The Simpsons: Season 20
20th Century Fox (2008)
Animation, Comedy
In Collection
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Seen ItYes
024543634881
IMDB   8.9
462 mins USA / English
Blu-ray Disc  Region 1   UR (Unrated)
Dan Castellaneta Homer Simpson
Julie Kavner Marge Simpson
Hank Azaria Moe Szyslak|Apu Nahasapeemapetilon|Chief Clancy Wiggum|Professor Frink|Dr. Nick Riviera|Comic Book G
Harry Shearer Charles Montgomery Burns|Nedward "Ned" Flanders|Principal Seymour Skinner|Reverend Timothy Lovejoy|O
Nancy Cartwright Bart Simpson
Yeardley Smith Lisa Simpson
Pamela Hayden Milhouse Van Houten
Tress MacNeille Agnes Skinner
Karl Wiedergott Additional Voices
Maggie Roswell Maude Flanders
Anne Hathaway
Director
David Silverman
Mark Kirkland
Producer James L. Brooks
Matt Groening
Writer James L. Brooks
Matt Groening
Musician Alf Clausen

Originally created by cartoonist Matt Groening, "Our Favorite Family," has graced the small screen in one form or another for over 20 years. The Simpson family first appeared on television as the subjects of interstitial "shorts" on The Tracey Ullman Show in April of 1987. The Simpsons remained a staple on The Tracey Ullman Show for three seasons until they premiered in their own half-hour series, on December 17, 1989. With the help of Jim Brooks and Sam Simon, Matt Groening's cartoon family turned into an instant success. Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general. Currently in its 21st season, The Simpsons has piled up over 440 episodes, over 20 Emmy Awards, a handful of music albums, countless endorsements and merchandise, and even made the jump to the silver screen in the summer of 2007 with The Simpsons Movie. And according to Matt Groening, "There is no end in sight."
Episodes
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    9/28/2008  1.  Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes
Bounty hunter Ned is forced to scrap his partnership with Homer when the hapless layabout skips bail, and Marge mistakenly takes a job at an erotic bakery.
Director:  Lance Kramer  Writer:  Kevin Curran 
Guest starring:  Robert Forster (Lucky Jim (voix VO)), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Gloria (voix VO))
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    10/5/2008  2.  Lost Verizon
Bart lands himself in trouble when he steals a mobile phone from Denis Leary and subsequently uses it to land the actor a comical film role. The troublemaker then leads his family to the ancient ruins of Machu Picchu after Marge confiscates the device and decides to use its GPS technology to track her son.
Director:  Raymond S. Persi  Writer:  John Fink 
Guest starring:  Denis Leary, Brian Gazer
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    10/19/2008  3.  Double, Double, Boy in Trouble
An irreverent take on the Prince and the Pauper. Bart enthusiastically trades lives with a wealthy lookalike after landing himself in trouble for triggering a rampage of vacuum cleaners, but finds the lavish lifestyle too much when he becomes the target of all his new friends' pranks.
Director:  Michael Polcino  Writer:  Bill Odenkirk 
Guest starring:  Joe Montana
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    11/2/2008  4.  Treehouse of Horror XIX
Springfield is the setting for parodies of Charlie Brown, It's the Great Pumpkin and Michael Bay's Transformers as Homer's vote on election day is misread by a renegade machine.
Director:  Bob Anderson  Writer:  Matt Warburton 
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    11/9/2008  5.  Dangerous Curves
Homer and Marge remember the ups and downs of their marriage through a series of flashbacks, including the time they each began flirting with guests at a glamorous party - a situation that led to a food fight and an unexpected swim in the pool.
Director:  Matthew Faughnan  Writer:  Ian Maxtone-Graham  / Billy Kimball 
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    11/16/2008  6.  Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words
Lisa learns she is good at crossword puzzles and enters a city-wide contest. Homer discovers he has a flair for letting loved ones down so he opens Sweet Conclusions Break-Up Service, but lands himself in trouble with his daughter when he places a bet against her in the competition.
Director:  Nancy Kruse  Writer:  Tim Long 
Guest starring:  Will Shortz, Merl Reagle, Scott Thompson
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    11/30/2008  7.  Mypods and Boomsticks
Lisa struggles to become the proud owner of a Mypod, and Homer believes Bart's new Middle-Eastern friend Bashir is involved in a terrorist plot to destroy the Springfield Mall.
Director:  Steven Dean Moore  Writer:  Marc Wilmore 
Guest starring:  Shohreh Aghdashloo
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    12/7/2008  8.  The Burns and the Bees
Mr Burns wins a professional basketball team in a poker game at the annual billionaire's retreat. He decides to build a state-of-the-art facility in an attempt to lure fans, but the stadium site is on the last remaining bee colony in Springfield - prompting Lisa to lead a protest.
Director:  Mark Kirkland  Writer:  Stephanie Gillis 
Guest starring:  Mark Cuban, Jeff Bezos, Marv Albert
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    1/25/2009  9.  Lisa the Drama Queen
Lisa lets her imagination run wild when she makes a new friend and they create a magical kingdom together called Equalia, complete with characters and plotlines. But they find themselves facing a nightmare when the boundaries between reality and fantasy are blurred. With the voice of Emily Blunt.
