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The Best Episodes of The Simpsons Season 16

Every episode of The Simpsons Season 16 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Simpsons Season 16!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Simpsons Season 16 Episode 1 - Treehouse of Horror XV
    7.4/10(2264 votes)

    #1 - Treehouse of Horror XV

    S16:E1

    Ned Flanders' head injury gives him the power to predict others' deaths, Bart and Lisa play detective when a string of Victorian-era prostitutes are murdered by Jack the Ripper, and the Simpsons go on a fantastic voyage inside Mr. Burns' body to save Maggie.

    Director:David Silverman
    Writer:Bill Odenkirk

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  2. The Simpsons Season 16 Episode 2 - All's Fair in Oven War
    6.9/10(1826 votes)

    #2 - All's Fair in Oven War

    S16:E2

    Marge gets her kitchen remodeled and the dishes she makes inside it get rave reviews. The suggestion of Ned Flanders leads her to enter a cooking contest. However, Marge realizes the competition is harder than it seems. Meanwhile, Bart finds Homer's vintage Playdude magazines and decides to adopt the lifestyle he sees within the articles.

    Director:Mark Kirkland
    Writer:Matt Selman

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  3. The Simpsons Season 16 Episode 3 - Sleeping with the Enemy
    7.2/10(1865 votes)

    #3 - Sleeping with the Enemy

    S16:E3

    Marge finds Nelson and acts as a mother figure towards him due to her children's loss of interest in her. Meanwhile, Lisa gets teased about her big butt, and becomes obsessed with her weight.

    Director:Lauren MacMullan
    Writer:Jon Vitti

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  4. The Simpsons Season 16 Episode 4 - She Used to Be My Girl
    6.5/10(1787 votes)

    #4 - She Used to Be My Girl

    S16:E4

    Marge meets up with a former high-school pal who is now a famous news anchor, and she wonders if she made the right life choice.

    Director:Matthew Nastuk
    Writer:Tim Long

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  5. The Simpsons Season 16 Episode 5 - Fat Man and Little Boy
    7.0/10(1727 votes)

    #5 - Fat Man and Little Boy

    S16:E5

    When Bart writes slogans on T-shirts, he catches the attention of Goose Gladwell, a gag-gift entrepreneur, and soon becomes a T-shirt mogul; Homer feels he no longer has a place in the family when Bart becomes the breadwinner.

    Director:Mike B. Anderson
    Writer:Joel H. Cohen

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  6. The Simpsons Season 16 Episode 6 - Midnight Rx
    7.1/10(1753 votes)

    #6 - Midnight Rx

    S16:E6

    Homer, Grampa, Apu and Flanders travel to Canada to buy sorely needed prescription drugs with fake Canadian health-care cards.

    Director:Nancy Kruse
    Writer:Marc Wilmore

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  7. The Simpsons Season 16 Episode 7 - Mommie Beerest
    6.8/10(1695 votes)

    #7 - Mommie Beerest

    S16:E7

    When Marge discovers Homer has remortgaged the house to help Moe's bar, she takes over as landlady. Little does Homer know, Moe and Marge are a match made in pub heaven.

    Director:Mark Kirkland
    Writer:Michael Price

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  8. The Simpsons Season 16 Episode 8 - Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass
    6.2/10(1757 votes)

    #8 - Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass

    S16:E8

    Homer's impromptu dance at a carnival leads to a job choreographing victory dances for sports stars Tom Brady, Warren Sapp, Michelle Kwan, Yao Ming and LeBron James.

    Director:Steven Dean Moore
    Writer:Tim Long

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  9. The Simpsons Season 16 Episode 9 - Pranksta Rap
    6.5/10(1828 votes)

    #9 - Pranksta Rap

    S16:E9

    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

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  10. The Simpsons Season 16 Episode 10 - There's Something About Marrying
    6.9/10(1836 votes)

    #10 - There's Something About Marrying

    S16:E10

    Springfield legalizes same-sex marriage to increase tourism. After becoming a minister, Homer starts to wed people to make money. Meanwhile, Marge's sister Patty comes out as a lesbian and reveals that she is going to marry a woman named Veronica.

