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The Simpsons Season 7 Episodes
Season 7 Episode Guide
25 Episodes 1995 - 1996
Episode 1
Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part Two
Sun, Sep 17, 199530 mins
While Mr. Burns is hospitalized, an investigation into his shooter begins; although Smithers initially suspects himself, a trace of Simpson DNA narrows down the list of possible culprits.
Episode 2
Radioactive Man
Sun, Sep 24, 199530 mins
Action hero Rainier Wolfcastle is to play Radioactive Man in a blockbuster adventure movie to be filmed in Springfield. Bart auditions to play his sidekick Fall-Out Boy but is told he is too short and the part goes to Milhouse,causing friction among the boys. Milhouse is a reluctant actor and,despite encouragement from Mickey Rooney,walks out of the picture,which is shelved as a result but Bart gets his friend back.
Episode 3
Home Sweet Home-Dum-Diddly Doodily
Sun, Oct 1, 199530 mins
A series of unfortunate factors,such as Bart having head lice and Lisa collecting old newspapers for a school project leads to the Simpson children being taken into care and fostered with Ned Flanders and his family,which Maggie enjoys,as Ned gives her more attention than Homer but Bart and Lisa hate,as there are no cartoons,only bible stories and bedtime is at seven. However Marge and Homer attend parenting classes and arrive in time to get their children back before Ned baptizes them in the river.
Episode 4
Bart Sells His Soul
Sun, Oct 8, 199530 mins
Bart casually sells his soul to Milhouse for $5 but soon regrets it; Moe converts his dank bar into a family restaurant.
Episode 5
Lisa the Vegetarian
Sun, Oct 15, 199530 mins
Having befriended a lamb on a trip to a petting zoo,Lisa refuses to eat a lamb chop,seeing it as a living creature,and becomes a vegetarian,ruining Homer's hog-roast barbecue. Feeling depressed she runs into Apu who introduces her to Linda and Paul McCartney,from whom she learns that it is possible to have principles but still understand others' view points.
Episode 6
Treehouse of Horror VI
Sun, Oct 29, 199523 mins
A lightning storm causes giant advertising mascots to come to life; The children are terrorized by Groundskeeper Willie in their dreams; Homer finds himself trapped in another dimension.
Episode 7
King Size Homer
Sun, Nov 5, 199530 mins
Mr. Burns institutes a new calisthenics program at work. Most employees enjoy the morning workout, except Homer, who is too lazy. He finds out that if he goes in disability, he will be exempt from the exercises. He finds hyper-obesity among the list of disability, so he gorges himself on food to balloon up to 300 pounds.
Episode 8
Mother Simpson
Sun, Nov 19, 199530 mins
To get out of cleaning a park as community service, Homer fakes his own death. When this results in the family's utilities being cut off, Marge puts pressure on him to reveal that he is alive. However, the spurious news of his "death" brings his long-lost mother - a hippie who is on the run from the law because of her activism against Mr. Burns - back to Springfield.
Episode 9
Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming
Sun, Nov 26, 199530 mins
While on work duty at a local airfield, Sideshow Bob escapes from prison and breaks into a hangar. There, he gains control of the airwaves and demands that all television stations immediately go off the air permanently ... or else he'll detonate an atomic bomb. When the authorities are unable to find Bob, they decide to err on the side of safety and give into his demands. However, Krusty the Clown uses an emergency transmitter to begin broadcasting from a civil defense shed. Bob is angered and detonates the bomb, which turns out to be a dud. With both moves having failed, Bob kidnaps Bart and steals a Wright Brothers-era plane to crash into the civil defense shed where Krusty is holed up inside. However, the antique plane is mechanically unable to carry out its intended suicide mission, and once the plane stalls, Bob is easily arrested.
Episode 10
The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular!
Sun, Dec 3, 199530 mins
Troy McClure hosts a retrospective of the Simpson family's first eight years on television, including early shorts, classic highlights and never-before-seen outtakes.
Episode 11
Marge Be Not Proud
Sun, Dec 17, 199530 mins
Bart is caught shop-lifting a video game from a store. He is barred from the store, but when Marge visits it with Bart in tow, the gung-ho store detective tells her of her son's misdemeanor and they grow apart. Eventually, Bart gives her a Christmas present, which she fears he has stolen, but when she discovers it is a framed picture of himself paid for in full, she is overjoyed, and gives him a video game, though sadly it is a golf instruction video, and not the game he desperately wanted.
Episode 12
Team Homer
Sun, Jan 7, 199630 mins
Homer starts a bowling team with Moe, Apu and Otto, but Mr. Burns insists on joining after learning that the team was funded with his money; Springfield Elementary introduces uniforms.
Episode 13
Two Bad Neighbors
Sun, Jan 14, 199621 mins
To avoid politics, former President George Bush and his wife Barbara retire to Springfield, citing its low voter turnout. They quickly become friends to the conservative Flanders family, but George soon becomes the enemy of Bart and Homer Simpson.
