Avril 1993
(Retourner au début de l'année)
So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show
(9F17 - Season 4 Episode 18 - Disc 4)
(Written by Jon Vitti, Directed by Carlos Baeza)
In the first Simpsons clip show, it's April Fool's Day and Homer starts playing pranks upon Bart through the day. Bart, angered by the numerous amount of tricks he has fallen for, plans the ultimate revenge on Homer by shaking a can of beer so hard that it causes an explosion. While Homer ends up in a coma, the family reminisces about their past adventures. Bart eventually admits to being the cause of Homer's condition and Homer immediately awakens and begins strangling Bart.
The Front
(9F16 - Season 4 Episode 19 - Disc 4)
(Written by Adam I. Lapidus, Directed by Jeffrey Lynch)
After watching a terrible lackluster episode of The Itchy & Scratchy Show, Bart and Lisa decide to start writing their own episodes and sending it to the studio. Roger Meyers, the CEO, immediately rejects their script due to their age. They put Grampa's name on the script and send it back, and Meyers loves it and hires Grampa. Bart and Lisa's cartoons are hugely successful and are nominated for an award. At the ceremony, Grampa finally sees an Itchy & Scratchy cartoon for the first time and is horrified. Meanwhile, Homer and Marge revisit a High School reunion, which prompts Homer to admit that he never officially graduated because he failed a science class. At the reunion, Homer's wins several awards but these are revoked, causing Homer to go to night school to make up the lost credits on the class he never passed - remedial science.
Guest star: Brooke Shields.
Whacking Day
(9F18 - Season 4 Episode 20 - Disc 4)
(Written by John Swartzwelder, Directed by Jeffrey Lynch)
Bart is expelled from Springfield Elementary School, so Marge decides to home school him. Springfield's annual holiday arrives: Whacking Day, a day specifically designed to drive snakes into the town's square and club them to death. When most Springfielders celebrate the local holiday, Lisa is appalled at the upcoming celebration, but her protests fall on deaf ears. Lisa and Bart manage to convince the town about the nightmare of Whacking Day and Principal Skinner decides to allow Bart to return to school.
First appearance of Superintendent Chalmers.
Guest star: Barry White.
Mai 1993
(Retourner au début de l'année)
Marge in Chains
(9F20 - Season 4 Episode 21 - Disc 4)
(Written by Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein, Directed by Jim Reardon)
Springfield is hit with the dreaded Osaka Flu, causing many of the town to fall ill. Due to the exhaustion from having to look after the rest of her ill family, Marge accidentally forgets to pay for Grampa's bottle of bourbon when shopping at the Kwik-E-Mart. Marge is soon arrested for shoplifting and is sentenced to 30 days at Springfield's Woman Prison. Marge's absence is felt everywhere and she is welcomed back with open arms when she is released.
Guest star: David Crosby.
Krusty Gets Kancelled
(9F19 - Season 4 Episode 22 - Disc 4)
(Written by John Swartzwelder, Directed by David Silverman)
A new show about a ventriloquist dummy named Gabbo becomes the hottest show in Springfield and Krusty's show is cancelled due to low ratings. Krusty is at first downfallen at the cancellation of his show, but Bart and Lisa manage to convince him to stage a comeback special and invite his celebrity friends to take part. The special is a huge success and Krusty's show goes back on the air.
Guest stars: Johnny Carson, Hugh Hefner, Bette Midler, Barry White, Luke Perry, Elizabeth Taylor and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Septembre 1993
(Retourner au début de l'année)
Homer's Barbershop Quartet
(9F21 - Season 5 Episode 1 - Disc 1)
(Written by Jeff Martin, Directed by Mark Kirkland)
In a flashback, Homer recounts his time with a barbershop quartet called The Be Sharps that also featured Principal Skinner, Apu and Chief Wiggum who was later replaced with Barney. The group became music stars with their hit song "Baby on Board" and won a Grammy. Eventually, Homer started missing his family and the group began to lose its popularity, so it broke up.
Guest stars: George Harrison, David Crosby and The Dapper Dans.
