The Simpsons: Season 16

2004 · 21 episodes · ★ 6.5

What Season 16 of The Simpsons

Season 16 of The Simpsons opens with the Springfield family in the middle of their routine. Bart has to share a room with Nelson, his longtime nemesis, and that puts him on guard. Marge feels undervalued by her kids and looks for her place outside the home: she enters a cooking contest, oversees the renovation of a tavern with Moe, and wonders whether she was wrong to give up her career. Lisa endures her classmates' teasing about her body, and Bart becomes obsessed with Catholicism. Homer gets tangled up in business and money matters, and claims to have befriended a roofer that no one else can see. Springfield also fears the apocalypse.

21episodes

Nov 7, 2004Aired

May 15, 2005latest episode

8.1 hrtotal runtime

Season 16 Episodes

16x01 Treehouse of Horror XV
Nov 7, 2004 · 23 min · ★ 6.7
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, and the Simpsons go on a fantastic voyage inside Mr. Burns' body to save Maggie.
Directed by David Silverman · Written by Bill Odenkirk · Starring Karl Wiedergott, Tress MacNeille
16x02 All's Fair in Oven War
Nov 14, 2004 · 23 min · ★ 6.2
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 the competition is harder than it seems. Meanwhile, Bart finds Homer's vintage Playdude magazines and decides to adopt the lifestyle he sees within the articles.
Directed by Mark Kirkland · Written by Matt Selman · Starring Thomas Pynchon, James Caan, Marcia Wallace, Karl Wiedergott
16x03 Sleeping with the Enemy
Nov 21, 2004 · 23 min · ★ 6.6
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 her weight.
Directed by Lauren MacMullan · Written by Jon Vitti · Starring Marcia Wallace, Russi Taylor, Tress MacNeille, Pamela Hayden
16x04 She Used to Be My Girl
Dec 5, 2004 · 23 min · ★ 6.0
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.
Directing: Matthew Nastuk · Writing: Tim Long · Starring: Karl Wiedergott, Kim Cattrall, Tress MacNeille
16x05 Fat Man and Little Boy Mid-Season Finale
Dec 12, 2004 · 23 min · ★ 6.6
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 the family when Bart becomes the breadwinner.
Directed by Mike B. Anderson · Written by Joel H. Cohen · Starring Russi Taylor, Eric Idle, Tress MacNeille, Pamela Hayden
16x06 Midnight Rx
Jan 16, 2005 · 23 min · ★ 6.5
Homer, Grampa, Apu and Flanders travel to Canada to buy sorely needed prescription drugs with fake Canadian health-care cards.
Directing: Nancy Kruse · Writing: Marc Wilmore · Starring: Karl Wiedergott, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille
16x07 Mommie Beerest
Jan 30, 2005 · 23 min · ★ 6.3
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.
Directed by Mark Kirkland · Written by Michael Price · Starring Karl Wiedergott, Tress MacNeille
16x08 Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass
Feb 6, 2005 · 23 min · ★ 6.2
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.
Directing: Steven Dean Moore · Writing: Tim Long · Starring: Michelle Kwan, LeBron James, Yao Ming, Tom Brady
16x09 Pranksta Rap
Feb 13, 2005 · 23 min · ★ 6.5
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 Wiggum sees this as an opportunity to make a name for himself as a competent police officer.
Directed by Mike B. Anderson · Written by Matt Selman · Starring 50 Cent, Dana Gould, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille
16x10 There's Something About Marrying
Feb 20, 2005 · 23 min · ★ 6.4
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 lesbian and reveals that she is going to marry a woman named Veronica.
Directed by Nancy Kruse · Written by J. Stewart Burns · Starring Russi Taylor, Marcia Wallace, Karl Wiedergott, Pamela Hayden
16x11 On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister
Mar 6, 2005 · 23 min · ★ 6.3
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 communing with nature.
Directed by Bob Anderson · Written by Jeff Westbrook · Starring Gary Busey, Jane Kaczmarek, Marcia Wallace, Karl Wiedergott
16x12 Goo Goo Gai Pan
Mar 13, 2005 · 23 min · ★ 6.3
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.
Directed by Lance Kramer · Written by Dana Gould · Starring Robert Wagner, Lucy Liu, David Silverman, Karl Wiedergott
16x13 Mobile Homer
Mar 20, 2005 · 23 min · ★ 6.0
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 driveway.
Directing: Raymond S. Persi · Writing: Tim Long · Starring: Karl Wiedergott, Tress MacNeille
16x14 The Seven-Beer Snitch
Apr 3, 2005 · 23 min · ★ 6.2
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 concert hall goes bankrupt on opening night. Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa investigate Snowball II's recent weight gain.
Directing: Matthew Nastuk · Writing: Bill Odenkirk · Starring: Frank Gehry, Joe Mantegna, Karl Wiedergott, Charles Napier
16x15 Future-Drama
Apr 17, 2005 · 23 min · ★ 6.8
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 skater girl named Jenda while Homer (now separated from Marge and living in an underwater apartment) fights Krusty the Clown after Marge begins dating him.
Directed by Mike B. Anderson · Written by Matt Selman · Starring Amy Poehler, John DiMaggio, Russi Taylor, Marcia Wallace
16x16 Don't Fear the Roofer
May 1, 2005 · 23 min · ★ 6.8
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.
Directing: Mark Kirkland · Writing: Kevin Curran · Starring: Stephen Hawking, Karl Wiedergott, Ray Romano, Tress MacNeille
16x17 The Heartbroke Kid
May 1, 2005 · 23 min · ★ 6.7
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.
Directed by Steven Dean Moore · Written by Ian Maxtone-Graham · Starring Marcia Wallace, Karl Wiedergott, Albert Brooks, Russi Taylor
16x18 A Star Is Torn
May 8, 2005 · 23 min · ★ 6.2
Lisa agrees to enter a Krusty-sponsored "Li'l Starmaker" competition and panics when another contestant outperforms her.
Directing: Nancy Kruse · Writing: Carolyn Omine · Starring: Fantasia Barrino, Karl Wiedergott, Pamela Hayden
16x19 Thank God It's Doomsday
May 8, 2005 · 23 min · ★ 7.0
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 that predicts the end will come on May 18th.
Directing: Michael Marcantel · Writing: Don Payne · Starring: Karl Wiedergott, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille
16x20 Home Away from Homer
May 15, 2005 · 23 min · ★ 6.4
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.
Directing: Bob Anderson · Writing: Joel H. Cohen · Starring: Jason Bateman, Tress MacNeille
16x21 The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star Season Finale
May 15, 2005 · 23 min · ★ 7.0
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 believes that Catholics do not go to the same heaven as Protestants and discovers that Catholic women do not use birth control.
Directing: Michael Polcino · Writing: Matt Warburton · Starring: Liam Neeson, Marcia Wallace