The Best Episodes Directed by Wesley Archer
#1 - Pickle Rick
Rick and Morty Season 3 - Episode 3
Rick turns himself into a pickle, on the same day that Beth takes the kids to family therapy.
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#2 - The Wedding Squanchers
Rick and Morty Season 2 - Episode 10
The whole family goes to the planet Squanch to attend the wedding of Rick's close friend, Bird Person.
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#3 - Who Shot Mr. Burns? (2)
The Simpsons Season 7 - Episode 1
With Mr. Burns shot, Chief Wiggum investigates the crime, and nearly everyone in town has a motive. At the end, it all comes down to the Simpson DNA.
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#4 - The Why of Fry
Futurama Season 5 - Episode 8
Still unable to impress Leela, Fry sadly suspects that he has no importance in life - until Nibbler takes him on a mission to prevent the brains from destroying the universe. In the process, Fry learns what really happened when he was cryogenically frozen on December 31, 1999.
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#5 - Itchy & Scratchy Land
The Simpsons Season 6 - Episode 4
The family's trip to Itchy & Scratchy Land takes an unexpected turn when high-tech robots malfunction and become violent.
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#6 - Bart vs. Australia
The Simpsons Season 6 - Episode 16
After Bart's prank phone call to Australia goes awry, the Simpsons must fly out to the land down under and apologize to the Australian people. When they discover Bart's penalty will be a kick in the pants, international relations deteriorate.
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#7 - Bart the Daredevil
The Simpsons Season 2 - Episode 8
Bart decides to emulate his hero, daredevil Lance Murdoch, and performs increasingly risky stunts on his skateboard. When he sets his sights on Springfield Gorge, Homer intervenes.
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#8 - Rosebud
The Simpsons Season 5 - Episode 4
Mr. Burns pines away for Bobo, his beloved childhood teddy bear and symbol of lost innocence. When the bear turns up in Maggie's possession, the resulting tug of war affects the whole town.
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#9 - Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy
The Simpsons Season 6 - Episode 10
Grandpa Simpson's miracle elixir reinvigorates Homer and Marge's sex life. When father and son embark on an old-fashioned medicine show to sell the love tonic, they rake in the money, but eventually old resentments bubble up between them.
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#10 - Tina-rannosaurus Wrecks
Bob's Burgers Season 3 - Episode 7
After Tina accidentally wrecks the car, and gets the whole family involved with a slimy insurance agent, she worries that she’s a “jinx”.
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#11 - Bart Sells His Soul
The Simpsons Season 7 - Episode 4
Bart sells his soul to Milhouse for five dollars, but soon regrets his decision. Meanwhile, Moe turns the Tavern into a family-friendly restaurant.
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#12 - Two Bad Neighbors
The Simpsons Season 7 - Episode 13
Homer resents being upstaged when former president George Bush moves into the neighborhood. After Bush spanks Bart, an all-out prank war ensues.
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#13 - Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Simpsons Season 2 - Episode 15
Homer's long-lost half-brother is the CEO of a car company that's wildly successful... until he hires Homer to help design a car for the average man.
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#14 - $pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)
The Simpsons Season 5 - Episode 10
When gambling is legalized in Springfield, Mr. Burns opens an extravagant casino on the waterfront. Meanwhile, Bart opens a casino in his treehouse. Burns becomes a germ-phobic recluse and Homer must tear Marge away from the slot machines.
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#15 - Two for Tina
Bob's Burgers Season 3 - Episode 17
Jimmy Jr. is threatened when Tina starts dating a ballet dancer named Josh and the two boys get into an epic dance-off for her heart.
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#16 - I Love Lisa
The Simpsons Season 4 - Episode 15
Ralph Wiggum mistakes pity for love when Lisa gives him a Valentine's Day card. After a public humiliation, broken-hearted Ralph gives an unexpectedly moving performance in the school's President's Day pageant.
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#17 - Homer Loves Flanders
The Simpsons Season 5 - Episode 16
Homer and Flanders bond over a football game. As the two friends become inseparable, Flanders struggles with a growing dislike of Homer that finally blows up in front of the entire church congregation.
