- 8.3/1039 votes
#1 - The Farnsworth Parabox
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 6/8/2003
Professor Farnsworth forbids the crew to look inside a mysterious box. Leela can't resist taking a peek, discovering the box to be a gateway to a parallel universe.
Director: Ron Hughart
Writer: Bill Odenkirk
- 7.5/1037 votes
#2 - Insane in the Mainframe
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 4/8/2001
Accused of robbing a bank, Fry and Bender plead insanity and are both sent to a robot insane asylum. While Bender and his buddy Roberto plan an escape, Fry is brainwashed into thinking that he is a robot.
Director: Peter Avanzino
Writer: Bill Odenkirk
- 7.3/1038 votes
#3 - A Tale of Two Santas
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 12/23/2001
A Planet Express mission to Robot Santa's colony on Neptune leaves the murderous robot trapped in the frozen sea, and Bender takes over as Santa, vowing to bring peace and goodwill to Xmas again. But when Bender is mistaken for the real Robot Santa, he is arrested and sentenced to death.
Director: Ron Hughart
Writer: Bill Odenkirk
- 7.2/1047 votes
#4 - I Second That Emotion
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/21/1999
Professor Farnsworth installs an empathy chip in Bender after the inconsiderate robot flushes Nibbler down the toilet. With his newfound emotions, a concerned Bender ventures into the mutant-infested sewers to rescue Leela's beloved pet.
Director: Mark Ervin
Writer: Bill Odenkirk
- 7.2/1042 votes
#5 - How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 4/2/2000
When Hermes takes a stress-relieving vacation, replacement bureaucrat Morgan Proctor becomes infatuated with Fry. Bender threatens to publicize their affair, but Morgan removes Bender's memory and hides it within the cavernous Central Bureaucracy.
Director: Mark Ervin
Writer: Bill Odenkirk
- 7.1/1037 votes
#6 - Kif Gets Knocked Up A Notch
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 1/12/2003
Amy's romance with Kif takes a twist when he gets pregnant. As she questions her commitment to Kif, he must return to his ancient, mysterious home world to give birth in the same muddy swamp where he was born.
Director: Wes Archer
Writer: Bill Odenkirk
- 7.1/108 votes
#7 - Love Is Hell
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 2/9/2022
In hell, Bean resists Dagmar's attempts to force her to marry Satan. Meanwhile, Luci plots to flee heaven and Elfo tries to escape from the ogres.
Director: Ed Tadem
Writer: Bill Odenkirk
- 6.9/109 votes
#8 - The Goo-Bye Girl
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/9/2022
Freckles manipulates Derek and Bear Boy into confronting some bullies. The secret of the goo is out but who will drink it to become the savior?
Director: Jeff Myers
Writer: Bill Odenkirk
- 6.7/107 votes
#9 - Planet Espresso
Season 9 Episode 7 - Aired 9/9/2024
Hermes inherits a Jamaican coffee farm that holds the ruins of an ancient spaceship.
Director: Crystal Chesney
Writer: Bill Odenkirk
- 6.4/1010 votes
#10 - The Pitter-Patter of Little Feet
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/9/2022
After Sorcerio brings Freckles to life, the wooden puppet sets out to undermine Zøg with a comedy roast and an alliance with Becky and Cloyd
Director: Edmund Fong
Writer: Bill Odenkirk
- 6.3/1015 votes
#11 - Adventures in Baby-Getting
Season 24 Episode 3 - Aired 11/4/2012
When Marge's car falls into a sink hole, she buys the perfect replacement to fit her family of five. But she quickly grows to hate it because, as she tells a shocked Homer, the car would be too small if she wanted to have another baby. Meanwhile, Bart and his friends are determined to find out what secret Lisa is keeping when Bart finds her cryptic messages and follows her sneaking off downtown for covert meetings after school.
