- 8.2/105 votes
#1 - Endless Slumper
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1982
Rick Walker, a friend of Sam, seeks his advice on how to end a losing streak.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Sam Simon
- 8.2/104 votes
#2 - Fairy Tales Can Come True
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/1984
Cliff meets a woman during a costume party at Cheers that he likes very much, but he's afraid to see her again as himself.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Sam Simon
- 8.0/104 votes
#3 - The Bartender's Tale
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 4/18/1985
Carla insists that Sam should hire an older woman to replace Diane but she doesn't reckon on Sam's attraction to the woman's daughter.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Sam Simon
- 7.8/1037 votes
#4 - The Way We Was
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/31/1991
When the TV breaks, Marge and Homer entertain the kids with the story of how they first met.
Director: David Silverman
Writer: Sam Simon
- 7.6/1033 votes
#5 - Black Widower
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 4/9/1992
Bart suspects something rotten when Selma gets engaged to Sideshow Bob.
Director: David Silverman
Writer: Sam Simon
- 7.5/104 votes
#6 - Cheerio, Cheers
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 4/11/1985
Diane announces that she's leaving Cheers to accompany Frasier to Italy and Sam throws her a going-away party.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Sam Simon
- 7.5/1050 votes
#7 - Treehouse of Horror
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/25/1990
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.
Director: David Silverman
Writer: Sam Simon
- 7.4/1045 votes
#8 - Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 11/1/1990
Bart catches a three-eyed fish in a river downstream of the Nuclear Power Plant. This causes the plant to become inspected, and in order to prevent it from being shut down, Mr. Burns decides to run for governor. After a hard campaign which sees Burns rise from being universally despised to running neck and neck with popular incumbent Mary Bailey, it is decided that Burns will have dinner with a random employee the night before the election. Homer is chosen, much to Marge's chagrin.
Director: Wes Archer
Writer: Sam Simon
- 7.4/1036 votes
#9 - Treehouse of Horror II
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/1991
Maggie uses one of three wishes; a mind-reading Bart rules Springfield; Homer donates his brain to Mr. Burns' science project.
Director: Jim Reardon
Writer: Sam Simon
- 7.3/1032 votes
#10 - Treehouse of Horror III
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/1992
A Halloween trilogy includes a murderous Krusty doll; a "King Kong" parody; an invasion of zombies unleashed by Bart's incantation.
Director: Carlos Baeza
Writer: Sam Simon
- 7.1/1059 votes
#11 - The Telltale Head
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/25/1990
Bart pulls a stunt that shocks the entire town, including the new friends he was trying to impress.
Director: Rich Moore
Writer: Sam Simon
- 7.1/1059 votes
#12 - The Crepes of Wrath
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 4/15/1990
A little story about how Bart saves France after blowing up Principal Skinner's mom with a cherry bomb.
Director: Wes Archer
Writer: Sam Simon
- 7.1/1059 votes
#13 - Some Enchanted Evening
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 5/13/1990
Homer takes Marge out for a romantic night, leaving the kids with a sitter--who's profiled on "America's Most Armed and Dangerous."
Director: David Silverman
Writer: Sam Simon
- 6.5/105 votes
#14 - Battle of the Exes
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/5/1984
Not wanting to appear lonely and dateless whilst going to her ex-husband Nick's wedding ceremony to blonde bimbo Loretta, Carla asks Sam to accompany her.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Sam Simon
- 5.3/1014 votes
#16 - The Ten-Per-Cent Solution
Season 23 Episode 8 - Aired 12/4/2011
After Krusty the Clown's show is canceled and his talent agency drops him, his very first agent, Annie, tries to craft his comeback.
Director: Michael Polcino
Writer: Sam Simon