Bob Anderson — Director

Episodes 67

Bart's Inner Child

71%
November 11, 199323m
5x7

Springfield emulates Bart after he's praised by a self-help guru.

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Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song

79%
April 28, 199423m
5x19

Bart takes his dog to school, which gets Skinner fired, which in turn leaves Bart missing his archnemesis.

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Lisa on Ice

77%
November 13, 199423m
6x8

Lisa's surprising ability at hockey spawns jealousy in Bart and a showdown when their teams meet.

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Bart's Comet

80%
February 5, 199523m
6x14

When Bart is forced to assist Principal Skinner in early-morning astronomy observations, he discovers a giant comet heading towards Springfield. Facing impending doom, the entire town shows up at the Flanders family bomb shelter.

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Two Dozen and One Greyhounds

74%
April 9, 199523m
6x20

The Simpson household's overrun with puppies--the offspring of Santa's Little Helper and his new girlfriend from which Mr. Burns would love to make a greyhound-skin tuxedo.

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Treehouse of Horror VI

78%
October 29, 199523m
7x6

In "Attack of the 50 Foot Eyesores," strange atmospheric conditions bring giant advertising statues to life. In "Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace," Groundskeeper Willie is killed in a freak accident and seeks revenge in the childrens' dreams. In the final segment, Homer steps through a secret portal and becomes three-dimensional.

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Hurricane Neddy

79%
December 29, 199623m
8x8

A hurricane destroys the Flanders' home and they have to move into the church basement. The people of Springfield gather to rebuild their house, but when Ned sees the poor workmanship, he has a complete breakdown.

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Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment

84%
March 16, 199723m
8x18

When Prohibition is revived in Springfield, Homer and Bart supply the town with alcohol.

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Miracle on Evergreen Terrace

71%
Mid-Season Finale
December 21, 199723m
9x10

After accidentally ruining the family’s Christmas tree and presents, Bart buries the evidence and claims a burglar stole everything. When Kent Brockman does a human interest story on the family’s tragic loss, the townspeople shower the family with generosity… until the truth comes out.

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Lisa Gets an 'A'

72%
November 22, 199823m
10x7

Stuck at home with a cold, Lisa gets addicted to a video game and neglects her homework. Her A+++ on a test wins the school a grant, but when she confesses that she cheated, Skinner covers it up. Meanwhile, Homer raises a lobster.

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I'm with Cupid

70%
February 14, 199923m
10x14

Apu is making the husbands of Springfield look bad with his extravagent Valentine's Day efforts for Manjula. When the men try to sabotage Apu's grand gesture, they accidentally wind up benefiting from it.

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E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)

67%
November 7, 199923m
11x5

Fleeing from a duel, Homer takes his family to live on a farm. There he discovers that by mixing tomatoes, tobacco and radioactivity from the nuclear plant, he can create a dangerously delicious new substance.

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Insane Clown Poppy

65%
November 12, 200023m
12x3

Krusty takes parenting lessons from Homer when, during an outdoor book fair, a girl tells Krusty that she is his long-lost daughter from a one-night stand with a female soldier who fought during the first Gulf War.

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Pokey Mom

70%
January 14, 200123m
12x10

Marge tries to rehabilitate a convict with remarkable artistic talent. Meanwhile, Homer uses a trash can to fix people's spines.

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Simpsons Tall Tales

57%
Season Finale
May 20, 200123m
12x21

When Homer refuses to pay a five dollar airport tax to fly to Delaware, the family is forced to ride in a livestock car of a train instead. There they meet a singing hobo who tells three tall tales: Homer as Paul Bunyan. Lisa as Connie Appleseed, a parody of Johnny Appleseed. Bart as Tom Sawyer with Nelson as Huckleberry Finn.

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The Lastest Gun in the West

57%
February 24, 200223m
13x12

While running away from a vicious dog, Bart meets Buck McCoy, a former Western film star. Bart begins hanging out with him and starts to idolize him. Bart wants to help McCoy stage a comeback, so he convinces all of the kids in town to become interested in the Wild West. McCoy appears on the Krusty the Clown Show, but the comeback flops when Buck begins drinking again and injures Krusty the Clown.

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Special Edna

65%
January 5, 200323m
14x7

Ms. Edna Krabappel begins to lose faith in her relationship with Principal Skinner and becomes depressed. Bart wants to cheer her up and decides to nominate her for the Teacher of the Year Award. Ms. Krabappel and the Simpsons are given a free trip to Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida. Skinner decides that he needs to do something to win Edna back, so he follows them there. He tries to sabotage Edna's chances of winning the award, in hopes that she will become so depressed that she will come back to him. However, he has a change of heart and proposes to her.

