8.3/106 votes#1 - Super Tuesday
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 4/28/2019
Facing increased scrutiny heading into Super Tuesday, Selina visits Mike to deflect attention from Andrew's legal troubles. Jonah and Amy ramp up their anti-Selina campaign rhetoric. Dan attempts to exploit Richard.
Director: Becky Martin
Writer: Jennifer Crittenden
8.0/1019 votes#2 - The Package
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/1996
Elaine regrets peeking at her medical chart; George takes dating advice from Kramer, who also hatches a scheme to improve Jerry's stereo.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: Jennifer Crittenden
7.9/1019 votes#3 - The Little Jerry
Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 1/9/1997
George finds a new romance--in a women's prison; Kramer buys a chicken, then puts his fowl to foul use; Elaine encourages her shaved-headed beau to grow back his hair.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: Jennifer Crittenden
7.8/1032 votes#4 - And Maggie Makes Three
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 1/22/1995
The story of Maggie's birth is told in flashbacks: after Homer quits the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant to pursue his dream of working at a bowling alley, Marge reveals that she is pregnant.
Director: Swinton O. Scott III
Writer: Jennifer Crittenden
7.8/1024 votes#5 - 22 Short Films About Springfield
Season 7 Episode 21 - Aired 4/14/1996
Bart and Milhouse wonder if anything interesting happens to the citizens of Springfield, which leads to a series of interconnected vignettes.
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Jennifer Crittenden
7.8/1018 votes#6 - The Burning
Season 9 Episode 16 - Aired 3/19/1998
Kramer and Mickey play ill for med students; Elaine learns that Puddy's religious; George works out how and when to make a good exit; a tractor figures into the past of Jerry's girlfriend.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: Jennifer Crittenden
7.8/1010 votes#7 - Chicklet
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 5/14/2017
Selina settles on a location for her presidential library. Dan lands in a gossip column. Mike and Selina work on her book. Jonah tries to cement a big donation. Gary manages a mini-crisis at Madame Tussauds.
Director: Beth McCarthy-Miller
Writer: Jennifer Crittenden
7.7/1019 votes#8 - The Puerto Rican Day
Season 9 Episode 20 - Aired 5/7/1998
Gridlocked by a parade, Jerry verbally spars with another driver; George goes to a movie; and Kramer looks for a bathroom. Elaine, meanwhile, searches for a crossing point with a group of strangers.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: Jennifer Crittenden
7.6/1017 votes#9 - The Millennium
Season 8 Episode 20 - Aired 5/1/1997
The Mets express interest in George; an inattentive saleswoman irks Elaine; Kramer prepares for his millennium party; Jerry jockeys for position on his girlfriend's speed dial.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: Jennifer Crittenden
7.5/102 votes#10 - The Canister
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 4/9/2001
Tempers flare when Marie accuses Debra of not returning a borrowed canister that holds sentimental value and Debra insists that she has already given it back. Debra is then horrified when she discovers that she does indeed still have the canister in her possession. With Ray and Robert's reluctant assistance, she concocts an elaborate scheme to get rid of the evidence, rather than confess to Marie that she was wrong and her mother-in-law was right all along.
Director: Gary Halvorson
Writer: Jennifer Crittenden
7.4/1018 votes#11 - The Apology
Season 9 Episode 9 - Aired 12/11/1997
Jerry's girlfriend is naked too often; Elaine's lifestyle offends a co-worker; Kramer seeks to shorten his showers; George has a disagreement with a new AA member.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: Jennifer Crittenden
7.2/1027 votes#12 - The PTA Disbands
Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 4/16/1995
Bart helps precipitate a teachers strike, but he rues his handiwork when Marge takes over for Mrs. Krabappel.
Director: Swinton O. Scott III
Writer: Jennifer Crittenden
7.0/101 votes#13 - Robert's Rodeo
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/7/2000
Ray feels tremendous guilt when he cancels plans with Robert, who then gets hurt in the line of duty, when he should have been hanging out with his brother. At first, it's all laughs and snide remarks from Ray when he finds out the cause of Robert's job-related injury. Ray's bedside manner definitely leaves a lot to be desired. But, after some prodding from Debra, Ray decides to show Robert just how much he really cares for him...not an easy task for a Barone.
