The BEST episodes written by J. Stewart Burns
#1 - The Tell-Tale Lipstick
Unhappily Ever After - Season 3 - Episode 12
When Tiffany decides she wants to do something bad, she steals some lipstick and becomes a rebel.
#2 - Roswell That Ends Well
Futurama - Season 4 - Episode 1
The combined explosions of a supernova and Fry putting metal in the microwave hurtle the Planet Express crew back in time to 1947. They land at Roswell, New Mexico, where a shattered Bender is mistaken for UFO debris, Zoidberg is taken in for an alien autopsy, and Fry accidentally kills his grandfather, Enis, in a nuclear explosion.
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Unhappily Ever After - Season 3 - Episode 20
Tiffany's advice causes Ryan to get lots of women at his new job as a hairdresser. Jack worries that Ryan is gay because of his new job, but respects him when he sees the women Ryan is getting.
#4 - The Deep South
Futurama - Season 2 - Episode 16
A fishing trip over the ocean takes a turn for the worse when a colossal mouth bass pulls the Planet Express ship to the bottom of the sea. There, Fry falls in love with a mermaid named Umbriel, and the crew discovers the sunken city of Atlanta, Georgia.
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#5 - The Way We Weren't
The Simpsons - Season 15 - Episode 20
Homer and Bart get into a fight over using a beer bottle to kiss girls which land them in Simpson family court, where Lisa presides as judge. While giving testimony Marge tells the kids that Homer's first kiss was with her in high school. He confesses that it wasn't his first kiss. Back when he was ten he went to camp See-A-Tree (for underprivileged boys). Here he meets Lenny, Carl and Moe. The boys go to the girl's camp where they work in the kitchen. After Homer returns the retainer to the girl who lost it he gets the opportunity to meet her later that night. He tells the kids she was the prettiest girl he'd ever seen, until he later met their mother. Marge reveals that the girl was her. Marge tells the story from her perspective. At the girls camp, Land-A-Man, we find Marge, Patty, Selma, Helen (Lovejoy), Cookie Kwan. When she met Homer that it was she who first kisses him and then they have the perfect kiss. They agree to meet again the following night, but Homer doesn't show. Marge says it was years before she could trust another boy. Homer explains why he didn't return for a second date. After he left her he fell off a cliff into the lake and drifted to the shores of "Camp Flab-Away," which featured Quimby, Wiggum and Comic Book Guy as some of the overweight campers. Homer manages to escape and gets to Marge's camp, but arrives after she's left. Now that Marge knows the truth Homer hopes for her forgiveness. She doesn't believe he really cared all those years ago, until he pulls the other piece of her broken heart out of his memory box.
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#6 - Steal This Episode
The Simpsons - Season 25 - Episode 9
Homer becomes annoyed with movie theaters, so Bart teaches him how to download movies illegally. Homer is delighted with his discovery of free movies until he's caught for piracy.
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#8 - Lightning Boy
Unhappily Ever After - Season 3 - Episode 5
After getting zapped by lightning, Ryan is convinced that he is a super hero named Lightning Boy.
#9 - There's Something About Marrying
The Simpsons - Season 16 - Episode 10
When Springfield legalizes same-sex marriage, Homer becomes a minister, and a townsperson comes out of the closet.
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#10 - A Head in the Polls
Futurama - Season 2 - Episode 7
When the price of titanium skyrockets, Bender pawns his titanium-rich body and lives the high life as just a head. But when the head-in-a-jar of Richard M. Nixon uses Bender's body to run for election for President of Earth, Bender vows to get his rightful property back.
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#11 - Marge Gamer
The Simpsons - Season 18 - Episode 17
Marge becomes a spectacle during a PTA meeting for not having an e-mail address, and she decides to take a chance on using the Internet. Amazed and delighted by all the Internet has to offer, Marge decides to join a popular role-playing fantasy game named "Earthland Realms." To Marge's dismay, the game has her interacting with practically the whole town of Springfield, including Bart, who happens to be the game's most feared and destructive player. Meanwhile, Homer saves Lisa's soccer game from cancellation after he volunteers to take the place of a referee who recently quit. However, Homer's refereeing skills only exasperate Lisa, and her competitive streak gets the best of her.
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#12 - Flanders' Ladder
The Simpsons - Season 29 - Episode 21
After getting struck by lightning, Bart receives visits from ghosts, who want closure only he can provide.
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#13 - Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind
The Simpsons - Season 19 - Episode 9
Homer wakes up to find himself outdoors and covered in snow, without memory of the night before. When he arrives home, he finds everyone missing. Seeking help from Moe and Professor Frink, Homer tries to piece together his memory to find out what happened to him the night before.
