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- Homer's laziness begets the ire of his industrious but arrogant new co-worker Frank Grimes; Bart buys a run-down factory for a dollar.
- After being released from prison on parole, Sideshow Bob plots to murder Bart.
- The family's job at Mr. Burns' country estate goes awry when Homer goes mad; Homer's attempt to repair a toaster results in inadvertent time travel; The school staff turn cannibalistic.
- After Mr. Burns steals oil from Springfield Elementary and blocks out the sun, an unknown person shoots him.
- The Simpsons move to Cypress Creek, where Homer unwittingly works for a charismatic supervillain; the rest of the family struggles with the transfer.
- After receiving a considerable donation of money, Springfield builds a monorail system with Homer as the conductor, unaware they've just boarded a one-way train to Hell.
- Special Agents Mulder and Scully arrive in Springfield after Homer claims to have seen an alien.
- Homer is branded as a pervert after his kids' babysitter misconstrues his retrieval of a candy from the seat of her pants as a sexual advance.
- Homer becomes a member of a mysterious organization called the Stonecutters and is heralded as "the chosen one".
- Homer intentionally gains more weight in order to qualify for disability and work from home, but soon realizes that being morbidly obese comes with its own problems.
- When Mr. Burns revokes the plant's dental plan, forcing Lisa to be fitted with cheap, ugly braces, Homer leads its union into going on strike.
- A series of vignettes showcasing a day in the life of various Springfield residents.
- 1989– 30mTV-PG9.0 (5.1K)TV EpisodeHomer must travel to New York to get his car back, which is illegally parked at World Trade Center Plaza.
- While Mr. Burns is hospitalized, an investigation into his shooter begins; although Smithers initially suspects himself, a trace of Simpson DNA narrows down the list of possible culprits.
- After attributing a relaxing Sunday to his skipping church, Homer vows to never attend service again, and forms his own religion to justify his behavior.
- Homer recounts the story of Maggie's birth when the kids ask why there are no photos of her in the family album.
- In an effort to increase the dismal television ratings for their space launches, NASA decides to send an ordinary man into space, and Homer is chosen for the task.
- Moe claims a drink that Homer invented is his own, with the drink making the bar a local hot spot, but threatens his friendship with Homer.
- After alcohol is banned in Springfield, Homer adopts the moniker of the "Beer Baron" to bootleg liquor, prompting an investigation from an uptight Treasury agent.
- After Marge befriends John, a gay store owner, Homer worries that his presence will have a negative effect on Bart's sexuality.
- Homer opens a successful snow-plowing business, only to inspire Barney to start a rival outfit that puts him out of work.
- 1989– 23mTV-PG8.8 (5.3K)TV EpisodeAfter apparently consuming poison blowfish, Homer is told that he only has 24 hours to live.
- After his birthday party goes wrong, Mr. Burns begins to want his childhood toy, a teddy bear named Bobo; Homer finds that Maggie is in possession of the doll.
- Homer sells his soul to the Devil for a donut, Bart contends with a gremlin on the side of the school bus which only he can see, and the family discovers that Mr. Burns is a vampire.
- Bart casually sells his soul to Milhouse for $5 but soon regrets it; Moe converts his dank bar into a family restaurant.
- When Smithers is forced to take a vacation, he appoints Homer as his temporary replacement.
- Homer and his co-workers qualify for the plant softball team's league final, but Mr. Burns hires nine professional MLB players in order to win a $1 million bet.
- After a hurricane destroys Ned Flanders' house, he suffers a nervous breakdown and is forced to confront repressed problems from his childhood.
- While trying to coax Maggie into saying her first word, Homer and Marge talk about how Lisa spoke hers.
- After faking his own death, Homer is reunited with his mother, who harbors a deep secret.
- When a group of Shelbyville kids steal Springfield's sacred lemon tree, Bart and his friends venture there to get the tree back.
- Confined to his room with a broken leg, Bart suspects Ned Flanders of murdering Maude; the family's new swimming pool earns Lisa popularity among the neighborhood kids.
- Bart discovers a comet that is on a collision course with Springfield.
- A lightning storm causes giant advertising mascots to come to life; The children are terrorized by Groundskeeper Willie in their dreams; Homer finds himself trapped in another dimension.
- 1989– 30mTV-148.6 (3.7K)TV EpisodeMr. Burns builds a casino when Springfield decides to legalize gambling, with Marge becoming addicted to the slot machines.
