The Simpsons / Season 8

Season 8 of The Simpsons
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
◀   Season 7 Season 9   ▶
► Episode list

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

See also : The Simpsons / Episode List

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast (USA)	German language first broadcast ( D )	Director	script	Prodc.
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.
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.
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

• Characters from The Simpsons
• The Simpsons (family)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} The Simpsons Season 8 Episode Guide . Zap2it.com . Archived from the original on March 10, 2014. Retrieved March 10, 2014.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} "The Simpsons" episode guide. In: simpsonspedia.net. Retrieved March 19, 2014 . 
3. ↑ The Simpsons Episode Guide. Retrieved March 19, 2014
4. ↑ Production Code : Season 8 - Simpsonspedia, the Simpsons Wiki. In: simpsonspedia.net. Retrieved March 19, 2014 . 

Web links

• Season at Simpsonspedia
• Season of Call of the Simpsons