A “Behind the Music”-style look at the Simpsons, narrated by VH1's Jim Forbes, shows their rise to stardom---and the “private hell” that followed. Willie Nelson has a cameo. Julie Kavner, Yeardley Smith.
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Otto's girlfriend (Parker Posey) seems to be usurping Marge's role when she moves in with the family after a dispute over heavy metal. Julie Kavner, Harry Shearer, Dan Castellaneta.
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Lisa struggles in a tap-dance class taught by a former child star; Bart and Milhouse ditch camp to spend a week creating havoc in the mall. Yeardley Smith, Tress MacNeille, Pamela Hayden, Nancy Cartwright.
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The family seeks a restful vacation in Florida, but arrives during spring break, which Homer extends. Guest voices include Charlie Rose, Kid Rock and Joe C. Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Yeardley Smith, Nancy Cartwright.
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Barney quits drinking to take helicopter-flying lessons, leaving Homer feeling resentful and inferior; Lisa and Bart enter a contest to photograph the cover of the Springfield phone book. Dan Castellaneta, Yeardley Smith, Nancy Cartwright
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A mystic shows Bart his future as a ne'er-do-well musician rooming with Ralph Wiggum---and brother to President Lisa Simpson, who inherits a fiscal crisis that Bart makes worse. Voices include Yeardley Smith, Nancy Cartwright, Julie Kavner, Dan Castellaneta, Harry Shearer, Hank Azaria.
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Pygmoelian
Season 11, Episode 16
Moe wins Duff's “beer-tending” contest but loses out on making their calendar. So he undergoes plastic surgery and lands a soap-opera role that he missed years before. Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Tress MacNeille.
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Homer becomes a South Seas missionary to escape an angry PBS mob that includes Betty White, who wants to collect his pledge of $10,000. Dan Castellaneta, Harry Shearer, Hank Azaria, Nancy Cartwright, Julie Kavner.
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Homer tries to help a grieving Springfieldian after an accident at the new auto-racing venue has fatal consequences. Voices: Shawn Colvin, Dan Castellaneta, Harry Shearer, Hank Azaria, Tress MacNeille, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith.
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At the state fair, Lisa feels robbed at the band competition, and the family acquires a horse that becomes a winner after an attitude adjustment. Dan Castellaneta, Nancy Cartwright, Julie Kavner, Yeardley Smith, Harry Shearer, Hank Azaria.
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While house-sitting for Burns (who's getting a checkup at the Mayo Clinic), Homer throws a party aboard the billionaire's yacht in international waters---where anything goes. Britney Spears is a guest voice. Voices: Harry Shearer, Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Pamela Hayden, Yeardley Smith, Nancy Cartwright.
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Faith Off
Season 11, Episode 11
After Bart's successful laying on of hands at a revival meeting, a preacher declares Bart has “the power.” So the boy pitches his own tent. Nancy Cartwright, Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Yeardley Smith, Harry Shearer.
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With Marge laid up by a skiing (lodge) accident, Lisa tries to run the house and plays a trick on Homer and Bart to get them to help clean. Julie Kavner, Yeardley Smith, Nancy Cartwright, Dan Castellaneta, Harry Shearer.
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Bankrupt Springfield Elementary is taken over by a private outfit whose members' real goal is to mine the kids' minds for toy ideas. Voices include Tim Robbins, Joe Mantegna and Gary Coleman.
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John Goodman and Henry Winkler guest star as bikers who protest when Homer takes their gang name for his own after winning a Harley. Jay North (“Dennis the Menace”) has a voice cameo. Other voices: Julie Kavner, Dan Castellaneta, Harry Shearer, Hank Azaria, Yeardley Smith, Nancy Cartwright.
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Feeling more stressed than blessed after the birth of their octuplets, Apu and Manjula get child-care help in a deal they come to regret. Voices: Jan Hooks, Hank Azaria, Julie Kavner, Harry Shearer, Dan Castellaneta, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith.
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Homer bowls a perfect game, but celebrity goes to his head. Cameos: Ron Howard; Penn and Teller; entertainment reporters Nancy O'Dell and Pat O'Brien. Dan Castellaneta, Hank Azaria, Julie Kavner, Harry Shearer, Yeardley Smith, Nancy Cartwright.
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To avoid a duel, Homer moves the Simpsons to Grandpa's old farm, and grows a profitable, but dangerous, hybrid crop. Voices: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Harry Shearer, Hank Azaria.
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A Halloween trilogy: Homer causes a Y2K catastrophe; superheroes Lisa and Bart save actress Lucy Lawless; Marge runs Flanders over, and Homer tries to cover it up. Dick Clark and Tom Arnold also appear as themselves. Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Yeardley Smith, Nancy Cartwright, Harry Shearer, Hank Azaria.
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With Lisa's help, Homer becomes the food critic for the Springfield Shopper, but fellow critics criticize his always-positive reviews, prompting a radical change---and revenge by restaurateurs. Voices: Ed Asner, Dan Castellaneta, Yeardley Smith, Julie Kavner, Harry Shearer.
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A drug for Attention Deficit Disorder makes Bart studious, productive---and paranoid about satellites spying on him. Mark McGwire has a cameo. Other voices: Nancy Cartwright, Julie Kavner, Dan Castellaneta, Harry Shearer, Yeardley Smith.
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Mel Gibson brings the Simpsons to Hollywood so Homer can help “tweak” his new film after Homer's is the sole negative voice at a test screening. First tweak: add action, and lots of it. Other voices: Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Harry Shearer. Dan Castellaneta.
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