Having saved Burns' life Homer is rewarded by a trip to Chicago on a private plane,serenaded by Lionel Richie. This gives him a taste for a better life and,thanks to a personal life coach,gets an interview for a high-flying job with the Rich Texan. Having failed the interview he still pretends to Marge that he is working but,exposed by Bart,chooses to come clean on a private plane...where the pilot collapses and Homer must fly them all to safety. Written by don @ minifie-1

Following an accident,Homer develops a beautiful tenor singing voice - provided he lies on his back - and becomes an operatic sensation. However,the beautiful Julia,who rescues him from being mobbed by fans,becomes not only his manager but an overly obsessive devotee,wanting Homer to leave Marge for her. When Homer refuses she tries to kill him during a performance of 'The Barber of Sevile'. Written by don @ minifie-1

Homer gets a tow-truck and becomes power drunk with impounding everybody's cars. The townsfolk set him up so that he antagonizes Louie,the tow-truck driver from Guidopolis,who imprisons him in his cellar,along with other over-reaching drivers. Fortunately for Homer,Maggie has learnt to be super-independent and rides to the rescue. Written by don @ minifie-1

Bank robber Dwight agrees to give himself up if Marge visits him in prison but she chickens out so,when he escapes from jail,he comes after her and gets her to take him to the theme park where his real mother abandoned him. And whilst there he does a very brave deed,so that Marge is only too happy to visit him back inside. But he wants one more thing from her. Written by don @ minifie-1

In ET: Go Home, Bart finds Kodos in the back yard and they become friends. However, Kodos has plans of killing everyone. In Mr. and Mrs. Simpson, Homer and Marge discover that they are both expert assassins and try to kill each other. In Heck House, Bart, Milhouse, Nelson, and Lisa pull pranks on Springfield residents while trick-or-treating, and are subjected to the wrath of Ned Flanders and his 'Heck House.' Written by Anonymous

When Milhouse's parents get back together, they go on a second honeymoon on a cruise ship. They then get lost at sea and presumed dead. Milhouse is forced to grow up, and becomes cooler than Bart, who tries hard to regain his previous popularity. Meanwhile, Homer is plagued with trying to remember Marge's eye color. Written by Kevin

A new comic store opens in Springfield, which drives The Android's Dungeon out of business. Marge uses the space to open a gym for regular women, Shapes. Shapes becomes a runaway success. When Homer accompanies Marge on a business trip, he meets a group of handsome, muscled men. These men insist that Homer get into shape, because otherwise Marge will leave him. In hopes of making quick changes to his physique, Homer turns to a plastic surgeon. Written by Ken Miller wkmiller704@yahoo.com

Bart is responsible for Sideshow Bob's death after his latest attempt at revenge is foiled, but is his death actually part of the plan?

Homer goes to Dr. Frink to help him recover his memories from the night before, and he discovers, based on his interpretation of the memories, that Marge is having an affair.

Homer accidentally blows up all thirty-seven takeaways in Fast Food Boulevard with a carelessly discarded match and,in order to get money to rebuild them, Mayor Quimby decrees that the elections be brought forward,thus making Springfield the first in the country to choose its candidates for the presidential primary. A host of wannabes descend on the town and,in order to put them off,Homer suggests nominating the least likely potential leader of all - Ralph Wiggum. The trouble is,everybody starts to take this seriously and soon all parties are courting Ralph as their candidate,even Bill Clinton. Written by don @ minifie-1

Homer and Marge tell the kids about their life in the early 1990s before they were born, when Marge was enrolled in Springfield College and Homer was the lead singer of a grunge rock band

Stuck in a creepy Tunnel of Love on Valentine's Day the Simpsons pass the time telling love stories. Homer recalls Bonie and Clyde,who look like him and Marge and die,loved-up,in a hail of bullet after being betrayed by unsuspecting accomplice Ned Flanders.Marge's enchanting tale is of blue-haired spaniel the Vamp,who dates rough diamond mongrel Shady and almost loses him after she gets knocked up by him,but gets him back after he has saved their puppies from the pound.Finally Bart contributes a take on Sex Pistols musician Sid Vicious,charmed away from the group by adoring Nancy,with whom death by chocolate seems a certainty. Written by don @ minifie-1

