The BEST episodes directed by Jim Reardon
#1 - Homer the Great
The Simpsons - Season 6 - Episode 12
Homer joins the secret society of the Stonecutters and is suddenly exalted when the brethren discover his birthmark. The ancient order is shaken to the core by the ineptitude of its new Chosen One.
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#2 - Lemon of Troy
The Simpsons - Season 6 - Episode 24
The simmering rivalry between Springfield and a neighboring town heats up when Shelbyville kids steal Springfield's prized lemon tree.
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#3 - 22 Short Films About Springfield
The Simpsons - Season 7 - Episode 21
Bart and Milhouse wonder if anything interesting happens to the citizens of Springfield, which leads to a series of interconnected vignettes.
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#4 - Mr. Plow
The Simpsons - Season 4 - Episode 9
Homer starts a thriving snow-plowing business, but cutthroat competition arrives when Barney sets up shop as the "Plow King." When an avalanche buries Barney, Homer realizes the rivalry has gone too far.
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#5 - King-Size Homer
The Simpsons - Season 7 - Episode 7
Homer tries to gain sixty pounds so he can stay home on disability. When he nearly causes a catastrophe at the plant, Homer reconsiders his plan.
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#6 - The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson
The Simpsons - Season 9 - Episode 1
Homer must travel to New York to get his car back, which is illegally parked at World Trade Center Plaza.
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#7 - Duffless
The Simpsons - Season 4 - Episode 16
After a DUI, Homer swears off beer for a month. Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa's sibling rivalry plays out in the school science fair.
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#8 - Homer the Heretic
The Simpsons - Season 4 - Episode 3
After skipping church one Sunday morning, Homer decides to quit church altogether and spend Sundays worshiping in his own way -- with cigars and beer.
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#9 - Homer Goes to College
The Simpsons - Season 5 - Episode 3
Burns discovers that Homer is grossly unqualified to be a nuclear safety inspector, so Homer enrolls at Springfield University to study nuclear physics. While there, Homer befriends three nerds and instigates a prank that gets them expelled.
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#10 - Treehouse of Horror V
The Simpsons - Season 6 - Episode 6
In "The Shinning," Homer becomes groundskeeper of Mr. Burns' isolated mountain mansion. In "Time and Punishment," Homer tries to fix the toaster and winds up time traveling. In "Nightmare Cafeteria," Principal Skinner finds an ingenious way to reduce overcrowding in the detention room and deal with cafeteria budget cuts.
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#11 - El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Our Homer)
The Simpsons - Season 8 - Episode 9
After eating a dish laced with potent peppers during the chili cookoff, Homer has hallucinations where a mystical coyote urges him to find his soulmate.
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#12 - Homer at the Bat
The Simpsons - Season 3 - Episode 17
Homer and his co-workers qualify for the plant softball team's league final, but Mr. Burns hires nine professional MLB players in order to win a $1 million bet.
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#13 - Homer's Enemy
The Simpsons - Season 8 - Episode 23
A hardworking new employee at the power plant is consumed with resentment at Homer's undeserved success.
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#14 - Bart Gets an Elephant
The Simpsons - Season 5 - Episode 17
Bart wins a wacky radio contest and forgoes the cash to claim the gag prize instead: an elephant.
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#15 - Homer the Vigilante
The Simpsons - Season 5 - Episode 11
When a cat burglar prowls Springfield, Homer forms a vigilante group that winds up breaking more laws than they protect.
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#16 - Bart of Darkness
The Simpsons - Season 6 - Episode 1
Stuck in his room with a broken leg, Bart hears a high-pitched scream. When he looks through his telescope, he sees a guilty Ned Flanders burying the evidence.
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#17 - Marge in Chains
The Simpsons - Season 4 - Episode 21
Overwhelmed by her family's demands during a flu epidemic, Marge accidentally shoplifts at the Kwik-E-Mart and winds up in prison.
