7.5/101,986 votes#1 - The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer
Season 18 Episode 1 - Aired 9/10/2006
Lisa's friendship with Fat Tony's son Michael prompts mob boss Tony to invite the Simpsons over for dinner. Michael says he'd rather be a chef than take over the family business, but that's before Tony is shot by a rival mobster.
Director: Michael Marcantel
Writer: Bill Odenkirk
6.6/101,801 votes#2 - Jazzy and the Pussycats
Season 18 Episode 2 - Aired 9/17/2006
A child psychiatrist suggests drumming to channel Bart's energy, and the boy proves he's got the beat when he shows some talent on the skins.
Director: Steven Dean Moore
Writer: Daniel Chun
6.7/101,714 votes#3 - Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em
Season 18 Episode 3 - Aired 9/24/2006
Marge reads Homer's carpentry books and becomes very handy at fixing things. Gender bias keeps the townspeople from accepting a female carpenter, so Marge pretends that Homer does the work. Meanwhile, Bart torments Skinner when he learns the principal has an extreme allergy to peanuts.
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: Matt Warburton
6.8/102,032 votes#4 - Treehouse of Horror XVII
Season 18 Episode 4 - Aired 11/5/2006
The 17th annual Halloween trilogy. Included: "Married to the Blob," in which a meteor turns Homer into a monster; "You Gotta Know When to Golem," about a monster from Jewish folklore; and "The Day the Earth Looked Stupid," about an alien invasion.
Director: David Silverman
Writer: Peter Gaffney
6.7/101,717 votes#5 - G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)
Season 18 Episode 5 - Aired 11/12/2006
Homer is bamboozled by Army recruiters and winds up in basic training, where he runs afoul of a tough-minded colonel and is assigned to play the enemy in war games.
Director: Nancy Kruse
Writer: Daniel Chun
6.7/101,660 votes#6 - Moe'N'a Lisa
Season 18 Episode 6 - Aired 11/19/2006
Lisa sees poetry in the notes Moe sticks to the walls of his hotel room, so she sends his work to a poetry journal, which publishes it, making Moe the toast of the literary circuit.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Matt Warburton
6.9/101,666 votes#7 - Ice Cream of Margie (With the Light Blue Hair)
Season 18 Episode 7 - Aired 11/26/2006
Homer is fired and decides to buy an ice-cream truck. Marge makes use of the mountains of Popsicle sticks from Homer's ice-cream consumption by creating sculptures of Springfield citizens with them, leading to a feature about her on the news.
Director: Matthew Nastuk
Writer: Carolyn Omine
7.2/101,640 votes#8 - The Haw-Hawed Couple
Season 18 Episode 8 - Aired 12/10/2006
When Bart ends up the only guest at Nelson's birthday party, the bully decides he's his best friend and goes about protecting Bart in a parody of "Goodfellas." Meanwhile, Homer reads Lisa to sleep and debates on whether to reveal the book's sad ending to her.
Director: Chris Clements
Writer: Matt Selman
6.2/101,717 votes#9 - Kill Gil, Volumes I & II
Season 18 Episode 9 - Aired 12/17/2006
Homer jumps into a brawl during a holiday ice-skating show. To escape the melee, Marge takes the family Christmas shopping, where a chance encounter with Gil leads to bad luck for Gil and the Simpson clan.
Director: Bob Anderson
Writer: Jeff Westbrook
6.5/101,646 votes#10 - The Wife Aquatic
Season 18 Episode 10 - Aired 1/7/2007
Selma and Patti's home movies make Marge nostalgic for the Barnacle Bay vacations of her youth, so Homer takes the family there, but the area has changed since the Bouviers were little girls.
Director: Lance Kramer
Writer: Kevin Curran
6.9/101,614 votes#11 - Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times
Season 18 Episode 11 - Aired 1/28/2007
Homer learns three lessons about revenge from stories told by Marge, Lisa and Bart that parody "The Count of Monte Cristo," "Revenge of the Nerds" and "Batman Begins."
