The BEST episodes written by Al Jean

#1 - Sherman, Woman and Child

The Critic - Season 2 - Episode 1

Jay's ratings are not doing very well and Duke is about to fire him so Jay is feeling depressed. His feelings become better when he meets a new girlfriend named Alice and her daughter Penny. Alice gives Jay tips on how to improve his show and her advice works. Jay wants to get to know Alice better but discovers she has a boyfriend whom she wants to reject but can't.

#2 - The Way We Was

The Simpsons - Season 2 - Episode 12

When the TV breaks, Marge and Homer entertain the kids with the story of how they first met.

#3 - 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.

#4 - Stark Raving Dad

The Simpsons - Season 3 - Episode 1

Mistakenly committed to a mental hospital, Homer meets a tall, stocky white man who claims to be Michael Jackson.

#5 - Treehouse of Horror III

The Simpsons - Season 4 - Episode 5

In "Clown Without Pity," Bart's Krusty doll is determined to murder Homer. In "King Homer," Homer plays King Kong to Marge's Fay Wray. Finally, in "Dial Z for Zombies," Bart finds a book of witchcraft and accidentally brings Springfield's dead to life.

#6 - Treehouse of Horror II

The Simpsons - Season 3 - Episode 7

The family buys a cursed monkey paw in Morocco, and their three wishes turn out badly. In a Twilight Zone parody, Bart is the fearsome “monster” who can read the townspeople’s thoughts. And Mr. Burns steals Homer’s brain for a giant robot he’s building.

#7 - Lisa's Sax

The Simpsons - Season 9 - Episode 3

After Lisa’s saxophone is destroyed, the Simpsons reminisce about how she originally got the instrument. On the hottest day of the year, Homer must decide whether to buy an air conditioner or replace Lisa’s sax.

#8 - The Boy Next Door

ALF - Season 2 - Episode 14

ALF befriends the Ochmoneks' belligerent nephew, Jake.

#9 - Suspicious Minds

ALF - Season 3 - Episode 15

ALF is convinced that a reclusive neighbor is actually Elvis Presley.

#10 - Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala (Annoyed Grunt) cious

The Simpsons - Season 8 - Episode 13

Marge is stressed by the demands of motherhood and the Simpsons get a magical British nanny, who floats down from the sky holding an umbrella.

#11 - Dial 'M' For Mother

The Critic - Season 1 - Episode 3

Jay is considered to be one of the most unpopular men on Earth (ranking even worse than Adolph Hitler) so Duke attempts to spruce up the show to get more people interested. When this doesn't work, Jay decides to soften his image by going on the "Geraldo Show" with his mother but Jay gets an even worse reputation when his mother embarrasses him to the point where he tells her to "shut up".

#12 - Pilot

The Critic - Season 1 - Episode 1

Film critic Jay Sherman falls in love with actress Valerie Fox. Jay's family and friends worry that Valerie is using him to get a good movie review. Does she truly care for him?

#13 - There's No Disgrace Like Home

The Simpsons - Season 1 - Episode 4

After an embarrassing experience at the company picnic, Homer pawns the TV and uses the proceeds to take the family to therapy sessions.

#14 - 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.

#15 - Mom and Pop Art

The Simpsons - Season 10 - Episode 19

Homer's failed do-it-yourself project gets mistaken for "outsider art." Suddenly in the limelight, Homer must come up with new "works" to impress the art world.

#16 - I'm Your Puppet

ALF - Season 2 - Episode 23

ALF's mail-order ventriloquist's dummy takes on a life of its own, and it takes a visit from a psychiatrist to cure him.

#17 - Lisa's Pony

The Simpsons - Season 3 - Episode 8

Overcompensating for his neglect, Homer buys Lisa a pony. The high cost of maintaining the animal forces him to work the graveyard shift at the Kwik-E-Mart.

#18 - Children of a Lesser Clod

The Simpsons - Season 12 - Episode 20

After a debilitating injury forces him to stay indoors, Homer begins a daycare center, making Bart and Lisa jealous.

#19 - Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?

The Simpsons - Season 11 - Episode 3

With Lisa's help, Homer uses his vast knowledge of food to become the town's leading restaurant critic. But when he gets petty and vindictive in his criticisms, all the other chefs in town try to kill him.

#20 - Hammer Gets Nailed

Sledge Hammer! - Season 1 - Episode 2

A reporter spends a day with Hammer and gets more than he bargained for, and Hammer gets fired. Guest Stars Ronnie Schell as Phil Gumm

#21 - 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.

#22 - Mr. Lisa's Opus

The Simpsons - Season 29 - Episode 8

As future Lisa writes her college application essay for Harvard, she recalls past disappointing birthdays that helped shape her.

#23 - Day of the Jackanapes

The Simpsons - Season 12 - Episode 13

When a new television game show grows in popularity and begins to draw away Krusty's TV audience, he decides to retire from the television business.

