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The Simpsons Season 16 Episodes
Season 16 Episode Guide
21 Episodes 2004 - 2005
Episode 1
Treehouse of Horror XV
Wed, Nov 10, 200430 mins
In "The Ned Zone," Ned gets the ability to tell people's deaths just by touching someone. In "In the Belly of the Boss," Mr. Burns accidentally swallows Maggie and the Simpsons try to get her out. In "Four Beheadings and a Funeral," Lisa and Bart try to solve the mystery of the mutton-chops murderer.
Episode 2
All's Fair in Oven War
Sun, Nov 14, 200430 mins
Marge takes up baking in her new dream kitchen and enters the great Oven Fresh bake-off contest. However, seeing the other contestants cheat she resorts to putting Maggie's ear medicine on their entries to get through to the final where, after a chat with Lisa, she does the decent thing...and loses. Homer, meanwhile, discovering that Bart has seen his old girlie magazines, horrifies him by telling him about the birds and bees.
Episode 3
Sleeping with the Enemy
Sun, Nov 21, 200430 mins
Feeling that her own kids take her for granted,Marge takes pity on Nelson,whose dad has walked out on him and his loose-living mother,and lets him stay at her house. Bart is horrified as it means he gets bullied at home as well as at school. There is only one thing for it. Bart goes out and finds Nelson's father,bringing happy outcomes all round.
Episode 4
She Used to Be My Girl
Sun, Dec 5, 200430 mins
Marge's old school friend Chloe Talbot,now a famous journalist,returns to Springfield and Marge feels envious because Lisa spends so much time with her. However when Chloe and Lisa are trapped after the volcanic Mount Springfield has erupted Marge proves that she may not be famous but she can still be heroic.
Episode 5
Fat Man and Little Boy
Sun, Dec 12, 200430 mins
Bart becomes famous designing T-shirts and is taken in hand by shifty salesman Goose Gladwell. With Bart a success Homer decides to spend more time with Lisa and steals plutonium from the power plant to ensure her model of a nuclear reactor wins the school science fair. Lisa is horrified but the model comes in handy after all as Homer threatens to detonate it unless Goose Gladwell gives Bart the money he owes him.
Episode 6
Midnight Rx
Fri, Jan 21, 200530 mins
Homer goes to Canada with Apu and Ned to purchase Grampa's medication, but the three have problems getting home because the border guard thinks Apu is a terrorist.
Episode 7
Mommie Beerest
Sun, Jan 30, 200530 mins
Moe's health inspector, an old friend and therefore not very strict, dies and the new health inspector closes Moe's down. Homer gets a new mortgage for his home and gives Moe the money so Moe can clear up all the violations. Marge decides to protect her investment by going in business with Moe.
Episode 8
Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass
Sun, Feb 6, 200530 mins
When Ned takes a video of Homer dancing and it gets put on the Internet various sports stars ask Homer to teach them their own victory dances. At the same time Ned is using his video to make Bible stories featuring his sons. Eventually Ned and Homer - and Homer's sporting clients - combine to create a lavish recreation of Noah's flood at the Springfield stadium but it is a wash-out in every sense.
Episode 9
Pranksta Rap
Sun, Feb 13, 200530 mins
In disgrace for attending a forbidden rap concert,Bart pretends that he has been kidnapped whilst in reality hiding out at Milhouse's father's condo. After Bart has sent a message to Marge disguising his voice to sound like the kidnapper Chief Wiggum ingeniously locates him and is promoted for 'rescuing' him. Lisa,however,sees through the deception.
Episode 10
There's Something About Marrying
Sun, Feb 20, 200530 mins
When Springfield is given a low rating by a tourist, Mayor Quimby decides to allow same gender relationships and marriages in order to increase popularity in Springfield. The legalization of same gender relationships doesn't sit well for the Lovejoys. Homer decides to become an ordained minister for same gender couples in order to make some cash, his ministry is proven to be a success. Patty reveals she is marrying a woman but unbeknownst to her, she is actually marrying a transgender man. Marge is surprised that Patty is a lesbian. During the wedding, Marge reveals to Patty that her fiancé, Veronica is a man. Patty soon ends her relationship with Veronica.
Episode 11
On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister
Sun, Mar 6, 200530 mins
When Bart bullies Lisa once too often she successfully takes out a restraining order against him so that he cannot come within twenty yards of her and has to eat outside and sleep in the back garden. Marge tries to get it rescinded but Bart's mockery of Judge Harm means she fails. Eventually Lisa relents and says she will destroy the order if Bart does one nice thing for her which he does - sort of.
