The Best Episodes Written By Matt Selman

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.2/10(16 votes)

   #1 - Treehouse of Horror XXXIII

   S34:E610/30/2022

   In a book-themed trilogy, Marge's resentment takes monstrous form, Lisa tries to save the planet through murder and Homer learns he's not the man he thought he was.

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   8.1/10(24 votes)

   #2 - The Wait Out

   S7:E235/9/1996

   Jerry and Elaine see opportunities for themselves when George causes a couple to separate; Kramer can't remove his new jeans.

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   7.9/10(14 votes)

   #3 - Treehouse of Horror XXXV

   S36:E511/3/2024

   Giant monsters created by political rage threaten to tear the town apart, a Victorian Mr. Burns is jump-scared on Thanksgiving by the ghosts of his abused workers, and Homer bonds with a pair of extra-terrestrial jeans in an unforgettable stop-motion adventure that can only be called… Denim.

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   7.8/10(28 votes)

   #4 - Trilogy of Error

   S12:E184/29/2001

   Homer's rush to the hospital to reattach his thumb, Lisa's rush to school to win the science fair, and Bart's run-in with an illegal fireworks scheme are interconnected in a parody of Go and Run Lola Run.

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   7.3/10(26 votes)

   #5 - Jaws Wired Shut

   S13:E91/27/2002

   A jaw injury from colliding with a new town statue turns Homer into a better listener while recuperating with his jaws wired shut, but once the wires come off, Homer does not go back to being loud and obnoxious and Marge becomes starved for thrills.

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   7.2/10(33 votes)

   #6 - Natural Born Kissers

   S9:E255/17/1998

   Homer and Marge try to spice up their love life and are caught baring it all in public. Bart and Lisa discover an alternate ending to Casablanca.

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   7.1/10(29 votes)

   #7 - Simpsons Bible Stories

   S10:E184/4/1999

   When Reverend Lovejoy subjects the congregation to an extended Bible reading, the Simpsons fall asleep and have dreams based on Bible stories.

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   7.1/10(24 votes)

   #8 - That 90's Show

   S19:E111/27/2008

   Flashbacks follow Marge and Homer back to their dating days, when she was a college student and he was working for his father to support her. Then Marge becomes smitten with a professor, so a sorrowful Homer turns to music--and invents grunge.

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   7.0/10(27 votes)

   #9 - Behind the Laughter

   S11:E225/21/2000

   A "Behind the Music"-style look at the Simpsons, narrated by VH1's Jim Forbes, shows their rise to stardom--and the "private hell" that followed.

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    7.0/10(21 votes)

    #10 - The Haw-Hawed Couple

    S18:E812/10/2006

    When Bart ends up the only guest at Nelson's birthday party, the bully decides he's his best friend and goes about protecting Bart in a parody of "Goodfellas." Meanwhile, Homer reads Lisa to sleep and debates on whether to reveal the book's sad ending to her.

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    7.0/10(4 votes)

    #11 - The Great Phatsby (2)

    S28:E131/15/2017

    Mr. Burns tries to relive his glory days and crosses paths with a mysterious music mogul. After being conned by him and reduced to bankruptcy, Mr. Burns seeks revenge on the Music Producer with the help of Homer, Bart, rapper Jazzy James and the mogul's ex-wife, Praline. Also, Lisa is courted by the richest kid in town, Smithers begins a perilous journey and Marge opens an obscure boutique store.

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    6.9/10(28 votes)

    #12 - They Saved Lisa's Brain

    S10:E225/9/1999

    Mayor Quimby flees Springfield, leaving the town chapter of Mensa in charge. As the group's new power goes to their heads, they take their utopian plans too far and the townspeople revolt.

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    6.9/10(21 votes)

    #13 - Future-Drama

    S16:E154/17/2005

    Through Professor Frink's future machine, Bart and Lisa see their lives in the year 2013, where Bart steals Lisa's chances at going to an Ivy League school in order to impress a skater girl named Jenda while Homer (now separated from Marge and living in an underwater apartment) fights Krusty the Clown after Marge begins dating him.

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    6.9/10(30 votes)

    #14 - Covercraft

    S26:E811/23/2014

    Homer has a mid-life crisis, takes up bass guitar and forms a cover band with some of the other dads in town. But the band's modest early success is soon overwhelmed by the breakout potential of their most unlikely star, Apu.

