Season 6

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Season 6

Season Information Original run: September 4, 1994 – May 21, 1995 No. of episodes: 25 Previous season: 5 Next season: 7 DVD boxset: The Complete Sixth Season

The sixth season began airing on September 4, 1994 with the first episode, "Bart of Darkness" and ended on May 21, 1995 with "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)", which is also the series' only two part episode and the concluding part would air the season premiere of the succeeding season. David Mirkin was the show runner throughout the season as well as the preceding season. The season had two holdovers from season 5, "Bart of Darkness" and "Lisa's Rival", to air at Season 6 when production had been delayed due to the 1994 Northridge earthquake, losing one month of production time. Matt Groening requested a controversial decision to have him uncredited in the episode, "A Star is Burns" as he seemed that it was blantant advertising with a character from a short-lived ABC/FOX animated series, Jay Sherman, becoming a film judge in the episode.

The sixth season won one Emmy Award, and received three other nominations. "Lisa's Wedding" won the Emmy for "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less). Alf Clausen was nominated for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore)" for "Treehouse of Horror V", while he and John Swartzwelder were nominated for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music and Lyrics" for the Stonecutters' song "We Do" in the episode "Homer the Great". Finally, "Bart vs. Australia" was nominated for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Comedy Series or a Special".

All 25 episodes of Season 6 including extras were released on DVD on August 16, 2005 in Region 1, October 17, 2005 in Region 2 and September 24, 2005 in Region 4. The sixth season also commenced a "clam-shell" packaging design that had a boxset with a Simpsons character head as a limited alternative to the regular DVD boxset, beginning with Homer's head in this season, to much criticism.

