The BEST episodes of The Simpsons season 16
Every episode of The Simpsons season 16, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Simpsons season 16!
Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general.
#1 - Treehouse of Horror XV
Season 16 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/7/2004
In "The Ned Zone" Ned gains the power to foresee people's deaths. In "Four Beheadings and a Funeral" Eliza Simpson and her sidekick hunt down a murderer. And in “In the Belly of the Boss" Maggie is shrunk inside a vitamin capsule and swallowed by Mr. Burns.
#2 - Don't Fear the Roofer
Season 16 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/1/2005
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.
#3 - Thank God, It's Doomsday
Season 16 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/8/2005
Homer sees a movie about the end of the world and fears the same thing will happen in real life after seeing a chain of random occurrences and doing a complicated math equation that predicts the end will come on May 18th.
#4 - The Heartbroke Kid
Season 16 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/1/2005
When Bart starts living off of junk food from the school’s new vending machines, he becomes so overweight that he is sent to fat camp. But with the camp so expensive, the family is forced to open their house up as youth hostel to German tourists.
#5 - There's Something About Marrying
Season 16 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/20/2005
When Springfield legalizes same-sex marriage, Homer becomes a minister, and a townsperson comes out of the closet.
#6 - Home Away from Homer
Season 16 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/15/2005
Flanders rents a room to two college girls who, without his knowledge, use the spare room to broadcast live softcore pornographic web videos of themselves.
#7 - Midnight Rx
Season 16 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/16/2005
Homer, Grampa, Apu and Flanders travel to Canada to buy sorely needed prescription drugs with fake Canadian health-care cards.
#8 - The Father, the Son & the Holy Guest Star
Season 16 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/15/2005
Bart gets expelled from school and transfers to a Catholic school, where a hip priest named Father Sean tries to convert Bart and Homer to Catholicism, which worries Marge when she believes that Catholics do not go to the same heaven as Protestants and discovers that Catholic women do not use birth control.
#9 - On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister
Season 16 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/6/2005
Tired of Bart’s torment, Lisa takes out a restraining order against him. When Grampa isn't capable of doing his job as a Sprawl Mart greeter, Homer takes over and gets a full-time position with no chance for advancement.
#10 - Fat Man and Little Boy
Season 16 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/12/2004
Bart begins designing T-shirt slogans, and his T-shirts become very popular among the citizens of Springfield.
#11 - Mobile Homer
Season 16 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/20/2005
When Marge starts economising, Homer thinks he's being left out of the family's important financial decisions, so splashes out on an expensive camper van and sets up camp on the driveway.
#12 - Mommie Beerest
Season 16 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/30/2005
When Marge discovers Homer has remortgaged the house to help Moe's bar, she takes over as landlady. Little does Homer know, Moe and Marge are a match made in pub heaven.
#13 - Future-Drama
Season 16 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/17/2005
Through Professor Frink's future machine, Bart and Lisa see their lives in the year 2013, where Bart steals Lisa's chances at going to an Ivy League school in order to impress a skater girl named Jenda while Homer (now separated from Marge and living in an underwater apartment) fights Krusty the Clown after Marge begins dating him.
#14 - She Used to Be My Girl
Season 16 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/5/2004
Marge becomes jealous when Lisa begins idolizing her old high school friend, Chloe Talbot, a famous reporter.
#15 - Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass
Season 16 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/6/2005
Homer's impromptu dance at a carnival leads to a job choreographing victory dances for sports stars Tom Brady, Warren Sapp, Michelle Kwan, Yao Ming and LeBron James.
#16 - Sleeping with the Enemy
Season 16 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/21/2004
When she thinks her own children do not appreciate her anymore, Marge becomes a mother figure to Nelson. Lisa tries to deal with her weight issue.
#17 - The Seven-Beer Snitch
Season 16 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/3/2005
After Shelbyville accuses Springfield of being hicks, Marge convinces the townspeople to fund a Frank Gehry-designed concert hall, which is then converted to a prison when the concert hall goes bankrupt on opening night. Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa investigate Snowball II's recent weight gain.
#18 - All's Fair in Oven War
Season 16 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/14/2004
Marge enters the great Oven Fresh bake-off contest and 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.
#19 - A Star Is Torn
Season 16 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/8/2005
Lisa agrees to enter a Krusty-sponsored "Li'l Starmaker" competition and panics when another contestant outperforms her.
#20 - Pranksta Rap
Season 16 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/13/2005
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.
#21 - Goo Goo Gai Pan
Season 16 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/13/2005
Selma decides to adopt a child from China, but when the rules say she must be married, Homer must pose as her husband for the fearsome adoption agent Madame Wu.