The Simpsons is a popular animated television Program which has received a lot of appreciation and criticism throughout the years, ever since its release. The series features the odd Simpson family and their odd friends, characters, stars and neighbours. The series has lost its spark since its release and is seen to have fallen in the animation quality in some parts, but nevertheless, there are still many seasons in the franchise which are worth watching. Here is a list of 20 such seasons for you to enjoy.
Season 27
The Simpsons season 27 aired on Fox in the United States from 27th September, 2015, to 22nd May, 2016. The series has a total of 26 episodes. The season premiered, showing Homer’s story as he gets diagnosed with narcolepsy and his illness is followed by his breakup with Marge and he later falls in love with a pharmacist. There are many guest stars in the show. Some of them include Blake Anderson, Kristen Bell, David Copperfield, Lena Dunham, Kelsey Grammer, Nick Kroll, Yo-Yo Ma, Edward James Olmos, Kevin Micheal Richardson and George Takei. Carl Zealer also won an award in a competition to be animated in the show, featured in the episode ‘Halloween of Horror’.
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Season 18
The Simpsons Season 18 premiered on the Fox Network on 10th September, 2006, and ended on 20th May, 2007, with a total of 22 episodes. The first episode of the series featured Lisa’s friendship with Fat Tony’s son Micheal, and the family visits their house for dinner. James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, Lars Ulrich, Robert Trujillo, The White Stripes, Richard Lewis, Fran Drescher, Phil McGraw, Sir Mix-a-Lot, Maurice LaMarche and many others gave their voices and appeared on the series as guest stars in this season.
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Season 17
The Simpsons Season 17 premiered on the Fox Network on 11th September, 2005, and ended on 21st May, 2006, with a total of 22 episodes. The first episode features Homer allowing Fat Tony to shoot a movie. Marge is angry and goes to meet the attractive marine biologist Caleb Thorn. Alec Baldwin, Joe Mantegna, Terry Bradshaw, Dennis Rodman, Lily Tomlin, Kelsey Grammer, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Michael York, William. H. Macy, Joe Frazier, Maurice LaMarche and many others gave their voices and appeared in the series as star guests in this season.
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Season 20
The Simpsons Season 20 premiered on the Fox Network on 28th September, 2008, and ended on 17th May, 2009, with a total of 21 episodes. The first episode featured Homer’s life as a bounty hunter, after he serves his jail sentence and is released. Marge gets a job at a bakery shop run by an Irish man. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Robert Forster, Joe Mantegna, Denis Leary, Brian Greyser, Joe Montana, Maurice LaMarche, Will Shortz, Merl Reagle, Scott Thomson and many others gave their voices and appeared in the series as star guests this season.
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Season 11
The Simpsons Season 11 premiered on the Fox Network on 26th September, 1999 and ended on 21st May, 2000. The series has a total of 22 episodes and won an Emmy Award for ‘Outstanding Animated Program’, an Annie award and a British Comedy award. The first episode of the season featured The Simpsons, who are given free tickets to Mel Gibson’s new film. Mel Gibson wants to hear criticism for his work and has a talk with Marge. Homer hears their conversation and volunteers to give a brutal and honest review. Mel is surprised and thinks Homer is the only person who can give him honest criticism. Homer gets hired by him. Mel Gibson, Jack Burns, Mark McGuire, Edward Asner, Tom Arnold, Dick Clark, Lucy Lawless, Frank Welker, The B-52, Ron Howard, Penn Jillette, Pat O’Brien, Nancy O’Diell, Teller, Garry Marshall, Jan Hooks, Jay North, NRBQ, Tim Robbins, Garry Coleman, Clarence Clemons, Joe Mantegna, and many others gave their voices and appeared as star Guest in this season.
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Season 16
The Simpsons Season 16 premiered on the Fox Network on 7th November, 2004, and ended on 15th May, 2005, and has a total of 21 episodes. The first episode of the show features three different stories, ‘The Ned Zone’, ‘Four Beheadings with a Funeral’ and ‘In The Belly of the Boss’. James Cann, Thomas Pynchon, Kim Cattrall, Eric Idle, Tom Brady, Lebron James, Michelle Kwan, Yao Ming, Warren Sapp, 50 Cents and many others gave their voices and appeared in this series as star guests.