Episodes

Picture	#	Title	Original airdate	Directed by	Written by	Prod. code
	104 - 1	"Bart of Darkness"	September 4, 1994	Jim Reardon	Dan McGrath	1F22
During a heatwave in Springfield at the summer holiday, Bart ends up breaking his leg when he falls off his treehouse, intending to dive in a swimming pool the family had set up. He is forced to remain in his room for the rest of the summer when the leg heals, becoming paranoid in isolation. Lisa gives Bart a telescope to make him happier and reluctantly uses it and finds that Ned Flanders may have killed his wife, Maude, as he digs a grave and her disappearance as well as a scream seemingly uttered from a woman. Bart wants Lisa to go to the Flanders house to search for proof and when she is in, Ned comes in the house while Bart struggles to reach there with his broken leg. Although wielding an axe, he puts it in the attic other then what appears to be attacking Lisa with it. It is revealed that Maude went to Bible camp for her absence and that the scream is uttered by Ned by his favourite plant dead.
100px	105 - 2	"Lisa's Rival"	September 11, 1994	Mark Kirkland	Mike Scully	1F17
Lisa is outperformed in everything she does by a new student named Allison Taylor who is younger yet smarter and is a better saxophone player than her. Lisa vows to beat her in one thing which would be an upcoming school diorama contest. She and Bart decide to sabotage Allison's diorama by replacing hers on a scene in "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe with a cow heart as Lisa predicts that Allison would win and that Lisa's own diorama had been destroyed by a gust of wind. After doing so, Principal Skinner criticizes Allison's replaced diorama and decides on her overall qualifications. A guilty Lisa then prompts her to reveal her real diorama. Skinner is unimpressed with either's work and declares Ralph's collection of Star Wars action figures the winner due to nostalgic value. Setting their differences aside, Lisa and Allison then become friends. Meanwhile, Homer protects 100 pounds of sugar stolen from an overturned truck to sell its to the town.
100px	106 - 3	"Another Simpsons Clip Show "	September 25, 1993	David Silverman	Jon Vitti (Credited as "Penny Wise")	2F33
Marge decides that she and Homer should teach the kids about romance, which they look back at their romantic experiences in earlier episodes. Most of which ended up unhappily although Homer points out that his and Marge's relationship had succeeded.
100px	107 - 4	"Itchy & Scratchy Land"	October 2, 1994	Wes Archer	John Swartzwelder	2F01
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.
100px	108 - 5	"Sideshow Bob Roberts"	October 9, 1994	Mark Kirkland	Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein	2F02
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.
100px	109 - 6	"Treehouse of Horror V"	October 30, 1994	Mark Kirkland	Bill Canterbury	2F03
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, inadvertedly 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 corner them, with Willie a
100px	110 - 7	"Bart's Girlfriend"	November 11, 1993	Bob Anderson	George Meyer	2F04
Marge consults a self help guru, Brad Goodman, for her constant nagging. Although he uses Bart's behaviour as an example of how people should behave. The whole town of Springfield then acts like him, which Bart does enjoy at first but then finds his behaviour assumed. The town then stop acting like him when things go wrong during an inaugural "Do what you feel" festival.
100px	89 - 8	"Lisa on Ice"	November 18, 1993	Jeffrey Lynch	Don McGrath	2F05
Bart remembers that he had joined a Boys Scouts-esque group called the Junior Campers while intoxicated from a squishee entirely made out of syrup he and Milhouse drank the previous day and became hyper as a result. Bart at first hates the group although is interested in some of its routines such as a member's own knife and enjoys it. A father-son rafting trip is to be held, which Homer is forced to enter. He, Bart, Ned and Rod Flanders become groups as ordered and end up seperated from the rest of the group. They become stranded at sea with no supplies for survival until upon discovering a Krusty Burger restaurant on an oil rig and become saved.
100px	90 - 9	"Homer Badman"	December 9, 1993	Carlos Baeza	Frank Mula	2F06
Homer finds himself attracted to Mindy Simmons, a new employee in the Nuclear Power Plant and is dissatisfied as his crush on her would ruin his marriage on Marge despite Mindy having similar traits to him. While both have feelings for one other, Homer decides not to cheat on Marge. Meanwhile, Bart's appearance is modified into looking like a nerd as additional treatments applied to him for needing glasses for two weeks as he becomes shortsighted, being more prone to being bullied as a result.
100px	91 - 10	"Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy"	December 16,1993	Wes Archer	Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein	2F07
Gambling is made legalized by voters as the economy slips, having Mr. Burns open a casino. Homer is hired as a blackjack dealer and Marge has an enduring addiction for gambling which has her care about it more than her family life. Meanwhile, Bart opens his own casino in his treehouse after he was kicked out of Burn's for being too young.
