Turn a Classic Episode into a Modern Episode.

[MikeAaronB]

For example.

Lisa's Pony

Homer accidentally kills Lisa's Pony after it eats half his chocolate bar while he is strangling Santa's Little Helper. Now Homer must disguise himself as Lisa's Pony so she won't find out, but his plans go sour we she finds the dead Pony "buried" in her closest. At the end Lisa forgives him when Homer has The Jonas Brothers sing her a song about Ponies.

Hopefully you can do way better than me. Way better.

[sung]

marge vs. the monorail

basically the same thing except that lyle lanley was actually an honest hard worker and that note marge took a look at was written by lyle's jealous half-brother who turns out to be the cobb guy from north haverbrook. when homer finds out that there's no room service in his spot, he quits the job

[D'ohmer]

Summer of 4ft 2 for Scully Era:

Lisa goes to Homer for advice on how to make friends and he suggests that she does like Bart by giving up who she is in exchange for a prankster. She starts this when she tricks the Flanderses into missing their vacation so the Simpsons can have it. At their, she continues her behavior and becomes the most popular kid in the town. However, when the Flanderses find out that they were tricked, they go to the port to get their vacation back. Homer and Flanders start a fight, and end up ruining Lisa's beach party. Back at home, Lisa decides to go back to her previous character.

For Jean era:

When no one signs Lisa's year book, she decides to give up her nerdish attitude and become cool. She gets the opportunity when the Flanderses let the Simpsons and Milhouse use their beach house. She attempts to make friends with a new personallity and ends up with a group of kids. Bart, on the other hand, is jelous of Lisa having friends. He only has Milhouse. He shows Lisa's friends her yearbook and reveals her previous self. Heartbroken, Lisa runs into the house crying. The rivalry between Bart and Lisa continues. However, Lisa's friends decorate their car to show that they still like her. On the way home, Bart shows Lisa her yearbook and that all her friends signed it, ending their rivalry. While all this was happening, Homer purchased fireworks for 4th of July and failed to set them off properly, causing a mess in the kitchen. Oh, and there may be some modern references to replace the old references.

[The Governor]

Lisa's Substitute, Jean era:

When Mr. Bergstrom (voiced by Zac Ephron) comes to springfield in 1986, he falls for the 17 year old student, Lisa. Meanwhile, her younger brother, Bart, isn't too keen on Mr. B's way of being Bart's gym coach and when Bergstrom ends up teaching Lisa's class, the town assumes he's having an affiar, a trial breaks out, and he and Lisa run off together and hide at the Egyptian exhibit. Back at Home, the middle child, Maggie is having a case of having a lesbian crush on the new girl in the 7th grade and Homer and Marge are at a loss to help their shy daughter understand her newfound feelings.

Lisa's Substitute: Scully Era:

When Homer runs Mr. Bergstrom off the road in a fit of road rage, he finds Mr. B's intinerary and decides to teach Lisa's Class himself, but when Lisa yells at Homer over his vapid teaching ways, Homer tells Lisa to shut the hell up and Lisa decides to inhale some carbon monixide and kill some brain cells to see what it's like to be a Homer.

[Jims]

Lisa's Substitute in the Scully Era (EDIT: wrote this before seeing Jake's post, funny we thought of the same thing)

Miss Hoover comes down with a strange illness involving a rash, and they get a new substitute teacher named Mr. Bergstrom. Meanwhile, Bart is running for class president against Martin. Everything goes well and it looks like he's going to win. Then, when walking down a hallway, a hand reaches out and whisks him into a locker. In there, a bunch of geeky elves reveal themselves with Martin as the ringleader. They sing a song to threaten Bart, and Bart decides to throw the election. He hijacks a tank, drives it to school, and the kids forget to vote for him.