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#14 - Homerazzi
The Simpsons - Season 18 - Episode 16
When the fireproof safe (which was bought after one too many house fires) explodes, Homer and Marge try to recreate the photos, but when one of them uncovers a scandal in the background, Homer decides to join the world of paparazzi – forgetting what happened the last time he had a job that dealt in revealing other people’s flaws to the public (in “Guess Who’s Coming to Criticize Dinner?”)
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#15 - The Cryonic Woman
Futurama - Season 3 - Episode 3
Fry, Leela, and Bender all lose their jobs at Planet Express, and they endeavor to return to their old jobs. Due to a mix-up of their career chips, Fry becomes a career counselor at Applied Cryogenics, where he meets up with a familiar defrostee - his girlfriend from the 20th century, Michelle.
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#16 - Mars University
Futurama - Season 2 - Episode 2
Fry, Leela, Bender and Farnsworth have to go to Mars University where Fry has to share a room with a talking monkey, Farnsworth's last invention. The monkey becomes a real headache when he starts beating Fry in all areas. Meanwhile, Bender is hanging out with nerd robots.
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#17 - My Three Suns
Futurama - Season 1 - Episode 7
The crew visits an arid planet in the Galaxy of Terror distinctive for it's three suns and liquid alien inhabitants. Fry, after delivering a package under the scorching heat, quenches his thirst with a bottle of cool blue liquid. Fry soon finds out he drank the planet's royal leader and is named the new emperor. Fry abuses his newfound power, even appointing Bender second in command, until the aliens retaliate and the real battle for power begins.
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#18 - Moe Baby Blues
The Simpsons - Season 14 - Episode 22
After saving Maggie's life, Moe develops a special bond with her, much to Homer's dismay.
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#19 - The Monkey Suit
The Simpsons - Season 17 - Episode 21
Working through their checklists of things to do before summer ends, Lisa gets the family to go a museum. At the Springfield Museum of Natural History there is an exhibit Lisa is excited to see on Women’s History turns into an exhibit on the history of weapons, which excites Homer and Bart. When Flanders sees the exhibit of evolution and another that mocks creationism, he raises an alarm. Reverend Lovejoy gets Skinner to have creationism taught in school. Lisa is the only one who holds onto the scientific theory. She brings the topic up at the town meeting and the town votes to teach only one theory, creationism. Lisa decides to hold her own class on evolution, until she is arrested. The ACLU gives her a lawyer who is up against a slick Southern lawyer, but ultimately it’s a family member that is a key to her defense.
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#20 - Pumping Iron
Beavis and Butt-Head - Season 4 - Episode 7
Beavis & Butt-head get a free trial membership at a health club, spot people, and have fun with a treadmill. videos: Midi, Maxi, & Efti - "Bad, Bad Boys" Overkill - "Hello From the Gutter" My Life With Thrill Kill Kult - "Blue Buddha" Lenny Kravitz - "Is There Any Love In Your Heart "
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#21 - Dogtown
The Simpsons - Season 28 - Episode 22
When Homer's court case determines that a dog's life is more valuable than a human's is, the status of man's best friend rises in Springfield. When the dogs recognize their new position of power, they assert their dominance over the humans.
#22 - Fland Canyon
The Simpsons - Season 27 - Episode 19
Homer recalls a tense family vacation to the Grand Canyon with the Flanders family. At first, the Flanders’ perfection puts the families at odds, but when they get stranded and Ned and Homer go for help, the families finally bond.
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#23 - Puffless
The Simpsons - Season 27 - Episode 3
Upon learning that their father really died of lung cancer, Selma and Patty agree to quit smoking. When Selma relapses, an angry Patty moves in with Marge and Homer.
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#24 - Friends and Family
The Simpsons - Season 28 - Episode 2
Mr. Burns hires the Simpsons to play his live-in virtual reality family, but excludes Homer so that he may play dad. Now alone, Homer finds a new best friend in girl-next-door Julia, who eats, drinks and thinks like him.
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Unhappily Ever After - Season 4 - Episode 16
Ryan's career aptitude test reveals that he should be a teacher, so he becomes the student teacher in Ross's class. Ryan accidentally kills Ross's teacher, Mr. Moss, by stabbing him with scissors so he takes over the class. Ross's girlfriend, a twelve-year-old named Kitty, has a crush on Ryan so Ryan has Tiffany pretend to be his girlfriend.
#26 - The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson
The Simpsons - Season 31 - Episode 12
Marge recruits Chrissy Teigen and John Legend for an education-based proposal.
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Unhappily Ever After - Season 4 - Episode 2
For a project, the class must find what the opposite sex wants. For her project, Tiffany pretends to be stupid around a guy. Ryan begis acting like a girl for his.
