http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/13pnsv-2q8A4vGGQEfvVLgWatch Full Episodes of The Simpsons Online: The Simpsons, created by Matt Groening, first appeared on television as the subjects of animated shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show in 1987. In 1989, the FOX network gave The Simpsons a primetime slot and the rest is history. Set in Springfield, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family: Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, The Simpsons have been pop culture icons, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The comedy has also made a name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life. Voiced by: Dan Castellaneta as Homer Simpson/Grampa/Krusty the Clown/Barney/Mayor Quimby; Julie Kavner as Marge Simpson/Patty Bouvier/Selma Bouvier; Nancy Cartwright as Bart Simpson/Nelson Muntz/Todd Flanders/Ralph Wiggum/Kearney; Yeardley Smith as Lisa Simpson; Hank Azaria: Apu/Carl/Comic-Book Guy/Snake/Moe Szyslak/Chief Wiggum; Harry Shearer as Mr. Burns/Lenny/Ned Flanders/Seymour Skinner/Waylon Smithers; Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel; Pamela Hayden as Milhouse Van Houten/Rod Flanders; Tress MacNeille as Agnes Skinner/Jimbo Jones; Russi Taylor as Martin Prince; and Phil Hartman as Lionel Hutz/Troy McClure.enhttp://www.rssboard.org/rss-specificationwebmaster@blinkx.com (blinkx webmaster)Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:23:08 +0000Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:23:08 +0000http://tv.blinkx.comhttp://cdn.blinkx.com/store/images/video/b/08/TVShows/cb29d4014d891801907d70e28345dd29.jpghttp://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/13pnsv-2q8A4vGGQEfvVLghttp://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/QNeyLOQWowPs_IaGFJXzG--xJbI#s21e12The Simpsons : Season 21 Episode 12Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:12:23 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/QNeyLOQWowPs_IaGFJXzG--xJbI#s21e6Bart meets his prankster match.Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/QNeyLOQWowPs_IaGFJXzG--xJbI#s21e5Marge shows some skin for charity.Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/QNeyLOQWowPs_IaGFJXzG--xJbI#s21e4Get spooked with three all-new scary stories.Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:12:09 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/QNeyLOQWowPs_IaGFJXzG--xJbI#s21e3Marge protests a violent sport.Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/QNeyLOQWowPs_IaGFJXzG--xJbI#s21e2Bart becomes the teacher’s pet.Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:04:10 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/QNeyLOQWowPs_IaGFJXzG--xJbI#s21e1Homer gets whipped into shape for a role in a feature film.Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-_ttw-9IEo1pEjLgZ23V0TNqZEk#s20e21The citizens of Ogdenville swarm into Springfield after the Krusty Burger's veggie burgers causes their economy to tank, which prompts Mayor Quimby to close off the borders of Springfield and citizen Homer goes on border patrol.Sun, 17 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-_ttw-9IEo1pEjLgZ23V0TNqZEk#s20e20Marge, Lisa and Maggie go to a nail salon and start discussing whether or not a woman can be successful without a man by her side. The discussion happens with Marge and Lisa each telling their own parodies of 4 classical stories, including Snow white and the Seven Dwarfs and the story about Queen Elizabeth I who ruled England while trying to find the right man to marry.Sun, 10 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-_ttw-9IEo1pEjLgZ23V0TNqZEk#s20e19After Springfield Elementary is given the dubious distinction as "The Worst School in America," the Simpsons move to Waverly Hills. As Bart adjusts to the new school, he begins a rumor that Lisa is friends with "Alaska Nebraska," a Hanna Montana-esque pop singer. Meanwhile, Homer rents an apartment for himself and poses as a bachelor.Sun, 03 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-_ttw-9IEo1pEjLgZ23V0TNqZEk#s20e18While Marge shuts herself off from the world after finding a sauna in the basement of the house, Homer becomes a more overbearing parent by pushing Bart to succeed academically and pushing Lisa to become more social. Source: FOXSun, 26 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-_ttw-9IEo1pEjLgZ23V0TNqZEk#s20e16Moe 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. Meanwhile, Homer puts Maggie in a playground populated by hostile babies. Source: FOXSun, 05 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-_ttw-9IEo1pEjLgZ23V0TNqZEk#s20e15When Reverend Lovejoy finds out that some of the ceremonies he performed are invalid due to a lapsed ministerial certification, Homer and Marge are officially not married. They decide to re-marry each other and because it is a new chance for a better start at a marriage, Marge wants everything to be perfect. But when she turns into a “bridezilla”, Homer begins to have regrets about marrying her once again.Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-_ttw-9IEo1pEjLgZ23V0TNqZEk#s20e13In this loose parody of The DaVinci Code , Maggie gets taken in by a convent of nuns, starting a chain of events that results in Lisa, Principal Skinner, and the Comic Book Guy racing against the Freemasons to find a jewel. Source: FOXSun, 15 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-_ttw-9IEo1pEjLgZ23V0TNqZEk#s20e12When the adjustable rate on Homer's home mortgage (taken out to pay for Homer's annual Mardi Gras parties) increases drastically and Homer can't make the payments, 742 Evergreen Terrace is sold...to Ned Flanders, who rents it back to Homer...at least until Homer demands that Flanders repair the house. Source: FOXSun, 08 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-_ttw-9IEo1pEjLgZ23V0TNqZEk#s20e11Bart gets a perfect score on a practice test for a national achievement test, which not only rattles Lisa, but it means Bart gets to attend a special party instead of having to take the actual test. Meanwhile, Homer must avoid injuring himself for an entire afternoon after failing to pay his insurance. Source: FOXSun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-_ttw-9IEo1pEjLgZ23V0TNqZEk#s20e10Homer once again takes a trip through his mind through the use of drugs. This time, he wonders what life would be like for him if he won a high school student council election that was rigged so he could lose. Source: FOXSat, 14 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-_ttw-9IEo1pEjLgZ23V0TNqZEk#s20e9Lisa meets a new girl named Juilet and helps her write stories about a fantasy world called Equalia. But spending too much time with Juilet (and the story) begins to warp Lisa's sense of reality.Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-_ttw-9IEo1pEjLgZ23V0TNqZEk#s20e8After winning the "Austin Celtics" in a game of poker, Mr. Burns builds a new stadium in Springfield in the same place where Lisa has built a bee colony.Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-_ttw-9IEo1pEjLgZ23V0TNqZEk#s20e7Bart makes friends with a Muslim boy and his family, but Homer fears the family may be terrorists because of their religion. Meanwhile, Lisa buys a Mypod (the Simpsons equivalent to an iPod) and becomes addicted to downloading songs on it.Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-_ttw-9IEo1pEjLgZ23V0TNqZEk#s20e6Lisa becomes obsessed with crossword puzzles and enters a contest, where Homer places bets against his daughter in order to earn money lost from his break-up business.Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-_ttw-9IEo1pEjLgZ23V0TNqZEk#s20e3Bart meets Simon Woosterfield, a member of the richest family in Springfield and the two agree to switch places. Simon adjusts easily to his place at the Simpson home, while Bart finds out that his new siblings are plotting to kill him for his share of the inheritance.Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-_ttw-9IEo1pEjLgZ23V0TNqZEk#s20e2While working at the country club, Bart sees Denis Leary throw his phone away and he picks it up. Bart uses this opportunity to go on a prank-calling spree until Marge finds out what he's been up to and contacts Leary. Leary lets Bart keep the phone, but also turns it into a tracking device for Marge to keep tabs on Bart.Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-_ttw-9IEo1pEjLgZ23V0TNqZEk#s20e1Homer is arrested and sent to jail after a haphazard, booze-free brawl at the Springfield St. Patrick’s Day parade. When Homer goes to get his bail bond, he meets Lucky Jim and Wolf the Bounty Hunter and decides to try his own hand at the lucrative profession. The new-and-improved Homer the Bounty Hunter soon teams up with Ned Flanders to create quite the unlikely bounty-hunting duo, but when Homer’s new no-mercy attitude gets the best of him, Flanders is less than impressed. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to her, Marge begins working at an erotic bakery.Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/zhgncO_J-h8uAEwb-DtgpBIHX2Y#s19e17Bart raises a blue ribbon winning bull from a calf as a 4-H club project, but needs help saving him after discovering that it is scheduled to be slaughtered for meat.Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/zhgncO_J-h8uAEwb-DtgpBIHX2Y#s19e10While trying to raise some money for a bond problem, Quimby makes Springfield's primary election the first in the country causing the candidates and mass media to flood the city.Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/zhgncO_J-h8uAEwb-DtgpBIHX2Y#s19e8Sideshow Bob is back! He brings his whole family with him this time in yet another elaborate attempt to kill Bart.Sun, 25 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/zhgncO_J-h8uAEwb-DtgpBIHX2Y#s19e7Disappointed with Springfield's snooty, glitzy L.A. Body Works gym, Marge opens her own facility for ''real women.'' The success of Shapes: A Gym for Women creates a demand for franchises, making Marge a rich and famous woman. Homer fears her new fame and the possibility that he will be replaced by a new, handsome man. Meanwhile, the kids of Springfield go to a new comic book store where the clerk (a man named Milo) is nicer than The Android Dungeon's Comic Book Guy.Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/zhgncO_J-h8uAEwb-DtgpBIHX2Y#s19e6Millhouse's parents remarry and are honeymooning on a cruise ship when they are reported as having been swept overboard and lost at sea. Millhouse decides it's time he becomes a man. Meanwhile, Marge hides her eyes from Homer when Homer admits that he doesn't know what color they are.Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/zhgncO_J-h8uAEwb-DtgpBIHX2Y#s19e5The series' 18th Halloween show features parodies of movies in three vignettes: A spoof of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" where Homer and Marge are husband and wife assassins bent on killing each other; plus a send up of "E.T." (where Bart tries to save Kodos from the government) and "Se7en" (where Flanders scares the kids with the horrors of committing the seven deadly sins).Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/zhgncO_J-h8uAEwb-DtgpBIHX2Y#s19e4in the middle of a bank heist, Marge convinces the robber (Dwight) to give himself up with a promise that she will visit him in prison. Marge doesn't live up to her promise and Dwight soon breaks out of jail and is in search of Marge.Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/zhgncO_J-h8uAEwb-DtgpBIHX2Y#s19e3Homer begins working in the towing industry, but he runs into some trouble when he becomes mad with power and is framed for towing in a rival's territory. In the mean time, Marge joins a counseling group that shwos parents how to raise independant kids. Maggie seems to learn a lot from it.Sun, 07 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/zhgncO_J-h8uAEwb-DtgpBIHX2Y#s19e2During treatment for his back, Homer realizes he has a tremendous opera voice, but he can only sing while lying on his back. Regardless, Mr. Burns hires him for the Springfield Opera House and a star is born. Homer gains a large following of fans including a woman named Julia, who turns out to be an obsessive stalker.Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/zhgncO_J-h8uAEwb-DtgpBIHX2Y#s19e1Homer saves Mr. Burns' life and is rewarded with a trip in Monty's private jet. It depresses Homer when he realizes that he will never again get to fly in such an elaborate jet. Marge hires a "life coach" to help Homer out.Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/DmZYu29E8HSKImcEf9qQIXM-Npc#s18e22Homer is the 1 millionth customer at an ice cream store and will be interviewed on the local news. A spilled cup of coffee on Kent Brockman's lap causes him to swear on live TV and Ned Flanders to lead the crusade to clean up TV. It''s Homer to the rescue when Ned wants Kent fired.Sun, 20 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/DmZYu29E8HSKImcEf9qQIXM-Npc#s18e18Bart is a hero after making the game-winning catch at his little league game, propelling the Isotots into the championship for the first time ever. Homer gets hired as a salesman at a department store.Sun, 29 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/DmZYu29E8HSKImcEf9qQIXM-Npc#s18e16After the catastrophe of the Simpson's losing their memorable photo album, Marge decides to try to recreate the photos. But when the background of one of these photos uncovers a scandel between two famous celebrities in Springfield, it is then that Homer decides to join the world of paparazzi.Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/DmZYu29E8HSKImcEf9qQIXM-Npc#s18e14Lisa tutors Cletus’s seven children and introduces them to the outside world. Krusty notices the children’s ability to sing and signs them to be a part of his traveling show.Sun, 04 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/DmZYu29E8HSKImcEf9qQIXM-Npc#s18e13Documentary filmmaker, Declan Desmond returns to shows off his new documentary, Growing Up Springfield . The film documents and follows the lives of various Springfieldianites in eight year intervals.Sun, 18 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/DmZYu29E8HSKImcEf9qQIXM-Npc#s18e12Lisa pretends to be Native American for multicultural day at school. Meanwhile, After saving Springfield from a devastating fire, Bart is rewarded with driver's license from Mayor Quimby. While traveling about, Bart finds love with an older teenager.Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/DmZYu29E8HSKImcEf9qQIXM-Npc#s18e11Homer learns three lessons about revenge from stories told by Marge, Lisa and Bart that parody "The Count of Monte Cristo," "Revenge of the Nerds" and "Batman Begins."Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/DmZYu29E8HSKImcEf9qQIXM-Npc#s18e10When Homer takes Marge back to an island where she use to visit as a child, he finds the island has turned into one big dump. In an attempt to lift Marge's spirit he ends up burning down the dock and as punishment must go on a fishing trip where he gets stuck in 'The Perfect Storm'.Sun, 07 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/DmZYu29E8HSKImcEf9qQIXM-Npc#s18e9Homer causes a brawl with skaters during a holiday ice skating show. Gil loses his job after he gives Lisa an otherwise sold out Malibu Stacy doll preserved for his boss' daughter.Sun, 17 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/DmZYu29E8HSKImcEf9qQIXM-Npc#s18e8Because Bart is virtually the only Guest at Nelson's birthday party, Bart becomes Nelson's best friend. Under Nelson's protection nobody dares to mess with Bart anymore.Sun, 10 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/DmZYu29E8HSKImcEf9qQIXM-Npc#s18e7After being fired from the power plant, Homer buys an ice-cream truck and sells Marge's sculptures of famous Springfieldians made from the discarded Popsicle sticks.Sun, 26 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/DmZYu29E8HSKImcEf9qQIXM-Npc#s18e6Lisa aides Moe in becoming a published poet. But when he fails to credit Lisa for her help, she feels crushed.Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/DmZYu29E8HSKImcEf9qQIXM-Npc#s18e5Bart enlists to join the Army in the future but Homer gets his release and winds up enlisting himself. Having completed basic training, Homer is set in charge to lead his men against disgruntled Army Colonel in a round of war games.Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/DmZYu29E8HSKImcEf9qQIXM-Npc#s18e4Married To The Blob - A meteor crashes in Springfield. Homer eats a green goo that is revealed by the meteor and turns into rampaging blob. You Gotta Know When To Golem - Bart conjures the Golem from the Jewish folklore to life and uses him to do his bidding. The Day The Earth Looked Stupid - In a flashback to 1938, the citizens of Sopringfield are fooled by Orson Welles radio broadcast of War of the Worlds. But when Kang and Kodos invade Springfield, they are ignored.Sun, 05 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/DmZYu29E8HSKImcEf9qQIXM-Npc#s18e3Marge discovers her talent as handy woman. But Springfield isn't ready for a woman carpenter yet. Marge uses Homer as a front man for her new business. Meanwhile, Bart uses Principal Skinner's peanut allergy against him by using blackmail.Sun, 24 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/DmZYu29E8HSKImcEf9qQIXM-Npc#s18e2Once again Bart is acting out, but this time he is brought to see a child psychiatrist who tells Homer and Marge to get him involved in something he is interested in. Bart takes up the drums and to everyones surprise, he is a natural. When he is asked to join a jazz band, Lisa becomes jealous and turns her interest towards rescuing animals.Sun, 17 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/DmZYu29E8HSKImcEf9qQIXM-Npc#s18e1The Simpsons are invited to dinner at Fat Tony's due to Lisa befriending the gangster's son Michael. But things take a turn for the worse when Fat Tony is shot moments after Michael reveals his desire to be a chef rather than being a gangster.Sun, 10 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/X-NT64BaxGla2kiRq3vl1wG5fSg#s17e22A first baseman for the Springfield Isotopes and his wife, a stripper/pop singer named Tabitha Vixx, call upon Homer and Marge to help him with their love life.Sun, 21 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/X-NT64BaxGla2kiRq3vl1wG5fSg#s17e20Marge cleans the house, but when she inhales the fumes of one too many cleaning solvents, she passes out and bangs her head on a stool. When Marge comes to at the hospital, she is stricken with amnesia, which doesn't last when she immediately remembers everyone in the family through their quirks--except for Homer. With Marge's memory of Homer erased, Patty and Selma try to hook their sister up with a new man.Sun, 07 May 2006 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/X-NT64BaxGla2kiRq3vl1wG5fSg#s17e16After costing Springfield their chance at getting a major football team, Grampa contemplates suicide and goes to a doctor specializing in euthanasia. However, when the police arrests the doctor and Grampa realizes he's not dead, he starts a new life as a bullfighter for the newly converted stadium.Sat, 01 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/X-NT64BaxGla2kiRq3vl1wG5fSg#s17e13While cave exploring with his family, Homer causes the cave to crumble and finds himself stuck upside down in the ceiling. Marge and Bart search for help while Lisa passes the time by telling Homer a story, which turns into a chain of narrated tales that, bit by bit, explain why The Simpsons are spending the day at Carl's Dad Caverns.Sun, 12 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/X-NT64BaxGla2kiRq3vl1wG5fSg#s17e12Lisa attempts to transform Groundskeeper Willie into a proper gentleman. Meanwhile, Homer becomes a human billboard to save the company that makes his famous blue pants.Sun, 26 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/X-NT64BaxGla2kiRq3vl1wG5fSg#s17e11After Bart steals a key from Principal Skinner's office and gets himself into hot water, Principal Skinner sentences Bart to a "behavior modification camp"--and Homer must give up his Vegas vacation with his bar buddies in order to go. Meanwhile, Marge and Lisa have a yard sale--and discover that their biggest-selling product are the many expired medications they've accumulated over the years.Sun, 29 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/X-NT64BaxGla2kiRq3vl1wG5fSg#s17e4BARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - Bart ends up in a coma after attempting to jump from the roof to the swimming pool at Spinster Arms Apartments. In an effort to cope with the loss of their boy, the family takes in a robotic boy who quickly proves to be a better son. Bart awakes to discover the family wants to keep both sons. After repeatedly being shown up by the robotic boy, Bart is abandoned on the side of the road by Homer. Bart stumbles across a friendly band of discarded robots and harvests their parts to turn himself into a cyborg. While enacting his revenge, Bart accidentally cuts Homer in half and he too becomes a cyborg. SURVIVAL OF THE FATTEST- While attending a hunting party at Burns Manor, Homer panics and believes the prey is the hunting party. Mr. Burns thinks this is much better than the planned grizzly hunt and orders the chase. After bringing bad luck to anyone he has contact with, Homer finds himself alone and running for his life. Marge witnesses the game on television and arrives in time to knockout Burns and Smithers just as they are set to execute Homer. I’VE GROWN A COSTUME ON YOUR FACE - After losing a Halloween costume contest to Dr. Hibbert as Dracula, a real witch puts a spell on the people of Springfield causing them to take the form of their costumes. Lisa deducts that Maggie in her witch costume can reverse the spell; however, the residents with favorable costumes want to stay as they are. Maggie splits the difference by turning everyone into giant pacifiers.Sun, 06 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/X-NT64BaxGla2kiRq3vl1wG5fSg#s17e2After the family successfully protest against a stamp museum being built next to their house, a cemetery is built near the Simpson house instead, making the normally unflappable Lisa realize that someone as smart as her can be afraid of something.Sun, 18 Sep 2005 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/X-NT64BaxGla2kiRq3vl1wG5fSg#s17e1After Homer gets into trouble over his football gambling debts, he allows the Springfield Mafia to shoot a "snuggle film" in the house without Marge's permission. When she and the kids return home from a trip to "Santa's Village" and find production still going on, a furious Marge leaves for the beach--and encounters a marine biologist named Caleb Thorn who has dedicated his life to saving manatees.Sun, 11 Sep 2005 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/8vKREGkOKFlWNayRJxJpCmzvKPM#s16e21Enraged at being cast as the village idiot and having livestock disrupt his yard at the school's Medieval festival, Groundskeeper Willie sabotages the event and leaves Bart to take the blame. As a result, Bart's expulsion lands him in an affordable Catholic private school where Father Sean, an Eminem quoting Priest, uses graphic stories and comic books to turn Bart on to the cooler parts of Catholicism. Bart's increased interest in the religion alarms his parents and drives Homer to visit the church to put an end to the nonsense. Father Sean lures Homer to the religion over a beer and pancake dinner and closes the deal over a game of bingo. After a marathon confession session, Homer returns to a dismayed Marge who later enlists Reverend Lovejoy and Ned's aid in springing Bart from communion class. Set on bringing Bart back to Catholicism, Homer and Father Sean chase the gang to a Protestant Youth Festival where Marge and the prospect of playing paintball lure Bart back. After a heated public debate, all members agree to disagree under the banner of Christianity and Homer decides he'd rather return to the Protestant Church rather than divide the family.Sun, 15 May 2005 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/8vKREGkOKFlWNayRJxJpCmzvKPM#s16e19Homer sees a movie about the end of the world and fears the same thing will happen in real life after seeing a chain of random occurences (celebrities ["stars"] falling from the sky, raining blood, a man in a realistic devil costume) and doing a complicated math equation that predicts the end will come on May 18th, but when the end doesn't come, Homer discovers a flaw in the equation and ends up in Heaven where he meets God (again) and learns that God is planning The Rapture.Sun, 08 May 2005 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/8vKREGkOKFlWNayRJxJpCmzvKPM#s16e17Springfield Elementary signs a deal with a snack company to install vending machines in the schools--with Bart taking advantage of the situation to the point that he becomes obese and suffers a heart attack.Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/8vKREGkOKFlWNayRJxJpCmzvKPM#s16e15Through Professor Frink's future machine, Bart and Lisa see their lives in the year 2013, where Bart steals Lisa's chances at going to an Ivy League school in order to impress a skater girl named Jenda while Homer fights Krusty the Clown after Marge begins dating him.Sun, 17 Apr 2005 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/8vKREGkOKFlWNayRJxJpCmzvKPM#s16e14While on a family trip to Shelbyville, Marge is dismayed to see how Springfield residents are perceived as hicks in a production of "SONG OF SHELBYVILLE". At the next Springfield Cultural Activities Board meeting, Marge convinces the townspeople to fund a Frank Gehry designed concert hall. The opening night hustle and bustle is cut short as Beethoven's Fifth Symphony drives the uninterested townspeople away in droves which leads to the bankruptcy of the hall. The ever generous Mr. Burns assumes the debt of the hall and turns it into The Montgomery Burns State Prison. At first, the prison benefits the townsfolk by offering jobs to almost everyone (except Homer who fails his urine test due to a mix-up with Otto); however, when Mr. Burns pressures Chief Wiggum to increase capacity from 99% to 100% Homer finds himself imprisoned for kicking a can down the street 5 times in a row. Homer doesn't adjust to prison life well and becomes a snitch after accidentally ratting on Snake during a breakout. Homer enjoys the benefits of snitch life (plasma TV, cell phone, segway, a chance at a free pair of socks) until Fat Tony puts a mark on his head for selling out the mob. The angry prisoners fake a jail break and start a riot as they hunt Homer. As president of the Activities Board, Marge uses her concert hall key to sneak into the prison and convince Homer that snitching is wrong. National Guardsman swoop in at the last moment to save the cornered couple and Homer decides to use his snitch powers for good by having the prison shutdown for practices like giving haircuts to inmates without regard to their personal preference and using mournful harmonica music while on hold.Sun, 03 Apr 2005 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/8vKREGkOKFlWNayRJxJpCmzvKPM#s16e13Marge throws Homer out of the house after he blows the family's insurance money on an RV--which Bart and Lisa drive back to the dealership in an effort to keep the family together. Source: FOXSun, 20 Mar 2005 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/8vKREGkOKFlWNayRJxJpCmzvKPM#s16e11Fed up with Bart’s endless taunting and torture, Lisa files a restraining order against him. Meanwhile, Homer takes over for Grampa as a Sprawl-Mart greeter.Sun, 06 Mar 2005 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/8vKREGkOKFlWNayRJxJpCmzvKPM#s16e9Bart fakes his own kidnapping to get out of being grounded for going to a rap concert, but the ruse goes too far when Milhouse's father is implemented as the kidnapper.Sun, 13 Feb 2005 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/8vKREGkOKFlWNayRJxJpCmzvKPM#s16e8After Homer inadvertently performs a wild crowd-pleasing dance at a local carnival, he is hired by several sports figures including Tom Brady, LeBron James, Yao Ming, Warren Sapp and Michelle Kwan to teach them how to showboat. Meanwhile, Flanders creates ultra-violent, ultra-gory Bible movies à la Passion of the Christ .Sun, 06 Feb 2005 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/8vKREGkOKFlWNayRJxJpCmzvKPM#s16e5Bart becomes depressed about growing older after losing his last baby tooth, and, following advice from Lisa, deals with his problems by writing slogans on T-shirts. These shirts eventually become popular, and Bart goes into business selling them. Meanwhile, Homer tries to create a science fair project for Lisa.Sun, 12 Dec 2004 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/8vKREGkOKFlWNayRJxJpCmzvKPM#s16e4Marge bumps into an old high-school acquaintance who is now a successful news reporter. While Marge becomes jealous of her friend's success and wonders what may have been had she not stayed with Homer, Lisa becomes inspired by this new, strong woman.Sun, 05 Dec 2004 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/8vKREGkOKFlWNayRJxJpCmzvKPM#s16e3Feeling unappreciated by her own children, Marge takes in Nelson as her surrogate child. Meanwhile, Lisa becomes self-conscious of her weight after the girls in school make fun of her butt and purposely starves herself in order to be skinny.Sun, 21 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/8vKREGkOKFlWNayRJxJpCmzvKPM#s16e2Marge resorts to cheating to get revenge during a baking contest after other contestants used similar dirty methods against her food entry. Meanwhile, Homer finds his old issues of Playdude in the walls, which Bart finds and uses as a guide on how to live the bachelor life.Sun, 14 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/8vKREGkOKFlWNayRJxJpCmzvKPM#s16e1THE NED ZONE - After a head injury, Ned Flanders gains the power of foretelling people’s deaths. When Ned discovers that he is going to be the one to kill Homer, he tries to change fate. In doing that, Ned winds up blowing up all of Springfield. IN THE BELLY OF THE BOSS - In a freak science accident, Maggie is shrunken inside a vitamin capsule and swallowed by Mr. Burns. The rest of the Simpsons family goes in to save her “Fantastic Voyage - style. When things start to go wrong, Homer gets trapped inside Mr. Burns forever. FOUR BEHEADINGS AND A FUNERAL - Set in Victorian London, Master Detective Eliza Simpson (Lisa) and her faithful sidekick Dr. Bartley (Bart) attempt to catch The Muttonchop Murderer, a Jack the Ripper-type serial killer lose in the city.Sun, 07 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-sbeLv0pVJXUKx88kvpQOzfQryM#s15e17After hearing that Skinner is getting cold feet about their wedding, Edna leaves Skinner at the altar and hooks up with Comic Book Guy. Skinner tries to win Edna back with Homer's help.Sun, 18 Apr 2004 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-sbeLv0pVJXUKx88kvpQOzfQryM#s15e7When Homer is given a Joe DiMaggio rookie card by an oblivious-to-its-value Burns, he sells it for a pile of cash. He spends most of the money on himself, only coming to realize his greedy ways when he sees “A Christmas Carol” on TV. Homer reverses course and starts to do favors for everyone he can, in-so-doing making Flanders jealous for becoming Springfield’s new king of being nice. He and Flanders engage in a “nice-off,” each trying to outdo the other to earn the town’s praise. Their feud escalates to ridiculous proportions.Sun, 14 Dec 2003 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-sbeLv0pVJXUKx88kvpQOzfQryM#s15e6Krusty discovers that he never had a bar mitzvah as a child. He quits his show to have it as an adult, with the help of his father, Rabbi Krustofsky. Meanwhile, Homer hosts a late-night talk show a la "Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher" as a replacement for Krusty's show.Sun, 07 Dec 2003 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-sbeLv0pVJXUKx88kvpQOzfQryM#s15e4After making over $3000 from his own museum, Bart takes the family to London, where Homer is arrested for treason after crashing into the Queen.Sun, 23 Nov 2003 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-sbeLv0pVJXUKx88kvpQOzfQryM#s15e1REAPER MADNESS – Homer becomes The Grim Reaper after injuring him during a Benny Hill-style chase, and enjoys taking lives, but becomes conflicted when Marge is next on his death list. FRINKENSTEIN – Prof. Frink wins the Nobel Prize in science, but is sad that his dead father isn't with him to share in his success, so Frink rebuilds him out of his father's real body and the body parts of other corpses. STOP THE WORLD, I WANT TO GOOF OFF – Bart and Milhouse order a stopwatch from the back of a comic book that possesses the power to manipulate time.Sun, 02 Nov 2003 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/N-ruSQ4j9ZGPmLpsmiwBKC3wcsw#s14e15To impress Marge, Homer becomes the CEO of Springfield Nuclear Power Plant when he releases a canary that, according to Mr. Burns, is the plant's legal owner.Sun, 16 Mar 2003 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/N-ruSQ4j9ZGPmLpsmiwBKC3wcsw#s14e14When The Simpsons become fed up with the new flight patterns at the Springfield airport which are sending loud planes over their house all the time, they take a stand by nominating Krusty the Clown as their new Congressman.Sun, 09 Mar 2003 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/N-ruSQ4j9ZGPmLpsmiwBKC3wcsw#s14e8Homer hires a private detective to help him learn more about Lisa after he disappoints her on her birthday with a thoughtless present, but ends up on the run with Lisa when the detective wants his payment.Sun, 12 Jan 2003 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/N-ruSQ4j9ZGPmLpsmiwBKC3wcsw#s14e7In a completely out of character move, Bart nominates Mrs. Krabappel for the Teacher of the Year award after the surly fourth grade teacher worries about her relationship with Principal Skinner.Sun, 05 Jan 2003 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/ctw6IpZqEk2dczxTgnP__DPx48c#s13e22Homer starts a security company with Lenny and Carl after the police are ineffective during a blackout, and eventually Mayor Quimby decides to have the security company replace the police, which works out fine...until they have to deal with Fat Tony and his "legitimate" businessman.Wed, 22 May 2002 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/ctw6IpZqEk2dczxTgnP__DPx48c#s13e21While faced with community service, Homer, along with Marge are accused of murder after the old woman they are caring for dies.Sun, 19 May 2002 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/ctw6IpZqEk2dczxTgnP__DPx48c#s13e17In another classic clip show, Homer J. Simpson is the talk of the town as the Springfield Friar's Club decides to "roast" him. All his close friends and even Mr. Burns relay Homer's countless adventures. Just as the roast is about to end however, the two aliens, Kang and Kodos crash the party and threaten to destroy the earth because they can find no innocence or good. It's not until they probe Maggie's mind that they find there are things on earth worth living for. The innocence of a child.Sun, 21 Apr 2002 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/ctw6IpZqEk2dczxTgnP__DPx48c#s13e15Marge is on a campaign to bring down the phone company because she's convinced they are billing them for calls the family didn't make. When Lisa sheepishly admits that she's been calling Brazil to check up on an orphan she's been sponsoring, the whole family decides to head down to Rio de Janeiro for a visit. Upon arrival, Homer is promptly kidnapped and forces the family to come up with ransom money. Not able to raise the proper capital, Homer begrudgingly calls Mr. Burns for the money and gets deeper into debt with his demonic boss. The family is finally reunited and the orphan it turns out is doing quite well and has a job performing at Carnivalè.Sun, 31 Mar 2002 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/ctw6IpZqEk2dczxTgnP__DPx48c#s13e12Bart befriends an elderly cowboy who was once a Big Screen Legend, a la John Wayne. The cowboy becomes Bart's new idol, and soon all of Springfield's children are renewing their interest in the Old West. Of course Homer is jealous of Bart's new hero and tries repeatedly and unsuccessfully to win Bart back. Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa help the cowboy regain his fame by booking him on Krusty's show. Unfortunately, the cowboy is a drunkard and when a bad bout of stage fright kicks in, he turns to the ol drink. He's subsequently humiliated when he's forced to admit he's an alcoholic. Down, but not out, the cowboy redeems himself by restoring order at the scene of a bank robbery and lassoing the robbers with his classic lasso trickery.Sun, 24 Feb 2002 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/ctw6IpZqEk2dczxTgnP__DPx48c#s13e5After tricking Marge into thinking an advertising spokesman is coming to visit her, Homer takes Marge and the rest of the family to a restaurant featuring a hypnotist that uses his powers on Homer...and makes Homer remember a horrific childhood incident where Homer found a dead body in a ravine.Sun, 09 Dec 2001 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/ctw6IpZqEk2dczxTgnP__DPx48c#s13e4When the family goes to a Chinese restaurant in China Town, Homer is disappointed by the unoriginal and lame fortunes from the fortune cookies. Homer impresses the restaurant owner with his own brand of fortunes and is hired as a writer. From one of his fortunes, Mr. Burns is told that he will find true love. When he's being given a ticket by female cop Gloria, he decides to ask her out. Initially, Gloria feels that Mr. Burns is too old for her, but when Homer tells her about all of Burns' exploits, she begins falling for him. Mr. Burns continues dating Gloria and has Homer come along on their dates to support in a "youthful" way. While bowling, Mr. Burns decides to propose to Gloria and she accepts. When Burns goes to buy champagne, Gloria and Homer are kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend Snake. Snake takes them to his hideout where he ties she and Homer to chairs and tries to win her back. The police arrive and there's a standoff. When Homer inadvertently catches on fire, the whole place goes up in ablaze, leaving Gloria trapped inside. When Burns sees her trapped, he musters up enough energy to save her. Only when they come out, Gloria realizes that she's still attracted to Snake's bad boy image, leaving Mr. Burns loveless again.Sun, 02 Dec 2001 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/ctw6IpZqEk2dczxTgnP__DPx48c#s13e3When Moe becomes too depressed for his own good, he decides to leave Springfield for his alma mater. In doing so, he leaves the bar in Homer's care, who subsequently turns it into more of a sty then it already was. While at bartending school, Moe consults a former professor and comes back to Springfield with a renewed sense of spirit. Moe decides to tear down the old bar and hires a foreign decorator to create a whole new look. The new bar is called "M" and features a snobbish clientele and more expensive drinks. Feeling betrayed by his friend, Homer decides to open a bar in his own garage under the auspices of a hunting club. Moe eventually realizes that the new glitz and glamour of the new place can't replace the dank of his old friends. So he goes for a walk and overhears the sounds from Homer's garage where REM is playing a tribute concert. He tells Homer that the only way he can stay open as a hunting club though is to actually go hunting. Homer goes out the next day and tries to kill a turkey but accidentally shoots Moe instead. To reconcile, Homer brings his family to Moe's for Thanksgiving dinner. He never kills a turkey, but REM joins them and brings over a tofu Thanksgiving feast.Sun, 18 Nov 2001 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/ctw6IpZqEk2dczxTgnP__DPx48c#s13e2Bart gets in trouble for joyriding in a police car, but feels confident he'll be let off the hook by Judge Snyder. However, Snyder goes on vacation before ruling his verdict and gets replaced with a coldhearted judge named Constance Harm who blames Homer for being a negligent father and sentences him and Bart to be tethered together.Sun, 11 Nov 2001 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/ctw6IpZqEk2dczxTgnP__DPx48c#s13e1A Simpsons Halloween to never forget! The first cryptic tale brings the family to "Ethnictown" where Homer angers a gypsy who then places a curse bringing bad luck to everyone but him. Marge grows a beard, Lisa turns into half of a horse and Bart's neck becomes rubbery. To break the curse, Homer captures a leprechaun, only the leprechaun falls in love with the gypsy and winds up marrying her. The second scary story pays homage to 2001 as Marge decides to purchase the Ultrahouse 3000, a futuristic house (Pierce Brosnan) with homicidal tendencies that controls every aspect of the family's lives. When the House falls in love with Marge, it attempts to kill Homer and take his place. The final Halloween Haunt finds the Simpsons in a Harry Potter-esque existence, with the kids learning sorcery at a wizard school. Montymort and his sidekick Slithers, try to take Lisa's essence only to be out-dueled by Bart.Tue, 06 Nov 2001 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/3mMl_x7RGZot66i0VAey2w6IGTM#s12e21Homer refuses to pay an airport tax for their flight, they hop an illegal train ride and share a railroad car with a singing hobo. The hobo enchants them with tall tales taken from American folklore. He weaves stories about Paul Bunyan (Homer) saving the earth from a meteor, Connie Appleseed (Lisa) turning settlers onto the health benefits of apples, and the lesser-known adventures of Tom Sawyer (Bart) and Huck Finn.Sun, 20 May 2001 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/3mMl_x7RGZot66i0VAey2w6IGTM#s12e17Tired of constant mistreatment, the bag boys of Springfield go on strike, creating a grocery shortage. In Homer's frantic search for food, he unearths a thirty-year-old box of animal crackers in the attic. He bites into a giraffe but is surprised to find that it's made of solid gold - which means he's just won an African safari for the entire family. Once in Africa, the family is awed by the majestic scenery, wildlife and colorful local customs. However, during a dance ceremony, the family is chased by an enraged hippo and must flee via a raging river. Lost and weary, the Simpsons are saved by friendly chimps. They return the favor by fighting off poachers and freeing the chimps from the control of an evil scientist.Sun, 01 Apr 2001 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/3mMl_x7RGZot66i0VAey2w6IGTM#s12e16Lisa tries to befriend a new student, only to become the target of the girl's violent outbursts. When the bully, Francine, beheads Malibu Stacey, Lisa vows to get to the root of the problem. After scientific research on typical bully targets (i.e. nerds), Lisa discovers that it's the nerd scent that sets off Francine and the other school bullies. Lisa invents an antidote and is hailed a heroine by geeks everywhere. Meanwhile, Homer becomes driven to protect the babies of Springfield with his cheap and easy safety devices - which drives the "injured baby" industry out of business.Sun, 11 Mar 2001 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/3mMl_x7RGZot66i0VAey2w6IGTM#s12e13Krusty the Clown decides to retire after his show is eclipsed by the popular game show "Me Wantee." During a farewell interview with Kent Brockman, the funnyman reveals that he accidentally erased the tapes of his first ten years on the air. When news of his erasure from the Krusty canon reaches Sideshow Bob in prison, Bob vows to get revenge. Upon his release from prison, he comes up with the ultimate revenge plot: hypnotize Bart Simpson and program him to kill Krusty during his farewell show. The night of the show, all of Springfield turns up to honor the retiring clown, including Bart, who has been strapped with explosives. Bob programmed Bart to blow Krusty up when he hears a special trigger phrase. However, at the last minute, Bob has second thoughts and attempts to interrupt his violent plan.Sun, 18 Feb 2001 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/3mMl_x7RGZot66i0VAey2w6IGTM#s12e8The Simpson family attends Cirque du Puree, a snooty French circus. During the show, a massive snow storm strikes Springfield, blanketing the entire town under piles of snow. The next morning, Bart and Lisa are horrified to learn that Springfield Elementary is still in session. After a treacherous bus ride to school and a day spent watching "The Christmas That Almost Wasn't But Then Was," the students and a cheery Principal Skinner find that they have been snowed in. Under Skinner's martial law, the students are forced to suffer through a night at school. Despite Homer and Flanders' best efforts to save the kids from their slow torture, Bart and the rest manage to make their unbearable situation a little more livable by capturing Skinner and taking over the school. As de facto leader, Bart runs the school with an iron fist until Homer and Flanders, with a little help from sodium chloride, save the day.Sun, 17 Dec 2000 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/hyhh3D-rXXB9001agTRGYygviO8#s11e20During an outing at the mall, Homer gets his eyes examined while Marge and Lisa shop for items Bart will need for his camping trip. Seeing a film about tango dancers, Lisa is inspired to get dance lessons. Lisa, however, does not prove to be the most talented of dancers. Her role in an upcoming dance recital: curtain puller. Lisa is crushed. Meanwhile, Bart and Milhouse sneak out of their camping trip and decide to spend a week in the mall. Hiding out in an air vent until the mall closes the boys stuff themselves silly with candy, cookies and play with all the toys. The next morning Chief Wiggum is called in to investigate. Thinking he is on the trail of an enormous rat, Wiggum tries to catch them using various traps and tricks. Meanwhile, with a little help from Professor Frink, Lisa becomes the star of the recital.Sun, 07 May 2000 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/hyhh3D-rXXB9001agTRGYygviO8#s11e18After Homer accidentally sets fire to the backyard, he takes refuge in Moe's, where Barney is busy complaining that his friends missed his birthday. Homer reminds Barney that he threw him a party and shows him a video of the drunken birthday boy to prove it. Barney is so embarrassed he vows to quit drinking and take the helicopter lessons Moe bought him for his birthday. Meanwhile, back at the Simpson house, Bart and Lisa enter a competition to create a new cover for the Springfield phone book. Finding an old camera, they set out to snap the winning photo. But while taking a picture from a scenic outlook, a stray flash bulb creates a brush fire, leaving Bart and Lisa trapped while a fire rages all around them. A newly sober Barney is the only man who can save them.Sat, 08 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/hyhh3D-rXXB9001agTRGYygviO8#s11e17During a family outing to an Indian-owned casino, Bart sees a vision of his future courtesy of the wise Native American casino magnate. Flash forward thirty years: Bart is crashing on Ralph Wiggum's couch, trying his hardest to make it as a rock guitarist. His sister has just been elected the first straight woman President of the United States and when Bart gets evicted for not paying rent, he decides it's time to pay Lisa a little visit at her new home. Bart moves into the White House, which is already overrun by Homer and Marge and Maggie, Jr., Maggie's beautiful baby girl. As Lisa begins her Presidency, Bart makes a total nuisance of himself, interrupting press conferences to promote his demo tape, setting off the Secret Service with his Frisbee, and using an official Presidential helicopter to fly in Ralph Wiggum to hang out and drink beer. Lisa and her top advisor, Milhouse, decide to send Bart on a wild goose chase to get rid of him. But when Bart discovers the plot, he is hurt and offended. Returning to the White House, he finds Lisa in a critical meeting with other leaders of the free world, begging them not to collect the loans they gave to her financially strapped country. Bart, who is by now an expert at dodging creditors, helps Lisa fend off their demands and saves the day. Back in the present, Bart realizes that he can change his future if he tries and goes off with Lisa and tells her all about his vision.Sat, 18 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/hyhh3D-rXXB9001agTRGYygviO8#s11e16Moe competes for top honors at a Duff Beer festival and wins a chance to appear in a Duff calendar. When the calendar finally comes out, Moe's face is covered with a giant sticker due to his hideous ugliness. Despondent, Moe goes in for some much-needed plastic surgery and emerges from the operation with a smooth, handsome face. After settling some old scores with people who've wronged him, Moe heads over to the TV studio, where he confronts the producer of It Never Ends, a soap opera he once tried out for. Because of his new face, Moe is hired on the spot and made a regular on the series. But when Moe and Homer discover that Moe's character is about to be written off, they sabotage the entire show by revealing top secret plot points for the next year. The producers fire Moe and then, in a freak accident, a set piece falls on Moe's face, destroying all of his doctor's hard work. After that, it's back to Moe's Tavern for Springfield's least comely bartende.Sun, 27 Feb 2000 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/hyhh3D-rXXB9001agTRGYygviO8#s11e15Homer anonymously pledges $10,000 to PBS to save Do Shut Up, his favorite British sitcom. When Betty White and her PBS cronies track him down, Homer is forced to flee for his life. Seeking sanctuary at the Springfield Community Church, Homer begs Reverend Lovejoy to save him from the violent PBS posse that has grown to include Mr. Rogers, the Teletubbies, and Oscar the Grouch. Reverend Lovejoy smuggles Homer out of the Church parking lot inside a bag labeled "Children's Letters to God" and deposits him on a Christian Relief plane bound for the South Pacific. When he arrives on a lush tropical island, Homer is forced to act as a missionary, teaching the ways of the Lord to the natives. Back in Springfield, Bart becomes the man of the house and takes Homer's place at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. Mr. Burns pokes Bart with a stick for over an hour during his first day on the job. On the island, Homer brings civilization to the natives in the form of casino gambling and beer. But Homer's newly opened Lucky Savage Casino does not lead to progress. Instead, it leads to violence and alcoholism. Attempting to repent for his mistake, Homer tries to finish the construction of the island's first chapel. After he completes the building with the help of the natives, Homer and a native girl he has named Lisa, Jr. ring the church bell so loudly that they cause an earthquake. The earthquake opens up a fissure in the island's floor that unleashes a deadly river of lava. Will Homer and Lisa, Jr. survive? It's up to Bart--and a well-placed phone call to FOX--to save the day.Sun, 20 Feb 2000 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/hyhh3D-rXXB9001agTRGYygviO8#s11e14Tragedy strikes Springfield as one of the town's most beloved citizens dies in a freak car-racing accident. During a walk through the Springfield bird sanctuary, the Simpson family discovers a new auto-racing track. On the track's opening day, all of Springfield gathers to see the racing action. During a routine T-shirt promotion during the intermission, Maude Flanders