The BEST episodes written by Matt Groening

Space Pilot 3000
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8.06
4817 votes

#1 - Space Pilot 3000

Futurama - Season 1 - Episode 1

Fry, a 20th-century New-York pizza delivery boy receives a prank call and is frozen in a capsule and wakes up in year 2999. He meets an alien named Leela that wants to assign his permanent career... delivery boy. Fry refuses, so he escapes. He then meets Bender, a robot who likes to drink and has suicidal tendencies. Together, they start running away from Leela, arriving to the ruins of old New York. Leela finds them, but instead of inserting the permanent chip on Fry, she removes her own. All three go to Prof. Hubert Farnsworth's house, Fry's only living relative, becoming his new space crew.

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22 Short Films About Springfield
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8.03
1515 votes

#2 - 22 Short Films About Springfield

The Simpsons - Season 7 - Episode 21

Bart and Milhouse wonder if anything interesting happens to the citizens of Springfield, which leads to a series of interconnected vignettes.

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Holidays of Future Passed
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7.92
2706 votes

#3 - Holidays of Future Passed

The Simpsons - Season 23 - Episode 9

In this futuristic holiday episode, Bart is a deadbeat dad living in Springfield Elementary (which is now an apartment complex instead of a school) with Principal Skinner as his landlord. Meanwhile, a pregnant Maggie goes into labor during a family dinner.

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To Thine Own Elf Be True
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7.82
1080 votes

#4 - To Thine Own Elf Be True

Disenchantment - Season 1 - Episode 9

After he learns a surprising secret about himself, Elfo heads home to Elfwood in search of the truth.

Dreamland Falls
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7.77
1093 votes

#5 - Dreamland Falls

Disenchantment - Season 1 - Episode 10

As Dreamland celebrates an unexpected arrival while saying goodbye to a friend, everyday life is thrown into disarray.

The Book Job
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7.76
2812 votes

#6 - The Book Job

The Simpsons - Season 23 - Episode 6

Lisa becomes disheartened when she learns the shocking truth behind the “tween lit” industry and her beloved fantasy novel characters, but Homer decides to cash in on the craze and forms a team to group-write the next “tween lit” hit, with the king of fantasy, Neil Gaiman, lending his expertise to the effort.

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Colonel Homer
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7.68
1467 votes

#7 - Colonel Homer

The Simpsons - Season 3 - Episode 20

Homer becomes the manager of a beautiful country music singer, whose attentions drive a wedge between Marge and Homer.

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Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart
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7.66
2527 votes

#8 - Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart

The Simpsons - Season 23 - Episode 15

In order to get back at his dad, Bart goes undercover as a graffiti street artist and plasters Homer's unflattering image all over Springfield. But one night, Bart and Milhouse get caught in the act by established street artists Shepard Fairey, Ron English, Kenny Scharf and Robbie Conal (guest voicing as themselves), and to Bart's surprise, they invite him to exhibit his satirical artwork in his very own gallery show. Meanwhile, a hip, new health food superstore opens in Springfield that threatens to put Apu and the Kwik-E-Mart out of business.

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At Long Last Leave
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7.64
2608 votes

#9 - At Long Last Leave

The Simpsons - Season 23 - Episode 14

The Simpsons are evicted from Springfield and join an off-the-grid community outside of town. But when Homer and Marge try to sneak back into Springfield, they are welcomed with hostility from their former friends and neighbors and begin to appreciate their new and more accepting home.

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Faster, Princess! Kill! Kill!
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7.49
1195 votes

#10 - Faster, Princess! Kill! Kill!

Disenchantment - Season 1 - Episode 5

Banished from the castle by Zøg, Bean tries to work but has trouble keeping a job. Elfo encounters a bizarre pair of siblings living in a candy house.

The D'oh-cial Network
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7.46
2503 votes

#11 - The D'oh-cial Network

The Simpsons - Season 23 - Episode 11

Lisa creates her own social networking service, SpringFace, and subsequently makes everyone addicted to the internet. Meanwhile, Patty and Selma challenge the Winklevoss twins at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

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The Limits of Immortality
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7.45
1103 votes

#12 - The Limits of Immortality

Disenchantment - Season 1 - Episode 8

Elfo's been kidnapped! Bean, Luci, Sorcerio and the knights search for him, along with a magical pendant needed to complete the immortality potion.

