1 :01x01 - Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire

Christmas is nearly ruined when Marge has to spend all of the family's gift money to remove Bart's tattoo. Homer becomes a department store Santa to raise more cash (after Mr. Burns announces that Christmas bonuses have been cut for all semi-skilled workers), but blows it all at the dog racetrack.

2 :01x02 - Bart the Genius

Bart cheats on an intelligence test and is mistaken for a child genius. In order to offer him more stimulation, Marge and Homer enroll him in a school for gifted students where he is immediately made to feel like the mediocre student he is.

3 :01x03 - Homer's Odyssey

Homer gets fired from the nuclear plant after causing a minor accident. When he can't find a second job, Homer runs away to commit suicide, but ends up saving his family from almost getting hit by a truck. The rescue revitalizes Homer's will to live and he becomes a public safety advocate.

4 :01x04 - There's No Disgrace Like Home

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.

5 :01x05 - Bart the General

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.

6 :01x06 - Moaning Lisa

When Lisa becomes depressed about life, she runs away and meets a jazz player named Bleeding Gums Murphy. Meanwhile, Homer tries to defeat Bart in a two-player boxing video game.

7 :01x07 - The Call of the Simpsons

Homer buys an RV and takes the family camping, but end up lost in the forest after the RV goes over a cliff.

8 :01x08 - The Telltale Head

While facing an angry mob, Bart tells the story of how he stole the head off the statue of town founder, Jebediah Springfield, in order to impress local thug, Jimbo Jones, and his friends, Dolph and Kearney.

9 :01x09 - Life on the Fast Lane

Homer thoughtlessly buys Marge a bowling ball for her birthday, prompting her to take up bowling lessons out of spite. While struggling to bowl, Marge meets a suave, Frenchman named Jacques who teaches her the proper way to bowl--and may be trying to seduce her.

10 :01x10 - Homer's Night Out

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.

11 :01x11 - The Crepes of Wrath

Bart is sent to France as a foreign exchange student and is forced to live with two slave-driving French winemakers. In his place, the Simpson family takes in Adil, a student from Albania, who's actually a spy stealing the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant's secrets.

12 :01x12 - Krusty Gets Busted

With the help of eyewitness Homer Simpson, Krusty the Clown gets busted for robbing the Kwik-E-Mart. Convinced that his hero is wrongly accused, Bart, with Lisa's help, takes the case in order to find out who framed Krusty.

13 :01x13 - Some Enchanted Evening

Homer and Marge go out for a much-needed romantic dinner and leave Bart, Lisa and Maggie with a babysitter named Ms. Botz., who is really a fugitive from the law dubbed "The Babysitter Bandit".

14 :02x01 - Bart Gets an F

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.

15 :02x02 - Simpson and Delilah

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.

16 :02x03 - Treehouse of Horror

In this first of many hilariously horrible Halloween specials: The Simpsons move into a haunted house in "Bad Dream House", The Simpsons get abducted by aliens in "Hungry Are The Damned", and Homer gets trapped in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven".

17 :02x04 - Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish

Bart and Lisa catch a three-eyed fish in a polluted stream near The Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, bringing scads of negative publicity to Mr. Burns. In order to fight the bad press, Burns decides to run for Governor against Mary Bailey.

18 :02x05 - Dancin' Homer

One night at Moe's Tavern, a dejected Homer tells the story of how he got (and then lost) his big break of being a dancing mascot during baseball games.

19 :02x06 - Dead Putting Society

In a bout of over-the-top neighborly competition, Homer and Ned Flanders pit Bart and Todd against one another in a miniature golf competition.

20 :02x07 - Bart vs. Thanksgiving

It's Thanksgiving at the Simpson household, but the festivities come to a halt when Bart won't apologize for burning Lisa's detailed centerpiece and ends up on the streets and on the evening news at a homeless shelter.

21 :02x08 - Bart the Daredevil

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.

22 :02x09 - Itchy & Scratchy & Marge

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.

23 :02x10 - Bart Gets Hit by a Car

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.

24 :02x11 - One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish

Homer discovers the wonders of sushi, trying a piece of every fish on the menu of the Happy Sumo restaurant. But when he eats a bad piece of blowfish, Dr. Hibbert fears that Homer will die in 24 hours, prompting Homer to go to great lengths to get his affairs in order before he bites the big one.

25 :02x12 - The Way We Was

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.

26 :02x13 - Homer vs. Lisa and the Eighth Commandment

Homer becomes the most popular guy in town when he gets an illegal cable hook-up. But Lisa doesn't approve and fears that Homer will go to hell for violating the Eighth Commandment ("Thou shalt not steal").

27 :02x14 - Principal Charming

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.

28 :02x15 - Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?

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.

29 :02x16 - Bart's Dog Gets an F

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.

30 :02x17 - Old Money

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.

31 :02x18 - Brush With Greatness

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.

32 :02x19 - Lisa's Substitute

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.

33 :02x20 - The War of the Simpsons

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.

34 :02x21 - Three Men and a Comic Book

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.

35 :02x22 - Blood Feud

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.

36 :03x01 - Stark Raving Dad

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.

37 :03x02 - Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington

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.

38 :03x03 - When Flanders Failed

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.

39 :03x04 - Bart the Murderer

When he crashes his skateboard into the stairwell of the Legitimate Businessman's Social Club, Bart falls in with a particularly bad crowd: the Springfield Mafia, and becomes their gofer.

40 :03x05 - Homer Defined

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.

41 :03x06 - Like Father Like Clown

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.

42 :03x07 - Treehouse of Horror II

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.

43 :03x08 - Lisa's Pony

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.

44 :03x09 - Saturdays of Thunder

Bart becomes deeply immersed in competitive soapbox racing while Homer realizes that he knows nothing about his son. Meanwhile, Patty and Selma get their hair done like Mary Tyler Moore.

45 :03x10 - Flaming Moe's

Homer invents a bizarre drink he calls the Flaming Homer, but Moe ends up taking the credit for creating it and renames it The Flaming Moe.

46 :03x11 - Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk

Mr. Burns sells The Springfield Nuclear Power Plant for $100 million to German businessmen, who get rid of the one thing that's making the plant look bad: Homer Simpson.

47 :03x12 - I Married Marge

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.

48 :03x13 - Radio Bart

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.

49 :03x14 - Lisa the Greek

Homer discovers that Lisa has an uncanny ability to pick winning teams while the two bond over watching football, so Homer uses Lisa to help him gamble.

50 :03x15 - Homer Alone

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.

51 :03x16 - Bart the Lover

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.

52 :03x17 - Homer at the Bat

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.

53 :03x18 - Separate Vocations

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).

54 :03x19 - Dog of Death

While Homer catches lottery fever, the family must cut their budget to pay for Santa's Little Helper's operation.

55 :03x20 - Colonel Homer

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.

56 :03x21 - Black Widower

Selma invites her new fiance to dinner, but the kids are horrified when their soon-to-be-uncle is Sideshow Bob.

57 :03x22 - The Otto Show

After seeing Spinal Tap bring the house down (sort of) in concert, Bart decides he wants to learn how to play electric guitar. Meanwhile, Otto the bus driver loses his job after revealing he never got a driver's license and ends up at The Simpsons' house after getting evicted.

58 :03x23 - Bart's Friend Falls in Love

Everything's coming up Milhouse when Bart's best friend falls in love with the new girl, Samantha Stanky, which endangers his friendship with Bart. Meanwhile, Marge orders subliminal cassette tapes for Homer's weight loss, but ends up getting vocabulary builder tapes for Homer instead.