Meanwhile, Lisa is smitten with Mr. Bergstrom. He has the class show him a talent that each of them have, but Lisa is too shy. So, after school, she climbs up a redwood tree and stays there for several days to impress him. Then she goes to a museum with Homer and sees Mr. Bergstrom there. Homer immediately argues with him for no good reason and the two end up in a huge fist-fight in the museum. It ends with Mr. Bergstrom knocking Homer into a tank of piranhas and Homer ends up bleeding all over the place.

Lisa comes to school the next day and finds Ms. Hoover is back. She searches for Mr. Bergstrom and finds him on a train. Mr. Bergstrom tells her he's leaving and gives her a note that says, "I'm actually gay." Lisa runs after the train and eventually catches it. As she boards a train compartment, gas starts to fill the room.

Lisa wakes up on a mysterious island and meets Patrick McGoohan. The End.

[sung]

some enchanted evening

marge gets frustrated with homer due to lack of his motivation in sex life. when homer accidentally clicks at the maxim website that has marge's rant about the bed life in the interview, homer hires gil to replace him for a week and decides to slack off the work. homer and marge, recalling the experience from 'catch'em if you can' (with a special 1 minute footage from that episode) decides to have two babysitters disguised as themselves so they can keep kids happy. however, as lisa, who just happened to have studied the art of makeups and facial arts, spots the fake homer and marge, the kids decide to take revenge on homer and marge by falsely accusing the babysitters as 'big stinky thieves' to police. in the hotel, homer and marge 'do' it so much that homer cannot get off the bed (even when marge questions if she had dusted the refrigerator, she can't go because she ruined homer's endurance). hilarity ensues but in the end the babysitters turn out to be reality tv show hosts and homer and marge get humiliated to have their snuggling experience be exposed to tv by them but somehow realize that it's being together it counts and the episodes ends with homer and marge kissing hard

[Mr Black]

The springfield files- scully era

Homer goes drinking with his barfriends, and decides to go home at 3:30. He encounters a bright green, tall object, with big eyes that tells him not to be afraid. Homer runs home saying he has seen a ghost. They call the police and the police come and check it out. While in the woods, Chief wiggum gets eaten by the alien, and the alien tries to destory springfield, until Homer kills it by hitting it over the head with a mallet.
Sub-plot- Bart befriends an invisible washcloth.

Written by Mike Scully

[bovine_university]

Homer Defined

Homer accidentally saves the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant and receives more and more accolades every day for it, never feeling the least bit guilty of not deserving it all. He gets more cocky and drunk with power while neglecting and abusing his family and co-workers every day, until he receives a mysterious message that someone knows his heroism was an accident and that he is going to exposed.

Meanwhile, Milhouse and Bart are no longer allowed to be friends with each other after Luanne Van Houten intervenes. Bart realizes there is only one thing to do, kill Luanne. After kidnapping and torturing her in the basement of the Simpson household for a week or so, Bart is ready to snuff Luanne out, until she manages to escape when Maggie stumbles into the basement and aids in her escape. Afraid to go back home since Bart might find her there again, Luanne hides at her sister's, on the other side of Springfield.

After a lengthy car and foot chase sequence through Springfield that takes up the entire final act and ends up at the nuclear plant, Homer finds the mysterious masked man who knows the truth and he ends up being yet another son of Frank Grimes. During a struggle in Homer's work station which ends with son #2 of Grimes getting electrocuted to death, Homer accidentally causes another nuclear disaster, which this time Homer is unable to stop because he is too busy killing. The blast nukes half of Springfield, including the house Luanne Van Houten is hiding out in. Completely incinerated, she is no longer an obstacle between Bart and Milhouse's friendship. Homer is back to his old life, but the episode ends with him ominously holding a cup of coffee above his station, with a sinister look on his face.

[Cash Kerouac]

Sub-plot- Bart befriends an invisible washcloth.

