The Simpsons: Season 16
Season 16 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 15.
- 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.
Episode Guide
Season 16 Progress Shield
Treehouse of Horror XV
Nov 7, 2004 · 23 min
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, an
All's Fair in Oven War
Nov 14, 2004 · 23 min
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 t
Sleeping with the Enemy
Nov 21, 2004 · 23 min
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
She Used to Be My Girl
Dec 5, 2004 · 23 min
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
Dec 12, 2004 · 23 min
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
Midnight Rx
Jan 16, 2005 · 23 min
Homer, Grampa, Apu and Flanders travel to Canada to buy sorely needed prescription drugs with fake Canadian health-care cards.
Mommie Beerest
Jan 30, 2005 · 23 min
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
Feb 6, 2005 · 23 min
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
Feb 13, 2005 · 23 min
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 Wig
There's Something About Marrying
Feb 20, 2005 · 23 min
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 les
On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister
Mar 6, 2005 · 23 min
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 com
Goo Goo Gai Pan
Mar 13, 2005 · 23 min
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
Mar 20, 2005 · 23 min
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 dr
The Seven-Beer Snitch
Apr 3, 2005 · 23 min
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 conc
Future-Drama
Apr 17, 2005 · 23 min
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 sk
Don't Fear the Roofer
May 1, 2005 · 23 min
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
May 1, 2005 · 23 min
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
May 8, 2005 · 23 min
Lisa agrees to enter a Krusty-sponsored "Li'l Starmaker" competition and panics when another contestant outperforms her.
Thank God It's Doomsday
May 8, 2005 · 23 min
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 tha
Home Away from Homer
May 15, 2005 · 23 min
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
May 15, 2005 · 23 min
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