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The Simpsons Season 20 Episode Guide

Sunday, Nov 15 at 08:00 pm FOX (ch 14)
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  • Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes

    Episode 1 Originally aired:  September 28, 2008

    Homer goes to jail after a fight at the Springfield St. Patrick's Day parade. When he attempts to bail out, Homer meets Lucky Jim and Wolf the Bounty Hunter and starts to believe he could also hunt criminals. Homer the Bounty Hunter hooks up with Ned Flanders to create his crime fighting team, but when Homer's new attitude gets the best of him, Flanders gets upset. Meanwhile, without the family's knowledge, Ma…more

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  • Lost Verizon

    Episode 2 Originally aired:  October 5, 2008

    Bart takes a job at a country club retrieving golf balls in order to purchase a much needed cell phone. While at the course, Bart watches Denis Leary and friends playing a round. When Leary's cell phone rings just as he is about to take a swing, he furiously throws the phone in the air and it lands right next to Bart. Bart decides to keep the cell and makes prank calls all over the world pretending to be Leary. He eve…more

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    Based on 183 ratings
  • Double, Double, Boy in Trouble

    Episode 3 Originally aired:  October 19, 2008

    Lenny wins the lottery and invites the Simpson family to a party at a nice hotel. Bart meets Simon Woosterfield, who is a member of the richest family in Springfield. Simon and Bart decide to change places, and Bart arrives at the Woosterfield mansion only to find football great Joe Montana hanging out. As Simon adjusts to life over at the Simpson household, Bart begins to notice his new siblings acting strangely. With so…more

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    Based on 141 ratings
  • Treehouse of Horror XIX

    Episode 4 Originally aired:  November 2, 2008

    First, Homer kills celebrities so they can be exploited free-of-charge. Next, robots duke it out in Springfield, and in "It's the Grand Pumpkin, Millhouse," Lisa goes with Millhouse to a pumpkin patch to await the appearance of the Grand Pumpkin. But when the pumpkin finally appears, it goes on a violent rampage to avenge all the pumpkins tortured in the name of Halloween.

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    Based on 271 ratings
  • Dangerous Curves

    Episode 5 Originally aired:  November 9, 2008

    The Simpson family takes a road trip to a cabin in the woods. Upon their arrival, a series of flashbacks show Homer and Marge's early married years. They recall the first time they met with Flanders and Maude twenty years prior, where Flanders insisted the then-unmarried couple stay in separate rooms. They then remember when they were nearly wooed away from each other by members of the opposite sex. Bart and Lisa also…more

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    Based on 91 ratings
  • Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words

    Episode 6 Originally aired:  November 16, 2008

    Lisa discovers she has a talent for doing crossword puzzles, so she becomes an expert cruciverbalist, and enters a contest. Homer, short on cash after ending his professional break-up artist business, goes to cheer for Lisa in the tournament, when he discovers an underground crossword puzzle betting ring. Homer profits from betting against Lisa. When Lisa finds out, it takes New York Times crossword puzzle editor Will Sho…more

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    Based on 66 ratings
  • Mypods and Broomsticks

    Episode 7 Originally aired:  November 30, 2008

    The family takes a trip to the Mapple Store at the mall where Lisa gets a Mypod and Bart interrupts Steve Mobbs with his own voice-over, causing chaos in the store. On the way home from the mall, Bart escapes punishment and befriends a boy named Bashir. Homer becomes suspicious of the new friend and invites Bashir, his mother and his father over for dinner. After offending Bashir and his family at dinner, Homer goes to ap…more

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    Based on 70 ratings
  • The Burns and the Bees

    Episode 8 Originally aired:  December 7, 2008

    At a billionaires' retreat, Mr. Burns wins the Boston Celtics in a game of poker. While hosting the season opener, Mr. Burns is the victim of several pranks at the hands of Dallas Mavericks' owner Mark Cuban. Mr. Burns decides to act like Cuban, with his over-the-top stunts, in order to win over the hearts of Springfield's basketball fans. Mr. Burns decides that the best way to win the fans' hearts and min…more

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    Based on 69 ratings
  • Treehouse Horror 18

    Episode 9 Originally aired:  January 4, 2009

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    Based on 18 ratings
  • Lisa the Drama Queen

    Episode 10 Originally aired:  January 25, 2009

    Lisa meets a smart and inventive new friend named Juliet, who together with Lisa, creates a fantasy world that takes them both way past reality.

