Lisa pretends to be a college student and loses favour with her classmates at Springfield Elementary in the process. A mysterious illness forces Bart to live in a plastic bubble.
When Marge, Lisa and Bart find out how hard Homer struggles to keep a roof over their heads, they enrol him in a Rock and Roll fantasy camp to relax at for a week.
The Simpsons attend a hockey game and Lisa brings home a souvenir hockey stick, but the stick has Russian termites, which quickly infest the whole house.
Homer's mother returns to Springfield, and the city pardons her from the charges against her. Mr Burns is furious about this and makes a plan to put Mona Simpson in prison.
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair, welcomes the Simpsons to England, where they run into author J.K. Rowling and actor Ian McKellen.
Homer's song, 'Everybody Hates Ned Flanders', becomes a hit in Springfield, but the family ends up leaving Springfield for a couple of weeks to live on a ranch, to escape Homer's song.
Due to Homer losing his driver's licence, Marge has to drive everyone everywhere, which is so stressful for her that she accidentally runs over Homer, leading them to see a marriage counsellor.
Homer begins to study the Rapture and believes he knows when the end times will come, so he begins warning others in an attempt to secure his place in Heaven.
In a spoof of the film 'Boyhood', this is the tale of Bart's journey from youth to adulthood, where he is constantly in search of approval from his father and in the shadow of his more-successful younger sister.
Apu's nephew makes big changes when he takes over the Kwik-E-Mart business. Bart decides that he's through with being bad after his latest prank spirals out of control.
When Lisa is turned into a show-biz star, Marge and Homer feel they may have been too hasty in letting her go, and head to the Big Apple to bring her home.