The BEST episodes written by John Frink
#1 - University of Goblin
Clash-A-Rama! - Season 1 - Episode 2
Too much down time makes the whole Village soft. Two Archers decide to have a shooting competition to stay sharp. A Villager tries to teach English to Goblins, but ends up learning a hard lesson herself. A Hog Rider shops for a new Hog. He tries out all the fancy new Hogs, but ends up choosing one just like his old Hog. Or is it a new Hog? Tempers flare when TV Royale announcers have trouble keeping their team alliances a secret. Meanwhile, a Skeleton, Wizard, and Dragon join the Archers in their shooting competition. Are they making the Village safer? Or destroying it?
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#2 - Insane Clown Poppy
The Simpsons - Season 12 - Episode 3
After he learns he has a daughter, Krusty turns to Homer for parenting advice.
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#3 - Giant vs. Giant Problem
Clash-A-Rama! - Season 1 - Episode 1
A Hog Rider identifies the Goblin who stole his Hog. Wrongly accused, the Goblin beefs up in jail. When the Hog Rider comes back to explain his mistake the Goblin lets him know just how appreciative he is. Ivan, a Dragon, has a sore throat. The Wizard Doctor orders him to lay off flaming for a week. Ivan is tempted by some other Dragons to flame geese behind the Laboratory, but he doesn’t give in. Can you teach an old Archer new tricks? Tower Archers run out of arrows during an attack and must rely on the ingenuity of a younger, former Ground Archer. Are some Builders better than others? Find out what happens when you get a bad Builder. After suffering a humiliating loss where he attacked a Wall instead of a Town Hall, a Giant learns how to fight with the help of a Wall Breaker. Then the Village is attacked an hour before Ivan’s flame-free week is up. What’s a Dragon to do?
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#4 - The Bob Next Door
The Simpsons - Season 21 - Episode 22
Bart becomes convinced that his new neighbor, Walt, is his archenemy, Sideshow Bob, disguised and back for revenge. But when Marge tries to convince Bart otherwise by taking him to visit the state penitentiary, a disturbing truth is revealed.
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#5 - Treehouse of Horror XI
The Simpsons - Season 12 - Episode 1
In "G-G-Ghost D-D-Dad" Homer dies after eating broccoli, but must perform a good deed within 24 hours to get into Heaven. In "Scary Tales Can Come True" Bart and Lisa encounter a witch in a gingerbread house. And in "Night of the Dolphin" super-intelligent dolphins strike back at humanity.
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#6 - The Great Louse Detective
The Simpsons - Season 14 - Episode 6
When someone attempts to murder Homer, Sideshow Bob is released to help him track down a potential assassin.
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#7 - Stealing First Base
The Simpsons - Season 21 - Episode 15
Principal Skinner announces that Mrs. Krabappel was called out of town and budget cuts dictate that, until she returns, the school's two fourth grade classes will merge. Bart reluctantly shares a desk with Nikki and develops a flirtatious rapport. Bart talks to Grampa about his new crush, and at Grampa's suggestion, gives Nikki a kiss. But when Nikki starts sending Bart mixed signals, he swears off women forever. Meanwhile, Lisa's classmates ostracize her for being an overachiever, and First Lady Michelle Obama, a self-professed nerd, comes to Lisa's defence.
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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 - The Girl Who Slept Too Little
The Simpsons - Season 17 - Episode 2
The noise of early morning construction next door is keeping the family awake; there is a new stamp museum under construction. The family successfully leads a protest that gets the stamp museum moved to the site of the old graveyard; the old graveyard in turn is relocated next to the Simpson home. The site of the graveyard outside her window makes Lisa uncomfortable and scared late one night she runs to her parent’s bed for comfort. They try to get her back into her own bed, by showing her that they can sleep in her bed. When that doesn’t work, they resort to the help of a psychiatrist and she offers them some costly advice. Meanwhile Lisa, who has always had to fend for her self, decides to spend the night in the cemetery and conquer her fears. Lisa gets knocked unconscious and has a hallucination helps her to deal with fear.
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#10 - The Wandering Juvie
The Simpsons - Season 15 - Episode 16
After playing a prank on the whole town, Bart is sentenced to six months of juvenile detention. There he meets Gina, who forces Bart to escape with her.
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#11 - The Bart Wants What It Wants
The Simpsons - Season 13 - Episode 11
Bart breaks up with his new girlfriend Greta, but gets jealous when she begins dating Milhouse.
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#12 - Gone Boy
The Simpsons - Season 29 - Episode 9
When Bart goes missing, the town puts together a search party to find him. After most give up hope, Sideshow Bob manipulates Millhouse into revealing where Bart is hiding.
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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 - Old Yeller Belly
The Simpsons - Season 14 - Episode 19
Homer throws out Santa's Little Helper for not saving him from a fire, but soon the dog becomes Duff's new mascot.