is knocked from atop the stadium bleachers and crashes to her death. After a brief, poignant funeral, Ned must learn to pick up the pieces of his shattered life. Homer tries his best to help his neighbor, even going as far as pushing the still-grieving Ned back into the dating scene. After a series of dates that run the gamut from bad to horrible, Ned resigns himself to being alone. But in his darkest hour, he draws some inspiration from Rachel Jordan, the lead singer of a Christian rock band. Touched by Rachel's talent and beauty, Ned takes his first small step toward happiness.Sun, 13 Feb 2000 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/hyhh3D-rXXB9001agTRGYygviO8#s11e11Homer attends a fundraiser for Springfield University, where he is briefly reunited with his old pals Benjamin, Doug and Gary. For old time's sake, the four team up to pull a prank on the dean. When the prank goes tragically awry, Homer is forced to live with its aftermath: A bucket full of super glue gets stuck on his head. Every attempt to remove the bucket fails until the Simpson family attends a religious revival, where a preacher named Brother Faith empowers Bart to remove it. Sensing a new calling, Bart devotes his life to becoming a faith healer. He manages to heal a number of Springfield's residents, but experiences a crisis of faith when he causes Milhouse to be hit by a car. Swearing off faith healing for good, Bart is forced into it again when a field goal kicker for Springfield University injures his ankle during an important game. Does Bart really have the power to heal him? Or will Springfield U lose the big game? Bart had better have faith and the team doctor had better have some morphine.Sat, 15 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/hyhh3D-rXXB9001agTRGYygviO8#s11e7Apu and his wife decide to have a baby. With the help of fertility drugs, their attempts to conceive prove successful--very successful: Nine months later, Manjula gives birth to octuplets. The townspeople of Springfield celebrate the arrival of the babies, and local companies shower Apu and Manjula with free products. But when a Shelbyville couple has nine babies at once, all the attention turns to them and Apu and Manjula are left to raise their babies together. It's a big job and Apu realizes he's not up to the task. When Larry Kittkill, the owner of the Springfield Zoo, offers to pay Apu and Manjula to raise their babies behind the glass of a zoo exhibition, Apu foolishly accepts. When he decides he wants to take his new family away from the zoo, Apu discovers that he can't get out of the contract he signed. Homer and Apu steal the babies but Homer must make amends with Mr. Kittkill by performing at the zoo himself.Sat, 20 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/hyhh3D-rXXB9001agTRGYygviO8#s11e6Homer breaks his tea party date with Maggie to go bowling, lying that there is an emergency at the plant. The lie is revealed when Homer bowls a perfect 300 and attracts the attention of the media. Because of his accomplishment, Homer becomes a celebrity, appearing on The Springfield Squares with Bumblebee Man, Sideshow Mel, and his old nemesis, Ron Howard. But fame proves fickle and Homer quickly goes from Man of the Moment to Where Are They Now? Depressed, he decides to devote his life to his children. Bart and Lisa don't really take to his extra-aggressive parenting, but Maggie can't refuse, mostly because she can't speak. Homer takes Maggie to a Daddy and Me swim class but she's too scared to go in the water. Later, Homer nearly drowns and only Maggie can save him. Homer realizes that he might not have fame, but he'll always have his baby.Sat, 13 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/hyhh3D-rXXB9001agTRGYygviO8#s11e4In this year's exceptionally evil Halloween episode, Springfield catches a case of the Y2K bug, Lisa and Bart catch some radiation, and Ned Flanders gets caught under Marge's car's tires. In the first segment, Marge accidentally kills Ned Flanders while driving late at night. But when Ned comes back to haunt the Simpsons, his own evil secret is revealed. In the second story, Bart and Lisa become superheroes after getting zapped by radiation. Together they battle against the evil Comic Book Store Guy after he takes Lucy Lawless, TV's Xena: Warrior Princess, hostage. In the final segment, Homer forgets to make the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant Y2K compliant and accidentally brings about the complete destruction of the town. When the government sets up spaceships to send citizens to safety, Marge, Lisa and Maggie are granted seats but Homer and Bart have to fend for themselves.Sat, 30 Oct 1999 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/hyhh3D-rXXB9001agTRGYygviO8#s11e3Homer gets the perfect side job when he becomes the chief restaurant critic for The Springfield Shopper newspaper. He loves the perks, but can barely write a complete sentence. When Lisa helps out by ghosting his columns, Homer becomes the most powerful--and feared--critic in town. Soon Homer earns the wrath of every restaurant owner in Springfield and they join together in a plot to kill him with a poisonous éclair. Can Homer survive this death by chocolate (and butter, and custard)?Sun, 24 Oct 1999 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/hyhh3D-rXXB9001agTRGYygviO8#s11e2After Bart is caught performing another destructive act, Homer and Marge put him on medication. The boy starts taking Focusyne, an experimental Attention Deficit Disorder drug that at first turns him into the very model of manners and efficiency. But the drug has some strange side effects, and Bart becomes paranoid, ranting that Major League Baseball is using a satellite to read his thoughts. Marge and Homer try to take Bart off Focusyne, but he resists and overdoses. During his Focusyne bender, Bart steals a tank from a nearby army base and shoots a satellite out of the sky. Sure enough, the satellite is controlled by Major League Baseball, but America's hero, Mark McGwire, helicopters into Springfield to assure everyone that nothing suspicious is going on.Sat, 02 Oct 1999 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/hyhh3D-rXXB9001agTRGYygviO8#s11e1When Homer and Marge attend a test screening of Mel Gibson's remake of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Homer gives the film a mercilessly rough critique. Rather than be angered by Homer's remarks, Gibson decides to hire him as a consultant on the script rewrites. Together Mel and Homer turn the movie into a bloody action flick. The film studio is so disgusted by the new cut that they attempt to block its distribution. Homer and Mel steal the only print of the film and escape the studio lot with the executives pursuing them. Commandeering the old Mad Max car from the Hollywood Auto Museum, the Simpsons and the movie star careen through the streets, causing all sorts of destruction. Can they escape with the print intact? Does Mr. Smith ever get to go to Washington? Why doesn't Mel Gibson have an accent anymore?Sat, 25 Sep 1999 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/WZBOWsVABB1s82Q6U8OypjvVO9Y#s10e20Bart starts visiting Grandpa and the other old people at the Springfield Retirement Castle as part of a community service assignment. Meanwhile, he has bought thousands of springs for a project that never materializes. The boy tries to scare some life into the old codgers, but finds that they like passing their days peacefully. When he takes them all aboard a boat for a little adventure, the boat sinks and nearly kills them. Luckily, the boat bounces back up on a pile of springs Homer flushed down the toilet.Sun, 25 Apr 1999 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/WZBOWsVABB1s82Q6U8OypjvVO9Y#s10e15Homer buys a Canyonero, a giant all-terrain vehicle. At first he's excited about his new car, but when he discovers that the F-Series was made primarily for women, he gives it to Marge. Marge takes to the vehicle by becoming a more reckless, aggressive driver. While racing about town, she is busted for an illegal maneuver and must go to traffic school. But the classes turn out to be useless--Marge accidentally crashes the Canyonero into a prison and sets off a crime wave. When her license is revoked, Marge can only drive again when the police beg her to use the Canyonero to round up some stampeding rhinos who've escaped from the zoo. Marge saves the day, but wrecks the car as a result.Sun, 21 Feb 1999 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/WZBOWsVABB1s82Q6U8OypjvVO9Y#s10e14When Apu finds increasingly elaborate ways of expressing his love for his wife, the men of Springfield feel as though they're being shown up in the romance department. Singer Elton John's arrival at the airport is the last straw--assuming he's in town at Apu's request, the Springfield men, led by Homer, kidnap John and lock him in a dog cage. Apu's real plan is to have a sky writer spell out his love for Manjula, but Homer also tries his best to foil the pilot's efforts. Eventually, John does sing for Manjula and everyone has a happy Valentine's Day.Sun, 14 Feb 1999 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/WZBOWsVABB1s82Q6U8OypjvVO9Y#s10e13When he finds out that a character on the TV show Police Cops is named Homer Simpson, the real Homer decides to change his name to Max Power. The new name earns him new, high-profile friends like Trent Steel, a young businessman. Steel invites "Max" and his wife Marge to a garden party, where they meet such luminaries as Ed Begley, Jr. and Bill Clinton. While Clinton tries to seduce Marge, Homer learns that the gathering is part of an effort to save the Springfield redwoods, and joins the protest. After chaining themselves to the giant trees, "Max" and his buddies are attacked by police. As he runs from the cops, "Max" accidentally pulls down the tree he's attached to, which in turn knocks down the entire forest. Humiliated, he retreats from his new friends and returns to being Homer Simpson.Sun, 07 Feb 1999 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/WZBOWsVABB1s82Q6U8OypjvVO9Y#s10e11Homer and his buddies start a riot after the Springfield Isotopes win the league championship. Thinking the destruction is the fault of the town's youth, the authorities impose a curfew for everyone under a certain age. The children of Springfield rebel by starting a pirate radio station and broadcasting a show called "We Know All Your Secrets," in which their parents' most private peccadilloes are revealed. When the adults realize the kids are behind the broadcasts, the two groups confront one another in song and dance. Eventually, the senior citizens arrive and insitute another curfew that keeps the grown-ups inside, too.Sun, 17 Jan 1999 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/WZBOWsVABB1s82Q6U8OypjvVO9Y#s10e4In this year's gruesome grouping of Halloween gore, Homer gets a killer new hairdo, Lisa and Bart discover first-hand that TV violence is bad, and Maggie gets her first tooth and a glimpse of her real father. In the first segment, Homer's brain is taken over by Snake when he gets Snake's hair in a transplant. With Snake controlling him, Homer kills Apu and Moe and then sets his sights on Bart. Luckily, Chief Wiggum saves the day by busting a cap in the evil hair piece. In the second story, Bart and Lisa get sucked through the fourth wall into the land of Itchy and Scratchy in the cartoon world. At first it's all fun and games, but when Itchy and Scratchy try to kill the two Simpson kids, their only escape is through Homer's inept flipping of channels. As they flip through the dial, Bart and Lisa wind up in the most frightening place of all: Live with Regis and Kathie Lee. In the final segment, the appearance of Maggie's first tooth leads to a confession Marge never wanted to make: Homer is not Maggie's real father. Kang, the drooling alien, actually inseminated Marge. Now Kang is back and he wants his baby. Homer and Marge refuse to give Maggie up. There's only one thing for the two parties to do: Go on The Jerry Springer Show and fight it out on national television.Sun, 25 Oct 1998 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/WZBOWsVABB1s82Q6U8OypjvVO9Y#s10e3When Bart is hanging out with Nelson, he accidentally kills a bird sitting in her nest. Seeing that the bird has left behind two perfect eggs, Bart is overcome with guilt and takes it upon himself to hatch the baby birds. He keeps the eggs warm anyway he can, sometimes with a lightbulb, sometimes by sitting on them. Eventually the eggs hatch, but there are no birds inside. Instead two nasty-looking lizards emerge. Confused by what happened, Bart and Marge take the lizards to the Springfield Birdwatching Society and ask them why the lizards were inside the bird's nest. Principal Skinner, a member of the Society, explains that the lizards are Bolivian tree lizards, a species that steals bird's eggs and leave their own eggs to be watched after by the mother bird. Skinner wants to kill the lizards since they're bad for the ecosystem, but Bart flees with his lizards and sets them free. The lizards go on to eat all of Springfield's pigeons.Sun, 27 Sep 1998 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/WZBOWsVABB1s82Q6U8OypjvVO9Y#s10e2Homer quits his job and becomes an inventor. Setting up a tinkering shop in the basement, he sets for himself the modest goal of inventing more stuff than the prolific Thomas Edison. Homer comes up with some incredible new inventions, like an electronic hammer, a reclining chair with a built-in toilet, and a rifle that shoots make-up at women's faces. One of his creations, a chair with two extra feet that lets you lean way back, seems to be very popular. When Homer realizes that his six-legged chair was actually already invented by Edison, he takes his trusty electronic hammer and goes to the Edison Museum to smash the original, which is inside a replica of Edison's workshop. While there, Homer realizes that Thomas Edison was also working in the shadow of a great man: Leonardo Da Vinci. Homer feels a deep kinship with Edison and decides not to destroy the six-legged chair. Later, when authorities find the electronic hammer, which Homer forgot, in Edison's workshop, the deceased inventor gets credit for yet another amazing creation. Homer is furious.Sun, 20 Sep 1998 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/WZBOWsVABB1s82Q6U8OypjvVO9Y#s10e1A sophisticated, intelligent new girl named Alex Whitney comes to Springfield Elementary and threatens to overshadow Lisa. Alex is even a hit with Principal Skinner, who lets her organize a school dance. Meanwhile, Homer comes up with a new get-rich-quick scheme: He and Bart will round up as much grease as they can and sell it to a rendering plant. They target the richest source imaginable: the Springfield Elementary cafeteria kitchen. Lisa goes to the dance, but sells tickets outside the gym because she couldn't find a date. At the same time, Homer has crawled through the school's air ducts and into the kitchen, where he uses his wet-dry vac to suck grease out of the stove. But Groundskeeper Willie appears on the scene and tries to prevent the theft. One thing leads to another, and as a result of a misplaced wet-dry vac the school's air ducts fill with the stove's contents. Alex's event is interrupted when the oil begins to drip through the gym ceiling, but no matter--the children of Springfield are happy to frolick in the grease. Lisa is pleased to see her friends acting like kids again and breaks down Alex's uppity facade by goading her into a grease fight.Sun, 23 Aug 1998 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/LdbiExDFaa8hJzNNNseS5lh35eY#s9e14The children of Springfield Elementary School get stranded on a desert island on the way to a Model United Nations session. Trapped on the island with no grown-ups, the children form their own Lord of the Flies-style civilization. Meanwhile, back in Springfield, Homer starts up his own Internet company called CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet, which he sells to Bill Gates. On the island, civilization begins to break down when it appears that Milhouse has eaten their rations. During a show trial, Milhouse claims that a monster ate the food, but no one believes him. Eventually, it is revealed that a monster, actually a wild boar, did in fact eat all the food. The children, still starving, realize there's only one thing to do: kill the boar and eat it. In the end, an omniscient narrator explains that the children eventually got off the island, perhaps thanks to Moe.Sun, 15 Feb 1998 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/LdbiExDFaa8hJzNNNseS5lh35eY#s9e13The Simpsons join a religious sect called The Movementarians. The sect worships an all-powerful leader who claims that he will take his followers to the planet Blisstonia, where they will all live lives of uninterrupted happiness. Everyone takes to the Movementarian lifestyle, moving to a compound and working for the leader. But Marge is incredulous and flees the compound. Now free, she hires Groundskeeper Willie to kidnap her husband and kids and deprogram them. The kids return to their unwashed minds, but Homer appears to still believe in Movementarianism. He goes back to the compound and surprises his Movementarian friends