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Season 6
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Season Information
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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
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104 - 1 | September 4, 1994 | Jim Reardon | Dan McGrath | 1F22 | |
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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 |
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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 it to the town. | ||||||
| 100px | 106 - 3 | September 25, 1993 | David Silverman |
Jon Vitti (Credited as "Penny Wise") |
2F33 | |
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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 | October 2, 1994 | Wes Archer | John Swartzwelder | 2F01 | |
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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 |
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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 | Jim Reardon | Bob Kushell, Greg Daniels, Dan McGrath and David S. Cohen | 2F03 |
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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. | ||||||
| 100px | 110 - 7 | "Bart's Girlfriend" | November 6, 1994 | Susie Dietter | Jonathen Collier | 2F04 |
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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. | ||||||
| 100px | 111 - 8 | "Lisa on Ice" | November 13, 1994 | Mark Kirkland | Mike Scully | 2F05 |
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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. | ||||||
| 100px | 112 - 9 | "Homer Badman" | November 27, 1994 | Jeffery Lynch | Greg Daniels | 2F06 |
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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. | ||||||
| 100px | 113 - 10 | "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy" | December 4,1994 | Wes Archer | Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein | 2F07 |
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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. | ||||||
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114 - 11 | "Fear of Flying" | December 18, 1994 | Mark Kirkland | David Sacks | 2F08 |
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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 | ||||||
| 100px | 115 - 12 | "Homer the Great" | February 3, 1994 | Susie Dietter |
John Swartzwelder |
2F09 |
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Wanting to find out how 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. | ||||||
| 100px | 116 - 13 | "And Maggie Makes Three" | February 10, 1994 | Mark Kirkland | Greg Daniels | 2F10 |
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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. | ||||||
| 100px | 117 - 14 | "Bart's Comet" | February 17, 1994 | Jeffrey Lynch | Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein | 2F11 |
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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. | ||||||
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118 - 15 | "Homie the Clown" | February 24, 1994 | Carlos Baeza | David Mirkin | 2F12 |
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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 | 119 - 16 | "Bart vs. Australia" | March 17, 1994 | Wes Archer | David Richardson | 2F13 |
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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 | 120 - 17 | "Homer vs. Patty and Selma" | March 31, 1994 | Jim Reardon | John Swartzwelder | 2F14 |
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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 | 121 - 18 | "A Star is Burns" | April 14, 1994 | Mark Kirkland | Jace Richdale | 2F31 |
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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 | 122 - 19 | "Lisa's Wedding" | April 28, 1994 | Bob Anderson | Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein | 2F15 |
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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 | 123 - 20 | "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds" | May 5, 1994 | Jeffrey Lynch | John Swartzwelder | 2F18 |
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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. | ||||||
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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 | 125 - 22 | "'Round Springfield" | May 19, 1994 | Carlos Baeza | Greg Daniels | 2F32 |
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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 | 126 - 23 | "The Springfield Connection" | May 19, 1994 | Carlos Baeza | Greg Daniels | 2F21 |
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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 | 127 - 24 | "Lemon of Troy" | May 19, 1994 | Carlos Baeza | Greg Daniels | 2F22 |
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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 | 128 - 25 | "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)" | May 19, 1994 | Carlos Baeza | Greg Daniels | 2F16 |
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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. | ||||||
