The Best Episodes Directed By Matthew Nastuk
Every TV Episode Directed by Matthew Nastuk Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Matthew Nastuk Ratings Summary
The best episode directed by Matthew Nastuk is "The Tipping Point", rated 8.6/10 from 8 user votes. It was "written by J. Stewart Burns". "The Tipping Point" aired on 5/12/2024 and is rated 0.4 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "It's a Blunderful Life".
8.6/10 8 votes#1 - The Tipping Point
Season 35 Episode 17 - Aired 5/12/2024
Homer loses his mind over tipping culture run amok.
Director: Matthew Nastuk
Writer: J. Stewart Burns
8.2/10 8 votes#2 - It's a Blunderful Life
Season 35 Episode 7 - Aired 11/19/2023
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
7.8/10 8 votes#3 - AE Bonny Romance
Season 35 Episode 8 - Aired 12/3/2023
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
7.1/10 20 votes#4 - Brick Like Me
Season 25 Episode 20 - Aired 5/4/2014
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
6.9/10 18 votes#5 - Worst Episode Ever
Season 12 Episode 11 - Aired 2/4/2001
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
6.8/10 23 votes#6 - Make Room for Lisa
Season 10 Episode 16 - Aired 2/28/1999
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
6.8/10 6 votes#7 - One Angry Lisa
Season 34 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/2022
Lisa gets called for jury duty while Marge becomes obsessed with her exercise bike.
Director: Matthew Nastuk
Writer: Jessica Conrad
6.8/10 5 votes#8 - Write Off This Episode
Season 34 Episode 19 - Aired 4/30/2023
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
6.7/10 23 votes#9 - D'oh-in' in the Wind
Season 10 Episode 6 - Aired 11/15/1998
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
6.7/10 14 votes#10 - Whiskey Business
Season 24 Episode 19 - Aired 5/5/2013
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
6.7/10 24 votes#11 - Steal This Episode
Season 25 Episode 9 - Aired 1/5/2014
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
6.6/10 14 votes#12 - Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Season 15 Episode 12 - Aired 2/15/2004
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
6.6/10 17 votes#13 - The Falcon and the D'ohman
Season 23 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/2011
Homer befriends a new security guard at the plant; Marge daydreams about being a contestant on "Top Chef."
Director: Matthew Nastuk
Writer: Justin Hurwitz
6.5/10 19 votes#14 - Grift of the Magi
Season 11 Episode 9 - Aired 12/19/1999
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
6.5/10 20 votes#15 - The Fat and the Furriest
Season 15 Episode 5 - Aired 11/30/2003
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
6.5/10 15 votes#16 - The Debarted
Season 19 Episode 13 - Aired 3/2/2008
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
6.4/10 18 votes#17 - Treehouse of Horror XI
Season 12 Episode 1 - Aired 11/1/2000
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
6.4/10 19 votes#18 - Angry Dad: The Movie
Season 22 Episode 14 - Aired 2/20/2011
Bart's film about an angry father quickly becomes a critical favorite, winning him several awards.
Director: Matthew Nastuk
Writer: John Frink
6.4/10 17 votes#19 - Gal of Constant Sorrow
Season 27 Episode 14 - Aired 2/21/2016
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
6.4/10 17 votes#20 - From Russia Without Love
Season 30 Episode 6 - Aired 11/11/2018
On a mission to play hardcore pranks, Bart, Nelson and Milhouse get Moe a mail-order bride on the Dark Web.
Director: Matthew Nastuk
Writer: Michael Ferris
6.3/10 18 votes#21 - Father Knows Worst
Season 20 Episode 18 - Aired 4/26/2009
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
6.3/10 17 votes#22 - The Musk Who Fell to Earth
Season 26 Episode 12 - Aired 1/25/2015
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
6.2/10 13 votes#23 - Homerazzi
Season 18 Episode 16 - Aired 3/25/2007
After a celebrity scandal is accidentally captured in a family photo, Homer decides to become a paparazzo.
Director: Matthew Nastuk
Writer: J. Stewart Burns
6.2/10 18 votes#24 - Once Upon a Time in Springfield
Season 21 Episode 10 - Aired 1/10/2010
Krusty grudgingly adds a pretty, singing cohost named Princess Penelope to his show in order to attract more female viewers. Girls love her, and ratings improve, but Bart and Milhouse want to get the show back to the way it was. The situation gets more complicated when Krusty and Penelope fall in love and decide to get married. Meanwhile, Homer, Lenny, and Carl consider working at a competing nuclear plant when Mr. Burns cuts off their daily doughnut service.
Director: Matthew Nastuk
Writer: Matt Selman
6.2/10 16 votes#25 - Moe Letter Blues
Season 21 Episode 21 - Aired 5/9/2010
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