Episode 14
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield
Sun, Feb 4, 199630 mins
After Grandpa destroys their television set, the Simpsons go to an outlet mall to buy a new one. Marge decides to peruse a clothing store, and buys a discounted Chanel suit. A chance encounter with a High School acquaintance, while wearing the suit, leads to an invitation to join a country club. Marge becomes obsessed with pleasing the club's upper-class clientèle to so she can be accepted.
Episode 15
Bart the Fink
Sun, Feb 11, 199630 mins
Bart gets a check he wanted signed by Krusty back stamped. As Krusty was supposed to autograph it, Bart wants it taken back to sign, but inadvertently reveals Krusty as a tax fraud. Krusty's lifestyle is stripped down to that of an average citizen, his show ruined and most of his possessions sold in an auction. Bart is mad at himself, particularly after a sobbing Krusty commits suicide by piloting his plane, the I'm-Onna-Rolla-Gay, into a mountainside. Bart sees visions of Krusty everywhere, but are they illusions or real life?
Episode 16
Lisa the Iconoclast
Sun, Feb 18, 199630 mins
Whilst researching a history project,Lisa discovers that Jebediah Springfield,the town's founder,was actually a pirate who stole public funds to make a silver tongue for himself. Her findings are not popular with the township and so she asks that Springfield's body be exhumed for proof. The tongue is nowhere to be found but museum curator Hollis Hurlbut admits to Lisa that he stole it. So as not to disillusion the town's people Lisa and Hollis agree to keep this secret so that Jebediah will always be fondly remembered.
Episode 17
Homer the Smithers
Sun, Feb 25, 199630 mins
Burns's personal assistant Smithers goes on holiday and Homer is chosen to be his stand-in. However he is so useless that Burns learns to cope for himself, making Smithers redundant when he returns to Springfield. Smithers and Homer get into a fight, during which Burns is thrown through a window. This means that he will now be very reliant on Smithers after all.
Episode 18
The Day the Violence Died
Sun, Mar 17, 199630 mins
Bart and Lisa meet a vagabond who claims to be the creator of Itchy from "Itchy and Scratchy."
Episode 19
A Fish Called Selma
Sun, Mar 24, 199630 mins
Washed-up movie star Troy McClure is pulled over for driving without corrective lenses, and forced to go to the DMV to get his eyes checked. While there, he meets Selma, who he asks out for dinner. Spotted by a reporter, he quickly realizes that being seen in public with a woman will grab enough headlines to revitalize his career, leading to a whirlwind romance between him and Selma.
Episode 20
Bart on the Road
Sun, Mar 31, 199630 mins
Unable to get out of a mis-scheduled spring vacation, Principal Skinner makes up the holiday "Go to Work with Your Parents Day," giving Lisa the chance to spend time with Homer, and Bart the chance to work with Patty & Selma at the DMV. When Bart makes his own fake driver's license and Martin wins a bundle at the stock market, Bart rents a car, and takes Milhouse, Martin, and Nelson Muntz on a huge road trip.
Episode 21
22 Short Films About Springfield
Sun, Apr 14, 199622 mins
A series of vignettes showcasing a day in the life of various Springfield residents.
Episode 22
Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in 'The Curse of the Flying Hellfish'
Sun, Apr 28, 199630 mins
Grandpa Simpson reveals to Bart that he and Montgomery Burns were part of a World War 2 unit known as the Flying Hellfish, which stole priceless art from a German castle during the war, of which the last surviving member would inherit the fortune. When another member of his platoon dies, Abe and Burns remain the last two survivors, and Burns vows to make sure Grandpa doesn't become the last Hellfish, until Abe and Bart vow to find the fortune before Burns does.
Episode 23
Much Apu About Nothing
Sun, May 5, 199630 mins
Anti-immigration fever sweeps Springfield, which threatens to lead to the deportation of Apu, until Homer decides to reject the mob mentality and help him become a legal citizen.
Episode 24
Homerpalooza
Sun, May 19, 199630 mins
Depressed about his inability to keep up with the existing music scene when Bart reveals how uncool his interest in 1970's rock music truly is, Homer decides to take Bart and Lisa to the Hullabalooza music festival to show them this isn't the case. Failing at that, he nearly sparks a riot and gets shot at with a cannon(ironically for Peter Frampton) which bounces a fake pig off his fat belly, and ends up being hired as part of the festival's freak show, touring with bands such as Smashing Pumpkins, Cypress Hill, Sonic Youth, and yes, Frampton.
Episode 25
Summer of 4'2"
Sun, May 19, 199630 mins
The end of the school year, and an empty yearbook causes Lisa to contemplate her lack of popularity. When Ned Flanders is summoned for jury duty and offers Homer a chance to stay at his beach house, Lisa sees this as the opportunity to reinvent herself as a slacker in the hope of gaining friends, which proves to be far more successful than she could possibly imagine --- but not if Bart has any say in the matter.
