The best episodes of The Simpsons

Explore the comprehensive ranking of The Simpsons episodes, meticulously evaluated through thousands of fan votes. Uncover the top-rated moments that define the brilliance of The Simpsons!

Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general.

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8.6

#1 - Clan of the Cave Mom

Season 35, Episode 13, 3/24/2024

A parenting disagreement between Marge and Luann Van Houten escalates into a life-or-death struggle for survival.

8.6

#2 - The Tipping Point

Season 35, Episode 17, 5/12/2024

Homer loses his mind over tipping culture run amok.

8.6

#3 - Bart's Birthday

Season 36, Episode 1, 9/29/2024

Bart celebrates the most shocking birthday party of his entire life — one that might just change everyone in Springfield forever.

8.5

#4 - A Mid-Childhood Night's Dream

Season 35, Episode 2, 10/8/2023

Marge feels an overwhelming dread of the empty nest.

8.5

#5 - Iron Marge

Season 35, Episode 6, 11/12/2023

When Marge's heart is broken by a bad birthday present, Bart and Lisa must dig into their mom's past to show that they really know her. Homer becomes a neighborhood fear-monger.

8.4

#6 - Marge vs. the Monorail

Season 4, Episode 12, 1/14/1993

When Springfield gets a sudden windfall, a charismatic traveling salesman convinces the town to build a monorail.

8.4

#7 - Cape Feare

Season 5, Episode 2, 10/7/1993

The Simpsons go incognito to avoid the newly paroled Sideshow Bob, who's out to get Bart.

8.4

#8 - You Only Move Twice

Season 8, Episode 2, 11/3/1996

In an idyllic planned community, Homer works for a new boss who has trouble with the government. Meanwhile, the rest of the family has difficulty dealing with the bucolic burg.

8.4

#9 - The Springfield Files

Season 8, Episode 10, 1/12/1997

Homer witnesses something out of this world in Springfield woods, but no one believes him -- not even FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, who come to investigate the incident.

8.4

#10 - Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment

Season 8, Episode 18, 3/16/1997

When Prohibition is revived in Springfield, Homer and Bart supply the town with alcohol.

8.4

#11 - Frinkenstein's Monster

Season 35, Episode 11, 2/18/2024

Professor Frink secretly helps Homer, through a zoom interview, land a high-level position at a state-of-the-art nuclear plant in Shelbyville. But since Homer lacks the skills to actually perform the job, Frink must monitor Homer's work situation remotely and dictate his every word... causing Frink to fear he's created a monster.

8.4

#12 - Bart's Brain

Season 35, Episode 18, 5/19/2024

Bart makes a new friend.

8.3

#13 - Homer the Heretic

Season 4, Episode 3, 10/8/1992

After skipping church one Sunday morning, Homer decides to quit church altogether and spend Sundays worshiping in his own way -- with cigars and beer.

8.3

#14 - Homer Badman

Season 6, Episode 9, 11/27/1994

When Homer gropes for a gummy candy stuck to the babysitter's pants, she mistakes his intentions and turns the town against him.

8.3

#15 - Homer the Great

Season 6, Episode 12, 1/8/1995

Homer joins the secret society of the Stonecutters and is suddenly exalted when the brethren discover his birthmark. The ancient order is shaken to the core by the ineptitude of its new Chosen One.

8.3

#16 - Homer's Phobia

Season 8, Episode 15, 2/16/1997

The Simpsons befriend a shop owner, but when Homer discovers the man is gay, he worries about his influence on Bart.

8.3

#17 - Lisa Gets an F1

Season 35, Episode 12, 2/25/2024

Lisa feels a need for speed as well a need for control of her anxiety when she becomes a pro kid go-cart racer.

8.2

#18 - One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish

Season 2, Episode 11, 1/24/1991

After eating poisonous blowfish at a sushi restaurant, Homer decides to live life to the fullest in the 24 hours he has left to live.

8.2

#19 - King-Size Homer

Season 7, Episode 7, 11/5/1995

Homer tries to gain sixty pounds so he can stay home on disability. When he nearly causes a catastrophe at the plant, Homer reconsiders his plan.

8.2

#20 - It's a Blunderful Life

Season 35, Episode 7, 11/19/2023

Lisa recounts the story of how Homer was scapegoated for a power outage that plunged Springfield into darkness days before Thanksgiving.

8.2

#21 - Cremains of the Day

Season 35, Episode 15, 4/21/2024

When someone in Homer's life passes away, he and guys from Moe's go on a road trip to scatter the ashes... but will their friendship die as well?

8.1

#22 - Stark Raving Dad

Season 3, Episode 1, 9/19/1991

A deviation from his norm lands Homer in a mental institution, where he shares a room with a man who thinks he's Michael Jackson.

8.1

#23 - Flaming Moe's

Season 3, Episode 10, 11/21/1991

Moe steals the drink recipe Homer invented, and the rechristened “Flaming Moe” turns his tavern into a hotspot. When a national franchise wants to buy the recipe, Homer wants revenge.

8.1

#24 - Mr. Plow

Season 4, Episode 9, 11/19/1992

Homer and Barney become competitors in the snow-plowing business.

8.1

#25 - Deep Space Homer

Season 5, Episode 15, 2/24/1994

Homer and Barney compete to be the first "average" American in space.

8.1

#26 - Treehouse of Horror V

Season 6, Episode 6, 10/30/1994

Lack of beer and cable TV make Homer a crazed killer; the present is altered by a time-traveling Homer; and Principal Skinner turns detention students into food.

8.1

#27 - Who Shot Mr. Burns? (1)

Season 6, Episode 25, 5/21/1995

Mr. Burns makes many enemies when he steals the oil discovered beneath Springfield Elementary.

8.1

#28 - Mother Simpson

Season 7, Episode 8, 11/19/1995

Homer discovers that his mother is still alive, a former radical who is a fugitive from the law. When her old nemesis Burns spots her and tips off the FBI, she is forced to return to the underground.

8.1

#29 - Murder, She Boat

Season 35, Episode 9, 12/17/2023

Lisa must solve a closed-boat mystery when Comic Book Guy's million-dollar action figure is "murdered" on a pop culture cruise.

8.1

#30 - Treehouse of Horror XXXV

Season 36, Episode 5, 11/3/2024

Giant monsters created by political rage threaten to tear the town apart, a Victorian Mr. Burns is jump-scared on Thanksgiving by the ghosts of his abused workers, and Homer bonds with a pair of extra-terrestrial jeans in an unforgettable stop-motion adventure that can only be called… Denim.

8.0

#31 - Bart the Daredevil

Season 2, Episode 8, 12/6/1990

The Simpsons go to a Monster truck rally that features famous daredevil Lance Murdock. Bart immediately becomes enamored and decides that he wants to become a daredevil as well. His first stunt ends in injury, but to gain the respect of his friends, he promises a far more impressive feat to them: to jump the Springfield Gorge.

8.0

#32 - Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie

Season 4, Episode 6, 11/3/1992

Bart is punished by being barred from the Itchy and Scratchy movie.

8.0

#33 - Homer's Barbershop Quartet

Season 5, Episode 1, 9/30/1993

Homer recalls when he, Apu, Barney and Principal Skinner became recording icons.

8.0

#34 - Rosebud

Season 5, Episode 4, 10/21/1993

Burns longs for a childhood toy that winds up in the grip of Maggie.

8.0

#35 - Boy-Scoutz 'N the Hood

Season 5, Episode 8, 11/18/1993

After a reckless Squishee bender with Milhouse, Bart wakes to the shocking realization that he joined the Junior Campers. Lured by pocketknives and knot-tying lessons, Bart assimilates into the group but then must face the father-son rafting trip.

8.0

#36 - Bart's Comet

Season 6, Episode 14, 2/5/1995

When Bart is forced to assist Principal Skinner in early-morning astronomy observations, he discovers a giant comet heading towards Springfield. Facing impending doom, the entire town shows up at the Flanders family bomb shelter.

8.0

#37 - A Star Is Burns

Season 6, Episode 18, 3/5/1995

Film critic Jay Sherman is among the judges at the Springfield Film Festival, which Mr. Burns conspires to win by bribing some judges.

8.0

#38 - Who Shot Mr. Burns? (2)

Season 7, Episode 1, 9/17/1995

With Mr. Burns shot, Chief Wiggum investigates the crime, and nearly everyone in town has a motive. At the end, it all comes down to the Simpson DNA.

8.0

#39 - Bart Sells His Soul

Season 7, Episode 4, 10/8/1995

Bart sells his soul to Milhouse for five dollars, but soon regrets his decision. Meanwhile, Moe turns the Tavern into a family-friendly restaurant.

8.0

#40 - Homer the Smithers

Season 7, Episode 17, 2/25/1996

Forced to take a vacation, Smithers needs to find a temporary replacement who won't outshine him. Homer seems the perfect choice until a sudden outburst forces Mr. Burns to assert his independence.

8.0

#41 - Mountain of Madness

Season 8, Episode 12, 2/2/1997

To promote teamwork amongst the power plant's employees, Mr. Burns makes them go on a corporate retreat up in the mountains.

8.0

#42 - Homer's Enemy

Season 8, Episode 23, 5/4/1997

A hardworking new employee at the power plant is consumed with resentment at Homer's undeserved success.

8.0

#43 - Treehouse of Horror XXXIV

Season 35, Episode 5, 11/5/2023

After Bart is turned into an NFT, Marge fights though the blockchain to rescue her son. To track down a gruesome serial killer, Lisa turns to a murderer from her past. An outbreak transforms Springfielders into a plague of lazy, beer-loving oafs.

8.0

#44 - Night of the Living Wage

Season 35, Episode 14, 4/7/2024

Marge gets a job in a high-pressure ghost kitchen, but when she tries to start a union, she gets more than she (collectively) bargained for.

7.9

#45 - Lisa's Substitute

Season 2, Episode 19, 4/25/1991

With Miss Hoover out sick, a substitute teacher takes the class and becomes an inspiring role model for Lisa.

7.9

#46 - Kamp Krusty

Season 4, Episode 1, 9/24/1992

Bart leads an uprising at Krusty's summer camp after he and Lisa are subjected to a Dickensian sweatshop.

7.9

#47 - Lisa's First Word

Season 4, Episode 10, 12/3/1992

While trying to get Maggie to say her first word, Marge and Homer reminisce about Bart's and Lisa's first words.

7.9

#48 - Homer's Triple Bypass

Season 4, Episode 11, 12/17/1992

Homer sees a discount doctor for a coronary bypass.

7.9

#49 - Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song

Season 5, Episode 19, 4/28/1994

Bart takes his dog to school, which gets Skinner fired, which in turn leaves Bart missing his archnemesis.

7.9

#50 - Itchy & Scratchy Land

Season 6, Episode 4, 10/2/1994

The family's trip to Itchy & Scratchy Land takes an unexpected turn when high-tech robots malfunction and become violent.

7.9

#51 - And Maggie Makes Three

Season 6, Episode 13, 1/22/1995

The story of Maggie's birth is told in flashbacks: after Homer quits the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant to pursue his dream of working at a bowling alley, Marge reveals that she is pregnant.

7.9

#52 - Hurricane Neddy

Season 8, Episode 8, 12/29/1996

A hurricane destroys the Flanders' home and they have to move into the church basement. The people of Springfield gather to rebuild their house, but when Ned sees the poor workmanship, he has a complete breakdown.

7.9

#53 - McMansion & Wife

Season 35, Episode 3, 10/22/2023

When a new neighbor showers him with kindness, Homer thinks he's being tricked into buying a sports car at the dealership where the neighbor works - but the truth turns out to be even more sinister; Lisa neutralizes Nelson after he goes on a bullying spree.

7.8

#54 - The Way We Was

Season 2, Episode 12, 1/31/1991

When the TV breaks, Marge and Homer entertain the kids with the story of how they first met.

7.8

#55 - Bart the Murderer

Season 3, Episode 4, 10/10/1991

While working for Fat Tony, Bart gains enough influence with his boss to solve his problems with Principal Skinner--perhaps permanently.

7.8

#56 - I Married Marge

Season 3, Episode 12, 12/26/1991

A trip down memory lane to the early days of Simpson wedded bliss, when Marge was with child and Homer was without a job.

7.8

#57 - Radio Bart

Season 3, Episode 13, 1/9/1992

Bart fools the town into thinking there's a little boy trapped in a well.

7.8

#58 - I Love Lisa

Season 4, Episode 15, 2/11/1993

Chief Wiggum's son has a crush on Lisa after she gives him a Valentine out of pity.

7.8

#59 - Last Exit to Springfield

Season 4, Episode 17, 3/11/1993

Union president Homer fights to keep the dental plan.

7.8

#60 - $pringfield

Season 5, Episode 10, 12/16/1993

Legalized gambling comes to Springfield, and Marge becomes addicted; Robert Goulet entertains at Bart's casino for kids.

7.8

#61 - Lisa the Vegetarian

Season 7, Episode 5, 10/15/1995

After visiting a local petting zoo, Lisa becomes a vegetarian and faces ridicule from family and friends. When she lashes out and ruins Homer's barbecue, she learns a lesson in tolerance.

7.8

#62 - Bart on the Road

Season 7, Episode 20, 3/31/1996

Bart creates a fake driver's license for himself and uses it to go on a spring break road trip with Milhouse, Nelson, and Martin. Meanwhile, Homer and Lisa bond after spending some quality time together at work.

7.8

#63 - 22 Short Films About Springfield

Season 7, Episode 21, 4/14/1996

Bart and Milhouse wonder if anything interesting happens to the citizens of Springfield, which leads to a series of interconnected vignettes.

7.8

#64 - Treehouse of Horror VII

Season 8, Episode 1, 10/27/1996

A Halloween trilogy. This time, Bart meets his "pure evil" Siamese twin; Lisa's science project attacks Bart; aliens Kang and Kodos invade as Clinton and Dole's replicas just before the 1996 Presidential election.

7.8

#65 - El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)

Season 8, Episode 9, 1/5/1997

After eating a dish laced with potent peppers during the chili cookoff, Homer has hallucinations where a mystical coyote urges him to find his soulmate.

7.8

#66 - Barthood

Season 27, Episode 9, 12/13/2015

Bart’s coming of age story a la “Boyhood” chronicles his life from six years old to his time as an accomplished young man. Along the way, his tense relationship with Homer, an overly uncaring version of himself, and Lisa, who overshadows him in every way possible, shape Bart more than he realizes.

7.8

#67 - Treehouse of Horror XXXIII

Season 34, Episode 6, 10/30/2022

In a book-themed trilogy, Marge's resentment takes monstrous form, Lisa tries to save the planet through murder and Homer learns he's not the man he thought he was.

7.8

#68 - Thirst Trap: A Corporate Love Story

Season 35, Episode 4, 10/29/2023

In a parody documentary, a young college-dropout CEO embraces the Silicon Valley "fake it until you make it" philosophy and bewitches Mr. Burns into funding her highly dubious dream project.

7.8

#69 - AE Bonny Romance

Season 35, Episode 8, 12/3/2023

When Groundskeeper Willie is kidnapped to Scotland, Bart and the Simpsons follow - only to discover that what awaits is Homer's worst nightmare.

7.7

#70 - Itchy & Scratchy & Marge

Season 2, Episode 9, 12/20/1990

Maggie attacks Homer with a mallet after seeing it on Itchy & Scratchy. Marge begins a protest outside the production offices, demanding the show be retooled to prevent further violence.

7.7

#71 - Homer Defined

Season 3, Episode 5, 10/17/1991

Homer's averting of a nuclear meltdown earns him employee-of-the-month honors--and a call from Magic Johnson; Milhouse's parents prohibit him from playing with Bart.

7.7

#72 - Bart the Lover

Season 3, Episode 16, 2/13/1992

Bart's answer to detention from Mrs. Krabappel is to answer her personal ad with letters from a Mr. Wonderful, but his last laugh is more of a guilty whimper.

7.7

#73 - Separate Vocations

Season 3, Episode 18, 2/27/1992

The results from their aptitude tests cause Bart and Lisa to make 180-degree turns in their behavior.

7.7

#74 - Duffless

Season 4, Episode 16, 2/18/1993

After a DUI, Homer swears off beer for a month. Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa's sibling rivalry plays out in the school science fair.

7.7

#75 - Treehouse of Horror IV

Season 5, Episode 5, 10/28/1993

Homer sells his soul; Vampire Burns invites the Simpsons for dinner; Bart sees a gremlin damaging his school bus.

7.7

#76 - Homer Loves Flanders

Season 5, Episode 16, 3/17/1994

Flanders' extra ticket to the big game makes him Homer's new best friend, a role that sorely tests Flanders' patience.

7.7

#77 - Treehouse of Horror VI

Season 7, Episode 6, 10/29/1995

In "Attack of the 50 Foot Eyesores," strange atmospheric conditions bring giant advertising statues to life. In "Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace," Groundskeeper Willie is killed in a freak accident and seeks revenge in the childrens' dreams. In the final segment, Homer steps through a secret portal and becomes three-dimensional.

7.7

#78 - Marge Be Not Proud

Season 7, Episode 11, 12/17/1995

Nabbed for shoplifting, Bart manages to keep it a secret from the family... until it's time to have the family Christmas photo taken at the Try-N-Save.

7.7

#79 - Lisa the Iconoclast

Season 7, Episode 16, 2/18/1996

While researching into Jebediah Springfield's past for an essay, Lisa discovers that the town founder wasn't the hero that everyone thinks he was.

7.7

#80 - Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in 'The Curse of the Flying Hellfish'

Season 7, Episode 22, 4/28/1996

When a fellow veteran dies, Grandpa Simpson and Mr. Burns fight for buried WWII treasure as the only surviving members of their battalion.

