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The Simpsons, being such a Long Runner[1], has naturally amassed many episodes (more than 500, in fact).

Season 1

  1. "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire": Also known as "The Simpsons Christmas Special", Homer discovers he won't be getting a Christmas bonus and so the family won't have any money for Christmas. Homer decides to keep it a secret, and becomes a Mall Santa.
  2. "Bart the Genius": Bart cheats on an intelligence test, and ends up being sent to a school for gifted children.
  3. "Homer's Odyssey": After being fired from his job, Homer becomes a crusader for citizen safety in Springfield.
  4. "There's No Disgrace Like Home": Homer becomes ashamed of his family after a catastrophic company picnic and decides to enroll them in therapy.
  5. "Bart the General": Bart gathers the other children and declares war on Nelson Muntz, a prolific bully.
  6. "Moaning Lisa": Lisa attempts to overpower her sadness with her saxophone, and meets "Bleeding Gums" Murphy.
  7. "The Call of the Simpsons" Homer purchases an RV and the family get trapped in the woods during their vacation.
  8. "The Telltale Head": Bart cuts the head off of the statue of Jebediah Springfield.
  9. "Life on the Fast Line": Also known as "Jacques To Be Wild", Homer's thoughtlessness leads to a marriage crisis when Marge starts falling for Jacques, her French bowling instructor.
  10. "Homer's Night Out": Bart takes a picture of Homer with an exotic belly dancer.
  11. "The Crepes of Wrath": Bart goes to France on a student exchange trip, and his hosts treat him as a slave. The Albanian student who takes Bart's place takes great interest in Homer's work at the Nuclear Power Plant.
  12. "Krusty Gets Busted": Krusty the Clown is arrested by the police for robbing the Kwik-E-Mart, and Bart sets out to prove him innocent. Marks the first appearance of Kent Brockman and Sideshow Bob.
  13. "Some Enchanted Evening": Homer and Marge hire Ms. Botz to babysit so they can spend a night out on the town. However, Ms. Botz turns out to be the "Babysitter Bandit".


Season 2

  1. "Bart Gets an F"
  2. "Simpson and Delilah"
  3. "Treehouse of Horror"
  4. "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish": Mr. Burns makes an unsuccessful attempt to run for Governor of the state Springfield is in to keep his power plant from shutting down. The campaign goes awry when Burns is served the three eyed fish Bart caught close to the plant.
  5. "Dancin' Homer": Homer becomes a baseball sensation when he is named mascot for the Springfield Isotopes.
  6. "Dead Putting Society"
  7. "Bart vs. Thanksgiving": Bart destroys Lisa's Thanksgiving centerpiece and refuses to apologize.
  8. "Bart the Daredevil": Bart's skateboard stunts escalate in ambition to the point that he intends to jump Springfield Gorge. Can anyone talk him out of it?
  9. "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge": Marge leads a protest against The Itchy & Scratchy Show by blaming it for Maggie hitting Homer on the head with a mallet, and forces its writers to make the cartoons less violent.
  10. "Bart Gets Hit by a Car": Mr. Burns' car hits Bart, and the Simpsons sue Burns on the advice of their attorney Lionel Hutz.
  11. "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish": Homer finds out he has 22 hours left to live after eating a (not exactly) poisoned piece of fugu at a sushi bar.
  12. "The Way We Was": The first flashback episode, where we get the story of how Homer and Marge first met in 1974. Homer attempts to fall in love with her, but at the same time, she falls for nerdy Artie Ziff.
  13. "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment": Lisa suspects Homer is in violation of the 8th Commandment (Thou Shalt Not Steal) when he gets an illegal cable television hook up.
  14. "Principal Charming"
  15. "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?": Homer meets -- and ruins -- his extremely successful half-brother Herb.
  16. "Bart's Dog Gets an F"
  17. "Old Money"
  18. "Brush with Greatness": Marge is revealed to be a talented painter, having done portraits of Ringo Starr (guest voicing As Himself) as a teen, and is commissioned to do a portrait of Mr. Burns for the new Burns Wing of the Springfield Art Museum.
  19. "Lisa's Substitute"
  20. "The War of the Simpsons"
  21. "Three Men and a Comic Book": Bart, Milhouse and Martin get into a fight over a rare copy of the first Radioactive Man comic when they have to pool their money to buy it.
  22. "Blood Feud": Mr. Burns's life is saved by a transfusion of blood from Bart, but his thank you note isn't enough to satisfy Homer's expectations of a reward.