    Director:Nancy Kruse
    Writer:J. Stewart Burns

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  11. The Simpsons Season 16 Episode 11 - On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister
    6.7/10(1816 votes)

    #11 - On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister

    S16:E11

    Lisa does what every little sister has dreamed of - she gets a restraining order put on her big brother. Bart is forced to live in the back garden, but soon realises the joy of communing with nature.

    Director:Bob Anderson
    Writer:Jeff Westbrook

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  12. The Simpsons Season 16 Episode 12 - Goo Goo Gai Pan
    6.9/10(1814 votes)

    #12 - Goo Goo Gai Pan

    S16:E12

    Selma decides to adopt a child from China, but when the rules say she must be married, Homer must pose as her husband for the fearsome adoption agent Madame Wu.

    Director:Lance Kramer
    Writer:Dana Gould

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  13. The Simpsons Season 16 Episode 13 - Mobile Homer
    6.7/10(1706 votes)

    #13 - Mobile Homer

    S16:E13

    When Marge starts economising, Homer thinks he's being left out of the family's important financial decisions, so splashes out on an expensive camper van and sets up camp on the driveway.

    Director:Raymond S. Persi
    Writer:Tim Long

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  14. The Simpsons Season 16 Episode 14 - The Seven-Beer Snitch
    6.7/10(1693 votes)

    #14 - The Seven-Beer Snitch

    S16:E14

    After Shelbyville accuses Springfield of being hicks, Marge convinces the townspeople to fund a Frank Gehry-designed concert hall, which is then converted to a prison when the concert hall goes bankrupt on opening night. Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa investigate Snowball II's recent weight gain.

    Director:Matthew Nastuk
    Writer:Bill Odenkirk

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  15. The Simpsons Season 16 Episode 15 - Future-Drama
    7.3/10(1903 votes)

    #15 - Future-Drama

    S16:E15

    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

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  16. The Simpsons Season 16 Episode 16 - Don't Fear the Roofer
    7.4/10(1995 votes)

    #16 - Don't Fear the Roofer

    S16:E16

    Homer meets a new friend, Ray the Roofer, but gets confined to a mental institution when his friends and family believe he made him up.

    Director:Mark Kirkland
    Writer:Kevin Curran

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  17. The Simpsons Season 16 Episode 17 - The Heartbroke Kid
    7.1/10(1818 votes)

    #17 - The Heartbroke Kid

    S16:E17

    When Bart endangers his health by bingeing on vending-machine food, the Simpsons turn their home into a hostel in order to afford sending him to a forced starvation facility.

    Director:Steven Dean Moore
    Writer:Ian Maxtone-Graham

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  18. The Simpsons Season 16 Episode 18 - A Star Is Torn
    6.7/10(1732 votes)

    #18 - A Star Is Torn

    S16:E18

    Lisa agrees to enter a Krusty-sponsored "Li'l Starmaker" competition and panics when another contestant outperforms her.

    Director:Nancy Kruse
    Writer:Carolyn Omine

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  19. The Simpsons Season 16 Episode 19 - Thank God It's Doomsday
    7.2/10(1770 votes)

    #19 - Thank God It's Doomsday

    S16:E19

    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 and doing a complicated math equation that predicts the end will come on May 18th.

    Director:Michael Marcantel
    Writer:Don Payne

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  20. The Simpsons Season 16 Episode 20 - Home Away from Homer
    7.1/10(1690 votes)

    #20 - Home Away from Homer

    S16:E20

    Flanders rents a room to two college girls who, without his knowledge, use the spare room to broadcast live softcore pornographic web videos of themselves.

    Director:Bob Anderson
    Writer:Joel H. Cohen

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  21. The Simpsons Season 16 Episode 21 - The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star
    7.2/10(1856 votes)

    #21 - The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star

    S16:E21

    Bart gets expelled from school and transfers to a Catholic school, where a hip priest named Father Sean tries to convert Bart and Homer to Catholicism, which worries Marge when she believes that Catholics do not go to the same heaven as Protestants and discovers that Catholic women do not use birth control.

    Director:Michael Polcino
    Writer:Matt Warburton

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Season 16 Ratings Summary

"Treehouse of Horror XV" is the best rated episode of "The Simpsons" season 16. It scored 7.4/10 based on 2264 votes. Directed by David Silverman and written by Bill Odenkirk, it aired on 11/7/2004. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "All's Fair in Oven War".