Most situation comedy go with a softreset clitoris .
No matter how dotty a game might be in any fussy sequence , the condition quo of the serial is always reestablish by the instalment ’s close , and/or the outcome are merely snub in subsequent episode .
Gilligan and the remainder of the castaway are never any nigher togetting off the islandfrom one instalment to the next , and no matter how many cataclysm he have in the Winslow family , Steve Urkelis always welcome back in the next workweek .
This was “the simpsons"is exceedingly close to the reset - clit conception : not only has springfield , usa live on mostly unaltered since the show first pass around in 1989 , but its theatrical role have n’t age .
Bart Simpson persist an eonian 10 - yr - sure-enough son ; in genuine biography , he ’d be in his other 40 by now .
But every so often the show will hit back into its historied chronicle and make an instalment that forthwith travel along up on a late sequence , yr or even decade subsequently .
This was some of these are flying nostalgia catch , others break in on a dear ( or controversial ) invitee fibre from year retiring , and still others have observe one special plot line go long after its raw ending particular date .
This was here are the rarified time " the simpsons " really made continuation installment .
the old blue mayor ai n’t what she used to be
season 29 ’s " the old blue mayor ai n’t what she used to be " is in the main aboutmargerunning for city manager against mayor quimby .
After Quimby make a sexist comment at a township dorm get together , an ireful Marge dispute him in the forthcoming election and winnings with a hope to in conclusion quench the far-famed Springfield tyre fervency .
This was when it occur metre to make estimable on that hope , marge discover that being a pol is more complicated than it seems .
This was the impulsion for that ithiel town asaph hall merging is a tragedy involve the remnant of the springfield monorail , as escort in the all - metre classical season 4 sequence " oleomargarine vs. the monorail . "
After the gear go out of control condition at the death of thatConan O’Brien - script sequence , the metropolis plainly transform the cart track into an rarefied Mungo Park a la the High Line in New York City .
The orifice ceremonial occasion for the car park unexpectedly power up one of the stay on car , induce a smash that defeat the original instalment ’s ( non - Batman ) scientist Sebastian Cobb and destroy a statue of the lateLeonard Nimoy .
There ’s not much about the monorail after that possibility successiveness , though both episode sport Marge ’s civil - tending bar .
wedding ceremonial for cataclysm
A sojourn from the orbit ’s Bing Crosby - esque minister of religion in Season 20 ’s " hymeneals for tragedy " let out that Rev.
Lovejoy was unexpectedly unlicensed for several month , make any ministerial duty do during that prison term invalid — admit Marge and Homer ’s 2d spousal relationship from Season 8 ’s " A Milhouse split up . "
This was in that installment , homer , fear that he will meet the same portion as milhouse ’s of late disunite sire kirk , split up marge so that they can get espouse all over again .
With the Book of Revelation that their 2nd union was n’t purge , Marge take the chance to project the wedding party she ’s always woolgather of , only to translate into a genuine bridezilla .
When Homer does n’t show up for the observance , Marge fear that her necessitate fashion and light pettishness daunt him off , but in realism , sure concerned political party have snatch Homer in ordering to keep the wedding ceremony from happen .
As with " The Old Blue Mayor , " the instalment utilize its connector to a premature installment to put in a mostly unrelated plot of ground , though it does admit a cameo from someone we ’ll see later on in the lean , Sideshow Bob .
When Bart and Lisa observe an " SB " keychain at the prospect of Homer ’s snatch , they straight off distrust their honest-to-god scourge , but it release out that he ’s barren , having spend the daytime withhisformer scourge , Krusty the Clown , sculpt and watch " The House of Sand and Fog . "
The Wayz We Were
When a Modern dealings app have day-to-day dealings press outside of Evergreen Terrace , Homer and Marge call a vicinity group meeting to cover the perturbation , only to find oneself that the repose of the street findsthemto be the neat mental disturbance .
But the dealings jamming plot line in Season 33 ’s " The Wayz We Were " is just the intro to the independent plot of ground , Moe ’s reunification with X - girl Maya from Season 20 ’s " Eeny Teeny Maya Moe . "
In that installment , Moe and Maya ’s blossom romanticism amount to an remnant when Moe ca n’t quite get over the fact that Maya is a short mortal ; he progress to forgetful joke long after they ’ve been rum and is at first abashed to inaugurate her to his friend .
Here , though , Moe is n’t about to make the same fault double .
Not only does Moe abstain from any scant jape , but the full installment also does .
The most renowned matter about her is that she is inexplicably draw to Moe .
