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Lisa meets a mentor and Bart kicks Homer's butt (at Nintendo). [more inside]
posted by Paragon on Mar 8, 2023 - 2 comments

Bart becomes a target of school bully Nelson Muntz and must find a way to fight back. [more inside]
posted by chinesefood on Feb 9, 2023 - 3 comments

Homer does what he can to change The Simpsons into the ideal family. [more inside]
posted by chinesefood on Feb 1, 2023 - 3 comments

Homer Simpson finds a new purpose in life when he starts advocating for a safer community. [more inside]
posted by chinesefood on Jan 25, 2023 - 10 comments

Bart cheats on an IQ test and gets sent to a school for the gifted. [more inside]
posted by Paragon on Dec 29, 2022 - 6 comments

When Marge must use all the family's gift money to remove Bart's tattoo, it's up to Homer to save Christmas. [more inside]
posted by Paragon on Dec 17, 2022 - 17 comments

Would anyone else be game for a club / regular series of rewatches of classic (single digit season) Simpsons?
posted by Paragon on Nov 16, 2022 - 13 comments

After being released from prison on parole, Sideshow Bob plots to murder Bart. [more inside]
posted by Huffy Puffy on Jan 9, 2021 - 23 comments

Comedian Hari Kondabolu confronts his cartoon nemesis, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, the Indian convenience store owner from The Simpsons (1989). [more inside]
posted by numaner on Apr 10, 2018 - 3 comments

Marge forces the family to hand in their electronics and head to the library in an attempt to bring the family together again. This results in Bart using a war book to control Homer, and Marge discovering that a past favorite of hers is now offensive and insensitive.
posted by fimbulvetr on Apr 9, 2018 - 14 comments

"Summer of 4 Ft. 2" is the twenty-fifth and last episode of The Simpsons' seventh season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 19, 1996. In the episode, the Simpson family goes to Ned Flanders family's beach house. Hanging around with a new set of children, Lisa becomes popular, while Bart is left out. Bart tries to sabotage his sister's newfound acceptance, but fails. [more inside]
posted by Pong74LS on May 21, 2016 - 6 comments

"Homerpalooza" is the 24th episode of The Simpsons' seventh season and originally aired on May 19, 1996. The plot focuses around Homer's depression about aging and no longer being cool, and his quest to become cool again by joining the "Hullabalooza" music festival as a carnival freak. Peter Frampton and musical groups The Smashing Pumpkins, Cypress Hill and Sonic Youth guest star as themselves. [more inside]
posted by Pong74LS on May 21, 2016 - 8 comments

Scotty Boom, a Chew Network super-chef, challenges Homer to a smoke-off. But when someone steals Homer’s secret weapon – a smoker he bought off a mysterious man at a BBQ shack – Lisa and Bart are on the case
posted by DirtyOldTown on Oct 10, 2015 - 4 comments

Homer and Marge go through a trial separation. During this time, Homer dates a female pharmacist and Marge dates the woman's father.
posted by DirtyOldTown on Oct 3, 2015 - 5 comments

This week: Turkey president Erdogan builds a gigantic thousand-room house. New Yorkers become eligable to register .nyc domain names, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg preregisters a ton before scalpers get them. (LWT registered a few of their own: michaelbloombergisawiener.nyc, tinytinymikebloomberg.nyc and bloombergeatsbabycornasifitsrealcorn.nyc). A brief look at the Salmon Cannon (5m), a device for getting fish up stream past hydroelectric dams. (The show kind of goes nuts with the idea.) Main story: State lotteries, their problems and abuses (15m). And Now: People On TV Misunderstanding What The Term "Spoiler Alert" Means. And, finally, this is the last episode of Last Week Tonight for the season, and the year. They bring back the puppets, the Scottish Unicorn, the Space Sex Gecko, and Breakdancing Lincoln for the closing credits. G'night, John Oliver.
posted by JHarris on Nov 11, 2014 - 25 comments

Bender Bending Rodriguez goes back in time to present-day Springfield to kill Homer Simpson, whose DNA has been detected in a species of leporine gremlins ravaging New New York.
posted by Small Dollar on Nov 10, 2014 - 18 comments

The 25th annual Simpsons Halloween special brings three more spine-chilling tales. [more inside]
posted by Small Dollar on Oct 20, 2014 - 8 comments