Join or Sign In
Sign in to customize your TV listings
By joining TV Guide, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy.
The Simpsons Season 11 Episodes
Season 11 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1999 - 2000
Episode 1
Beyond Blunderdome
Thu, Sep 30, 199930 mins
Homer test drives an electric car because it'll get him a gift. The gift is that Homer and Marge get to be part of a test audience for the new film of Mel Gibson, a remake of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939). Everybody loves the film except for Homer, who totally hates it. Because a very insecure Mel Gibson thinks Homer is the only one who dares to speak his mind he asks Homer to help him change the film. Therefore, Mel Gibson takes Homer, Marge, Bart and Lisa to Hollywood.
Episode 2
Brother's Little Helper
Sun, Oct 3, 199930 mins
After yet another prank from Bart, involving flooding the gym, principal Skinner talks to Homer and Marge and advices them to make Bart take a new behavior drug, called Focusyn. At first Bart doesn't want to take the drug, but pretty soon he doesn't mind and it actually seems to work: Bart stops playing pranks, actually pays attention in class and reads in his spare time. Good times don't last and Bart starts behaving very strange and paranoid.
Episode 3
Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?
Thu, Oct 28, 199930 mins
Following the demise of 'The Springfield Shopper' 's restaurant critic,Homer gets the job,though he is so illiterate he has to dictate his reviews to Lisa. They are all positively glowing and the other critics suggest he write adverse reviews for a change,which he does. As a result the restauranteurs all plot to give him his come-uppance at the Springfield Food Fair,which they surely do.
Episode 4
Treehouse of Horror X
Sun, Oct 31, 199930 mins
The Simpsons attempt to cover up their accidental murder of Ned Flanders; Bart and Lisa become superheroes; Homer's incompetence causes a Y2K apocalypse.
Episode 5
E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)
Sun, Nov 7, 199930 mins
After seeing the film 'The Poke of Zorro',Homer becomes obsessed with challenging people to a duel. Most refuse but a Southern colonel demands satisfaction,causing the Simpsons to flee to Grampa's old farm-house. Here Homer succeeds in growing a plant which is a hybrid of tobacco and tomatoes called tomacco,but,after he has turned down an offer from a cigarette company,the plants are destroyed and he returns to Springfield to find the colonel waiting for him.
Episode 6
Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder
Sun, Nov 14, 199930 mins
Homer briefly becomes famous after bowling a perfect 300 at the local ten-pin alley. However,his celebrity quickly wanes so he decides to bond with Maggie instead. He tries to teach her to swim but she ends up rescuing him after he gets into difficulties. As a reward he takes her bowling where she also gets the perfect score.
Episode 7
Eight Misbehavin'
Sun, Nov 21, 199930 mins
Apu's wife Manjula gives birth to octuplets, making them celebrities and giving them free baby care goods - though these are withdrawn after a Shelbyville woman has nine babies. Exhausted by child care Apu allows showman Larry Kidkill to exhibit his children at the zoo but instantly regrets it and gets Homer to help him rescue them. Unfortunately they are caught and, in exchange for the babies' return, Homer must perform on a trick-cycle whilst being attacked by snakes.
Episode 8
Take My Wife, Sleaze
Sun, Nov 28, 199930 mins
After winning a classic motorcycle and becoming infatuated with biker culture, Homer decides to start his own motorcycle gang. The name Homer chooses for his gang, The Hell's Satans, is already in use by a different motorcycle gang and when they find out about it, they head to Springfield and kidnap Marge.
Episode 9
Grift of the Magi
Sun, Dec 19, 199930 mins
With the school strapped for cash Principal Skinner allows Jim Hope,president of Kids First Industries,to take it over. He is using the children as guinea pigs to test popular toys,in particular one called,at Lisa's suggestion,Funzo. However the Simpsons discover that Funzo's purpose is to destroy all other toys so they collect every Funzo model to prevent this,ending with a family celebration that combines 'A Christmas Carol' with 'It's a Wonderful Life'.
Episode 10
Little Big Mom
Thu, Jan 13, 200030 mins
Lisa finds out how rough Marge has it when her mom is in traction and she becomes the woman of the house. Homer and Bart's antics get her so worked up she conspires to teach them a lesson.
Episode 11
Faith Off
Sun, Jan 16, 200030 mins
Having removed a bucket of glue that Homer got stuck on his head Bart is hailed as a faith healer by evangelist Brother Love and starts his own church,apparently healing people. When Milhouse gets run over after Bart has supposedly cured his short-sightedness Bart calls it a day but his services are again required when Homer injures the star striker at the Springfield University football game and failure to cure him and allow him to score the winning goal would incur the wrath of Fat Tony.