- Bart makes a fake driver's license and takes Milhouse, Martin, and Nelson on a huge road trip; Lisa spends time with Homer at the power plant.
- After having a horrible day, Bart gets a job tending bar for a group of gangsters and becomes the prime suspect when Principal Skinner mysteriously disappears.
- After joining the Junior Campers while on a sugar high, Bart reluctantly invites Homer to accompany him on the group's annual father-son rafting trip, which soon goes awry.
- After eating insanity peppers at a chili cook-off, Homer has a hallucination of a talking coyote urging him to find his soulmate.
- Homer becomes a Krusty the Clown stand-in, but is mistaken for the real Krusty by the Springfield mafia.
- Lisa has a crush on her substitute teacher; Bart decides to run for class president.
- Homer accidentally lands in a mental hospital and ends up sharing a room with a white man who thinks he is Michael Jackson.
- Homer's rush to the hospital to re-attach his severed thumb, Lisa's rush to school to win the science fair, and Bart's run-in with an illegal fireworks scheme interconnect from their point of view.
- Years of poor eating habits catch up with Homer when he suffers a massive heart attack, but the family can't afford the triple bypass operation he needs.
- When a surprise inspection of the nuclear power plant reveals that Homer is not qualified to do his job, he is forced to go to college.
- A family vacation to Itchy & Scratchy Land turns disastrous when the robots malfunction and turn on the tourists.
- Sibling rivalry between Bart and Lisa ensues when they become the star players of their respective ice hockey teams.
- The citizens of Springfield host their own film festival, with popular movie critic Jay Sherman arriving from New York to judge.
- After the kids find a record with Homer's picture on it, he recalls the story of how he achieved fame in the 1980s with his barbershop quartet, The Be Sharps.
- Bart and Lisa attend "Kamp Krusty" but it is nothing like they thought it would be; Homer's hair grows back and he loses weight while the kids are away.
- A trip to a local petting zoo convinces Lisa to give up meat, despite excessive pressure to convince her not to do so.
- Marge's relationship with Bart is strained when he is caught shoplifting before Christmas.
- After Bart receives a microphone which can transmit through radios, he decides to pull a series of pranks and eventually convinces the town that a boy has fallen down a well.
- After realizing how unpopular she is, a disillusioned Lisa sees the vacation to Ned Flanders' beach house as an opportunity to reinvent herself.
- Homer's marriage is in trouble when he develops an attraction to a new co-worker; Bart undergoes medical treatments that make him look like a nerd.
- After Flanders invites Homer to a football game, the pair become friends, but Homer's possessiveness and loutish behaviour slowly turns Ned against him.
- After refusing to pay for a collect call, Bart must travel down under to repair US-Australian political relations, but is unprepared for the punishment awaiting him.
- 1989– 30mTV-148.5 (3.1K)TV EpisodeAfter surviving multiple assassination attempts by Mr. Burns to inherit a cache of artwork they stole from the Nazis, Grampa teams up with Bart to recover the paintings.
- Homer and Mr. Burns get trapped in a snowed-in cabin during a company retreat.
- Bart's Siamese twin swells in the attic; Lisa's science experiment creates a miniature universe of advanced civilization; aliens possess Clinton and Dole.
- Former President George Bush and his wife, Barbara, move into the Simpsons' neighborhood and soon clash with Bart and Homer.
- Marge and Homer lose custody of the kids, who are sent to live at the Flanders' house.
- Homer is a hero after averting a nuclear meltdown that he nearly caused, but he doesn't want to tell anyone that he stopped it completely by accident.
- Homer becomes the sanitation commissioner for Springfield. His ineptitude pollutes the town and leads to a drastic solution.
- An evil Krusty the Clown doll tries to kill Homer; Marge is captured by a giant ape who falls in love with her; Bart inadvertently raises the dead.
- Lisa gives Ralph a Valentine's card out of pity, but soon regrets it when he develops an unwanted crush on her.
- A tale of Bart's journey from youth to adulthood, where he is constantly in search of approval from his father and in the shadow of his more-successful younger sister.
- Sideshow Bob gets out of jail and plots to take his revenge on Bart by marrying his Aunt Selma and killing her.
- After Krusty is found guilty of robbing the Kwik-E-Mart following Homer's eyewitness testimony, Bart and Lisa set out to prove his innocence.
- A fortune teller gives Lisa a look at her wedding in the year 2010.