Season 3

  1. "Stark Raving Dad": When Homer is mistakenly institutionalized, his roommate is an obese, yellow guy who claims to be (and sounds suspiciously like) Michael Jackson.
  2. "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington": Lisa becomes a finalist in a patriotic essay contest, only to have her faith in the American way threatened when she witnesses a senator taking a bribe.
  3. "When Flanders Failed": Ned Flanders goes into business for himself. Homer secretly wishes for him to fail -- and has a crisis of conscience when it looks like that's going to happen. Bart ostensibly takes up karate, but his "touch of death" move is actually from an arcade game.
  4. "Bart the Murderer": In the debut episode of recurring guest character Fat Tony, Bart becomes an employee of the mob boss -- and his connections might be behind the sudden disappearance of Principal Skinner.
  5. "Homer Defined": When Homer averts a nuclear meltdown, he's hailed as a hero...how will everyone react if they learn his "heroism" was just luck?
  6. "Like Father, Like Clown": Bart tries to reconcile Krusty the Klown with his estranged rabbi father.
  7. "Treehouse of Horror II": A monkey's paw grants wishes (one of which is taken advantage of by Kang and Kodos), "It's a Good Life" is retold with Bart as an evil kid who controls Springfield, and Homer's brain gets transplanted into a robot body.
  8. "Lisa's Pony": Homer finally buys Lisa the one thing she's longed for...but to pay for it, he has to take on a second job.
  9. "Saturdays of Thunder": Homer tries to get to know Bart better by helping him build a soapbox derby racer.
  10. "Flaming Moe's": Moe steals Homer's recipe for a drink that becomes the toast of Springfield.
  11. "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk": Burns sells the power plant to German investors, and the employees chafe under the new management.
  12. "I Married Marge": Homer recounts the story of Marge's pregnancy with Bart and the Homer-Marge nuptuals (in that order) in this 1980-set story.
  13. "Radio Bart": Bart tricks Springfield into believing that one Timmy O'Toole has fallen down a well and needs to be rescued.
  14. "Lisa the Greek": Homer discovers Lisa has a talent for predicting the results of American football matches, and turns it to his profit.
  15. "Homer Alone": Marge desperately needs a break from the daily grind and goes to a spa resort, leaving the rest of the Simpsons adrift -- and eventually missing in Maggie's case.
  16. "Bart the Lover": Bart creates a fictitious penpal lover for Mrs. Krabappel.
  17. "Homer at the Bat": The Springfield Nuclear Power Plant's softball team is surprisingly successful thanks to Homer, but Mr. Burns decides to call in Major League Baseball ringers for the championship game anyway.
  18. "Separate Vocations": When the results of Bart's vocational survey suggest he'd make a great cop and Lisa learns her dreams of becoming a professional sax player are doomed by genetics, their roles at Springfield Elementary are reversed.
  19. "Dog of Death": Santa's Little Helper is at death's door, and the family tightens their belts to get him the surgery he needs. Afterward, their resentment with the dog leads him to running away.
  20. "Colonel Homer": Homer discovers Lurleen Lumpkin, a country singer, in the aftermath of a botched outing with Marge -- and becomes her manager.
  21. "Black Widower": Bart can only think the worst of Selma's fiance: Sideshow Bob.
  22. "The Otto Show": A Spinal Tap concert leads into A Day in the Limelight as school bus driver Otto gets fired and crashes (not literally) at the Simpsons' house.
  23. "Bart's Friend Falls in Love": That friend is Milhouse, who's taken with the new girl in class, much to Bart's resentment.
  24. "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?": In a sequel to "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" Homer receives compensation from the power plant for his job-induced sterility just as his ruined half-brother Herb arrives in town seeking capital for an invention that might remake his fortune.


Season 4

  1. "Kamp Krusty": Summer vacation goes awry when Bart and Lisa discover that the titular camp is a twisted shadow of its advertised self.
  2. "A Streetcar Named Marge": Marge gets the role of Blanche in a musical version of A Streetcar Named Desire.
  3. "Homer the Heretic": Homer skips church for a Sunday and loves the experience so much he decides to forgo it altogether.
  4. "Lisa the Beauty Queen": To boost Lisa's self-esteem, Homer enters her in the Little Miss Springfield pageant.
  5. "Treehouse of Horror III": Parodies of killer doll stories, the 1933 King Kong, and the Zombie Apocalypse genre.
  6. "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie": Homer forbids Bart from seeing the highly anticipated Itchy and Scratchy movie.
  7. "Marge Gets a Job": At the power plant, as it happens -- and Mr. Burns gets a crush on her.
  8. "New Kid on the Block": Bart falls for an older girl who's just moved into town while Homer sues an all-you-can-eat seafood buffet when he doesn't get his fill.
  9. "Mr. Plow": Homer buys a snowplow and starts a business eventually rivaled by none other than Barney.
  10. "Lisa's First Word": As the family anticipates Maggie's first word, Marge recounts the family's exploits over 1983-84: the birth of Lisa and Bart's jealous responses to it, the move to Evergreen Terrace (including their first encounters with the Flanders family), and a Summer Olympics that proves downright delicious for Homer.
  11. "Homer's Triple Bypass": Homer has a Hollywood Heart Attack, requiring the titular operation.
  12. "Marge vs. the Monorail": In a parody of The Music Man, Marge protests a smooth-talking salesman's efforts to sell Springfield a shoddy monorail system.
  13. "Selma's Choice": Scared of dying alone after the death of her aunt, Selma considers having a baby. Her potential parenting skills are put to the test when she must chaperone the Simpsons kids to Duff Gardens.
  14. "Brother from the Same Planet": Bart poses as a fatherless kid to get a "Bigger Brother" to shower him with the affection and attention that Homer won't.
  15. "I Love Lisa": It's Valentine's Day, and after Lisa gives Ralph Wiggum a valentine out of pity, Ralph decides he "choo-choo-chooses" her.
  16. "Duffless": In the wake of a (not quite) drunk driving mishap, Marge convinces Homer to go without his beloved beer for 30 days. Meanwhile, Lisa's science fair project pits Bart's intelligence against a hamster's.
  17. "Last Exit to Springfield": When the company dental plan is dropped, Homer becomes the new head of the workers' union to get it reinstated for the sake of Lisa, who needs braces.
  18. "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show": An April Fools' Day prank leaves Homer in a coma. As the family waits to see if he'll recover, they recount moments from previous episodes...of their lives.
  19. "The Front": In response to the declining quality of The Itchy & Scratchy Show, Bart and Lisa write a script using Grandpa's name in place of their own, and it's not only accepted, but results in requests for more! In the B-plot, Homer learns he never properly graduated high school and must retake the chemistry class he failed, which proves a struggle.
  20. "Whacking Day": Bart gets expelled from school, and Lisa protests a cruel annual tradition that leaves no innocent snake spared.
  21. "Marge in Chains": Marge gets arrested for shoplifting, and her resultant prison time has an adverse effect on the family and eventually the whole town.
  22. "Krusty Gets Kancelled": It happens when ventriloquism showcase The Gabbo Show crushes The Krusty the Clown Show in the ratings. Krusty hits the skids, but Bart and Lisa encourage him to make a comeback with a celebrity-packed special.

