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The Best Episodes Directed By Lance Kramer

Every TV Episode Directed by Lance Kramer Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

Lance Kramer Ratings Summary

"Near-Death Wish" is the best rated episode directed by Lance Kramer. It scored 7.438/10 based on 32 votes. It was written by Eric Horsted. It aired on 8/15/2012 and is rated 0.2 points higher than their second-best episode, "Clown v. Board of Education".

  • Near-Death Wish
    7.4/1032 votes

    #1 - Near-Death Wish

    Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 8/15/2012

    The crew finds out Professor Farnsworth's parents are still alive on the Near Death Star.

    Director: Lance Kramer

    Writer: Eric Horsted

  • Clown v. Board of Education
    7.2/104 votes

    #2 - Clown v. Board of Education

    Season 34 Episode 21 - Aired 5/14/2023

    Krusty opens a school for clowning, and it becomes the most successful thing he's ever done.

    Director: Lance Kramer

    Writer: Jeff Westbrook

  • Skinner's Sense of Snow
    7.1/1021 votes

    #3 - Skinner's Sense of Snow

    Season 12 Episode 8 - Aired 12/17/2000

    A snowstorm traps the students of Springfield Elementary inside, with them overthrowing Principal Skinner when he uses his Army skills to control them. Meanwhile, Homer tries to rescue the children–using Flanders' car.

    Director: Lance Kramer

    Writer: Tim Long

  • T.: The Terrestrial
    7.0/1033 votes

    #4 - T.: The Terrestrial

    Season 7 Episode 16 - Aired 6/26/2013

    After being marooned on an distant planet, Fry is befriended by a young monster.

    Director: Lance Kramer

    Writer: Josh Weinstein

  • Leela and the Genestalk
    6.8/1030 votes

    #5 - Leela and the Genestalk

    Season 7 Episode 22 - Aired 8/7/2013

    Leela grows tentacles due to a rare condition, and stumbles upon a secret genetic engineering lab.

    Director: Lance Kramer

    Writer: Eric Horsted

  • Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes
    6.6/1021 votes

    #6 - Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes

    Season 20 Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/2008

    Bounty hunter Ned is forced to scrap his partnership with Homer when the hapless layabout skips bail, and Marge mistakenly takes a job at an erotic bakery.

    Director: Lance Kramer

    Writer: Kevin Curran

  • Homer the Whopper
    6.6/1020 votes

    #7 - Homer the Whopper

    Season 21 Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/2009

    Homer gets the lead in a movie about a superhero who can take on the powers of every superhero in any comic book he touches. To whip Homer into superhero shape, the studio hires a celebrity fitness trainer.

    Director: Lance Kramer

    Writer: Seth Rogen

  • Specs and the City
    6.6/1017 votes

    #8 - Specs and the City

    Season 25 Episode 11 - Aired 1/26/2014

    When Marge tries Homer's new high-tech glasses on, he learns she's seeing a marriage counselor; Bart refuses to buy Nelson a Valentine's Day card.

    Director: Lance Kramer

    Writer: Brian Kelley

  • Bull-E
    6.4/1014 votes

    #9 - Bull-E

    Season 26 Episode 21 - Aired 5/10/2015

    After Bart gets bullied at the school dance, Marge convinces the town to pass anti-bullying legislation. Homer then gets arrested and sent to rehab for bullying Ned Flanders, only to subsequently leave rehab as a hero.

    Director: Lance Kramer

    Writer: Tim Long

  • A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love
    6.3/1017 votes

    #10 - A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love

    Season 13 Episode 4 - Aired 12/2/2001

    Homer becomes a fortune cookie writer for a Chinatown restaurant. Mr. Burns reads one of Homer's fortunes, which says that the reader will find love before Flag Day is over. Burns goes searching for love and meets Gloria, a meter maid, and asks her out. Gloria reluctantly agrees, and Burns recruits Homer to help him look young and hip to his new girlfriend.

    Director: Lance Kramer

    Writer: John Swartzwelder

  • To Surveil with Love
    6.3/1019 votes

    #11 - To Surveil with Love

    Season 21 Episode 20 - Aired 5/2/2010

    A bomb squad mistakenly blows up Homer's unattended gym bag, releasing radiation into the city and authorities react by suspending civil liberties. Wiggum and his men install surveillance cameras around Springfield and round up suspected terrorists, including groundskeeper Willie, but when monitoring the nonstop flow of video imagery proves to be too much, Wiggum enlists concerned citizens to help keep the city safe. Meanwhile, Lisa becomes fed up with being blonde, so she dyes her hair a dark color.

    Director: Lance Kramer

    Writer: Michael Nobori

  • The Real Housewives of Fat Tony
    6.3/1014 votes

    #12 - The Real Housewives of Fat Tony

    Season 22 Episode 19 - Aired 5/1/2011

    Fat Tony and Marge's sister, Selma, fall in love and get married; Bart discovers a special ability.

    Director: Lance Kramer

    Writer: Dick Blasucci

  • How I Wet Your Mother
    6.3/1014 votes

    #13 - How I Wet Your Mother

    Season 23 Episode 16 - Aired 3/11/2012

    When Homer's bed-wetting worsens, his family tries to infiltrate his dreams to find the source of the problem.

