Difference between revisions of "Season 17"

One episode in this season, "[[The Seemingly Never-Ending Story]]" won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming less than One Hour). At the 34th Annie Awards, episode writer [[Ian Maxtone-Graham]] won the award for "Best Writing in an Animated Television Production."<ref>[http://annieawards.org/34thwinners.html Annie Awards - 34th Annual Annie Award Nominees and Winners]</ref>[[Kelsey Grammer]] won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for his voice portrayal of Sideshow Bob in "[[The Italian Bob]]".<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/08/23/emmy.advancer/index.html CNN - Welcome to the Emmy 'mess']</ref> The DVD and Blu-ray boxset is due in December 2014.<ref>[http://www.nohomers.net/showthread.php?103137-The-Official-Season-17-DVD-Blu-Ray-Thread/page3 NoHomers.net - The Official Season 17 DVD/Blu-ray Thread - Page 3]</ref> and it will also feature Sideshow Bob on the cover.<ref>[http://www.bol.com/nl/p/the-simpsons-seizoen-17/9200000032163978/ - Bol.com - The Simpsons - Seizoen 17 (Digipack)]</ref>

==Episodes==

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{{TBT|[[File:Bonfire of the Manatees.jpg|250px]]}}

{{TB|"'''[[The Bonfire of the Manatees]]'''"|align=}}

{{TCsT|color=white|[[Homer]]'s latest gamble with the Mafia goes awry, and when [[Marge]] walks in on the filming of a porn movie in their own house, she takes off and ends up caring for manatees with a doctor, leaving a forlorn Homer to shack up with [[Santa's Little Helper]]'s cousins in order to find her.<br/>'''Guest voices''': [[Alec Baldwin]], [[Joe Mantegna]]|7}}

{{TB|"'''[[The Girl Who Slept Too Little]]'''"|align=}}

{{TB|"'''[[Milhouse of Sand and Fog]]'''"|align=}}

{{TCsT|color=white|[[Kirk]] and [[Luann]] reconcile after some heavy talking at a pox party (don't ask), but there's a difference - they are unknowingly being selfish and ignoring [[Milhouse]], which leaves him down in the dumps. Mischievous as always, him and [[Bart]] conjure up a plan that inadvertently leads the parents of both children to split up - again!|7}}

{{TBT|[[File:Treehouse of Horror XVI.jpg|250px]]}}

{{TB|"'''[[Treehouse of Horror XVI]]'''"|align=}}

{{TCsT|color=white|A comatose Bart is replaced by a robot after he fails to jump into a pool, but when the two finally meet - it leads to a rivalry - and then the former being dumped in the woods; a duplicitous [[Mr. Burns|Burns]] is at it again when he invites residents of Springfield to his hunting event - then decides to turn in into a survival of the fittest as he hunts them; a witch visits a fancy-dress contest, at which everyone thinks it's a costume, and so the incensed witch recklessly performs spells on everyone - and Maggie unwittingly becomes the one who can revert the incantations.<br/>'''Guest voices''': [[Dennis Rodman]], [[Terry Bradshaw]]|7}}

{{TBT|[[File:Sonpoisoning.jpg|250px]]}}

{{TB|"'''[[Marge's Son Poisoning]]'''"|align=}}

{{TB|"'''[[See Homer Run]]'''"|align=}}

{{TBT|[[File:The Last of the Red Hat Mamas 1.jpg|250px]]}}

{{TB|"'''[[The Last of the Red Hat Mamas]]'''"|align=}}

{{TCsT|color=white|Homer embarrasses Marge once again with his puerile behaviour and she feels as if she'll never gain friends with him around, until that is she is invited to join a women's group called the Cheery Red Tomatoes, which is innocent enough at first - until Marge has proven herself to be a virtuous member and is introduced to a heist plan... Meanwhile, Milhouse teaches Lisa Italian, and Lisa begins developing unrequited feelings...<br/>'''Guest voices''': [[Lily Tomlin]]|7}}

{{TB|"'''[[The Italian Bob]]'''"|align=}}

{{TB|Mark Kirkland}}

{{TB|John Frink}}

{{TCsT|color=white|Burns sends Homer to a small town in Italy to pick up his brand new car, and he decides to take the family. But there's trouble ahead when the mayor of this new town is someone very, very familiar...someone familiar with spiky red hair and a vendetta against Bart...<br/>'''Guest voices''': [[Kelsey Grammer]], [[Maria Grazia Cucinotta]]|7}}

{{TBT|[[File:Simpson Christmas Stories Promo.jpg|250px]]}}

{{TB|"'''[[Simpsons Christmas Stories]]'''"|align=}}

{{TB|Steven Dean Moore}}

{{TB|"'''[[Homer's Paternity Coot]]'''"|align=}}

{{TB|Joel H. Cohen}}

{{TCsT|color=white|The discovery of a frozen mailman from the 60s sends shockwaves through the Simpson family after it transpires Homer's mother [[Mona Simpson|Mona]] may have actually been impregnated by a nobody called [[Mason Fairbanks]]<br/>'''Guest voices''': [[Michael York]], [[William H. Macy]], [[Joe Frazier]]|7}}

{{TB|"'''[[We're on the Road to D'oh-where]]'''"|align=}}

{{TB|Nancy Kruse}}

{{TB|"'''[[My Fair Laddy]]'''"|align=}}

{{TCsT|color=white|Retribution is on the cards when a new gym teacher is determined to pummel students with dodgeballs incessantly as his main choice of sport, and Bart takes it into his own hands - filling up a dodgeball with ice-cold water. But it goes errant and accidentally breaks a window and falls on top of [[Groundskeeper Willie|Willie]]'s shack, flattening it, and, feeling sorry, Bart takes him in, and Lisa surprisingly turns his life around by transforming him into a pompous gentleman.|7}}

{{TB|"'''[[The Seemingly Never-Ending Story]]'''"|align=}}

{{TB|Raymond Persi}}

{{TCsT|color=white|When The Simpsons get stuck in a cave after a failed nature trip, [[Lisa]] is told a story by [[Homer]], while the rest of the family try to get help. More stories evolve, and will the whole cave story actually be a story?<br/>'''Guest voices''': [[Maurice LaMarche]]|7}}

{{TB|"'''[[Bart Has Two Mommies]]'''"|align=}}

{{TCsT|color=white|Marge offers to babysit [[Rod]] and [[Todd]], and it turns out quite well, until she starts throwing Band-Aid required activities into the mix; Homer and the kids visit the zoo where Bart is kidnapped by a depressed monkey, who thinks Bart is her son.<br/>'''Guest voices''': [[Susan Sarandon]], [[Dave Thomas]], [[Randy Johnson]], [[Antonio Fargas]]|7}}

{{TBT|[[File:Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife Promo.jpg|250px]]}}

{{TB|"'''[[Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife]]'''"|align=}}

{{TCsT|color=white|"[[Mother Flippers]]", a brand-new show, appeals to both Homer and Marge when they need money for a plasma TV after getting enthralled by [[Lenny]]'s. But not everything goes entirely to plan when Homer ends up with an extremely strict and pretentious wife, and Marge ends up with a love-sick husband.<br/>'''Guest voices''': Ricky Gervais|7}}

{{TB|"'''[[Million-Dollar Abie]]'''"|align=}}

{{TB|Steven Dean Moore}}

{{TCsT|color=white|[[Abe]] accidentally ruins Springfield's chances for an NFL franchise when he mistakes an endorser who popped by the Simpsons' house for directions, for a burglar. The reaction is so profound that Abe ends up at an assisted-suicide centre, and then as a bullfighter when the town turns the especially-built for football ring into a bullfighting one.<br/>'''Guest voices''': [[Rob Reiner]]|7}}

{{TB|"'''[[Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore]]'''"|align=}}

{{TB|Mark Kirkland}}

{{TB|[[Dan Castellaneta]]<br/>[[Deb Lacusta]]}}

{{TCsT|color=white|It's 'all hail Homer' when the nuclear power plant gets transferred to India, Homer is chosen to work there, and upon his arrival, he gets showered with gifts.<br/>'''Guest voices''': [[Richard Dean Anderson]]<br/>[[Meher Tatna]]|7}}

{{TB|"'''[[The Wettest Stories Ever Told]]'''"|align=}}

{{TBT|[[File:Girls Just Want To Have Sums.png|250px]]}}

{{TB|"'''[[Girls Just Want to Have Sums]]'''"|align=}}

{{TB|Nancy Kruse}}

{{TCsT|color=white|[[Principal Skinner]]'s chauvinistic remark about how men are better at maths than women leads to Springfield Elementary being split in two - boys and girls on different sides of the school. Lisa finds the girls' maths not as challenging, and she masquerades as a boy, using the alias "Jake Boyman" and attends the boys' lessons. But some bullying leads to Lisa breaking, however some incongruous support from her brother lifts her spirits again.|7}}

{{TB|"'''[[Regarding Margie]]'''"|align=}}

{{TB|Marc Wilmore}}

{{TCsT|color=white|After hitting her head on a stool, and inhaling cleaner bottle fumes, Marge suffers from amnesia. Slowly, memories return, but there is a big Homer-shaped gap - well, there's no gap at all.|7}}

{{TB|"'''[[The Monkey Suit]]'''"|align=}}

{{TB|Raymond S. Persi}}

{{TCsT|color=white|A new evolution exhibit at the museum Ned takes his kids to influences [[Rod]] and [[Todd]], and Ned and [[Reverend Lovejoy]] form a plan to discourage evolution and introduce creationism heavily in education. Lisa heavily protests against this, and it even goes as far as she being arrested for teaching evolution to a group of schoolfriends; [[Homer]] is deemed the "missing link" in evolution.|7}}

{{TBT|[[File:Tabitha.png|250px]]}}

{{TB|"'''[[Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play]]'''"|align=}}

{{TB|Bob Anderson}}

{{TB|Joel H. Cohen}}

{{TCsT|color=white|Homer and Marge are probably the most terrible marriage counsellors ever - but Isotopes player [[Buck Mitchell]] and his wife [[Tabitha Vixx]] soon require their newly-formed services when they see how great their marriage is. But, inevitably, Homer and Marge's marriage is slowly being at stake.<br/>'''Guest voices''': [[Stacy Keach]], [[Mandy Moore]]|7}}

 

== Season 17 episodes script covers==

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