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Season 9
The Simpsons Season 9 premiered on the Fox Network on 21st September, 1997 and ended on 17th May, 1998. The series has 25 episodes and won three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Animated Program. The first episode of the season starts with Homes allowing Barney to use his car. He disappears with the car and appears after two months without the car. Barney searches for his car and receives a letter from the City of New York, where the car is found. He has some bad experiences in the city and hates the idea of going there, but his family is excited. While he is waiting for the officer to show up and remove the wheel clamp, he feels the urgency to go to the toilet and misses the officer. Annoyed, he takes the car with its clamp on. Michael Dess, Joan Kenley, Martin Sheen, Fyvush Finkel, Joe Namath, Mike Judge, Roy Firestone, Andrea Martin, Jan Hooks, Stephan Jay Gould, Phil Hartman, Alex Trebeck, George Harrison, Patrick Stewart, Jim Varney, James Earl Jones, Jack Ong, Jay Leno, Bruce Baum, Janeane Garofalo, Bobcat Goldthwait Stevan Wright and many more gave their voices and featured as Star Guests for the season.
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Season 13
The Simpsons Season 13 premiered on the Fox Network on 6th November, 2001, and ended on 22nd May, 2002. The series has a total of 22 episodes and won an Annie award for ‘Best Animated Television Production’. The first episode of the series featured three different stories. Hex and the City where Homer gets in the bad books of a gypsy, who instantly cures Homer’s family and friends to have terrible luck. Second, the House of Whacks, where the custom house with the personality of Pierce Brosnan falls for Marge and attempts to murder Homer. Pierce Brosnan, Mathew Perry, Jane Kaczmarek, Jess Harnell, R.E.M, Julia Louis, Jeorge Takei, Paul Newman, Judith Owen, Joe Mantegna, Richard Gere, Delroy Lindo, Ben Stiller, Jon Lovitz, Reese Witherspoon, Wolfgang Puck, Dennis Weaver, Frank Welker, Olympia Dukakis, Bill Saluga, Phish, NRBQ, Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, NSYNC, U2, Stephan Hawking Ron Howard and many others gave their voices and appeared as star Guests in this season.
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Season 1
The first season of The Simpsons aired on the Fox Network on 17th December,1989, and ended on 13th May 1990. The series began as the Simpsons were sitting together in a Christmas special, “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire”. Bart gets a tattoo and on realising it, Marge uses their family’s hard-earned savings to get it removed. Homer is short of money to buy presents because of their financial condition and he, along with Bart, bet some money on a dog who ends up losing and Homer allows Bart to adopt him. They bring the dog back home and Homer tries to come clean about their situation with their family when Bart says they are having a dog as their Christmas present and the family has a Merry Christmas. The series has a total of 13 episodes and won an Emmy Award. The series featured Roy Taylor, Susan Blu, Miriam Flynn, Cristian Coffinet, Penny Marshall, June Foray and Paul Willson as the guest cast.
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Season 12
The Simpsons Season 12 premiered on the Fox Network on 1st November, 2000,and ended on 20th May, 2001. The series has a total of 21 episodes and won two Primetime Emmy Awards and one Annie award. The first episode of the season is a Halloween special, featuring The Simpsons in a story where everyone except Lisa gets killed. Gary Coleman, The Who, Frank Welker, Drew Barrymore, Stephan King, Amy Tan, John Updike, Joe Mantegna, Jae Mohr, Joshua Jackson, Leeza Gibbons, Patrick McGoohan, Edward Norton, Micheal Keaton, Charles Napier, Robert Schimmel, Bruce Vilanch, Tom Savini, Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Serena Williams, Venus Williams and many others gave their voices and featured in the show as star Guests for this season.
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Season 14
The Simpsons Season 14 premiered on the Fox Network on 3rd November, 2002, and ended on 18th May, 2003. The season has a total of 22 episodes and won two Primetime Emmy Awards, including ‘Outstanding Animated Program’ and four Annie awards and a Writer’s Guild of America Award. The first episode of the series featured an episode with three segments, Send in the Clones, where Homer buys a hammock which is capable of producing clones. He uses them to help with the house, but soon the situation overturns, and Springfield faces the consequences. The Fright to Creep and Scare Harms, which features Lisa petitioning to make the town firearms free, after she discovers the body of William Bonney, who died from gun violence.
