Episode List

Season 1

Season 1, Episode 1: Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire
Original Air Date—17 December 1989
Christmas seems doomed for the Simpson family when Homer receives no Christmas Bonus. Homer becomes a mall Santa Claus, hoping to make money and bring Marge, Bart, Lisa, and baby Maggie, a happy holiday.
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Season 1, Episode 2: Bart the Genius
Original Air Date—14 January 1990
Bart ends up at a school for gifted children after cheating on an IQ test.
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Season 1, Episode 3: Homer's Odyssey
Original Air Date—21 January 1990
While Bart's class is touring the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant for a field trip, Homer crashes his golf cart into a radioactive pipe. In the aftermath, the plant is forced to shutdown and Homer loses his job.
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Season 1, Episode 4: There's No Disgrace Like Home
Original Air Date—28 January 1990
At a company picnic Homer realizes his family is dysfunctional and takes them all to therapy where they end up having shock treatment. They are still as bad as ever so Homer gets double his money back from Dr Marvin Monroe and the Simpsons buy themselves a new TV.
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Season 1, Episode 5: Bart the General
Original Air Date—4 February 1990
School bully Nelson Muntz has been terrorizing his classmates, particularly Bart. Bart and one of Nelson's goons get into a fight at school (when Bart was sticking up for Lisa), and in the aftermath Nelson accidentally gets a bloody nose. Nelson makes good on his threats to beat up Bart. Bart winds up having nightmares about Nelson stalking him, and later envisions his funeral. Finally, Grampa takes Bart to Herman, a Vietnam veteran who has had one of his arms amputated, to plan a strategy for getting back at Nelson. Bart commissions all his schoolmates whom Nelson has bullied and - in a classic parody of war movies such as Patton - trains them for their revenge. One afternoon after school, Bart and his army enact their operative, pelting Nelson and his goons with water balloons until he surrenders. The revenge is successful, and Bart and Nelson begin a grudging friendship.
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Season 1, Episode 6: Moaning Lisa
Original Air Date—11 February 1990
A depressed Lisa's spirit is lifted when she meets a jazz-man, Bleeding Gums Murphy.
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Season 1, Episode 7: The Call of the Simpsons
Original Air Date—18 February 1990
Ned Flanders shows off his newly purchased (and monstrous) motor home to the Simpsons. In a fit of oneupmanship, Homer decides he needs one too. Homer's credit is very poor, but he wants that motor home, so he buys one whose oil is leaking and appears to be held together by chicken wire and duct tape. With their new motor home, Homer takes the family on an outing in the woods. Homer quickly loses his way and everyone bails from the motor home just before it tumbles into a large ravine. The family is forced to rough it the rest of the way. Maggie becomes separated from the family and takes refuge with a family of bears. Meanwhile, Homer and Bart lose their clothing and have to wear leaves. Homer quickly falls into a stream and becomes covered with mud. A couple staying in the woods, concluding that what they've seen is Bigfoot, takes a picture of Homer and sends it to a TV station. Soon, the woods are crawling with media representatives, hoping to get their own glimpse. A park ranger shoots Homer with a tranquilizer and he is taken to a laboratory for analysis. However, the results - either it's a below-average human or a brilliant beast, a German scientist says - are inconclusive.
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Season 1, Episode 8: The Telltale Head
Original Air Date—25 February 1990
Bart gets more than he bargained for when he saws the head off a statue of the town's founder.
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Season 1, Episode 9: Life on the Fast Lane
Original Air Date—18 March 1990
Marge contemplates an affair with a handsome bowling instructor.
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Season 1, Episode 10: Homer's Night Out
Original Air Date—25 March 1990
Bart uses his new miniature "spy" camera to take candid pictures around the household; meanwhile, Homer is preparing to go to a bachelor party for his co-worker at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. While at the party, Homer is invited to dance on stage with a stripper. Bart (who is dining with the rest of the family in the next-door restaurant) uses his camera to snap a photo of Homer and the dancer having a great time. At school, Martin develops the picture, which - after he compliments Bart's work - gets distributed around school, and eventually around town. Marge sees the photo and is outraged. Homer arrives home, where Marge immediately confronts her husband and kicks him out of the house. Eventually, Marge agrees to let him back in on the condition he take Bart around to meet the stripper and show that she is not a sex object. After almost winding up on stage at another of the dancer's performances, Homer does as he is asked and all is forgiven.
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Season 1, Episode 11: The Crepes of Wrath
Original Air Date—15 April 1990
Bart flushes a cherry bomb at school, nearly injuring Principal Skinner's mother, Agnes, in the process. An exasperated Skinner tells Homer and Marge that since expulsion would not do Bart any good, he's placing him in a foreign-exchange student program. Bart is sent to France, where his host family are unethical winemakers who plan to employ him as a slave.
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Season 1, Episode 12: Krusty Gets Busted
Original Air Date—29 April 1990
Homer witnesses a robbery at the Kwik-E-Mart convenience store, where the culprit is a man dressed like Bart's hero, Krusty the Clown. Does the children's television host have a sinister second life, or is there more to the story than meets the eye?
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Season 1, Episode 13: Some Enchanted Evening
Original Air Date—13 May 1990
Homer and Marge enjoy a night out on the town. Meanwhile, at home, the kids deal with a diabolical babysitter.
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Season 2
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Season 2, Episode 1: Bart Gets an F
Original Air Date—11 October 1990
Bart's teacher, Mrs. Krabappel, has become fed up with his lackadaisical scholastic habits. After bluffing his way through a book report and failing a geography exam, Krabappel gives Bart an ultimatum: Shape up or be retained in fourth grade.
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Season 2, Episode 2: Simpson and Delilah
Original Air Date—18 October 1990
Homer lies on a medical insurance form to buy a "miracle" hair-restoring drug.
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Season 2, Episode 3: Treehouse of Horror
Original Air Date—25 October 1990
In this trilogy of horror-themed Halloween stories, Bart and Lisa attempt to scare each other with tales of the macabre. In first,"Bad Dream House", the Simpsons inhabit a haunted home, which possesses their souls, and causes them to attempt to kill each other. But after spending enough time with the Simpsons, it is the house, which kill itself, vanishing into another dimension. In the second segment, "Hungry are the Damned", the Simpsons accuse the monsters of planning to eat them, but the offended aliens reveal they were only planning a sumptuous meal for the family. In the third segment, a satire of Poe's "The Raven", a grief-stricken Homer is tormented by bad bird Bart.
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Season 2, Episode 4: Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish
Original Air Date—1 November 1990
A three-eyed fish is caught in the Springfield River downstream from the nuclear plant, leading to a government safety inspection. When Mr. Burns is told that the plant will be shut down, he gets drunk in his car with Homer. Homer remarks that if Burns were governor, he could make new laws to keep the plant open. Burns seizes on this remark and announces his candidacy. Afraid for his job, Homer pushes his family to campaign for Burns, but Marge is a staunch supporter of the incumbent, Mary Bailey. On the night before the election, Burns dines at the Simpson home as a publicity stunt.
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Season 2, Episode 5: Dancin' Homer
Original Air Date—8 November 1990
Homer's heckling of the Springfield Isotopes baseball team's mascot during one of their games leads to his appointment as the new mascot.
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Season 2, Episode 6: Dead Putting Society
Original Air Date—15 November 1990
Overcome with jealousy at Ned Flanders's affluent lifestyle and affectionate family, Homer paints him as a snobbish jerk to the rest of his family and looks eagerly for an opportunity to show him up. He finds it in an upcoming miniature golf tournament, and enters Bart against Ned's son Todd.
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Season 2, Episode 7: Bart vs. Thanksgiving
Original Air Date—22 November 1990
On Thanksgiving, Bart learns about the meaning of the holiday when he runs away from home (after getting into a fight), then shares a turkey dinner with homeless people at a soup kitchen.
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Season 2, Episode 8: Bart the Daredevil
Original Air Date—6 December 1990
After seeing a motorcycle daredevil at the monster truck show, Bart becomes a death-defying daredevil on his skateboard.
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Season 2, Episode 9: Itchy and Scratchy and Marge
Original Air Date—20 December 1990
Marge becomes a crusader against cartoon violence after watching 'The Itchy and Scratchy Show'.
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Season 2, Episode 10: Bart Gets Hit by a Car
Original Air Date—10 January 1991
While skateboarding down the street, Bart is hit by a car driven by Mr. Burns. Homer turns down Mr. Burns' token offer of $100, and instead hires ambulance-chaser Lionel Hutz to bring an outrageous lawsuit.
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Season 2, Episode 11: One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish
Original Air Date—24 January 1991
What would you do if you were told you had only 24 hours to live? That's what this episode explores when Homer is told just that.
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Season 2, Episode 12: The Way We Was
Original Air Date—31 January 1991
Homer and Marge tell the story of how they met and fell in love in high school.
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Season 2, Episode 13: Homer vs. Lisa and the Eighth Commandment
Original Air Date—7 February 1991
Homer gets a crooked cable guy to install free cable in the Simpson home. Lisa faces an ethical crises over her family's stealing.
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Season 2, Episode 14: Principal Charming
Original Air Date—14 February 1991
After attending a co-worker's wedding, a depressed Selma begs Marge to help her find a man. Marge sets Homer to the task, and Homer is impressed by Principal Skinner. Homer invites Skinner to the Simpson home for dinner, but accidentally introduces him to Selma's twin, Patty.
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Season 2, Episode 15: Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
Original Air Date—21 February 1991
Homer's new design ruins his half-brother's car empire.
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Season 2, Episode 16: Bart's Dog Gets an F
Original Air Date—7 March 1991
After an uncontrollable Santa's Little Helper destroys several important Simpson possessions, Homer announces that he will be thrown out of the house unless he completes obedience training.
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Season 2, Episode 17: Old Money
Original Air Date—28 March 1991
After Grandpa Simpson's new girlfriend leaves him $106,000 in her will, he tries to decide what to do with it.
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Season 2, Episode 18: Brush with Greatness
Original Air Date—11 April 1991
Homer goes on a diet and Marge enrolls in an art class.
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Season 2, Episode 19: Lisa's Substitute
Original Air Date—25 April 1991
Lisa has a crush on her substitute teacher, who seemingly represents everything that Homer is not. Meanwhile, Bart decides to run for class president, and becomes the overwhelming favorite.
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Season 2, Episode 20: The War of the Simpsons
Original Air Date—2 May 1991
Homer can't decide which is more important: going through a counseling seminar to save his marriage, or skipping out to catch a legendary fish. Back at home, Bart and Lisa try to take advantage of Grandpa, who is their babysitter.
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Season 2, Episode 21: Three Men and a Comic Book
Original Air Date—9 May 1991
Bart, Milhouse and Martin each pitch in to buy an expensive comic book, which has disastrous results on their friendship.
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Season 2, Episode 22: Blood Feud
Original Air Date—11 August 1991
Bart saves Mr. Burns's life. But Homer becomes enraged when Mr. Burns doesn't return the favor by sending the Simpsons what he considers to be an appropriate "thank you" gift.
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Season 3
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Season 3, Episode 1: Stark Raving Dad
Original Air Date—19 September 1991
Homer accidentally lands in a mental hospital and ends up sharing a cage with a white man who thinks he's Michael Jackson.
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Season 3, Episode 2: Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington
Original Air Date—26 September 1991
Lisa enters a contest and wins a trip to Washington DC for the whole family. While there she discovers corruption and decides to expose the corrupt official.
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Season 3, Episode 3: When Flanders Failed
Original Air Date—3 October 1991
Ned Flanders opens a mall store catering to lefties. Homer, however, wishes Flanders would fail.
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Season 3, Episode 4: Bart the Murderer
Original Air Date—10 October 1991
Bart stumbles upon the local mafia boss, and starts working for him on the side. When Principal Skinner goes missing after punishing Bart, he and Fat Tony's gang are suspected of killing him, but they try to get Bart to take the rap.
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Season 3, Episode 5: Homer Defined
Original Air Date—17 October 1991
Homer is a hero after averting a nuclear meltdown that he nearly caused, but he doesn't want to tell anyone that he stopped it completely by accident.
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Season 3, Episode 6: Like Father, Like Clown
Original Air Date—24 October 1991
When the Simpsons have Krusty the Clown over for dinner, he says grace in Hebrew, and recalls his difficult relationship with his father, a rabbi. Bart and Lisa try to reunite the two of them.
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Season 3, Episode 7: Treehouse of Horror II
Original Air Date—31 October 1991
The Simpson family receives a severed monkey's paw which can grant wishes, Bart gains magical powers which he uses to turn Homer into a Jack-in-the-box, and Mr. Burns uses Homer's brain to create a robot.
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Season 3, Episode 8: Lisa's Pony
Original Air Date—7 November 1991
After ruining Lisa's performance at the school talent show, Homer tries to make it up by buying her a pony.
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Season 3, Episode 9: Saturdays of Thunder
Original Air Date—14 November 1991
After Homer fails a fathering test, he decides to help Bart build his Soap Box Derby racer. But Bart dumps Homer and their racer after Martin's far superior vehicle suddenly becomes available.
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Season 3, Episode 10: Flaming Moe's
Original Air Date—21 November 1991
Moe claims that a drink that Homer invented is his own. After the drink makes the bar a local hot spot, Moe gains a number of fair-weather friends but loses Homer's friendship.
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Season 3, Episode 11: Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk
Original Air Date—5 December 1991
Burns decides to retire and sells the power plant to a German consortium for an exorbitant price. Homer's laziness and inefficiency are quickly exposed by his new bosses, and he is laid off.
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Season 3, Episode 12: I Married Marge
Original Air Date—26 December 1991
As Marge goes to the doctor for a pregnancy test, Homer tells the children of the events leading up to his marriage and Bart's birth.
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Season 3, Episode 13: Radio Bart
Original Air Date—9 January 1992
After Bart receives a microphone which can transmit through radios, he decides to pull a series of pranks, and eventually convinces the town that a boy has fallen down a well.
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Season 3, Episode 14: Lisa the Greek
Original Air Date—23 January 1992
Homer uses Lisa (and her prognostic skills) to help him bet on football games.
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Season 3, Episode 15: Homer Alone
Original Air Date—6 February 1992
While Marge spends a couple of days at Rancho Relaxo after she has a breakdown, Bart and Lisa stay with Patty and Selma, and Homer stays at home to take care of Maggie.
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Season 3, Episode 16: Bart the Lover
Original Air Date—13 February 1992
After Ms. Krabappel gives Bart a month of detention, Bart gets his revenge on her by responding to her newspaper singles ad. Homer begins a "swear jar" to keep him cursing.
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Season 3, Episode 17: Homer at the Bat
Original Air Date—20 February 1992
Homer and his co-workers qualify the plant's softball team for the league final, but Mr. Burns hires 9 professional MLB players to win a $1 million bet.
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Season 3, Episode 18: Separate Vocations
Original Air Date—27 February 1992
The results of a standardized test steer Bart in the direction of law and order at Springfield Elementary School. However, Lisa becomes so depressed by her results that she turns to juvenile delinquency.
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Season 3, Episode 19: Dog of Death
Original Air Date—12 March 1992
The Simpsons wind up regretting paying for an expensive surgery for Santa's Little Helper. He then runs away from home, winds up in the animal shelter, and is adopted by Mr. Burns to become an attack dog.
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Season 3, Episode 20: Colonel Homer
Original Air Date—26 March 1992
Homer becomes the manager of a beautiful young country singer, and finds himself almost attracted to her, sparking Marge's jealousy.
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Season 3, Episode 21: Black Widower
Original Air Date—9 April 1992
Sideshow Bob gets out of jail and plots to take his revenge on Bart by marrying his Aunt Selma and killing her.
