A passionate kiss between Marge and Homer airs on the big screen at a baseball game, prompting second baseman Buck Mitchell to turn to the pair for advice about his marriage to singer Fiona (Mandy Moore). Stacy Keach is the voice of H.K. Duff.
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Springfield is embroiled in a public debate about the theories of evolution and creationism. Melanie Griffith has a cameo as herself, and Larry Hagman is the voice of lawyer Wallace Brady.
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Marge has retrograde amnesia after inhaling too many fumes in a spring-cleaning frenzy. So Homer takes her around town to reacquaint her with the surroundings, but Marge doesn't know who Homer is and puts herself back on the singles market.
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After making a sexist comment, Principal Skinner is replaced by Melanie Upfoot (Frances McDormand), who divides the school into two schools: one for boys, one for girls. Lisa gets frustrated when she's not allowed to take math at the boys school, so she dresses like a boy to get around the rule.
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When dinner at the Frying Dutchman turns ugly, the Simpsons try to salvage the evening by taking turns telling tales of tragedies at sea.
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The nuclear-power plant is being shut down and outsourced to India, and Homer is sent to train the new employees. Meanwhile, Selma and Patty kidnap Richard Dean Anderson, who voices himself. When Anderson discovers how exciting real-life drama is, he refuses to leave.
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Grandpa derails Homer's plan to bring a pro football team to Springfield when he mistakes the football commissioner for a burglar.
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Homer signs the family up for a spouse-trading reality show. He has to take in a controlling wife while Marge moves in with a beaten-down husband (voice of Ricky Gervais), who quickly develops a crush on her.
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While Marge babysits Flanders' sons, Rod and Todd, Homer takes Bart and Lisa to a retirement home for animal actors, and a chimp with a strong maternal instinct snatches Bart. Susan Sarandon and baseball's Randy Johnson have voice cameos as themselves.
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When the Simpsons become trapped in a cave, Lisa relates a story that happened to her. It then becomes Mr. Burns' story, then Moe's, and so on.
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Lisa tries to turn Groundskeeper Willie into a proper gentleman for a science-fair project. Elsewhere, Coach Krupt takes over as gym teacher and begins a reign of terror. Coach Krupt: Hank Azaria.
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Bart's latest prank lands him a trip to behavioral-modification camp, but he runs away en route; Marge boosts her garage sale with expired pills.
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A long-lost letter suggests a treasure hunter (Michael York) may be Homer's father. William H. Macy and Joe Frazier have cameos.
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A trio of Christmas-themed stories includes Marge and Homer as Mary and Joseph; Burns and Grandpa shooting down Santa in World War II; and a Springfieldian take on “The Nutcracker.”
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In Italy, the Simpsons run into Sideshow Bob, who swears a vendetta against them after they let slip his criminal past to his new family. Kelsey Grammer.
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Lily Tomlin voices one of Marge's new friends, who engage her in exciting activities; Lisa gets a surprising tutor to teach her Italian for a summer in Rome.
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Homer's heroics during an emergency (caused by Bart) lead him to join the throng running for mayor when Quimby faces a recall.
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Tandem bicycling and afternoon tea make pals of Bart and Marge until bullies call Bart a mama's boy. Meanwhile, Homer gains strength, in one arm only. Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Dan Castellaneta.
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In the 16th Halloween trilogy, a comatose Bart is replaced by a robot; Mr. Burns hunts citizens on his estate; and Springfield falls under a witch's spell that only Maggie can break. Terry Bradshaw and Dennis Rodman have cameos.
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Maggie's chicken pox lead to a reunion of Kirk and Luann Van Houten, but the result is not the family dynamic Milhouse had hoped for. Maggie Roswell, Hank Azaria, Pamela Hayden.
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Lisa has the best---i.e., worst---view when the cemetery is relocated behind the Simpson home. Yeardley Smith, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright.
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In the 17th-season opener, Alec Baldwin voices a marine biologist who counsels Marge after she leaves Homer for permitting illicit activity---what she describes as “snuggle films”---in the house to pay off a gambling debt. Joe Mantegna, Hank Azaria, Tress MacNeille.
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