The BEST episodes directed by Mark Kirkland

Burns' Heir
star
8.02
1560 votes

#1 - Burns' Heir

The Simpsons - Season 5 - Episode 18

The childless Mr. Burns selects Bart as his heir and begins grooming him for his new role. As a test of loyalty, Mr. Burns orders Bart to fire Homer.

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Mountain of Madness
star
8.01
1580 votes

#2 - Mountain of Madness

The Simpsons - Season 8 - Episode 12

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

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Last Exit to Springfield
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7.92
1878 votes

#3 - Last Exit to Springfield

The Simpsons - Season 4 - Episode 17

Homer negotiates his union's contract with Mr. Burns, mindful that he needs a dental plan for Lisa's new braces. Burns mistakes Homer's utter ineptitude for strategy and concedes, on the condition that Homer resign as union president.

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The Old Man and the Lisa
star
7.92
1457 votes

#4 - The Old Man and the Lisa

The Simpsons - Season 8 - Episode 21

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

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Lisa the Vegetarian
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7.91
2172 votes

#5 - Lisa the Vegetarian

The Simpsons - Season 7 - Episode 5

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

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Team Homer
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7.89
1550 votes

#6 - Team Homer

The Simpsons - Season 7 - Episode 12

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

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Homer and Apu
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7.87
1800 votes

#7 - Homer and Apu

The Simpsons - Season 5 - Episode 13

Fired for selling tainted meat to Homer, Apu tries to make amends to the Simpsons, and Homer joins him in a pilgrimage to Kwik-E-Mart headquarters in India.

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The Computer Wore Menace Shoes
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7.79
1495 votes

#8 - The Computer Wore Menace Shoes

The Simpsons - Season 12 - Episode 6

As Mr. X, Homer starts his own web page where he reveals Springfield's secrets. But when his information runs out, he resorts to making up news. When one of his stories turns out to be true, he is kidnapped and taken to "The Island," a place where those who know too much are taken out of society.

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Homer vs. Patty and Selma
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7.77
1672 votes

#9 - Homer vs. Patty and Selma

The Simpsons - Season 6 - Episode 17

Desperate for money, Homer takes a loan from his sisters-in-law, Patty and Selma, who make him their slave. Bart discovers a natural talent for ballet.

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Sideshow Bob Roberts
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7.76
1646 votes

#10 - Sideshow Bob Roberts

The Simpsons - Season 6 - Episode 5

Backed by a cabal of Republicans and the talk radio blowhard Birch Barlow, Sideshow Bob runs for mayor of Springfield. When new mayor Bob decides to build a freeway right through the Simpson's' home, Bart and Lisa set out to prove the election was rigged.

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A Fish Called Selma
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7.75
1336 votes

#11 - A Fish Called Selma

The Simpsons - Season 7 - Episode 19

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

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The Homer They Fall
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7.72
1881 votes

#12 - The Homer They Fall

The Simpsons - Season 8 - Episode 3

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

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Summer of 4 Ft. 2
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7.70
1466 votes

#13 - Summer of 4 Ft. 2

The Simpsons - Season 7 - Episode 25

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

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Behind the Laughter
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7.69
1068 votes

#14 - Behind the Laughter

The Simpsons - Season 11 - Episode 22

In this satire of VH1's "Behind The Music," we learn the secrets of the Simpsons' rise, fall, and ultimate success.

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Girly Edition
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7.69
1458 votes

#15 - Girly Edition

The Simpsons - Season 9 - Episode 21

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

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The Springfield Connection
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7.67
1690 votes

#16 - The Springfield Connection

The Simpsons - Season 6 - Episode 23

After Marge helps catch a petty criminal, the adrenaline rush inspires her to join the Springfield Police Department. Marge experiences feelings of power and authority that she's never known before, but police corruption makes her question her newfound calling.

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Kamp Krusty
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7.63
2210 votes

#17 - Kamp Krusty

The Simpsons - Season 4 - Episode 1

When Bart and Lisa attend Kamp Krusty, they find the summer camp is more like a prison camp. When Krusty doesn't show up, the kids seize control and take their case to the media.