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Old Yeller-Belly

64%
May 4, 200323m
14x19

Homer throws out Santa's Little Helper for not saving him from a fire, but soon the dog becomes Duff's new mascot.

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When a group of singles, seniors, childless couples, teens and gays band together to protest having to accommodate families (including paying property taxes used to teach children they do not have) after a riot at a children's concert, Marge takes up the cause for the families, with some help from Bart and Lisa.

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Co-Dependent's Day

59%
March 21, 200423m
15x15

Homer and Marge's bond becomes stronger when they both get drunk on wine, but soon the bond unravels when Homer blames Marge for crashing the car and Marge gets sent to rehab. Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa complain to Randall Curtis (a George Lucas-esque science fiction movie director) about his latest film.

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Fraudcast News

71%
Season Finale
May 23, 200423m
15x22

Mr. Burns buys out Springfield's media outlets after a newspaper mistakenly reports his death, and Lisa's homemade newspaper is next on his list.

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On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister

64%
March 6, 200523m
16x11

Lisa does what every little sister has dreamed of - she gets a restraining order put on her big brother. Bart is forced to live in the back garden, but soon realises the joy of communing with nature.

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Home Away from Homer

62%
May 15, 200523m
16x20

Flanders rents a room to two college girls who, without his knowledge, use the spare room to broadcast live softcore pornographic web videos of themselves. Upset that no one in town told him this (and that Homer was the one who told everyone), Ned moves to the seemingly perfect town of Humbleton, Pennsylvania, while a brash coach moves into Flanders' house and begins harassing Homer the same way Homer harassed Ned.

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My Fair Laddy

60%
February 26, 200623m
17x12

Mr. Krupt is the school’s new gym teacher and introduces Bart and the kids to “BOMBARDMENT!” Bart’s attempt to get back at the new gym teacher results in the destruction of Groundskeeper Willie’s shack and the family takes him in. Lisa decides to make Willie the focus of her science fair project and tries to turn him into a “proper gentleman” with surprising results. Meanwhile, Homer has ruined his last pair of blue pants and attempts to generate interest in them so the manufacturer will start making them again.

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Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play

63%
Season Finale
May 21, 200623m
17x22

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. Buck Mitchell sees Marge and Homer’s kiss on the game’s Kiss-Cam and comes to them for marital advice. They start working with the couple and Buck’s baseball career turns around, but it and the Simpson marriage goes awry again when Buck catches Homer giving Tabitha a neck massage. While Marge and Homer try keeping their marriage together they also try to get Buck and Tabitha back together.

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Kill Gil, Volumes I & II

55%
Mid-Season Finale
December 17, 200623m
18x9

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.

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Marge Gamer

64%
April 22, 200723m
18x17

Marge goes online for the first time and becomes obsessed with a role-playing game that Bart and many of their neighbors are playing. Meanwhile, Lisa develops her own obsession--for soccer--and Homer becomes a referee.

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I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

60%
October 14, 200723m
19x4

Marge is held hostage during a bank robbery and forms an uneasy bond with one of the thieves before he's taken to prison.

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Dial 'N' for Nerder

67%
March 9, 200823m
19x14

Homer cheats on his diet, so Marge gets a reality show called "The Sneakers" to check up on him. Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa fear that a prank they played on Martin Prince had deadly consequences.

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Treehouse of Horror XIX

62%
November 2, 200823m
20x4

Springfield is the setting for parodies of Charlie Brown, It's the Great Pumpkin and Michael Bay's Transformers as Homer's vote on election day is misread by a renegade machine.

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Rednecks and Broomsticks

61%
November 29, 200922m
21x7

Lisa befriends three teenaged Wiccans after getting lost in the woods during a game of hide-and-seek, and must clear her new friends' names when they are accused of cursing the townspeople with their supposed witchcraft. Meanwhile, Homer befriends Cletus after learning that he and his friends make their own moonshine.

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American History X-cellent

64%
April 11, 201022m
21x17

When the police are called to diffuse a rowdy crowd at Mr. Burns' estate, one of the officers recognizes priceless stolen paintings on the walls, and the maniacal billionaire is taken downtown for questioning. With Mr. Burns gone, Smithers takes charge of the power plant. But when employees take advantage of his good nature, he exacts revenge by forcing the employees to work night and day. These unfair working conditions prompt Homer and his crew to devise a plan to bust out Mr. Burns.

