The Simpsons: Season 13

2001 · 22 episodes · ★ 6.6

What Season 13 of The Simpsons

Season 13 begins with a decision by Homer: he lets Artie Ziff spend a night with his wife, Marge, and that shakes up the marriage. Later, Homer becomes addicted to medical marijuana and wins a promotion at the nuclear plant. Bart, up to his usual mischief, ends up in court with Milhouse and suffers the punishment of being chained to his father. Lisa, disillusioned with the Springfield church, wants to switch religions. The Simpsons also travel to Brazil, where the family gets into trouble because of a boy Lisa sponsors.

22episodes

Nov 6, 2001Aired

May 22, 2002latest episode

8.4 hrtotal runtime

Season 13 Episodes

13x01 Treehouse of Horror XII
Nov 6, 2001 · 23 min · ★ 6.5
In the twelfth Treehouse of Horror episode:Hex and the City – While on a day trip through Ethnictown, Homer's bumbling catches the ire of a gypsy, who curses Homer's family and friends into receiving nothing but bad luck.House of Whacks – in this mixed parody of Demon Seed and 2001: A Space Odyssey, Marge buys an automated house and customizes it with the Pierce Brosnan personality, who falls for Marge and attempts to murder Homer.Wiz Kids – In this Harry Potter parody, Bart and Lisa go to a school for wizards, and Lord Montemort (Mr. Burns) uses Bart to capture Lisa's magic.Guest star: Pierce Brosnan and Matthew Perry.[20]
Directing: Jim Reardon · Writing: Don Payne, Joel H. Cohen, Carolyn Omine · Starring: Matthew Perry, Pierce Brosnan, Marcia Wallace
13x02 The Parent Rap
Nov 11, 2001 · 23 min · ★ 6.7
Bart gets in trouble for joyriding in a police car, but feels confident he will be let off by Judge Snyder. However, Snyder goes on vacation before ruling his verdict and is replaced with a coldhearted judge named Constance Harm. She accuses Homer of being a negligent father and sentences him to be tethered to Bart. The two are against it at first but later start to bond. Marge however is unable to take anymore of it and slices the tether off of them both. Homer and Marge then go after Judge Harm only to end up sinking her houseboat. Eventually Bart decides to take punishment and is about to be sentenced to 5 year in juvenile hall, only though Judge Snyder returns and dismisses Harm.
Directing: Mark Kirkland · Writing: George Meyer, Mike Scully · Starring: Jess Harnell, Jane Kaczmarek, Marcia Wallace
13x03 Homer the Moe
Nov 18, 2001 · 23 min · ★ 6.8
Moe becomes depressed and decides to return to bartending school so he can re-evaluate himself. He meets an old teacher, who suggests that Moe try improving his bar, which might make him happier. Moe takes the advice, and turns his bar into a trendy nightclub, which does not sit well with his regular customers Homer, Lenny, Carl, and Barney.
Directing: Jen Kamerman · Writing: Dana Gould · Starring: Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe, Marcia Wallace
13x04 A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love
Dec 2, 2001 · 23 min · ★ 6.7
Homer becomes a fortune cookie writer for a Chinatown restaurant. Mr. Burns reads one of Homer's fortunes, which says that the reader will find love before Flag Day is over. Burns goes searching for love and meets Gloria, a meter maid, and asks her out. Gloria reluctantly agrees, and Burns recruits Homer to help him look young and hip to his new girlfriend.
Directing: Lance Kramer · Writing: John Swartzwelder · Starring: Marcia Wallace, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Pamela Hayden, George Takei
13x05 The Blunder Years
Dec 9, 2001 · 23 min · ★ 7.1
After tricking Marge into thinking an advertising spokesman is coming to visit her, Homer takes Marge and the rest of the family to a restaurant. A hypnotist uses his powers on Homer, and makes him remember a horrific childhood incident where Homer found a dead body in a ravine. The Simpson family decides to investigate this and find out where the body came from.
Directing: Steven Dean Moore · Writing: Ian Maxtone-Graham · Starring: Paul Newman, Joe Mantegna
13x06 She of Little Faith Mid-Season Finale
Dec 16, 2001 · 23 min · ★ 6.9