59 :03x24 - Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?

Homer's half-brother Herb Powell returns, but this time not as a successful businessman. After Homer wrecked his car company, Herb has become a bum, but with a little help from Maggie, he thinks he has come up with a shoo-in invention that will put him back on top.

60 :04x01 - Kamp Krusty

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.

61 :04x02 - A Streetcar Named Marge

Marge is cast in the role of Blanche DuBois in Oh! Streetcar, the musical version of A Streetcar Named Desire, after the director sees Marge's anger and depression in dealing with the boorish Homer.

62 :04x03 - Homer the Heretic

Homer and Marge get into a battle of faith when Homer decides to stay home from church and worship God in his own way.

63 :04x04 - Lisa the Beauty Queen

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.

64 :04x05 - Treehouse of Horror III

The Simpsons gather for a Halloween party and exchange ghost stories: Lisa tells the story of a Krusty the Clown doll bent on killing Homer in "Clown Without Pity", Grampa retells the story of King Kong in "King Homer", and Bart tells the story of a zombie invasion in "Dial Z for Zombie".

65 :04x06 - Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie

Every kid in the world waits with bated breath for the Itchy & Scratchy movie, but Bart is the only one who's not allowed to see it after Homer decides to be stricter with Bart's punishments.

66 :04x07 - Marge Gets a Job

When the Simpsons' house begins sliding off its foundation, Marge is forced to get a job to help make ends meet. Meanwhile, Bart fakes sick to get out of taking a test.

67 :04x08 - The New Kid on the Block

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.

68 :04x09 - Mr. Plow

Homer crashes both his car and Marge's car during a snowstorm, and buys a plow from an auto show.

69 :04x10 - Lisa's First Word

While trying to get Maggie to say her first words, Marge tells the story of how Homer moved his family into 742 Evergreen Terrace, how Marge got pregnant with Lisa, and Lisa's first word.

70 :04x11 - Homer's Triple Bypass

In a series of terrifying X-ray shots of Homer's chest, we see that his heart is dangerously clogged with plaque and doughnut residue and that he is in need of a triple bypass operation, but must choose between Dr. Hibbert's $40,000 operation or Dr. Nick's $129.95 hack job.

71 :04x12 - Marge vs. the Monorail

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.

72 :04x13 - Selma's Choice

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.

73 :04x14 - Brother From the Same Planet

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".

74 :04x15 - I Love Lisa

On Valentine's Day, Lisa gives Ralph a Valentine's Day card out of pity, which Ralph misinterprets as a sign that Lisa loves him.

75 :04x16 - Duffless

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.

76 :04x17 - Last Exit to Springfield

Homer finds himself filling in for the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant's union leader when it comes time to negotiate their new contract with Mr. Burns, who only wants to save the dental plan so he can pay for Lisa's braces.

77 :04x18 - So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show

Bart's April Fools' prank backfires and lands Homer in the hospital in a coma. At Homer's bedside, The Simpson family reminisces about all of the good times and bad times they've had over the years.

78 :04x19 - The Front

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.

79 :04x20 - Whacking Day

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.

80 :04x21 - Marge in Chains

Marge is sentenced to a month in prison for accidentally shoplifting bourbon. With Marge gone, the townspeople celebrate--until they realize that her Rice Krispie squares are sorely missed at the bake sale.

81 :04x22 - Krusty Gets Kancelled

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.

82 :05x01 - Homer's Barbershop Quartet

At a swap meet, Bart finds a record that has Homer's face on it. While driving home, Homer tells the story of how he, Apu, Principal Skinner, and Chief Wiggum (later replaced by Barney Gumble) became music stars in the mid-1980s.

83 :05x02 - Cape Feare

Bart begins receiving threatening letters from Sideshow Bob, prompting the entire family to go under Witness Protection.

84 :05x03 - Homer Goes to College

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.

85 :05x04 - Rosebud

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.

86 :05x05 - Treehouse of Horror IV

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.

87 :05x06 - Marge on the Lam

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.

88 :05x07 - Bart's Inner Child

Homer and Marge are entranced by a charismatic self-help guru named Brad Goodman, who uses Bart's irreverent attitude as a model for people to be open and honest with their feelings.

89 :05x08 - Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood

Experimenting with a dangerous all-syrup Squishee, Bart and Milhouse get loopy and run around Springfield singing and having adventures. Waking up with a massive Squishee hangover, Bart finds himself enlisted in the Junior Campers, the dweebiest after-school program in the world.

90 :05x09 - The Last Temptation of Homer

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.

91 :05x10 - $pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)

When gambling is legalized in Springfield, Mr. Burns opens an extravagant casino on the boardwalk. Homer is hired as a blackjack dealer despite his counting difficulties and Marge finds herself drawn to the slots, where she begins to spend all of her time. Meanwhile, cashing in on the trend, Bart opens his own casino in his treehouse and Lisa tries to get her Florida costume done in time for the 50 States Pageant at school.

92 :05x11 - Homer the Vigilante

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.

93 :05x12 - Bart Gets Famous

While working as Krusty the Clown's personal assistant, Bart accidentally steals the limelight when he knocks over a set on live TV and says, "I didn't do it!", which makes Bart famous...until Bart gets sick of the celebrity and people get sick of his catchphrase.

94 :05x13 - Homer and Apu

After Homer eats tainted meat from the Kwik-E-Mart, Apu finds himself out of a job. As an apology to Homer, Apu moves in with the Simpsons and becomes their personal chef and valet. Meanwhile, actor James Woods becomes the new clerk at the Kwik-E-Mart.

95 :05x14 - Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy

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.

96 :05x15 - Deep Space Homer

To boost ratings on all of their televised launches, NASA decides to recruit average, blue-collar slobs to go to space...and must choose between Homer Simpson and Barney Gumble.

97 :05x16 - Homer Loves Flanders

When Homer discovers that Ned Flanders has season football tickets, the two men begin spending a lot of time together. Homer takes a real liking to Ned, but Ned isn't so sure how he feels about his new best friend.

98 :05x17 - Bart Gets an Elephant

Bart wins first prize in a wacky radio contest and becomes the proud owner of a giant elephant he names Stampy.

99 :05x18 - Burns' Heir

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.

100 :05x19 - Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song

Principal Seymour Skinner must learn to live without his beloved elementary school when Bart gets him fired.

101 :05x20 - The Boy Who Knew Too Much

In a case ripped right out of the headlines, Bart is the only witness when Mayor Quimby's ne'er-do-well nephew, Freddy, allegedly assaults a snooty French butler, but Bart must choose between committing perjury or admitting to the court that he played hooky from school.

102 :05x21 - Lady Bouvier's Lover

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.

103 :05x22 - Secrets of a Successful Marriage

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.

104 :06x01 - Bart of Darkness

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.

105 :06x02 - Lisa's Rival

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.

106 :06x03 - Another Simpsons Clip Show

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.

107 :06x04 - Itchy & Scratchy Land

After weeks of begging, Bart and Lisa finally convince their parents to take them to Itchy & Scratchy Land, a new high-tech amusement park on a remote island.

108 :06x05 - Sideshow Bob Roberts

At the request of right-wing radio personality Birch T. Barlow, Sideshow Bob is once again released from prison...and sets his sights on running against Mayor Quimby in the upcoming election.