by denouncing the leader and proving that his spaceship to Blisstonia is a fake. Because of Homer, the Movementarians disband.Sun, 08 Feb 1998 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/LdbiExDFaa8hJzNNNseS5lh35eY#s9e11The Simpsons break out in song--over and over again--as we dance along memory lane and watch all of the musical interludes from the last eight seasons. Apu asks who needs the Kwik-E-Mart! The Maison Derriere puts the spring in Springfield! Shary Bobbins teaches Bart and Lisa to cut corners! The writers, meanwhile, sing and dance all the way to the bank as the editors put the show together. And in between, resident criminal Snake holds the family hostage.Sun, 04 Jan 1998 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/LdbiExDFaa8hJzNNNseS5lh35eY#s9e5The only way to take Homer's gun is to pry it from his lifeless, four-fingered hand. When a riot erupts at a Continental Soccer Association match, Homer buys a gun to protect his family. Marge is disgusted by his purchase but Homer loves his gun and starts attending NRA meetings with Moe, Dr. Hibbert and Apu. After Homer accidentally fires his gun during dinner, Marge sets an ultimatum: Either the gun leaves the house or she does. Well, Marge packs up the kids and moves to a motel, where Bart and Lisa have fun playing on the Magic Fingers bed. Homer comes to find his family at the motel and promises Marge he'll throw the gun away. Just then, Snake robs the place and Homer saves the day with his firearm. But he still throws it away. When her husband's not looking, Marge retrieves the gun from the trash and keeps it for herself.Sun, 02 Nov 1997 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/LdbiExDFaa8hJzNNNseS5lh35eY#s9e3A walk down memory lane reveals the sad story of Bart's first days in kindergarten. His dislike for school and problems making friends are exacerbated by the presence of his little sister, Lisa. While meeting with J. Loren Pryor, the Springfield Elementary School psychologist, few of Bart's problems are resolved, but Homer and Marge discover that Lisa is a gifted child. Trying to foster her gift, they try to get her into a special school but can't afford it. They decide to buy Lisa a musical instrument instead, thus beginning the girl's eight-year love affair with the saxophone.Sun, 19 Oct 1997 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/LdbiExDFaa8hJzNNNseS5lh35eY#s9e2Will the real Seymour Skinner please stand up? A man named Seymour Skinner shows up in Springfield claiming that the man who works as Springfield Elementary School's Principal is an imposter. It turns out that the Skinner who's lived in Springfield all these years is really named Armin Tamzarian, and met the real Seymour Skinner in Vietnam. The real Skinner was a highly decorated Sergeant, while Tamzarian was a fifties-style greaser and juvenile delinquent. The real Skinner was captured by the enemy, held in a POW camp for five years and then sold to China as a slave forced to make sneakers in Wuhan. Tamzarian stole his name and identity, moved to Springfield and took over Skinner's former life, even claiming the man's mother, Agnes, to be his own. With the real Skinner back, the fake Skinner quits his job at the school, moves out of his mother's house and starts a new life as a loser in Capital City. Meanwhile, the real Skinner takes over at Springfield Elementary School and proves to be much less bearable than the old Skinner. In desperation, Agnes Skinner, Mrs. Krabappel and the Simpsons travel to Capital City to beg Tamzarian to come back. With Tamzarian's return, Sergeant Skinner is banished from town and everyone agrees to accept Tamzarian back as Principal Seymour Skinner.Sun, 28 Sep 1997 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/xMj-sbklj_WvUZoeRIwxCen-Uv8#s8e23A new employee named Frank Grimes comes to work at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. Grimes has a huge chip on his shoulder after a life of bad luck and hard work: He was blown up in a silo explosion as a teenager, had to teach himself to hear and feel pain, got a degree in nuclear physics through correspondence courses, and now lives in an apartment over a bowling alley. The only thing that makes sense in his hard, hard life is hustle and determination. When he meets Homer, he is incensed that someone can live so well without doing anything at all and sets out to prove that a boob like Homer should not be praised for his idiocy.Sun, 04 May 1997 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/xMj-sbklj_WvUZoeRIwxCen-Uv8#s8e21Mr. Burns loses all of his money through a series of foolish investments. Burns recalls how Lisa Simpson goaded him so roughly when he spoke at her school and decides to enlist her to help him gain his fortune back. At first, Lisa distrusts the evil tycoon, but together they start a recycling business that earns them a fortune, one nickel at a time. Burns soon branches out, starting a fish and dolphin trapping business that disgusts Lisa with its brutality. Lisa denounces Burns yet again, refusing to accept any of his money.Sun, 20 Apr 1997 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/xMj-sbklj_WvUZoeRIwxCen-Uv8#s8e20After a computer mix-up, Santa's Little Helper gets his own credit card, which Bart uses to buy tons of expensive gadgets and gifts from catalogs. One of his many purchases is Laddie, a supremely bred dog that can do tricks, save lives, and use a toilet. The Simpson family falls madly in love with their new dog, nearly forgetting all about Santa's Little Helper, who can barely stand up, much less do a back flip (one of Laddie's many uncanny skills). When the credit card company gets wind of Bart's fraudulent purchases, however, repo men take back everything he bought, including the amazing new pet. In an act of extreme disloyalty, Bart convinces them to take Santa's Little Helper instead. At first no one really notices that Santa's Little Helper is gone, but Bart grows bored with his perfect new dog. He gives Laddie to Chief Wiggum and searches all over town for Santa's Little Helper. He finally finds his old pet serving as a seeing-eye dog for a blind man. Bart tries to steal Santa's Little Helper back, but the blind man catches him and turn him over to the police. When the police arrive with Laddie, the miracle dog sniffs the blind man and finds a stash of marijuana. Bart and Santa's Little Helper are allowed to go home while the cops detain the blind man and sample his goods.Sun, 13 Apr 1997 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/xMj-sbklj_WvUZoeRIwxCen-Uv8#s8e17Lisa embarks on a career as a babysitter. She starts by watching Rod and Todd Flanders, which leads to numerous other babysitting gigs all over Springfield. When Homer and Marge decide they need some time to be alone together, they put Lisa in charge of Maggie and Bart. Bart is furious that his little sister is his babysitter and rebels as much as possible. Lisa tries to deal with Bart's numerous pranks and distractions, but things go a little too far and Lisa accidentally dislocates Bart's arm by pushing him down the stairs. Intent on getting Lisa in trouble, Bart hurts himself even more, knocking himself out. Panicked, Lisa tries to cover up what happened but winds up turning her failure as a babysitter into a public spectacle. At first, Lisa is sure no parents will ever trust her with their kids again, but sure enough, her clients call again and her business continues.Sun, 02 Mar 1997 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/xMj-sbklj_WvUZoeRIwxCen-Uv8#s8e16Once again, Sideshow Bob is released from Prison, on the condition that he is looked after by his brother, Cecil Terwilliger, an upstanding citizen and head of construction on the Springfield Hydroelectric Dam. Immediately upon Bob's release, Bart suspects that his old nemesis is up to no good, but can't find any proof. Bob tries to get his life together, taking a job on the dam project for Cecil. Their suspicion growing, Bart and Lisa snoop around the construction office and find a briefcase full of money. Just then, Bob catches them, but claims not to know the origin of the cash. It turns out that Cecil is the evil one, hatching his own plan to embezzle money from the dam budget and then destroy the town of Springfield with an explosion. Bart and Lisa overcome their distrust of Sideshow Bob and work with him to stop the destruction. Busted by the Springfield Police Department, Cecil is sent to jail. Bob is sent too, since no one believes that he didn't play a part in his brother's scheme.Sun, 23 Feb 1997 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/xMj-sbklj_WvUZoeRIwxCen-Uv8#s8e9At the annual Springfield Chili Cook-Off, Homer eats super-spicy chili made with a dangerous Guatemalan pepper grown by mental patients. The pepper has a powerful hallucinogenic effect and Homer wanders off into the darkest, strangest regions of his mind. Guided by a talking coyote, he goes on a voyage of self-discovery and realizes that he must find his soul mate. When he emerges from his fantastic trip, he returns home to Marge, who is furious at him for disappearing. Marge yells at Homer and tells him that she is not his soul mate, which sends Homer on another voyage to find out who is. Is Barney Homer's soul mate? Is Moe? Is some guy who placed a personal ad?Sun, 05 Jan 1997 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/xMj-sbklj_WvUZoeRIwxCen-Uv8#s8e7Lisa develops a crush on bully Nelson Muntz. Even though she seems to know that Nelson can never really change his naughty ways, Lisa thinks she can help him be a better person. She tries her best, but Nelson's thug friends Jimbo, Dolph, and Kearney lead him astray yet again. Meanwhile, Homer steals an autodialer after it was used in a telemarketing scam and starts one of his own.Sun, 15 Dec 1996 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/xMj-sbklj_WvUZoeRIwxCen-Uv8#s8e6In a move that will surely cause even more psychological damage for their son Milhouse, Kirk and Luann Van Houten split up in a messy, public way. Each Van Houten deals with the breakup differently: Luann begins dating an American Gladiator named Pyro while Kirk kicks off a new career a singer, self-producing an album called "Can I Borrow a Feeling?" Milhouse, for his part, takes his parents' break-up in stride and loses his mind even more than before. Meanwhile, Homer starts panicking that Marge might one day want to divorce him. To prevent that from ever happening, he files for divorce first and then remarries her in a surprisingly romantic ceremony. Sadly, there's no such happy ending for the Van Houtens, who remain divorced.Sun, 01 Dec 1996 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/xMj-sbklj_WvUZoeRIwxCen-Uv8#s8e5When Bart stumbles into a burlesque theater tucked away in a creepy old mansion, he begins working there as a doorman and eventually an MC. From his perch at the front of the Maison Derriere, Bart sees everyone from Principal Skinner to his own grandpa coming in for the girls and drinks. But when a group of angry townspeople discover that there's a house of sin in Springfield, they try to shut it down. At a town meeting, the group becomes a frenzied mob that tries to raze the house with trucks and sledgehammers. But when the showgirls, with a little help from Homer, Mayor Quimby, and others, sing a catchy tune about why the place should stay open, the mob backs off.Sun, 24 Nov 1996 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/xMj-sbklj_WvUZoeRIwxCen-Uv8#s8e3Homer becomes a boxer and Moe serves as his manager. Even though Homer doesn't have any combinations or footwork to speak of, he can withstand even the most powerful blows to his head and remain standing. Homer fights his way up through the professional ranks and soon agrees to fight a client of Lucius Sweet, a flamboyant boxing promoter with upstanding hair and a taste for flashy jewelry. Drederick Tatum, the boxer Homer is to fight, is the Heavyweight Champ, who will without a doubt pound Homer into a bloody pulp. Marge begs Moe to save Homer if the fight gets too rough, but whether or not Moe has the presence of mind to do so is up in the air.Sun, 10 Nov 1996 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/IkGbJh08_7T-bUGXm4tsSopiA08#s7e24Homer gets grungy when he becomes a sideshow performer at Hullabalooza, an alternative rock festival that features Sonic Youth, Smashing Pumpkins, Cypress Hill and, uh, Peter Frampton. Homer's performance consists of using his enormous gut as a target for cannonballs, which makes him a huge hit with the pierced and tattooed Hullabalooza crowd. It also gains him the respect of his kids, who finally think that their dad is cool. When a doctor tells Homer that he is causing permanent damage to his internal organs, Homer must decide between his newfound acclaim as a sideshow freak or long-term health. Luckily for all, Homer chooses the latter, and leaves the life-threatening stunt to someone else.Sun, 19 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/IkGbJh08_7T-bUGXm4tsSopiA08#s7e19To save his moribund career (and quell the rumors of the "weird things" he does to fish), Troy McClure marries Selma (who still wants to have a family out of fear of dying alone), who is willing to go along with being a sham wife, but is concerned when Troy McClure wants a child.Sun, 24 Mar 1996 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/IkGbJh08_7T-bUGXm4tsSopiA08#s7e10Troy McClure hosts The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular, a retrospective/behind-the-scenes look at America's favorite yellow family, featuring a look at The Simpsons' beginnings as filler on "The Tracy Ullman Show", fan mail readings, a look at the real Matt Groening, never-before-seen footage from popular episodes, and of course, familiar clips from past episodes.Sun, 03 Dec 1995 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/IkGbJh08_7T-bUGXm4tsSopiA08#s7e9Lax prison security makes it possible for Sideshow Bob to escape from prison yet again. This time, however, he's less interested in killing Bart Simpson as he is in knocking out Springfield's television stations, since he's grown to detest TV so much while in prison. Bob sneaks onto the Springfield air base on the day of the big air show, commandeers an atom bomb, and threatens to blow-up the crowd if the mayor doesn't end all TV broadcasts. When the bomb fails to explode, Bob returns to an older, more familiar plan and kidnaps Bart. That plan is also foiled and Bob returns to prison, again.Sun, 26 Nov 1995 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/JRqrcjuyqFyplTSjZSV6eMWKNL0#s6e25In the first part of this groundbreaking suspense story, Mr. Burns develops a sun-blocking machine that prevents any sunlight from reaching Springfield. With the town immersed in darkness, Mr. Burns' Power Plant can make even more money. In addition to blocking the sun, Burns has also deprived the school of its funds, broken Santa's Little Helper's leg, and alienated nearly all of his fellow townspeople. When he winds up shot, everyone, including the members of the Simpson family, is a suspect. All will be revealed in the second part, but only after a cliff hanger so steep, an entire nation will be hanging on the edge of its seats.Sun, 21 May 1995 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/JRqrcjuyqFyplTSjZSV6eMWKNL0#s6e22Lisa is reunited with her idol, Bleeding Gums Murphy, but their time together is short lived when the jazz legend passes away. Meanwhile, Bart sues Krusty the Clown for physical harm after Bart gets appendicitis from eating a jagged metal "O" in Krusty's cereal.Sun, 30 Apr 1995 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/JRqrcjuyqFyplTSjZSV6eMWKNL0#s6e10When Homer and Marge's sex life fizzles out, Grandpa whips up a batch of bottled passion for Homer. The home remedy proves an amazing success and after a marathon snuggle session with Marge, Homer convinces his father to try and sell the potion. Hitting the open road, Homer and Grandpa rake in the bucks and bond like they have never before. But when they find themselves driving by the house where Homer grew up, the old resentment and hostility bubbles up between them. After much fighting and many angry proclamations, Homer and Grandpa make up.Sun, 04 Dec 1994 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-wNqU3PXJYmPRx1-eGmAFx-olzw#s5e12While working as Krusty the Clown's personal assistant, Bart accidentally steals the limelight when he knocks over a set on live TV and says four magic words: "I didn't do it." Bart becomes more famous than anyone, especially Krusty, could have ever expected, landing his own TV series, cutting a record, appearing on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and on T-shirts from Springfield to Shelbyville. Bart's fame comes to an end when his fans turn fickle and realize that "I didn't do it" isn't such a funny catchphrase after all.Thu, 03 Feb 1994 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-wNqU3PXJYmPRx1-eGmAFx-olzw#s5e11A cunning cat burglar named Molloy is robbing Springfield's citizens of their most prized possessions. Homer forms a citizens' watch group that winds up breaking more laws than they protect. Molloy continues his crime spree uninterrupted, but when he sets his sites on the world's biggest cubic zirconia housed in