The Simpsons (season 10)

<tr style="text-align: center; background:#F2F2F2"><td id="ep204 - 1">204 - 1</td> <td style="text-align: left;">"Lard of the Dance" </td><td>Dominic Polcino</td><td>Jane O'Brien</td><td>August 23, 1998</td><td id="pc5F20">5F20</td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom:3px solid #BCA56A" colspan="6"> Lisa befriends a new student named Alex Whitney, whose mature attitude convinces Lisa's friends to be just like her. Meanwhile, Homer convinces Bart to drop out of school for what he thinks to be a more promising pursuit: selling grease.
Guest star: Lisa Kudrow. </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center; background:#F2F2F2"><td id="ep205 - 2">205 - 2</td> <td style="text-align: left;">"The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" </td><td>Mark Kirkland</td><td>John Swartzwelder</td><td>September 20, 1998</td><td id="pc5F21">5F21</td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom:3px solid #BCA56A" colspan="6"> Realizing his life is half-over, Homer decides that he hasn't yet done anything to be proud of. In an attempt to pique his inspiration, Lisa introduces Homer to Thomas Edison, prompting him to become an inventor himself.
Guest star: William Daniels. </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center; background:#F2F2F2"><td id="ep206 - 3">206 - 3</td> <td style="text-align: left;">"Bart the Mother" </td><td>Steven Dean Moore</td><td>David S. Cohen</td><td>September 27, 1998</td><td id="pc5F22">5F22</td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom:3px solid #BCA56A" colspan="6"> Nelson invites Bart over to experiment with a BB gun, which in turn leads to the death of a mother bird. After Marge comes into realization of Bart's crime, she gives up punishing him entirely. Bart's guilt causes him to nurse the eggs and their contents into fruition.
Guest star: Phil Hartman (in his final role) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center; background:#F2F2F2"><td id="ep207 - 4">207 - 4</td> <td style="text-align: left;">"Treehouse of Horror IX" </td><td>Steven Dean Moore</td><td>David S. Cohen
Larry Doyle
Donick Cary</td><td>October 25, 1998</td><td id="pcAABF01">AABF01</td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom:3px solid #BCA56A" colspan="6"> Season 10's annual trio of Halloween stories.
"Hell Toupee" – Homer gets a hair transplant from recently executed Snake Jailbird (who was sentenced to death after breaking the city's three strikes law), who proceeds to possess Homer, forcing him to kill the people who witnessed Snake's final crime.

"The Terror of Tiny Toon" – Bart and Lisa use plutonium as a remote control battery after which the radioactivity sucks them into a Halloween episode of Itchy and Scratchy where they become part of the gruesome cartoon action.

"Starship Poopers" – Marge reveals that Kang is Maggie's real father and the family become guests on The Jerry Springer Show.
Guest stars: Regis Philbin, Kathie Lee Gifford, Jerry Springer, Ed McMahon, Marcia Wallace, Robert Englund and Kane Hodder. </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center; background:#F2F2F2"><td id="ep208 - 5">208 - 5</td> <td style="text-align: left;">"When You Dish upon a Star" </td><td>Pete Michels</td><td>Richard Appel</td><td>November 8, 1998</td><td id="pc5F19">5F19</td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom:3px solid #BCA56A" colspan="6"> When a parasailing accident sends Homer through the ceiling windows of the secret home of Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin, they hire him as their personal assistant.
Guest stars: Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center; background:#F2F2F2"><td id="ep209 - 6">209 - 6</td> <td style="text-align: left;">"D'oh-in in the Wind" </td><td>Mark Kirkland
Matthew Nastuk</td><td>Donick Cary</td><td>November 15, 1998</td><td id="pcAABF02">AABF02</td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom:3px solid #BCA56A" colspan="6"> After finding a mural painted by his mother, Homer comes to learn his middle initial, "J", signifies simply "Jay." An ensuing vision of how things were "meant to be" prompts Homer to begin living the hippie lifestyle.