109 :06x06 - Treehouse of Horror V

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".

110 :06x07 - Bart's Girlfriend

Bart falls in love with Reverend Lovejoy's daughter, Jessica. In an effort to impress her, Bart pretends to be polite and mannered, but he soon learns that what Jessica really likes about him is that he's a bad, bad boy.

111 :06x08 - Lisa on Ice

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.

112 :06x09 - Homer Badman

Retrieving a piece of candy stuck to a college coed's pants brands Homer public enemy number one when the coed accuses Homer of touching her butt and the media makes Homer out to be a pervert.

113 :06x10 - Grandpa vs. Sexual Inadequacy

When Homer and Marge's sex life fizzles out, Grandpa whips up a liquid aphrodisiac that he once tried to make as a "cheap substitute for holy water". Soon, Homer and Grampa go on the road as love tonic salesmen, but the two break up when Grampa admits that Homer is a lousy son.

114 :06x11 - Fear of Flying

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.

115 :06x12 - Homer the Great

Homer joins a secret society called The Stonecutters, and becomes their leader after the members find a birthmark on him that symbolizes him as The Chosen One.

116 :06x13 - And Maggie Makes Three

While trying to have a family night without watching TV, Bart notices that there are no photos of Maggie, prompting Homer to tell the story of how Homer quit his job at the nuclear plant to work at Barney's Bowl-A-Rama...and how Marge's unexpected pregnancy sent Homer back to the plant to provide for his youngest daughter.

117 :06x14 - Bart's Comet

As punishment for releasing a balloon caricature of Principal Skinner, Bart assists the principal in his early-morning astronomy--and discovers a comet that's on a collision course for Springfield.

118 :06x15 - Homie the Clown

Homer goes to clown college and after graduating, he finds that being mistaken for Krusty has its benefits--and troubles when the Mafia kidnaps Homer (as Krusty) for not paying his debts.

119 :06x16 - Bart vs. Australia

After a prank phone call to Australia goes awry, Bart and his entire family must fly out to the land down under so Bart can apologize to the court, but the family ends up on the run when Bart discovers that those who break the law in Australia get kicked in the butt by a giant boot.

120 :06x17 - Homer vs. Patty and Selma

Homer is blackmailed into borrowing money from Patti and Selma to pay off his mortgage. Meanwhile, Bart takes ballet class, but is afraid that the bullies will think he's a sissy.

121 :06x18 - A Star is Burns

In this crossover episode, Springfield holds a film festival to boost their popularity, and Marge brings in The Critic's own Jay Sherman to be one of the judges.

122 :06x19 - Lisa's Wedding

At a Renaissance Fair, Lisa meets a Gypsy fortuneteller who shows Lisa's life in the year 2010, where Lisa is a college student who almost marries a British man who loves her, but not her family.

123 :06x20 - Two Dozen and One Greyhounds

Santa's Little Helper begins acting wild and destructive. When he runs away to the same dog track Homer and Bart found him, Santa's Little Helper mates with a female race dog called "She's the Fastest"--and The Simpsons become the proud owners of 25 greyhound puppies.

124 :06x21 - The PTA Disbands

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.

125 :06x22 - Round Springfield

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.

126 :06x23 - The Springfield Connection

After placing a citizen's arrest on Snake (who defrauded Homer of $20 in a three-card monte game), Marge decides to join the police academy.

127 :06x24 - Lemon of Troy

The children of Springfield wage war on Shelbyville after their beloved lemon tree is stolen from them by the kids from Shelbyville.

128 :06x25 - Who Shot Mr. Burns? (1)

Part one of two. Springfield Elementary School strikes oil, but Mr. Burns steals it and at the same time brings misery to many of Springfield's citizens, one of which shoots him after a town meeting.

129 :07x01 - Who Shot Mr. Burns? (2)

Conclusion. With Mr. Burns in the hospital from his gunshot wound, Chief Wiggum (with help from Lisa) investigates who shot Mr. Burns. All signs eventually point to Homer, but did he really do it?

130 :07x02 - Radioactive Man

When Springfield is chosen as the shooting location for Rainier Wolfcastle's big-screen adaptation of the popular Radioactive Man comic series, the entire town tries to take the movie's producers for every dime they've got while Bart auditions to be Fallout Boy, a part that inexplicably goes to his friend, Milhouse.

131 :07x03 - Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily

The Simpson children are put in the custody of Ned and Maude Flanders after misconstrued evidence (Bart's head lice, Lisa looking beat up, and the house looking a mess) prove that Homer and Marge are negligent parents. While Homer and Marge are forced to take parenting classes, Bart and Lisa worry that Maggie may love being a Flanders more than a Simpson.

132 :07x04 - Bart Sells His Soul

To prove that the soul doesn't exist, Bart sells his to Milhouse for $5.00, but regrets it when weird things begin happening to him. Meanwhile, Moe re-invents his bar as a kitschy restaurant called "Uncle Moe's Family Feedbag".

133 :07x05 - Lisa the Vegetarian

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.

134 :07x06 - Treehouse of Horror VI

This year's tales of terror include advertisements gone wild in "Attack of the 50ft. Eyesores", Groundskeeper Willie as Freddy Krueger in "Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace", and Homer stumbling upon the third dimension in "Homer^3".

135 :07x07 - King-Size Homer

Sick of the workaday grind at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant (and the plant's new exercise program), Homer purposely gains 300 pounds so he can get on the plant's disability plan and work from home.

136 :07x08 - Mother Simpson

After faking his own death to get a day off of work, Homer reunites with his mother Mona, who he thought had died 27 years ago, but was really on the run from the law after a botched attempt at destroying Mr. Burns's biological warfare lab.

137 :07x09 - Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming

Sideshow Bob once again escapes from prison. This time, however, he's less interested in killing Bart and more interested in shutting off the town's TV stations.

138 :07x10 - The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular

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.

139 :07x11 - Marge Be Not Proud

Marge refuses to buy Bart the new video game Bonestorm, so he steals it from a local discount store. When Marge finds out, she shuns Bart out of her life, leaving him to fend for himself during the Christmas season.

140 :07x12 - Team Homer

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.

141 :07x13 - Two Bad Neighbors

During a neighborhood rummage sale, former U.S. President George H.W. Bush moves in to Springfield, which doesn't sit well with Homer when Bart ends up getting spanked by Bush.

142 :07x14 - Scenes From the Class Struggle in Springfield

While shopping for a new TV (after Grampa wrecked the old one), Marge finds a fancy Chanel suit at an outlet store and reunites with her socialite friend from high school, who wants Marge to be a country club wife. Meanwhile, Homer challenges Mr. Burns to a golf game.

143 :07x15 - Bart the Fink

Bart accidentally rats Krusty the Clown out to the IRS. With his riches gone, Krusty flies his personal plane into a mountain and kills himself...but Bart begins seeing clues that Krusty may not be dead after all.

144 :07x16 - Lisa the Iconoclast

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.

145 :07x17 - Homer the Smithers

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.

146 :07x18 - The Day the Violence Died

Bart meets Chester J. Lampwick, a homeless man who claims and successfully proves that he is the creator of Itchy from The Itchy & Scratchy Show, but had his idea stolen by Roger Meyers's father back in the 1920s. After suing I&S Studios for royalties, the studio files for bankruptcy and shuts down.

147 :07x19 - A Fish Called Selma

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.