Director: Rob Oliver
Writer: Bill Odenkirk
- 6.2/1020 votes
#12 - 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
- 6.2/1017 votes
#13 - Pulpit Friction
Season 24 Episode 18 - Aired 4/28/2013
Homer is recruited to be a deacon by the cutting-edge new pastor. The dry cleaner mistakenly switches Marge's wedding dress for one of Krusty's costumes.
Director: Chris Clements
Writer: Bill Odenkirk
- 6.2/1014 votes
#14 - To Courier with Love
Season 27 Episode 20 - Aired 5/8/2016
"The Simpsons are going to..." Paris (well, Homer and Marge are), but in order to be able to afford the trip, Homer has to smuggle an exotic snake into France so it can be made into a gourmet meal.
Director: Timothy Bailey
Writer: Bill Odenkirk
- 6.2/1014 votes
#15 - Forgive and Regret
Season 29 Episode 18 - Aired 4/29/2018
Grampa makes a confession to Homer while on his deathbed. After his recovery, he comes to realize that this issue will not be easy to reconcile.
Director: Rob Oliver
Writer: Bill Odenkirk
- 6.1/1017 votes
#16 - 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
- 6.1/1014 votes
#17 - Love Is a Many Strangled Thing
Season 22 Episode 17 - Aired 3/27/2011
Marge persuades Homer to enroll in a fathering enrichment class; Bart becomes a school bully.
Director: Michael Polcino
Writer: Bill Odenkirk
- 6.1/1021 votes
#18 - Super Franchise Me
Season 26 Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/2014
Marge opens a sandwich franchise store after her sandwiches become a huge hit at Springfield Elementary. But running day-to-day at the store proves challenging, especially when the same franchise opens another location across the street.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Bill Odenkirk
- 6.1/1010 votes
#19 - The Fat Blue Line
Season 31 Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/2019
During the San Castellanta street festival, much of the town finds their wallets have been pickpocketed; after the state investigator puts the wrong man in jail, Chief Wiggum sets out to catch the real criminal and show he's still up for police work.
Director: Michael Polcino
Writer: Bill Odenkirk
- 6.0/1016 votes
#20 - Million Dollar Maybe
Season 21 Episode 11 - Aired 1/31/2010
Homer blows off Marge to buy a lottery ticket and winds up winning the million-dollar jackpot. Fearing how Marge will react if she finds out the reason Homer missed their date, Homer keeps his newly inherited fortune a secret and spoils his family with “anonymous” gifts. When Bart finds out, he and Homer spend the money like it’s going out of style, including buying front-row to tickets to see Coldplay in concert.
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: Bill Odenkirk
- 5.8/1015 votes
#21 - 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
- 5.8/1012 votes
#22 - 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
- 5.8/1020 votes
#23 - Double, Double, Boy in Trouble
Season 20 Episode 3 - Aired 10/19/2008
An irreverent take on the Prince and the Pauper. Bart enthusiastically trades lives with a wealthy lookalike after landing himself in trouble for triggering a rampage of vacuum cleaners, but finds the lavish lifestyle too much when he becomes the target of all his new friends' pranks.
Director: Michael Polcino
Writer: Bill Odenkirk
- 5.7/1014 votes
#24 - The Last Traction Hero
Season 28 Episode 9 - Aired 12/4/2016
A workplace accident leaves Homer in a cast, and in a position to sue Mr. Burns. This leaves Marge unfulfilled, so she turns to an unexpected source for romance. Meanwhile, Lisa is made "Bus Monitor" and tries to keep the peace.
Director: Bob Anderson
Writer: Bill Odenkirk
- 5.7/1015 votes
#25 - Grampy Can Ya Hear Me
Season 29 Episode 5 - Aired 11/5/2017
Grampa gets a hearing aid and finally hears what everyone has been saying about him. Meanwhile, Mr. Skinner discovers that his mother has kept the ultimate secret from him.
Director: Bob Anderson
Writer: Bill Odenkirk