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Season 3, Episode 22: The Otto Show
Original Air Date—23 April 1992
After Otto loses his job as a school bus driver because he doesn't have a license, Bart talks Homer and Marge into having Otto stay with them until he gets back on his feet.
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Season 3, Episode 23: Bart's Friend Falls in Love
Original Air Date—7 May 1992
Milhouse falls in love with Samantha, a new transfer student, and Bart becomes jealous of all the time they are spending together. Homer orders a subliminal weight loss tape, but is given a vocabulary builder by mistake.
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Season 3, Episode 24: Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?
Original Air Date—27 August 1992
After Homer "wins" a $2000 settlement with the plant for radiation affecting his sperm count, his brother Herb comes to Springfield with an idea that could help him get his fortune back.
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Season 4
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Season 4, Episode 1: Kamp Krusty
Original Air Date—24 September 1992
Bart and Lisa go off for the summer to Krusty's camp for kids, but instead of meeting Krusty they meet his bean-counting surrogate, Mr. Black. With their children gone, Homer and Marge enjoy a romantic summer, but Bart and Lisa are put to work making crummy merchandise, until Krusty returns and sets things right-by taking the kids to Tijuana.
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Season 4, Episode 2: A Streetcar Named Marge
Original Air Date—1 October 1992
Marge wins the lead in a musical production of "A Streetcar Named Desire", in which Ned Flanders plays Stanley Kowalski. Marge is infuriated by Homer's brutishness and insensitivity during preproduction, until he sees the play and reveals to Marge that he has grasped its meaning. While rehearsing, Marge sticks Maggie in the Ayn Rand Day Care Center, where her pacifier is immediately taken from her, and a la "The Great Escape", she must struggle to win it back.
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Season 4, Episode 3: Homer the Heretic
Original Air Date—8 October 1992
Homer decides not to attend church one Sunday and has the time of his life and vows never to return to church again, however one Sunday after falling asleep while smoking a cigar he accidentally sets fire to The Simpsons house, Flanders spots the flames and rescues him, Homer comes to his senses and turns up at church the following Sunday(asleep).
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Season 4, Episode 4: Lisa the Beauty Queen
Original Air Date—15 October 1992
With her self-esteem shattered by a school carnival cartoonist, Homer decides to enter Lisa in a local children's beauty contest, which she ends up winning by default. But when she finds out how heavily involved Laramie Tobacco is in using the contest to sell cigarettes, she uses her position as a platform against the tobacco industry and other establishments of power and corruption.
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Season 4, Episode 5: Treehouse of Horror III
Original Air Date—29 October 1992
In "Clown Without Pity", a Krusty the Clown doll goes berserk in the Simpson home. In "King Homer", Marge is wooed by a giant ape. And final story, In "Dial 'Z' for Zombies", Bart's attempt to bring back the family cat turns the town of Springfield into a pack of bloodthirsty zombies.
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Season 4, Episode 6: Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie
Original Air Date—3 November 1992
Pulling one prank too many costs Bart the opportunity to see the Itchy and Scratchy Movie.
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Season 4, Episode 7: Marge Gets a Job
Original Air Date—5 November 1992
Marge takes a job at the nuclear plant to help pay for the house's foundation repair, and Burns becomes smitten by her.
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Season 4, Episode 8: New Kid on the Block
Original Air Date—12 November 1992
Bart finds himself attracted to the 15-year-old new neighbor, Laura. Homer sues an All-You-Can-Eat buffet.
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Season 4, Episode 9: Mr. Plow
Original Air Date—19 November 1992
Homer buys a truck with an attached snow plow after he destroys his car, and to pay for it, he starts a snow shoveling business, calling himself Mr. Plow. It all goes off without a hitch, until he finds himself in competition with The Plow King, a.k.a. Barney Gumbel. Now begins the winter of discontent.
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Season 4, Episode 10: Lisa's First Word
Original Air Date—3 December 1992
While trying to coax Maggie into saying her first word, Homer & Marge talk about how Lisa spoke hers.
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Season 4, Episode 11: Homer's Triple Bypass
Original Air Date—17 December 1992
Years of poor eating habits catch up with Homer when he suffers a massive heart attack. The family can't afford the triple bypass operation he needs from Dr. Hibbert, so they go to a discount quack named Nick Riviera.
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Season 4, Episode 12: Marge vs. the Monorail
Original Air Date—14 January 1993
After receiving a considerable donation of money, the people of Springfield decide what to spend it on. Enter Lyle Langley, a jocular salesman who gets Springfield hooked on a monorail system. After the monorail is up and running, and with Homer as the conductor, it's time for the maiden voyage. Little do the people know they have just boarded a one-way train to Hell.
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Season 4, Episode 13: Selma's Choice
Original Air Date—21 January 1993
Selma starts to feel broody, but after taking Bart and Lisa to Duff Gardens, she changes her mind.
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Season 4, Episode 14: Brother from the Same Planet
Original Air Date—4 February 1993
After Homer forgets to pick up Bart from soccer practice, Bart joins a mentor program called Big Brothers presenting himself as an orphan, and is assigned a big brother called Tom. When Homer finds out, he joins the program too as a big brother.
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Season 4, Episode 15: I Love Lisa
Original Air Date—11 February 1993
Feeling sorry for Ralph, Lisa sends him a valentine card, having developed a crush on her Ralph invites Lisa to go see the Krusty the Clown show, she accepts but after Krusty asks them if there boyfriend and girlfriend Lisa lets Ralph no that she just wants them to be friends.
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Season 4, Episode 16: Duffless
Original Air Date—18 February 1993
After Homer is arrested for DUI, and loses his driver's license, he is put to the ultimate test when Marge pressures him to give up beer for a month.
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Season 4, Episode 17: Last Exit to Springfield
Original Air Date—11 March 1993
Homer becomes union leader and leads a company strike when Mr. Burns takes away the company dental plan.
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Season 4, Episode 18: So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show
Original Air Date—1 April 1993
Homer plays a series of (childish) practical jokes on Bart. To get even, Bart uses a paint mixer at a local hardware store to shake up a can of Homer's beer. Homer opens the can, resulting in a huge explosion that seriously injures the Simpsons patriarch.
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Season 4, Episode 19: The Front
Original Air Date—15 April 1993
Homer goes back to school after it is revealed that he never graduated. Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa ghostwrite for Itchy & Scratchy using Abe's name.
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Season 4, Episode 20: Whacking Day
Original Air Date—29 April 1993
Marge attempts to home school Bart after he is expelled from Springfield Elementary. Meanwhile, Lisa protests a barbaric local holiday centered around clubbing snakes to death.
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Season 4, Episode 21: Marge in Chains
Original Air Date—6 May 1993
A misunderstanding leads to Marge being imprisoned for shoplifting. In her absence, the family and eventually, the town descend into chaos.
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Season 4, Episode 22: Krusty Gets Kancelled
Original Air Date—13 May 1993
A massive advertising blitz announces the arrival of something named "Gabbo." Eventually, Gabbo is revealed to be a Howdy Doddy-esque dummy, with Arthur Crandall as the ventriloquist.
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Season 5
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Season 5, Episode 1: Homer's Barbershop Quartet
Original Air Date—30 September 1993
After the kids find a record with Homer's picture on it, he recalls the story of how he achieved fame in the 1980s with his barbershop quartet The Be Sharps.
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Season 5, Episode 2: Cape Feare
Original Air Date—7 October 1993
An anonymous letter writer makes ominous threats to Bart. The Simpsons discover they were sent by Sideshow Bob who, when released from prison, harasses the Simpsons and then attempts to kill Bart with a machete. But Bob's vanity foils him yet again.
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Season 5, Episode 3: Homer Goes to College
Original Air Date—14 October 1993
Homer is fired from his position in the power plant as Safety Inspector after a regulation inspector discovers he doesn't have certification for it. He goes back to college to get certified for his old job.
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Season 5, Episode 4: Rosebud
Original Air Date—21 October 1993
Mr. Burns goes on a desperate quest to recover his cherished childhood toy Bobo, a bear which is now in Maggie's possession.
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Season 5, Episode 5: Treehouse of Horror IV
Original Air Date—28 October 1993
When Homer announces he would sell his soul for a donut, the Devil, disguised as Ned Flanders, shows up to take him up on the offer. Second Act, while ridings to school, Bart believe he sees a malevolent gremlin on the side of the bus. And final act, Mr. Burns is Dracula, in a spoof of Francis Ford Coppola's vampire film.
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Season 5, Episode 6: Marge on the Lam
Original Air Date—4 November 1993
A girl's night out turns into a high speed chase when Marge learns her friend is driving a stolen car.
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Season 5, Episode 7: Bart's Inner Child
Original Air Date—11 November 1993
Brad Goodman, a self-help guru, identifies Bart as a role model for personal happiness, because he is in touch with his inner child. Soon the entire town begins to behave like Bart.
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Season 5, Episode 8: Boy Scoutz 'n the Hood
Original Air Date—18 November 1993
Bart wakes up after a sugar bender to find that he has joined the Junior Campers. Although he hates the club at first, he eventually grows to enjoy it. When a father/son rafting trip is announced, Homer unwittingly strands the group at sea.
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Season 5, Episode 9: The Last Temptation of Homer
Original Air Date—9 December 1993
Homer's marriage is in trouble when he develops an attraction to a new co-worker.
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Season 5, Episode 10: $pringfield (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)
Original Air Date—16 December 1993
Springfield decides to legalize gambling to revitalize its economy. Marge develops a gambling problem, while Mr. Burns develops a Howard Hughes complex.
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Season 5, Episode 11: Homer the Vigilante
Original Air Date—6 January 1994
An outbreak of burglaries inspires Homer to lead a vigilante group.
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Season 5, Episode 12: Bart Gets Famous
Original Air Date—3 February 1994
Bart becomes an overnight sensation as the "I didn't do it" boy on Krusty's show.
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Season 5, Episode 13: Homer and Apu
Original Air Date—10 February 1994
Homer participates in a hidden camera investigation of unsanitary food preparation at the Kwik-E-Mart, which costs Apu his job. Apu then enlists Homer's help on a journey to India to get his job back, while James Woods becomes the new Kwik-E-Mart clerk, as part of his research for a film project.
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Season 5, Episode 14: Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy
Original Air Date—17 February 1994
Lisa leads a protest against a talking doll she perceives as being sexist.
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Season 5, Episode 15: Deep Space Homer
Original Air Date—24 February 1994
The powers that be at NASA, distraught over low television ratings for their space launches, decide to improve them by putting a private citizen on their next space shuttle. After receiving an angry phone call from Homer, they decide he is their man.
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Season 5, Episode 16: Homer Loves Flanders
Original Air Date—17 March 1994
After Ned Flanders helps Homer get tickets to an important football game, he and Homer become good friends. But Homer takes the friendship too far with his stupid antics, oblivious to the fact that Ned is beginning to hate him.
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Season 5, Episode 17: Bart Gets an Elephant
Original Air Date—31 March 1994
After winning a phone-in competition Bart has a choice of prize of either $10,000 or an elephant, he chooses the latter, naming him Stampy. The Simpsons are in chaos after Stampy wrecks the house and eats all the food. They have no alternative, Stampy must go to an animal refuge.
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Season 5, Episode 18: Burns' Heir
Original Air Date—14 April 1994
After a near-death experience, Burns holds auditions for his heir and after Bart smashes his windows he chooses Bart.Bart moves in with Burns but when he's forced to choose between Burns and his family he chooses the latter.
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Season 5, Episode 19: Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song
Original Air Date—28 April 1994
Bart takes Santa's little helper to school with him on inspection day and gets Skinner fired, Bart is pleased until Ned Flandres is made his replacement.Bart sets out to find Skinner and get him reinstated.
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Season 5, Episode 20: The Boy Who Knew Too Much
Original Air Date—5 May 1994
After playing hooky from school, Bart sneaks in to Mayor Quimby's nephew Freddy's birthday party and witnesses a confrontation between Freddy and a waiter, Freddy is accused of beating the waiter but Bart knows what really happened, should he keep quiet or tell the truth and risk getting Cort playing hooky?
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Season 5, Episode 21: Lady Bouvier's Lover
Original Air Date—12 May 1994
Abe falls in love with Marge's mother, but must compete with Mr. Burns for her heart.
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Season 5, Episode 22: Secrets of a Successful Marriage
Original Air Date—19 May 1994
Homer is given the task of teaching an adult education class about relationships. He fails to woo the class until he starts talking about his and Marge's sex life. When Marge finds out, she orders him not to talk about their private life again. But then he invites his entire class to dinner. This is the final straw for Marge and she chucks him out of the house. He then moves in to Bart's tree house. After seeing the error of his ways he asks Marge for a second chance. She accepts and the two reconcile.
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Season 6
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Season 6, Episode 1: Bart of Darkness
Original Air Date—4 September 1994
In a Rear Window parody, the Simpsons buy a swimming pool and everybody in the neighborhood joins in the enjoyment--except for Bart, whose broken leg prevents him from swimming. He soon becomes obsessed with looking through his telescope and even suspects Ned Flanders of murdering his wife.
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Season 6, Episode 2: Lisa's Rival
Original Air Date—11 September 1994
Lisa is jealous when a new girl in class is smarter than she is. Meanwhile, Homer obtains a massive amount of sugar.
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Season 6, Episode 3: Another Simpsons Clip Show
Original Air Date—25 September 1994
The family recalls past tales of lost love.
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Season 6, Episode 4: Itchy & Scratchy Land
Original Air Date—2 October 1994
A family vacation to Itchy & Scratchy Land turns disastrous when the robots malfunction and turn on the tourists.
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Season 6, Episode 5: Sideshow Bob Roberts
Original Air Date—9 October 1994
Sideshow Bob is released from prison, runs for mayor as a Republican, and defeats "Diamond" Joe Quimby in the election. But a "Deep-Throat"-type informant tells Bart and Lisa that he was fraudulently elected. It's up to them to find the evidence.
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Season 6, Episode 6: Treehouse of Horror V
Original Air Date—30 October 1994
The Simpsons are employed on Mr. Burns's country estate-and Homer goes insane. And act two, Homer's attempt to repair a toaster lead him repeatedly back into the past-and he inadvertently changes the future. And the final act, the school cafeteria turn to an unusual source of food-and schoolchildren start mysteriously disappearing.
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Season 6, Episode 7: Bart's Girlfriend
Original Air Date—6 November 1994
Bart falls for Reverend Lovejoy's daughter and is surprised when she becomes a bad influence on him.
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Season 6, Episode 8: Lisa on Ice
Original Air Date—13 November 1994
Homer gives all his attention to Bart because he is the star of his hockey team, which makes Lisa jealous. But when a rival team discovers that she is an excellent goalie, Bart suddenly has rival for Homer's attention.
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Season 6, Episode 9: Homer Badman
Original Air Date—27 November 1994
Homer and Marge hire college co-ed Ashley Grant to baby-sit the kids while they go to a candy convention. While driving Ashley home, Homer shows poor tact when he attempts to retrieve a piece of Gummy Venus that became stuck to the back of Ashley's pants. Things are blown way out of proportion when Ashley interprets Homer's innocent actions as a sexual advance, prompting her to mount a huge anti-harassment campaign against Homer. Several attempts to exonerate himself - most notably, a totally inaccurate segment on the tabloid TV show "Rock Bottom" - only make things worse. As the media coverage intensifies, his friends turn against him and his name becomes comedy fodder, Homer becomes resigned to his tarnished reputation. Finally, after Lisa produces a segment for a cable-access TV show (where Homer defends himself), Groundskeeper Willie finally produces evidence to exonerate the Simpson patriarch.
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Season 6, Episode 10: Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy
Original Air Date—4 December 1994
Homer and Abe hit the road to sell Abe's miraculous aphrodisiac.
