Difference between revisions of "Season 6"

"Bart of Darkness"

Springfield is hit by a summer heat wave, and the Simpsons buy a backyard swimming pool. Bart breaks his leg in a diving accident and is stuck indoors for the rest of the summer. To help him pass the time, Lisa gives him her telescope. He quickly becomes bored with it, until he hears a high-pitched scream coming from the Flanders house and sees Ned burying something in his backyard. Suspecting that Ned killed his wife Maude, Bart has Lisa go next door and investigate, but Ned catches her. Still in his cast, Bart hobbles next door and confronts Ned about Maude's murder. All is revealed when Maude comes home and explains that she was at Bible camp, and Ned confesses to accidentally killing Maude's favorite plant. Bart had seen Ned burying the plant, and the scream had come from Ned himself. Meanwhile, Lisa enjoys the popularity that comes with having a pool until Martin Prince gets an even better one. Martin's reign, however, is cut short when his pool collapses and Nelson steals his swimming trunks.

Lisa is outperformed in everything she does by new student Allison Taylor, who is younger than Lisa yet smarter and a better saxophone player. Lisa vows to beat her in the school diorama contest, and enlists Bart's help. Allison makes an elaborate diorama based on a scene from "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, and Bart and Lisa replace it with a cow's heart. When Principal Skinner judges the contest, he strongly criticizes the cow heart, and questions Allison's overall academic prowess. The guilt gets to Lisa, however, and she puts Allison's real diorama back. Ironically, Skinner is unimpressed with both Allison's and Lisa's dioramas and declares Ralph Wiggum's collection of Star Wars action figures to be the winner. Allison and Lisa set aside their differences and become friends. Meanwhile, Homer gets 100 pounds of sugar from an overturned truck and goes to obsessive lengths to protect it and sell it.

"Another Simpsons Clip Show "

Jon Vitti

(Credited as "Penny Wise")

Marge decides that the family should circulate their romantic experiences, which occured from earlier episodes. While most of which ended up unhappily, Homer points out that his and Marge's relationship was successful.

Bart and Lisa convinces that the family should go to a newly opened Itchy & Scratchy Land, winning over their parents as it has a place for adults, which Homer and Marge are happy to go to "Parent's Island" as the name of the adult orientated area while Bart, Lisa and Maggie enjoy the main theme park. What seems to be a fine vacations goes wrong when Bart and Homer are apprehended by park security for each attacking a man posing in an Itchy suit. As expected by Professor Frink, Robots resembled like Itchy & Scratchy made to go on parades and only attack each other go haywire and are hostile to humans when they originally were not. All but the Simpsons escape the theme park when the robots get the family. The family discover that photography flashes scrambles their circuits and malfunctions them and defeat them all with cameras. The family are awarded two passes by Roger Meyers and although they stated that it was the best vacation ever, Marge wants them to never speak of it again.

Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein

Sideshow Bob, soon released from prison, becomes a Republican candidate to be elected as Mayor of Springfield in an upcoming election against Mayor Quimby. Bart and Lisa support Quimby and try to have him win but their efforts fail when Bob wins nearly unanimously. A Matlock expressway is planned and is to be built at the Simpsons house, having their home to be demolished in the process. Bart and Lisa suspect that Bob had rigged the election. Lisa searches through voter records, to no avail, to find proof that he did rigged it. A message is left to her who knows what happened, who turns out to be Waylon Smithers. He dislikes Bob's policies and gives out a name of a deceased man. Bart and Lisa then find out that almost everybody who voted for Bob are dead. The pair force him to confess this crime in court and Bob does do so before being imprisoned once again.

Prologue: Marge appears to warn viewers as she did in the first two Treehouse of Horror episodes. Warning viewers that the following episode is even scarier and is sent a message that it is so scary that the Congress would not want to show it and instead play the 1947 Classic Len Ford film , 200 Miles to Oregon. A clip of the film plays before being transformed into an oscilloscope narrated by Bart. Homer then notices his voice recorded as waves and plays with it before being refrained by an annoyed Bart. He continues to present the episode with the Simpsons heads forming from the oscilloscope.