Director:  Matthew Nastuk  Writer:  Brian Kelley 
Guest starring:  Emily Blunt (Juliet Hobbes (voix VO))
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    2/15/2009  10.  Take My Life, Please
Homer is jealous when old classmate Vance Connor is inducted into the Springfield Walk of Fame. Lenny and Carl confess they fixed the result in favor of Principal Dondelinger - leading the hapless father to speculate on how his life would have changed had he won the ballot.
Director:  Steven Dean Moore  Writer:  Don Payne 
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    3/1/2009  11.  How the Test Was Won
Bart gets a perfect score on a practice test for a national achievement test, which not only rattles Lisa, but it means Bart gets to attend a special party instead of having to take the actual test. Meanwhile, Homer must avoid injuring himself for an entire afternoon after failing to pay his insurance.
Director:  Lance Kramer  Writer:  Michael Price 
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    3/8/2009  12.  No Loan Again, Naturally
When the adjustable rate on Homer's home mortgage (taken out to pay for Homer's annual Mardi Gras parties) increases drastically and Homer can't make the payments, 742 Evergreen Terrace is sold...to Ned Flanders, who rents it back to Homer... at least until Homer demands that Flanders repair the house.
Director:  Mark Kirkland  Writer:  Jeff Westbrook 
Guest starring:  Maurice LaMarche
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    3/15/2009  13.  Gone Maggie Gone
Lisa infiltrates a convent in order to steal back Maggie who was accidentally taken in by nuns. While in the convent, Lisa uncovers a series of cryptic clues leading to a hidden jewel in Springfield. With help from resident history buffs Principal Skinner and Comic Book Guy, Lisa sets off to find the coveted prize. But Springfield's Freemasons are also hot on the trail of the jewel, and Lisa must race against them to find the jewel and rescue Maggie.
Director:  Chris Clements  Writer:  Ian Maxtone-Graham  / Billy Kimball 
Guest starring:  Ed Begley Jr.
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    3/22/2009  14.  In the Name of the Grandfather
The Simpsons travel to Ireland so that Grampa can have a final drink at O'Flanagan's Pub - an old watering hole of his. But when the small town of Dunkilderry isn't quite what Grampa remembers it as, and O'Flanagans has become a rundown and empty pub, he and Homer decide to buy it and fix it up.
Director:  Ralph Sosa  Writer:  Matt Marshall 
Guest starring:  Colm Meaney
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    3/29/2009  15.  Wedding for Disaster
After Marge and Homer's marriage turns out to be invalid, they decide to re-do their vows. But when Homer goes missing, Bart and Lisa smell something funny and investigate his disappearance.
Director:  Chuck Sheetz  Writer:  Joel H. Cohen 
Guest starring:  Kelsey Grammer
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    4/5/2009  16.  Eeny Teeny Maya Moe
Moe once again searches for love and falls for a woman named Maya over the Internet. However, when Moe meets Maya face-to-face, he discovers it's more like face-to-knee, as Maya is only three feet tall.
Director:  Nancy Kruse  Writer:  John Frink 
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    4/19/2009  17.  The Good, the Sad and the Drugly
Bart falls in love with a charitable girl named Jenny, prompting Bart to behave in order to date her. Meanwhile, Lisa becomes depressed when she writes a report on Springfield's future.
Director:  Rob Oliver  Writer:  Marc Wilmore 
Guest starring:  Anne Hathaway
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    4/26/2009  18.  Father Knows Worst
Bart and Lisa start struggling in their academic and social lives at school and Homer starts monitoring them and forcing them to do better. Meanwhile, Marge discovers a sauna in the basement.
Director:  Matthew Nastuk  Writer:  Rob LaZebnik 
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    5/3/2009  19.  Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh
When Marge learns Springfield Elementary is the worst school in the state, she and Homer rent an apartment in the upscale Waverly Hills school district so Bart and Lisa can attend a better school. Meanwhile, Homer moves into the rented Waverly Hills apartment and gets used to the bachelor lifestyle.
Director:  Michael Polcino  Writer:  J. Stewart Burns 
Guest starring:  Ellen PageMaurice LaMarche
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    5/10/2009  20.  Four Great Women and a Manicure
Marge and Lisa visit the nail salon where they engage in a spirited debate as to whether a woman can be smart, powerful and beautiful all at the same time and spin four tales of famous women featuring famous Springfield faces: Selma as Queen Elizabeth I, Lisa as Snow White, Marge as Lady Macbeth and Maggie as Howard Roark, the idealistic architect protagonist from Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead.
Director:  Raymond S. Persi  Writer:  Valentina L. Garza 
Guest starring:  Jodie Foster
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    5/17/2009  21.  Coming to Homerica
When nearby Ogdenville’s economy crumbles due to tainted barley discovered in Krusty’s veggie burgers, the unemployed workers of Ogdenville flock to Springfield. After Mayor Quimby closes Springfield’s borders and enlists private citizens to help patrol them, Homer organizes a border patrol group.
Director:  Steven Dean Moore  Writer:  Brendan Hay 
Edition Details
Series The Simpsons
Distributor Fox
Release Date 1/12/2010
Screen Ratio Widescreen (1.78:1)
Audio Tracks DTS-HD High Resolution Audio [English]
No. of Disks/Tapes 1