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Season 1
Season 1, Episode 1: Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire
Original Air Date—17 December 1989
Christmas seems doomed for the Simpson family when Homer receives no Christmas Bonus. Homer becomes a mall Santa Claus, hoping to make money and bring Marge, Bart, Lisa, and baby Maggie, a happy holiday.
Season 1, Episode 2: Bart the Genius
Original Air Date—14 January 1990
Bart ends up at a school for gifted children after cheating on an IQ test.
Season 1, Episode 3: Homer's Odyssey
Original Air Date—21 January 1990
While Bart's class is touring the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant for a field trip, Homer crashes his golf cart into a radioactive pipe. In the aftermath, the plant is forced to shutdown and Homer loses his job.
Season 1, Episode 4: There's No Disgrace Like Home
Original Air Date—28 January 1990
At a company picnic Homer realizes his family is dysfunctional and takes them all to therapy where they end up having shock treatment. They are still as bad as ever so Homer gets double his money back from Dr Marvin Monroe and the Simpsons buy themselves a new TV.
Season 1, Episode 5: Bart the General
Original Air Date—4 February 1990
School bully Nelson Muntz has been terrorizing his classmates, particularly Bart. Bart and one of Nelson's goons get into a fight at school (when Bart was sticking up for Lisa), and in the aftermath Nelson accidentally gets a bloody nose. Nelson makes good on his threats to beat up Bart. Bart winds up having nightmares about Nelson stalking him, and later envisions his funeral. Finally, Grampa takes Bart to Herman, a Vietnam veteran who has had one of his arms amputated, to plan a strategy for getting back at Nelson. Bart commissions all his schoolmates whom Nelson has bullied and - in a classic parody of war movies such as Patton - trains them for their revenge. One afternoon after school, Bart and his army enact their operative, pelting Nelson and his goons with water balloons until he surrenders. The revenge is successful, and Bart and Nelson begin a grudging friendship.
Season 1, Episode 6: Moaning Lisa
Original Air Date—11 February 1990
A depressed Lisa's spirit is lifted when she meets a jazz-man, Bleeding Gums Murphy.
Season 1, Episode 7: The Call of the Simpsons
Original Air Date—18 February 1990
Ned Flanders shows off his newly purchased (and monstrous) motor home to the Simpsons. In a fit of oneupmanship, Homer decides he needs one too. Homer's credit is very poor, but he wants that motor home, so he buys one whose oil is leaking and appears to be held together by chicken wire and duct tape. With their new motor home, Homer takes the family on an outing in the woods. Homer quickly loses his way and everyone bails from the motor home just before it tumbles into a large ravine. The family is forced to rough it the rest of the way. Maggie becomes separated from the family and takes refuge with a family of bears. Meanwhile, Homer and Bart lose their clothing and have to wear leaves. Homer quickly falls into a stream and becomes covered with mud. A couple staying in the woods, concluding that what they've seen is Bigfoot, takes a picture of Homer and sends it to a TV station. Soon, the woods are crawling with media representatives, hoping to get their own glimpse. A park ranger shoots Homer with a tranquilizer and he is taken to a laboratory for analysis. However, the results - either it's a below-average human or a brilliant beast, a German scientist says - are inconclusive.
Season 1, Episode 8: The Telltale Head
Original Air Date—25 February 1990
Bart gets more than he bargained for when he saws the head off a statue of the town's founder.
Season 1, Episode 9: Life on the Fast Lane
Original Air Date—18 March 1990
Marge contemplates an affair with a handsome bowling instructor.
Season 1, Episode 10: Homer's Night Out
Original Air Date—25 March 1990
Bart uses his new miniature "spy" camera to take candid pictures around the household; meanwhile, Homer is preparing to go to a bachelor party for his co-worker at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. While at the party, Homer is invited to dance on stage with a stripper. Bart (who is dining with the rest of the family in the next-door restaurant) uses his camera to snap a photo of Homer and the dancer having a great time. At school, Martin develops the picture, which - after he compliments Bart's work - gets distributed around school, and eventually around town. Marge sees the photo and is outraged. Homer arrives home, where Marge immediately confronts her husband and kicks him out of the house. Eventually, Marge agrees to let him back in on the condition he take Bart around to meet the stripper and show that she is not a sex object. After almost winding up on stage at another of the dancer's performances, Homer does as he is asked and all is forgiven.
