The Simpsons: Season 18
Season 18 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 17.
- 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 18 Progress Shield
The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer
Sep 10, 2006 · 22 min
Lisa's friendship with Fat Tony's son Michael prompts mob boss Tony to invite the Simpsons over for dinner. Michael says he'd rather be a chef than take over the family business, b
Jazzy and the Pussycats
Sep 17, 2006 · 23 min
A child psychiatrist suggests drumming to channel Bart's energy, and the boy proves he's got the beat when he shows some talent on the skins.
Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em
Sep 24, 2006 · 23 min
Marge reads Homer's carpentry books and becomes very handy at fixing things. Gender bias keeps the townspeople from accepting a female carpenter, so Marge pretends that Homer does
Treehouse of Horror XVII
Nov 5, 2006 · 23 min
The 17th annual Halloween trilogy. Included: "Married to the Blob," in which a meteor turns Homer into a monster; "You Gotta Know When to Golem," about a monster from Jewish folklo
G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)
Nov 12, 2006 · 22 min
Homer is bamboozled by Army recruiters and winds up in basic training, where he runs afoul of a tough-minded colonel and is assigned to play the enemy in war games.
Moe'N'a Lisa
Nov 19, 2006 · 23 min
Lisa sees poetry in the notes Moe sticks to the walls of his hotel room, so she sends his work to a poetry journal, which publishes it, making Moe the toast of the literary circuit
Ice Cream of Margie (With the Light Blue Hair)
Nov 26, 2006 · 23 min
Homer is fired and decides to buy an ice-cream truck. Marge makes use of the mountains of Popsicle sticks from Homer's ice-cream consumption by creating sculptures of Springfield c
The Haw-Hawed Couple
Dec 10, 2006 · 23 min
When Bart ends up the only guest at Nelson's birthday party, the bully decides he's his best friend and goes about protecting Bart in a parody of "Goodfellas." Meanwhile, Homer rea
Kill Gil, Volumes I & II
Dec 17, 2006 · 23 min
Homer jumps into a brawl during a holiday ice-skating show. To escape the melee, Marge takes the family Christmas shopping, where a chance encounter with Gil leads to bad luck for
The Wife Aquatic
Jan 7, 2007 · 22 min
Selma and Patti's home movies make Marge nostalgic for the Barnacle Bay vacations of her youth, so Homer takes the family there, but the area has changed since the Bouviers were li
Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times
Jan 28, 2007 · 23 min
Homer learns three lessons about revenge from stories told by Marge, Lisa and Bart that parody "The Count of Monte Cristo," "Revenge of the Nerds" and "Batman Begins."
Little Big Girl
Feb 11, 2007 · 22 min
Lisa pretends to be Native American for multicultural day at school. Meanwhile, Bart finds love with an older woman.
Springfield Up
Feb 18, 2007 · 23 min
A documentary filmmaker who interviewed a group of Springfield schoolchildren 32 years ago has followed up at eight-year intervals to film how their lives have unfolded.
Yokel Chords
Mar 4, 2007 · 23 min
Bart has to see a psychiatrist after he starts a panic at school by telling a story about a murderous cafeteria worker. Meanwhile, Lisa tries to civilize Cletus Spuckler's hillbill
Rome-Old and Juli-Eh
Mar 11, 2007 · 22 min
Selma and Grampa embark on a May-December romance, and Bart and Lisa get into trouble with deliverymen over cardboard boxes.
Homerazzi
Mar 25, 2007 · 22 min
After a celebrity scandal is accidentally captured in a family photo, Homer decides to become a paparazzo.
Marge Gamer
Apr 22, 2007 · 23 min
Marge goes online for the first time and becomes obsessed with a role-playing game that Bart and many of their neighbors are playing. Meanwhile, Lisa develops her own obsession--fo
The Boys of Bummer
Apr 29, 2007 · 23 min
Bart goes from hero to goat on his Little League team after an error in the championship game. Meanwhile, Homer falls asleep on a bed in a department store. When he's awakened, he
Crook and Ladder
May 6, 2007 · 23 min
Homer, Apu, Moe and Skinner volunteer as firemen after Homer's sleepwalking accident injures the town's firefighters. They do some light looting at the fires to make up for not bei
Stop or My Dog Will Shoot!
May 13, 2007 · 23 min
The Simpsons' pooch, Santa's Little Helper, becomes a police dog.
24 Minutes
May 20, 2007 · 23 min
In a parody of "24," the school's Counter Truancy Unit tries to stop three sixth-graders planning to disrupt the school bake sale with a stink bomb.
You Kent Always Say What You Want
May 20, 2007 · 23 min
Newsman Kent Brockman is fired for swearing on the air when Homer dumps coffee in his lap, but Lisa gets Brockman back in the game with her Webcam.