The Shinning: The Simpsons go to Mr. Burns' mansion in the mountains to become its caretakers. Homer ends up crazy when there is no beer nor television available, caused by Mr. Burns to ensure harder work for the family by excluding these, and is told by Moe that he could have them if he kills his family. He does so and chases the family, wielding an axe. He reverts back to normal when Lisa shows him a portable TV that Willie used before he was killed by Homer. The Simpsons become frozen as they watch the TV together in the snow outside while unable to change the channel as they are tuned in The Tony Awards and that Homer's urge to kill rises.

Time and Punishment: Homer fixes the family's toaster he broke when he had his hand in it and struggled to get it out, inadvertently turning it into a time machine in the process. He tests it by preparing toast and he is sent back to prehistoric times when toast is prepared. Homer remembers on his wedding day, Grampa gave him advice to not touch anything if he ever time travels back in time. He attempts to do this but fails when he kills a mosquito and having Ned Flanders ruler of the world when he takes over the world. Each time he travels back in time, he causes something in the past and having the present more different than usual. He travels to the present to find a seemingly regular world although finds out that humans eat with chameleon-like tongues but Homer relents this and stays in the world.

Nightmare Cafeteria: Principal Skinner notes that detentions are becoming overcrowded and there is a lack of meat. He resolves this by having student after student cooked and served in the cafeteria, particularly being eaten by the school's teachers. Bart and Lisa then find out that students are being eaten and contact Marge for help. She refuses to help them as she had gone through all battles with them and tells them to say to a teacher to look them in the eye and say to not eat them. The pair and Milhouse become the only students left and decide to escape. The teachers then get them, with Willie attempting to save the trio although is killed off by Skinner with an axe. Bart, Lisa and Milhouse are cornered next to a giant blender. Milhouse falling to his doom in it before Bart and Lisa's. Bart wakes up and is stated by the family that he had a nightmare and nothing to be afraid of except a green fog that turns people inside out, which it does to the family and Willie. They then perform a song while the credits roll, during which an inside out Bart is dragged away by Santa's Little Helper.

Bart falls for Reverend Lovejoy's daughter, Jessica, and fails repeatedly to impress her until being interested in bad things he does. Although they begin a relationship, Bart is disillusioned by her bad behavior that is even worse than his and decides to not see Jessica again despite that he is forced to at Church. She steals money of the church collection plate and has Bart framed for it. Lisa then reveals that the perpetrator was Jessica and the money was hid under her bed in her room and that Jessica is forced to admit it. She and Bart then end their relationship from that point on.

Lisa is failing in Gym class and joins an ice hockey team as their goalie to pass. Sibling rivalry stirs up between her and Bart as he had been the family's star hockey player. Homer then informs that Bart's and Lisa's team will compete despite Marge prior to this reasoning the two to resolve this conflict as they are not in competition in each other. Bart then prepares a penalty against Lisa during the game but they then remember past events when they were younger then they helped each other and decide to not compete, resulting in a tie for both teams, much to the anger of the audience who go into a brawl in their area.

Homer is accused for harassment by Ashley Grant, a college graduate who babysat the children while he and Marge were in a candy convention, and has a mob of protesters with her. Despite claiming that he just peeled off a gummy Venus De Milo off her pants, they do not believe him and bother Homer's life against this perceived crime. The family try to prove that he is innocent but fail numerous times until finally having the mob believe him by a footage from another angle of the incident caught by Groundskeeper Willie, who has a habit of taping people.

Homer and Marge's sex lives begin to fade, which Grampa creates a tonic to stimulate relationships. Seeing that it is successful as Homer and Marge, he and Grampa then sell it as "Simpson and Son's Tonic" to people which becomes a success. The two get into an argument after visiting a farmhouse where Homer grew up and kicks Grampa out of the car and refuses to talk to him ever again when he said Homer was an accident. He decides to not follow his footsteps by being a good father to his own children, Bart, Lisa and Maggie. He and coincidentally Grampa revisits the farmhouse and reconcile while each both accidentally set the building on fire.

