Animated TV Shows, The Simpsons, Season 19 | Episode 16 Times Watched: 9,144 | Comments: 1

It features the return of Lurleen Lumpkin (Beverly D'Angelo) from the third season episode "Colonel Homer", after an absence of sixteen years. The Dixie Chicks also make cameo appearances as themselves.

Animated TV Shows, The Simpsons, Season 19 | Episode 17 Times Watched: 7,758 | Comments: 2

Bart joins the 4-H club and tries to save a cow from the slaughterhouse, but when he gives it to a farm girl in the same club, the girl's father considers it a dowry on their marriage

Animated TV Shows, The Simpsons, Season 3 | Episode 14 Times Watched: 3,228 | Comments: 0

Lisa's football predicting skills brings about a closer relationship between Homer and Lisa, not to mention making Moe broke, until Lisa realizes that the relationship may end with the Super Bowl.rnNOTES: Repeats of this episode had portions redubbed for later Super Bowls.

Animated TV Shows, The Simpsons, Season 19 | Episode 18 Times Watched: 8,713 | Comments: 1

"The Simpsons Are Going To..." Park City, Utah (not to be confused with Park County, Colorado, home of a certain Family Guy-bashing Comedy Central TV series), as Lisa's school-project documentary film on the family is being screened at the Sundance Film Festival

Animated TV Shows, The Simpsons, Season 19 | Episode 1 Times Watched: 22,174 | Comments: 0

As a reward for saving Mr. Burns after he falls into a mall fountain, Homer is flown to Chicago on Burns's private jet, and enjoys it so much that he wants a job that involves private jet flying, but when his job interview goes bad, he hides his failure from Marge until he can tell her in the one place he feels she won't take it too hard - onboard a private jet - only for Homer to have to take over the controls

Animated TV Shows, The Simpsons, Season 19 | Episode 2 Times Watched: 20,944 | Comments: 2

Homer becomes an opera star after an incredible performance in Mr. Burns's production of La Boheme (done entirely while Homer was lying down, as this is the only position in which he has his singing voice), which leads to one exceptionally helpful groupie (voiced by Maya Rudolph) becoming the head of his fan club, but when he rebuffs her advances, she tries to ring down the final curtain on Homer

Animated TV Shows, The Simpsons, Season 19 | Episode 3 Times Watched: 13,661 | Comments: 2

Matt Dillon guest voices as a tow truck driver in nearby Guidopolis who tows Homer's car (while he's searching for some milk for Maggie, who has become a little too clingy to Marge until Marge hires someone who talks her into letting Maggie become independent) and ends up selling Homer a tow truck, but when Homer tows away a few too many of his friends' cars, they come up with a solution that results in Homer being put out of business...and possibly out of existence

Animated TV Shows, The Simpsons, Season 19 | Episode 4 Times Watched: 16,182 | Comments: 0

Steve Buscemi guest voices as a bank robber who holds Marge hostage during a robbery, only to give himself up when she promises to visit him in prison (since his mother abandoned him at an amusement park when he was a child), but when Marge finds excuses not to talk to him, much less visit him, he escapes and confronts Marge...and makes her take him to the same park

Animated TV Shows, The Simpsons, Season 19 | Episode 5 Times Watched: 16,696 | Comments: 0

This year's episode is so crammed with terrorlicious charm, it takes five letters just for the Roman numeral in the title:rnrn * "E.T. Go Home" - Bart discovers Kodos hiding in the Simpsons' backyard, where Kodos tells him and Lisa he needs some equipment to contact someone to pick him up, but in reality he's setting Earth up for an invasionrn * "Mr. and Mrs. Simpson" - Homer and Marge as Mr. and Mrs. Smith, killers for hirern * "Heck House" - when Bart,...

Animated TV Shows, The Simpsons, Season 19 | Episode 6 Times Watched: 14,278 | Comments: 0

Kirk and Luann van Houten fall off the cruise ship where they are celebrating their honeymoon after getting remarried, and when Milhouse is told that they're lost at sea, he turns into a loner, transforming him into the coolest kid in school, much to Bart's dismay; when Homer can't remember what color Marge's eyes are, she wears sunglasses and won't let him see them again until he can remember the color

Animated TV Shows, The Simpsons, Season 19 | Episode 7 Times Watched: 13,872 | Comments: 0

Marge doesn't like the way she looks compared to a Wonder Woman cardboard cutout standing outside the new comic book store (which, thanks mainly to the fact that the owner doesn't act like an ogre towards shoppers, has taken all of the Android's Dungeon's custmoers), but when the gym she goes to seems meant for a younger, hipper clientele, she opens up a gym for "regular women which is a success - a little too successful for Homer when he discovers that most successful wives dump their...

Animated TV Shows, The Simpsons, Season 19 | Episode 8 Times Watched: 10,502 | Comments: 0

Homer buys a TiVo that allows Marge to skip commercials, but after a dream in which Keith Olbermann chastises her for doing so, she starts watching the ones she skipped, one of which is for a new rib restaurant that turns out to be a trap set by Sideshow Bob; once again, the trap fails and Bob is arrested, but at his trial, Bart throws away a nitroglycerin vial that Bob needed for a heart condition, and Bob falls dead. The town blames Bart for killing him, and Bob's brother Cecil suggests that...

