The Best Episodes Directed By Matthew Nastuk

Homer loses his mind over tipping culture run amok.

Director: Matthew Nastuk

Writer: J. Stewart Burns

Lisa recounts the story of how Homer was scapegoated for a power outage that plunged Springfield into darkness days before Thanksgiving.

Director: Matthew Nastuk

Writer: Elisabeth Kiernan Averick

When Groundskeeper Willie is kidnapped to Scotland, Bart and the Simpsons follow - only to discover that what awaits is Homer's worst nightmare.

Director: Matthew Nastuk

Writer: Michael Price

Homer wakes up in a Springfield where everyone and everything is made out of Legos, and he must figure his way out before he gets stuck in the plastic world forever.

Director: Matthew Nastuk

Writer: Brian Kelley

After a fight in an escape room, Krusty's truth-telling Aunt fixes Homer's relationship with Patty and Selma.

Director: Matthew Nastuk

Writer: Nick Dahan

Indebted from a mishap at the Smithsonian, Homer lets a cell phone company put a transmitter in the house. Forced to share a room with Bart, Lisa resents Homer until a New Age experience gives her empathy.

Director: Matthew Nastuk

Writer: Brian Scully

Homer becomes annoyed with movie theaters, so Bart teaches him how to download movies illegally. Homer is delighted with his discovery of free movies until he's caught for piracy. Deputy Director Gratman, the FBI's anti-piracy boss, is tasked with hunting down Homer, who stands accused of illegally downloading a film.

Director: Matthew Nastuk

Writer: J. Stewart Burns

In a quest to learn Homer's middle name, Homer and Grandpa travel to his mother's old commune, where Homer embraces the hippie life.

Director: Matthew Nastuk

Writer: Donick Cary

In this Christmas-themed episode, the students of Springfield Elementary are unwittingly used as a focus group to test new toys. The product of their labors, a cuddly doll named Funzo, is a lot more sinister than he appears.

Director: Matthew Nastuk

Writer: Tom Martin

Homer befriends a new security guard at the plant; Marge daydreams about being a contestant on "Top Chef."

Director: Matthew Nastuk

Writer: Justin Hurwitz

Moe is flying high after venture capitalists take a shine to his homemade whiskey, while Grampa, after injuring himself babysitting Bart, decides he'd rather be looked after by his grandson than be at the nursing home. Also, Lisa voices her displeasure at a hologram of music legend Bleeding Gums Murphy, and Sonny Rollins (as himself) shows up to ask her to stop all that jazz about boycotting a record label.

Director: Matthew Nastuk

Writer: Valentina Garza

Lisa gets called for jury duty while Marge becomes obsessed with her exercise bike.

Director: Matthew Nastuk

Writer: Jessica Conrad

When Marge and Lisa start a charity together, Marge is seduced by the money and prestige of Big Charity fundraising.

Director: Matthew Nastuk

Writer: J. Stewart Burns

Bart and Milhouse are banned from The Android Dungeon after stopping Comic Book Guy from buying a box of priceless Star Wars memorabilia for $5, but are hired as his replacements when Comic Book Guy has a heart attack and is advised to leave his job in order to make friends.

Director: Matthew Nastuk

Writer: Larry Doyle

Bart finds a friend in his own sister Lisa after Milhouse moves away to Capitol City to live with his divorced mom. Meanwhile Homer goes into panhandling to buy anniversary gifts for Marge. Later on Milhouse returns and Bart goes back being friends with him.

Director: Matthew Nastuk

Writer: David Chambers

This year's Halloween story sees The Simpsons as "The Munsters" (with everyone except Lisa getting killed), Homer as a wandering spirit on the hunt for a good deed in "G-G-Ghost D-D-Dad," Bart and Lisa as peasants in a fairy tale forest in "Scary Tales Can Come True," and Lisa inadvertently dooming mankind by rescuing a dolphin in "Night of the Dolphin."

Director: Matthew Nastuk

Writer: Carolyn Omine

A new kid at school named Donny works with Bart on his pranks. But when the pranks start to backfire, Bart wonders if he can trust his new accomplice. Meanwhile, the Simpsons get a fancy loaner car after Marge gets in an accident, and Homer falls in love with it.

Director: Matthew Nastuk

Writer: Joel H. Cohen

As Mother's Day approaches, Moe narrates an episode in which he writes a letter to Homer, Apu and Reverend Lovejoy, who are vacationing with their children, and threatens to run away with one of their wives. While the trio tries to determine whose wife Moe is referring to, Homer, Lovejoy and Apu flashback to the intimate moments they initially ignored between Moe and Marge, Manjula and Helen Lovejoy. But when the boys return from their trip, they're in for the surprise of their lives.

Director: Matthew Nastuk

Writer: Stephanie Gillis

After Bart accidentally sends a sweet homeless woman's cart into the river, he allows her to live in his closet for a small fee. When Lisa discovers that the woman is an incredible folk singer, she offers her own closet and plans a concert, only to be disappointed by Hettie's surprising substance abuse and violent nature. Meanwhile Homer tries to prove he's handy, but accidentally traps the cat in the walls of the house.

Director: Matthew Nastuk

Writer: Carolyn Omine

Homer is humiliated when he appears on the news running from a bear that nearly attacks him at the city dump. After Grampa scolds him, he swears to fight the bear himself.

Director: Matthew Nastuk

Writer: Joel H. Cohen

Bart and Lisa start struggling in their academic and social lives at school and Homer starts monitoring them and forcing them to do better. Meanwhile, Marge discovers a sauna in the basement.

Director: Matthew Nastuk

Writer: Rob LaZebnik

Fearing that she will end up like Marge, Lisa pledges to focus solely on her academics and not get distracted by other things; Bart puts Nelson in his place and unintentionally earns the title of school bully.

Director: Matthew Nastuk

Writer: Joel H. Cohen

Bart's film about an angry father quickly becomes a critical favorite, winning him several awards.

Director: Matthew Nastuk

Writer: John Frink

When inventor Elon Musk lands in Springfield, he and Homer become fast friends and revolutionize the town's nuclear plant. But when Musk goes overboard and Mr. Burns wants him removed, Homer must figure out a way to break up with him.

Director: Matthew Nastuk

Writer: Neil Campbell

Homer is fired and decides to buy an ice-cream truck. Marge makes use of the mountains of Popsicle sticks from Homer's ice-cream consumption by creating sculptures of Springfield citizens with them, leading to a feature about her on the news.

Director: Matthew Nastuk

Writer: Carolyn Omine