| The Simpsons Season 16 | |
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| 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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| 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. |
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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 on T-shirts. These shirts eventually become popular, and Bart goes into business selling them.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 345 - 1610 | February 20 | GABF04 | There's Something About Marrying |
| Homer becomes a minister after Springfield legalizes gay marriage (to boost their damaged reputation for tourists) 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. Meanwhile, Homer becomes a greeter for the Sprawl-Mart.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 352 - 1617 | May 1 | GABF11 | The Heartbroke Kid |
Springfield Elementary signs a deal with a snack company to install vending machines in the schools--with Bart taking advantage of the situation to the point that he becomes obese and suffers a heart attack.
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| 353 - 1618 | May 8 | GABF13 | A Star Is Torn |
Lisa participates in a singing competition with Homer as her manager.
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| 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 a live pornographic webcam show. Upset that nobody told him about this, Ned leaves town and a new neighbor moves in next to the Simpsons.
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| 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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