148 :07x20 - Bart on the Road

While spending the day with Patti and Selma at the DMV, Bart creates a fake ID that states he's 25 years old and uses the card to rent a car and take his friends on a road trip. Meanwhile, Lisa and Homer bond while Homer works at the nuclear plant, and Marge copes with being left alone.

149 :07x21 - 22 Short Films About Springfield

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.

150 :07x22 - Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"

Grampa is targeted for murder by Mr. Burns over a collection of stolen art from World War II, and Bart teams up with Grampa to fight back (since everyone else thinks Grampa's story is yet another sign that the old man is going senile).

151 :07x23 - Much Apu About Nothing

A referendum is created that will require all illegal immigrants from Springfield to be deported. After learning that his friend Apu is an illegal immigrant, Homer decides to fight back against the referendum and make Apu a citizen.

152 :07x24 - Homerpalooza

Fearing that he's no longer cool, Homer takes Bart and Lisa to Lollopalooza, where Homer is hired as a sideshow freak who can withstand direct cannonball blasts to the stomach.

153 :07x25 - Summer of 4 ft. 2

The Simpson family rents a beach house. Hanging around with a new set of children, Lisa becomes popular, while Bart is left out. Bart tries to sabotage his sister's newfound acceptance, which upsets Lisa, until she realizes her new friends don't mind that she's a nerd.

154 :08x01 - Treehouse of Horror VII

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.

155 :08x02 - 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 Cypress Creek and Homer must make a choice between Cypress Creek and Springfield.

156 :08x03 - The Homer They Fall

After Homer confronts Dolph's, Jimbo's, and Kearney's fathers over a belt that was stolen from Bart, Moe pushes Homer to get into boxing after seeing Homer withstand many blows to the head.

157 :08x04 - Burns, Baby Burns

Mr. Burns' long-lost illegitimate son, Larry, shows up and wants just a little "respect." Mr. Burns initially welcomes Larry, but rejects his son when he turns out to be a total idiot.

158 :08x05 - Bart After Dark

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.

159 :08x06 - A Milhouse Divided

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.

160 :08x07 - Lisa's 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 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.

161 :08x08 - Hurricane Neddy

A hurricane hits Springfield and wipes out the Flanders's house. While in the church homeless shelter, the town works together to rebuild The Flanders's house, but when the house turns out to be a disaster, Ned verbally assaults everyone involved and commits himself to the Calmwood Mental Hospital.

162 :08x09 - El Viaje de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)

After eating a dish laced with potent Guatemalan peppers at Springfield's chili cook-off, Homer goes on a psychedelic journey where a space coyote tells him he must find his soulmate.

163 :08x10 - The Springfield Files

Leonard Nimoy presents the strange tale of Homer Simpson's close encounter with an extraterrestrial being after a drunken walk home from Moe's one late Friday night.

164 :08x11 - The Twisted World of Marge Simpson

After Marge gets kicked out of the local women's business club, Marge starts a business of her own selling pretzels, but when the pretzels don't sell, Homer helps his depressed wife by recruiting the help of Fat Tony and his "legitimate" businessmen.

165 :08x12 - Mountain of Madness

To encourage teamwork, Mr. Burns takes all of his employees to a corporate retreat in the mountains, where Homer teams up with his boss...and the two end up trapped in a cabin thanks to an avalanche.

166 :08x13 - Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala (Annoyed Grunt) cious

In this Simpsonized send-up of Mary Poppins, the family hire a magical British nanny named Sherri Bobbins after Marge's hair falls out due to stress.

167 :08x14 - The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show

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.

168 :08x15 - Homer's Phobia

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.

169 :08x16 - Brother From Another Series

Once again, Sideshow Bob is released from prison, on the condition that he is looked after by his brother, Cecil Terwilliger, who turns out to be just as devious as his brother.

170 :08x17 - My Sister, My Sitter

Lisa embarks on a career as a babysitter, where her latest challenge is to babysit her brother Bart and baby sister Maggie while Homer and Marge go on a date at the newly renovated Squidport boardwalk.

171 :08x18 - Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment

Alcohol is banned from Springfield after Bart accidentally gets drunk at the St. Patrick's Day 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 under the name "The Beer Baron".

172 :08x19 - Grade School Confidential

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.

173 :08x20 - The Canine Mutiny

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).

174 :08x21 - The Old Man and Lisa

While Lisa tries to get the family involved in recycling, Mr. Burns loses his fortune and is forced to live like a working-class person. The two characters' paths cross when Mr. Burns shows an interest in recycling to gain his fortune back.

175 :08x22 - In Marge We Trust

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.

176 :08x23 - Homer's Enemy

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.

177 :08x24 - The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase

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).

178 :08x25 - The Secret War of Lisa Simpson

After unleashing a massive soundwave onto the town, Bart is sentenced to enroll in the Rommelwood Military Academy, which a bored Lisa wants to go to as well after feeling that public school is not challenging enough for her.

179 :09x01 - The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson

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.

180 :09x02 - The Principal and the Pauper

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.

181 :09x03 - Lisa's Sax

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.

182 :09x04 - Treehouse of Horror VIII

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.

183 :09x05 - The Cartridge Family

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.

184 :09x06 - Bart Star

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.

185 :09x07 - The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons

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.

186 :09x08 - Lisa the Skeptic

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.

187 :09x09 - Realty Bites

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.

188 :09x10 - Miracle on Evergreen Terrace

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.

189 :09x11 - All Singing, All Dancing

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.

190 :09x12 - Bart Carny

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.

191 :09x13 - The Joy of Sect

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.

192 :09x14 - Das Bus

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.

193 :09x15 - The Last Temptation of Krusty

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.

194 :09x16 - Dumbbell Indemnity

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.

195 :09x17 - Lisa the Simpson

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.

196 :09x18 - This Little Wiggy

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.

197 :09x19 - Simpson Tide

After once again getting fired from the nuclear plant, Homer joins the Naval Reserve (with Moe, Barney, and Apu joining him as well).

198 :09x20 - The Trouble With Trillions

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.

199 :09x21 - Girly Edition

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.

200 :09x22 - Trash of the Titans

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.

201 :09x23 - King of the Hill

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.

202 :09x24 - Lost Our Lisa

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.

203 :09x25 - Natural Born Kissers

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.

204 :10x01 - Lard of the Dance

Lisa befriends a new student named Alex Whitney, whose mature attitude convinces Lisa's friends to be just like her. Meanwhile, Homer convinces Bart to drop out of school for what he thinks to be a more promising pursuit: selling grease.

205 :10x02 - The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace

Homer becomes depressed when he discovers that he hasn't done anything in life that will be considered worthwhile after he dies. In an attempt to find a way to be remembered, Lisa introduces Homer to Thomas Edison, prompting him to become an inventor himself.

206 :10x03 - Bart the Mother

Nelson invites Bart over to shoot off a BB gun he won at an arcade center. When Bart uses it and kills a mother bird, Bart feels guilty (and Marge punishes Bart by having nothing to do with him) and takes it upon himself to nurse the orphaned eggs.

207 :10x04 - Treehouse of Horror IX

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.

208 :10x05 - When You Dish Upon a Star

When a parasailing accident sends Homer crashing into the secret home of Hollywood couple Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin, they hire him as their personal assistant, provided that Homer doesn't tell anyone where Baldwin and Basinger are.

