The BEST episodes directed by Matthew Nastuk

Catch 'Em If You Can
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7.69
1114 votes

#1 - Catch 'Em If You Can

The Simpsons - Season 15 - Episode 18

Bart lectures the other students on water balloons and after hitting Lisa with one he gets into a fight with her all the way home. Marge tells the pair that they are going to Dayton, Ohio to celebrate Uncle Tyrone's birthday. Bart and Lisa aren't thrilled with the idea and get to stay home. As a family activity they rent a video, "Love Story" and Bart and Lisa are bored by it such that they ruin any moment the film might have created for Homer and Marge. Homer and Marge look forward to their trip without the kids and on a whim they decide to forgo seeing Uncle Tyrone and get on a plane to Miami. Lisa and Bart are aware that the hotel in Dayton where Marge and Homer were supposed to be staying was wiped out by a tornado. Bart discovers there parents are in Miami. They get Grandpa to take them there. While Bart and Lisa find their parents, Grandpa goes looking for companionship. Marge and Homer see the kids waiting for them so they take off again, only Bart and Lisa are on their trail. Homer and Marge are in Atlantic City when they spot the kids so they go on the run from them in an instrumental musical montage. Meanwhile Abe has found companionship in Miami with a man named Raoul who appreciates his rambling stories. Homer and Marge finally find themselves in Niagara Falls, but the kids are their as well. Feeling a little guilty Bart and Lisa decide to give their parents their space and go to the amusement park only to find their parents are already there. Homer and Marge run from the pair only to find refuge in a giant inflatable castle, which their lovemaking antics cause to fall into the Niagara River. The couple floats toward the falls and certain death only to be saved by their large floatation device. Later back in Springfield, Ned and Rod Flanders receive their credit card bills.

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Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore
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7.65
1280 votes

#2 - Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore

The Simpsons - Season 15 - Episode 12

On a school field trip to the Museum of Television and TV Milhouse shows that he has developed a new attitude where he just doesn't care. Meanwhile Mr. Burns has moved Homer, Lenny and Carl to an offsite location (Moe's) so that they don't ruin a visit by the plant's board of directors. Apu and Manjula stop by celebrating their anniversary, making Homer realize he hasn't gotten anything for his anniversary with Marge. He gets extremely drunk and finds himself ‘dancing' on the street where people, thinking he is homeless, start giving him money. Milhouse reveals the secret to his new attitude is the fact that he and his mother are moving to Capitol City, where they are going to get a fresh start. Both Bart and Kirk Van Houten are going to have to learn to get along without Milhouse being around. Bart tries to adapt to a world without Milhouse, especially after a visit to Milhouse in Capitol City makes him realize that things will never be the same. In the meantime, Homer has begun begging as a second job when he realizes he can make good money that allows him to buy Marge an expensive anniversary gift. With Milhouse out of his life, Bart finds himself bonding with his sister and she is enjoying the new relationship with her brother; a relationship that gets tested when Kirk gets "pity custody" of Milhouse and Marge is enlightened by the homeless on Homer's second source of income.

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At Long Last Leave
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7.65
2604 votes

#3 - At Long Last Leave

The Simpsons - Season 23 - Episode 14

The Simpsons are evicted from Springfield and join an off-the-grid community outside of town. But when Homer and Marge try to sneak back into Springfield, they are welcomed with hostility from their former friends and neighbors and begin to appreciate their new and more accepting home.

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Steal This Episode
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7.61
2040 votes

#4 - Steal This Episode

The Simpsons - Season 25 - Episode 9

Homer becomes annoyed with movie theaters, so Bart teaches him how to download movies illegally. Homer is delighted with his discovery of free movies until he's caught for piracy.

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Barting Over
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7.56
1319 votes

#5 - Barting Over

The Simpsons - Season 14 - Episode 11

After finding out Homer squandered his money from a baby commercial, Bart moves out into a loft, where he meets skateboarding legend, Tony Hawk.