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#15 - The Italian Bob
The Simpsons - Season 17 - Episode 8
After being humiliated by Mrs. Krabappel's class, Mr. Burns finally decides to buy a new car, so he orders a Lamborgotti Fasterossa. He sends Homer and his family to the factory in Italy to pick the car up. The family takes a tour of Italy in the new car, but an accident with the car and a cheese truck has the family pushing the car into the town of Salsiccia. They find out that only one person in the town speaks English and it happens to be their mayor. The family goes to meet the mayor and they are surprised to see that it is Sideshow Bob, and he is equally surprised to see them. Sideshow Bob tells them how he came to Italy, become mayor and started a family with his wife (Francesca) and son (Gino). He hopes that the Simpsons will keep the secret of his criminal past, but Lisa’s first exposure to drinking wine leads to loose lips, which sinks his ship. Sideshow Bob, being no longer welcome in his new home, swears a vendetta on the Simpson family. The Simpsons go on the run from Sideshow Bob, who is joined by his wife and son as the vendetta affects their entire family. In Rome, the family discovers that Krusty is preparing to perform the lead in “I Pagliacci.” The Simpsons hide as extras within the show, but Krusty gets tossed off-stage only to be replaced by Sideshow Bob, whose family has the Simpsons surrounded. Krusty and his limo save the day, while Sideshow Bob and his family adjust to their unresolved vendetta.
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#16 - Black-Eyed, Please
The Simpsons - Season 24 - Episode 15
When Flanders' parents prove to prefer Homer's company to his, he jealously responds by giving Homer a shiner, and then tries desperately to reconcile with him. Meanwhile, Lisa is at a loss to understand why a new substitute teacher is bullying her for no obvious reason.
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#17 - Bart-Mangled Banner
The Simpsons - Season 15 - Episode 21
An accidental photo showing Bart mooning the American flag makes the Simpsons the most hated family in town.
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#18 - Treehouse of Horror XXVIII
The Simpsons - Season 29 - Episode 4
Maggie becomes possessed by an ancient demon, Lisa discovers a creepy/perfect version of her family in an alternate universe and Homer cannibalizes himself.
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#19 - 500 Keys
The Simpsons - Season 22 - Episode 21
When the Simpsons discover a collection of keys to every door in Springfield, Lisa stumbles upon an eerie hidden classroom beneath Springfield Elementary School. When she shares her discovery with Principal Skinner, the secret room mysteriously disappears and he takes the only key away. A determined Lisa uses her detective skills to lead her back to the room to solve an old school mystery.
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#20 - 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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#21 - Angry Dad: The Movie
The Simpsons - Season 22 - Episode 14
Bart and Homer make a film based on Bart's comic book character Angry Dad. The cartoon becomes a critical favorite and begins to win a number of awards, but Bart becomes upset when Homer takes all of the credit during acceptance speeches.
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#22 - Bye Bye Nerdy
The Simpsons - Season 12 - Episode 16
Problems with a bully lead Lisa to examine just what makes bullies aggressive. Homer gets into the baby-proofing business.
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#23 - Bartless
The Simpsons - Season 34 - Episode 15
When Bart's latest prank leads to chaos at Springfield Elementary, Marge and Homer dream of a world in which their rambunctious son was never a Simpson.
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#24 - Simpsons Tall Tales
The Simpsons - Season 12 - Episode 21
A hobo tells the Simpsons three tall tales on a train ride to Delaware: Homer as Paul Bunyan, Lisa as Connie Appleseed, and Bart and Nelson as Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.
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#25 - Simprovised
The Simpsons - Season 27 - Episode 21
After butchering a speech in front of all of his friends at work, Homer turns to improv comedy to gain back his confidence in his public speaking skills. Meanwhile, Marge decides to rebuild Bart’s lackluster treehouse, but tensions rise when Bart questions her building skills. Also, in the episode’s last three minutes, Homer appears LIVE for the first time on television (both for East and West Coast broadcasts) to answer fan questions.
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#26 - Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4
The Simpsons - Season 27 - Episode 13
Lonely Professor Frink uses science to turn himself into a man whom women find attractive. Then, overwhelmed by the attention, he invents an algorithm to perfectly pair the lonely men and women of Springfield, realizing that scientific exploration is his true love. Meanwhile, Marge, Bart, and Lisa visit Grampa for Valentine’s Day and try to rescue the old folks from a drug-induced hallucination that allows them to relive their happiest memories.
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#27 - Eeny Teeny Maya Moe
The Simpsons - Season 20 - Episode 16
Moe once again searches for love and falls for a woman named Maya over the Internet. However, when Moe meets Maya face-to-face, he discovers it's more like face-to-knee, as Maya is only three feet tall.
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#28 - Stop or My Dog Will Shoot
The Simpsons - Season 18 - Episode 20
Homer unwittingly drags the family into a cornfield maze after attempting to leave a boring Harvest fest that Marge brought them to. When everyone except Homer escapes, Santa's Little Helper rescues him and becomes the town hero. So the Simpsons enroll him in Police Dog Academy where he's teamed with Lou.