209 :10x06 - D'Oh-in' in the Wind

While filling out a Screen Actors Guild form (after starring in an instructional video filmed at the nuclear plant), Homer realizes that he doesn't know what his middle initial "J" stands for. After finding the (obvious) answer on a mural in the hippie commune where his mother once lived, Homer decides to live the hippie lifestyle.

210 :10x07 - Lisa Gets an "A"

While sick from school, Lisa becomes obsessed with a video game and forgets to study for a test. Not willing to fail, she calls upon Bart and Nelson to help her cheat. Meanwhile, Homer houses a lobster to eat, but becomes emotionally attached to it and makes it his pet.

211 :10x08 - Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"

When Homer refuses to pull the car over and let Grampa go to the bathroom, the old man's kidneys explode. Out of guilt, Homer agrees to donate one of his kidneys to his father--but ends up running away when Homer's friends scare him with worst-case scenarios of what could happen during and after the operation.

212 :10x09 - Mayored to the Mob

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.

213 :10x10 - Viva Ned Flanders

After Flanders reveals that he's 60 years old and looks young because he's never done anything reckless in his life, everyone in town begins pitying Flanders for being a prude. In an attempt to show Flanders a good time, Homer takes him to Las Vegas, where they gamble and drink--and end up married to two sleazy barmaids named Amber and Ginger.

214 :10x11 - Wild Barts Can't Be Broken

Homer and his buddies start a riot after the Springfield Isotopes win the league championship. Thinking the destruction is the fault of the town's youth, the authorities impose a curfew for everyone under the age of 18, which the kids rebel against by starting an after-midnight pirate radio station.

215 :10x12 - Sunday, Cruddy Sunday

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.

216 :10x13 - Homer to the Max

Homer takes advantage of the fact that a suave TV show character has the same name as he does, but when said suave TV character is turned into a fat, bumbling idiot, Homer petitions the court to have his own name legally changed.

217 :10x14 - I'm With Cupid

When Apu finds increasingly elaborate ways of expressing his love for his wife, the men of Springfield feel as though they're being shown up in the romance department.

218 :10x15 - Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"

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.

219 :10x16 - Make Room For Lisa

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.

220 :10x17 - Maximum Homerdrive

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.

221 :10x18 - Simpsons Bible Stories

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).

222 :10x19 - Mom and Pop Art

After an art dealer sees Homer's botched attempt at building a brick barbecue as a masterpiece, Homer is hailed as an "outsider artist".

223 :10x20 - The Old Man and the "C" Student

After costing Springfield the Olympics with a racially offensive stand-up act, Bart is forced to "volunteer" at the Springfield Retirement Castle. Meanwhile Homer starts his latest get-rich-quick scheme: selling springs that were supposed to be used as the Olympics mascot.

224 :10x21 - Monty Can't Buy Me Love

When a popular, charming billionaire named Arthur Fortune opens a megastore in Springfield, Mr. Burns realizes that no one loves him (except for Smithers, whose love he spurns), and calls upon Homer to help him be more popular.

225 :10x22 - They Saved Lisa's Brain

Springfield's branch of Mensa International invites Lisa to join the group after reading her open letter of Springfield's lack of intellectualism following a riot at a gross-out contest. Meanwhile, Homer becomes a model for an erotic photographer.

226 :10x23 - 30 Minutes Over Tokyo

When Snake Jailbird steals the Simpson family's bank account, The Simpsons go on a budget (again) and save enough to buy a trip to Japan--where they blow all their vacation money and must compete on a sadistic game show in order to return to the U.S.

227 :11x01 - Beyond Blunderdome

Mel Gibson admires Homer's brutal honesty during a test screening of Gibson's latest movie (a remake of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) and hires him to create a better ending. However, when the ending proves to be too controversial, Mel and Homer end up on the run from studio executives while Marge and the kids see the sights of Hollywood.

228 :11x02 - Brother's Little Helper

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.

229 :11x03 - Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner

Homer becomes a food critic for the Springfield Shopper after the previous one retires, but when Homer abandons his positive reviews (ghostwritten by Lisa) for negative reviews, all of Springfield's restauranteurs band together to murder Homer.

230 :11x04 - Treehouse of Horror X

In this year's exceptionally evil Halloween episode, Marge accidentally murders Ned Flanders and is 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".

231 :11x05 - E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)

Inspired by a cheesy "Zorro" movie, Homer begins slapping people with a glove and challenging them to duels (with the victims giving Homer whatever he wants instead of accepting the challenge), but when a real Southern gentleman accepts Homer's request for a duel, The Simpsons run off to the old farm Homer lived in with his parents (as seen in the season six episode Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy) and breed a dangerously addictive tobacco/tomato hybrid called "tomacco".

232 :11x06 - Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder

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.

233 :11x07 - Eight Misbehavin

After Manjula gives birth to octuplets (which was the result of fertility drugs), she and Apu unintentionally allow a zookeeper to exploit their babies in exchange for help after corporate sponsors abandon them for a mom that has given birth to nontuplets.

234 :11x08 - Take My Wife, Sleaze

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.

235 :11x09 - Grift of the Magi

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.

236 :11x10 - Little Big Mom

Marge breaks her leg at a ski lodge, leaving Lisa to deal with the slovenly Bart and Homer.

237 :11x11 - Faith Off

Bart believes he has the power to heal others through faith after removing the bucket glued to Homer's head. Meanwhile, Homer creates a homecoming game float for Springfield University.

238 :11x12 - The Mansion Family

Mr. Burns goes to the Mayo Clinic for a checkup after being declared the oldest man in Springfield, leaving the Simpsons to housesit for him and Homer to take advantage of living as a rich man.

239 :11x13 - Saddlesore Galactica

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.

240 :11x14 - Alone Again Natura-Diddily

Maude Flanders is killed in a freak accident during a stock car race, devastating Ned and prompting Homer to find a new woman for his grieving neighbor.

241 :11x15 - Missionary Impossible

Homer gets in trouble with PBS after confessing he doesn't have $10,000 to give them for their pledge drive--and ends up a missionary on a South Pacific island.

242 :11x16 - Pygmoelian

After getting his face censored out on the Duff Calendar for not being photogenic, Moe gets plastic surgery and becomes the star of a popular soap opera. Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa go after Maggie's pink elephant balloon after it floats away.

243 :11x17 - Bart to the Future

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.

244 :11x18 - Days of Wine and D'Ohses

Barney decides to go sober after seeing how much of a loser he his when he's drunk. Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa find an old camera and use it to take a new picture for a phonebook cover contest.

245 :11x19 - Kill the Alligator and Run

When Homer gets a quiz book in the mail and does a health test, he freaks out when the results say that he only has three years left to live. He slowly goes mad from lack of sleep and The Simpsons head to Florida on vacation--only to find themselves in the middle of a raucous spring break, and on the run for killing an alligator.

246 :11x20 - Last Tap Dance in Springfield

Inspired by a movie about a girl who enters a tango contest and wins, Lisa decides to sign up for dance lessons -- and ends up taking tap lessons from a former child star. Meanwhile, Bart and Milhouse hide out at the mall to escape going to summer camp.

247 :11x21 - It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge

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.

248 :11x22 - Behind the Laughter

In a parody of VH1's Behind The Music, viewers take an inside look at The Simpsons' rise to fame--and the many scandals, feuds, and break-ups that threatened to end the show and split up the family.