Octobre 1993
(Retourner au début de l'année)
Cape Fear
(9F22 - Season 5 Episode 2 - Disc 1)
(Written by Jon Vitti, Directed by Rich Moore)
Bart starts receiving threatening letters in the mail and it is soon revealed that they were sent to him by Sideshow Bob. Bob is released from prison, so Bart is placed in the Witness Relocation Program and the Simpson family is moved to Terror Lake. However, Bob follows the Simpsons there and sneaks onto the family's house boat and tries to kill Bart. Cornered, Bart asks Bob to sing the entire score of the HMS Pinafore as a last request. Bob does so, and during his performance the boat drifts through Springfield and Bob is caught.
Guest star: Kelsey Grammer.
Homer Goes to College
(1F02 - Season 5 Episode 3 - Disc 1)
(Written by Conan O'Brien, Directed by Jim Reardon)
After failing a test at the nuclear plant, Homer's lack of a college degree is revealed and he is sent back to pass a nuclear physics class. Homer, having seen too many bad Animal House knock-off movies, goofs off, so he is sent to a group of boys for tutoring. The boys, who are stereotypical nerds, try to help Homer, but he instead tries to help them party and decides to pull a prank on another college. They steal Springfield A&M's mascot, but his friends are caught and expelled. Homer invites them to live with him, but his family soon become angered by their new housemates, so Homer decides to try to help them get back into college. He succeeds, but fails his final exam, so Marge convinces him to return to college for another year.
Rosebud
(1F01 - Season 5 Episode 4 - Disc 1)
(Written by John Swartzwelder, Directed by Wes Archer)
After a disastrous birthday party, Mr. Burns pines for his long-lost childhood toy, a teddy bear named Bobo. The bear ends up in the hands of Maggie and when Homer discovers this, he tries to use the bear to get a large reward from Burns. When Burns agrees, Homer tries to hand the bear over, but is stopped by Maggie. Homer, seeing that Maggie has become attached to the bear, decides not to give it back to Mr. Burns, who promises that Homer will regret the decision. Mr. Burns later returns and talks to Maggie and she eventually gives it back to him.
Guest star: The Ramones.
Treehouse of Horror IV
(1F04 - Season 5 Episode 5 - Disc 1)
(Written by Greg Daniels, Dan McGrath, Bill Oakley, Josh Weinstein, Bill Canterbury and Conan O'Brien, Directed by David Silverman)
In a parody of Night Gallery, Bart tells three scary stories based on paintings:
The Devil and Homer Simpson – Homer sells his soul to the Devil (Ned Flanders) for a doughnut.
Terror at 5½ Feet – While riding the bus to school, Bart discovers that there there is a Gremlin on the side of the bus.
Bart Simpson's Dracula – The Simpsons are invited to a dinner with Mr. Burns, where Bart and Lisa discover that Mr. Burns is a vampire.
Guest stars: Frank Welker and Phil Hartman.
Novembre 1993
(Retourner au début de l'année)
Marge on the Lam
(1F03 - Season 5 Episode 6 - Disc 2)
(Written by Bill Canterbury, Directed by Mark Kirkland)
Marge and neighbor Ruth Powers have a girls' night. Meanwhile, Homer tries to have fun without Marge and Lionel Hutz is hired as Bart, Lisa, and Maggie's babysitter. Homer hitches a ride home with Chief Wiggum, who is following behind Marge and Ruth and decides to pull them over. However, Ruth speeds her car up and reveals to Marge that she stole it from her ex-husband. Marge decides to stay with Ruth, but eventually the police catch up with them and the charges are dismissed.
Guest stars: George Fenneman, Pamela Reed and Phil Hartman.
Bart's Inner Child
(1F05 - Season 5 Episode 7 - Disc 2)
(Written by George Meyer, Directed by Bob Anderson)
Marge realizes that she is no fun because of her constant nagging and seeks help from self-help guru Brad Goodman, who then uses Bart's irreverent attitude as a new example of how people should behave. The entire town of Springfield begins to act like Bart, who at first enjoys things but begins to feel that his role as a troublemaker is usurped. During the inaugural "Do what you feel" festival, several things go wrong and the town decides to stop acting like Bart.
Guest stars: James Brown, Albert Brooks and Phil Hartman.
Boy-Scoutz 'N the Hood
(1F06 - Season 5 Episode 8 - Disc 2)
(Written by Dan McGrath, Directed by Jeffrey Lynch)
Bart and Milhouse find $20.00 on the street and buy a Squishee made entirely of syrup. After a night of bingeing and carousing, Bart wakes up to discover that he has joined a Boy Scouts-esque troupe called "The Junior Campers". Bart initially hates the group, then enjoys it, until Homer agrees to participate in their river-rafting trip. In a boat with Ned and Rod Flanders, Homer loses their map and the boat gets lost in the ocean. After being stuck out at sea for several days, they discover an oil rig with a Krusty Burger and are saved.