After Homer and Bart's model rocket damages the church, Mr. Burns makes a deal to commercialize the church in return for paying for the damages. Lisa becomes disgusted at what the church has become, so she decides to find a new religion suitable for her. She eventually converts to Buddhism, causing Marge to fear for Lisa's soul.
Directing: Steven Dean Moore · Writing: Bill Freiberger · Starring: Richard Gere
13x07 Brawl in the Family
Jan 6, 2002 · 23 min · ★ 6.4
A social worker is assigned to make the Simpson family functional after they get arrested for fighting while playing Monopoly. He helps them learn how to work together and function as a family. The moment is ruined when, Ginger and Amber, the barmaids who married Homer and Flanders while they were drunk in "Viva Ned Flanders", arrive at the Simpsons' home, which outrages Marge.
Directing: Matthew Nastuk · Writing: Joel H. Cohen · Starring: Delroy Lindo, Jane Kaczmarek
13x08 Sweets and Sour Marge
Jan 20, 2002 · 23 min · ★ 6.6
Springfield is officially declared the World's Fattest Town after an attempt to break a world record lands everyone on top of a truck scale. Out of embarrassment and disgust, Marge goes on a crusade against the local sugar corporation. However, when sugar is banned, Homer, Bart, Mr. Burns and Apu start bootlegging sugar.
Directing: Mark Kirkland · Writing: Carolyn Omine · Starring: Ben Stiller
13x09 Jaws Wired Shut
Jan 27, 2002 · 23 min · ★ 7.2
A jaw injury from colliding with a new town statue turns Homer into a better listener while recuperating with his jaws wired shut, but once the wires come off, Homer does not go back to being loud and obnoxious and Marge becomes starved for thrills.
Directing: Nancy Kruse · Writing: Matt Selman · Starring: Dana Gould, John Kassir
13x10 Half-Decent Proposal
Feb 10, 2002 · 23 min · ★ 6.9
Homer develops a snoring problem, so Marge decides to spend a night with her sisters Patty and Selma. After a night of drinking, Marge sees a news report about her ex-prom date Artie Ziff, who is now very wealthy, and decides to send him an e-mail. Artie is still obsessed with Marge, so he offers the Simpsons $1 million in exchange for Marge spending a weekend with him.
Directing: Lauren MacMullan · Writing: Tim Long · Starring: Jon Lovitz, Marcia Wallace, Marcia Mitzman Gaven
13x11 The Bart Wants What It Wants
Feb 17, 2002 · 23 min · ★ 6.6
Bart befriends Rainer Wolfcastle's daughter Greta. She has a crush on Bart, but he does not seem to realize it and eventually stops seeing her. Seeking revenge, Greta begins dating Bart's best friend Milhouse, which causes Bart to start missing her. She leaves for Toronto with her father, and Bart convinces his family to follow them there.
Directing: Michael Polcino · Writing: Don Payne, John Frink · Starring: Wolfgang Puck, Reese Witherspoon
13x12 The Lastest Gun in the West
Feb 24, 2002 · 23 min · ★ 6.0
While running away from a vicious dog, Bart meets Buck McCoy, a former Western film star. Bart begins hanging out with him and starts to idolize him. Bart wants to help McCoy stage a comeback, so he convinces all of the kids in town to become interested in the Wild West. McCoy appears on the Krusty the Clown Show, but the comeback flops when Buck begins drinking again and injures Krusty the Clown.
Directing: Bob Anderson · Writing: John Swartzwelder · Starring: Dennis Weaver, Russi Taylor, Tress MacNeille, Karl Wiedergott
13x13 The Old Man and the Key
Mar 10, 2002 · 22 min · ★ 5.9
Grampa falls in love with Zelda, a woman who has an interest in men who can drive. He decides to get his driver's license back, but is ignorant to Homer and Marge's concerns that she is only using him for his car.
Directing: Lance Kramer · Writing: Jon Vitti · Starring: Olympia Dukakis, Bill Saluga, Pamela Hayden, Karl Wiedergott
13x14 Tales from the Public Domain
Mar 17, 2002 · 23 min · ★ 7.2
When Homer gets a notice from the library that he has a book of classic tales that is years overdue, he finds it on the shelf and reads three stories: The Odyssey (where Homer and his bar buddies try to get home after fighting the Trojans), Joan of Arc (where Lisa leads the French against the English with the help of God), and Hamlet (where Bart tries to kill Moe after Moe kills Homer in order to marry Marge).