the Springfield Museum, he winds up getting busted and returns everything he stole.Thu, 06 Jan 1994 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-wNqU3PXJYmPRx1-eGmAFx-olzw#s5e10When gambling is legalized in Springfield, Mr. Burns opens an extravagant casino on the boardwalk. Homer is hired as a blackjack dealer despite his counting difficulties and Marge finds herself drawn to the slots, where she begins to spend all of her time. Meanwhile, cashing in on the trend, Bart opens his own casino in his treehouse and Lisa tries to get her Florida costume done in time for the 50 States Pageant at school.Thu, 16 Dec 1993 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-wNqU3PXJYmPRx1-eGmAFx-olzw#s5e9Homer worries about his marriage to Marge when he begins falling for Mindy Simmons, a gorgeous nuclear plant worker who loves doughnuts, beer, and being lazy as much as Homer does. Meanwhile, Bart turns into a nerd after getting glasses, medicated scalp salve, and corrective footwear.Wed, 08 Dec 1993 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-wNqU3PXJYmPRx1-eGmAFx-olzw#s5e8Experimenting with a dangerous all-syrup Squishee, Bart and Milhouse get loopy and run around Springfield singing and having adventures. Waking up with a massive Squishee hangover, Bart remembers that he enlisted in the Junior Campers, the dweebiest after-school program in the world.Thu, 18 Nov 1993 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-wNqU3PXJYmPRx1-eGmAFx-olzw#s5e7Homer and Marge are entranced by a charismatic self-help guru named Brad Goodman, who uses Bart's irreverent attitude as a model for people to be open and honest with their feelings.Thu, 11 Nov 1993 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-wNqU3PXJYmPRx1-eGmAFx-olzw#s5e6Marge spends some time with her neighbor, Ruth Powers, and the two find that they enjoy each other's company very much. One night, Ruth picks up Marge in a cherry '66 T-Bird convertible that just happens to have been reported stolen by Ruth's ex-husband. Pursued by Chief Wiggum, Marge and Ruth take to the road, Thelma and Louise-style. Wiggum, with Homer as his passenger, tracks down the stolen vehicle, but loses it when Ruth smartly turns her headlights off. Ruth and Marge get away, but Homer and Chief Wiggum drive the squad car off a cliff. The only thing that saves them is a pile of garbage so high they barely crash at all.Thu, 04 Nov 1993 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-wNqU3PXJYmPRx1-eGmAFx-olzw#s5e5In this year's tricky triptych of terror, Bart presents three Halloween treats based on paintings in the "Fright Gallery." In the first story, Homer sells his soul to the devil (played by Ned Flanders) for a doughnut. In the second installment, Bart has a nightmare about the school bus crashing that might just be coming true the next day when a goblin threatens to dismember the bus. And finally, Mr. Burns invites the Simpson family over to his castle for dinner where he bites Bart, turning him into a vampire.Thu, 28 Oct 1993 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-wNqU3PXJYmPRx1-eGmAFx-olzw#s5e4During Mr. Burns's dream, we see the early life of Springfield's richest man and learn that despite all his power and money, he'll never be whole without Bobo, his favorite childhood teddy bear, who is now in the possession of Maggie Simpson.Thu, 21 Oct 1993 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-wNqU3PXJYmPRx1-eGmAFx-olzw#s5e3When it is revealed that Homer is grossly unqualified to be a safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, he goes to Springfield University to study nuclear physics. While there, Homer befriends a group of nerds and encourages them to steal a rival school's mascot pig.Thu, 14 Oct 1993 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-wNqU3PXJYmPRx1-eGmAFx-olzw#s5e2Bart begins receiving threatening letters from Sideshow Bob. When Bob is released from prison, Bart is terrified of being killed by the psychotic former sidekick.Thu, 07 Oct 1993 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/-wNqU3PXJYmPRx1-eGmAFx-olzw#s5e1Homer explains about his old Barbershop Quartet group, The B Sharps.Thu, 30 Sep 1993 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/TjMVgbWbinwIZuIyQ6KgX7FqsGE#s4e22After the most successful advertising campaign Springfield has ever seen, The Krusty the Clown show gets bumped in the ratings by Arthur Crandall, a droll ventriloquist, and Gabbo, his excitable dummy. Gabbo is a huge hit, and Krusty's show is canceled as a result of falling ratings, and it's up to Lisa and Bart to get Krusty's celebrity friends to create a comeback special for him.Thu, 13 May 1993 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/TjMVgbWbinwIZuIyQ6KgX7FqsGE#s4e21Marge is sentenced to a month in prison for accidentally shoplifting bourbon. With Marge gone, the townspeople celebrate--until they realize that her Rice Krispie squares are sorely missed at the bake sale.Thu, 06 May 1993 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/TjMVgbWbinwIZuIyQ6KgX7FqsGE#s4e20Everyone in Springfield is excited for Whacking Day, but as the holiday approaches, Lisa condemns it as violent. Whacking Day is a decade-long tradition which calls for the townspeople to beat snakes to death with sticks. Meanwhile, Bart gets expelled from school after running down Superintendent Chalmers with a tractor, prompting Marge to home-school Bart.Thu, 29 Apr 1993 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/TjMVgbWbinwIZuIyQ6KgX7FqsGE#s4e19Convinced they can write better Itchy & Scratchy scripts than the writers who currently work on the cartoon, Bart and Lisa set out to write their own shows. Their scripts are rejected by Roger Meyers, the show's producer, until Bart and Lisa use Grandpa's name as their pseudonym. Meanwhile, Homer goes to his high school reunion, and when Principal Dondelinger reveals that Homer never passed remedial science, Homer goes to night school to make up the lost credit.Thu, 15 Apr 1993 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/TjMVgbWbinwIZuIyQ6KgX7FqsGE#s4e18Bart's April Fools' prank backfires and lands Homer in the hospital in a coma. At Homer's bedside, The Simpson family reminisces about all of the good times they've had over the years. A half-hour of precious screen time is filled with clips you've seen before and Homer eventually emerges from his coma.Thu, 01 Apr 1993 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/TjMVgbWbinwIZuIyQ6KgX7FqsGE#s4e17Homer finds himself filling in for the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant's union leader when it comes time to negotiate their new contract with Mr. Burns. Homer is a tough negotiator, despite not knowing the first thing about union organizing, and forces Burns to accept the union's demands on the condition that Homer be removed as leader.Thu, 11 Mar 1993 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/TjMVgbWbinwIZuIyQ6KgX7FqsGE#s4e16Lisa conducts a secret experiment for the Springfield Elementary School science fair to see who's smarter, Bart or a hamster. Meanwhile, Homer is forced to swear off beer after being arrested on a D.U.I. Bart realizes what Lisa is doing and ruins her plans for the science fair by winning first prize for his own, more sensational, hamster experiment. Homer manages to stay off of beer for an entire month and, instead of drinking to celebrate his sobriety, he decides to stay on the wagon and enjoy a bike ride with Marge.Thu, 18 Feb 1993 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/TjMVgbWbinwIZuIyQ6KgX7FqsGE#s4e15Trying to be nice to Ralph Wiggum, Lisa gives him a Valentine's Day card. Ralph misinterprets the gesture and thinks that Lisa is in love with him. Soon, he begins to pursue her the only way he knows how: foolishly. Lisa tries to let him down nicely, but Ralph won't get the hint until she yells at him in front of a live television audience at the Krusty the Clown anniversary special. Heartbroken, Ralph channels his feelings into his performance as George Washington in his school's Presidents Day show. Ralph's acting is superb, and after a thunderous applause he is able to accept Lisa as just a friend.Thu, 11 Feb 1993 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/TjMVgbWbinwIZuIyQ6KgX7FqsGE#s4e14When Homer leaves Bart waiting in the pouring rain after soccer practice, he must earn back his son's love. Bart expresses his anger by going to a Big Brother program and claiming to be an abandoned child so he can get a new "father." He's paired with Tom, a motorcycle-riding fighter pilot who spoils him. To get revenge on Bart, Homer signs up to be a Big Brother and "adopts" Pepi, a needy child. When Homer and Tom clash over Bart, they fight viciously and Bart realizes how much his father loves him. Bart returns to Homer and Tom winds up adopting Pepi. On a side note, Lisa runs up $378.53 of phones calls to "The Corey Hotline."Thu, 04 Feb 1993 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/TjMVgbWbinwIZuIyQ6KgX7FqsGE#s4e13Aunt Selma realizes that she might wind up dying all alone and thinks that having a baby can relieve her loneliness. To test her maternal instincts, she takes Bart and Lisa to Duff Gardens, an amusement park, where she realizes that parenthood isn't all it's cracked up to be. At the park, Lisa gets high by drinking the water in the Little Land of Duff ride, and Bart misbehaves in his own unique way. Shaken by the experience, Selma is pleased to have no kids of her own and accepts her life and everyone in it, including Jub Jub, her pet iguana.Thu, 21 Jan 1993 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/TjMVgbWbinwIZuIyQ6KgX7FqsGE#s4e12Mr. Burns is forced to pay a $3 million fine for illegally dumping toxic waste under trees in the park. At a town meeting where Springfield's citizens discuss how to best use the new funds, Lyle Lanley, a charismatic traveling salesman convinces them to build a completely useless monorail. Marge is the only one in town who disapproves of the project and when the monorail is complete disaster, her reservations are proved correct.Thu, 14 Jan 1993 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/TjMVgbWbinwIZuIyQ6KgX7FqsGE#s4e11In a series of terrifying X-ray shots of Homer's chest, we see that his heart is dangerously clogged with plaque and doughnut residue and that he is in need of a triple bypass operation. The operation costs $40,000, but Homer cannot afford that much, so he goes to Dr. Nick Riviera, who agrees to do the operation for $129.95. During the operation, Dr. Nick loses his nerve and only Lisa, who has been studying the heart, can talk him through the procedure. Homer recovers and is able to live a long, doughnut-filled life.Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/TjMVgbWbinwIZuIyQ6KgX7FqsGE#s4e10While trying to get Maggie to say her first words, Marge tells Bart and Lisa about what they were like as babies. In flashback, we see that Bart's first words were "aye carumba." When Lisa was born, Homer hoped that her first word would be "daddy," but instead she said "Bart," which always secretly broke Homer's heart. Back in the present, as Homer puts Maggie to bed, he tells her that it's okay that she doesn't speak yet. Homer leaves the room and Maggie utters the word that he's been longing to hear, "Daddah."Thu, 03 Dec 1992 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/TjMVgbWbinwIZuIyQ6KgX7FqsGE#s4e9At the auto show, Homer impulsively buys a snow plow and starts a business as Mr. Plow. An incredibly snowy winter sets the business rolling, making Homer a success and earning him the key to the city from Mayor Quimby. All is well until Barney sets up a rival business as the Plow King and wipes the streets with Homer. To cut out his competition, Homer calls Barney under an assumed name and dispatches the Plow King to clear a path on forbidding Widow's Peak. Barney foolishly drives up there and is caught under an avalanche. Only Homer can save him from an icy death and both men agree to work together as a team. Right at that moment, the sun bursts out and all the snow in Springfield melts into puddles, leaving them both without livelihoods.Thu, 19 Nov 1992 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/TjMVgbWbinwIZuIyQ6KgX7FqsGE#s4e8Evergreen Terrace welcomes two new neighbors, Ruth Powers and her lovely teenage daughter, Laura. Bart falls hard for Laura, but she thinks of him as just a little friend. Heartbroken, Bart has to watch as the girl he loves starts dating Jimbo Jones. One night while Laura is babysitting Bart, Lisa and Maggie, Bart devises a way to get revenge on Jimbo, who also happens to be over the house. Bart prank calls Moe's Tavern one last time and claims to be Jimbo and gives his address. Moe charges over to kill Jimbo, but when the little bully starts to cry, Moe reconsiders and leaves. Laura reconsiders, too, breaking up with Jimbo.Thu, 12 Nov 1992 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/TjMVgbWbinwIZuIyQ6KgX7FqsGE#s4e7When the Simpsons' house begins sliding off its foundation, Marge is forced to get a job to help make ends meet. Where else can she turn other than The Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, where she is promptly hired. While on the job, Marge catches the eye--and the heart--of Mr. Burns, who falls madly in love with her. To impress her, he even hires her favorite singer, Tom Jones, to serenade her, but Marge rejects all of her boss' advances and stays faithful to Homer.Thu, 05 Nov 1992 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/TjMVgbWbinwIZuIyQ6KgX7FqsGE#s4e6Every kid in the world waits with bated breath for the Itchy & Scratchy movie, but Bart is the only one who's not allowed to see it. Marge and Homer ground Bart for his bad behavior, making him miss the most important movie of his life. In a vision of the future in which his son becomes a Supreme Court Justice, Homer imagines seeing a revival of the movie with Bart.Tue, 03 Nov 1992 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/TjMVgbWbinwIZuIyQ6KgX7FqsGE#s4e5In this year's scarifying special, the Simpsons gather for a Halloween party and exchange ghost stories. Clown Without Pity; In the first tale, told by Lisa, Homer buys Bart a talking Krusty doll with a few glitches: It tries to kill Homer with a knife and strangle him to death. No one believes that the doll is really trying to kill Homer, but when Marge calls the toy company's customer service numbers, it is revealed that the doll was accidentally set to 'evil' instead of 'good.' King Homer; In the next story, told by Grandpa, Homer plays King Kong to Marge's Fay Wray. Mr. Burns plays a maniacal millionaire who plunders the jungle in search of mythical giant gorilla. The gorilla falls in love with the millionaire's beautiful assistant and carries her to the top of the Empire State building. After a messy confrontation with the army, the gorilla and the girl get married and live happily ever after. Dial "Z" For Zombie; Finally, Bart tells a story in which a spell from a book of witchcraft bring Springfield's dead to life. The only thing that can send them back to their graves is the right spell.Thu, 29 Oct 1992 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/TjMVgbWbinwIZuIyQ6KgX7FqsGE#s4e3One Sunday morning, Homer decides that he'd rather sleep late than go to church. Marge is disappointed, but doesn't argue with him. While home alone, Homer dances in his underwear, drinks waffle batter and loafs around watching TV. Having thoroughly enjoyed his morning, Homer decides to forgo church for good and start his own religion. Marge doesn't approve, but that night Homer has a dream in which God visits him and expresses his acceptance of Homer's new religion. While home on Sunday, worshipping in his own special way by reading Playdude and smoking cigars, Homer causes a fire that nearly destroys the house. Ned Flanders is the only one who can save Homer's life, and after speaking with Reverend Lovejoy, Homer realizes that he should give up his religion and return to church.Thu, 08 Oct 1992 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/TjMVgbWbinwIZuIyQ6KgX7FqsGE#s4e2Marge is cast in the role of Blanche DuBois in Oh! Streetcar, the musical version of A Streetcar Named Desire directed by the flamboyant Llewellyn Sinclair at the Springfield Community Center. Homer isn't very supportive of Marge's interest in acting, so she uses her anger towards him for inspiration in some of the play's more emotional moments. Acting opposite Ned Flanders as Stanley Kowalski, Marge gets so absorbed in her role that at one point she nearly slashes Ned with a broken bottle. Meanwhile, Maggie has been placed in day care at the Ayn Rand School for Tots and leads a rebellion against the strict teachers. Watching Marge perform in the play, Homer is moved and realizes he should have been more supportive.Thu, 01 Oct 1992 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/TjMVgbWbinwIZuIyQ6KgX7FqsGE#s4e1After making a deal with Homer to get good grades in school, Bart and Lisa go away to Kamp Krusty, "The Krustiest Place on Earth!" While they're initially excited about their summer, they soon learn that Kamp Krusty is a run-down prison run by the tyrannical Mr. Black and his C.I.T. henchmen, Dolph, Kearney and Jimbo Jones. Worse yet, instead of sports and arts-and-crafts, the