7.7

#81 - Bart After Dark

Season 8, Episode 5, 11/24/1996

After trespassing and damaging property at a mysterious old house, Bart is required to work there as a punishment... but it turns out to be a burlesque house.

7.7

#82 - The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson

Season 9, Episode 1, 9/21/1997

Designated driver Barney absconds to Manhattan in Homer's car and leaves it there. But when the family journeys to the Big Apple to retrieve their property, Homer discovers his car has been booted.

7.7

#83 - King of the Hill

Season 9, Episode 23, 5/3/1998

After Rainier Wolfcastle helps Homer get in shape, Homer accepts a challenge to climb the Murderhorn, the tallest mountain in Springfield.

7.7

#84 - Trilogy of Error

Season 12, Episode 18, 4/29/2001

Homer's rush to the hospital to reattach his thumb, Lisa's rush to school to win the science fair, and Bart's run-in with an illegal fireworks scheme are interconnected in a parody of Go and Run Lola Run.

7.6

#85 - Bart Gets Hit by a Car

Season 2, Episode 10, 1/10/1991

After Mr. Burns hits Bart with his car, ambulance-chasing attorney Lionel Hutz persuades Homer and Marge to sue for a million dollars.

7.6

#86 - Three Men and a Comic Book

Season 2, Episode 21, 5/9/1991

Bart, Milhouse, and Martin pool their money to buy the new first issue of Radioactive Man, but their investment and their friendship are threatened when they can't agree on who will keep it.

7.6

#87 - Blood Feud

Season 2, Episode 22, 7/11/1991

When Mr. Burns is saved by a transfusion of Bart's blood, Homer expects a handsome reward but is outraged to receive only a simple thank-you note.

7.6

#88 - Colonel Homer

Season 3, Episode 20, 3/26/1992

Marge fears a cheatin' heart when a waitress-country singer asks Homer to be her manager.

7.6

#89 - Black Widower

Season 3, Episode 21, 4/9/1992

Bart suspects something rotten when Selma gets engaged to Sideshow Bob.

7.6

#90 - New Kid on the Block

Season 4, Episode 8, 11/12/1992

Bart has a crush on his new neighbor, a teenage girl who only has eyes for Jimbo Jones. Bart sets out to prove that Jimbo is not as tough as he seems.

7.6

#91 - Homer Goes to College

Season 5, Episode 3, 10/14/1993

Homer takes Nuclear Physics 101 at the local college, where he gets a trio of nerdy tutors expelled for extracurricular activities.

7.6

#92 - The Last Temptation of Homer

Season 5, Episode 9, 12/9/1993

Homer struggles with his attraction to new coworker Mindy, a beautiful engineer whose love for doughnuts is equal to his own.

7.6

#93 - Bart of Darkness

Season 6, Episode 1, 9/4/1994

Stuck in his room with a broken leg, Bart hears a high-pitched scream. When he looks through his telescope, he sees a guilty Ned Flanders burying the evidence.

7.6

#94 - Lisa on Ice

Season 6, Episode 8, 11/13/1994

Lisa's surprising ability at hockey spawns jealousy in Bart and a showdown when their teams meet.

7.6

#95 - Homie the Clown

Season 6, Episode 15, 2/12/1995

Krusty the Clown's reckless spending forces him to open a clown college to keep afloat. New graduate Homer discovers the perks and perils of being Krusty.

7.6

#96 - Bart vs. Australia

Season 6, Episode 16, 2/19/1995

After tricking an Australian boy into accepting a collect call, Bart flies Down Under to apologize.

7.6

#97 - Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily

Season 7, Episode 3, 10/1/1995

When Homer and Marge are found to be unfit parents, the kids are placed with the Flanders family. Reluctant participants in the Flanderses' wholesome family activities, Bart and Lisa become the targets of an emergency baptism.

7.6

#98 - Brother from Another Series

Season 8, Episode 16, 2/23/1997

When Sideshow Bob is released from prison, his brother Cecil puts him in charge of building Springfield's new hydroelectric dam.

7.6

#99 - My Sister, My Sitter

Season 8, Episode 17, 3/2/1997

Lisa has a stellar reputation as a babysitter, but when Homer and Marge leave her in charge of Bart and Maggie, everything starts going wrong.

7.6

#100 - Treehouse of Horror VIII

Season 9, Episode 4, 10/26/1997

In “The Homega Man,” Homer faces a post-apocalyptic Springfield. Next, Bart attempts to become Superfly in "Fly vs. Fly." In “Easy-Bake Coven,” amidst a witch hunt in 1649, Marge and her sisters invent trick-or-treating.

7.6

#101 - The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace

Season 10, Episode 2, 9/20/1998

A midlife crisis prompts Homer to quit his job and become an inventor.

7.6

#102 - Holidays of Future Passed

Season 23, Episode 9, 12/11/2011

Thirty years in the future, Bart, Lisa and their children spend the holidays at Marge and Homer's house.

7.5

#103 - Krusty Gets Busted

Season 1, Episode 12, 4/29/1990

Bart's TV hero Krusty the Clown is arrested for a convenience-store robbery, and witness Homer must testify against the clown.

7.5

#104 - Bart Gets an 'F'

Season 2, Episode 1, 10/11/1990

Bart fails four consecutive history exams and the school psychiatrist recommends that Bart repeat the fourth grade.

7.5

#105 - Simpson and Delilah

Season 2, Episode 2, 10/18/1990

Homer uses his medical insurance to buy Dimoxinil, a miracle hair-growth formula. After growing luxurious locks, he's given a promotion which allows him to hire a secretary named Karl and makes grand promises to his family at home.

7.5

#106 - Treehouse of Horror

Season 2, Episode 3, 10/25/1990

The Simpson kids hide in the family treehouse and tell each other spooky stories. The first regards haunted houses, the second introduces Kang and Kodos for the first time in an alien abduction, and the third is a Simpson-adapted retelling of The Raven.

7.5

#107 - Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish

Season 2, Episode 4, 11/1/1990

Bart catches a three-eyed fish in a river downstream of the Nuclear Power Plant. This causes the plant to become inspected, and in order to prevent it from being shut down, Mr. Burns decides to run for governor. After a hard campaign which sees Burns rise from being universally despised to running neck and neck with popular incumbent Mary Bailey, it is decided that Burns will have dinner with a random employee the night before the election. Homer is chosen, much to Marge's chagrin.

7.5

#108 - Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?

Season 2, Episode 15, 2/21/1991

Homer's long-lost half-brother is the CEO of a car company that's wildly successful... until he hires Homer to help design a car for the average man.

7.5

#109 - Lisa the Greek

Season 3, Episode 14, 1/23/1992

Lisa's ability to pick winning football teams kicks off a strong bond with Homer.

7.5

#110 - Homer Alone

Season 3, Episode 15, 2/6/1992

A stressed Marge vacations alone, leaving Bart and Lisa with Patty and Selma, and Maggie with Homer--until she leaves in search of Marge.

7.5

#111 - Homer at the Bat

Season 3, Episode 17, 2/20/1992

Burns hires Major League ringers for the plant softball championship.

7.5

#112 - Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?

Season 3, Episode 24, 8/27/1992

Homer's half-brother asks for a loan after Homer is awarded some cash.

7.5

#113 - Brother from the Same Planet

Season 4, Episode 14, 2/4/1993

When Homer neglects Bart once too often, Bart goes to the Big Brother program to get a new father figure. Stung, Homer replaces Bart with a little brother.

7.5

#114 - Whacking Day

Season 4, Episode 20, 4/29/1993

Lisa takes a stand against Springfield's annual snake-bashing festival.

7.5

#115 - Homer the Vigilante

Season 5, Episode 11, 1/6/1994

Homer leads a vigilante group to catch the Springfield Cat Burglar, who then robs the museum.

7.5

#116 - Burns' Heir

Season 5, Episode 18, 4/14/1994

Bart is picked to be Burns' heir and moves into the Burns mansion, prompting Homer and Marge to hire a deprogrammer to get him back.

7.5

#117 - Lisa's Wedding

Season 6, Episode 19, 3/19/1995

A fortuneteller predicts Lisa's engagement and wedding to a fellow student from an upper-crust British family.

7.5

#118 - Summer of 4 Ft. 2

Season 7, Episode 25, 5/19/1996

On a family vacation, Lisa tries on a new identity to fit in with the other kids at the beach. Jealous, Bart reveals her true nerdiness to the group.

7.5

#119 - The Homer They Fall

Season 8, Episode 3, 11/10/1996

When Moe sees that Homer can absorb massive blows to the head, he turns him into a prizefighter and sets up a match with heavyweight champion Drederick Tatum.

7.5

#120 - The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show

Season 8, Episode 14, 2/9/1997

In an attempt to boost ratings, the Itchy and Scratchy Show adds a new "in-your-face" character voiced by Homer.

7.5

#121 - Grade School Confidential

Season 8, Episode 19, 4/6/1997

Bart discovers Principal Skinner and Mrs. Krabappel kissing, and it's not long before the whole town knows of their secret affair.

7.5

#122 - In Marge We Trust

Season 8, Episode 22, 4/27/1997

Disturbed that Reverend Lovejoy has lost interest in counseling parishioners, Marge volunteers as the "Listen Lady." Meanwhile, Homer sees his likeness on a box of Japanese detergent.

7.5

#123 - The Joy of Sect

Season 9, Episode 13, 2/8/1998

A cult lures in most of Springfield to toil for “The Leader.” After Marge escapes and has the family deprogrammed, Homer exposes the man behind the spaceship.

7.5

#124 - Trash of the Titans

Season 9, Episode 22, 4/26/1998

Homer feuds with the Springfield garbage men and decides to run for Sanitation Commissioner. After winning the election with a sleazy campaign, Homer can’t keep the extravagant promises he made to the town.

7.5

#125 - Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo

Season 10, Episode 23, 5/16/1999

After their bank account is drained at a cyber-cafe, the Simpsons go on a disastrous low-budget trip to Japan, where they wind up as contestants on a humiliating game show.

7.5

#126 - The Great Phatsby (2)

Season 28, Episode 13, 1/15/2017

Mr. Burns tries to relive his glory days and crosses paths with a mysterious music mogul. After being conned by him and reduced to bankruptcy, Mr. Burns seeks revenge on the Music Producer with the help of Homer, Bart, rapper Jazzy James and the mogul's ex-wife, Praline. Also, Lisa is courted by the richest kid in town, Smithers begins a perilous journey and Marge opens an obscure boutique store.

7.5

#127 - The Yellow Lotus

Season 36, Episode 2, 10/6/2024

The Simpsons encounter death on vacation at a high-end resort.

7.4

#128 - Bart the Genius

Season 1, Episode 2, 1/14/1990

Bart's labeled a genius and sent to a school for the gifted.

7.4

#129 - There's No Disgrace Like Home

Season 1, Episode 4, 1/28/1990

After seeing families being nice to each other at a company picnic, Homer orders the Simpsons to a family therapist.

7.4

#130 - Moaning Lisa

Season 1, Episode 6, 2/11/1990

The meaning of life and second grade have Lisa playing the blues solo--until she jams with a kindred spirit; Homer seeks tutelage to beat Bart at video boxing.

7.4

#131 - Brush with Greatness

Season 2, Episode 18, 4/11/1991

Marge rediscovers her interest in art and takes up painting. When Mr. Burns hires her to paint his official portrait, Marge tries but fails to find his "inner beauty."

7.4

#132 - Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington

Season 3, Episode 2, 9/26/1991

Lisa's essay wins the Simpsons a trip to Washington, D.C., where her faith in democracy is shaken by her unethical Congressman.

7.4

#133 - Like Father, Like Clown

Season 3, Episode 6, 10/24/1991

Bart and Lisa use theological arguments to try to reunite Krusty the Clown and his rabbi father, who disowned Krusty when he turned from rabbi to clown.

7.4

#134 - Treehouse of Horror II

Season 3, Episode 7, 10/31/1991

Maggie uses one of three wishes; a mind-reading Bart rules Springfield; Homer donates his brain to Mr. Burns' science project.

7.4

#135 - Treehouse of Horror III

Season 4, Episode 5, 10/29/1992

A Halloween trilogy includes a murderous Krusty doll; a "King Kong" parody; an invasion of zombies unleashed by Bart's incantation.

7.4

#136 - The Front

Season 4, Episode 19, 4/15/1993

Lisa and Bart write an Itchy and Scratchy episode; Homer makes up a missing high-school credit.

7.4

#137 - Krusty Gets Kancelled

Season 4, Episode 22, 5/13/1993

Krusty's Hollywood pals help when his show is canceled after a new star causes his ratings to plummet.

7.4

#138 - Marge on the Lam

Season 5, Episode 6, 11/4/1993

Marge's wild night out with neighbor Ruth includes running from the police in Ruth's car, stolen from her ex.

7.4

#139 - Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy

Season 5, Episode 14, 2/17/1994

Lisa's outrage over the gender stereotypes reinforced by a new talking doll prompts her to confront the dollmaker.

7.4

#140 - Fear of Flying

Season 6, Episode 11, 12/18/1994

When they try to go on vacation, the family discovers Marge's debilitating fear of flying. Marge consults a psychoanalyst to find the source of her baffling fear.

7.4

#141 - Round Springfield

Season 6, Episode 22, 4/30/1995

Bart winds up in the hospital as a result of eating Krusty cereal, and when Lisa comes to visit him, she is reunited with her sax idol.

7.4

#142 - Lemon of Troy

Season 6, Episode 24, 5/14/1995

Springfield boys try to recapture the town's beloved lemon tree after it's stolen.

7.4

#143 - Radioactive Man

Season 7, Episode 2, 9/24/1995

Bart auditions for the part of Fallout Boy in the movie "Radioactive Man," being filmed in Springfield.

7.4

#144 - A Fish Called Selma

Season 7, Episode 19, 3/24/1996

Washed up and plagued by scandal, Troy McClure sees a marriage to Selma as his ticket back to success.

7.4

#145 - A Milhouse Divided

Season 8, Episode 6, 12/1/1996

Kirk and Luann Van Houten are getting a divorce. Homer is confident that it will never happen to him, but Kirk tells him how quickly things can change.

7.4

#146 - Lisa the Skeptic

Season 9, Episode 8, 11/23/1997

When a skeleton is unearthed at the site of a future shopping mall, all Springfield is convinced it is the skeleton of an angel – except Lisa.

7.4

#147 - Das Bus

Season 9, Episode 14, 2/15/1998

When Otto drives the school bus off a bridge, the kids wind up on a deserted island, fending for themselves in a “Lord of the Flies” parody. Back in Springfield, Homer takes on Bill Gates.

7.4

#148 - Simpson Tide

Season 9, Episode 19, 3/29/1998

When Homer joins the Naval Reserve, a captain takes a liking to him and leaves him in charge of a nuclear submarine.

7.4

#149 - Lost Our Lisa

Season 9, Episode 24, 5/10/1998

Bart’s latest stunt thwarts Lisa’s plan to attend a museum exhibit. When she tries to go alone and takes the wrong bus, Homer sets out to find her.

7.4

#150 - The Computer Wore Menace Shoes

Season 12, Episode 6, 12/3/2000

Homer decides to buy a computer after turning up to the Plant to find it closed by e-mail. He then creates his own website and it eventually gains attention when he posts gossip. Homer dubs himself as "Mr. X" to conceal his identity. When he reveals that he is Mr. X, he becomes drugged into a mysterious island where people who know too much are imprisoned after Homer starts writing conspiracy theories such as flu shots.

7.4

#151 - Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind

Season 19, Episode 9, 12/16/2007

Homer loses his memory--and his family--when he drinks Moe's most potent libation, the Forget-Me-Shot, in an episode that spoofs "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and "It's a Wonderful Life."

7.4

#152 - Not It

Season 34, Episode 5, 10/23/2022

Homer and his teenaged friends are pursued by a killer clown in a spoof of Stephen King's novel "It".

7.3

#153 - Old Money

Season 2, Episode 17, 3/28/1991

When Grandpa's new girlfriend at the Springfield Retirement Castle dies, he inherits her savings and must decide the best way to spend his windfall.

7.3

#154 - The War of the Simpsons

Season 2, Episode 20, 5/2/1991

At a lakeside retreat for married couples, Marge is determined to fix her marriage with Homer, but Homer is more determined to catch General Sherman, the freakishly large catfish that lives in the lake.

7.3

#155 - A Streetcar Named Marge

Season 4, Episode 2, 10/1/1992

Marge is cast in a version of "A Streetcar Named Desire," playing Blanche to Ned Flanders' Stanley.

7.3

#156 - Bart Gets Famous

Season 5, Episode 12, 2/3/1994

When an on-air remark catapults Bart to instant stardom, he finds that fame isn't all it's cracked up to be.

7.3

#157 - The Boy Who Knew Too Much

Season 5, Episode 20, 5/5/1994

Bart can clear Mayor Quimby's nephew of a charge of battery, but only by implicating himself as a hooky player.

7.3

#158 - Sideshow Bob Roberts

Season 6, Episode 5, 10/9/1994

Mayor Quimby pardons attempted murderer Sideshow Bob, who then runs against Quimby for mayor.

7.3

#159 - Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy

Season 6, Episode 10, 12/4/1994

Grandpa's homemade tonic puts life back in the Simpson bedroom, so he and Homer hit the road to sell the stuff.

7.3

#160 - The PTA Disbands

Season 6, Episode 21, 4/16/1995

Bart helps precipitate a teachers strike, but he rues his handiwork when Marge takes over for Mrs. Krabappel.

7.3

#161 - The Springfield Connection

Season 6, Episode 23, 5/7/1995

Marge joins the police force after thwarting a criminal, and Homer thinks he now has a free ride as a cop's spouse.

