TV series
Just a product of society that's lost its good manners.
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.
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Checked Jul 22, 2026
The Simpsons is available to stream on DirecTV On Demand, Disney+, Hulu, YouTube TV, Fubo, and Spectrum On Demand in United States. You can also buy it from Amazon, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home. Use the direct links below to open the provider.
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.
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Episode 1
Ned Flanders' head injury gives him the power to predict others' deaths, Bart and Lisa play detective when a string of Victorian-era prostitutes are murdered by Jack the Ripper, and the Simpsons go on a fantastic voyage inside Mr. Burns' body to save Maggie.
Directed by David SilvermanWritten by Bill OdenkirkGuest stars Karl Wiedergott, Tress MacNeille
Episode 2
Marge gets her kitchen remodeled and the dishes she makes inside it get rave reviews. The suggestion of Ned Flanders leads her to enter a cooking contest. However, Marge realizes the competition is harder than it seems. Meanwhile, Bart finds Homer's vintage Playdude magazines and decides to adopt the lifestyle he sees within the articles.
Directed by Mark KirklandWritten by Matt SelmanGuest stars Thomas Pynchon, James Caan, Marcia Wallace, Karl Wiedergott, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille
Episode 3
Marge finds Nelson and acts as a mother figure towards him due to her children's loss of interest in her. Meanwhile, Lisa gets teased about her big butt, and becomes obsessed with her weight.
Directed by Lauren MacMullanWritten by Jon VittiGuest stars Marcia Wallace, Russi Taylor, Tress MacNeille, Pamela Hayden
Episode 4
Marge meets up with a former high-school pal who is now a famous news anchor, and she wonders if she made the right life choice.
Directed by Matthew NastukWritten by Tim LongGuest stars Karl Wiedergott, Kim Cattrall, Tress MacNeille
Episode 5
When Bart writes slogans on T-shirts, he catches the attention of Goose Gladwell, a gag-gift entrepreneur, and soon becomes a T-shirt mogul; Homer feels he no longer has a place in the family when Bart becomes the breadwinner.
Directed by Mike B. AndersonWritten by Joel H. CohenGuest stars Russi Taylor, Eric Idle, Tress MacNeille, Pamela Hayden, Terry W. Greene, Karl Wiedergott
Episode 6
Homer, Grampa, Apu and Flanders travel to Canada to buy sorely needed prescription drugs with fake Canadian health-care cards.
Directed by Nancy KruseWritten by Marc WilmoreGuest stars Karl Wiedergott, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille
Episode 7
When Marge discovers Homer has remortgaged the house to help Moe's bar, she takes over as landlady. Little does Homer know, Moe and Marge are a match made in pub heaven.
Directed by Mark KirklandWritten by Michael PriceGuest stars Karl Wiedergott, Tress MacNeille
Episode 8
Homer's impromptu dance at a carnival leads to a job choreographing victory dances for sports stars Tom Brady, Warren Sapp, Michelle Kwan, Yao Ming and LeBron James.
Directed by Steven Dean MooreWritten by Tim LongGuest stars Michelle Kwan, LeBron James, Yao Ming, Tom Brady, Pamela Hayden, Warren Sapp, Karl Wiedergott, Tress MacNeille
Episode 9
Bart fakes his own kidnapping to get out of being punished for going to a rap concert, but the ruse goes too far when Milhouse's father is implicated as the kidnapper and Chief Wiggum sees this as an opportunity to make a name for himself as a competent police officer.
Directed by Mike B. AndersonWritten by Matt SelmanGuest stars 50 Cent, Dana Gould, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Karl Wiedergott
Episode 10
Springfield legalizes same-sex marriage to increase tourism. After becoming a minister, Homer starts to wed people to make money. Meanwhile, Marge's sister Patty comes out as a lesbian and reveals that she is going to marry a woman named Veronica.
Directed by Nancy KruseWritten by J. Stewart BurnsGuest stars Russi Taylor, Marcia Wallace, Karl Wiedergott, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille
Episode 11
Lisa does what every little sister has dreamed of - she gets a restraining order put on her big brother. Bart is forced to live in the back garden, but soon realises the joy of communing with nature.