Homer is kicked out of Moe's after causing sugar to spill intended as a joke when the others were joking around. He then finds another bar to drink, none which are suitable for his needs and finds one that only pilots can buy alcohol in. He impersonates as one to have beer but is mistaken as a real pilot and is forced to fly an airplane with no experience in flying. To make it up for this mistake, the family are given free tickets to anywhere in America (not including Alaska or Hawaii). The vacation is then aborted when a fearful Marge insists to be off the plane when she admits that she has a fear of flying, having the rest of the family except Grampa also off the plane. This phobia also alters her behavior for the worse and the family decide for Marge to contact a therapist. She goes into treatment with one called Dr. Zweig who says for Marge to think of her earliest memory of her phobia which occurred as a child upon noticing her father as a male flight attendant, much to her shock and depression. Along with recalling other moments involving flight when she was younger and Zweig stating that male flight attendants are now common, Marge is cured as she is no longer tense of flying.

John Swartzwelder

Wanting to find out the mystery of how Lenny and Carl get better benefits than he does, Homer stalks them and finds out they are part of a secret society called the "Stonecutters". Wanting in Homer finds the only for him is to save a member's life or being the son of a member. Fortunately with his father Abe as a member he is allowed in. After damaging the sacred parchment Homer is about to be thrown out when the birthmark he has on his butt depicts him as the "Chosen One". Despite having great power, Homer becomes bored, so Lisa talks him into helping the community. In the end, this enrages the other members so they decide to form a new club, one where Homer will never become a member.

While viewing old family photos, Bart and Lisa note there are no pictures of Maggie. Homer decides to tell them the story of how before Marge became pregnant with Maggie, Homer was able to quit his job at the Nuclear Power Plant to work his dream job at a bowling ally, with enough reduced spending to support the family despite not making as much money at his new job. But after a night of sex with Marge, and then soon finding out Marge is pregnant again (largely due to Patty and Selma), Homer is forced to leave the bowling ally return to work at the Power Plant with the punishment he can never quit again. Despite this the reason why there are no pictures of Maggie is because Homer keeps them at the Power Planet to provide emotional support.

After Bart gets caught who tampered with the school's new weather balloon and secretly turned it into an embarrassing version of Principal Skinner, Skinner forces Bart to help with him with his morning astrology in monitoring stars, hoping to find a new discovery that he could name himself. While Skinner is distracted by the balloon, Bart discovered a comet. However, that comet is heading right towards Springfield which will destroy it. With the government refusing to help, the only safe place for Springfield's residents is in Ned Flanders' bomb shelter. When Flanders is forced out due to lack of space, Homer feeling guilty for encouraging him to leave encourages the townsfolk to go out after him. In the end, the pollution from the town causes the comet to break apart, with the only real damage, being both the weather balloon and Flanders empty bomb shelter.

Krusty is informed by his accountant that he is facing serious financial problems largely due to Krusty with his poor gambling skills and wasteful spending habits. Krusty reluctantly agrees to form a Clown College, to train remedial Krusty's for all events and birthday parties that the real Krusty would never agree to appear in. Homer joins the class and after graduating, his impersonation is so good that people think he is the real Krusty (despite not having hair on top of his head), which he takes advantage of to get discounts and other benefits. However, it goes too far when the mob mistakes him as Krusty to whom he has a gambling dept to them. Before Homer is killed, the real Krusty show up and they perform a difficult clown trick together saving their lives. In the end Krusty, pays back his debt and Homer returns to his family.

Bart notices that water always drains counterclockwise except clockwise in the southern hemisphere as stated by Lisa. To prove her wrong, he calls several countries in the southern hemisphere, with one collect call to Australia where a boy there answers that water in fact drains clockwise. The call lasts six hours as Bart had forgotten to hang up and the boy's father fines him AUD$900.00. When Bart does not pay, the father reports this to his neighbor who is federal Member of Parliament who in turn reports it to the country's prime minister. Bart is subsequently indicted for fraud after ignoring many letters and is wanted to be imprisoned by the United States Department of State to make Australia less hostile to him but negotiate on having Bart to apologize to the country after the former decision being declined by Marge. While he apologizes, the parliament also wants a punishment with a booting. Bart and Homer then flee although Bart is then forced to take a booting, this time with a regular shoe. He purposely misses and moons the Australians, making them even madder at him. The family then flee back to the United States in a helicopter while a breed of frogs then populates Australia.

