The Simpsons: Season 17

2005 · 22 episodes · ★ 6.7

What Season 17 of The Simpsons

The season opens with a crisis at the Simpsons' house: Marge leaves home after discovering that Homer let Fat Tony shoot an adult film in the living room. Homer is left alone with the kids, while Bart cooks up mischief and Lisa watches the world with a critical eye. Problems spread across Springfield. A cemetery is built next to the house and leaves Lisa unable to sleep, and the teaching of evolution ends up in court. Homer, a safety inspector at the nuclear power plant, runs in a special election with his daughter's help.

22episodes

Sep 11, 2005premiered

May 21, 2006latest episode

8.4 hrtotal runtime

Season 17 Episodes

17x01 The Bonfire of the Manatees
Sep 11, 2005 · 22 min · ★ 6.4
After Homer gets into trouble over his football gambling debts, he allows the Springfield Mafia to shoot a "snuggle film" in the house without Marge's permission. When she and the kids return home from a trip to "Santa's Village" and find production still going on, a furious Marge leaves for the beach and encounters a marine biologist named Caleb Thorn who has dedicated his life to saving manatees.
Directing: Mark Kirkland · Writing: Dan Greaney · Starring: Pamela Hayden, Karl Wiedergott, Alec Baldwin, Joe Mantegna
17x02 The Girl Who Slept Too Little
Sep 18, 2005 · 23 min · ★ 6.9
After the family successfully protest against a stamp museum being built next to their house, a cemetery is built near the Simpson house instead, making the normally unflappable Lisa realize that someone as smart as her can be afraid of something.
Directing: Raymond S. Persi · Writing: John Frink · Starring: Karl Wiedergott, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille
17x03 Milhouse of Sand and Fog
Sep 25, 2005 · 23 min · ★ 6.5
Never one to miss the opportunity to make a quick buck, Homer cashes in on Maggie's bout of chicken pox. He decides to host a Pox Party and charges parents to infect their children.
Directing: Steven Dean Moore · Writing: Patric M. Verrone · Starring: Maggie Roswell, Karl Wiedergott, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille
17x04 Treehouse of Horror XVI
Nov 6, 2005 · 23 min · ★ 6.8
Bart ends up in a coma after attempting to jump from the roof to the swimming pool at Spinster Arms Apartments, while attending a hunting party at Burns Manor, Homer panics and believes the prey is the hunting party, and after losing a Halloween costume contest to Dr Hibbert as Dracula, a real witch puts a spell on the people of Springfield.
Directing: David Silverman · Writing: Marc Wilmore · Starring: Dennis Rodman, Terry Bradshaw, Russi Taylor, Karl Wiedergott
17x05 Marge's Son Poisoning
Nov 13, 2005 · 23 min · ★ 6.6
When Bart decides to spend a bit of time with Marge, it's not long before he's buying tea sets and singing duets. Has he turned into a mummy's boy?
Directing: Mike B. Anderson · Writing: Daniel Chun · Starring: Karl Wiedergott, Russi Taylor, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille
17x06 See Homer Run
Nov 20, 2005 · 23 min · ★ 6.5
Homer becomes Springfield's safety guru and before long he's challenging Mayor Quimby for office. Until, that is, there's an embarrassing mishap with his costume.
Directing: Nancy Kruse · Writing: Stephanie Gillis · Starring: Pamela Hayden, Russi Taylor, Tress MacNeille
17x07 The Last of the Red Hat Mamas
Nov 27, 2005 · 23 min · ★ 6.6
Marge is shunned after Homer has an altercation with the Easter Bunny at the mayor's egg hunt. A lonely Marge joins a women's group who plan to steal $1 million from Mr Burns.
Directing: Matthew Nastuk · Writing: Joel H. Cohen · Starring: Lily Tomlin, Russi Taylor, Karl Wiedergott, Pamela Hayden
17x08 The Italian Bob
Dec 11, 2005 · 23 min · ★ 6.9
Homer brings the whole family along when he is sent to Italy to pick up a new sports car for Mr. Burns, when they find themselves in a small town that Sideshow Bob has become the mayor of.
Directing: Mark Kirkland · Writing: John Frink · Starring: Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Kelsey Grammer, Marcia Wallace
17x09 Simpsons Christmas Stories Mid-Season Finale
Dec 18, 2005 · 23 min · ★ 7.0
The Simpsons re-enact the Nativity; a World War II tale stars Grampa, Mr. Burns and Santa; a musical features "The Nutcracker Suite."
Directing: Steven Dean Moore · Writing: Don Payne
17x10 Homer's Paternity Coot
Jan 8, 2006 · 23 min · ★ 6.8
Mail from forty years earlier is discovered, and a letter from Homer Simpson's mother's old boyfriend states that he is Homer's true father. Homer sets out to find his supposed new father, leaving Abe behind.
Directing: Mike B. Anderson · Writing: Joel H. Cohen · Starring: Joe Frazier, Maggie Roswell, William H. Macy, Michael York
17x11 We're on the Road to D'ohwhere
Jan 29, 2006 · 23 min · ★ 6.8
