Mark Kirkland — Director

Episodes 85

Dancin' Homer

69%
November 8, 199023m
2x5

Homer fires up the crowd at a Springfield Isotopes baseball game and is chosen to be the team's new mascot. He immediately becomes a popular attraction and the Isotopes start a winning streak. As a result, Homer is promoted to a team in Capital City, the Capital City Capitals.

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Bart Gets Hit by a Car

77%
January 10, 199123m
2x10

After Mr. Burns hits Bart with his car, ambulance-chasing attorney Lionel Hutz persuades Homer and Marge to sue for a million dollars.

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Principal Charming

70%
February 14, 199123m
2x14

When Marge begs Homer to find Selma a husband, he sets her up with Principal Skinner... who falls in love with Patty instead.

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The War of the Simpsons

74%
May 2, 199123m
2x20

At a lakeside retreat for married couples, Marge is determined to fix her marriage with Homer, but Homer is more determined to catch General Sherman, the freakishly large catfish that lives in the lake.

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Homer Defined

78%
October 17, 199123m
3x5

Homer's averting of a nuclear meltdown earns him employee-of-the-month honors--and a call from Magic Johnson; Milhouse's parents prohibit him from playing with Bart.

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Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk

73%
Mid-Season Finale
December 5, 199123m
3x11

Burns sells the power plant to a German corporation that doesn't care for Homer's approach to his work.

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Homer Alone

75%
February 6, 199223m
3x15

A stressed Marge vacations alone, leaving Bart and Lisa with Patty and Selma, and Maggie with Homer--until she leaves in search of Marge.

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Colonel Homer

77%
March 26, 199223m
3x20

Marge fears a cheatin' heart when a waitress-country singer asks Homer to be her manager.

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Kamp Krusty

80%
September 24, 199223m
4x1

Bart leads an uprising at Krusty's summer camp after he and Lisa are subjected to a Dickensian sweatshop.

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Lisa the Beauty Queen

72%
October 15, 199223m
4x4

Homer enters Lisa into the Little Miss Springfield Pageant to help her feel better about her looks. But when she must choose between the title and her integrity, she realizes that confidence comes from within.

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Lisa's First Word

80%
December 3, 199223m
4x10

While trying to get Maggie to say her first word, Marge and Homer reminisce about Bart's and Lisa's first words.

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Last Exit to Springfield

79%
March 11, 199323m
4x17

Union president Homer fights to keep the dental plan.

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Homer's Barbershop Quartet

81%
September 30, 199323m
5x1

Homer recalls when he, Apu, Barney and Principal Skinner became recording icons.

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Marge on the Lam

75%
November 4, 199323m
5x6

Marge's wild night out with neighbor Ruth includes running from the police in Ruth's car, stolen from her ex.

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Homer and Apu

73%
February 10, 199423m
5x13

Homer accompanies Apu to the Kwik-E-Mart home office--in India--after Apu is fired.

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Burns' Heir

76%
April 14, 199423m
5x18

Bart is picked to be Burns' heir and moves into the Burns mansion, prompting Homer and Marge to hire a deprogrammer to get him back.

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Lisa's Rival

70%
September 11, 199423m
6x2

Lisa feels threatened when a new girl moves to Springfield: Allison is smart, pretty, a great saxophone player and a crack diorama builder. Lisa tries to befriend her new rival, but she's consumed with envy and competitiveness.

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Sideshow Bob Roberts

74%
October 9, 199423m
6x5

Mayor Quimby pardons attempted murderer Sideshow Bob, who then runs against Quimby for mayor.

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Fear of Flying

74%
Mid-Season Finale
December 18, 199423m
6x11

When they try to go on vacation, the family discovers Marge's debilitating fear of flying. Marge consults a psychoanalyst to find the source of her baffling fear.

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Homer vs. Patty and Selma

73%
February 26, 199523m
6x17

A loan from Patty and Selma makes Homer their slave; Bart is forced to take ballet.

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The Springfield Connection

75%
May 7, 199523m
6x23

Marge joins the police force after thwarting a criminal, and Homer thinks he now has a free ride as a cop's spouse.

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Lisa the Vegetarian

79%
October 15, 199523m
7x5

After visiting a local petting zoo, Lisa becomes a vegetarian and faces ridicule from family and friends. When she lashes out and ruins Homer's barbecue, she learns a lesson in tolerance.

