The BEST episodes of The Simpsons season 5
Every episode of The Simpsons season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Simpsons season 5!
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 - Cape Feare
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1993
When Bart receives death threats from newly paroled Sideshow Bob, the family goes into the Witness Relocation Program and starts a new life on a houseboat on Terror Lake.
#2 - The Boy Who Knew Too Much
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/5/1994
Playing hooky, Bart sneaks onto the Quimby Compound and is the only witness when Mayor Quimby's ne'er-do-well nephew Freddy allegedly assaults a snooty French butler. But if he comes forward, he will be punished for truancy.
#3 - Burns' Heir
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/14/1994
The childless Mr. Burns selects Bart as his heir and begins grooming him for his new role. As a test of loyalty, Mr. Burns orders Bart to fire Homer.
#4 - Rosebud
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/1993
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.
#5 - Deep Space Homer
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/24/1994
Dejected by a lack of recognition at work, Homer makes a crank call to NASA and winds up being chosen to ride into space with astronauts.
#6 - Secrets of a Successful Marriage
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/19/1994
Homer teaches an adult education class on successful marriage, but his students show little interest until he starts telling them juicy details of his marriage to Marge. Furious, Marge kicks Homer out.
#7 - Treehouse of Horror IV
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/1993
In "The Devil and Homer Simpson," Homer sells his soul for a doughnut. Next, in the Twilight Zone spoof "Terror at 5 1/2 Feet," everyone doubts Bart's sanity when he's the only one to see a gremlin sabotaging the school bus. In "Bart Simpson's Dracula," the family turns into vampires, and Lisa sends Homer to the Burns mansion in an attempt to kill the head vampire.
#8 - Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/17/1994
Lisa is shocked to find that her new Malibu Stacy doll reinforces negative stereotypes of women. With Smithers' help, Lisa tracks down the original creator of Malibu Stacy and convinces her to market a new doll that's a better role model for girls.
#9 - Homer Goes to College
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/1993
Burns discovers that Homer is grossly unqualified to be a nuclear safety inspector, so Homer enrolls at Springfield University to study nuclear physics. While there, Homer befriends three nerds and instigates a prank that gets them expelled.
#10 - Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/28/1994
When Bart gets Principal Skinner fired, Ned Flanders is brought in to act as principal. Skinner befriends his former nemesis and the pair look for a way to get Skinner reinstated.
#11 - $pringfield (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/16/1993
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.
#12 - Homer Loves Flanders
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/17/1994
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.
#13 - Homer and Apu
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/10/1994
Fired for selling tainted meat to Homer, Apu tries to make amends to the Simpsons, and Homer joins him in a pilgrimage to Kwik-E-Mart headquarters in India.
#14 - The Last Temptation of Homer
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/9/1993
Homer struggles with his attraction to new coworker Mindy, a beautiful engineer whose love for doughnuts is equal to his own.
#15 - Bart Gets an Elephant
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/31/1994
Bart wins a wacky radio contest and forgoes the cash to claim the gag prize instead: an elephant.
#16 - Boy-Scoutz 'N the Hood
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/1993
After joining the Junior Campers while on a sugar high, Bart reluctantly invites Homer to accompany him on the annual father-son rafting trip, which goes awry.
#17 - Homer the Vigilante
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/6/1994
When a cat burglar prowls Springfield, Homer forms a citizens' watch group that winds up breaking more laws than they protect. When the cat burglar sets his sights on the world's biggest cubic zirconia, a clue comes from an unexpected source.
#18 - Homer's Barbershop Quartet
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1993
Through flashbacks, Homer recalls the dizzying rise and fall of his Beatles-esque barbershop quartet. The Be Sharps reunite for one last concert on the roof of Moe's Tavern.
#19 - Bart Gets Famous
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/3/1994
Working as Krusty the Clown's assistant, Bart accidentally steals the limelight by blurting an instant catchphrase: "I didn't do it." But when he tries to capitalize on his fifteen minutes of fame, the fans are fickle.
#20 - Marge on the Lam
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1993
When Marge has a girls' night out with a new neighbor, they wind up roaring toward a cliff in a Thelma-and-Louise-style car chase.
#21 - Bart's Inner Child
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1993
Bart heckles the guru at a self-help seminar, and the man presents him to the audience as a role model for their "inner child." But when the whole town tries to "be like Bart," things start to fall apart.
#22 - Lady Bouvier's Lover
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/12/1994
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.