The Simpsons (season 13)

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The Simpsons Season 13
Series The Simpsons
Country of origin USA
Network Fox
Original run November 6, 2001 –
May 22, 2002
No. of episodes 22
Previous season 12
Next season 14

The Simpsons' 13th season (November 2001 - May 2002) began on Tuesday, November 6, 2001 with Treehouse of Horror XII. The season contains five hold-over episodes from the season 12 (CABF) production line. This was also the last season to use traditional cel animation.

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22 episodes

  • Al Jean returns as show runner, only this time it is without Mike Reiss, and remains show runner to this day.
# Airdate Prod. Code Title
270 - 1301 November 6 CABF19 Treehouse of Horror XII
Hex and the City – A gypsy's curse turns Homer into a walking bad luck charm that makes monsters of his family members and kills off his best friends.

House of Whacks – Marge buys a HAL-style computer system for the house and picks the Pierce Brosnan personality, who immediately takes a shine to Marge -- and attempts to murder Homer.

Wiz Kids – A Harry Potter parody where Bart and Lisa go to a school for wizards, and Lord Montemort (Mr. Burns) uses Bart to capture Lisa's magic.
271 - 1302 November 11 CABF22 The Parent Rap
Bart gets in trouble for joyriding in a police car, but feels confident he'll be let off the hook by Judge Snyder. However, Snyder goes on vacation before ruling his verdict and gets replaced with a coldhearted judge named Constance Harm who blames Homer for being a negligent father and sentences him and Bart to be tethered together.
272 - 1303 November 18 CABF20 Homer the Moe
A depressed Moe decides to return to bartending school to re-evaluate himself and turns his bar into a trendy nightclub, which does not sit well with his regular customers (Homer, Lenny, Carl, and Barney).
273 - 1304 December 2 CABF18 A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love
Homer becomes a fortune cookie writer for a Chinatown restaurant. Meanwhile, Mr. Burns finds one of Homer's fortunes predicting that he will find love before Flag Day is over, and falls for a meter maid--whose ex-boyfriend is resident criminal Snake Jailbird.
274 - 1305 December 9 CABF21 The Blunder Years
After tricking Marge into thinking an advertising spokesman is coming to visit her, Homer takes Marge and the rest of the family to a restaurant featuring a hypnotist that uses his powers on Homer...and makes Homer remember a horrific childhood incident where Homer found a dead body in a ravine.
275 - 1306 December 16 DABF02 She of Little Faith
After Homer and Bart's model rocket damages the church, Mr. Burns makes a deal to commercialize the church in return for paying for the damages, which leads Lisa to convert to Buddhism out of disgust, causing Marge to fear for Lisa's soul.
276 - 1307 January 6 DABF01 Brawl in the Family
A social worker is assigned to make the Simpson family functional after they get arrested for fighting over a board game. Meanwhile, Ginger and Amber (the barmaids who married Homer and Flanders while they were drunk) from "Viva Ned Flanders" return to see Flanders and Homer.
277 - 1308 January 20 DABF03 Sweets and Sour Marge
Springfield is officially declared the World's Fattest Town after the townspeople gets involved in building a human pyramid and end up rolling onto a truck scale. Out of embarrassment and disgust, Marge goes on a crusade to get sugar banned from Springfield. When the ban passes through, Homer begins bootlegging sugar.
278 - 1309 January 27 DABF05 Jaws Wired Shut
Homer gets his jaw injured by Drederick Tatum's statue in the park and has it wired shut. While recouperating, Homer becomes a better listener and a more compassionate person, which makes Marge bored once Homer's jaw is healed and he doesn't go back to being crazy and obnoxious.
279 - 1310 February 10 DABF04 Half-Decent Proposal
To earn money for Homer's snoring problem, Marge agrees to stay with her old prom date, Artie Ziff, for one weekend (on the grounds that he try not to grope her like he did in "The Way We Was"), but when Homer thinks Marge broke her promise, he runs away with Lenny to work on an oil rig.
280 - 1311 February 17 DABF06 The Bart Wants What It Wants
Bart befriends Rainer Wolfcastle's daughter, Greta, who has a crush on Bart (which Bart doesn't realize). Meanwhile, Principal Skinner tries his hand at stand-up comedy--and gets heckled.
281 - 1312 February 24 DABF07 The Lastest Gun in the West
Bart befriends Buck, a former Western film star who stages a comeback on The Krusty the Klown show after every kid in town becomes interested in the Wild West. However, the comeback flops when Buck begins drinking alcohol and injures Krusty on live TV.
282 - 1313 March 10 DABF09 The Old Man and the Key
Grampa gets his driver's license back and uses Homer's car to impress a woman at the retirement home, but is ignorant to Homer and Marges' concerns that she is only using him for his car.
283 - 1314 March 17 DABF08 Tales from the Public Domain
Homer reads a children's storybook that he never took back to the library, which features such stories as:
284 - 1315 March 31 DABF10 Blame It on Lisa
When Homer gets the family's telephone service cut off for refusing to pay for calls made to Rio de Janiero, Brazil, Lisa confesses that she was the one who called Rio after befriending an orphan who ended up missing. In response, the Simpsons travel to Brazil to look for him.
285 - 1316 April 7 DABF11 Weekend at Burnsie's
Homer takes up medicinal marijuana after getting pecked in the eyes by crows.
286 - 1317 April 21 DABF12 Gump Roast
In this clip show episode, Homer is honored at a Friar's Club Roast which is interrupted by Kang and Kodos.
287 - 1318 April 28 DABF13 I Am Furious Yellow
Inspired by a cartoonist who speaks at the school as part of a career day assembly, Bart creates a comic book series based on Homer and his anger problems, which turns into a popular Internet cartoon series. Meanwhile, Stan Lee harasses the Comic Book Guy.
288 - 1319 May 5 DABF14 The Sweetest Apu
Homer and Marge discover that Apu is having an affair with the Squishee Lady and attempt on keeping Manjula from finding out.
289 - 1320 May 12 DABF15 Little Girl in the Big Ten
Lisa tries to fit in with two college students by lying about her age. Meanwhile, Bart is diagnosed with a weakened immune system after getting bitten by a Chinese mosquito and must live in a plastic, germ-free bubble.
290 - 1321 May 19 DABF16 The Frying Game
While faced with community service, Homer, along with Marge are accused of murder after the old woman they are caring for dies.
291 - 1322 May 22 DABF17 Papa's Got a Brand New Badge
Homer starts a security company with Lenny and Carl after the police are ineffective during a blackout, and eventually Mayor Quimby decides to have them replace the police, which works until they have to deal with Fat Tony.

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