The BEST episodes directed by Mike B. Anderson
#1 - You Only Move Twice
The Simpsons - Season 8 - Episode 2
When Homer accepts a job offer, the Simpsons move to Cypress Creek, where everything seems too good to be true. Finally happy at his job, Homer fails to notice that his new boss is an evil megalomaniac bent on world domination.
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#2 - Trilogy of Error
The Simpsons - Season 12 - Episode 18
Homer's rush to the hospital to re-attach his severed thumb, Lisa's rush to school to win the science fair, and Bart's run-in with an illegal fireworks scheme interconnect from their points of view.
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#3 - Homer's Phobia
The Simpsons - Season 8 - Episode 15
The Simpsons befriend a shop owner, but when Homer discovers the man is gay, he worries about his influence on Bart.
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#4 - HOMЯ
The Simpsons - Season 12 - Episode 9
An X-ray reveals a crayon lodged in Homer's brain. After the crayon is removed, Homer experiences a sudden surge in intelligence, making him closer to Lisa and isolated from his friends.
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#5 - The Secret War of Lisa Simpson
The Simpsons - Season 8 - Episode 25
When Bart is sent to military school after playing a prank on the town, Lisa decides to join him... as the school's only girl cadet.
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#6 - Lisa the Iconoclast
The Simpsons - Season 7 - Episode 16
While researching into Jebediah Springfield's past for an essay, Lisa discovers that the town founder wasn't the hero that everyone thinks he was.
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#7 - Treehouse of Horror VII
The Simpsons - Season 8 - Episode 1
In "The Thing and I," Bart discovers his evil Siamese twin in the attic. In "The Genesis Tub," Lisa's science experiment becomes a quickly-developing micro-universe, where she is thought of as God and Bart is the devil. In "Citizen Kang," aliens replace Clinton and Dole just in time for the election.
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#8 - The Way We Weren't
The Simpsons - Season 15 - Episode 20
Marge and Homer tell the story of how they find out that they actually kissed each other at age 10 without knowing they were each other's first kisses.
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#9 - Margical History Tour
The Simpsons - Season 15 - Episode 11
Marge tells Lisa, Bart and Millhouse three historical tales because the library doesn't have any: Henry VIII, Lewis and Clark, and Mozart.
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#10 - Homer Simpson in: 'Kidney Trouble'
The Simpsons - Season 10 - Episode 8
When Grandpa needs a new kidney, Homer agrees to donate one, but then chickens out.
#11 - Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder
The Simpsons - Season 11 - Episode 6
Homer bowls a perfect 300 game, then concludes that the greatest accomplishment of his life is behind him. He reconnects with the world by bonding with baby Maggie.
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#12 - The President Wore Pearls
The Simpsons - Season 15 - Episode 3
Lisa feuds with Principal Skinner after being elected school president by calling for a student strike after he removes the music, gym, and art programs.
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#13 - C.E. D'oh!
The Simpsons - Season 14 - Episode 15
Homer takes over the power plant after tricking Mr. Burns into making him the official owner of the power plant.
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#14 - The Food Wife
The Simpsons - Season 23 - Episode 5
Marge takes Bart and Lisa on a weekend excursion, and when an unexpected restaurant detour awakens their taste buds, fellow foodies Amuse Bruce and Fois Garth (guest voices Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim) inspire them to start their own food blog, “The Three Mouthketeers.”
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#15 - Halloween of Horror
The Simpsons - Season 27 - Episode 4
When Lisa becomes scared at the Krustyland Halloween Horror Night, Homer is forced to take down his Everscream Terrors decorations. Halloween pop-up employees seek vengeance on Homer for causing them to lose their jobs, and rob his house while Homer and Lisa hide out in the attic. Homer and Lisa light up their stored holiday decorations to attract attention and stand up to the intruders.
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#16 - The Last Temptation of Krust
The Simpsons - Season 9 - Episode 15
Krusty bombs at a charity comedy event and feels like a tired old hack. With the Simpsons’ support, Krusty takes his act in a fresh new direction… but in the end, his true nature asserts itself.
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#17 - Fat Man and Little Boy
The Simpsons - Season 16 - Episode 5
Bart begins designing T-shirt slogans, and his T-shirts become very popular among the citizens of Springfield.
