The Simpsons: Season 18

2006 · 22 episodes · ★ 6.5

What Season 18 of The Simpsons

Season 18 kicks off with Lisa tangling with Michael, son of mobster Tony the Fat. After a shooting leaves Tony in the hospital, his gang wants Michael to take charge, but the kid would rather cook, so Homer and Bart end up running the business. Bart falls in love with the drums and becomes a star, while Lisa, desperate not to be the lead, throws herself into rescuing abandoned animals. Marge discovers she has a knack for DIY and starts a company with Homer as the face of the business. Lisa also enters Moe in a poetry festival, and Bart and Nelson start to become friends.

22episodes

Sep 10, 2006premiered

May 20, 2007latest episode

8.3 hrtotal runtime

Season 18 Episodes

18x01 The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer
Sep 10, 2006 · 22 min · ★ 6.8
Lisa's friendship with Fat Tony's son Michael prompts mob boss Tony to invite the Simpsons over for dinner. Michael says he'd rather be a chef than take over the family business, but that's before Tony is shot by a rival mobster.
Directing: Michael Marcantel · Writing: Bill Odenkirk · Starring: Joe Pantoliano, Michael Imperioli, Doris Grau, James Hetfield
18x02 Jazzy and the Pussycats
Sep 17, 2006 · 23 min · ★ 6.3
A child psychiatrist suggests drumming to channel Bart's energy, and the boy proves he's got the beat when he shows some talent on the skins.
Directing: Steven Dean Moore · Writing: Daniel Chun · Starring: Jack White, Karl Wiedergott, Maggie Roswell, Pamela Hayden
18x03 Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em
Sep 24, 2006 · 23 min · ★ 6.4
Marge reads Homer's carpentry books and becomes very handy at fixing things. Gender bias keeps the townspeople from accepting a female carpenter, so Marge pretends that Homer does the work. Meanwhile, Bart torments Skinner when he learns the principal has an extreme allergy to peanuts.
Directing: Mike B. Anderson · Writing: Matt Warburton · Starring: Karl Wiedergott, Maggie Roswell, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille
18x04 Treehouse of Horror XVII
Nov 5, 2006 · 23 min · ★ 6.2
The 17th annual Halloween trilogy. Included: "Married to the Blob," in which a meteor turns Homer into a monster; "You Gotta Know When to Golem," about a monster from Jewish folklore; and "The Day the Earth Looked Stupid," about an alien invasion.
Directing: David Silverman, Matthew Faughnan · Writing: Peter Gaffney · Starring: Richard Lewis, Sir Mix-a-Lot, Fran Drescher, Maurice LaMarche
18x05 G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)
Nov 12, 2006 · 22 min · ★ 6.4
Homer is bamboozled by Army recruiters and winds up in basic training, where he runs afoul of a tough-minded colonel and is assigned to play the enemy in war games.
Directing: Nancy Kruse · Writing: Daniel Chun · Starring: Russi Taylor, Pamela Hayden, Kiefer Sutherland, Tress MacNeille
18x06 Moe'N'a Lisa
Nov 19, 2006 · 23 min · ★ 6.4
Lisa sees poetry in the notes Moe sticks to the walls of his hotel room, so she sends his work to a poetry journal, which publishes it, making Moe the toast of the literary circuit.
Directing: Mark Kirkland · Writing: Matt Warburton · Starring: Gore Vidal, Thomas Pynchon, Jonathan Franzen, Michael Chabon
18x07 Ice Cream of Margie (With the Light Blue Hair)
Nov 26, 2006 · 23 min · ★ 6.6
Homer is fired and decides to buy an ice-cream truck. Marge makes use of the mountains of Popsicle sticks from Homer's ice-cream consumption by creating sculptures of Springfield citizens with them, leading to a feature about her on the news.
Directing: Matthew Nastuk · Writing: Carolyn Omine · Starring: Russi Taylor, Tress MacNeille, Pamela Hayden
18x08 The Haw-Hawed Couple
Dec 10, 2006 · 23 min · ★ 6.9
When Bart ends up the only guest at Nelson's birthday party, the bully decides he's his best friend and goes about protecting Bart in a parody of "Goodfellas." Meanwhile, Homer reads Lisa to sleep and debates on whether to reveal the book's sad ending to her.
Directing: Chris Clements · Writing: Matt Selman · Starring: Russi Taylor, Karl Wiedergott, Tress MacNeille, Pamela Hayden
18x09 Kill Gil, Volumes I & II Mid-Season Finale
Dec 17, 2006 · 23 min · ★ 5.9
Homer jumps into a brawl during a holiday ice-skating show. To escape the melee, Marge takes the family Christmas shopping, where a chance encounter with Gil leads to bad luck for Gil and the Simpson clan.
Directing: Bob Anderson · Writing: Jeff Westbrook · Starring: Elvis Stojko, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Karl Wiedergott