    Director: Lance Kramer

    Writer: Billy Kimball

  • No Loan Again, Naturally
    6.2/1020 votes

    #14 - No Loan Again, Naturally

    Season 20 Episode 12 - Aired 3/8/2009

    When the adjustable rate on the Simpson couple's mortgage resets at more than the pair can afford, they must sell their house. Good Samaritan Ned Flanders buys the house and rents it out to them at an affordable rate. But Homer pushes his luck too far when he takes advantage of Ned's generous landlord duties.

    Director: Lance Kramer

    Writer: Jeff Westbrook

  • Saddlesore Galactica
    6.0/1019 votes

    #15 - Saddlesore Galactica

    Season 11 Episode 13 - Aired 2/6/2000

    Homer and Bart befriend a diving horse at a county fair. They turn it into a racehorse with an attitude, whose success runs them afoul of mysterious, tree-dwelling jockeys.

    Director: Lance Kramer

    Writer: Tim Long

  • The Caper Chase
    6.0/1017 votes

    #16 - The Caper Chase

    Season 28 Episode 19 - Aired 4/2/2017

    Disappointed in Yale, Mr. Burns decides to start his own for-profit university and Homer is hired as a professor

    Director: Lance Kramer

    Writer: Jeff Westbrook

  • Burger Kings
    6.0/106 votes

    #17 - Burger Kings

    Season 32 Episode 18 - Aired 4/11/2021

    Mr. Burns gets into the plant-based burger business. Lisa refuses to believe he's up to no good.

    Director: Lance Kramer

    Writer: Rob LaZebnik

  • Little Orphan Millie
    5.9/1016 votes

    #18 - Little Orphan Millie

    Season 19 Episode 6 - Aired 11/11/2007

    Milhouse stays with the Simpsons when his parents remarry each other and honeymoon on a cruise ship. But when his parents are knocked overboard and lost at sea, Milhouse decides to grow up and be a man.

    Director: Lance Kramer

    Writer: Mick Kelly

  • 'Tis the 30th Season
    5.9/1014 votes

    #19 - 'Tis the 30th Season

    Season 30 Episode 10 - Aired 12/9/2018

    After a failed Black Friday shopping spree, Marge is determined to fix Christmas; Homer and the kids surprise Marge with a vacation to a Florida resort.

    Director: Lance Kramer

    Writer: John Frink

  • Crook and Ladder
    5.8/1012 votes

    #20 - Crook and Ladder

    Season 18 Episode 19 - Aired 5/6/2007

    Homer, Apu, Moe and Skinner volunteer as firemen after Homer's sleepwalking accident injures the town's firefighters. They do some light looting at the fires to make up for not being compensated, but Marge and Lisa shame them into mending their ways.

    Director: Lance Kramer

    Writer: Bill Odenkirk

  • How the Test Was Won
    5.8/1021 votes

    #21 - How the Test Was Won

    Season 20 Episode 11 - Aired 3/1/2009

    Bart gets a perfect score on a practice test for a national achievement test, which not only rattles Lisa, but it means Bart gets to attend a special party instead of having to take the actual test. Meanwhile, Homer must avoid injuring himself for an entire afternoon after failing to pay his insurance.

    Director: Lance Kramer

    Writer: Michael Price

  • Smoke on the Daughter
    5.7/1015 votes

    #22 - Smoke on the Daughter

    Season 19 Episode 15 - Aired 3/30/2008

    With Lisa's encouragement, Marge pursues her dream of becoming a ballerina. But when Marge auditions at the ballet academy, Lisa is invited to enroll. Unfortunately, Lisa becomes addicted to secondhand smoke from the other dancers. Meanwhile, Homer's beef-jerky operation runs into a snag.

    Director: Lance Kramer

    Writer: Billy Kimball

  • Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington
    5.6/1016 votes

    #23 - Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington

    Season 14 Episode 14 - Aired 3/9/2003

    An air traffic route is redirected so that airplanes start flying directly over the Simpsons' house. The noise starts to disrupt their lives and, desperate for a solution, the family turns to their Congressman. However, he dies of a heart attack, so they ask Krusty the Clown to run for Congress so that he can help them. Krusty is successful in his campaign, but finds that his air traffic bill is ignored by the veteran Congressmen. He soon becomes disillusioned with the system, so the Simpsons, with guidance from Walter Mondale, help him out by blackmailing one of his opponents and attaching the bill to a more popular one. The bill passes, and the air traffic is re-routed.

    Director: Lance Kramer

    Writer: John Swartzwelder

  • Goo Goo Gai Pan
    5.6/1014 votes

    #24 - Goo Goo Gai Pan

    Season 16 Episode 12 - Aired 3/13/2005

    Selma has a severe hot flash while giving Mr. Burns his driving test. Dr. Hibbert explains that Selma is experiencing the onset of menopause. Selma, decides she wants a baby rather than grow old alone. Adoption is suggested, but the Springfield orphanage is empty. Lisa suggests adopting a baby girl from China - but when the Chinese government only allows married couples to adopt, Selma writes down Homer's name as her husband.

    Director: Lance Kramer

    Writer: Dana Gould

  • Left Behind
    5.6/1013 votes

    #25 - Left Behind

    Season 29 Episode 19 - Aired 5/6/2018

    Homer gets Flanders a job at the plant, and he soon learns that no good deed goes unpunished when Flanders starts to insist on carpools and demands more from Homer's work performance. Meanwhile, Marge feels as though their marriage has lost its spark.

    Director: Lance Kramer

    Writer: N/A