Fear of Flying
star
7.61
1886 votes

#18 - Fear of Flying

The Simpsons - Season 6 - Episode 11

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

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Marge Simpson in: 'Screaming Yellow Honkers'
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7.58
1326 votes

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

The Simpsons - Season 10 - Episode 15

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

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Bart Carny
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7.58
1442 votes

#20 - Bart Carny

The Simpsons - Season 9 - Episode 12

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

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Lisa's Rival
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7.56
2144 votes

#21 - Lisa's Rival

The Simpsons - Season 6 - Episode 2

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

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Dark Knight Court
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7.56
2042 votes

#22 - Dark Knight Court

The Simpsons - Season 24 - Episode 16

Lisa comes to her brother's defense when Bart is accused of an Easter prank involving the school marching band, the horn section and some rotten eggs. Meanwhile, Mr. Burns seizes the opportunity to realize his lifelong ambition to become a superhero.

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The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace
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7.56
1698 votes

#23 - The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace

The Simpsons - Season 10 - Episode 2

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

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Don't Fear the Roofer
star
7.55
1024 votes

#24 - Don't Fear the Roofer

The Simpsons - Season 16 - Episode 16

Homer meets a new friend, Ray the Roofer, but gets confined to a mental institution when his friends and family believe he made him up.

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Beware My Cheating Bart
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7.54
2281 votes

#25 - Beware My Cheating Bart

The Simpsons - Season 23 - Episode 18

When Bart supervises Jimbo's girlfriend at a movie, she develops a crush on him; Homer is persuaded to buy a state-of-the-art treadmill with a television, and he becomes obsessed with watching it from the treadmill, but not actually working out.

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The Parent Rap
star
7.52
1763 votes

#26 - The Parent Rap

The Simpsons - Season 13 - Episode 2

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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He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs
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7.51
1900 votes

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

The Simpsons - Season 19 - Episode 1

After Homer saves Mr. Burns' life he is rewarded with a trip in Mr. Burns' private plane. A depressed Homer realizes he will never again receive a chance to fly in a luxurious private jet and Marge hires Homer a life coach to help get him out of his rut.

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Mommie Beerest
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7.46
1243 votes

#28 - Mommie Beerest

The Simpsons - Season 16 - Episode 7

The family is celebrating by having brunch at a fancy restaurant; Homer has finally paid off the mortgage. Lisa and Bart get into a food fight, embarrassing Homer. Homer goes to Moe's, where a visit from the health inspector, results in his death from eating one of Moe's pickled eggs. The new health inspector comes down hard and Moe's is closed until the violations are cleared up. The regulars hold an Irish wake for the demise of Moe's. Homer decides to help Moe reopen his bar; and he gets a new mortgage for their home. When Marge finds out, as a new co-owner she goes with Homer to the bar and tells Moe that there are going to be changes until he pays them back. On Homer's next visit, he finds Marge behind the bar, protecting their investment. She sends him home to take care of the kids, while she sells Moe on the idea of remodeling the place into an English pub. The new place opens and is a success; the kids tell Homer that they've noticed that Marge is spending more time at Moe's than he ever did. Homer becomes worried; but Marge tells him there is nothing to worry about. They go to a movie together, but they are joined by Moe. Homer is more worried than ever; Lenny and Carl tell Homer that Marge and Moe are having an emotional affair. When Marge and Moe are leaving to go to a convention together in Aruba, Homer makes a mad dash to the airport and gets to the airplane as it is taxing down the runaway. He confronts Moe, but Moe makes him realize that he really doesn't know that much about his wife. Homer concedes defeat, but Marge tells Moe that she doesn't love him. She tells Homer that she is totally committed to him. In Aruba, Marge makes Moe realize that he might be able to make a woman happy some day with a few changes. Marge realizes that no one is home watching the kids, but the kids aren't at home as Bart has them entered in a European balloon race.

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Treehouse of Horror VIII
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7.43
1791 votes

#29 - Treehouse of Horror VIII

The Simpsons - Season 9 - Episode 4

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

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The Old Man and the C Student
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7.43
1041 votes

#30 - The Old Man and the C Student

The Simpsons - Season 10 - Episode 20

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

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Homer Goes to Prep School
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7.42
2075 votes

#31 - Homer Goes to Prep School

The Simpsons - Season 24 - Episode 9

With the end of the world looming, Homer decides to join an off the grid group of survivalists who've set up a secret sanctuary outside of Springfield to prep for the apocalypse. However, a skeptical Marge is suspicious of the plans.

