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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 379 | 1 | "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer" | Michael Marcantel | Bill Odenkirk | September 10, 2006 (2006-09-10) | HABF15 |
| Lisa becomes friends with Fat Tony's son Michael, who would rather cook than run a crime ring, but when the Simpsons are invited over for dinner and Fat Tony is shot, Homer ends up being the town's newest kingpin. Guest Stars: Joe Pantoliano, Michael Imperioli, and Metallica. |
||||||
| 380 | 2 | "Jazzy and the Pussycats" | Steven Dean Moore | Daniel Chun | September 17, 2006 (2006-09-17) | HABF18 |
| Bart gets a drum kit to work out his aggressions after being a nuisance at the funeral of Homer's Vegas wife and becomes top pick for a local jazz band -- a position that the saxophone-playing Lisa has been going after for years. Guest Stars: The White Stripes. |
||||||
| 381 | 3 | "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em" | Mike B. Anderson Ralph Sosa |
Matt Warburton | September 24, 2006 (2006-09-24) | HABF20 |
| Marge takes an interest in carpentry after reading some books on the subject meant for Homer, but when everyone in town declines Marge's services (because they believe that women cannot be carpenters), Marge uses Homer as a front. Meanwhile, Springfield Elementary bans all peanut products, and Bart discovers the reason: Principal Skinner is allergic to them. | ||||||
| 382 | 4 | "Treehouse of Horror XVII" | David Silverman & Matthew Faughnan | Peter Gaffney | November 5, 2006 (2006-11-05) | HABF17 |
| Season 18's annual trio of Halloween stories. "Married To The Blob" - Homer eats a mysterious green substance from a meteorite landing that turns him into a giant blob with an insatiable, cannibalistic appetite. "You Gotta Know When to Golem" - Bart discovers a golem backstage at Krusty's show and uses it to do his bidding. "The Day the Earth Looked Stupid" - After being fooled by H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds, the citizens of Springfield in 1938 ignore a real alien invasion set up by Kang and Kodos. Guest Stars: Phil McGraw, Richard Lewis, Fran Drescher, Sir Mix-a-lot and Maurice LaMarche. |
||||||
| 383 | 5 | "G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)" | Nancy Kruse | Daniel Chun | November 12, 2006 (2006-11-12) | HABF21 |
| Homer finds himself in an army training camp after trying to get his children out of an agreement to join by age 18. Guest Star: Kiefer Sutherland. |
||||||
| 384 | 6 | "Moe'N'a Lisa" | Mark Kirkland | Matt Warburton | November 19, 2006 (2006-11-19) | HABF19 |
| Lisa discovers that Moe's written rantings are perfect fodder for poetry, but when Moe is invited to a writer's convention that throws out anyone who uses someone else to create their works, Moe ends up taking the credit. Guest Stars: Tom Wolfe, Gore Vidal, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Franzen and J.K. Simmons. |
||||||
| 385 | 7 | "Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)" | Matthew Nastuk | Carolyn Omine | November 26, 2006 (2006-11-26) | HABF22 |
| After Homer gets fired once again from the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, he takes over Springfield's ice cream truck business after his favorite driver dies. Meanwhile, Marge, depressed over seeing women more successful than her and looking for a way to be remembered, creates sculptures from the discarded Popsicle sticks in Homer's ice cream truck. | ||||||
| 386 | 8 | "The Haw-Hawed Couple" | Chris Clements | Matt Selman | December 10, 2006 (2006-12-10) | JABF02 |
| Bart becomes Nelson's best friend, and discovers how possessive Nelson can be. Meanwhile, Homer gets hooked on Lisa's Angelica Button fantasy novels, but worries when he finds out that the book he's reading has a sad ending. | ||||||
| 387 | 9 | "Kill Gil, Volumes I & II" | Bob Anderson | Jeff Westbrook | December 17, 2006 (2006-12-17) | JABF01 |
| After Gil Gunderson gives Lisa a Malibu Stacy doll reserved for Mr. Costington's daughter, he gets fired as a mall Santa and moves in with the Simpsons. Meanwhile, Homer picks a fight with Ice Capades character The Grumple. Guest Star: Elvis Stojko. |
||||||
| 388 | 10 | "The Wife Aquatic" | Lance Kramer | Kevin Curran | January 7, 2007 (2007-01-07) | JABF03 |
| When Patty and Selma save "Outdoor Movie Night" from going bust by playing an old home movie of their time at Barnacle Bay, Homer decides to surprise Marge by taking her and the kids there -- only to find her childhood vacation spot an abandoned wreck. Guest Stars: Maurice LaMarche and Sab Shimono. |
||||||
| 389 | 11 | "Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times" | Michael Polcino | Joel H. Cohen | January 28, 2007 (2007-01-28) | JABF05 |
| Homer's misguided revenge on the Rich Texan combined with an untimely car break down leaves Marge, Lisa, and Bart to tell three tales about revenge gone wrong (told as parodies of The Count of Monte Cristo, Revenge of the Nerds, and Batman Begins), none of which appear to prevent Homer's murderous urges of revenge. | ||||||
| 390 | 12 | "Little Big Girl" | Raymond S. Persi | Don Payne | February 11, 2007 (2007-02-11) | JABF04 |
