The Simpsons / Season 8
Season 8 of The Simpsons | |||
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Episodes | 25th | ||
Country of production | United States | ||
First broadcast | Oct. 27, 1996 - May 18, 1997 on Fox | ||
German-language first broadcast |
October 31, 1997 - November 26, 1997 on ProSieben | ||
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The eighth season of the American animated series The Simpsons was broadcast from October 27, 1996 to May 18, 1997 on the US broadcaster Fox . The German-language first broadcast was broadcast by the private broadcaster ProSieben from September 5, 1997 to October 31, 1998, with the first episode of the series Hugo, kleine Wesen and Kang not being broadcast until October 31, 1998.
The season was released on DVD on August 15, 2006 in the United States and October 2, 2006 in Germany.
Episodes
No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
German title | Original title | First broadcast (USA) | German language first broadcast ( D ) | Director | script | Prodc. |
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154 | 1 | Hugo, little creatures and Kang | Treehouse of Horror VII | Oct 27, 1996 | Oct 31, 1998 | Mike B. Anderson | Ken Keeler, Dan Greaney, David S. Cohen | 4F02 |
Three short stories for Halloween: The thing and me - Bart has an evil twin brother who lives in the attic. The bowl of creation - Lisa makes an experiment with a failed milk tooth and creates life in this way. Citizen Kang - The aliens Kang and Kodos take the form of Bill Clinton and Bob Dole to become leaders of Earth. |
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155 | 2 | The tempting offer | You Only Move Twice | Nov 3, 1996 | Oct 28, 1997 | Mike Anderson | John Swartzwelder | 3F23 |
The Simpsons are moving to Cypress Creek, where Homer got a great job at Globex Corporation. However, he does not notice that his new boss Hank Scorpio is a super villain and that he is helping him to achieve world domination. The episode is primarily a parody of James Bond films. |
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156 | 3 | Let's fight! | The Homer They Fall | Nov 10, 1996 | Oct 29, 1998 | Mark Kirkland | Jonathan Collier | 4F03 |
With Moe's help as a manager, Homer becomes a boxer. Homer lets himself be beaten every time until the opponent gets tired. In the fight for the heavyweight championship, the strategy doesn't seem to be working. In this episode you can see Homer's famous X-ray with the tiny brain in a large cavity. | ||||||||
157 | 4th | Mr. Burns' son Larry | Burns, baby Burns | Nov 17, 1996 | Oct 30, 1997 | Jim Reardon | Ian Maxtone-Graham | 4F05 |
Larry Burns discovers during a train ride that his father is Mr. Burns and follows him to Springfield. Larry turns out to be the opposite of Burns, which his father doesn't like. Homer fakes kidnapping with Larry to test Burns. The maneuver initially seems to serve its purpose, but the son soon disappears. | ||||||||
158 | 5 | The popular entertainment establishment | Beard After Dark | Nov 24, 1996 | Nov 2, 1997 | Dominic Polcino | Richard Appel | 4F06 |
Bart is forced by Homer to work for Belle as a punishment for destroying a gargoyle for her. Belle's house turns out to be a sort of vaudeville bliss that is visited by all the men from Springfield. Marge demands the demolition of the house. | ||||||||
159 | 6th | Divorce who can | A Milhouse Divided | Dec. 1, 1996 | Oct 3, 1997 | Steven Dean Moore | Steve Tompkins | 4F04 |
Kirk and Luann Van Houten have problems in their marriage and are getting divorced. Homer then also divorces so that Marge can be remarried. | ||||||||
160 | 7th | Lisa wants to love | Lisa's Date with Density | Dec 15, 1996 | Nov 4, 1997 | Steven Dean Moore | Steve Tompkins | 4F01 |
Lisa falls in love with Nelson Muntz and wants to make a good person out of him. They come closer and kiss. Meanwhile Homer tries to get a lot of money with a telephone dialing machine. | ||||||||