[TriforceBun]

Brush With Greatness

While watching TV at home, OFF learns that a local flea market has opened up. They visit the flea market, and Homer ends up losing all his money by haggling prices upwards. Leaving with a ton of new junk in their arms, the Simpsons stash their purchases in the attic immediately upon getting home, bored of them already. Seeing the attic in a state of disarray convinces them it's time to clean up. Cue a 40 second montage of Bart shaking spiders out of a box into Lisa's childhood photos, a visual gag involving Marge's hair, and Homer eating something that shouldn't normally be eaten. After the attic is clean, the family is tired, so they go to the mall to buy a waterbed. But when Bart pulls a hilariously clever prank (repeatedly stabbing the waterbed with his favorite switchblade while yelling "DIE DIE DIE"), the house floods and Homer and Marge must hire a repairman to fix it. Homer is disgusted with the prices, so he takes matters into his own hands, while Marge discovers a hidden library in the attic due to the water washing away some dirt. Marge keeps her discovery secret but ends up getting addicted to a Tom Clancy book, so she sets up a meeting with the author. He's on vacation in Tahiti, so Marge works part-time at a Krusty Burger to raise enough money for the plane ticket. Once she leaves, she has to overcome her newfound fear of flying by imagining she's on the ground in a surreal fantasy sequence. Finally, the plane crash-lands in Venezuela, several miles from Tahiti.

End act one.

When we return from the commercial break, Bart and Lisa are fighting again.

End act two.

Marge is now mad at Homer for not being there in Venezuela with her. They argue a lot via phone, letters, and e-mail.

End act three.

Finally, in the closing minutes, Marge decides to return home to follow her dream of painting a naked Mr. Burns. She does so, and Ringo shows up to congratulate her on painting the second-most realistic set of genitals he's ever seen.

[Green Man]

"$pringfield" from Scully Era:

Legalized gambling comes to springfield attracting more and more prostitutes. Bart makes friends one of prostitutes. Meamwhile Marge gets addicted to gambling and leaves the family so she can spend her life in cassinos.

From the Al Jean Era:

Marge gets addicted to gambling and ends up losing the house in one of the games. The family then starts to work for the new owners of the house.

[The Governor]

"$pringfield" from Scully Era:

Legalized gambling comes to springfield attracting more and more prostitutes. Bart makes friends one of prostitutes. Meamwhile Marge gets addicted to gambling and leaves the family so she can spend her life in cassinos.

HOMER:
Marge, what does a roomfull of prostitutes and minigolf have in common?

MARGE:
'sigh' What Homer?

HOMER:
After a while, all the holes start looking the same.

[Mr Black]

nice one.....

[D'ohmer]

LETS (Scully)

When Homer asks Mr. Burns if everyone could give up the dental plan for beer, even though Homer knows that Lisa needs braces, Mr. Burns accepts and everyone at the plant is so happy for Homer that they make him head of the union. When the rest of the family finds out, they get upset with him and Homer leaves his family because of it. Homer goes to Mr. Burns and begs for the dental plan back and starts yelling at him. When Mr. Burns refuses, Homer decides to quit the job and get a job elsewhere. Homer gets a dental plan with this new job, so everyone in the family likes Homer again.

[Green Man]

"Homer's Triple Bypass" from the Scully era:

Homer starts to eat like never before and that makes he fells some chest pain. He ignores it and keeps eating. He finally has a heart attack while using the bathroom. Homer discovers that he needs a triple bypass, but can't afford it so he starts to steal money from rich people. After the operation Homer ends up becoming a vegeatable, but he turns out to be fine in next week's episode.

[lardofthedance2]