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#18 - Future-Drama
The Simpsons - Season 16 - Episode 15
Bart and Lisa find themselves in Prof. Frink's basement and he uses the science of astrology on his new computer to show them their future, eight years from next Tuesday. In this future, Maggie is away on a trip to Alaska; Homer and Marge have separated and Bart and Lisa are getting ready for prom. Lisa's date is Milhouse, who and Bart is dating a skateboard chick named Jenda. Lisa is graduating 2 years early and is going to Yale (now owned by McDonalds) on a scholarship funded by Mr. Burns as punishment for stealing Christmas. Bart is also graduating and is ready to move to the next level of his relationship with Jenda, he wants to marry her but his vision of their future together makes her break it off. Working his part-time job at the Kwik-E-Mart, Bart winds up saving Mr. Burns life while delivering groceries. As a reward Mr. Burns gives him the scholarship that Lisa was to receive. Bart is back with Jenda, now that he has a future, but Bart finds his way back in Prof. Frink's old basement and sees Lisa's bleak future with Milhouse. He does the right thing and keeps her from destroying her life.
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#19 - A Father's Watch
The Simpsons - Season 28 - Episode 18
Worried that Bart is destined for failure, Marge turns to a series of parenting "experts" for advice. Homer decides to cash in on one expert’s advice by opening up a trophy store in Springfield. Meanwhile, Bart finds some needed encouragement from Grampa, who gives him a precious watch coveted by Homer.
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#20 - Kamp Krustier
The Simpsons - Season 28 - Episode 16
When Bart and Lisa return home abruptly after a traumatic incident at Kamp Krustier, they put an end to Homer and Marge's romantic encounters. Without sex to distract him, Homer becomes a more productive worker and caring husband, but Marge misses the old Homer. Then, Bart and Lisa return to camp to confront the source of their trauma.
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#21 - The Cad and the Hat
The Simpsons - Season 28 - Episode 15
When Bart betrays Lisa, he has to deal with his guilt – literally. Meanwhile, Springfield is in awe when Homer is revealed to be a chess savant.
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#22 - 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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#23 - Caper Chase
The Simpsons - Season 28 - Episode 19
Disappointed in Yale, Mr. Burns decides to start his own for-profit university and Homer is hired as a professor.
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#24 - Them, Robot
The Simpsons - Season 23 - Episode 17
Mr. Burns replaces all of Springfield Power Plant's employees with robots (guest voice Brent Spiner) but decides to keep Homer as the sole human worker. With unemployment at an all-time high and mechanical arms operating the workplace, Springfield becomes a dismal and humorless place. But when Homer's machine-programmed peers start to turn on the community and his former real-life employees come to the rescue, they all realize that robots can't replace human friends.
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#25 - Mona Leaves-a
The Simpsons - Season 19 - Episode 19
After Mona, Homer's mother, passes away unexpectedly, Homer feels guilty for not getting the chance to tell her how much he really loved her.
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#26 - 22 for 30
The Simpsons - Season 28 - Episode 17
In this parody of a cable sports show, Bart goes from delinquent with detention to the star basketball player at Springfield Elementary. Lisa covers Bart's success for the school paper, and Homer becomes the team’s coach. Things go awry when Bart gets involved with the mafia.
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#27 - Treehouse of Horror XXVIII
The Simpsons - Season 29 - Episode 4
Maggie becomes possessed by an ancient demon, Lisa discovers a creepy/perfect version of her family in an alternate universe and Homer cannibalizes himself.
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#28 - Marge's Son Poisoning
The Simpsons - Season 17 - Episode 5
The family is at Paradise Pier, where Marge was looking forward to riding the Ferris wheel all her life, only to find out that it is being dismantled with some of its equipment being sold. Homer purchases a dumbbell while Marge gets a tandem bicycle. When Marge wants to take the bike for a ride, she finds that Homer is a less than willing participant. She tries it on her own and falls. Realizing that his mother might actually be lonely, Bart offers to go for a ride with her. They ride into an unincorporated part of the county and come upon a small village that features a tea house. Later the tea house closes forever causing Bart to invite his mother to his treehouse for tea. Marge redecorates the treehouse and the pair goes off to get a new tea service where he gets a Krusty Teapot. Outside the store the bullies accuse Bart of being a “Momma’s Boy,” which causes Bart to rebel. Marge goes into a depression and eventually sells the bike. Feeling bad, Bart offers to compete with her in a karaoke contest. While seeing Skinner and his mother perform, Marge has visions of a terrible future for Bart and she stops the show to let Bart know that he shouldn’t worry about her, it’s her job to worry about him. Meanwhile at Moe’s Homer shows off the strength in one of his arms he’s gained from working with the dumbbell and Moe has an idea on how to capitalize on it. Moe takes Homer to the arm wrestling championships, where Homer readily wins, but finds that he really misses his wife.
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#29 - 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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#30 - Treehouse of Horror XXVII
The Simpsons - Season 28 - Episode 4
Better late than never, The Hunger Games come to Springfield!
