8.3/1033 votes#1 - You Only Move Twice
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 11/3/1996
In an idyllic planned community, Homer works for a new boss who has trouble with the government. Meanwhile, the rest of the family has difficulty dealing with the bucolic burg.
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: John Swartzwelder
8.3/1030 votes#2 - Homer's Phobia
Season 8 Episode 15 - Aired 2/16/1997
The Simpsons befriend a shop owner, but when Homer discovers the man is gay, he worries about his influence on Bart.
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: Ron Hauge
7.8/1022 votes#3 - Trilogy of Error
Season 12 Episode 18 - Aired 4/29/2001
Homer's rush to the hospital to reattach his thumb, Lisa's rush to school to win the science fair, and Bart's run-in with an illegal fireworks scheme are interconnected in a parody of Go and Run Lola Run.
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: Matt Selman
7.7/1027 votes#4 - Treehouse of Horror VII
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 10/27/1996
A Halloween trilogy. This time, Bart meets his "pure evil" Siamese twin; Lisa's science project attacks Bart; aliens Kang and Kodos invade as Clinton and Dole's replicas just before the 1996 Presidential election.
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: Dan Greaney
7.6/1031 votes#5 - Lisa the Iconoclast
Season 7 Episode 16 - Aired 2/18/1996
While researching into Jebediah Springfield's past for an essay, Lisa discovers that the town founder wasn't the hero that everyone thinks he was.
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: Jonathan Collier
7.5/1021 votes#6 - HOMЯ
Season 12 Episode 9 - Aired 1/7/2001
While working as a human guinea pig (to pay off the family's lost savings after making a bad investment), Homer discovers the root cause of his subnormal intelligence: a crayon that was lodged in his brain ever since he was a boy. He decides to have it removed to increase his IQ, but discovers that being smart does not necessarily equal being happy.
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: Al Jean
7.2/1024 votes#7 - The Secret War of Lisa Simpson
Season 8 Episode 25 - Aired 5/18/1997
Lisa joins the all-male military school where Bart is sent for discipline. Then comes the hazing.
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: Richard Appel
7.1/1025 votes#8 - The Last Temptation of Krust
Season 9 Episode 15 - Aired 2/22/1998
Krusty bombs at a charity comedy event and feels like a tired old hack. With the Simpsons’ support, Krusty takes his act in a fresh new direction… but in the end, his true nature asserts itself.
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: Donick Cary
7.0/1016 votes#9 - Homer Scissorhands
Season 22 Episode 20 - Aired 5/8/2011
Homer opens his own hair salon after discovering he is a talented stylist; Milhouse professes his love for Lisa.
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: Peter Gaffney
7.0/1020 votes#10 - Halloween of Horror
Season 27 Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/2015
When Lisa becomes scared at the Krustyland Halloween Horror Night, Homer is forced to take down his Everscream Terrors decorations. Halloween pop-up employees seek vengeance on Homer for causing them to lose their jobs, and rob his house while Homer and Lisa hide out in the attic. Homer and Lisa light up their stored holiday decorations to attract attention and stand up to the intruders.
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: Carolyn Omine
6.8/1018 votes#11 - The Way We Weren't
Season 15 Episode 20 - Aired 5/9/2004
Homer and Marge recall the story of their first kiss at a summer camp when they were children—an event which was not all happy, as Homer (unwillingly) betrayed Marge by standing her up on their second date.
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: J. Stewart Burns
6.5/1031 votes#12 - The Serfsons
Season 29 Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/2017
In a magical medieval world, Marge's mother is turned into an Ice Walker and the only way for Homer to afford the cure is to force Lisa to use illegal magic. When the King discovers this, he kidnaps Lisa, and Homer must lead a feudal uprising to save her.
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: Brian Kelley
6.5/1023 votes#13 - Homer Simpson in: 'Kidney Trouble'
Season 10 Episode 8 - Aired 12/6/1998
When Grandpa needs a new kidney, Homer agrees to donate one, but then chickens out.
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: John Swartzwelder
6.5/1021 votes#14 - Treehouse of Horror XX
Season 21 Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/2009
Dial "M" for Murder or Press "#" to Return to Main Menu- Lisa is forced into a Hitchcockian murder scheme by Bart. Don't Have a Cow, Mankind- Springfield is once again overrun by zombies, thanks to Krusty Burger's latest sandwich. There's No Business Like Moe Business- In a Sweeney Todd spoof, Moe bleeds Homer dry to create the perfect microbrewed great beer.
