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The Simpsons

1989– · Continuing · 38 seasons

Comedy Animation
First aired
Dec 17, 1989
Next episode
Sun, Oct 18
IMDb rating
8.6 / 10 465,712 votes
Recall rating
9.0 / 10 1 rating

Overview

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.

Won 37 Primetime Emmys. 187 wins & 384 nominations total

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Episodes

Season 16 · 21 episodes

  • Nov 7, 2004 25 min

    In "The Ned Zone" Ned gains the power to foresee people's deaths. In "Four Beheadings and a Funeral" Eliza Simpson and her sidekick hunt down a murderer. And in “In the Belly of the Boss" Maggie is shrunk inside a vitamin capsule and swallowed by Mr. Burns.

  • Nov 14, 2004 25 min

    Marge enters the great Oven Fresh bake-off contest and resorts to cheating. After discovering Homer’s old Playdude magazines, Homer tells Bart about the birds and bees, which a horrified Bart quickly spreads to other children.

  • Nov 21, 2004 25 min

    When she thinks her own children do not appreciate her anymore, Marge becomes a mother figure to Nelson. Lisa tries to deal with her weight issue.

  • Dec 5, 2004 25 min

    Marge becomes jealous when Lisa begins idolizing her old high school friend, Chloe Talbot, a famous reporter.

  • Dec 12, 2004 25 min

    Bart begins designing T-shirt slogans, and his T-shirts become very popular among the citizens of Springfield.

  • Jan 16, 2005 25 min

    Homer, Grampa, Apu and Flanders travel to Canada to buy sorely needed prescription drugs with fake Canadian health-care cards.

  • Jan 30, 2005 25 min

    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.

  • Feb 6, 2005 25 min

    Homer's impromptu dance at a carnival leads to a job choreographing victory dances for sports stars Tom Brady, Warren Sapp, Michelle Kwan, Yao Ming and LeBron James.

  • Feb 13, 2005 25 min

    After sneaking out to a rap concert, Bart makes Marge and Homer believe he has been kidnapped to avoid punishment. And Chief Wiggum, to everyone’s surprise, attempts to solve the case to improve his reputation.

  • Feb 20, 2005 25 min

    When Springfield legalizes same-sex marriage, Homer becomes a minister, and a townsperson comes out of the closet.

  • Mar 6, 2005 25 min

    Tired of Bart’s torment, Lisa takes out a restraining order against him. When Grampa isn't capable of doing his job as a Sprawl Mart greeter, Homer takes over and gets a full-time position with no chance for advancement.

  • Mar 13, 2005 25 min

    Selma decides to adopt a child from China, but when the rules say she must be married, Homer must pose as her husband for the fearsome adoption agent Madame Wu.

  • Mar 20, 2005 25 min

    When Marge starts economising, Homer thinks he's being left out of the family's important financial decisions, so splashes out on an expensive camper van and sets up camp on the driveway.

  • Apr 3, 2005 25 min

    After Shelbyville accuses Springfield of being hicks, Marge convinces the townspeople to fund a Frank Gehry-designed concert hall, which is then converted to a prison when the concert hall goes bankrupt on opening night. Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa investigate Snowball II's recent weight gain.

  • Apr 17, 2005 25 min

    Through Professor Frink's future machine, Bart and Lisa see their lives in the year 2013, where Bart steals Lisa's chances at going to an Ivy League school in order to impress a skater girl named Jenda while Homer (now separated from Marge and living in an underwater apartment) fights Krusty the Clown after Marge begins dating him.

  • May 1, 2005 25 min

    Homer meets a new friend, Ray the Roofer, but gets confined to a mental institution when his friends and family believe he made him up.

  • May 1, 2005 25 min

    When Bart starts living off of junk food from the school’s new vending machines, he becomes so overweight that he is sent to fat camp. But with the camp so expensive, the family is forced to open their house up as youth hostel to German tourists.

  • May 8, 2005 25 min

    Lisa agrees to enter a Krusty-sponsored "Li'l Starmaker" competition and panics when another contestant outperforms her.

  • May 8, 2005 25 min

    Homer sees a movie about the end of the world and fears the same thing will happen in real life after seeing a chain of random occurrences and doing a complicated math equation that predicts the end will come on May 18th.

  • May 15, 2005 25 min

    Flanders rents a room to two college girls who, without his knowledge, use the spare room to broadcast live softcore pornographic web videos of themselves.

  • May 15, 2005 25 min

    Bart gets expelled from school and transfers to a Catholic school, where a hip priest named Father Sean tries to convert Bart and Homer to Catholicism, which worries Marge when she believes that Catholics do not go to the same heaven as Protestants and discovers that Catholic women do not use birth control.

Cast 13

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