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#31 - Pranksta Rap
The Simpsons - Season 16 - Episode 9
After sneaking out to a rap concert, Bart makes Marge and Homer believe he has been kidnapped to avoid punishment. And Chief Wiggum, to everyone’s surprise, attempts to solve the case to improve his reputation.
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#32 - How I Spent My Strummer Vacation
The Simpsons - Season 14 - Episode 2
When Homer is secretly videotaped complaining about his family in a taxi, they send him off to a rock and roll fantasy camp so he can try to live his dream.
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#33 - The Town
The Simpsons - Season 28 - Episode 3
After Homer catches Bart rooting for Springfield’s football rival, the Boston Americans, he plans a family “hate-cation” trip to Boston in an attempt to show Bart that Boston is a terrible city.
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#34 - Treehouse of Horror XX
The Simpsons - Season 21 - Episode 4
Lisa becomes livid with Miss Hoover, and in a series of homages to classic Hitchcock sets out for deadly revenge. Next, Krusty's latest fast-food sandwich transforms news anchor Kent Brockman into an enraged zombie and twenty-eight days later, cannibal zombies have overrun Springfield. In the final frightening fable, Homer accidentally falls through a trapdoor in Moe's tavern and impales himself on the pipes of Moe's microbrewery. Moe serves the barflies a glass of delicious beer flavoured with Homer's blood and Homer, now half-man, half-brewing apparatus, returns for vengeance.
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#35 - Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em
The Simpsons - Season 18 - Episode 3
After buying Homer a collection of handyman's books, Marge becomes a handywoman, but uses Homer since no one in town is thrilled over the idea of a female carpenter. Meanwhile, Bart finds out that Principal Skinner has a peanut allergy and uses a peanut on a stick to torture Skinner, but the joke is on Bart when Skinner discovers that Bart is allergic to shrimp.
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#36 - Trust But Clarify
The Simpsons - Season 28 - Episode 5
Lisa and Bart investigate Krusty’s suspicious new "Krustaceans" candy. Meanwhile, Homer wants a promotion at the nuclear plant and asks Marge to help him dress the part, and news anchor Kent Brockman struggles to find his feet in the changing media world.
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#37 - Homer's Paternity Coot
The Simpsons - Season 17 - Episode 10
The result of Marge's anger against Quimby’s new toll road leads to the discovery of a frozen mailman and his 40-year-old mail. The old mail is delivered to the recipients, including one to Grampa Simpson's deceased wife, and it reveals a secret love affair and who the real father of her baby Homer might be. Confused and emotional, Homer finds Mason Fairbanks, his wealthy and much improved paternal dad, and happily establishes a father-son relationship with him while rejecting Abe, his surrogate father of 40 years, especially after a DNA test reveals that Mason is indeed his real father. Homer joins Mason on an undersea treasure hunt and when Homer’s life is in mortal danger he reflects upon his childhood and realizes who his true father is. When he confesses that to Abe, Abe has a confession of his own.
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#38 - Tales From the Public Domain
The Simpsons - Season 13 - Episode 14
Homer reads three stories from an overdue library book, imagining himself as Odysseus, Lisa as Joan of Arc and Bart as Hamlet.
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#39 - Springfield Splendor
The Simpsons - Season 29 - Episode 2
Marge and Lisa turn Lisa’s sad experience into a successful graphic novel-turned-Broadway show, but they struggle with creative differences and ego.
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#40 - The Wettest Stories Ever Told
The Simpsons - Season 17 - Episode 18
As the family waits for their food at “The Frying Dutchman,” they pass the time by telling stories. Lisa tells about the Mayflower’s journey to America, where Marge and her kids are Pilgrims and they are joined by a knave named Homer who joins their family to escape the authorities. Bart recounts the story of Mutiny on the Bounty featuring Skinner as Captain Bligh and Bart as Mr. Christian. Homer tells the tale of the maiden voyage of a cruise ship in the 1970s featuring of a ship that can’t flip over, which of course it does and the attempts of the survivors to get out of the ship alive.
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#41 - Whistler's Father
The Simpsons - Season 29 - Episode 3
Homer discovers that Maggie is a whistling savant and launches her baby-celebrity career. Meanwhile, Marge impresses Fat Tony with her interior design taste, and he hires her to style his brothel.
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#42 - The Serfsons
The Simpsons - Season 29 - Episode 1
In a magical medieval world, Marge's mother is turned into an Ice Walker and the only way for Homer to afford the cure is to force Lisa to use illegal magic. When the King discovers this, he kidnaps Lisa, and Homer must lead a feudal uprising to save her.
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