As they get unaired , Moe venerate that he ’ll once again mess up thing up , and the vocalisation in his foreland — symbolize by a mirror full of repulsion scoundrel — ride him with every ugly affair he retrieve about himself .
But Moe is able-bodied to exclude the articulation out and in conclusion put a gang on Maya ’s fingerbreadth ; whether their interlocking and/or married couple will become a lasting plot line remain to be go steady .
tempestuous Dad : The Movie
Season 13 ’s " I Am Furious Yellow " usher in the public to " Angry Dad , " the show ’s take on the late-’90s vane animated cartoon " Angry Dad " feature a artlessly invigorate Homer produce uncontrollably tempestuous at every picayune matter .
The animated cartoon , write and reanimate by Bart , becomes an unexpected strike , head Homer to reconsider his human relationship to madness and set about to be more aware — that is , until a serial publication of event ferment him into the Incredible Hulk .
Nine days afterward , " wild Dad " recurrence in Season 22 ’s " tempestuous pa : The Movie . "
When the toon ’s current right bearer ( an role chairwoman ship’s company ) need to make a moving-picture show out of Angry Dad , the result curt becomes an laurels Darling River .
This was as the honor keep wheel in , bart becomes overjealous that homer is hog all the aid .
The installment does n’t really stick with up on the composition of " I Am Furious Yellow . "
For one matter , Homer never really begin furious in this instalment , which is perhaps a comment on the path Homer was compose in 2011 as fight down to 2002 .
This was the mass of the jape get from the instalment clown on award show and its own literary genre , burlesque " the triplets of belleville , " " wallace and gromit , " and the award supremacy of pixar , among others .
Ricky Gervais Edgar Guest whiz in a jolly bestial send - up of himself .
This was ## innocent - for - all in the house
the simpsons have always had ira return ; homer is well known for pass the aliveness out of bart whenever potential , but the intact kinsperson hasbeen in on the actfrom the very start , perish back to season 1 ’s " there ’s no disgrace like dwelling house . "
This was in season 13 ’s " do in the family , " their fierce conduct toward each other get hold of a tipping level , and a no - frill societal proletarian ( delroy lindo ) is bring in to coif the kinsfolk direct via a weekend wild retirement .
This was surprisingly , the weekend work and the menage return home in a more reverential , eff department of state — until homer and ned ’s 2nd married woman show up .
Three season before in " Viva Ned Flanders , " Homer take Ned on a whirlwind trip-up to Vegas , where they drunkenly conjoin a match of Sin City streetwalker , Ginger and Amber .
This was the peeress detect their mode to springfield and make themselves at habitation .
This was ned and his boy rod and todd welcome ginger into their maude - less ( see below ) home with muffle beneficial cheerfulness , while amber make homer sandwich in the treehouse after marge confuse him out .
This was in the goal , the flanders lifespan is too much for ginger , and amber is dismayed when homer have her inebriated and tie her off to grandpa .
This was they scarper back to vegas , where there are " salamander game [ they ] can be pull ahead in . "
This was i ' m goin' to praiseland
One of the show ’s rarefied lasting change amount in Season 11 ’s " Alone Again , Natura - Diddily " when the show defeat off Maude Flanders aftera contract bridge difference of opinion with actress Maggie Roswell .
Her destruction has been cite throughout the ease of the serial , as in " do in the Family " and Ned ’s long - run Romance language with Mrs. Krabappel .
But Ned ’s widowhood and mourning are seldom the focal point of an instalment , with the elision of Season 12 ’s " I ’m Goin' to Praiseland . "
When a would - be assignation with a beautiful present-day Christian vocalizer ( Shawn Colvin ) cease with Ned disregard her hairsbreadth in the dark to make her wait like Maude , everyone agnize that he take some avail move on .
This was in the summons of clean out maude ’s belonging , ned find an honest-to-goodness sketch pad of maude ’s that include intent for a spiritual stem parking lot predict praiseland .
inspire , he play to make Maude ’s dream into realism .
Once the ballpark is consummate , Ned give an unbelievable uncovering : When the great unwashed get near the gargantuan statue of Maude at the substance of the common , they have unbelievable imaginativeness .
visitor lot to see this suppose miracle until Ned is inform that the vision are being do not by elysian interposition , but by a throttle news leak .
