| # |
Title |
Directed by |
Written by |
Original airdate |
Prod. code |
| 401 - 1 |
"He Loves to Fly and He
D'ohs" |
Mark
Kirkland |
Joel H.
Cohen |
September 23, 2007 (2007-09-23) |
JABF20 |
After Homer saves Mr. Burns from drowning,
Mr. Burns rewards him with a dinner and a flight on his corporate
jet. Enjoying the luxury and special features, Homer loves Mr.
Burns's corporate jet so much he vows to never fly the regular way
again, which prompts a pitying Marge to hire a personal life coach
named Colby Kraus to help Homer achieve his dream of flying.
However, when Homer is unable to get another job, he feigns going
to work so his family can be proud of him.[13]
Guest stars: Stephen Colbert and Lionel
Richie. |
| 402 - 2 |
"Homer of
Seville" |
Michael
Polcino |
Carolyn
Omine |
September 30, 2007 (2007-09-30) |
JABF18 |
After a freak accident, Homer lands in the hospital
where Doctor Hibbert informs him he developed an
ability to sing in an operatic voice, only when he's lying on his
back. Mr. Burns immediately hires Homer to sing the leading role in
his production of La bohème. Homer soon becomes an
enormous celebrity, and after running away from a throng of crazed
fans, Homer is saved by Julia, an obsessive and dangerous stalker
who Homer is blackmailed to hire as his manager.[14]
Guest stars: Maya
Rudolph and Plácido Domingo. |
| 403 - 3 |
"Midnight
Towboy" |
Matthew
Nastuk |
Stephanie Gillis |
October 7, 2007 (2007-10-07) |
JABF21 |
After touring neighboring town Guidopolis, Homer ends
up having his car towed by a tow truck driver named Louie, who
introduces Homer to the joy of towing cars for a living. However,
after going "tow crazy", the residents of Springfield plot a
revenge. Meanwhile, Marge begins to feel Maggie is getting too
clingy and hires a counselor. The method works too well, leaving
Maggie with no need for Marge at all, causing a depressed Marge to
bond with a sack of potatoes.[15]
Guest star: Matt
Dillon. |
| 404 - 4 |
"I Don't Wanna
Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" |
Bob Anderson |
Dana Gould |
October 14, 2007 (2007-10-14) |
JABF19 |
While waiting in line at the bank, Marge befriends a
man named Dwight, who later holds up the bank. Marge manages to
convinces him to turn himself in, with the promise that she would
visit him in prison if he does. Despite his turning himself in,
Homer convinces Marge that Dwight will not expect her, so Marge,
too frightened to go to prison, does not fulfill her promise and
Dwight breaks out looking for her. After stalking her in various
places, Dwight kidnaps Marge.
Guest stars: Steve
Buscemi, Ted
Nugent and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. |
| 405 - 5 |
"Treehouse of Horror
XVIII" |
Chuck
Sheetz |
Marc
Wilmore |
November 4, 2007 (2007-11-04) |
JABF16 |
The nineteenth season's annual trio of Halloween
stories, all of which are movie parodies:[16]
"E.T. Go Home" - In this send-up of E.T., Bart
and Lisa find Kodos (who is hiding from the government) and help
him obtain devices to contact his home planet, but Kodos'
intentions are proven to be murderous.
"Mr. and Mrs. Simpson" - In this send-up of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Homer lives a
double life as a government assassin, but discovers that Marge is
one too and must eliminate her after she botched his attempt at
assassinating Kent Brockman.
"Heck House" - In this send-up of Se7en, Ned
Flanders turns the church into a Hell house and asks God for devilish powers
so he can teach the children the consequences of committing the
seven deadly sins.