- Homer meets his half-brother Herb Powell, an automobile tycoon who zealously bonds with the family and tasks Homer with designing a car for the average American.
- A Hollywood film crew shoots an adaptation of the "Radioactive Man" comics in Springfield, with Rainier Wolfcastle in the title role and a reluctant Milhouse as his sidekick, Fallout Boy.
- Marge leads a crusade against a local burlesque house after she discovers Bart working there.
- After Homer loses his license for DUI, Marge pressures him to give up beer for a month; Lisa attempts to prove that Bart is less intelligent than a hamster.
- After seeing a motorcycle daredevil at a monster truck show, Bart becomes a death-defying daredevil skateboarder.
- After Mrs. Krabappel gives Bart a month of detention, he gets his revenge by responding to her newspaper singles ad; Homer uses a swear jar to cut down on his cursing.
- As Marge goes to the doctor for a pregnancy test, Homer tells the children of the events leading up to his marriage, and Bart's birth.
- After a close brush with death, Mr. Burns decides to find an heir to his empire, and chooses Bart because of his truly devious nature.
- 1989– 30mTV-148.3 (3.6K)TV EpisodeBart accidentally gets Principal Skinner fired on inspection day, with Ned Flanders taking over as his replacement.
- Bart witnesses the alleged assault of a waiter by Mayor Quimby's nephew, but coming forward will mean admitting to skipping class and facing the consequences.
- Homer starts a bowling team with Moe, Apu and Otto, but Mr. Burns insists on joining after learning that the team was funded with his money; Springfield Elementary introduces uniforms.
- An evil cult called the Movementarians brainwashes the citizens of Springfield and it's up to Marge to get them back.
- Thirty years in the future the Simpsons get together for Christmas. Bart and Lisa are struggling as parents to connect with their children.
- In the 33rd annual Halloween special, Marge's resentment takes a monstrous form, Lisa tries to save the planet through murder, and Homer realizes that he's not the man he thought he was.
- Washed-up movie star Troy McClure starts dating Selma in an attempt to silence bizarre rumors about his personal life and resuscitate his career.
- After Homer "wins" a $2000 settlement from the plant due to radiation-induced sterilization, his half-brother Herb sees an opportunity to regain his fortune.
- While the kids become stranded on a desert island, Homer attempts to cash in on the Internet.
- Apu moves in with the Simpsons after losing his job when Homer gets ill from the contaminated food; James Woods takes over the Kwik-E-Mart.
- An outbreak of burglaries inspires Homer to lead a vigilante group.
- With Bart continually getting in trouble, Homer bans him from seeing the new Itchy & Scratchy movie.
- After humiliating Bart at a church picnic, Homer resolves to get in shape. Soon, he is contacted by an energy bar company that wants him to climb a mountain as a promotion.
- Bart develops a crush on his new neighbor, only to discover that she's dating Jimbo Jones; Homer sues an all-you-can-eat restaurant after he's kicked out.
- After aptitude tests seemingly indicate that they are best-suited to police work and homemaking respectively, Bart is made hall monitor while Lisa becomes a delinquent.
- When Sideshow Bob is released from prison and is elected Mayor of Springfield, Bart and Lisa suspect foul play and are determined to expose his corruption.
- Homer lies on a medical insurance form in order to obtain a miracle hair restoring drug.
- Bart suspects a paroled Sideshow Bob is up to his old tricks when he is hired by his brother Cecil to assist in the construction of a dam.
- Homer and Marge tell the story of how they met and fell in love in high school.
- Bart, Milhouse and Martin each pitch in to buy an highly-collectible "Radioactive Man" comic book, which soon has a disastrous effect on their friendship.
- The Simpsons move into a cursed house, then are abducted by aliens, before Homer is ensconced in a tale by Edgar Allen Poe.
- The Simpson family receives a severed monkey's paw which can grant wishes, Bart gains magical powers which he uses to turn Homer into a Jack-in-the-box, and Mr. Burns uses Homer's brain to create a robot.
- Mrs. Krabappel, fed up with Bart's lackadaisical approach to his studies, gives him an ultimatum: shape up or repeat the fourth grade.
- After a massive soccer riot, Homer purchases a gun to protect the family.
- After wishing for Flanders to lose his business, Homer discovers that his neighbor is actually about to go bankrupt and decides to help him out.
- Burns decides to retire and sells the power plant to a German consortium for an exorbitant price. Homer's laziness and inefficiency are quickly exposed by his new bosses, and he is laid off.