7.3

#162 - Two Bad Neighbors

Season 7, Episode 13, 1/14/1996

Homer resents being upstaged when former president George Bush moves into the neighborhood. After Bush spanks Bart, an all-out prank war ensues.

7.3

#163 - The Day the Violence Died

Season 7, Episode 18, 3/17/1996

Bart meets the original animator who created Itchy, penniless some 70 years after the studio stole his idea. When Bart helps him sue for restitution, he unwittingly bankrupts Itchy & Scratchy.

7.3

#164 - Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala (Annoyed Grunt) cious

Season 8, Episode 13, 2/7/1997

Marge is stressed by the demands of motherhood and the Simpsons get a magical British nanny, who floats down from the sky holding an umbrella.

7.3

#165 - Mayored to the Mob

Season 10, Episode 9, 12/20/1998

After a riot at a sci-fi convention, Mayor Quimby hires Homer as his bodyguard, and Homer witnesses the rampant corruption in town politics. When Homer takes a stand, he runs afoul of the Springfield mafia.

7.3

#166 - Skinner's Sense of Snow

Season 12, Episode 8, 12/17/2000

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

7.3

#167 - HOMЯ

Season 12, Episode 9, 1/7/2001

While working as a human guinea pig (to pay off the family's lost savings after making a bad investment), Homer discovers the root cause of his subnormal intelligence: a crayon that was lodged in his brain ever since he was a boy. He decides to have it removed to increase his IQ, but discovers that being smart does not necessarily equal being happy.

7.3

#168 - Brick Like Me

Season 25, Episode 20, 5/4/2014

Homer wakes up in a Springfield where everyone and everything is made out of Legos, and he must figure his way out before he gets stuck in the plastic world forever.

7.3

#169 - Simpsorama

Season 26, Episode 6, 11/9/2014

The Planet Express crew come to present-day Springfield to prevent the Simpsons from destroying the future.

7.3

#170 - Habeas Tortoise

Season 34, Episode 1, 9/25/2022

After Homer humiliates himself in a town meeting, he looks for acceptance in an internet group hunting for a missing tortoise but finds something much more sinister.

7.3

#171 - The Tell-Tale Pants

Season 35, Episode 16, 5/5/2024

Marge comes upon a surprising windfall and, angry with Homer, spends it secretly on herself.

7.2

#172 - Some Enchanted Evening

Season 1, Episode 13, 5/13/1990

Homer takes Marge out for a romantic night, leaving the kids with a sitter--who's profiled on "America's Most Armed and Dangerous."

7.2

#173 - Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment

Season 2, Episode 13, 2/7/1991

Homer becomes the most popular guy in town when he gets an illegal cable hook-up, but Lisa fears he will go to hell for violating the Eighth Commandment.

7.2

#174 - When Flanders Failed

Season 3, Episode 3, 10/3/1991

Flanders suffers a failure after Homer wishes him ill.

7.2

#175 - Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk

Season 3, Episode 11, 12/5/1991

Burns sells the power plant to a German corporation that doesn't care for Homer's approach to his work.

7.2

#176 - Marge Gets a Job

Season 4, Episode 7, 11/5/1992

Mr. Burns is instantly smitten when Marge takes a job at the nuclear power plant.

7.2

#177 - Bart Gets an Elephant

Season 5, Episode 17, 3/31/1994

Bart wins an elephant, but Homer won't let him keep it.

7.2

#178 - Homer vs. Patty and Selma

Season 6, Episode 17, 2/26/1995

A loan from Patty and Selma makes Homer their slave; Bart is forced to take ballet.

7.2

#179 - Two Dozen and One Greyhounds

Season 6, Episode 20, 4/9/1995

The Simpson household's overrun with puppies--the offspring of Santa's Little Helper and his new girlfriend from which Mr. Burns would love to make a greyhound-skin tuxedo.

7.2

#180 - Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming

Season 7, Episode 9, 11/26/1995

After Sideshow Bob escapes from prison, the Springfield Air Show is the setting for his ill-fated vendetta against television and Krusty the Clown.

7.2

#181 - Much Apu About Nothing

Season 7, Episode 23, 5/5/1996

When Mayor Quimby uses immigrants as a political scapegoat, the Simpsons discover that Apu is an illegal immigrant.

7.2

#182 - The Secret War of Lisa Simpson

Season 8, Episode 25, 5/18/1997

Lisa joins the all-male military school where Bart is sent for discipline. Then comes the hazing.

7.2

#183 - The Last Temptation of Krust

Season 9, Episode 15, 2/22/1998

Krusty bombs at a charity comedy event and feels like a tired old hack. With the Simpsons’ support, Krusty takes his act in a fresh new direction… but in the end, his true nature asserts itself.

7.2

#184 - The Trouble with Trillions

Season 9, Episode 20, 4/5/1998

Facing an IRS audit, Homer agrees to help the feds bust Mr. Burns for a missing trillion-dollar bill. When Burns makes an anti-government stand, Homer flees with him to Cuba.

7.2

#185 - Natural Born Kissers

Season 9, Episode 25, 5/17/1998

Homer and Marge try to spice up their love life and are caught baring it all in public. Bart and Lisa discover an alternate ending to Casablanca.

7.2

#186 - Lisa Gets an 'A'

Season 10, Episode 7, 11/22/1998

Stuck at home with a cold, Lisa gets addicted to a video game and neglects her homework. Her A+++ on a test wins the school a grant, but when she confesses that she cheated, Skinner covers it up. Meanwhile, Homer raises a lobster.

7.2

#187 - Viva Ned Flanders

Season 10, Episode 10, 1/10/1999

When clean-living Ned Flanders wants to experience a new side of life, Homer takes him to Las Vegas. After a drunken binge, they marry a pair of cocktail waitresses.

7.2

#188 - Mom and Pop Art

Season 10, Episode 19, 4/11/1999

Homer's failed do-it-yourself project gets mistaken for "outsider art." Suddenly in the limelight, Homer must come up with new "works" to impress the art world.

7.2

#189 - It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge

Season 11, Episode 21, 5/14/2000

Otto's girlfriend seems to be usurping Marge's role when she moves in with the family after a dispute over heavy metal.

7.2

#190 - I Am Furious (Yellow)

Season 13, Episode 18, 4/28/2002

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 called Angry Dad. Homer finds out about this and is at first outraged, but after talking to his family, he decides to try to become a less angry person.

7.2

#191 - Game Done Changed

Season 34, Episode 10, 12/4/2022

When Bart discovers a profitable glitch in an online game, he ropes Principal Skinner into his lucrative criminal enterprise. Marge and Maggie discover paradise.

7.2

#192 - Bartless

Season 34, Episode 15, 3/5/2023

When Bart's latest prank leads to chaos at Springfield Elementary, Marge and Homer dream of a world in which their rambunctious son was never a Simpson.

7.2

#193 - The Very Hungry Caterpillars

Season 34, Episode 20, 5/7/2023

When a plague of insects shuts down Springfield, the Simpsons face their greatest challenge yet… spending time in lockdown with each other.

7.2

#194 - Clown v. Board of Education

Season 34, Episode 21, 5/14/2023

Krusty opens a school for clowning, and it becomes the most successful thing he's ever done.

7.2

#195 - Homer's Crossing

Season 35, Episode 1, 10/1/2023

Feeling worthless at work, Homer volunteers to be a school crossing guard. But when his safety squad receives too much funding, the crossing guards become a force to be feared.

7.2

#196 - Convenience Airways

Season 36, Episode 8, 12/8/2024

The Simpsons are trapped on a flight with the most unruly passengers in America.

7.2

#197 - Homer and Her Sisters

Season 36, Episode 9, 12/15/2024

After a fight in an escape room, Krusty's truth-telling Aunt fixes Homer's relationship with Patty and Selma.

7.1

#198 - The Telltale Head

Season 1, Episode 8, 2/25/1990

Bart pulls a stunt that shocks the entire town, including the new friends he was trying to impress.

7.1

#199 - The Crepes of Wrath

Season 1, Episode 11, 4/15/1990

A little story about how Bart saves France after blowing up Principal Skinner's mom with a cherry bomb.

7.1

#200 - Dead Putting Society

Season 2, Episode 6, 11/15/1990

Bart and Todd Flanders decide to enter a miniature golf tournament. Homer becomes confident that Bart will win and makes a bet with Ned that the father of the boy that does not win will have to mow their neighbors lawn in their wife's Sunday dress.

7.1

#201 - Bart vs. Thanksgiving

Season 2, Episode 7, 11/22/1990

Lisa makes a table centerpiece for the Thanksgiving dinner, which Bart accidentally destroys. After he is sent to his room by his parents, Bart angrily runs away from home and experiences a very different kind of Thanksgiving holiday.

7.1

#202 - Lisa's Pony

Season 3, Episode 8, 11/7/1991

After disappointing Lisa, Homer buys her a pony, solving one problem, but creating others, requiring a second job--at Apu's Kwik-E-Mart.

7.1

#203 - Saturdays of Thunder

Season 3, Episode 9, 11/14/1991

When Homer helps Bart build a soapbox racer, it does little for the car but a lot for their relationship.

7.1

#204 - Lisa the Beauty Queen

Season 4, Episode 4, 10/15/1992

Homer enters Lisa into the Little Miss Springfield Pageant to help her feel better about her looks. But when she must choose between the title and her integrity, she realizes that confidence comes from within.

7.1

#205 - Selma's Choice

Season 4, Episode 13, 1/21/1993

After seeing Aunt Gladys die alone, Aunt Selma wants to get married and have a baby... until she spends a day babysitting Bart and Lisa at Duff Gardens.

7.1

#206 - Homer and Apu

Season 5, Episode 13, 2/10/1994

Homer accompanies Apu to the Kwik-E-Mart home office--in India--after Apu is fired.

7.1

#207 - Secrets of a Successful Marriage

Season 5, Episode 22, 5/19/1994

Homer teaches a class on marriage, but sharing secrets about his own union gets him kicked out of the house.

7.1

#208 - Bart's Girlfriend

Season 6, Episode 7, 11/6/1994

Bart learns that the good Reverend Lovejoy's daughter is really bad.

7.1

#209 - The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular

Season 7, Episode 10, 12/3/1995

Troy McClure hosts a behind-the-scenes look at the show, including clips of the series' beginnings as shorts on "The Tracy Ullman Show," Simpsons trivia questions, and unaired scenes from popular episodes.

7.1

#210 - Team Homer

Season 7, Episode 12, 1/7/1996

Homer catches Mr. Burns in an ether-induced haze and asks for $500 for his bowling team. When Burns' head clears, he demands to join the team. Meanwhile, Bart's inflammatory T-shirt provokes Principal Skinner to require school uniforms.

7.1

#211 - Bart the Fink

Season 7, Episode 15, 2/11/1996

In a scheme to get Krusty's autograph, Bart sends him a check. When Krusty's offshore holding corporation endorses the check, his illegal tax shelter is exposed. In despair after the government auctions off his possessions, Krusty fakes his own death.

7.1

#212 - Lisa's Date with Density

Season 8, Episode 7, 12/15/1996

Lisa develops a crush on Nelson and tries to change him into a better person. Meanwhile, Homer finds an autodialer and starts a telemarketing scam.

7.1

#213 - The Twisted World of Marge Simpson

Season 8, Episode 11, 1/19/1997

Marge's new pretzel franchise is failing until Homer strikes a deal with Fat Tony, Springfield's local mobster.

7.1

#214 - The Old Man and the Lisa

Season 8, Episode 21, 4/20/1997

Financially ruined, Mr. Burns turns to Lisa for help in building a recycling business. Lisa believes he's changed, but his new business venture takes a shocking new direction.

7.1

#215 - The Cartridge Family

Season 9, Episode 5, 11/2/1997

Alarmed by a soccer riot, Homer buys a handgun. His reckless behavior drives Marge and the kids out of the house, and even his new gun club buddies desert him.

7.1

#216 - Realty Bites

Season 9, Episode 9, 12/7/1997

When Marge gets her real estate license, she learns to put a positive spin on the flaws of the houses she’s selling. But when the Flanders buy the Murder House, she realizes she has to tell the truth.

7.1

#217 - Miracle on Evergreen Terrace

Season 9, Episode 10, 12/21/1997

After accidentally ruining the family’s Christmas tree and presents, Bart buries the evidence and claims a burglar stole everything. When Kent Brockman does a human interest story on the family’s tragic loss, the townspeople shower the family with generosity… until the truth comes out.

7.1

#218 - This Little Wiggy

Season 9, Episode 18, 3/22/1998

At Marge’s insistence, Bart has a “play date” with Ralph. Bart suddenly sees the upside of this friendship when he discovers Chief Wiggum’s “master key” and goes to explore Springfield’s abandoned prison.

7.1

#219 - Treehouse of Horror XIII

Season 14, Episode 1, 11/3/2002

The 13th Treehouse of Horror episode, consisting of three self-contained segments. Send in the Clones – Homer buys a hammock that can produce clones of himself. He creates numerous clones to help him around the house, but they soon overrun Springfield. 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. However, Lisa soon discovers that William Bonney is the real name of Western outlaw Billy the Kid, whose ghost, along with the ghosts of other infamous criminals, takes over the defenseless town. The Island of Dr. Hibbert – Dr. Hibbert invites the citizens of Springfield to his island resort, where he turns them into animals.

7.1

#220 - The Seemingly Never-Ending Story

Season 17, Episode 13, 3/12/2006

The family is on a nature walk through “Carl’s Dad Caverns,” when Homer tries to get a piece from a stalactite. This results in the family falling through the cave floor and winds up with Homer getting stuck in the ceiling of one of the lower chambers of the cave. Marge, Bart and Maggie go off to find help, while Lisa stays behind and tells her father a story to pass the time. Her story involves running from a bighorn sheep and into Mr. Burn’s mansion. The pair evades the tenacious sheep by finding refuge in the mansion’s attic, where Mr. Burns tells her the story of how he came to work at Moe’s Tavern by losing a scavenger hunt with a rich Texan. While there he learned (and tells to Lisa) the tale of the Moe’s treasure. The stories within stories culminate in the fate of the treasure being determined in the cave.

7.1

#221 - Homer Scissorhands

Season 22, Episode 20, 5/8/2011

Homer opens his own hair salon after discovering he is a talented stylist; Milhouse professes his love for Lisa.

7.1

#222 - My Octopus and a Teacher

Season 33, Episode 18, 4/24/2022

Bart can't control his feelings when he gets a new teacher. Meanwhile, Lisa befriends an octopus.

7.1

#223 - Do the Wrong Thing

Season 35, Episode 10, 12/24/2023

Homer and Bart become kings of the blue-collar sports circuit, but Marge suspects something dishonest at the core of their father-son bond.

7.0

#224 - Bart the General

Season 1, Episode 5, 2/4/1990

Terrorized by the school bully, Bart seeks counsel from Grandpa Simpson, who takes him to a warfare expert for basic training.

7.0

#225 - The Call of the Simpsons

Season 1, Episode 7, 2/18/1990

The Simpsons put the wild back in the wilderness when their RV goes over a cliff and Homer and Bart go for help, get lost and lose their clothes.

7.0

#226 - Life on the Fast Lane

Season 1, Episode 9, 3/18/1990

Homer's bowling-ball gift "for Marge" prompts her to take up the sport--and maybe also a handsome instructor who offers to teach her "many things."

7.0

#227 - Principal Charming

Season 2, Episode 14, 2/14/1991

When Marge begs Homer to find Selma a husband, he sets her up with Principal Skinner... who falls in love with Patty instead.

7.0

#228 - Dog of Death

Season 3, Episode 19, 3/12/1992

Santa's Little Helper notices resentment after the Simpsons make sacrifices to fund his life-saving operation.

7.0

#229 - So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show

Season 4, Episode 18, 4/1/1993

An April Fools' Day prank provides the jumping-off point for Simpson family flashbacks.

7.0

#230 - Marge in Chains

Season 4, Episode 21, 5/6/1993

Overwhelmed by her family's demands during a flu epidemic, Marge accidentally shoplifts at the Kwik-E-Mart and winds up in prison.

7.0

#231 - Bart's Inner Child

Season 5, Episode 7, 11/11/1993

Springfield emulates Bart after he's praised by a self-help guru.

7.0

#232 - Lisa's Rival

Season 6, Episode 2, 9/11/1994

Lisa feels threatened when a new girl moves to Springfield: Allison is smart, pretty, a great saxophone player and a crack diorama builder. Lisa tries to befriend her new rival, but she's consumed with envy and competitiveness.

7.0

#233 - Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield

Season 7, Episode 14, 2/4/1996

A chance encounter with a former classmate yields an invitation to the Springfield Country Club, where Marge tries to parlay a bargain basement Chanel suit into elevated social status for her family.

7.0

#234 - Homerpalooza

Season 7, Episode 24, 5/19/1996

To show his kids how hip he is, Homer takes Bart and Lisa to a music festival, where he earns himself a place in the sideshow by catching a cannonball with his belly.

7.0

#235 - The Canine Mutiny

Season 8, Episode 20, 4/13/1997

When Bart can't pay the credit card bill for his expensive new purebred dog, the repo men unwittingly take Santa's Little Helper.

7.0

#236 - Lisa's Sax

Season 9, Episode 3, 10/19/1997

After Lisa’s saxophone is destroyed, the Simpsons reminisce about how she originally got the instrument. On the hottest day of the year, Homer must decide whether to buy an air conditioner or replace Lisa’s sax.

7.0

#237 - Treehouse of Horror IX

Season 10, Episode 4, 10/25/1998

In "Hell Toupée," Snake is sent to the electric chair, and his hair is transplanted onto Homer. In "The Terror of Tiny Toon," Bart and Lisa become cartoon characters in an episode of Itchy & Scratchy. In "Starship Poopers," a growth spurt casts doubt on Maggie's paternity, and the family goes on the Jerry Springer show.

