: Tress MacNeille as Various, Maggie Roswell as Maude Flanders, Pamela Hayden as Various, Karl Wiedergott as Various | Director: David Silverman (1)
Writer: Brian Kelley (3), Kevin Curran, Marc Wilmore | | | |
| 293 :14x02 - How I Spent My Strummer Vacation (Nov/10/2002) | | Homer goes to a rock and roll camp, run by Rolling Stones' band members Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, after Homer confesses on a hidden camera show modeled after HBO's "Taxicab Confessions" that he hates his family and his job. | | Guest Stars: Lenny Kravitz as Himself, Mick Jagger as Himself, Brian Setzer (2) as Himself, Tom Petty as Himself, Elvis Costello as Himself, Keith Richards (2) as Himself, Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel, Pamela Hayden as Various, Tress MacNeille as Various, Karl Wiedergott as Various | Director: Mike B. Anderson (1)
Writer: Mike Scully | | | | | | |
| 295 :14x04 - Large Marge (Nov/24/2002) | | Thinking Homer does not find her attractive anymore, Marge goes to the hospital to get liposuction, but ends up with breast implants meant for Mayor Quimby's female assistant. Meanwhile, Bart and Milhouse accidentally get Krusty in trouble from TV watchdog groups after imitating a stunt shown on a 1960s episode of Batman featuring Krusty as a Joker/Riddler-esque villain. | | Guest Stars: Adam West as Batman, Burt Ward as Robin, Baha Men as Themselves, Jan Hooks as Manjula, Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Tress MacNeille as Cookie Kwan, Lindsay Naegle, Karl Wiedergott as Various, Marcia Mitzman-Gaven as Helen Lovejoy | Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Ian Maxtone-Graham | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 300 :14x09 - The Strong Arms of the Ma (Feb/02/2003) | | Marge gets mugged by a crazy man in a Goofy hat and becomes so traumatized that she becomes agoraphobic. To combat it, she begins exercising with the weight set Homer bought from Rainier Wolfcastle's garage sale and becomes strong enough to face the man who robbed her--and too strong for Homer to handle. | | Guest Stars: Tress MacNeille as Mugger's Cheap Girlfriend, Pamela Reed as Ruth Powers, Karl Wiedergott as Various, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse | Director: Pete Michels (1)
Writer: Carolyn Omine | | Songs: Composer Charles A. Zimmerman -- Anchors Aweigh, Etta James -- At Last, Pat Benatar -- Love Is A Battlefield, Frankie Goes To Hollywood -- Relax | | | | | | |
| 302 :14x11 - Barting Over (Feb/16/2003) | | Bart learns that he was once a child actor in commercials and all the money earned was squandered by Homer to buy back incriminating photos. In retaliation, Bart petitions the court to have himself legally emancipated from his parents and moves out of the Simpson house. | | Guest Stars: Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Tony Hawk as Himself, Blink 182 as Themselves, Jane Kaczmarek as Judge Harm, Karl Wiedergott as Various, Russi Taylor as Martin Prince, Tress MacNeille as Brandine, Dolph, Jimbo, Lindsay Naegle, Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel | Director: Matthew Nastuk
Writer: Andrew Kreisberg | | Songs: Blink 182 -- All the Small things | | | | | | |
| 304 :14x13 - A Star is Born Again (Mar/02/2003) | | Flanders dates a movie star, but worries that her wild Hollywood style is conflicting with his conservative Christian values. | | Guest Stars: Maggie Roswell as Luann Van Houten, Marisa Tomei as Sara Sloane, James L. Brooks (1) as Himself, Helen Fielding as Herself, Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Rod Flanders, Karl Wiedergott as Various, Tress MacNeille as Agnes, Cookie Kwan | Director: Michael Marcantel
Writer: Brian Kelley (3) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 310 :14x19 - Old Yeller-Belly (May/04/2003) | | Santa's Little Helper fails to save Homer from Bart's treehouse fire. As a result, Homer disowns him, but when Santa's Little Helper becomes the newest mascot for Duff Beer (replacing Duffman), The Simpsons want him back--but may be too late when Santa's Little Helper's previous owner from the very first episode ("Simpsons Roasting over an Open Fire") wants his dog back too. | | Guest Stars: John Kassir as Various, Stacy Keach (1) as Howard K. Duff VII, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, | Uncredited: Tress MacNeille as Agnes Skinner | Director: Bob Anderson (1)
Writer: John Frink, Don Payne | | | |
| 311 :14x20 - Brake My Wife, Please (May/11/2003) | | Homer loses his driver's license after driving into the ocean, and discovers the joys of walking. Meanwhile, Marge is saddled with driving duties and becomes so stressed out, she begins hurting Homer subconsciously. | | Guest Stars: Steve Buscemi as Himself, Jane Kaczmarek as Judge Harm, Jackson Browne as Himself, Tress MacNeille as Lindsay Naegle, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel, Karl Wiedergott as Various | Director: Pete Michels (1)
Writer: Tim Long (2) | | | | | | | | | |
Season 15 |
| 314 :15x01 - Treehouse of Horror XIV (Nov/02/2003) | Reaper Madness – Homer becomes The Grim Reaper after injuring him during a Benny Hill-style chase, and enjoys taking lives, but becomes conflicted when Marge is next on his death list.
Frinkenstein – Prof. Frink wins the Nobel Prize in science, but is sad that his dead father isn't with him to share in his success, so Frink rebuilds him out of his father's real body and the body parts of other corpses.
Stop the World, I Want to Goof Off – Bart and Milhouse order a stopwatch from the back of a comic book that possesses the power to manipulate time. | | Guest Stars: Maggie Roswell as Miss Hoover, Jerry Lewis (1) as Professor Frink's Father, Jennifer Garner as Herself, Oscar De La Hoya as Himself, Dudley Herschbach as Himself, Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Tress MacNeille as Agnes Skinner, Russi Taylor as Martin Prince | Director: Steven Dean Moore (1)
Writer: John Swartzwelder | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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