Season 1, Episode 11: The Crepes of Wrath
Original Air Date—15 April 1990
Bart flushes a cherry bomb at school, nearly injuring Principal Skinner's mother, Agnes, in the process. An exasperated Skinner tells Homer and Marge that since expulsion would not do Bart any good, he's placing him in a foreign-exchange student program. Bart is sent to France, where his host family are unethical winemakers who plan to employ him as a slave.
Season 1, Episode 12: Krusty Gets Busted
Original Air Date—29 April 1990
Homer witnesses a robbery at the Kwik-E-Mart convenience store, where the culprit is a man dressed like Bart's hero, Krusty the Clown. Does the children's television host have a sinister second life, or is there more to the story than meets the eye?
Season 1, Episode 13: Some Enchanted Evening
Original Air Date—13 May 1990
Homer and Marge enjoy a night out on the town. Meanwhile, at home, the kids deal with a diabolical babysitter.
Season 2
Season 2, Episode 1: Bart Gets an F
Original Air Date—11 October 1990
Bart's teacher, Mrs. Krabappel, has become fed up with his lackadaisical scholastic habits. After bluffing his way through a book report and failing a geography exam, Krabappel gives Bart an ultimatum: Shape up or be retained in fourth grade.
Season 2, Episode 2: Simpson and Delilah
Original Air Date—18 October 1990
Homer lies on a medical insurance form to buy a "miracle" hair-restoring drug.
Season 2, Episode 3: Treehouse of Horror
Original Air Date—25 October 1990
In this trilogy of horror-themed Halloween stories, Bart and Lisa attempt to scare each other with tales of the macabre. In first,"Bad Dream House", the Simpsons inhabit a haunted home, which possesses their souls, and causes them to attempt to kill each other. But after spending enough time with the Simpsons, it is the house, which kill itself, vanishing into another dimension. In the second segment, "Hungry are the Damned", the Simpsons accuse the monsters of planning to eat them, but the offended aliens reveal they were only planning a sumptuous meal for the family. In the third segment, a satire of Poe's "The Raven", a grief-stricken Homer is tormented by bad bird Bart.
Season 2, Episode 4: Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish
Original Air Date—1 November 1990
A three-eyed fish is caught in the Springfield River downstream from the nuclear plant, leading to a government safety inspection. When Mr. Burns is told that the plant will be shut down, he gets drunk in his car with Homer. Homer remarks that if Burns were governor, he could make new laws to keep the plant open. Burns seizes on this remark and announces his candidacy. Afraid for his job, Homer pushes his family to campaign for Burns, but Marge is a staunch supporter of the incumbent, Mary Bailey. On the night before the election, Burns dines at the Simpson home as a publicity stunt.
Season 2, Episode 5: Dancin' Homer
Original Air Date—8 November 1990
Homer's heckling of the Springfield Isotopes baseball team's mascot during one of their games leads to his appointment as the new mascot.
Season 2, Episode 6: Dead Putting Society
Original Air Date—15 November 1990
Overcome with jealousy at Ned Flanders's affluent lifestyle and affectionate family, Homer paints him as a snobbish jerk to the rest of his family and looks eagerly for an opportunity to show him up. He finds it in an upcoming miniature golf tournament, and enters Bart against Ned's son Todd.
Season 2, Episode 7: Bart vs. Thanksgiving
Original Air Date—22 November 1990
On Thanksgiving, Bart learns about the meaning of the holiday when he runs away from home (after getting into a fight), then shares a turkey dinner with homeless people at a soup kitchen.
Season 2, Episode 8: Bart the Daredevil
Original Air Date—6 December 1990
After seeing a motorcycle daredevil at the monster truck show, Bart becomes a death-defying daredevil on his skateboard.
Season 2, Episode 9: Itchy and Scratchy and Marge
Original Air Date—20 December 1990
Marge becomes a crusader against cartoon violence after watching 'The Itchy and Scratchy Show'.
