The BEST episodes written by Joel H. Cohen
#1 - Home Away from Homer
The Simpsons - Season 16 - Episode 20
Lisa wins 4 tickets to see a foreign film and Homer gets Flanders to baby-sit Maggie. Flanders doesn't take any money for his effort, but he does need to earn some extra money; Marge suggests that he rent out his spare room. Flanders rents the room to two college age women, who turn the room into the set for their live webcam at www.SexySlumberParty.com. Flanders is unaware of what is going on in is his home, and when Homer finds out he makes sure that every man in Springfield knows about it. When Marge finds out she makes Homer tell Ned and then he finds out that Homer has made him the laughingstock of Springfield. Flanders decides to move to Humbleton, PA., where his favorite figurines are made. Homer mourns the loss of his favorite neighbor and tries to make friends with the new neighbor that has moved in, Clay Roberts, but this new neighbor is obnoxious. Meanwhile in Humbleton, Ned seems in heaven, only for him to live and work there, he must remove his mustache. Ned refuses and is making waves in his new community. When Homer arrives on his doorstep, pleading for him to come back to Springfield, Flanders decides to return.
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#2 - He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs
The Simpsons - Season 19 - Episode 1
After Homer saves Mr. Burns' life he is rewarded with a trip in Mr. Burns' private plane. A depressed Homer realizes he will never again receive a chance to fly in a luxurious private jet and Marge hires Homer a life coach to help get him out of his rut.
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#3 - Today, I Am a Klown
The Simpsons - Season 15 - Episode 6
Krusty decides to do what he never did when he was thirteen years old - have a Bar Mitzvah. Homer becomes Krusty’s replacement on his show, turning it into a successful talk show.
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#4 - Fat Man and Little Boy
The Simpsons - Season 16 - Episode 5
Bart begins designing T-shirt slogans, and his T-shirts become very popular among the citizens of Springfield.
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#5 - Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life
The Simpsons - Season 22 - Episode 5
Discovering that Marge was once a stellar A+ student whose grades plummeted after being distracted, Lisa fears that she will end up just like her mom unless she pledges to focus solely on academics in an encore episode. When Marge makes a secret deal allowing Lisa to attend her dream school, Lisa learns a lesson in family and altruism. Meanwhile, Bart puts Nelson Muntz in his place and unintentionally claims the title of "School Bully"
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#6 - The Fat and the Furriest
The Simpsons - Season 15 - Episode 5
At the dump Homer is videotaped while being attacked by a bear. The town regards him a coward, so Homer decides to strike back at the bear.
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#7 - Brawl in the Family
The Simpsons - Season 13 - Episode 7
A social services officer brings unity to the Simpson family, but their newfound happiness is threatened when the cocktail waitresses Homer and Ned drunkly married in Vegas shows up at their doors.
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#8 - Treehouse of Horror XII
The Simpsons - Season 13 - Episode 1
In “Hex and the City” a gypsy puts a curse on Homer. In “House of Whack” the Simpsons' new automated house malfunctions and tries to kill Homer. And in “Wiz Kids” Bart and Lisa attend a school for wizards.
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#9 - Teenage Mutant Milk-caused Hurdles
The Simpsons - Season 27 - Episode 11
There is a new teacher at Springfield Elementary, and a captivated Bart tries everything to win her over. Meanwhile, Homer decides to buy a new brand of “milk,” which causes early puberty, both for Bart (augmenting his wooing powers) and Lisa (whose small bout with acne opens her up to the world of makeup and popularity).
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#10 - A Test Before Trying
The Simpsons - Season 24 - Episode 10
Springfield Elementary must depend on Bartificial intelligence when it's threatened with closure after doing poorly on standardized testing, and since Bart's the only one who missed the exam, it's up to him to raise the average grade to save the school.
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#11 - Treehouse of Horror XXI
The Simpsons - Season 22 - Episode 4
In the 21st Treehouse of Horror episode: Bart and Milhouse discover a real-life board game that they must win to return home in "War and Pieces"; Lisa falls in love with a moody, preteen vampire in the Twilight parody "Tweenlight"; and Marge and Homer go on a honeymoon on a sailboat, and rescue a castaway named Roger who tries to kill them in the Dead Calm parody "Master and Cadaver".