Season 5

  1. "Homer's Barbershop Quartet": For a brief shining moment in The Eighties, Homer, Barney, Apu, and Seymour experience a rise and fall in the music business that quite deliberately parallels that of The Beatles.
  2. "Cape Feare": Sideshow Bob is paroled and out for Bart's blood, so the Simpsons become the Thompsons in hopes of starting afresh in the Witness Protection Program.
  3. "Homer Goes to College": Turns out Homer needs a college degree to keep his job at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. To his dismay, the college experience is nothing like the slobs-vs.-snobs hijinks he expected...except for the nerds who become his friends.
  4. "Rosebud": Maggie finds Mr. Burns' long-lost, beloved teddy bear Bobo.
  5. "Treehouse of Horror IV": Homer sells his soul to The Devil for a donut, The Twilight Zone's "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" is relocated to a Springfield Elementary School bus, and Bart presents his take on Dracula.
  6. "Marge on the Lam": A Thelma and Louise spoof ensues when Marge's new gal pal turns out to have a checkered past.
  7. "Bart's Inner Child": A motivational speaker encourages everyone in Springfield to "Be like the boy!" -- that boy being Bart. But his "Do what you feel like" philosophy has some significant drawbacks...
  8. "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood": After a sugar bender, Bart realizes he signed up to be a Junior Camper while under the influence. It proves more fun than he expects -- until Homer comes along as a camping trip chaperone...
  9. "The Last Temptation of Homer"
  10. "$pringfield"[2]: Legalized gambling comes to Springfield as a new revenue stream. Homer becomes a card dealer, Marge becomes a gambling addict, and Mr. Burns makes like Howard Hughes.
  11. "Homer the Vigilante": A cat burglar is making hay in Springfield, and Homer and his buddies try to take him on.
  12. "Bart Gets Famous": Bart becomes Krusty's assistant, and, by accident, a catchphrase-spewing star attraction on his show.
  13. "Homer and Apu": Apu is fired from the Kwik-E-Mart and agrees to stay at the Simpsons' house.
  14. "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy": Offended by the female stereotypes embodied by a new talking Malibu Stacy doll ("Don't ask me, I'm just a girl!"), Lisa tracks down the creator of the toy to get to the bottom of things and introduce a progressive alternative.
  15. "Deep Space Homer": Homer goes up on the space shuttle.
  16. "Homer Loves Flanders": Homer has a delightful day with Ned when the latter gives him a ticket to a sold out football game, and proceeds to try way too hard to ingratiate himself with the Flanders clan from that point on.
  17. "Bart Gets an Elephant": He wins this gag prize in a radio contest, and "Stampy" becomes a member of the family...one too expensive to keep.
  18. "Burns' Heir": Mr. Burns marks Bart as the heir to his fortune, and has him moved into his mansion to learn the ways of being evil.
  19. "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song": In the 100th episode, Bart's latest hijinks get Principal Skinner fired. Can these two lifelong enemies reconcile long enough to get the latter reinstated before the school falls into total chaos under Ned Flanders's watch?
  20. "The Boy Who Knew Too Much": Skipping school allows Bart to attend a wild party for the mayor's nephew. But he also witnesses an incident that gets the nephew arrested. Bart can prove he's innocent, but if he does, Skinner (one of the jury members, along with Homer) can finally punish him.
  21. "Lady Bouvier's Lover": Grampa Simpson falls for Grandma Bouvier...and then loses her to Mr. Burns.
  22. "Secrets of a Successful Marriage": Homer becomes an adult education teacher with the titular course, but it goes awry when he shares intimate details of his relationship with Marge to keep his class interested.