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Team Homer

72%
January 7, 199624m
7x12

Homer catches Mr. Burns in an ether-induced haze and asks for $500 for his bowling team. When Burns' head clears, he demands to join the team. Meanwhile, Bart's inflammatory T-shirt provokes Principal Skinner to require school uniforms.

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A Fish Called Selma

75%
March 24, 199623m
7x19

Washed up and plagued by scandal, Troy McClure sees a marriage to Selma as his ticket back to success.

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Summer of 4 Ft. 2

75%
Season Finale
May 19, 199623m
7x25

On a family vacation, Lisa tries on a new identity to fit in with the other kids at the beach. Jealous, Bart reveals her true nerdiness to the group.

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The Homer They Fall

75%
November 10, 199623m
8x3

When Moe sees that Homer can absorb massive blows to the head, he turns him into a prizefighter and sets up a match with heavyweight champion Drederick Tatum.

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Mountain of Madness

81%
February 2, 199723m
8x12

To promote teamwork amongst the power plant's employees, Mr. Burns makes them go on a corporate retreat up in the mountains.

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The Old Man and the Lisa

72%
April 20, 199723m
8x21

Financially ruined, Mr. Burns turns to Lisa for help in building a recycling business. Lisa believes he's changed, but his new business venture takes a shocking new direction.

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Treehouse of Horror VIII

77%
October 26, 199723m
9x4

In “The Homega Man,” Homer faces a post-apocalyptic Springfield. Next, Bart attempts to become Superfly in "Fly vs. Fly." In “Easy-Bake Coven,” amidst a witch hunt in 1649, Marge and her sisters invent trick-or-treating.

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Bart Carny

66%
January 11, 199823m
9x12

When the carnival comes to town, Homer and Bart wind up working the ring toss. A father-son team of grifters shows them the downside of the “carny code,” but the Simpsons beat them at their own game.

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Girly Edition

69%
April 19, 199823m
9x21

Lisa becomes the anchor of a kids’ news program but is upstaged by Bart’s treacly human interest stories. At home, Homer corrupts a helper monkey.

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The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace

76%
September 20, 199823m
10x2

A midlife crisis prompts Homer to quit his job and become an inventor.

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D'oh-in' in the Wind

68%
November 15, 199823m
10x6

In a quest to learn Homer's middle name, Homer and Grandpa travel to his mother's old commune, where Homer embraces the hippie life.

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Marge Simpson in: 'Screaming Yellow Honkers'

66%
February 21, 199923m
10x15

A new Canyonero SUV turns timid Marge into an aggressive driver, and her road rage lands her in traffic school. But when a stampede occurs at the zoo, the town looks to Marge to save the day.

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The Old Man and the 'C' Student

70%
April 25, 199923m
10x20

When Bart ruins Springfield's chance to host the Olympics, the kids are sentenced to community service work at the retirement home. To help the residents recapture their youth, Bart takes them on an ill-fated boat ride.

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Brother's Little Helper

69%
October 3, 199923m
11x2

When Bart commits an extremely destructive prank, he is given Focusyn, a pill to help him concentrate in school. At first the results are impressive, and then Bart starts believing in a conspiracy involving spy satellites and major league baseball.

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Little Big Mom

60%
January 9, 200023m
11x10

When Marge leaves the house to recuperate from a skating injury, everything goes to hell - until Lisa convinces Homer and Bart they have leprosy.

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Pygmoelian

68%
February 27, 200023m
11x16

Plastic surgery gives Moe the bartender a handsome new face and a whole new life as a soap opera star.

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Behind the Laughter

70%
Season Finale
May 21, 200023m
11x22

A "Behind the Music"-style look at the Simpsons, narrated by VH1's Jim Forbes, shows their rise to stardom--and the "private hell" that followed.

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The Computer Wore Menace Shoes

75%
December 3, 200023m
12x6

Homer decides to buy a computer after turning up to the Plant to find it closed by e-mail. He then creates his own website and it eventually gains attention when he posts gossip. Homer dubs himself as "Mr. X" to conceal his identity. When he reveals that he is Mr. X, he becomes drugged into a mysterious island where people who know too much are imprisoned after Homer starts writing conspiracy theories such as flu shots.