The Island of Dr Hibbert, where the citizens of Springfieldare turned into animals after accepting the offer of Dr Hibbert to visit an Island Resort. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Elvis Costello, Lenny Kravitz, Tom Petty, Brian Setzer, Tony Bennett, Adam West, Burt Ward, Jan Hooks, Baha Men, David Lander, Larry Holmes, Kelsey Grammer, Little Richard, Elliot Gould, Pamella Reed, Lisa Leslie, Tony Hawk, Jane Kaczmarek, Blink 182, George Plimpton, Merisa Tomei, Helen Fielding, James L. Brooks, Joe Mantegna, Eric Idle, Sott Thompson and many others gave their voices and appeared as guest stars for this season.
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Season 8
The Simpsons Season 8 premiered on the Fox Network on 27th October, 1996, and ended on 18th May, 1997. The season had a total of 25 episodes and won two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Animated Program. The first episode featured a Halloween special segment with three different short stories. Bart discovers an evil twin living in the Simpsons’ attic; Lisa creates a small universe of her own, intending to prove that sugary things and drinks will rot teeth. Kang and Kados impersonate the presidential candidates Bill Clinton and Bob Dole to evade Earth. Phil Hartman, Albert Brooks, Sally Stevans, Paul Winfeild, Michael Buffer, Rodney Dangerfield, Jon Lovitz, Nuestro Jomer, Johnny Cash, Leonard Nimoy, David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Jack Lemmon, Joe Mantegna, Alex Rocco, John Waters, David Hyde Pierce,Dave Thomas, Marcia Wallace and many more appeared and gave voices as Star Guests.
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Season 10
The Simpsons Season 10 premiered on the Fox Network on 23rd August, 1998, and ended on 16th May, 1999. The season has 23 episodes in total and has won the Annie Award for ‘Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Television Program’. The first episode of the season features a new student in Lisa’s class. Alex Whiteney is mature, trendy and has an amazing personality. She has the attention of Lisa’s classmates and Lisa, who is now left alone, is jealous. She, her friends and Alex decide to host a dance organised by their school and during the process, Lisa realises her friends and Alex are not as mature as they try to be.
Homer tries to convince Bart to dropout from school. Lisa Kudrow, William Daniels, Phil Hartman, Robert England, Ed McMahon, Jerry Springer, Regis Philbin, Kathie Lee Giford, Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, George Carlin, Martin Mull, Yo La Tengo, Mark Hamil, Joe Mantegna, Dick Turfeld, Cyndi Lauper and many others appeared and gave their voices as star guests for the series.
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Season 5
The Simpsons Season 5 premiered on the Fox Network on 30th September, 1993, and ended on 19th May, 1994. The season has a total of 22 episodes and won an Annie award for Best Animated Television Program, along with an Environmental Media Award and a Genesis award. The first episode featured Homer’s flashback, as he thinks of a barbershop which he used to visit, called The Be Sharps. He, along with a few more, was a part of a famous group who even won a Grammy. Homer misses his family and the group loses its popularity, causing them to disband. George Harrison, David Crosby, The Dapper Dans, Kelsey Grammer, The Ramones, Pamela Reed, George Fenneman, Albert Brooks, James Brown and Ernest Borgnine gave voices as guest stars in this season.
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Season 2
The second season of The Simpsons aired on the Fox Network from 11th October, 1990 to 11th July, 1991. The season had a total of 22 episodes and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program. ‘Bart Gets an F’ was the first episode to air and ‘Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish’ was the first episode produced for the season. Harvey Fierstein, James Earl Jones, Tony Bennett, Tom Poston, Daryl L. Coley, Ken Levine, Greg Berg, Alex Rocco, Larry King, George Takei, Danny DeVito, Tracey Ullman, Sylvia Winfield, Frank Welker, Audrey Meadows, Ringo Starr, Dustin Hoffman, Cloris Leachman and Daniel Sternwere the guest cast for the season.