Season 6

  1. "Bart of Darkness": The Simpsons get a backyard pool, but Bart breaks his leg soon afterward and is confined to his room. A Rear Window parody involving Ned ensues.
  2. "Lisa's Rival": The new girl in Lisa's class outshines her at everything. Homer claims the contents of an overturned sugar truck and tries to make money from it.
  3. "Another Simpsons Clip Show": Exactly What It Says on the Tin, this shows clips from past episodes looking at Homer, Marge, Bart and Lisa's past torrid romances.
  4. "Itchy & Scratchy Land": The Disney Theme Parks are put through the wringer as the Simpsons head out to "the most violentest place on Earth".
  5. "Sideshow Bob Roberts": Sideshow Bob's calls to a Rush Limbaugh Expy's radio show pave the way for a campaign to become the mayor of Springfield.
  6. "Treehouse of Horror V": The Shining becomes The Shinning, Homer travels through time and creates a myriad of possible unpleasant presents for him to return to, and the Springfield Elementary students become the newest items on the lunch menu.
  7. "Bart's Girlfriend"
  8. "Lisa on Ice": Lisa's failing gym, so she winds up having to join a peewee hockey team -- putting her in direct competition with Bart.
  9. "Homer Badman": Homer is accused of sexual harrassment by a babysitter -- he's innocent, but that's not how the media portrays it.
  10. "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy": Homer and Grampa hit the road to market the latter's homemade aphrodisiac tonic -- which has already swept Springfield to the terror of its kids, who don't know why their parents are ignoring them at night.
  11. "Fear of Flying": Marge enlists the help of a therapist to figure out why she has the titlular problem.
  12. "Homer the Great": Homer joins the ancient order of the Stonecutters -- and turns out to be The Chosen One.
  13. "And Maggie Makes Three": A flashback episode -- having made enough money to support his then-four person household, Homer quits the power plant to get his dream job at the bowling alley...only to learn that Marge is pregnant again.
  14. "Bart's Comet": It's headed directly for Springfield. Panic ensues -- even more so when The Only Bridge Out of Town is destroyed.
  15. "Homie the Clown": Homer impulsively decides to become a Krusty the Klown impersonator.
  16. "Bart vs. Australia": The Simpsons head to Australia after Bart rings up (pardon the pun) a huge phone bill for a native family, and Values Dissonance ensues when they learn what his punishment will be.
  17. "Homer vs. Patty and Selma": Homer is in desperate need of quick cash, and Marge's sisters are happy to help -- so long as he effectively becomes their slave. Meanwhile, Bart discovers the joys of ballet.
  18. "A Star Is Burns": In a crossover with The Critic, Jay Sherman comes to town to help judge a local film festival that Mr. Burns is determined to win.
  19. "Lisa's Wedding": The first episode set in the future (2010), in which college-aged Lisa is engaged to be married to charming Englishman Hugh Parkfield.
  20. "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds": In a parody of One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Santa's Little Helper has a litter of pups with fellow greyhound She's the Fastest, and Mr. Burns wants their skins for a coat to add to his collection of animal-based outfits.
  21. "The PTA Disbands": Bart encourages the Springfield Elementary teachers to go on strike, only to regret it when Marge becomes his substitute teacher.
  22. "'Round Springfield": Bart is sent to the hospital to have his appendix removed, and Lisa is reunited with Bleeding Gums Murphy -- but only fleetingly, as he is dying.
  23. "The Springfield Connection": Marge becomes a cop and unintentionally challenges Homer's standing as head of the household.
  24. "Lemon of Troy": Kids from Springfield's rival town Shelbyville steal the lemon tree that keeps the local lemonade stands in business, and Bart leads his peers on a mission to retrieve it.
  25. "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" (Part One): Mr. Burns's greed goes to new heights, culminating in his blotting out the sun to keep the town in the dark and dependent on his power plant.


Season 7

  1. "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" (Part Two): Homer is fingered for the shooting of Mr. Burns, but the true shooter proves to be...rather different.
  2. "Radioactive Man": Hollywood producers cast Rainier Wolfcastle as Radioactive Man and Milhouse as sidekick Fallout Boy in the upcoming big-budget Radioactive Man feature film adaptation, much to Bart's chagrin.
  3. "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily": The Department of Child Disservices unfairly takes the Simpson kids out of their home and places them with the Flanders family.
  4. "Bart Sells His Soul": To Milhouse, as he doesn't believe he has one -- only to realize he may have made a horrible mistake.
  5. "Lisa the Vegetarian": Lisa's compassion for animals triggers a change in diet that seemingly no one else is willing to respect, least of all Homer.
  6. "Treehouse of Horror VI": Giant advertising mascots run amok in Springfield, Groundskeeper Willie makes like Freddy Krueger, and Homer becomes trapped in the fabled third dimension.
  7. "King-Size Homer": Homer becomes morbidly obese so he can work from home.
  8. "Mother Simpson": Homer is reunited with his long-lost mother Mona, and learns the surprising reason she left his life.
  9. "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming": Tired of mind-numbing television in prison, Sideshow Bob manages to steal a nuclear bomb and threatens to destroy Springfield if TV is not completely banned from town.
  10. "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular": Troy McClure hosts a parody of anniversary shows featuring clips from the original Tracey Ullman Show shorts, deleted scenes, the alternate ending and fake-out clips made for "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" (Part Two), and fake trivia/show history.
  11. "Marge Be Not Proud": In the second Christmas Episode, Bart gets busted for shoplifting the season's must-have video game and his relationship with Marge is strained as a result.
  12. "Team Homer": Homer organizes a bowling team with money from Mr. Burns, who wasn't in his right mind at the time. When he finds out about it, he insists on becoming a member. School uniforms come to Springfield Elementary.
  13. "Two Bad Neighbors": Former U.S. President George H. W. Bush moves in across the street from the Simpsons, and Bart pushes him to more than mere annoyance with his hijinks.
  14. "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield": Marge's new designer outfit (heavily discounted when she bought it) attracts the attention of Springfield's more upscale women, whom she tries to fit in with despite her limited means.
  15. "Bart the Fink": Bart accidentally reveals that Krusty the Klown has been hiding his earnings in an illegal offshore account, resulting in his hero's financial ruin and apparent suicide.
  16. "Lisa the Iconoclast": As a celebration of town founder Jebediah Springfield looms, Lisa discovers that the real Jebediah wasn't the hero he's believed to be and becomes a pariah for trying to bring the truth to light.
  17. "Homer the Smithers": Smithers goes on vacation and Homer takes his place as Mr. Burns's assistant.
  18. "The Day the Violence Died": Bart and Lisa meet the destitute creator of Itchy the Mouse and help him sue the Itchy & Scratchy production company for Roger Meyers, Sr.'s theft -- he wins, but it drives the company into bankruptcy.
  19. "A Fish Called Selma": Selma is delighted to be the object of Troy McClure's affections, not realizing that he's doing it to revive his stalled career.
  20. "Bart on the Road": Bart gets a fake I.D. and from there a car -- time for a road trip with his buddies! Homer takes Lisa to work and bonding ensues.
  21. "22 Short Films About Springfield": Short, interconnected segments that focus on mostly minor Springfield residents.
  22. "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in 'The Curse of the Flying Hellfish'": A World War II treasure is within Granpa's grasp decades later, but he and Bart have to join forces against Mr. Burns to claim it.
  23. "Much Apu About Nothing": Anti-illegal immigrant fever sweeps town, and Apu faces deportation unless Homer and co. can help him pass his citizenship exam.
  24. "Homerpalooza": Homer's ability to take a cannonball to the stomach makes him the sleeper hit of a touring music festival, and a hero to Bart -- but at what cost to his health?
  25. "Summer of 4 Ft. 2": The Simpsons take a seaside holiday at the Flanders' vacation home, and Lisa hides her true personality in hopes of making friends with the cool local kids.