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Worst Episode Ever
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7.56
1363 votes

#6 - Worst Episode Ever

The Simpsons - Season 12 - Episode 11

Bart and Milhouse are left in charge of the comic book store after Comic Book Guy is hospitalised, who begins an unusual relationship with Principal Skinner's mother.

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Treehouse of Horror XI
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7.47
1758 votes

#7 - Treehouse of Horror XI

The Simpsons - Season 12 - Episode 1

In "G-G-Ghost D-D-Dad" Homer dies after eating broccoli, but must perform a good deed within 24 hours to get into Heaven. In "Scary Tales Can Come True" Bart and Lisa encounter a witch in a gingerbread house. And in "Night of the Dolphin" super-intelligent dolphins strike back at humanity.

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Homerazzi
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7.46
1365 votes

#8 - Homerazzi

The Simpsons - Season 18 - Episode 16

When the fireproof safe (which was bought after one too many house fires) explodes, Homer and Marge try to recreate the photos, but when one of them uncovers a scandal in the background, Homer decides to join the world of paparazzi – forgetting what happened the last time he had a job that dealt in revealing other people’s flaws to the public (in “Guess Who’s Coming to Criticize Dinner?”)

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She Used to Be My Girl
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7.42
1244 votes

#9 - She Used to Be My Girl

The Simpsons - Season 16 - Episode 4

Marge becomes jealous when Lisa begins idolizing her old high school friend, Chloe Talbot, a famous reporter.

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Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life
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7.42
3298 votes

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

The Simpsons - Season 22 - Episode 5

Discovering that Marge was once a stellar A+ student whose grades plummeted after being distracted, Lisa fears that she will end up just like her mom unless she pledges to focus solely on academics in an encore episode. When Marge makes a secret deal allowing Lisa to attend her dream school, Lisa learns a lesson in family and altruism. Meanwhile, Bart puts Nelson Muntz in his place and unintentionally claims the title of "School Bully"

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The Fat and the Furriest
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7.42
1332 votes

#11 - The Fat and the Furriest

The Simpsons - Season 15 - Episode 5

It is Mother's Day and Homer goes with the kids to Sprawl-Mart to buy Marge a better gift. They find Abe working there as a greeter and Lisa asks her aunts to help them pick out a gift. Patty and Selma recommend the Kitchen Carnival, which makes food fun. Marge likes the gift, which can deep fry, make cotton candy and caramelize anything. Later that night, Homer creates an 85 lb. sugar ball and he seems to fall in love with his new creation. Marge insists that he get rid off of the ball, which he takes to the dump. At the dump he gets attacked by a bear. He returns home and finds that his attack was covered by the media. He's been labeled a coward and it begins to affect his life. Too combat his fear he needs to attack the bear that bested him, and he constructs a bear attack proof suit. Marge forbids him from using the suit, but he goes anyway. With help from Lenny, Carl, and Bart, Homer goes out into the woods in search of the bear. Of course when he actually encounters the bear, he is without the suit. The bear takes Homer to his cave and Homer removes the tag from the bear that was causing it discomfort. He bonds with the bear and tries to keep it from being hunted. He lends the bear his bear proof suit and it helps to get him to the wildlife sanctuary, where the bear is free to be attacked by other animals.

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Grift of the Magi
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7.42
1436 votes

#12 - Grift of the Magi

The Simpsons - Season 11 - Episode 9

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

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Make Room for Lisa
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7.41
1363 votes

#13 - Make Room for Lisa

The Simpsons - Season 10 - Episode 16

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

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Brawl in the Family
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7.41
430 votes

#14 - Brawl in the Family

The Simpsons - Season 13 - Episode 7

A social services officer brings unity to the Simpson family, but their newfound happiness is threatened when the cocktail waitresses Homer and Ned drunkly married in Vegas shows up at their doors.

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D'oh-in in the Wind
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7.41
1264 votes

#15 - 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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Pork and Burns
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7.35
1907 votes

#16 - Pork and Burns

The Simpsons - Season 28 - Episode 11

When Marge becomes obsessed with a Japanese style of living, the Simpsons must part with any item that no longer brings them joy. For Homer, this means finding a new home for the family pig. For Lisa, it means saying goodbye to her beloved sax.