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Season 6, Episode 11: Fear of Flying
Original Air Date—18 December 1994
Marge goes into therapy to cure her of her traumatizing fear of flying.
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Season 6, Episode 12: Homer the Great
Original Air Date—8 January 1995
Homer becomes a member of a mysterious organization called the Stonecutters and is heralded as "the chosen one."
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Season 6, Episode 13: And Maggie Makes Three
Original Air Date—22 January 1995
Homer recounts the story of Maggie's birth when the kids ask why there are no photos of her in the family album.
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Season 6, Episode 14: Bart's Comet
Original Air Date—5 February 1995
Bart discovers a comet that is on a collision course with Springfield.
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Season 6, Episode 15: Homie the Clown
Original Air Date—12 February 1995
Homer becomes a Krusty the Clown stand-in, but is mistaken for the real Krusty by the Springfield mafia.
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Season 6, Episode 16: Bart vs. Australia
Original Air Date—19 February 1995
Lisa tells Bart that toilet water swirls in the opposite direction in the Southern Hemisphere. Determined to find out if this is true, Bart makes a collect call to Australia. When the father of the boy he called finds out about the charges, it sparks an international incident. The Simpsons must travel to Australia to repair relations with the United States.
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Season 6, Episode 17: Homer vs. Patty and Selma
Original Air Date—26 February 1995
Desperate for money, Homer takes a loan from Patty and Selma. Meanwhile, Bart discovers a natural talent for ballet.
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Season 6, Episode 18: A Star Is Burns
Original Air Date—5 March 1995
Mr. Burns hosts a film festival in Springfield to improve his image. Film critic Jay Sherman, of "The Critic" is invited, and stays with the Simpsons.
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Season 6, Episode 19: Lisa's Wedding
Original Air Date—19 March 1995
A fortune teller gives Lisa a look at her wedding in the year 2010.
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Season 6, Episode 20: Two Dozen and One Greyhounds
Original Air Date—9 April 1995
Santa's Little Helper has puppies, and Mr. Burns schemes to steal them and make them into a coat.
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Season 6, Episode 21: The PTA Disbands
Original Air Date—16 April 1995
Marge fills in for Mrs. Krabappel during a teachers' strike.
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Season 6, Episode 22: 'Round Springfield
Original Air Date—30 April 1995
When Bart swallows a hazardous prize from a cereal box and winds up in the hospital, Lisa finds out her jazz idol Bleeding Gums Murphy has a room of his own there. Sadly, this turns out to be his deathbed, and not only is she upset about him dying, but she realizes that nobody will ever remember him for his music, unless she does something about it.
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Season 6, Episode 23: The Springfield Connection
Original Air Date—7 May 1995
Marge deals with corruption and crime when she joins the Springfield police force.
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Season 6, Episode 24: Lemon of Troy
Original Air Date—14 May 1995
Shelbyville kids hijack Springfield's sacred lemon tree after being pelted with lemons, and Bart leads a guerrilla war against them (I say a war, but it's nowhere near violent.) They find out that the tree is in "the impenetrable fortress of suburbia"- a car impound lot, owned by the leader's (Shelby's) dad. Homer and the parents of the kids find them and team up with them to get the tree back. But how are they gonna get it from a car impound lot?
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Season 6, Episode 25: Who Shot Mr. Burns?: Part 1
Original Air Date—21 May 1995
Mr. Burns steals oil from Springfield Elementary, and one day, he is shot, with no indication on who did it.
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Season 7
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Season 7, Episode 1: Who Shot Mr. Burns?: Part 2
Original Air Date—17 September 1995
In the conclusion of the first part that ended season six, we are revealed in the first episode of season seven who actually shot Mr. Burns.
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Season 7, Episode 2: Radioactive Man
Original Air Date—24 September 1995
Milhouse is cast as Radioactive Man's sidekick in a Hollywood production of the comic book.
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Season 7, Episode 3: Home Sweet Home-Diddily-Dum-Doodily
Original Air Date—1 October 1995
Marge and Homer lose custody of the kids, who are sent to live at the Flanders' house.
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Season 7, Episode 4: Bart Sells His Soul
Original Air Date—8 October 1995
When Rev. Lovejoy disciplines Bart for a prank he pulled in church - he tricked the organist into playing Iron Butterfly's ""In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" - he and co-conspirator Milhouse begin arguing over whether man really has a soul. Bart scoffs at the notion and agrees to "sell" his soul (a piece of paper with the words "Bart Simpson's Soul") to Milhouse for $5. A series of situations makes Bart realize maybe he really did sell his soul, prompting him to go all-out to get it back from Milhouse, who isn't willing to sell. Meanwhile, Moe attempts to open a family-style restaurant inside his tavern, with the gimmick that if he doesn't smile when servicing a customer, the meal is free. Moe's surly demeanor and the stress of running such a business alone conspire to do the establishment in.
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Season 7, Episode 5: Lisa the Vegetarian
Original Air Date—15 October 1995
A trip to a local petting zoo convinces Lisa to give up meat, despite excessive pressure to convince her not to do so.
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Season 7, Episode 6: Treehouse of Horror VI
Original Air Date—29 October 1995
First, a freak lightning storm causes giant advertising mascots to come to life. Next, Groundskeeper Willie dies and swears revenge on the kids in their dreams. Finally, Homer accidentally finds himself trapped in another dimension.
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Season 7, Episode 7: King Size Homer
Original Air Date—5 November 1995
Mr. Burns institutes a new calisthenics program at work. Most employees enjoy the morning workout, except Homer, who is too lazy. He finds out that if he goes in disability, he will be exempt from the exercises. He finds hyper-obesity among the list of disability, so he gorges himself on food to balloon up to 300 pounds.
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Season 7, Episode 8: Mother Simpson
Original Air Date—19 November 1995
To get out of cleaning a part as community service, Homer fakes his own death. When this results in the family's utilities being cut off, Marge puts pressure on him to reveal that he is alive. However, the spurious news of his "death" brings his long-lost mother - a hippie who is on the run from the law because of her activism against Mr. Burns - back to Springfield.
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Season 7, Episode 9: Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming
Original Air Date—26 November 1995
Sideshow Bob again escapes from prison and takes control of a TV screen at an air show, demanding all television stations immediately go off the air.
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Season 7, Episode 10: The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular
Original Air Date—3 December 1995
Troy McClure hosts a retrospective of the first 138 episodes of The Simpsons.
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Season 7, Episode 11: Marge Be Not Proud
Original Air Date—17 December 1995
Marge's relationship with Bart is strained when she catches him shoplifting before Christmas.
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Season 7, Episode 12: Team Homer
Original Air Date—7 January 1996
Homer starts a bowling team with Moe, Apu and Otto, but when Mr. Burns discovers the team was funded with his money, he insists on joining. Meanwhile, Springfield Elementary introduces uniforms.
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Season 7, Episode 13: Two Bad Neighbors
Original Air Date—14 January 1996
To avoid politics, former President George Bush and his wife Barbara retire to Springfield, citing its low voter turnout. They quickly become friends to the conservative Flanders family, but George soon becomes the enemy of Bart and Homer Simpson.
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Season 7, Episode 14: Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield
Original Air Date—4 February 1996
After Grandpa destroys their television set, the Simpsons go to an outlet mall to buy a new one. Marge decides to peruse a clothing store, and buys a discounted Chanel suit. A chance encounter with a High School acquaintance, while wearing the suit, leads to an invitation to join a country club. Marge becomes obsessed with pleasing the club's upper-class clientèle to so she can be accepted.
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Season 7, Episode 15: Bart the Fink
Original Air Date—11 February 1996
Bart gets a check he wanted signed by Krusty back stamped. As Krusty was supposed to autograph it, Bart wants it taken back to sign, but inadvertently reveals Krusty as a tax fraud. Krusty's lifestyle is stripped down to that of an average citizen, his show ruined and most of his possessions sold in an auction. Bart is mad at himself, particularly after a sobbing Krusty commits suicide by piloting his plane, the I'm-Onna-Rolla-Gay, into a mountainside. Bart sees visions of Krusty everywhere, but are they illusions or real life?
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Season 7, Episode 16: Lisa the Iconoclast
Original Air Date—18 February 1996
Lisa discovers that her town's beloved founder Jebediah Springfield was in fact a vicious pirate.
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Season 7, Episode 17: Homer the Smithers
Original Air Date—25 February 1996
When Smithers is forced to take a vacation, he appoints Homer as his temporary replacement.
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Season 7, Episode 18: The Day the Violence Died
Original Air Date—17 March 1996
Bart & Lisa meet a bum who claims to have created Itchy, one half of the cat and mouse team of their favorite cartoon series, "Itchy & Scratchy."
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Season 7, Episode 19: A Fish Called Selma
Original Air Date—24 March 1996
Washed-up movie star Troy McClure is pulled over for driving without corrective lenses, and forced to go to the DMV to get his eyes checked. While there, he meets Selma, who he asks out for dinner. Spotted by a reporter, he quickly realizes that being seen in public with a woman will grab enough headlines to revitalize his career, leading to a whirlwind romance between him and Selma.
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Season 7, Episode 20: Bart on the Road
Original Air Date—31 March 1996
Unable to get out of a mis-scheduled spring vacation, Principal Skinner makes up the holiday "Go to Work with Your Parents Day," giving Lisa the chance to spend time with Homer, and Bart the chance to work with Patty & Selma at the DMV. When Bart makes his own fake driver's license and Martin wins a bundle at the stock market, Bart rents a car, and takes Milhouse, Martin, and Nelson Muntz on a huge road trip.
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Season 7, Episode 21: 22 Short Films About Springfield
Original Air Date—14 April 1996
A series of vignettes highlights a day in the life of various Springfield residents.
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Season 7, Episode 22: Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in 'The Curse of the Flying Hellfish'
Original Air Date—28 April 1996
Grandpa Simpson reveals to Bart that he and Montgomery Burns were part of a World War 2 unit known as the Flying Hellfish, which stole priceless art from a German castle during the war, of which the last surviving member would inherit the fortune. When another member of his platoon dies, Abe and Burns remain the last two survivors, and Burns vows to make sure Grandpa doesn't become the last Hellfish, until Abe and Bart vow to find the fortune before Burns does.
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Season 7, Episode 23: Much Apu About Nothing
Original Air Date—5 May 1996
Anti-Immigration fever sweeps Springfield, which threatens to lead to the deportation of of Apu, until Homer decides to reject the mob mentality, and help him become a legal citizen.
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Season 7, Episode 24: Homerpalooza
Original Air Date—19 May 1996
Depressed about his inability to keep up with the existing music scene when Bart reveals how uncool his interest in 1970's rock music truly is, Homer decides to take Bart and Lisa to the Hullabalooza music festival to show them this isn't the case. Failing at that, he nearly sparks a riot and gets shot at with a cannon(ironically for Peter Frampton) which bounces a fake pig off his fat belly, and ends up being hired as part of the festival's freak show, touring with bands such as Smashing Pumpkins, Cypress Hill, Sonic Youth, and yes, Frampton.
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Season 7, Episode 25: Summer of 4 Ft. 2
Original Air Date—19 May 1996
The end of the school year, and an empty yearbook causes Lisa to contemplate her lack of popularity. When Ned Flanders is summoned for jury duty and offers Homer a chance to stay at his beach house, Lisa sees this as the opportunity to reinvent herself as a slacker in the hope of gaining friends, which proves to be far more successful than she could possibly imagine --- but not if Bart has any say in the matter.
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Season 8
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Season 8, Episode 1: Treehouse of Horror VII
Original Air Date—27 October 1996
Bart discovers his Siamese twin Hugo in the attic. Then, Lisa becomes a god after she accidentally creates life in a science fair project. Finally, Kang and Kodos plot to conquer the planet disguised as Bill Clinton and Bob Dole.
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Season 8, Episode 2: You Only Move Twice
Original Air Date—3 November 1996
Homer takes a new job in a new town. However, his friendly new boss might be a super villain bent on world domination.
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Season 8, Episode 3: The Homer They Fall
Original Air Date—10 November 1996
Homer becomes a boxer after Moe discovers his amazing ability to take a punch.
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Season 8, Episode 4: Burns, Baby Burns
Original Air Date—17 November 1996
The Simpsons try to reunite Homer's boss, Mr. Burns, with Larry, Burns' long-lost son.
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Season 8, Episode 5: Bart After Dark
Original Air Date—24 November 1996
Marge leads a crusade against a local burlesque house after she discovers Bart working there.
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Season 8, Episode 6: A Milhouse Divided
Original Air Date—1 December 1996
Milhouse's parents divorce, leading Homer to question the strength of his own marriage.
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Season 8, Episode 7: Lisa's Date with Density
Original Air Date—15 December 1996
At school, Nelson is caught with a cache of stolen items in his locker (including the "H" hood emblem from Supt. Chalmers' car) and is assigned to do chores with Groundskeeper Willie. Lisa is caught observing the goings-on and is assigned detention, where she develops a crush on Nelson. Lisa tries to reform Nelson, and it works for awhile. However, as the old saying goes, you can't teach a juvenile delinquent new tricks and it isn't long before Nelson is back to his old ways; he and his buddies had been caught throwing spoiled food at Skinner's house and tries to lie to Lisa about his participation in the whole thing, but ultimately lets slip the truth. Meanwhile, Homer obtains an autodialer and decides it will help him make easy money through his "Happy Dude" telemarketing scheme. Homer is eventually caught and made to use the autodialer to call back everyone he scammed in apology. Which he does ... then he asks for more money as part of a "Sorry Dude" scam.
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Season 8, Episode 8: Hurricane Neddy
Original Air Date—29 December 1996
A hurricane strikes Springfield, and in its wake, the Flanders' home is demolished. Ned becomes depressed, and reassurance from Maude and Rev. Lovejoy do little to offset Kent Brockman's hurricane coverage (where he reports that the Leftorium is being looted). Marge then bursts into the church where the Flanders are staying and announces a miracle: Ned's home has been rebuilt. Well, sort of ... the house - built by an army of volunteers commissioned by Homer - is ill-constructed and quickly falls down. Ned then loses his temper and screams at everyone for their shoddy workmanship and what he views as their meddling. (Homer thinks he "got off easy" when Ned calls him "the worst person I have ever met.") Ned goes for a drive to cool down and heads toward a mental institution, where he checks himself in. There, his childhood psychiatrist counsels him on his crisis and determines that he has problems appropriately expressing his anger. The doctor recruits Homer to help Ned get to the root of his frustrations - his parents, who did not do a good job raising him. Eventually, Ned is released.
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Season 8, Episode 9: El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Homer
Original Air Date—5 January 1997
Marge's fears that Homer will embarrass her at the annual Springfield Chili Cook-Off again, are reaffirmed when after tasting various bland samples of chili, he comes across a specialty made by Chief Wiggum laced with hallucinogenic Guatemalan peppers. The chili sends him on a psychedelic journey where he meets an imaginary Coyote spirit guide(voiced by country music legend Johnny Cash), who urges him to find his soul mate, causing him to doubt that he should've ever married Marge in the first place.
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Season 8, Episode 10: The Springfield Files
Original Air Date—12 January 1997
In yet another crazed crossover, Leonard Nimoy narrates another tale of the supernatural, reminiscent of his days with "In Search Of." Realizing that even he's too drunk to drive after a night at Moe's Tavern, Homer stumbles through the woods and encounters a green glowing alien. Needless to say, nobody takes him seriously, except for "X-Files" FBI Agent Fox Mulder, who once again drags along his partner Dana Scully on another quest to prove the government is hiding the presence of UFO's from the public. However, even this mission may make a skeptic out of Mulder.
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Season 8, Episode 11: The Twisted World of Marge Simpson
Original Air Date—19 January 1997
Marge enters the pretzel vending business, but when she fails, Homer recruits some help from the mob.