Guest star: Ernest Borgnine.
Décembre 1993
(Retourner au début de l'année)
The Last Temptation of Homer
(#90 - 1F07 - Season 5 Episode 9 - Disc 2)
(Written by Frank Mula, Directed by Carlos Baeza)
Mr. Burns hires a female worker named Mindy Simmons in accordance with labor union policies and Homer is worried that his crush on her will ruin his marriage with Marge. Both Mindy and Homer have feelings for each other, but in the end Homer decides not to cheat on Marge. Meanwhile, Bart becomes a nerd after doctors find several things physically wrong with him and apply treatments that make him look like a nerd.
Guest stars: Michelle Pfeiffer, Werner Klemperer and Phil Hartman.
$pringfield
(#91 - 1F08 - Season 5 Episode 10 - Disc 2)
(Written by Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein, Directed by Wes Archer)
After the local economy stalls, everyone in town votes for gambling to be legalized, prompting Mr. Burns to open a casino. Homer becomes a blackjack dealer, and Marge to become so addicted to gambling that she forgets about her family life. Meanwhile, Bart opens up his own casino after being kicked out of Mr. Burns's and Lisa struggles to have her costume done for a school pageant. Homer agrees to help her, but does a terrible job, so he decides to go to the casino to get Marge back.
Guest stars: Robert Goulet and Gerry Cooney.
Janvier 1994
(Retourner au début de l'année)
Homer the Vigilante
(#92 - 1F09 - Season 5 Episode 11 - Disc 2)
(Written by John Swartzwelder, Directed by Jim Reardon)
A crime wave hits Springfield, caused by the elusive cat burglar and Lisa's saxophone is stolen, so Homer agrees to try to get it back. The police are ineffective, so Flanders creates a neighborhood watch group, which Homer takes charge of. However, Homer's incompetence causes the vigilante group to commit more crimes than it prevents, and they are unsuccessful in catching the cat burglar. With the help of Grampa, Homer discovers that the burglar is a charming senior named Malloy. Malloy is arrested, but he tricks the citizens of Springfield into thinking he's hidden millions of dollars and escapes during the ensuing rush to find the money.
Guest star: Sam Neill.
Février 1994
(Retourner au début de l'année)
Bart Gets Famous
(#93 - 1F11 - Season 5 Episode 12 - Disc 3)
(Written by John Swartzwelder, Directed by Susie Dietter)
After sneaking away from a school trip to a box factory, Bart sneaks onto the set of the Krusty the Clown show. He gets a job as Krusty's production assistant and soon becomes sick of the job. One day, he is close to quitting, but Krusty runs up and says he needs to use Bart in a sketch. Bart becomes an accidental star when he says, "I didn't do it" during the botched sketch. He becomes famous but soon becomes tired of being known for one line. Marge convinces him that the main thing is to make people happy, so Bart decides to continue, but the audience soon becomes tired of Bart's act and forgets about him.
Guest star: Conan O'Brien.
Homer and Apu
(#94 - 1F10 - Season 5 Episode 13 - Disc 3)
(Written by Greg Daniels, Directed by Mark Kirkland)
After twice getting food poisoning from expired food sold at the Kwik-E-Mart, Homer teams up with Kent Brockman to report Apu. Apu is fired from his job and comes to stay with the Simpsons, and he is replaced by actor James Woods. Homer resolves to help Apu get his old job back, and the two travel to India to talk to the owner of the Kwik-E-Mart, but are unsuccessful. Apu decides to visit his old Kwik-E-Mart and saves James Woods' life. Woods is so grateful that he helps Apu get re-hired.
Guest star: James Woods.
Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy
(#95 - 1F12 - Season 5 Episode 14 - Disc 3)
(Written by Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein, Directed by Jeffrey Lynch)
Lisa protests against the phrases on her new Talking Malibu Stacy doll, which she finds demeaning to women. She tracks down the reclusive creator Stacy to make a more politically correct doll. Meanwhile, Grampa is worried that he is getting old, so he takes a job at Krusty Burger. Lisa and Stacy create "Lisa Lionheart" which gets a lot of positive buzz, but is a flop when the Malibu Stacy executives release a new doll that comes with a hat.
