- 8.0/108 votes
#1 - Treehouse of Horror XXXIV
Season 35 Episode 5 - Aired 11/5/2023
After Bart is turned into an NFT, Marge fights though the blockchain to rescue her son. To track down a gruesome serial killer, Lisa turns to a murderer from her past. An outbreak transforms Springfielders into a plague of lazy, beer-loving oafs.
Director: Rob Oliver
Writer: Jeff Westbrook
- 7.8/1037 votes
#2 - The Day the Earth Stood Stupid
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 2/18/2001
Earth is invaded by super-intelligent flying brains, who sap the Earth's populace of their intelligence. Leela is taken to Nibbler's home planet Eternia, where the Nibblonians explain that only one human is immune to the brains' powers - Fry.
Director: Mark Ervin
Writer: Jeff Westbrook
- 7.7/1040 votes
#3 - Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 3/30/2003
The crew's attempts to de-age Professor Farnsworth result in everyone returning to their more youthful stages. While Farnsworth seeks out a way to re-age the crew, the newly-teenaged Leela takes the opportunity to experience the parental childhood she never had.
Director: Bret Haaland
Writer: Jeff Westbrook
- 7.2/104 votes
#4 - Clown v. Board of Education
Season 34 Episode 21 - Aired 5/14/2023
Krusty opens a school for clowning, and it becomes the most successful thing he's ever done.
Director: Lance Kramer
Writer: Jeff Westbrook
- 6.5/108 votes
#5 - Pin Gal
Season 34 Episode 17 - Aired 3/19/2023
A mysterious figure from Marge's past returns to coach her for a bowling tournament.
Director: Chris Clements
Writer: Jeff Westbrook
- 6.3/1013 votes
#6 - The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants
Season 23 Episode 7 - Aired 11/27/2011
The Simpsons host a party to promote Krusty's own brand of liquor; impressed with the party's sucess, Mr. Burns decides to promote Homer; Bart takes an interest in reading classic novels.
Director: Steven Dean Moore
Writer: Jeff Westbrook
- 6.2/1020 votes
#7 - No Loan Again, Naturally
Season 20 Episode 12 - Aired 3/8/2009
When the adjustable rate on the Simpson couple's mortgage resets at more than the pair can afford, they must sell their house. Good Samaritan Ned Flanders buys the house and rents it out to them at an affordable rate. But Homer pushes his luck too far when he takes advantage of Ned's generous landlord duties.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Jeff Westbrook
- 6.2/1012 votes
#8 - Ned 'n Edna's Blend Agenda
Season 23 Episode 21 - Aired 5/13/2012
When Marge learns Ned and Edna got married, she offers to throw them a reception; Edna changes some rules to help Ned's kids become more socially acceptable.
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: Jeff Westbrook
- 6.2/1024 votes
#9 - Treehouse of Horror XXIV
Season 25 Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/2013
The scariest Simpsons Halloween show yet, featuring an opening by Guillermo Del Toro.
Director: Rob Oliver
Writer: Jeff Westbrook
- 6.2/1020 votes
#10 - The Wreck of the Relationship
Season 26 Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/2014
When Bart disrespects Homer's authority, Homer makes a point to try his hand at parenting. This proves fruitless, so Marge signs them up for the Relation Ship, where they'll resolve their conflicts at sea. Meanwhile, Marge is in charge of Homer's fantasy football league, but manages to win despite being the underdog.
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: Jeff Westbrook
- 6.2/108 votes
#11 - The Road to Cincinnati
Season 32 Episode 8 - Aired 11/29/2020
Odd couple Skinner and Chalmers embark on an 800-mile car ride to Cincinnati to attend an administrator's convention - but can they reach their destination without killing each other first?
Director: Matthew Nastuk
Writer: Jeff Westbrook
- 6.1/1015 votes
#12 - 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
- 6.0/1017 votes
#13 - The Ned-liest Catch
Season 22 Episode 22 - Aired 5/22/2011
When Ned starts dating Mrs. Krabappel, he is surprised to learn how many of Springfield's men she has been with.