Boy Scoutz In Da Hood


After Bart records over all of Homer's monkey tv shows on Tivo on purpose, Homer signs Bart up to the Juniour Campers to get back at him. But Bart is swept up as the Juniour Campers really run a mafia like underground business, and plan to take out the girl (goil) scouts for not being able to pay them the amount of cookies they owed. Meanwhile at Moes, Moe installs a new DDR game which gets Homer hooked! But he has competition from a new customer (played by Dane Cook or some other crappy comedian) who challenges Homers newfound talent! We get several Rocky based montages of Homer preparing for his DDR tournament.
The Junior Campers prepare for a fight with the Girl Scouts in an alley. They're about to start the shootout (with waterguns) when the Girl's troop leader announces that the scouts are disbanding due to ecoli being found in their cookies. Pan to Ralph eatnig a box followed by a bad pun. While they walk away Bart questions why the Campers never actually go camping, the other scouts realize that Bart's on to them and start to beat him up.
Marge walks in and sees Homer lying on the couch and asks why he isn't at his dance off. Homer replies that his obseesion was immature and unhealthy. Marge is happy to hear this, until Homer says that the main reason is that they didn't have the Grass Monkey Song. A disco ball comes out of the ceiling and Homer and Marge start to dance to it. Marge sees Lisa walk down stairs and ask if she wants to dance. She refuses though seeing as she's still angry she wasn't in the episode and walks out the door.

Go to credits

[qwertyuio]

Scully's Boy Scoutz 'N' The Hood:

Same plot, same characterizations, same ending, but it's never funny despite it tries so hard with terribly lame jokes.


I'll think of another one better later.

[Simpsonsfan1981]

LETS (Scully)

When Homer asks Mr. Burns if everyone could give up the dental plan for beer, even though Homer knows that Lisa needs braces, Mr. Burns accepts and everyone at the plant is so happy for Homer that they make him head of the union. When the rest of the family finds out, they get upset with him and Homer leaves his family because of it. Homer goes to Mr. Burns and begs for the dental plan back and starts yelling at him. When Mr. Burns refuses, Homer decides to quit the job and get a job elsewhere. Homer gets a dental plan with this new job, so everyone in the family likes Homer again.

You forgot to add...
The next week Homer is somehow back at his old job with no reason given ready to mysteriously leave the job again by the end of the next episode

[Simpsonsfan1981]

"Krusty Gets Busted"

Smithers goes on vacation and Mr Burns needs some entertainment so he hires Homer as a prank monkey to go down to the Kwiki-Mart dressed as a hot dog so that Mr Burns can entertain himself by pouring mustard and ketchup all over him. While there, he runs into Krusty the Clown who is seemingly holding the store up. Homer challenges "Krusty" to a duel and Krusty accepts but Homer is too scared so he quits his job and the family move to a new town. Meanwhile Krusty is arrested and sent before Judge Constance Harm, who sentences him to be tethered to Moe Syzlak for a whole decade

Sideshow Bob takes over Krusty's show. Homer hears about this and decides to return to Springfield and is hired as a loud, obnoxious sidekick who spends the whole of each show making stupid jokes and performing unfunny stunts that cause pain. This places his marriage with Marge under a strain and they have a big fight and it looks like they're going to break up

Bart and Lisa decide to help Homer and Marge's marriage out by getting Krusty the Clown out of being tethered to Moe so that Homer will be fired from the show. To that end they recruit guest star with no relevance to the plot whatsoever -let's say Magic Johnson. Magic Johnson manages to get Krusty released and exposes Sideshow Bob as the true culprit. Bart and Lisa ask how they did it. Magic Johnson says "do you want to know the answer or do you want to see me shoot some hoops". Bart, Lisa and the assorted crowd cry out "hoops! hoops!". The episode ends with Magic shooting some hoops and the crowd in Springfield cheering while some dance music plays in the background

[The Governor]

"Homer's Barbershop Quartet Boyband Playahz" (Jean Era)

When Homer recalls his time in his preBart, early 20's years in 1999, he and Marge were dating and living in Capital City. Every weekend, he, Skinner, apu, and Chief wiggum (also, all strangely in their 20's) would go to Moe's new location in Captial City and sing old Barbershop songs, but when Nigel comes around looking for talent, he tells them to drop the Barbershop angle and take up the world of manufactured Boy-Bandisms. Adding Barney to the lineup, we have Homer as the "Cute" one, Skinner, the "Shy" one Wiggum, the big baby, Apu as the hardass, and Barney as the all around leader. When their first album, Dinner with a Fork and Spooning, takes off they have to tour and Marge tags along to keep Homer in check.