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#18 - Homerpalooza
The Simpsons Season 7 - Episode 24
To show his kids how hip he is, Homer takes Bart and Lisa to a music festival, where he earns himself a place in the sideshow by catching a cannonball with his belly.
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#19 - The New Kid on the Block
The Simpsons Season 4 - Episode 8
Bart has a crush on his new neighbor, a teenage girl who only has eyes for Jimbo Jones. Bart sets out to prove that Jimbo is not as tough as he seems.
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#20 - One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish
The Simpsons Season 2 - Episode 11
After eating poisonous blowfish at a sushi restaurant, Homer decides to live life to the fullest in the 24 hours he has left to live.
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#21 - To Kill a Ladybird
King of the Hill Season 4 - Episode 9
Bobby adopts a raccoon, Bandit, who bites Ladybird and Dale and then runs off, pursued by Ladybird. Fearing that Bandit might have been rabid, Hank tries to save his dog, while Bobby just wants to find Bandit. Meanwhile, Dale, convinced that he has rabies, runs off to the woods and starts living on mushrooms, which give him hallucinations.
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#22 - Beefsquatch
Bob's Burgers Season 2 - Episode 9
Bob appears in a cooking segment on a local news morning program, but Gene steals the show when he crashes the set with a sasquatch mask.
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#23 - Queasy Rider
King of the Hill Season 7 - Episode 13
Hank makes weekend plans without consulting Peggy, and the fallout drives them to a marriage counselor. The therapist learns that one of the couple's dreams is to own his-and-hers motorcycles, and suggests they buy one and share it in an effort to bring them together. His plan backfires when, on the advice of a middle-aged biker couple, the pair head to Sturgis, S.D., for an annual biker gathering. Hank refuses to share the driving with Peggy, fearing that he will be mocked, but when Hanks glasses get trampled, and he can't see...he has no alternative but to take a back seat.
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#24 - The Day the Violence Died
The Simpsons Season 7 - Episode 18
Bart meets the original animator who created Itchy, penniless some 70 years after the studio stole his idea. When Bart helps him sue for restitution, he unwittingly bankrupts Itchy & Scratchy.
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#25 - The Unnatural
Bob's Burgers Season 3 - Episode 23
After Gene loses his confidence at his baseball game, Linda decides to sign him up for baseball camp. The only problem? She needs money to pay for it! Meanwhile, Tina discovers her love for espresso and becomes a caffeine addict.
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#26 - Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish
The Simpsons Season 2 - Episode 4
When a three-eyed fish is found in a nearby stream, the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant faces bad publicity and fails an inspection. Mr. Burns runs for governor, but his spin doctors are no match for Marge.
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#27 - I Remember Mono
King of the Hill Season 2 - Episode 14
On Valentine's Day, Peggy finds out that Hank lied to her when they were dating: he told her he was at home one week with a football injury, when he actually got mono from kissing another girl. She sets out to uncover the whole truth, and finds herself face to face with the past.
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#28 - Three Men and a Comic Book
The Simpsons Season 2 - Episode 21
Bart, Milhouse, and Martin pool their money to buy the first issue of Radioactive Man, but their investment and their friendship are threatened when they can't agree on who will keep it.
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#29 - Treehouse of Horror
The Simpsons Season 2 - Episode 3
In the first segment, the family moves into a haunted mansion. In the second segment, aliens abduct the Simpsons and invite them to what might be their last supper. In the final segment, Lisa reads Bart Edgar Allan Poe's classic poem "The Raven."
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#30 - Bob Day Afternoon
Bob's Burgers Season 2 - Episode 2
A bank robber holds up a bank across the street from Bob’s Burgers. When the robbery goes awry, Bob finds himself at the center of a hostage crisis.
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#31 - The Crepes of Wrath
The Simpsons Season 1 - Episode 11
Bart is sent as a foreign exchange student to France, where he is enslaved by corrupt winemakers. Meanwhile, the Simpson family hosts an Albanian student who takes a surprising interest in the workings of the nuclear power plant.
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#32 - Nude Beach
Bob's Burgers Season 3 - Episode 11
The new health inspector proves to be a decent fellow, until he blackmails Bob into being allowed to perform his atrocious music at the restaurant, which drives away the customers.
