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17 December 1989Christmas seems doomed for the Simpson family when Homer receives no Christmas Bonus. Homer becomes a mall Santa Claus, hoping to make money and bring Marge, Bart, Lisa, and baby Maggie, a happy holiday.
14 January 1990Bart ends up at a school for gifted children after cheating on an IQ test.
21 January 1990While Bart's class is touring the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant for a field trip, Homer crashes his golf cart into a radioactive pipe. In the aftermath, the plant is forced to shutdown and Homer loses his job.
28 January 1990At a company picnic Homer realizes his family is dysfunctional and takes them all to therapy where they end up having shock treatment. They are still as bad as ever so Homer gets double his money back from Dr Marvin Monroe and the Simpsons buy themselves a new TV.
4 February 1990School bully Nelson Muntz has been terrorizing his classmates, particularly Bart. Bart and one of Nelson's goons get into a fight at school (when Bart was sticking up for Lisa), and in the aftermath Nelson accidentally gets a bloody nose. Nelson makes good on his threats to beat up Bart. Bart winds up having nightmares about Nelson stalking him, and later envisions his funeral. Finally, Grampa takes Bart to Herman, a Vietnam veteran who has had one of his arms amputated, to plan a strategy for getting back at Nelson. Bart commissions all his schoolmates whom Nelson has bullied and - in a classic parody of war movies such as Patton - trains them for their revenge. One afternoon after school, Bart and his army enact their operative, pelting Nelson and his goons with water balloons until he surrenders. The revenge is successful, and Bart and Nelson begin a grudging friendship.
11 February 1990A depressed Lisa's spirit is lifted when she meets a jazz-man, Bleeding Gums Murphy.
18 February 1990Ned Flanders shows off his newly purchased (and monstrous) motor home to the Simpsons. In a fit of oneupmanship, Homer decides he needs one too. Homer's credit is very poor, but he wants that motor home, so he buys one whose oil is leaking and appears to be held together by chicken wire and duct tape. With their new motor home, Homer takes the family on an outing in the woods. Homer quickly loses his way and everyone bails from the motor home just before it tumbles into a large ravine. The family is forced to rough it the rest of the way. Maggie becomes separated from the family and takes refuge with a family of bears. Meanwhile, Homer and Bart lose their clothing and have to wear leaves. Homer quickly falls into a stream and becomes covered with mud. A couple staying in the woods, concluding that what they've seen is Bigfoot, takes a picture of Homer and sends it to a TV station. Soon, the woods are crawling with media representatives, hoping to get their own glimpse. A park ranger shoots Homer with a tranquilizer and he is taken to a laboratory for analysis. However, the results - either it's a below-average human or a brilliant beast, a German scientist says - are inconclusive.
25 February 1990Bart gets more than he bargained for when he saws the head off a statue of the town's founder.
18 March 1990Marge contemplates an affair with a handsome bowling instructor.
25 March 1990Bart uses his new miniature "spy" camera to take candid pictures around the household; meanwhile, Homer is preparing to go to a bachelor party for his co-worker at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. While at the party, Homer is invited to dance on stage with a stripper. Bart (who is dining with the rest of the family in the next-door restaurant) uses his camera to snap a photo of Homer and the dancer having a great time. At school, Martin develops the picture, which - after he compliments Bart's work - gets distributed around school, and eventually around town. Marge sees the photo and is outraged. Homer arrives home, where Marge immediately confronts her husband and kicks him out of the house. Eventually, Marge agrees to let him back in on the condition he take Bart around to meet the stripper and show that she is not a sex object. After almost winding up on stage at another of the dancer's performances, Homer does as he is asked and all is forgiven.
15 April 1990Bart flushes a cherry bomb at school, nearly injuring Principal Skinner's mother, Agnes, in the process. An exasperated Skinner tells Homer and Marge that since expulsion would not do Bart any good, he's placing him in a foreign-exchange student program. Bart is sent to France, where his host family are unethical winemakers who plan to employ him as a slave.
29 April 1990Homer witnesses a robbery at the Kwik-E-Mart convenience store, where the culprit is a man dressed like Bart's hero, Krusty the Clown. Does the children's television host have a sinister second life, or is there more to the story than meets the eye?
13 May 1990Marge calls a radio psychologist's call-in show to air her grievances about Homer. Homer listens to his wife's call at work and decides to bring home chocolates and flowers, softening her demeanor. The two decide to go on an overnight outing and try to hire a baby-sitter. Eventually, a woman named Mrs. Botz takes the job. However, what they don't know is that Mrs. Botz is a fugitive wanted on numerous burglary and robbery charges. Bart and Lisa watch an "America's Most Wanted"-type show and see the profile of Mrs. Botz (which turns out to be an alias). Mrs. Botz comes into the room and ties Bart and Lisa up so she can go about her burglary work uninterrupted; however, Maggie - who has been sleeping in her crib - is able to free her older siblings, and they are able to knock Mrs. Botz out. They call the police, but before they arrive, Homer and Marge arrive home. Assuming his children had gotten the best of another baby-sitter, Homer unties Mrs. Botz and she makes a clean getaway - just moments before police and the media arrive.
11 October 1990Bart's teacher, Mrs. Krabappel, has become fed up with his lackadasial scholastic habits. After bluffing his way through a book report and failing a geography exam, Krabappel gives Bart an ultimatum: Shape up or be retained in fourth grade.
18 October 1990Homer lies on a medical insurance form to buy a "miracle" hair-restoring drug.
25 October 1990In this trilogy of horror-themed Halloween stories, Bart and Lisa attempt to scare each other with tales of the macabre. In first,"Bad Dream House", the Simpsons inhabit a haunted home, which possesses their souls, and causes them to attempt to kill each other. But after spending enough time with the Simpsons, it is the house, which kill itself, vanishing into another dimension. In the second segment, "Hungry are the Damned", the Simpsons accuse the monsters of planning to eat them, but the offended aliens reveal they were only planning a sumptuous meal for the family. In the third segment, a satire of Poe's "The Raven", a grief-stricken Homer is tormented by bad bird Bart.
1 November 1990A three-eyed fish is caught in the Springfield River downstream from the nuclear plant, leading to a government safety inspection. When Mr. Burns is told that the plant will be shut down, he gets drunk in his car with Homer. Homer remarks that if Burns were governor, he could make new laws to keep the plant open. Burns seizes on this remark and announces his candidacy. Afraid for his job, Homer pushes his family to campaign for Burns, but Marge is a staunch supporter of the incumbent, Mary Bailey. On the night before the election, Burns dines at the Simpson home as a publicity stunt.
8 November 1990Homer's heckling of the Springfield Isotopes baseball team's mascot during one of their games leads to his appointment as the new mascot.
15 November 1990Overcome with jealousy at Ned Flanders's affluent lifestyle and affectionate family, Homer paints him as a snobbish jerk to the rest of his family and looks eagerly for an opportunity to show him up. He finds it in an upcoming miniature golf tournament, and enters Bart against Ned's son Todd.
22 November 1990On Thanksgiving, Bart learns about the meaning of the holiday when he runs away from home (after getting into a fight), then shares a turkey dinner with homeless people at a soup kitchen.
6 December 1990After seeing a motorcycle daredevil at the monster truck show, Bart becomes a death-defying daredevil on his skateboard.