The Simpsons (season 16)

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The Simpsons Season 16
Series The Simpsons
Country of origin USA
Network Fox
Original run November 7, 2004 –
May 15, 2005
No. of episodes 21
Previous season 15
Next season 17

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.


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# Airdate Prod. code Title
336 - 1601 November 7 FABF23 Treehouse of Horror XV
The Ned Zone – A severe bump to the head causes Ned Flanders to gain the power to foretell people's deaths.

Four Beheadings with a Funeral – Lisa and Bart investigate the murders of Victorian-era England's most prolific prostitutes.

In the Belly of the Boss – Maggie is shrunken within a giant pill by Dr. Frink's latest invention and is swallowed by Mr Burns. In the style of Fantastic Voyage, the family agree to be shrunken and injected into Mr. Burns in an effort to find her.
337 - 1602 November 14 FABF20 All's Fair in Oven War
Bart gets carried away and adopts a more sophisticated style after reading Homer's Playdude magazines with the racy female images cut out. Meanwhile, Marge resorts to cheating to get revenge during a baking contest after the other contestants used similar dirty methods against her food entry.
338 - 1603 November 21 FABF19 Sleeping With the Enemy
Feeling unappreciated by her own children, Marge takes in Nelson as her surrogate child. Meanwhile, Lisa becomes self-conscious of her weight after the girls in school make fun of her butt.
339 - 1604 December 5 FABF22 She Used to Be My Girl
Marge bumps into an old high-school acquaintance who has become a successful news reporter. While Marge becomes jealous of her friends success and wonders what may have been had she not stayed with Homer, Lisa becomes inspired by this new, strong woman.
340 - 1605 December 12 FABF21 Fat Man and Little Boy
Bart becomes depressed about growing older after losing his last baby tooth, and, following advice from Lisa, deals with his problems by writing slogans. However, his writing is made on T-shirts, which quickly attract attention.
341 - 1606 January 16 FABF16 Midnight Rx
Mr. Burns cancels the nuclear plant's prescription pill plan, prompting Homer and Grampa to smuggle prescription pills in from Canada. Mr. Burns soon regrets his actions when his faithful assistant Smithers suffers from a goiter and joins Homer and Grampa on one last heist.
342 - 1607 January 30 GABF01 Mommie Beerest
When Homer takes out a second mortgage on the house to prevent Moe's being shut down, Marge becomes co-proprietor at Moe's. When the Moe-Marge team create a successful British pub, Homer begins to wonder if Moe and Marge are becoming more than just business partners.
343 - 1608 February 6 GABF02 Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass
After teaching many famous sports stars how to showboat, Homer is asked to choreograph the Super Bowl halftime show.
344 - 1609 February 13 GABF03 Pranksta Rap
Bart secretly attends a rap concert and then fakes his own kidnapping to avoid being punished, but winds up getting Milhouse's father Kirk Van Houten implicated as the kidnapper.
345 - 1610 February 20 GABF04 There's Something About Marrying
Homer becomes a minister after Springfield legalizes gay marriage and Patty comes out of the closet, much to the shock of her sister, Marge.
346 - 1611 March 6 GABF05 On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister
Lisa files a restraining order against Bart, forcing him to live in the backyard. Homer becomes a greeter for the Sprawl Mart.
347 - 1612 March 13 GABF06 Goo Goo Gai Pan
Selma hits menopause, so she tries to adopt a child in China by pretending to be married to Homer.
348 - 1613 March 20 GABF07 Mobile Homer
Marge throws Homer out of the house after wasting her savings on a new RV.
349 - 1614 April 3 GABF08 The Seven-Beer Snitch
Marge convinces the town to build a concert hall to prove that Springfield is not a hick town, but when the hall suffers financial problems, Mr Burns buys it and turns it into a prison. Homer is imprisoned and becomes a snitch on the other prisoners. Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa investigate Snowball II's recent weight gain.
350 - 1615 April 17 GABF12 Future-Drama
Through Professor Frink's future machine, Bart and Lisa see their lives in the year 2013, where both are in high school and Bart steals Lisa's chance at being successful to impress his girlfriend.

Actual 350th episode.
351 - 1616 May 1 GABF10 Don't Fear the Roofer
Sick of being unwanted, Homer befriends a man who works as a roofer. The trouble is, no one else can see him and Homer's insistence that the roofer does exist prompts everyone to think he has gone crazy.

Advertised as the 350th episode.
352 - 1617 May 1 GABF11 The Heartbroke Kid
Bart is sent to fat camp after suffering a heart attack from junk food addiction brought on by the inclusion of vending machines at Springfield Elementary.
353 - 1618 May 8 GABF13 A Star Is Torn
Lisa participates in a singing competition with Homer as her manager.
354 - 1619 May 8 GABF14 Thank God It's Doomsday
Homer sees a movie about the end of the world and fears the same thing will happen in real life after seeing a chain of random occurences (celebrities ["stars"] falling from a blimp, raining blood, a man in a realistic devil costume) and doing a complicated math equation that predicts the end will come on May 18th, but when the end doesn't come, Homer discovers a flaw in the equation and ends up in Heaven where he meets God (again) and learns that God is planning The Rapture.
355 - 1620 May 15 GABF15 Home Away from Homer
Ned rents a room to two college girls who, without his knowledge, use it for live webcam. Upset that nobody told him about this, Ned leaves town and a new neighbor moves in next to the Simpsons.
356 - 1621 May 15 GABF09 The Father, The Son & The Holy Guest Star
Bart gets expelled from school (again) and transfers to a Catholic school, where a hip priest named Father Sean tries to convert Bart and Homer to Catholicism.

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