After losing all of his investment on Halloween pumpkins, Homer then is forced to borrow money of Patty and Selma to avoid for the bank to foreclose on his house, while the pair in return try to make him miserable since they'll threaten to tell Marge. When Marge does find out, Homer out of shame decides to become a chauffeur to pay back the twins. However he gets pulled over by Chief Wiggum and since he doesn't have a chauffeur's license, Homer gets sent to the DMV where the twins work. After Homer arrives with Marge, Patty and Selma then deliberately fail his test. Just as the two light up their cigarettes in success, only to be spotted by their supervisor who threatens that this offense could cost them their recent promotions. Seeing Marge upset Homer claims the cigarettes as his own that saves them, and makes a deal to call off the debt. Meanwhile after he is late for school on the day to sign up for a gym class, Bart is forced to take ballet. Despite disliking it at first, Bart becomes fond of it and does a performance in disguise so the bullies will not recognize him and will not beat him up. Once the bullies find out he runs off and tries to jump across a trench, but fails and is injured in the process.

After a national survey places Springfield as the least popular city in America due to the antics of various townspeople, Marge at a town meeting suggests holding a film festival to show the world Springfield's good side to attract more tourists. When Marge asks the critic Jay Sherman to help judge the festival, Homer feels replaced by Jay, due to Jay doing everything better than him. Regardless of his problems, Marge reluctantly agrees to have Homer as one of the judges, while Mr. Burns decides to use the film festival to boost his own image. During the competition, despite his untalented and unoriginal film being the worst received Mr. Burns bribes two of the judges (Mayor Quimby and Krusty) to vote for his film, while Marge and Jay vote on Barney Gumble's film about alcoholism. With Homer as the deciding vote, he wants to vote on Hans Moleman's pointless film, but with Marges advice and seeing it himself, Homer changes his vote allowing Barney to win the film festival.

In a Link title, Lisa stumbles upon a fortune teller who predicts the future fifteen years later. Lisa falls for a British student named Hugh Parkfield and their relationship grows. As she returns to Springfield with him, Hugh proposes a wedding. Lisa is embarrassed by the family when interacting with him and Hugh reveals his dislike to the Simpsons when he wishes that he and Lisa would move back to England after they are married and to never see them again. Outraged, she then calls off the wedding. Back in the present, the fortune teller says that an unmarried Hugh went back to England without Lisa and then never sees her again. She then leaves and walks away with Homer as she happily listens to what he had done in the fair.

Santa's Little Helper falls for a female greyhound named She's the Fastest, whom he had met during a dog racing track resulting her losing. They have a relationship which results in She's the Fastest giving birth to 25 puppies. The family then struggle having them as they cause problems for them. Homer and Marge decide to sell them away, much to Bart and Lisa's dismay, which do so as they still cause trouble. Seeing that the puppies do not want to be separated, the family decide to not sell them although Mr. Burns then steals them.

Bart and Lisa then follow him to his mansion and sees that he intends to kill the puppies except for one who can stand who Burns names "Little Monty" after him and have their fur made into a tuxedo. The pair then attempt to help them escape but Burns corners them and decides to not make anymore animal clothing as he is touched by the puppies as they both stand and cannot tell which is Little Monty. An unspecified time later, all of the puppies, now bought by Burns, grow up into greyhound racing like their parents and have earned him over $10,000,000, causing Homer to fight a lightbulb as it is the only thing that cheers him up after giving away the largely profitable greyhounds although it breaks onto his head.

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"The PTA Disbands"

Edna Krabappel decides to call up a strike among with other teachers of Springfield Elementary against Principal Skinner as he spends cheaply on the school. Bart further fuels the strike by having them repeatedly turn against Skinner. Parents of the students decide to hire townspeople as substitutes and even themselves such as Marge. When this change proves aggravating for him, Bart then locks Krabappel and Skinner in a room until they resolve the strike. After a long while inside and demanding to be out, they eventually decide on renting school cloakrooms to the Springfield Prison in exchange with prison cells at the back of classrooms for restraining troublesome students's particular behavior.

