Episodes
See also: List of The Simpsons episodes- Key
- In the № column the number refers to the order it aired during the entire series.
- In the # column the number refers to the episode number within its season.
- The production code refers to the code assigned to the episode by the production team. The first two characters refer to the season the episode was made for; for example, 1F for season five and 2F for season six. The second number is the order in which the episode was produced, which is not necessarily the airing order.
| № | # | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Production code |
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| 270 | 1 | "Treehouse of Horror XII" "The Simpsons Halloween Special XII" |
Jim Reardon | Joel H. Cohen John Frink & Don Payne Carolyn Omine |
November 6, 2001 (2001-11-06) | CABF19 |
| In the twelfth Treehouse of Horror episode: Hex and the City (a.k.a The Curse of the Dummy) – While on a day trip through Ethnictown, Homer's bumbling catches the ire of a gypsy, who curses Homer's family and friends into receiving nothing but bad luck. House of Whacks – in this mixed parody of Demon Seed and 2001: A Space Odyssey, Marge buys an automated house and customizes it with the Pierce Brosnan personality, who falls for Marge and attempts to murder Homer. Wiz Kids – In this Harry Potter parody, Bart and Lisa go to a school for wizards, and Lord Montemort (Mr. Burns) uses Bart to capture Lisa's magic. Guest stars: Pierce Brosnan and Matthew Perry. |
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| 271 | 2 | "The Parent Rap" | Mark Kirkland | George Meyer & Mike Scully | November 11, 2001 (2001-11-11) | CABF22 |
| 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. Guest star: Jane Kaczmarek. |
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| 272 | 3 | "Homer the Moe" | Jen Kamerman | Dana Gould | November 18, 2001 (2001-11-18) | CABF20 |
| Moe becomes depressed and decides to return to bartending school so he can re-evaluate himself. He meets an old teacher, who suggests that Moe try improving his bar, which might make him happier. Moe takes the advice, and turns his bar into a trendy nightclub, which does not sit well with his regular customers Homer, Lenny, Carl, and Barney. Guest stars: R.E.M. (Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe). |
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| 273 | 4 | "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love" | Lance Kramer | John Swartzwelder | December 2, 2001 (2001-12-02) | CABF18 |
| Homer becomes a fortune cookie writer for a Chinatown restaurant. Mr. Burns reads one of Homer's fortunes, which says that the reader will find love before Flag Day is over. Burns goes searching for love and meets Gloria, a meter maid, and asks her out. Gloria reluctantly agrees, and Burns recruits Homer to help him look young and hip to his new girlfriend. Guest stars: Julia Louis-Dreyfus and George Takei. |
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| 274 | 5 | "The Blunder Years" | Steven Dean Moore | Ian Maxtone-Graham | December 9, 2001 (2001-12-09) | CABF21 |
| After tricking Marge into thinking an advertising spokesman is coming to visit her, Homer takes Marge and the rest of the family to a restaurant. A hypnotist uses his powers on Homer, and makes him remember a horrific childhood incident where Homer found a dead body in a ravine. The Simpson family decides to investigate this and find out where the body came from. Guest stars: Paul Newman, Judith Owen and Joe Mantegna. |
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| 275 | 6 | "She of Little Faith" | Steven Dean Moore | Bill Freiberger | December 16, 2001 (2001-12-16) | DABF02 |
| After Homer and Bart's model rocket damages the church, Mr. Burns makes a deal to commercialize the church in return for paying for the damages. Lisa becomes disgusted at what the church has become, so she decides to find a new religion suitable for her. She eventually converts to Buddhism, causing Marge to fear for Lisa's soul. Guest star: Richard Gere. |
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| 276 | 7 | "Brawl in the Family" | Matthew Nastuk | Joel H. Cohen | January 6, 2002 (2002-01-06) | DABF01 |
| A social worker is assigned to make the Simpson family functional after they get arrested for fighting over a board game. He helps them learn how to work together and function as a family. Meanwhile, Ginger and Amber, the barmaids who married Homer and Flanders while they were drunk in "Viva Ned Flanders", arrive at the Simpsons' home, which outrages Marge. Guest stars: Delroy Lindo and Jane Kaczmarek. |
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| 277 | 8 | "Sweets and Sour Marge" | Mark Kirkland | Carolyn Omine | January 20, 2002 (2002-01-20) | DABF03 |
| 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. Guest star: Ben Stiller. |
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| 278 | 9 | "Jaws Wired Shut" | Nancy Kruse | Matt Selman | January 27, 2002 (2002-01-27) | DABF05 |
| A jaw injury from colliding with a new town statue turns Homer into a better listener while recuperating with his jaws wired shut, but once the wires come off, Homer does not go back to being loud and obnoxious and Marge becomes starved for thrills. Guest star: John Kassir. |
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| 279 | 10 | "Half-Decent Proposal" | Lauren MacMullan | Tim Long | February 10, 2002 (2002-02-10) | DABF04 |
| Homer develops a snoring problem, so Marge decides to spend a night with her sisters Patty and Selma. After a night of drinking, Marge sees a news report about her ex-prom date Artie Ziff, who is now very wealthy, and decides to send him an e-mail. Artie is still obsessed with Marge, so he offers the Simpsons $1 million in exchange for Marge spending a weekend with him. Guest star: Jon Lovitz. |
