The Best Episodes Directed By Wes Archer
Every TV Episode Directed by Wes Archer Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Wes Archer Ratings Summary
The best episode directed by Wes Archer is "The Wedding Squanchers", rated 8.801/10 from 88 user votes. It was "written by Tom Kauffman". "The Wedding Squanchers" aired on 10/4/2015 and is rated 0.3 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Bob Day Afternoon".
8.8/10 88 votes#1 - The Wedding Squanchers
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 10/4/2015
The whole family makes mistakes.
Director: Wes Archer
Writer: Tom Kauffman
8.5/10 11 votes#2 - Bob Day Afternoon
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 3/18/2012
A bank robber holds up a bank across the street from Bob’s Burgers. When the robbery goes awry, Bob finds himself at the center of a hostage crisis.
Director: Wes Archer
Writer: Dan Fybel
8.3/10 110 votes#3 - A Rickle in Time
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 7/26/2015
Rick, Morty, and Summer get into trouble when time is fractured by a feedback loop of uncertainty that split reality into more than one equally possible impossibilities. Meanwhile, Beth and Jerry go to extreme lengths to save a deer struck by their vehicle.
Director: Wes Archer
Writer: Matt Roller
8.2/10 42 votes#4 - One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/24/1991
After eating poisonous blowfish at a sushi restaurant, Homer decides to live life to the fullest in the 24 hours he has left to live.
Director: Wes Archer
Writer: Nell Scovell
8.1/10 33 votes#5 - Who Shot Mr. Burns? (1)
Season 6 Episode 25 - Aired 5/21/1995
Mr. Burns makes many enemies when he steals the oil discovered beneath Springfield Elementary.
Director: Wes Archer
Writer: Bill Oakley
8.1/10 34 votes#6 - Bart Sells His Soul
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1995
Bart sells his soul to Milhouse for five dollars, but soon regrets his decision. Meanwhile, Moe turns the Tavern into a family-friendly restaurant.
Director: Wes Archer
Writer: Greg Daniels
8.0/10 34 votes#7 - Rosebud
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/1993
Burns longs for a childhood toy that winds up in the grip of Maggie.
Director: Wes Archer
Writer: John Swartzwelder
8.0/10 29 votes#8 - Who Shot Mr. Burns? (2)
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1995
With Mr. Burns shot, Chief Wiggum investigates the crime, and nearly everyone in town has a motive. At the end, it all comes down to the Simpson DNA.
Director: Wes Archer
Writer: Bill Oakley
8.0/10 92 votes#9 - Get Schwifty
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 8/23/2015
When a massive head descends into Earth's atmosphere, Rick and Morty must save the planet by coming up with a new hit song. Meanwhile, Jerry, Beth, and Summer become part of a new religion.
Director: Wes Archer
Writer: Tom Kauffman
7.9/10 40 votes#10 - Bart the Daredevil
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 12/6/1990
The Simpsons go to a Monster truck rally that features famous daredevil Lance Murdock. Bart immediately becomes enamored and decides that he wants to become a daredevil as well. His first stunt ends in injury, but to gain the respect of his friends, he promises a far more impressive feat to them: to jump the Springfield Gorge.
Director: Wes Archer
Writer: Jay Kogen
7.9/10 29 votes#11 - Itchy & Scratchy Land
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 10/2/1994
The family's trip to Itchy & Scratchy Land takes an unexpected turn when high-tech robots malfunction and become violent.
Director: Wes Archer
Writer: John Swartzwelder
7.8/10 29 votes#12 - I Love Lisa
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/11/1993
Chief Wiggum's son has a crush on Lisa after she gives him a Valentine out of pity.
Director: Wes Archer
Writer: Frank Mula
7.8/10 31 votes#13 - $pringfield
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 12/16/1993
Legalized gambling comes to Springfield, and Marge becomes addicted; Robert Goulet entertains at Bart's casino for kids.
Director: Wes Archer
Writer: Bill Oakley
7.8/10 9 votes#14 - Tina-rannosaurus Wrecks
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 12/2/2012
After Tina accidentally wrecks the car, and gets the whole family involved with a slimy insurance agent, she worries that she's a "jinx".
Director: Wes Archer
Writer: Jon Schroeder
7.8/10 36 votes#15 - The Why of Fry
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 4/6/2003
Still unable to impress Leela, Fry sadly suspects that he has no importance in life - until Nibbler takes him on a mission to prevent the brains from destroying the universe. In the process, Fry learns what really happened when he was cryogenically frozen on December 31, 1999.
Director: Wes Archer
Writer: David X. Cohen
7.7/10 25 votes#16 - Homer Loves Flanders
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 3/17/1994
Flanders' extra ticket to the big game makes him Homer's new best friend, a role that sorely tests Flanders' patience.
Director: Wes Archer
Writer: David Richardson
7.7/10 24 votes#17 - Dreamland Falls
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 8/17/2018
As Dreamland celebrates an unexpected arrival while saying goodbye to a friend, everyday life is thrown into disarray.
Director: Wes Archer
Writer: Bill Oakley
7.6/10 30 votes#18 - Bart vs. Australia
Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 2/19/1995
After tricking an Australian boy into accepting a collect call, Bart flies Down Under to apologize.
Director: Wes Archer
Writer: Bill Oakley
7.6/10 48 votes#19 - Treehouse of Horror
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/25/1990
The Simpson kids hide in the family treehouse and tell each other spooky stories. The first regards haunted houses, the second introduces Kang and Kodos for the first time in an alien abduction, and the third is a Simpson-adapted retelling of The Raven.
Director: Wes Archer
Writer: Wallace Wolodarsky
7.5/10 35 votes#20 - Three Men and a Comic Book
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/9/1991
Bart, Milhouse, and Martin pool their money to buy the new first issue of Radioactive Man, but their investment and their friendship are threatened when they can't agree on who will keep it.
Director: Wes Archer
Writer: Jeff Martin
7.5/10 40 votes#21 - Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/21/1991
Homer's long-lost half-brother is the CEO of a car company that's wildly successful... until he hires Homer to help design a car for the average man.
Director: Wes Archer
Writer: Jeff Martin
7.5/10 28 votes#22 - New Kid on the Block
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/1992
Bart has a crush on his new neighbor, a teenage girl who only has eyes for Jimbo Jones. Bart sets out to prove that Jimbo is not as tough as he seems.
Director: Wes Archer
Writer: Conan O'Brien
7.5/10 11 votes#23 - Beefsquatch
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 5/20/2012
Bob appears in a cooking segment on a local news morning program, but Gene steals the show when he crashes the set with a sasquatch mask.
Director: Wes Archer
Writer: Nora Smith
7.4/10 43 votes#24 - Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 11/1/1990
Bart catches a three-eyed fish in a river downstream of the Nuclear Power Plant. This causes the plant to become inspected, and in order to prevent it from being shut down, Mr. Burns decides to run for governor. After a hard campaign which sees Burns rise from being universally despised to running neck and neck with popular incumbent Mary Bailey, it is decided that Burns will have dinner with a random employee the night before the election. Homer is chosen, much to Marge's chagrin.
Director: Wes Archer
Writer: Sam Simon
7.4/10 59 votes#25 - Moaning Lisa
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/11/1990
The meaning of life and second grade have Lisa playing the blues solo--until she jams with a kindred spirit; Homer seeks tutelage to beat Bart at video boxing.
Director: Wes Archer
Writer: Al Jean