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The Falcon and the D'Ohman
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7.34
3076 votes

#17 - The Falcon and the D'Ohman

The Simpsons - Season 23 - Episode 1

Homer befriends Wayne, a reserved security guard recently hired by the nuclear power plant. Plagued by violent flashbacks from his past as a CIA agent, he must overcome his tortured nightmares to save Homer from a Ukranian terrorist. Meanwhile, Marge fantasizes about being a contestant on "Top Chef" hosted by Tom Colicchio, and the future of Springfield's hottest "it" couple Nedna, Edna Krabappel and Ned Flanders, will be revealed after months of online fan voting and speculation.

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The Seven-Beer Snitch
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7.33
1114 votes

#18 - The Seven-Beer Snitch

The Simpsons - Season 16 - Episode 14

The family visits Shelbyville and are appalled at the perception those citizens have of the inhabitants of Springfield. Back in town, Marge brings it to the attention of the Springfield Cultural Advisory Board and then asks architect Frank Gehry to design and build a new Springfield cultural center. He sees inspiration in her request and submits a design that is approved by the town. $30 million dollars later, the project is built and it opens and closes quickly as nobody in town really cares for classical music. Mr. Burns agree to take over the space, with his plan to turn it into a state prison. Homer applies for a job as a guard, but fails the drug test after Otto switches their samples. Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa follow Snowball II, when they believe the reason she is so fat is that she is getting food from elsewhere; after following her they discover she has another family. Burns needs convicts for his prison and Chief Wiggum blows the dust of some old forgotten laws. Homer is arrested for illegally transporting litter (kicking a can 5 times in a row). In prison Homer inadvertently squeals on Snake's escape attempt and is drafted to becoming a snitch and he begins enjoy the perks that go along with it. Snowball II ("Smoky") enjoys life with her new family and Bart gets into the home to find out; there is plenty of good eating to be found there. Fat Tony and his boys try to find out who the snitch is. They feed Homer information regarding a breakout. While all the guards are outside waiting for the breakout, the prisoners are taking care of their snitch and a riot ensues. The riot is stopped and Homer snitches on the conditions of the prison.

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Midnight Towboy
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7.32
1721 votes

#19 - Midnight Towboy

The Simpsons - Season 19 - Episode 3

Homer starts working in the towing business, but gets into some trouble when the town sets up Homer to look like he is towing on a rival's turf after he becomes greedy with power. Meanwhile, Marge signs up for a counseling program that teaches parents how to raise young children to become independent, but the program works a little too well on Maggie.

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I'm Dancing as Fat as I Can
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7.32
688 votes

#20 - I'm Dancing as Fat as I Can

The Simpsons - Season 30 - Episode 13

Homer angers Marge by binging their favorite show without her, and has to pick up a new skill in order to make amends. Meanwhile, Bart prepares to compete in "Krusty's Holiday Trample".

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Moho House
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7.32
1429 votes

#21 - Moho House

The Simpsons - Season 28 - Episode 21

Homer and Marge attempt to work on their marriage, not knowing that Mr. Burns and Nigel have a bet on whether Nigel can break them apart. With the successful, albeit unconventional, help of Moe, the couple gets back their mojo.

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You Kent Always Say What You Want
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7.30
1081 votes

#22 - You Kent Always Say What You Want

The Simpsons - Season 18 - Episode 22

When Homer buys the 1,000,000th ice-cream cone at a local shop, he ends up on Kent Brockman's news program. When Brockman swears on live TV after coffee is spilled in his lap, Ned Flanders leads a crusade to clean up Springfield's airwaves, starting with getting Brockman fired. Then Homer once again saves the day.

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The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson
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7.27
536 votes

#23 - The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson

The Simpsons - Season 31 - Episode 12

Marge recruits Chrissy Teigen and John Legend for an education-based proposal.

