The Best Episodes Written By Joel H. cohen
Every TV Episode Written by Joel H. cohen Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Joel H. Cohen Ratings Summary
The best episode written by Joel H. Cohen is "Frinkenstein's Monster", rated 8.4/10 from 8 user votes. It was "directed by Steven Dean Moore". "Frinkenstein's Monster" aired on 2/18/2024 and is rated 1.3 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Do the Wrong Thing".
8.4/10 8 votes#1 - Frinkenstein's Monster
Season 35 Episode 11 - Aired 2/18/2024
Professor Frink secretly helps Homer, through a zoom interview, land a high-level position at a state-of-the-art nuclear plant in Shelbyville. But since Homer lacks the skills to actually perform the job, Frink must monitor Homer's work situation remotely and dictate his every word... causing Frink to fear he's created a monster.
Director: Steven Dean Moore
Writer: Joel H. Cohen
7.1/10 8 votes#2 - Do the Wrong Thing
Season 35 Episode 10 - Aired 12/24/2023
Homer and Bart become kings of the blue-collar sports circuit, but Marge suspects something dishonest at the core of their father-son bond.
Director: Rob Oliver
Writer: Joel H. Cohen
6.7/10 18 votes#3 - Wedding for Disaster
Season 20 Episode 15 - Aired 3/29/2009
After Marge and Homer's marriage turns out to be invalid, they decide to re-do their vows. But when Homer goes missing, Bart and Lisa smell something funny and investigate his disappearance.
Director: Chuck Sheetz
Writer: Joel H. Cohen
6.5/10 20 votes#4 - The Fat and the Furriest
Season 15 Episode 5 - Aired 11/30/2003
Homer is humiliated when he appears on the news running from a bear that nearly attacks him at the city dump. After Grampa scolds him, he swears to fight the bear himself.
Director: Matthew Nastuk
Writer: Joel H. Cohen
6.5/10 15 votes#5 - The Debarted
Season 19 Episode 13 - Aired 3/2/2008
A new kid at school named Donny works with Bart on his pranks. But when the pranks start to backfire, Bart wonders if he can trust his new accomplice. Meanwhile, the Simpsons get a fancy loaner car after Marge gets in an accident, and Homer falls in love with it.
Director: Matthew Nastuk
Writer: Joel H. Cohen
6.5/10 16 votes#6 - Homer the Father
Season 22 Episode 12 - Aired 1/23/2011
When Homer insists Bart must earn the new dirt bike he wants, Bart comes up with a scheme; James Lipton interviews a TV cast.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Joel H. Cohen
6.4/10 21 votes#7 - Cue Detective
Season 27 Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/2015
Scotty Boom, a Chew Network super-chef, challenges Homer to a smoke-off. But when someone steals Homer’s secret weapon – a smoker he bought off a mysterious man at a BBQ shack – Lisa and Bart are on the case.
Director: Timothy Bailey
Writer: Joel H. Cohen
6.3/10 18 votes#8 - A Test Before Trying
Season 24 Episode 10 - Aired 1/13/2013
The fate of Springfield Elementary rests on Bart and his test scores, and Homer finds way to make money with his own parking meter.
Director: Chris Clements
Writer: Joel H. Cohen
6.3/10 14 votes#9 - Yellow Subterfuge
Season 25 Episode 7 - Aired 12/8/2013
Principal Skinner promises the students that the best-behaved among them can take a ride in a submarine. When Skinner gives all the kids a clean slate, Bart believes even his own past indiscretions will be forgotten if he doesn’t get into any more trouble. Meanwhile Lisa tries to help a cash-poor Krusty to turn things around by suggesting he sell the foreign rights to his shows.
Director: Bob Anderson
Writer: Joel H. Cohen
6.2/10 13 votes#10 - Homer's Paternity Coot
Season 17 Episode 10 - Aired 1/8/2006
Mail from forty years earlier is discovered, and a letter from Homer Simpson's mother's old boyfriend states that he is Homer's true father. Homer sets out to find his supposed new father, leaving Abe behind.
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: Joel H. Cohen
6.2/10 10 votes#11 - Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times
Season 18 Episode 11 - Aired 1/28/2007
Homer learns three lessons about revenge from stories told by Marge, Lisa and Bart that parody "The Count of Monte Cristo," "Revenge of the Nerds" and "Batman Begins."
Director: Michael Polcino
Writer: Joel H. Cohen
6.2/10 17 votes#12 - Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life
Season 22 Episode 5 - Aired 11/14/2010
Fearing that she will end up like Marge, Lisa pledges to focus solely on her academics and not get distracted by other things; Bart puts Nelson in his place and unintentionally earns the title of school bully.