18x10 The Wife Aquatic
Jan 7, 2007 · 22 min · ★ 6.0
Selma and Patti's home movies make Marge nostalgic for the Barnacle Bay vacations of her youth, so Homer takes the family there, but the area has changed since the Bouviers were little girls.
Directing: Lance Kramer · Writing: Kevin Curran · Starring: Sab Shimono, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Maurice LaMarche
18x11 Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times
Jan 28, 2007 · 23 min · ★ 7.0
Homer learns three lessons about revenge from stories told by Marge, Lisa and Bart that parody "The Count of Monte Cristo," "Revenge of the Nerds" and "Batman Begins."
Directing: Michael Polcino · Writing: Joel H. Cohen · Starring: Russi Taylor, Tress MacNeille, Pamela Hayden
18x12 Little Big Girl
Feb 11, 2007 · 22 min · ★ 6.4
Lisa pretends to be Native American for multicultural day at school. Meanwhile, Bart finds love with an older woman.
Directing: Raymond S. Persi · Writing: Don Payne · Starring: Natalie Portman, Karl Wiedergott, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille
18x13 Springfield Up
Feb 18, 2007 · 23 min · ★ 6.6
A documentary filmmaker who interviewed a group of Springfield schoolchildren 32 years ago has followed up at eight-year intervals to film how their lives have unfolded.
Directing: Chuck Sheetz · Writing: Matt Warburton · Starring: Eric Idle, Karl Wiedergott, Tress MacNeille
18x14 Yokel Chords
Mar 4, 2007 · 23 min · ★ 6.4
Bart has to see a psychiatrist after he starts a panic at school by telling a story about a murderous cafeteria worker. Meanwhile, Lisa tries to civilize Cletus Spuckler's hillbilly children, with mixed results.
Directing: Susie Dietter · Writing: Michael Price · Starring: Stephen Sondheim, James Patterson, Meg Ryan, Peter Bogdanovich
18x15 Rome-Old and Juli-Eh
Mar 11, 2007 · 22 min · ★ 6.3
Selma and Grampa embark on a May-December romance, and Bart and Lisa get into trouble with deliverymen over cardboard boxes.
Directing: Nancy Kruse · Writing: Daniel Chun · Starring: Jane Kaczmarek, Karl Wiedergott, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille
18x16 Homerazzi
Mar 25, 2007 · 22 min · ★ 6.8
After a celebrity scandal is accidentally captured in a family photo, Homer decides to become a paparazzo.
Directing: Matthew Nastuk · Writing: J. Stewart Burns · Starring: Betty White, Jon Lovitz, J.K. Simmons, Pamela Hayden
18x17 Marge Gamer
Apr 22, 2007 · 23 min · ★ 6.8
Marge goes online for the first time and becomes obsessed with a role-playing game that Bart and many of their neighbors are playing. Meanwhile, Lisa develops her own obsession--for soccer--and Homer becomes a referee.
Directing: Bob Anderson · Writing: J. Stewart Burns · Starring: Marcia Wallace, Karl Wiedergott, Maggie Roswell, Pamela Hayden
18x18 The Boys of Bummer
Apr 29, 2007 · 23 min · ★ 6.1
Bart goes from hero to goat on his Little League team after an error in the championship game. Meanwhile, Homer falls asleep on a bed in a department store. When he's awakened, he raves about the mattress and is given a job as a salesman.
Directing: Rob Oliver · Writing: Michael Price · Starring: Maggie Roswell, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Karl Wiedergott
18x19 Crook and Ladder
May 6, 2007 · 23 min · ★ 6.5
Homer, Apu, Moe and Skinner volunteer as firemen after Homer's sleepwalking accident injures the town's firefighters. They do some light looting at the fires to make up for not being compensated, but Marge and Lisa shame them into mending their ways.
Directing: Lance Kramer · Writing: Bill Odenkirk · Starring: Tress MacNeille, Pamela Hayden, Karl Wiedergott
18x20 Stop or My Dog Will Shoot!
May 13, 2007 · 23 min · ★ 6.4
The Simpsons' pooch, Santa's Little Helper, becomes a police dog.
Directing: Matthew Faughnan · Writing: John Frink · Starring: Stephen Hawking, Rudolph Giuliani, Russi Taylor, Marcia Wallace
18x21 24 Minutes
May 20, 2007 · 23 min · ★ 7.3
In a parody of "24," the school's Counter Truancy Unit tries to stop three sixth-graders planning to disrupt the school bake sale with a stink bomb.
Directing: Raymond S. Persi · Writing: Ian Maxtone-Graham, Billy Kimball · Starring: Mary Lynn Rajskub, Russi Taylor, Karl Wiedergott, Maggie Roswell
18x22 You Kent Always Say What You Want Season Finale
May 20, 2007 · 23 min · ★ 6.8
Newsman Kent Brockman is fired for swearing on the air when Homer dumps coffee in his lap, but Lisa gets Brockman back in the game with her Webcam.
Directing: Matthew Nastuk · Writing: Tim Long · Starring: Ludacris, Maurice LaMarche