Guest Stars: George Carlin, Martin Mull and Yo La Tengo (performs end theme). </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center; background:#F2F2F2"><td id="ep210 - 7">210 - 7</td> <td style="text-align: left;">"Lisa Gets an "A"" </td><td>Bob Anderson</td><td>Ian Maxtone-Graham</td><td>November 22, 1998</td><td id="pcAABF03">AABF03</td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom:3px solid #BCA56A" colspan="6"> While sick from school, Lisa becomes obsessed with a video game and neglects to study for a test. Her only options being to cheat or fail, she calls upon Nelson Muntz for the test's answers. Meanwhile, Homer houses a lobster, becomes emotionally attached to it and decides to keep it as a pet. </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center; background:#F2F2F2"><td id="ep211 - 8">211 - 8</td> <td style="text-align: left;">"Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"" </td><td>Mike B. Anderson</td><td>John Swartzwelder</td><td>December 6, 1998</td><td id="pcAABF04">AABF04</td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom:3px solid #BCA56A" colspan="6"> Abe Simpson is forced to "hold it in" during a long drive home which results in a burst kidney. Homer offers to give his grandfather one of his kidneys, but when his friends scare him with possible scenarios of what could happen if he donates an organ, Homer runs away and joins a group of weird characters who have also fled in shame. </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center; background:#F2F2F2"><td id="ep212 - 9">212 - 9</td> <td style="text-align: left;">"Mayored to the Mob" </td><td>Swinton O. Scott III</td><td>Ron Hauge</td><td>December 20, 1998</td><td id="pcAABF05">AABF05</td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom:3px solid #BCA56A" colspan="6"> After saving Mayor Quimby from rioters at a sci-fi convention, Homer becomes Mayor Quimby's bodyguard. However, Homer puts Mayor Quimby in danger when he encourages him to stand up to his boss, Fat Tony.
Guest stars: Mark Hamill and Joe Mantegna </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center; background:#F2F2F2"><td id="ep213 - 10">213 - 10</td> <td style="text-align: left;">"Viva Ned Flanders" </td><td>Lance Kramer</td><td>David M. Stern</td><td>January 10, 1999</td><td id="pcAABF06">AABF06</td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom:3px solid #BCA56A" colspan="6"> When Ned Flanders reveals that he is 60 years old and looks young only because has done nothing exciting in his life, Homer decides to take him to Las Vegas, where, after a night of drunken partying, they end up married to two derelict barmaids.
Guest star: The Moody Blues. </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center; background:#F2F2F2"><td id="ep214 - 11">214 - 11</td> <td style="text-align: left;">"Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" </td><td>Mark Ervin</td><td>Larry Doyle</td><td>January 17, 1999</td><td id="pcAABF07">AABF07</td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom:3px solid #BCA56A" colspan="6"> Homer, Lenny, Carl and Barney raise rampant drunken destruction on Springfield Elementary after the Isotopes win a rare victory. Chief Wiggum suspects that the children commited the crime and places all of Springfield's youth under curfew...with hilarious consequences.
Guest star: Cyndi Lauper. </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center; background:#F2F2F2"><td id="ep215 - 12">215 - 12</td> <td style="text-align: left;">"Sunday, Cruddy Sunday" </td><td>Steven Dean Moore</td><td>Tom Martin
George Meyer
Brian Scully
Mike Scully</td><td>January 31, 1999</td><td id="pcAABF08">AABF08</td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom:3px solid #BCA56A" colspan="6"> Homer, Bart and a group of men from around Springfield go to Miami to watch the Super Bowl, only to find upon arrival that their tickets are fake. Back at home, Marge and Lisa, in an attempt to alleviate their boredom, play with a Vincent Price egg painting set.
Guest stars: John Madden, Troy Aikman, Dan Marino, Pat Summerall, Roosevelt Grier, Fred Willard, Dolly Parton and Rupert Murdoch. </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center; background:#F2F2F2"><td id="ep216 - 13">216 - 13</td> <td style="text-align: left;">"Homer to the Max" </td><td>Pete Michels</td><td>John Swartzwelder</td><td>February 7, 1999</td><td id="pcAABF09">AABF09</td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom:3px solid #BCA56A" colspan="6"> Homer takes advantage of the fact that a suave TV show character has the same name as he does, but when said suave TV character is turned into a bumbling idiot, Homer petitions the court to have his own name legally changed.
Guest star: Ed Begley Jr. </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center; background:#F2F2F2"><td id="ep217 - 14">217 - 14</td> <td style="text-align: left;">"I'm with Cupid" </td><td>Bob Anderson</td><td>Dan Greaney</td><td>February 14, 1999</td><td id="pcAABF11">AABF11</td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom:3px solid #BCA56A" colspan="6"> Apu, in recognition of Valentine's Day, showers Manjula with a week of singing parrots and sky-written love notes, inciting jealousy in the other wives and girlfriends around Springfield, causing Homer, along with a group of dicontented men, to attempt the sabotage of Apu's biggest gift.
Guest star: Elton John. </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center; background:#F2F2F2"><td id="ep218 - 15">218 - 15</td> <td style="text-align: left;">"Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"" </td><td>Mark Kirkland</td><td>David M. Stern</td><td>February 21, 1999</td><td id="pcAABF10">AABF10</td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom:3px solid #BCA56A" colspan="6"> Homer buys an SUV, but upon discovery that it was designed as a "woman's car", he gives it to Marge. Infatuated with the car, she proceeds to develop a ferocious road rage and ends up losing her license.