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Season 8, Episode 12: Mountain of Madness
Original Air Date—2 February 1997
Homer and Mr. Burns get trapped in a snowed-in cabin during a company retreat.
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Season 8, Episode 13: Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala-Annoyed-Grunt-cious
Original Air Date—7 February 1997
After a little bit of hair loss caused by stress, the Simpson family decide that a nanny to help around the house may be a good idea, causing them to come into contact with a very odd character named Shary Bobbins.
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Season 8, Episode 14: The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show
Original Air Date—7 February 1997
Krusty becomes alarmed at the flagging ratings for "The Itchy & Scratchy Show" and demands it be corrected. The producers reason some new gimmicks are needed to inject fresh air and - after a focus group doesn't quite go as well as planned - decide to introduce a new character named Poochie, a rapping cartoon dog that is supposed to become friends with Itchy and Scratchy. Homer auditions to do Poochie's voice and wins the part. Poochie's first cartoon, "The Beagle Has Landed," premieres to great fanfare but is poorly received to say the least. The producers decide that, given his spectacular failure, Poochie will be killed off in the mutt's next cartoon. Homer learns about this and at his next recording session, gives a speech imploring everyone to give Poochie a chance. However, the effort is unsuccessful and Poochie's death - along with the correct lines dubbed in - is revealed in the next animated short. Also: A college-aged boy named Roy temporarily moves in with the Simpsons and - in a nod to clichéd characters being used as a gimmick to entice viewership of waning TV shows - does everything to get in the way. Eventually, Roy announces he's moving out and moving in with a pair of sexy ladies.
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Season 8, Episode 15: Homer's Phobia
Original Air Date—16 February 1997
Homer fears that Bart's masculinity is at stake when he suspects that he's being influenced by a flamboyant homosexual collectible store owner named John(Waters). All his efforts to show Bart how to be a man keep backfiring on him... or do they?
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Season 8, Episode 16: Brother from Another Series
Original Air Date—23 February 1997
Sideshow Bob is released from prison into the custody of his younger brother Cecil (voiced by David Hyde Pierce), Springfield's Chief Hydrological Engineer. He works as the foreman on a new hydroelectric dam. Bart is convinced that Bob is up to something shady again, and follows him everywhere.
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Season 8, Episode 17: My Sister, My Sitter
Original Air Date—2 March 1997
Bart is outraged when Lisa becomes his babysitter.
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Season 8, Episode 18: Homer vs. the 18th Amendment
Original Air Date—16 March 1997
Bart gets drunk during a St. Patrick's Day Parade, provoking the city government to enforce a two-hundred year old prohibition law. Rex Banner, an Elliot Ness-type character, takes over the police force to help enforce the law, since Wiggum failed to do do. Meanwhile, Homer decides to make money for himself as a bootlegger, calling himself "The Beer Baron."
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Season 8, Episode 19: Grade School Confidential
Original Air Date—6 April 1997
Martin's birthday party is predictably dull until nearly all the guests become ill with food poisoning. The only ones not to get sick are Bart (who didn't want to eat the spoiled oysters), and Principal Skinner and Mrs. Krabappel, who fall in love with each other. Bart catches his principal and teacher kissing passionately, but they immediately find out and want to swear him to secrecy. They make him his gofer, making his life miserable at school and calling him at all hours of the night (all for the reward of Milhouse inheriting Bart's poor school record). Bart eventually loses his patience and exposes the Skinner-Krabappel relationship. After rumors - most of them grossly exaggerated - begin running wild through town, Supt. Chalmers threatens to fire both Principal Skinner and Mrs. Krabappel (since the relationship is forbidden per district policy) and does when Skinner refuses to call the relationship off. Eventually, Bart convinces Skinner to stand up for himself and his new girlfriend, and they decide to climb onto the roof and stay there until Chalmers reinstates them and accepts their relationship. The effort works, and Principal Skinner and Mrs. Krabappel are back at school.
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Season 8, Episode 20: The Canine Mutiny
Original Air Date—13 April 1997
Using Santa's Little Helper's name, Bart is able to fraudulently obtain a credit card. Unaware that he needs to eventually pay for everything, Bart makes outlandish purchases - including a specially breeded collie he names Laddie. He manages to evade Lisa's demand for an explanation but can't keep back the creditors, who eventually repossess everything. When the creditors as for the dog, Bart - who has fallen in love with Laddie - sends Santa's Little Helper with the repo men. Later, Bart grows bored with Laddie and gives her to Chief Wiggum; in the aftermath, Bart is forced to explain everything and is sent to get Santa's Little Helper back any way he can. Bart eventually tracks down the pooch to a blind man's house and upon collecting Santa's Little Helper begins to leave. However, the blind man is able to trap burglar Bart in the closet. When Chief Wiggum comes to arrest Bart, Laddie sniffs out marijuana in the blind man's pocket. Santa's Little Helper goes home with Bart, while Wiggum holds a huge party at the man's house.
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Season 8, Episode 21: The Old Man and the Lisa
Original Air Date—20 April 1997
Burns loses his fortune and recruits Lisa to help him get it back.
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Season 8, Episode 22: In Marge We Trust
Original Air Date—27 April 1997
Marge becomes a church counselor to compensate for Reverend Lovejoy's lack of interest. Meanwhile, Homer discovers a Japanese detergent is using his face for their logo.
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Season 8, Episode 23: Homer's Enemy
Original Air Date—4 May 1997
Mr. Burns hires Frank Grimes (the human interest subject of Kent Brockman's report) as executive vice president at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. Grimes meets the employees and is immediately stunned at Homer's lackadasial work performance and his co-workers are nonchalant about it. Grimes - already annoyed by Homer's habits - becomes horrified when he observes Homer nearly drink a flask containing a toxic acid in absent-mindedness; however, Grimes is harshly reprimanded when he knocks the vial away and causes damage. Grimes tells Homer that they are "enemies," but Homer - still wanting to be friends - invites "Grimey" over for dinner. However, the attempt only makes matters worse when Grimes sees that Homer is living in a nice home and has a family. Resolved to expose Homer as a fraud once and for all, he hands out a flyer announcing a "design your own power plant" contest, which has all references to this being a contest for elementary school students. However, Homer easily wins the contest, causing Grimes to go crazy. After running amok through the plant and mocking Homer, Grimes touches some electrical wires and is electrocuted. In the subplot, Bart wanders into public auction and submits the winning bid ($1) for an abandoned factory. Bart and Milhouse play around inside until the place crumbles.
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Season 8, Episode 24: The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase
Original Air Date—11 May 1997
Troy McClure introduces three "potential spin-offs" of The Simpsons. The fictional pilots include: "Chief Wiggum, P.I. (Wiggum and Principal Skinner are detectives in New Orleans, and must contend with the evil Big Daddy, who kidnaps Ralph); "The Love-Matic Grandpa" (a spoof of the failed 1960s-era sitcom "My Mother the Car," where Grampa's ghost inhabits a Love Tester machine at Moe's Tavern); and "The Simpson Family Smile-Time Variety Hour" (the Simpsons - along with a teen-aged "Lisa" - star in a comedy-variety show, much like the Bradys did in 1977).
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Season 8, Episode 25: The Secret War of Lisa Simpson
Original Air Date—18 May 1997
After a prank destroys half the town, Bart is shipped away to military school. Lisa, seeking a challenge, decides to enroll with him, but is faced with discrimination as the school's only girl cadet.
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Season 9
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Season 9, Episode 1: The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson
Original Air Date—21 September 1997
Homer must travel to New York to get his car back, which is illegally parked at World Trade Center Plaza.
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Season 9, Episode 2: The Principal and the Pauper
Original Air Date—28 September 1997
After holding a surprise tribute to their beloved Elementary school principal Skinner, the town of Springfield is shocked to find out that Seymour Skinner is an impostor...
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Season 9, Episode 3: Lisa's Sax
Original Air Date—19 October 1997
Homer recounts the story of Bart's first day of school, which corresponds with the story of how Lisa got her saxophone.
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Season 9, Episode 4: Treehouse of Horror VIII
Original Air Date—26 October 1997
In "The Homega Man," Homer battles mutants after Springfield is annihilated by a neutron bomb. Then, Bart has his DNA mixed with a fly in "Fly vs. Fly." Finally, Marge is revealed to be a witch in colonial Springfield in "Easy Bake Coven."
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Season 9, Episode 5: The Cartridge Family
Original Air Date—2 November 1997
After a massive soccer riot, Homer decides to invest in a home security system but can't afford the high price. He does the next best thing: He purchases a gun. This is despite Marge's stern opposition to having a gun. Homer plays with the gun like a toy and almost causes an accident at the dinner table. Marge warns Homer to get rid of the gun now; Homer agrees, but Bart finds the gun later in the refrigerator. Marge sees this, takes the gun away and tells Homer she is taking the kids and moving out. Homer eventually is kicked out of the local NRA chapter (for his careless use of the gun), and decides he needs to try to get Marge back. Eventually, he manages to foil Snake's armed robbery at the hotel where Marge is staying. Homer finally gets rid of the gun, but Marge decides to keep it for herself.
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Season 9, Episode 6: Bart Star
Original Air Date—9 November 1997
A pee-wee football team forms as a solution to Springfield's growing childhood obesity crisis. When Homer takes over as coach after causing Flanders to quit, he tries to make Bart the star of the team despite his poor performance on the field.
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Season 9, Episode 7: The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons
Original Air Date—16 November 1997
Marge must pose as Apu's wife to prevent his upcoming arranged marriage.
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Season 9, Episode 8: Lisa the Skeptic
Original Air Date—23 November 1997
Another day at Springfield Elementary School, another field trip - this time to an archaeological dig. During the dig, Lisa unearths what appears to be a fossilized human skeleton with wings.
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Season 9, Episode 9: Realty Bites
Original Air Date—7 December 1997
Marge becomes a real-estate agent.
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Season 9, Episode 10: Miracle on Evergreen Terrace
Original Air Date—21 December 1997
On Christmas Eve, Marge admonishes the family not to open presents until 7 a.m. the next morning. Bart finds a way around the directive and opens his gifts at 5 a.m. However, his prized gift - a remote-controlled fire truck - overheats and causes a fire that engulfs the tree and presents. The family investigates and Bart tells them that a burglar has struck. As a result of Kent Brockman's human interest story, the entire town donates gifts and cash to the Simpsons for their "misfortune." Eventually, Bart admits the truth, angering his clueless family but angering the town even more (when Brockman finds out the truth). The family is made into outcasts, and Marge's attempt to win the needed funds on "Jeopardy!" (to pay everybody back) fails miserably. Eventually, the townspeople loot the Simpsons' home ... save for a dust rag.
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Season 9, Episode 11: All Singing, All Dancing
Original Air Date—4 January 1998
Homer is disappointed when the western he rented turns out to be a musical, so the family reminds him of the musical moments in the show's history.
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Season 9, Episode 12: Bart Carny
Original Air Date—11 January 1998
Bart and Homer befriend two carnies and invite them to stay with them, but the carnies soon swindle the Simpsons out of their house.
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Season 9, Episode 13: The Joy of Sect
Original Air Date—8 February 1998
An evil cult called the Movementarians brainwashes the citizens of Springfield and it's up to Marge to get them back.
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Season 9, Episode 14: Das Bus
Original Air Date—15 February 1998
The kids get stranded on a desert island in a parody of Lord Of The Flies. Meanwhile, Homer attempts to cash in on the Internet.
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Season 9, Episode 15: The Last Temptation of Krust
Original Air Date—22 February 1998
After a disastrous performance, Krusty changes his image and becomes an edgy stand-up.
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Season 9, Episode 16: Dumbbell Indemnity
Original Air Date—1 March 1998
Homer and Moe attempt insurance fraud so that Moe can support his new girlfriend. When Homer ends up in jail, Moe has to decide whether or not come forward.
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Season 9, Episode 17: Lisa the Simpson
Original Air Date—8 March 1998
Lisa fears she is losing her intelligence when she learns about the fabled Simpson gene. Meanwhile, Jasper freezes himself in the Kwik-E-Mart freezer.
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Season 9, Episode 18: This Little Wiggy
Original Air Date—22 March 1998
Bart is reluctant to hang out with Ralph Wiggum, until he gains access to Chief Wiggum's master key to the city.
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Season 9, Episode 19: Simpson Tide
Original Air Date—29 March 1998
Homer causes an international incident after he joins the Naval reserves.
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Season 9, Episode 20: The Trouble with Trillions
Original Air Date—5 April 1998
Homer is forced to spy for the IRS after an audit. But when he is asked to retrieve a trillion dollar bill from Mr. Burns, he switches sides and the two flee to Cuba for refuge.
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Season 9, Episode 21: Girly Edition
Original Air Date—19 April 1998
Bart in Lisa become locked in competition when they anchor a children's news program. Meanwhile, Homer adopts a helper monkey.
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Season 9, Episode 22: Trash of the Titans
Original Air Date—26 April 1998
After a feud with the Springfield refuse collectors, Homer decides to run for Sanitation Commisioner
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Season 9, Episode 23: King of the Hill
Original Air Date—3 May 1998
After humiliating Bart at a church picnic, Homer resolves to get in shape. Soon, he is contacted by an energy bar company that wants him to climb a mountain as a promotion.
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Season 9, Episode 24: Lost Our Lisa
Original Air Date—10 May 1998
Lisa gets lost after she tries to take a bus to a museum.
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Season 9, Episode 25: Natural Born Kissers
Original Air Date—17 May 1998
Homer and Marge's attempt to spice up their marriage leads to the couple being chased naked through Springfield.
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Season 10
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Season 10, Episode 1: Lard of the Dance
Original Air Date—23 August 1998
Lisa organizes a dance at her school, while Homer and Bart try to start their own "grease business"
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Season 10, Episode 2: The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace
Original Air Date—20 September 1998
Homer's midlife crisis leads to a disastrous attempt at being an inventor.
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Season 10, Episode 3: Bart the Mother
Original Air Date—27 September 1998
When Bart accidentally kills a mother bird, he tries to make amends by raising the eggs.
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Season 10, Episode 4: Treehouse of Horror IX
Original Air Date—25 October 1998
Homer receives an evil hair transplant in "Hell Toupee." Then, Bart and Lisa get trapped in an Itchy and Scratchy cartoon in "The Terror Of Tiny Toon." Finally, Maggie is revealed to be an alien in "Starship Poopers."
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Season 10, Episode 5: When You Dish Upon a Star
Original Air Date—8 November 1998
Homer becomes a Hollywood insider when he befriends Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger.
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Season 10, Episode 6: D'oh-in' in the Wind
Original Air Date—15 November 1998
Homer becomes a hippie after a revelation about his middle name.
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Season 10, Episode 7: Lisa Gets an A
Original Air Date—22 November 1998
Lisa cheats on a test and has a moral crisis when her perfect score qualifies the school for grant money. Meanwhile, Homer can't bring himself to cook a lobster, so he adopts it as a pet instead.
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Season 10, Episode 8: Homer Simpson in: Kidney Trouble
Original Air Date—6 December 1998
Homer gets cold feet before an operation that could save Grampa's life.
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Season 10, Episode 9: Mayored to the Mob
Original Air Date—20 December 1998
Homer deals with corruption when he becomes Mayor Quimby's bodyguard.
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Season 10, Episode 10: Viva Ned Flanders
Original Air Date—10 January 1999
When Homer takes Ned to Las Vegas in an attempt to get him to loosen up, the pair end up marrying cocktail waitresses in a drunken haze.
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Season 10, Episode 11: Wild Barts Can't Be Broken
Original Air Date—17 January 1999
The children of Springfield revolt after a curfew is enforced.