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Whiskey Business
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7.24
1769 votes

#24 - Whiskey Business

The Simpsons - Season 24 - Episode 19

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

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Gone Abie Gone
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7.23
2478 votes

#25 - Gone Abie Gone

The Simpsons - Season 24 - Episode 4

Homer and Marge try to track down Grampa by following clues from his past, while Lisa struggles to resist gambling away her college fund.

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Gal of Constant Sorrow
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7.23
1376 votes

#26 - Gal of Constant Sorrow

The Simpsons - Season 27 - Episode 14

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

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Angry Dad: The Movie
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7.22
2985 votes

#27 - Angry Dad: The Movie

The Simpsons - Season 22 - Episode 14

Bart and Homer make a film based on Bart's comic book character Angry Dad. The cartoon becomes a critical favorite and begins to win a number of awards, but Bart becomes upset when Homer takes all of the credit during acceptance speeches.

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The Sweetest Apu
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7.21
1223 votes

#28 - The Sweetest Apu

The Simpsons - Season 13 - Episode 19

Apu's marriage is on the rocks after Manjula finds out he cheated on her.

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Ice Cream of Margie (With the Light Blue Hair)
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7.20
1262 votes

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

The Simpsons - Season 18 - Episode 7

After Homer is fired from the power plant, he buys an ice-cream truck and sells ice-cream. His successful business yields an abundance of discarded popsicle sticks and Marge finds another calling in life, as she uses the leftover sticks to create popular life-size statues of various citizens from Springfield.

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The Debarted
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7.18
1314 votes

#30 - The Debarted

The Simpsons - Season 19 - Episode 13

Bart teams up with a new kid at school, Donny, to pull some pranks, but when the hijinks go haywire, Groundskeeper Willie tips Bart off to the fact that there might be a rat amongst his friends. Meanwhile, Homer becomes attached to a loaner vehicle while his is in the shop being repaired.

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Simprovised
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7.17
1627 votes

#31 - Simprovised

The Simpsons - Season 27 - Episode 21

After butchering a speech in front of all of his friends at work, Homer turns to improv comedy to gain back his confidence in his public speaking skills. Meanwhile, Marge decides to rebuild Bart’s lackluster treehouse, but tensions rise when Bart questions her building skills. Also, in the episode’s last three minutes, Homer appears LIVE for the first time on television (both for East and West Coast broadcasts) to answer fan questions.

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The Last of the Red Hat Mamas
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7.17
978 votes

#32 - The Last of the Red Hat Mamas

The Simpsons - Season 17 - Episode 7

The mayor’s estate is used for Springfield’s Easter celebration, and in the course of the events, Homer embarrasses Marge in front of some new potential friends. To make it up, Homer decides to find her some new friends, with little luck. Marge finds some new friends on her own, Tammy and other members of “The Cheery Red Tomatoes,” a group of women of a certain age. This group has plans for a fund raiser; they intend to rob Mr. Burns of 1 million dollars, an amount he once promised to charity. Homer finds out about the plan and tries to stop her from doing something she’ll regret. Meanwhile, Lisa in search of summer opportunities decides to spend the summer in Rome. Lisa tells Principal Skinner that she speaks fluent Italian, since she really doesn’t she tries to take a crash course and winds up hiring a tutor that turns out to be Milhouse.

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Diary Queen
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7.16
417 votes

#33 - Diary Queen

The Simpsons - Season 32 - Episode 12

Bart finds his old teacher's diary and learns a surprising secret. Then, Lisa discovers an even bigger surprise.

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From Russia Without Love
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7.15
821 votes

#34 - From Russia Without Love

The Simpsons - Season 30 - Episode 6

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

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Hardly Kirk-ing
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7.12
2045 votes

#35 - Hardly Kirk-ing

The Simpsons - Season 24 - Episode 13

Bart and Milhouse explore the perks of being an adult when a shaving accident leaves Milhouse looking exactly like his father, Kirk. Marge fears Maggie is slipping into the clutches of children's television.

