8.0/1036 votes#1 - Homer's Barbershop Quartet
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1993
Homer recalls when he, Apu, Barney and Principal Skinner became recording icons.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Jeff Martin
8.0/1026 votes#2 - Mountain of Madness
Season 8 Episode 12 - Aired 2/2/1997
To promote teamwork amongst the power plant's employees, Mr. Burns makes them go on a corporate retreat up in the mountains.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: John Swartzwelder
7.9/1035 votes#3 - Kamp Krusty
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1992
Bart leads an uprising at Krusty's summer camp after he and Lisa are subjected to a Dickensian sweatshop.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: David M. Stern
7.9/1035 votes#4 - Lisa's First Word
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/3/1992
While trying to get Maggie to say her first word, Marge and Homer reminisce about Bart's and Lisa's first words.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Jeff Martin
7.8/1033 votes#5 - Last Exit to Springfield
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 3/11/1993
Union president Homer fights to keep the dental plan.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Jay Kogen
7.8/1031 votes#6 - Lisa the Vegetarian
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1995
After visiting a local petting zoo, Lisa becomes a vegetarian and faces ridicule from family and friends. When she lashes out and ruins Homer's barbecue, she learns a lesson in tolerance.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: David X. Cohen
7.7/1036 votes#7 - Homer Defined
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/1991
Homer's averting of a nuclear meltdown earns him employee-of-the-month honors--and a call from Magic Johnson; Milhouse's parents prohibit him from playing with Bart.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Howard Gewirtz
7.6/1025 votes#8 - The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace
Season 10 Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/1998
A midlife crisis prompts Homer to quit his job and become an inventor.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: John Swartzwelder
7.6/1039 votes#9 - Bart Gets Hit by a Car
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 1/10/1991
After Mr. Burns hits Bart with his car, ambulance-chasing attorney Lionel Hutz persuades Homer and Marge to sue for a million dollars.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: John Swartzwelder
7.6/1034 votes#10 - Colonel Homer
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 3/26/1992
Marge fears a cheatin' heart when a waitress-country singer asks Homer to be her manager.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Matt Groening
7.6/1026 votes#11 - Treehouse of Horror VIII
Season 9 Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/1997
In “The Homega Man,” Homer faces a post-apocalyptic Springfield. Next, Bart attempts to become Superfly in "Fly vs. Fly." In “Easy-Bake Coven,” amidst a witch hunt in 1649, Marge and her sisters invent trick-or-treating.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: David X. Cohen
7.5/1029 votes#12 - Burns' Heir
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 4/14/1994
Bart is picked to be Burns' heir and moves into the Burns mansion, prompting Homer and Marge to hire a deprogrammer to get him back.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Jace Richdale
7.5/1024 votes#13 - Summer of 4 Ft. 2
Season 7 Episode 25 - Aired 5/19/1996
On a family vacation, Lisa tries on a new identity to fit in with the other kids at the beach. Jealous, Bart reveals her true nerdiness to the group.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Dan Greaney
7.5/1032 votes#14 - The Homer They Fall
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 11/10/1996
When Moe sees that Homer can absorb massive blows to the head, he turns him into a prizefighter and sets up a match with heavyweight champion Drederick Tatum.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Jonathan Collier
7.5/1030 votes#15 - Homer Alone
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/6/1992
A stressed Marge vacations alone, leaving Bart and Lisa with Patty and Selma, and Maggie with Homer--until she leaves in search of Marge.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: David M. Stern
7.4/1019 votes#16 - The Computer Wore Menace Shoes
Season 12 Episode 6 - Aired 12/3/2000
Homer decides to buy a computer after turning up to the Plant to find it closed by e-mail. He then creates his own website and it eventually gains attention when he posts gossip. Homer dubs himself as "Mr. X" to conceal his identity. When he reveals that he is Mr. X, he becomes drugged into a mysterious island where people who know too much are imprisoned after Homer starts writing conspiracy theories such as flu shots.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: John Swartzwelder
7.4/1030 votes#17 - Marge on the Lam
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1993
Marge's wild night out with neighbor Ruth includes running from the police in Ruth's car, stolen from her ex.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Bill Canterbury
7.4/1029 votes#18 - Fear of Flying
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 12/18/1994
When they try to go on vacation, the family discovers Marge's debilitating fear of flying. Marge consults a psychoanalyst to find the source of her baffling fear.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: David Sacks
7.4/1027 votes#19 - A Fish Called Selma
Season 7 Episode 19 - Aired 3/24/1996
Washed up and plagued by scandal, Troy McClure sees a marriage to Selma as his ticket back to success.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Jack Barth
7.3/1028 votes#20 - The Springfield Connection
Season 6 Episode 23 - Aired 5/7/1995
Marge joins the police force after thwarting a criminal, and Homer thinks he now has a free ride as a cop's spouse.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Jonathan Collier
7.3/1028 votes#21 - Sideshow Bob Roberts
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 10/9/1994
Mayor Quimby pardons attempted murderer Sideshow Bob, who then runs against Quimby for mayor.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Bill Oakley
7.3/1037 votes#22 - The War of the Simpsons
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 5/2/1991
At a lakeside retreat for married couples, Marge is determined to fix her marriage with Homer, but Homer is more determined to catch General Sherman, the freakishly large catfish that lives in the lake.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: John Swartzwelder
7.2/1029 votes#23 - Homer vs. Patty and Selma
Season 6 Episode 17 - Aired 2/26/1995
A loan from Patty and Selma makes Homer their slave; Bart is forced to take ballet.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Brent Forrester
7.2/1038 votes#24 - Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/5/1991
Burns sells the power plant to a German corporation that doesn't care for Homer's approach to his work.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Jon Vitti
7.1/1027 votes#25 - Homer and Apu
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 2/10/1994
Homer accompanies Apu to the Kwik-E-Mart home office--in India--after Apu is fired.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Greg Daniels
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"Homer's Barbershop Quartet" is the best rated episode directed by Mark Kirkland. It scored 8/10 based on 36 votes. It was written by Jeff Martin. It aired on 9/30/1993 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Mountain of Madness".