Director: Matthew Nastuk
Writer: Joel H. Cohen
6.1/10 18 votes#13 - Treehouse of Horror XII
Season 13 Episode 1 - Aired 11/6/2001
In the twelfth Treehouse of Horror episode: Hex and the City – While on a day trip through Ethnictown, Homer's bumbling catches the ire of a gypsy, who curses Homer's family and friends into receiving nothing but bad luck. House of Whacks – in this mixed parody of Demon Seed and 2001: A Space Odyssey, Marge buys an automated house and customizes it with the Pierce Brosnan personality, who falls for Marge and attempts to murder Homer. Wiz Kids – In this Harry Potter parody, Bart and Lisa go to a school for wizards, and Lord Montemort (Mr. Burns) uses Bart to capture Lisa's magic. Guest star: Pierce Brosnan and Matthew Perry.[20]
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Joel H. Cohen
6.1/10 14 votes#14 - Home Away from Homer
Season 16 Episode 20 - Aired 5/15/2005
Flanders rents a room to two college girls who, without his knowledge, use the spare room to broadcast live softcore pornographic web videos of themselves. Upset that no one in town told him this (and that Homer was the one who told everyone), Ned moves to the seemingly perfect town of Humbleton, Pennsylvania, while a brash coach moves into Flanders' house and begins harassing Homer the same way Homer harassed Ned.
Director: Bob Anderson
Writer: Joel H. Cohen
6.1/10 16 votes#15 - The Last of the Red Hat Mamas
Season 17 Episode 7 - Aired 11/27/2005
Marge is shunned after Homer has an altercation with the Easter Bunny at the mayor's egg hunt. A lonely Marge joins a women's group who plan to steal $1 million from Mr Burns.
Director: Matthew Nastuk
Writer: Joel H. Cohen
6.1/10 16 votes#16 - He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs
Season 19 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2007
Homer falls in love with the high life of flying in private planes when he saves Mr. Burns from drowning, and Burns repays him by flying him to Chicago for a night on the town.
Director: Mark Kirkland
Writer: Joel H. Cohen
6.1/10 7 votes#17 - Pretty Whittle Liar
Season 33 Episode 16 - Aired 3/27/2022
Cletus discovers that his wife Brandine has been hiding a secret love ... of learning.
Director: Mike Frank Polcino
Writer: Joel H. Cohen
6.0/10 20 votes#18 - Today I Am a Clown
Season 15 Episode 6 - Aired 12/7/2003
Krusty discovers that he never had a bar mitzvah as a child. He quits his show to have it as an adult, with the help of his father, Rabbi Krustofski. Meanwhile, Homer hosts a late-night talk show a la "Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher" as a replacement for Krusty's show.
Director: Nancy Kruse
Writer: Joel H. Cohen
6.0/10 16 votes#19 - Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play
Season 17 Episode 22 - Aired 5/21/2006
When Homer hears that the Isotopes are on a winning streak, he takes the family to the game. The first baseman’s game is going bad, caused by his sexy singing wife Tabitha embarrassing him during the game’s national anthem. Buck Mitchell sees Marge and Homer’s kiss on the game’s Kiss-Cam and comes to them for marital advice. They start working with the couple and Buck’s baseball career turns around, but it and the Simpson marriage goes awry again when Buck catches Homer giving Tabitha a neck massage. While Marge and Homer try keeping their marriage together they also try to get Buck and Tabitha back together.
Director: Bob Anderson
Writer: Joel H. Cohen
6.0/10 14 votes#20 - Mona Leaves-a
Season 19 Episode 19 - Aired 5/11/2008
Homer's mother, Mona, returns, but Homer is reluctant to trust her because she abandoned him so many times as a child.
Director: Mike B. Anderson
Writer: Joel H. Cohen
6.0/10 19 votes#21 - Treehouse of Horror XXVI
Season 27 Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/2015
In the annual fright fest Halloween episode, Sideshow Bob finally kills Bart, only to reanimate him; Homer wakes up with short-term memory loss; and Lisa, Bart, and Milhouse get super powers from radiation.
Director: Steven Dean Moore
Writer: Joel H. Cohen
6.0/10 6 votes#22 - The Hateful Eight-Year-Olds
Season 31 Episode 21 - Aired 5/10/2020
After severing her sibling ties with Bart, Lisa attends a sleepover at her new friend Addy's house, only to discover that Addy's clique are a group of cruel snobby rich girls that taunt her. Meanwhile, Homer takes Marge on a sunset cruise for the evening and finds himself at odds with the boat's cover band.
Director: Jennifer Moeller
Writer: Joel H. Cohen
6.0/10 7 votes#23 - The Wayz We Were
Season 33 Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/2021
Evergreen Terrace is overrun with traffic and Moe has a fateful choice to make.
Director: Matthew Nastuk
Writer: Joel H. Cohen
5.9/10 17 votes#24 - Brawl in the Family
Season 13 Episode 7 - Aired 1/6/2002
A social worker is assigned to make the Simpson family functional after they get arrested for fighting while playing Monopoly. He helps them learn how to work together and function as a family. The moment is ruined when, Ginger and Amber, the barmaids who married Homer and Flanders while they were drunk in "Viva Ned Flanders", arrive at the Simpsons' home, which outrages Marge.
Director: Matthew Nastuk
Writer: Joel H. Cohen
5.9/10 14 votes#25 - Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles
Season 27 Episode 11 - Aired 1/10/2016
There is a new teacher at Springfield Elementary, and a captivated Bart tries everything to win her over. Meanwhile, Homer decides to buy a new brand of “milk,” which causes early puberty, both for Bart (augmenting his wooing powers) and Lisa (whose small bout with acne opens her up to the world of makeup and popularity).
Director: Timothy Bailey
Writer: Joel H. Cohen