Difference between revisions of "Season 6"

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. Principal Skinner, judging the contest, 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. 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.

Special Guest Voice: Winona Ryder as Allison Taylor.

Jon Vitti

(Credited as "Penny Wise")

Marge decides that the family should share their romantic experiences. Marge tells of her near-affair with Jacques the bowling instructor ("Life on the Fast Lane") and Homer of his near-affair with Mindy Simmons ("The Last Temptation of Homer"). Lisa tells about Ralph Wiggum's crush on her ("I Love Lisa") and Bart about his crush on Laura Powers ("New Kid on the Block"). In search of a love story with a happy ending, they next talk about other family members' experiences ("Black Widower", "Lady Bouvier's Lover"), but still don't find one. Finally, Homer tells the story of his and Marge's first kiss ("The Way We Was"), which Homer describes as "one time I got it right". Marge and Homer joyfully kiss at having found a happy ending, and Marge tries to tell the kids that's what she means by romance, but the kids have already lost interest in the story and are watching Itchy & Scratchy.

Bart and Lisa want the family vacation to be at the newly opened Itchy & Scratchy Land theme park, and Marge and Homer are persuaded by the park's "Parents' Island", an area with adult-friendly entertainment. The family at first has a good time (among other things, enjoying the Itchy & Scratchy robots on parade attacking each other), but behind the scenes Professor Frink delivers a dire warning that eventually the robots will attack humans. The Simpsons' fine time begins to unravel when both Bart and Homer assault a park cast member dressed as Itchy, and the vacation derails completely when the robots (as predicted) start attacking humans. Park officials evacuate the guests, but leave the Simpsons behind due to the assault incidents. Left to face the robots on their own, the family discover that photography flashes make the robots malfunction and succeed in defeating the robots with cameras from the gift shop. In the end, Marge accepts Lisa's reasoning that it was indeed the best vacation ever, but asks that they never speak of it again.

Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein

Sideshow Bob is released from prison and becomes the Republican candidate for Mayor of Springfield in the upcoming election. Bob wins handily, defeating Mayor Quimby by a nearly unanimous vote. Bart and Lisa suspect foul play when Bob, immediately after he takes office, tells the Simspons that his pet project, the Matlock Expressway, will demolish their house. Bart's and Lisa's efforts to uncover evidence of fraud come up empty, until a mysterious man (revealed to be Waylon Smithers, who disagrees with Bob's policies) gives them a name to check. They discover that the man Smithers named is dead, yet voted for Sideshow Bob. Further investigation of voter records reveals that many deceased Springfieldians (including family pets) voted in the election, and all of them for Sideshow Bob. Armed with this evidence, Bart and Lisa confront Bob and manipulate him into confessing to rigging the election. Sideshow Bob is sent back to prison and Mayor Quimby returns to office.

Special Guest Voices: Kelsey Grammer as Sideshow Bob; Larry King and Dr. Demento as themselves; Phil Hartman as Lionel Hutz; Henry Corden as Fred Flintstone.

Prologue: Marge warns the viewers that the upcoming Halloween episode is very, very scary. Then she receives a note saying that Congress won't allow the episode to be shown and they should air a classic Western film instead. A clip from the film briefly rolls, but is quickly replaced by an oscilloscope whose waves move as Bart introduces the episode. Homer discovers the oscilloscope waves and plays with them, annoying Bart. However, Bart finishes the introduction as the oscilliscope waves form the shapes of the Simpsons' heads.

The Shinning: The Simpsons are the winter caretakers at Mr. Burns' mountain lodge. While the family tours the lodge, Bart meets Groundskeeper Willie and learns that they both have a form of telepathy called "The Shinning". Homer discovers that Burns has cut the TV cable and taken away the beer to ensure an honest winter's work from the family. Homer later encounters a ghostly Moe, who tells Homer he can have beer if he kills his family. Homer agrees and goes on a rampage, chasing them with an axe. Bart calls Willie for help, but Willie is quickly hit in the back with the axe by Homer when he tries to come to the rescue. The chase moves outdoors, where Lisa finds Willie's portable TV and the sight of it brings Homer back to normal. Later, the family is frozen in the snow. As the Tony Awards come on and the family is unable to change the channel, Homer's urge to kill begins rising again.