249 :12x01 - Treehouse of Horror XI

In this latest installment of satirical scares, Homer is a wandering spirit who must do one good deed before he can get into Heaven in "G-G-Ghost D-D-Dad", Bart and Lisa see the dark side of "Happily Ever After" in "Scary Tales Can Come True", and the star attraction of a Sea World-style water park stages a war against humanity in "Night of the Dolphin".

250 :12x02 - A Tale of Two Springfields

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.

251 :12x03 - Insane Clown Poppy

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.

252 :12x04 - Lisa the Treehugger

To impress the leader of a militant environmental group, Lisa sets up residence in Springfield's oldest tree in order to keep it from being cut down, but when Lisa leaves her post, the town thinks she died after the tree is leveled.

253 :12x05 - Homer vs. Dignity

When the Simpsons once again have financial problems (after Homer's card get declined at a restaurant), Mr. Burns pays Homer to play pranks on others and humiliate himself in public. Meanwhile, Smithers creates a Malibu Stacy-themed musical.

254 :12x06 - The Computer Wore Menace Shoes

After Homer realizes he's missing out on the computer revolution, he buys the nicest model a fifth mortgage can buy and creates his own web page. However, when his web site fails to attract any attention, Homer begins calling himself Mr. X and becomes Springfield's number one source for dubious news and questionable scandals--which leads to Homer getting shipped to an island where those who know too much are cut off from mainstream society.

255 :12x07 - The Great Money Caper

Homer and Bart become father-son scam artists (after Bart is given money out of pity when Homer won't take him home), but the joke's on the both of them when the rest of the town plays an even bigger prank involving Groundskeeper Willie and a bloody courtroom shoot-out.

256 :12x08 - Skinner's Sense of Snow

A snowstorm traps the kids inside Springfield Elementary, with the kids overthrowing Principal Skinner when he uses his Army skills to control the students. Meanwhile, Homer tries to rescue the children--using Flanders' car.

257 :12x09 - HOMR

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.

258 :12x10 - Pokeymom

Marge tries to rehabilitate a convict with remarkable artistic talent. Meanwhile, Homer uses a trash can to fix people's spines.

259 :12x11 - Worst Episode Ever

Bart and Milhouse are banned from The Android Dungeon after stopping The Comic Book Guy from buying a box of priceless Star Wars memorabilia for $5, but are hired as his replacements when the Comic Book Guy has a heart attack and is advised to leave his job in order to make friends.

260 :12x12 - Tennis the Menace

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.

261 :12x13 - Day of the Jackanapes

Krusty announces his retirement due to interference from network executives and the growing popularity of the big-money game show "Me Wantee", but when Krusty reveals to Sideshow Bob that all of the episodes featuring him have been erased, Sideshow Bob uses Krusty's biggest fan (Bart) to murder him during Krusty's farewell show.

262 :12x14 - New Kids on the Blecch

A music producer selects Bart, Nelson, Milhouse and Ralph to be members of the next hit boy band, who record subliminal songs about joining the Navy.

263 :12x15 - Hungry Hungry Homer

Homer becomes a Good Samaritan after discovering the simple joys of helping people in need -- which is put to the test when he goes on a hunger strike after the owner of the Springfield Isotopes attempts to discredit Homer's claims that the owner is selling the Isotopes to Albuquerque.

264 :12x16 - Bye Bye Nerdy

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.

265 :12x17 - Simpsons Safari

When the Simpsons run out of food thanks to a bag boy strike, the family finds an old box of animal crackers with a sweepstakes that sends The Simpsons to Africa.

266 :12x18 - Trilogy of Error

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".

267 :12x19 - I'm Goin' to Praise Land

After finding a sketchbook belonging to his late wife Maude, Ned Flanders opens a Bible-themed amusement park to honor her memory.

268 :12x20 - Children of a Lesser Clod

After spraining his knee during a basketball game, Homer begins taking care of the neighborhood kids to cure his boredom, prompting jealousy from Bart and Lisa, who feel that Homer is giving the kids the attention they never had.

269 :12x21 - Simpsons Tall Tales

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.

270 :13x01 - Treehouse of Horror XII

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".

271 :13x02 - The Parent Rap

Bart gets in trouble for joyriding in a police car, but feels confident he'll be let off the hook by Judge Snyder. However, Snyder goes on vacation before ruling his verdict and gets replaced with a coldhearted judge named Constance Harm who blames Homer for being a negligent father and sentences him and Bart to be tethered together.

272 :13x03 - Homer the Moe

A depressed Moe decides to return to bartending school to re-evaluate himself and turns his bar into a trendy nightclub, which does not sit well with his regular customers (Homer, Lenny, Carl, and Barney).

273 :13x04 - Hunka Hunka Burns in Love

Homer becomes a fortune cookie writer for a Chinatown restaurant. Meanwhile, Mr. Burns finds one of Homer's fortunes predicting that he will find love before Flag Day is over, and falls for a meter maid--whose ex-boyfriend is resident criminal Snake Jailbird.

274 :13x05 - The Blunder Years

After tricking Marge into thinking an advertising spokesman is coming to visit her, Homer takes Marge and the rest of the family to a restaurant featuring a hypnotist that uses his powers on Homer...and makes Homer remember a horrific childhood incident where Homer found a dead body in a ravine.

275 :13x06 - She of Little Faith

After Homer and Bart's model rocket damages the church, Mr. Burns makes a deal to commercialize the church in return for paying for the damages. Disgusted that Reverend Lovejoy is selling out, Lisa leaves the Christian church and converts to Buddhism.

276 :13x07 - Brawl in the Family

A social worker is assigned to make the Simpson family functional after they get arrested for fighting over a board game. Meanwhile, Ginger and Amber return to see Flanders and Homer after the two men abandoned them in "Viva Ned Flanders".

277 :13x08 - Sweets and Sour Marge

Springfield is officially declared the World's Fattest Town after the townspeople gets involved in building a human pyramid and end up rolling onto a truck scale. Out of embarrassment and disgust, Marge goes on a crusade to get sugar banned from Springfield. When the ban passes through, Homer begins bootlegging sugar.

278 :13x09 - Jaws Wired Shut

Homer gets his jaw injured (after running into Drederick Tatum's statue in the park) and has it wired shut. While recouperating, Homer becomes a better listener and a more compassionate person, which makes Marge bored once Homer's jaw is healed and he doesn't go back to being crazy and obnoxious.

279 :13x10 - Half-Decent Proposal

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.

280 :13x11 - The Bart Wants What It Wants

Bart befriends Rainer Wolfcastle's daughter, Greta, who has a crush on Bart (which Bart doesn't realize). Meanwhile, Principal Skinner tries his hand at stand-up comedy--and gets heckled.

281 :13x12 - The Lastest Gun in the West

Bart befriends Buck, a former Western film star who stages a comeback on The Krusty the Klown show after every kid in town becomes interested in the Wild West. However, the comeback flops when Buck begins drinking alcohol and injures Krusty on live TV.

282 :13x13 - The Old Man and the Key

Grampa gets his driver's license back and uses Homer's car to impress a woman at the retirement home, but is ignorant to Homer and Marges' concerns that she is only using him for his car.

283 :13x14 - Tales From the Public Domain

When Homer gets a notice from the library that he has a book of classic tales that's years overdue, he finds it on the shelf and reads three stories: The Odyssey (where Homer and his buddies try to get home after fighting the Trojans), Joan of Arc (where Lisa leads the French against the British with the help of God), and Hamlet (where Bart tries to kill Moe after Moe kills Homer in order to marry Marge).