7.0

#238 - Maximum Homerdrive

Season 10, Episode 17, 3/28/1999

After beating Homer in a steak-eating competition, a trucker dies; Homer and Bart take over his rig to complete his shipment.

7.0

#239 - Behind the Laughter

Season 11, Episode 22, 5/21/2000

A "Behind the Music"-style look at the Simpsons, narrated by VH1's Jim Forbes, shows their rise to stardom--and the "private hell" that followed.

7.0

#240 - The Great Money Caper

Season 12, Episode 7, 12/10/2000

Homer and Bart become father–son con artists (after Bart is given money out of pity when Homer decided to not take him home), but soon find that they are the ones being had.

7.0

#241 - Pokey Mom

Season 12, Episode 10, 1/14/2001

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

7.0

#242 - Jaws Wired Shut

Season 13, Episode 9, 1/27/2002

A jaw injury from colliding with a new town statue turns Homer into a better listener while recuperating with his jaws wired shut, but once the wires come off, Homer does not go back to being loud and obnoxious and Marge becomes starved for thrills.

7.0

#243 - I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot

Season 15, Episode 9, 1/11/2004

Homer builds a battle robot to win Bart's respect, and places it in a tournament against other robots. What Bart does not know, though, is that the robot is actually Homer in costume. Meanwhile, Snowball II dies and Lisa tries to find a replacement cat.

7.0

#244 - The Good, the Sad and the Drugly

Season 20, Episode 17, 4/19/2009

Bart falls in love with a charitable girl named Jenny, prompting Bart to behave in order to date her. Meanwhile, Lisa becomes depressed when she writes a report on Springfield's future.

7.0

#245 - A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again

Season 23, Episode 19, 4/29/2012

When Bart gets his wish for a family vacation, he becomes determined to make it last forever.

7.0

#246 - Halloween of Horror

Season 27, Episode 4, 10/18/2015

When Lisa becomes scared at the Krustyland Halloween Horror Night, Homer is forced to take down his Everscream Terrors decorations. Halloween pop-up employees seek vengeance on Homer for causing them to lose their jobs, and rob his house while Homer and Lisa hide out in the attic. Homer and Lisa light up their stored holiday decorations to attract attention and stand up to the intruders.

7.0

#247 - Step Brother from the Same Planet

Season 34, Episode 8, 11/20/2022

Homer is stunned by his feelings of rage and resentment when Grampa becomes a doting stepfather to his girlfriend's quirky young son. Lisa and Bart throw the ultimate slumber party.

7.0

#248 - The Many Saints of Springfield

Season 34, Episode 13, 2/19/2023

When Ned Flanders falls on hard times, Fat Tony makes him an offer he can't refuse.

7.0

#249 - Treehouse of Horror Presents: Simpsons Wicked This Way Comes

Season 36, Episode 7, 11/24/2024

A tattooed man at a mysterious night circus transports Lisa into three strange stories from the innocent 1950s, the chilling retro-present, and a brutalist future where prestige TV rules the world.

6.9

#250 - Dancin' Homer

Season 2, Episode 5, 11/8/1990

Homer fires up the crowd at a Springfield Isotopes baseball game and is chosen to be the team's new mascot. He immediately becomes a popular attraction and the Isotopes start a winning streak. As a result, Homer is promoted to a team in Capital City, the Capital City Capitals.

6.9

#251 - Bart's Dog Gets an 'F'

Season 2, Episode 16, 3/7/1991

After a series of destructive acts, Homer decides that Santa's Little Helper must go unless he passes obedience school. As the dog's last hours with the family approach, Bart must find a way to get through to him.

6.9

#252 - Lady Bouvier's Lover

Season 5, Episode 21, 5/12/1994

Grandpa Simpson falls for Marge's mother, but loses out to a competitor; Bart gets ripped off shopping at home with Homer's credit card.

6.9

#253 - Bart Star

Season 9, Episode 6, 11/9/1997

When Homer becomes the coach of a peewee football team, he replaces star quarterback Nelson with the less talented Bart. Facing his teammates’ scorn, Bart looks for a way out but finds a better way to show his team spirit.

6.9

#254 - The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons

Season 9, Episode 7, 11/16/1997

Trying to escape his arranged marriage, Apu asks Marge to pose as his wife during his mother’s visit. When the ruse fails, Homer makes a last-ditch attempt to intervene, but Apu is smitten with his new bride Manjula.

6.9

#255 - Dumbbell Indemnity

Season 9, Episode 16, 3/1/1998

Moe goes broke trying to wine and dine a new girlfriend. Desperate for money, he cooks up an insurance scam with Homer.

6.9

#256 - Lisa the Simpson

Season 9, Episode 17, 3/8/1998

Lisa struggles with solving a simple puzzle and fears that the "Simpson gene” is suddenly wiping out her intelligence. Homer stages a family reunion in hopes of introducing Lisa to some Simpsons she can respect.

6.9

#257 - Make Room for Lisa

Season 10, Episode 16, 2/28/1999

Indebted from a mishap at the Smithsonian, Homer lets a cell phone company put a transmitter in the house. Forced to share a room with Bart, Lisa resents Homer until a New Age experience gives her empathy.

6.9

#258 - The Old Man and the 'C' Student

Season 10, Episode 20, 4/25/1999

When Bart ruins Springfield's chance to host the Olympics, the kids are sentenced to community service work at the retirement home. To help the residents recapture their youth, Bart takes them on an ill-fated boat ride.

6.9

#259 - Treehouse of Horror X

Season 11, Episode 4, 10/31/1999

In "I Know What You Diddily-Iddly-Did" the Simpsons fear they have killed Ned Flanders. "Desperately Xeeking Xena" satirizes superheroes of yore with "Stretch Dude" Bart and "Clobber Girl" Lisa. And "Life's A Glitch, Then You Die" depicts the upcoming horror of Y2K.

6.9

#260 - Missionary: Impossible

Season 11, Episode 15, 2/20/2000

When Homer fails to give money he promised over the phone, he is forced by PBS stars to flee the country. He becomes a missionary on a small tropical island, where he introduces the natives to casino gambling.

6.9

#261 - Days of Wine and D'oh'ses

Season 11, Episode 18, 4/9/2000

After being embarrassed by a drunken video of himself, Barney vows to sober up. Newly clean, he gets work as a helicopter pilot.

6.9

#262 - I'm Goin' to Praiseland

Season 12, Episode 19, 5/6/2001

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

6.9

#263 - Treehouse of Horror XIV

Season 15, Episode 1, 11/2/2003

"Reaper Madness" - Death becomes Homer and our hero must learn to reap what he sows (and pull a fast one on the almighty). "Frinkenstein" - Soon to be Nobel-prize winning Professor Frink reanimates his father for some gruesome body parts-swapping. "Stop the World, I Want to Goof Off" - A parody of Clockstoppers, starring Bart and Milhouse.

6.9

#264 - The Way We Weren't

Season 15, Episode 20, 5/9/2004

Homer and Marge recall the story of their first kiss at a summer camp when they were children—an event which was not all happy, as Homer (unwillingly) betrayed Marge by standing her up on their second date.

6.9

#265 - Fraudcast News

Season 15, Episode 22, 5/23/2004

Mr. Burns buys out Springfield's media outlets after a newspaper mistakenly reports his death, and Lisa's homemade newspaper is next on his list.

6.9

#266 - Thank God It's Doomsday

Season 16, Episode 19, 5/8/2005

Homer sees a movie about the end of the world and fears the same thing will happen in real life after seeing a chain of random occurrences (celebrities ["stars"] falling from the sky, raining blood, a man in a realistic devil costume) and doing a complicated math equation that predicts the end will come on May 18th, but when the end does not come, Homer discovers a flaw in the equation and ends up in Heaven where he meets God and learns that God is planning The Rapture.

6.9

#267 - The Saga of Carl

Season 24, Episode 21, 5/19/2013

Homer, Moe, Lenny and Carl win $200,000 in the Springfield Lottery. But when Carl takes off to Iceland – his homeland – with all the winnings, the guys embark on a Nordic adventure to get the cash back.

6.9

#268 - Bart's in Jail

Season 33, Episode 2, 10/3/2021

When Grampa falls victim to a phone scammer, the Simpsons set out on a mission of vengeance to get his money back.

6.8

#269 - Homer's Night Out

Season 1, Episode 10, 3/25/1990

Shutterbug Bart captures Homer with a sexy entertainer at a bachelor party.

6.8

#270 - The Otto Show

Season 3, Episode 22, 4/23/1992

Spinal Tap hits Springfield, and Otto the bus driver hits the skids after being fired, taking refuge in the Simpsons' garage.

6.8

#271 - Girly Edition

Season 9, Episode 21, 4/19/1998

Lisa becomes the anchor of a kids’ news program but is upstaged by Bart’s treacly human interest stories. At home, Homer corrupts a helper monkey.

6.8

#272 - Lard of the Dance

Season 10, Episode 1, 8/23/1998

Homer and Bart try to make money by selling used grease. Meanwhile, Lisa organizes a school dance but feels alienated when a new classmate and her friends try to act like adults.

6.8

#273 - D'oh-in' in the Wind

Season 10, Episode 6, 11/15/1998

In a quest to learn Homer's middle name, Homer and Grandpa travel to his mother's old commune, where Homer embraces the hippie life.

6.8

#274 - Wild Barts Can't Be Broken

Season 10, Episode 11, 1/17/1999

Scapegoated for the vandalism of drunken Isotopes fans, the children of Springfield wage war on the adults by broadcasting their secrets on the radio.

6.8

#275 - Homer to the Max

Season 10, Episode 13, 2/7/1999

A new TV series features a suave and debonair character named Homer Simpson. Homer capitalizes on his new namesake, until the character is rewritten to be a bumbling fool. Trying to recapture the positive attention he enjoyed, Homer changes his name to "Max Power."

6.8

#276 - I'm with Cupid

Season 10, Episode 14, 2/14/1999

Apu is making the husbands of Springfield look bad with his extravagent Valentine's Day efforts for Manjula. When the men try to sabotage Apu's grand gesture, they accidentally wind up benefiting from it.

6.8

#277 - Brother's Little Helper

Season 11, Episode 2, 10/3/1999

When Bart commits an extremely destructive prank, he is given Focusyn, a pill to help him concentrate in school. At first the results are impressive, and then Bart starts believing in a conspiracy involving spy satellites and major league baseball.

6.8

#278 - A Tale of Two Springfields

Season 12, Episode 2, 11/5/2000

While calling Animal Control over a badger taking residence in Santa's Little Helper's doghouse, Homer discovers that Springfield has two different area codes–and ends up leading a revolt that splits the town in two.

6.8

#279 - Half-Decent Proposal

Season 13, Episode 10, 2/10/2002

Homer develops a snoring problem, so Marge decides to spend a night with her sisters Patty and Selma. After a night of drinking, Marge sees a news report about her ex-prom date Artie Ziff, who is now very wealthy, and decides to send him an e-mail. Artie is still obsessed with Marge, so he offers the Simpsons $1 million in exchange for Marge spending a weekend with him.

6.8

#280 - Large Marge

Season 14, Episode 4, 11/24/2002

Thinking Homer does not find her attractive anymore, Marge decides to get liposuction, but instead receives breast implants. She becomes adored by many of the men in Springfield, and becomes a spokesmodel for trade shows. Meanwhile, Bart and Milhouse try to imitate a stunt they saw on an episode of Batman that guest stars Krusty the Clown. When the stunt ends badly, media watchdog groups blame Krusty, forcing the clown to make his show more safety-conscious and less fun.

6.8

#281 - My Mother the Carjacker

Season 15, Episode 2, 11/9/2003

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

6.8

#282 - Simple Simpson

Season 15, Episode 19, 5/2/2004

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.

6.8

#283 - The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star

Season 16, Episode 21, 5/15/2005

Bart gets expelled from school and transfers to a Catholic school, where a hip priest named Father Sean tries to convert Bart and Homer to Catholicism, which worries Marge when she believes that Catholics do not go to the same heaven as Protestants and discovers that Catholic women do not use birth control.

6.8

#284 - Whiskey Business

Season 24, Episode 19, 5/5/2013

Moe is flying high after venture capitalists take a shine to his homemade whiskey, while Grampa, after injuring himself babysitting Bart, decides he'd rather be looked after by his grandson than be at the nursing home. Also, Lisa voices her displeasure at a hologram of music legend Bleeding Gums Murphy, and Sonny Rollins (as himself) shows up to ask her to stop all that jazz about boycotting a record label.

6.8

#285 - Steal This Episode

Season 25, Episode 9, 1/5/2014

Homer becomes annoyed with movie theaters, so Bart teaches him how to download movies illegally. Homer is delighted with his discovery of free movies until he's caught for piracy. Deputy Director Gratman, the FBI's anti-piracy boss, is tasked with hunting down Homer, who stands accused of illegally downloading a film.

6.8

#286 - Days of Future Future

Season 25, Episode 18, 4/13/2014

Set in the future, Homer has a new clone for every time he dies. Lisa is married to a zombie version of Milhouse, while Bart deals with custody issues with his ex-wife, Jenda. Each defines what love means to them.

6.8

#287 - Podcast News

Season 32, Episode 6, 11/15/2020

Grampa Simpson is accused of a crime; Kent Brockman questions his career.

6.8

#288 - One Angry Lisa

Season 34, Episode 2, 10/2/2022

Lisa gets called for jury duty while Marge becomes obsessed with her exercise bike.

6.8

#289 - Lisa the Boy Scout

Season 34, Episode 3, 10/9/2022

When the Boy Explorers become co-ed, Bart and Lisa vow to "out scout" each other at the annual jamboree.

6.8

#290 - My Life as a Vlog

Season 34, Episode 12, 1/1/2023

Through a series of YouTube recommended videos, the story of the rise and fall of The Simpson Family Vlog is revealed.

6.8

#291 - Write Off This Episode

Season 34, Episode 19, 4/30/2023

When Marge and Lisa start a charity together, Marge is seduced by the money and prestige of Big Charity fundraising.

6.7

#292 - Homer's Odyssey

Season 1, Episode 3, 1/21/1990

After being fired from the nuclear power plant for negligence, Homer becomes a safety activist.

6.7

#293 - Bart's Friend Falls in Love

Season 3, Episode 23, 5/7/1992

Bart resents Milhouse's new girlfriend; Homer gets the wrong subliminal tape, which has him gaining vocabulary, not losing weight.

6.7

#294 - Bart the Mother

Season 10, Episode 3, 9/27/1998

Under Nelson's bad influence, Bart shoots a bird with a BB gun. Stricken with remorse, he tries to nurture the eggs from the bird's nest, which hatch into a species of lizard outlawed in Springfield.

6.7

#295 - Simpsons Bible Stories

Season 10, Episode 18, 4/4/1999

When Reverend Lovejoy subjects the congregation to an extended Bible reading, the Simpsons fall asleep and have dreams based on Bible stories.

6.7

#296 - Monty Can't Buy Me Love

Season 10, Episode 21, 5/2/1999

A new mogul wins the hearts of the townspeople with a shower of cash. Jealous, Mr. Burns asks Homer to help make him a beloved billionaire too, and they hatch a plan to bring the Loch Ness Monster to Springfield.

6.7

#297 - Beyond Blunderdome

Season 11, Episode 1, 9/26/1999

Homer befriends Mel Gibson just as Mel is completing a remake of Mr. Smith Goes To Washington. Homer convinces Mel to make the film more violent, with disastrous results.

6.7

#298 - Grift of the Magi

Season 11, Episode 9, 12/19/1999

In this Christmas-themed episode, the students of Springfield Elementary are unwittingly used as a focus group to test new toys. The product of their labors, a cuddly doll named Funzo, is a lot more sinister than he appears.

6.7

#299 - Faith Off

Season 11, Episode 11, 1/16/2000

Homer gets a bucket stuck on his head, and when it is removed the town is convinced that Bart has the powers of a faith healer. Then mobster Fat Tony tries to turn the boy's spiritual abilities into more sinister directions.

6.7

#300 - The Mansion Family

Season 11, Episode 12, 1/23/2000

Worried about his health, Mr. Burns visits the Mayo Clinic. He lets Homer housesit his mansion, which leads of course to an offshore knife fight and an attack by Chinese pirates.

6.7

#301 - Worst Episode Ever

Season 12, Episode 11, 2/4/2001

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

6.7

#302 - New Kids on the Blecch

Season 12, Episode 14, 2/25/2001

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.

6.7

#303 - Hungry Hungry Homer

Season 12, Episode 15, 3/4/2001

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 him when Homer stumbles on his plot to discreetly move the team to Albuquerque, New Mexico.

6.7

#304 - Weekend at Burnsie's

Season 13, Episode 16, 4/7/2002

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.

6.7

#305 - The Great Louse Detective

Season 14, Episode 6, 12/15/2002

The Simpson family win a free spa weekend, and Homer is nearly killed when a mysterious figure locks him in a sauna. Chief Wiggum decides to hire someone who can think like a murderer in order to find one. Bart's mortal enemy Sideshow Bob is sent to live with the Simpsons so he can help find Homer's attempted killer. Bob and Homer track down the attempted murderer and discover that it is Frank Grimes, Jr., the son of a man that Homer drove to insanity (in the season eight episode "Homer's Enemy"). After Grimes is arrested, Bob tries to kill Bart, but he finds that he has "grown accustomed to [his] face" and cannot harm him.