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Treehouse of Horror XXI

60%
November 7, 201023m
22x4

Worried about the effects of violent video games, Marge encourages Bart and Milhouse to play board games; Lisa becomes smitten with a new student, a vampire; while on a second honeymoon, Homer and Marge rescue a castaway who escaped from his ship.

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The Fight Before Christmas

65%
December 5, 201023m
22x8

When the rest of the family seems to lack Christmas spirit, Marge contacts Martha Clause.

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The Blue and the Gray

64%
February 13, 201123m
22x13

Moe attends a seminar in hope of gaining more confidence with women; Marge makes a change after discovering her gray hair.

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500 Keys

70%
May 15, 201123m
22x21

After finding the keys to every door in Springfield, Lisa finds a hidden room beneath the elementary school.

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The Book Job

67%
November 20, 201123m
23x6

Homer creates a team, including author Neil Gaiman, to write the next hit "tween" book; after receiving an advance copy of the work from his publisher, Homer learns there's more to the business than he imagined.

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Moe Goes from Rags to Riches

60%
January 29, 201223m
23x12

Moe's bar rag explains that he started as a medieval tapestry a thousand years earlier; Bart tries to reconcile with Milhouse; the disappearance of Moe's bar rag makes him realize he has friends.

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The Spy Who Learned Me

65%
May 6, 201223m
23x20

Marge and Homer go on a date, but Marge is embarrassed when Homer talks during the movie; when Homer gets hurt and can't work, he tries to learn how to be a better husband from a man he believes is a movie star.

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Moonshine River

65%
September 30, 201222m
24x1

Bart will be visited by many of his past girlfriends.

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The Changing of the Guardian

65%
January 27, 201322m
24x11

A tornado touches down in Springfield which sucks up Santa's Little Helper. While Homer and Marge are out looking for the family dog, the tornado strikes again and almost takes Marge and Homer. Marge is distraught about the kids and decide to pick a guardian to care for the children.

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The Fabulous Faker Boy

65%
May 12, 201323m
24x20

Marge encourages Bart to explore his creative side, and his initial reticence quickly subsides when she hires Slava’s beautiful daughter, Zhenya, as his new piano instructor. Homer is shocked when he loses the last two hairs on his head, and employs a wide variety of headgear to try and keep his new found baldness a secret from Marge.

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Homerland

66%
September 29, 201322m
25x1

A parody of "Homeland". Homer starts to act strangely polite after returning from a nuclear power plant convention, prompting a suspicious Lisa to ask an intense FBI agent named Annie (Kristen Wiig) to help her solve this mystery.

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Yellow Subterfuge

67%
December 8, 201322m
25x7

Principal Skinner promises the students that the best-behaved among them can take a ride in a submarine. When Skinner gives all the kids a clean slate, Bart believes even his own past indiscretions will be forgotten if he doesn’t get into any more trouble. Meanwhile Lisa tries to help a cash-poor Krusty to turn things around by suggesting he sell the foreign rights to his shows.

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Days of Future Future

70%
April 13, 201423m
25x18

Set in the future, Homer has a new clone for every time he dies. Lisa is married to a zombie version of Milhouse, while Bart deals with custody issues with his ex-wife, Jenda. Each defines what love means to them.

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Simpsorama

73%
November 9, 201422m
26x6

The Planet Express crew come to present-day Springfield to prevent the Simpsons from destroying the future.

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Bart's New Friend

66%
January 11, 201522m
26x11

Bart has a new accomplice and best friend when Homer is hypnotized at the circus and believes he is a young boy again.

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The Kids Are All Fight

63%
April 26, 201522m
26x19

When Homer gets an old film roll developed, the family takes a trip down memory lane to see the origins of how Bart and Lisa first started fighting with each other.

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Lisa with an 'S'

59%
November 22, 201522m
27x7

When Homer loses $5,000 at a poker game with Broadway legend Laney Fontaine, the only way he is able to settle the bet is if he loans Lisa to Laney for a month. Then, Laney turns Lisa into a show biz kid and Marge and Homer fear they made a mistake letting her go. So they head to New York to get her back.

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Much Apu About Something

63%
January 17, 201622m
27x12

Sanjay passes his stake in the Kwik-E-Mart to his millennial son, Jay, who turns it into a hip, health food market against Apu’s insistence on tradition. Bart, whom Homer had convinced to give up pranking, is called upon to return to his trickster life and take down the new store.