161 | 8th | The totally crazy Ned | Hurricane Neddy | Dec 29, 1996 | Oct 3, 1997 | Bob Anderson | Steve Young | 4F07 |
The Flanders' house is the only one destroyed in a hurricane and they have to move to an emergency shelter. The people of Springfield are rebuilding the house, albeit in a completely amateurish way. When it finally collapses, the always friendly Ned bursts the collar. Flanders then voluntarily goes to a sanatorium for the mentally ill. | ||||||||
162 | 9 | Homer's strange chilli trip | El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer) | Jan. 5, 1997 | Nov 10, 1997 | Jim Reardon | Ken Keeler | 3F24 |
After Homer eats a chilli pepper that is way too hot at the annual Springfield Chili Cooking Festival, he begins to hallucinate. A coyote appears to him and asks him to find his soul mate. Homer sees this in Marge, but she reproaches him. | ||||||||
163 | 10 | The Springfield files | The Springfield Files | Jan. 12, 1997 | Oct 24, 1997 | Steven Dean Moore | Reid Harrison | 3G01 |
When drunk, Homer sees a glowing, eerie creature in the forest. Agent Mulder and Agent Scully of the FBI will be called in on the case. It turns out to be Burns who has undergone obscure medical treatment. | ||||||||
164 | 11 | Marge and the pretzel baking | The Twisted World of Marge Simpson | Jan. 19, 1997 | Nov 6, 1997 | Chuck Sheetz | Jennifer Crittenden | 4F08 |
Marge buys a pretzel cart. While her friends earn more money than margin with a pita bread service, Homer turns to the mafia. Marges competition is eliminated immediately. There is later a fight between the Yakuza and the Springfield Mafia. | ||||||||
165 | 12 | The mountain of madness | Mountain of Madness | Feb. 2, 1997 | Nov 7, 1997 | Mark Kirkland | John Swartzwelder | 4F10 |
Mr. Burns wants to improve the team spirit of his employees and orders a survival weekend. Homer and Mr. Burns are the first to reach the hut as a team of two by cheating, but are then trapped in the hut by several avalanches. An explosion of the gas container in the hut can free the two of them from the avalanche. | ||||||||
166 | 13 | The magical nanny | Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala (Annoyed Grunt) cious | Feb 7, 1997 | Oct 21, 1998 | Chuck Sheetz | Al Jean & Mike Reiss | 3G03 |
Because Marge is overwhelmed with motherhood, she and Homer hire a nanny named Shary Bobbins. | ||||||||
167 | 14th | Homer is "Poochie the Wonder Dog" | The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show | Feb 9, 1997 | 5th Sep 1997 | Steven Dean Moore | David S. Cohen | 4F12 |
The Itchy & Scratchy Show gets a new character named Poochie, who is voiced by Homer. The viewers do not like Poochie, however, so that the character is again removed from the show. | ||||||||
168 | 15th | Homer and certain fears | Homer's Phobia | Feb 16, 1997 | Nov 11, 1997 | Steven Dean Moore | David S. Cohen | 4F11 |
Due to a lack of money, the Simpson family is in an antique shop to sell some things. Homer likes the seller and invites him over - until he realizes that he is gay . Because Homer fears that his son could also be gay, he starts a campaign to make Bart “more manly”. | ||||||||
169 | 16 | The two devious brothers | Brother from Another Series | Feb 23, 1997 | Nov 12, 1997 | Pete Michels | Ken Keeler | 4F14 |
Tingeltangel-Bob is released from prison and taken in by his brother Cecil. Together they are directing the construction of a huge dam. However, the project is being sabotaged. | ||||||||
170 | 17th | Babysitting - a nightmare | My sister, my sitter | 2nd Mar 1997 | Nov 13, 1997 | Jim Reardon | Dan Greaney | 4F13 |
Lisa becomes a babysitter. First she is needed by the Flanders and then receives further orders. When Marge and Homer instruct them to take care of Bart, Bart tries to harm Lisa's reputation to harm himself and falls down the stairs. Lisa wants to keep this a secret and therefore tries to secretly take Bart to a "non-approved" doctor. However, both of them accidentally end up at the opening ceremony of the port center, at which almost all of Springfield is present. Thereupon she initially received no further orders. | ||||||||