- Marge joins the Springfield Police Department to fight crime and corruption, only to find herself rescuing Homer when he gets mixed up in a counterfeit jeans operation.
- Bart discovers Principal Skinner and Mrs. Krabappel kissing, and it's not long before the whole town knows of their secret affair.
- Homer battles mutants after Springfield is annihilated by a neutron bomb; Bart has his DNA mixed with a fly; Marge is revealed to be a witch in colonial Springfield.
- 1989– 30mTV-148.2 (2.3K)TV EpisodeHomer goes to Dr. Frink to help him recover his memories from the night before, and he discovers, based on his interpretation of the memories, that Marge is having an affair.
- Homer and Ned get sucked into the violent world of prestige TV when a ruthless debt collector comes to Springfield.
- Things go from bad to worse for Homer and Ned.
- Homer is forced to become a department store Santa when Marge spends the family's Christmas savings on removing Bart's tattoo.
- While Bart is hospitalized, Lisa runs into her old mentor Bleeding Gums Murphy, who is also a patient, and becomes devastated when he dies soon after.
- Marge stars in a musical adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire, but is angry with Homer's lack of interest; Maggie squares off with her strict new daycare owner.
- Bart becomes an overnight sensation as the "I didn't do it" boy on Krusty the Clown's show.
- Bart falls for Reverend Lovejoy's daughter and is surprised when she becomes a bad influence on him.
- Marge becomes a church counselor; Homer discovers his face on a Japanese detergent logo.
- Marge becomes a crusader against cartoon violence after an episode of "Itchy and Scratchy" seemingly inspires Maggie to attack Homer.
- When Krusty's show is canceled after losing viewers to a ventriloquist and his dummy, Bart and Lisa organize a celebrity-filled comeback special for their favorite clown.
- While researching for an essay, Lisa discovers that Springfield's founding father was actually a murderous thief.
- Townspeople believe that Lisa has unearthed the fossilized remains of an angel.
- Angered by the vacuous phrases her Malibu Stacy doll utters, Lisa works with Malibu Stacy's original designer to create a doll with admirable traits.
- Lisa is jealous when a new girl in class is smarter than she is; Homer obtains a giant mound of sugar.
- Homer recounts the story of Bart's first day of school, which corresponds with the story of how Lisa got her saxophone.
- Homer deals with corruption when he becomes Mayor Quimby's bodyguard.
- Homer causes an international incident after he joins the Naval reserves.
- Bart and Lisa convince Grampa to let them use his name for episodes of "Itchy and Scratchy" they have written; Homer re-takes a test he failed in high school.
- Homer becomes a boxer after Moe discovers his amazing ability to take a punch.
- Homer's midlife crisis leads to a disastrous attempt at being an inventor.
- Santa's Little Helper's new mate has puppies, and Mr. Burns schemes to steal them and make them into a coat.
- Marge home-schools Bart after he is expelled from Springfield Elementary; Lisa protests a barbaric local holiday centered around clubbing snakes to death.
- An X-ray reveals a crayon lodged in Homer's brain. After the crayon is removed, Homer experiences a sudden surge in intelligence, making him closer to Lisa and isolated from his friends.
- When Bart gets tired of Homer's horrible parenting skills, he enrolls in the "Bigger Brother" program where he's assigned a fantastic role model.
- When Lisa cheats on a test, she has a moral crisis when her perfect score qualifies the school for grant money; Homer adopts a lobster as a pet.
- Anti-immigration fever sweeps Springfield, which threatens to lead to the deportation of Apu, until Homer decides to reject the mob mentality and help him become a legal citizen.
- Homer questions the state of his marriage after Luann Van Houten demands a divorce from Kirk.
- Bart and Lisa join forces to stop the school bullies from setting off a stink bomb at the school bake sale.
- Homer becomes the manager of a beautiful young country singer and finds himself almost attracted to her, sparking Marge's jealousy.
- A girls' night out turns into a high speed chase when Marge learns her friend is driving a stolen car.
- Sideshow Bob again escapes from prison and takes control of a TV screen at an air show, demanding all television stations immediately go off the air.
- Bart and Lisa meet a vagabond who claims to be the creator of Itchy from "Itchy and Scratchy."
- The Simpsons must perform on a Japanese game show after Homer loses their money on a vacation.
- Homer receives an evil hair transplant; Bart and Lisa get trapped in an Itchy and Scratchy cartoon; Maggie is revealed to be an alien.