Joshua Sternin and Jeffrey Ventimilia

Bart gets a stomachache after swallowing a jagged metal Krusty-O by accident and is forced to go to school despite the intensity of the pain he is suffering. He eventually is cured by having his appendix removed in the hospital and Lisa meets Bleeding Gums Murphy in another ward. After lending his saxophone to her for a school recital, Murphy passes away for unknown reasons. Mourning over his loss, Lisa is the only one who attends his funeral and vows to make Murphy posthumously famous. She proceeds to do this by wanting to buy an album he produced prior his death to be played in honor of him in The Android's Dungeon, but cannot afford its $250 price tag. Comic Book Guy doubles the price to $500 when he is made aware of Murphy's death. Meanwhile, Bart has successfully sued Krusty the Clown for the jagged metal Krusty-O for $100,000 but is only given $500.

Originally intending to use the earned money for a roulette, Bart then buys the album for Lisa, to repay the favor, since Lisa was the only one who initially believed him about his stomachache. She then has it played at the KBBL station although the signal is too weak to be received by radio. Lightning then strikes the radio station's antenna, strengthening the signal enough to be received by every radio in Springfield. Bleeding Gums Murphy then appears from the heavens and states that Lisa had made him satisfied. They then say a final goodbye before playing "Jazzman" for the final time.

Marge decides to enroll to the police force when she finds such an experience exhilarating after having a chased Snake arrested after a conned Three-card Monte game. She is then qualified as an official police officer after taking training. Homer's original opinions on Marge's job is fine but has his mind changed when she arrests him for illegal parking and stealing her police hat, the former which he repeatedly refuses to sort out despite her insistence. When he is released, Homer discovers a group that are producing counterfeit jeans, led by Herman, before being taken hostage. Marge then deals with the group, although Herman escapes, with Homer still as his captive. Marge then rescues her husband, has Herman apprehended, and ultimately decides to resign from the police force when she finds it corrupt.

Springfield's lemon tree has been stolen by the neighboring town of Shelbyville after a conflict with boys of Springfield, including Bart, and boys of Shelbville. The following day, the Springfield boys then find their lemon tree has been stolen by Shelbyville and sets off to retrieve it in the town. Meanwhile, their parents wonder where their sons are and use Flanders' RV to find them in Shelbyville as Bart has hinted earlier that he was going there. The boys then search around the town and cannot find the tree. They then split up and Bart then stumbles upon the Shelbyville boys while disguised from being someone in Shelbyville. He then exposes his real identity while escaping from their leader throughout the town. Bart eventually finds the lemon tree although in a guarded parking lot while the Shelbyville group are using it.

The parents then find their sons and they explain why they had went to Shelbyville. They both team up to successfully retrieve the lemon tree, which sustains some damage, back to Springfield. While Shelbyville would have to drink a less appetizing alternative to lemon juice from Springifield's tree which is turnip juice.

Springfield Elementary accidently strikes oil, unaware that it had existed beneath it. The school then plans to spend greatly with the vast amount of money it is worth. Mr. Burns then discovers about the oil and establishes a slant drilling operation to have it instead, which coincides with the school intending to take the oil with a vertical drilling operation as Springfield Elementary receive no oil and thus are unable to commence their plans with it. This action by Burns has caused drawbacks to and further alienated many people in Springfield. Moe's Tavern had to be closed due to the oil's exposure to the bar. The oil damages Springfield Retirement Home and Bart's Treehouse, the latter incident which has Santa's Little Helper injured and the school loses all of its money. Homer becomes increasily annoyed at Burns for constantly forgetting his name and Smithers is fired after being reluctant on Burns' next plan which is to build a machine that blocks the sunlight of Springfield. After a town meeting around 3pm of people angered by incidents caused by him, Burns gets shot by an unknown assailant and collapse on a sundial. The townspeople find him mortally injured and with the fact that many of them were angered by Burns, no one knows who shot him presumably as retaliation. Chief Wiggum is then counted on and decides to try to investigate this.

The episode's plot then concludes onto "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)", which is in the following season's season premiere.