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After being offended by a comedy cable channel roast of him, Krusty goes to his father for advice, only to have him die before he can say whether or not he found his son funny. This causes Krusty to retire. Bart tries to inspire Krusty by showing him old shows, but it proves that Krusty was repetitive. He has a vision of his father telling him to be kinder, but acting so brings him no joy. He goes to a synagogue where he hears his father's favorite rabbi tell Krusty's joke, which makes him think his father thought he was funny. Meanwhile, fear of losing her own father causes Lisa to try to protect Homer. Although she saves him from a fatal incident, Marge and Bart tell her not to force her worries onto him.

Homer is tired of Bart disrespecting him, so he attempts to parent Bart, by forcing him to eat his broccoli. This goes nowhere, so Marge signs them up for the Relation Ship to solve their problems. Bart excels at ship work and is promoted. When Homer and the ship's captain are intoxicated, Bart is forced to sail the ship through a storm. Although Homer protests, Bart eats a piece of broccoli to gain his trust, and they survive. Meanwhile, while Homer's away, Marge takes over his fantasy football team. She drafts a poorly constructed roster, but with Lisa and Patty and Selma's help, she is able to win.

After her sandwiches become popular at Springfield Elementary, Marge opens a sandwich franchise. It becomes a huge success, until the same franchise opens another store right across the street. To escape from her contract, Moe tells her to defraud the parent company. Homer pretends to be a customer and sustains an injury in the store. To prevent a lawsuit for lack of medical training, Marge is released from her contract.

In the twenty-fifth annual Simpsons Halloween special:

• School is Hell: Bart and Lisa find a desk carved with an Aramaic incantation that sends them to Hell – and Bart fits in at the school there.
• A Clockwork Yellow: Moe leads a Clockwork Orange-style gang, but one of his droogs (Homer) falls for a woman (Marge) and gives up life as a thug.
• The Others: The Simpsons are haunted by their former selves from The Tracey Ullman Show – and Homer falls for the older Marge, angering the current Marge.

Guest star: John Ratzenberger as CGI Homer Simpson

When Patty and Selma temporarily move in, the Simpsons discover that their smoking ignites their tap water due to Mr. Burns' fracking operation. Lisa and Marge call their assemblywoman to stop him, but she also starts a relationship with him. Burns hires Homer to buy the mineral rights to every property in town, so he can resume his operation. Everyone other than Marge agrees, which angers the townsfolk and causes Burns to end his relationship with the assemblywoman. Burns restarts his fracking as revenge, but Marge's pleas to Homer cause him to use the fire from the tap water to burn down the fracking plant.

In a crossover with Futurama, when a time capsule containing a sandwich with Bart's germs in it, Milhouse's rabbit's foot, and radioactive ooze causes a rabbit creatures to attack in the future, the Planet Express crew comes to present-day Springfield to stop the incident in the first place. Analysis of the creatures show that the creatures contain Bart's DNA. As the crew and the Simspons try to retrieve the capsule, the creatures attack the time portal in the future, sending everyone except Maggie and Bender to the future. There, they lure the creatures into a trap and send them into space. The Simpsons return home, and Homer puts a shut-down Bender in the basement to be retrieved in the future.
Guest stars: John DiMaggio, Maurice LaMarche, Phil LaMarr, Katey Sagal, Lauren Tom, Frank Welker and Billy West

Bart plans for revenge on his new teacher, Mr. Lassen, who is a terrible bully, after Bart is humiliated. He learns that Lassen will be igniting the effigy at "Blazing Guy." Bart suggests going there for the family's camping trip, and they agree. Once there, he and Milhouse add fire retardant to the effigy. When Lassen fails to ignite the effigy, he attacks Bart and Milhouse, but they escape. Lassen is fired for his behavior and gets a new job as a prison guard where he plans revenge with Sideshow Bob.

When Homer has a midlife crisis, he forms a band of Springfield dads. Despite the band's modest early success, Apu ends up being a breakout star and joins a more successful band. Homer becomes envious and breaks up his band. Marge tells him to go to a concert to support Apu, but he sneaks backstage to try and get revenge. He hears the band denying Apu vacation time, and Apu tells Homer that he is homesick. Homer decides to poison the band to make them sick, and Homer's reunited band performs at the concert instead.

Homer goes to a hypnotist and ends up believing he is ten years old. However, when the hypnotist, who is a criminal, escapes to avoid being arrested, Homer becomes stuck in his new age, so he bonds with Bart. When the hypnotist is caught, Homer is torn between staying young and returning to adulthood. He tells Bart to stay young and returns to adulthood. Later, Homer tells Bart that he had a special friend when he was younger but does not remember who he was.