Season 2, Episode 10: Bart Gets Hit by a Car
Original Air Date—10 January 1991
While skateboarding down the street, Bart is hit by a car driven by Mr. Burns. Homer turns down Mr. Burns' token offer of $100, and instead hires ambulance-chaser Lionel Hutz to bring an outrageous lawsuit.
Season 2, Episode 11: One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish
Original Air Date—24 January 1991
What would you do if you were told you had only 24 hours to live? That's what this episode explores when Homer is told just that.
Season 2, Episode 12: The Way We Was
Original Air Date—31 January 1991
Homer and Marge tell the story of how they met and fell in love in high school.
Season 2, Episode 13: Homer vs. Lisa and the Eighth Commandment
Original Air Date—7 February 1991
Homer gets a crooked cable guy to install free cable in the Simpson home. Lisa faces an ethical crises over her family's stealing.
Season 2, Episode 14: Principal Charming
Original Air Date—14 February 1991
After attending a co-worker's wedding, a depressed Selma begs Marge to help her find a man. Marge sets Homer to the task, and Homer is impressed by Principal Skinner. Homer invites Skinner to the Simpson home for dinner, but accidentally introduces him to Selma's twin, Patty.
Season 2, Episode 15: Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
Original Air Date—21 February 1991
Homer's new design ruins his half-brother's car empire.
Season 2, Episode 16: Bart's Dog Gets an F
Original Air Date—7 March 1991
After an uncontrollable Santa's Little Helper destroys several important Simpson possessions, Homer announces that he will be thrown out of the house unless he completes obedience training.
Season 2, Episode 17: Old Money
Original Air Date—28 March 1991
After Grandpa Simpson's new girlfriend leaves him $106,000 in her will, he tries to decide what to do with it.
Season 2, Episode 18: Brush with Greatness
Original Air Date—11 April 1991
Homer goes on a diet and Marge enrolls in an art class.
Season 2, Episode 19: Lisa's Substitute
Original Air Date—25 April 1991
Lisa has a crush on her substitute teacher, who seemingly represents everything that Homer is not. Meanwhile, Bart decides to run for class president, and becomes the overwhelming favorite.
Season 2, Episode 20: The War of the Simpsons
Original Air Date—2 May 1991
Homer can't decide which is more important: going through a counseling seminar to save his marriage, or skipping out to catch a legendary fish. Back at home, Bart and Lisa try to take advantage of Grandpa, who is their babysitter.
Season 2, Episode 21: Three Men and a Comic Book
Original Air Date—9 May 1991
Bart, Milhouse and Martin each pitch in to buy an expensive comic book, which has disastrous results on their friendship.
Season 2, Episode 22: Blood Feud
Original Air Date—11 August 1991
Bart saves Mr. Burns's life. But Homer becomes enraged when Mr. Burns doesn't return the favor by sending the Simpsons what he considers to be an appropriate "thank you" gift.
Season 3
Season 3, Episode 1: Stark Raving Dad
Original Air Date—19 September 1991
Homer accidentally lands in a mental hospital and ends up sharing a cage with a white man who thinks he's Michael Jackson.
Season 3, Episode 2: Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington
Original Air Date—26 September 1991
Lisa enters a contest and wins a trip to Washington DC for the whole family. While there she discovers corruption and decides to expose the corrupt official.
Season 3, Episode 3: When Flanders Failed
Original Air Date—3 October 1991
Ned Flanders opens a mall store catering to lefties. Homer, however, wishes Flanders would fail.
Season 3, Episode 4: Bart the Murderer
Original Air Date—10 October 1991
Bart stumbles upon the local mafia boss, and starts working for him on the side. When Principal Skinner goes missing after punishing Bart, he and Fat Tony's gang are suspected of killing him, but they try to get Bart to take the rap.
Season 3, Episode 5: Homer Defined
Original Air Date—17 October 1991
Homer is a hero after averting a nuclear meltdown that he nearly caused, but he doesn't want to tell anyone that he stopped it completely by accident.
Season 3, Episode 6: Like Father, Like Clown
Original Air Date—24 October 1991
When the Simpsons have Krusty the Clown over for dinner, he says grace in Hebrew, and recalls his difficult relationship with his father, a rabbi. Bart and Lisa try to reunite the two of them.
