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The Simpsons Season 17 Episodes
Season 17 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 2005 - 2006
Episode 1
The Bonfire of the Manatees
Sun, Sep 11, 200530 mins
To pay off gambling debts Homer lets the house get used as the location for a blue movie, causing a disgusted Marge to leave him and to assist handsome marine biologist Caleb Thorn save endangered species. In order to impress her Homer tries to rally a shoal of manatee against jet-skiers but only ends up having to be rescued himself. For all that Marge loves her 'endangered species - a devoted husband.'
Episode 2
The Girl Who Slept Too Little
Sun, Sep 18, 200530 mins
A cemetery is built at the back of the Simpson house and Lisa's room looks directly onto it. As a consequence she becomes very worried about death and so,to conquer her fears,slips out of the house to spend a night among the grave stones. Having hit her head on a tombstone she has a dream in which she meets friendly Wild Things so that,when her parents find her next day,her fears have been allayed.
Episode 3
Milhouse of Sand and Fog
Sun, Sep 25, 200530 mins
When Maggie gets chicken pox, Flanders tells Homer to create a pox party at the Simpson's house. But, Milhouse then finds Kirk and Luann kissing on Marge and Homer's bed. Milhouse is excited that his parents are back together, but kind of not when they're not paying any attention to him and tries to break them up with Bart. The results end up disastrous as it breaks up Homer and Marge too and then, when Bart ends up doing something, the only thing that matters to Homer and Marge is each other.
Episode 4
Treehouse of Horror XVI
Thu, Nov 10, 200530 mins
In Bartificial Intelligence, Bart falls into a coma after trying to jump into a swimming pool off a window ledge. Dr. Hibbert says that this coma is permanent, so the Simpsons get a robot for a son. Bart wakes up, only to be abandoned by Homer. He stays with some robots and becomes a robot himself, able to destroy the robot that replaced him. In Survival of the Fattest, Mr. Burns invites a bunch of people, including Homer, to a hunting party. But it turns into World's Most Dangerous Game when Burns starts killing everyone he can with his gun. Homer stays alive and Marge defeats Burns and Smithers with a frying pan. In I've Grown a Costume on Your Face, a witch turns Springfield residents into the costumes they were wearing at a party. Lisa, who is Albert Einstien, tries to solve everything. She finds that Maggie can turn them back to normal, being a witch. No one wants to be normal again, but Maggie turns everyone into pacifiers.
Episode 5
Marge's Son Poisoning
Sun, Nov 13, 200530 mins
Marge discovers her old tandem bike and she and Bart start a pleasant ritual of cycling to a rural tea-shop every weekend - until the shop closes. Bart is being teased as a mummy's boy by the school bullies and rebels against Marge though when he sees how unhappy this has made her he agrees to join her in a karaoke. Waiting to go on stage Marge has a vision of her and Bart turning out like the Skinners and decides that the real,rebellious Bart is best after all.
Episode 6
See Homer Run
Sun, Nov 20, 200530 mins
It's Father's Day and Lisa has made Homer a beautiful,hand-crafted card but,due to his greediness,it gets put on the fridge where it disintegrates,reducing Lisa to tears. To atone Homer becomes the Safety Salamander, a character in a suit promoting safety and,when the elections for mayor become open to all,he joins the running - in character. Unfortunately the voters only want the salamander and not Homer.
Episode 7
The Last of the Red Hat Mamas
Sun, Nov 27, 200530 mins
Marge meets up with a sorority called the Cheery Red Tomatoes,who wear red hats and with whom she has a great time hanging out. However it turns out that some years earlier Mr. Burns reneged on a promise to give them a charity cheque and they mean to get even by robbing him of the Faberge eggs in his safe. Reluctantly Marge goes along with them and, even though they are caught,manages to sneak out one egg by keeping her hair on. Lisa,meanwhile,is charmed when Millhouse woos her in Italian.
Episode 8
The Italian Bob
Sun, Dec 11, 200530 mins
In Italy to collect a new car for Burns the Simpsons find themselves in a village whose mayor is none other than Sideshow Bob,now respectably married to a local girl and with a son.Unfortunately at a celebration feast Lisa gets drunk and reveals Bob's murderous past,leading to a vendetta and a pursuit to Rome where the family gets rescued by Krusty,in town to perform 'I Pagliacchi'.
Episode 9
Simpsons Christmas Stories
Fri, Dec 23, 200530 mins
With Tim Lovejoy giving emergency repairs to his train set and Ned fainting at the sight of blood it falls to Homer to deliver the Christmas sermon in which Joseph and Mary look like him and Marge and the baby Jesus is a dead ringer for Bart. Grandpa Abe recalls how he and Mr. Burns crash-landed on a Pacific island in World War Two where Burns accidentally shot down Santa and Abe helped mend his sleigh. Finally the citizens of Springfield go nutty as they put words to selections from 'The Nutcracker Suite'.
Episode 10
Homer's Paternity Coot
Sun, Jan 8, 200630 mins
A mailman that has been frozen in a Springfield glacier carries a letter for Homer's mother, apparently from her lover claiming Homer is his child. While Homer goes out looking for the letter's sender to find out the truth, Abe is afraid to lose Homer and thereby all of his family.
Episode 11
We're on the Road to D'ohwhere
Sun, Jan 29, 200630 mins
After another scrape which almost blows up the school Bart is sent to a boot camp and Homer is ordered to drive him there,thus missing Moe's tavern's annual outing to Las Vegas. Homer drops his son off and carries on to Vegas but feels so sorry for Bart he springs him from the camp. Marge,meanwhile,makes huge profits as an innocent drug dealer when she sells off Homer's old tablets at a garage sale. Consequently Lisa comes home to find both her parents in custody.