	92 - 11	"Fear of Flying"	January 6, 1994	Jim Reardon	John Swartzwelder	2F08
A cat burglar steals items through many homes in Springfield such as Lisa's saxophone. In response to this crime wave, a neighborhood watch group is created, leaded by Homer as the police are ineffective. Although the group becomes ineffective as well due to Homer's incompetence and the cat burglar remains loose and unknown. Grampa knows who it is as he had been ignored for his old age by Homer, revealing the cat burglar to be a senior named Malloy. Citizens of Springfield track him down and have him arrested although he gives back his stolen items. Now arrested, Malloy also states that he had hidden millions of dollars under a big "T". The citizens then rush to one which is a tree shaped like a T and dig under it. Instead, there is a note written by Malloy that he had tricked them so he would be able to escape. Some disapprove this and continue digging until deciding that there is no money whilst dug down below.
100px	93 - 12	"Homer the Great"	February 3, 1994	Susie Dietter	John Swartzwelder	2F09
Bart becomes employed in Krustylu Studios as a production assistant after sneaking away from a school field trip to a box factory. He does not, however, enjoy his job and wants to quit. One day, Krusty needs Bart for a sketch and despite being unsuccessful in one, he becomes an unexpected star by saying "I didn't do it.". He then becomes famous although is dissatisfied for being well known by one line. Marge then encourages him that making people happy is what matters as then Bart decides to continue delivering the line. Despite saying it enthusiastically in a show, people then become tired of it and his popularity and fame sharply declines until Bart returns to being an average citizen.
100px	94 - 13	"And Maggie Makes Three"	February 10, 1994	Mark Kirkland	Greg Daniels	2F10
Homer gets Apu fired after being food poisoned twice from expired products from the Kwik-E-Mart by having him reported with Kent Brockman. An unemployed Apu then lives with the Simpsons and actor James Wood replaces his job in the Kwik-E-Mart. Homer then decides to have Apu get his job by going to India to talk to the owner of the Kwik-E-Mart chain although are unsuccessful as the three questions solely available are wasted by Homer's own incompetence. Apu then visits the Kwik-E-Mart and saves Woods from being shot by a robbery in the store. Woods then helps him get his job back after being grateful from being saved.
100px	95 - 14	"Bart's Comet"	February 17, 1994	Jeffrey Lynch	Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein	2F11
Lisa is dissatisfied over the new Malibu Stacy doll, which phrases it utters are demeaning for women, and persuades the creator of the doll line to produce a more politically correct doll. Named "Lisa Lionheart" after Lisa herself, the new Malibu Stacy doll gets positive attention although Malibu Stacy executives then have customer's attention redirected to a new doll with a hat included, rendering Lisa's doll as unsuccessful as a result. Meanwhile, Grampa worries that he is getting old and makes the most of it such as having a job at a Krusty Burger restaurant despite being incompetent at it.
	96 - 15	"Homie the Clown"	February 24, 1994	Carlos Baeza	David Mirkin	2F12
NASA is required to hire average joes for astronauts to gain higher ratings. Homer and Barney are recruited and the former wins by default as Barney becomes intoxicated by wine. Homer then is prepared for launch in space with Race Banyon and Buzz Aldrin. Their mission then goes wrong when Homer has potato chips and ants. Havoc ensures and he accidently breaks the handle of the space shuttle's hatch. Homer then inadvertently seals the door shut with an inanimate carbon rod despite being reluctant to have it close the hatch. The crew safely return back to Earth. While the rod is hailed the hero, Homer is respected by the family instead.
100px	97 - 16	"Bart vs. Australia"	March 17, 1994	Wes Archer	David Richardson	2F13
Homer begins to be fond of Ned Flanders when he invites him to come to a superbowl game with a spare ticket with him as he was forced to go with Ned when he had the final two tickets. Although he keeps a constant presence of Flanders, having him begin to become increasingly annoyed of Homer. He is then arrested for drunk driving when having Homer off his car while he was chasing the Flanders, resulting in Ned losing the respect of the church community. Homer then gains it back to him and Ned thanks him as well as the two becoming friends.
100px	98 - 17	"Homer vs. Patty and Selma"	March 31, 1994	Jim Reardon	John Swartzwelder	2F14
Bart wins a radio contest while the family clean the house as forced by Marge. Two prizes are then rewarded; an African elephant or $10,000. He chooses the former prize although it is a gag prize. The radio station, KBBL, are forced to send Bart an elephant to keep their jobs from being replaced by a machine capable of doing their jobs as stated by their boss. The elephant is named Stampy and taking care of him proves to be too expensive. Homer decides to sell him to an ivory dealer instead of a non profit Animal Refuge. Stampy then escapes and causes havoc across Springfield. As soon as the elephant is tracked down, Homer eventually decides to send the elephant to the Animal Refuge.