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How Lisa Got Her Marge Back

60%
April 10, 201622m
27x18

After getting into an argument, Marge takes Lisa on a touristy trip to Capital City, where, after attending a musical, they meet the show’s star who reminds Lisa how lucky she is to have such a great mom. Meanwhile, Bart is frustrated that everyone expects his pranks, so he teams up with Maggie to trick people.

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Havana Wild Weekend

60%
November 13, 201622m
28x7

When the Retirement Castle and the V.A. Hospital can’t solve Grampa’s health issues, the Simpsons decide to take a family trip to Cuba to get him cheap medical care.

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The Last Traction Hero

57%
December 4, 201623m
28x9

A workplace accident leaves Homer in a cast, and in a position to sue Mr. Burns. This leaves Marge unfulfilled, so she turns to an unexpected source for romance. Meanwhile, Lisa is made "Bus Monitor" and tries to keep the peace.

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A Father's Watch

62%
March 19, 201722m
28x18

Marge turns to a series of parenting experts for advice when she becomes worried that Bart is destined for failure; Homer decides to open a trophy store; Grampa gives Bart a watch coveted by Homer.

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Grampy Can Ya Hear Me

58%
November 5, 201722m
29x5

Grampa gets a hearing aid and finally hears what everyone has been saying about him. Meanwhile, Mr. Skinner discovers that his mother has kept the ultimate secret from him.

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Haw-Haw Land

63%
January 7, 201823m
29x10

When the Simpsons go to a STEM conference, Lisa falls for a crooning jazz pianist named Brendan. Meanwhile, Bart discovers that he has an affinity for chemistry

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Lisa Gets the Blues

62%
April 22, 201822m
29x17

When the Simpsons' flight to Gainesville gets re-routed to New Orleans, Lisa is forced to face her failures, and regain her confidence as a jazz musician. Meanwhile, Bart is intrigued by the voodoo in Louisiana, and Homer is intrigued by the drinking.

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Bart's Not Dead

59%
September 30, 201822m
30x1

Bart takes a dare, and ends up in the hospital. To cover for himself and Homer, he says he went to Heaven and met Jesus. Christian producers offer the Simpsons a movie deal, which Homer takes. But Bart can't deal with the guilt and comes clean to Marge after the movie is finished.

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The Winter of Our Monetized Content

54%
September 29, 201922m
31x1

When a video of Bart and Homer fighting goes viral, they begin a journey as social media celebrities; Lisa battles the school's new industrialized detention system.

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The Incredible Lightness of Being a Baby

59%
April 19, 202023m
31x18

Mr. Burns tasks Homer with swindling Cletus Spuckler out of his newfound helium fortune. Meanwhile, Maggie is reunited with Hudson from Playdate with Destiny again, only for Marge to tear them apart after his mother annoys her.

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Warrin' Priests (1)

53%
April 26, 202023m
31x19

Helen Lovejoy's request for a youth pastor is answered by Bode Wright, a charismatic young preacher from Michigan. When Bode quickly has the Springfield congregation enamored by his easy-going and liberal approach to religion, an outcast and suspicious Reverend Lovejoy decides to look into the newcomer's past.

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Undercover Burns

61%
September 27, 202022m
32x1

Mr. Burns goes undercover as "Fred" at the nuclear power plant and becomes friends with Homer and the gang. Burns implements all sorts of amenities to improve his employees' lives, but a jealous Smithers plots to bring the old, bitter Burns back and destroy Fred.

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The Man from G.R.A.M.P.A.

54%
May 16, 202122m
32x21

A British secret agent comes to Springfield in search of a Russian spy.

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Boyz N the Highlands

60%
March 6, 202222m
33x13

Bart, Martin and the bullies run for their lives when a weekend in the wilderness takes a dark turn.

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Meat Is Murder

58%
May 15, 202222m
33x21

Grampa finds himself in a pickle when his hidden hamburger past comes back to "ketchup" with him.

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The Many Saints of Springfield

71%
February 19, 202322m
34x13

When Ned Flanders falls on hard times, Fat Tony makes him an offer he can't refuse.

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Homer's Adventures Through the Windshield Glass

61%
Season Finale
May 21, 202322m
34x22

Time stands still after Homer crashes his car and flies through the windshield. As his life flashes before his eyes, a magical friend helps Homer learn the secret truth about his marriage.

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