
Selma and Grampa embark on a May-December romance, and Bart and Lisa get into trouble with deliverymen over cardboard boxes.
Bart has to see a psychiatrist after he starts a panic at school by telling a story about a murderous cafeteria worker. Meanwhile, Lisa tries to civilize Cletus Spuckler’s hillbilly children, with mixed results.
A documentary filmmaker who interviewed a group of Springfield schoolchildren 32 years ago has followed up at eight-year intervals to film how their lives have unfolded.
Lisa pretends to be Native American for multicultural day at school. Meanwhile, Bart finds love with an older woman.
Homer 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. »
Selma and Patti’s home movies make Marge nostalgic for the Barnacle Bay vacations of her youth, so Homer takes the family there, but the area has changed since the Bouviers were little girls.
Homer jumps into a brawl during a holiday ice-skating show. To escape the melee, Marge takes the family Christmas shopping, where a chance encounter with Gil leads to bad luck for Gil and the Simpson clan.
When Bart ends up the only guest at Nelson’s birthday party, the bully decides he’s his best friend and goes about protecting Bart in a parody of « Goodfellas. » Meanwhile, Homer reads Lisa to sleep and debates on ...
Homer is fired and decides to buy an ice-cream truck. Marge makes use of the mountains of Popsicle sticks from Homer’s ice-cream consumption by creating sculptures of Springfield citizens with them, leading to a feature ...
Lisa sees poetry in the notes Moe sticks to the walls of his hotel room, so she sends his work to a poetry journal, which publishes it, making Moe the toast of the literary circuit.
Homer is bamboozled by Army recruiters and winds up in basic training, where he runs afoul of a tough-minded colonel and is assigned to play the enemy in war games.
The 17th annual Halloween trilogy. Included: « Married to the Blob, » in which a meteor turns Homer into a monster; « You Gotta Know When to Golem, » about a monster from Jewish folklore; and « The Day the Earth Looked ...
Marge reads Homer’s carpentry books and becomes very handy at fixing things. Gender bias keeps the townspeople from accepting a female carpenter, so Marge pretends that Homer does the work. Meanwhile, Bart torments ...
A child psychiatrist suggests drumming to channel Bart’s energy, and the boy proves he’s got the beat when he shows some talent on the skins.
Lisa’s friendship with Fat Tony’s son Michael prompts mob boss Tony to invite the Simpsons over for dinner. Michael says he’d rather be a chef than take over the family business, but that’s before Tony ...
When Homer hears that the Isotopes are on a winning streak, he takes the family to the game. The first baseman’s game is going bad, caused by his sexy singing wife Tabitha embarrassing him during the game’s national anthem. ...
Working through their checklists of things to do before summer ends, Lisa gets the family to go a museum. At the Springfield Museum of Natural History there is an exhibit Lisa is excited to see on Women’s History turns into ...
Marge goes on a cleaning frenzy before the housekeeper she’s won the services of comes to the house. One spot remains and she mixes a number of toxic cleaners together to tackle the job. The noxious mixture knocks her out and ...
The family attends « Stab-A-Lot: The Itchy and Scratchy Musical. » The musical’s director is a graduate of Springfield Elementary and Principal Skinner puts his foot in mouth when he makes sexist comments about her ...
As the family waits for their food at “The Frying Dutchman,” they pass the time by telling stories. Lisa tells about the Mayflower’s journey to America, where Marge and her kids are Pilgrims and they are joined by a knave ...
At the power plant a movie is shown where the workers endorse outsourcing and Mr. Burns announces that he is closing the plant and moving the work to India. Homer is the only union employee left on the payroll and he is sent ...
Homer spearheads the effort to get pro-football to bring a new franchise to Springfield. The football commissioner, on his way to officially award the franchise, stops at the Simpson house where Grandpa (mistaking him for a ...
Homer is stoked for a party, where Lenny shows off his new plasma screen HD TV. Three days later and Homer still hasn’t left Lenny’s apartment. Lenny eventually gets him to leave and Marge enters them in a contest where they ...
The family is at a church fund-raiser, where Homer tries to ensure his rubber duck onto victory, but Flanders wins the big prize, which he doesn’t want and gives it to Marge. In return Marge agrees to watch Rod and Todd while ...