#24 - The Telltale Head

The Simpsons - Season 1 - Episode 8

Bart tries to impress the school bullies by stealing the head of the Jebediah Springfield statue in the town square, but everyone is outraged by his act of vandalism.

#25 - Daddicus Finch

The Simpsons - Season 30 - Episode 9

Lisa and Homer's bond gets stronger when they start spending real quality time together, and Bart feels neglected. So Marge tries to help Homer balance his attention between the kids.

#26 - Miss of the Spider Woman

Sledge Hammer! - Season 1 - Episode 12

Hammer is poisoned by a mysterious woman and learns that he has only twelve hours to live. Hammer learns that the only cure for the poison is held by a group of monks in the Andes who have taken a vow of silence. Severely weakened, Hammer must hunt down the perpetrators before it’s too late… made worse by the fact that it’s also daylight savings time.

#27 - State of Sledge

Sledge Hammer! - Season 1 - Episode 14

When Hammer arrests the leader of a Satanic cult, Internal Affairs insists that the cultist be allowed his one phone call. Soon after the cultist makes the call, the precinct headquarters is surrounded by hundreds of demented devil worshippers. With communications to the outside cut off, Hammer devises a risky plan to lift the state of siege.

#28 - The Many Saints of Springfield

The Simpsons - Season 34 - Episode 13

Flanders unwittingly goes into business with the mob.

#29 - Mothers and Other Strangers

The Simpsons - Season 33 - Episode 9

Teenage Homer and Grampa go on a road trip to ease their sorrow.

#30 - Desperately Seeking Dori

Sledge Hammer! - Season 1 - Episode 18

While pursuing a counterfeiter, Doreau gets knocked on the head. The results are a personality disorder that makes her behave in the same anti-social, violent manner as her partner Hammer.

#31 - Over My Dead Bodyguard

Sledge Hammer! - Season 1 - Episode 8

When the press reveals that Capt. Trunk is scheduled to testify against a mob boss, Hammer is assigned as his bodyguard. In an attempt on his life Trunk is wounded and taken to the hospital. Sledge decides to make a bogus report that the captain’s been killed, but an assassin learns Trunk is still alive and infiltrates the tightly secured hospital posing as a physician.

#32 - The Tell-Tale Pants

The Simpsons - Season 35 - Episode 16

Marge comes upon a surprising windfall and, angry with Homer, spends it secretly on herself.

#33 - The 7 Beer Itch

The Simpsons - Season 32 - Episode 5

When Marge and the kids take a seaside vacation, Homer is unwittingly tempted by a British femme fatale.

#34 - Tonight, Tonight (1)

ALF - Season 3 - Episode 4

ALF hosts "The Tonight Show", with Ed McMahon.

#35 - Volleyball, Anyone?

Head of the Class - Season 1 - Episode 7

Arvid tries to impress a girl by challenging the school basketball players to a volleyball match against the IHP class.

#36 - Tonight, Tonight (2)

ALF - Season 3 - Episode 5

#37 - I Can't Believe It's a Clip Show

The Critic - Season 2 - Episode 10

Jay is hosting his 10th anniversary show held at Carnegie Hall where he showcases a number of movie clips from old episodes such as Jurassic Park 2, Every Which Way but Lucid, and Rabbi P.I. The show is later held hostage by a number of terrorists who threaten to blow the place up with a bomb tied to Jay's waist. Fortunately, everybody is eventually rescued by Milton Berle.

#38 - Cousin Elliott

Charles in Charge - Season 1 - Episode 5

Charles comes home triumphant from a softball game. He is so happy with life, his job, school...Lila is getting ready for a survival trip to which Douglas was hoping to go also, all hidden in her duffel bag. Unexpectedly cousin Elliot shows up at the Pembroke house. His ideas of how to deal with children, what is permissible and what is not, does not necessarily coincide with Charles' opinions. The children drink coffee, overeat on ice cream to the point of stomach aches, Elliot even plans to take Lila - who is only fourteen years old - to a dark, smoky night club. Charles is undecided. Should he step in and stop all the "fun" or should he not get involved at all? His friend Buddy had told him that blood is thicker than water, and Elliot is family. In the end, Charles does put his foot down, and to his amazement finds out that Mr. and Mrs. Pembroke were just letting him go through this experience by himself, since they knew all along how things were going to end.

#39 - Marty Buys the Farm

Teen Angel - Season 1 - Episode 1

After eating a 6 month old hamburger, Marty DePolo dies. God's cousin Rod tells him he is going to be the guardian angel of his best friend, Steve. Steve becomes happy that his best friend is back until Marty makes fun of the history teacher, Mr. Nitske. Nitcke tells everyone there's is going by a test the next day, worth 50% of their grade. Everybody gets angry at Steve and Steve gets angry at Marty. Now Marty has to fix everything...