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509 - 1
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"Moonshine River"
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September 30, 2012
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Bob Anderson
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Tim Long[3]
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PABF21
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When Bart's love life heats up again it will this time involve five flames. But when Bart learns that Mary has relocated to New York, he decides that she's the one that got away and embarks on a mission to track her down.[4]
Guest starring: Natalie Portman, Anne Hathaway, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sarah Silverman, Al Roker, Don Pardo, Ken Burns, Zooey Deschanel.[5]
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510 - 2
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"Treehouse of Horror XXIII"
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October 7, 2012[6]
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Steven Dean Moore
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David Mandel and Brian Kelley
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PABF17
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| The episode is set to feature a Back to the Future style story involving Homer and Marge, with Marge ending up with Artie Ziff in an alternative future scenario.[7] In "The Greatest Story Ever Holed" (the first segment), Professor Frink's unstable science experiment inadvertently created the black hole that slowly sucks in the town (and townspeople) of Springfield. The Simpsons adopt a mini-black hole that is growing more powerful. It has an interesting reaction to Bart feeding it his math homework. Comic Book Guy inserts Disney's The Black Hole into the black hole. In a found-footage parody is something really strange is going on in the Simpson house they are also have a segment about Mayan prophecy of the world ending in 2012.[6][8][9]
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511 - 3
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"Adventures in Baby-Getting"
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November 4, 2012[10]
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Rob Oliver
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Bill Odenkirk
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PABF18
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| When Marge's car falls into a sink hole, she buys the perfect replacement to fit her family of five. But she quickly grows to hate it because, as she tells a shocked Homer, the car would be too small if she wanted to have another baby. Meanwhile, Bart and his friends are determined to find out what secret Lisa is keeping when Bart finds her cryptic messages and follows her sneaking off downtown for covert meetings after school.
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512 - 4
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"Gone Abie Gone"
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November 11, 2012[12]
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Matthew Nastuk
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Joel H. Cohen
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PABF16
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| Homer doesn't trust banks, so has stashed Lisa's college fund in an online poker site. The actress and poker expert Jennifer Tilly pops up in an instructional DVD that Lisa watches to brush up on her card skills.[13]
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513 - 5
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"Penny-Wiseguys"
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November 18, 2012[14]
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Mark Kirkland
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Michael Price
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PABF19
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| Homer is shocked to discover that his bowling teammate, Dan Gillick (guest voice Steve Carell), is an accountant for Fat Tony (guest voice Joe Mantegna) and his mob. When Fat Tony gets jury duty, he appoints Dan as the temporary don of the mafia. Meanwhile, Lisa adds insects to her vegetarian diet after she passes out in the middle of a saxophone solo, but starts questioning her decision when bugs start pleading for mercy in her dreams.
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514 - 6
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"A Tree Grows in Springfield"
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November 25, 2012
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Timothy Bailey
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Stephanie Gillis
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PABF22
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| Homer wins a MyPad at the school auction and Steve Mobbs, who is now in heaven, talks to Homer through it. Homer goes into a funk when he breaks the myPad, until Ned Flanders discovers a miracle tree in the Simpsons' back garden.
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515 - 7
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"The Day the Earth Stood Cool"
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December 9, 2012
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Matthew Faughnan
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Matt Selman
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PABF20
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A "cool family" from Portland moves in next door to the Simpsons. Homer is desperate to befriend them, while Marge is skeptical, thinking that being cool is not all it's cracked up to be.[17]
Guest starring: Fred Armisen, Colin Meloy, Carrie Brownstein and Patton Oswalt
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516 - 8
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"To Cur, with Love"[18]
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December 16, 2012
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Steven Dean Moore
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Carolyn Omine
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RABF01
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| When a fire at the retirement home forces Grampa (Dan Castellaneta) to move home with the Simpsons, Homer throws out his back on moving day and decides to stay home to recover. While enjoying his time alone, Homer gets distracted by "Villageville" - a super-addictive tablet game in which he is able to create his own virtual village - and loses the family dog, Santa's Little Helper.
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517 - 9
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"Homer Goes to Prep School"[18]
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January 6, 2013
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Brian Kelley
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RABF02
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Homer joins the "Springfield Preppers," an off-the-grid survivalist group whose leader (guest voice Tom Waits) has set up a top-secret retreat outside of town to prepare for the end of the world. But Marge grows skeptical of the group's alarmist shenanigans.
Guest starring: Tom Waits.[19]
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518 - 10
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"A Test Before Trying"
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January 13, 2013
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Chris Clements
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Joel H. Cohen
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RABF03
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When Springfield Elementary is threatened with closure because of low standardized test scores, the fate of the school rests on one student who missed the test, and who must raise the average above the minimum threshold: Bart Simpson. Meanwhile, Homer finds a parking meter at a local dump, and starts deploying it around Springfield to fleece unwitting parkers of their quarters
Guest starring: Valerie Harper.