284 :13x15 - Blame it on Lisa

When Homer gets the family's telephone service cut off for refusing to pay for calls made to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Lisa confesses that she was the one who called Rio after befriending an orphan who ended up missing. In response, the Simpsons travel to Brazil to look for him.

285 :13x16 - Weekend at Burnsies

Homer is prescribed medicinal marijuana after getting pecked in the eyes by a murder of crows. While his family and friends worry about the drug altering his personality, Homer becomes Mr. Burns's vice president after cracking up at Burns's antiquated jokes.

286 :13x17 - Gump Roast

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.

287 :13x18 - I am Furious Yellow

Inspired by a cartoonist who speaks at the school as part of a career day assembly, Bart creates a comic book series based on Homer and his anger problems, which turns into a popular Internet cartoon series. Meanwhile, Stan Lee harasses the Comic Book Guy.

288 :13x19 - The Sweetest Apu

Homer and Marge discover that Apu is having an affair with the Squishee delivery lady and must keep Manjula from knowing about it, which falls apart when Manjula finds out by watching the security tapes.

289 :13x20 - Little Girl in the Big Ten

Lisa befriends two girls in her gymnastics class who are actually college students who look like eight-year-olds because of their heights...and think Lisa is a college student too due to her intellect. Meanwhile, Bart is relegated to living in a bubble when he's bitten by a mosquito from China.

290 :13x21 - Frying Game

While faced with community service, Homer, along with Marge are accused of murder after the old woman they are caring for dies.

291 :13x22 - Papa's Got a Brand New Badge

Homer starts a security company with Lenny and Carl after the police are ineffective during a blackout, and eventually Mayor Quimby decides to have the security company replace the police, which works out fine...until they have to deal with Fat Tony and his "legitimate" businessman.

292 :14x01 - Treehouse of Horror XIII

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.

293 :14x02 - How I Spent My Strummer Vacation

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.

294 :14x03 - Bart vs. Lisa vs. 3rd Grade

Thanks to the results of their latest standardized tests, Lisa is moved up to the third grade for getting the highest score while Bart is sent back for getting the lowest score. Meanwhile, Homer gets satellite TV.

295 :14x04 - Large Marge

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.

296 :14x05 - Helter Shelter

The Simpsons' house is overrun by termites (after Lisa gets a hockey stick from a Russian player) and find another place to live while their home is being fumigated in the form of a reality show where families live the way people did in the 1800s.

297 :14x06 - The Great Louse Detective

When the Simpson family go to a free spa weekend, Homer is nearly killed when a mysterious figure locks him in a sauna, prompting Chief Wiggum to hire someone who can think like a murderer in order to find one. Unfortunately, that "someone" is Bart's mortal enemy, Sideshow Bob.

298 :14x07 - Special Edna (a.k.a. Love And Marking)

In a completely out of character move, Bart nominates Mrs. Krabappel for the Teacher of the Year award after the surly fourth grade teacher worries about her relationship with Principal Skinner.

299 :14x08 - The Dad Who Knew Too Little

Homer hires a private detective to help him learn more about Lisa after he disappoints her on her birthday with a thoughtless present, but ends up on the run with Lisa when the detective wants his payment.

300 :14x09 - The Strong Arms of the Ma

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.

301 :14x10 - Pray Anything

Homer gets jealous of Flanders and his incredible string of good luck, so he decides to imitate his neighbor by using the power of prayer to get ahead--which leads to Homer suing Reverend Lovejoy for ownership of the church after falling in a ditch.

302 :14x11 - Barting Over

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.

303 :14x12 - I'm Spelling As Fast As I Can

Lisa competes at a spelling bee and becomes the pride of the town. Meanwhile, Homer goes touring with a group who are obsessed with eating Krusty Burger's latest sandwich.

304 :14x13 - A Star is Born Again

Flanders dates a movie star, but worries that her wild Hollywood style is conflicting with his conservative Christian values.

305 :14x14 - Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington

When The Simpsons become fed up with the new flight patterns at the Springfield airport which are sending loud planes over their house all the time, they take a stand by nominating Krusty the Clown as their new Congressman.

306 :14x15 - C. E. D'oh

To impress Marge, Homer becomes the CEO of Springfield Nuclear Power Plant when he releases a canary that, according to Mr. Burns, is the plant's legal owner.

307 :14x16 - 'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky

Lisa takes up astronomy in order to make something out of her life. However her attempts of getting the lights turned down during the night only result in a rise in the crime rate. Meanwhile, a British man named Declan Desmond films a documentary about the student life at Springfield Elementary.

308 :14x17 - Three Gays of the Condo

Homer finds an old note from Marge, revealing that Marge never liked Homer and only stayed with him because he got her pregnant. Upset over the news, Homer moves out and lives with a male homosexual couple, who show Homer the wonders of the gay lifestyle.

309 :14x18 - Dude, Where's My Ranch?

Homer decides to write an original Christmas carol, and pens a tune called “Flanders is a Jerk.” The song becomes such a hit that The Simpsons become sick of the fame and move away to a dude ranch.

310 :14x19 - Old Yeller-Belly

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.

311 :14x20 - Brake My Wife, Please

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.

312 :14x21 - The Bart of War

After destroying Flanders' Beatles shrine, Bart and Milhouse are punished by being put in community groups that end up fighting each other over territory.

313 :14x22 - Moe Baby Blues

While attempting suicide by jumping off a bridge, Moe inadvertently saves Maggie (after she goes flying out the Simpsons' car window) and becomes attached to her, making Homer jealous.

314 :15x01 - Treehouse of Horror XIV

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.

315 :15x02 - My Mother the Carjacker

Homer's mother returns, and after being cleared of all charges, is re-imprisoned on a technicality.

316 :15x03 - The President Wore Pearls

In this loose parody of the musical/movie, Evita, Lisa is elected Student Body president, but is unaware that Principal Skinner is using her to enforce many controversial budget cuts for the school.

317 :15x04 - The Regina Monologues

After making over $3000 from his own museum, Bart takes the family to London, where Homer is arrested for treason after crashing into the Queen.

318 :15x05 - The Fat and the Furriest

Homer is caught on tape running away from a large bear at the town dump and becomes the laughingstock of Springfield.

319 :15x06 - Today I am a Clown

Krusty discovers that he never had a bar mitzvah as a child. He quits his show to have it as an adult, with the help of his father, Rabbi Krustofsky. Meanwhile, Homer hosts a late-night talk show a la "Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher" as a replacement for Krusty's show.

320 :15x07 - 'Tis the Fifteenth Season

Homer realizes how selfish he is after he spends all the family's Christmas money on a present for himself, and becomes Springfield's nicest man ever, which doesn't sit well with Ned Flanders.

321 :15x08 - Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays

After a baby riot breaks out at a children’s “concert” in Springfield, the town’s singles, senior citizens, childless couples, teenagers, and homosexuals band together to protest having to accommodate families (including paying property taxes used to teach children they do not have). Marge takes up the cause against the childless contingents, with some help from Bart and Lisa.

322 :15x09 - I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot

In his ongoing efforts to impress his son, Homer decides to build a robot that can fight on the mechanical gladiator show they enjoy watching on television. Meanwhile, Lisa is crushed when Snowball III dies, and is further distraught when she can’t keep a large number of replacement cats alive either.