Guest star: Maurice LaMarche. |
| 406 - 6 |
"Little
Orphan Millie" |
Lance
Kramer |
Mick Kelly |
November 11, 2007 (2007-11-11) |
JABF22 |
| After remarrying, Kirk and Luann go on a honeymoon
cruise; however, the boat tips, causing the two to topple into the
sea and are later presumed dead. As such, Milhouse decides to act
like a real man. As a result, his new attitude makes him more
popular than ever, prompting Bart to decide to find a way to regain
his popularity. Meanwhile, Homer finds himself in trouble when he
can't remember the color of Marge's eyes, who vows never to show
him her eyes until he remembers.[17] |
| 407 - 7 |
"Husbands
and Knives" |
Nancy Kruse |
Matt Selman |
November 18, 2007 (2007-11-18) |
JABF17 |
When a new comic book store, "Coolsville Comics &
Toys" owned by a friendlier owner named Milo opens up directly
across the street from Comic Book Guy's store, Comic Book Guy
competes for his customers. When he finally gives up, he sells the
Android's Dungeon to Marge, who opens up her own women-only workout
center called Shapes. Marge becomes rich and famous, which
promps a self-conscious Homer to get stomach staples. Still feeling
useless, he goes to get plastic surgery.[18]
Guest stars: Alan
Moore, Art
Spiegelman, Dan
Clowes, Jack Black
and Maurice
LaMarche. |
| 408 - 8 |
"Funeral for
a Fiend" |
Rob Oliver |
Michael Price |
November 25, 2007 (2007-11-25) |
KABF01 |
The Simpson family agrees to go to a rib restaurant,
and after arriving, they discover Sideshow Bob attempts to murder the entire
family. When Bob is captured by the police, he is put on trial,
where Bart throws away his vial of medicine, inadvertently killing
him. Bob's brother Cecil invites Bart to pay his last respects to
Sideshow Bob. Although Bart doesn't know it, it turns out to be an
elaborate plot devised by Bob's entire family to murder Bart
instead.
Guest stars: Kelsey Grammer, David Hyde
Pierce, John
Mahoney and Keith Olbermann. |
| 409 - 9 |
"Eternal Moonshine of
the Simpson Mind" |
Chuck
Sheetz |
J. Stewart
Burns |
December 16, 2007 (2007-12-16) |
KABF02 |
| Homer wakes up in the snow with no memory from the
night before, and Moe informs him he drank a "Forget-Me-Shot", a
drink powerful enough to rid the previous 24 hours from a user's
mind. With his family missing, Chief Wiggum and Ned Flanders tell
him of a domestic disturbance from the night before, prompting
Homer to worry he may have done something awful and tries to regain
his memories with help from Professor Frink. After gaining portions
of his memory, Homer believes Marge cheated on him and that Homer
beat up his wife in retaliation.[19] |
| 410 - 10 |
"E Pluribus
Wiggum" |
Michael
Polcino |
Michael Price |
January 6, 2008 (2008-01-06) |
KABF03 |
Homer burns down Springfield's fast-food restaurants.
In order to rebuild them, Mayor Quimby moves up election day, making
Springfield's primary election the first in the nation. The
candidates in the election are not compelling and voters instead
write in "Ralph
Wiggum" on the ballot and he wins. As a result, both candidates
embrace Ralph, and Ralph decides to run so he can bring peace.[20]
Guest stars: Jon
Stewart and Dan
Rather. |
| 411 - 11 |
"That 90's
Show" |
Mark
Kirkland |
Matt Selman |
January 27, 2008 (2008-01-27) |
KABF04 |
After discovering Marge's diploma, Homer recounts the
story of how he gave up his dreams of being a musician so Marge
could attend Springfield University. However, after she became
attracted to one of her professors Homer started focusing his
emotions into music and formed the first grunge band called Sadgasm. But after Homer's
band breaks up, Marge must decide between a glum and miserable
Homer and or her pretentious professor.[21]
Guest stars: Kurt
Loder and "Weird Al"
Yankovic. |
| 412 - 12 |
"Love, Springfieldian
Style" |
Raymond S.
Persi |
Don
Payne |
February 17, 2008 (2008-02-17) |
KABF05 |
| On Valentine's Day, the Simpson family gets stuck in a
tunnel; to pass off time, Homer to begins to tell a romantic tale
about Bonnie and Clyde, Marge tells her
take on Lady and the Tramp, and Bart
tells a tale about Sid and Nancy, where Nelson Muntz is
Sid Vicious, Lisa is
Nancy Spungen
and Bart is Johnny Rotten from the Sex Pistols.[22] |
| 413 - 13 |
"The
Debarted" |
Matthew
Nastuk |
Joel H.
