← The Simpsons

Season 18

22 episodes · 2006

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    The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer

    Sep 10, 200622 min★ 7.5

    Lisa's friendship with Fat Tony's son Michael prompts mob boss Tony to invite the Simpsons over for dinner. Michael says he'd rather be a chef than take over the family business, but that's before Tony is shot by a rival mobster.

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    Jazzy and the Pussycats

    Sep 17, 200623 min★ 6.6

    A child psychiatrist suggests drumming to channel Bart's energy, and the boy proves he's got the beat when he shows some talent on the skins.

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    Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em

    Sep 24, 200623 min★ 6.7

    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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    Treehouse of Horror XVII

    Nov 5, 200623 min★ 6.8

    The 17th annual Halloween trilogy. Included: "Married to the Blob," in which a meteor turns Homer into a monster; "You Gotta Know When to Golem," about a monster from Jewish folklore; and "The Day the Earth Looked Stupid," about an alien invasion.

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    G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)

    Nov 12, 200622 min★ 6.7

    Homer is bamboozled by Army recruiters and winds up in basic training, where he runs afoul of a tough-minded colonel and is assigned to play the enemy in war games.

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    Moe'N'a Lisa

    Nov 19, 200623 min★ 6.7

    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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    Ice Cream of Margie (With the Light Blue Hair)

    Nov 26, 200623 min★ 6.9

    Homer is fired and decides to buy an ice-cream truck. Marge makes use of the mountains of Popsicle sticks from Homer's ice-cream consumption by creating sculptures of Springfield citizens with them, leading to a feature about her on the news.

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    The Haw-Hawed Couple

    Dec 10, 200623 min★ 7.2

    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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    Kill Gil, Volumes I & II

    Dec 17, 200623 min★ 6.2

    Homer jumps into a brawl during a holiday ice-skating show. To escape the melee, Marge takes the family Christmas shopping, where a chance encounter with Gil leads to bad luck for Gil and the Simpson clan.

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    The Wife Aquatic

    Jan 7, 200722 min★ 6.5

    Selma and Patti's home movies make Marge nostalgic for the Barnacle Bay vacations of her youth, so Homer takes the family there, but the area has changed since the Bouviers were little girls.

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    Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times

    Jan 28, 200723 min★ 6.9

    Homer learns three lessons about revenge from stories told by Marge, Lisa and Bart that parody "The Count of Monte Cristo," "Revenge of the Nerds" and "Batman Begins."

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    Little Big Girl

    Feb 11, 200722 min★ 6.7

    Lisa pretends to be Native American for multicultural day at school. Meanwhile, Bart finds love with an older woman.

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    Springfield Up

    Feb 18, 200723 min★ 7.3

    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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    Yokel Chords

    Mar 4, 200723 min★ 6.8

    Bart has to see a psychiatrist after he starts a panic at school by telling a story about a murderous cafeteria worker. Meanwhile, Lisa tries to civilize Cletus Spuckler's hillbilly children, with mixed results.

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    Rome-Old and Juli-Eh

    Mar 11, 200722 min★ 6.3

    Selma and Grampa embark on a May-December romance, and Bart and Lisa get into trouble with deliverymen over cardboard boxes.

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    Homerazzi

    Mar 25, 200722 min★ 7.0

    After a celebrity scandal is accidentally captured in a family photo, Homer decides to become a paparazzo.

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    Marge Gamer

    Apr 22, 200723 min★ 7.3

    Marge goes online for the first time and becomes obsessed with a role-playing game that Bart and many of their neighbors are playing. Meanwhile, Lisa develops her own obsession--for soccer--and Homer becomes a referee.

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    The Boys of Bummer

    Apr 29, 200723 min★ 5.8

    Bart goes from hero to goat on his Little League team after an error in the championship game. Meanwhile, Homer falls asleep on a bed in a department store. When he's awakened, he raves about the mattress and is given a job as a salesman.

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    Crook and Ladder

    May 6, 200723 min★ 6.9

    Homer, Apu, Moe and Skinner volunteer as firemen after Homer's sleepwalking accident injures the town's firefighters. They do some light looting at the fires to make up for not being compensated, but Marge and Lisa shame them into mending their ways.

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    Stop or My Dog Will Shoot!

    May 13, 200723 min★ 6.8

    The Simpsons' pooch, Santa's Little Helper, becomes a police dog.

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    24 Minutes

    May 20, 200723 min★ 8.1

    In a parody of "24," the school's Counter Truancy Unit tries to stop three sixth-graders planning to disrupt the school bake sale with a stink bomb.

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    You Kent Always Say What You Want

    May 20, 200723 min★ 7.1

    Newsman Kent Brockman is fired for swearing on the air when Homer dumps coffee in his lap, but Lisa gets Brockman back in the game with her Webcam.