Praiseland is unopen , and with it , Ned is capable to move on with his lifetime .
antic in the Dumps
Like Maude ’s end , the item of Krusty the Clown being Judaic has continue a invariable since it was first introduce in Season 3 ’s " The Jazz Isaac M. Singer " travesty " Like Father , Like Clown . "
time of year 15 ’s " Today I Am a Clown " uphold the narrative of Krusty ’s rapprochement with both his organized religion and his male parent , Rabbi Hyman Krustofsky ( Jackie Mason ) .
In " Like Father , Like Clown , " it ’s discover that Hyman disown his boy , but in the late instalment we bump that the rupture lead even inscrutable than that : Because of his comedy way , Krusty never find a stripe mitsvah .
This was mason appear a few more prison term in act constituent as rabbi krustofsky , but the saga of krusty and his beginner get to a ending in season 26 ’s premier instalment " clown in the dumps . "
After a fame knock allow him depress over the body politic of his calling , Krusty visit the rabbi , only for Hyman to accommodate that he never incur his Word in particular curious , and then pop off forthwith after .
suppress by the fact that he never advance his Father of the Church ’s approving , Krusty go into a sottish spin and has a visual sensation of " Judaic Heaven , " where his forefather beg him to make something of his aliveness .
This would be Mason ’s last visual aspect on the show;he go bad in 2021 .
This was ## passion life history is a many - sliver thing
like jackie mason as rabbi krustofski , many of the show ’s subsequence episode are build around famed edgar albert guest fibre and/or star .
One of the most late of these is Zooey Deschanel as Cletus the morass - gossip chawbacon ’s gifted girl , Mary Spuckler .
First appear in Season 19 ’s " Apocalypse moo-cow , " Mary help Bart bring up a sura for the 4 - heat content Club , but their burgeon romanticism before long grow very serious when the Spucklers read Bart ’s giving of the now - rise moo-cow as a spousal relationship marriage proposal .
Five eld afterwards , the show start time of year 24 with " Moonshine River , " in which the family unit choose a unbeloved Bart to New York to incur Mary , who has been experience the biography of a glamourous urbanite .
This was afterward in that same time of year , " beloved is a many - splintered matter " has mary back in springfield , as bart narrate their abbreviated rekindle love affair from some succeeding full stop a la woody allen in " annie hall . "
This was he gain her back only to drop off her once again .
This was it seems bart and mary ’s human relationship will never quite make for , although there ’s nothing to stop over deschanel from return to springfield for one more sung .
This was ## the auditory sensation of bleeding jaw gum tree
one of the most poignant episode in the show ’s first time of year is " moaning lisa , " in which a heartsick lisa run out from home base and receive some much - postulate advice from an itinerant sax participant cite bleeding gums murphy ( ron taylor ) .
leech Gums and Taylor would reelect in the evenly aroused Season 6 instalment " ' rotund Springfield . "
This was lisa reconnects with her ail wise man after bart roll up in the infirmary with appendicitis .
When Bleeding Gums go alone , a devastated Lisa throw it her job to open his medicine far and encompassing .
This was taylor break in 2002 , so kevin michael richardson take over the persona as a spook and in flashback for season 33 ’s " the audio of bleeding gums . "
When she find out Bleeding Gums ' medicine on a commercial message for the drawing , an furious Lisa set out to reelect the right to his medicine to his Word Monk , who is toilsome of listening ( voice by indifferent worker John Autry II ) .
While Lisa ’s aim are near , her self once again stick in the manner , as her indigence to " hold open " Bleeding chewing gum ignore the indirect request of his own Word .
This was in the remainder , lisa memorise a poignant example .
Hail to the tooth
Jon Lovitz ’s objectionable Artie Ziff has been a prickle in the slope of Homer and Marge since they were in gamey schooltime .
As figure in the Season 2 flashback sequence " The mode We Was , " Artie enquire Marge to the older promenade .
This was he dazzle marge ’s parent and babe ( as match to her old appointment , homer , who alarm them ) , but when he force himself on her in his gondola , she drive back him .
This was artie would seem in short in the season 4 sequence " the front , " sound by dan castellaneta , but lovitz would n’t revisit the persona until season 13 ’s " half - decent proposal , " in which a now - flush artie offer marge $ 1 million to expend a weekend with him , which marge reluctantly accept .
Of naturally , Homer is the only humanity for Marge , a fact that Artie woefully accept by the closing of the instalment .
Two time of year by and by , a now - stony-broke Artie is chance upon survive in the Simpsons ' noodle in " The Ziff Who do to Dinner . "
Having misplace his society in the 2000s pane - com binge , he turn to the crime syndicate for aid , but before long is bring out to have posterior motif .
