8.3/1039 votes#1 - Homer the Heretic
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1992
After skipping church one Sunday morning, Homer decides to quit church altogether and spend Sundays worshiping in his own way -- with cigars and beer.
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: George Meyer
8.3/1034 votes#2 - Homer the Great
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 1/8/1995
Homer joins the secret society of the Stonecutters and is suddenly exalted when the brethren discover his birthmark. The ancient order is shaken to the core by the ineptitude of its new Chosen One.
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: John Swartzwelder
8.2/1033 votes#3 - Mr. Plow
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/19/1992
Homer and Barney become competitors in the snow-plowing business.
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Jon Vitti
8.2/1032 votes#4 - King-Size Homer
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/1995
Homer tries to gain sixty pounds so he can stay home on disability. When he nearly causes a catastrophe at the plant, Homer reconsiders his plan.
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Dan Greaney
8.0/1029 votes#5 - Treehouse of Horror V
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/1994
Lack of beer and cable TV make Homer a crazed killer; the present is altered by a time-traveling Homer; and Principal Skinner turns detention students into food.
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Bob Kushell
8.0/1031 votes#6 - Homer's Enemy
Season 8 Episode 23 - Aired 5/4/1997
A hardworking new employee at the power plant is consumed with resentment at Homer's undeserved success.
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: John Swartzwelder
7.8/1024 votes#7 - 22 Short Films About Springfield
Season 7 Episode 21 - Aired 4/14/1996
Bart and Milhouse wonder if anything interesting happens to the citizens of Springfield, which leads to a series of interconnected vignettes.
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Bill Oakley
7.8/1025 votes#8 - El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 1/5/1997
After eating a dish laced with potent peppers during the chili cookoff, Homer has hallucinations where a mystical coyote urges him to find his soulmate.
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Ken Keeler
7.7/1040 votes#9 - Itchy & Scratchy & Marge
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/20/1990
Maggie attacks Homer with a mallet after seeing it on Itchy & Scratchy. Marge begins a protest outside the production offices, demanding the show be retooled to prevent further violence.
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: John Swartzwelder
7.7/1028 votes#10 - Duffless
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 2/18/1993
After a DUI, Homer swears off beer for a month. Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa's sibling rivalry plays out in the school science fair.
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: David M. Stern
7.7/1030 votes#11 - The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1997
Designated driver Barney absconds to Manhattan in Homer's car and leaves it there. But when the family journeys to the Big Apple to retrieve their property, Homer discovers his car has been booted.
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Ian Maxtone-Graham
7.6/1034 votes#12 - Homer Goes to College
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/1993
Homer takes Nuclear Physics 101 at the local college, where he gets a trio of nerdy tutors expelled for extracurricular activities.
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Conan O'Brien
7.6/1024 votes#13 - My Sister, My Sitter
Season 8 Episode 17 - Aired 3/2/1997
Lisa has a stellar reputation as a babysitter, but when Homer and Marge leave her in charge of Bart and Maggie, everything starts going wrong.
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Dan Greaney
7.5/1034 votes#14 - Homer at the Bat
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/20/1992
Burns hires Major League ringers for the plant softball championship.
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: John Swartzwelder
7.5/1027 votes#15 - Homer the Vigilante
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 1/6/1994
Homer leads a vigilante group to catch the Springfield Cat Burglar, who then robs the museum.
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: John Swartzwelder
7.5/1030 votes#16 - Bart of Darkness
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/4/1994
Stuck in his room with a broken leg, Bart hears a high-pitched scream. When he looks through his telescope, he sees a guilty Ned Flanders burying the evidence.
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Dan McGrath
7.5/1028 votes#17 - Lisa's Wedding
Season 6 Episode 19 - Aired 3/19/1995
A fortuneteller predicts Lisa's engagement and wedding to a fellow student from an upper-crust British family.
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Greg Daniels
7.5/1021 votes#18 - Trash of the Titans
Season 9 Episode 22 - Aired 4/26/1998
Homer feuds with the Springfield garbage men and decides to run for Sanitation Commissioner. After winning the election with a sleazy campaign, Homer can’t keep the extravagant promises he made to the town.
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Ian Maxtone-Graham
7.5/1022 votes#19 - Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo
Season 10 Episode 23 - Aired 5/16/1999
After their bank account is drained at a cyber-cafe, the Simpsons go on a disastrous low-budget trip to Japan, where they wind up as contestants on a humiliating game show.
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Dan Greaney
7.4/1037 votes#20 - Brush with Greatness
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 4/11/1991
Marge rediscovers her interest in art and takes up painting. When Mr. Burns hires her to paint his official portrait, Marge tries but fails to find his "inner beauty."
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Brian K. Roberts
7.4/1036 votes#21 - Treehouse of Horror II
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/1991
Maggie uses one of three wishes; a mind-reading Bart rules Springfield; Homer donates his brain to Mr. Burns' science project.
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Al Jean
7.3/1027 votes#22 - Bart Gets an Elephant
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 3/31/1994
Bart wins an elephant, but Homer won't let him keep it.
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: John Swartzwelder
7.3/1029 votes#23 - Lemon of Troy
Season 6 Episode 24 - Aired 5/14/1995
Springfield boys try to recapture the town's beloved lemon tree after it's stolen.
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Brent Forrester
7.2/1035 votes#24 - When Flanders Failed
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1991
Flanders suffers a failure after Homer wishes him ill.
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Jon Vitti
7.1/1034 votes#25 - Saturdays of Thunder
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/1991
When Homer helps Bart build a soapbox racer, it does little for the car but a lot for their relationship.
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Ken Levine
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"Homer the Heretic" is the best rated episode directed by Jim Reardon. It scored 8.3/10 based on 39 votes. It was written by George Meyer. It aired on 10/8/1992 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Homer the Great".