#28 - Getting More Than Some
Unhappily Ever After - Season 2 - Episode 22
After taking Jack's advice, Ryan becomes engaged to Crystal, a thirty year old woman with two kids.
#29 - Exorcising Jennie
Unhappily Ever After - Season 4 - Episode 4
When Jennie's ghost continues to pester the family, they call Father Guido Sarducci to perform and excorcism.
#30 - Treehouse of Horror XXX
The Simpsons - Season 31 - Episode 4
Horrors include a demon Maggie, a mission to rescue Milhouse from another dimension, dead-Homer’s spirit trying on some new bodies for size, and Selma finally finding love in an unlikely place.
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Unhappily Ever After - Season 3 - Episode 8
Ryan gets angry when Tiffany changes his band and they become a success. Meanwhile, Mr. Floppy starts going in the washer to get into alternate worlds.
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Unhappily Ever After - Season 2 - Episode 14
Jack is thrown in jail when Jennie punches a meter maid. Jennie won't bail Jack out and things are terrible around the house without him.
#33 - Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh
The Simpsons - Season 20 - Episode 19
When Marge learns Springfield Elementary is the worst school in the state, she and Homer rent an apartment in the upscale Waverly Hills school district so Bart and Lisa can attend a better school. Meanwhile, Homer moves into the rented Waverly Hills apartment and gets used to the bachelor lifestyle.
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#34 - Cow Tipping
Beavis and Butt-Head - Season 4 - Episode 2
Beavis and Butthead see a milk add on tv which reminds them that cow tipping is cool, so they set out to try it.Videos: Men Without Hats "Safety Dance" Fu Schnickens "What's Up Doc" Violent Femmes "Nightmares"
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#35 - Every Man's Dream
The Simpsons - Season 27 - Episode 1
Homer is diagnosed with narcolepsy, but instead of returning home with his prescription medication, he returns home drunk. He and Marge visit a marriage counselor and have a trial separation, during which Homer begins dating a 20-something.
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#36 - Screenless
The Simpsons - Season 31 - Episode 15
Marge implements a screen time limit for the whole family, all of whom all easily adjust to the new lifestyle. However, Marge realizes that she is the one addicted - not her husband and children.
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#37 - The Great Depression
Unhappily Ever After - Season 1 - Episode 12
Jennifer is chaperoning Tiffany's spring dance. Tiffany is in charge of planning the dance, and has invested the funds into war-oriented stocks. Unfortunately, peace breaks out and her investments go bad. Jack has to return his new J. Bean wardrobe (that Mr. Floppy says makes him look like a gay-boy) in order to help fund the dance. Jennifer makes Jack help her with and take her to the dance. Ryan ends up with 10 dates because the girlfriends of the football team want to get even with the team for getting a stripper the week before. The theme of the dance is ""The O.J. Trial Under the Stars,"" and Barry wins Queen of the Prom.
#38 - Making the Grade
Unhappily Ever After - Season 2 - Episode 9
When Ryan gets all D's and F's on his report card, Jennie says he can't have the car keys until he gets a B, so he makes a deal with Miss Taylor, his Civics teacher. Meanwhile, Jack tries to figure out why Ryan is so dumba nd Tiffany begins to suspect that the mailman is her father.
#39 - College!
Unhappily Ever After - Season 3 - Episode 21
Jack goes to a loan shark for the $18,000 for Tiffany to go to Harvard. But Tiffany turns down the Harvard scholarship and decides to go to Northridge Junior College with Ryan when she meets Professor Alfred, a professor there. She soon finds Professor Alfred is going to teach at Harvard and Mr. Monteleone is taking his spot.
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#40 - Write Off This Episode
The Simpsons - Season 34 - Episode 19
When Marge and Lisa start a charity together, Marge is seduced by the money and prestige of Big Charity fundraising.
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#41 - Jack The Ripper
Unhappily Ever After - Season 1 - Episode 5
Since Jack's boss (Jennifer's father) won't give him a car, he decides to buy a moped. Jennifer finally convinces her mother, who came six weeks ago for a two week visit, to go home. As Maureen walks out the door, Jack runs into her with the moped, which of course causes her to continue staying with Jennifer. Jennifer decides that in order to prevent Maureen from suing Jack and getting all of Jennifer's stuff, that Jack should call her ""mom"" (which he has never done). Features a wonderful daydream medley of scenes where Jack imagines killing Maureen at various stages in his life.
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Unhappily Ever After - Season 2 - Episode 3
Jack leaves Jennie's room for the basement because she won't let him have his ways, but he finds a giant rat in the basement and makes the kids get rid of it.