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CABF is the thirteenth production season of The Simpsons. Mike Scully served as the showrunner for the season. The episodes mostly aired in broadcast season 12 on Fox, with five rollover episodes from the production season airing in broadcast season 13. The episodes aired from November 19, 2000 with "Lisa the Tree Hugger", to December 9, 2001 with "The Blunder Years".
Episodes[edit]
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CABF01
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"Lisa the Tree Hugger"
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November 19, 2000
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Steven Dean Moore
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Matt Selman
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S12 E4
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| Eager to join Dirt First after witnessing their pro-vegetarianism demonstration atop a local Krusty Burger, Lisa attempts to prove her worth by camping out in a giant redwood destined for logging. Meanwhile, Bart joins the workforce in order to buy a new game console advertised on television.
Guest starring: Joshua Jackson as Jesse Grass.
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CABF02
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"The Computer Wore Menace Shoes"
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December 3, 2000
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Mark Kirkland
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John Swartzwelder
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S12 E6
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| Homer buys a computer and builds a website where he anonymously spreads local rumors, and makes things up when his sources run dry. When one of these fake stories turns out to be true, Homer is kidnapped and transported to "The Island", a place where those who know too much are taken out of society.
Guest starring: Patrick McGoohan as Number Six.
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CABF03
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"The Great Money Caper"
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December 10, 2000
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Michael Polcino
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Carolyn Omine
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S12 E7
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| Strapped for cash, Homer and Bart search for a way to make easy money. However, things spiral quickly out of control for them when it seems the FBI have gotten involved.
Guest starring: Edward Norton as Devon Bradley.
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CABF04
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"Homer vs. Dignity"
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November 26, 2000
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Neil Affleck
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Rob LaZebnik
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S12 E5
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| Short on funds, Homer approaches Mr. Burns for a raise. But when Burns grants his request on the condition that Homer act as his personal jester, Homer finds himself in a series of degrading and embarrassing situations.
Guest starring: Leeza Gibbons as herself.
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CABF05
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"Pokey Mom"
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January 14, 2001
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Bob Anderson
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Tom Martin
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S12 E10
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| Marge feels sympathy for an inmate she meets at a prison rodeo and vouches for him at his parole hearing to try to assist his reentry into the real world. Meanwhile, Homer starts his own chiropractic business.
Guest starring: Michael Keaton as Jack Crowley, Charles Napier as The Warden, Robert Schimmel as the prisoner, and Bruce Vilanch as himself.
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CABF06
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"Skinner's Sense of Snow"
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December 17, 2000
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Lance Kramer
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Tim Long
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S12 E8
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| When a large snowstorm buries Springfield Elementary in snow, the children are trapped inside for the holidays and soon rebel against Principal Skinner. Homer and Ned Flanders try to rescue them, using Flanders' car.
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CABF07
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"Tennis the Menace"
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February 11, 2001
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Jen Kamerman
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Ian Maxtone-Graham
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S12 E12
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| Instead of buying a casket for his father, Homer uses the money to build a tennis court instead. Springfield wants to use the court for a tennis tournament, which all of the family members enter. But when teams are divided, the family gets competitive with each other and recruits professional tennis players to play in their places.
Guest starring: Andre Agassi as himself, Pete Sampras as himself, Serena Williams as herself, and Venus Williams as herself.
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CABF08
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"Worst Episode Ever"
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February 4, 2001
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Matthew Nastuk
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Larry Doyle
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S12 E11
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| Despite being banned forever from The Android's Dungeon, Bart and Milhouse take over its management when Comic Book Guy suffers from a heart attack. Meanwhile, Comic Book Guy, on the road to recovery, receives tips from Homer on making friends.
Guest starring: Tom Savini as himself.
Neil Armstrong as himself, Johnnie Cochran as himself and Richard Nixon as himself, all in uncredited archive audio roles.
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CABF09
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"Hungry, Hungry Homer"
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March 4, 2001
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Nancy Kruse
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John Swartzwelder
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S12 E15
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| After Homer discovers that the Springfield Isotopes are being moved to Albuquerque, the evidence of the move is covered up. Homer stages a hunger strike outside the stadium to force Howard K. Duff to admit the truth. However, his strike turns him into an attraction for the stadium.
Guest starring: Stacy Keach as Howard K. Duff VIII.
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CABF10
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"Day of the Jackanapes"
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February 18, 2001
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Michael Marcantel
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Al Jean
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S12 E13
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| Upon learning that Krusty has erased all the archival tapes of his show from the Sideshow Bob era, Bob schemes to use Bart as an unwitting assassin to blow up Krusty live on the air.
Guest starring: Gary Coleman as himself and Kelsey Grammer as Sideshow Bob.
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CABF11
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"Bye, Bye, Nerdie"
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March 11, 2001
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Lauren MacMullan
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John Frink and Don Payne
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S12 E16
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| Lisa's attempts to befriend a new student at Springfield Elementary result in constant bullying by the student, leading her to try to find out why some kids bully others. Meanwhile, Homer sets up a baby-proofing business.
Guest starring: Kathy Griffin as Francine Rhenquist.
