The Simpsons — Season 18
Just a product of society that's lost its good manners.
About this season
Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general.
Episodes (22)
1. The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer
6.7Aired 10 September 2006 • 22 min
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.
2. Jazzy and the Pussycats
6.4Aired 17 September 2006 • 23 min
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.
3. Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em
6.4Aired 24 September 2006 • 23 min
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.
4. Treehouse of Horror XVII
6.2Aired 5 November 2006 • 23 min
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.
5. G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)
6.5Aired 12 November 2006 • 22 min
Homer is bamboozled by Army recruiters and winds up in basic training, where he runs afoul of a tough-minded colonel and is assigned to play the enemy in war games.
6. Moe'N'a Lisa
6.4Aired 19 November 2006 • 23 min
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.
7. Ice Cream of Margie (With the Light Blue Hair)
6.7Aired 26 November 2006 • 23 min
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.
8. The Haw-Hawed Couple
7.0Aired 10 December 2006 • 23 min
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.
9. Kill Gil, Volumes I & II
5.8Aired 17 December 2006 • 23 min
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.
10. The Wife Aquatic
6.0Aired 7 January 2007 • 22 min
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.
11. Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times
7.0Aired 28 January 2007 • 23 min
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."
12. Little Big Girl
6.4Aired 11 February 2007 • 22 min
Lisa pretends to be Native American for multicultural day at school. Meanwhile, Bart finds love with an older woman.
13. Springfield Up
6.7Aired 18 February 2007 • 23 min
A documentary filmmaker who interviewed a group of Springfield schoolchildren 32 years ago has followed up at eight-year intervals to film how their lives have unfolded.
14. Yokel Chords
6.3Aired 4 March 2007 • 23 min
Bart has to see a psychiatrist 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.
15. Rome-Old and Juli-Eh
6.3Aired 11 March 2007 • 22 min
Selma and Grampa embark on a May-December romance, and Bart and Lisa get into trouble with deliverymen over cardboard boxes.
16. Homerazzi
6.8Aired 25 March 2007 • 22 min
After a celebrity scandal is accidentally captured in a family photo, Homer decides to become a paparazzo.
17. Marge Gamer
6.9Aired 22 April 2007 • 23 min
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.
18. The Boys of Bummer
6.0Aired 29 April 2007 • 23 min
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.
19. Crook and Ladder
6.4Aired 6 May 2007 • 23 min
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.
20. Stop or My Dog Will Shoot!
6.4Aired 13 May 2007 • 23 min
The Simpsons' pooch, Santa's Little Helper, becomes a police dog.
21. 24 Minutes
7.2Aired 20 May 2007 • 23 min
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.
22. You Kent Always Say What You Want
6.8Aired 20 May 2007 • 23 min
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.