The Simpsons
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.
Genre: Animation, Comedy
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Episode 23
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aired: Mon, Oct 20, 2008
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Episode 22
Blood Feud
aired: Thu, Jul 11, 1991
When 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.
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Episode 21
Three Men and a Comic Book
aired: Thu, May 9, 1991
Bart 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.
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Episode 20
The War of the Simpsons
aired: Thu, May 2, 1991
When 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.
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When 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. Marge is determined to fix their marriage, but Homer is more determined to catch General Sherman, the freakishly large catfish that lives in the lake. Marge tells Homer that if he really loves her, he won't spend any time fishing, but while taking a walk along the lake one morning, Homer finds himself unable to resist the chance to catch General Sherman. When Marge finds him wrestling the gigantic fish into a boat, she scolds him for lying to her. Homer proves his love for Marge the only way he can: He lets General Sherman go.
Episode 19
Lisa's Substitute
aired: Thu, Apr 25, 1991
When 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.
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Episode 18
Brush With Greatness
aired: Thu, Apr 11, 1991
Marge'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.
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Episode 17
Old Money
aired: Thu, Mar 28, 1991
Grandpa 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.
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Episode 16
Bart's Dog Gets an F
aired: Thu, Mar 7, 1991
After 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.
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Episode 15
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
aired: Thu, Feb 21, 1991
After 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.
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Homer discovers that he has a long-lost half brother, Herb Powell, who is the wealthy CEO of a car company. When Homer and Herb meet, they instantly hit it off and Herb takes in the Simpson family as his own. Herb hires Homer to help design a car for regular guys, but Homer's design proves so disastrous that it bankrupts Herb's company and forces the brothers apart once again.
Episode 14
Principal Charming
aired: Thu, Feb 14, 1991
Marge 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.
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Episode 13
Homer vs. Lisa and the Eighth Commandment
aired: Thu, Feb 7, 1991
Homer 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.
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Episode 12
The Way We Was
aired: Thu, Jan 31, 1991
When 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.
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Episode 11
One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish
aired: Thu, Jan 24, 1991
Homer 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.
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Episode 10
Bart Gets Hit by a Car
aired: Thu, Jan 10, 1991
Mr. 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.
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Episode 9
Itchy & Scratchy & Marge
aired: Thu, Dec 20, 1990
Convinced 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.
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Episode 8
Bart the Daredevil
aired: Thu, Dec 6, 1990
At 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.
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Episode 7
Bart vs. Thanksgiving
aired: Thu, Nov 22, 1990
Lisa 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.
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Episode 6
Dead Putting Society
aired: Thu, Nov 15, 1990
In a bout of over-the-top neighborly competition, Homer and Ned Flanders pit Bart and Todd against one another in a miniature golf competition.
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Episode 5
Dancin' Homer
aired: Thu, Nov 8, 1990
Homer 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.
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Episode 4
Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish
aired: Thu, Nov 1, 1990
Bart 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.
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Episode 3
Treehouse of Horror
aired: Wed, Oct 24, 1990
In 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."
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Episode 2
Simpson and Delilah
aired: Thu, Oct 18, 1990
When 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.
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Episode 1
Bart Gets an F
aired: Thu, Oct 11, 1990
After 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.
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