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Season 10, Episode 12: Sunday, Cruddy Sunday
Original Air Date—31 January 1999
Homer and his friends head to the Superbowl, but are forced to sneak in when they discover their tickets are counterfeit.
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Season 10, Episode 13: Homer to the Max
Original Air Date—7 February 1999
After a dimwitted TV character is coincidentally named Homer Simpson, Homer changes his name to Max Power.
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Season 10, Episode 14: I'm with Cupid
Original Air Date—14 February 1999
The husbands of Springfield plot revenge after Apu outshines them on Valentine's Day.
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Season 10, Episode 15: Marge Simpson in 'Screaming Yellow Honkers'
Original Air Date—21 February 1999
Marge's new SUV gives her a potent case of road rage.
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Season 10, Episode 16: Make Room for Lisa
Original Air Date—28 February 1999
When Homer installs a cell phone tower on his roof to pay for his destruction of the Bill Of Rights, the machinery is put in Lisa's room, forcing her to move in with Bart. When the new living arrangement causes her stress, Homer agrees to try sensory deprivation therapy with her.
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Season 10, Episode 17: Maximum Homerdrive
Original Air Date—28 March 1999
Homer finishes a cross country delivery that a trucker died before completing, taking Bart along for the ride. Marge and Lisa experience problems with the novelty doorbell they purchased.
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Season 10, Episode 18: Simpsons Bible Stories
Original Air Date—4 April 1999
Three famous religious stories are retold Simpsons style as the family nods off at church.
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Season 10, Episode 19: Mom and Pop Art
Original Air Date—11 April 1999
Homer becomes the talk of the Springfield art community when a failed barbecue pit he worked on is mistaken for an art project.
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Season 10, Episode 20: The Old Man and the 'C' Student
Original Air Date—25 April 1999
Bart is punished with community service at the Retirement Castle after he ruins Springfield's chances of hosting the Olympics.
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Season 10, Episode 21: Monty Can't Buy Me Love
Original Air Date—2 May 1999
Mr. Burns attempts to be popular by capturing the Loch Ness Monster.
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Season 10, Episode 22: They Saved Lisa's Brain
Original Air Date—9 May 1999
Lisa is invited to join the Springfield chapter of MENSA and the group ends up running the city. Meanwhile Homer poses for erotic photos.
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Season 10, Episode 23: Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo
Original Air Date—16 May 1999
The Simpsons must perform on a Japanese game show after Homer loses their money on a vacation.
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Season 11
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Season 11, Episode 1: Beyond Blunderdome
Original Air Date—26 September 1999
When Mel Gibson becomes convinced that Homer is the only man with the guts to tell him the truth, he insists Homer accompany him to Hollywood to help fix his newest film project, a remake of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
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Season 11, Episode 2: Brother's Little Helper
Original Air Date—3 October 1999
Bart is put on medication to control his behavior, but the pills cause him to become paranoid and insane.
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Season 11, Episode 3: Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?
Original Air Date—24 October 1999
Homer's negative reviews as a food critic puts his life in danger. Fortunately he has Lisa fighting for him.
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Season 11, Episode 4: Treehouse of Horror X
Original Air Date—31 October 1999
The Simpsons attempt to cover up their accidental murder of Ned Flanders in "I Know What You Did-Iddly-Did." Then, Bart and Lisa become superheroes and save Lucy Lawless from the evil Collector in "Desperately Xeeking Xena." Finally, Homer's incompetence causes a Y2K apocalypse in "Life's A Glitch, Then You Die."
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Season 11, Episode 5: E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)
Original Air Date—7 November 1999
Homer cowards out of a pistol-duel and hides out with the rest of the family on a country farm.
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Season 11, Episode 6: Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder
Original Air Date—14 November 1999
Homer becomes a minor celebrity around Springfield after bowling a perfect game.
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Season 11, Episode 7: Eight Misbehavin'
Original Air Date—21 November 1999
Apu struggles with fatherhood after Manjula gives birth to octuplets.
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Season 11, Episode 8: Take My Wife, Sleaze
Original Air Date—28 November 1999
Homer's attempt at creating a motorcycle gang attracts a real gang, who kidnap Marge.
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Season 11, Episode 9: Grift of the Magi
Original Air Date—19 December 1999
A toy company purchases Springfield Elementary and uses the student body as a focus group for their new Christmas toy Funzo.
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Season 11, Episode 10: Little Big Mom
Original Air Date—9 January 2000
Lisa finds out how rough Marge has it when her mom is in traction and she becomes the woman of the house. Homer and Bart's antics get her so worked up she conspires to teach them a lesson.
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Season 11, Episode 11: Faith Off
Original Air Date—16 January 2000
Bart is led to believe he has special healing powers after a tent revival.
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Season 11, Episode 12: The Mansion Family
Original Air Date—23 January 2000
When Mr. Burns has to go the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota for a checkup, he chooses The Simpsons to take care of his mansion while he is gone. Homer and his friends take Mr. Burns yacht into international waters, where they end up being targeted by modern day pirates.
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Season 11, Episode 13: Saddlesore Galactica
Original Air Date—6 February 2000
The Simpsons get an abused horse and make him a contender in horse racing. Homer finds out a secret conspiracy about jockeys. Lisa tries to reach President Clinton when the results of a school band talent competition seem tainted.
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Season 11, Episode 14: Alone Again, Natura-Diddly
Original Air Date—13 February 2000
Ned deals with his grief after Maude's untimely death.
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Season 11, Episode 15: Missionary: Impossible
Original Air Date—20 February 2000
When Homer is wanted dead for reneging on a 10,000 dollar pledge to PBS, Reverend Lovejoy sets him up for missionary work in the South Pacific until the heat dies down.
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Season 11, Episode 16: Pygmoelian
Original Air Date—27 February 2000
Plastic surgery not only transforms Moe the Bartender from ugly to hunky, it helps gets him a job on a hit daytime drama.
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Season 11, Episode 17: Bart to the Future
Original Air Date—19 March 2000
Bart gets a glimpse of the future while the family is on vacation at an Indian casino.
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Season 11, Episode 18: Days of Wine and D'oh'ses
Original Air Date—9 April 2000
Homer doesn't like it when Barney quits drinking; Bart and Lisa get into trouble when they enter a photo contest for the new phone book cover.
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Season 11, Episode 19: Kill the Alligator and Run
Original Air Date—30 April 2000
The Simpsons become wanted criminals after injuring a famous alligator during a Florida vacation.
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Season 11, Episode 20: Last Tap Dance in Springfield
Original Air Date—7 May 2000
Lisa has difficulties learning to tap dance. Meanwhile Bart and Milhouse ditch summer camp to spend a week living in the mall.
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Season 11, Episode 21: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge
Original Air Date—14 May 2000
Everybody loves the new Simpsons' house guest Becky. Except Marge, who thinks Becky wants to kill her.
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Season 11, Episode 22: Behind the Laughter
Original Air Date—21 May 2000
The Simpsons discuss their fame in a behind the scenes look at the show.
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Season 12
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Season 12, Episode 1: Treehouse of Horror XI
Original Air Date—1 November 2000
Homer must do one good deed to get into Heaven in "G-G-Ghost D-D-Dad." Then, Bart and Lisa encounter a witch in a gingerbread house in "Scary Tales Can Come True." Finally, super-intelligent dolphins strike back at humanity in "Night Of The Dolphin."
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Season 12, Episode 2: A Tale of Two Springfields
Original Air Date—5 November 2000
When Homer tries to enter a phone-in competition, he becomes terribly stubborn and angry for Springfield introducing a new dialing code. In the Town Hall, after the Mayor's meeting about the change, Homer discovers that all the rich people live on one side of Springfield, with the old code, and Homer is left to try and manage with the new code. However, he protests, and ends up splitting Springfield into Old and New. Homer desperately tries different ways to tackle Old Springfield, but in doing so, he only makes them richer when they discover gold at the bottom of the river. Homer finally builds a large wall to separate the two sides, and remembers that The Who are planned to stage at Springfield for a concert. Will Homer manage to convince The Who to play on his side of town instead of the other's?
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Season 12, Episode 3: Insane Clown Poppy
Original Air Date—12 November 2000
After he learns he has a daughter (Sophie), Krusty turns to Homer for parenting advice.
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Season 12, Episode 4: Lisa the Tree Hugger
Original Air Date—19 November 2000
Lisa's crush on an environmental activist inspires her to live in a tree threatened by loggers.
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Season 12, Episode 5: Homer vs. Dignity
Original Air Date—26 November 2000
Desperate for money, Homer accepts payment from Mr. Burns in exchange for humiliating himself.
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Season 12, Episode 6: The Computer Wore Menace Shoes
Original Air Date—3 December 2000
Homer's gossip website becomes a huge hit, but when his information runs out he resorts to making up news.
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Season 12, Episode 7: The Great Money Caper
Original Air Date—10 December 2000
The whole town of Springfield conspires to teach Homer and and Bart a lesson after the two begin running confidence scams.
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Season 12, Episode 8: Skinner's Sense of Snow
Original Air Date—17 December 2000
A snowstorm traps the kids and Principal Skinner in the school for Christmas vacation.
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Season 12, Episode 9: HOMR
Original Air Date—7 January 2001
An x-ray reveals a crayon lodged in Homer's brain. After the crayon is removed, Homer experiences a sudden surge in intelligence, making him closer to Lisa and isolated from his friends.
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Season 12, Episode 10: Pokey Mom
Original Air Date—14 January 2001
Marge befriends a convict with an artistic streak. Meanwhile, Homer battles the chiropractic industry after he creates a miracle back pain cure.
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Season 12, Episode 11: Worst Episode Ever
Original Air Date—4 February 2001
Bart and Milhouse are left in charge of the comic book store after Comic Book Guy is hospitalized.
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Season 12, Episode 12: Tennis the Menace
Original Air Date—11 February 2001
Homer installs a tennis court in the backyard, but his lousy playing creates a rift in the family.
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Season 12, Episode 13: Day of the Jackanapes
Original Air Date—18 February 2001
Sideshow Bob returns with a plan to brainwash Bart and kill Krusty.
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Season 12, Episode 14: New Kids on the Blecch
Original Air Date—25 February 2001
Bart, Nelson, Millhouse, and Ralph are recruited by a man named L.T. Smash to be in a boy band called the Party Posse but when Lisa discovers the true identity of LT. Smash as a navy recruitment officer she tries to tell Homer and Marge with hilarious results.
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Season 12, Episode 15: Hungry Hungry Homer
Original Air Date—4 March 2001
Homer decides to help his family with all their problems, complaining to the Blocko land and other places to claim what is right. But, when Homer goes to complain at Springfield Stadium, he secretly discovers that the manager is planning to move the team to the Albuquerque Isotopes. After Homer is knocked out of remembering the events, he returns to the stadium and starts a protest that he will not eat anything until the manager reveals the secret. However, the manager and the Duff Man have other plans for Homer...
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Season 12, Episode 16: Bye Bye Nerdie
Original Air Date—11 March 2001
Problems with a bully lead Lisa to examine just what makes bullies aggressive. Meanwhile, Homer gets into the baby-proofing business.
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Season 12, Episode 17: Simpson Safari
Original Air Date—1 April 2001
The Simpsons win a trip to Africa.
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Season 12, Episode 18: Trilogy of Error
Original Air Date—29 April 2001
The lives of Homer, Lisa and Bart have been split up in a less-than-ordinary day, and as each of their problems unfold, their lives intertwine on a road of chaos and mayhem all over Springfield. Homer's thumb is accidentally sliced off, and he tries to find a way to the hospital; Lisa must find a way to get to the Science fair at school; and Bart and Milhouse discover more than just fireworks in a secret cave...
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Season 12, Episode 19: I'm Goin' to Praiseland
Original Air Date—6 May 2001
With Homer's help, Ned Flanders tries to establish a Christian theme park based on drawings in his deceased wife's sketch book.
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Season 12, Episode 20: Children of a Lesser Clod
Original Air Date—13 May 2001
After a debilitating injury forces him to stay indoors, Homer begins a daycare center.
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Season 12, Episode 21: Simpson Tall Tales
Original Air Date—20 May 2001
A hobo tells the Simpsons tall tales on a train ride to Delaware. In the first story, Homer is outcast from society as Paul Bunyan. Then, Lisa travels the country planting trees as Connie Appleseed. Finally, Bart and Nelson raft down the Mississippi as Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.
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Season 13
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Season 13, Episode 1: Treehouse of Horror XII
Original Air Date—6 November 2001
A gypsy puts a curse on Homer in "Hex In The City." Then, The Simpsons' new automated house malfunctions and tries to kill Homer. Finally, Bart and Lisa attend a school for wizards in "Wiz Kids."
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Season 13, Episode 2: The Parent Rap
Original Air Date—11 November 2001
After Bart takes a joyride in a police car, a judge orders him to be tethered to Homer at all times.
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Season 13, Episode 3: Homer the Moe
Original Air Date—18 November 2001
Homer and his friends are forced to drink in the Simpsons' garage after Moe the Bartender renovates his shady bar into a hipster hangout.
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Season 13, Episode 4: A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love
Original Air Date—2 December 2001
Mr. Burns falls in love with a younger woman and recruits Homer to help him impress her.
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Season 13, Episode 5: The Blunder Years
Original Air Date—9 December 2001
A hypnotist uncovers a traumatic experience from Homer's childhood.
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Season 13, Episode 6: She of Little Faith
Original Air Date—16 December 2001
Feeling her church cares more about making money then helping people, Lisa drops Christianity for Buddhism.
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Season 13, Episode 7: Brawl in the Family
Original Air Date—6 January 2002
A social services officer brings unity to the Simpson family, but their newfound happiness is threatened when the cocktail waitress Homer married in Vegas shows up at their door.
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Season 13, Episode 8: Sweets and Sour Marge
Original Air Date—20 January 2002
Marge rallies for a ban on sugar after Springfield is declared America's fattest city.
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Season 13, Episode 9: Jaws Wired Shut
Original Air Date—27 January 2002
Marge can't deal with the quiet after Homer has his jaws wired shut.
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Season 13, Episode 10: Half-Decent Proposal
Original Air Date—10 February 2002
Marge's high school sweetheart Artie Ziff returns and offers Homer a million dollars to spend a weekend with Marge.
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Season 13, Episode 11: The Bart Wants What It Wants
Original Air Date—17 February 2002
Bart breaks up with his new girlfriend Greta, but gets jealous when she begins dating Milhouse.
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Season 13, Episode 12: The Lastest Gun in the West
Original Air Date—24 February 2002
Bart meets a retired cowboy movie star and convinces him to make a comeback on The Krusty the Clown Show.
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Season 13, Episode 13: The Old Man and the Key
Original Air Date—10 March 2002
Abe gets his driver's license back to impress a new woman at the retirement home.
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Season 13, Episode 14: Tales from the Public Domain
Original Air Date—17 March 2002
The family reads stories from a long overdue library book. First, Homer (Odysseus) struggles to find his way home after the Trojan War. Next, Lisa (Joan Of Arc) leads the French army after hearing the voice of God. Finally, Bart (Hamlet) avenges the murder of his father.
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Season 13, Episode 15: Blame It on Lisa
Original Air Date—31 March 2002
Lisa sponsors an orphan in Brazil, and when he goes missing she convinces the family to go to Brazil to find him. While there, Homer is kidnapped.
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Season 13, Episode 16: Weekend at Burnsie's
Original Air Date—7 April 2002
After a traumatizing eye injury, Homer becomes a habitual user of medical marijuana.
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Season 13, Episode 17: Gump Roast
Original Air Date—21 April 2002
In this clip show, the citizens of Springfield honor Homer Simpsons with a Roast, but the festivities take a turn for the worst when aliens crash it.
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Season 13, Episode 18: I Am Furious Yellow
Original Air Date—28 April 2002
Bart's comic about Homer becomes a hit on-line, prompting Homer to attempt to control his anger.
