The Best Episodes Written By Jon Vitti

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   9.0/10(2 votes)

   #1 - Jon Vitti Presents: "Return to La Grunta"

   S3:E162/23/1999

   Hank gets Luanne a job as a golf course drink girl at the La Grunta resort. In gratitude, Luanne gets Hank a chance to swim with a dolphin. Hank pets the dolphin, and the dolphin becomes aroused and tries to become sexually intimate with him. In return for his silence, the hotel pays him off, and Hank tells Luanne never to talk about what happened. Luanne gets sexually harassed by one of the golfers, she decides to follow Hank's example and not talk about it.

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   #2 - Dog Dale Afternoon

   S3:E204/13/1999

   When Dale brings home a new 'Super Mower' the neighbors are jealous, but his attitude leaves everyone with a bad taste in their mouths. To knock him down a few notches, the crew decides to hide his new mower, & make it look like a conspiracy, Peggy gets involved and it goes too far. Dale gets pushed over the edge & it is Hank that goes to help him back down.

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   #3 - Hank's Bad Hair Day

   S4:E194/9/2000

   After his lifelong barber loses it, Hank turns to Army haircutter Bill, who does a fine job on his first civilian head, but at a Government price, prompting Hank to declare war.

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   8.6/10(46 votes)

   #4 - Cape Feare

   S5:E210/7/1993

   The Simpsons go incognito to avoid the newly paroled Sideshow Bob, who's out to get Bart.

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   8.5/10(40 votes)

   #5 - Garage Sale

   S7:E183/24/2011

   The office holds a garage sale in the warehouse. Michael decides to propose to Holly, and runs into trouble thinking of how to do it well.

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   8.3/10(3 votes)

   #6 - Rodeo Days

   S4:E121/16/2000

   Bobby's new calling is rodeo roping, but his first experience with livestock introduces him to an ambition even greater--at least to Bobby.

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   8.3/10(45 votes)

   #7 - Mr. Plow

   S4:E911/19/1992

   Homer and Barney become competitors in the snow-plowing business.

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   8.0/10(46 votes)

   #8 - Radio Bart

   S3:E131/9/1992

   Bart fools the town into thinking there's a little boy trapped in a well.

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   7.9/10(54 votes)

   #9 - Lisa's Substitute

   S2:E194/25/1991

   With Miss Hoover out sick, a substitute teacher takes the class and becomes an inspiring role model for Lisa.

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    7.9/10(44 votes)

    #10 - Bart the Lover

    S3:E162/13/1992

    Bart's answer to detention from Mrs. Krabappel is to answer her personal ad with letters from a Mr. Wonderful, but his last laugh is more of a guilty whimper.

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    7.8/10(35 votes)

    #11 - Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily

    S7:E310/1/1995

    When Homer and Marge are found to be unfit parents, the kids are placed with the Flanders family. Reluctant participants in the Flanderses' wholesome family activities, Bart and Lisa become the targets of an emergency baptism.

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    7.7/10(68 votes)

    #12 - Treehouse of Horror

    S2:E310/25/1990

    The Simpson kids hide in the family treehouse and tell each other spooky stories. The first regards haunted houses, the second introduces Kang and Kodos for the first time in an alien abduction, and the third is a Simpson-adapted retelling of The Raven.

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    7.7/10(45 votes)

    #13 - Black Widower

    S3:E214/9/1992

    Bart suspects something rotten when Selma gets engaged to Sideshow Bob.

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    7.7/10(41 votes)

    #14 - Brother from the Same Planet

    S4:E142/4/1993

    When Homer neglects Bart once too often, Bart goes to the Big Brother program to get a new father figure. Stung, Homer replaces Bart with a little brother.

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    7.6/10(62 votes)

    #15 - Simpson and Delilah

    S2:E210/18/1990

    Homer uses his medical insurance to buy Dimoxinil, a miracle hair-growth formula. After growing luxurious locks, he's given a promotion which allows him to hire a secretary named Karl and makes grand promises to his family at home.

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    7.5/10(34 votes)

    #16 - Viewing Party

    S7:E811/11/2010

    An ostracized Michael does all he can to sabotage Gabe's party while Angela requests sex from Dwight.

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    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #17 - Hank's Choice

    S5:E164/1/2001

    When Bobby develops an allergy to Ladybird, Hank builds a doghouse, an elaborate accommodation that's perfect--for Bobby.

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    7.4/10(98 votes)

    #18 - Bart the Genius

    S1:E21/14/1990

    Bart's labeled a genius and sent to a school for the gifted.

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    7.4/10(48 votes)

    #19 - When Flanders Failed

    S3:E310/3/1991

    Flanders suffers a failure after Homer wishes him ill.

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    7.4/10(51 votes)

    #20 - Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk

    S3:E1112/5/1991

    Burns sells the power plant to a German corporation that doesn't care for Homer's approach to his work.

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    7.3/10(47 votes)

    #21 - Treehouse of Horror III

    S4:E510/29/1992

    A Halloween trilogy includes a murderous Krusty doll; a "King Kong" parody; an invasion of zombies unleashed by Bart's incantation.

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    7.2/10(73 votes)

    #22 - The Crepes of Wrath

    S1:E114/15/1990

    A little story about how Bart saves France after blowing up Principal Skinner's mom with a cherry bomb.

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    7.2/10(36 votes)

    #23 - So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show

    S4:E184/1/1993

    An April Fools' Day prank provides the jumping-off point for Simpson family flashbacks.

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    7.2/10(23 votes)

    #24 - Weekend at Burnsie's

    S13:E164/7/2002

    Homer is prescribed medicinal marijuana after getting pecked in the eyes by a murder of crows. While his family and friends worry about the drug altering his personality, Homer becomes Mr. Burns's vice president after cracking up at Burns's antiquated jokes.

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    7.1/10(22 votes)

    #25 - Simple Simpson

    S15:E195/2/2004

    Homer becomes "Pie Man", a masked vigilante who delivers a pie in the face of justice to evildoers. However, after attacking Mr. Burns, Burns hires him as a personal hitman, until Homer is ordered to attack the Dalai Lama.

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