The BEST episodes directed by Matthew Nastuk
#1 - Catch 'Em If You Can
The Simpsons - Season 15 - Episode 18
Homer and Marge try to have a vacation without the kids, but Bart and Lisa follow them everywhere they go.
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#2 - Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore
The Simpsons - Season 15 - Episode 12
When Milhouse moves to Capitol City, Bart finds himself becoming best friends with Lisa. Homer becomes a begger as a second job to buy Marge expensive gifts.
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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#9 - The Fat and the Furriest
The Simpsons - Season 15 - Episode 5
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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#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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#11 - 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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#12 - 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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#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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#14 - 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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#15 - 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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#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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#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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#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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#19 - 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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#20 - 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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#26 - 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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#27 - 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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#28 - 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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#29 - 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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#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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#31 - 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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#32 - 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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#37 - 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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#38 - 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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#39 - 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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#40 - 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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#45 - 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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#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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#47 - 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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#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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#49 - It's a Blunderful Life
The Simpsons - Season 35 - Episode 7
Lisa recounts the story of how Homer was scapegoated for a power outage that plunged Springfield into darkness days before Thanksgiving.
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#50 - 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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