How I Wet Your Mother
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7.35
2437 votes

#13 - How I Wet Your Mother

The Simpsons - Season 23 - Episode 16

Karma gets the best of Homer after he gets his friends in trouble, and as a result, his bedwetting problem worsens. The family goes on a mission to infiltrate his dreams to search for clues in his subconscious to determine the source of his problem. But just as things take a dangerous turn in the dream, a figure from Homer's past appears, and he is finally reassured that the fond memories of his mother Mona (guest voice Glenn Close) remain alive, giving him just the right amount of reassurance to cure him of his problem.

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Love's Tender Rampage
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7.34
1100 votes

#14 - Love's Tender Rampage

Disenchantment - Season 1 - Episode 7

Elfo lies to hide his feelings for Bean, but things get complicated when she tries to help him by sending the knights on a quest.

Castle Party Massacre
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7.31
1221 votes

#15 - Castle Party Massacre

Disenchantment - Season 1 - Episode 4

With the king away, Bean throws a wild party while Odval and Sorcerio gather their secret society for a ritual. But the night takes a surprising turn.

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Them, Robot
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7.30
2532 votes

#16 - Them, Robot

The Simpsons - Season 23 - Episode 17

Mr. Burns replaces all of Springfield Power Plant's employees with robots (guest voice Brent Spiner) but decides to keep Homer as the sole human worker. With unemployment at an all-time high and mechanical arms operating the workplace, Springfield becomes a dismal and humorless place. But when Homer's machine-programmed peers start to turn on the community and his former real-life employees come to the rescue, they all realize that robots can't replace human friends.

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Some Enchanted Evening
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7.28
2084 votes

#17 - Some Enchanted Evening

The Simpsons - Season 1 - Episode 13

While Homer takes Marge out for a night on the town, the kids spot their babysitter on America's Most Armed and Dangerous.

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The Princess of Darkness
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7.23
1284 votes

#18 - The Princess of Darkness

Disenchantment - Season 1 - Episode 3

Sorcerio declares that demonic possession is behind Bean's drunken exploits -- and things look dicey for Luci when the king hires an eerie exorcist.

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The Daughter Also Rises
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7.22
2395 votes

#19 - The Daughter Also Rises

The Simpsons - Season 23 - Episode 13

Marge and Lisa's mother-daughter Valentine's Day plans take a turn when Lisa meets Nick, an intellectual romantic who shares the same passion for culture, history and literature. Lisa and Nick fall head over heels for each other in a fairytale romance and make a secret getaway to Mulberry Island to profess their eternal love. Meanwhile, Bart and Milhouse are inspired by the hosts of "MythCrackers" to "crack" Springfield Elementary's own legends.

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Swamp and Circumstance
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7.21
1122 votes

#20 - Swamp and Circumstance

Disenchantment - Season 1 - Episode 6

Bean tries her hand at diplomacy after Zøg makes her ambassador to Dankmire, Oona's kingdom and an important ally for Dreamland.

The Telltale Head
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7.19
2062 votes

#21 - 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.

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For Whom the Pig Oinks
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7.16
1431 votes

#22 - For Whom the Pig Oinks

Disenchantment - Season 1 - Episode 2

How to get rid of an unwanted fiancé? Bean's plan involves a party barge and mermaids. King Zøg tries to make Elfo's blood into an immortality potion.

A Princess, an Elf, and a Demon Walk Into a Bar
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7.13
1711 votes

#23 - A Princess, an Elf, and a Demon Walk Into a Bar

Disenchantment - Season 1 - Episode 1

Princess Bean already has the wedding day blues when a mysterious figure arrives, claiming he's her personal demon. Elfo hates his happy homeland.

Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson
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7.02
2577 votes

#24 - Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson

The Simpsons - Season 23 - Episode 10

Homer lands his own political talk show and becomes the spokesperson for the Gravy Movement. He then is asked to select the next Republican nominee for President and officially endorses right-wing rock star Ted Nugent.

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The Ten-Per-Cent Solution
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7.01
2457 votes

#25 - The Ten-Per-Cent Solution

The Simpsons - Season 23 - Episode 8

Krusty the Clown is fired from his show and gets a new agent named Annie to help him stage a comeback.

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Moe Goes from Rags to Riches
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6.77
2454 votes

#26 - Moe Goes from Rags to Riches

The Simpsons - Season 23 - Episode 12

After Moe is heckled for not having any real companions, Moe's best friend and beloved bar rag narrates his incredible thousand-year journey to Springfield. Beginning in the Middle Ages, the bar rag was loomed into a beautiful and ornate medieval tapestry and traveled around the globe through the hands of royalty before finding himself found himself at Moe's Tavern. Meanwhile, Bart begs Milhouse for forgiveness after the two friends get into a tiff, and when the bar rag goes missing, Moe realizes that he has more friends than he thought.

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