The Best Episodes Written By Sam Simon

Rick Walker, a friend of Sam, seeks his advice on how to end a losing streak.

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.

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.

When the TV breaks, Marge and Homer entertain the kids with the story of how they first met.

Diane announces that she's leaving Cheers to accompany Frasier to Italy and Sam throws her a going-away party.

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

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.

Maggie uses one of three wishes; a mind-reading Bart rules Springfield; Homer donates his brain to Mr. Burns' science project.

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.

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

Homer takes Marge out for a romantic night, leaving the kids with a sitter--who's profiled on "America's Most Armed and Dangerous."

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

Bart pulls a stunt that shocks the entire town, including the new friends he was trying to impress.

After Tony is beaten badly in his most recent boxing match, the state takes his boxing license away.

Alex's ex-wife, Phyllis, depressed and lonely, comes to see Alex, who takes pity on her and includes her in his holiday plans. This turns ugly, when she manages to bring the whole gang down with her self-pity. Her Christmas present to Alex is that she won't bug him for New Year's, which turns out to be the best gift she could give him.

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.

George's sanity is questioned after he sees a UFO.

After Krusty the Clown's show is canceled and his talent agency drops him, his very first agent, Annie, tries to craft his comeback.