8.5/106 votes#1 - Oslo
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 5/5/2019
Selina tries to arrange a meeting via her Finnish contact Minna. Gary helps Catherine plan a big event. Jonah and Amy push an anti-vax message in Pennsylvania. Mike finds a new home. Richard may have an enemy.
Director: Brad Hall
Writer: Ian Maxtone-Graham
7.8/1029 votes#2 - The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1997
Designated driver Barney absconds to Manhattan in Homer's car and leaves it there. But when the family journeys to the Big Apple to retrieve their property, Homer discovers his car has been booted.
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Ian Maxtone-Graham
7.8/1011 votes#3 - Blurb
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 5/28/2017
Selina tries to finish her book. Selina and her staff prepare for her portrait-unveiling ceremony, while Jonah tries to weasel himself onto the guest list. Dan works on his onscreen-chemistry problem.
Director: Morgan Sackett
Writer: Ian Maxtone-Graham
7.5/1021 votes#4 - Trash of the Titans
Season 9 Episode 22 - Aired 4/26/1998
Homer feuds with the Springfield garbage men and decides to run for Sanitation Commissioner. After winning the election with a sleazy campaign, Homer can’t keep the extravagant promises he made to the town.
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Ian Maxtone-Graham
7.4/1022 votes#5 - The Trouble with Trillions
Season 9 Episode 20 - Aired 4/5/1998
Facing an IRS audit, Homer agrees to help the feds bust Mr. Burns for a missing trillion-dollar bill. When Burns makes an anti-government stand, Homer flees with him to Cuba.
Director: Swinton O. Scott III
Writer: Ian Maxtone-Graham
7.1/1023 votes#6 - Lisa Gets an 'A'
Season 10 Episode 7 - Aired 11/22/1998
Stuck at home with a cold, Lisa gets addicted to a video game and neglects her homework. Her A+++ on a test wins the school a grant, but when she confesses that she cheated, Skinner covers it up. Meanwhile, Homer raises a lobster.
Director: Bob Anderson
Writer: Ian Maxtone-Graham
7.0/1016 votes#7 - The Seemingly Never-Ending Story
Season 17 Episode 13 - Aired 3/12/2006
The family is on a nature walk through “Carl’s Dad Caverns,” when Homer tries to get a piece from a stalactite. This results in the family falling through the cave floor and winds up with Homer getting stuck in the ceiling of one of the lower chambers of the cave. Marge, Bart and Maggie go off to find help, while Lisa stays behind and tells her father a story to pass the time. Her story involves running from a bighorn sheep and into Mr. Burn’s mansion. The pair evades the tenacious sheep by finding refuge in the mansion’s attic, where Mr. Burns tells her the story of how he came to work at Moe’s Tavern by losing a scavenger hunt with a rich Texan. While there he learned (and tells to Lisa) the tale of the Moe’s treasure. The stories within stories culminate in the fate of the treasure being determined in the cave.
Director: Raymond S. Persi
Writer: Ian Maxtone-Graham
6.8/1018 votes#8 - Alone Again, Natura-Diddily
Season 11 Episode 14 - Aired 2/13/2000
Ned's wife Maude is inadvertently killed by a T-shirt accident at an auto race. Homer and his family try to help Ned cope.
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Ian Maxtone-Graham
6.7/1026 votes#9 - Burns, Baby Burns
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 11/17/1996
Mr. Burns' boorish long-lost son Larry gets the brush-off from Burns, but Homer hatches a plan to reconcile them.
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Ian Maxtone-Graham
6.7/1019 votes#10 - Large Marge
Season 14 Episode 4 - Aired 11/24/2002
Thinking Homer does not find her attractive anymore, Marge decides to get liposuction, but instead receives breast implants. She becomes adored by many of the men in Springfield, and becomes a spokesmodel for trade shows. Meanwhile, Bart and Milhouse try to imitate a stunt they saw on an episode of Batman that guest stars Krusty the Clown. When the stunt ends badly, media watchdog groups blame Krusty, forcing the clown to make his show more safety-conscious and less fun.
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Ian Maxtone-Graham
6.6/1016 votes#11 - 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: Ian Maxtone-Graham
6.6/1019 votes#12 - Gone Maggie Gone
Season 20 Episode 13 - Aired 3/15/2009
Lisa infiltrates a convent in order to steal back Maggie who was accidentally taken in by nuns. While in the convent, Lisa uncovers a series of cryptic clues leading to a hidden jewel in Springfield. With help from resident history buffs Principal Skinner and Comic Book Guy, Lisa sets off to find the coveted prize. But Springfield's Freemasons are also hot on the trail of the jewel, and Lisa must race against them to find the jewel and rescue Maggie.
Director: Chris Clements
Writer: Ian Maxtone-Graham
6.5/1019 votes#13 - E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)
Season 11 Episode 5 - Aired 11/7/1999
Fleeing from a duel, Homer takes his family to live on a farm. There he discovers that by mixing tomatoes, tobacco and radioactivity from the nuclear plant, he can create a dangerously delicious new substance.