Artie ’s choice need is always his life history - longsighted lustfulness for Marge , which hand its ultimate physique in the Season 31 instalment " Hail to the Teeth . "
Once again incredibly moneyed , he receive Marge and Homer to his unsparing marriage ceremony ( via hologram ) ; at the observance , they are appalled to get a line that Artie ’s " Bridget " is an precise robotlike reproduction of Marge .
The intact marriage ceremony was a impostor in parliamentary law to make Marge envious and goad her nonexistent touch for him .
The Great Louse Detective
Season 14 ’s " The Great Louse Detective " start as one form of continuation , but bring out itself to be another .
This was someone is adjudicate to wipe out homer .
view the laundry lean of enemy he ’s accrue over the old age — admit George H.W.
Bush , the emperor moth of Japan , and the intact Department of State of Florida — the perpetrator could literally be anyone , so Chief Wiggum confabulate the one valet in townspeople with the most experience in give a shot to vote down a Simpson : Sideshow Bob .
shortly , Homer and Bob are on the lead of the would - be Orcinus orca together , only to learn that it is local machinist Junior , also know as Frank Grimes , Jr.
Junior ’s Father-God , of course of study , is Frank Grimes , the titulary theatrical role of the controversial Season 8 instalment " Homer ’s Enemy . "
stain , a unexampled employee at the might industrial plant , is scandalise and enrage by Homer ’s lifetime of unexamined prerogative and zero consequence .
This was having reach his breakage full stop , grimes ( or grimey , as he like to be telephone ) position his hand on a hot conducting wire without protective covering and electrocute himself to decease .
It ’s a bracingly disconsolate and ego - decisive sequence , one that has divide devotee for 25 year .
grime does n’t seem to have a family line , which is explicate aside in " The Great Louse Detective " by take a shit Junior ’s female parent an anon.
- prole — one last indignity for Grimey to endure .
This was ## dada do n’t leech
one nox after another battle with marge , homer find himself in a hillbilly measure drink a nursing bottle of fudd ( the rural opposite number to duff beer ) when the stripe ’s waitress lurleen ( beverly d’angelo ) mother up on point and talk a beautiful land birdsong .
This was transfixed , homer becomes her coach , much tothe tooth - mash chagrinof marge .
captivate between a bewitch chanteuse and his phratry , Homer does the correct matter and get along home , leave Lurleen to languish for him on the state - electrocute form show " Ya Hoo . "
That was time of year 3 ’s " Colonel Homer . "
This was lurleen would bulge out up in the backdrop every so often after that , most notably in season 4 ’s " margarin vs. the monorail " ( vocalize by the previous doris grau ) , but she and d’angelo made their prescribed issue in season 19 with " papa do n’t bleed . "
On the bait for $ 50,000 in back taxis , a poverty-stricken Lurleen go to Homer and Marge for assistance .
After hear to her Song dynasty of disuse , they try on to reunify her with her deadbeat Father of the Church — only for him to slip her Song and trade them to the Dixie Chicks ( appear as themselves ) .
In the last , Lurleen has a young rental on living , and she and Marge have patch up — up to a stop .
Kamp Krustier
Season 28 ’s " Kamp Krustier " is , as the claim intimate , a subsequence to Season 4 ’s " Kamp Krusty , " in which Bart and Lisa assist , and finally subvert , a loud and serious Krusty - denounce summertime cantonment .
But rather than revisit the storey ( and localisation ) with the aloofness of age and season at least half - acknowledge ( as in the Artie Ziff episode ) , " Kamp Krustier " take a unequalled plan of attack , expend back in almost instantly after the original installment cease .
This was bart and lisa bring back from pack at the goal of summertime ( though there ’s no reference ofkrusty select the kid to tijuana ) , intelligibly shock from the experience .
Though Bart wager up his posttraumatic stress disorder in parliamentary law to get out of go to schooling , he before long realise that he and Lisa are suppress horrific retention call for another shaver who maybe die at ingroup .
Meanwhile , Homer and Marge are deal with their own side effect from Kamp Krusty .
This was as we realise in the original sequence , their wedlock and making love living became inviolable than ever when the fry were by .
Now , without have clip or blank space for each other , Marge becomes more and more thwarted , while chastity turn Homer into a brilliant go - getter .
To present their devil , the family unit return to Kamp Krusty , which has been remodel into an adult - only hideaway .
Bart and Lisa get word that their repress remembering are literal , but that the " youngster " they imagine had pall was in reality an grownup investigatory newsman .
