The Simpsons: Season 25

2013 · 22 episodes · ★ 6.6

What Season 25 of The Simpsons

The Simpsons return to Springfield, the fictional town where Homer works as a safety inspector at the nuclear plant. The season opens with Homer traveling to a nuclear workers' convention with Lenny and Carl. When he returns, he's changed dramatically and has a plan of his own that worries his family. Marge holds the household together, Bart never stops cooking up mischief, and Lisa views the world with a critical eye. Maggie is still a baby. Along the way, conflicts include Halloween chaos, Marge's guilt over Bart's behavior, and a mysterious friend of Lisa's.

22episodes

Sep 29, 2013premiered

May 18, 2014latest episode

8.2 hrtotal runtime

Season 25 Episodes

25x01 Homerland
Sep 29, 2013 · 22 min · ★ 6.7
A parody of "Homeland". Homer starts to act strangely polite after returning from a nuclear power plant convention, prompting a suspicious Lisa to ask an intense FBI agent named Annie (Kristen Wiig) to help her solve this mystery.
Directing: Bob Anderson · Writing: Stephanie Gillis · Starring: Kristen Wiig, Kevin Michael Richardson, Pamela Hayden, Chris Edgerly
25x02 Treehouse of Horror XXIV
Oct 6, 2013 · 23 min · ★ 6.5
The scariest Simpsons Halloween show yet, featuring an opening by Guillermo Del Toro.
Directing: Rob Oliver · Writing: Jeff Westbrook · Starring: Marcia Wallace
25x03 Four Regrettings and a Funeral
Nov 3, 2013 · 22 min · ★ 6.5
Kent Brockman has decided that local news has been a real mistake and a terrible career move for him.
Directing: Mark Kirkland · Writing: Marc Wilmore · Starring: Rachel Maddow, Joe Namath, Marcia Wallace
25x04 YOLO
Nov 10, 2013 · 22 min · ★ 6.6
Marge encourages Homer to cross an item off an old to-do list by inviting an old pen pal to visit; Lisa institutes an honor code at school.
Directing: Michael Polcino · Writing: Michael Nobori · Starring: Russi Taylor, Marcia Wallace, Pamela Hayden, Jon Lovitz
25x05 Labor Pains
Nov 17, 2013 · 22 min · ★ 7.0
When Homer helps a woman give birth in an elevator, he forms an emotional attachment to the baby; cheerleaders for the local professional football team recruit Lisa.
Directing: Matthew Faughnan · Writing: Don Payne, Mitchell H. Glazer · Starring: Elisabeth Moss
25x06 The Kid Is All Right
Nov 24, 2013 · 23 min · ★ 6.5
Lisa discovers her new best friend is a Republican who is opposing her in the class election.
Directing: Mark Kirkland · Writing: Tim Long · Starring: Anderson Cooper, Eva Longoria, Pamela Hayden, Chris Edgerly
25x07 Yellow Subterfuge
Dec 8, 2013 · 22 min · ★ 6.8
Principal Skinner promises the students that the best-behaved among them can take a ride in a submarine. When Skinner gives all the kids a clean slate, Bart believes even his own past indiscretions will be forgotten if he doesn’t get into any more trouble. Meanwhile Lisa tries to help a cash-poor Krusty to turn things around by suggesting he sell the foreign rights to his shows.
Directing: Bob Anderson · Writing: Joel H. Cohen · Starring: Pamela Hayden, Chris Edgerly, Tress MacNeille, Kevin Michael Richardson
25x08 White Christmas Blues Mid-Season Finale
Dec 15, 2013 · 22 min · ★ 6.5
Springfield is inundated with holiday revelers after the nuclear power plant springs a radiation leak, causing snow to fall all over town. When the tourists drive up Christmas shopping prices, Marge opens up the Simpsons' house to boarders.
Directing: Steven Dean Moore · Writing: Don Payne
25x09 Steal This Episode
Jan 5, 2014 · 23 min · ★ 7.0
Homer becomes annoyed with movie theaters, so Bart teaches him how to download movies illegally. Homer is delighted with his discovery of free movies until he's caught for piracy. Deputy Director Gratman, the FBI's anti-piracy boss, is tasked with hunting down Homer, who stands accused of illegally downloading a film.
Directing: Matthew Nastuk · Writing: J. Stewart Burns · Starring: Channing Tatum, Judd Apatow, Leslie Mann, Rob Halford
25x10 Married to the Blob
Jan 12, 2014 · 22 min · ★ 6.6
When Comic Book Guy meets a woman writing an autobiographical manga, he seeks Homer's advice on dating.
