The Best Episodes Written By Joel H. cohen

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.7/10(11 votes)

   #1 - Frinkenstein's Monster

   S35:E112/18/2024

   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.

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   7.4/10(12 votes)

   #2 - Do the Wrong Thing

   S35:E1012/24/2023

   Homer and Bart become kings of the blue-collar sports circuit, but Marge suspects something dishonest at the core of their father-son bond.

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   7.4/10(4 votes)

   #3 - The Day of the Jack-Up

   S37:E811/23/2025

   After a mysterious buyer purchases every ticket for the KPOP concert Lisa wants to go to, the Simpsons have to figure out the identity of this evil ticket reseller. Or do they? (Yes, they do).

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   7.1/10(16 votes)

   #4 - Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times

   S18:E111/28/2007

   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."

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   7.0/10(21 votes)

   #5 - The Debarted

   S19:E133/2/2008

   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.

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   6.9/10(26 votes)

   #6 - The Fat and the Furriest

   S15:E511/30/2003

   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.

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   6.9/10(23 votes)

   #7 - Wedding for Disaster

   S20:E153/29/2009

   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.

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   6.9/10(25 votes)

   #8 - A Test Before Trying

   S24:E101/13/2013

   The fate of Springfield Elementary rests on Bart and his test scores, and Homer finds way to make money with his own parking meter.

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   6.9/10(24 votes)

   #9 - Yellow Subterfuge

   S25:E712/8/2013

   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.

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    6.8/10(19 votes)

    #10 - Homer's Paternity Coot

    S17:E101/8/2006

    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.

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    6.8/10(19 votes)

    #11 - Mona Leaves-a

    S19:E195/11/2008

    Homer's mother, Mona, returns, but Homer is reluctant to trust her because she abandoned him so many times as a child.

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    6.8/10(23 votes)

    #12 - He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs

    S19:E19/23/2007

    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.

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    6.8/10(22 votes)

    #13 - Homer the Father

    S22:E121/23/2011

    When Homer insists Bart must earn the new dirt bike he wants, Bart comes up with a scheme; James Lipton interviews a TV cast.

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    6.8/10(29 votes)

    #14 - Treehouse of Horror XXVI

    S27:E510/25/2015

    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.

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    6.8/10(30 votes)

    #15 - Cue Detective

    S27:E210/4/2015

    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.

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    6.7/10(21 votes)

    #16 - Fat Man and Little Boy

    S16:E512/12/2004

    When Bart writes slogans on T-shirts, he catches the attention of Goose Gladwell, a gag-gift entrepreneur, and soon becomes a T-shirt mogul; Homer feels he no longer has a place in the family when Bart becomes the breadwinner.

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    6.7/10(23 votes)

    #17 - Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life

    S22:E511/14/2010

    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.

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    6.6/10(20 votes)

    #18 - Home Away from Homer

    S16:E205/15/2005

    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.

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    6.6/10(21 votes)

    #19 - Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play

    S17:E225/21/2006

    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.

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    6.6/10(10 votes)

    #20 - Top Goon

    S34:E1112/11/2022

    Coach Moe recruits the world's greatest brawlers to teach Nelson the art of hockey goonery.

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    6.5/10(21 votes)

    #21 - The Last of the Red Hat Mamas

    S17:E711/27/2005

    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.

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    6.5/10(22 votes)

    #22 - Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles

    S27:E111/10/2016

    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).

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    6.4/10(27 votes)

    #23 - Treehouse of Horror XII

    S13:E111/6/2001

    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]

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    6.4/10(22 votes)

    #24 - 22 for 30

    S28:E173/12/2017

    Bart goes from delinquent with detention to the star basketball player at Springfield Elementary. Lisa covers Bart’s success for the school paper, and Homer becomes the team’s coach. Things go awry when Bart gets involved with the mafia

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    6.3/10(23 votes)

    #25 - Brawl in the Family

    S13:E71/6/2002

    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.

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