- 1989– 23mTV-PG8.0 (4.4K)TV EpisodeAfter the power plant experiences bad publicity and is threatened with closure, Mr. Burns decides to run for Governor in order to have power over the law.
- Homer and Marge's attempt to spice up their marriage leads to the couple being chased naked through Springfield.
- 1989– 23mTV-PG8.0 (3.9K)TV EpisodeHomer gets a crooked cable guy to install free cable in the Simpson home, and as a result, Lisa faces an ethical crisis over her family's stealing.
- While Marge spends a couple of days at Rancho Relaxo after she has a breakdown, Bart and Lisa stay with Patty and Selma, and Homer stays at home to take care of Maggie.
- Homer uses Lisa (and her prognostic skills) to help him bet on football games.
- Selma starts to feel broody, but after taking Bart and Lisa to Duff Gardens, she changes her mind.
- Homer and Abe hit the road to sell Abe's miraculous aphrodisiac.
- Homer begins teaching a class on how to have a successful marriage, but jeopardizes his own marriage by revealing secrets about himself and Marge.
- Bart manipulates Mrs. Krabappel into leading a teachers' strike against Principal Skinner, but is perturbed when Marge becomes his substitute.
- Lisa fears she is losing her intelligence when she learns about the fabled Simpson gene. Meanwhile, Jasper freezes himself in the Kwik-E-Mart freezer.
- After being beaten up by Nelson Muntz one too many times, Bart turns to Grampa for help, and soon leads a rebellion against the school bully.
- Fans are invited to take a behind-the-scenes look at "The Simpsons," revisiting some of the most memorable experiences the family has been through.
- After rekindling her artistic talents, Marge is commissioned to paint a portrait of Mr. Burns; Homer vows to lose weight after getting trapped in a water slide.
- Homer takes Bart and Lisa to a music festival in an attempt to prove his coolness, but ends up embarrassing them after being hired to participate in the festival's freak show.
- Homer buys Lisa a pony that the family can ill afford.
- Homer is cast as Poochie, a new "Itchy and Scratchy" character designed to reverse declining ratings; a hip college student moves in with the Simpsons.
- A freak blizzard traps the students of Springfield Elementary inside their school. Their lives at stake, they are at the mercy of the rescue efforts of a woozy Homer and Ned.
- In an attempt to show up Ned Flanders, Homer pits Bart against Ned's son, Todd, in a miniature golf competition.
- After Homer fails a fathering test, he decides to help Bart build his Soap Box Derby racer.
- Homer and Bart put together a team to author the next successful tween novel franchise and make a million dollars, but discover that they need Lisa's help to pull it off.
- The Lego version of Homer begins to suspect that his entire Lego world is not real when a toy triggers a flashback to an alternate reality.
- The Simpsons meet the Planet Express crew, who have come to Springfield in the present to stop them from destroying the future.
- Homer cowards out of a pistol-duel and hides out with the rest of the family on a country farm.
- Desperate for money, Homer takes a loan from Patty and Selma; Bart discovers a natural talent for ballet.
- When Marge takes a job at the power plant, Mr. Burns falls in love with her; Bart "cries wolf" to avoid taking a test.
- Homer becomes chief of police after a scandal forces Wiggum out.
- Burns loses his fortune and recruits Lisa to help him get it back.
- Bart is sent to a military school to be disciplined; Lisa, seeking a challenge, enrolls with him, but faces discrimination as the school's only girl cadet.
- Homer is forced to spy for the IRS after an audit. But when he is asked to retrieve a trillion dollar bill from Mr. Burns, he switches sides and the two flee to Cuba for refuge.
- The Simpsons attempt to cover up their accidental murder of Ned Flanders. Bart and Lisa acquire super powers. An electronic apocalypse threatens Springfield.
- When Homer takes Ned to Las Vegas in an attempt to get him to loosen up, the two end up drunkenly marrying a pair of cocktail waitresses.
- After Bart gets hit by a car driven by Mr. Burns, Homer is manipulated by ambulance-chaser Lionel Hutz into bringing an outrageous lawsuit against his boss.
- Homer must decide whether he should complete marriage counseling or skip out to catch a legendary catfish; Bart and Lisa take advantage of Grampa's ignorance of the house rules.
- After Bart saves Mr. Burns' life with a donated blood transfusion, Homer vows revenge when they receive only a "thank you" card as compensation.