kids are expected to pass their days sewing counterfeit wallets. The only thing that gets Bart through this ordeal is the hope that Krusty himself will visit, but when that doesn't happen, the kids lead a rebellion against Mr. Black and take over the camp. With Bart as their leader, the kids speak to the media and reveal what a sham Kamp Krusty is. Meanwhile, with Bart and Lisa away from home, Homer and Marge are getting in touch with their relationship. Homer feels so good, he's even losing some weight and growing some hair. This all changes when he sees Bart on TV, condemning Krusty and his ramshackle camp. In the end, Krusty apologizes to the campers and takes them on a trip to Tijuana.Thu, 24 Sep 1992 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/Sgc8KEFBvNDXmrORylbw1-1hdeM#s3e24Homer's half-brother Herb Powell returns, but this time not as a successful businessman. After Homer wrecked his car company, Herb has become a bum, but with a little help from Maggie, he thinks he has come up with a shoo-in invention that will put him back on top. Herb wants to build the first baby translator, a device that will interpret babies' cries and mumbles into plain speech. Homer agrees to fund the research and when Herb's business takes off, he buys Homer and the whole family lavish gifts to thank them.Thu, 27 Aug 1992 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/Sgc8KEFBvNDXmrORylbw1-1hdeM#s3e23Everything's coming up Milhouse when Bart's best friend falls in love with the new girl, Samantha Stanky. Bart is jealous of how much time Milhouse is spending with Samantha and plots to break them up by telling Samantha's strict father about the relationship. Samantha is packed off to Catholic school and Milhouse is heartbroken. Bart admits that it was his fault that Samantha was sent away and the two boys come to blows. Eventually they make up and go visit Samantha at her new school, where she is very happy. Meanwhile, Marge orders a cassette tape for Homer that will plant subliminal thoughts in his head about losing weight, but the warehouse runs out of tapes and sends Homer a cassette tape that increases Homer's vocabulary.Thu, 07 May 1992 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/Sgc8KEFBvNDXmrORylbw1-1hdeM#s3e22After seeing Spinal Tap bring the house down (sort of) in concert, Bart decides he wants to learn how to play electric guitar. Playing is harder than Bart thought and he becomes dejected when he sees what a guitar god his bus driver, Otto, is. Because he was too busy jamming with Bart's guitar, Otto arrives late to school and is fired until he can get a new license from the DMV. With no job and no prospects, Otto is thrown out of his apartment and is forced to live in the Simpsons' garage until he can get his job back. Based on their mutual dislike for Homer, Patty approves Otto's new license and Otto is allowed to drive the school bus again.Thu, 23 Apr 1992 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/Sgc8KEFBvNDXmrORylbw1-1hdeM#s3e21Selma agrees to marry her prison pen pal, Sideshow Bob. Bart and Lisa are terrified of their soon-to-be new uncle, since Bob swore he'd get revenge on Bart for having him sent to prison for framing Krusty the Clown for robbery. Sideshow Bob tries to show the Simpsons that he has changed his ways in prison, but Bart remains skeptical. His suspicion pays off when Bob tries to kill Aunt Selma on their honeymoon. Bart foils the plot and it's back to prison for Bob, back to spinsterhood for Selma.Thu, 09 Apr 1992 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/Sgc8KEFBvNDXmrORylbw1-1hdeM#s3e20Homer and Marge have a fight after attending a boring movie and Homer drives off angry. As he drives, he pulls up to a honky-tonk bar called Beer 'N' Brawl where he meets an aspiring country music singer named Lurleen Lumpkin. Struck by her talent and her beauty, Homer becomes her manager, securing her gigs and a record deal while at the same time fraying his relationship with Marge. Even though it's clear that Lurleen is falling in love with Homer, he resists her come-ons and signs away Lurleen's contract to another manager in order to be a better husband to Marge.Thu, 26 Mar 1992 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/Sgc8KEFBvNDXmrORylbw1-1hdeM#s3e19Santa's Little Helper is rushed to the hospital to undergo an emergency operation. Homer is saddened to tell Bart and Lisa that they just can't afford the $750 for the operation, but seeing how much everyone--including himself--loves the dog, he resolves to find a way to pay for it. To save up the money, everyone must give up their small luxuries and begin to resent the dog for forcing them to lose out on the things they enjoy. Hurt and dejected, Santa's Little Helper runs away from home, only to be adopted by Mr. Burns, who trains him to become one of his vicious attack hounds. After a long brainwashing process, Santa's Little Helper becomes a bloodthirsty killer. When Bart goes to Burns' mansion to retrieve his dog, Santa's Little Helper tries to attack him but remembers all the good times they had and snaps out of his brainwashed state. The dog then returns to the family that loves him.Thu, 12 Mar 1992 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/Sgc8KEFBvNDXmrORylbw1-1hdeM#s3e18After taking career aptitude tests, Lisa discovers that the occupation she's best suited for is homemaker while Bart is pegged as a future police officer. Each takes the opportunity to explore their options as Lisa spends the day doing chores with Marge and Bart goes on a ride along with the police. Lisa hates her role and rebels by becoming a troublemaker at school. Police life fits Bart like a glove and he becomes a hall monitor, handing out demerits to his classmates for minor infractions. When Lisa secretly steals all of the teachers' manuals, it's up to Bart and Principal Skinner to figure out who did it. Realizing his sister is the culprit; Bart takes the rap and returns to his life as a bad student and detention regular.Thu, 27 Feb 1992 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/Sgc8KEFBvNDXmrORylbw1-1hdeM#s3e17Mr. Burns makes a million dollar bet with his arch-rival Aristotle Amadopolis that the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant team will beat the Shelbyville Nuclear Power Plant team in the softball championships. To ensure victory, Burns hires a number of ringers, including pro baseball players Darryl Strawberry, Ken Griffey, Jr., Steve Sax, Roger Clemens, Jose Canseco, Don Mattingly, Ozzie Smith, Wade Boggs and Mike Scioscia to replace the plant employees he cut from the team. But as game day approaches, the pros all succumb to various strange ailments and accidents that prevent them from playing and it's up to Homer and his teammates to beat the Shelbyville team. With bases loaded and the score tied in the ninth inning, Homer is sent to bat and wins the game when the pitch hits him in the head and accidentally scores a homer.Thu, 20 Feb 1992 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/Sgc8KEFBvNDXmrORylbw1-1hdeM#s3e16During a particularly long detention jag, Bart discovers that his teacher, Mrs. Krabappel, has placed a personal ad looking for love. Thinking it would be funny to string her along, Bart writes her a love letter as "Woodrow," the perfect man who loves holding hands and hates yo-yos. Mrs. Krabappel falls madly in love with Woodrow and Bart begins to realize that he's done a very cruel thing. With the help of his family, Bart writes a sweet goodbye letter and lets his teacher gently off the hook. Meanwhile, Flanders confronts Homer about Homer's swearing. To curb it, Marge suggests that Homer use a swear jar and put money in whenever he says a bad word, but Homer's constant swearing ends up buying Santa's Little Helper the doghouse he sorely needs.Thu, 13 Feb 1992 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/Sgc8KEFBvNDXmrORylbw1-1hdeM#s3e15Marge has a nervous breakdown and is sent to Rancho Relaxo resort for some much-needed rest and relaxation. While she's off pampering herself, Homer sends Bart and Lisa to stay with their Aunts Patty and Selma but must take care of Maggie himself. During the night, Maggie disappears and Homer frantically runs around town looking for her. Spotted by the Springfield Police, Maggie is finally brought back to Homer and Marge returns from her vacation clueless about her daughter's little adventure.Thu, 06 Feb 1992 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/Sgc8KEFBvNDXmrORylbw1-1hdeM#s3e14Homer discovers that Lisa has an uncanny ability to pick winning football teams. Soon, the two of them spend every Sunday afternoon together, betting on football games and winning. During these "Daddy-Daughter Days," Lisa feels closer to Homer than ever, but she begins to feel betrayed when she realizes Homer is only interested in her winning picks. Lisa rebels by refusing to pick a winner for the Super Bowl until Homer apologizes for being selfish. They agree to have Daddy-Daughter Days after the end of the football season and continue to bond.Thu, 23 Jan 1992 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/Sgc8KEFBvNDXmrORylbw1-1hdeM#s3e13Homer buys Bart a Superstar Celebrity microphone for his birthday. Bart thinks it's the lamest gift in the world until he realizes he can play some great pranks with it. One of his pranks backfires when the entire town comes to the rescue of "Timmy O'Toole," the little boy Bart pretends has fallen down a well. Krusty the Clown brings his celebrity friends, including Sting, to record a song "We're Sending Our Love Down the Well" to benefit Timmy. Realizing things have gotten out of hand; Bart tries to undo his prank, but winds up falling down the well himself. He eventually admits that there was no Timmy O'Toole and the whole town is angered because a 10-year-old boy took them for fools. The only people willing to dig Bart out of the well are Homer and Sting.Thu, 09 Jan 1992 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/Sgc8KEFBvNDXmrORylbw1-1hdeM#s3e12It's a walk down memory lane as Homer and Marge recount their early years for Bart and Lisa. Back in 1980, a young Homer and Marge are forced to get married at Shotgun Pete's Wedding Chapel after Marge becomes pregnant. But married life is difficult for the young couple and Homer decides to leave Marge until he is able to provide the sort of life he thinks she deserves. Marge tracks Homer down at his new job at the Gulp 'N Blow and the two agree to stick it out and build a family together.Thu, 26 Dec 1991 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/Sgc8KEFBvNDXmrORylbw1-1hdeM#s3e11Mr. Burns sells The Springfield Nuclear Power Plant for $100 million. The buyers are two wealthy German investors who promptly fire Homer and other employees. After a confrontation with Homer and others at Moe's, Mr. Burns realizes he should never have sold the plant. After negotiations, Burns buys back the plant and re-hires Homer, plotting to get revenge on him in the future.Thu, 05 Dec 1991 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/Sgc8KEFBvNDXmrORylbw1-1hdeM#s3e10Homer invents a bizarre drink he calls the Flaming Homer. It's so good that Moe steals his recipe, renames it the Flaming Moe, and takes credit for it. The Flaming Moe revitalizes the bartender's business, turning Moe's Tavern into the hottest spot in Springfield. Meanwhile, Homer is so angered by Moe's stealing of his idea that he sabotages Moe's chance to sell the recipe for the Flaming Moe to representatives of Tipsy McStagger's bar and grill franchise. Realizing he shouldn't have taken credit in the first place, Moe makes him a Flaming Homer on the house.Thu, 21 Nov 1991 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/Sgc8KEFBvNDXmrORylbw1-1hdeM#s3e9Bart becomes deeply immersed in competitive soapbox racing while Homer begins to realize that he's not as good a father as he thought. After attending a lecture at National Fatherhood Institute, Homer becomes a more attentive father, helping Bart build the ultimate soapbox racer. But Bart decides not to use it in his big race against Nelson Muntz, instead opting to borrow Martin Prince's scientifically engineered aerodynamic racer. Homer is devastated by Bart's rejection, but still attends the race and watches as Bart beats Nelson.Thu, 14 Nov 1991 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/Sgc8KEFBvNDXmrORylbw1-1hdeM#s3e8When Homer disappoints Lisa one too many times, he tries to make it up to her with one grand gesture: He buys her a pony. Lisa is thrilled, but Homer and Marge are shocked to discover how expensive maintaining the animal can be. Homer is forced to take on another job working the graveyard shift at the Kwik-E-Mart to pay the bills. When she realizes her father is overworked, Lisa decides to give up her pony.Thu, 07 Nov 1991 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/Sgc8KEFBvNDXmrORylbw1-1hdeM#s3e7After eating piles and piles of Halloween candy, Bart, Lisa and Homer have nightmares that haunt them all night. The Monkey's Paw; Lisa dreams that the family goes on a trip to Morocco and buys a cursed monkey paw that grants its owner three wishes. By wishing for world peace, Lisa accidentally paves the way for an alien invasion by Kang and Kodos, who enslave the human race. The Bart Zone; Bart's dream, in which he has the power to read minds and affect people with his thoughts, seems less like a nightmare at first. But eventually, he realizes he's used his powers for evil and repents. If I Only Had A Brain; Homer dreams that Mr. Burns steals his brain for a giant robot he's building. Due to an accident, Mr. Smithers is forced to sew Mr. Burns' head onto Homer's body, creating a horrific two-headed creature.Thu, 31 Oct 1991 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/Sgc8KEFBvNDXmrORylbw1-1hdeM#s3e6During a tear-filled dinner at the Simpsons' house, Krusty the Clown reveals that he is the estranged son of an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi. It seems that Krusty's father, Rabbi Krustofski, never accepted his son's profession, and disowned him years ago. Bart and Lisa decide to reunite the two men, but find that getting the Rabbi to agree to a meeting is nearly impossible. After endless research by Lisa, and repeated negotiations by Bart, the Rabbi agrees to meet with his clown son, and the two men are reunited and appear together on The Krusty the Clown Show.Thu, 24 Oct 1991 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/Sgc8KEFBvNDXmrORylbw1-1hdeM#s3e5During a near-fatal meltdown at The Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, Homer frantically presses buttons on his console until he hits the right combination and saves the day. Homer becomes a hero even though he knows in his heart that what he did was a fluke. Aristotle Amadopolis, owner of the Shelbyville Nuclear Power Plant, invites Homer to make a speech for the employees at his plant, and Homer is once again faced with a meltdown. This time, he isn't so lucky and he sees his reputation destroyed just as quickly as it was made.Thu, 17 Oct 1991 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/Sgc8KEFBvNDXmrORylbw1-1hdeM#s3e4When he crashes his skateboard into the stairwell of the Legitimate Businessman's Social Club, Bart falls in with a particularly bad crowd: the Springfield Mafia. Soon, he befriends Fat Tony, Louie, Joey and other goodfellas, who take him on as their bartender and errand boy. As Bart adopts more and more gangster-like traits, Marge grows anxious. Meanwhile, Principal Skinner disappears and the police strongly suspect that Bart and his new friends are responsible. During the sensational trial, Fat Tony turns stool pigeon and rats out Bart as Skinner's killer. Nobody can save Bart but Skinner himself, who emerges from his hiding place to explain that neither Bart nor the Mob did anything to him.Thu, 10 Oct 1991 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/Sgc8KEFBvNDXmrORylbw1-1hdeM#s3e3Ned Flanders decides to open his own business called the Leftorium, a store that sells tools and products aimed at left-handed consumers. Homer, filled with resentment towards Flanders, hopes that the Leftorium fails. Needless to say, the business is not a smashing success and Flanders goes broke, forcing his family to sell their furniture and possessions in a tag sale. Wracked with guilt, Homer enlists all of the left-handed people he knows to buy Flander's wares and save his neighbor from financial ruin.Thu, 03 Oct 1991 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/Sgc8KEFBvNDXmrORylbw1-1hdeM#s3e2Lisa enters an essay contest and wins a trip for the whole family to go to Washington, D.C. While there, her faith in democracy is shattered when she witnesses a congressman accepting a bribe. In her desire to uphold this nation's ideals, Lisa decides to expose the corrupt official, and in doing so has him arrested in a sting operation.Thu, 26 Sep 1991 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/Sgc8KEFBvNDXmrORylbw1-1hdeM#s3e1When he wears a pink shirt to work, Homer's coworkers mistake him for a mental patient and commit him to the New Bedlam Rest Home for the Emotionally Interesting. While there, Homer meets a tall, stocky white man who claims to be Michael Jackson. Despite his reservations, Homer befriends "Michael" and takes his new pal home with