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The Simpsons: Season 10

23 episodes Premiered Aug 23, 1998 Updated Oct 2, 2026
Previously on The Simpsons

Season 10 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of The Simpsons Season 9.
  • ⚡ Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
  • ⚡ Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
  • ⚡ Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
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Season 10 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 10: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (4): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (19): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S10·E1 Mytharc

Lard of the Dance

Aug 23, 1998 · 23 min

Homer and Bart try to make money by selling used grease. Meanwhile, Lisa organizes a school dance but feels alienated when a new classmate and her friends try to act like adults.

S10·E3 Core

Bart the Mother

Sep 27, 1998 · 23 min

Under Nelson's bad influence, Bart shoots a bird with a BB gun. Stricken with remorse, he tries to nurture the eggs from the bird's nest, which hatch into a species of lizard outla

S10·E4 Core

Treehouse of Horror IX

Oct 25, 1998 · 23 min

In "Hell Toupée," Snake is sent to the electric chair, and his hair is transplanted onto Homer. In "The Terror of Tiny Toon," Bart and Lisa become cartoon characters in an episode

S10·E5 Core

When You Dish Upon a Star

Nov 8, 1998 · 23 min

After a chance encounter with Hollywood celebrities secretly living in Springfield, Homer becomes their friend and gofer... until he spills the beans to the gang at Moe's.

S10·E6 Core

D'oh-in' in the Wind

Nov 15, 1998 · 23 min

In a quest to learn Homer's middle name, Homer and Grandpa travel to his mother's old commune, where Homer embraces the hippie life.

S10·E7 Core

Lisa Gets an 'A'

Nov 22, 1998 · 23 min

Stuck at home with a cold, Lisa gets addicted to a video game and neglects her homework. Her A+++ on a test wins the school a grant, but when she confesses that she cheated, Skinne

S10·E9 Core

Mayored to the Mob

Dec 20, 1998 · 23 min

After a riot at a sci-fi convention, Mayor Quimby hires Homer as his bodyguard, and Homer witnesses the rampant corruption in town politics. When Homer takes a stand, he runs afoul

S10·E10 Core

Viva Ned Flanders

Jan 10, 1999 · 23 min

When clean-living Ned Flanders wants to experience a new side of life, Homer takes him to Las Vegas. After a drunken binge, they marry a pair of cocktail waitresses.

S10·E11 Core

Wild Barts Can't Be Broken

Jan 17, 1999 · 23 min

Scapegoated for the vandalism of drunken Isotopes fans, the children of Springfield wage war on the adults by broadcasting their secrets on the radio.

S10·E12 Core

Sunday, Cruddy Sunday

Jan 31, 1999 · 23 min

Homer and his friends charter a bus to the Super Bowl, only to find that their tickets are fake. Misadventures ensue.

S10·E13 Core

Homer to the Max

Feb 7, 1999 · 23 min

A new TV series features a suave and debonair character named Homer Simpson. Homer capitalizes on his new namesake, until the character is rewritten to be a bumbling fool. Trying t

S10·E14 Core

I'm with Cupid

Feb 14, 1999 · 23 min

Apu is making the husbands of Springfield look bad with his extravagent Valentine's Day efforts for Manjula. When the men try to sabotage Apu's grand gesture, they accidentally win

S10·E15 Core

Marge Simpson in: 'Screaming Yellow Honkers'

Feb 21, 1999 · 23 min

A new Canyonero SUV turns timid Marge into an aggressive driver, and her road rage lands her in traffic school. But when a stampede occurs at the zoo, the town looks to Marge to sa

S10·E16 Core

Make Room for Lisa

Feb 28, 1999 · 23 min

Indebted from a mishap at the Smithsonian, Homer lets a cell phone company put a transmitter in the house. Forced to share a room with Bart, Lisa resents Homer until a New Age expe

S10·E17 Mytharc

Maximum Homerdrive

Mar 28, 1999 · 23 min

After beating Homer in a steak-eating competition, a trucker dies; Homer and Bart take over his rig to complete his shipment.

S10·E18 Core

Simpsons Bible Stories

Apr 4, 1999 · 23 min

When Reverend Lovejoy subjects the congregation to an extended Bible reading, the Simpsons fall asleep and have dreams based on Bible stories.

S10·E19 Core

Mom and Pop Art

Apr 11, 1999 · 23 min

Homer's failed do-it-yourself project gets mistaken for "outsider art." Suddenly in the limelight, Homer must come up with new "works" to impress the art world.

S10·E20 Core

The Old Man and the 'C' Student

Apr 25, 1999 · 23 min

When Bart ruins Springfield's chance to host the Olympics, the kids are sentenced to community service work at the retirement home. To help the residents recapture their youth, Bar

S10·E21 Core

Monty Can't Buy Me Love

May 2, 1999 · 23 min

A new mogul wins the hearts of the townspeople with a shower of cash. Jealous, Mr. Burns asks Homer to help make him a beloved billionaire too, and they hatch a plan to bring the L

S10·E22 Mytharc

They Saved Lisa's Brain

May 9, 1999 · 23 min

Mayor Quimby flees Springfield, leaving the town chapter of Mensa in charge. As the group's new power goes to their heads, they take their utopian plans too far and the townspeople

S10·E23 Mytharc

Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo

May 16, 1999 · 23 min

After their bank account is drained at a cyber-cafe, the Simpsons go on a disastrous low-budget trip to Japan, where they wind up as contestants on a humiliating game show.

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