The BEST episodes written by Tim Long
#1 - Skinner's Sense of Snow
The Simpsons - Season 12 - Episode 8
A freak blizzard traps the students of Springfield Elementary inside their school. Their lives at stake, they are at the mercy of the rescue efforts of a woozy Homer and Ned.
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#2 - Behind the Laughter
The Simpsons - Season 11 - Episode 22
In this satire of VH1's "Behind The Music," we learn the secrets of the Simpsons' rise, fall, and ultimate success.
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#3 - Treehouse of Horror X
The Simpsons - Season 11 - Episode 4
In "I Know What You Diddily-Iddly-Did" the SImpsons fear they have killed Ned Flanders. "Desperately Xeeking Xena" satirizes superheroes of yore with "Stretch Dude" Bart and "Clobber Girl" Lisa. And "Life's A Glitch, Then You Die" depicts the upcoming horror of Y2K.
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#4 - New Kids on the Blecch
The Simpsons - Season 12 - Episode 14
A music producer offers Bart and his friends a chance to participate in an up-and-coming boyband, but the boys are not up to it after making a discovery.
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#5 - Mobile Homer
The Simpsons - Season 16 - Episode 13
Marge takes the kids on a Sunday drive while Homer is at home attempting to clean out the garage. After Homer suffers a garage-door-to-the-throat incident, Marge wants them to buy life insurance. Homer however is deemed uninsurable. Fearing that with no insurance for Homer they will go broke, Marge starts cost-cutting measures. Homer is against these new measures and takes the nest egg that Marge has made and spends it on the down payment for a new motor home. Marge tells him to enjoy being the king of his new castle, because she is no longer speaking to him. Homer is now living in the RV in the backyard and he and Marge try to entice Bart and Lisa to come and stay with them. Homer then opens up the backyard as a RV park, until Marge puts an end to it and they get into a big fight, which makes Bart and Lisa take action. Bart decides they need to take the RV back to the dealer. Homer and Marge try to stop the pair who has managed to get the RV onto the freeway. The RV crashes onto a Turkish container ship, which is leaving port. With the right enticement, mushroom soup, Marge gets the ship to turn around, saving the children and what is left of the RV. The RVs fate is determined when Homer try to put it on the dock.
#6 - Brake My Wife, Please
The Simpsons - Season 14 - Episode 20
When Homer loses his driver's license, Marge has to drive everyone everywhere, which becomes so stressful that she accidentally runs over Homer, leading to the two seeing a marriage counselor.
#7 - Saddlesore Galactica
The Simpsons - Season 11 - Episode 13
Homer and Bart befriend a diving horse at a county fair. They turn it into a racehorse with an attitude, whose success runs them afoul of mysterious, tree-dwelling jockeys.
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#8 - She Used to Be My Girl
The Simpsons - Season 16 - Episode 4
Marge becomes jealous when Lisa begins idolizing her old high school friend, Chloe Talbot, a famous reporter.
#9 - Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words
The Simpsons - Season 20 - Episode 6
Lisa learns she is good at crossword puzzles and enters a city-wide contest. Homer discovers he has a flair for letting loved ones down so he opens Sweet Conclusions Break-Up Service, but lands himself in trouble with his daughter when he places a bet against her in the competition.
#10 - Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade
The Simpsons - Season 14 - Episode 3
Bart and Lisa are respectively held back and moved forward one grade, putting them in the same class.
#11 - Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass
The Simpsons - Season 16 - Episode 8
The family goes to run down Springfield Park, where a carnival is being held to save it. Homer performs a wild crowd-pleasing dance at a local carnival, after beating Bart's performance in a game. Ned Flanders has captured the performance on videotape and Comic Book Guy (Jeff Albertson) puts it up on the Internet. The video gets worldwide attention, much to Homer's embarrassment but his tune changes when a football player wants to buy the rights to use his dance as his own end zone celebration. Homer turns the opportunity into a new lucrative occupation, which prospers as other athletes come to learn from him. Meanwhile Ned looks to create his own wholesome entertainment by creating his own versions of bible stories, which get the backing of Mr. Burns. Marge doesn't like his approach, which eliminates the good aspects of the stories, and only concentrates on the violence. She threatens a boycott, which gets Burns to remove his financial backing, leaving Ned with no creative outlet. The commissioner of football (and all the owners) want to talk to Homer, his teaching of crazy antics to their players have increased their ratings. They want him to choreograph the Superbowl half-time show. Homer struggles for a show idea and on the night before the big show he still doesn't have one. Homer looks for inspiration at the church, but instead finds Flanders, who is looking for an outlet for his ideas. Together they bring the story of Noah to the half-time show, but everyone boos as no one wanted to see such a "blatant display of religion and decency."
#12 - Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts
The Simpsons - Season 23 - Episode 2
Superintendent Chalmers reveals his hero as former President Theodore Roosevelt, who makes an appearance in the episode with the use of archival recordings.
