The Best Episodes Written By Matt Warburton

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.8/10(42 votes)

   #1 - Digital Estate Planning

   S3:E205/17/2012

   Pierce and his closest friends are summoned to Hawthorne Labs to play a video game that will determine who will inherit his father's fortune.

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   7.5/10(12 votes)

   #2 - ... had to be on my best behavior

   S1:E94/27/2020

   Flashbacks unearth painful memories and resentment for Devi. Meanwhile, Kamala is forced to get honest as the family welcomes her suitor at home.

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   7.4/10(20 votes)

   #3 - A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again

   S23:E194/29/2012

   When Bart gets his wish for a family vacation, he becomes determined to make it last forever.

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   7.2/10(19 votes)

   #4 - The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star

   S16:E215/15/2005

   Bart gets expelled from school and transfers to a Catholic school, where a hip priest named Father Sean tries to convert Bart and Homer to Catholicism, which worries Marge when she believes that Catholics do not go to the same heaven as Protestants and discovers that Catholic women do not use birth control.

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   7.1/10(22 votes)

   #5 - Tales from the Public Domain

   S13:E143/17/2002

   When Homer gets a notice from the library that he has a book of classic tales that is years overdue, he finds it on the shelf and reads three stories: The Odyssey (where Homer and his bar buddies try to get home after fighting the Trojans), Joan of Arc (where Lisa leads the French against the English with the help of God), and Hamlet (where Bart tries to kill Moe after Moe kills Homer in order to marry Marge).

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   6.9/10(24 votes)

   #6 - The Great Simpsina

   S22:E184/10/2011

   When the Great Raymondo takes Lisa on as his magician's assistant, she is conned into revealing the secret of his greatest trick to his nemesis.

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   6.7/10(21 votes)

   #7 - Three Gays of the Condo

   S14:E174/13/2003

   After yet another Homer and Marge fight, Homer ends up sharing a condo with two homosexuals - who don't exactly think Homer is straight.

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   6.7/10(19 votes)

   #8 - Springfield Up

   S18:E132/18/2007

   A documentary filmmaker who interviewed a group of Springfield schoolchildren 32 years ago has followed up at eight-year intervals to film how their lives have unfolded.

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   6.6/10(27 votes)

   #9 - Treehouse of Horror XIX

   S20:E411/2/2008

   Springfield is the setting for parodies of Charlie Brown, It's the Great Pumpkin and Michael Bay's Transformers as Homer's vote on election day is misread by a renegade machine.

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    6.4/10(19 votes)

    #10 - Moe'N'a Lisa

    S18:E611/19/2006

    Lisa sees poetry in the notes Moe sticks to the walls of his hotel room, so she sends his work to a poetry journal, which publishes it, making Moe the toast of the literary circuit.

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    6.4/10(20 votes)

    #11 - Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em

    S18:E39/24/2006

    Marge reads Homer's carpentry books and becomes very handy at fixing things. Gender bias keeps the townspeople from accepting a female carpenter, so Marge pretends that Homer does the work. Meanwhile, Bart torments Skinner when he learns the principal has an extreme allergy to peanuts.

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    6.3/10(24 votes)

    #12 - The Squirt and the Whale

    S21:E194/25/2010

    The Simpsons decide to embrace a cheaper, alternate source of energy by erecting a wind turbine in their backyard. But when Homer realizes some of the power is being directed to the local electric company, he decides to remove his home from the grid and becomes completely dependent upon an unreliable source of power. Meanwhile, a storm erupts, trapping a magnificent 150-foot-long blue whale ashore, and Lisa and Homer attempt to help the poor creature.

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    6.2/10(20 votes)

    #13 - Co-Dependent's Day

    S15:E153/21/2004

    Homer and Marge's bond becomes stronger when they both get drunk on wine, but soon the bond unravels when Homer blames Marge for crashing the car and Marge gets sent to rehab. Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa complain to Randall Curtis (a George Lucas-esque science fiction movie director) about his latest film.

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    5.0/10(12 votes)

    #14 - That Comment Tho

    S1:E511/25/2021

    While a cryptic message from Nico sends Kimberly reeling, Leighton invites the women's center to her brother's frat party. Bela has an uncomfortable experience with a Catullan editor, and Whitney navigates the fallout of investigative work.

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    3.2/10(14 votes)

    #15 - A Velma in the Woods

    S1:E82/2/2023

    After finding themselves trapped in a cave, Velma and Daphne are forced to confront their complicated relationship. While Fred proves he really does love women for their brains, Gigi vies for Norville’s attention.

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    3.1/10(19 votes)

    #16 - Marching Band Sleepover

    S1:E51/26/2023

    After Crystal Cove instates a city-wide curfew, Velma has no choice but to spend the night with band geeks… and Fred. Later, Daphne makes a discovery of her own.

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