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Season 15
The Simpsons Season 15 premiered on the Fox Network on 2nd November, 2003, and ended on 23rd May, 2004. The series has a total of 22 episodes. The first episode features three different stories; Reaper Madness, where Homer lands on the job of a Grim Reaper after he killed the previous reaper. He goes around awarding immortality to everyone and has great fun until he notices the next name on his list, which turns out to be of Marge. Frankenstein, Prof. Frink wins the Nobel Prize in science and is sad that his dear father is not around to celebrate with him. He decides to rebuild himself in his father’s real body using mechanical parts. The outproduct who hates the idea, after coming to life, searches to steal the body parts of other corpses. Stop the World, I Want to Goof Off. Bart and Milhouse order a stopwatch using a comic, which has the power to change and play with time. Jerry Lewis, Dudley Herschback, Jennifer Garner, Oscar De La Hoya, Glenn Close, Michael Moore, Jane Leaves, Tony Blair, Evan Marriott, J.K. Rowling, Charles Napier, Mr T, Jackie Mayson, Tom Clancy, Ashley Olsen and many others gave their voices and featured in this season as star guests.
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Season 7
The Simpsons Season 7 premiered on the Fox Network on 17th September, 1995 and ended on 19th May, 1996. The season has a total of 25 episodes and won an Annie Award for Best Animated Television Program. The first episode features Mr Smithers believing that he is the one who shot Mr Burns in a drunken state and turns himself in. He is proven not guilty and the police further their investigation into other suspects. They reach the Simpsons after Homer’s DNA is found on Mr Burns’ body. Homer escapes and Lisa searches for evidence proving him not guilty. Mr Burns wakes up and says Homer Simpson, which strengthens their doubts. Tito Puente, Mickey Rooney, Phil Hartman, Joan Kenley, Frank Welker, Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, Paul Anka, Joan Kenley, Glenn Close, Harry Morgan, Kelsey Grammer, R. Lee Ermy and Buzz Aldrin were the guest star cast who gave voices and appeared in the series.
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Season 3
The third season of The Simpsons aired on the Fox Network on 19th September, 1991 and ended on 22nd August, 1992. The season has a total of 24 episodes and won six Primetime Emmy Awards for ‘Outstanding Voice-Over Performance’. The first episode is called ‘Stark Raving Dad’ and Homer’s sanity is evaluated in this episode. He is later admitted to a mental hospital where he meets Micheal Jackson. John Jay Smith, Neul Patrick Harris, Jackie Mason, Steven Tyler, Tom Hamilton, Joey Kramer, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Sting, Roger Clemens, Mike Scioscia, Don Mattingly, Steve Sax, Ozzie Smith, Wade Boggs, Darryl Strawberry, Ken Griffey, Terry Cashman, Steve Allen, Beverly D’Angelo, Kelsy Grammer, Kristopher Guest, Michel McKean, Kimmy Robertson, Danny DeVito, Joe Frazierand Just Canseco appeared as the guest cast.
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Season 6
The Simpsons Season 6 premiered on the Fox Network on 4th September, 1994, and ended on 21st May, 1995. The season has a total of 25 episodes and won one Primetime Emmy Award for one of its episodes and an Annie award for ‘Best Animated Television Production’. The first episode features Bart and Lisa trying to convince Homer to buy them a swimming pool, which will help them survive the intensive heat. Bart breaks his leg from a fall and Lisa gives him her telescope so he is not bored. Lisa gets popular with the kids because of her swimming pool, but her happiness is short-lived as a kid buys a bigger pool and all the attention gets directed towards him. Bart witnesses a shocking scene from the telescope and asks for Lisa’s help to reveal the truth. Anne Bancrofy, Mel Brooks, Kelsey Grammer, Phil Hartman, Larry King, Susan Sarandon, Patrick Stewart, Meryl Streep and Winona Ryder gave their voices and appeared as guest stars in this season.
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Season 4
The Simpsons Season 4 premiered on the Fox Network on 24th September, 1992 and ended on 13th May 1993. The season has a total of 22 episodes and won one Primetime Emmy Award. The first episode of the season features Bart and Lisa, who go to Kamp Krusty to have some time alone away from their parents. The camp doesn’t turn out as expected and all the kids in the camp are treated horribly and are bullied. They start a rebellion, following Bart, and this news reaches Homer. The real Krusty appears and, in order to make up with the kids, he takes them to Tijuana, Mexico. Jon Lovitz, Bob Hope, Lona Williams, Tom Jones, Sara Gilbert, Pamela Reed, Adam West, Linda Ronstadt, Leonard Nimoy, Micheal Carrington, Dr Joyce Brothers, Brooke Shields, David Cosby, Johnny Carson, Hugh Hefner, Bette Midler, Like Perry and Red Hot Chili Peppers appeared as Star Guests in the show.
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