Director: Bob Anderson
Writer: Ian Maxtone-Graham
6.5/1017 votes#14 - The Blunder Years
Season 13 Episode 5 - Aired 12/9/2001
After tricking Marge into thinking an advertising spokesman is coming to visit her, Homer takes Marge and the rest of the family to a restaurant. A hypnotist uses his powers on Homer, and makes him remember a horrific childhood incident where Homer found a dead body in a ravine. The Simpson family decides to investigate this and find out where the body came from.
Director: Steven Dean Moore
Writer: Ian Maxtone-Graham
6.5/1016 votes#15 - 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
6.5/1014 votes#16 - The Scorpion's Tale
Season 22 Episode 15 - Aired 3/6/2011
During a field trip, Lisa discovers desert water that makes usually combative creatures get along; after getting kicked out of the retirement home, Grampa comes to live with the family.
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: Ian Maxtone-Graham
6.4/1020 votes#17 - Dark Knight Court
Season 24 Episode 16 - Aired 3/17/2013
Springfield's Easter is ruined by a prank and all fingers point to Bart. It is up to Lisa to save her brother, in a student court presided over by Attorney General Janet Reno. Meanwhile, inspired by an old comic book, Mr. Burns becomes an ineffectual superhero—fruit bat man.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Ian Maxtone-Graham
6.3/1018 votes#18 - Dude, Where's My Ranch?
Season 14 Episode 18 - Aired 4/27/2003
When challenged to think up a new Christmas carol, Homer instead writes a song about how much he hates Ned Flanders. The song becomes such a hit that the Simpsons become sick of hearing it and take a trip to a dude ranch. Lisa develops affections for a local boy named Luke but becomes jealous when he hears him talking to a girl named Clara on the telephone. One night, she meets Clara and gives her the wrong directions, leading her to become lost. After Lisa discovers that Clara is actually Luke's sister, she rushes to find her. She saves Clara, and decides to tell Luke what happened, but he is offended and dumps her. Meanwhile, Bart and Homer decide to help a tribe of Native Americans who want a beaver dam removed so they can reclaim their land.
Director: Chris Clements
Writer: Ian Maxtone-Graham
6.3/1014 votes#19 - How I Wet Your Mother
Season 23 Episode 16 - Aired 3/11/2012
When Homer's bed-wetting worsens, his family tries to infiltrate his dreams to find the source of the problem.
Director: Lance Kramer
Writer: Ian Maxtone-Graham
6.1/1016 votes#20 - Catch 'Em If You Can
Season 15 Episode 18 - Aired 4/25/2004
After a ruined movie night, thanks to Bart and Lisa, Homer and Marge take a vacation away from them, but decide to go to Miami instead of going to see an uncle. When Bart and Lisa catch wind of their parents' secret plan, Bart steals Rod's credit card (just like Homer stole Ned's) and go after them.
Director: Matthew Nastuk
Writer: Ian Maxtone-Graham
6.0/1017 votes#21 - Dangerous Curves
Season 20 Episode 5 - Aired 11/9/2008
Homer and Marge remember the ups and downs of their marriage through a series of flashbacks, including the time they each began flirting with guests at a glamorous party - a situation that led to a food fight and an unexpected swim in the pool.
Director: Matthew Faughnan
Writer: Ian Maxtone-Graham
6.0/1015 votes#22 - The Yellow Badge of Cowardge
Season 25 Episode 22 - Aired 5/18/2014
Bart feels guilty after he wins the annual "last day of school" race around Springfield Elementary School, with help from Nelson, who beats up the frontrunner, Milhouse. Meanwhile, Homer tries to bring back 4th of July fireworks after they are canceled due to budget cuts.
Director: Timothy Bailey
Writer: Ian Maxtone-Graham
5.9/1019 votes#23 - Tennis the Menace
Season 12 Episode 12 - Aired 2/11/2001
While making funeral arrangements for Grampa's future, the funeral planner pitches the idea of a mausoleum that uses the same amount of cement as a full-sized tennis court. This prompts Homer to instead build a tennis court in his backyard, initially mistaking the sport for "Foxy Boxing". The tennis court makes Marge and Homer popular in town, but it turns out that this is only because Homer's inferior tennis ability makes them an easy target. Bart on the other hand, shines as a natural.
Director: Jen Kamerman
Writer: Ian Maxtone-Graham
5.6/1017 votes#24 - The Color Yellow
Season 21 Episode 13 - Aired 2/21/2010
When Miss Hoover asks her students to research their family history, Lisa is horrified to discover that most of her ancestors were bad people – a motley crew of horse thieves and deadbeats. But while rummaging through the attic, Lisa happens upon a diary kept by her ancestor, Eliza Simpson. As Eliza’s story unfolds, Lisa learns that her family was part of the Underground Railroad, a group that helped slaves escape to freedom. Eliza recounts liberating a slave named Virgil, but when Lisa presents her findings at school, some of her classmates refute it, leaving Lisa determined to exonerate her family’s name.
Director: Raymond S. Persi
Writer: Ian Maxtone-Graham
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"Oslo" is the best rated episode written by Ian Maxtone-Graham. It scored 8.5/10 based on 6 votes. It was directed by Brad Hall. It aired on 5/5/2019 and is rated 0.7 points higher than their second-best episode, "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson".