The Simpsons: Season 11

1999 · 22 episodes · ★ 6.9

What Season 11 of The Simpsons

Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie are still living in Springfield, and Homer keeps working at the nuclear power plant, although his ideas always get him into trouble. This season, Homer becomes a restaurant and movie critic and makes enemies among the owners of the places he reviews. Bart, meanwhile, undergoes treatment for his ADHD, and the family is forced to try new ways to keep his mischief under control. Lisa, with her critical eye, watches these follies from the sidelines, while Marge tries to keep order at home. The episodes alternate between family life and Homer's adventures in the workplace and social scene.

22episodes

Sep 26, 1999premiered

May 21, 2000latest episode

8.4 hrtotal runtime

Season 11 Episodes

11x01 Beyond Blunderdome
Sep 26, 1999 · 23 min · ★ 6.8
Homer befriends Mel Gibson just as Mel is completing a remake of Mr. Smith Goes To Washington. Homer convinces Mel to make the film more violent, with disastrous results.
Directing: Steven Dean Moore · Writing: Mike Scully · Starring: Jack Burns, Mel Gibson, Marcia Wallace
11x02 Brother's Little Helper
Oct 3, 1999 · 23 min · ★ 7.1
When Bart commits an extremely destructive prank, he is given Focusyn, a pill to help him concentrate in school. At first the results are impressive, and then Bart starts believing in a conspiracy involving spy satellites and major league baseball.
Directing: Mark Kirkland · Writing: George Meyer · Starring: Mark McGwire, Marcia Wallace, Maggie Roswell, Marcia Mitzman Gaven
11x03 Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?
Oct 24, 1999 · 23 min · ★ 7.0
With Lisa's help, Homer uses his vast knowledge of food to become the town's leading restaurant critic. But when he gets petty and vindictive in his criticisms, all the other chefs in town try to kill him.
Directing: Nancy Kruse · Writing: Al Jean · Starring: Ed Asner, Maggie Roswell, Marcia Wallace
11x04 Treehouse of Horror X
Oct 31, 1999 · 23 min · ★ 7.3
In "I Know What You Diddily-Iddly-Did" the Simpsons fear they have killed Ned Flanders. "Desperately Xeeking Xena" satirizes superheroes of yore with "Stretch Dude" Bart and "Clobber Girl" Lisa. And "Life's A Glitch, Then You Die" depicts the upcoming horror of Y2K.
Directed by: Pete Michels · Written by: Ron Hauge, Donick Cary, Tim Long · Starring: Tom Arnold, Dick Clark, Lucy Lawless, Marcia Mitzman Gaven
11x05 E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)
Nov 7, 1999 · 23 min · ★ 7.2
Fleeing from a duel, Homer takes his family to live on a farm. There he discovers that by mixing tomatoes, tobacco and radioactivity from the nuclear plant, he can create a dangerously delicious new substance.
Directed by: Bob Anderson · Written by: Ian Maxtone-Graham · Starring: Maggie Roswell, Marcia Wallace
11x06 Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder
Nov 14, 1999 · 23 min · ★ 6.7
Homer bowls a perfect 300 game, then concludes that the greatest accomplishment of his life is behind him. He reconnects with the world by bonding with baby Maggie.
Directing: Mike B. Anderson · Writing: Al Jean · Starring: Pat O'Brien, Nancy O'Dell, Ron Howard, Teller
11x07 Eight Misbehavin'
Nov 21, 1999 · 23 min · ★ 6.2
Due to overuse of fertility medication, Apu and wife Manjula give birth to octuplets. Desperate for money, Apu loans the babies to an unscrupulous carny promoter, then needs Homer's help to get them back.
Directed by: Steven Dean Moore · Written by: Matt Selman · Starring: Jan Hooks, Butch Patrick, Marcia Wallace, Garry Marshall
11x08 Take My Wife, Sleaze
Nov 28, 1999 · 23 min · ★ 6.4
After winning a motorcycle at a dance contest, Homer becomes part of a motorcycle gang. But when he puts Marge's photo in a biker magazine, a much tougher gang takes her, and he must win her back.
Directed by: Neil Affleck · Written by: John Swartzwelder · Starring: Jan Hooks, John Goodman, Henry Winkler, Jay North
11x09 Grift of the Magi Mid-Season Finale
Dec 19, 1999 · 23 min · ★ 7.0
In this Christmas-themed episode, the students of Springfield Elementary are unwittingly used as a focus group to test new toys. The product of their labors, a cuddly doll named Funzo, is a lot more sinister than he appears.
Directed by: Matthew Nastuk · Written by: Tom Martin · Starring: Gary Coleman, Tim Robbins, Clarence Clemons, Joe Mantegna
11x10 Little Big Mom
Jan 9, 2000 · 23 min · ★ 6.4
When Marge leaves the house to recuperate from a skating injury, everything goes to hell - until Lisa convinces Homer and Bart they have leprosy.
Directing: Mark Kirkland · Writing: Carolyn Omine · Starring: Elwood Edwards, Marcia Wallace, Marcia Mitzman Gaven, Karl Wiedergott
11x11 Faith Off
Jan 16, 2000 · 23 min · ★ 7.0
Homer gets a bucket stuck on his head, and when it is removed the town is convinced that Bart has the powers of a faith healer. Then mobster Fat Tony tries to turn the boy's spiritual abilities into more sinister directions.
Directing: Nancy Kruse · Writing: Frank Mula · Starring: Don Cheadle, Marcia Wallace, Joe Mantegna, Russi Taylor
11x12 The Mansion Family
Jan 23, 2000 · 23 min · ★ 7.2
Worried about his health, Mr. Burns visits the Mayo Clinic. He lets Homer housesit his mansion, which leads of course to an offshore knife fight and an attack by Chinese pirates.
Directed by: Michael Polcino · Written by: Tim Long, John Swartzwelder · Starring: Britney Spears, Tress MacNeille
11x13 Saddlesore Galactica
Feb 6, 2000 · 23 min · ★ 6.5
Homer and Bart befriend a diving horse at a county fair. They turn it into a racehorse with an attitude, whose success runs them afoul of mysterious, tree-dwelling jockeys.
Directed by: Lance Kramer · Written by: Tim Long · Starring: Jim Cummings, Charles Frederick Turner, Randy Bachman, Trevor Denman
11x14 Alone Again, Natura-Diddily
Feb 13, 2000 · 23 min · ★ 7.1
Ned's wife Maude is inadvertently killed by a T-shirt accident at an auto race. Homer and his family try to help Ned cope.
Directing: Jim Reardon · Writing: Ian Maxtone-Graham · Starring: Marcia Wallace, Shawn Colvin, Marcia Mitzman Gaven
11x15 Missionary: Impossible
Feb 20, 2000 · 23 min · ★ 7.1
When Homer fails to give money he promised over the phone, he is forced by PBS stars to flee the country. He becomes a missionary on a small tropical island, where he introduces the natives to casino gambling.
Directing: Steven Dean Moore · Writing: Ron Hauge · Starring: Betty White
11x16 Pygmoelian
Feb 27, 2000 · 23 min · ★ 7.0
Plastic surgery gives Moe the bartender a handsome new face and a whole new life as a soap opera star.
Directing: Mark Kirkland · Writing: Larry Doyle · Starring: Marcia Wallace
11x17 Bart to the Future
Mar 19, 2000 · 22 min · ★ 7.0
We see a possible future in which Bart is a grown-up slacker, living with Ralph Wiggum, while Lisa is no less than President of the United States.
Directing: Michael Marcantel · Writing: Dan Greaney
11x18 Days of Wine and D'oh'ses
Apr 9, 2000 · 23 min · ★ 7.2
After being embarrassed by a drunken video of himself, Barney vows to sober up. Newly clean, he gets work as a helicopter pilot.
Directed by: Neil Affleck · Written by: Dan Castellaneta, Deb Lacusta · Starring: Marcia Wallace
11x19 Kill the Alligator and Run
Apr 30, 2000 · 23 min · ★ 6.7
After a terrible bout with insomnia, Homer takes the family to Florida during spring break. There, they kill a beloved alligator and are sentenced to a chain gang.
Directed by: Jen Kamerman · Written by: John Swartzwelder · Starring: Kid Rock, Joe C., Charlie Rose, Robert Evans
11x20 Last Tap Dance in Springfield
May 7, 2000 · 23 min · ★ 6.5
Lisa enters a tap dancing academy, where the teacher is a child star who never quite grew up. Meanwhile, Homer gets laser eye surgery.
Directing: Nancy Kruse · Writing: Julie Thacker
11x21 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge
May 14, 2000 · 23 min · ★ 7.4
Otto's girlfriend seems to be usurping Marge's role when she moves in with the family after a dispute over heavy metal.
Directed by: Steven Dean Moore · Written by: Larry Doyle · Starring: Parker Posey, Marcia Wallace, Pamela Hayden, Marc Wilmore
11x22 Behind the Laughter Season Finale
May 21, 2000 · 23 min · ★ 6.7
A "Behind the Music"-style look at the Simpsons, narrated by VH1's Jim Forbes, shows their rise to stardom--and the "private hell" that followed.
Directed by: Mark Kirkland · Written by: George Meyer, Matt Selman, Tim Long · Starring: Buzz Aldrin, Tom Kite, Willie Nelson, Stephen Hawking