Thanks to the kids' antics Marge prangs the car and whilst it's in for repairs the family get a state of the art new model,with which Homer is reluctant to part until he sees the old one being sold off. Bart,meanwhile,thinks he has found a kindred spirit in new class-mate Donny,who's even naughtier than him. Then he gets tipped off by Willie that Donny is a spy, brought in by Skinner to ensure prank-free school days. Bart corners Donny in an old warehouse but when Skinner and Chalmers appear to mete out the punishment Donny comes to Bart's assistance. Written by don @ minifie-1

Bart,with Lisa's inadvertent assistance,accidentally knocks Martin Prince over a cliff and he is presumed dead. As Bart's guilt feeling grows Nelson turns Columbo-style investigator to prove that foul play was involved,although all is resolved amid Martin's butterfly collection when he 'returns' from the dead. Marge gets a documentary crew to shadow and film Homer as he is clearly cheating on his diet. Written by don @ minifie-1

Homer makes his own beef jerky in the basement,only for it to be stolen by raccoons. Marge,meanwhile,wants to fulfill her childhood dream of being a ballerina and goes with Lisa to the Chazz Buzby dance academy. She is turned down but Chazz notices that Lisa has the right posture for a dancer. Unfortunately she can only dance well after inhaling the other ballerinas' cigarette smoke. Homer is appalled and has the raccoons steal all the dancers' cigarettes. At a performance of 'Sleeping Beauty' all the dancers are rubbish when deprived of their smokes and Lisa delivers a diatribe from the stage against something which is unhealthy and stunts the growth of American children - ballet. Written by don @ minifie-1

The Simpsons take pity on former country singer Lurleen Lumpkin,who now owes fifty thousand dollars in taxes - thanks to grasping ex-husbands - and is reduced to working at Moe's. Marge discovers Lurleen's unhappiness is due to the father who abandoned her thirty years earlier and reunites them, Lurleen writing a song to celebrate the event. But Royce Lumpkin is still a bad lot who steals the song and tries to make money by passing it off as his own and selling it to the Dixie Chicks. Time for Marge to empower Lurleen and give her the confidence to stand up for herself and hit back at her cheating pappy. Written by don @ minifie-1

Bart joins a young farmers' group for the summer and raises a cow he calls Lou, helped by local girl Mary. Appalled when he finds out that Lou is destined for the slaughter house, Bart, helped by Lisa, rescues him and takes him to Mary to look after. But Mary is the daughter of Cletus and Brandine and in yokel law the gift of a cow equals a marriage proposal. If Bart backs out Lou will die. Fortunately Marge comes up with a plan to save face and Lou but it's a close call for Homer in the pantomime cow outfit as he takes Lou's place on the way to the killing floor. Written by don @ minifie-1

After Lisa has captured the seamier side of Springfield life on her My Little Sony camcorder for her school video project Principal Skinner encourages her to make a documentary about her family 'Capturing the Simpsons',which is accepted for,and becomes a hit at,the Sundance Film Festival. It also shows the family at their very worst and their pride in Lisa is short-lived. Fortunately so are people's memories in the film world so that Nelson's movie about his sad home life soon replaces Lisa's film as a talking point. Written by don @ minifie-1

Homer's mother returns,saying her activism days are over but Homer is still mad at her for putting her causes above his upbringing. When she passes away he feels mean and agrees to spread her ashes from the mountain top in the national park - where they can gum up the works of the adjacent missile launcher due to fly nuclear waste into the rainforests, just as Mother Simpson had planned. Homer gets captured but the gifts his mother left the other family members help him escape in true Bond style. Written by don @ minifie-1

Sideshow Mel recounts events leading up to Lisa getting the Entertainer of the Year award. Having berated Krusty for not engaging Bart as his sidekick she gets a job as the clown's personal assistant and gradually edges him out of the limelight as she substitutes for him when his misadventures render him unavailable. However Mel points out to her the pitfalls that come with fame. Bart meanwhile has taken up coin collecting with Homer,even cheating Burns out of ownership of the extremely rare 1917 Kissing Lincoln coin. Written by don @ minifie-1