Season 8

  1. "Treehouse of Horror VII"
  2. "You Only Move Twice": The Simpsons move to a planned community that's run by a criminal mastermind with ambitions to Take Over the World. But that's not why they want to leave...
  3. "The Homer They Fall": Moe, noticing Homer's talent for taking punches, decides to turn him into a boxing champion.
  4. "Burns, Baby Burns": Mr. Burns gets reunited with his illegitimate, boorish, middle-aged son.
  5. "Bart After Dark": Bart has to work off a debt by pitching in at a house he damaged...a burlesque house.
  6. "A Milhouse Divided": Milhouse's parents divorce and Homer worries Marge might divorce him too.
  7. "Lisa's Date with Density": Lisa embarks on an unlikely relationship with Nelson.
  8. "Hurricane Neddy": The Flanders house is destroyed in a hurricane, and Ned snaps when his fellow Springfieldians do an incompetent job rebuilding it.
  9. "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)": Homer trips on hallucinogenic chili peppers and his resultant vision leads to a strengthening of his relationship with Marge.
  10. "The Springfield Files": In a crossover with The X-Files, Mulder and Scully investigate an alien Homer is convinced he saw.
  11. "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson": Marge goes into business for herself with a soft pretzel franchise, only to be challenged by her former small business colleagues.
  12. "Mountain of Madness"
  13. "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious"[3]: A Musical Episode, this Mary Poppins parody has "Sherri Bobbins" arriving to shape up the Simpson family, only to learn that the lessons she teaches won't stick if she leaves -- or even if she stays.
  14. "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show": In the trope namer for The Poochie, Homer voices a new Itchy & Scratchy Show character who proves highly unpopular.
  15. "Homer's Phobia"
  16. "Brother from Another Series"
  17. "My Sister, My Sitter"
  18. "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment": Alcohol is banned from Springfield, so Homer goes into bootlegging.
  19. "Grade School Confidential"
  20. "The Canine Mutiny"
  21. "The Old Man and the Lisa"
  22. "In Marge We Trust"
  23. "Homer's Enemy": Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Frank Grimes is hired to the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant and declares he detests Homer's antics.
  24. "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase": A Three Shorts episode in which Troy McClure presents three "potential" spinoffs -- Chief Wiggum, P.I. (action series), The Love-matic Grandpa (1960s-style fantasy sitcom), and The Simpson Family Smile-Time Variety Hour (1970s-style Variety Show).
  25. "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson"


Season 9

  1. "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson"
  2. "The Principal and the Pauper": When the real Seymour Skinner arrives in town, the Springfield Elementary School principal is forced to reveal his true identity.
  3. "Lisa's Sax": Lisa's saxophone is accidentally destroyed, and a flashback to the turn of The Nineties ensues, revealing both how she acquired it and how Bart developed his reputation as a troublemaker at school.
  4. "Treehouse of Horror VIII"
  5. "The Cartridge Family": Homer buys a handgun to better protect his family -- much to Marge's dismay.
  6. "Bart Star": Peewee football comes to Springfield, and when Homer becomes the coach, he promotes Bart to star player status despite the boy's lack of talent.
  7. "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons"
  8. "Lisa the Skeptic": Lisa's the only person in Springfield who doesn't believe an angel's skeleton has been unearthed.
  9. "Realty Bites": Marge becomes a realtor -- and her only successful sale is that of a house with a murderous history.
  10. "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace": A Christmas Episode -- Bart accidentally destroys the family's Christmas presents and blames the disaster on a burglar, resulting in the rest of the town opening its hearts and wallets for them.
  11. "All Singing, All Dancing": Another clip show featuring various musical numbers from previous episodes.
  12. "Bart Carny": Bart has to work off the damage he did to a travelling carnival, and he and Homer befriend a carny and his son who aren't as beholden to "the carny code" as they claim.
  13. "The Joy of Sect"
  14. "Das Bus": Springfield Elementary's Model U.N. participants (including Bart and Lisa) wind up stranded on an island when their bus goes off a bridge.
  15. "The Last Temptation of Krust": Krusty attempts to return to his Stand Up Comedy roots and finds himself out-of-step with modern humor. When his bitter retirement announcement launches a career reinvention as a bitter, rabble-rousing comic, can he resist selling out his new ideals for his old ones?
  16. "Dumbbell Indemnity"
  17. "Lisa the Simpson": Lisa learns of the fabled "Simpson gene" that dooms its carriers to a permanent loss of intellect, and worries that she will have no real future as an adult.
  18. "This Little Wiggy": Marge encourages Bart to hang out with Ralph Wiggum, starting a chain of events that threatens Mayor Quimby's life.
  19. "Simpson Tide"
  20. "The Trouble with Trillions"
  21. "Girly Edition"
  22. "Trash of the Titans": In the 200th episode, Homer runs for the job of Springfield's sanitation commissioner and wins...but his lavish garbage pickup system proves too much for the department's budget to bear.
  23. "King of the Hill"
  24. "Lost Our Lisa": When an emergency keeps Marge from taking Lisa to an about-to-close museum exhibit, Lisa tries to take the bus instead and ends up in an unfamiliar part of town.
  25. "Natural Born Kissers"