6.7

#306 - Moe Baby Blues

Season 14, Episode 22, 5/18/2003

Moe Szyslak becomes lonely and decides to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge. However, he inadvertently saves Maggie Simpson when she is sent flying from the Simpsons' car window and into his arms. He starts playing with Maggie and becomes attached to her, telling her the story of The Godfather. Homer and Marge become upset about how much time Moe is spending with Maggie and forbid him from seeing her again. One night, Maggie wakes up and hears Fat Tony and the Springfield Mafia outside the house and decides to follow them. When Homer and Marge find her missing, they automatically assume that Moe kidnapped her. When Moe is told that Maggie is missing, his request to help find her is granted by Homer. Maggie follows the mobsters to Luigi's restaurant, where Fat Tony's gang gets into a gun battle with a rival family. Homer, Marge and Moe track Maggie down and Moe decides to go inside and save Maggie. After Moe saves Maggie's life, Homer allows the two to spend more time together.

6.7

#307 - Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Season 15, Episode 12, 2/15/2004

Bart finds a friend in his own sister Lisa after Milhouse moves away to Capitol City to live with his divorced mom. Meanwhile Homer goes into panhandling to buy anniversary gifts for Marge. Later on Milhouse returns and Bart goes back being friends with him.

6.7

#308 - Simpsons Christmas Stories

Season 17, Episode 9, 12/18/2005

The Simpsons re-enact the Nativity; a World War II tale stars Grampa, Mr. Burns and Santa; a musical features "The Nutcracker Suite."

6.7

#309 - Regarding Margie

Season 17, Episode 20, 5/7/2006

Marge goes on a cleaning frenzy before the housekeeper she’s won the services of comes to the house. One spot remains and she mixes a number of toxic cleaners together to tackle the job. The noxious mixture knocks her out and she wakes up suffering from amnesia. Marge is taken home and the family tries to bring back her memory. She starts to get back memories of her children and other insignificant things, but when it comes to remembering her husband, nothing he does seems to jog her memory. When he can’t get her to remember him, he tries to win her all over again, especially after Patty and Selma get her back out on the dating scene.

6.7

#310 - 24 Minutes

Season 18, Episode 21, 5/20/2007

In a parody of "24," the school's Counter Truancy Unit tries to stop three sixth-graders planning to disrupt the school bake sale with a stink bomb.

6.7

#311 - That 90's Show

Season 19, Episode 11, 1/27/2008

Flashbacks follow Marge and Homer back to their dating days, when she was a college student and he was working for his father to support her. Then Marge becomes smitten with a professor, so a sorrowful Homer turns to music--and invents grunge.

6.7

#312 - Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes

Season 20, Episode 1, 9/28/2008

Bounty hunter Ned is forced to scrap his partnership with Homer when the hapless layabout skips bail, and Marge mistakenly takes a job at an erotic bakery.

6.7

#313 - Gone Maggie Gone

Season 20, Episode 13, 3/15/2009

Lisa infiltrates a convent in order to steal back Maggie who was accidentally taken in by nuns. While in the convent, Lisa uncovers a series of cryptic clues leading to a hidden jewel in Springfield. With help from resident history buffs Principal Skinner and Comic Book Guy, Lisa sets off to find the coveted prize. But Springfield's Freemasons are also hot on the trail of the jewel, and Lisa must race against them to find the jewel and rescue Maggie.

6.7

#314 - Wedding for Disaster

Season 20, Episode 15, 3/29/2009

After Marge and Homer's marriage turns out to be invalid, they decide to re-do their vows. But when Homer goes missing, Bart and Lisa smell something funny and investigate his disappearance.

6.7

#315 - Homer the Whopper

Season 21, Episode 1, 9/27/2009

Homer gets the lead in a movie about a superhero who can take on the powers of every superhero in any comic book he touches. To whip Homer into superhero shape, the studio hires a celebrity fitness trainer.

6.7

#316 - 500 Keys

Season 22, Episode 21, 5/15/2011

After finding the keys to every door in Springfield, Lisa finds a hidden room beneath the elementary school.

6.7

#317 - The Falcon and the D'ohman

Season 23, Episode 1, 9/25/2011

Homer befriends a new security guard at the plant; Marge daydreams about being a contestant on "Top Chef."

6.7

#318 - To Cur, with Love

Season 24, Episode 8, 12/16/2012

Grampa has to move into the Simpsons house following a fire at the retirement home, and on moving day, Homer 'throws his back out' and 'rests' at home. He later finds an advert for a video game, Villageville on his myPad, and starts playing. During that time, Homer loses Santa's Little Helper. When the family find him, Homer doesn't seem to care because he's "not a dog person". Grampa later tells the rest of the family the story of Homer's childhood companion, pet dog Bongo.

6.7

#319 - Black-Eyed, Please

Season 24, Episode 15, 3/10/2013

When Flanders' parents prove to prefer Homer's company to his, he jealously responds by giving Homer a shiner, and then tries desperately to reconcile with him. Meanwhile, Lisa is at a loss to understand why a new substitute teacher is bullying her for no obvious reason.

6.7

#320 - Specs and the City

Season 25, Episode 11, 1/26/2014

When Marge tries Homer's new high-tech glasses on, he learns she's seeing a marriage counselor; Bart refuses to buy Nelson a Valentine's Day card.

6.7

#321 - Blazed and Confused

Season 26, Episode 7, 11/16/2014

Bart schemes to bring down his new teacher, Mr. Lassen, who is a terrible bully. Meanwhile, The Simpsons go to Burning Man.

6.7

#322 - Covercraft

Season 26, Episode 8, 11/23/2014

Homer has a mid-life crisis, takes up bass guitar and forms a cover band with some of the other dads in town. But the band's modest early success is soon overwhelmed by the breakout potential of their most unlikely star, Apu.

6.7

#323 - The Girl Code

Season 27, Episode 10, 1/3/2016

After a photo Marge posts on social media gets Homer fired, he returns to the best job he ever had, a dishwasher at a Greek restaurant. This same post inspires Lisa to code an app that predicts the real-life consequences of anything you post online, only to create sentient artificial intelligence.

6.7

#324 - Gone Boy

Season 29, Episode 9, 12/10/2017

When Bart goes missing, the town puts together a search party to find him. After most give up hope, Sideshow Bob manipulates Millhouse into revealing where Bart is hiding.

6.7

#325 - E My Sports

Season 30, Episode 17, 3/17/2019

As Bart begins to excel in video game competitions, Homer discovers a passion for coaching him; Lisa attempts to bring Homer back to reality, but the plan causes chaos.

6.6

#326 - Burns, Baby Burns

Season 8, Episode 4, 11/17/1996

Mr. Burns' boorish long-lost son Larry gets the brush-off from Burns, but Homer hatches a plan to reconcile them.

6.6

#327 - Bart Carny

Season 9, Episode 12, 1/11/1998

When the carnival comes to town, Homer and Bart wind up working the ring toss. A father-son team of grifters shows them the downside of the “carny code,” but the Simpsons beat them at their own game.

6.6

#328 - They Saved Lisa's Brain

Season 10, Episode 22, 5/9/1999

Mayor Quimby flees Springfield, leaving the town chapter of Mensa in charge. As the group's new power goes to their heads, they take their utopian plans too far and the townspeople revolt.

6.6

#329 - Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?

Season 11, Episode 3, 10/24/1999

With Lisa's help, Homer uses his vast knowledge of food to become the town's leading restaurant critic. But when he gets petty and vindictive in his criticisms, all the other chefs in town try to kill him.

6.6

#330 - E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)

Season 11, Episode 5, 11/7/1999

Fleeing from a duel, Homer takes his family to live on a farm. There he discovers that by mixing tomatoes, tobacco and radioactivity from the nuclear plant, he can create a dangerously delicious new substance.

6.6

#331 - Alone Again, Natura-Diddily

Season 11, Episode 14, 2/13/2000

Ned's wife Maude is inadvertently killed by a T-shirt accident at an auto race. Homer and his family try to help Ned cope.

6.6

#332 - Homer vs. Dignity

Season 12, Episode 5, 11/26/2000

When the Simpsons once again have financial problems, Mr. Burns pays Homer to play pranks on others and humiliate himself in public. Meanwhile, Smithers creates a Malibu Stacy-themed musical.

6.6

#333 - The Blunder Years

Season 13, Episode 5, 12/9/2001

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. A hypnotist uses his powers on Homer, and makes him remember a horrific childhood incident where Homer found a dead body in a ravine. The Simpson family decides to investigate this and find out where the body came from.

6.6

#334 - Tales from the Public Domain

Season 13, Episode 14, 3/17/2002

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

6.6

#335 - Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge

Season 13, Episode 22, 5/22/2002

Homer starts a security company with Lenny and Carl after the police are ineffective during a blackout, and eventually Mayor Quimby decides to have them replace the police. Homer finds that he excels at the job, but then he runs afoul of mob boss Fat Tony, who threatens Homer with death unless he leaves town.

6.6

#336 - Brake My Wife, Please

Season 14, Episode 20, 5/11/2003

Homer becomes obsessed with using new gadgets in his car. One day, he becomes distracted and drives off a pier, losing his driver's license. Unable to use a car, Homer starts to learn the joys of walking. Meanwhile, Marge shoulders the burden of Homer's driving duties and becomes stressed out. One day, as Homer sings about the virtues of walking, Marge accidentally runs him over with her car. Later, as Homer recuperates from the accident, he begins to suspect that Marge is trying to hurt him. They fight and go to see a marriage counselor. The counselor advises Homer to perform one completely unselfish gesture to win Marge back. Homer holds a party with all of her friends and a surprised Marge tells Homer that she loves him.

6.6

#337 - The Heartbroke Kid

Season 16, Episode 17, 5/1/2005

When Bart endangers his health by bingeing on vending-machine food, the Simpsons turn their home into a hostel in order to afford sending him to a forced starvation facility.

6.6

#338 - The Girl Who Slept Too Little

Season 17, Episode 2, 9/18/2005

After the family successfully protest against a stamp museum being built next to their house, a cemetery is built near the Simpson house instead, making the normally unflappable Lisa realize that someone as smart as her can be afraid of something.

6.6

#339 - The Monkey Suit

Season 17, Episode 21, 5/14/2006

Working through their checklists of things to do before summer ends, Lisa gets the family to go a museum. At the Springfield Museum of Natural History there is an exhibit Lisa is excited to see on Women’s History turns into an exhibit on the history of weapons, which excites Homer and Bart. When Flanders sees the exhibit of evolution and another that mocks creationism, he raises an alarm. Reverend Lovejoy gets Skinner to have creationism taught in school. Lisa is the only one who holds onto the scientific theory. She brings the topic up at the town meeting and the town votes to teach only one theory, creationism. Lisa decides to hold her own class on evolution, until she is arrested. The ACLU gives her a lawyer who is up against a slick Southern lawyer, but ultimately it’s a family member that is a key to her defense.

6.6

#340 - The Haw-Hawed Couple

Season 18, Episode 8, 12/10/2006

When Bart ends up the only guest at Nelson's birthday party, the bully decides he's his best friend and goes about protecting Bart in a parody of "Goodfellas." Meanwhile, Homer reads Lisa to sleep and debates on whether to reveal the book's sad ending to her.

6.6

#341 - The Debarted

Season 19, Episode 13, 3/2/2008

A new kid at school named Donny works with Bart on his pranks. But when the pranks start to backfire, Bart wonders if he can trust his new accomplice. Meanwhile, the Simpsons get a fancy loaner car after Marge gets in an accident, and Homer falls in love with it.

6.6

#342 - Mypods and Boomsticks

Season 20, Episode 7, 11/30/2008

Lisa struggles to become the proud owner of a Mypod, and Homer believes Bart's new Middle-Eastern friend Bashir is involved in a terrorist plot to destroy the Springfield Mall.

6.6

#343 - Eeny Teeny Maya Moe

Season 20, Episode 16, 4/5/2009

Moe once again searches for love and falls for a woman named Maya over the Internet. However, when Moe meets Maya face-to-face, he discovers it's more like face-to-knee, as Maya is only three feet tall.

6.6

#344 - The Fight Before Christmas

Season 22, Episode 8, 12/5/2010

When the rest of the family seems to lack Christmas spirit, Marge contacts Martha Clause.

6.6

#345 - The Scorpion's Tale

Season 22, Episode 15, 3/6/2011

During a field trip, Lisa discovers desert water that makes usually combative creatures get along; after getting kicked out of the retirement home, Grampa comes to live with the family.

6.6

#346 - Labor Pains

Season 25, Episode 5, 11/17/2013

When Homer helps a woman give birth in an elevator, he forms an emotional attachment to the baby; cheerleaders for the local professional football team recruit Lisa.

6.6

#347 - Treehouse of Horror XXV

Season 26, Episode 4, 10/19/2014

In a Halloween-theme episode Bart reads Aramaic symbols from the bottom of his desk and he and Lisa are transported to an alternate world filled with demons. Also, Moe organizes a "Clockwork Orange"-ish gang in which member Dum (Homer) falls for a young lady (Marge) who wants him to quit. In a homage to "The Others," the Simpsons reconnect with their earlier incarnations from the Tracey Ullman era.

6.6

#348 - The Man Who Came to Be Dinner

Season 26, Episode 10, 1/4/2015

During a trip to "Dizzneeland" the Simpsons board the wrong ride, Rocket To Your Doom, and are transported through the galaxy to Kang and Kodos' home planet, where they are held captive at the local zoo and the inhabitants decide to eat Homer.

6.6

#349 - My Fare Lady

Season 26, Episode 14, 2/15/2015

When Marge gets fed up with the thankless duty of chauffeuring her kids around, she begins working as a driver for a transportation app service. Meanwhile, Homer bankrupts Moe when he watches over the bar for one night, which forces Moe to take a temporary job as a janitor at the nuclear plant.

6.6

#350 - Bull-E

Season 26, Episode 21, 5/10/2015

After Bart gets bullied at the school dance, Marge convinces the town to pass anti-bullying legislation. Homer then gets arrested and sent to rehab for bullying Ned Flanders, only to subsequently leave rehab as a hero.

6.6

#351 - Puffless

Season 27, Episode 3, 10/11/2015

Upon learning that their father really died of lung cancer, Selma and Patty agree to quit smoking. When Selma relapses, an angry Patty moves in with Marge and Homer.

6.6

#352 - Gal of Constant Sorrow

Season 27, Episode 14, 2/21/2016

After Bart accidentally sends a sweet homeless woman's cart into the river, he allows her to live in his closet for a small fee. When Lisa discovers that the woman is an incredible folk singer, she offers her own closet and plans a concert, only to be disappointed by Hettie's surprising substance abuse and violent nature. Meanwhile Homer tries to prove he's handy, but accidentally traps the cat in the walls of the house.

6.6

#353 - Women in Shorts

Season 36, Episode 6, 11/10/2024

Girls just want to have funny.

6.6

#354 - The Man Who Flew Too Much

Season 36, Episode 10, 12/22/2024

The new and improved Pin Pals travel to Capital City for their first ever state bowling championship.

6.5

#355 - Homer Simpson in: 'Kidney Trouble'

Season 10, Episode 8, 12/6/1998

When Grandpa needs a new kidney, Homer agrees to donate one, but then chickens out.

6.5

#356 - Marge Simpson in: 'Screaming Yellow Honkers'

Season 10, Episode 15, 2/21/1999

A new Canyonero SUV turns timid Marge into an aggressive driver, and her road rage lands her in traffic school. But when a stampede occurs at the zoo, the town looks to Marge to save the day.

6.5

#357 - Pygmoelian

Season 11, Episode 16, 2/27/2000

Plastic surgery gives Moe the bartender a handsome new face and a whole new life as a soap opera star.

6.5

#358 - Bart to the Future

Season 11, Episode 17, 3/19/2000

We see a possible future in which Bart is a grown-up slacker, living with Ralph Wiggum, while Lisa is no less than President of the United States.

6.5

#359 - Treehouse of Horror XI

Season 12, Episode 1, 11/1/2000

This year's Halloween story sees The Simpsons as "The Munsters" (with everyone except Lisa getting killed), Homer as a wandering spirit on the hunt for a good deed in "G-G-Ghost D-D-Dad," Bart and Lisa as peasants in a fairy tale forest in "Scary Tales Can Come True," and Lisa inadvertently dooming mankind by rescuing a dolphin in "Night of the Dolphin."

6.5

#360 - How I Spent My Strummer Vacation

Season 14, Episode 2, 11/10/2002

A drunken Homer appears on the show Taxicab Conversations and rants about how awful his life as a husband and father is. Although his family is at first outraged, they realise that they do somewhat burden him and decide to make up for it by sending him to a Rock 'n Roll Fantasy Camp where he mingles with rock stars, including Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. The rock stars ask Homer to help out at a concert and, expecting that he will be allowed to perform, he accepts. Actually, they want him to test the microphones; however, a humiliated Homer grabs a guitar and starts playing.

6.5

#361 - Special Edna

Season 14, Episode 7, 1/5/2003

Ms. Edna Krabappel begins to lose faith in her relationship with Principal Skinner and becomes depressed. Bart wants to cheer her up and decides to nominate her for the Teacher of the Year Award. Ms. Krabappel and the Simpsons are given a free trip to Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida. Skinner decides that he needs to do something to win Edna back, so he follows them there. He tries to sabotage Edna's chances of winning the award, in hopes that she will become so depressed that she will come back to him. However, he has a change of heart and proposes to her.

6.5

#362 - The Bart of War

Season 14, Episode 21, 5/18/2003

After destroying Flanders' shrine to The Beatles, Bart and Milhouse are punished by being put in community groups. Bart joins the Pre-Teen Braves along with Ralph Wiggum, Nelson Muntz and Database. Led by Marge, they start engaging in community activities. However, they soon become rivals with The Cavalry Kids, led by Milhouse. The two groups try to outdo each other and become involved in a contest to sell the most candy. The Cavalry Kids win the prize of singing the national anthem at a baseball game. However, the Pre-Teen Braves pretend to be The Cavalry Kids and sing their own version of the national anthem. As the crowd becomes enraged, the real Cavalry Kids arrive and a massive stadium-wide brawl erupts. Marge becomes upset, and the fighting ends when an image of her crying is shown on the JumboTron.