After Bart steals a key from Principal Skinner's office and gets himself into hot water, Marge and Homer send him to a behavior modification camp.
Directing: Nancy Kruse · Writing: Kevin Curran · Starring: Russi Taylor, Marcia Wallace, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille
17x12 My Fair Laddy
Feb 26, 2006 · 23 min · ★ 6.4
Mr. Krupt is the school’s new gym teacher and introduces Bart and the kids to “BOMBARDMENT!” Bart’s attempt to get back at the new gym teacher results in the destruction of Groundskeeper Willie’s shack and the family takes him in. Lisa decides to make Willie the focus of her science fair project and tries to turn him into a “proper gentleman” with surprising results. Meanwhile, Homer has ruined his last pair of blue pants and attempts to generate interest in them so the manufacturer will start making them again.
Directing: Bob Anderson · Writing: Michael Price · Starring: Marcia Wallace, Russi Taylor, Karl Wiedergott, Tress MacNeille
17x13 The Seemingly Never-Ending Story
Mar 12, 2006 · 23 min · ★ 7.3
The family is on a nature walk through “Carl’s Dad Caverns,” when Homer tries to get a piece from a stalactite. This results in the family falling through the cave floor and winds up with Homer getting stuck in the ceiling of one of the lower chambers of the cave. Marge, Bart and Maggie go off to find help, while Lisa stays behind and tells her father a story to pass the time. Her story involves running from a bighorn sheep and into Mr. Burn’s mansion. The pair evades the tenacious sheep by finding refuge in the mansion’s attic, where Mr. Burns tells her the story of how he came to work at Moe’s Tavern by losing a scavenger hunt with a rich Texan. While there he learned (and tells to Lisa) the tale of the Moe’s treasure. The stories within stories culminate in the fate of the treasure being determined in the cave.
Directing: Raymond S. Persi · Writing: Ian Maxtone-Graham · Starring: Russi Taylor, Marcia Wallace, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille
17x14 Bart Has Two Mommies
Mar 19, 2006 · 23 min · ★ 6.9
The family is at a church fund-raiser, where Homer tries to ensure his rubber duck onto victory, but Flanders wins the big prize, which he doesn’t want and gives it to Marge. In return Marge agrees to watch Rod and Todd while Ned is attending a left-handed convention. While Marge is spending all her time with the Rod and Todd and trying to let them learn how to be boys; Homer takes Bart and Lisa to a home for former celebrity animals and a monkey kidnaps Bart. Marge’s ability to be a mother comes into question when Ned discovers what she is doing with his boys and the local news covers Bart’s current predicament.
Directing: Michael Marcantel · Writing: Dana Gould · Starring: Antonio Fargas, Susan Sarandon, Dave Thomas, Randy Johnson
17x15 Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife
Mar 26, 2006 · 22 min · ★ 6.0
Homer is stoked for a party, where Lenny shows off his new plasma screen HD TV. Three days later and Homer still hasn’t left Lenny’s apartment. Lenny eventually gets him to leave and Marge enters them in a contest where they can win a plasma TV of their own. They don’t win, but 3rd place gets them a tour of the FOX studios, where Homer learns about a wife-swapping show where he can win enough money to buy his own plasma TV. Marge agrees to appear and they exchange wives with the Heathbar family. Charles Heathbar winds up falling in love with Marge (who is giving him what he needs), while his real wife Verity finds Homer detestable.
Directing: Matthew Nastuk · Writing: Ricky Gervais · Starring: Marcia Wallace, Ricky Gervais, Karl Wiedergott, Tress MacNeille
17x16 Million Dollar Abie
Apr 2, 2006 · 23 min · ★ 6.0
Homer spearheads the effort to get pro-football to bring a new franchise to Springfield. The football commissioner, on his way to officially award the franchise, stops at the Simpson house where Grandpa (mistaking him for a burglar) attacks him. Springfield loses out and Abe becomes the town’s pariah. After trying and failing assisted suicide, Abe decides to live his life without fear and when the town decides to reuse their football stadium as a bullfighting ring, he volunteers to be the toreador. Ever the activist, granddaughter Lisa protests his new profession.
Directing: Steven Dean Moore · Writing: Tim Long · Starring: Rob Reiner, Karl Wiedergott, Pamela Hayden, Michael Carrington
17x17 Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore
Apr 9, 2006 · 23 min · ★ 6.7
At the power plant a movie is shown where the workers endorse outsourcing and Mr. Burns announces that he is closing the plant and moving the work to India. Homer is the only union employee left on the payroll and he is sent to India to train the replacement workers, when he succeeds beyond expectations, he is given total control of the plant and declares himself a god. Meanwhile, Selma & Patty take Bart and Lisa to their MacGyver convention. When they discover Richard Dean Anderson doesn’t like MacGyver and much as they do, they kidnap him in retaliation. Anderson escapes only to enjoy the thrill and he turns himself back in so that he can escape again. When it happens over and over again, soon Patty and Selma are the ones who need a means of escape.