Directing: Chris Clements · Writing: Tim Long · Starring: Harlan Ellison, Stan Lee, Maurice LaMarche, Pamela Hayden
25x11 Specs and the City
Jan 26, 2014 · 23 min · ★ 6.9
When Marge tries Homer's new high-tech glasses on, he learns she's seeing a marriage counselor; Bart refuses to buy Nelson a Valentine's Day card.
Directing: Lance Kramer · Writing: Brian Kelley · Starring: Will Lyman, Pamela Hayden, Chris Edgerly, Maurice LaMarche
25x12 Diggs
Mar 9, 2014 · 23 min · ★ 6.1
A recent transfer student named Diggs rescues Bart from a confrontation with bullies.
Directing: Michael Polcino · Writing: Allen Glazier, Dan Greaney · Starring: Daniel Radcliffe
25x13 The Man Who Grew Too Much
Mar 9, 2014 · 22 min · ★ 6.4
During a research trip, Lisa learns that Sideshow Bob is the chief scientist at a big chemical engineering company; Marge tries to teach a teen church group about healthy sexual practices.
Directing: Matthew Schofield · Writing: Jeff Westbrook · Starring: Kelsey Grammer, Marcia Wallace
25x14 The Winter of His Content
Mar 16, 2014 · 22 min · ★ 6.7
When Retirement Castle is closed, Marge asks Grampa and two other octogenarians to move in; Nelson befriends Bart after Bart defends him.
Directing: Chuck Sheetz · Writing: Kevin Curran · Starring: Pamela Hayden, Chris Edgerly, Tress MacNeille, Kevin Michael Richardson
25x15 The War of Art
Mar 23, 2014 · 23 min · ★ 6.8
After Lisa's new pet guinea pig destroys the Simpsons' living room art, Marge finds a beautiful painting at the Van Houten's yard sale, which Homer snaps up for 20 bucks
Directing: Steven Dean Moore · Writing: Rob LaZebnik · Starring: Max von Sydow
25x16 You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee
Mar 30, 2014 · 23 min · ★ 6.8
Homer is recruited as a World Cup referee after Lisa extols his integrity on the youth soccer field in a Springfield Elementary speech contest. But when the Simpsons travel to Brazil (again), Homer finds his honesty tested by one of South America's slickest gangsters in the soccer match-bribing business.
Directing: Mark Kirkland · Writing: Michael Price · Starring: Andrés Cantor
25x17 Luca$
Apr 6, 2014 · 23 min · ★ 6.4
Lisa dates a competitive eater; Bart benefits from helping convict Snake Jailbird escape from a jam.
Directing: Chris Clements · Writing: Carolyn Omine · Starring: Zach Galifianakis
25x18 Days of Future Future
Apr 13, 2014 · 23 min · ★ 6.9
Set in the future, Homer has a new clone for every time he dies. Lisa is married to a zombie version of Milhouse, while Bart deals with custody issues with his ex-wife, Jenda. Each defines what love means to them.
Directing: Bob Anderson · Writing: J. Stewart Burns · Starring: Amy Poehler
25x19 What to Expect When Bart's Expecting
Apr 27, 2014 · 22 min · ★ 6.4
When Bart's voodoo doll spell accidentally makes his teacher pregnant, he becomes a savior to couples hoping to conceive.
Directing: Matthew Nastuk · Writing: John Frink · Starring: Tavi Gevinson, Joe Mantegna
25x20 Brick Like Me
May 4, 2014 · 23 min · ★ 7.4
Homer wakes up in a Springfield where everyone and everything is made out of Legos, and he must figure his way out before he gets stuck in the plastic world forever.
Directing: Matthew Nastuk · Writing: Brian Kelley
25x21 Pay Pal
May 11, 2014 · 22 min · ★ 6.4
Marge swears off befriending any more couples when Homer offends their charming new British neighbors, but when Lisa declares that she, too, doesn’t need friends, Marge reconsiders.
Directing: Michael Polcino · Writing: David H. Steinberg · Starring: Carl Kasell, John Oliver, Peter Sagal
25x22 The Yellow Badge of Cowardge Season Finale
May 18, 2014 · 22 min · ★ 6.4
Bart feels guilty after he wins the annual "last day of school" race around Springfield Elementary School, with help from Nelson, who beats up the frontrunner, Milhouse. Meanwhile, Homer tries to bring back 4th of July fireworks after they are canceled due to budget cuts.
Directing: Timothy Bailey · Writing: Ian Maxtone-Graham, Billy Kimball · Starring: Edwin Moses, Glenn Close