The Simpsons (1989)
Set in Springfield, the average American town, 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 series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general.
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Episode 1 - The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer
Release Date: 2006-09-10Lisa'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 is shot by a rival mobster.
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Episode 2 - Jazzy and the Pussycats
Release Date: 2006-09-17A 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.
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Episode 3 - Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em
Release Date: 2006-09-24Marge 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 Skinner when he learns the principal has an extreme allergy to peanuts.
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Episode 4 - Treehouse of Horror XVII
Release Date: 2006-11-05The 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 Stupid," about an alien invasion.
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Episode 5 - G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)
Release Date: 2006-11-12Homer 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.
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Episode 6 - Moe'N'a Lisa
Release Date: 2006-11-19Lisa 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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Episode 7 - Ice Cream of Margie (With the Light Blue Hair)
Release Date: 2006-11-26Homer 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 about her on the news.
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Episode 8 - The Haw-Hawed Couple
Release Date: 2006-12-10When 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 whether to reveal the book's sad ending to her.
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Episode 9 - Kill Gil, Volumes I & II
Release Date: 2006-12-17Homer 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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Episode 10 - The Wife Aquatic
Release Date: 2007-01-07Selma 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.
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Episode 11 - Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times
Release Date: 2007-01-28Homer 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."
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Episode 12 - Little Big Girl
Release Date: 2007-02-11Lisa pretends to be Native American for multicultural day at school. Meanwhile, Bart finds love with an older woman.
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Episode 13 - Springfield Up
Release Date: 2007-02-18A 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.
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Episode 14 - Yokel Chords
Release Date: 2007-03-04Bart 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.
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Episode 15 - Rome-Old and Juli-Eh
Release Date: 2007-03-11Selma and Grampa embark on a May-December romance, and Bart and Lisa get into trouble with deliverymen over cardboard boxes.
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Episode 16 - Homerazzi
Release Date: 2007-03-25After a celebrity scandal is accidentally captured in a family photo, Homer decides to become a paparazzo.
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Episode 17 - Marge Gamer
Release Date: 2007-04-22Marge 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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Episode 18 - The Boys of Bummer
Release Date: 2007-04-29Bart goes from hero to goat on his Little League team after an error in the championship game. Meanwhile, Homer falls asleep on a bed in a department store. When he's awakened, he raves about the mattress and is given a job as a salesman.
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Episode 19 - Crook and Ladder
Release Date: 2007-05-06Homer, Apu, Moe and Skinner volunteer as firemen after Homer's sleepwalking accident injures the town's firefighters. They do some light looting at the fires to make up for not being compensated, but Marge and Lisa shame them into mending their ways.
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Episode 20 - Stop or My Dog Will Shoot!
Release Date: 2007-05-13The Simpsons' pooch, Santa's Little Helper, becomes a police dog.
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Episode 21 - 24 Minutes
Release Date: 2007-05-20In a parody of "24," the school's Counter Truancy Unit tries to stop three sixth-graders planning to disrupt the school bake sale with a stink bomb.
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Episode 22 - You Kent Always Say What You Want
Release Date: 2007-05-20Newsman Kent Brockman is fired for swearing on the air when Homer dumps coffee in his lap, but Lisa gets Brockman back in the game with her Webcam.