Elon Musk comes to Springfield looking for inspiration. He thinks Homer has many ideas for inventions, so they become friends. Musk convinces Mr. Burns to build a new type of power plant. Later, Burns learns that the plant is losing money although Musk just wants to save the planet. For revenge, Burns fires many of the plant's employees and plans to kill Musk. Marge tells Homer to end his friendship with Musk to save his job. As he ends his relationship with Musk, he save Homer from a poorly aimed bullet meant for Musk. He then departs Springfield.

Lisa writes a new Springfield anthem after discovering the old one was plagiarized. At a theater performance for its debut, Homer becomes stuck in his seat due to his obesity. Marge tells him to join a weight control support group but ends up joining a support group that embraces obesity. The group protests unrealistic thin figures. Marge tells Homer to leave the group, but he refuses. When she says that the group's leader, Albert, is too lazy to walk, he stands up to prove Marge wrong, but immediately dies. At his funeral, Homer learns Albert was quite young, which prompts him to go on a diet.

Marge becomes a chauffeur after she grows tired of chauffeuring her own kids around, but ends up disliking it due to the demands her customers make. She also earns the hate of taxi drivers. Meanwhile, Homer, Lenny, and Carl run Moe's bar while he goes to a theater show. When it gets destroyed, they give him a job at the power plant. He is successful and becomes their manager, but his management style annoys them. While Marge drives Moe to his bar, they complain to each other about their jobs, and they decide to quit. At the bar, the taxi drivers attack Marge. Moe defends her, and he reconciles with Homer, Lenny, and Carl.
Guest stars: Christopher Lloyd as Jim Ignatowski and Rich Sommer as Young Man

Homer takes Lisa to bring your daughter to work day, where she has fun watching him. A Nigerian princess named Kemi comes to Springfield, as her father intends to work out a uranium deal with Mr. Burns, and Homer is chosen to protect her due to his love for Lisa showing on the camera. Moe, having recently lost his money to a Nigerian prince, believes Kemi must be related to the scammer, but soon starts falling for her. When her father sees a photo of her kissing Moe on the internet, he ends negotiation with Burns. Kemi says the kiss was only an act of friendship, which saddens Moe. Homer tells her father to let his daughter live her life on her own terms. He agrees and signs the deal with Burns.

Chief Wiggum gets a jet pack, which he uses to fight crime. However, after he unintentionally crashes it into the church, Marge leads the rest of the Springfield congregation toward gambling to win money to rebuild it but does not tell Homer. They devise a system of counting cards and win enough money for the church. However, a suspicious Homer followed Marge into the casino and is held hostage in exchange for the money they won. Marge goes to the casino and prays, which is bad for business. The casino manager agrees to let Homer go, and they are banned from returning.

When Duffman undergoes hip replacement surgery following an injury during a parade and retires, Duff Beer's owner Howard K. Duff VII sets up a reality show presented by Cat Deeley in order to find his replacement. The competition is fierce until Homer wins. Because the job requires him to stay sober during work hours, he learns that beer is not as necessary as he thought to have a good time. At an event, he gives away alcohol-free beer, but it angers the crowd. Homer is fired, which causes him to resume drinking. The previous Duffman is found and is convinced to return to his old job.

After Homer sees an expensive birthday, he complains about not getting the good things at his parties as a kid and ruins birthday parties all over town and is then forced to throw a party for Ned's son Rod. At Rod's party at the Air Force museum, Grampa tells the family stories about his days in the U.S. Air Force and reunites with his old friends. When Grampa's friends see how Homer treats his dad, they start forcing him to treat him right. Meanwhile, Bart begins using e-cigarettes to impress Milhouse's cousin Annika, who he has a crush on. When Annika leaves for the airport to go home, Grampa tells Bart that he performed a grand gesture to impress a waitress named Mona, Homer's mother. Bart goes to the airport, but tells her he does not like her because she complained the entire time she was in Springfield.

When Bart is bullied after a school dance, Marge gets the city to adopt a tough anti-bullying law. Although the police arrest bullies at first, the police start arresting anyone wrongly accused because it was written vaguely. When Rod and Todd claim that Homer is bullying Ned, he is arrested and sent to treatment. He realizes that Flanders is better than him and begs him for forgiveness. He kneels on Ned's lawn for a long time until he finally forgives him.

When the school goes all-digital thanks to a donation from Springfield Elementary alumni and all of the electronics go out, Lisa suggests turning the school into a Waldorf school, where kids "learn by doing" with hands-on interactions with Lunchlady Dora and Groundskeeper Willie. Later, Willie is put in charge of the school Mathletes team after Lisa sees him put new grass in. Much to his dismay, Bart is put on the team. When the team competes against Waverly Hills Elementary, the score is tied, and Bart must solve the last problem. Using Homer's hair, Bart solves it, and Springfield Elementary wins.

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