The Simpsons' 16th season (November 2004 - May 2005) began on Sunday, November 7, 2004 with Treehouse of Horror XV. The season contains six hold-over episodes from the season 15 (FABF) production line.
The Simpsons: Season 16 Episodes
| 1601 | Treehouse of Horror XV | 11/07/04 |
| In the fifteenth installment of this Halloween tradion Ned Flanders gains the power of foretelling people's deaths, the Simpsons shrink to a microscopic size and enter Mr. Burns, and Lisa and Bart are set in Victorian London to find a Jack the Ripper-type serial killer. |
| 1602 | All's Fair In Oven War | 11/14/04 |
| When Bart fishes Homer’s vintage “Playdude” magazines out of the trash, he decides to adopt the ring-a-ding-ding lifestyle of the 1970’s portrayed in the magazines; based on his ten year-old knowledge. Meanwhile Marge enters the Ovenfresh Bakeoff. |
| 1603 | Sleeping With The Enemy | 11/21/04 |
| Marge, feeling her kids do not want to spend time with her anymore, takes in neglected son and town bully Nelson Muntz in as her surrogate child. Meanwhile Lisa develops an eating disorder after being teased about her weight on the playground. |
| 1604 | She Used to Be My Girl | 12/05/04 |
| When Marge’s old high school friend now successful newscaster, Chloe Talbot, comes to town to cover a story, Lisa is enamored with her worldliness. Marge quickly becomes jealous of the attention Lisa is paying to her. |
| 1605 | Fat Man And Little Boy | 12/12/04 |
| When Bart begins writing slogans on t-shirts, he catches the attention Goose Gladwell, a Willy Wonka-type gag gift entrepreneur and becomes a t-shirt mogul. With Bart now the breadwinner of the family, Homer realizes he no longer has a place in the family. |
| 1606 | Midnight Rx | 1/16/05 |
| When the citizens of Springfield can no longer afford their prescription drugs, Homer, Grampa, Apu, and Flanders go to Canada and buy the town’s drugs with fake Canadian health care cards. |
| 1607 | Mommie Beerest | 1/30/05 |
| When Moe’s is shut down by the health department, Homer takes out a second mortgage without consulting Marge to finance the bar’s return. |
| 1608 | Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass | 2/06/05 |
| After Homer inadvertently performs a wild crowd-pleasing dance at a local carnival, he is hired by several sports figures including Tom Brady, LeBron James, Yao Ming, Warren Sapp and Michelle Kwan to choreograph their victory dances. |
| 1609 | Pranksta Rap | 2/13/05 |
| Bart sneaks out of the house to attend a forbidden rap concert. When Marge and Homer discover he is missing, Bart fakes his own kidnapping to prevent being grounded. |
| 1610 | There's Something About Marrying | 2/20/05 |
| To boost tourism in Springfield, the town decides to legalize same-sex marriages. Homer discovers the monetary value of gay marriages, becomes an ordained minister via the internet, and soon marries everyone and everything in town. Patty Bouvier then comes to Homer and asks him to marry her – to Veronica a professional women’s golfer. |
| 1611 | On A Clear Day I Can't See My Sister | 3/06/05 |
| Fed up with Bart’s endless taunting and torture, Lisa files a restraining order requiring him to stay at least 20 then 200 feet from her. To adhere to the restraining order, Bart is forced to live in the yard where he learns to commune with nature. |
| 1612 | Goo Goo Gai Pan | 3/13/05 |
| When Selma hits menopause, she realizes that she missed her chance to have a baby and decides to adopt a baby girl from China, but comes to a bump in the road when the application asks for her husband’s name. In an act of desperation, she puts down “Homer Simpson”. So now, the Simpsons are off to China with Selma to pick up her Chinese baby girl with Homer pretending to be her husband. |
| 1613 | Mobile Homer | 3/20/05 |
| Moe, Lenny and Carl convince Homer to purchase a RV as an act of defiance against Marge, who has become frugal with their money after a near death accident involving Homer and a garage door. Not happy about the purchase Marge makes Homer sleep in the RV in their back yard. |
| 1614 | The Seven-Beer Snitch | 4/03/05 |
| Marge convinces the townspeople to fund a Frank Gehry designed concert hall. The opening night hustle and bustle is cut short as Beethoven's Fifth Symphony drives the uninterested townspeople away in droves which leads to the bankruptcy of the hall. The ever generous Mr. Burns assumes the debt of the hall and turns it into The Montgomery Burns State Prison. The prison eventually increases it's capacity to 100%, which unjustly includes Homer. |
| 1615 | Future-Drama | 4/17/05 |
| Professor Frink uses an astrology machine to show Bart and Lisa what their last days as high school students will be like if they don’t mend their ways. In the not-so-distant future, robots are a part of life, Moe has a clone, Homer and Marge are separated, Lisa is dating a muscle-bound Milhouse and Bart is dating the girl of his dreams, Jenda. |
| 1616 | Don't Fear the Roofer | 5/01/05 |
| When Homer tries a new bar he befriends a beer and Curly Joe Derita loving roofer, named Ray. Ray and Homer attempt to repair the roof while Marge and the kids visit the Retirement Castle. |
| 1617 | The Heartbroke Kid | 5/01/05 |
| When new vending machines are installed in Springfield Elementary, Bart quickly becomes a junk food junkie. Bart’s steady diet of processed foods shockingly leads to his massive weight gain and ultimately a heart attack. He is then put on a strict diet but is unable to adhere to it. The Simpsons perform an intervention and he is shipped off to Serenity Ranch - - A Forced Starvation Facility. |
| 1618 | A Star Is Torn | 5/08/05 |
| Lisa participates in a Krusty the Clown sponsored “Li’l Starmaker” competition, with the first prize winner being animated into an Itchy and Scratchy episode. With the help of Homer's song writing Lisa could go all the way. |
| 1619 | Thank God It's Doomsday | 5/08/05 |
| An apocalyptic movie followed by three real-life omens causes Homer to fear and begin researching the rapture. Homer deducts that the event is coming in a week and he believes the only way he can get into heaven is to warn others. |
| 1620 | Home Away From Homer | 5/15/05 |
| Financial trouble inspires Ned to rent his rumpus room to a pair of college aged women. While searching the internet, Bart and Milhouse discover the women are running a soft-core web cam from their room without Ned’s knowledge. |
| 1621 | Father, Son and Holy Guest-Star | 5/15/05 |
| Enraged at being cast as the village idiot and having livestock disrupt his yard at the school's Medieval festival, Groundskeeper Willie sabotages the event and leaves Bart to take the blame. As a result, Bart's expulsion lands him in an affordable Catholic private school where Father Sean, an Eminem quoting Priest, uses graphic stories and comic books to turn Bart on to the cooler parts of Catholicism. |