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Season 13, Episode 19: The Sweetest Apu
Original Air Date—5 May 2002
Apu's marriage is on the rocks after Manjula finds out he cheated on her.
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Season 13, Episode 20: Little Girl in the Big Ten
Original Air Date—12 May 2002
Lisa pretends to be a college student and loses favor with her classmates at Springfield Elementary in the process. A mysterious illness forces Bart to live in a plastic bubble.
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Season 13, Episode 21: The Frying Game
Original Air Date—19 May 2002
Homer and Marge find themselves on death row after they are framed for murder.
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Season 13, Episode 22: Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge
Original Air Date—22 May 2002
Homer becomes chief of police after a scandal forces Wiggum out.
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Season 14
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Season 14, Episode 1: Treehouse of Horror XIII
Original Air Date—3 November 2002
First, Homer uses a magic hammock to clone himself in "Send In The Clones." Then, gun-wielding zombies attack Springfield after a ban on firearms in "The Right To Creep And Scare Harms." Finally, The Simpsons are trapped on an island where people are transformed into animals in "The Island Of Dr. Hibbert."
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Season 14, Episode 2: How I Spent My Strummer Vacation
Original Air Date—10 November 2002
When Marge, Lisa and Bart find out how hard Homer struggles to keep a roof over their heads, they enroll him in a Rock & Roll fantasy camp to relax at for a week.
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Season 14, Episode 3: Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade
Original Air Date—17 November 2002
Bart and Lisa are respectively held back and moved forward one grade, putting them in the same class.
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Season 14, Episode 4: Large Marge
Original Air Date—24 November 2002
Marge accidentally gets breast implants.
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Season 14, Episode 5: Helter Shelter
Original Air Date—1 December 2002
After Lisa brings home the stick of a pro hockey player for yelling at him to shoot between the goalie's legs, the Simpsons' house is eaten by termites. To get a home, the family joins a reality show, where they must live like a family from 1895.
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Season 14, Episode 6: The Great Louse Detective
Original Air Date—15 December 2002
Homer has to use Sideshow Bob in order to track down a potential assassin.
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Season 14, Episode 7: Special Edna
Original Air Date—5 January 2003
After Skinner once again has let Mrs. Krabappel down, Bart takes her to the cinema. To cheer her up, Bart nominates Krabappel for the 'teacher of the year' award. The nominations is accepted, and soon the Simpsons family and Mrs. Krabappel are going to the award ceremony in Orlando, Florida, where Skinner tries to get back Krabappel by asking her to marry him.
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Season 14, Episode 8: The Dad Who Knew Too Little
Original Air Date—12 January 2003
Homer hires a private detective to learn more about Lisa.
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Season 14, Episode 9: The Strong Arms of the Ma
Original Air Date—2 February 2003
Marge takes up body-building to boost her self-esteem after a mugging, but the family finds they just can't cope with a Marge that can bench-press 500 pounds.
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Season 14, Episode 10: Pray Anything
Original Air Date—9 February 2003
Homer turns to religion to help him get what he wants, and is soon awarded the church in an injury settlement. Homer then turns the church into his personal party pad, and Reverend Lovejoy leaves Springfield to wallow in its hedonism.
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Season 14, Episode 11: Barting Over
Original Air Date—16 February 2003
When Bart finds out Homer has used all the money Bart got for doing a commercial when he was a baby, he moves out of the house and into the same building as famous skateboarder, Tony Hawk, whose skateboarding tour Bart joins.
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Season 14, Episode 12: I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can
Original Air Date—16 February 2003
Lisa participates in the Spellympics, but Homer is busy traveling cross-country as Krusty Burger test-markets a new sandwich. Lisa is confident that she will win, until she learns that the contest is rigged against her.
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Season 14, Episode 13: A Star Is Born Again
Original Air Date—2 March 2003
Ned Flanders starts dating a the famous movie star, Sara Sloane, but Ned has difficulties with the tabloids following them everywhere.
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Season 14, Episode 14: Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington
Original Air Date—9 March 2003
The family makes Krusty run for Congress because of air traffic being redirected to fly dangerously close to their house.
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Season 14, Episode 15: C. E. D'oh
Original Air Date—16 March 2003
Homer takes over the power plant after tricking Mr. Burns into making him the official owner of the power plant.
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Season 14, Episode 16: 'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky
Original Air Date—30 March 2003
Lisa becomes interested in astronomy and starts fighting the light pollution which is preventing her from being able to enjoy her new hobby.
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Season 14, Episode 17: Three Gays of the Condo
Original Air Date—13 April 2003
Finding an old note, Homer discovers Marge secretly hated him many years back. Upset, he leaves the house and moves in with two gays.
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Season 14, Episode 18: Dude, Where's My Ranch?
Original Air Date—27 April 2003
Homer's song, "Everybody Hates Ned Flanders", becomes a hit in Springfield, but the family leaves Springfield to live a couple of weeks in a ranch to escape Homer's song.
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Season 14, Episode 19: Old Yeller-Belly
Original Air Date—4 May 2003
Homer throws out Santa's Little Helper for not saving him from a fire, but soon the dog becomes Duff's new mascot.
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Season 14, Episode 20: Brake My Wife, Please
Original Air Date—11 May 2003
Because of Homer losing his driver's license, Marge has to drive everyone everywhere, which is so stressful for her that she accidentally runs over Homer leading to the two seeing a marriage counselor.
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Season 14, Episode 21: The Bart of War
Original Air Date—18 May 2003
Marge makes Bart quit hanging out with Milhouse after the two are caught invading the Flanders' home. She then starts a peer group based around Native American life for Bart, Nelson, Ralph and Database to participate in. When Bart finds out Milhouse has joined a different peer group, they soon are at odds as they see whose group can do more community service around Springfield.
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Season 14, Episode 22: Moe Baby Blues
Original Air Date—18 May 2003
After the blooming of a huge plant in Springfield's botanic gardens causes a stinking fume to spread across town, all the Springfieldians take their cars and drive away from the city. When the traffic is jammed on a bridge, Homer falls asleep. When he accelerates, he crashes into another car and Maggie is sent flying out the open roof window. In the mean time, Moe is about to commit suicide by jumping off the same bridge, which is prevented by Maggie falling into his arms. He then becomes crazily obsessed by the baby.
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Season 15
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Season 15, Episode 1: Treehouse of Horror XIV
Original Air Date—2 November 2003
First, Homer kills the Grim Reaper and takes his place in Reaper Madness. Then, Professor Frink's father is revived, only to kill people and steal their organs in Frinkenstein. Finally, Bart and Milhouse get a stop watch that can stop time in Stop the World, I Want To Goof Off.
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Season 15, Episode 2: My Mother the Carjacker
Original Air Date—9 November 2003
Homer's mother returns to Springfield, and the city pardons her from the charges against her. Mr Burns is furious about this and makes a plan to get Mona Simpson in prison.
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Season 15, Episode 3: The President Wore Pearls
Original Air Date—16 November 2003
Lisa feuds with Principal Skinner after being elected school president.
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Season 15, Episode 4: The Regina Monologues
Original Air Date—23 November 2003
Prime minister Tony Blair welcomes the Simpsons to England where they run into author J.K. Rowling and actor Ian McKellen.
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Season 15, Episode 5: The Fat and the Furriest
Original Air Date—30 November 2003
At the dump Homer is videotaped while being attacked by a bear. The town regards him a coward, so Homer decides to strike back at the bear.
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Season 15, Episode 6: Today, I Am a Clown
Original Air Date—7 December 2003
Krusty decides to do what he never did when he was thirteen years old - have a Bar Mitzvah.
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Season 15, Episode 7: 'Tis the Fifteenth Season
Original Air Date—14 December 2003
After spending all his money on an expensive gift for himself, the family thinks Homer should be less of an egoist. Therefore he tries replacing Ned Flanders as the 'good guy' in town.
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Season 15, Episode 8: Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays
Original Air Date—4 January 2004
A concert for babies ends in a riot, so the childless adults of Springfield gather to make the town less child-friendly. Of course Marge is against this proposition, so she forms her own group to prevent a yes on proposition 242.
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Season 15, Episode 9: I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot
Original Air Date—11 January 2004
While Lisa and Marge have trouble finding a successor for Snowball II, Homer pretends to be a robot and fights robot races to win Bart's affection.
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Season 15, Episode 10: Diatribe of a Mad Housewife
Original Air Date—25 January 2004
Marge is inspired to write a novel, but the storyline of the book (a fat, mean husband, and a handsome, sweet neighbor) makes Homer jealous.
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Season 15, Episode 11: Margical History Tour
Original Air Date—8 February 2004
Marge tells Lisa, Bart and Millhouse three history stories because the library doesn't have any.
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Season 15, Episode 12: Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Original Air Date—15 February 2004
Milhouse moves to Capital City, and therefore Lisa and Bart become best friends.
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Season 15, Episode 13: Smart & Smarter
Original Air Date—22 February 2004
When Maggie was revealed to have an IQ of 167, Lisa is no longer the genius of the family, causing a rivalry between the sisters.
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Season 15, Episode 14: The Ziff Who Came to Dinner
Original Air Date—14 March 2004
Artie Ziff turns out to be hiding out in the attic of the Simpsons.
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Season 15, Episode 15: Co-Dependent's Day
Original Air Date—21 March 2004
Marge takes up heavy drinking to spend more time with Homer. Bart and Lisa confront a famous movie director about the drop in quality his films have taken.
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Season 15, Episode 16: The Wandering Juvie
Original Air Date—28 March 2004
After playing a prank on the whole town, Bart is sentenced to six months of juvenile detention. There he meets Gina, who forces Bart to escape with her.
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Season 15, Episode 17: My Big Fat Geek Wedding
Original Air Date—18 April 2004
Mrs. Krabapel falls for Comic Book Guy and they plan a Star Trek like wedding. Principal Skinner plans to prevent it.
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Season 15, Episode 18: Catch 'Em If You Can
Original Air Date—25 April 2004
Homer and Marge try to have a vacation without the kids but Bart and Lisa follow them everywhere they go.
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Season 15, Episode 19: Simple Simpson
Original Air Date—2 May 2004
Homer becomes a costumed vigilante who uses pies for weapons after witnessing Lisa get humiliated at a competition at the state fair.
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Season 15, Episode 20: The Way We Weren't
Original Air Date—9 May 2004
Marge and Homer find out that they actually kissed each other at age 10 without knowing they were each other's first kisses, and tell the story about this.
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Season 15, Episode 21: Bart-Mangled Banner
Original Air Date—16 May 2004
An accidental photo showing Bart mooning the American flag makes the Simpsons the most hated family in town.
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Season 15, Episode 22: Fraudcast News
Original Air Date—23 May 2004
Lisa makes her own newspaper for publishing poems and such, and at the same time Mr Burns decides to buy every media in town to improve his image. In the end Lisa's newspaper is the only media in town not owned by Burns, which inspires the town's inhabitants to create their own newspapers.
Season 16
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Season 16, Episode 1: Treehouse of Horror XV
Original Air Date—7 November 2004
In "The Ned Zone," Ned gets the ability to tell people's deaths just by touching someone. In "In the Belly of the Boss," Mr. Burns accidentally swallows Maggie and the Simpsons try to get her out. In "Four Beheadings and a Funeral," Lisa and Bart try to solve the mystery of the mutton-chops murderer.
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Season 16, Episode 2: All's Fair in Oven War
Original Air Date—14 November 2004
Homer buys Marge a new kitchen, and Marge likes cooking in the new kitchen so much she attends the Ovenfresh Bakeoff.

Season 16, Episode 3: Sleeping with the Enemy
Original Air Date—21 November 2004
Because she thinks her own children do not appreciate her anymore, Marge becomes a mother figure for Nelson.
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Season 16, Episode 4: She Used to Be My Girl
Original Air Date—5 December 2004
Marge's old high school friend, the famous reporter Chloe Talbot, comes to Springfield, and Marge becomes jealous when Lisa begins idolizing Chloe.
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Season 16, Episode 5: Fat Man and Little Boy
Original Air Date—12 December 2004
Bart begins designing T-shirt slogans, and his T-shirts become very popular among the citizens of Springfield.
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Season 16, Episode 6: Midnight Rx
Original Air Date—16 January 2005
Homer goes to Canada with Apu and Ned to purchase Grampa's medication, but the three have problems getting home because the border guard thinks Apu is a terrorist.
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Season 16, Episode 7: Mommie Beerest
Original Air Date—30 January 2005
Homer gives Moe an enormous amount of money so he doesn't have to close down.
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Season 16, Episode 8: Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass
Original Air Date—6 February 2005
A video of Homer dancing becomes so popular that all major sports players hires Homer to design celebration dances for them.
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Season 16, Episode 9: Pranksta Rap
Original Air Date—13 February 2005
Bart went to a rap concert Marge told him not to go to. In order to avoid punishment from Marge, he makes Marge and Homer believe he has been kidnapped.
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Season 16, Episode 10: There's Something About Marrying
Original Air Date—20 February 2005
To gain new tourism dollars after a nationwide "Worst City" news report, Springfield legalizes gay marriage. Homer flips on the issue and sees money can be made marrying gay couples when Reverend Lovejoy refuses to do so. Come to find out, a family member is gay and wants Homer to perform the marriage.
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Season 16, Episode 11: On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister
Original Air Date—6 March 2005
After bullying her, Bart is restricted by court order to come too close to Lisa.
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Season 16, Episode 12: Goo Goo Gai Pan
Original Air Date—13 March 2005
Selma decides to adopt a child, so the whole family goes to China.
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Season 16, Episode 13: Mobile Homer
Original Air Date—20 March 2005
After a garage-cleaning accident, Marge wants Homer to get life insurance. Instead, the family gets an RV.
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Season 16, Episode 14: The Seven-Beer Snitch
Original Air Date—3 April 2005
Springfield builds an opera house, but since no-one attends it they convert it into a prison. Old and forgotten laws are used to fill the prison, and therefore Homer goes to jail for kicking a can five times in a row. In jail, Homer becomes a snitch
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Season 16, Episode 15: Future-Drama
Original Air Date—17 April 2005
Bart and Lisa see in to the future where their lives have changed.
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Season 16, Episode 16: Don't Fear the Roofer
Original Air Date—1 May 2005
Homer meets a new friend, Ray the Roofer, but gets confined to a mental institution when his friends and family think he made him up.
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Season 16, Episode 17: The Heartbroke Kid
Original Air Date—1 May 2005
Bart starts living on food from the new candy machine in school only, but he becomes so overweight that he has to go to a fat camp.
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Season 16, Episode 18: A Star Is Torn
Original Air Date—8 May 2005
Lisa attends a singing competition for children, and Homer becomes her manager because of his skill to write songs that the crowd loves.
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Season 16, Episode 19: Thank God It's Doomsday
Original Air Date—8 May 2005
Homer hears about the Rapture, and by using numerology to calculate when the Rapture is coming he learns that it is only one week away.
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Season 16, Episode 20: Home Away from Homer
Original Air Date—15 May 2005
After Homer humiliates Ned Flanders, Ned, Rod, and Todd decides to leave Springfield and live in Humbleton, Pennsylvania.
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Season 16, Episode 21: The Father, the Son, and the Holy Guest Star
Original Air Date—15 May 2005
Bart is expelled from Springfield Elementary, and Bart is therefore enrolled in St. Jerome's Catholic School.
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Season 17
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Season 17, Episode 1: Bonfire of the Manatees
Original Air Date—11 September 2005
When Marge leaves Homer because he allowed an adult movie being shot in their house, she seeks self fulfillment in protecting manatees.
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Season 17, Episode 2: The Girl Who Slept Too Little
Original Air Date—18 September 2005
A new cemetery right outside the window of Lisa's room makes Lisa suffer from many sleepless nights.
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Season 17, Episode 3: Milhouse of Sand and Fog
Original Air Date—25 September 2005
When Maggie is showing signs of being ill, the family goes to "the more boisterous house of worship" in town to find Dr. Hibbert, who tells them that Maggie is developing the chicken pox. After Maggie develops the disease, Marge tries to keep Homer away from her, since he has never had them. After Flanders expresses an interest in getting his kids infected, Homer and Marge open up the house for a "pox party." Milhouse's divorced parents are both at the party and after some "Margerita's" are consumed, find themselves getting back together. Meanwhile, Homer has developed the chicken pox and Marge tries to keep him from scratching. Milhouse likes the idea of his parents getting back together, but then begins to hate it when he has trouble getting either of them to pay any attention to him. After seeing an episode of The O.C. Milhouse and Bart come up with a plan to get his parent's separated again, they plant one of Marge's bras in Kirk & Luann's bed. They don't succeed in breaking them up; rather they break up Homer and Marge. Even after Bart confesses his guilt, Marge doesn't want anything to do with Homer, since he obviously doesn't trust him anymore. Bart concocts an outrageous scheme to get them back together, but it goes terribly wrong and both he and Homer find themselves in the river heading toward the falls needing to place their trust in Marge.
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Season 17, Episode 4: Treehouse of Horror XVI
Original Air Date—6 November 2005
In Bartificial Intelligence, Bart falls into a coma after trying to jump into a swimming pool off a window ledge. Dr. Hibbert says that this coma is permanent, so the Simpsons get a robot for a son. Bart wakes up, only to be abandoned by Homer. He stays with some robots and becomes a robot himself, able to destroy the robot that replaced him. In Survival of the Fattest, Mr. Burns invites a bunch of people, including Homer, to a hunting party. But it turns into World's Most Dangerous Game when Burns starts killing everyone he can with his gun. Homer stays alive and Marge defeats Burns and Smithers with a frying pan. In I've Grown a Costume on Your Face, a witch turns Springfield residents into the costumes they were wearing at a party. Lisa, who is Albert Einstien, tries to solve everything. She finds that Maggie can turn them back to normal, being a witch. No one wants to be normal again, but Maggie turns everyone into pacifiers.
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Season 17, Episode 5: Marge's Son Poisoning
Original Air Date—13 November 2005
Marge and Bart start spending more time together, and make a tradition of cycling to a tea house in a small village outside Springfield.
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Season 17, Episode 6: See Homer Run
Original Air Date—20 November 2005
Trying to win back Lisa's love, Homer puts on the Safety-Salamder suit and runs for mayor.
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Season 17, Episode 7: The Last of the Red Hat Mamas
Original Air Date—27 November 2005
Milhouse tutors Lisa in Italian, and Marge joins the Cheery Red Tomatoes, a group that plans to rob Mr. Burns of one million dollars worth of Fabergé eggs.
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Season 17, Episode 8: The Italian Bob
Original Air Date—11 December 2005
The Simpsons become lost in Italy, finding their way to a small town that Sideshow Bob has become the mayor of.
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Season 17, Episode 9: Simpsons Christmas Stories
Original Air Date—18 December 2005
Homer tells the tale of the first Christmas ever, while Grandpa pursues his decade-old feud with Santa.
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Season 17, Episode 10: Homer's Paternity Coot
Original Air Date—8 January 2006
When a frozen mailman from the 60's is found in a Springfield glacier, doubts arise about whether Abe really is Homer's father.
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Season 17, Episode 11: We're on the Road to D'owhere
Original Air Date—29 January 2006
When Homer is on his way to Vegas to meet up with his friends, he has to make a detour to take Bart to an education camp. Meanwhile, Marge has discovered a surprising source of income.
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Season 17, Episode 12: My Fair Laddy
Original Air Date—26 February 2006
Bart and Lisa bets whether Lisa can turn Groundskeeper Willie into a proper gentleman.
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Season 17, Episode 13: The Seemingly Never-Ending Story
Original Air Date—12 March 2006
Homer is stuck in a cave, so while Marge and Bart go looking for help, Lisa tells him a story. It is the story of her and Mr. Burns escaping a rampant goat, getting stuck in Burns's attic and Burns telling a story about Moe's treasure while they wait for help...
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Season 17, Episode 14: Bart Has Two Mommies
Original Air Date—19 March 2006
Marge is babysitting the Flanders kids, Homer goes to the zoo with Bart and Lisa, where Bart is kidnapped and adopted by a chimp.
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Season 17, Episode 15: Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife
Original Air Date—26 March 2006
As part of a new Fox show, the Simpsons participate in a wife-swap.
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Season 17, Episode 16: Million Dollar Abie
Original Air Date—2 April 2006
After blowing Springfield's chances for an NFL franchise, Grandpa goes to an assisted-suicide center, then becomes a bullfighter.
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Season 17, Episode 17: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore
Original Air Date—9 April 2006
Homer gets sent to India when the power plant is relocated there. Selma and Patty kidnap Richard Dean Anderson after he spurns their MacGyver fan club.
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Season 17, Episode 18: The Wettest Stories Ever Told
Original Air Date—23 April 2006
While waiting for the dinner at the Frying Dutchman, the family starts telling three stories about ships: "Journey on the Mayflower", "Mutiny on the Bounty", and "The Neptune Adventure".
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Season 17, Episode 19: Girls Just Want to Have Sums
Original Air Date—30 April 2006
Springfield Elemtentary is divided into two separate schools (one for boys, one for girls) following Principal Skinner's demotion. Concerned that the boys are receiving a higher standard of education, Lisa disguises herself as a boy.
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Season 17, Episode 20: Regarding Margie
Original Air Date—7 May 2006
After hitting her head on a stool Marge suffers from amnesia. Slowly but surely memories are starting to come back, except memories about Homer.
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Season 17, Episode 21: The Monkey Suit
Original Air Date—14 May 2006
After seeing a museum exhibit on evolution, in which creation is labeled a myth, an outraged Ned Flanders teams with Reverend Lovejoy to blackmail Principal Skinner into requiring creationism to be taught in classrooms, eventually at the expense of any mention of evolution. Lisa becomes outraged herself, and forms a student organization to teach evolution, leading to a creationism vs. evolution trail, a la Inherit the Wind.
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Season 17, Episode 22: Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play
Original Air Date—21 May 2006
Marge and Homer try their luck at celebrity marriage counselling.
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Season 18
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Season 18, Episode 1: The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer
Original Air Date—10 September 2006
When Fat Tony has to take a time-out due to a whacking attempt, Homer and Bart take over the business.
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Season 18, Episode 2: Jazzy & The Pussycats
Original Air Date—17 September 2006
Lisa becomes depressed when Bart becomes a better jazz musician than her. So she decides to set up an animal shelter in the Simpsons' attic.
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Season 18, Episode 3: Please Homer Don't Hammer 'em
Original Air Date—24 September 2006
Marge begins her own carpentry business, but Homer becomes the face of the business because nobody will take a female carpenter seriously. And Bart uses Principal Skinner's peanut allergy to his advantage.
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Season 18, Episode 4: Treehouse of Horror XVII
Original Air Date—5 November 2006
"Married to the Blob" - a take-off on The Blob, with Homer in the title role as radiation from a meteor turns him into a blob-like monster. "You Got to Know When to Golem" - A take-off on an old Jewish legend. "The Day the Earth Looked Stupid" - in the late 1930s, Kang and Kodos land in Springfield as part of an alien invasion, but the town, completely taken in by The War of the Worlds, doesn't pay much attention.
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Season 18, Episode 5: GI (Annoyed Grunt)
Original Air Date—12 November 2006
Homer is duped into signing up for the Army, and his hijinks after basic training ultimately results in a military occupation of Springfield.
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Season 18, Episode 6: Moe'N'A Lisa
Original Air Date—19 November 2006
Lisa helps Moe become a distinguished poet, but she turns on him when he takes all the credit for his newfound greatness.
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Season 18, Episode 7: Ice Cream of Margie: With the Light Blue Hair
Original Air Date—26 November 2006
Homer becomes an ice cream man after being fired from the plant, and Marge uses his leftover Popsicle sticks to create folk art figures.
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Season 18, Episode 8: The Haw-Hawed Couple
Original Air Date—10 December 2006
Bart and Nelson become best friends, but Bart surprisingly discovers that the fringe benefits aren't worth Nelson's neediness.
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Season 18, Episode 9: Kill Gil, Volumes I & II
Original Air Date—17 December 2006
The Simpsons let Gil stay with them during Christmas. However, he stays for 11 months because Marge can't tell him "no."
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Season 18, Episode 10: The Wife Aquatic
Original Air Date—7 January 2007
Homer returns Marge to Barnacle Bay, where she spent her beloved summer vacations. But when they get there, they discover that it is no longer a tourist spot.
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Season 18, Episode 11: Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times
Original Air Date—28 January 2007
While Homer tries to get revenge on a driver who cut him off, his family warns him of the folly of revenge by telling stories based on "The Count of Monte Cristo," "Revenge of the Nerds," and "Batman."
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Season 18, Episode 12: Little Big Girl
Original Air Date—11 February 2007
When Bart performs a heroic act, Springfield grants him 1 wish. Barts asks for a driver's license, and he drives to a nearby town. There, he meets a teen (Natalie Portman) who thinks he is 16, and the two begin dating.
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Season 18, Episode 13: Springfield Up
Original Air Date—18 February 2007
A parody of the "Up Series" of British documentaries, in which a filmmaker follows Homer and his friends from grade school into their 40s.
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Season 18, Episode 14: Yokel Chords
Original Air Date—4 March 2007
In a "The Sound of Music" parody, Lisa becomes a tutor for Cletus's seven children, until Krusty tries to exploit them as entertainers. Meanwhile, Bart becomes emotionally attached to his school-appointed psychiatrist.
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Season 18, Episode 15: Rome-old and Juli-eh
Original Air Date—11 March 2007
Selma and Grampa fall in love and end up getting married, a marriage both Homer and Patty are against, and in the end the married couple realize that their life together just cannot work out.
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Season 18, Episode 16: Homerazzi
Original Air Date—25 March 2007
Homer becomes a successful Paparazzi, but Springfield's celebrities decide to get their revenge on him.
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Season 18, Episode 17: Marge Gamer
Original Air Date—22 April 2007
Marge becomes a spectacle during a PTA meeting for not having an e-mail address, and she decides to take a chance on using the Internet. Amazed and delighted by all the Internet has to offer, Marge joins a popular role-playing fantasy game called "Earthland Realms." To Marge's dismay, the game has her interacting with practically the whole town of Springfield, including Bart, who happens to be the game's most feared and destructive player. Meanwhile, Homer saves Lisa's soccer game from cancellation after he volunteers to take the place of a referee who recently quit. However, Homer's refereeing skills only exasperate Lisa, and her competitive streak gets the best of her.
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Season 18, Episode 18: The Boys of Bummer
Original Air Date—29 April 2007
Bart becomes the most hated person in Springfield after he is the goat in a championship baseball game, and Homer new job as a mattress salesman ruins his and Marge's sex life.
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Season 18, Episode 19: Crook and Ladder
Original Air Date—6 May 2007
Homer, Moe, Apu and Principal Skinner become volunteer firefighters. But just because they're not getting paid doesn't mean that they can't find a way to receive compensation.
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Season 18, Episode 20: Stop or My Dog Will Shoot
Original Air Date—13 May 2007
Homer unwittingly drags the family into a cornfield maze after attempting to leave a boring Harvest fest that Marge brought them to. When everyone except Homer escapes, Santa's Little Helper rescues him and becomes the town hero. So the Simpsons enroll him in Police Dog Academy where he's teamed with Lou.
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Season 18, Episode 21: 24 Minutes
Original Air Date—20 May 2007
In a parody of "24," Bart and Lisa join forces to stop the school bullies from setting off a stink bomb at the school bake sale.
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Season 18, Episode 22: You Kent Always Say What You Want
Original Air Date—20 May 2007
After Kent Brockman is fired as a news anchor, he and Lisa use the Internet to expose the Fox News Conspiracy.
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Season 19
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Season 19, Episode 1: He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs
Original Air Date—23 September 2007
Homer falls in love with private planes after taking a flight to Chicago with Mr. Burns. So Marge hires Homer a "life manager" to help him think positively and find a job that will allow him to fly for a living.
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Season 19, Episode 2: Homer of Seville
Original Air Date—30 September 2007
Homer becomes an opera star after an injury improves his singing voice. His newfound popularity forces him to hire a personal assistant, who turns out to be an obsessed stalker.
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Season 19, Episode 3: Midnight Towboy
Original Air Date—7 October 2007
Homer becomes the most hated man in town after he becomes a tow truck driver, and Marge teaches Maggie to not be an over-dependent baby.
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Season 19, Episode 4: I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Original Air Date—14 October 2007
Marge promises to visit a convicted bank robber in prison, but is afraid to follow through. But when the convict escapes from prison, Marge is the first person he pays a visit to.
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Season 19, Episode 5: Treehouse of Horror XVIII
Original Air Date—4 November 2007
The eighteenth Simpsons Halloween Special features parodies of the movies "E.T." and "Mr. and Mrs. Smith."
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Season 19, Episode 6: Little Orphan Millie
Original Air Date—11 November 2007
Milhouse's parents are lost at sea, which causes him to become a troubled loner. But his new persona makes him the new most popular kid at school, which sparks jealousy in Bart.
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Season 19, Episode 7: Husbands and Knives
Original Air Date—18 November 2007
When Marge becomes a successful businesswoman, Homer becomes worried that she will dump him for a trophy husband. Therefore, he decides to have plastic surgery to make himself look like a hunk.
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Season 19, Episode 8: Funeral for a Fiend
Original Air Date—25 November 2007
Bart is responsible for Sideshow Bob's death after his latest attempt at revenge is foiled, but is his death actually part of the plan?
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Season 19, Episode 9: Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind
Original Air Date—16 December 2007
Homer goes to Dr. Frink to help him recover his memories from the night before, and he discovers, based on his interpretation of the memories, that Marge is having an affair.
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Season 19, Episode 10: E Pluribus Wiggum
Original Air Date—6 January 2008
Springfield becomes the site of the first presidential primary. The townspeople soon get sick of all of the presidential candidates sucking up to them, and decide to support their own write-in candidate: Ralph Wiggum.
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Season 19, Episode 11: That 90's Show
Original Air Date—27 January 2008
Homer and Marge tell the kids about their life in the early 1990s before they were born, when Marge was enrolled in Springfield College and Homer was the lead singer of a grunge rock band
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Season 19, Episode 12: Love, Springfieldian Style
Original Air Date—17 February 2008
A series of romantic Valentine's Day parodies based on "Bonnie and Clyde," "Lady and the Tramp," and "Sid and Nancy."
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Season 19, Episode 13: The DeBarted
Original Air Date—2 March 2008
The new prankster in Bart's fourth grade class actually turns out to be a mole brought in by Principal Skinner to infiltrate Bart's inner circle. Homer falls in love with his loaner car after Marge wrecks their old one.
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Season 19, Episode 14: Dial 'N' for Nerder
Original Air Date—9 March 2008
One of Bart's pranks results in Martin's death, but Lisa doesn't want him to confess because she would be considered an accomplice. Marge hires a television crew to find out if Homer is cheating on his diet.
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Season 19, Episode 15: Smoke on the Daughter
Original Air Date—30 March 2008
Marge has Lisa take up ballet, mainly to have Lisa live out her own childhood dreams. Lisa then succumbs to peer pressure from her ballet mates and takes up smoking. Meanwhile, Homer and Bart try to start their own beef jerky business.
