The BEST episodes directed by Jim Reardon

Homer the Great
star
8.15
2116 votes

#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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Lemon of Troy
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8.09
1766 votes

#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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22 Short Films About Springfield
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8.03
1506 votes

#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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Mr. Plow
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7.94
2142 votes

#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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King-Size Homer
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7.94
2073 votes

#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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The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson
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7.92
2004 votes

#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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Duffless
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7.91
1729 votes

#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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El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Our Homer)
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7.90
1518 votes

#8 - 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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Homer Goes to College
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7.90
2417 votes

#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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Homer the Heretic
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7.89
2128 votes

#10 - 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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Homer at the Bat
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7.89
1676 votes

#11 - 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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Treehouse of Horror V
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7.89
2312 votes

#12 - Treehouse of Horror V

The Simpsons - Season 6 - Episode 6

In "The Shinning," Homer becomes groundskeeper of Mr. Burns' isolated mountain mansion. Next, in "Time and Punishment," Homer tries to fix the toaster and winds up traveling through time. 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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Bart Gets an Elephant
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7.86
1550 votes

#13 - 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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Homer's Enemy
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7.85
1804 votes

#14 - 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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Bart of Darkness
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7.81
2320 votes

#15 - 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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Homer the Vigilante
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7.81
1924 votes

#16 - Homer the Vigilante

The Simpsons - Season 5 - Episode 11

When a cat burglar prowls Springfield, Homer forms a citizens' watch group that winds up breaking more laws than they protect. When the cat burglar sets his sights on the world's biggest cubic zirconia, a clue comes from an unexpected source.

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Marge in Chains
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7.80
1802 votes

#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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Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo
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7.77
1270 votes

#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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Trash of the Titans
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7.71
1481 votes

#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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When Flanders Failed
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7.69
2090 votes

#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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Bart the Fink
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7.67
1613 votes

#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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Brush with Greatness
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7.60
1651 votes

#22 - 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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Saturdays of Thunder
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7.60
1700 votes

#23 - 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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Simple Simpson
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7.58
1156 votes

#24 - Simple Simpson

The Simpsons - Season 15 - Episode 19

Homer is intrigued by a commercial that talks about a contest that will allow the winner, the finder of a golden ticket, a trip to "Farmer Billy's Bacon Factory." Homer buys a lot of pork products but is only able to find a silver ticket, which allows him to judge the pig competition at the county fair. When Homer sees an injustice being done to Lisa's entry in the place setting competition, he decides to take action. Remembering Chief Wiggum's warning about felony assault, he disguises himself as "Pie Man" and delivers a pie in the face as revenge. He disappears as quickly as he came, making Springfield wonder if they will ever see him again. When Bart gets ripped off by Comic Book Guy, "Pie Man" delivers some "key lime justice." The police decide that "Pie Man" needs to be stopped and they shoot him when he makes his next appearance. He takes time out from his fleeing to save Marge and then kisses her, even though she tells him she's a married woman. Later at home, the wounded Homer makes a promise to Lisa (who's figured out his disguise) that he will stop his pie avenging. When Mr. Burns goes too far, "Pie Man" makes another appearance, but his escape from the plant is thwarted by his own laziness. Mr. Burns turns him into his personal hit man. Homer finds himself in a dilemma when Mr. Burns wants him to deliver a pie in the face of Lisa's Buddhist hero the Dalai Lama. When he comes clean in front of a crowd, no one believes that he was capable of being the "Pie Man," only his family believes in him.

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Dog of Death
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7.58
1501 votes

#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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Lisa's Wedding
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7.50
1734 votes

#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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Bart's Friend Falls in Love
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7.49
1417 votes

#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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Burns Baby Burns
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7.49
1694 votes

#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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My Sister, My Sitter
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7.48
1488 votes

#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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Alone Again, Natura-Diddily
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7.43
1431 votes

#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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Itchy & Scratchy & Marge
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7.38
1852 votes

#31 - 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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Treehouse of Horror XII
star
7.38
1981 votes

#32 - 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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Bart's Dog Gets an F
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7.36
1583 votes

#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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Large Marge
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7.26
1488 votes

#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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