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#18 - Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo
The Simpsons - Season 10 - Episode 23
After their bank account is drained at a cyber-cafe, the Simpsons go on a disastrous low-budget trip to Japan, where they wind up as contestants on a humiliating game show.
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#19 - Trash of the Titans
The Simpsons - Season 9 - Episode 22
Homer feuds with the Springfield garbage men and decides to run for Sanitation Commissioner. After winning the election with a sleazy campaign, Homer can’t keep the extravagant promises he made to the town.
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#20 - When Flanders Failed
The Simpsons - Season 3 - Episode 3
When Ned Flanders opens a store for left-handed people, Homer wants him to fail...
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#21 - Bart the Fink
The Simpsons - Season 7 - Episode 15
In a scheme to get Krusty's autograph, Bart sends him a check. When Krusty's offshore holding corporation endorses the check, his illegal tax shelter is exposed. In despair after the government auctions off his possessions, Krusty fakes his own death.
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#22 - Saturdays of Thunder
The Simpsons - Season 3 - Episode 9
Homer tries to bond with Bart by building a soapbox racer. On race day, Bart must decide between driving Martin’s aerodynamic racer and disappointing Homer, or driving his own racer and losing to Nelson.
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#23 - Brush with Greatness
The Simpsons - Season 2 - Episode 18
Marge rediscovers her interest in art and takes up painting. When Mr. Burns hires her to paint his official portrait, Marge tries but fails to find his “inner beauty.”
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#24 - Simple Simpson
The Simpsons - Season 15 - Episode 19
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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#25 - Dog of Death
The Simpsons - Season 3 - Episode 19
After the Simpsons regret paying for an expensive surgery for Santa's Little Helper, he runs away from home and is trained by Mr. Burns to become an attack dog.
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#26 - Lisa's Wedding
The Simpsons - Season 6 - Episode 19
A fortune teller foresees Lisa's future marriage to an upper-crust Harvard classmate. After a series of embarrassing incidents, Lisa comes to realize that even though her family may not be classy, she loves them the way they are.
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#27 - Bart's Friend Falls in Love
The Simpsons - Season 3 - Episode 23
Everything’s coming up Milhouse when Bart’s best friend falls in love with the new girl at school. Jealous, Bart snitches to Milhouse’s father and the lovebirds are separated.
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#28 - Burns Baby Burns
The Simpsons - Season 8 - Episode 4
Mr. Burns' boorish long-lost son Larry gets the brush-off from Burns, but Homer hatches a plan to reconcile them.
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#29 - My Sister, My Sitter
The Simpsons - Season 8 - Episode 17
Lisa has a stellar reputation as a babysitter, but when Homer and Marge leave her in charge of Bart and Maggie, everything starts going wrong.
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#30 - Alone Again, Natura-Diddily
The Simpsons - Season 11 - Episode 14
Ned's wife Maude is inadvertently killed by a T-shirt accident at an auto race. Homer and his family try to help Ned cope.
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#31 - Treehouse of Horror XII
The Simpsons - Season 13 - Episode 1
In “Hex and the City” a gypsy puts a curse on Homer. In “House of Whack” the Simpsons' new automated house malfunctions and tries to kill Homer. And in “Wiz Kids” Bart and Lisa attend a school for wizards.
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#32 - Itchy & Scratchy & Marge
The Simpsons - Season 2 - Episode 9
Marge wages a one-woman campaign against violence on the Itchy and Scratchy Show. She wins that battle, but draws the line at censoring Michelangelo's "David."
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#33 - Bart's Dog Gets an F
The Simpsons - Season 2 - Episode 16
After a series of destructive acts, Homer decides that Santa's Little Helper must go unless he passes obedience school. As the dog's last hours with the family approach, Bart must find a way to get through to him.
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#34 - Large Marge
The Simpsons - Season 14 - Episode 4
Worried that Homer isn't attracted to her, Marge goes in for a liposuction procedure but is accidentally given breast implants. When Bart and Milhouse try to imitate a stunt done by Krusty the Clown, media watchdog groups force him to make his show more safety-conscious and less fun.
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