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: Jeff Westbrook
- 6.0/1017 votes
#14 - The Caper Chase
Season 28 Episode 19 - Aired 4/2/2017
Disappointed in Yale, Mr. Burns decides to start his own for-profit university and Homer is hired as a professor
Director: Lance Kramer
Writer: Jeff Westbrook
- 6.0/106 votes
#15 - Diary Queen
Season 32 Episode 12 - Aired 2/21/2021
Bart finds his old teacher's diary and learns a surprising secret. Then, Lisa discovers an even bigger surprise.
Director: Matthew Nastuk
Writer: Jeff Westbrook
- 6.0/101 votes
#16 - Shoddy Heat
Season 36 Episode 4 - Aired 10/27/2024
An unearthed corpse opens up a cold case from Springfield in the 1980s… as well as a steamy relationship between young Grampa and Agnes Skinner.
Director: Gabriel DeFrancesco
Writer: Jeff Westbrook
- 5.8/1014 votes
#17 - Apocalypse Cow
Season 19 Episode 17 - Aired 4/27/2008
Bart joins the 4-H club and raises a calf to be a blue-ribbon-winning bull, but panics when he learns the bull will be slaughtered.
Director: Nancy Kruse
Writer: Jeff Westbrook
- 5.8/106 votes
#18 - Girls Just Shauna Have Fun
Season 33 Episode 19 - Aired 5/1/2022
When Lisa joins the high school marching band, she finds an unlikely mentor in Shauna Chalmers. Meanwhile, Homer becomes a craft beer brewer.
Director: Matthew Nastuk
Writer: Jeff Westbrook
- 5.7/1015 votes
#19 - The Wettest Stories Ever Told
Season 17 Episode 18 - Aired 4/23/2006
As the family waits for their food at “The Frying Dutchman,” they pass the time by telling stories. Lisa tells about the Mayflower’s journey to America, where Marge and her kids are Pilgrims and they are joined by a knave named Homer who joins their family to escape the authorities. Bart recounts the story of Mutiny on the Bounty featuring Skinner as Captain Bligh and Bart as Mr. Christian. Homer tells the tale of the maiden voyage of a cruise ship in the 1970s featuring of a ship that can’t flip over, which of course it does and the attempts of the survivors to get out of the ship alive.
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: Jeff Westbrook
- 5.7/1019 votes
#20 - Pranks and Greens
Season 21 Episode 6 - Aired 11/22/2009
Principal Skinner is getting fed up with Bart's pranks, so he informs Bart that he is not the best prankster after all. A former student named Andy Hamilton is hailed as the best prankster, and Bart sets out on a mission to track Andy down. However, when Bart finds out that Andy is a 19-year-old still in his pranking days, they become fast friends.
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: Jeff Westbrook
- 5.6/1020 votes
#21 - The Man Who Grew Too Much
Season 25 Episode 13 - Aired 3/9/2014
During a research trip, Lisa learns that Sideshow Bob is the chief scientist at a big chemical engineering company; Marge tries to teach a teen church group about healthy sexual practices.
Director: Matthew Schofield
Writer: Jeff Westbrook
- 5.6/1014 votes
#22 - Let's Go Fly a Coot
Season 26 Episode 20 - Aired 5/3/2015
The Simpsons learn about Grampa’s days in the Air Force, and Bart takes up smoking to impress Milhouse’s Dutch cousin, Annika.
Director: Chris Clements
Writer: Jeff Westbrook
- 5.5/1011 votes
#23 - I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Season 30 Episode 16 - Aired 3/10/2019
When a romantic night ends in injury, Marge recovers by taking up kite boarding while Homer bonds with his hallucinated hernia; Lisa attempts to fix her parents' strained relationship by seeking advice from an unlikely source.
Director: Steven Dean Moore
Writer: Jeff Westbrook
- 5.4/1016 votes
#24 - No Good Read Goes Unpunished
Season 29 Episode 15 - Aired 4/8/2018
In an attempt to bring the family together, Marge forces everyone to hand in their electronics and take a trip to a book store.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Jeff Westbrook
- 5.2/1012 votes
#25 - 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