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509 - "Moonshine River"

• The opening scene with the racecars. A cat falls onto one causing it to crash into a yarn store. As the driver runs out on fire, the cat plays with a ball of yarn. The audience awws, and is then hit by another race car.
• The part where an air conditioner falls on Homer, and he strangles a lamppost.
• Marge and Lisa's misadventures of trying to find cheap entertainment in New York.
• Sideshow Bob makes a brief cameo where he comes a Bart with a knife, before being hit by a train, all without Bart noticing him.

510 - "Treehouse of Horror XXIII"

Opening

• The beginning where a Mayan guard who looks like Moe is tricked into being sacrificed, which, thousands of years later, causes the alleged 2012 apocalypse as predicted by the Mayan calendar.
  Mayor Quimby: And it will be Obama's fault!

A - The Greatest Story Ever Holed

• Bart trying to toss his math homework in the black hole, then giving up and putting Mrs. Krabappel in there.
• Homer thinking calling a black hole a black hole is racist ("Wow, a black hole! I'm sorry, can we call it that?") This is funnier if you know that this actually has happened in real life.

B - UN-Normal Activity

• The ending where Homer is forced into a three-way with two demons to save Marge from having Maggie stolen by a demon that was summoned by Patty and Selma back in 1982, but before he could start they both utter the safe word.
• Homer yelling, "We have stairs?!" as he's running with the video camera in hand.
• Wiggum tries to offer his advice on the Simpsons' haunting.
  Wiggum: Now, remember, this thing feeds on fear. Wait, what the hell is that? (runs away but returns as a walking skeleton) Turns out it feeds on more than just fear.

C - Bart and Homer's Excellent Adventure

• The appearance of the many Homers from history, including a fat Elvis Homer, an angel Homer, a pope Homer (who refers to Jesus as "Jebus"), an Andre the Giant wrestler Homer, a one-eyed alien Homer, and a caveman Homer (who's actually supposed to be Homer from the age of the Renaissance).
• The many Homers from history getting beaten by Artie and Bartie Ziff.

511 - "Adventures In Baby-Getting"

• Marge making out with a stuffed walrus.

512 - "Gone Abie Gone"

• The Wacky Races couch gag.
• Homer ordering fast food. Marge and Dr. Hibbert appear in thought bubbles to remind Homer that he's supposed to be eating healthier, at which point Hibbert's wife Bernice appears in her own thought bubble...and promptly starts arguing with thought-bubble Hibbert, scaring Homer and thought-bubble Marge.
• Despite Lisa and Bart winning millions in online poker, the website learns they're underage and default them back to there initial amount.
  Website Host: Shame. Shame.
  Bart: Did you give the money back to the people who lost it?
  Host: Good-bye!

513 - "Penny Wiseguys"

• Homer stopping Dan from shooting one of Fat Tony's goons by throwing Bart at him.
• The Old Jewish Man asking for more flies in his soup (an inversion of the classic "there's a fly in my soup" joke).

514 - "A Tree Grows in Springfield"

• Lisa enters Homer into a raffle for a MyPad.
  Homer: Lisa, no one ever wins these raffles. The winner is always some guy you've never heard of.
  Skinner: And the winner is...Homer Simpson.
  Homer: GET HIM! I mean, whoo hoo!
• Homer face-timing Lenny while he's skydiving.
• Steve Mobbs ordering God around.

515 - "The Day The Earth Stood Cool"

• The sight gag with a parody of The Onion: "Scientist Proves Human Heaven Fake, Cat Heaven Real"

516 - "To Cur, With Love"

• This exchange:
  Abe: Unfortunately, like most true stories, this has a crappy ending.
  Bart: (incredulously) You have a story with an ending?
  Abe: All my stories have endings now. They're putting something new in my Jell-o at the home.
• Homer's side of the story of how he lost his dog Bongo. He claims that Abe hated how he loved his dog and sold him to a pair of witches. Things get sillier when Homer claims that his dad kidnapped Santa so that he would never get the toy he wanted (Abe is shown with Santa in a cage, cutting off his finger, and then turning it into a candy cane he sucks on). After that, Homer claims that the Santa part is the only part that makes any sense.

