The Best Episodes Written By J. stewart Burns

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.4/10(51 votes)

   #1 - Roswell That Ends Well

   S4:E112/9/2001

   A spacetime accident leaves the Planet Express crew stranded in Roswell, New Mexico in the year 1947, where a shattered Bender is mistaken for UFO debris and Zoidberg is captured as an alien specimen. Leela and the professor work to get everybody home, while Fry tries to keep his accident-prone grandfather alive.

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   8.0/10(11 votes)

   #2 - The Tipping Point

   S35:E175/12/2024

   Homer loses his mind over tipping culture run amok.

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   7.9/10(21 votes)

   #3 - Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind

   S19:E912/16/2007

   Homer loses his memory--and his family--when he drinks Moe's most potent libation, the Forget-Me-Shot, in an episode that spoofs "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and "It's a Wonderful Life."

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   7.9/10(23 votes)

   #4 - Holidays of Future Passed

   S23:E912/11/2011

   Thirty years in the future, Bart, Lisa and their children spend the holidays at Marge and Homer's house.

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   7.5/10(67 votes)

   #5 - My Three Suns

   S1:E75/4/1999

   Delivery Boy Philip J. Fry is promoted to Emperor after accidentally drinking his fluid-based predecessor.

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   7.4/10(38 votes)

   #6 - Simpsorama

   S26:E611/9/2014

   The Planet Express crew come to present-day Springfield to prevent the Simpsons from destroying the future.

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   7.4/10(8 votes)

   #7 - The Lost Adventure

   S0:E46/24/2008

   When Professor Farnsworth sells Planet Express to the evil Mom, it means she owns over 50% of the Earth, and becomes it's supreme ruler. It's up to Fry, Leela and Bender to save the Earth - and the universe - from Mom, as their mission takes them from New New York to alien asteroids, the surface of the sun, the farthest corner of the universe, and even though time itself!

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   7.4/10(53 votes)

   #8 - A Head in the Polls

   S2:E712/12/1999

   When the price of titanium skyrockets, Bender pawns his titanium-rich body and lives the high life as just a head. But when the head-in-a-jar of Richard M. Nixon uses Bender's body to run for election for President of Earth, Bender vows to get his rightful property back.

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   7.3/10(46 votes)

   #9 - The Cryonic Woman

   S3:E312/3/2000

   Fry is reunited with his old girlfriend from the 20th Century, but she doesn't adapt to the 31st century as well as he has. Convincing Fry to return to the cryogenic chamber, they awaken in a barren wasteland and struggle to make a place for themselves.

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    7.3/10(23 votes)

    #10 - The Way We Weren't

    S15:E205/9/2004

    Homer and Marge recall the story of their first kiss at a summer camp when they were children—an event which was not all happy, as Homer (unwillingly) betrayed Marge by standing her up on their second date.

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    7.3/10(51 votes)

    #11 - The Deep South

    S2:E164/16/2000

    A fishing trip over the ocean takes a turn for the worse when a colossal mouth bass pulls the Planet Express ship to the bottom of the sea. There, Fry falls in love with a mermaid named Umbriel, and the crew discovers the sunken city of Atlanta, Georgia.

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    7.3/10(59 votes)

    #12 - Mars University

    S2:E210/3/1999

    Fry, Leela, Bender and Farnsworth have to go to Mars University where Fry has to share a room with a talking monkey, Farnsworth's last invention. The monkey becomes a real headache when he starts beating Fry in all areas. Meanwhile, Bender is hanging out with nerd robots.