Season 10

  1. "Lard of the Dance"
  2. "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace": Homer tries his hand at being an inventor.
  3. "Bart the Mother"
  4. "Treehouse of Horror IX"
  5. "When You Dish Upon a Star"
  6. "D'oh-in in the Wind"
  7. "Lisa Gets an "A""
  8. "Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"": Granpa's kidneys burst, and Homer's reluctant to donate one of his own to save him.
  9. "Mayored to the Mob": Homer becomes Mayor Quimby's bodyguard, only to uncover his connections with Fat Tony's gang.
  10. "Viva Ned Flanders": Homer takes Ned on a wild trip to Las Vegas.
  11. "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken": The kids of Springfield are unjustly blamed for an act of school vandalism and a restrictive curfew is instated.
  12. "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday": Homer, his buddies, and Bart head out to see the Super Bowl.
  13. "Homer to the Max": Homer discovers an oafish character on a new hit TV show shares his name, and decides he has to change his to avoid being associated with it.
  14. "I'm with Cupid"
  15. "Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers""
  16. "Make Room for Lisa"
  17. "Maximum Homerdrive"
  18. "Simpsons Bible Stories"
  19. "Mom and Pop Art"
  20. "The Old Man and the "C" Student"
  21. "Monty Can't Buy Me Love": Mr. Burns realizes no one in Springfield likes, much less loves, him and enlists Homer's help in changing that.
  22. "They Saved Lisa's Brain"
  23. "Thirty Minutes over Tokyo": The Simpson family goes to Japan.


Season 11

  1. "Beyond Blunderdome": Homer doesn't care for Mel Gibson's remake of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and Gibson enlists his help in improving it.
  2. "Brother's Little Helper"
  3. "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?": Homer becomes a food critic for the local newspaper, but he gets too caustic for the local restaurant owners' liking.
  4. "Treehouse of Horror X"
  5. "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)"[4]: Forced to skip town to get out of a duel, Homer becomes a farmer and accidentally creates "tomacco", a tomato-tobacco hybrid.
  6. "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder": Homer becomes a celebrity for bowling a 300 game.
  7. "Eight Misbehavin'": Apu and Manjula become the parents of octuplets; when the initial media frenzy blows over, their only hope for financial aid is allowing the kids to become a zoo attraction.
  8. "Take My Wife, Sleaze"
  9. "Grift of the Magi": A Christmas Episode -- cash-strapped Springfield Elementary is targeted by toymakers who use the kids as a focus group and create a must-have toy with a sinister secret.
  10. "Little Big Mom"
  11. "Faith Off"
  12. "The Mansion Family"
  13. "Saddlesore Galactica"
  14. "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily": Ned has to cope with loss when his wife is killed in a freak accident.
  15. "Missionary: Impossible"
  16. "Pygmoelian"
  17. "Bart to the Future"
  18. "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses"
  19. "Kill the Alligator and Run": The Simpsons head down to Florida for spring break -- whether they'll make it back up to Springfield is quickly put into question.
  20. "Last Tap Dance in Springfield": Lisa takes up tap dancing but has no talent for it.
  21. "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge"
  22. "Behind the Laughter": A parody of Behind the Music that presents the Simpson family as Animated Actors.


Season 12

  1. "Treehouse of Horror XI"
  2. "A Tale of Two Springfields"
  3. "Insane Clown Poppy"
  4. "Lisa the Tree Hugger"
  5. "Homer vs. Dignity"
  6. "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes"
  7. "The Great Money Caper"
  8. "Skinner's Sense of Snow": A Christmas Episode -- the kids of Springfield Elementary face missing the holiday when a snowstorm imprisons them at school with Principal Skinner the only adult on hand. Can Homer and Ned save the day?
  9. "HOMЯ"
  10. "Pokey Mom"
  11. "Worst Episode Ever": A Day in the Limelight for Comic Book Guy, as he loses his shop and takes up a relationship with Principal Skinner's mom, while Bart and Milhouse try to run the Android's Dungeon and discover some amazing bootleg videos.
  12. "Tennis the Menace"
  13. "Day of the Jackanapes"
  14. "New Kids on the Blecch": Bart and some of his schoolmates become the newest boy band sensation -- but Lisa discovers that they're being used for sinister purposes.
  15. "Hungry, Hungry Homer"
  16. "Bye Bye Nerdie"
  17. "Simpson Safari": The Simpsons take a trip to Africa.
  18. "Trilogy of Error"
  19. "I'm Goin' to Praiseland": Ned discovers that Maude had an unfulfilled dream -- building and opening a Christian theme park -- and decides to make it a reality to honor her memory.
  20. "Children of a Lesser Clod"
  21. "Simpsons Tall Tales": A Three Shorts episode with a hobo recounting the adventures of Paul Bunyan (Homer), Connie Appleseed (Lisa), and Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (Bart and Nelson).

Season 13

  1. "Treehouse of Horror XII"
  2. "The Parent Rap"
  3. "Homer the Moe"
  4. "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love"
  5. "The Blunder Years"
  6. "She of Little Faith"
  7. "Brawl in the Family": A follow-up to "Viva Ned Flanders". A social worker tries to reform the Simpsons but gives up when the cocktail waitresses Homer and Ned married in Las Vegas arrive in town to stake out their claim to the men. Now what?
  8. "Sweets and Sour Marge"
  9. "Jaws Wired Shut"
  10. "Half-Decent Proposal": Artie Ziff, now a tech billionaire, returns and offers Homer a million dollars if he agrees to spend a weekend with Marge.
  11. "The Bart Wants What It Wants"
  12. "The Lastest Gun in the West"
  13. "The Old Man and the Key"
  14. "Tales from the Public Domain"
  15. "Blame It on Lisa"
  16. "Weekend at Burnsie's"
  17. "Gump Roast": Yet another clip show, where Homer is roasted by the Friars Club.
  18. "I Am Furious (Yellow)": Bart is inspired to create an Internet cartoon, "Angry Dad", the title character of which is based on Homer.
  19. "The Sweetest Apu"
  20. "Little Girl in the Big Ten"
  21. "The Frying Game"
  22. "Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge"


Season 14

  1. "Treehouse of Horror XIII"
  2. "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation"
  3. "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade"
  4. "Large Marge"
  5. "Helter Shelter"
  6. "Detective The Great Louse Detective": Someone's out to kill Homer -- and only Sideshow Bob can figure out who that is.
  7. "Special Edna"
  8. "The Dad Who Knew Too Little": Homer hires a private investigator to learn more about Lisa, until the P.I. frames dad and daughter for a crime they didn't commit.
  9. "Strong Arms of the Ma": The REAL 300th episode, where Marge gets into weightlifting to cure her agoraphobia, but then turns to steroid abuse.
  10. "Pray Anything"
  11. "Barting Over"
  12. "I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can"
  13. "A Star Is Born Again"
  14. "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington"
  15. "C.E. D'oh"
  16. "'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky"
  17. "Three Gays of the Condo"
  18. "Dude, Where's My Ranch?"
  19. "Old Yeller Belly"
  20. "Brake My Wife, Please"
  21. "The Bart of War"
  22. "Moe Baby Blues"


Season 15

  1. "Treehouse of Horror XIV"
  2. "My Mother the Carjacker"
  3. "The President Wore Pearls"
  4. "The Regina Monologues": The Simpson family goes to England.
  5. "The Fat and the Furriest"
  6. "Today I Am a Clown"
  7. "'Tis the Fifteenth Season"
  8. "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays": A wave of anti-child sentiment sweeps Springfield, and Marge is frustrated to find families like hers ostracized.
  9. "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot"[5]
  10. "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife"
  11. "Margical History Tour"
  12. "Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore"
  13. "Smart and Smarter"
  14. "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner"
  15. "Co-Dependent's Day"
  16. "The Wandering Juvie"
  17. "My Big Fat Geek Wedding"
  18. "Catch 'Em If You Can"
  19. "Simple Simpson"
  20. "The Way We Weren't"
  21. "Bart-Mangled Banner": Bart inadvertently moons the American flag and the Simpsons are accused of being unpatriotic.
  22. "Fraudcast News": Mr. Burns buys up media outlets in Springfield and attempts to buy out Lisa's homegrown newspaper.


Season 16

  1. "Treehouse of Horror XV"
  2. "All's Fair in Oven War"
  3. "Sleeping with the Enemy"
  4. "She Used to Be My Girl"
  5. "Fat Man and Little Boy"
  6. "Midnight Rx"
  7. "Mommie Beerest"
  8. "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass"
  9. "Pranksta Rap"
  10. "There's Something About Marrying"
  11. "On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister"
  12. "Goo Goo Gai Pan"
  13. "Mobile Homer"
  14. "The Seven-Beer Snitch"
  15. "Future-Drama"
  16. "Don't Fear the Roofer"
  17. "The Heartbroke Kid"
  18. "A Star Is Torn"
  19. "Thank God, It's Doomsday"
  20. "Home Away from Homer"
  21. "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Guest Star"


Season 17

  1. "Bonfire of the Manatees"
  2. "The Girl Who Slept Too Little"
  3. "Milhouse of Sand and Fog"
  4. "Treehouse of Horror XVI"
  5. "Marge's Son Poisoning"
  6. "See Homer Run"
  7. "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas"
  8. "The Italian Bob"
  9. "Simpsons Christmas Stories"
  10. "Homer's Paternity Coot"
  11. "We're on the Road to D'ohwhere"
  12. "My Fair Laddy"
  13. "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story"
  14. "Bart Has Two Mommies"
  15. "Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife"
  16. "Million Dollar Abie"
  17. "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore"
  18. "The Wettest Stories Ever Told"
  19. "Girls Just Want to Have Sums"
  20. "Regarding Margie"
  21. "The Monkey Suit": Ned Flanders leads a push for creationism to be taught in Springfield's schools. Can Lisa and Marge win the day for science?
  22. "Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play"


Season 18

  1. "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer"
  2. "Jazzy and the Pussycats"
  3. "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em"
  4. "Treehouse of Horror XVII"
  5. "G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)"[6]
  6. "Moe'N'a Lisa"
  7. "Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)"
  8. "The Haw-Hawed Couple"
  9. "Kill Gil, Volumes I & II"
  10. "The Wife Aquatic"
  11. "Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times"
  12. "Little Big Girl"
  13. "Springfield Up"
  14. "Yokel Chords"
  15. "Rome-old and Juli-eh"
  16. "Homerazzi"
  17. "Marge Gamer"
  18. "The Boys of Bummer"
  19. "Crook and Ladder"
  20. "Stop or My Dog Will Shoot"
  21. "24 Minutes": A parody of 24 -- can Bart and Lisa save the school bake sale from sabotage?
  22. "You Kent Always Say What You Want": Kent Brockman loses his newscaster job after swearing on the air.


