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597 - "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus"

• The chalkboard gag: "This arm needs Tommy John surgery."
• Springfield citizens divide into those in favor of a riot, and non-rioters who reset tipped over cars and disassemble Molotov cocktails.
• The show has fireworks for a finale, due to the power plant experiencing a meltdown.

598 - "Friends and Family"

• Mr Burns finding his therapist on the floor.
  Mr Burns: Hmm, no pulse. Oh wait thats me! Dead, so sad. He was a true friend. (Crosses Outlive all friends from the Bucket List) Excellent.
• The flashback to when the Simpsons were at the therapist's office to learn how to communicate. It didn't help.
  Maggie: Maggie talk! Maggie talk! No one listen. Maggie never talk again.
• Mr. Burns' final fantasy with his VR machine is dying and going to Hell, where the Devil wants to take a selfie with him. Smithers then notes that the machine isn't plugged in.

599 - "The Town"

• Bart and Homer acting as a matador and bull.
• Marge finds something to love about Boston.
  Marge: Free sunscreen. This town is so progressive. (sees woman walking her baby) Do you vaccinate your children?
  Stranger: Of course!
  Marge: But not stupid progressive!
• Homer getting buried in an avalanche of bobbleheads and it being treated as life-threatening:
  Homer: Bobblehead Steven Wright, Bobblehead Aimee Mann, Bobblehead Bell Biv DeVoe!
• At the beginning of the episode, Marge asks Homer to put the kids to bed before going to Moe's, so Homer does it in the most half-assed way possible: he puts Bart and his sisters in Bart's bed while they're still in their regular clothes, summarizes The Wizard of Oz as, "Everything after the tornado was a dream. The End," and finally just throws Bart's blanket over the kids' heads before leaving.

600 - "Treehouse of Horror XXVII"

A - Dry Hard

• The sudden deaths of any child participant comes with a demeaning one-liner under their photos on the dome.
• Springfield gets struck by a flood, but Lisa says it could be worse. Cue a new Ice Age.

B - BFF R.I.P.

• Lisa's first friend is killed in less than 3 seconds once the lawnmower is turned on.
• After Lisa's imaginary friend kills all of Lisa's friends, they name the graveyard the Lisa Simpson Wing.

C - MoeFinger

• It's a pun, but it's a pretty funny one.
  Lenny: Hey Carl, how was Prague?
  Carl: Not bad. Of course, I had to cancel a few Czechs.
• Bart's training: getting hit with a pool cue, then hitting someone back.

601 - "Trust But Clarify"

• When Lisa tastes Krusty's new candy, she spits it out and it flies into Milhouse's mouth. When he claims it's like sharing a meal with her, Nelson hits him so he coughs it up, then eats it himself.
• Bart's method to get to Krusty's factory.
  Bart: Otto, can you take us to the food processing district?
  Otto: No way, Bart dude.
  Bart: Hey Otto! I just remembered we have a field trip to the food processing district.
  Otto: Oh man, we're already late!
• The Bizzfad parody news articles.
• "Kent Brockman here, with a humble apology." Cut to graphic that reads "Apology of the Century".

602 - "There Will Be Buds"

• The first Peewee football game of the season ends badly when the field is engulfed in dry ice fog and the players collide with each other in the chaos.
  Marge: [standing up in a panic, knocking Homer's drink over his hot dogs] CONCUSSIONS!
  Homer: CONCESSIONS!
• In a spoof of the growing awareness of the dangers of concussions in football, the players' mothers all scoop them up in their arms and drive them full speed to the ER. As the doors open, they trample over Gil Gunderson (who has broken his leg and is walking on crutches) and Hans Moleman (who has a samurai sword sticking through his chest and out of his back). Sarah Wiggum declares that Ralph needs an MRI; unfortunately, Marge, Luann Van Houten, Bernice Hibbert, and Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon all get the same idea and join Sarah in trying to shove their sons into the MRI machine simultaneously, but only succeed in bonking their heads repeatedly against the outside (and probably aggravating any concussions they do have).
• When the town decides to adopt lacrosse as the town's new sport as a safe alternative to football, Dr. Hibbert voices an objection that the other townsfolk misinterpret as a positive:
  Dr. Hibbert: [holding up his tablet] Now hold on there! Lacrosse has the second highest concussion rate, right after football.
  Townsfolk: Safer than football! Safer than football!
• Pizza tastes sweeter after you win... because the bakers dump sugar into the dough.
• Homer's initial brush with the downside of coaching lacrosse with Kirk Van Houten comes when he has to get up at 6am on a Saturday for a weekend tournament 350 miles away. Bart and Lisa are already up and in uniform while Homer is still fast asleep, so they use their sticks to hurl balled up socks at him... followed by Maggie, who giggles and crawls across to Marge's side of the bed. When Homer still doesn't get up, Bart and Lisa shove the scoops of their sticks under him and jump on the handles until he tips onto the floor. As he stumbles out of the front door, still not fully awake, he is squirting toothpaste on a piece of bread to combine dental hygiene and breakfast into a single act.
• A hilarious Take That! to the then-recently fired head coach of the San Francisco 49ers:
  Homer: [on the phone to Marge from his and Kirk's hotel room] We won every game! Kirk is like a sports genius who everyone hates!
  Marge: Worse than Jim Harbaugh?
  Homer: Well...not that bad.
• After hearing what Homer really thinks of him, Kirk goes missing just before Springfield's state championship game against Capital City, which poses a major problem for Mayor Quimby:
  Mayor Quimby: Where is that coach!? If we lose this game, I have to give the mayor of Capital City a crate of Springfield apricots! We grow no apricots!