Guest star: Kathleen Turner.
Deep Space Homer
(#96 - 1F13 - Season 5 Episode 15 - Disc 3)
(Written by David Mirkin, Directed by Carlos Baeza)
NASA decides that they need to hire average joes in order to get higher television ratings. They recruit Homer and Barney to train to be the first average American in space. Homer, who wants to be respected, is the winner by default, and goes into space with Buzz Aldrin. While there, he causes a lot of havoc and eventually breaks the handle on the space shuttle's hatch. Homer inadvertently seals the door shut with an inanimate carbon rod, and the shuttle returns to Earth. The rod is hailed as a hero, but Homer gains the respect of his family.
Guest stars: Buzz Aldrin and James Taylor.
Mars 1994
(Retourner au début de l'année)
Homer Loves Flanders
(#97 - 1F14 - Season 5 Episode 16 - Disc 3)
(Written by David Richardson, Directed by Wes Archer)
Homer begins to like Flanders after being invited to a football game. However, Homer's constant presence around Flanders and his family causes Ned to feel hate for Homer. One day while trying to drive away from Homer, Flanders is arrested and charged with drunk driving. Flanders begins to lose the respect of the church congregation until Homer sticks up for him. Flanders thanks Homer and the two remain friends.
Bart Gets an Elephant
(#98 - 1F15 - Season 5 Episode 17 - Disc 3)
(Written by John Swartzwelder, Directed by Jim Reardon)
While stuck cleaning the house, Bart wins a radio contest and chooses a gag prize, an Elephant, instead of the real prize, $10,000 cash. The radio station eventually gets Bart his elephant, which is named Stampy. When taking care of Stampy gets too expensive Homer decides to sell him to an ivory dealer rather than turn him over to a non-profit Animal Refuge. Bart tries to run away with Stampy, but the elephant escapes. They track him down, and Homer agrees to give him to the Animal Refuge.
Avril 1994
(Retourner au début de l'année)
Burns' Heir
(#99 - 1F16 - Season 5 Episode 18 - Disc 4)
(Written by Jace Richdale, Directed by Mark Kirkland)
Mr. Burns has a near-death experience which prompts him to find an heir to inherit his wealth after he dies. Bart is rejected, but Burns soon decides to choose him after seeing that Bart is "a creature of pure malevolence". Marge convinces Bart to go spend some time with Burns, and soon becomes more disruptive than normal to his own family and decides to go live with Mr. Burns. Bart eventually starts to miss his family, but Burns manipulates him into staying. Burns tries to have Bart prove his loyalty by firing Homer, but Bart instead decides to go back to living with his family.
Guest star: Phil Hartman.
Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song
(#100 - 1F18 - Season 5 Episode 19 - Disc 4)
(Written by Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein, Directed by Bob Anderson)
Bart accidentally gets Principal Skinner fired after he brings Santa's Little Helper to school for show and tell. Bart feels guilty for what he did, and befriends Skinner. Meanwhile, Ned Flanders is hired as principal and the school goes to pot. Bart decides that while he enjoys having Skinner as a friend, he needs him as an enemy, but discovered that he returned to the Army to be a sergeant. Bart convinces Skinner to return and they get Flanders fired so that Skinner can get his old job back.
Guest star: Frank Welker.
Mai 1994
(Retourner au début de l'année)
The Boy Who Knew Too Much
(#101 - 1F19 - Season 5 Episode 20 - Disc 4)
(Written by John Swartzwelder, Directed by Jeffrey Lynch)
Bart plays hooky from school and ends up at the birthday party of Freddy Quimby, the Mayor's nephew, where Freddy is accused of assaulting a waiter, which Bart knows the truth, but would have to admit that he was playing hooky if he testifies. Meanwhile, Homer is chosen for jury duty in the assault case against Freddy Quimby and takes advantage of being sequestered in a hotel.
Guest star: Phil Hartman.