#13 - MoneyBART
The Simpsons - Season 22 - Episode 3
Lisa starts coaching Bart's Little League team; Marge and Bart spend the day at an amusement park, where former MLB manager Mike Scioscia gives Bart advice.
#14 - You Kent Always Say What You Want
The Simpsons - Season 18 - Episode 22
When Homer buys the 1,000,000th ice-cream cone at a local shop, he ends up on Kent Brockman's news program. When Brockman swears on live TV after coffee is spilled in his lap, Ned Flanders leads a crusade to clean up Springfield's airwaves, starting with getting Brockman fired. Then Homer once again saves the day.
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#15 - Simpsons Bible Stories
The Simpsons - Season 10 - Episode 18
When Reverend Lovejoy subjects the congregation to an extended Bible reading, the Simpsons fall asleep and have dreams based on Bible stories.
#16 - Married to the Blob
The Simpsons - Season 25 - Episode 10
Comic Book Guy realizes his comics are nothing if he can't share them with anyone. Then he meets Kumiko, a Japanese woman writing an autobiographical manga, and he seeks out Homer's advice on how to date her, ending happily for everyone.
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#17 - Moonshine River
The Simpsons - Season 24 - Episode 1
Bart will be visited by many of his past girlfriends. Zooey Deschanel, Anne Hathaway, Sarah Silverman, Natalie Portman, and Sarah Michelle Gellar will guest star, reprising their roles as Mary Spuckler, Jenny, Nikki McKenna, Darcy, and Gina Vendetti.
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#18 - Lisa Goes Gaga
The Simpsons - Season 23 - Episode 22
In the Season 23 finale, Lisa tries to boost her popularity by ghost writing positive things about herself on the school blog. The effort fails miserably, until a psychic force tells Lady Gaga (who provides her own voice) that Lisa needs her help.
#19 - Love is a Many-Splintered Thing
The Simpsons - Season 24 - Episode 12
Bart's dream girl, Mary Spuckler, comes to town, but his failure to pay her enough attention is having a negative impact on their relationship. Meanwhile, Homer once again runs afoul of Marge and lands in the doghouse.
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#20 - Haw-Haw Land
The Simpsons - Season 29 - Episode 10
When the Simpsons go to a STEM conference, Lisa falls for a crooning jazz pianist named Brendan. Meanwhile, Bart discovers that he has an affinity for chemistry
#21 - Half-Decent Proposal
The Simpsons - Season 13 - Episode 10
Marge's high school sweetheart Artie Ziff returns and offers Homer a million dollars to spend a weekend with Marge.
#22 - The Devil Wears Nada
The Simpsons - Season 21 - Episode 5
Marge and a group called the "Charity Chicks" pose for a calendar in hopes of raising money for charity, but Marge becomes the talk of the town thanks to her racy poses. Meanwhile, Carl is chosen as the newest supervisor at the nuclear power plant, and hires Homer to be his personal assistant.
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#23 - Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
The Simpsons - Season 31 - Episode 9
Todd blames God for the death of his mother and rejects his faith, so Ned sends him to live with the Simpsons, hoping they can scare him into believing in God again.
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#24 - Springfield Splendor
The Simpsons - Season 29 - Episode 2
Marge and Lisa turn Lisa’s sad experience into a successful graphic novel-turned-Broadway show, but they struggle with creative differences and ego.
#25 - Mr. Roboto
Mr. Young - Season 1 - Episode 3
When Adam has trouble controlling his class, he creates a robot student, Arthur, to enforce the rules. When Mr. Tater finds out, he figuratively says that he is going to kill Adam. However, Arthur takes it literally and tries to destroy Tater, as one of his directives is to protect Adam. Adam and Derby must stop his creation, or he himself could be "terminated."
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#26 - Elementary School Musical
The Simpsons - Season 22 - Episode 1
Marge sends Lisa to a performing arts camp, where counselors and fellow campers inspire her to embrace her creative side; upon returning to Springfield, Lisa grows restless with her boring suburban lifestyle.
#27 - D'oh Canada
The Simpsons - Season 30 - Episode 21
Lisa is mistakenly given political asylum in Canada during a family trip to Niagara Falls.
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#28 - Homer's Adventures Through the Windshield Glass
The Simpsons - Season 34 - Episode 22
Time stands still after Homer crashes his car and flies through the windshield. As his life flashes before his eyes, a magical friend helps Homer learn the secret truth about his marriage.
#29 - Million Dollar Abie
The Simpsons - Season 17 - Episode 16
Homer spearheads the effort to get pro-football to bring a new franchise to Springfield. The football commissioner, on his way to officially award the franchise, stops at the Simpson house where Grandpa (mistaking him for a burglar) attacks him. Springfield loses out and Abe becomes the town’s pariah. After trying and failing assisted suicide, Abe decides to live his life without fear and when the town decides to reuse their football stadium as a bullfighting ring, he volunteers to be the toreador. Ever the activist, granddaughter Lisa protests his new profession.
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