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    7.1/10(24 votes)

    #13 - Moe Baby Blues

    S14:E225/18/2003

    Moe Szyslak becomes lonely and decides to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge. However, he inadvertently saves Maggie Simpson when she is sent flying from the Simpsons' car window and into his arms. He starts playing with Maggie and becomes attached to her, telling her the story of The Godfather. Homer and Marge become upset about how much time Moe is spending with Maggie and forbid him from seeing her again. One night, Maggie wakes up and hears Fat Tony and the Springfield Mafia outside the house and decides to follow them. When Homer and Marge find her missing, they automatically assume that Moe kidnapped her. When Moe is told that Maggie is missing, his request to help find her is granted by Homer. Maggie follows the mobsters to Luigi's restaurant, where Fat Tony's gang gets into a gun battle with a rival family. Homer, Marge and Moe track Maggie down and Moe decides to go inside and save Maggie. After Moe saves Maggie's life, Homer allows the two to spend more time together.

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    7.1/10(33 votes)

    #14 - Steal This Episode

    S25:E91/5/2014

    Homer becomes annoyed with movie theaters, so Bart teaches him how to download movies illegally. Homer is delighted with his discovery of free movies until he's caught for piracy. Deputy Director Gratman, the FBI's anti-piracy boss, is tasked with hunting down Homer, who stands accused of illegally downloading a film.

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    7.1/10(28 votes)

    #15 - Days of Future Future

    S25:E184/13/2014

    Set in the future, Homer has a new clone for every time he dies. Lisa is married to a zombie version of Milhouse, while Bart deals with custody issues with his ex-wife, Jenda. Each defines what love means to them.

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    7.1/10(50 votes)

    #16 - Neutopia

    S6:E146/23/2011

    The crew members encounter a bizarre alien with the power to change their sexual characteristics.

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    7.0/10(21 votes)

    #17 - The Monkey Suit

    S17:E215/14/2006

    Working through their checklists of things to do before summer ends, Lisa gets the family to go a museum. At the Springfield Museum of Natural History there is an exhibit Lisa is excited to see on Women’s History turns into an exhibit on the history of weapons, which excites Homer and Bart. When Flanders sees the exhibit of evolution and another that mocks creationism, he raises an alarm. Reverend Lovejoy gets Skinner to have creationism taught in school. Lisa is the only one who holds onto the scientific theory. She brings the topic up at the town meeting and the town votes to teach only one theory, creationism. Lisa decides to hold her own class on evolution, until she is arrested. The ACLU gives her a lawyer who is up against a slick Southern lawyer, but ultimately it’s a family member that is a key to her defense.

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    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #18 - Yellow Planet

    S0:E824/22/2025

    The Simpsons explore Earth in a Nat Geo-style mockumentary.

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    6.9/10(43 votes)

    #19 - Where the Buggalo Roam

    S4:E63/3/2002

    When Amy's parents' ranch is hit by a dust storm that blows away their herd of buggalo, Kif sets out to prove his masculinity by rounding up the herd, only to become entangled with the native Martians.

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    6.9/10(16 votes)

    #20 - Marge Gamer

    S18:E174/22/2007

    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.

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    6.9/10(11 votes)

    #21 - Write Off This Episode

    S34:E194/30/2023

    When Marge and Lisa start a charity together, Marge is seduced by the money and prestige of Big Charity fundraising.

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    6.8/10(18 votes)

    #22 - Homerazzi

    S18:E163/25/2007

    After a celebrity scandal is accidentally captured in a family photo, Homer decides to become a paparazzo.

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    6.8/10(23 votes)

    #23 - Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh

    S20:E195/3/2009

    When Marge learns Springfield Elementary is the worst school in the state, she and Homer rent an apartment in the upscale Waverly Hills school district so Bart and Lisa can attend a better school. Meanwhile, Homer moves into the rented Waverly Hills apartment and gets used to the bachelor lifestyle.

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    6.8/10(27 votes)

    #24 - Puffless

    S27:E310/11/2015

    Upon learning that their father really died of lung cancer, Selma and Patty agree to quit smoking. When Selma relapses, an angry Patty moves in with Marge and Homer.

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    6.8/10(19 votes)

    #25 - Flanders' Ladder

    S29:E215/20/2018

    Bart falls into a coma after being struck by lightning.

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