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Simpson Safari

60%
April 1, 200123m
12x17

When the Simpsons run out of food thanks to a bag boy strike (caused by Homer), the family finds an old box of animal crackers with a sweepstakes that sends The Simpsons to Africa.

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The Parent Rap

63%
November 11, 200123m
13x2

Bart gets in trouble for joyriding in a police car, but feels confident he will be let off by Judge Snyder. However, Snyder goes on vacation before ruling his verdict and is replaced with a coldhearted judge named Constance Harm. She accuses Homer of being a negligent father and sentences him to be tethered to Bart. The two are against it at first but later start to bond. Marge however is unable to take anymore of it and slices the tether off of them both. Homer and Marge then go after Judge Harm only to end up sinking her houseboat. Eventually Bart decides to take punishment and is about to be sentenced to 5 year in juvenile hall, only though Judge Snyder returns and dismisses Harm.

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Sweets and Sour Marge

63%
January 20, 200223m
13x8

Springfield is officially declared the World's Fattest Town after an attempt to break a world record lands everyone on top of a truck scale. Out of embarrassment and disgust, Marge goes on a crusade against the local sugar corporation. However, when sugar is banned, Homer, Bart, Mr. Burns and Apu start bootlegging sugar.

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Gump Roast

52%
April 21, 200222m
13x17

In this clip show episode, Homer is honored at a Friars' Club Roast. A number of characters show up to roast him, but the celebrating is interrupted by Kang and Kodos, who say that humanity will be judged based on Homer's experiences.

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Helter Shelter

64%
December 1, 200223m
14x5

The Simpson family has to find temporary residence while their house is fumigated for termites. When they run out of options, they decide to become contestants on a reality show where families live in the manner that people did in 1895. The family is initially miserable, but slowly adapt to their new life, which causes the show to lose ratings. The producers decide to try to boost viewers by dumping the house in a river and forcing the family to survive in the wilderness. However, the Simpsons find a bunch of rejects from other reality shows and they attack the producers.

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The Dad Who Knew Too Little

64%
January 12, 200323m
14x8

Homer hires a private detective to learn more about Lisa. But when Homer refuses to pay the detective's expenses, he frames Lisa for a crime she didn't commit, forcing her and Homer to go on the run.

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Three Gays of the Condo

64%
April 13, 200323m
14x17

After yet another Homer and Marge fight, Homer ends up sharing a condo with two homosexuals - who don't exactly think Homer is straight.

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The Regina Monologues

66%
November 23, 200323m
15x4

After making over $3000 from his own museum featuring a $1000 bill, Bart takes the family to London (on the suggestion of Grampa), where Homer is arrested for treason after crashing into the Queen.

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Diatribe of a Mad Housewife

67%
January 25, 200423m
15x10

Marge writes a romance novel with characters based on Homer and Ned Flanders that becomes a hit. Meanwhile, Homer gets fired from the power plant again and becomes an ambulance driver.

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My Big Fat Geek Wedding

66%
April 18, 200423m
15x17

After hearing that Skinner is getting cold feet about their wedding, Edna leaves Skinner at the altar and, after sending back one marriage gift, hooks up with Comic Book Guy. Meanwhile, Homer and Marge have an argument about if their marriage is still solid or not.

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All's Fair in Oven War

61%
November 14, 200423m
16x2

Marge gets her kitchen remodeled and the dishes she makes inside it get rave reviews. The suggestion of Ned Flanders leads her to enter a cooking contest. However, Marge realizes the competition is harder than it seems. Meanwhile, Bart finds Homer's vintage Playdude magazines and decides to adopt the lifestyle he sees within the articles.

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Mommie Beerest

60%
January 30, 200523m
16x7

When Marge discovers Homer has remortgaged the house to help Moe's bar, she takes over as landlady. Little does Homer know, Moe and Marge are a match made in pub heaven.

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Don't Fear the Roofer

64%
May 1, 200523m
16x16

The Simpsons' roof springs a leak when the perfect storm hits Springfield. And when Marge asks what type of father can't keep a roof over his family's head, Homer tries to fix things up, but falls through the roof. Sick of being unwanted, Homer befriends a man who works as a roofer. However, no one else can see him and Homer's insistence that the roofer does exist prompts everyone to think he has gone crazy.

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The Bonfire of the Manatees

62%
September 11, 200522m
17x1

After 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.

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The Italian Bob

68%
December 11, 200523m
17x8

Homer brings the whole family along when he is sent to Italy to pick up a new sports car for Mr. Burns, when they find themselves in a small town that Sideshow Bob has become the mayor of.

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Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore

64%
April 9, 200623m
17x17

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 to India to train the replacement workers, when he succeeds beyond expectations, he is given total control of the plant and declares himself a god. Meanwhile, Selma & Patty take Bart and Lisa to their MacGyver convention. When they discover Richard Dean Anderson doesn’t like MacGyver and much as they do, they kidnap him in retaliation. Anderson escapes only to enjoy the thrill and he turns himself back in so that he can escape again. When it happens over and over again, soon Patty and Selma are the ones who need a means of escape.

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Moe'N'a Lisa

62%
November 19, 200623m
18x6

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.

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He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs

66%
September 23, 200722m
19x1

Homer falls in love with the high life of flying in private planes when he saves Mr. Burns from drowning, and Burns repays him by flying him to Chicago for a night on the town.

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That 90's Show

68%
January 27, 200823m
19x11

Flashbacks follow Marge and Homer back to their dating days, when she was a college student and he was working for his father to support her. Then Marge becomes smitten with a professor, so a sorrowful Homer turns to music--and invents grunge.

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The Burns and the Bees

59%
Mid-Season Finale
December 7, 200823m
20x8

Mr Burns wins a professional basketball team in a poker game at the annual billionaire's retreat. He decides to build a state-of-the-art facility in an attempt to lure fans, but the stadium site is on the last remaining bee colony in Springfield - prompting Lisa to lead a protest.

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No Loan Again, Naturally

63%
March 8, 200922m
20x12

When the adjustable rate on the Simpson couple's mortgage resets at more than the pair can afford, they must sell their house. Good Samaritan Ned Flanders buys the house and rents it out to them at an affordable rate. But Homer pushes his luck too far when he takes advantage of Ned's generous landlord duties.

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Bart Gets a 'Z'

61%
October 4, 200923m
21x2

The fourth grade students of Springfield Elementary School decide to spike Ms. Krabappel's coffee in order to teach her a lesson after she takes away their cell phones. She is fired by Principal Skinner, who hires a new teacher named Zachary Vaughn. Although Vaughn is a hip young teacher who impresses the students, Bart is plagued by guilt and tries to get Ms. Krabappel hired back.

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The Great Wife Hope

60%
October 11, 200922m
21x3

The men and boys in Springfield become obsessed with Ultimate Punch Kick and Choke Championships, a violent sport where fighters inflict severe pain on each other. When Marge and her friends stage a protest against the sport, the show's promoter embraces the controversy and challenges Marge to a match, promising to shut down the competition if she wins. She begins to train with rhythmic gymnastics, but her family step in and get her professional martial arts help to give her a real chance at winning.

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Postcards from the Wedge

61%
March 14, 201023m
21x14

When Bart fails to turn in his homework, Mrs. Krabappel sends a letter home about Bart's behaviour. Despite Bart's best efforts to intercept it, Homer reads the letter, and he and Marge visit Principal Skinner for a parent-teacher conference. Furious, Homer punishes him, but Marge takes a more sympathetic approach. When Bart realizes he can pit Homer and Marge against each other to his benefit, his scheming reaches new heights.

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The Squirt and the Whale

61%
April 25, 201022m
21x19

The Simpsons decide to embrace a cheaper, alternate source of energy by erecting a wind turbine in their backyard. But when Homer realizes some of the power is being directed to the local electric company, he decides to remove his home from the grid and becomes completely dependent upon an unreliable source of power. Meanwhile, a storm erupts, trapping a magnificent 150-foot-long blue whale ashore, and Lisa and Homer attempt to help the poor creature.

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Elementary School Musical

60%
September 26, 201023m
22x1

Marge sends Lisa to a performing arts camp, where counselors and fellow campers inspire her to embrace her creative side; upon returning to Springfield, Lisa grows restless with her boring suburban lifestyle.

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Homer the Father

65%
January 23, 201122m
22x12

When Homer insists Bart must earn the new dirt bike he wants, Bart comes up with a scheme; James Lipton interviews a TV cast.

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Homer Scissorhands

73%
May 8, 201123m
22x20

Homer opens his own hair salon after discovering he is a talented stylist; Milhouse professes his love for Lisa.

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Replaceable You

63%
November 6, 201123m
23x4

Lisa's science fair project is overshadowed by Bart's mechanical baby seal; Homer's new assistant ends up stealing his job.

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Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson

58%
January 8, 201223m
23x10

After a video of Homer ranting goes viral, he gets his own political talk show; Homer endorses rocker Ted Nugent for the Republican presidential nominee.

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Beware My Cheating Bart

62%
April 15, 201223m
23x18

Bart ends up in trouble with school bullies after Jimbo's girlfriend develops feelings for him; Homer buys a treadmill equipped with a TV.

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Penny-Wiseguys

61%
November 18, 201222m
24x5

Homer is shocked to discover that his bowling teammate is an accountant for Fat Tony and his mob. When Fat Tony gets jury duty, he appoints Dan as the temporary don of the mafia. Meanwhile, Lisa adds insects to her vegetarian diet after she passes out in the middle of a saxophone solo, but starts questioning her decision when bugs start pleading for mercy in her dreams.

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Homer Goes to Prep School

59%
January 6, 201322m
24x9

Homer joins the "Springfield Preppers," an off-the-grid survivalist group whose leader has set up a top-secret retreat outside of town to prepare for the end of the world.

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Dark Knight Court

66%
March 17, 201323m
24x16

Springfield's Easter is ruined by a prank and all fingers point to Bart. It is up to Lisa to save her brother, in a student court presided over by Attorney General Janet Reno. Meanwhile, inspired by an old comic book, Mr. Burns becomes an ineffectual superhero—fruit bat man.

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Four Regrettings and a Funeral

64%
November 3, 201322m
25x3

Kent Brockman has decided that local news has been a real mistake and a terrible career move for him.

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The Kid Is All Right

65%
November 24, 201323m
25x6

Lisa discovers her new best friend is a Republican who is opposing her in the class election.

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You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee

65%
March 30, 201423m
25x16

Homer is recruited as a World Cup referee after Lisa extols his integrity on the youth soccer field in a Springfield Elementary speech contest. But when the Simpsons travel to Brazil (again), Homer finds his honesty tested by one of South America's slickest gangsters in the soccer match-bribing business.

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Super Franchise Me

63%
October 12, 201422m
26x3

Marge opens a sandwich franchise store after her sandwiches become a huge hit at Springfield Elementary. But running day-to-day at the store proves challenging, especially when the same franchise opens another location across the street.

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I Won't Be Home for Christmas

64%
Mid-Season Finale
December 7, 201422m
26x9

After Moe convinces Homer to stay out drinking on Christmas Eve, Marge tells Homer not to come home. This leads to Homer's sad trek through lonely Springfield, where he learns that the only place where one should truly get drunk on Christmas is home.

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Peeping Mom

63%
April 19, 201523m
26x18

Bart lies about being involved in a bulldozer crash, so Marge decides to follow him everywhere until he confesses. Meanwhile, Homer ignores Santa’s Little Helper when Flanders gets a new dog.

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Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4

65%
February 14, 201622m
27x13

Lonely Professor Frink uses science to turn himself into a man whom women find attractive. Then, overwhelmed by the attention, he invents an algorithm to perfectly pair the lonely men and women of Springfield, realizing that scientific exploration is his true love. Meanwhile, Marge, Bart, and Lisa visit Grampa for Valentine's Day and try to rescue the old folks from a drug-induced hallucination that allows them to relive their happiest memories.

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Fatzcarraldo

61%
February 12, 201722m
28x14

All of the fast food restaurants in Springfield go healthy, forcing Homer to turn to the last bastion of greasy food for comfort.

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No Good Read Goes Unpunished

53%
April 8, 201822m
29x15

In an attempt to bring the family together, Marge forces everyone to hand in their electronics and take a trip to a book store.

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101 Mitigations

57%
March 3, 201922m
30x15

Comic Book Guy sues Homer for joyriding in his car. Meanwhile, Guillermo del Toro saves Mr. Burns from his troubles with the law.

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Hail to the Teeth

50%
January 5, 202023m
31x11

Homer and Marge attend Artie Ziff’s wedding and become quite uncomfortable when they realize that his bride-to-be is a clone of Marge. Meanwhile, Lisa grapples with the misogynistic implications of the immediate popularity she receives after getting her new Invisalign braces.

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