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: Daniel Chun
6.5/1014 votes#15 - The Scorpion's Tale
Season 22 Episode 15 - Aired 3/6/2011
During a field trip, Lisa discovers desert water that makes usually combative creatures get along; after getting kicked out of the retirement home, Grampa comes to live with the family.
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: Billy Kimball
6.4/1016 votes#16 - Tales from the Public Domain
Season 13 Episode 14 - Aired 3/17/2002
When Homer gets a notice from the library that he has a book of classic tales that is years overdue, he finds it on the shelf and reads three stories: The Odyssey (where Homer and his bar buddies try to get home after fighting the Trojans), Joan of Arc (where Lisa leads the French against the English with the help of God), and Hamlet (where Bart tries to kill Moe after Moe kills Homer in order to marry Marge).
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: Andrew Kreisberg
6.4/1018 votes#17 - How I Spent My Strummer Vacation
Season 14 Episode 2 - Aired 11/10/2002
A drunken Homer appears on the show Taxicab Conversations and rants about how awful his life as a husband and father is. Although his family is at first outraged, they realise that they do somewhat burden him and decide to make up for it by sending him to a Rock 'n Roll Fantasy Camp where he mingles with rock stars, including Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. The rock stars ask Homer to help out at a concert and, expecting that he will be allowed to perform, he accepts. Actually, they want him to test the microphones; however, a humiliated Homer grabs a guitar and starts playing.
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: Mike Scully
6.3/1015 votes#18 - Future-Drama
Season 16 Episode 15 - Aired 4/17/2005
Through Professor Frink's future machine, Bart and Lisa see their lives in the year 2013, where Bart steals Lisa's chances at going to an Ivy League school in order to impress a skater girl named Jenda while Homer (now separated from Marge and living in an underwater apartment) fights Krusty the Clown after Marge begins dating him.
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: Matt Selman
6.3/1017 votes#19 - The Great Simpsina
Season 22 Episode 18 - Aired 4/10/2011
When the Great Raymondo takes Lisa on as his magician's assistant, she is conned into revealing the secret of his greatest trick to his nemesis.
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: Matt Warburton
6.2/1023 votes#20 - Springfield Splendor
Season 29 Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/2017
Marge and Lisa turn Lisa’s sad experience into a successful graphic novel-turned-Broadway show, but they struggle with creative differences and ego.
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: Tim Long
6.2/1013 votes#21 - Homer's Paternity Coot
Season 17 Episode 10 - Aired 1/8/2006
Mail from forty years earlier is discovered, and a letter from Homer Simpson's mother's old boyfriend states that he is Homer's true father. Homer sets out to find his supposed new father, leaving Abe behind.
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: Joel H. Cohen
6.1/1015 votes#22 - Pranksta Rap
Season 16 Episode 9 - Aired 2/13/2005
Bart fakes his own kidnapping to get out of being punished for going to a rap concert, but the ruse goes too far when Milhouse's father is implicated as the kidnapper and Chief Wiggum sees this as an opportunity to make a name for himself as a competent police officer.
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: Matt Selman
6.1/1016 votes#23 - Marge's Son Poisoning
Season 17 Episode 5 - Aired 11/13/2005
When Bart decides to spend a bit of time with Marge, it's not long before he's buying tea sets and singing duets. Has he turned into a mummy's boy?
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: Daniel Chun
6.0/1017 votes#24 - Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder
Season 11 Episode 6 - Aired 11/14/1999
Homer bowls a perfect 300 game, then concludes that the greatest accomplishment of his life is behind him. He reconnects with the world by bonding with baby Maggie.
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: Al Jean
6.0/1014 votes#25 - Mona Leaves-a
Season 19 Episode 19 - Aired 5/11/2008
Homer's mother, Mona, returns, but Homer is reluctant to trust her because she abandoned him so many times as a child.
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: Joel H. Cohen
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"You Only Move Twice" is the best rated episode directed by Mike B. Anderson. It scored 8.3/10 based on 33 votes. It was written by John Swartzwelder. It aired on 11/3/1996 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Homer's Phobia".