The Best Episodes Directed By Mark Kirkland

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

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

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

Homer recalls when he, Apu, Barney and Principal Skinner became recording icons.

Director: Mark Kirkland

Writer: Jeff Martin

Union president Homer fights to keep the dental plan.

Director: Mark Kirkland

Writer: Jay Kogen

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

Marge fears a cheatin' heart when a waitress-country singer asks Homer to be her manager.

Director: Mark Kirkland

Writer: Matt Groening

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

A midlife crisis prompts Homer to quit his job and become an inventor.

Director: Mark Kirkland

Writer: John Swartzwelder

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mayor Quimby pardons attempted murderer Sideshow Bob, who then runs against Quimby for mayor.

Director: Mark Kirkland

Writer: Bill Oakley

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

A loan from Patty and Selma makes Homer their slave; Bart is forced to take ballet.

Director: Mark Kirkland

Writer: Brent Forrester

Financially ruined, Mr. Burns turns to Lisa for help in building a recycling business. Lisa believes he's changed, but his new business venture takes a shocking new direction.

Director: Mark Kirkland

Writer: John Swartzwelder