6.5

#363 - The Fat and the Furriest

Season 15, Episode 5, 11/30/2003

Homer is humiliated when he appears on the news running from a bear that nearly attacks him at the city dump. After Grampa scolds him, he swears to fight the bear himself.

6.5

#364 - Diatribe of a Mad Housewife

Season 15, Episode 10, 1/25/2004

Marge writes a romance novel with characters based on Homer and Ned Flanders that becomes a hit. Meanwhile, Homer gets fired from the power plant again and becomes an ambulance driver.

6.5

#365 - There's Something About Marrying

Season 16, Episode 10, 2/20/2005

Springfield legalizes same-sex marriage to increase tourism. After becoming a minister, Homer starts to wed people to make money. Meanwhile, Marge's sister Patty comes out as a lesbian and reveals that she is going to marry a woman named Veronica.

6.5

#366 - The Italian Bob

Season 17, Episode 8, 12/11/2005

Homer brings the whole family along when he is sent to Italy to pick up a new sports car for Mr. Burns, when they find themselves in a small town that Sideshow Bob has become the mayor of.

6.5

#367 - We're on the Road to D'ohwhere

Season 17, Episode 11, 1/29/2006

After Bart steals a key from Principal Skinner's office and gets himself into hot water, Marge and Homer send him to a behavior modification camp.

6.5

#368 - Bart Has Two Mommies

Season 17, Episode 14, 3/19/2006

The family is at a church fund-raiser, where Homer tries to ensure his rubber duck onto victory, but Flanders wins the big prize, which he doesn’t want and gives it to Marge. In return Marge agrees to watch Rod and Todd while Ned is attending a left-handed convention. While Marge is spending all her time with the Rod and Todd and trying to let them learn how to be boys; Homer takes Bart and Lisa to a home for former celebrity animals and a monkey kidnaps Bart. Marge’s ability to be a mother comes into question when Ned discovers what she is doing with his boys and the local news covers Bart’s current predicament.

6.5

#369 - Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times

Season 18, Episode 11, 1/28/2007

Homer learns three lessons about revenge from stories told by Marge, Lisa and Bart that parody "The Count of Monte Cristo," "Revenge of the Nerds" and "Batman Begins."

6.5

#370 - Love, Springfieldian Style

Season 19, Episode 12, 2/17/2008

Homer and Marge celebrate Valentine's Day by going on the Tunnel of Love ride at a carnival, but they end up stranded when Bart pulls a prank involving gelatin. To pass the time, Homer tells the love story of Bonnie and Clyde, Marge tells her version of "Lady and the Tramp," and Bart tells the love story of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen.

6.5

#371 - Dial 'N' for Nerder

Season 19, Episode 14, 3/9/2008

Homer cheats on his diet, so Marge gets a reality show called "The Sneakers" to check up on him. Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa fear that a prank they played on Martin Prince had deadly consequences.

6.5

#372 - Take My Life, Please

Season 20, Episode 10, 2/15/2009

Homer is jealous when old classmate Vance Connor is inducted into the Springfield Walk of Fame. Lenny and Carl confess they fixed the result in favor of Principal Dondelinger - leading the hapless father to speculate on how his life would have changed had he won the ballot.

6.5

#373 - Treehouse of Horror XX

Season 21, Episode 4, 10/18/2009

Dial "M" for Murder or Press "#" to Return to Main Menu- Lisa is forced into a Hitchcockian murder scheme by Bart. Don't Have a Cow, Mankind- Springfield is once again overrun by zombies, thanks to Krusty Burger's latest sandwich. There's No Business Like Moe Business- In a Sweeney Todd spoof, Moe bleeds Homer dry to create the perfect microbrewed great beer.

6.5

#374 - Chief of Hearts

Season 21, Episode 18, 4/18/2010

Homer is completing his court-ordered community service when he befriends his supervisor, Chief Wiggum, by offering him one of his sandwiches. Touched by the act of kindness, Wiggum assigns the other convicts unpleasant tasks, but allows Homer to join him at the picnic table. They continue to grow close, but when the Chief gets injured during a botched bank robbery, Homer doesn't come through when Wiggum needs him the most. Meanwhile, Bart becomes addicted to Battle Ball, a Japanese game made up of plastic balls and magnetic cards, and his family and teachers try to help him kick the habit.

6.5

#375 - Homer the Father

Season 22, Episode 12, 1/23/2011

When Homer insists Bart must earn the new dirt bike he wants, Bart comes up with a scheme; James Lipton interviews a TV cast.

6.5

#376 - Angry Dad: The Movie

Season 22, Episode 14, 2/20/2011

Bart's film about an angry father quickly becomes a critical favorite, winning him several awards.

6.5

#377 - The Book Job

Season 23, Episode 6, 11/20/2011

Homer creates a team, including author Neil Gaiman, to write the next hit "tween" book; after receiving an advance copy of the work from his publisher, Homer learns there's more to the business than he imagined.

6.5

#378 - Dark Knight Court

Season 24, Episode 16, 3/17/2013

Springfield's Easter is ruined by a prank and all fingers point to Bart. It is up to Lisa to save her brother, in a student court presided over by Attorney General Janet Reno. Meanwhile, inspired by an old comic book, Mr. Burns becomes an ineffectual superhero—fruit bat man.

6.5

#379 - Homerland

Season 25, Episode 1, 9/29/2013

A parody of "Homeland". Homer starts to act strangely polite after returning from a nuclear power plant convention, prompting a suspicious Lisa to ask an intense FBI agent named Annie (Kristen Wiig) to help her solve this mystery.

6.5

#380 - Yellow Subterfuge

Season 25, Episode 7, 12/8/2013

Principal Skinner promises the students that the best-behaved among them can take a ride in a submarine. When Skinner gives all the kids a clean slate, Bart believes even his own past indiscretions will be forgotten if he doesn’t get into any more trouble. Meanwhile Lisa tries to help a cash-poor Krusty to turn things around by suggesting he sell the foreign rights to his shows.

6.5

#381 - The War of Art

Season 25, Episode 15, 3/23/2014

After Lisa's new pet guinea pig destroys the Simpsons' living room art, Marge finds a beautiful painting at the Van Houten's yard sale, which Homer snaps up for 20 bucks

6.5

#382 - Bart's New Friend

Season 26, Episode 11, 1/11/2015

Bart has a new accomplice and best friend when Homer is hypnotized at the circus and believes he is a young boy again.

6.5

#383 - Mathlete's Feat

Season 26, Episode 22, 5/17/2015

When a modernized Springfield Elementary has a technical meltdown, Lisa transforms it into a Waldorf school. Meanwhile, Groundskeeper Willie becomes the coach of the mathletes.

6.5

#384 - Cue Detective

Season 27, Episode 2, 10/4/2015

Scotty Boom, a Chew Network super-chef, challenges Homer to a smoke-off. But when someone steals Homer’s secret weapon – a smoker he bought off a mysterious man at a BBQ shack – Lisa and Bart are on the case.

6.5

#385 - The Marge-ian Chronicles

Season 27, Episode 16, 3/13/2016

Not feeling unique, Lisa signs up for the Mars One Space Colony – to Marge’s dismay. Then, Marge hires Bart to go through the tryout process with Lisa to make her want to quit.

6.5

#386 - The Serfsons

Season 29, Episode 1, 10/1/2017

In a magical medieval world, Marge's mother is turned into an Ice Walker and the only way for Homer to afford the cure is to force Lisa to use illegal magic. When the King discovers this, he kidnaps Lisa, and Homer must lead a feudal uprising to save her.

6.5

#387 - Girl's in the Band

Season 30, Episode 19, 3/31/2019

Homer works extra shifts at the plant so Lisa can play in the Capitol City Philharmonic.

6.5

#388 - I, Carumbus

Season 32, Episode 2, 10/4/2020

At a museum exhibit of Ancient Rome, Marge and Homer get into an argument about Homer's lack of ambition. They then imagine a Roman version of what would happen if Homer was more career-driven.

6.5

#389 - The King of Nice

Season 34, Episode 4, 10/16/2022

Marge is hired as a segment producer on Krusty's new daytime talk show. But her initial excitement about the job fades when she discovers what an endless nightmare it is!

6.5

#390 - Carl Carlson Rides Again

Season 34, Episode 14, 2/26/2023

When Carl is smitten by a beautiful woman, he looks into the roots of his own identity by discovering the origins of a mysterious rodeo buckle.

6.5

#391 - Hostile Kirk Place

Season 34, Episode 16, 3/12/2023

When Milhouse's Dad, Kirk, takes exception to a school history lesson that paints one of his ancestors in a bad light, Kirk goes on a crusade to censor and control the school curriculum -- a crusade that Homer co-opts for fun and profit.

6.5

#392 - Pin Gal

Season 34, Episode 17, 3/19/2023

A mysterious figure from Marge's past returns to coach her for a bowling tournament.

6.4

#393 - Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire

Season 1, Episode 1, 12/17/1989

Homer's Christmas bonus is canceled and the rainy-day funds are needed to pay for Bart's tattoo removal.

6.4

#394 - Another Simpsons Clip Show

Season 6, Episode 3, 9/25/1994

After reading the weepy best-seller The Bridges of Madison County, Marge sits down with the family and recalls romantic moments, along with temptations from her bowling instructor Jacques and Homer's coworker Mindy.

6.4

#395 - The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase

Season 8, Episode 24, 5/11/1997

Troy McClure presents three Simpsons spinoff spoofs: In "Chief Wiggum, P.I.," Chief Wiggum becomes a New Orleans detective. Next, Grampa Simpson's soul is trapped inside Moe's Love tester machine in "The Love-Matic Grampa." Finally, the Simpson family hosts a '70s-style variety show.

6.4

#396 - Insane Clown Poppy

Season 12, Episode 3, 11/12/2000

Krusty takes parenting lessons from Homer when, during an outdoor book fair, a girl tells Krusty that she is his long-lost daughter from a one-night stand with a female soldier who fought during the first Gulf War.

6.4

#397 - Children of a Lesser Clod

Season 12, Episode 20, 5/13/2001

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.

6.4

#398 - Homer the Moe

Season 13, Episode 3, 11/18/2001

Moe becomes depressed and decides to return to bartending school so he can re-evaluate himself. He meets an old teacher, who suggests that Moe try improving his bar, which might make him happier. Moe takes the advice, and turns his bar into a trendy nightclub, which does not sit well with his regular customers Homer, Lenny, Carl, and Barney.

6.4

#399 - A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love

Season 13, Episode 4, 12/2/2001

Homer becomes a fortune cookie writer for a Chinatown restaurant. Mr. Burns reads one of Homer's fortunes, which says that the reader will find love before Flag Day is over. Burns goes searching for love and meets Gloria, a meter maid, and asks her out. Gloria reluctantly agrees, and Burns recruits Homer to help him look young and hip to his new girlfriend.

6.4

#400 - She of Little Faith

Season 13, Episode 6, 12/16/2001

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. Lisa becomes disgusted at what the church has become, so she decides to find a new religion suitable for her. She eventually converts to Buddhism, causing Marge to fear for Lisa's soul.

6.4

#401 - Dude, Where's My Ranch?

Season 14, Episode 18, 4/27/2003

When challenged to think up a new Christmas carol, Homer instead writes a song about how much he hates Ned Flanders. The song becomes such a hit that the Simpsons become sick of hearing it and take a trip to a dude ranch. Lisa develops affections for a local boy named Luke but becomes jealous when he hears him talking to a girl named Clara on the telephone. One night, she meets Clara and gives her the wrong directions, leading her to become lost. After Lisa discovers that Clara is actually Luke's sister, she rushes to find her. She saves Clara, and decides to tell Luke what happened, but he is offended and dumps her. Meanwhile, Bart and Homer decide to help a tribe of Native Americans who want a beaver dam removed so they can reclaim their land.

6.4

#402 - The Regina Monologues

Season 15, Episode 4, 11/23/2003

After making over $3000 from his own museum featuring a $1000 bill, Bart takes the family to London (on the suggestion of Grampa), where Homer is arrested for treason after crashing into the Queen.

6.4

#403 - 'Tis the Fifteenth Season

Season 15, Episode 7, 12/14/2003

Homer realizes how selfish he is after he spends all the family's Christmas money on a present for himself. He becomes the nicest guy in town, making Ned Flanders jealous.

6.4

#404 - My Big Fat Geek Wedding

Season 15, Episode 17, 4/18/2004

After hearing that Skinner is getting cold feet about their wedding, Edna leaves Skinner at the altar and, after sending back one marriage gift, hooks up with Comic Book Guy. Meanwhile, Homer and Marge have an argument about if their marriage is still solid or not.

6.4

#405 - Future-Drama

Season 16, Episode 15, 4/17/2005

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 (now separated from Marge and living in an underwater apartment) fights Krusty the Clown after Marge begins dating him.

6.4

#406 - Girls Just Want to Have Sums

Season 17, Episode 19, 4/30/2006

The family attends "Stab-A-Lot: The Itchy and Scratchy Musical." The musical's director is a graduate of Springfield Elementary and Principal Skinner puts his foot in mouth when he makes sexist comments about her education and that of women in general. He tries to make the situation better, but only buries himself deeper and deeper until he is fired and replaced by Women's Educational Expert Melanie Upfoot. The first thing she does is split the school into girls and the boys. Lisa dislikes the way girls are being taught math and she ventures over to the boy's side of the school in search of a challenge. Disguising herself as Jake Boyman she starts attending the boy's school but while she finds the math problems more interesting, it is being a boy that is a greater challenge.

6.4

#407 - Father Knows Worst

Season 20, Episode 18, 4/26/2009

Bart and Lisa start struggling in their academic and social lives at school and Homer starts monitoring them and forcing them to do better. Meanwhile, Marge discovers a sauna in the basement.

6.4

#408 - Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh

Season 20, Episode 19, 5/3/2009

When Marge learns Springfield Elementary is the worst school in the state, she and Homer rent an apartment in the upscale Waverly Hills school district so Bart and Lisa can attend a better school. Meanwhile, Homer moves into the rented Waverly Hills apartment and gets used to the bachelor lifestyle.

6.4

#409 - Coming to Homerica

Season 20, Episode 21, 5/17/2009

When nearby Ogdenville’s economy crumbles due to tainted barley discovered in Krusty’s veggie burgers, the unemployed workers of Ogdenville flock to Springfield. After Mayor Quimby closes Springfield’s borders and enlists private citizens to help patrol them, Homer organizes a border patrol group.

6.4

#410 - Moe Letter Blues

Season 21, Episode 21, 5/9/2010

As Mother's Day approaches, Moe narrates an episode in which he writes a letter to Homer, Apu and Reverend Lovejoy, who are vacationing with their children, and threatens to run away with one of their wives. While the trio tries to determine whose wife Moe is referring to, Homer, Lovejoy and Apu flashback to the intimate moments they initially ignored between Moe and Marge, Manjula and Helen Lovejoy. But when the boys return from their trip, they're in for the surprise of their lives.

6.4

#411 - How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?

Season 22, Episode 7, 11/28/2010

After Bart nurses an injured bird back to health, Homer enters it in a race.

6.4

#412 - The Great Simpsina

Season 22, Episode 18, 4/10/2011

When the Great Raymondo takes Lisa on as his magician's assistant, she is conned into revealing the secret of his greatest trick to his nemesis.

6.4

#413 - The Real Housewives of Fat Tony

Season 22, Episode 19, 5/1/2011

Fat Tony and Marge's sister, Selma, fall in love and get married; Bart discovers a special ability.

6.4

#414 - The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants

Season 23, Episode 7, 11/27/2011

The Simpsons host a party to promote Krusty's own brand of liquor; impressed with the party's sucess, Mr. Burns decides to promote Homer; Bart takes an interest in reading classic novels.

6.4

#415 - Adventures in Baby-Getting

Season 24, Episode 3, 11/4/2012

When Marge's car falls into a sink hole, she buys the perfect replacement to fit her family of five. But she quickly grows to hate it because, as she tells a shocked Homer, the car would be too small if she wanted to have another baby. Meanwhile, Bart and his friends are determined to find out what secret Lisa is keeping when Bart finds her cryptic messages and follows her sneaking off downtown for covert meetings after school.

6.4

#416 - A Test Before Trying

Season 24, Episode 10, 1/13/2013

The fate of Springfield Elementary rests on Bart and his test scores, and Homer finds way to make money with his own parking meter.

6.4

#417 - Married to the Blob

Season 25, Episode 10, 1/12/2014

When Comic Book Guy meets a woman writing an autobiographical manga, he seeks Homer's advice on dating.

6.4

#418 - You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee

Season 25, Episode 16, 3/30/2014

Homer is recruited as a World Cup referee after Lisa extols his integrity on the youth soccer field in a Springfield Elementary speech contest. But when the Simpsons travel to Brazil (again), Homer finds his honesty tested by one of South America's slickest gangsters in the soccer match-bribing business.

6.4

#419 - The Musk Who Fell to Earth

Season 26, Episode 12, 1/25/2015

When inventor Elon Musk lands in Springfield, he and Homer become fast friends and revolutionize the town's nuclear plant. But when Musk goes overboard and Mr. Burns wants him removed, Homer must figure out a way to break up with him.

6.4

#420 - Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4

Season 27, Episode 13, 2/14/2016

Lonely Professor Frink uses science to turn himself into a man whom women find attractive. Then, overwhelmed by the attention, he invents an algorithm to perfectly pair the lonely men and women of Springfield, realizing that scientific exploration is his true love. Meanwhile, Marge, Bart, and Lisa visit Grampa for Valentine's Day and try to rescue the old folks from a drug-induced hallucination that allows them to relive their happiest memories.