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Sweets and Sour Marge
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7.41
1427 votes

#32 - Sweets and Sour Marge

The Simpsons - Season 13 - Episode 8

Marge rallies for a ban on sugar after Springfield is declared America's fattest town.

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D'oh-in in the Wind
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7.41
1264 votes

#33 - D'oh-in in the Wind

The Simpsons - Season 10 - Episode 6

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

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My Big Fat Geek Wedding
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7.38
1052 votes

#34 - My Big Fat Geek Wedding

The Simpsons - Season 15 - Episode 17

Principal Seymour Skinner and Ms. Edna Krabappel are finally getting married. Edna has a great bachelorette party at the Simpson house, featuring Duffman and a top-less Chief Wiggum; meanwhile at Seymour's bachelor party at Moe's, he confesses to Homer the fact that he is getting cold feet. When the actual event is about to occur, Edna has second thoughts; feeling that Seymour has never been on board with this whole idea all along. Edna runs from the ceremony. Unknowingly both Homer and Marge are each with the pair in an attempt to get them back together. The attempt fails when the state of Homer and Marge's own marriage gets in the way. Edna returns a gift to the Comic Book Guy. She becomes charmed by his banter and agrees to accompany him to lunch. Homer tries having Seymour serenade Edna, but they discover she's seeing Comic Book Guy. The family goes to Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con to try to keep Edna from making a big mistake. After seeing Futurama creator Matt Groening, they find Edna being proposed to by a Klingon clad Comic Book Guy. Seymour enters wearing a Catwoman outfit and begins battling Comic Book Guy. Edna stops the fight, and tells the pair that neither man is for her. Now Homer must make some amends to Marge to keep his marriage together.

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Little Big Mom
star
7.36
1283 votes

#35 - Little Big Mom

The Simpsons - Season 11 - Episode 10

When Marge leaves the house to recuperate from a skating injury, everything goes to hell - until Lisa convinces Homer and Bart they have leprosy.

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Diatribe of a Mad Housewife
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7.35
1137 votes

#36 - Diatribe of a Mad Housewife

The Simpsons - Season 15 - Episode 10

Homer compromises the power plant's security system and as a result gets fired. Marge and the kids go to a bookstore and while there she sits in a on a book reading and then asks the author if anyone can write a book. The answer gives Marge an idea. Meanwhile, Homer has gotten a job as a car salesman; but there is an ambulance on the lot that seduces Homer into quitting that job and becoming an ambulance driver. Marge wants to start writing her novel and Homer agrees to watch the kids, while putting in his night shift as an ambulance driver. Marge completes her novel and lets Lisa read it. Seeing one of the characters is hard on her father, Lisa suggests that Marge let Homer read the novel. Homer makes an attempt, fails and tells her that he did. Marge gets her novel published and the kids worry that if Homer ever reads it or sees it as a MADtv sketch, he will be heartbroken. Marge's novel comes out and everyone in Springfield is talking about it. Homer gets the book on tape version, as read by the Olsen twins, and finds out what everyone is talking about. Mad Homer chases after Flanders to do something he should have taken care of a long time ago.

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Brother's Little Helper
star
7.33
1694 votes

#37 - Brother's Little Helper

The Simpsons - Season 11 - Episode 2

Bart is put on medication to control his behavior, but the pills cause him to become paranoid and insane.

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Pygmoelian
star
7.33
1077 votes

#38 - Pygmoelian

The Simpsons - Season 11 - Episode 16

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

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Three Gays of the Condo
star
7.32
1272 votes

#39 - Three Gays of the Condo

The Simpsons - Season 14 - Episode 17

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

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Homer the Father
star
7.31
2781 votes

#40 - Homer the Father

The Simpsons - Season 22 - Episode 12

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

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All's Fair in Oven War
star
7.30
1833 votes

#41 - All's Fair in Oven War

The Simpsons - Season 16 - Episode 2

Marge takes up baking in her new kitchen and enters the great Oven Fresh bake-off contest. But with stiff and ruthless competition, she resorts to cheating. After discovering Homer’s old Playdude magazines, Homer tells Bart about the birds and bees, which a horrified Bart quickly spreads to other children.