Director: Michael Polcino
Writer: Joel H. Cohen
6.7/101,731 votes#12 - Little Big Girl
Season 18 Episode 12 - Aired 2/11/2007
Lisa pretends to be Native American for multicultural day at school. Meanwhile, Bart finds love with an older woman.
Director: Raymond S. Persi
Writer: Don Payne
7.3/101,710 votes#13 - Springfield Up
Season 18 Episode 13 - Aired 2/18/2007
A documentary filmmaker who interviewed a group of Springfield schoolchildren 32 years ago has followed up at eight-year intervals to film how their lives have unfolded.
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: Matt Warburton
6.8/101,660 votes#14 - Yokel Chords
Season 18 Episode 14 - Aired 3/4/2007
Bart has to see a psychiatrist after he starts a panic at school by telling a story about a murderous cafeteria worker. Meanwhile, Lisa tries to civilize Cletus Spuckler's hillbilly children, with mixed results.
Director: Susie Dietter
Writer: Michael Price
6.3/101,597 votes#15 - Rome-Old and Juli-Eh
Season 18 Episode 15 - Aired 3/11/2007
Selma and Grampa embark on a May-December romance, and Bart and Lisa get into trouble with deliverymen over cardboard boxes.
Director: Nancy Kruse
Writer: Daniel Chun
7.1/101,645 votes#16 - Homerazzi
Season 18 Episode 16 - Aired 3/25/2007
After a celebrity scandal is accidentally captured in a family photo, Homer decides to become a paparazzo.
Director: Matthew Nastuk
Writer: J. Stewart Burns
7.2/101,823 votes#17 - Marge Gamer
Season 18 Episode 17 - Aired 4/22/2007
Marge goes online for the first time and becomes obsessed with a role-playing game that Bart and many of their neighbors are playing. Meanwhile, Lisa develops her own obsession--for soccer--and Homer becomes a referee.
Director: Bob Anderson
Writer: J. Stewart Burns
5.9/101,760 votes#18 - The Boys of Bummer
Season 18 Episode 18 - Aired 4/29/2007
Bart goes from hero to goat on his Little League team after an error in the championship game. Meanwhile, Homer falls asleep on a bed in a department store. When he's awakened, he raves about the mattress and is given a job as a salesman.
Director: Rob Oliver
Writer: Michael Price
6.9/101,544 votes#19 - Crook and Ladder
Season 18 Episode 19 - Aired 5/6/2007
Homer, Apu, Moe and Skinner volunteer as firemen after Homer's sleepwalking accident injures the town's firefighters. They do some light looting at the fires to make up for not being compensated, but Marge and Lisa shame them into mending their ways.
Director: Lance Kramer
Writer: Bill Odenkirk
6.8/101,528 votes#20 - Stop or My Dog Will Shoot!
Season 18 Episode 20 - Aired 5/13/2007
The Simpsons' pooch, Santa's Little Helper, becomes a police dog.
Director: Matthew Faughnan
Writer: John Frink
8.1/102,682 votes#21 - 24 Minutes
Season 18 Episode 21 - Aired 5/20/2007
In a parody of "24," the school's Counter Truancy Unit tries to stop three sixth-graders planning to disrupt the school bake sale with a stink bomb.
Director: Raymond S. Persi
Writer: Billy Kimball, Ian Maxtone-Graham
7.1/101,735 votes#22 - You Kent Always Say What You Want
Season 18 Episode 22 - Aired 5/20/2007
Newsman Kent Brockman is fired for swearing on the air when Homer dumps coffee in his lap, but Lisa gets Brockman back in the game with her Webcam.
Director: Matthew Nastuk
Writer: Tim Long
The Best Episodes of The Simpsons Season 18
Every episode of The Simpsons Season 18 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Simpsons Season 18!
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...
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Season 18 Ratings Summary
"The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer" is the best rated episode of "The Simpsons" season 18. It scored 7.5/10 based on 1986 votes. Directed by Michael Marcantel and written by Bill Odenkirk, it aired on 9/10/2006. This episode is rated 0.9 points higher than the second-best, "Jazzy and the Pussycats".