171 | 18th | The mysterious beer baron | Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment | 16. Mar. 1997 | Nov 14, 1997 | Bob Anderson | John Swartzwelder | 4F15 |
After Bart gets drunk on St. Patrick's Day , Springfield's wives demand the end of alcohol sales. The city council discovers a law that has had a strict alcohol ban in Springfield for over 200 years . FBI officer Rex Banner is hired to oversee the ban. Homer secretly supplies Moe with home-brewed beer. It later emerges that the ban has been invalid for almost 199 years. | ||||||||
172 | 19th | If the principal with the teacher ... | Grade School Confidential | Apr 6, 1997 | Nov 17, 1997 | Susie Dietter | Rachel Pulido | 4F09 |
At Martin's birthday party, Principal Skinner and Mrs. Krabappel become interested in each other and begin an affair. | ||||||||
173 | 20th | The greatest dog in the world | The Canine Mutiny | Apr 13, 1997 | Nov 18, 1997 | Dominic Polcino | Ron Hauge | 4F16 |
Bart uses a credit card to buy a Vermont collie named Laddie. But when he overrides the card and the bailiff seizes the things he has bought, he gives his old dog Knecht Ruprecht instead of Laddie. However, Bart manages to get the dog back from a blind man. | ||||||||
174 | 21st | The old man and Lisa | The Old Man and the Lisa | Apr 20, 1997 | Nov 19, 1997 | Mark Kirkland | John Swartzwelder | 4F17 |
Lisa helps Burns rebuild his lost fortune. Believing that Burns has converted, Lisa sets up a recycling factory. However, their hope is disappointed. | ||||||||
175 | 22nd | Marge as a pastor | In Marge We Trust | Apr 27, 1997 | Nov 20, 1997 | Steven Dean Moore | Donick Cary | 4F18 |
Marge helps Reverend Lovejoy with church ministry and gives good advice to residents who call. However, it also gets some callers into trouble - including Ned Flanders, who ends up in a pavio enclosure as a result. | ||||||||
176 | 23 | Homer had an enemy | Homer's Enemy | May 4, 1997 | Nov 21, 1997 | Jim Reardon | John Swartzwelder | 4F19 |
Frank Grimes starts to work at the nuclear power plant and doesn't like Homer from the start. He is upset that he had to work his way up while he believes Homer is relatively wealthy despite his incompetence . When Homer wins first prize in a children's competition, Grimes goes mad and touches a power cable , whereupon he dies. Homer sleeps at his funeral. | ||||||||
177 | 24 | Your favorite television family | The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase | May 11, 1997 | Nov 25, 1997 | Neil Affleck | Ken Keeler, David S. Cohen, Dan Greaney, Steve Tompkins | 4F20 |
In a special broadcast hosted by Troy McClure, three spin-off television series will be presented. Police chief Wiggum goes to New Orleans as a private detective with Rector Skinner. With Grandpa's help, Moe tries to win over a woman named Betty. | ||||||||
178 | 25th | Lisa's secret war | The Secret War of Lisa Simpson | May 18, 1997 | Nov 26, 1997 | Mike B. Anderson | Richard Appel | 4F21 |
Bart caused chaos with several megaphones connected in series. Marge then takes Bart to a military academy to teach him better behavior. However, Lisa also goes there, albeit voluntarily. As the only girl among the cadets, she can only assert herself there with great difficulty. |
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d The Simpsons Season 8 Episode Guide . Zap2it.com . Archived from the original on March 10, 2014. Retrieved March 10, 2014.
- ↑ a b c d "The Simpsons" episode guide. In: simpsonspedia.net. Retrieved March 19, 2014 .
- ↑ The Simpsons Episode Guide. Retrieved March 19, 2014
- ↑ Production Code : Season 8 - Simpsonspedia, the Simpsons Wiki. In: simpsonspedia.net. Retrieved March 19, 2014 .