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The Italian Bob
star
7.30
1107 votes

#42 - The Italian Bob

The Simpsons - Season 17 - Episode 8

After being humiliated by Mrs. Krabappel's class, Mr. Burns finally decides to buy a new car, so he orders a Lamborgotti Fasterossa. He sends Homer and his family to the factory in Italy to pick the car up. The family takes a tour of Italy in the new car, but an accident with the car and a cheese truck has the family pushing the car into the town of Salsiccia. They find out that only one person in the town speaks English and it happens to be their mayor. The family goes to meet the mayor and they are surprised to see that it is Sideshow Bob, and he is equally surprised to see them. Sideshow Bob tells them how he came to Italy, become mayor and started a family with his wife (Francesca) and son (Gino). He hopes that the Simpsons will keep the secret of his criminal past, but Lisa’s first exposure to drinking wine leads to loose lips, which sinks his ship. Sideshow Bob, being no longer welcome in his new home, swears a vendetta on the Simpson family. The Simpsons go on the run from Sideshow Bob, who is joined by his wife and son as the vendetta affects their entire family. In Rome, the family discovers that Krusty is preparing to perform the lead in “I Pagliacci.” The Simpsons hide as extras within the show, but Krusty gets tossed off-stage only to be replaced by Sideshow Bob, whose family has the Simpsons surrounded. Krusty and his limo save the day, while Sideshow Bob and his family adjust to their unresolved vendetta.

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Simpson Safari
star
7.28
1244 votes

#43 - Simpson Safari

The Simpsons - Season 12 - Episode 17

The Simpsons win a trip to Africa after Homer finds a golden animal cracker from the 60's in the loft.

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Fatzcarraldo
star
7.27
1687 votes

#44 - Fatzcarraldo

The Simpsons - Season 28 - Episode 14

When all the fast food restaurants in Springfield become healthy, Homer turns to the last bastion of greasy food for comfort — and digs up some childhood memories along the way. Meanwhile, Lisa must find a good news story when the future of her school radio station is in jeopardy.

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Moe 'N' a Lisa
star
7.27
1335 votes

#45 - Moe 'N' a Lisa

The Simpsons - Season 18 - Episode 6

Lisa aides Moe in discovering his inner-poet and he gains swift popularity and recognition from a group of successful American authors, when Lisa helps to get his poetry published. However, Lisa is crushed, when Moe enjoys his newfound success with literary giants and fails to credit Lisa for her assistance in his poetry.

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Helter Shelter
star
7.26
1346 votes

#46 - Helter Shelter

The Simpsons - Season 14 - Episode 5

The Simpsons family must participate in a reality television show in which they try to live in the same way that the families did in the 1800s.

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Postcards from the Wedge
star
7.26
2698 votes

#47 - Postcards from the Wedge

The Simpsons - Season 21 - Episode 14

When Bart fails to turn in his homework, Mrs. Krabappel sends a letter home about Bart's behaviour. Despite Bart's best efforts to intercept it, Homer reads the letter, and he and Marge visit Principal Skinner for a parent-teacher conference. Furious, Homer punishes him, but Marge takes a more sympathetic approach. When Bart realizes he can pit Homer and Marge against each other to his benefit, his scheming reaches new heights.

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Homer Scissorhands
star
7.26
2668 votes

#48 - Homer Scissorhands

The Simpsons - Season 22 - Episode 20

After Homer discovers a genius talent for styling hair and opens his own salon, he becomes Springfield’s most in-demand hair stylist. But having to listen to women’s problems and gossip all day long leads Homer to believe his gift may actually be a curse. Meanwhile, when Milhouse decides to live each day to the fullest, he comes out of his shell and professes his love for Lisa, only to have his heart broken. Milhouse then catches the eye of popular fifth-grader Taffy, causing Lisa to make a bold move.

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Replaceable You
star
7.25
2748 votes

#49 - Replaceable You

The Simpsons - Season 23 - Episode 4

Bart’s science fair project, a mechanical baby seal, outshines Lisa’s brainy asteroid model and quickly becomes a popular pet among the retirement home patrons. Meanwhile, Homer’s new and eager assistant Roz, steals Homer’s job, forcing him to team up with Flanders to reveal her true colors and evil past.

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The Dad Who Knew Too Little
star
7.22
1094 votes

#50 - The Dad Who Knew Too Little

The Simpsons - Season 14 - Episode 8

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

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