Directed by Bob AndersonWritten by Jeff WestbrookGuest stars Gary Busey, Jane Kaczmarek, Marcia Wallace, Karl Wiedergott, Russi Taylor, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille
Episode 12
Selma decides to adopt a child from China, but when the rules say she must be married, Homer must pose as her husband for the fearsome adoption agent Madame Wu.
Directed by Lance KramerWritten by Dana GouldGuest stars Robert Wagner, Lucy Liu, David Silverman, Karl Wiedergott, Tress MacNeille, Pamela Hayden
Episode 13
When Marge starts economising, Homer thinks he's being left out of the family's important financial decisions, so splashes out on an expensive camper van and sets up camp on the driveway.
Directed by Raymond S. PersiWritten by Tim LongGuest stars Karl Wiedergott, Tress MacNeille
Episode 14
After Shelbyville accuses Springfield of being hicks, Marge convinces the townspeople to fund a Frank Gehry-designed concert hall, which is then converted to a prison when the concert hall goes bankrupt on opening night. Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa investigate Snowball II's recent weight gain.
Directed by Matthew NastukWritten by Bill OdenkirkGuest stars Frank Gehry, Joe Mantegna, Karl Wiedergott, Charles Napier, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille
Episode 15
Through Professor Frink's future machine, Bart and Lisa see their lives in the year 2013, where Bart steals Lisa's chances at going to an Ivy League school in order to impress a skater girl named Jenda while Homer (now separated from Marge and living in an underwater apartment) fights Krusty the Clown after Marge begins dating him.
Directed by Mike B. AndersonWritten by Matt SelmanGuest stars Amy Poehler, John DiMaggio, Russi Taylor, Marcia Wallace, Karl Wiedergott, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille
Episode 16
Homer meets a new friend, Ray the Roofer, but gets confined to a mental institution when his friends and family believe he made him up.
Directed by Mark KirklandWritten by Kevin CurranGuest stars Stephen Hawking, Karl Wiedergott, Ray Romano, Tress MacNeille
Episode 17
When Bart endangers his health by bingeing on vending-machine food, the Simpsons turn their home into a hostel in order to afford sending him to a forced starvation facility.
Directed by Steven Dean MooreWritten by Ian Maxtone-GrahamGuest stars Marcia Wallace, Karl Wiedergott, Albert Brooks, Russi Taylor, Tress MacNeille, Pamela Hayden
Episode 18
Lisa agrees to enter a Krusty-sponsored "Li'l Starmaker" competition and panics when another contestant outperforms her.
Directed by Nancy KruseWritten by Carolyn OmineGuest stars Fantasia Barrino, Karl Wiedergott, Pamela Hayden
Episode 19
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 occurrences and doing a complicated math equation that predicts the end will come on May 18th.
Directed by Michael MarcantelWritten by Don PayneGuest stars Karl Wiedergott, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille
Episode 20
Flanders rents a room to two college girls who, without his knowledge, use the spare room to broadcast live softcore pornographic web videos of themselves.
Directed by Bob AndersonWritten by Joel H. CohenGuest stars Jason Bateman, Tress MacNeille
Episode 21
Bart gets expelled from school and transfers to a Catholic school, where a hip priest named Father Sean tries to convert Bart and Homer to Catholicism, which worries Marge when she believes that Catholics do not go to the same heaven as Protestants and discovers that Catholic women do not use birth control.
Directed by Michael PolcinoWritten by Matt WarburtonGuest stars Liam Neeson, Marcia Wallace
Episode information updated Jul 25, 2026
Dan CastellanetaHomer Simpson / Abe Simpson / Barney Gumble / Krusty (voice)
Julie KavnerMarge Simpson / Patty Bouvier / Selma Bouvier (voice)
Nancy CartwrightBart Simpson / Nelson Muntz / Ralph Wiggum (voice)
Yeardley SmithLisa Simpson (voice)
Hank AzariaMoe Szyslak / Chief Wiggum / Apu / Comic Book Guy / Carl (voice)
Harry ShearerNed Flanders / Mr. Burns / Smithers / Skinner / Lenny (voice)
Jane KaczmarekConstance Harm (voice)
Jackie MasonHyman Krustofsky (voice)
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