6.4

#421 - Lisa the Veterinarian

Season 27, Episode 15, 3/6/2016

After performing CPR on a tased raccoon, Lisa discovers her calling to be veterinarian and becomes an intern at the local office, but learns a tough lesson when her neglected class hamster dies. Meanwhile, Marge moonlights as a crime scene cleaner for a little extra money, and the trauma of the gory scenes make her increasingly dead inside.

6.4

#422 - Looking for Mr. Goodbart

Season 28, Episode 20, 4/30/2017

Bart gets in trouble on Grandparents Day at school and is forced to hang out with Skinner's mother as punishment. After spending time with various grandmas in the neighborhood, he learns the benefits of hanging out with the elderly, but eventually recognizes the dangers of taking advantage of them. Meanwhile, Peekimon Get has taken over the town of Springfield.

6.4

#423 - From Russia Without Love

Season 30, Episode 6, 11/11/2018

On a mission to play hardcore pranks, Bart, Nelson and Milhouse get Moe a mail-order bride on the Dark Web.

6.4

#424 - Bart the Bad Guy

Season 31, Episode 14, 3/1/2020

Bart accidentally sees a new superhero movie one month before its intended release, and uses his knowledge to terrorize the other fans. Two executive producers of the film attempt to prevent Bart from leaking any more news to the public.

6.4

#425 - Treehouse of Horror XXXII

Season 33, Episode 3, 10/10/2021

The 32nd annual Simpsons Halloween special includes a spoof of "Parasite" and a segment where Bambi gets his revenge.

6.4

#426 - Desperately Seeking Lisa

Season 36, Episode 3, 10/20/2024

Lisa has a blazing misadventure in the dark world of Capital City's downtown art scene.

6.3

#427 - The Principal and the Pauper

Season 9, Episode 2, 9/28/1997

Unmasked as an impostor, Principal Skinner flees to Capital City to reclaim his former life as a shiftless good-for-nothing. The people of Springfield gain a newfound appreciation for him and form a plan to bring him back.

6.3

#428 - Kill the Alligator and Run

Season 11, Episode 19, 4/30/2000

After a terrible bout with insomnia, Homer takes the family to Florida during spring break. There, they kill a beloved alligator and are sentenced to a chain gang.

6.3

#429 - Lisa the Tree Hugger

Season 12, Episode 4, 11/19/2000

Lisa falls for the teenaged leader of a militant environmentalist group and tries to impress him by living in Springfield's oldest tree in order to keep it from being cut down.

6.3

#430 - Little Girl in the Big Ten

Season 13, Episode 20, 5/12/2002

Lisa tries to fit in with two college students by lying about her age. She finds that the college atmosphere is perfect for her, but her lie is soon discovered and she is shunned by her fellow elementary school students. Meanwhile, Bart is diagnosed with a weakened immune system after getting bitten by a Chinese mosquito and must live in a plastic, germ-free bubble.

6.3

#431 - Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade

Season 14, Episode 3, 11/17/2002

The Simpsons buy a satellite television, which Bart spends so much time watching that he does not study for an important achievement test. He scores so low that Principal Skinner demotes him to third grade, while Lisa does so well that she is moved up to third grade. The two are placed in the same class and become rivals. During a trip to Capital City, they get separated from their class and are forced to help each other in order to find their classmates.

6.3

#432 - Pray Anything

Season 14, Episode 10, 2/9/2003

Homer becomes depressed when he sees that Ned Flanders seems to be better off than him. To remedy this, he begins to pray constantly. Meanwhile, the Simpsons discover that tree roots have clogged up their plumbing. The house becomes too run down to live in, and Homer prays for a solution. Homer is injured while attending church; he sues Reverend Lovejoy and is awarded the deed to the church. He throws a huge house-warming party, in which all of the partiers drink and engage in sinful activities. It suddenly starts raining and the town begins to flood. The townspeople flee to the roof of the church. Homer tries praying again but the flood keeps rising. Reverend Lovejoy returns in a helicopter and leads everyone in prayer, asking God to forgive them, and the rain stops.

6.3

#433 - A Star Is Born Again

Season 14, Episode 13, 3/2/2003

During the annual Jellyfish Festival, Ned Flanders realizes that he is lonely and becomes depressed. One night, he meets a beautiful woman, who asks him out on a date. He soon learns that the woman is Sara Sloan, a famous actress. Sloan is charmed by Flanders' wholesomeness, and they continue to date to the point at which she asks that he move to Hollywood. Flanders, worried that Hollywood would conflict with his conservative Christian values, refuses, so Sloan instead decides to stay in Springfield. However, their relationship does not work out, due to his insistence on marriage.

6.3

#434 - Three Gays of the Condo

Season 14, Episode 17, 4/13/2003

After yet another Homer and Marge fight, Homer ends up sharing a condo with two homosexuals - who don't exactly think Homer is straight.

6.3

#435 - Sleeping with the Enemy

Season 16, Episode 3, 11/21/2004

Marge finds Nelson and acts as a mother figure towards him due to her children's loss of interest in her. Meanwhile, Lisa gets teased about her big butt, and becomes obsessed with her weight.

6.3

#436 - Homer's Paternity Coot

Season 17, Episode 10, 1/8/2006

Mail from forty years earlier is discovered, and a letter from Homer Simpson's mother's old boyfriend states that he is Homer's true father. Homer sets out to find his supposed new father, leaving Abe behind.

6.3

#437 - Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore

Season 17, Episode 17, 4/9/2006

At the power plant a movie is shown where the workers endorse outsourcing and Mr. Burns announces that he is closing the plant and moving the work to India. Homer is the only union employee left on the payroll and he is sent to India to train the replacement workers, when he succeeds beyond expectations, he is given total control of the plant and declares himself a god. Meanwhile, Selma & Patty take Bart and Lisa to their MacGyver convention. When they discover Richard Dean Anderson doesn’t like MacGyver and much as they do, they kidnap him in retaliation. Anderson escapes only to enjoy the thrill and he turns himself back in so that he can escape again. When it happens over and over again, soon Patty and Selma are the ones who need a means of escape.

6.3

#438 - The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer

Season 18, Episode 1, 9/10/2006

Lisa's friendship with Fat Tony's son Michael prompts mob boss Tony to invite the Simpsons over for dinner. Michael says he'd rather be a chef than take over the family business, but that's before Tony is shot by a rival mobster.

6.3

#439 - Ice Cream of Margie (With the Light Blue Hair)

Season 18, Episode 7, 11/26/2006

Homer is fired and decides to buy an ice-cream truck. Marge makes use of the mountains of Popsicle sticks from Homer's ice-cream consumption by creating sculptures of Springfield citizens with them, leading to a feature about her on the news.

6.3

#440 - Homerazzi

Season 18, Episode 16, 3/25/2007

After a celebrity scandal is accidentally captured in a family photo, Homer decides to become a paparazzo.

6.3

#441 - Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words

Season 20, Episode 6, 11/16/2008

Lisa learns she is good at crossword puzzles and enters a city-wide contest. Homer discovers he has a flair for letting loved ones down so he opens Sweet Conclusions Break-Up Service, but lands himself in trouble with his daughter when he places a bet against her in the competition.

6.3

#442 - Once Upon a Time in Springfield

Season 21, Episode 10, 1/10/2010

Krusty grudgingly adds a pretty, singing cohost named Princess Penelope to his show in order to attract more female viewers. Girls love her, and ratings improve, but Bart and Milhouse want to get the show back to the way it was. The situation gets more complicated when Krusty and Penelope fall in love and decide to get married. Meanwhile, Homer, Lenny, and Carl consider working at a competing nuclear plant when Mr. Burns cuts off their daily doughnut service.

6.3

#443 - To Surveil with Love

Season 21, Episode 20, 5/2/2010

A bomb squad mistakenly blows up Homer's unattended gym bag, releasing radiation into the city and authorities react by suspending civil liberties. Wiggum and his men install surveillance cameras around Springfield and round up suspected terrorists, including groundskeeper Willie, but when monitoring the nonstop flow of video imagery proves to be too much, Wiggum enlists concerned citizens to help keep the city safe. Meanwhile, Lisa becomes fed up with being blonde, so she dyes her hair a dark color.

6.3

#444 - Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life

Season 22, Episode 5, 11/14/2010

Fearing that she will end up like Marge, Lisa pledges to focus solely on her academics and not get distracted by other things; Bart puts Nelson in his place and unintentionally earns the title of school bully.

6.3

#445 - Love Is a Many Strangled Thing

Season 22, Episode 17, 3/27/2011

Marge persuades Homer to enroll in a fathering enrichment class; Bart becomes a school bully.

6.3

#446 - How I Wet Your Mother

Season 23, Episode 16, 3/11/2012

When Homer's bed-wetting worsens, his family tries to infiltrate his dreams to find the source of the problem.

6.3

#447 - Ned 'n Edna's Blend Agenda

Season 23, Episode 21, 5/13/2012

When Marge learns Ned and Edna got married, she offers to throw them a reception; Edna changes some rules to help Ned's kids become more socially acceptable.

6.3

#448 - A Tree Grows in Springfield

Season 24, Episode 6, 11/25/2012

Homer wins a MyPad at the school auction and Steve Mobbs, who is now in heaven, talks to Homer through it. Homer goes into a funk when he breaks the myPad, until Ned Flanders discovers a miracle tree in the Simpsons' back garden.

6.3

#449 - Pulpit Friction

Season 24, Episode 18, 4/28/2013

Homer is recruited to be a deacon by the cutting-edge new pastor. The dry cleaner mistakenly switches Marge's wedding dress for one of Krusty's costumes.

6.3

#450 - Treehouse of Horror XXIV

Season 25, Episode 2, 10/6/2013

The scariest Simpsons Halloween show yet, featuring an opening by Guillermo Del Toro.

6.3

#451 - YOLO

Season 25, Episode 4, 11/10/2013

Marge encourages Homer to cross an item off an old to-do list by inviting an old pen pal to visit; Lisa institutes an honor code at school.

6.3

#452 - Luca$

Season 25, Episode 17, 4/6/2014

Lisa dates a competitive eater; Bart benefits from helping convict Snake Jailbird escape from a jam.

6.3

#453 - The Wreck of the Relationship

Season 26, Episode 2, 10/5/2014

When Bart disrespects Homer's authority, Homer makes a point to try his hand at parenting. This proves fruitless, so Marge signs them up for the Relation Ship, where they'll resolve their conflicts at sea. Meanwhile, Marge is in charge of Homer's fantasy football league, but manages to win despite being the underdog.

6.3

#454 - I Won't Be Home for Christmas

Season 26, Episode 9, 12/7/2014

After Moe convinces Homer to stay out drinking on Christmas Eve, Marge tells Homer not to come home. This leads to Homer's sad trek through lonely Springfield, where he learns that the only place where one should truly get drunk on Christmas is home.

6.3

#455 - Sky Police

Season 26, Episode 16, 3/8/2015

Chief Wiggum is mistakenly delivered a military jet pack, which he gleefully accepts and uses in order to fight crime. But when the jet pack crashes into the church, the congregation, led by Marge, must resort to gambling and counting cards in order to collect money to repair the church.

6.3

#456 - Treehouse of Horror XXVI

Season 27, Episode 5, 10/25/2015

In the annual fright fest Halloween episode, Sideshow Bob finally kills Bart, only to reanimate him; Homer wakes up with short-term memory loss; and Lisa, Bart, and Milhouse get super powers from radiation.

6.3

#457 - Friend with Benefit

Season 27, Episode 6, 11/8/2015

Lisa makes a new pal at school named Harper, whose internet billionaire father becomes buddies with a different Simpson: Homer. Soon, though, Lisa becomes worried that Harper is a little too entitled.

6.3

#458 - Fland Canyon

Season 27, Episode 19, 4/24/2016

Homer recalls a tense family vacation to the Grand Canyon with the Flanders family. At first, the Flanders’ perfection puts the families at odds, but when they get stranded and Ned and Bart go for help, the families finally bond.

6.3

#459 - To Courier with Love

Season 27, Episode 20, 5/8/2016

"The Simpsons are going to..." Paris (well, Homer and Marge are), but in order to be able to afford the trip, Homer has to smuggle an exotic snake into France so it can be made into a gourmet meal.

6.3

#460 - A Father's Watch

Season 28, Episode 18, 3/19/2017

Marge turns to a series of parenting experts for advice when she becomes worried that Bart is destined for failure; Homer decides to open a trophy store; Grampa gives Bart a watch coveted by Homer.

6.3

#461 - Springfield Splendor

Season 29, Episode 2, 10/8/2017

Marge and Lisa turn Lisa’s sad experience into a successful graphic novel-turned-Broadway show, but they struggle with creative differences and ego.

6.3

#462 - Homer Is Where the Art Isn't

Season 29, Episode 12, 3/18/2018

When Homer is accused of stealing a million-dollar painting, only a detective from the 1970s can clear his name.

6.3

#463 - Lisa Gets the Blues

Season 29, Episode 17, 4/22/2018

When the Simpsons' flight to Gainesville gets re-routed to New Orleans, Lisa is forced to face her failures, and regain her confidence as a jazz musician. Meanwhile, Bart is intrigued by the voodoo in Louisiana, and Homer is intrigued by the drinking.

6.3

#464 - Flanders' Ladder

Season 29, Episode 21, 5/20/2018

Bart falls into a coma after being struck by lightning.

6.3

#465 - Baby You Can't Drive My Car

Season 30, Episode 5, 11/4/2018

A self-driving car company comes to Springfield, poaching all of the power plant employees with their fun work environment.

6.3

#466 - Thanksgiving of Horror

Season 31, Episode 8, 11/24/2019

The Simpsons face various Thanksgiving nightmares, including the first Thanksgiving, an A.I. mishap and a dangerous space mission complicated by a sentient cranberry sauce.

6.3

#467 - Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?

Season 31, Episode 9, 12/1/2019

Todd blames God for the death of his mother and rejects his faith, so Ned sends him to live with the Simpsons, hoping they can scare him into believing in God again.

6.3

#468 - Highway to Well

Season 31, Episode 17, 3/22/2020

When Maggie goes to preschool, Marge decides to get a job to pass the time and ends up working at an upscale weed dispensary; Homer decides to open his own dispensary that mimics a sketchy drug deal, putting their two businesses at odds.

6.3

#469 - The Road to Cincinnati

Season 32, Episode 8, 11/29/2020

Odd couple Skinner and Chalmers embark on an 800-mile car ride to Cincinnati to attend an administrator's convention - but can they reach their destination without killing each other first?

6.3

#470 - The Last Barfighter

Season 32, Episode 22, 5/23/2021

After Moe breaks their most sacred rule, a secret society of bartenders seeks ultimate vengeance on Homer and his friends.

6.3

#471 - From Beer to Paternity

Season 34, Episode 7, 11/13/2022

When Homer becomes Duffman's girl-dad hero, they go on a road trip with Lisa that threatens to expose Homer's terrible parenting.

6.2

#472 - When You Dish Upon a Star

Season 10, Episode 5, 11/8/1998

After a chance encounter with Hollywood celebrities secretly living in Springfield, Homer becomes their friend and gofer... until he spills the beans to the gang at Moe's.

6.2

#473 - Sunday, Cruddy Sunday

Season 10, Episode 12, 1/31/1999

Homer and his friends charter a bus to the Super Bowl, only to find that their tickets are fake. Misadventures ensue.

6.2

#474 - Saddlesore Galactica

Season 11, Episode 13, 2/6/2000

Homer and Bart befriend a diving horse at a county fair. They turn it into a racehorse with an attitude, whose success runs them afoul of mysterious, tree-dwelling jockeys.

6.2

#475 - Day of the Jackanapes

Season 12, Episode 13, 2/18/2001

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.

6.2

#476 - Treehouse of Horror XII

Season 13, Episode 1, 11/6/2001

In the twelfth Treehouse of Horror episode: Hex and the City – While on a day trip through Ethnictown, Homer's bumbling catches the ire of a gypsy, who curses Homer's family and friends into receiving nothing but bad luck. House of Whacks – in this mixed parody of Demon Seed and 2001: A Space Odyssey, Marge buys an automated house and customizes it with the Pierce Brosnan personality, who falls for Marge and attempts to murder Homer. Wiz Kids – In this Harry Potter parody, Bart and Lisa go to a school for wizards, and Lord Montemort (Mr. Burns) uses Bart to capture Lisa's magic. Guest star: Pierce Brosnan and Matthew Perry.[20]

6.2

#477 - The Parent Rap

Season 13, Episode 2, 11/11/2001

Bart gets in trouble for joyriding in a police car, but feels confident he will be let off by Judge Snyder. However, Snyder goes on vacation before ruling his verdict and is replaced with a coldhearted judge named Constance Harm. She accuses Homer of being a negligent father and sentences him to be tethered to Bart. The two are against it at first but later start to bond. Marge however is unable to take anymore of it and slices the tether off of them both. Homer and Marge then go after Judge Harm only to end up sinking her houseboat. Eventually Bart decides to take punishment and is about to be sentenced to 5 year in juvenile hall, only though Judge Snyder returns and dismisses Harm.

6.2

#478 - The Dad Who Knew Too Little

Season 14, Episode 8, 1/12/2003

Homer hires a private detective to learn more about Lisa. But when Homer refuses to pay the detective's expenses, he frames Lisa for a crime she didn't commit, forcing her and Homer to go on the run.