Directing: Mark Kirkland · Writing: Dan Castellaneta, Deb Lacusta · Starring: Richard Dean Anderson
17x18 The Wettest Stories Ever Told
Apr 23, 2006 · 23 min · ★ 6.5
As the family waits for their food at “The Frying Dutchman,” they pass the time by telling stories. Lisa tells about the Mayflower’s journey to America, where Marge and her kids are Pilgrims and they are joined by a knave named Homer who joins their family to escape the authorities. Bart recounts the story of Mutiny on the Bounty featuring Skinner as Captain Bligh and Bart as Mr. Christian. Homer tells the tale of the maiden voyage of a cruise ship in the 1970s featuring of a ship that can’t flip over, which of course it does and the attempts of the survivors to get out of the ship alive.
Directing: Mike B. Anderson · Writing: Jeff Westbrook · Starring: Russi Taylor, Pamela Hayden, Karl Wiedergott, Tress MacNeille
17x19 Girls Just Want to Have Sums
Apr 30, 2006 · 23 min · ★ 6.6
The family attends "Stab-A-Lot: The Itchy and Scratchy Musical." The musical's director is a graduate of Springfield Elementary and Principal Skinner puts his foot in mouth when he makes sexist comments about her education and that of women in general. He tries to make the situation better, but only buries himself deeper and deeper until he is fired and replaced by Women's Educational Expert Melanie Upfoot. The first thing she does is split the school into girls and the boys. Lisa dislikes the way girls are being taught math and she ventures over to the boy's side of the school in search of a challenge. Disguising herself as Jake Boyman she starts attending the boy's school but while she finds the math problems more interesting, it is being a boy that is a greater challenge.
Directing: Nancy Kruse · Writing: Matt Selman · Starring: Frances McDormand, Russi Taylor, Marcia Wallace, Pamela Hayden
17x20 Regarding Margie
May 7, 2006 · 23 min · ★ 6.9
Marge goes on a cleaning frenzy before the housekeeper she’s won the services of comes to the house. One spot remains and she mixes a number of toxic cleaners together to tackle the job. The noxious mixture knocks her out and she wakes up suffering from amnesia. Marge is taken home and the family tries to bring back her memory. She starts to get back memories of her children and other insignificant things, but when it comes to remembering her husband, nothing he does seems to jog her memory. When he can’t get her to remember him, he tries to win her all over again, especially after Patty and Selma get her back out on the dating scene.
Directing: Michael Polcino · Writing: Marc Wilmore · Starring: Sal Bando, Gene Tenace, Marcia Wallace
17x21 The Monkey Suit
May 14, 2006 · 22 min · ★ 7.0
Working through their checklists of things to do before summer ends, Lisa gets the family to go a museum. At the Springfield Museum of Natural History there is an exhibit Lisa is excited to see on Women’s History turns into an exhibit on the history of weapons, which excites Homer and Bart. When Flanders sees the exhibit of evolution and another that mocks creationism, he raises an alarm. Reverend Lovejoy gets Skinner to have creationism taught in school. Lisa is the only one who holds onto the scientific theory. She brings the topic up at the town meeting and the town votes to teach only one theory, creationism. Lisa decides to hold her own class on evolution, until she is arrested. The ACLU gives her a lawyer who is up against a slick Southern lawyer, but ultimately it’s a family member that is a key to her defense.
Directing: Raymond S. Persi · Writing: J. Stewart Burns · Starring: Larry Hagman, Melanie Griffith, Russi Taylor, Karl Wiedergott
17x22 Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play Season Finale
May 21, 2006 · 23 min · ★ 6.5
When Homer hears that the Isotopes are on a winning streak, he takes the family to the game. The first baseman’s game is going bad, caused by his sexy singing wife Tabitha embarrassing him during the game’s national anthem. Buck Mitchell sees Marge and Homer’s kiss on the game’s Kiss-Cam and comes to them for marital advice. They start working with the couple and Buck’s baseball career turns around, but it and the Simpson marriage goes awry again when Buck catches Homer giving Tabitha a neck massage. While Marge and Homer try keeping their marriage together they also try to get Buck and Tabitha back together.
Directing: Bob Anderson · Writing: Joel H. Cohen · Starring: Mandy Moore, Stacy Keach, Tress MacNeille