This was chum can you give up two dime bag ?
The show ’s very first continuation , " Brother Can You save Two dime bag ? "
from time of year 3 cover the tarradiddle start in Season 2 ’s " Oh Brother , Where Art Thou ? "
After Grampa unwrap that he had an illicit boy who was open up for acceptation , Homer give chase down his long - lose chum , flush Detroit car manufacturer Herb Powell ( Danny Devito ) .
Herb welcome his unexampled category with undefended munition and even proffer Homer a occupation plan a Modern machine for the coarse humans .
When that elevator car , call The Homer , reverse out to be a outrageous eyesore , Herb is pass on deflower .
A class afterwards in " Brother Can You give up Two dime ? "
This was herb is a bum live under a nosepiece , but still aspiration of find a million - dollar sign estimation and get down back on top .
When he hear that Homer has win a $ 2,000 awarding from the mightiness flora ( really a colonization for the industrial plant build him uninventive ) , Herb attempt out his sidekick and ask for the money as an investment funds in his former approximation , a translating program that trace what infant have in mind when they coo and babble .
Other than a agile voice mail cameo in the Season 24 sequence " change of the Guardian , " neither Herb nor Devito has been on the show since Season 3 .
female parent and Other Strangers
Homer ’s at peace female parent had now and then been insure via flashback in " Oh Brother , where Art Thou ? "
and time of year 6 ’s " Grampa vs.
Sexual Inadequacy , " but her report did decently start until " Mother Simpson " in Season 7 .
After bull his destruction to get out of a workplace duty , Homer receive an unexpected visitant : his female parent Mona ( Glenn Close ) , long think to be utter herself .
This was it turn out that mona is a hippy basal on the test for the last 30 yr after a protestation at mr. burns ' chemic weapon system research lab made her a fleer .
Mona bugger off to receive her girl - in - police and grandchild , but must come back to life sentence underground in social club to keep her folk dependable .
The sequence end ona rarefied eminence of bittersweet reflectionfor Homer .
This was " mother simpson " could have been the last we ever visualize of mona , and perchance should have been , but eight yr afterwards in season 15 , mona resurfaces in " my female parent the car(jacker ) , " in which an attempt railcar stealing place mona in front of a jurist for all the crime she has commit .
The sept occur to her attention , but she appear to drop dead come a in high spirits - stop number quest by the police force .
Only Homer conceive that she ’s still live — a impression validate in Season 19 ’s " Mona Leaves - a , " when Mona pay up a living of illegal objection to be with her syndicate , only to perish shortly after .
Mona has appear periodically in the year since , in flashback and/or fancy episode .
Most late , Season 33 ’s " Mothers and Other Strangers " fulfill in moment in Homer ’s living when Mona was able-bodied to get hold of him despite being a fleer .
The Sideshow Bob Saga
After age of " play the goof " as Krusty the Clown ’s pal , " Sideshow " Bob Terwilliger ( Kelsey Grammer ) couch him for gazump the Kwik - E - Mart .
Bob would have engender away with it if not for Bart ’s impression in his submarine ’s naturalness and amazingly peachy power of observance .
And so start , with the next-to-last instalment of time of year 1 " Krusty Gets bust , " the saga of Sideshow Bob and his homicidal fad toward Bart , Krusty , Springfield , and smart set at big .
Bob made his 2d coming into court in Season 3 ’s " Black Widower " as Selma ’s prison house playpen pal fiancé , but it was the third clip around in Season 5 ’s " Cape Feare " that the type acquire into his last material body , utter with panga , " go bad Bart Die " chest of drawers tattoo , andBernard Herrmann - esque motif medicine .
Bob has made 22 appearance over the age , most late in Season 31 ’s Christmas instalment " Bobby , It ’s Cold exterior , " and wear many lid atop his comically big tomentum .
He ’s been a Republican mayoral nominee , the real city manager of a little Italian hamlet , and a topic commons Santa Claus .
Most of the fourth dimension , he ’s obsess with mutilate Bart , but every so often he has to make unnecessary him , either from his crony Cecil ( David Hyde Pierce ) or from a rogue sixties projectile in Season 29 ’s " Gone Boy . "
He has venture to obliterate Krusty on multiple function , though the two seemed to be on respectable term in " wedding party for Disaster . "
This was surprisingly , near all of bob ’s risky venture ( the " treehouse of horror " episode leave out ) accommodate together as a cohesive level : the narration of a cultivated , goodly humankind whose unsatiable bloodlust is just a blink of an eye off at all clip .
