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The Best Episodes Directed By Mike B. anderson

Every TV Episode Directed by Mike B. anderson Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

Mike B. Anderson Ratings Summary

"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".

  • You Only Move Twice
    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

  • Homer's Phobia
    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

  • Trilogy of Error
    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

  • Treehouse of Horror VII
    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

  • Lisa the Iconoclast
    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

  • HOMЯ
    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

  • The Secret War of Lisa Simpson
    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

  • The Last Temptation of Krust
    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

  • Homer Scissorhands
    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

  • Halloween of Horror
    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

  • The Way We Weren't
    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

  • Homer Simpson in: 'Kidney Trouble'
    6.5/1023 votes

    #12 - 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

  • Treehouse of Horror XX
    6.5/1021 votes

    #13 - 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

  • The Scorpion's Tale
    6.5/1014 votes

    #14 - 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

  • The Serfsons
    6.5/1031 votes

    #15 - 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

  • Tales from the Public Domain
    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

  • How I Spent My Strummer Vacation
    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

  • Future-Drama
    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

  • The Great Simpsina
    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

  • Homer's Paternity Coot
    6.2/1013 votes

    #20 - 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

  • Springfield Splendor
    6.2/1023 votes

    #21 - 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

  • Pranksta Rap
    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

  • Marge's Son Poisoning
    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

  • Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder
    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

  • Mona Leaves-a
    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