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The Best Episodes Directed By Michael Marcantel

Every TV Episode Directed by Michael Marcantel Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

Michael Marcantel Ratings Summary

"Thank God It's Doomsday" is the best rated episode directed by Michael Marcantel. It scored 6.9/10 based on 14 votes. It was written by Don Payne. It aired on 5/8/2005 and is rated 0.3 points higher than their second-best episode, "Bart to the Future".

  • Thank God It's Doomsday
    6.9/1014 votes

    #1 - Thank God It's Doomsday

    Season 16 Episode 19 - Aired 5/8/2005

    Homer sees a movie about the end of the world and fears the same thing will happen in real life after seeing a chain of random occurrences (celebrities ["stars"] falling from the sky, raining blood, a man in a realistic devil costume) and doing a complicated math equation that predicts the end will come on May 18th, but when the end does not come, Homer discovers a flaw in the equation and ends up in Heaven where he meets God and learns that God is planning The Rapture.

    Director: Michael Marcantel

    Writer: Don Payne

  • Bart to the Future
    6.6/1017 votes

    #2 - Bart to the Future

    Season 11 Episode 17 - Aired 3/19/2000

    We see a possible future in which Bart is a grown-up slacker, living with Ralph Wiggum, while Lisa is no less than President of the United States.

    Director: Michael Marcantel

    Writer: Dan Greaney

  • Weekend at Burnsie's
    6.6/1016 votes

    #3 - Weekend at Burnsie's

    Season 13 Episode 16 - Aired 4/7/2002

    Homer is prescribed medicinal marijuana after getting pecked in the eyes by a murder of crows. While his family and friends worry about the drug altering his personality, Homer becomes Mr. Burns's vice president after cracking up at Burns's antiquated jokes.

    Director: Michael Marcantel

    Writer: Jon Vitti

  • Bart Has Two Mommies
    6.3/1016 votes

    #4 - Bart Has Two Mommies

    Season 17 Episode 14 - Aired 3/19/2006

    The family is at a church fund-raiser, where Homer tries to ensure his rubber duck onto victory, but Flanders wins the big prize, which he doesn’t want and gives it to Marge. In return Marge agrees to watch Rod and Todd while Ned is attending a left-handed convention. While Marge is spending all her time with the Rod and Todd and trying to let them learn how to be boys; Homer takes Bart and Lisa to a home for former celebrity animals and a monkey kidnaps Bart. Marge’s ability to be a mother comes into question when Ned discovers what she is doing with his boys and the local news covers Bart’s current predicament.

    Director: Michael Marcantel

    Writer: Dana Gould

  • Day of the Jackanapes
    6.2/1019 votes

    #5 - Day of the Jackanapes

    Season 12 Episode 13 - Aired 2/18/2001

    Krusty announces his retirement due to interference from network executives and the growing popularity of the big-money game show "Me Wantee", but when Krusty reveals to Sideshow Bob that all of the episodes featuring him have been erased, Sideshow Bob uses Krusty's biggest fan (Bart) to murder him during Krusty's farewell show.

    Director: Michael Marcantel

    Writer: Al Jean

  • A Star Is Born Again
    6.2/1017 votes

    #6 - A Star Is Born Again

    Season 14 Episode 13 - Aired 3/2/2003

    During the annual Jellyfish Festival, Ned Flanders realizes that he is lonely and becomes depressed. One night, he meets a beautiful woman, who asks him out on a date. He soon learns that the woman is Sara Sloan, a famous actress. Sloan is charmed by Flanders' wholesomeness, and they continue to date to the point at which she asks that he move to Hollywood. Flanders, worried that Hollywood would conflict with his conservative Christian values, refuses, so Sloan instead decides to stay in Springfield. However, their relationship does not work out, due to his insistence on marriage.

    Director: Michael Marcantel

    Writer: Brian Kelley

  • The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer
    6.2/1020 votes

    #7 - The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer

    Season 18 Episode 1 - Aired 9/10/2006

    Lisa's friendship with Fat Tony's son Michael prompts mob boss Tony to invite the Simpsons over for dinner. Michael says he'd rather be a chef than take over the family business, but that's before Tony is shot by a rival mobster.

    Director: Michael Marcantel

    Writer: Bill Odenkirk