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    Based on 80 ratings
  • Take My Life, Please

    Episode 11 Originally aired:  February 15, 2009

    Mayor Quimby inducts Vance Connor into the Springfield Walk of Fame, causing Homer to remember the time he ran against Vance for class president in high school. Homer learns that the election he lost had been rigged, and he so he thinks about what his life might have been like had he not lost. Homer soon meets an Italian cook at Luigi's Italian Restaurant whose tomato sauce, when stirred the right way, shows what Home…more

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    Based on 42 ratings
  • How the Test Was Won

    Episode 12 Originally aired:  March 1, 2009

    Bart is informed that he and a select group of students have received perfect scores on a practice test for the upcoming Vice President's Assessment Test. As a result, he will be exempt from taking the real exam and will be transported by helicopter to a pizza party. Shocked at how Bart could have performed better than she did, Lisa freezes up when it comes time for her to take the exam. However, Bart and the others s…more

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  • No Loan Again, Naturally

    Episode 13 Originally aired:  March 8, 2009

    After too many years of financing Homer's annual Mardi Gras party on home equity loans, Homer and Marge's adjustable-rate mortgage skyrockets and they are forced to put their house up for sale. Flanders does a good deed by outbidding Mr. Burns and purchasing the property, thus becoming Homer and Marge's new landlord. But when Homer publicly accuses Flanders of neglecting the Simpsons' unsafe living conditi…more

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  • Gone Maggie Gone

    Episode 14 Originally aired:  March 15, 2009

    When Homer leaves Maggie on the doorstep of a convent to keep her safe as he rescues Santa's Little Helper from a sticky situation, the nuns at the convent take Maggie in. Lisa comes up with a plan to infiltrate the convent and rescue Maggie. After deciphering a series of cryptic messages at the convent, Lisa sets off to find Springfield's most coveted jewel and gets a little help from an ancient order of mystery …more

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    Based on 40 ratings
  • In the Name of the Grandfather

    Episode 15 Originally aired:  March 22, 2009

    The Simpson family travels to Ireland to take Grandpa to have one last beer at his beloved O'Flanagan's Pub in Dunkilderry. However, when they arrive, the little town of Dunkilderry isn't the quaint little Irish village that Grandpa remembers. It has become a gentrified yuppie enclave filled with hipsters on laptops and Bluetooth’s, surrounded by swanky stores and coffee shops. When they track down O'Fla…more

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    Based on 49 ratings
  • Wedding for Disaster

    Episode 16 Originally aired:  March 29, 2009

    When Homer and Marge's marriage turns out to be invalid because Reverend Lovejoy was not licensed at the time, Homer asks Marge to marry him again. But when Homer mysteriously disappears on their wedding day, Bart and Lisa search for answers and are led on a cryptic trail of clues, leading them to Sideshow Bob. Meanwhile, Homer finds himself chained to a pipe in a dark room. When a mysterious voice tells him that the …more

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    Based on 51 ratings
  • Eeny Teeny Maya Moe

    Episode 17 Originally aired:  April 5, 2009

    In an effort to spend more time with Maggie, Homer takes her to happy hour at Moe's. While at the bar, Moe tells Homer about his new love, Maya, a woman he met on the internet. When Moe finally meets Maya in person, she is just as beautiful as her photos but he can't help but notice one small detail: she is three feet tall. In order to make the relationship work, Moe must learn to love their differences.

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    Based on 37 ratings
  • The Good, the Sad and the Drugly

    Episode 18 Originally aired:  April 19, 2009

    When Bart and Milhouse pull off a prank at Springfield Elementary, Milhouse takes the fall and gets suspended from school. Homer forces Bart to sign in under Homer's name and visit Grandpa at his retirement home, and Bart soon becomes smitten with a delightful 11-year-old volunteer named Jenny. Hoping to impress Jenny, Bart offers to volunteer at the home. But as Bart and Jenny's relationship progresses, Milhouse …more

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  • Father Knows Worst

    Episode 19 Originally aired:  April 26, 2009

    When Homer observes Bart and Lisa struggling in certain aspects of their academic and social lives at school, he becomes a proponent of "helicopter parenting," the process of closely monitoring a child and forcing them to succeed. Homer takes hovering to a new level when he chooses a nearly impossible subject for Bart's balsa wood model-building competition and gives Lisa some not-so-friendly advice on how t…more

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  • Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'Oh

    Episode 20 Originally aired:  May 3, 2009

    When Marge learns Springfield Elementary is the worst school in the state, she and Homer rent an apartment in the upscale Waverly Hills neighborhood so Bart and Lisa can attend a better school. When Lisa is ostracized by the popular girls at Waverly Hills, Bart uses his newly established bad boy image to impress the other students and increase Lisa's popularity by telling everyone she is best friends with pop star Ala…more

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  • Four Great Women and a Manicure

    Episode 21 Originally aired:  May 10, 2009

    Marge and Lisa visit the nail salon where they engage in a spirited debate as to whether a woman can be smart, powerful and beautiful all at the same time. To prove their point, they spin four tales of famous women featuring famous Springfield faces: Selma as Queen Elizabeth I, Lisa as Snow White, Marge as Lady Macbeth and Maggie as the idealistic architect protagonist from Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead.”

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  • Coming to Homerica

    Episode 22 Originally aired:  May 17, 2009

    When nearby Ogdenville's economy crumbles due to tainted barley discovered in Krusty's veggie burgers, the unemployed workers of Ogdenville flock to Springfield. After Mayor Quimby closes Springfield's borders and enlists private citizens to help patrol them, Homer organizes a border patrol group.

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    Based on 31 ratings

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