- After Bart receives an elephant as a prize for calling in to a radio station, the animal proves to be too costly to care for and Homer decides to sell it.
- Bart and Lisa become locked in competition when they anchor a children's news program; Homer adopts a helper monkey.
- Lisa develops a crush on Nelson, and tries to reform him; Homer gets an autodialer and decides to make easy money with a telemarketing scam.
- Bart is outraged when Lisa becomes his babysitter.
- Bart is reluctant to hang out with Ralph Wiggum, until he gains access to Chief Wiggum's master key to the city.
- On Thanksgiving, Bart runs away after refusing to apologize to a distraught Lisa for accidentally destroying her cornucopia.
- Bart becomes jealous when Milhouse falls in love with a new student named Samantha; Homer accidentally receives a vocabulary-building tape instead of a weight-loss one.
- Marge goes into therapy to find the root cause of her traumatizing aerophobia.
- Homer changes his name to "Max Power" after discovering that he shares his name with a dimwitted TV character.
- Bart's comic about Homer becomes a hit on-line, prompting Homer to attempt to control his anger.
- Homer enters Lisa in the Little Miss Springfield pageant to build her self-esteem.
- A misunderstanding leads to Marge being imprisoned for shoplifting, with her absence soon descending the family, and eventually, the town into chaos.
- After winning a political essay contest, Lisa is invited to Washington, D.C., but she soon becomes upset after discovering how policy-making really works.
- Homer and Marge enjoy a night on the town, leaving the kids with a diabolical babysitter, with a surprising secret.
- Homer takes the family camping, but it soon becomes a misadventure when they lose their equipment and Homer is mistaken for Bigfoot.
- Homer's gossip website becomes a huge hit, but when his information runs out he resorts to making up news.
- Bart is sent to France on a student exchange program, where he's treated like a slave; an Albanian student with suspicious motives takes Bart's place in the family.
- 1989– 30mTV-147.7 (2.7K)TV EpisodeMarge enters the pretzel vending business, but when she fails, Homer recruits some help from the mob.
- After a traumatizing eye injury, Homer becomes a habitual user of medical marijuana.
- The children of Springfield revolt after a curfew is enforced.
- 1989– 30mTV-147.7 (3K)TV EpisodeMarge is stressed from motherhood and hires a British nanny to help out around the house, who struggles to teach Bart and Lisa how to behave.
- After the Simpsons regret paying for an expensive surgery for Santa's Little Helper, he runs away from home and is trained by Mr. Burns to become an attack dog.
- Lisa gets lost after she tries to take a bus to a museum.
- 1989– 30mTV-147.7 (2.7K)TV EpisodeAfter buying a Chanel suit at a bargain price, Marge is invited to a country club by a former schoolmate, where she desperately tries to fit in with its upper class clientele.
- Homer takes Bart with him on a cross-country delivery on behalf of a trucker who died before completing it; Marge and Lisa experience problems with their new novelty doorbell.
- Homer and Marge must push themselves to their limits when they get lost in an icy wilderness.
- Fed up with the high price of Hollywood films, Homer begins screening pirated movies in his backyard, but is busted by the FBI after Marge turns him in.
- Ned deals with his grief after Maude's untimely death.
- Bart and Homer befriend two carnies and invite them to stay with them, but the carnies soon swindle the Simpsons out of their house.
- A damning report on childhood obesity in Springfield leads to the formation of a pee-wee football team. After belittling Ned Flanders, Homer ends up coaching the team, but his favoring of Bart makes him unpopular.
- Krusty the Clown is left almost broke after Bart inadvertently rats him out to the IRS, forcing Krusty to take drastic action.
- Brad Goodman, a self-help guru, encourages Springfield to act more like Bart, with disastrous results.
- The Simpsons try to reunite Mr. Burns with Larry, his slovenly long-lost son.
- Homer and Moe attempt insurance fraud so that Moe can support his new girlfriend. When Homer ends up in jail, Moe has to decide whether or not to come forward.
- Homer and Bart try to start their own grease business; Lisa organizes a school dance.
- Bart and Lisa try to reunite Krusty the Clown with his father.
- When Bart accidentally burns down the family's Christmas tree and gifts, he claims that a robber stole everything. As a result, the town gets them a new tree and pitches in to raise funds.
- A depressed Lisa's spirit is lifted when she meets a jazz-man, Bleeding Gums Murphy.
