Season 19 |
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| 403 :19x03 - Midnight Towboy (Oct/07/2007) | | Homer begins working in the towing industry, but he runs into some trouble when he becomes mad with power and is framed for towing in a rival's territory. Meanwhile, Marge hires a specialist for Maggie who can make children independent from their parents. | | Special Guest Stars: Matt Dillon as Louie | Director: Matthew Nastuk Writer: Stephanie Gillis | |
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| 405 :19x05 - Treehouse of Horror XVIII (Nov/04/2007) | The series' 18th Halloween show features parodies of movies in three vignettes:
"E.T. Go Home" - In this send-up of E.T., Bart and Lisa find Kodos (who is hiding from the government) and help him obtain devices to contact his home planet, but Kodos' intentions are proven to be murderous.
"Mr. and Mrs. Simpson" - In this send-up of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Homer lives a double life as a government assassin, but discovers that Marge is one too and must eliminate her after she botched his attempt at assassinating Kent Brockman.
"Heck House" - In this send-up of Se7en, Ned Flanders turns the church into a Hell house and asks God for devilish powers so he can teach the children the consequences of committing the seven deadly sins. | Director: Chuck Sheetz Writer: Marc Wilmore | | Songs: Ramones -- Blitzkrieg Bop | |
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| 406 :19x06 - Little Orphan Millie (Nov/11/2007) | | When Milhouse's parents celebrate their remarriage on a cruise ship, they end up lost at sea, and Milhouse must man up now that he's an orphan. Meanwhile, Marge hides her eyes from Homer when Homer admits that he doesn't know what color they are. | Director: Lance Kramer Writer: Mick Kelly | |
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| 407 :19x07 - Husbands and Knives (Nov/18/2007) | | Disappointed with Springfield's snooty, glitzy L.A. Body Works gym, Marge opens her own facility for ''real women" called "Shapes". Meanwhile, the kids of Springfield go to a new comic book store where the clerk (a man named Milo) is nicer than The Android Dungeon's Comic Book Guy, and Homer becomes obsessed with getting plastic surgery. | | Guest Stars: Jack Black (2) as Milo, Alan Moore (1) as Himself, Daniel Clowes as Himself | Director: Nancy Kruse Writer: Matt Selman | | Songs: Pet Shop Boys -- Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money) | |
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| 408 :19x08 - Funeral for a Friend (Nov/25/2007) | | The Simpson family agrees to go to a rib restaurant, and after arriving, they discover Sideshow Bob attempts to murder the entire family. When Bob is captured by the police, he is put on trial, where Bart throws away his vial of medicine, inadvertently killing him. Bob's brother Cecil invites Bart to pay his last respects to Sideshow Bob, which turns out to be an elaborate plot by Bob's family to have Bart killed once and for all. | | Guest Stars: Keith Olbermann as Himself, John Mahoney (1) as Mr. Terwilliger, David Hyde Pierce (1) as Cecil Terwilliger, Kelsey Grammer as Sideshow Bob | Director: Rob Oliver Writer: Michael Price (1) | |
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| 409 :19x09 - Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind (Dec/16/2007) | | Homer wakes up in the snow with no memory of what he did the night before--and begins fearing the worst when his family ends up missing, Chief Wiggum tells Homer that there was a domestic disturbance at 742 Evergreen Terrace, and Moe tells Homer that he drank a "Forget Me Shot" (a potent cocktail that erases the last 24 hours of a person's life) to get rid of something horrible he did the day before. | | Guest Stars: Tress MacNeille as Little Boy, Karl Wiedergott as Unknown | Director: Chuck Sheetz Writer: J. Stewart Burns | |
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| 410 :19x10 - E. Pluribus Wiggum (Jan/06/2008) | | Homer burns down Springfield's fast-food restaurants after one last binge before he starts his diet. In order to rebuild them, Mayor Quimby moves up election day, making Springfield's primary election the first in the nation, but when everyone gets sick of the media attention and lackluster candidates, they all cast a write-in vote for Ralph Wiggum. | | Guest Stars: Jon Stewart as Himself, Dan Rather as Himself | Director: Michael Polcino Writer: Michael Price (1) | |
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| 412 :19x12 - Love, Springfieldian Style (Feb/17/2008) | | Homer and Marge get stuck on the Tunnel of Love ride at a carnival, and pass the time telling three tales of love gone wrong: Homer and Marge are bank-robbing sweethearts Bonnie and Clyde, Homer and Marge (again) are star-crossed dog lovers Shady and the Vamp, and Nelson and Lisa are drug-addled punk rockers Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen. | Director: Raymond S. Persi Writer: Don Payne | | Songs: The Buzzcocks -- Ever Fallen in Love? | |
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| 413 :19x13 - The Debarted (Mar/02/2008) | | Bart gets help with his pranks from a new kid at school, Danny, but suspects that Danny may be a snitch working on the inside. Meanwhile, Homer abandons his wrecked, pink car for a sleek, silver rental. | | Guest Stars: Topher Grace as Donny | Director: Matthew Nastuk Writer: Joel H. Cohen (1) | | Songs: Dropkick Murphys -- I'm shipping up to boston | |
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| 415 :19x15 - Smoke on the Daughter (Mar/30/2008) | | Lisa encourages Marge to become a ballerina, but Lisa gets chosen instead and gets addicted to secondhand cigarette smoke from the other dancers. Meanwhile, Homer shows Bart his secret beef jerky business, which hits a snag when raccoons steal his product. | Director: Lance Kramer Writer: Billy Kimball (1) | | Songs: The Doors -- The End | |
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| 416 :19x16 - Papa Don't Leech (Apr/13/2008) | | Lisa discovers that the town of Springfield hasn't collected millions of dollars worth of taxes. As a result, the town starts collecting from most of the evaders and the only remaining debtor is Lurleen Lumpkin (the country singer who tried to seduce Homer on season 3's "Colonel Homer".) As the police search for her, Lurleen stays with the Simpson family, which irritates Marge, who still hasn't forgotten how Lurleen almost stole Homer from her. | | Guest Stars: The Dixie Chicks as Themselves, Beverly D'Angelo as Lurleen Lumpkin | Director: Chris Clements (1) Writer: Reid Harrison | |
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| 417 :19x17 - Apocalypse Cow (Apr/27/2008) | | When Bart and Lisa save a cow, Lou, from going to the slaughterhouse, they give it to Mary, a farm girl. Her father (Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel) mistakes it for a token of marriage and ropes Bart into marrying his daughter. | | Special Guest Stars: Zooey Deschanel as Mary | Director: Nancy Kruse Writer: Jeff Westbrook | |
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| 418 :19x18 - Any Given Sundance (May/04/2008) | | When Lisa creates a hit documentary about her family for a school project and enters it into the Sundance Film Festival, Homer, Bart and Marge become embarrassed by the candid, behind-the-scenes look at their lives. | | Guest Stars: John C. Reilly as Himself | Director: Chuck Sheetz Writer: Daniel Chun | | Songs: Spoon -- I Turn My Camera On | |
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| 420 :19x20 - All About Lisa (May/18/2008) | | Sideshow Mel narrates the story of how Lisa upstaged Krusty on an episode of his show and became a big star. Meanwhile, Bart and Homer get into coin-collecting and fight Mr. Burns for a rare penny called "The Kissing Lincolns". | | Special Guest Stars: Drew Carey as Himself | Director: Steven Dean Moore (1) Writer: John Frink | |
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