| When Cletus ineptly tosses his pipe, Springfield is in danger when the town is about to be hit by a ferocious fire. Bart unwittingly saves the day and is rewarded with a driver's license. However, when he drives to North Haverbrook, he is then engaged with a girl named Darcy who ropes Bart into marriage after declaring that she's pregnant. Meanwhile, Lisa lies about her family heritage in an essay and gets chosen to give a keynote speech at a convention. Guest Star: Natalie Portman. |
||||||
| 391 | 13 | "Springfield Up" | Chuck Sheetz | Matt Warburton | February 18, 2007 (2007-02-18) | JABF07 |
| Declan Desmond returns as he shows a documentary about Springfield's current adult population as children, discussing their future aspirations and meets up with Homer to see if he followed his dreams. Guest Star: Eric Idle. |
||||||
| 392 | 14 | "Yokel Chords" | Susie Dietter | Michael Price | March 4, 2007 (2007-03-04) | JABF09 |
| Lisa becomes a teacher for Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel's children after Principal Skinner bars them from enrolling in Springfield Elementary. Meanwhile, Bart ends up in therapy after scaring his peers with stories of a school chef notorious for cooking children. Guest Stars: Peter Bogdanovich, Andy Dick, James Patterson, Meg Ryan, and Stephen Sondheim. |
||||||
| 393 | 15 | "Rome-old and Juli-eh" | Nancy Kruse | Daniel Chun | March 11, 2007 (2007-03-11) | JABF08 |
| When Grampa gets kicked out of the retirement castle thanks to Homer declaring bankruptcy (and discovering that bankruptcy laws have changed), Grampa falls in love with Marge's sister Selma, prompting sworn enemies, Homer and Patty, to team up to break them up. Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa con a delivery man into giving them cardboard boxes for a fort, but the delivery men fight back. Guest Star: Jane Kaczmarek. |
||||||
| 394 | 16 | "Homerazzi" | Matthew Nastuk | J. Stewart Burns | March 25, 2007 (2007-03-25) | JABF06 |
| After the family photo album is destroyed in a fire involving a Krusty doll and a bottle of cologne, Marge restages all of the family's photographs, and when a celebrity dating scandal is captured in the background of one of their photos, the Simpsons strike tabloid gold. Tasting success and seeing money to be made, Homer takes to the streets as one of the paparazzi, capturing Springfield's celebrities at their worst. Guest Stars: J.K. Simmons, Betty White and Jon Lovitz. |
||||||
| 395 | 17 | "Marge Gamer" | Bob Anderson | J. Stewart Burns | April 22, 2007 (2007-04-22) | JABF10 |
| Marge discovers the wonders of the Internet and becomes hooked on an online roleplaying game, where Bart is the game master. Meanwhile, Lisa resorts to cheating to score points with Homer (who is now a referee) during soccer matches. Guest Star: Ronaldo |
||||||
| 396 | 18 | "The Boys of Bummer" | Rob Oliver | Michael Price | April 29, 2007 (2007-04-29) | JABF11 |
| Bart becomes a town pariah (once again) after losing the championship for Springfield's Little League team, and is driven insane to the point of suicide from constant harassment. Meanwhile, Homer gets a job at Costington's Department store as a mattress tester, and finds a mattress that he wants to keep for himself after it reignites his stagnant love life with Marge. | ||||||
| 397 | 19 | "Crook and Ladder" | Lance Kramer | Bill Odenkirk | May 6, 2007 (2007-05-06) | JABF13 |
| When reading a parenting magazine, Marge follows the advice to throw away Maggie's pacifier. However, when the pacifier is thrown in the trash, Maggie goes on a path of destruction in the Simpsons home. Meanwhile, Homer, Moe, Apu, and Principal Skinner become volunteer firefighters and begin stealing items from the homes whose fires they extinguish. | ||||||
| 398 | 20 | "Stop or My Dog Will Shoot" | Matthew Faughnan | John Frink | May 13, 2007 (2007-05-13) | JABF12 |
| When Homer gets lost in a cornfield maze, Santa's Little Helper rescues him and becomes a local hero, which prompts the Simpson family to enroll him in Police Dog Academy, where he dons a new and more stern personality. Meanwhile, Bart, missing Santa's Little Helper, gets a strangling snake as a new pet. Guest Stars: Stephen Hawking, Maurice LaMarche, and Rudolph Giuliani (in a deleted scene that would later be reinstated in syndicated airings). |
||||||
| 399 | 21 | "24 Minutes" | Raymond S. Persi | Billy Kimball & Ian Maxtone-Graham | May 20, 2007 (2007-05-20) | JABF14 |
| When finding out Jimbo, Dolph, and Kearney plan on sabotaging Springfield Elementary School's annual bake sale by releasing the "ultimate stinkbomb" (a rotten yogurt cup from Springfield's Nuclear Power Plant), Bart and Lisa enlist the help of Jack Bauer and Chloe O'Brian. Meanwhile, Marge attempts to make the perfect cake for the school bake sale. Guest Stars: Kiefer Sutherland and Mary Lynn Rajskub. |
||||||
| 400 | 22 | "You Kent Always Say What You Want" | Matthew Nastuk | Tim Long | May 20, 2007 (2007-05-20) | JABF15 |
| Thanks to Ned Flanders' meddling, Kent Brockman gets in trouble for blurting a horrible curse word during a soft-news interview about Homer winning Phineas Q. Butterfat's 1,000,000th ice cream cone. While living with The Simpsons, Brockman teams up with Lisa to create a YouTube video revealing why a politically conservative media empire like FOX would create raunchy television shows. Guest Stars: Ludacris and Maurice LaMarche. |
Read more about this topic: The Simpsons (season 18)
Famous quotes containing the word episodes:
“What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men’s existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)
“Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)