Episode 12
The Mansion Family
Sun, Jan 23, 200030 mins
When Mr. Burns has to go the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota for a checkup, he chooses The Simpsons to take care of his mansion while he is gone. Homer and his friends take Mr. Burns yacht into international waters, where they end up being targeted by modern day pirates.
Episode 13
Saddlesore Galactica
Sun, Feb 6, 200030 mins
The Simpsons get an abused horse and make him a contender in horse racing. Homer finds out a secret conspiracy about jockeys. Lisa tries to reach President Clinton when the results of a school band talent competition seem tainted.
Episode 14
Alone Again, Natura-Diddly
Sun, Feb 13, 200030 mins
Homer's juvenile antics at the speedway track result in Maude Flanders falling to her death. For once Homer is genuinely sorry for his bereaved neighbour and attempts to help Ned find a new lady-friend via video dating. However, it does not work and Ned is in danger of losing his faith - until he meets the lead singer in a Christian rock band, Rachel Jordan, with whom he strikes up a new friendship.
Episode 15
Missionary: Impossible
Sun, Feb 20, 200030 mins
Having reneged on his telethon bid to save the PBS channel Homer is pursued by angry mob into the local church.Rev. Lovejoy helps him escape by sending him to a desert island as a missionary where his efforts to atone for introducing the natives to gambling leads to his building a chapel. Unfortunately he rings its bells too loudly,causing an earthquake. Back in Springfield,during another telethon,Bart saves the Fox network -"not for the first time."
Episode 16
Pygmoelian
Sun, Feb 27, 200030 mins
Dismayed at his ugliness Moe has plastic surgery which transforms him into a very handsome man. As a result he wins the part of a good-looking doctor in the daytime soap 'It Never Ends'. However,when he over-hears talk of his character being killed off,he and Homer publicly leak future plot lines,only to discover that the 'death' was in a dream sequence and the character was not going to be axed. Now Moe gets fired and,as the scenery falls on him, he loses his plastic good looks and goes back to normal.
Episode 17
Bart to the Future
Thu, Mar 23, 200030 mins
An Indian casino manager tells Bart what his future will be in thirty years' time. Whilst Lisa is the American president, Bart is a bum and wannabe musician, hanging out in a beach shack with Ralph Wiggum. Ever envious of Lisa, he causes her unpopularity by revealing that she is about to impose a new tax, but uses his slacker skills to stall matters long enough until she can push it through.
Episode 18
Days of Wine and D'oh'ses
Sun, Apr 9, 200030 mins
Realising that,as the town drunk,he has become a laughing stock,Barney quits drinking and takes up helicopter flying lessons. Lisa and Bart,meanwhile,aim to get their photos on the cover of the new phone book and have a photo session on Mount Springfield,where they accidentally start a forest fire. Fortunately the newly sober Barney,along with a drunk Homer,rescue them in the helicopter.
Episode 19
Kill the Alligator and Run
Sun, Apr 30, 200030 mins
Fearing that he only has three more years to live, Homer takes the family on holiday to Florida where,after Homer has made a fool of himself at a rock concert,he accidentally runs over Captain Jack,the famous long-living alligator. The family flee but are eventually captured though when it transpires that the alligator is not dead,as feared,they are released on the condition they never return to Florida.
Episode 20
Last Tap Dance in Springfield
Sun, May 7, 200030 mins
Inspired by a tango film, Lisa signs up for dance lessons but the teacher, ex-child star Vicki Valentine, specializes in tap, at which Ralph is surprisingly good but Lisa hopeless. Professor Frink gives her a pair of self-dancing shoes but they go out of control and Lisa has to be tripped up by Homer to disable them. Bart and Milhouse, meanwhile, go camping in the shopping mall, thwarting Wiggum's attempts to flush them out with a puma.
Episode 21
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge
Sun, May 14, 200030 mins
After talking Otto's fiancee Becky out of marrying him Marge agrees that Becky come and stay with the Simpsons,where she becomes so popular that Marge fears that she is trying to usurp her and,after a conversation with Patty and Selma,kill her. Becoming rational again Marge dismisses these suspicions but changes her mind when she walks in on a very sinister set-up,actually the video recording session for Bart's school project. Although Becky admits to Marge that she did consider killing her it is Marge who is considered to be insane and sedated with a tranquilizer dart.
Episode 22
Behind the Laughter
Sun, May 21, 200030 mins
A parody documentary in the style of the show 'Behind the Music' uses clips from previous episodes to show how the Simpsons first became famous and the problems that the fame brought them, culminating in an acrimonious break-up. However they all get back together again to appear in a supposed awards show hosted by Willie Nelson but specifically designed to engineer their reunion.