517 - "Homer Goes to Prep School"

• Homer's Lampshade Hanging of how often he goes to work.
  Marge: Are you sure you're OK to go into work?
  Homer: Well, it's been eight months. I should probably get back.
  • Followed up by this Lampshade Hanging from Moe.
  Moe: Well, Homer's gone. Let's all go back into our suspended states until he gets back.
• This exchange defines Homer and Marge's relationship.
  Marge: You can't have secrets from your wife.
  Homer: It's very late in the marriage for you to tell me that.

518 - "A Test Before Trying"

• Mrs. Krabappel using potato power to activate the slide projector so they can watch their Sometimes Y video, only for it to burn out seconds later.
• The part with an unknown student's test (possibly Ralph) where everything but the ovals was filled in.
• The teachers' and Skinner's reactions to learning who didn't take the test.
  Lisa: Wait, one student didn't take the test.
  Krabappel: Let it be Martin! Let it be Martin!
  Lisa: It's Bart.
  Teachers: (Groan)
  Skinner: I have an aunt named Hope. Perhaps you'd like to kill her as well?
• Bart writing on his history book to make Abraham Lincoln tell George Washington "Nice wig, grandma" and Washington retorting "At least I can take a bullet".

519 - "The Changing of the Guardian"

• The episode as a whole didn't go over well, but when Homer, Marge, Lenny and Carl are all in a van together, it leads to this:
  Lenny: I'll tell you what women really want: A man who can hold a note the longest!
  Homer: That is the stupidest-
  Carl: One-two-three-go.
  All except Marge: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA--
• ...and at the end, the contest replaces the show's theme during the credits.

520 - "Love Is a Many Splintered Thing"

• When driving the car, Homer turns onto a skateboard ramp. He slams on the brakes, stopping the car in mid-air. We then cut do the dashboard, where the Cartoon Physics Meter is full.
• Cletus' list of feuds, which includes Hatfields, the Hapsburgs, Time Warner Cable, The Muppets, his toe-nail 'what turned black', and finally, the Peacocks.
• Homer's idea for the TV: hanging it up on the ceiling by rope.

  Homer: I had the idea for this years ago but your mother (Rope breaks) AAAAAAH! It's hurting my eyes!

• Woody Allen making cameos in the second half of the episode.

521 - "Hardly Kirk-ing"

• Toddler Lisa using Bart's drool as a moat for her origami castle in the flashback of how the Baby Poindexter video series stunted Bart's development, but not Lisa's.
• Milhouse's voice changing from his dad's to Duffman's just with the use of a necktie.
  • His speech to Homer on Skype.
  • Him having to go to the bathroom really bad after taking Kirk's medication for improving pee flow.

522 - "Gorgeous Grampa"

• This exchange between Bart and Lisa when discussing how to get their grandfather a date.
  Lisa: You could go online. That's how young people today find dates.
  Bart: It's weird that you don't consider yourself a young person.
  Lisa: It's weird for me too.
• After Bart acts like a showboat at a baseball game, we have this.
  Marge: Your behavior was totally out of line today. You're lucky they gave you a participation trophy.
  Lisa: I got one just for showing up! (holds up a larger trophy that reads Non-Participant)
• When the family thinks Grampa might have been gay, they point out that Marge seems overly excited at the prospect of potentially having a gay relative. She indicates that she wants to score social brownie points over Helen Lovejoy, who brags about being supportive of her trans cousin.
  • When they discover he's not, Marge is saddened about it and Abe cheers her up by saying he accidentally kissed a man on V.E. Day.
• After telling Grampa that he'll die alone if he doesn't come out of his room, the other retirement castle denizens come after the Simpson family like zombies.
• After Grampa explains to Mr. Burns that wrestling is scripted, Burns looks directly at the camera and says "but that would mean that everyone who ever watched a wrestling match was a fool!"

523 - "Black-Eyed, Please"

• Ned is trying to get Homer to punch him so they can be even.
  Ned: Come on, Homer! I'm insisting on a fisting!
  Smithers: What's this about a fisting?
• What's Edna Krabappel's idea of a Nuclear Option to get ride of Ms. Cantwell? Bart Simpson. It just took him two minutes to make Ms. Cantwell prefer pulling a Screw This, I'm Outta Here rather than keep dealing with him. What's hilarious is that, compared with his previous chaotic shennanigans, what he did in those two minutes is pretty tame for Bart (the chaos is reduced to one classroom instead of the whole school).