Episode 12
My Fair Laddy
Sun, Feb 26, 200630 mins
After Bart accidentally destroys Willie's shack the Scotsman comes to stay with the Simpsons whilst a replacement is built.He is very uncouth but Lisa bets Bart that she can turn him into a gentleman by the time of the school's science project evening,and indeed the ladies of Springfield are ultimately dazzled by the sophisticated stranger.A parody of 'My Fair Lady' features such sing-along numbers as 'Wouldn't It Be Adequate?' and 'The Shack Where I Live'.
Episode 13
The Seemingly Never-Ending Story
Sun, Mar 12, 200630 mins
Homer is stuck in a cave, so while Marge and Bart go looking for help, Lisa tells him a story. It is the story of her and Mr. Burns escaping a rampant goat, getting stuck in Burns's attic and Burns telling a story about Moe's treasure while they wait for help...
Episode 14
Bart Has Two Mommies
Sun, Mar 19, 200630 mins
After Marge baby-sits for Ned Flanders, his sons Rod and Tod request more of her company as she encourages them to do all the risky things from which Ned has tried to protect them, such as scaling an adventure climbing wall. When Bart is grabbed by a chimpanzee as a surrogate son and taken to the top of the church steeple, Rod's new-found interest in climbing saves the day as he carries the chimp's real son, Mr. Teeny, to the top of the tower to exchange for Bart.
Episode 15
Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife
Sun, Mar 26, 200630 mins
When he sees the new plasma screen HD TV Lenny got, Homer stays at Lenny's place watching TV for some days which makes Marge decide to try and win a plasma screen HD TV for themselves. She doesn't win the TV, but the family does win a tour to the FOX studios. There Homer is told about a wife-swapping show which would make him enough money to buy the TV he so desperately wants. The Simpsons swap wives with the well educated, well-to-do Heathbar family.
Episode 16
Million Dollar Abie
Sun, Apr 2, 200630 mins
When the commissioner for football asks to use the Simpson's phone Grandpa mistakes him for a burglar and ties him up,costing the town the chance of having a major league team in its newly built stadium,which is turned into a bull-ring. Universally hated, Grandpa survives euthanasia and feels invincible,becoming a matador and going from zero to hero until Lisa convinces him of the cruelty of blood sports.
Episode 17
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore
Sun, Apr 9, 200630 mins
For cheapness's sake Burns decides to outsource the nuclear plant to India but legally must keep on one Springfield employee to train the locals - Homer. Armed with a self-help book given him by Marge his teaching them the fringe benefits accorded Western workers gives him a godlike status and eventually the family must rescue him,'Apocalypse Now' style before Burns declares the experiment a disaster and send him home. Selma and Patty kidnap their 'McGyver' heart-throb Richard Dean Anderson who enjoys using his old plotlines to keep escaping from them until they are finally sick of him.
Episode 18
The Wettest Stories Ever Told
Sun, Apr 23, 200630 mins
The Simpsons are at the Frying Dutchman but the food takes ages to arrive so they tell three nautical tales. In Lisa's version of the 'Mayflower' widow Marge, sailing to the New World with her children, is courted by dissidents Moe and Homer whilst Bart's take on 'Mutiny on the Bounty' features a tyrannical Captain Bligh, who looks like Seymour Skiner, cast adrift by his school boy crew. Finally Homer's 'The Neptune Adventure' tells of a liner overturned on New Year's Eve, with the Simpsons amongst the survivors. When they finally surface they encounter the ghost of the Bounty.
Episode 19
Girls Just Want to Have Sums
Sun, Apr 30, 200630 mins
After Principal Skinner makes a chauvinistic remark towards a former female student, an uproar ensues, prompting for his demotion. Subsequently, Melanie Upfoot (Frances McDormand) is appointed the new principal of Springfield Elementary, whom divides the school into two, one for boys, and the other for girls. Frustrated with how the boys in her school are being educated more so than the girls, Lisa disguises herself as a boy to expand her knowledge, and as a result, wins the Student Achievement Award.
Episode 20
Regarding Margie
Sun, May 7, 200630 mins
After hitting her head doing the housework Marge is knocked unconscious and,on coming to,remembers everybody except Homer - who moves in with Grampa. A delighted Patty and Selma try to get her a new man but she ultimately remembers Homer after he mentions beer to her and she recalls that she had a husband with alcoholic ways.
Episode 21
The Monkey Suit
Sun, May 14, 200630 mins
After seeing a museum exhibit on evolution, in which creation is labeled a myth, an outraged Ned Flanders teams with Reverend Lovejoy to blackmail Principal Skinner into requiring creationism to be taught in classrooms, eventually at the expense of any mention of evolution. Lisa becomes outraged herself, and forms a student organization to teach evolution, leading to a creationism vs. evolution trial, a la Inherit the Wind.
Episode 22
Homer and Marge Turn a Couple Play
Sun, May 21, 200630 mins
The Isotopes' star player Buck Mitchell's game is suffering and it's all because he's eaten up by seeing his pop singer wife Tabitha Vixx perform raunchy dance numbers. Seeing the Simpsons as the perfect couple he asks for Marge and Homer to give him and Tabitha marriage guidance advice. It nearly goes awry when Buck catches Tabitha giving Homer a neck rub but Marge reunites the young couple in the Springfield stadium, putting the groove back into their marriage and Buck's game.
