The Simpsons 12×11: Worst Episode Ever
Despite being banned from life forever from the comic book store, Bart and Milhouse take over its management when the Comic Book Guy suffers from a cardiac episode, “the worst episode ever”. Their management of the shop is fairly successful, until they discover the Comic Book Guy’s secret stash of illegal video clips and begin charging admission for their viewing. Meanwhile, the Comic Book Guy on the road to recovery receives tips from Homer on making friends to no avail. Until a chance meeting with Principal Skinner’s mother sparks an unusual relationship.
The Simpsons 12×10: Pokey Mom
The family attends a prison rodeo and Marge sees artistic potential in one of the inmates after she sees some of his work hanging in the prison infirmary. She volunteers to teach art at the prison and then vouches for her artistic inmate at his parole hearing. Now back in the real world, the inmate needs a job and Marge gets him one at the school, painting a picture depicting school spirit. His take on school spirit and Principal Skinners are at odds. Meanwhile Homer, whose back was injured at the rodeo, seeks the help of chiropractor. He soon discovers that his old trashcan is just as effective as the chiropractor, so he dubs it “Dr. Homer’s Miracle Spinal Cylinder” and goes into business for himself. Until the chiropractors take their revenge.
The Simpsons 12×9: HOMR
The Simpson family goes to an animation convention. Homer falls in love with a new product there and invests the family’s life savings in a company that soon declares super-duper bankruptcy. To gain their life savings back, he sells his body for medical testing. The doctors find something odd in his head x-ray. Homer has a crayon lodged in his brain. This explains why he is such a moron. He thinks it is because he shoved crayons up his nose as a child. When the doctors remove the crayon, he gets smarter. This allows him to bond with Lisa. In fact Homer proves to be even smarter than she is. He is so smart that he accidentally proves there is no God. He also blows the whistle on the plant’s nuclear safety violations. So the nuclear plant has to close and everyone hates him. He can’t find happiness in things he used to like and he can’t fit in with the people of Springfield. He decides to have Moe (a licensed surgeon) shove another crayon into his brain and he goes back to being a blissful idiot. Lisa understands why he did it and doesn’t hate him for it.
The Simpsons 12×8: Skinner’s Sense of Snow
The Simpson family goes to a French circus. While watching the show a freak snowstorm hits the circus tent. It’s a relentless snowstorm; everything closes, except for Springfield Elementary; Principal Skinner doesn’t want to ruin his “Cal Ripken-like streak of school openage.” With the teachers at an “emergency caucus,” Skinner has the kids sit through a terrible film. When they go to leave at the end of the day, they find that the school is snowed in. The kids start to revolt against Skinner, so he gets tough with them. Meanwhile, Homer and Flanders go to save the kids, but get stranded in a snow bank. Skinner loses control of the school to the kids, led by Bart and he ends up trapped in a bag. The kids go through the schools records. Skinner sends a hamster out in the snow in an attempt to save himself. Homer and Flanders pass out due to carbon monoxide poisoning and Homer has bizarre fantasies about ranch dressing. The hamster saves them, leaving them free to save the kids. Skinner and Bart agree never to discuss the day again.
The Simpsons 12×7: The Great Money Caper
Bart gets a magic set and with it he and Homer try street performing to make money. When it doesn’t work out, Homer leaves Bart on his own, fending for himself. Being abandoned by his father makes Bart into a charity case and people just start giving Bart money. So Bart and Homer start working this angle and then get some advice from the man who wrote the book on grifting, Grampa Simpson. When they get busted pulling a scam, they manage to scam their way out of the situation; but Groundskeeper Willy may wind taking the fall, unless Homer or Bart confesses their guilt.
The Simpsons 12×6: The Computer Wore Menace Shoes
As Mr. X Homer starts his own web page where begins revealing Springfield’s secrets. He ultimately wins the Pulitzer Prize for his work so he reveals himself to the public. When everyone knows that he is Mr. X his ability to obtain secrets disappears. So he begins making up stories. When one of those stories turns out to be the truth, he is kidnapped and taken to “The Island,” a place where those who know too much are taken out of society.
The Simpsons 12×5: Homer vs. Dignity
Bart gets an A in astronomy, so Homer takes the family out for a celebration dinner. Homer’s credit card is declined. He and Marge realize that they are broke, so Homer asks Mr. Burns for a raise. With Smithers away in New Mexico mounting his play about Malibu Stacy; Mr. Burns gives Homer a promotion. Homer has to make Mr. Burns laugh. Homer becomes a clown for him with Homer’s life becoming an episode of MTV’s “Jackass.” As the title indicates, he has no dignity. After a panda rapes him, he begins to hate the job. Lisa discovers his secret and tries to get him to retrieve his dignity. Mr. Burns eventually fires him, so he becomes a department store Santa (again?). He is in a parade as Santa when Mr. Burns offers him $1,000,000 to pull one more prank. When Homer refuses, Mr. Burns does it himself, pouring fish guts onto the children.
The Simpsons 12×4: Lisa the Tree Hugger
Bart wants the new Gamestation 256, so he tries to get a job to earn the money, but his job as a menu boy causes a great deal of paper litter to be strewn about the city making Lisa lament the plight of the trees. Then Lisa falls for a meat protester, which inspires her to join their environmental protection group. Later, when an old redwood tree is danger of being cut down, she begins living in the tree, but her desire to return home becomes to great and she leaves for just a little while. However it’s too late because when she returns the next morning the tree has come down. During the night the tree was struck by lightning and the city thinks that Lisa is dead.
The Simpsons 12×3: Insane Clown Poppy
Homer and Bart fix things around the house using fireworks. They destroy Lisa’s room on her birthday, so help make it up to her, the family goes to a book fair, where among other things Krusty is signing his new book. A little girl named Sophie is in line and she tells Krusty that she is his daughter. Krusty flashes back to his role in the Gulf War. Sophie’s mother now hates Krusty. Krusty tries spending time with Sophie at the beach, but they don’t bond very well. He sees Homer interacting with his kids and gets some parenting advice from his. Krusty gambles away Sophie’s violin in a poker game with Fat Tony. She gets very upset with Krusty, so he (with Homer’s help) try to steal back the violin. There is a big Mafia summit at Fat Tony’s place and Krusty manages to escape with the violin and a bunch of cash. He wins back Sophie’s love, but the mob goes after Homer for his role in the caper and shoots at him. Somehow Homer escapes.
The Simpsons 12×2: A Tale of Two Springfields
When the phone company gives Springfield a new area code, Homer revolts taking the part of Springfield with the new area code (the poor side of town) with him. Soon it’s Olde Springfield versus New Springfield. As mayor of New Springfield Homer runs it haphazardly and soon the population of New Springfield moves over to Olde Springfield, leaving the Simpson family as the only residents. It takes a Who concert to bring the two parts of Springfield together.
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