Time and Punishment: Homer fixes the family's toaster and inadvertently turns it into a time machine. When he tries to make toast, he is transported back to the era of the dinosaurs. Homer remembers that Grampa told him to not touch anything if he ever traveled back to the past so that he wouldn't change the future. However, Homer kills a mosquito and when he returns to the present, he finds himself in a world where Ned Flanders is the ruler of the world. Trying to get back to his own world, Homer makes several trips to the past and back, each time returning to a different world as he keeps changing things in the past. Groundskeeper Willie appears and says he can help Homer get back to his own time, but before he can say anything else he is hit in the back with an axe by Maggie. Homer finally gets to a world where everything is normal except that humans have lizard-like tongues and use them to eat instead of silverware. Homer shrugs and decides it's close enough.

Nightmare Cafeteria: Principal Skinner notes that the detention area is dangerously overcrowded, and Lunchlady Doris complains about not having decent meat to serve in the cafeteria. Skinner figures out a solution to both problems: serving the detention students as food. When the first two students disappear, Bart and Lisa become suspicious and tell Marge, but she refuses to intervene, instead telling them that they're old enough to fight their own battles. At school, most of the students are in "permanent detention" and Bart, Lisa and Milhouse are among the few left in class. The trio decide to escape, but are quickly caught by Lunchlady Doris. Groundskeeper Willie tries to come to the rescue, but is hit in the back with an axe by Skinner, which prompts Willie to say, "Ach, I'm bad at this." The three of them are cornered above a giant food processor and Milhouse falls in to his death, quickly followed by Bart and Lisa.

Closing Sequence: After falling into the food processor, Bart screams and wakes up in his own bed. Marge tells him that he had a nightmare and that there's nothing to worry about except the mysterious fog that turns people inside out. The fog seeps in through the window and does just that. Then, as the closing credits roll, the family and Groundskeeper Willie perform a musical number where they sing about being inside out. At the end, Santa's Little Helper drags Bart away by his intestines.

Special Guest Voice: James Earl Jones as Alternate Universe Maggie ("Time and Punishment").

Reverend Lovejoy's daughter Jessica returns from boarding school and Bart quickly falls for her. He tries to impress her by doing good, but can't keep it up. He is later overjoyed to learn that she's as bad as he is, and they begin a relationship. Bart becomes disillusioned, however, when he sees that her behavior is even worse than his. Matters come to a head when Jessica steals the money from a church collection plate and everyone in the church suspects Bart. Lisa comes to Bart's aid and exposes Jessica as the thief. Everyone apologizes to Bart, and Jessica gets a new boyfriend but continues to beguile Bart by flirting with him.

Special Guest Voice: Meryl Streep as Jessica Lovejoy.

Lisa learns that she is failing gym, but can pass if she joins a Peewee team outside of school. Hockey coach Apu sees that she is a natural at goaltending, and Lisa joins Apu's team. This gives rise to sibling rivalry at home as Bart plays for a rival team and resents sharing the spotlight with Lisa. The rivalry culminates when their teams play each other and Bart is awarded a penalty shot with the score tied and only four seconds left in the game. Bart and Lisa remember past events when they helped each other and decide not to compete, resulting in the game ending in a tie. The tie enrages the fans, and as Bart and Lisa skate off the ice arm-in-arm, a riot breaks out in the arena.

Homer and Marge attend a candy convention and hire college student Ashley Grant to babysit the kids. When Homer takes Ashley home, he spots a rare Gummi Venus de Milo candy from the convention stuck to the back of Ashley's pants and peels it off, which Ashley mistakes for Homer grabbing her behind. The very next morning, a mob of protesters takes up residence in the Simpsons' yard and accuses Homer of sexual harrassment. The situation escalates into all the local media denouncing Homer as a pervert, in spite of Homer's efforts to clear his name. Groundskeeper Willie saves the day when he provides a videotape (the result of his habit of taping people) that clearly shows Homer grabbing the Gummi Venus rather than Ashley. Presented with the new evidence, Ashley and the media withdraw their accusations against Homer. When things finally calm down, Homer makes sure he's alone in the living room, then hugs the TV and says, "Let's never fight again."

Special Guest Voice: Dennis Franz as himself (playing Homer in a TV movie).

Homer's and Marge's sex life begins to fade, and Grampa Simpson creates a tonic which puts the spark back in their relationship. Homer and Abe then go on the road promoting "Simpson & Son Revitalizing Tonic", and the tonic sells very well. During their road-tripping, however, they get into a fight and Abe angrily says that Homer was an accident — he wouldn't even exist if not for the tonic. Homer quits the sales trip, goes back home and sets out to be a better father to his kids than Abe was to him. Homer does some soul-searching and meets up with Abe at the old family farmhouse where they reconcile their differences, even though they accidentally set the building on fire. Meanwhile, inspired by a UFO book, Bart and the kids of Springfield develop an elaborate conspiracy-style theory to explain the adults' sudden behavior (brought on by the tonic) of rushing home and immediately going indoors.

