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!
Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general.
Season 16 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "The Simpsons" season 16 is "Treehouse of Horror XV", rated 7.4/10 from 2056 user votes. It was directed by David Silverman and written by Bill Odenkirk. "Treehouse of Horror XV" aired on 11/7/2004 and is rated 0.5 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "All's Fair in Oven War".
7.4/10 2,056 votes#1 - Treehouse of Horror XV
Season 16 Episode 1 - Aired 11/7/2004
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
6.9/10 1,664 votes#2 - All's Fair in Oven War
Season 16 Episode 2 - Aired 11/14/2004
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
7.2/10 1,701 votes#3 - Sleeping with the Enemy
Season 16 Episode 3 - Aired 11/21/2004
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
6.5/10 1,628 votes#4 - She Used to Be My Girl
Season 16 Episode 4 - Aired 12/5/2004
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
7.0/10 1,572 votes#5 - Fat Man and Little Boy
Season 16 Episode 5 - Aired 12/12/2004
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
7.1/10 1,598 votes#6 - Midnight Rx
Season 16 Episode 6 - Aired 1/16/2005
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
6.8/10 1,545 votes#7 - Mommie Beerest
Season 16 Episode 7 - Aired 1/30/2005
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
6.2/10 1,602 votes#8 - Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass
Season 16 Episode 8 - Aired 2/6/2005
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
6.5/10 1,673 votes#9 - 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
6.9/10 1,671 votes#10 - There's Something About Marrying
Season 16 Episode 10 - Aired 2/20/2005
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
6.7/10 1,663 votes#11 - On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister
Season 16 Episode 11 - Aired 3/6/2005
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
6.9/10 1,658 votes#12 - Goo Goo Gai Pan
Season 16 Episode 12 - Aired 3/13/2005
Selma has a severe hot flash while giving Mr. Burns his driving test. Dr. Hibbert explains that Selma is experiencing the onset of menopause. Selma, decides she wants a baby rather than grow old alone. Adoption is suggested, but the Springfield orphanage is empty. Lisa suggests adopting a baby girl from China - but when the Chinese government only allows married couples to adopt, Selma writes down Homer's name as her husband.
Director: Lance Kramer
Writer: Dana Gould
6.7/10 1,551 votes#13 - Mobile Homer
Season 16 Episode 13 - Aired 3/20/2005
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
6.7/10 1,549 votes#14 - The Seven-Beer Snitch
Season 16 Episode 14 - Aired 4/3/2005
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
7.3/10 1,733 votes#15 - 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
7.4/10 1,821 votes#16 - Don't Fear the Roofer
Season 16 Episode 16 - Aired 5/1/2005
The Simpsons' roof springs a leak when the perfect storm hits Springfield. And when Marge asks what type of father can't keep a roof over his family's head, Homer tries to fix things up, but falls through the roof. Sick of being unwanted, Homer befriends a man who works as a roofer. However, no one else can see him and Homer's insistence that the roofer does exist prompts everyone to think he has gone crazy.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Kevin Curran
7.1/10 1,657 votes#17 - The Heartbroke Kid
Season 16 Episode 17 - Aired 5/1/2005
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
6.7/10 1,582 votes#18 - A Star Is Torn
Season 16 Episode 18 - Aired 5/8/2005
Lisa agrees to enter a Krusty-sponsored "Li'l Starmaker" competition and panics when another contestant (guest voice Fantasia Barrino) outperforms her.
Director: Nancy Kruse
Writer: Carolyn Omine
7.2/10 1,618 votes#19 - 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
7.0/10 1,544 votes#20 - Home Away from Homer
Season 16 Episode 20 - Aired 5/15/2005
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. Upset that no one in town told him this (and that Homer was the one who told everyone), Ned moves to the seemingly perfect town of Humbleton, Pennsylvania, while a brash coach moves into Flanders' house and begins harassing Homer the same way Homer harassed Ned.
Director: Bob Anderson
Writer: Joel H. Cohen
7.2/10 1,700 votes#21 - The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star
Season 16 Episode 21 - Aired 5/15/2005
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