him upon his release. Meanwhile, Lisa celebrates her eighth birthday without a present from Bart, who was too inconsiderate to get her anything. With "Michael's" help, Bart writes a special song for Lisa that proves to be the best gift she ever received. Witnessing the tender scene, "Michael" admits that he's really Leon Kompowsky, a bricklayer.Thu, 19 Sep 1991 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/9AweDMsYP6hSHFDCcQBDX00AjA4#s2e23The Simpsons : Season 2 Episode 23Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:00:17 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/9AweDMsYP6hSHFDCcQBDX00AjA4#s2e22When Mr. Burns gets sick, only a transfusion of Bart's blood, which is a special type, can save him. With the boy's blood coursing through his veins, Mr. Burns is more alive than ever and writes a thank-you note to Bart. Homer is convinced that Burns has not shown his boy enough gratitude and writes his boss a nasty letter.Thu, 11 Jul 1991 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/9AweDMsYP6hSHFDCcQBDX00AjA4#s2e21Bart becomes obsessed with buying the first issue of Radioactive Man, but can't scrape together the $100 he needs to make it his own. Enlisting Milhouse and Martin Prince, Bart is finally able to buy the comic, even though he only possesses one third of it. But things get hairy when none of them can decide who gets to keep it or for how long.Thu, 09 May 1991 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/9AweDMsYP6hSHFDCcQBDX00AjA4#s2e20When Homer humiliates Marge at a party they've thrown for their friends and neighbors, the only thing that can save their marriage is a weekend retreat for married couples run by Reverend Lovejoy up at Catfish Lake. Meanwhile, Grampa is called to babysit the Simpson kids, who trick him into letting them do whatever they want--including throw a house-trashing party with everyone in town.Thu, 02 May 1991 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/9AweDMsYP6hSHFDCcQBDX00AjA4#s2e19When Lisa's teacher Miss Hoover gets Lyme Disease, Mr. Bergstrom takes over the class. Lisa finds Mr. Bergstrom's teaching methods incredibly inspiring and discovers an entirely new love for learning. When Miss Hoover returns to her class, Lisa is devastated to lose her most positive grown-up role model. Eventually, she realizes that while Mr. Bergstrom was one of a kind, she can find role models in other people, including her own father.Thu, 25 Apr 1991 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/9AweDMsYP6hSHFDCcQBDX00AjA4#s2e18Marge's interest in art is reawakened when she finds some of her old paintings in the attic. Signing up for a painting class taught by Professor Lombardo at Springfield Community College, Marge eventually develops enough confidence in her work to enter the Springfield Art Fair and win. Her winning painting catches the eye of Mr. Burns, who hires her to paint his official portrait, a task that proves very difficult because Marge finds Mr. Burns to be excessively ugly. Eventually, she paints a picture that emphasizes Mr. Burns' flaws. But rather than embarrassing him, the portrait humanizes him in the eyes of the public and he is forced to accept the painting as a success.Thu, 11 Apr 1991 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/9AweDMsYP6hSHFDCcQBDX00AjA4#s2e17Grandpa Simpson falls in love with Bea Simmons, a fellow resident of the Springfield Retirement Castle. During the course of their brief romance, Bea passes away and leaves Grandpa her entire savings, $100,000. Grandpa decides to give the money to charity but can't decide which one is worthiest. Eventually, he donates the money to the Retirement Castle to buy new easy chairs and equipment.Thu, 28 Mar 1991 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/9AweDMsYP6hSHFDCcQBDX00AjA4#s2e16After a series of destructive acts, the entire Simpson family loses patience with Santa's Little Helper. Marge and Homer insist on sending the dog to Emily Winthrop's Canine College but Santa's Little Helper proves too unruly and stupid to learn anything. Homer and Marge threaten to give the dog away if he doesn't pass his obedience training, so Bart tries as hard as he can to train him.Thu, 07 Mar 1991 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/9AweDMsYP6hSHFDCcQBDX00AjA4#s2e15After Grampa Simpson has a heart attack, he calls Homer and tells him a dark family secret: Homer has an illegitimate half-brother named Herb that was given up for adoption before Grampa married Homer's mother. The Simpsons soon find out that Herb is a wealthy automobile company in search of a new idea, and unwittingly enlists Homer to design a new car.Thu, 21 Feb 1991 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/9AweDMsYP6hSHFDCcQBDX00AjA4#s2e14Marge enlists Homer's help to find Aunt Selma a husband. During his search, Homer is called into Springfield Elementary to meet with Principal Skinner and decides that the principal is the man for Selma. Skinner agrees to meet Selma but mistakenly falls in love with Aunt Patty instead, causing Selma to grow even more depressed about her life. Meanwhile, Bart gets in trouble for using sodium tetrasulfate (a potent herbicide) to spell his name out in the grass and gets sentenced to reseed the field.Thu, 14 Feb 1991 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/9AweDMsYP6hSHFDCcQBDX00AjA4#s2e13Homer becomes the most popular guy in town when he gets an illegal cable hook-up. But Lisa doesn't approve and fears that Homer will go to hell for violating the Eighth Commandment. Lisa seeks advice from Reverend Lovejoy, who simply tells her not to watch the stolen cable. Later, Homer invites all of his new friends over to watch a big fight, but he begins to feel guilty about stealing the transmission and, to lessen his guilt, cuts the cable line.Thu, 07 Feb 1991 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/9AweDMsYP6hSHFDCcQBDX00AjA4#s2e12When the TV breaks, Marge takes the opportunity to share the story of how she and Homer met with Bart and Lisa. Flashing back to 1974, we see Homer as ne'er-do-well high school student and Marge as a budding feminist. Homer becomes smitten with Marge and tries to get close to her by enlisting her as his French tutor. After several hours of verb conjugation, Marge falls for Homer too, only to become enraged when he admits that he's not even a French student and only said he was to get her to spend time with him. Marge rejects Homer's invitation to the prom and goes with Artie Ziff, a nerdy debate club colleague of hers. Artie turns out to be a terrible date and Marge realizes that it's Homer who she really wants.Thu, 31 Jan 1991 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/9AweDMsYP6hSHFDCcQBDX00AjA4#s2e11Homer discovers the wonders of sushi, trying a piece of every fish on the menu of the Happy Sumo restaurant. But when he eats a bad piece of blowfish, he is poisoned and given 24 hours to live by Dr. Hibbert. With one day left on earth, Homer makes a list of everything he ever wanted to do but didn't and tries to pack it all in before he succumbs to the blowfish poison. After staying up all night, Homer survives and goes on to live his life exactly as he did before--watching TV and eating salty treats.Thu, 24 Jan 1991 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/9AweDMsYP6hSHFDCcQBDX00AjA4#s2e10Mr. Burns hits Bart with his car, sending him on a trip to heaven and hell while he's unconscious. After consulting the crooked attorney Lionel Hutz, Homer and Marge attempt to sue Mr. Burns for a million dollars. Burns is prepared to settle for $500,000, but promptly withdraws the offer when he discovers that the Simpsons have exaggerated Bart's injuries.Thu, 10 Jan 1991 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/9AweDMsYP6hSHFDCcQBDX00AjA4#s2e9Convinced that the images on "The Itchy & Scratchy Show" are a bad influence on kids, Marge wages a one-woman campaign against the show that eventually forces the creator, Roger Meyers, Jr., to curb the violence in favor of bland, lovey-dovey plots. The new format bombs and the show's ratings plunge. Meanwhile, Marge is asked to comment on The Springfield Art Museum's exhibition of Michelangelo's "David." Not finding it at all objectionable, Marge loses her standing with the anti-free speech brigade that once supported her and the I&S cartoons go back to being violent.Thu, 20 Dec 1990 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/9AweDMsYP6hSHFDCcQBDX00AjA4#s2e8At a Monster Truck event, Bart spots his hero Captain Lance Murdock, a daredevil who attempts to jump his motorcycle over a tank filled with great white sharks, electric eels, piranhas, alligators, a ferocious lion and one drop of blood that drives all the wild animals insane. Inspired to follow in Murdock's footsteps, Bart attempts increasingly risky skateboard jumps until he sets his sights on Springfield Gorge.Thu, 06 Dec 1990 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/9AweDMsYP6hSHFDCcQBDX00AjA4#s2e7Lisa spends the days leading up the Thanksgiving building a centerpiece dedicated to female heroes of American history. In order to make room for more food on the table, Bart accidentally throws Lisa's centerpiece into the fireplace, destroying it. Sent to his room with no Thanksgiving supper, Bart escapes out his window and, with Santa's Little Helper, wanders the city, eventually landing at a homeless shelter where he is filmed by a TV crew. Returning home, Bart apologizes to Lisa for destroying her centerpiece.Thu, 22 Nov 1990 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/9AweDMsYP6hSHFDCcQBDX00AjA4#s2e6In a bout of over-the-top neighborly competition, Homer and Ned Flanders pit Bart and Todd against one another in a miniature golf competition.Thu, 15 Nov 1990 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/9AweDMsYP6hSHFDCcQBDX00AjA4#s2e5Homer becomes a local celebrity when he is named the mascot for the Springfield Isotopes, a local minor league baseball team. With a repertoire of dance moves and specialized routines, Homer attracts the attention of the team's owner, who recruits him to become the mascot for Capital City Capitals. Homer discovers that his moves don't play in Capital City as well as they did in Springfield and retires from the mascot business.Thu, 08 Nov 1990 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/9AweDMsYP6hSHFDCcQBDX00AjA4#s2e4Bart and Lisa catch a three-eyed fish in a polluted stream near The Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, bringing scads of negative publicity to Mr. Burns. In order to fight the bad press, Burns decides to run for Governor, enlisting a team of spin doctors. But all the spin doctors in the world can't fix Mr. Burns' major blunder when, on live TV, Marge serves him a three-eyed fish for dinner and he finally coughs up his true feelings about pollution.Thu, 01 Nov 1990 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/9AweDMsYP6hSHFDCcQBDX00AjA4#s2e3In this first installment of the yearly Halloween special, the Simpsons move to a haunted house, beam into outer space and take on a chilling literary classic. In the first segment, the family checks into a mansion that tries to make them kill one another. In the second segment, Kang and Kodos bring the Simpsons aboard a spaceship, and then proceed to entertain and feed them in preparation for what might prove to be their last supper. In the final segment, Lisa reads Bart Edgar Allan Poe's frightening poem, "The Raven."Wed, 24 Oct 1990 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/9AweDMsYP6hSHFDCcQBDX00AjA4#s2e2When Homer gets an experimental hair treatment, he grows a shaggy new mane. Marge finds the new Homer sexy and Mr. Burns mistakes his most incompetent employee for a hungry up-and-comer and promotes him, but a jealous Smithers discovers the secret behind Homer's new hair.Thu, 18 Oct 1990 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/9AweDMsYP6hSHFDCcQBDX00AjA4#s2e1After failing one too many tests, Mrs. Krabappel and Dr. J. Loren Pryor (from "Bart the Genius") conclude that Bart may have to repeat the fourth grade if his grades don't improve. Bart desperately enlists the help of school brainiac Martin Prince, but when that backfires, Bart wishes for a snow day so he can have more time to study.Thu, 11 Oct 1990 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/38qv_qHToWAseGnIxQb6OSKEr3A#s1e13Homer and Marge go out for a much-needed romantic dinner and leave Bart, Lisa and Maggie with a babysitter named Ms. Botz., who is really a fugitive from the law dubbed "The Babysitter Bandit".Sun, 13 May 1990 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/38qv_qHToWAseGnIxQb6OSKEr3A#s1e12With the help of eyewitness Homer Simpson, Krusty the Clown gets busted for robbing the Kwik-E-Mart. Convinced that his hero is wrongly accused, Bart, with Lisa's help, examines the clues and case and determines that Krusty was framed by his bitter sidekick, Sideshow Bob. Krusty is cleared and Bob begins the first of his many prison terms.Sun, 29 Apr 1990 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/38qv_qHToWAseGnIxQb6OSKEr3A#s1e11Bart is sent to France as a foreign exchange student and is forced to live with two slave-driving French winemakers. In his place, the Simpson family takes in Adil, a student from Albania, who's actually a spy stealing the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant's secrets.Sun, 15 Apr 1990 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/38qv_qHToWAseGnIxQb6OSKEr3A#s1e10Using his toy spy camera, Bart captures Homer drunkenly dancing with a stripper named Princess Kashmir and Xeroxes copies of the picture all over town--which gets Homer in trouble with Marge, not because he hung out with a stripper, but because Bart may see it as a sign that it's okay to treat women like sex objects.Sun, 25 Mar 1990 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/38qv_qHToWAseGnIxQb6OSKEr3A#s1e9Homer thoughtlessly buys Marge a bowling ball for her birthday, prompting her to take up bowling lessons out of spite. While struggling to bowl, Marge meets a suave, Frenchman named Jacques who teaches her the proper way to bowl--and may be trying to seduce her.Sun, 18 Mar 1990 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/38qv_qHToWAseGnIxQb6OSKEr3A#s1e8While facing an angry mob, Bart tells the story of how he stole the head off the statue of town founder, Jebediah Springfield, in order to impress local thug, Jimbo Jones, and this three friends, Dolph and Kearney.Sun, 25 Feb 1990 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/38qv_qHToWAseGnIxQb6OSKEr3A#s1e7Homer buys an RV and takes the family camping. Accidentally driving it off the edge of a cliff, Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie are trapped in the woods and must fend for themselves. Marge makes her way back to civilization, but Homer is mistaken for Bigfoot and eventually captured by hunters.Sun, 18 Feb 1990 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/38qv_qHToWAseGnIxQb6OSKEr3A#s1e6When Lisa becomes depressed about life, she runs away and meets a jazz player named Bleeding Gums Murphy. Meanwhile, Homer tries to defeat Bart in a two-player boxing video game.Sun, 11 Feb 1990 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/38qv_qHToWAseGnIxQb6OSKEr3A#s1e5After years of being picked on by Nelson, Bart and other kids from Springfield Elementary decide to fight back. With the help of Grandpa and one-armed Herman, the kids attack Nelson and his buddies with water balloons until he agrees to sign a cease fire treaty.Sun, 04 Feb 1990 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/38qv_qHToWAseGnIxQb6OSKEr3A#s1e4After an embarrassing experience at his company picnic, Homer begins to wonder if his family is too dysfunctional. Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie attend family therapy sessions with Dr. Marvin Monroe, an unorthodox psychotherapist who uses shock therapy to "cure" them.Sun, 28 Jan 1990 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/38qv_qHToWAseGnIxQb6OSKEr3A#s1e3Homer reevaluates his life after getting fired from the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant for causing a meltdown. He becomes a public safety advocate and rallies to have speed bumps installed on roads and fights against his old boss. Eventually, he abandons his cause and gets rehired at the plant with a raise.Sun, 21 Jan 1990 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/38qv_qHToWAseGnIxQb6OSKEr3A#s1e2Bart cheats on his intelligence test and is mistaken for a child genius. In order to offer him more stimulation, Marge and Homer enroll him in a school for gifted students where he is immediately made to feel like the mediocre student he is. Bart eventually bluffs his way back into Springfield Elementary by claiming he'll study his classmates but winds up confessing to everyone that he cheated.Sun, 14 Jan 1990 00:00:00 +0000http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-simpsons/38qv_qHToWAseGnIxQb6OSKEr3A#s1e1Christmas is nearly ruined when Marge has to spend all of the family's gift money to remove Bart's tattoo. Homer becomes a department store Santa to raise more cash, but bets it all at the dog races on a hot tip from Barney. Homer and Bart save Christmas by adopting the losing greyhound, Santa's Little Helper.Sun, 17 Dec 1989 00:00:00 +0000