Directing: Mike B. Anderson · Writing: Matt Warburton, Andrew Kreisberg, Josh Lieb · Starring: Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Karl Wiedergott
13x15 Blame It on Lisa
Mar 31, 2002 · 23 min · ★ 6.3
When Homer gets the family's telephone service cut off for refusing to pay for calls made to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Lisa confesses that she was the one who called Rio after sponsoring an orphan who goes missing. She convinces the family to travel to Brazil to look for him. However, once there, they have no luck finding him, and Homer is kidnapped.
Directing: Steven Dean Moore · Writing: Bob Bendetson · Starring: Karl Wiedergott, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille
13x16 Weekend at Burnsie's
Apr 7, 2002 · 23 min · ★ 7.1
Homer is prescribed medicinal marijuana after getting pecked in the eyes by a murder of crows. While his family and friends worry about the drug altering his personality, Homer becomes Mr. Burns's vice president after cracking up at Burns's antiquated jokes.
Directing: Michael Marcantel · Writing: Jon Vitti · Starring: Marcia Wallace, Trey Anastasio, Pamela Hayden, Karl Wiedergott
13x17 Gump Roast
Apr 21, 2002 · 22 min · ★ 5.5
In this clip show episode, Homer is honored at a Friars' Club Roast. A number of characters show up to roast him, but the celebrating is interrupted by Kang and Kodos, who say that humanity will be judged based on Homer's experiences.
Directing: Mark Kirkland · Writing: Dan Castellaneta, Deb Lacusta
13x18 I Am Furious (Yellow)
Apr 28, 2002 · 23 min · ★ 7.4
Inspired by a cartoonist who speaks at the school as part of a career day assembly, Bart creates a comic book series based on Homer and his anger problems, which turns into a popular Internet cartoon series called Angry Dad. Homer finds out about this and is at first outraged, but after talking to his family, he decides to try to become a less angry person.
Directing: Chuck Sheetz · Writing: John Swartzwelder · Starring: Stan Lee, Russi Taylor, Marcia Wallace, Pamela Hayden
13x19 The Sweetest Apu
May 5, 2002 · 22 min · ★ 5.7
Homer and Marge discover that Apu is having an affair with the Squishee delivery lady at the Kwik-E-Mart. They decide to keep Apu's wife Manjula from finding out about it. However, she eventually learns of Apu's affair by watching store security tapes. She throws Apu out of the house and decides to file for divorce, but soon realizes that she misses him.
Directing: Matthew Nastuk · Writing: John Swartzwelder · Starring: Jan Hooks, James Lipton, Karl Wiedergott, Pamela Hayden
13x20 Little Girl in the Big Ten
May 12, 2002 · 23 min · ★ 6.7
Lisa tries to fit in with two college students by lying about her age. She finds that the college atmosphere is perfect for her, but her lie is soon discovered and she is shunned by her fellow elementary school students. Meanwhile, Bart is diagnosed with a weakened immune system after getting bitten by a Chinese mosquito and must live in a plastic, germ-free bubble.
Directing: Lauren MacMullan · Writing: Jon Vitti · Starring: Robert Pinsky, Russi Taylor, Marcia Mitzman Gaven, Pamela Hayden
13x21 The Frying Game
May 19, 2002 · 22 min · ★ 6.5
While faced with community service for abusing an endangered insect, Homer begins assisting an elderly woman named Mrs. Bellamy. One night, Mrs. Bellamy is murdered, and Homer and Marge are accused of committing the crime.
Directing: Michael Polcino · Writing: John Swartzwelder · Starring: Carmen Electra, Frances Sternhagen, Karl Wiedergott, Tress MacNeille
13x22 Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge Season Finale
May 22, 2002 · 23 min · ★ 7.0
Homer starts a security company with Lenny and Carl after the police are ineffective during a blackout, and eventually Mayor Quimby decides to have them replace the police. Homer finds that he excels at the job, but then he runs afoul of mob boss Fat Tony, who threatens Homer with death unless he leaves town.
Directing: Pete Michels · Writing: Dana Gould · Starring: Marcia Wallace, Joe Mantegna