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Season 19, Episode 16: Papa Don't Leech
Original Air Date—13 April 2008
When the Simpsons discover that Lurleen Lumpkin is on the skids, Marge reluctantly agrees to take her in and help her find her deadbeat dad who abandoned her 30 years ago.
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Season 19, Episode 17: Apocalypse Cow
Original Air Date—27 April 2008
Bart tries to save the cow he raised for his 4-H club from the slaughterhouse, and in the process winds up getting accidentally engaged to one of Cletus's daughters.
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Season 19, Episode 18: Any Given Sundance
Original Air Date—4 May 2008
Lisa's documentary about her family is accepted into the Sundance Film Festival. However, her family gets upset with her when they discover that the film is far from flattering.
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Season 19, Episode 19: Mona Leaves-a
Original Air Date—11 May 2008
Homer's mom dies, and as part of her will, she asks him to spread her ashes. However, her request turns out to be part of her final act of rebellion against the system.
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Season 19, Episode 20: All About Lisa
Original Air Date—18 May 2008
In a parody of "All About Eve," Lisa stabs Krusty in the back, takes his job, and wins a prestigious award. Meanwhile, Homer and Bart take up coin collecting.
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Season 20
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Season 20, Episode 1: Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes
Original Air Date—28 September 2008
Homer and Ned go into business together as bounty hunters, and Marge takes a job at an erotic bakery.
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Season 20, Episode 2: Lost Verizon
Original Air Date—5 October 2008
Bart gets in trouble with Marge after she finds out that he has Denis Leary's cell phone and is using it to make prank phone calls.
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Season 20, Episode 3: Double, Double, Boy in Trouble
Original Air Date—19 October 2008
Bart trades lives with his multi-millionaire lookalike, but discovers that his lookalike's life isn't all he thought it would be.
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Season 20, Episode 4: Treehouse of Horror XIX
Original Air Date—2 November 2008
The Simpsons' 19th Halloween Special, with parodies of "Transformers," "Mad Men," and "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown."
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Season 20, Episode 5: Dangerous Curves
Original Air Date—9 November 2008
The Simpsons take a Fourth of July vacation to a cabin hotel, which cause Homer and Marge to reminisce about two episodes from their past where they stayed in the cabin.
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Season 20, Episode 6: Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words
Original Air Date—16 November 2008
Homer gets a job breaking up couples, and Lisa becomes an expert crossword puzzle solver, but Homer bets against her in a competition.
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Season 20, Episode 7: Mypods and Boomsticks
Original Air Date—30 November 2008
Homer suspects that the family of Bart's new Muslim friend from Jordan is part of a terrorist plot, and Lisa becomes obsessed with her new MyPod.
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Season 20, Episode 8: The Burns and the Bees
Original Air Date—7 December 2008
Mr. Burns wins a professional basketball team in a poker game, and the new arena he plans to have Springfield build for the team threatens to interfere with Lisa's new bee sanctuary.
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Season 20, Episode 9: Lisa the Drama Queen
Original Air Date—25 January 2009
Lisa and her new best friend create their own fantasy world, but Marge doesn't want Lisa to see her friend anymore after she finds out that they're too far gone in it.
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Season 20, Episode 10: Take My Life, Please
Original Air Date—15 February 2009
Homer finds out that he actually won the senior class president election, and he gets an opportunity to find out how his life would have been different if it had happened.
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Season 20, Episode 11: How the Test Was Won
Original Air Date—1 March 2009
Bart and his fellow underachievers are taken on a "field trip" to Capital City so that they can miss the standardized test, and Homer makes sure that nothing bad happens until their insurance goes back into effect.
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Season 20, Episode 12: No Loan Again, Naturally
Original Air Date—8 March 2009
The Simpsons lose their house, but Flanders buys it and offers to rent it back to them. But when they turn out to be less-than-reliable renters, Flanders kicks them out.
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Season 20, Episode 13: Gone Maggie Gone
Original Air Date—15 March 2009
In order to rescue Maggie from a Catholic orphanage, Lisa must solve a series of puzzles to reveal the identity of a gem that will bring peace to Springfield.
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Season 20, Episode 14: In the Name of the Grandfather
Original Air Date—17 March 2009
The Simpsons take Grandpa to Ireland so he can go back to visit a pub he went to during the war, but Grandpa and Homer get suckered into buying the bar.
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Season 20, Episode 15: Wedding for Disaster
Original Air Date—29 March 2009
Homer is kidnapped moments before he and Marge are supposed to re-renew their vows. However, Marge comes to the conclusion that Homer left her at the altar.
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Season 20, Episode 16: Eeny Teeny Maya Moe
Original Air Date—5 April 2009
Moe begins dating a little person he met on the Internet, while Maggie is being bullied at the playground next to Moe's where Homer is leaving her.
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Season 20, Episode 17: The Good, the Sad and the Drugly
Original Air Date—19 April 2009
Bart gets Milhouse to take the rap for a prank at school, and then blows him off when he falls for a cute 5th grade do-gooder, prompting Milhouse's wrath. Meanwhile, Lisa begins taking "happy pills" to improve her negative outlook.
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Season 20, Episode 18: Father Knows Worst
Original Air Date—26 April 2009
Homer becomes a "helicopter parent" at Springfield Elementary by helping Bart finish a class project and helping Lisa become popular, and Marge finds a secret sauna in their house.
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Season 20, Episode 19: Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh
Original Air Date—3 May 2009
The Simpsons set up a fake residence in Waverly Hills so that Bart and Lisa can attend school there.
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Season 20, Episode 20: Four Great Women and a Manicure
Original Air Date—10 May 2009
A series of parodies based on four strong women: Queen Elizabeth, Snow White, Lady MacBeth, and Ayn Rand.
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Season 20, Episode 21: Coming to Homerica
Original Air Date—17 May 2009
Townspeople build a wall around Springfield to keep "immigrants" from Ogdenville from relocating to their town.
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Season 21
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Season 21, Episode 1: Homer the Whopper
Original Air Date—27 September 2009
A Hollywood studio makes a movie based on Comic Book Guy's comic book character "Everyman," and Homer is cast in the lead. However, Homer's weight fluctuations cause problems for the production.
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Season 21, Episode 2: Bart Gets a 'Z'
Original Air Date—4 October 2009
When Bart's prank gets Ms. Krabappel fired from Springfield Elementary School, he tries to make it up to her without letting her know that he was responsible.
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Season 21, Episode 3: The Great Wife Hope
Original Air Date—11 October 2009
Marge takes on the owner of an ultimate fighting league in the ring in order to get the sport banned in Springfield.
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Season 21, Episode 4: Treehouse of Horror XX
Original Air Date—18 October 2009
Lisa becomes livid with Miss Hoover, and in a series of homages to classic Hitchcock sets out for deadly revenge. Next, Krusty's latest fast-food sandwich transforms news anchor Kent Brockman into an enraged zombie and twenty-eight days later, cannibal zombies have overrun Springfield. In the final frightening fable, Homer accidentally falls through a trapdoor in Moe's tavern and impales himself on the pipes of Moe's microbrewery. Moe serves the barflies a glass of delicious beer flavored with Homer's blood and Homer, now half-man, half-brewing apparatus, returns for vengeance.
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Season 21, Episode 5: The Devil Wears Nada
Original Air Date—15 November 2009
Marge rediscovers her sexuality after appearing in a racy calendar, but Homer is too tired to respond to her advances because he is being worked to death by his new boss, Carl.
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Season 21, Episode 6: Pranks and Greens
Original Air Date—22 November 2009
Bart meets the boy responsible for the greatest prank in Springfield Elementary School history, and discovers that he's now a 19-year-old loser. Meanwhile, Marge is scolded for providing unhealthy snacks for Maggie's play group.
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Season 21, Episode 7: Rednecks and Broomsticks
Original Air Date—29 November 2009
Homer becomes an expert on moonshine when he starts hanging out with Cletus after he saves the Simpsons' lives, while Lisa becomes friends with three teenage Wiccans.
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Season 21, Episode 8: O Brother, Where Bart Thou?
Original Air Date—13 December 2009
Bart becomes jealous of Maggie and Lisa's special bond as sisters, so he goes to an orphanage and "adopts" a little brother.
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Season 21, Episode 9: Thursdays with Abie
Original Air Date—3 January 2010
Homer becomes jealous when a syndicated newspaper columnist begins publishing Grandpa's stories, while Bart is assigned to take care of the class's stuffed sheep for the weekend.
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Season 21, Episode 10: Once Upon a Time in Springfield
Original Air Date—10 January 2010
The antagonism between Krusty and the new female co-star forced upon him soon turns to romance, while a headhunter encourages Homer, Lenny and Carl to take a job at another nuclear power plant.
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Season 21, Episode 11: Million Dollar Maybe
Original Air Date—31 January 2010
Homer can't tell Marge he won the lottery because he was supposed to be giving a wedding toast when he bought the ticket. But Bart soon finds out where he's hiding the money and begins to blackmail him.
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Season 21, Episode 12: Boy Meets Curl
Original Air Date—14 February 2010
Homer and Marge become members of the U.S. Olympic curling team. At the games, Lisa becomes addicted to collecting pins, and Bart tries to save her.
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Season 21, Episode 13: The Color Yellow
Original Air Date—21 February 2010
While searching for an admirable ancestor for a class project, Lisa discovers the story of a relative named Eliza Simpson, who may or may not have helped a slave escape to freedom.
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Season 21, Episode 14: Postcards from the Wedge
Original Air Date—14 March 2010
When Bart unsuccessfully tries to play Homer and Marge against each other, he comes up with a dangerous prank that is sure to get their attention.
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Season 21, Episode 15: Stealing First Base
Original Air Date—21 March 2010
Bart gets Springfield Elementary School in legal trouble when he kisses the enigmatic daughter of two lawyers, while Lisa is depressed about being ostracized because she is smart.
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Season 21, Episode 16: The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed
Original Air Date—28 March 2010
Ned takes the Simpsons on a pilgrimage to Israel in order to try and save Homer, but soon discovers that he may not be worth saving.
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Season 21, Episode 17: American History X-cellent
Original Air Date—11 April 2010
Mr Burns is sent to prison for art theft, where a scary inmate introduces him to religion. Meanwhile Smithers becomes the boss at the plant, and Bart and Lisa try to share an ant farm.
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Season 21, Episode 18: Chief of Hearts
Original Air Date—18 April 2010
Homer and Chief Wiggum's new friendship is put to the test when the chief becomes needy after being shot, while Marge suspects that Bart may be dealing drugs.
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Season 21, Episode 19: The Squirt and the Whale
Original Air Date—25 April 2010
After a violent storm, Lisa tries to rally the townspeople and come to the rescue of a beached whale.
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Season 21, Episode 20: To Surveil, with Love
Original Air Date—2 May 2010
Springfield covers the town with surveillance cameras after Homer creates a bomb scare at the train station. Meanwhile, Lisa considers becoming a brunette so that people will take her more seriously.
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Season 21, Episode 21: Moe Letter Blues
Original Air Date—9 May 2010
Homer, Apu and Reverend Lovejoy all suspect that Moe may have left with one of their wives after receiving a mysterious letter, but which one is it?
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Season 21, Episode 22: The Bob Next Door
Original Air Date—16 May 2010
Bart is convinced that the Simpsons' new friendly, unassuming neighbor is actually Sideshow Bob in disguise, but will anyone believe him before it's too late?
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Season 21, Episode 23: Judge Me Tender
Original Air Date—23 May 2010
Moe's gruff and abrasive personality makes him the perfect hyper-critical judge, and lands him a spot on American Idol. Meanwhile, Homer makes Marge uncomfortable when he starts spending more time at home with Moe's now closed.
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Season 22
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Season 22, Episode 1: Elementary School Musical
Original Air Date—26 September 2010
While Homer and Bart accompany Krusty to Oslo so he can receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Marge enrolls Lisa for a week in performing arts camp.
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Season 22, Episode 2: Loan-a Lisa
Original Air Date—3 October 2010
Lisa uses the $50 she receives from Grandpa to give Nelson a microloan to jump-start his bicycle business, but soon comes to regret the decision.
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Season 22, Episode 3: MoneyBart
Original Air Date—10 October 2010
Lisa takes over as manager of Bart's baseball team and uses statistical analysis to build a winner, but she takes all of the fun out of it and causes Bart to quit the team.
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Season 22, Episode 4: Treehouse of Horror XXI
Original Air Date—7 November 2010
In "War and Pieces," the first of three spine-tingling tales, Marge, worried about the effects of excessively violent video games, encourages Bart and Milhouse to give wholesome, classic board games a shot. The best friends discover that board games aren't boring after all when they find themselves playing a real-life game in which they must beat all the challenges before they are allowed to return to home. The supernatural spells continue in "Tweenlight," when Lisa becomes smitten with a mysterious new student, Edmund, who also happens to be a vampire. When a romance blossoms, the young lovers run away to Dracula-la Land, leaving Homer to come to Lisa's rescue. In the final frightening fable, "Master and Cadaver," Homer and Marge set sail on a romantic second honeymoon, but are interrupted when they rescue Roger, a castaway who escaped an attempted poisoning on his ship. Convinced that Roger is sabotaging their getaway and plotting a murder of his own, Homer and Marge take matters into their own hands.
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Season 22, Episode 5: Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life
Original Air Date—14 November 2010
When the Simpsons visit Marge's childhood home and discover a box of her old belongings, Lisa is surprised to learn that Marge was once a stellar A+ student. After discovering that a distraction caused Marge's grades to slip in high school, Lisa fears that she will end up just like her mom unless she pledges to focus solely on academics. When Lisa learns that prep school Cloisters Academy is accepting new students, Marge puts her feelings aside and makes a secret deal allowing Lisa to attend her dream school. Meanwhile, Bart puts Nelson and his bully ways in place and unintentionally claims the title of School Bully, and Lisa learns a lesson in family and altruism.
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Season 22, Episode 6: The Fool Monty
Original Air Date—21 November 2010
After learning that he is suffering from multiple illnesses and has only a few weeks to live, Mr. Burns becomes distraught by the town's less-than-sensitive reaction to his announcement. Following an unexpected turn of events, Bart finds Mr. Burns weak and vulnerable in the wilderness and secretly takes him into the Simpsons' home. But when Homer and Marge learn about their new houseguest, they decide it's payback time, and Lisa, determined to stand up for Mr. Burns, learns that old habits die hard.
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Season 22, Episode 7: How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?
Original Air Date—28 November 2010
Bart helps nurse an injured pigeon back to health. After Santa's Little Helper eats the bird, Bart has a hard time coping with the loss. Worried that Bart needs some help getting over the loss, Marge and Homer take him to a therapy session with Dr. Thurston, who advises that the only cure for Bart’s blues is to give away the family dog, but when the Simpsons visit the pup’s new home, a shock causes them to rethink their decision.
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Season 22, Episode 8: The Flight Before Christams
Original Air Date-5 December 2010
Marge receives a night time visit from the most powerful force in the universe, Martha Claus (Martha Stewart), who teaches her the true meaning of Christmas. In a different segment, the Simpsons (as puppets) get ready to go to Hawaii, but Mr. Burns and Moe's new girlfriend, Katy Perry delay the trip.
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Season 22, Episode 9: Donnie Fatso
Original Air Date-12 December 2010
Homer spends New Year’s Eve in the Springfield Penitentiary after getting caught bribing an official. An FBI investigator offers to reduce his jail time if Homer agrees to go undercover as an informant to investigate Fat Tony. When Homer forges a special bond with Fat Tony and his family, he becomes conflicted between his obligation to the government and his loyalty to his new family. After an unexpected turn of events, Fat Tony’s cousin Fit Tony seeks to settle a score with Homer, but winds up teaching him an important lesson.
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Season 22, Episode 10: TBA
Original Air Date- TBA