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22 Episodes 2006 - 2007
Episode-length parodies abound in the 18th season of "The Simpsons." In "Springfield Up" (a spoof of the "Up" documentary series), a filmmaker chronicles Homer's life from childhood to the present day. "Yokel Chords" finds Lisa tutoring seven children á la "The Sound of Music." And "24 Minutes" presents a crossover with another show that was a hit on FOX at the time, as "24" protagonist Jack Bauer (voice of Kiefer Sutherland) deals with a threat in Springfield. In other events, Marge learns how to navigate the Internet and becomes addicted to a computer game, while Bart dates a 16-year-old girl voiced by Natalie Portman.
Episode 1
Sun, Sep 10, 2006 30 mins
Lisa's friendship with Fat Tony's son Michael prompts mob boss Tony to invite the Simpsons over for dinner. Michael says he'd rather be a chef than take over the family business, but that's before Tony is shot by a rival mobster. "Sopranos" stars Michael Imperioli and Joe Pantoliano voice Tony's top thugs, and Metallica band members provide their own voices.
Episode 2
Sun, Sep 17, 2006 30 mins
A child psychiatrist suggests drumming to channel Bart's energy, and the boy proves he's got the beat when he shows some talent on the skins. The White Stripes have voice cameos as themselves.
Episode 3
Sun, Sep 24, 2006 30 mins
Marge reads Homer's carpentry books and becomes very handy at fixing things. Gender bias keeps the townspeople from accepting a female carpenter, so Marge pretends that Homer does the work. Meanwhile, Bart torments Skinner when he learns the principal has an extreme allergy to peanuts.
Episode 4
Sun, Nov 5, 2006 30 mins
The 17th annual Halloween trilogy. Included: "Married to the Blob," in which a meteor turns Homer into a monster; "You Gotta Know When to Golem," about a monster from Jewish folklore; and "The Day the Earth Looked Stupid," about an alien invasion. Guest voices: Dr. Phil McGraw; Richard Lewis; Fran Drescher.
Episode 5
Sun, Nov 12, 2006 30 mins
Homer is bamboozled by Army recruiters and winds up in basic training, where he runs afoul of a tough-minded colonel (voice of Kiefer Sutherland) and is assigned to play the enemy in war games.
Episode 6
Sun, Nov 19, 2006 30 mins
Lisa sees poetry in the notes Moe sticks to the walls of his hotel room, so she sends his work to a poetry journal, which publishes it, making Moe the toast of the literary circuit. Guest voices include Gore Vidal, Michael Chabon and Jonathan Franzen.
Episode 7
Sun, Nov 26, 2006 30 mins
Homer is fired and decides to buy an ice-cream truck. Marge makes use of the mountains of Popsicle sticks from Homer's ice-cream consumption by creating sculptures of Springfield citizens with them, leading to a feature about her on the news. The episode features the song "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits.
Episode 8
Sun, Dec 10, 2006 30 mins
When Bart ends up the only guest at Nelson's birthday party, the bully decides he's his best friend and goes about protecting Bart in a parody of "Goodfellas." Meanwhile, Homer reads Lisa to sleep and debates on whether to reveal the book's sad ending to her.
Episode 9
Sun, Dec 17, 2006 30 mins
Homer jumps into a brawl during a holiday ice-skating show. To escape the melee, Marge takes the family Christmas shopping, where a chance encounter with Gil leads to bad luck for Gil and the Simpson clan. Elvis Stojko voices himself.
Episode 10
Sun, Jan 7, 2007 30 mins
Selma and Patti's home movies make Marge nostalgic for the Barnacle Bay vacations of her youth, so Homer takes the family there, but the area has changed since the Bouviers were little girls.
Episode 11
Sun, Jan 28, 2007 30 mins
Homer learns three lessons about revenge from stories told by Marge, Lisa and Bart that parody "The Count of Monte Cristo," "Revenge of the Nerds" and "Batman Begins."
Episode 12
Sun, Feb 11, 2007 30 mins
Lisa pretends to be Native American for multicultural day at school. Meanwhile, Bart finds love with an older woman (voice of Natalie Portman).
Episode 13
Sun, Feb 18, 2007 30 mins
Eric Idle provides the voice of a documentary filmmaker who interviewed a group of Springfield schoolchildren 32 years ago and has followed up at eight-year intervals to film how their lives have unfolded.
Episode 14
Sun, Mar 4, 2007 30 mins
Bart has to see a psychiatrist (voice of Meg Ryan) after he starts a panic at school by telling a story about a murderous cafeteria worker. Meanwhile, Lisa tries to civilize Cletus Spuckler's hillbilly children, with mixed results. Stephen Sondheim and Andy Dick have voice cameos as themselves.
Episode 15
Sun, Mar 11, 2007 30 mins
Selma and Grampa embark on a May-December romance, and Bart and Lisa get into trouble with deliverymen over cardboard boxes. Judge Harm: Jane Kaczmarek.
Episode 16
Sun, Mar 25, 2007 30 mins
After a celebrity scandal is accidentally captured in a family photo, Homer decides to become a paparazzo. Betty White, Harry Hamlin and Peter Wolf have voice cameos.
Episode 17
Sun, Apr 22, 2007 30 mins
Marge goes online for the first time and becomes obsessed with a role-playing game that Bart and many of their neighbors are playing. Meanwhile, Lisa develops her own obsession---for soccer---and Homer becomes a referee.
Episode 18
Sun, Apr 29, 2007 30 mins
Bart goes from hero to goat on his Little League team after an error in the championship game. Meanwhile, Homer falls asleep on a bed in a department store. When he's awakened, he raves about the mattress and is given a job as a salesman.
Episode 19
Sun, May 6, 2007 30 mins
Homer, Apu, Moe and Skinner volunteer as firemen after Homer's sleepwalking accident injures the town's firefighters. They do some light looting at the fires to make up for not being compensated, but Marge and Lisa shame them into mending their ways.
Episode 20
Sun, May 13, 2007 30 mins
The Simpsons' pooch, Santa's Little Helper, becomes a police dog. Stephen Hawking has a cameo as himself.
Episode 21
Sun, May 20, 2007 30 mins
In a parody of "24," the school's Counter Truancy Unit tries to stop three sixth-graders planning to disrupt the school bake sale with a stink bomb. Kiefer Sutherland voices the role of Jack Bauer, and Mary Lynn Rajskub voices Chloe O'Brian.
Episode 22
Sun, May 20, 2007 30 mins
Newsman Kent Brockman is fired for swearing on the air when Homer dumps coffee in his lap, but Lisa gets Brockman back in the game with her Webcam. Ludacris has a voice cameo as himself.