Season 3, Episode 7: Treehouse of Horror II
Original Air Date—31 October 1991
The Simpson family receives a severed monkey's paw which can grant wishes, Bart gains magical powers which he uses to turn Homer into a Jack-in-the-box, and Mr. Burns uses Homer's brain to create a robot.
Season 3, Episode 8: Lisa's Pony
Original Air Date—7 November 1991
After ruining Lisa's performance at the school talent show, Homer tries to make it up by buying her a pony.
Season 3, Episode 9: Saturdays of Thunder
Original Air Date—14 November 1991
After Homer fails a fathering test, he decides to help Bart build his Soap Box Derby racer. But Bart dumps Homer and their racer after Martin's far superior vehicle suddenly becomes available.
Season 3, Episode 10: Flaming Moe's
Original Air Date—21 November 1991
Moe claims that a drink that Homer invented is his own. After the drink makes the bar a local hot spot, Moe gains a number of fair-weather friends but loses Homer's friendship.
Season 3, Episode 11: Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk
Original Air Date—5 December 1991
Burns decides to retire and sells the power plant to a German consortium for an exorbitant price. Homer's laziness and inefficiency are quickly exposed by his new bosses, and he is laid off.
Season 3, Episode 12: I Married Marge
Original Air Date—26 December 1991
As Marge goes to the doctor for a pregnancy test, Homer tells the children of the events leading up to his marriage and Bart's birth.
Season 3, Episode 13: Radio Bart
Original Air Date—9 January 1992
After Bart receives a microphone which can transmit through radios, he decides to pull a series of pranks, and eventually convinces the town that a boy has fallen down a well.
Season 3, Episode 14: Lisa the Greek
Original Air Date—23 January 1992
Homer uses Lisa (and her prognostic skills) to help him bet on football games.
Season 3, Episode 15: Homer Alone
Original Air Date—6 February 1992
While Marge spends a couple of days at Rancho Relaxo after she has a breakdown, Bart and Lisa stay with Patty and Selma, and Homer stays at home to take care of Maggie.
Season 3, Episode 16: Bart the Lover
Original Air Date—13 February 1992
After Ms. Krabappel gives Bart a month of detention, Bart gets his revenge on her by responding to her newspaper singles ad. Homer begins a "swear jar" to keep him cursing.
Season 3, Episode 17: Homer at the Bat
Original Air Date—20 February 1992
Homer and his co-workers qualify the plant's softball team for the league final, but Mr. Burns hires 9 professional MLB players to win a $1 million bet.
Season 3, Episode 18: Separate Vocations
Original Air Date—27 February 1992
The results of a standardized test steer Bart in the direction of law and order at Springfield Elementary School. However, Lisa becomes so depressed by her results that she turns to juvenile delinquency.
Season 3, Episode 19: Dog of Death
Original Air Date—12 March 1992
The Simpsons wind up regretting paying for an expensive surgery for Santa's Little Helper. He then runs away from home, winds up in the animal shelter, and is adopted by Mr. Burns to become an attack dog.
Season 3, Episode 20: Colonel Homer
Original Air Date—26 March 1992
Homer becomes the manager of a beautiful young country singer, and finds himself almost attracted to her, sparking Marge's jealousy.
Season 3, Episode 21: Black Widower
Original Air Date—9 April 1992
Sideshow Bob gets out of jail and plots to take his revenge on Bart by marrying his Aunt Selma and killing her.
Season 3, Episode 22: The Otto Show
Original Air Date—23 April 1992
After Otto loses his job as a school bus driver because he doesn't have a license, Bart talks Homer and Marge into having Otto stay with them until he gets back on his feet.
Season 3, Episode 23: Bart's Friend Falls in Love
Original Air Date—7 May 1992
Milhouse falls in love with Samantha, a new transfer student, and Bart becomes jealous of all the time they are spending together. Homer orders a subliminal weight loss tape, but is given a vocabulary builder by mistake.
Season 3, Episode 24: Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?
Original Air Date—27 August 1992
After Homer "wins" a $2000 settlement with the plant for radiation affecting his sperm count, his brother Herb comes to Springfield with an idea that could help him get his fortune back.
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