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Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus
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7.10
2844 votes

#36 - Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus

The Simpsons - Season 28 - Episode 1

After Springfield's latest disaster, Mr. Burns has a condition for the citizens before he finances rebuilding.

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The Road to Cincinnati
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7.07
454 votes

#37 - The Road to Cincinnati

The Simpsons - Season 32 - Episode 8

Odd couple Skinner and Chalmers embark on an 800-mile car ride to Cincinnati to attend an administrator's convention. But whether they reach their destination without killing each other first is anyone's guess.

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Every Man's Dream
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7.06
2272 votes

#38 - Every Man's Dream

The Simpsons - Season 27 - Episode 1

Homer is diagnosed with narcolepsy, but instead of returning home with his prescription medication, he returns home drunk. He and Marge visit a marriage counselor and have a trial separation, during which Homer begins dating a 20-something.

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The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used to Be
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7.04
1268 votes

#39 - The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used to Be

The Simpsons - Season 29 - Episode 6

Frustrated with the local government, Marge decides to run for Mayor. To win public support, she begins making Homer the butt of her jokes.

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The Wayz We Were
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7.04
435 votes

#40 - The Wayz We Were

The Simpsons - Season 33 - Episode 4

Evergreen Terrace is overrun with traffic and Moe has a fateful choice to make.

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Father Knows Worst
star
7.00
1802 votes

#41 - Father Knows Worst

The Simpsons - Season 20 - Episode 18

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

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3 Scenes Plus a Tag From a Marriage
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6.96
938 votes

#42 - 3 Scenes Plus a Tag From a Marriage

The Simpsons - Season 29 - Episode 13

Homer and Marge recount the story of their transition from loving their life without kids to being miserable parents

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Gorillas on the Mast
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6.95
594 votes

#43 - Gorillas on the Mast

The Simpsons - Season 31 - Episode 5

After a trip to Aquatraz Water Park, Lisa becomes determined to set free Springfield's most vicious animals in captivity. Meanwhile, Homer fulfills a lifelong dream of buying a boat, and quickly realizes boat ownership sucks.

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Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife
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6.93
1027 votes

#44 - Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife

The Simpsons - Season 17 - Episode 15

Homer is stoked for a party, where Lenny shows off his new plasma screen HD TV. Three days later and Homer still hasn’t left Lenny’s apartment. Lenny eventually gets him to leave and Marge enters them in a contest where they can win a plasma TV of their own. They don’t win, but 3rd place gets them a tour of the FOX studios, where Homer learns about a wife-swapping show where he can win enough money to buy his own plasma TV. Marge agrees to appear and they exchange wives with the Heathbar family. Charles Heathbar winds up falling in love with Marge (who is giving him what he needs), while his real wife Verity finds Homer detestable.

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D'oh Canada
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6.93
646 votes

#45 - D'oh Canada

The Simpsons - Season 30 - Episode 21

Lisa is mistakenly given political asylum in Canada during a family trip to Niagara Falls.

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One Angry Lisa
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6.92
399 votes

#46 - One Angry Lisa

The Simpsons - Season 34 - Episode 2

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

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Lisa the Drama Queen
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6.92
1714 votes

#47 - Lisa the Drama Queen

The Simpsons - Season 20 - Episode 9

Lisa lets her imagination run wild when she makes a new friend and they create a magical kingdom together called Equalia, complete with characters and plotlines. But they find themselves facing a nightmare when the boundaries between reality and fantasy are blurred. With the voice of Emily Blunt.

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AE Bonny Romance
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6.80
224 votes

#48 - AE Bonny Romance

The Simpsons - Season 35 - Episode 8

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

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Write Off This Episode
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6.80
286 votes

#49 - Write Off This Episode

The Simpsons - Season 34 - Episode 19

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

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Warrin' Priests Part 2
star
6.79
451 votes

#50 - Warrin' Priests Part 2

The Simpsons - Season 31 - Episode 20

In Michigan, Reverend Lovejoy uncovers the reason why Bode left and came to Springfield. When the congregation learns of his crime, they must decide whether to banish their new priest.

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