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CABF12
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"New Kids on the Blecch"
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February 25, 2001
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Steven Dean Moore
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Tim Long
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S12 E14
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| When a talent agency creates the musical abilities of Bart, Nelson, Milhouse, and Ralph, it sets them up as the next big boy band sensation, the Party Posse. However, they later find out that their songs contain subliminal messaging to get people to join the navy.
Guest starring: 'N Sync as themselves.
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CABF13
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"Simpson Safari"
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April 1, 2001
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Mark Kirkland
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John Swartzwelder
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S12 E17
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| In a desperate search for food, Homer finds a box of thirty-year-old animal crackers, which contains a gold giraffe—meaning he has just won an African safari for him and his family.
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CABF14
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"Trilogy of Error"
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April 29, 2001
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Mike B. Anderson
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Matt Selman
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S12 E18
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| Homer's thumb is cut off following breakfast, and the story follows three different paths. Homer's day: as he and Marge race to get his thumb reattached. Lisa's day: as she misses the bus and tries to get to school so that she can win the science fair. Bart's day: as he and Milhouse make use of a stash of fireworks that Fat Tony has illegally smuggled into the country. In the end, their respective paths come together.
Guest starring: Joe Mantegna as Fat Tony and Frankie Muniz as Thelonius.
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CABF15
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"I'm Goin' to Praiseland"
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May 6, 2001
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Chuck Sheetz
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Julie Thacker
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S12 E19
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| When Ned Flanders can't stop thinking about his late wife, the Simpsons offer to help remove all traces of her from his house. Ned then discovers Maude's old sketchbook and decides to build her last wish, a Christian amusement park called Praiseland.
Guest starring: Shawn Colvin as Rachel Jordan.
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CABF16
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"Children of a Lesser Clod"
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May 13, 2001
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Michael Polcino
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Al Jean
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S12 E20
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| While recovering at home from an injury, Homer finds he is good at caring for pets and babysitting the Flanders children, so much so that he starts a daycare center, which gets him nominated for an award for service to the community. But Bart and Lisa feel neglected through all of this and are determined to thwart his award campaign.
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CABF17
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"Simpsons Tall Tales"
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May 20, 2001
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Bob Anderson
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John Frink, Don Payne, Bob Bendetson, and Matt Selman
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S12 E21
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| The family wins a trip to Delaware, but Homer refuses to pay the tax on the tickets, so they ride the rails and meet a hobo who sings and tells them some tall tales. The first story is the tale of Paul Bunyan, with Homer as the lumberjack. The second story is Connie Appleseed, with Lisa playing the role of Connie. The final story is of Tom Sawyer (Bart) and Huckleberry Finn (Nelson).
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CABF18
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"A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love"
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December 2, 2001
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Lance Kramer
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John Swartzwelder
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S13 E4
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| Homer's new job as the author of fortune cookies assures Mr. Burns that love is on the horizon. He finds it in a woman named Gloria, whom he loves so much that he wants to marry her. But as he proposes to Gloria, her ex, who turns out to be Snake, shows up after just breaking out of prison.
Guest starring: Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Gloria and George Takei as the waiter.
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CABF19
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"Treehouse of Horror XII"
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November 6, 2001
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Jim Reardon
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Joel H. Cohen (Part 1)
John Frink and Don Payne (Part 2)
Carolyn Omine (Part 3)
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S13 E1
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| In "Hex and the City", after insulting a gypsy, Homer and the family must deal with her curse. In "House of Whacks," the Simpsons buy a computerized upgrade for their house, and the house develops an obsessive attraction to Marge. In "Wiz Kids", wizards Bart and Lisa are caught in an evil plot by the Dark Lord Montymort.
Guest starring: Pierce Brosnan as the Ultrahouse and himself and Matthew Perry as an Ultrahouse voice option.
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CABF20
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"Homer the Moe"
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November 18, 2001
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Jen Kamerman
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Dana Gould
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S13 E3
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| When Moe visits his old bartending school to rediscover his passion for the business, Homer is charged with keeping tabs on Moe's Tavern. But when Moe returns and decides to make his tavern more hip and modern, a disgruntled Homer opens his own bar in his own garage.
Guest starring: R.E.M. as themselves.
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CABF21
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"The Blunder Years"
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December 9, 2001
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Steven Dean Moore
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Ian Maxtone-Graham
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S13 E5
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| A restaurant hypnotist causes Homer to relive a traumatic childhood experience where, upon swimming in a quarry, he found a dead body. That dead body turned out to be Smithers' father, Waylon Smithers, Sr., who had disappeared twenty-five years earlier under suspicious circumstances. Meanwhile, Marge finds herself attracted to Burly, the mascot for Burly Paper Towels.
Guest starring: Joe Mantegna as Fat Tony, Paul Newman as himself, and Judith Owen as herself.
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CABF22
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"The Parent Rap"
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November 11, 2001
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Mark Kirkland
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George Meyer and Mike Scully
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S13 E2
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| Bart appears in court to stand trial for joyriding in Chief Wiggum's police car. But just before he is set free, a second, vindictive judge named Constance Harm assumes the case and sentences him to be tethered to Homer around the clock.
Guest starring: Jess Harnell as Charlton Heston and Jane Kaczmarek as Judge Constance Harm.
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