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#12 - 'Cue Detective
The Simpsons - Season 27 - Episode 2
Scotty Boom, a Chew Network super-chef, challenges Homer to a smoke-off. But when someone steals Homer’s secret weapon – a smoker he bought off a mysterious man at a BBQ shack – Lisa and Bart are on the case.
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#13 - 'Tis the 30th Season
The Simpsons - Season 30 - Episode 10
After a failed Black Friday shopping spree, Marge is determined to fix Christmas. However, Homer and the kids surprise Marge with a vacation to a Florida resort.
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#14 - Homer the Father
The Simpsons - Season 22 - Episode 12
When Homer insists Bart must earn the new dirt bike he wants, Bart comes up with a scheme; James Lipton interviews a TV cast.
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#15 - Wedding for Disaster
The Simpsons - Season 20 - Episode 15
After Marge and Homer's marriage turns out to be invalid, they decide to re-do their vows. But when Homer goes missing, Bart and Lisa smell something funny and investigate his disappearance.
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#16 - Mona Leaves-a
The Simpsons - Season 19 - Episode 19
After Mona, Homer's mother, passes away unexpectedly, Homer feels guilty for not getting the chance to tell her how much he really loved her.
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#17 - 22 for 30
The Simpsons - Season 28 - Episode 17
In this parody of a cable sports show, Bart goes from delinquent with detention to the star basketball player at Springfield Elementary. Lisa covers Bart's success for the school paper, and Homer becomes the team’s coach. Things go awry when Bart gets involved with the mafia.
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#18 - Treehouse of Horror XXVII
The Simpsons - Season 28 - Episode 4
Better late than never, The Hunger Games come to Springfield!
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#19 - Left Behind
The Simpsons - Season 29 - Episode 19
Homer gets Flanders a job at the plant, and he soon learns that no good deed goes unpunished when Flanders starts to insist on carpools and demands more from Homer's work performance. Meanwhile, Marge feels as though their marriage has lost its spark.
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#20 - Gone Abie Gone
The Simpsons - Season 24 - Episode 4
Homer and Marge try to track down Grampa by following clues from his past, while Lisa struggles to resist gambling away her college fund.
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#21 - The Debarted
The Simpsons - Season 19 - Episode 13
Bart teams up with a new kid at school, Donny, to pull some pranks, but when the hijinks go haywire, Groundskeeper Willie tips Bart off to the fact that there might be a rat amongst his friends. Meanwhile, Homer becomes attached to a loaner vehicle while his is in the shop being repaired.
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#22 - The Last of the Red Hat Mamas
The Simpsons - Season 17 - Episode 7
The mayor’s estate is used for Springfield’s Easter celebration, and in the course of the events, Homer embarrasses Marge in front of some new potential friends. To make it up, Homer decides to find her some new friends, with little luck. Marge finds some new friends on her own, Tammy and other members of “The Cheery Red Tomatoes,” a group of women of a certain age. This group has plans for a fund raiser; they intend to rob Mr. Burns of 1 million dollars, an amount he once promised to charity. Homer finds out about the plan and tries to stop her from doing something she’ll regret. Meanwhile, Lisa in search of summer opportunities decides to spend the summer in Rome. Lisa tells Principal Skinner that she speaks fluent Italian, since she really doesn’t she tries to take a crash course and winds up hiring a tutor that turns out to be Milhouse.
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#23 - The Girl on the Bus
The Simpsons - Season 30 - Episode 12
When Lisa spots a new best friend from the window of the bus, she gets a taste of what life could be like with a different, more cultured family, and proceeds to try and live a double life.
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#24 - Treehouse of Horror XXVI
The Simpsons - Season 27 - Episode 5
In the annual fright fest Halloween episode, Sideshow Bob finally kills Bart, only to reanimate him; Homer wakes up with short-term memory loss; and Lisa, Bart, and Milhouse get super powers from radiation.