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#33 - Moaning Lisa
The Simpsons Season 1 - Episode 6
When Lisa get a bad case of the blues, jazz musician Bleeding Gums Murphy teaches her how to express her feelings through music.
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#34 - Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch
Futurama Season 5 - Episode 5
Amy's romance with Kif takes a twist when he gets pregnant. As Amy questions her commitment Kif, he must return to his ancient, mysterious homeworld to give birth in the same muddy swamp where he was born.
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#35 - Pilot
King of the Hill Season 1 - Episode 1
The pilot of King of the Hill introduces us to the town of Arlen, Texas, and the life of propane salesman Hank Hill. Hank spends much of his time standing in the alley outside his house, drinking beer with his three old friends: Dale Gribble, a conspiracy theorist who never notices that his wife Nancy is having an affair with her "healer" John Redcorn (or that his son Joseph looks a lot like Redcorn); Bill Dauterive, a divorced army barber; and Boomhauer, a ladies' man of indeterminate employment and even more indeterminate speech. Hank lives with his wife Peggy, a substitute Spanish teacher at Tom Landry Middle School; his son Bobby, who seems to like comedy records better than sports; Peggy's niece Luanne, an aspiring beautician; and his dog Ladybird, a bloodhound whose mother tracked down James Earl Ray.
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#36 - Spaghetti Western and Meatballs
Bob's Burgers Season 1 - Episode 9
Bob and Gene bond over spaghetti western movies, which makes Louise jealous.
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#37 - The Call of the Simpsons
The Simpsons Season 1 - Episode 7
Homer buys an RV and the family takes off on an ill-fated camping trip.
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#38 - Lady Bouvier's Lover
The Simpsons Season 5 - Episode 21
Mr. Burns and Grandpa Simpson compete for the affections of Marge's mother. The more dashing suitor prevails, but in a scene straight out of The Graduate, Grandpa crashes the wedding just before Mrs. Bouvier becomes Mrs. Burns.
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#39 - The Incredible Hank
King of the Hill Season 8 - Episode 4
Hank has an idea, he wants to take Bobby to the doctor to get him some testosterone supplements to boost his energy. The doctor informs the Hills, that he just doesn't hand out testosterone to kids as an energy booster, he does, however give it to adult males who suffer from "PMS". Peggy secretly gets the prescription filled, and drugs Hank. Soon, Hank's a born-again teenager, with boundless energy and drive. When the prescription runs out, she runs into trouble when the doctor refuses a refill.
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#40 - Homer's Odyssey
The Simpsons Season 1 - Episode 3
Homer is fired for nearly causing a meltdown at the nuclear plant. When he finds a new calling as a public safety advocate, he finds himself facing off against Mr. Burns.
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#41 - Death and Texas
King of the Hill Season 3 - Episode 22
Peggy gets a letter from a Death Row convict who says that he is a former student of hers, and that she had the most positive impact on his life. She starts visiting him in prison and bringing him what she thinks is timer sand for Boggle -- not realizing that it's actually cocaine. Meanwhile, Dale wants to become an executioner.
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#42 - It’s Actually Better for Anal
Shin Chan Season 2 - Episode 6
“Super Happy Fun Time American School Presents: Winter Blunderland!” – It’s a hot time on the ski slopes, all fun and unwanted advances! But Shin finds himself shackled to Miss Katz… That is, until the teacher’s hormones have her distracted. Free at last and ready to party, the little trouble maker stirs up some action of his own on the triple black pass! “Winter Blunderland: Part 2!” – The school trip gets even hotter as things move over to the spa! But when Shin insults Mr. Ench’s half-inch, the principal’s forced to drastic measures! And he’s not the only one out of sorts, as Georgie finds himself outsmarted and Shin takes one for the team… Saving the school from the monkey crotch and from the noodle stretcher?!? “Lucky Bastard Fever Episode 2: Inflatable of Doom!” – Lollipop’s gone off in search of the Flying Pecker, convinced she can save Felipe from himself. But when she finds herself at the madman’s mercy, as well as the center of his plot to flood the earth, Lollipop calls for reinforcements! It’s Bruce… Er, Action Bastard to the rescue!
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