The Simpsons: Season 5

1993 · 22 episodes · ★ 7.8

What Season 5 of The Simpsons

Season 5 opens with Homer recalling his time in the vocal quartet the Sol-Fa-Mi-Das, prompted by a record Bart and Lisa find at the swap meet. Bart is at the center of several storylines. Bob the Second Banana, just released from prison on parole, sends him threats and wants revenge. Homer, meanwhile, has to go back to college to study nuclear physics if he doesn't want to lose his job at the plant. Bart also ends up with an elephant after winning a radio contest, and NASA decides to send Homer into space. Marge risks everything in a storyline that pulls the family in very different directions.

22episodes

Sep 30, 1993premiered

May 19, 1994latest episode

8.4 hrtotal runtime

Season 5 Episodes

5x01 Homer's Barbershop Quartet
Sep 30, 1993 · 23 min · ★ 8.0
Homer recalls when he, Apu, Barney and Principal Skinner became recording icons.
Directed by: Mark Kirkland · Written by: Jeff Martin · Starring: David Crosby, George Harrison
5x02 Cape Feare
Oct 7, 1993 · 23 min · ★ 8.6
The Simpsons go incognito to avoid the newly paroled Sideshow Bob, who's out to get Bart.
Directing: Rich Moore · Writing: Jon Vitti · Starring: Kelsey Grammer, Marcia Wallace
5x03 Homer Goes to College
Oct 14, 1993 · 23 min · ★ 7.7
Homer takes Nuclear Physics 101 at the local college, where he gets a trio of nerdy tutors expelled for extracurricular activities.
Directed by: Jim Reardon · Written by: Conan O'Brien
5x04 Rosebud
Oct 21, 1993 · 23 min · ★ 8.1
Burns longs for a childhood toy that winds up in the grip of Maggie.
Directed by: Wes Archer · Written by: John Swartzwelder · Starring: Joey Ramone, Johnny Ramone, Marky Ramone, C. J. Ramone
5x05 Treehouse of Horror IV
Oct 28, 1993 · 23 min · ★ 7.9
Homer sells his soul; Vampire Burns invites the Simpsons for dinner; Bart sees a gremlin damaging his school bus.
Writing: Dan McGrath, Josh Weinstein, Bill Canterbury · Starring: Phil Hartman
5x06 Marge on the Lam
Nov 4, 1993 · 23 min · ★ 7.6
Marge's wild night out with neighbor Ruth includes running from the police in Ruth's car, stolen from her ex.
Directing: Mark Kirkland · Writing: Bill Canterbury · Starring: George Fenneman, Phil Hartman, Pamela Reed
5x07 Bart's Inner Child
Nov 11, 1993 · 23 min · ★ 7.2
Springfield emulates Bart after he's praised by a self-help guru.
Directed by: Bob Anderson · Written by: George Meyer · Starring: James Brown, Albert Brooks, Phil Hartman, Marcia Wallace
5x08 Boy-Scoutz 'N the Hood
Nov 18, 1993 · 23 min · ★ 8.1
After a reckless Squishee bender with Milhouse, Bart wakes to the shocking realization that he joined the Junior Campers. Lured by pocketknives and knot-tying lessons, Bart assimilates into the group but then must face the father-son rafting trip.
Directing: Jeffrey Lynch · Writing: Dan McGrath · Starring: Ernest Borgnine, Marcia Wallace
5x09 The Last Temptation of Homer
Dec 9, 1993 · 23 min · ★ 7.9
Homer struggles with his attraction to new coworker Mindy, a beautiful engineer whose love for doughnuts is equal to his own.
Directed by: Carlos Baeza · Written by: Frank Mula · Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Werner Klemperer, Phil Hartman, Marcia Wallace
5x10 $pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)
Dec 16, 1993 · 23 min · ★ 7.9
Legalized gambling comes to Springfield, and Marge becomes addicted; Robert Goulet entertains at Bart's casino for kids.
Directed by: Wes Archer · Written by: Josh Weinstein, Bill Oakley · Starring: Robert Goulet, Gerry Cooney
5x11 Homer the Vigilante Mid-Season Finale
Jan 6, 1994 · 23 min · ★ 7.7
Homer leads a vigilante group to catch the Springfield Cat Burglar, who then robs the museum.
Directed by Jim Reardon · Written by John Swartzwelder · Starring: Sam Neill
5x12 Bart Gets Famous
Feb 3, 1994 · 23 min · ★ 7.4
When an on-air remark catapults Bart to instant stardom, he finds that fame isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Directing: Susie Dietter · Writing: John Swartzwelder · Starring: Conan O'Brien, Marcia Wallace
5x13 Homer and Apu
Feb 10, 1994 · 23 min · ★ 7.4
Homer accompanies Apu to the Kwik-E-Mart home office--in India--after Apu is fired.
Directing: Mark Kirkland · Writing: Greg Daniels · Starring: James Woods
5x14 Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy
Feb 17, 1994 · 23 min · ★ 7.5
Lisa's outrage over the gender stereotypes reinforced by a new talking doll prompts her to confront the dollmaker.
Directed by: Jeffrey Lynch · Written by: Josh Weinstein, Bill Oakley · Starring: Kathleen Turner
5x15 Deep Space Homer
Feb 24, 1994 · 23 min · ★ 8.2
Homer and Barney compete to be the first "average" American in space.
Directed by: Carlos Baeza · Written by: David Mirkin · Starring: Buzz Aldrin, James Taylor
5x16 Homer Loves Flanders
Mar 17, 1994 · 23 min · ★ 7.8
Flanders' extra ticket to the big game makes him Homer's new best friend, a role that sorely tests Flanders' patience.
Directed by: Wes Archer · Written by: David Richardson
5x17 Bart Gets an Elephant
Mar 31, 1994 · 23 min · ★ 7.4
Bart wins an elephant, but Homer won't let him keep it.
Directing: Jim Reardon · Writing: John Swartzwelder
5x18 Burns' Heir
Apr 14, 1994 · 23 min · ★ 7.7
Bart is picked to be Burns' heir and moves into the Burns mansion, prompting Homer and Marge to hire a deprogrammer to get him back.
Directing: Mark Kirkland · Writing: Jace Richdale · Starring: Phil Hartman
5x19 Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song
Apr 28, 1994 · 23 min · ★ 8.0
Bart takes his dog to school, which gets Skinner fired, which in turn leaves Bart missing his archnemesis.
Directing: Bob Anderson · Writing: Josh Weinstein, Bill Oakley · Starring: Marcia Wallace
5x20 The Boy Who Knew Too Much
May 5, 1994 · 23 min · ★ 7.7
Bart can clear Mayor Quimby's nephew of a charge of battery, but only by implicating himself as a hooky player.
Directed by: Jeffrey Lynch · Written by: John Swartzwelder · Starring: Phil Hartman, Marcia Wallace
5x21 Lady Bouvier's Lover
May 12, 1994 · 23 min · ★ 7.2
Grandpa Simpson falls for Marge's mother, but loses out to a competitor; Bart gets ripped off shopping at home with Homer's credit card.
Directing: Wes Archer · Writing: Josh Weinstein, Bill Oakley · Starring: Phil Hartman
5x22 Secrets of a Successful Marriage Season Finale
May 19, 1994 · 23 min · ★ 7.5
Homer teaches a class on marriage, but sharing secrets about his own union gets him kicked out of the house.
Directing: Carlos Baeza · Writing: Greg Daniels · Starring: Phil Hartman, Marcia Wallace