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    6.8/10(20 votes)

    #15 - Girls Just Want to Have Sums

    S17:E194/30/2006

    The family attends "Stab-A-Lot: The Itchy and Scratchy Musical." The musical's director is a graduate of Springfield Elementary and Principal Skinner puts his foot in mouth when he makes sexist comments about her education and that of women in general. He tries to make the situation better, but only buries himself deeper and deeper until he is fired and replaced by Women's Educational Expert Melanie Upfoot. The first thing she does is split the school into girls and the boys. Lisa dislikes the way girls are being taught math and she ventures over to the boy's side of the school in search of a challenge. Disguising herself as Jake Boyman she starts attending the boy's school but while she finds the math problems more interesting, it is being a boy that is a greater challenge.

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    6.7/10(19 votes)

    #16 - Husbands and Knives

    S19:E711/18/2007

    Marge opens a gym for real women because she's disenchanted with Springfield's snooty, glitzy L.A. Body Works. Her gym, Shapes: A Gym for Women, is a huge success, launching a chain that makes Marge rich and famous. But Homer fears Marge will leave him for someone more attractive and goes to extreme lengths to try to save his marriage.

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    6.7/10(18 votes)

    #17 - Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?

    S21:E812/13/2009

    One snowy day in Springfield, Lisa informs Bart that she and Maggie share a bond that Bart will never understand because he doesn't have a brother, so Bart asks Homer for a baby brother. When Homer denies Bart's request, Bart makes his way to the Springfield Orphanage to find what he thinks he's missing.

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    6.7/10(18 votes)

    #18 - The Food Wife

    S23:E511/13/2011

    Marge, Bart and Lisa start their own food blog and land a reservation at a popular restaurant; when Marge sends Homer to a cooking lab, he finds himself in a situation with law enforcement.

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    6.7/10(21 votes)

    #19 - Sky Police

    S26:E163/8/2015

    Chief Wiggum is mistakenly delivered a military jet pack, which he gleefully accepts and uses in order to fight crime. But when the jet pack crashes into the church, the congregation, led by Marge, must resort to gambling and counting cards in order to collect money to repair the church.

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    6.6/10(25 votes)

    #20 - The Dad Who Knew Too Little

    S14:E81/12/2003

    Homer hires a private detective to learn more about Lisa. But when Homer refuses to pay the detective's expenses, he frames Lisa for a crime she didn't commit, forcing her and Homer to go on the run.

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    6.6/10(22 votes)

    #21 - Pranksta Rap

    S16:E92/13/2005

    Bart fakes his own kidnapping to get out of being punished for going to a rap concert, but the ruse goes too far when Milhouse's father is implicated as the kidnapper and Chief Wiggum sees this as an opportunity to make a name for himself as a competent police officer.

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    6.5/10(24 votes)

    #22 - Lisa the Tree Hugger

    S12:E411/19/2000

    Lisa falls for the teenaged leader of a militant environmentalist group and tries to impress him by living in Springfield's oldest tree in order to keep it from being cut down.

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    6.5/10(24 votes)

    #23 - Once Upon a Time in Springfield

    S21:E101/10/2010

    Krusty grudgingly adds a pretty, singing cohost named Princess Penelope to his show in order to attract more female viewers. Girls love her, and ratings improve, but Bart and Milhouse want to get the show back to the way it was. The situation gets more complicated when Krusty and Penelope fall in love and decide to get married. Meanwhile, Homer, Lenny, and Carl consider working at a competing nuclear plant when Mr. Burns cuts off their daily doughnut service.

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    6.4/10(24 votes)

    #24 - The Day the Earth Stood Cool

    S24:E712/9/2012

    A "cool family" from Portland moves in next door to the Simpsons. Homer is desperate to befriend them, while Marge is skeptical, thinking that being cool is not all it's cracked up to be.

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    6.4/10(22 votes)

    #25 - Gorgeous Grampa

    S24:E143/3/2013

    Homer's obsession with the TV show "Storage Battles" leads the family to discover Grampa's past identity as "Gorgeous Godfrey," the most feared, villainous man in pro-wrestling history

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