Lady Bouvier's Lover
(#102 - 1F21 - Season 5 Episode 21 - Disc 4)
(Written by Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein, Directed by Wes Archer)
While attending Maggie's first birthday party, Grampa falls for Marge's mother Jackie. Grampa and Jackie start dating, but he is soon pushed aside in favor of Mr. Burns. Burns and Jackie are soon engaged to be married, much to the chagrin of Marge and Smithers. Grampa crashes the wedding and tries to get Jackie back, but she decides that she doesn't want to be married. Meanwhile, Bart steals Homer's credit card to buy a piece of Itchy and Scratchy memorabilia that turns out to be a rip-off.
Guest star: Phil Hartman.
Secrets of a Successful Marriage
(#103 - 1F20 - Season 5 Episode 22 - Disc 4)
(Written by Greg Daniels, Directed by Carlos Baeza)
Tired of being called "slow," Homer signs up to teach a class on keeping a successful marriage at a learning annex. He is an unsuccessful teacher and finds that the only way he can keep the class interested is to tell racy secrets about Marge and their bedroom antics. Marge soon gets fed up with Homer telling their secrets and kicks him out. Homer starts living in Bart's treehouse and becomes so lost without Marge that he begs her to take him back, and she eventually agrees.
Guest star: Phil Hartman.
Septembre 1994
(Retourner au début de l'année)
Bart of Darkness
(#104 - 1F22 - Season 6 Episode 1 - Disc 1)
(Written by Dan McGrath, Directed by Jim Reardon)
A heat wave is gripping Springfield and the townspeople attempt to cool down. Bart and Lisa persuade Homer to buy them a swimming pool, which proves popular with the town's other children. Bart ends up breaking his leg when he dives off his treehouse and is forced to spend the rest of the summer in his room. Realizing that he has become isolated, Lisa gives Bart her telescope to cheer him up. Using it, he witnesses Ned Flanders digging a grave and through his ramblings, determines that Ned has killed his wife Maude. He sends Lisa over to the Flanders' house to look for proof of the "crime", only for Ned to return, holding an axe. However, he is merely putting it away; and it is revealed that Maude is still alive and well, and all that Ned killed was her favorite plant.
Lisa's Rival
(#105 - 1F17 - Season 6 Episode 2 - Disc 1)
(Written by Mike Scully, Directed by Mark Kirkland)
A new student named Allison Taylor arrives at Springfield Elementary and proves to be more than a match for Lisa in both educational and musical feats. After Allison wins first chair saxophone in the school orchestra ahead of her, Lisa vows to defeat Allison at something: by winning the school diorama contest. Meanwhile, Homer steals 100 pounds of sugar from an overturned truck and decides to sell it to the town. However, despite his best efforts to guard his sugar mound, a rainstorm dissolves it. At the contest, Bart switches Allison's diorama of The Tell-Tale Heart with a cow's heart to help Lisa win. Lisa's guilt at the plan forces her to give Allison's real model back. The pair set aside their differences and become friends. Principal Skinner decides that neither Allison nor Lisa's entry deserves to win, awarding victory to Ralph Wiggum.
Guest star: Winona Ryder.
Another Simpsons Clip Show
(#106 - 2F33 - Season 6 Episode 3 - Disc 1)
(Written by Jon Vitti (credited as "Penny Wise"), Directed by David Silverman)
After reading The Bridges of Madison County, Marge decides that she and Homer need to teach the kids about romance. Each of the Simpsons (using clips from previous episodes) reminisce about past romantic encounters, leaving them all depressed and believing that love does not work. However, Homer saves the day by pointing out that one relationship has succeeded, his and Marge's.
Octobre 1994
(Retourner au début de l'année)
Itchy & Scratchy Land
(#107 - 2F01 - Season 6 Episode 4 - Disc 1)
(Written by John Swartzwelder, Directed by Wesley Archer)
Bart and Lisa convince their parents to take their family vacation at the newly opened Itchy & Scratchy Land. After experiencing several of the violent attractions, Homer and Marge go to "Parents Island", while Bart and Lisa continue to explore the park. The vacation seems to be going well, until Bart and Homer are both apprehended by the park security for assaulting a staff member dressed in an Itchy suit. Professor Frink realizes that all of the park's Itchy & Scratchy robots will turn on their masters; an event which proves true as a horde of Itchy and Scratchy robots advance on the Simpsons. Homer throws everything he can at them, before discovering that a camera's flash destroys the robots. The family take more cameras from a gift shop and defeat the Itchy & Scratchy army. Roger Meyers, Jr. thanks them, and the Simpsons agree that it was actually their best vacation ever.