- After saving Maggie's life, Moe develops a special bond with her, much to Homer's dismay.
- Homer becomes the talk of the Springfield art community when a failed barbecue pit he worked on is mistaken for an art project.
- After Grampa's new girlfriend dies and leaves him $106,000 in her will, he tries to decide what to do with it.
- A hypnotist uncovers a traumatic experience from Homer's childhood.
- When the items Bart purchased with a fake credit card are repossessed, he claims that Santa's Little Helper is the dog he bought instead of his new pet, Laddie.
- After Otto loses his job as school bus driver because he does not have a license, Bart convinces Homer and Marge to let Otto stay with them until he gets back on his feet.
- Apu receives a letter from his mother stating that it's time for him fulfilled his arranged marriage obligation, he pretends Marge is his wife.
- A gypsy puts a curse on Homer; The Simpsons' new automated house malfunctions and tries to kill Homer; Bart and Lisa attend a school for wizards.
- Bart gets more than he bargained for when he saws the head off a statue of the town's founder.
- After being embarrassed by the rest of the family at a company picnic, Homer becomes obsessed with improving their behavior towards each other.
- Bart ends up at a school for gifted children after cheating on an IQ test.
- Homer must do one good deed to get into Heaven; Bart and Lisa encounter a witch in a gingerbread house; Super-intelligent dolphins strike back at humanity.
- Homer clones himself with a magic hammock; Zombie cowboys come back from the dead after Springfield bans guns; The Simpsons family take a vacation on an island where Dr. Hibbert can turn people into animals.
- In this story within a story within a story within a story, a cave-exploring expedition, an angry sheep and a lovestruck Moe become inextricably entwined.
- Marge becomes a real-estate agent.
- The new prankster in Bart's fourth grade class actually turns out to be a mole brought in by Principal Skinner to infiltrate Bart's inner circle. Homer falls in love with his loaner car after Marge wrecks their old one.
- 1989– 30mTV-147.6 (1.6K)TV EpisodeBart gets the family to take the cruise vacation of his dreams, and then launches a fiendish plot to ensure that it goes on forever.
- The Simpsons are proud to be the most festively decorated house on the block. But when Lisa is traumatized at Krustyland Horror Night, she feels she cannot handle Halloween anymore.
- When Bart falls into a coma after he is struck by lightning, he is visited by ghosts seeking closure.
- Bart is put on medication to control his behavior, but the pills cause him to become paranoid and insane.
- Homer becomes a hippie after a revelation about his middle name.
- 1989– 30mTV-PG7.5 (2.1K)TV EpisodeWhen Homer is hired as a local food critic by a newspaper in Springfield, he finds himself in deep trouble after his reviews turn out to be too critical.
- Homer is forced to go on a hunger strike by the Springfield Isotopes after uncovering a secret plan to have the baseball team moved to New Mexico.
- First, Homer kills the Grim Reaper and takes his place in Reaper Madness. Then, Professor Frink's father is revived, only to kill people and steal their organs in Frinkenstein. Finally, Bart and Milhouse get a stop watch that can stop time in Stop the World, I Want To Goof Off.
- Grampa falls in love with Marge's mother, but must compete with Mr. Burns for her heart.
- When Bart accidentally kills a mother bird, he tries to make amends by raising the eggs.
- Lisa feels that her relationship with her father will never be close, and she develops stress-induced stomach pains; Marge inadvertently knocks out Milhouse.
- 1989– 21mTV-147.5 (1.9K)TV EpisodeWhen Fat Tony has to take a time-out due to a whacking attempt, Homer and Bart take over the business.
- The Simpsons explore the tragic past of Santa's Little Helper when he bites Marge.
- Young Homer and his friends are terrorized by a killer clown in a special Treehouse of Horror presentation spoofing Stephen King's "It".
- Springfield is split in two when Homer revolts because his area code is changed; the new town walls itself off from the neighbors.
- After an uncontrollable Santa's Little Helper destroys several important Simpson possessions, Homer announces that he will be thrown out of the house unless he completes obedience training.
- Homer meets a new friend, Ray the Roofer, but gets confined to a mental institution when his friends and family think he made him up.
- Marge contemplates an affair with a handsome bowling instructor.
- After a disastrous performance, Krusty changes his image and becomes an edgy stand-up.
- 1989– 30mTV-147.4 (2.8K)TV EpisodeTroy McClure hosts a retrospective of the first 137 episodes of The Simpsons (1989).