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| 280 | 11 | "The Bart Wants What It Wants" | Michael Polcino | John Frink & Don Payne | February 17, 2002 (2002-02-17) | DABF06 |
| Bart befriends Rainer Wolfcastle's daughter Greta. She has a crush on Bart, but he does not seem to realize it and eventually stops seeing her. Seeking revenge, Greta begins dating Bart's best friend Milhouse, which causes Bart to start missing her. She leaves for Toronto with her father, and Bart convinces his family to follow them there. Guest stars: Reese Witherspoon and Wolfgang Puck. |
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| 281 | 12 | "The Lastest Gun in the West" | Bob Anderson | John Swartzwelder | February 24, 2002 (2002-02-24) | DABF07 |
| 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. Guest star: Dennis Weaver and Frank Welker. |
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| 282 | 13 | "The Old Man and the Key" | Lance Kramer | Jon Vitti | March 10, 2002 (2002-03-10) | DABF09 |
| Grampa falls in love with Zelda, a woman who has an interest in men who can drive. He decides to get his driver's license back, but is ignorant to Homer and Marge's concerns that she is only using him for his car. Guest stars: Olympia Dukakis and Bill Saluga. |
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| 283 | 14 | "Tales from the Public Domain" | Mike B. Anderson | Andrew Kreisberg Josh Lieb Matt Warburton |
March 17, 2002 (2002-03-17) | DABF08 |
| When Homer gets a notice from the library that he has a book of classic tales that is years overdue, he finds it on the shelf and reads three stories: The Odyssey (where Homer and his bar buddies try to get home after fighting the Trojans), Joan of Arc (where Lisa leads the French against the English with the help of God), and Hamlet (where Bart tries to kill Moe after Moe kills Homer in order to marry Marge). | ||||||
| 284 | 15 | "Blame It on Lisa" | Steven Dean Moore | Bob Bendetson | March 31, 2002 (2002-03-31) | DABF10 |
| When Homer gets the family's telephone service cut off for refusing to pay for calls made to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Lisa confesses that she was the one who called Rio after sponsoring an orphan who goes missing. She convinces the family to travel to Brazil to look for him. However, once there, they have no luck finding him, and Homer is kidnapped. | ||||||
| 285 | 16 | "Weekend at Burnsie's" | Michael Marcantel | Jon Vitti | April 7, 2002 (2002-04-07) | DABF11 |
| Homer is prescribed medicinal marijuana after getting pecked in the eyes by a murder of crows. While his family and friends worry about the drug altering his personality, Homer becomes Mr. Burns's vice president after cracking up at Burns's antiquated jokes. Guest stars: Phish (Trey Anastasio, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon and Page McConnell). |
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| 286 | 17 | "Gump Roast" | Mark Kirkland | Deb Lacusta & Dan Castellaneta | April 21, 2002 (2002-04-21) | DABF12 |
| 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. | ||||||
| 287 | 18 | "I Am Furious (Yellow)" | Chuck Sheetz | John Swartzwelder | April 28, 2002 (2002-04-28) | DABF13 |
| Inspired by a cartoonist who speaks at the school as part of a career day assembly, Bart creates a comic book series based on Homer and his anger problems, which turns into a popular Internet cartoon series called Angry Dad. Homer finds out about this and is at first outraged, but after talking to his family, he decides to try to become a less angry person. Guest star: Stan Lee. |
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| 288 | 19 | "The Sweetest Apu" | Matthew Nastuk | John Swartzwelder | May 5, 2002 (2002-05-05) | DABF14 |
| Homer and Marge discover that Apu is having an affair with the Squishee delivery lady at the Kwik-E-Mart. They decide to keep Apu's wife Manjula from finding out about it. However, she eventually learns of Apu's affair by watching store security tapes. She throws Apu out of the house and decides to file for divorce, but soon realizes that she misses him. Guest star: James Lipton. |
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| 289 | 20 | "Little Girl in the Big Ten" | Lauren MacMullan | Jon Vitti | May 12, 2002 (2002-05-12) | DABF15 |
| Lisa tries to fit in with two college students by lying about her age. She finds that the college atmosphere is perfect for her, but her lie is soon discovered and she is shunned by her fellow elementary school students. Meanwhile, Bart is diagnosed with a weakened immune system after getting bitten by a Chinese mosquito and must live in a plastic, germ-free bubble. Guest star: Robert Pinsky. |
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| 290 | 21 | "The Frying Game" | Michael Polcino | John Swartzwelder | May 19, 2002 (2002-05-19) | DABF16 |
| While faced with community service for abusing an endangered insect, Homer begins assisting an elderly woman named Mrs. Bellamy. One night, Mrs. Bellamy is murdered, and Homer and Marge are accused of committing the crime. Guest stars: Carmen Electra and Frances Sternhagen. |
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| 291 | 22 | "Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge" | Pete Michels | Dana Gould | May 22, 2002 (2002-05-22) | DABF17 |
| Homer starts a security company with Lenny and Carl after the police are ineffective during a blackout, and eventually Mayor Quimby decides to have them replace the police. Homer finds that he excels at the job, but then he runs afoul of mob boss Fat Tony, who threatens Homer with death unless he leaves town. Guest star: Joe Mantegna. |
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