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519 - 11
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"Changing of the Guardian"
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January 27, 2013[20]
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Bob Anderson
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Rob Lazebnik
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RABF04
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After surviving a tornado, Marge and Homer seek out guardians for the kids, in case the worst should happen. They first turn to friends and family, including Homer's half-brother, Herb Powell (guest voice DeVito) with whom to entrust their kids, but when Bart and Lisa fall in love with a super-cool couple, Mav (Hank Azaria) and Portia (guest voice Jones), Marge starts to question their potential guardians' true motivations.
Guest starring: Rashida Jones, Danny DeVito.
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520 - 12
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"Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing"[21]
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February 10, 2013[20]
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Michael Polcino
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Tim Long
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RABF07[22]
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Bart's heartstrings are pulled once again when Mary Spuckler returns to Springfield, but his failure to pay her enough attention strains their relationship.
Guest starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Max Weinberg, Robert Caro, Zooey Deschanel[23]
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521 - 13
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"Hardly Kirk-ing"
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February 17, 2013[24]
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Matthew Nastuk
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Tom Gammill and Max Pross
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RABF05
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Bart and Milhouse explore the perks of being an adult when a shaving experiment leaves Milhouse looking exactly like his father. Also, Marge desperately tries to save Maggie from the dangers of children's television.
Guest starring: Kevin Michael Richardson[25]
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522 - 14
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"Gorgeous Grampa"
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March 3, 2013[26]
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Chuck Sheetz
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Matt Selman
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RABF06[27]
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| The Simpsons find out that Grampa used to be an old-time Gorgeous George-type wrestler.[28]
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523 - 15
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"Black-Eyed, Please"
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March 10, 2013
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Matt Selman
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RABF09
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Ms. Cantwell becomes Lisa's substitute teacher who does not warm to Lisa for some mysterious reason and bullies her and gives Lisa a "B" and Ralph an "A". After Lisa has a reading kangaroo with a bunch of little joeys in it for the books Ms. Cantwell takes the joeys out and puts them in other kangaroos.
Guest starring: Tina Fey, Richard Dawkins[29]
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524 - 16
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"Dark Knight Court"
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March 17, 2013
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??? - ?
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"Whiskey Business"
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Spring 2013
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Sonny Rollins appears as a hologram to Lisa when she takes exception to a "Tupac-at-Cochella"-style hologram of blues icon Bleeding Gums Murphy and starts a letter writing campaign to stop this holographic exploitation.[30]
Guest starring: Sonny Rollins
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??? - ?
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"Pulpit Friction"
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| The town is infested with bedbugs, and Lovejoy can’t cope. He’s so boring, nobody will listen to him in the middle of this panic. But then, the most lovable minister visits Springfield and he is much more popular than Reverend Lovejoy. Lovejoy becomes really upset and becomes a hot tub salesman.[31] Bart and Flanders are the only ones unhappy with the new minister, and try to figure out how to get Lovejoy back, despite Lovejoy loving his job.
Guest starring: Edward Norton
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??? - ?
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"The Fabulous Faker Boy"[21]
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Justin Bieber tries to get into a talent show that Bart is playing piano in and they won’t admit him.
Guest starring: Justin Bieber[32]
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??? - ?
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"What Animated Women Want"
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RABF08[33]
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??? - ?
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"Black-Eyed, Please"
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RABF09[34]
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Ms. Cantwell becomes Lisa's substitute teacher who does not warm to Lisa for some mysterious reason and bullies her and gives Lisa a ‘B’ and Ralph an ‘A’. After Lisa has a reading kangaroo with a bunch of little joeys in it for the books Ms. Cantwell takes the joeys out and puts them in other kangaroos
Guest starring Tina Fey as Ms. Cantwell[35]
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??? - ?
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"Dark Knight Court"
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??? - ?
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"The Saga of Carl"
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??? - ?
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Michael Price
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| Explores the life of Roger Meyers, Jr. and his struggle with trying to live up to the memory of his father. Meanwhile, Itchy & Scratchy Land closes down and Homer and Bart get a small steam train from the park, restore it and install it in their back garden. This attracts the attention of fellow model-train enthusiasts like Rev. Lovejoy and Comic Book Guy, who at first just want to help out, but then end up taking over.[36][37]
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??? - ?
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| Lisa defends Bart in kid court. Bart is actually wrongly accused of a crime, of a prank and Lisa is his defender and she gets her comeuppance as always. She gets a little high on her horse.[38]
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"The Man Who Came To Be Dinner"[39]
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2013
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RABF15
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??? - ?
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Season finale
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May 19, 2013[1]
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David Silverman[40]
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Al Jean (co-writer)
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| The Simpsons go to an amusement park where the lines for the rides are terrible, except for this one rocket called Journey to Your Future. They end up on Kang and Kodos' home planet Rigel VII.[41]
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