603 - "Havana Wild Weekend"

• The chalkboard gag after the 2016 election: "Being Right Sucks", referring to "Bart to the Future", which said that Donald Trump had become President of the United States.
• Homer is introduced to the biggest drug runner in American history, and he says it's a pleasure to meet him. The guy who invented Ticketmaster? A punch to the face.

604 - "Dad Behavior"

• The opening sequence gives us spomething different, and it all starts where Barney doesn't belch after Bart skateboards on top of him. Instead, he says, "Hey!" and breaks Bart's skateboard in two. Next, Homer accidentally swallows the plutonium rod that usually gets stuck to his back. Then, Lisa trips while playing her solo and doesn't get up. Finally, Maggie is actually driving the car, and drives it into a river bringing Marge with it. Finally, Bart arrives at the couch alone and replaces the rest of his family with pictures of them and gloats how he finally has control of the remote. Sure, it's a bit of a Tear Jerker, but you still have to appreciate the writers' rather macabre sense of humor. And it wasn't a Halloween show!
  • It's also probably a jab at the creepypasta Dead Bart, but in this case, it's 'Everybody's Dead Except Bart'
• All of Homer stuck in his TV stand.
  Homer: (to the cat) Stop eating me. I'm not dead yet!
• Moe uses Matt Leinhart as a bouncer... to throw customers into his bar instead of out.
• The FBI hostage negotiator vs. Maggie regarding her pacifier use. Maggie wins.
• Matt Leinhart giving Bart a football jersey with the name Simpson on it which Bart assumes Matt had it made just for him until Matt says it used to belong to O. J. Simpson.

605 - "The Last Traction Hero"

• When Homer is in a upper body cast, Bart decides to sign it right underneath his chin, so he can't read it. When Homer demands to know what it says, he says it starts with F and ends in CK. It says "Father Good Luck".
• Mr. Burns is rehearsing for a court hearing, but can't stop trying to release the hounds.
• Grampa tries to serve Homer and Marge hot soup. Three times a day. For six months.

606 - "The Nightmare After Krustmas"

• Reverend Lovejoy believes that Springfield is a decent Christian town, despite having a pagan festival.
• Krusty is convinced to convert to Judaism after seeing a vision of an angel in the window. Turns out to be Snake being tazed by police.
• Maggie vs. the Gnome.

607 - "Pork and Burns"

• Lisa's concern over her college fund and Homer's reluctance to talk about it:
  Lisa: I thought this meeting was to talk about reducing the carbon footprint of my college fund.
  Homer: Done!
  Lisa: Why was it so easy?
• Bart's prank on Skinner where he fills the car with Squishee.
  Skinner: Why'd I pick today to wear mother's blouse?
• How does Homer convince Marge to let him keep Plopper?
  Homer: I'll give up beer.
  Marge: DEAL!

608/609 - "The Great Phatsby"

• How cheap is Moe? He bought a suit, XEROXED IT, then returned it and wore the paper copy.
• Homer's narration of how Burns hit rock bottom. From Bad to Worse indeed.
• Smithers' adventures trying to get ice, the the style of The Revenant.
• Who does Bart consult as the expert on early rap culture? A white nerd, Milhouse. After Milhouse's display of rap knowledge Homer shows the only thing he could remember is that "Milhouse = Bart's Bestfriend" (which he needed to write down).

610 - "Fatzcarraldo"

• Mr. Burns gives everyone the day off, so he can hide dead in Christmas Decoration boxes.
• Homer's flight from the DMV awards show.
  Homer: One guy from the memorial reel was ALIVE when it started!
• Marge: Homie, come back! You're the next presenter!
  Homer: The winner is me 'cause I'm leaving!
• The overweight men successfully pull the hot dog cart up one hill à la Fitzcarraldo, only to realize there's a second, much steeper hill still awaiting them.
• Lisa's interview with Nelson which includes the origins of "Haw-Haw" and its first victim...Milhouse.