6.2

#479 - The Strong Arms of the Ma

Season 14, Episode 9, 2/2/2003

Marge gets mugged and becomes so traumatized that she develops Agoraphobia. She hides in the basement. Having little else to do, she decides to exercise with a weight set Homer bought from Rainier Wolfcastle's garage sale. She becomes so strong and confident that she is able to leave the basement. She continues working out and decides to start taking steroids so she can enter a bodybuilding competition. One night at Moe's Tavern she loses her temper and starts destroying the bar and fighting all of the patrons. Homer confronts Marge and says he misses the sweet woman that he married. Marge, horrified at what she has done, apologizes and decides to stop working out.

6.2

#480 - Old Yeller-Belly

Season 14, Episode 19, 5/4/2003

Homer throws out Santa's Little Helper for not saving him from a fire, but soon the dog becomes Duff's new mascot.

6.2

#481 - Catch 'Em If You Can

Season 15, Episode 18, 4/25/2004

After a ruined movie night, thanks to Bart and Lisa, Homer and Marge take a vacation away from them, but decide to go to Miami instead of going to see an uncle. When Bart and Lisa catch wind of their parents' secret plan, Bart steals Rod's credit card (just like Homer stole Ned's) and go after them.

6.2

#482 - Treehouse of Horror XV

Season 16, Episode 1, 11/7/2004

Ned Flanders' head injury gives him the power to predict others' deaths, Bart and Lisa play detective when a string of Victorian-era prostitutes are murdered by Jack the Ripper, and the Simpsons go on a fantastic voyage inside Mr. Burns' body to save Maggie.

6.2

#483 - Pranksta Rap

Season 16, Episode 9, 2/13/2005

Bart fakes his own kidnapping to get out of being punished for going to a rap concert, but the ruse goes too far when Milhouse's father is implicated as the kidnapper and Chief Wiggum sees this as an opportunity to make a name for himself as a competent police officer.

6.2

#484 - On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister

Season 16, Episode 11, 3/6/2005

Lisa does what every little sister has dreamed of - she gets a restraining order put on her big brother. Bart is forced to live in the back garden, but soon realises the joy of communing with nature.

6.2

#485 - Treehouse of Horror XVI

Season 17, Episode 4, 11/6/2005

Bart ends up in a coma after attempting to jump from the roof to the swimming pool at Spinster Arms Apartments, while attending a hunting party at Burns Manor, Homer panics and believes the prey is the hunting party, and after losing a Halloween costume contest to Dr Hibbert as Dracula, a real witch puts a spell on the people of Springfield.

6.2

#486 - Marge's Son Poisoning

Season 17, Episode 5, 11/13/2005

When Bart decides to spend a bit of time with Marge, it's not long before he's buying tea sets and singing duets. Has he turned into a mummy's boy?

6.2

#487 - See Homer Run

Season 17, Episode 6, 11/20/2005

Homer becomes Springfield's safety guru and before long he's challenging Mayor Quimby for office. Until, that is, there's an embarrassing mishap with his costume.

6.2

#488 - The Last of the Red Hat Mamas

Season 17, Episode 7, 11/27/2005

Marge is shunned after Homer has an altercation with the Easter Bunny at the mayor's egg hunt. A lonely Marge joins a women's group who plan to steal $1 million from Mr Burns.

6.2

#489 - Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play

Season 17, Episode 22, 5/21/2006

When Homer hears that the Isotopes are on a winning streak, he takes the family to the game. The first baseman’s game is going bad, caused by his sexy singing wife Tabitha embarrassing him during the game’s national anthem. Buck Mitchell sees Marge and Homer’s kiss on the game’s Kiss-Cam and comes to them for marital advice. They start working with the couple and Buck’s baseball career turns around, but it and the Simpson marriage goes awry again when Buck catches Homer giving Tabitha a neck massage. While Marge and Homer try keeping their marriage together they also try to get Buck and Tabitha back together.

6.2

#490 - G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)

Season 18, Episode 5, 11/12/2006

Homer is bamboozled by Army recruiters and winds up in basic training, where he runs afoul of a tough-minded colonel and is assigned to play the enemy in war games.

6.2

#491 - Marge Gamer

Season 18, Episode 17, 4/22/2007

Marge goes online for the first time and becomes obsessed with a role-playing game that Bart and many of their neighbors are playing. Meanwhile, Lisa develops her own obsession--for soccer--and Homer becomes a referee.

6.2

#492 - You Kent Always Say What You Want

Season 18, Episode 22, 5/20/2007

Newsman Kent Brockman is fired for swearing on the air when Homer dumps coffee in his lap, but Lisa gets Brockman back in the game with her Webcam.

6.2

#493 - He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs

Season 19, Episode 1, 9/23/2007

Homer falls in love with the high life of flying in private planes when he saves Mr. Burns from drowning, and Burns repays him by flying him to Chicago for a night on the town.

6.2

#494 - Mona Leaves-a

Season 19, Episode 19, 5/11/2008

Homer's mother, Mona, returns, but Homer is reluctant to trust her because she abandoned him so many times as a child.

6.2

#495 - Treehouse of Horror XIX

Season 20, Episode 4, 11/2/2008

Springfield is the setting for parodies of Charlie Brown, It's the Great Pumpkin and Michael Bay's Transformers as Homer's vote on election day is misread by a renegade machine.

6.2

#496 - No Loan Again, Naturally

Season 20, Episode 12, 3/8/2009

When the adjustable rate on the Simpson couple's mortgage resets at more than the pair can afford, they must sell their house. Good Samaritan Ned Flanders buys the house and rents it out to them at an affordable rate. But Homer pushes his luck too far when he takes advantage of Ned's generous landlord duties.

6.2

#497 - The Devil Wears Nada

Season 21, Episode 5, 11/15/2009

Marge and a group called the "Charity Chicks" pose for a calendar in hopes of raising money for charity, but Marge becomes the talk of the town thanks to her racy poses. Meanwhile, Carl is chosen as the newest supervisor at the nuclear power plant, and hires Homer to be his personal assistant.

6.2

#498 - Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?

Season 21, Episode 8, 12/13/2009

One snowy day in Springfield, Lisa informs Bart that she and Maggie share a bond that Bart will never understand because he doesn't have a brother, so Bart asks Homer for a baby brother. When Homer denies Bart's request, Bart makes his way to the Springfield Orphanage to find what he thinks he's missing.

6.2

#499 - American History X-cellent

Season 21, Episode 17, 4/11/2010

When the police are called to diffuse a rowdy crowd at Mr. Burns' estate, one of the officers recognizes priceless stolen paintings on the walls, and the maniacal billionaire is taken downtown for questioning. With Mr. Burns gone, Smithers takes charge of the power plant. But when employees take advantage of his good nature, he exacts revenge by forcing the employees to work night and day. These unfair working conditions prompt Homer and his crew to devise a plan to bust out Mr. Burns.

6.2

#500 - The Bob Next Door

Season 21, Episode 22, 5/16/2010

Bart becomes convinced that his new neighbor, Walt, is his archenemy, Sideshow Bob, disguised and back for revenge. But when Marge tries to convince Bart otherwise by taking him to visit the state penitentiary, a disturbing truth is revealed.

6.2

#501 - MoneyBART

Season 22, Episode 3, 10/10/2010

Lisa starts coaching Bart's Little League team; Marge and Bart spend the day at an amusement park, where former MLB manager Mike Scioscia gives Bart advice.

6.2

#502 - The Blue and the Gray

Season 22, Episode 13, 2/13/2011

Moe attends a seminar in hope of gaining more confidence with women; Marge makes a change after discovering her gray hair.

6.2

#503 - Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts

Season 23, Episode 2, 10/2/2011

When superintendent Chalmers is fired for taking Bart and his friends on an unauthorized field trip, the boys hold the school hostage until he is reinstated.

6.2

#504 - Replaceable You

Season 23, Episode 4, 11/6/2011

Lisa's science fair project is overshadowed by Bart's mechanical baby seal; Homer's new assistant ends up stealing his job.

6.2

#505 - The Spy Who Learned Me

Season 23, Episode 20, 5/6/2012

Marge and Homer go on a date, but Marge is embarrassed when Homer talks during the movie; when Homer gets hurt and can't work, he tries to learn how to be a better husband from a man he believes is a movie star.

6.2

#506 - Moonshine River

Season 24, Episode 1, 9/30/2012

Bart will be visited by many of his past girlfriends.

6.2

#507 - The Changing of the Guardian

Season 24, Episode 11, 1/27/2013

A tornado touches down in Springfield which sucks up Santa's Little Helper. While Homer and Marge are out looking for the family dog, the tornado strikes again and almost takes Marge and Homer. Marge is distraught about the kids and decide to pick a guardian to care for the children.

6.2

#508 - Four Regrettings and a Funeral

Season 25, Episode 3, 11/3/2013

Kent Brockman has decided that local news has been a real mistake and a terrible career move for him.

6.2

#509 - The Kid Is All Right

Season 25, Episode 6, 11/24/2013

Lisa discovers her new best friend is a Republican who is opposing her in the class election.

6.2

#510 - White Christmas Blues

Season 25, Episode 8, 12/15/2013

Springfield is inundated with holiday revelers after the nuclear power plant springs a radiation leak, causing snow to fall all over town. When the tourists drive up Christmas shopping prices, Marge opens up the Simpsons' house to boarders.

6.2

#511 - The Winter of His Content

Season 25, Episode 14, 3/16/2014

When Retirement Castle is closed, Marge asks Grampa and two other octogenarians to move in; Nelson befriends Bart after Bart defends him.

6.2

#512 - Super Franchise Me

Season 26, Episode 3, 10/12/2014

Marge opens a sandwich franchise store after her sandwiches become a huge hit at Springfield Elementary. But running day-to-day at the store proves challenging, especially when the same franchise opens another location across the street.

6.2

#513 - Walking Big & Tall

Season 26, Episode 13, 2/8/2015

When Lisa learns Springfield's anthem was stolen from another town she writes a replacement. Meanwhile, Homer learns the meaning of "Wide Pride".

6.2

#514 - Much Apu About Something

Season 27, Episode 12, 1/17/2016

Sanjay passes his stake in the Kwik-E-Mart to his millennial son, Jay, who turns it into a hip, health food market against Apu’s insistence on tradition. Bart, whom Homer had convinced to give up pranking, is called upon to return to his trickster life and take down the new store.

6.2

#515 - Orange is the New Yellow

Season 27, Episode 22, 5/22/2016

Marge goes to prison for letting Bart play in a park unsupervised.

6.2

#516 - Dad Behavior

Season 28, Episode 8, 11/20/2016

Homer finds a new app that makes his life much easier and outsources his father-son bonding. Meanwhile, Grampa finds that he is about to be a father again.

6.2

#517 - Haw-Haw Land

Season 29, Episode 10, 1/7/2018

When the Simpsons go to a STEM conference, Lisa falls for a crooning jazz pianist named Brendan. Meanwhile, Bart discovers that he has an affinity for chemistry

6.2

#518 - Krusty the Clown

Season 30, Episode 8, 11/25/2018

Homer finds his calling as a TV recapper, but his harsh grading causes a brawl with Krusty. After almost killing Homer, Krusty hides out at a real circus, and finds happiness there.

6.2

#519 - The Clown Stays in the Picture

Season 30, Episode 14, 2/17/2019

Krusty reveals the untold story of his past in his movie "The Sands of Space". While working as personal assistants on the movie, Bart and Lisa learn about the early years of their parents' relationship.

6.2

#520 - The Way of the Dog

Season 31, Episode 22, 5/17/2020

Santa's Little Helper nips at Marge, causing the family to reflect on the difficult life that the dog led prior to being adopted by the family. They end up reuniting him with his mother to avoid having to euthanize him.

6.2

#521 - Now Museum, Now You Don't

Season 32, Episode 3, 10/11/2020

Lisa stays home from school to explore the wonders of Western art. She appears as Lisanardo, while Bart takes the shape of a French impressionist, Homer and Marge as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, and Maggie as a warrior Cupid.

6.2

#522 - When Nelson Met Lisa

Season 34, Episode 9, 11/27/2022

A future tale of the will-they-won't-they-I-guess-they-won't-maybe-they-will of Springfield's most unlikely couple.

6.2

#523 - Bottle Episode

Season 36, Episode 11, 12/29/2024

Marge and Smithers team up to become wine-forging Robin Hoods.

6.1

#524 - Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder

Season 11, Episode 6, 11/14/1999

Homer bowls a perfect 300 game, then concludes that the greatest accomplishment of his life is behind him. He reconnects with the world by bonding with baby Maggie.

6.1

#525 - Take My Wife, Sleaze

Season 11, Episode 8, 11/28/1999

After winning a motorcycle at a dance contest, Homer becomes part of a motorcycle gang. But when he puts Marge's photo in a biker magazine, a much tougher gang takes her, and he must win her back.

6.1

#526 - Bye Bye Nerdy

Season 12, Episode 16, 3/11/2001

When Lisa becomes the target of a female bully, Lisa discovers a scientific reason as to why bullies pick on nerds. Meanwhile, Homer goes into the baby-proofing business, which is threatening the businesses of pediatricians and greeting card salesmen.

6.1

#527 - The Bart Wants What It Wants

Season 13, Episode 11, 2/17/2002

Bart befriends Rainer Wolfcastle's daughter Greta. She has a crush on Bart, but he does not seem to realize it and eventually stops seeing her. Seeking revenge, Greta begins dating Bart's best friend Milhouse, which causes Bart to start missing her. She leaves for Toronto with her father, and Bart convinces his family to follow them there.

6.1

#528 - Helter Shelter

Season 14, Episode 5, 12/1/2002

The Simpson family has to find temporary residence while their house is fumigated for termites. When they run out of options, they decide to become contestants on a reality show where families live in the manner that people did in 1895. The family is initially miserable, but slowly adapt to their new life, which causes the show to lose ratings. The producers decide to try to boost viewers by dumping the house in a river and forcing the family to survive in the wilderness. However, the Simpsons find a bunch of rejects from other reality shows and they attack the producers.

6.1

#529 - I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can

Season 14, Episode 12, 2/16/2003

Lisa competes at a spelling bee and earns the right to compete in the Spell-lympics, becoming the pride of the town. The host of the show George Plimpton, asks her to intentionally lose so that a more popular boy can win. Lisa refuses and continues to compete, but accidentally misspells a word and loses. Meanwhile, Homer tours with a group obsessed with eating Krusty Burger's latest sandwich.

6.1

#530 - Margical History Tour

Season 15, Episode 11, 2/8/2004

When the local library proves to be useless for the kids' class project, Marge tells Milhouse, Bart, and Lisa three Simpsons-style historical accounts: Henry VIII's (Homer's) attempts at siring a son, Lewis and Clark (Lenny and Carl) exploring the USA's wilderness with Sacagawea (Lisa), and Salieri (Lisa again) out to ruin piano-playing virtuoso Mozart (Bart).

6.1

#531 - The Wandering Juvie

Season 15, Episode 16, 3/28/2004

Bart gets sent to juvenile hall after fooling everyone that there was a marriage concerning him. He encounters a dangerous girl there... He flees with Gina, but then the two are caught by Wiggum.

6.1

#532 - Midnight Rx

Season 16, Episode 6, 1/16/2005

Homer, Grampa, Apu and Flanders travel to Canada to buy sorely needed prescription drugs with fake Canadian health-care cards.

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#533 - Don't Fear the Roofer

Season 16, Episode 16, 5/1/2005

The Simpsons' roof springs a leak when the perfect storm hits Springfield. And when Marge asks what type of father can't keep a roof over his family's head, Homer tries to fix things up, but falls through the roof. Sick of being unwanted, Homer befriends a man who works as a roofer. However, no one else can see him and Homer's insistence that the roofer does exist prompts everyone to think he has gone crazy.

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#534 - Home Away from Homer

Season 16, Episode 20, 5/15/2005

Flanders rents a room to two college girls who, without his knowledge, use the spare room to broadcast live softcore pornographic web videos of themselves. Upset that no one in town told him this (and that Homer was the one who told everyone), Ned moves to the seemingly perfect town of Humbleton, Pennsylvania, while a brash coach moves into Flanders' house and begins harassing Homer the same way Homer harassed Ned.

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#535 - Jazzy and the Pussycats

Season 18, Episode 2, 9/17/2006

A child psychiatrist suggests drumming to channel Bart's energy, and the boy proves he's got the beat when he shows some talent on the skins.

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#536 - Moe'N'a Lisa

Season 18, Episode 6, 11/19/2006

Lisa sees poetry in the notes Moe sticks to the walls of his hotel room, so she sends his work to a poetry journal, which publishes it, making Moe the toast of the literary circuit.

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#537 - Springfield Up

Season 18, Episode 13, 2/18/2007

A documentary filmmaker who interviewed a group of Springfield schoolchildren 32 years ago has followed up at eight-year intervals to film how their lives have unfolded.

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#538 - Little Orphan Millie

Season 19, Episode 6, 11/11/2007

Milhouse stays with the Simpsons when his parents remarry each other and honeymoon on a cruise ship. But when his parents are knocked overboard and lost at sea, Milhouse decides to grow up and be a man.

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#539 - E Pluribus Wiggum

Season 19, Episode 10, 1/6/2008

Homer burns down Springfield's fast-food district. In order to float a bond issue to rebuild it, Mayor Quimby moves up election day, making Springfield's primary election the first in the nation. This causes the town to be overrun with reporters, candidates and pundits.

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#540 - Lost Verizon

Season 20, Episode 2, 10/5/2008

Bart lands himself in trouble when he steals a mobile phone from Denis Leary and subsequently uses it to land the actor a comical film role. The troublemaker then leads his family to the ancient ruins of Machu Picchu after Marge confiscates the device and decides to use its GPS technology to track her son.

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#541 - Dangerous Curves

Season 20, Episode 5, 11/9/2008

Homer and Marge remember the ups and downs of their marriage through a series of flashbacks, including the time they each began flirting with guests at a glamorous party - a situation that led to a food fight and an unexpected swim in the pool.