Episode 12
Goo Goo Gai Pan
Sun, Mar 13, 200530 mins
A broody Selma is keen to adopt a child and, on Lisa's advice tries to adopt one from China. However the rules say that she is supposed to be married so she gets Homer to pose as her husband for the fearsome adoption agent Madame Wu. Selma gets her child whom she calls Ling and,although the deception is discovered, Madame Wu lets her keep Ling as she was herself brought up by a single mother.
Episode 13
Mobile Homer
Sun, Mar 20, 200530 mins
Having been declared uninsurable because of his unhealthy life style Homer spends the money slated for the insurance on a mobile home,to Marge's annoyance. She makes him sleep in it so Lisa and Bart,seeing the rift it has caused between their parents,decide to return it. However it is difficult to handle and the worried parents,fearing an accident, give chase,ending up at the quayside. The marriage is saved...which is more than can be said for the mobile home.
Episode 14
The Seven-Beer Snitch
Sun, Apr 3, 200530 mins
Springfield builds an opera house, but since no-one attends it they convert it into a prison. Old and forgotten laws are used to fill the prison, and therefore Homer goes to jail for kicking a can five times in a row. In jail, Homer becomes a snitch
Episode 15
Future-Drama
Sun, Apr 17, 200530 mins
Professor Frink's new invention shows Bart and Lisa their lives in eight years time. Whilst she is on a Burns scholarship to Yale,he lives an aimless life and his girl-friend Jenda dumps him. To win her back he takes a job at the Kwik-E-Mart,saving Burns from being robbed by Snake. The grateful old man gives Lisa's scholarship to him but,seeing that Lisa is now doomed to a boring marriage to Milhouse,he gives it back to her. Marge,meanwhile,dumps Homer for Krusty but not for long.
Episode 16
Don't Fear the Roofer
Sun, May 1, 200530 mins
Homer meets Ray Magini,a roofing repairs man and he agrees to help Homer mend the hole in the Simpsons' roof. However every time Homer and Ray meet anybody Ray seems to be invisible to them. Lisa points out that Ray Magini is an anagram of 'Imaginary' and Homer is just about to be declared delusional and sent for psychiatric treatment when Ray turns up and explains how everybody failed to see him.
Episode 17
The Heartbroke Kid
Sun, May 1, 200530 mins
When vending machines are installed in the school Bart becomes addicted to junk food and his size balloons as he is declared to be morbidly obese. The family decide to send him to a fat camp to lose weight but it costs money,so they turn the house into a back-packers' hostel,where they are abused by German student guests. Eventually Bart kicks the habit and destroys the machines,breaking them open to collect the coins,which he uses for the fat camp bill as the Simpsons kick the rude back-packers out of their house.
Episode 18
A Star Is Torn
Sun, May 8, 200530 mins
After discovering that she is a good singer the family persuades Lisa to enter a junior 'American Idol' competition, in which she does well, singing a song written for her by Homer, who becomes her manager. They become very successful, making it to the finals but here they have a falling out, Lisa sacking Homer, who switches camps to managing popular favourite Johnny Rainbow. On stage Lisa still sings the praises of her father. Surely he will not let her down...
Episode 19
Thank God It's Doomsday
Sun, May 8, 200530 mins
Homer gets it into his head that the end of the world is nigh and panics Springfield into believing him. There are mixed feelings when he is proved wrong. Believing he has miscalculated on the date he returns to the mountains where the next thing he knows is that he is in Heaven and the rest of the family are in Hell. After trashing Heaven he turns back time to save them but the whole thing seems to have been a dream from which the family wakes him.
Episode 20
Home Away from Homer
Sun, May 15, 200530 mins
To make ends meet Ned takes in two female lodgers but they are running a porn Internet site,which Homer discovers. Ned feels humiliated and takes his sons to live in the religious town of Humbleton,Pennsylvania. However,even Ned finds it too orthodox and he is considered too liberal by its strict citizens. At the same time Homer is being bullied by Clay Roberts,who moved into Ned's house,causing Homer to miss his old neighbor-eeny. A trip to Humbleton,to eat humble pie is required in order to return Ned back to where he belongs.
Episode 21
The Father, the Son, and the Holy Guest Star
Sun, May 15, 200530 mins
After being expelled from school Bart enrols at a Catholic seminary where he is much influenced by charismatic Father Sean - as is Homer after Marge sends him in to sort things out,and both Homer and Bart convert to Catholicism,chiefly because Father Sean makes it sound like fun. Enlisting the help of Ned and Tim Lovejoy,Marge abducts Bart and takes him to a Christian rock festival,resulting in a stand-off between the two faiths.