611 - "The Cad and the Hat"

• Mayor Quimby announces the lake is safe to swim in...because they lowered their standards.
• Homer is revealed to be a chess savant.
  Bart: How does Dad know how to play chess? He can't remember the rules to Chutes and Ladders!
  Homer: YES I DO!
  Lisa: You think the ladders go down.
  Homer: Ladders can go down.
  Marge: Oh, not this again.
• Lisa tells Bart that his guilt will turn into the worst thing he could imagine. Bart's guilt then turns into a math textbook.
• Homer's last Skype chat with the Norwegian chess champion, Magnus Carlsen.
  Carlsen: Homer, stop calling. These Skype calls aren't free.
  Homer: Yes they are.
  Carlsen: OK, I just don't wanna talk to you no more.
• Homer's line of inner demons.

612 - "Kamp Krustier"

• When Homer decides not to have sex, he becomes much more caring and attentive. Neither Abe nor Marge recognizes him.
• When asked if the kids can keep a secret:
  Bart: I can, but Lisa can't.
  Lisa: I told you that in confidence!

613 - "22 for 30"

• Milhouse getting scared by the voice distortion to keep him anonymous.
• Homer gets named basketball coach, then walks into a hoop and has no clue what it is.
• Fat Tony's secret: he was the third-string shooting guard on the Springfield Little Debbies girl's basketball team.

614 - "A Father's Watch"

• Homer becomes a trophy salesman to exploit Springfield's obsession with positive reinforcement. Unfortunately, he tries to sell them at a conference where Lisa brings in an expert to talk them out of it. This later comes back to bite her as Marge takes the message to heart, and throws out all of her trophies.
• Bart tries to find the watch by tossing a rock off a cliff and having Milhouse find where it went. It hits him in the eye. Bart then decides to toss a bunch of rocks in different positions. They all hit Milhouse.
• You're the worst around, everything's gonna keep you down.

615 - "Caper Chase"

• Mr. Burns revisits Yale and finds himself at odds with its new liberal bent, with a preppy squash captain demanding excessive conditions for his donation. Ultimately, he decides to disassociate from the school.
  Captain: You're worse than Hitler.
  Burns: Too late for flattery.
  • And before this one of the Deans dropped this quote, complete with "Actual quote from Yale student" on the bottom of the screen.
    Dean: You'd be creating a space for violence to happen.
• Low paid workers with a thankless job in a toxic environment: teacher or Springfield Nuclear Power Plant worker?
• What happens when Homer reveals that he's teaching nuclear physics? Lisa becomes an alcoholic.
• Someone decides to buy the college as long as Homer is included. Mr. Burns agrees but asks to get Homer's worth to the plant.
  Burns: OK, it seems I owe you a hundred thousand dollars.
• Homer's last exchange with his class while flying away on a helicopter.
  Homer: I just want to say, every one of you gets an incomplete.
  Random Student: I can't hear him. What did he say?
• Smithers having imagine spot of Mr Burns doing Full Monty.
  Burns: What are you laughing at? Does the Full Monty have some sort of naughty double meaning?
  Smithers: (images Burns dancing naked with "You Sexy Thing" playing in the background) If only.

616 - "Looking for Mr. Goodbart"

• Pokémon GO parody has some great lines, though the best was when people were playing in church.
  Comic Book Guy: Hey, this game is, or was, bigger than Jesus.
  Lovejoy: That's a pretty low bar nowadays.
• The scene in the Kwik-E-Mart was good too.
  Flanders: Hey, this creature in the game kinda looks like your God.
  Apu:' (incensed) Well, this homeless wino looks kinda like YOUR God.

617 - "Moho House"

• Homer has to let Marge know he has to go drinking with his boss' English friend. He decides to text her pics of an English flag, beer and a bus.
  Marge: What the hell does that mean?
• Smithers gives Homer a gift so that he can give it to Marge, but she realizes immediately it didn't come from him.
  Homer: Can't you at least open it so I can find out what it is?
• At the end, it's revealed that Burns has just been hallucinating the wager he made with his English friend until it turns out that Smithers just lied to him as payback for using him as a wager.

618 - "Dogtown"

• The entirety of the Simpsons visiting Gil in the hospital, especially with Bart posing as a nurse.
  Homer: Boy, the "putting him in a coma" plan was just dinner table talk. I never signed off on it.
  Bart: Well, I need to put something in a coma. (jabs needle into Homer)
• The kids are worried about being put in foster homes, until they fantasize about it. Even though Bart's fantasy ends with him dead after selling both his kidneys.
• Springfield isn't on any maps. Apparently, Rand-Mc Nally doesn't know what state they're in.
• When the dog collapses halfway through the doggie door, Homer uses Snowball II to bring him the rest of the way in, despite her clawing and biting him. Why?
  Homer: Well, well, look what the cat dragged in?
  Bart and Lisa: Worth it.
• Dogs eventually try to take over the town. Santa's Little Helper decides to join them.
  Bart: No boy, resist The Call of the Wild, just like I did when they assigned that book for summer reading.

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