Cohen |
March 2, 2008 (2008-03-02) |
KABF06 |
A new kid named Donny comes to Springfield Elementary
School and Bart thinks he's found the ultimate partner for
pranks. However, these pranks backfire and Bart begins to suspect
that there is a rat amongst his group of friends. Meanwhile, Marge
wrecks the family car and Homer gets a new loaner vehicle, to which
he becomes attached.[23]
Guest stars: Topher
Grace, Terry
Gross and Marcia Wallace. |
| 414 - 14 |
"Dial
'N' for Nerder" |
Bob Anderson |
Carolyn
Omine & William Wright |
March 9, 2008 (2008-03-09) |
KABF07 |
Homer goes on a diet, but cheats on it, and Marge hires
a TV show to keep track of his diet and make sure he is being
honest. Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa play a prank on Martin Prince which
backfires, subsequently leading them to believe that they have
killed him.[24]
Guest Star: Marcia
Wallace. |
| 415 - 15 |
"Smoke
on the Daughter" |
Lance
Kramer |
Billy
Kimball |
March 30, 2008 (2008-03-30) |
KABF08 |
| Lisa becomes a ballerina at an academy and discovers
that her natural talent is enhanced by second hand cigarette smoke from the
other dancers. Meanwhile, Homer reveals that he has secretly been
making beef jerky and is dismayed when a family of raccoons
steals it.[25] |
| 416 - 16 |
"Papa Don't
Leech" |
Chris Clements |
Reid
Harrison |
April 13, 2008 (2008-04-13) |
KABF09 |
Lisa
discovers that the town of Springfield hasn't collected
millions of dollars worth of taxes. As a result, the town starts
collecting from most of the evaders and the only remaining debtor
is Lurleen
Lumpkin. As the police try to find her, Lurleen stays with the
Simpson family. Lurleen is reunited with her father, however, he
sells her song to the Dixie Chicks.[6]
Guest stars: Beverly D'Angelo and The Dixie Chicks. |
| 417 - 17 |
"Apocalypse
Cow" |
Nancy Kruse |
Jeff
Westbrook |
April 27, 2008 (2008-04-27) |
KABF10 |
When Bart and Lisa save a cow, Lou, from going to the
slaughterhouse, they give it to Mary, a farm girl. Her father
mistakenly believes it as a token of marriage, prompting Homer and
Marge to break the two up.[26]
Guest star: Zooey Deschanel. |
| 418 - 18 |
"Any Given
Sundance" |
Chuck
Sheetz |
Daniel Chun |
May 4, 2008 (2008-05-04) |
KABF11 |
When Lisa creates a hit documentary about her family
for a school project and enters it into the Sundance Film Festival,
Homer, Bart and Marge become embarrassed by the candid
behind-the-scenes look at their lives.[27]
Guest star: Jim
Jarmusch and John C. Reilly.[28] |
| 419 - 19 |
"Mona
Leaves-a" |
Mike B.
Anderson & Ralph Sosa |
Joel H.
Cohen |
May 11, 2008 (2008-05-11) |
KABF12 |
Mona Simpson returns, and
says her days of activism are over.[7]
But when she unexpectedly passes away, Homer feels guilty for not
expressing his love for her before her death. He decides to fulfill
her wishes by scattering her ashes over Lake Wastershare at
Springfield Monument Park.[29]
Guest stars: Glenn
Close, Lance
Armstrong. |
| 420 - 20 |
"All About
Lisa" |
Steven
Dean Moore |
John Frink |
May 18, 2008 (2008-05-18) |
KABF13 |
Lisa becomes Krusty the Clown's new assistant and
steals his spotlight. She soon gets her own show and wins
Entertainer of the Year at the Springfield Media Awards, but
realizes that she may not be cut out for showbusiness after all.
Meanwhile, Bart and Homer start coin-collecting and go after a rare
1917 coin known as "The Kissing Lincolns" penny.[30]
Guest star: Drew
Carey. |
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