100px	99 - 18	"A Star is Burns"	April 14, 1994	Mark Kirkland	Jace Richdale	2F31
Mr. Burns decides to have an heir as he nearly dies from drowning in his bath to inherit his wealth. Initially, Bart is rejected but is eventually chosen for his malevolence. Marge convinces Bart to spend time with Burns and soon decides to stay with him after being disruptive than usual to his biological family. However, he begins to miss them and Burns prompts a surveillance footage that is staged by actors to portray the Simpsons. He then tests Bart's loyalty by firing Homer but Bart refuses and decides to return to the family.
100px	100 - 19	"Lisa's Wedding"	April 28, 1994	Bob Anderson	Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein	2F15
Principal Skinner is fired accidently by Bart when he brings Santa's Little Helper to school for show and tell and roaming around the school. A guilty Bart then befriends Skinner while Ned Flanders is hired as the new principal of Springfield Elementary, having the school gone amok by his hesitation. While he enjoys him as a friend, Bart decides that it is necessary for Skinner to be his enemy while he had returned to the Army to become a sergeant again. He then withdraws his former role after Bart's persuasion and regains his job back whilst having Flanders fired.
100px	101 - 20	"Two Dozen and One Greyhounds"	May 5, 1994	Jeffrey Lynch	John Swartzwelder	2F18
Bart ditches school as he considers such a day for one too beautiful to remain inside. Principal Skinner is aware of the ditching and tracks him down but fails to capture him. Bart then sneaks into a birthday party of Mayor Quimby's nephew, Freddy and witnesses a waiter being injured, having an innocent Freddy taken into court as he was accused of attacking him. Bart is the only eyewitness and would have to state that he deliberately ditched school during the incident while Skinner is the only one aware. Meanwhile, Homer is then chosen for jury duty against Freddy Quimby and lives in a hotel.
100px	102 - 21	"The PTA Disbands"	May 12, 1994	Wes Archer	Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein	2F19
Grampa falls for Marge's mother, Jackie, while in Maggie's first birthday party. They begin dating but Jackie then favors to date with Mr. Burns instead. They soon become engaged and Grampa then interrupts the wedding to get her back. While she does not to be marry either man, Grampa then takes Jackie anyway. Meanwhile, Bart uses Homer's credit card to buy an animated Itchy & Scratchy celloid although is revealed to be an inanimate limb.
100px	103 - 22	"'Round Springfield"	May 19, 1994	Carlos Baeza	Greg Daniels	2F32
Homer signs up to teach a class about keeping a successful marriage at a learning annex as he is tired of being called "slow". He is first unsuccessful and only can be keep the class's interest is by telling them secrets about Marge and what she and Homer do in their bedroom. She then kicks him out of the house after being fed up of continuing to tell their secrets to the class. Homer then lives in Bart's treehouse and begs Marge to return back and eventually she agrees to have him return.
100px	103 - 23	"The Springfield Connection"	May 19, 1994	Carlos Baeza	Greg Daniels	2F21
Homer signs up to teach a class about keeping a successful marriage at a learning annex as he is tired of being called "slow". He is first unsuccessful and only can be keep the class's interest is by telling them secrets about Marge and what she and Homer do in their bedroom. She then kicks him out of the house after being fed up of continuing to tell their secrets to the class. Homer then lives in Bart's treehouse and begs Marge to return back and eventually she agrees to have him return.
100px	103 - 24	"Lemon of Troy"	May 19, 1994	Carlos Baeza	Greg Daniels	2F22
Homer signs up to teach a class about keeping a successful marriage at a learning annex as he is tired of being called "slow". He is first unsuccessful and only can be keep the class's interest is by telling them secrets about Marge and what she and Homer do in their bedroom. She then kicks him out of the house after being fed up of continuing to tell their secrets to the class. Homer then lives in Bart's treehouse and begs Marge to return back and eventually she agrees to have him return.
100px	103 - 25	"Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)"	May 19, 1994	Carlos Baeza	Greg Daniels	2F16
Homer signs up to teach a class about keeping a successful marriage at a learning annex as he is tired of being called "slow". He is first unsuccessful and only can be keep the class's interest is by telling them secrets about Marge and what she and Homer do in their bedroom. She then kicks him out of the house after being fed up of continuing to tell their secrets to the class. Homer then lives in Bart's treehouse and begs Marge to return back and eventually she agrees to have him return.