Director: Will Mackenzie
Writer: Jennifer Crittenden
7.0/101 votes#14 - Robert's Divorce
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 5/22/2000
While out for a family dinner, the Barones spot Robert's ex-wife, which prompts them to reminisce about the demise of his marriage. The family tells Amy the truth about Robert's failed marriage to Joanne, whom Frank not-so-affectionately refers to as ""a nutcracker."" The surprise sighting also brings back some personally harrowing memories for Robert – although, when Joanne suggests the ex-spouses get together, Robert seems intrigued.
Director: Wil Shriner
Writer: Jennifer Crittenden
7.0/101 votes#15 - Meant to Be
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/2000
Robert finds himself in the most unlikely position of having to choose one of three women – girlfriend Amy, ex-wife Joanne or Italian bombshell Stefania – to share the future with him. Robert decides that ""honesty is the best policy"" when it comes to his relationship with Amy, so he foolishly tells her about his recent reunion with ex-wife Joanne. To make matters worse, when Amy runs to Debra for consolation, Debra mistakenly spills the beans about Robert's recent tryst with Stefania. Suddenly, Robert is not in a position to decide which woman he wants. It's a matter of which one, if any, is going to want him.
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: Jennifer Crittenden
7.0/1026 votes#16 - The Twisted World of Marge Simpson
Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 1/19/1997
Marge's new pretzel franchise is failing until Homer strikes a deal with Fat Tony, Springfield's local mobster.
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: Jennifer Crittenden
6.8/1023 votes#17 - Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield
Season 7 Episode 14 - Aired 2/4/1996
A chance encounter with a former classmate yields an invitation to the Springfield Country Club, where Marge tries to parlay a bargain basement Chanel suit into elevated social status for her family.
Director: Susie Dietter
Writer: Jennifer Crittenden
6.0/102 votes#18 - The Will
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/1999
Upon drafting their wills, Ray and Debra must decide who would make the best guardians for their children. After pondering long and hard over their decision, Ray and Debra choose the two people who they feel would be the best candidates to raise their children should anything happen to them. But their choice doesn't meet with everyone's approval.
Director: Will Mackenzie
Writer: Jennifer Crittenden
6.0/101 votes#19 - Alone Time
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 4/17/2000
Ray finds it hard to understand why Debra needs her ""alone time."" When Debra realizes that all her time is spent with the kids, Ray and his family, she implores Ray to take the kids out more often so that she can have more time to herself. Of course, this makes Marie think that something must be wrong in their marriage, despite Ray's assurances. However, when Ray spies on Debra to see what she actually does with her ""alone time,"" he is not so sure all is okay.
Director: Steve Zuckerman
Writer: Jennifer Crittenden
6.0/101 votes#20 - What Good Are You?
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 1/8/2001
When Ray doesn't react to Debra's choking everyone makes fun of him so he tries to be more attentive in relative situations.
Director: Ken Levine
Writer: Jennifer Crittenden
6.0/101 votes#21 - Super Bowl
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 1/29/2001
Ray gets to go to the Super Bowl and cover it for his newspaper. He brings Gianni but feels bad about not having brought Debra when he sees that all the other reporters brought their wives so he has her flown in and to prove that he wants to spend time with her he rips up the tickets to the Super Bowl.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jennifer Crittenden
6.0/102 votes#22 - Marie's Sculpture
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 10/22/2001
Ray and Debra are horrified when Marie presents them with an abstract sculpture she made in art class which bears a striking resemblance to a part of the female anatomy. Frank, on the other hand, is totally mesmerized by Marie's creation, though neither he nor Marie have picked up on it's erotic resemblance.
Director: Kenneth Shapiro
Writer: Jennifer Crittenden
6.0/101 votes#23 - Jealous Robert
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/2001
Marie and Debra set up Amy with Gianni to get Robert jealous so he'll want to get back together with Amy but their plan backfires when Amy and Gianni hit it off.
Director: Gary Halvorson
Writer: Jennifer Crittenden
6.0/101 votes#24 - Mother's Day (1)
Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 5/6/2002
Debra takes offense when Marie accuses her of being rude and the two wind up fighting and not speaking to each other. When Ray tries to make things better by getting each of the women to apologize to the other, he only achieves in making a bad situation worse. Then, the unthinkable happens (at least to Ray) - Debra decides she likes it when Marie doesn't speak to her and she intends to keep it that way.
Director: Gary Halvorson
Writer: Jennifer Crittenden
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"Super Tuesday" is the best rated episode written by Jennifer Crittenden. It scored 8.333/10 based on 6 votes. It was directed by Becky Martin. It aired on 4/28/2019 and is rated 0.3 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Package".