When Homer is kicked out of Moe's Tavern, he goes in search of another bar to drink in (in the process visiting the bar from Cheers) and bluffs his way into a pilots-only bar at the airport. The ruse backfires when Homer is called upon to fly an airplane and ends up damaging the plane. Embarrassed about the incident, the airline offers the family a free trip anywhere in the continental USA in exchange for Homer's keeping quiet about it. However, they end up going nowhere as Marge has a panic attack as soon as they board the plane. Marge admits to having a fear of flying, and when her phobia begins affecting her everyday life, Lisa encourages her to see a therapist. Through several sessions with Dr. Zweig, Marge learns that her fear of flying stems from discovering as a child that her father was a flight attendant and she was ashamed as she had previously been told he was a pilot. Zweig points out that while male flight attendants are now common, her father was one of the first and therefore a pioneer of sorts. No longer ashamed of her father, Marge is cured of her phobia. The family attempt another airplane trip and Marge boards with confidence, remaining unafraid even though the plane drives off the runway and into a swamp.

Special Guest Voices: Anne Bancroft as Dr. Zweig; Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson, Rhea Perlman, John Ratzenberger and George Wendt as the Cheers bar staff and customers.

John Swartzwelder

Mystified by Lenny and Carl having better work benefits than he does, Homer stalks them and learns that they are members of a secret society called the Stonecutters. Homer seeks to join, but is told that he must either save the life of a Stonecutter or be a son of a member. As it turns out, Abe is a member, which provides Homer with a way in. He joins and is put through the initiation ritual by the chapter's leader, Number One. However, Homer damages the group's sacred parchment and is about to be expelled when it's revealed he has a birthmark which identifies him as the Chosen One who will lead the Stonecutters to glory. Homer at first enjoys his new power, but then becomes bored and, encouraged by Lisa, involves the group in community service. This enrages the other members, and they form a new secret society which specifically bars Homer from being a member.

Special Guest Voice: Patrick Stewart as Number One.

While looking through the family photo albums, Bart and Lisa ask why there are no pictures of Maggie. To answer, Homer tells the story of when Maggie was born. Through careful financial planning, Homer figured that as long as nothing changed, the family could afford for him to quit the nuclear plant for his dream job at the bowling alley, even though the bowling alley paid less. He did so and loved the new job, but a night of romantic celebration led to Marge becoming pregnant with Maggie. Homer was forced to return to the plant and beg for his old job back, which Mr. Burns granted, but told Homer he could never leave again. To make his point, Burns put a wall plaque reading "DON'T FORGET, YOU'RE HERE FOREVER" at Homer's workstation. Back in the present, Bart and Lisa ask where Maggie's pictures are, and Homer replies that he keeps them where he needs the most cheering up. The episode's closing shot shows many photos of Maggie at Homer's workstation, placed around and on the wall plaque so that it now reads "DO IT FOR HER".

Bart pranks the school's new weather balloon by turning it into a caricature of Principal Skinner, and for punishment he is forced to help Skinner with his early-morning astronomical observations. While doing so, Bart discovers a comet, which scientists at the town observatory determine is heading for Springfield. The town launches a rocket to destroy the comet, but the rocket goes off course and blows up the only bridge leading out of town. With no way to escape and the comet's arrival imminent, the townspeople cram into the only safe place: the Flanders family's bomb shelter. Ned is forced out due to lack of space, and sings cheerily as he awaits his fate. Ned's bravery shames the rest of the townspeople into joining him, just as the comet arrives. The town's pollution makes the comet break up in the atmosphere so that only a small chunk (the size of a Chihuahua's head) reaches the ground, and the only damage is the destruction of the vandalized weather balloon and, ironically, the just-vacated bomb shelter. The townspeople decide to burn down the observatory to prevent the same thing from happening again.

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.

• 25 episodes
• 4-disc set
• 1.33:1 aspect ratio
• Languages:
  • English (Dolby Digital 5.1, with subtitles)^[1]
  • Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, with subtitles)^[1]
  • French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)^[1]

• Optional commentaries for all 25 episodes
• Introduction from Matt Groening
• Animatics
• Illustrated commentaries
• 58 Deleted Scenes with optional commentary
• Sketch Gallery - "Who Shot Mr Burns" Suspect Profiles
• Commercials
• TV Special - "Springfields Most Wanted"
• Featurette - The Simpsons Plane
• Introduction with James L. Brooks

December 21, 2004