The Best Episodes Written By Stephanie Gillis

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   6.9/10(27 votes)

   #1 - Moe Letter Blues

   S21:E215/9/2010

   As Mother's Day approaches, Moe narrates an episode in which he writes a letter to Homer, Apu and Reverend Lovejoy, who are vacationing with their children, and threatens to run away with one of their wives. While the trio tries to determine whose wife Moe is referring to, Homer, Lovejoy and Apu flashback to the intimate moments they initially ignored between Moe and Marge, Manjula and Helen Lovejoy. But when the boys return from their trip, they're in for the surprise of their lives.

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   6.9/10(39 votes)

   #2 - Treehouse of Horror XXV

   S26:E410/19/2014

   In a Halloween-theme episode Bart reads Aramaic symbols from the bottom of his desk and he and Lisa are transported to an alternate world filled with demons. Also, Moe organizes a "Clockwork Orange"-ish gang in which member Dum (Homer) falls for a young lady (Marge) who wants him to quit. In a homage to "The Others," the Simpsons reconnect with their earlier incarnations from the Tracey Ullman era.

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   6.8/10(22 votes)

   #3 - Midnight Towboy

   S19:E310/7/2007

   Homer takes a job as a tow-truck driver, and Marge hires a service that claims to make babies less clingy. Both decisions have unexpected consequences.

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   6.7/10(26 votes)

   #4 - A Tree Grows in Springfield

   S24:E611/25/2012

   Homer wins a MyPad at the school auction and Steve Mobbs, who is now in heaven, talks to Homer through it. Homer goes into a funk when he breaks the myPad, until Ned Flanders discovers a miracle tree in the Simpsons' back garden.

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   6.7/10(36 votes)

   #5 - Homerland

   S25:E19/29/2013

   A parody of "Homeland". Homer starts to act strangely polite after returning from a nuclear power plant convention, prompting a suspicious Lisa to ask an intense FBI agent named Annie (Kristen Wiig) to help her solve this mystery.

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   6.5/10(25 votes)

   #6 - See Homer Run

   S17:E611/20/2005

   Homer becomes Springfield's safety guru and before long he's challenging Mayor Quimby for office. Until, that is, there's an embarrassing mishap with his costume.

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   6.5/10(28 votes)

   #7 - 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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   6.5/10(27 votes)

   #8 - Replaceable You

   S23:E411/6/2011

   Lisa's science fair project is overshadowed by Bart's mechanical baby seal; Homer's new assistant ends up stealing his job.

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   6.2/10(28 votes)

   #9 - The Burns and the Bees

   S20:E812/7/2008

   Mr Burns wins a professional basketball team in a poker game at the annual billionaire's retreat. He decides to build a state-of-the-art facility in an attempt to lure fans, but the stadium site is on the last remaining bee colony in Springfield - prompting Lisa to lead a protest.

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    6.2/10(36 votes)

    #10 - Bart's Not Dead

    S30:E19/30/2018

    Bart takes a dare, and ends up in the hospital. To cover for himself and Homer, he says he went to Heaven and met Jesus. Christian producers offer the Simpsons a movie deal, which Homer takes. But Bart can't deal with the guilt and comes clean to Marge after the movie is finished.

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    6.0/10(31 votes)

    #11 - Lisa with an 'S'

    S27:E711/22/2015

    When Homer loses $5,000 at a poker game with Broadway legend Laney Fontaine, the only way he is able to settle the bet is if he loans Lisa to Laney for a month. Then, Laney turns Lisa into a show biz kid and Marge and Homer fear they made a mistake letting her go. So they head to New York to get her back.

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