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#29 - All About Lisa
The Simpsons - Season 19 - Episode 20
Lisa outshines Krusty as his new assistant and steals the spotlight from him, earning her own TV show. Meanwhile, Homer and Bart spend some quality time together with their new coin collecting hobby.
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Veronica's Closet - Season 1 - Episode 7
Olive's college roommate, Karen, is the C.E.O. of a toy company that wants to create a posable Veronica Chase doll as part of a collection of real-life, contemporary female role models. Ronnie longs to be depicted as a Barbie, and doesn't see eye-to-eye with Karen's and Olive's role model vision when the Veronica Chase prototype doll rolls off the assembly line with hips bigger than Cleveland. Leo warns Perry about ""dating a family"" in regards to Suzanne, though Perry insists he's ready to be a father. Pat and Ronnie have it out when Ronnie gets jealous after he starts dragging Louisa along with him on Ronnie's rides. Olive convinces Ronnie not to back out of her agreement by convincing her that little girls are going to love her doll, and will learn to be strong and independent from it. But that couldn't be further from the truth when a focus group of children hates playing with the miniature Ronnie. As evidenced by the fact that she's having a bastard baby in the first place, Suzanne
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Veronica's Closet - Season 1 - Episode 9
Ronnie wants to go out with Olive's younger brother, Griffin. Olive tries to stop Ronnie, feeling she's too emotionally unstable to have another relationship while on the rebound. After Ronnie gets upset, Olive feels bad and arranges a date between the two. The tables turn after Ronnie finds out what a pretentious, long-winded bore Griffin is, and Olive wants Ronnie to continue dating Griffin after she finds out how much Griffin likes Ronnie. Pat teaches Leo how to drive when Tina's parents get them a car for a wedding present. Pat, a former negotiator, thinks Leo deserves a huge pay hike from Ronnie because he's getting married. After Ronnie turns down Pat's request for a 25% raise, Pat leads Leo out on a strike. Leo lies to Ronnie that he doesn't really want to strike and is only doing so because it means so much to Pat. Ronnie buys it and gives Leo his raise - for Pat's sake. Ronnie turns to Perry for advice on how to get Griffin to break up with her. Perry suggests using reverse ps
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#32 - Bobby: It's Cold Outside
The Simpsons - Season 31 - Episode 10
Sideshow Bob gets contracted as this year’s mall Santa. Meanwhile, someone is stealing all the Christmas packages off people’s front porches.
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#33 - Cremains of the Day
The Simpsons - Season 35 - Episode 15
When someone in Homer's life passes away, he and guys from Moe's go on a road trip to scatter the ashes.
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#34 - Treehouse of Horror XXXII
The Simpsons - Season 33 - Episode 3
The 32nd annual Simpsons Halloween special includes a spoof of "Parasite" and a segment where Bambi gets his revenge.
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#35 - Go Big or Go Homer
The Simpsons - Season 31 - Episode 2
Homer is demoted to supervising interns, among whom is go-getter millennial Mike, a 35-year-old who asks Homer to be his mentor. However, when Homer inspires Mike to start a business of his own, the two find themselves being chased by the mob.
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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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Veronica's Closet - Season 1 - Episode 17
Following the finalization of her divorce, Ronnie celebrates her new life by inviting Olive with her to Atlantic City. Soon after, she meets Alan, a guy whom she thinks is her soul mate, and makes plans with him instead. After Olive gets upset, Ronnie cancels her date with Alan. While in Atlantic City, Ronnie and Olive get hammered. Then, when Ronnie wakes up in her apartment the next morning, she finds a strange man in her bed. After investigating, Ronnie is horrified to learn that, in her drunken stupor, she celebrated her divorce by getting remarried to a total stranger. Unlike Ronnie, Edwin, her new husband, remembers everything, and considers their marriage a match made in heaven. Ronnie is revolted by Edwin, however, and uses every means to get him to go away. He tries to persuade her to stick around, but their marriage puts a big damper on Ronnie's plans to romance Alan. Supposed soul mate Alan puts a bigger damper on those plans when he confesses to Ronnie that he only thinks o
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Veronica's Closet - Season 1 - Episode 22
Millicent agrees to go with Josh to an Amish quilt festival after everyone else turns him down. Olive is upset that Veronica's Closet's softball team is men only. Pat allows Olive, Pepper and Virginia to sign up anyway, which pleases Olive, but not Perry. Ronnie flips her lid when Josh tells her that he and Millicent have been spending an awful lot of time together. Ronnie is left worried that Millicent could cancel their deal if her relationship with Josh doesn't work out. Josh insists he doesn't even have a relationship, and the two are just good friends. Perry is surprised when Pepper and Virginia turn out to be good players. And then there's Olive, who sucks. To compound that problem, while at the plate, Olive accidentally flings a bat at Perry. Josh discovers Millicent wants from him what Ronnie thought she wanted from him. When Josh turns Millicent down, she thinks he's - surprise, surprise - gay. To show her he isn't, Josh has sex with her four times, and is so good in the sack
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