524 - "Dark Knight Court"

• During the Easter celebration on the town square, many Springfieldians wear colorful Easter hats and the Jebediah Springfield statue is seen carrying an Easter basket and wearing bunny ears. Then we pan over to the local Greek Orthodox Church, and the Orthodox bishop standing outside is holding a sign that reads "This is our Palm Sunday!"
• Moe sneaks behind a curtain into a "Peep Show", and then he puts a quarter in and sees a bunch of Marshmallow Peeps.
  Moe: Not sure what I'm expecting to happen here.
• "Egg don't belong in the chicken's eye! It belongs in her pee-poo-birth hole!"
• The scene where a helicopter flies into the Fruit Bat Signal in the sky, blinding it and causing it to crash.
• The ending scene parodying The Avengers.
• The entire subplot of Mr. Burns becoming a superhero.
• After it's revealed that the culprit of the Easter prank is really Groundskeeper Willie, Mr. Burns fights him as Fruit Bat Man and stuffs dollars into the tractor, causing it to explode. Mr. Burns floats down into Smithers's arms, and we get this exchange:
  Mr. Burns: Which side won? Good or evil?
  Smithers: Good, sir.
  Mr. Burns: And which side was I on?
  Smithers: Also good.
  Mr. Burns: Well, that's two surprises.

525 - "What Animated Women Want"

• The Breaking Bad opening of Marge making cupcakes instead of meth.
• After the first sections of the Homer/Marge and Lisa/Milhouse stories we get the voiceover: "Now let's see what Maggie's up to" (cut to Maggie rapidly rocking back and forth in her cot) "Moving on..." Made funnier by this being her only appearance in the episode.
• Homer getting stuck in the bottomless chair he bought at a sex shop.
• Moe writing erotic fanfiction so he can get rich off it à la 50 Shades of Grey. It's especially funny that he's writing a Slash Fic based on The Andy Griffith Show.
• When people visit the local sex shop, they try to hide from the camera as they entered. Homer, however, responds with a wave and a cheerful "Hello there!".

526 - "Pulprit Fiction"

• Professor Frink's solution for the bedbug infestation is to make a repellent out of modified bear pheromones. It had a predictable side effect.
• Homer thinking Krusty's monkey taser is a nose hair trimmer.
• Reverend Lovejoy putting the frogs asleep with one of his sermons.

527 - "Whiskey Business"

• While it was sad to see Moe's company fail, it was funny to see the value of his stock drop with each statement after he came to the New York Stock Exchange in his bartender uniform.
  Moe: Everyone, I am Moe, founder and CEO of the company, stock letters M.O.E. I am market manager and in charge of production. I will personally make each bottle with these two hands. My face will be on every bottle. And, we will use only the freshest ingredients made in America.

528 - "The Fabulous Fake Boy"

• Justin Bieber getting turned away from the Ten and Below Talent Show due to his age. ("That's another $25 I'll never see again! God!") And the warnings about Justin Bieber's appearance before and after that scene.
• Any scene with Bill Hader as Slava, a Russian man who wants Marge to teach him how to drive so he can pass his limo driver's exam.
• Ralph singing the first part of "Candyman" ("Who can make the sun rise?"), then crying because he really was asking that.

529 - "The Saga of Carl"

• Marge gets annoyed by the kids playing with their anime toys for too much and makes them all go to the museum...only to see the museum hosting the same toys.
  Marge: Dammit!
• During the flight to Iceland, Homer tells Lenny and Moe that he just read about how Iceland is green, but Greenland is icy. "The vikings switched it around to trick everybody!" They all find this funny...and then we cut to them in the still pretty cold Iceland, freezing.

530 - "Dangers on a Train"

• The flashback to Homer and Marge's first anniversary.
  Homer: Our one year anniversary. In your face, everyone who said we wouldn't last a year!
  Grandpa: I stand by my wedding toast!
• Baby Bart's antics, such as breastfeeding from a mannequin and calling Flanders "daddy" to annoy Homer.
• "Hey, LARDO, where are you going in your LARDO car? LARDville?" "THERE'S NO SUCH PLACE!"
• The Sassy Madison Internet commercials (both the one that introduces the site and the one that played over the end credits)
• Marge talking out loud about her relationship with Ben with him overhearing her despite her having closed her laptop. She puts the laptop in a drawer and still hears Ben is listening. She then opens up the drawer and puts Homer's photo in front of Ben's sight, causing him to scream when she closes back the drawer.
• Homer asks Marge if she thinks their marriage will last 25 years. Bart looks at the camera and says "nothing should".

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