323 :15x10 - Diatribe of a Mad Housewife

Marge is inspired to write her first book, but Homer shows little interest or support because he’s fixated on an old ambulance he’s now driving around town. Annoyed by Homer’s tendencies, Marge channels her anger into her writing and produces a period piece that depicts a despicable Homer-like character and his wife who longs for a Flanders-like neighbor.

324 :15x11 - Margical History Tour

With the Springfield library dangerously low on books, the kids don’t have enough resources to do their research papers for school. Instead, Marge gives verbal anecdotes about historical figures: King Henry VIII's (Homer) six attempts at siring a son, Lewis and Clark's (Lenny and Carl) journey through the Pacific Northwest with Sacagawea (Lisa), and Salieri's (Lisa) attempts at destroying Mozart (Bart)

325 :15x12 - Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Milhouse moves to Capital City, which causes a lonely Bart to bond with Lisa. Meanwhile Homer goes into panhandling to buy an anniversary gift for Marge.

326 :15x13 - Smart & Smarter

An IQ test proves that Maggie is smarter than Lisa. Shocked that she is no longer "the smart one", Lisa runs away from home.

327 :15x14 - The Ziff Who Came to Dinner

Margie's ex-prom date Artie Ziff returns, this time, broke, on the run from the SEC after his company defrauded shareholders and went under Enron-style, and living in the Simpsons' attic.

328 :15x15 - Co-Dependent's Day

Homer and Marge's bond becomes stronger when they both get drunk on wine, but soon the bond unravels when Homer blames Marge for crashing the car and Marge gets sent to rehab. Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa complain to Randall Curtis (a George Lucas-esque sci-fi movie director) about his latest film.

329 :15x16 - Wandering Juvie

After setting up a huge wedding scam, Bart is sent to juvenile hall. He meets a girl called Gina, and they break out together and go on the lam.

330 :15x17 - My Big Fat Geek Wedding

After hearing that Skinner is getting cold feet about their wedding, Edna leaves Skinner at the altar and hooks up with Comic Book Guy. Skinner tries to win Edna back with Homer's help.

331 :15x18 - Catch 'Em If You Can

When Marge and Homer are caught by Bart and Lisa having a romantic weekend in Miami instead of having a boring family visit to Dayton, the kids embark on a cross country journey à la Catch Me If You Can in order to hunt them down and ruin their vacation.

332 :15x19 - Simple Simpson

Homer becomes "Pie Man", a masked vigilante who delivers a pie in the face of justice to evildoers. However, after attacking Mr Burns, Burns hires him as a personal hitman, until Homer is ordered to attack the Dalai Lama.

333 :15x20 - The Way We Weren't

Homer and Marge recall the story of their first kiss at summer camp when they were children, where Homer betrayed Marge by standing her up on their second date.

334 :15x21 - Bart-Mangled Banner

After receiving an injection from Dr. Hibbert, Bart becomes deaf, which makes him impervious to being bullied...until he accidentally moons the American flag during a donkey basketball game, prompting everyone in town to accuse The Simpsons of being unpatriotic.

335 :15x22 - Fraudcast News

Lisa publishes her own newspaper, which becomes under threat of takeover after Mr. Burns buys all the media outlets in town. This causes her to start an all-out war with Mr. Burns for the right to tell the truth.

336 :16x01 - Treehouse of Horror XV

The Ned Zone – Ned Flanders gets hit on the head by a bowling ball and falls in a coma. When he wakes up, he gains the power to predict people's dooms.

Four Beheadings with a Funeral – Lisa and Bart investigate the murders of Victorian-era England's most prolific prostitutes.

In the Belly of the Boss – The Simpsons go on a "fantastic voyage" through Mr. Burns's body to rescue Maggie after Maggie gets shrunk down into a pill and ingested by Burns.

337 :16x02 - All's Fair in Oven War

Marge resorts to cheating to get revenge during a baking contest after other contestants used similar dirty methods against her food entry. Meanwhile, Homer finds his old issues of Playdude in the walls, which Bart finds and uses as a guide on how to live the bachelor life.

338 :16x03 - Sleeping With the Enemy

Feeling unappreciated by her own children, Marge takes in Nelson as her surrogate child. Meanwhile, Lisa becomes self-conscious of her weight after the girls in school make fun of her butt and purposely starves herself in order to be skinny.

339 :16x04 - She Used to Be My Girl

Marge bumps into an old high-school acquaintance who is now a successful news reporter. While Marge becomes jealous of her friend's success and wonders what may have been had she not stayed with Homer, Lisa becomes inspired by this new, strong woman.

340 :16x05 - Fat Man and Little Boy

Bart becomes depressed about growing older after losing his last baby tooth, and, following advice from Lisa, deals with his problems by writing slogans on T-shirts. These shirts eventually become popular, and Bart goes into business selling them. Meanwhile, Homer tries to create a science fair project for Lisa.

341 :16x06 - Midnight Rx

Mr. Burns cancels the nuclear plant's prescription pill plan, prompting Homer and Grampa to smuggle prescription pills in from Canada. Mr. Burns soon regrets his actions when his faithful assistant Smithers suffers from a goiter and joins Homer and Grampa on one last heist.

342 :16x07 - Mommie Beerest

When Moe’s Tavern is shut down by the health department, Homer takes out a second mortgage without consulting Marge to finance the bar’s return, but Marge finds out and decides to protect her investment by becoming Moe's business partner and renovating the tavern into a pub.

343 :16x08 - Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass

After Homer inadvertently performs a wild crowd-pleasing dance at a local carnival, he is hired by several sports figures including Tom Brady, LeBron James, Yao Ming, Warren Sapp and Michelle Kwan to teach them how to showboat. Meanwhile, Flanders creates ultra-violent, ultra-gory Bible movies à la Passion of the Christ.

344 :16x09 - Pranksta Rap

Bart fakes his own kidnapping to get out of being grounded for going to a rap concert, but the ruse goes too far when Milhouse's father is implemented as the kidnapper.

345 :16x10 - There's Something About Marrying

Homer becomes a minister after Springfield legalizes gay marriage (to boost their damaged reputation for tourists) and Patty comes out of the closet, much to the shock of her sister, Marge, who was naive to her sister's sexuality.

346 :16x11 - On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister

Fed up with Bart’s endless taunting and torture, Lisa files a restraining order against him. Meanwhile, Homer takes over for Grampa as a Sprawl-Mart greeter.

347 :16x12 - Goo Goo Gai Pan

Selma misses her chance to have a baby after the doctor tells her she's menopausal and decides to adopt a child from China. But when Selma lists Homer down as the father, the Simpsons head to China to help Selma get her baby girl.

348 :16x13 - Mobile Homer

Marge throws Homer out of the house after he blows the family's insurance money on an RV--which Bart and Lisa drive back to the dealership in an effort to keep the family together.

349 :16x14 - The Seven-Beer Snitch

After Shelbyville accuses Springfield of being hicks, Marge convinces the townspeople to fund a Frank Gehry-designed concert hall, which is then converted to a prison when the concert hall goes bankrupt on opening night. Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa investigate Snowball II's recent weight gain.

350 :16x15 - Future-Drama

Through Professor Frink's future machine, Bart and Lisa see their lives in the year 2013, where Bart steals Lisa's chances at going to an Ivy League school in order to impress a skater girl named Jenda while Homer fights Krusty the Clown after Marge begins dating him.

351 :16x16 - Don't Fear the Roofer