Season 19

  1. "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs"
  2. "Homer of Seville"
  3. "Midnight Towboy"
  4. "I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
  5. "Treehouse of Horror XVIII"
  6. "Little Orphan Millie"
  7. "Husbands and Knives"
  8. "Funeral for a Fiend"
  9. "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind"
  10. "E Pluribus Wiggum"
  11. "That '90s Show"
  12. "Love, Springfieldian Style"
  13. "The Debarted"
  14. "Dial 'N' for Nerder"
  15. "Smoke on the Daughter"
  16. "Papa Don't Leech"
  17. "Apocalypse Cow"
  18. "Any Given Sundance"
  19. "Mona Leaves-a"
  20. "All About Lisa"


Season 20

  1. "Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes"
  2. "Lost Verizon"
  3. "Double, Double, Boy in Trouble"
  4. "Treehouse of Horror XIX"
  5. "Dangerous Curves"
  6. "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words"
  7. "Mypods and Boomsticks"
  8. "The Burns and the Bees"
  9. "Lisa the Drama Queen": In a parody of Heavenly Creatures (minus the whole murder thing), Lisa and an imaginative fellow student invent their own fantasy world, Equalia.
  10. "Take My Life, Please"
  11. "How the Test Was Won"
  12. "No Loan Again, Naturally": The Simpson house is foreclosed upon, and Ned buys it and becomes their landlord so they won't have to move.
  13. "Gone Maggie Gone"
  14. "In the Name of the Grandfather"
  15. "Wedding for Disaster"
  16. "Eeny Teeny Maya Moe"
  17. "The Good, the Sad and the Drugly"
  18. "Father Knows Worst"
  19. "Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh"
  20. "Four Great Women and a Manicure": Three parodies focus on women both real and fictional -- Elizabeth I, Lady Macbeth, Snow White -- while a fourth gender-flips The Fountainhead's hero into a heroine played by...Maggie?
  21. "Coming to Homerica"


Season 21

  1. "Homer the Whopper"
  2. "Bart Gets a 'Z'"
  3. "The Great Wife Hope"
  4. "Treehouse of Horror XX"
  5. "The Devil Wears Nada"
  6. "Pranks and Greens"
  7. "Rednecks and Broomsticks"
  8. "O Brother, Where Bart Thou?"
  9. "Thursdays with Abie"
  10. "Once Upon a Time in Springfield"
  11. "Million Dollar Maybe"
  12. "Boy Meets Curl"
  13. "The Color Yellow"
  14. "Postcards from the Wedge"
  15. "Stealing First Base"
  16. "The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed"
  17. "American History X-cellent"
  18. "Chief of Hearts"
  19. "The Squirt and the Whale"
  20. "To Surveil with Love"
  21. "Moe Letter Blues"
  22. "The Bob Next Door"
  23. "Judge Me Tender"


Season 22

  1. "Elementary School Musical"
  2. "Loan-a Lisa"
  3. "MoneyBART"
  4. "Treehouse of Horror XXI"
  5. "Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life"
  6. "The Fool Monty"
  7. "How Munched is That Birdie in the Window?"
  8. "The Fight Before Christmas"
  9. "Donnie Fatso"
  10. "Moms I'd Like to Forget"
  11. "Flaming Moe"
  12. "Homer the Father"
  13. "The Blue and the Gray"
  14. "Angry Dad: The Movie"
  15. "The Scorpion's Tale"
  16. "A Midsummer's Nice Dream"
  17. "Love Is a Many Strangled Thing"
  18. "The Great Simpsina"
  19. "The Real Housewives of Fat Tony"
  20. "Homer Scissorhands"
  21. "500 Keys"
  22. "The Ned-Liest Catch"


Season 23

  1. "The Falcon and the D'ohman"
  2. "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts"
  3. "Treehouse of Horror XXII"
  4. "Replaceable You"
  5. "The Food Wife"
  6. "The Book Job"
  7. "The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants"
  8. "The Ten-Per-Cent Solution"
  9. "Holidays of Future Passed"
  10. "Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson": Homer becomes an influental conservative pundit.
  11. "The D'oh-cial Network"
  12. "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches"
  13. "The Daughter Also Rises"
  14. "At Long Last Leave"
  15. "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart"
  16. "How I Wet Your Mother"
  17. "Them, Robot"
  18. "Beware My Cheating Bart"
  19. "A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again"
  20. "The Spy Who Learned Me"
  21. "Ned 'N' Edna's Blend Agenda"
  22. "Lisa Goes Gaga": Lady Gaga comes to town and tries to boost unpopular Lisa's self-esteem.


Season 24

  1. "Moonshine River"
  2. "Treehouse of Horror XXIII"
  3. "Adventures in Baby-Getting"
  4. "Gone Abie Gone"
  5. "Penny-Wiseguys"
  6. "A Tree Grows in Springfield"
  7. "The Day the Earth Stood Cool"
  8. "To Cur with Love"
  9. "Homer Goes to Prep School"
  10. "A Test Before Trying"
  11. "The Changing of the Guardian"
  12. "Love is a Many-Splintered Thing"
  13. "Hardly Kirk-ing"
  14. "Gorgeous Grampa"
  15. "Black Eyed, Please"
  16. "Dark Knight Court"
  17. "What Animated Women Want"
  18. "Pulpit Friction"
  19. "Whiskey Business"
  20. "The Fabulous Faker Boy"
  21. "The Saga of Carl"
  22. "Dangers on a Train"
Back to The Simpsons (animation)
  1. ↑ The first season of the show started airing on December 17, 1989, and before that the show had consisted of several Tracey Ullman Show shorts.
  2. ↑ The full title is "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling".
  3. ↑ Admittedly, probably known as "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(D'oh!)cious" to all but the script writers.
  4. ↑ And yet again, probably "E-I-E-I-D'oh" to non-script writers.
  5. ↑ Or "I, D'oh!-Bot".
  6. ↑ Or "G.I. D'oh!"
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