Animated TV Shows, The Simpsons, Season 19 | Episode 9 Times Watched: 9,958 | Comments: 0

When Homer wakes up in the snow and discovers that Marge and his kids are nowhere to be seen, Moe tells Homer about the drink he had that made him forget the previous 24 hours, so he goes to Professor Frink to get his memory back, where he discovers that he found Marge with another man

Animated TV Shows, The Simpsons, Season 19 | Episode 10 Times Watched: 10,635 | Comments: 0

Homer throws a car battery into the Krusty Burger trashcan, which ruptures a gas line that causes every fast food restaurant to explode, but in order to get the planned bond measure to rebuild them passed as soon as possible, Springfield moves its Presidential primary from June to January, where Homer comes up with an idea to get back at the politicians and media - vote for Ralph Wiggum - only for the media to proclaim Ralph as the national front-runner

Animated TV Shows, The Simpsons, Season 19 | Episode 11 Times Watched: 8,126 | Comments: 0

When Bart and Lisa find a BeSharps album no photos of Maggie Marge's college diploma, Homer and Marge flash back to the 1990s, where Homer has to work at the power plant Grampa's Lazer Tag factory rather than follow his dream of working at a bowling alley being a musician in order to support a third child sending Marge to college, but when Marge gets a bit too "friendly" with one of her professors, Homer responds by inventing grunge music

Animated TV Shows, The Simpsons, Season 19 | Episode 12 Times Watched: 7,665 | Comments: 0

On Valentine's Day, Homer and Marge get stuck in a tunnel of love (thanks to Bart and some gelatin), so they pass the time with love stories of three couples, animated for our enjoyment:rnrn * Homer and Marge as Bonnie and Clydern * Homer and Marge (again) as "Shady and the Vamp"rn * Nelson and Lisa as Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen

Animated TV Shows, The Simpsons, Season 19 | Episode 13 Times Watched: 8,970 | Comments: 0

When Principal Skinner is one step ahead of all of Bart's pranks, Bart suspects a mole among his friends; when Homer gets a loaner car after Marge has an accident, he's reluctant to give it back when his old car is fixed

Animated TV Shows, The Simpsons, Season 19 | Episode 14 Times Watched: 7,691 | Comments: 0

Bart pulls a prank on Martin in Springfield Forest, only for Martin to go tumbling off a cliffside and be presumed dead - and Lisa, thinking she's an accomplice, persuades Bart to keep quiet about it; Marge calls on a Cheaters-type show to catch Homer in the act of cheating...on his new bell pepper diet

Animated TV Shows, The Simpsons, Season 18 | Episode 22 Times Watched: 6,912 | Comments: 1

In the show's 400th episode (both in terms of episodes aired and produced), when Homer buys the 1,000,000th ice-cream cone at a local shop, he ends up on Kent Brockman's news program, but when Brockman swears on live TV after coffee is spilled in his lap, he ends up fired after Ned Flanders complains and the FCC fines Channel 6 heavily

Animated TV Shows, The Simpsons, Season 18 | Episode 21 Times Watched: 8,641 | Comments: 0

In what was planned as the series' 400th episode (before Fox decided to premiere the episode at its usual time instead of 30 minutes later, turning it into the 399th episode), Springfield Elementary's bullies are about to detonate a stink bomb (actually, an extremely expired carton of yogurt Homer tried to dispose), unless the school's CTU (Counter-Truancy Unit) - including Bart and Lisa, with special appearances by Jack Bauer and Chloe O'Brian from 24 (voiced by Kiefer Sutherland and Mary Lynn...

Animated TV Shows, The Simpsons, Season 18 | Episode 20 Times Watched: 6,322 | Comments: 0

When Homer gets lost in a cornfield maze, Santa's Little Helper drags him out, leading to the dog being sent to animal police academy, and it's "Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do, Santa's Little Helper's gonna come for you," but when he bites Bart rather than play catch with him, Bart gets a new pet - a snake - which gets loose in the school and causes a toxic gas cloud to overcome Bart while he's looking for him

Animated TV Shows, The Simpsons, Season 18 | Episode 19 Times Watched: 7,377 | Comments: 1

Let me see if I got all of this:rnHomer, Moe, Apu, and Principal Skinner become volunteer firefightersrn...because the regular fire department is pretty much in tractionrn...thanks to Homer crashing into the firehouse, spilling the chili, and sounding the fire bell, causing the firemen to slip on it and get mauled by their dalmatians..

Animated TV Shows, The Simpsons, Season 18 | Episode 18 Times Watched: 5,765 | Comments: 0

The Springfield Isotots make it to a Little League championship game, but when Bart makes an error that costs the team the championship, the townspeople refuse to let him forget it; Homer's attempts to talk his way out of being caught sleeping on a bed in a department store bed end up selling the mattress, so he ends up as a mattress salesman, but he has second thoughts when Reverend Lovejoy trades Homer's mattress for one he just bough

Animated TV Shows, The Simpsons, Season 18 | Episode 17 Times Watched: 10,304 | Comments: 2

Marge feels the shame of the other parents at a PTA meeting when she reveals she doesn't have an E-mail address, so she goes online, and soon gets involved in an online role-playing game, only to discover the most feared character is Bart - who ends up killing her character accidentally; Homer becomes a soccer referee for Lisa's league, only for him to give her a red card after she takes advantage of him by flopping one too many times on the field (only for special guest voice Ronaldo to set the...

Animated TV Shows, The Simpsons, Season 18 | Episode 16 Times Watched: 11,645 | Comments: 1

When Homer nearly sets the house on fire after a mishap involving the candles on his birthday cake, the Simpsons buy a fireproof safe to protect their valuables, including the family album, but when it manages to burn anyway, Homer and Marge try to re-enact all of the photos. One of them catches a celebrity in a compromising position in the background, so Homer sells it to a tabloid, and soon he becomes Springfield's hottest paparazzo - which is not good when the celebrities try to turn him into...