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#25 - Homer's Paternity Coot
The Simpsons - Season 17 - Episode 10
The result of Marge's anger against Quimby’s new toll road leads to the discovery of a frozen mailman and his 40-year-old mail. The old mail is delivered to the recipients, including one to Grampa Simpson's deceased wife, and it reveals a secret love affair and who the real father of her baby Homer might be. Confused and emotional, Homer finds Mason Fairbanks, his wealthy and much improved paternal dad, and happily establishes a father-son relationship with him while rejecting Abe, his surrogate father of 40 years, especially after a DNA test reveals that Mason is indeed his real father. Homer joins Mason on an undersea treasure hunt and when Homer’s life is in mortal danger he reflects upon his childhood and realizes who his true father is. When he confesses that to Abe, Abe has a confession of his own.
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#26 - Do The Wrong Thing
The Simpsons - Season 35 - Episode 10
Homer and Bart become kings of the blue-collar sports circuit, but Marge suspects something dishonest at the core of their father-son bond.
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#27 - Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play
The Simpsons - Season 17 - Episode 22
When Homer hears that the Isotopes are on a winning streak, he takes the family to the game. The first baseman’s game is going bad, caused by his sexy singing wife Tabitha embarrassing him during the game’s national anthem. Buck Mitchell sees Marge and Homer’s kiss on the game’s Kiss-Cam and comes to them for marital advice. They start working with the couple and Buck’s baseball career turns around, but it and the Simpson marriage goes awry again when Buck catches Homer giving Tabitha a neck massage. While Marge and Homer try keeping their marriage together they also try to get Buck and Tabitha back together.
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#28 - Treehouse of Horror XXIX
The Simpsons - Season 30 - Episode 4
Homer wins an oyster-eating contest against the mythical Cthulhu, Springfield is overrun by plant body-snatchers, Lisa finally snaps and Mr. Burns opens a retirement home with some Jurassic upgrades.
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#29 - The Wayz We Were
The Simpsons - Season 33 - Episode 4
Evergreen Terrace is overrun with traffic and Moe has a fateful choice to make.
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#30 - Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times
The Simpsons - Season 18 - Episode 11
In an effort to stop Homer from taking revenge on the Rich Texan for cutting him off on the highway, Marge, Lisa and Bart offer up three cautionary tales of revenge.The Count of Monte Fatso: A parody of the book and film The Count of Monte Cristo, in which Homer is cast as the Count.Revenge of the Geeks: Using a futuristic device called the “Get-back-inator,” Milhouse takes revenge on the Springfield Elementary bullies.Bartman Begins: A parody of the Batman origin story, in which Bart is cast in the title role.
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#31 - Top Goon
The Simpsons - Season 34 - Episode 11
Coach Moe recruits the world's greatest brawlers to teach Nelson the art of hockey goonery.
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#32 - The Hateful Eight-Year-Olds
The Simpsons - Season 31 - Episode 21
Lisa makes a new friend who loves horses, but then becomes part of a circle of snooty young rich girls. Meanwhile, Homer takes Marge on a romantic cruise.
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#33 - Clown in the Dumps
The Simpsons - Season 26 - Episode 1
A Springfield resident dies, Krusty retires after he's offended by a comedy cable channel roast of him, and Lisa tries to protect Homer from getting hurt.
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#34 - Better Off Ned
The Simpsons - Season 31 - Episode 16
Jealous of Bart’s bond with Ned, Homer mentors Nelson in retaliation, but an act of heroism helps Homer to regain Bart’s respect.
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#35 - Frinkenstein's Monster
The Simpsons - Season 35 - Episode 11
Professor Frink secretly helps Homer, through a zoom interview, land a high-level position at a state-of-the-art nuclear plant in Shelbyville. But since Homer lacks the skills to actually perform the job, Frink must monitor Homer’s work situation remotely and dictate his every word… causing Frink to fear he’s created a monster.
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#36 - 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.
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Suddenly Susan - Season 4 - Episode 10
A frumpy coworker guilt trips Susan into attending her birthday party---on the night Susan has romantic plans with Oliver.
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Suddenly Susan - Season 4 - Episode 20
To sow the seeds of reconciliation with Susan, Oliver has his vasectomy reversed. Meanwhile, Ian seeks Miranda's advice about dating black women.
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