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The Simpsons Season 16

The Simpsons

Season 16

November 6, 2004 21 episodes

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Treehouse of Horror XV
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E1. Treehouse of Horror XV

23m Nov 7, 2004

Ned Flanders' head injury gives him the power to predict others' deaths, Bart and Lisa play detective when a string of Victorian-era prostitutes are murdered by Jack the Ripper, and the Simpsons go on a fantastic voyage inside Mr. Burns' body to save Maggie.

All's Fair in Oven War
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E2. All's Fair in Oven War

23m Nov 14, 2004

Marge gets her kitchen remodeled and the dishes she makes inside it get rave reviews. The suggestion of Ned Flanders leads her to enter a cooking contest. However, Marge realizes the competition is harder than it seems. Meanwhile, Bart finds Homer's vintage Playdude magazines and decides to adopt the lifestyle he sees within the articles.

Sleeping with the Enemy
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E3. Sleeping with the Enemy

23m Nov 21, 2004

Marge finds Nelson and acts as a mother figure towards him due to her children's loss of interest in her. Meanwhile, Lisa gets teased about her big butt, and becomes obsessed with her weight.

She Used to Be My Girl
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E4. She Used to Be My Girl

23m Dec 5, 2004

Marge meets up with a former high-school pal who is now a famous news anchor, and she wonders if she made the right life choice.

Fat Man and Little Boy
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E5. Fat Man and Little Boy

23m Dec 12, 2004

When Bart writes slogans on T-shirts, he catches the attention of Goose Gladwell, a gag-gift entrepreneur, and soon becomes a T-shirt mogul; Homer feels he no longer has a place in the family when Bart becomes the breadwinner.

Midnight Rx
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E6. Midnight Rx

23m Jan 16, 2005

Homer, Grampa, Apu and Flanders travel to Canada to buy sorely needed prescription drugs with fake Canadian health-care cards.

Mommie Beerest
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E7. Mommie Beerest

23m Jan 30, 2005

When Marge discovers Homer has remortgaged the house to help Moe's bar, she takes over as landlady. Little does Homer know, Moe and Marge are a match made in pub heaven.

Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass
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E8. Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass

23m Feb 6, 2005

Homer's impromptu dance at a carnival leads to a job choreographing victory dances for sports stars Tom Brady, Warren Sapp, Michelle Kwan, Yao Ming and LeBron James.

Pranksta Rap
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E9. Pranksta Rap

23m Feb 13, 2005

Bart fakes his own kidnapping to get out of being punished for going to a rap concert, but the ruse goes too far when Milhouse's father is implicated as the kidnapper and Chief Wiggum sees this as an opportunity to make a name for himself as a competent police officer.

There's Something About Marrying
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E10. There's Something About Marrying

23m Feb 20, 2005

Springfield legalizes same-sex marriage to increase tourism. After becoming a minister, Homer starts to wed people to make money. Meanwhile, Marge's sister Patty comes out as a lesbian and reveals that she is going to marry a woman named Veronica.

On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister
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E11. On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister

23m Mar 6, 2005

Lisa does what every little sister has dreamed of - she gets a restraining order put on her big brother. Bart is forced to live in the back garden, but soon realises the joy of communing with nature.

Goo Goo Gai Pan
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E12. Goo Goo Gai Pan

23m Mar 13, 2005

Selma decides to adopt a child from China, but when the rules say she must be married, Homer must pose as her husband for the fearsome adoption agent Madame Wu.

Mobile Homer
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E13. Mobile Homer

23m Mar 20, 2005

When Marge starts economising, Homer thinks he's being left out of the family's important financial decisions, so splashes out on an expensive camper van and sets up camp on the driveway.

The Seven-Beer Snitch
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E14. The Seven-Beer Snitch

23m Apr 3, 2005

After Shelbyville accuses Springfield of being hicks, Marge convinces the townspeople to fund a Frank Gehry-designed concert hall, which is then converted to a prison when the concert hall goes bankrupt on opening night. Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa investigate Snowball II's recent weight gain.

Future-Drama
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E15. Future-Drama

23m Apr 17, 2005

Through Professor Frink's future machine, Bart and Lisa see their lives in the year 2013, where Bart steals Lisa's chances at going to an Ivy League school in order to impress a skater girl named Jenda while Homer (now separated from Marge and living in an underwater apartment) fights Krusty the Clown after Marge begins dating him.

Don't Fear the Roofer
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E16. Don't Fear the Roofer

23m May 1, 2005

Homer meets a new friend, Ray the Roofer, but gets confined to a mental institution when his friends and family believe he made him up.

The Heartbroke Kid
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E17. The Heartbroke Kid

23m May 1, 2005

When Bart endangers his health by bingeing on vending-machine food, the Simpsons turn their home into a hostel in order to afford sending him to a forced starvation facility.

A Star Is Torn
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E18. A Star Is Torn

23m May 8, 2005

Lisa agrees to enter a Krusty-sponsored "Li'l Starmaker" competition and panics when another contestant outperforms her.

Thank God It's Doomsday
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E19. Thank God It's Doomsday

23m May 8, 2005

Homer sees a movie about the end of the world and fears the same thing will happen in real life after seeing a chain of random occurrences and doing a complicated math equation that predicts the end will come on May 18th.

Home Away from Homer
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E20. Home Away from Homer

23m May 15, 2005

Flanders rents a room to two college girls who, without his knowledge, use the spare room to broadcast live softcore pornographic web videos of themselves.

The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star
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E21. The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star

23m May 15, 2005

Bart gets expelled from school and transfers to a Catholic school, where a hip priest named Father Sean tries to convert Bart and Homer to Catholicism, which worries Marge when she believes that Catholics do not go to the same heaven as Protestants and discovers that Catholic women do not use birth control.

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