Guest stars: John Kassir and Hank Williams Jr. </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center; background:#F2F2F2"><td id="ep219 - 16">219 - 16</td> <td style="text-align: left;">"Make Room for Lisa" </td><td>Matthew Nastuk</td><td>Brian Scully</td><td>February 28, 1999</td><td id="pcAABF12">AABF12</td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom:3px solid #BCA56A" colspan="6"> When Homer uses Lisa's room as a cellular phone transmitter to pay off damages done to the Bill of Rights at a Smithsonian exhibit, Lisa begins developing stress-related stomach aches and fears that she and Homer will never be close because of their clashing personalities. Meanwhile, Marge uses Maggie's baby monitor to listen in on phone calls. </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center; background:#F2F2F2"><td id="ep220 - 17">220 - 17</td> <td style="text-align: left;">"Maximum Homerdrive" </td><td>Swinton O. Scott III</td><td>John Swartzwelder</td><td>March 28, 1999</td><td id="pcAABF13">AABF13</td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom:3px solid #BCA56A" colspan="6"> While at a steakhouse, a trucker named Red challenges Homer to an eating contest, ending with Homer losing the match and the trucker losing his life. To make it up to him, Homer becomes a trucker and takes Bart along for the ride. Meanwhile, after deducing that only Homer and Bart get to do the fun things in life, Marge and Lisa decide to excite their lives by installing a new doorbell. </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center; background:#F2F2F2"><td id="ep221 - 18">221 - 18</td> <td style="text-align: left;">"Simpsons Bible Stories" </td><td>Nancy Kruse</td><td>Larry Doyle
Tim Long
Matt Selman</td><td>April 4, 1999</td><td id="pcAABF14">AABF14</td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom:3px solid #BCA56A" colspan="6"> Reverend Lovejoy punishes the congregation with a thorough reading of the Bible after discovering a chocolate Easter bunny in the collection plate. This leads to the Simpson family dreaming of themselves in Biblical stores. </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center; background:#F2F2F2"><td id="ep222 - 19">222 - 19</td> <td style="text-align: left;">"Mom and Pop Art" </td><td>Steven Dean Moore</td><td>Al Jean</td><td>April 11, 1999</td><td id="pcAABF15">AABF15</td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom:3px solid #BCA56A" colspan="6"> Homer becomes an outsider artist after an art dealer discovers his mangled attempt at building a barbecue could be considered as true art, prompting a jealous Marge to confront Homer.
Guest stars: Jasper Johns and Isabella Rossellini. </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center; background:#F2F2F2"><td id="ep223 - 20">223 - 20</td> <td style="text-align: left;">"The Old Man and the "C" Student" </td><td>Mark Kirkland</td><td>Julie Thacker</td><td>April 25, 1999</td><td id="pcAABF16">AABF16</td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom:3px solid #BCA56A" colspan="6"> After costing Springfield the Olympics with a racially offensive stand-up act, Bart is forced to "volunteer" at the Springfield Retirement Castle. Meanwhile Homer starts his latest get-rich-quick scheme: selling springs that were supposed to be used as the Olympics mascot.
Guest star: Jack La Lanne. </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center; background:#F2F2F2"><td id="ep224 - 21">224 - 21</td> <td style="text-align: left;">"Monty Can't Buy Me Love" </td><td>Mark Ervin</td><td>John Swartzwelder</td><td>May 2, 1999</td><td id="pcAABF17">AABF17</td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom:3px solid #BCA56A" colspan="6"> When another billionaire captures Springfield's heart, Mr. Burns looks for various ways to improve his image, one which includes capturing the Loch Ness Monster as a last resort.
Guest star: Michael McKean. </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center; background:#F2F2F2"><td id="ep225 - 22">225 - 22</td> <td style="text-align: left;">"They Saved Lisa's Brain" </td><td>Pete Michels</td><td>Matt Selman</td><td>May 9, 1999</td><td id="pcAABF18">AABF18</td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom:3px solid #BCA56A" colspan="6"> Springfield's branch of Mensa International invites Lisa to join the group after reading her open letter of Springfield's lack of intellectualism. Meanwhile, Homer becomes a model for an erotic photographer.
Guest star: Stephen Hawking. </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center; background:#F2F2F2"><td id="ep226 - 23">226 - 23</td> <td style="text-align: left;">"Thirty Minutes over Tokyo" </td><td>Jim Reardon</td><td>Donick Cary
Dan Greaney</td><td>May 16, 1999</td><td id="pcAABF20">AABF20</td></tr><tr><td style="border-bottom:3px solid #BCA56A" colspan="6"> When Snake Jailbird steals the Simpson family's money online, they go on a discount family vacation to Japan, where they suffer various misfortunes.
Guest stars: George Takei, Gedde Watanabe, Keone Young, Karen Maruyama and Denice Kumagai. </td></tr>