[Mt. Doom]

The Last Temptation of Homer

After Homer meets an unmarried single man, Eric the Dudester(voiced by....i dunno, Jason Alexander or something) he notices how free and inexpensive his lifestyle is compared to Homer's. After seeing how much money he had to spend on everyone's christmas presents, he's tempted to kill his family in a plan involving sulfuric acids he bought from Professor Frink. However Eric confesses to Homer that since he's single and unmarried he gets no sex, causing Homer to fully appreciate his married life and never be tempted again.

[Mr. Krikt]

Brush With Greatness
...

This is brilliant. The only thing making it not seem like a Simpsons episode is the length.

[Nauru-1]

Three Men and a Comic Book (Jean era)

While Bart is lying on the grass in front of the house fidgeting with his iPhone (commentating on the seventeen new features he added), he meets a random latino stranger passing by (voiced by Hank Azaria). The stranger (who Bart refers to as "McJerk") suggests he get a new hobby and recommends salsa dancing which he teaches. Bart is hesitant at first but eventually accepts after he is informed of all the hip celebrities who regularly engage in the activity. In the highlight of the critically acclaimed set piece, Bart dropkicks his iPhone onto the road.

Later that day at dinner, Bart informs the family of his plans. Homer begins to say something but is distracted by a moth (which he then chases out of the room). Lisa complains bitterly about the sexist origins of the word "salsa", while Marge is supportive of her son thanks to an article she read in "Hip Moms Weekly" about the exact situation presented in the episode. (end of act one)

The next day Bart, with a spirited Milhouse tagging along, struts to the downtown district to the salsa place (with the oh-so original title "Salsa 'R Us"). Bart and Milhouse get quickly bored, are given brief 'tude from the latino, and venture back out into the town. They run into Comic Book Guy, ranting about how he only hates the latest show of his favorite show Gliderman because they don't have the nostalgia (a "cunning" argument to skeptical viewers). He is throwing out DVDs (with no audio commentary) of said show. Milhouse points out a classic Radioactive Man comic book in Comic Book Guy's coat, but CBG notes it will be sold for no less than $200. (act two)

Bart and Milhouse run into Martin on the way home who, not wanting to feel left out, joins them in their search for money. Bart goes to ask Homer, but he is still heavily invested in chasing the moth that has now spawned an entire family. Bart, however, grabs Homer's wallet from the trademark blue pants (which are inexplicably not on Homer, but rather a nearby chair). There is a total of $90 there.

Meanwhile, Martin finds a lost, unscathed iPhone on the road, comments in detail on the seventeen recently added features to it, and sells it at a pawn shop to a sarcastic gay shop keeper (voiced by Hank Azaria). Martin, having no sense of the price of the gadget, is rewarded with a cool $40. Milhouse runs into an incredibly emotional Nelson who offers him anything he wants for not squealing on his fragile mood. Milhouse is able to get $50 from him. (act three)

The next scene shows the three meeting with their found treasure which totals $180. CBG says he's not selling it for a penny less than the asking price. The boys are aided by the salsa teacher coincidentally in the store who "just wants to help them out" and forgives them of their bailing on his class. The boys get their comic book and return to the Simpsons home. Homer, now being chased by the moths, knocks Bart over spilling the comic book into the mud in the process. A storm suddenly brews, strikes Homer, goes away, and comes back again to strike the comic book. The boys are shocked by the quick "Unfortunate Series of Events" and disband to their homes disappointed. Homer gives a father-son talk about the irony of nature and apologizes for not being there for him. Sweet music plays and the two of them hug. (act four)

The End

[Kang's Bastard Spore]

This is brilliant. The only thing making it not seem like a Simpsons episode is the length.

Eh, they'll just cut jokes. I also think that this is the most like modern Simpsons of the stories so far, though there are a lot of good outings. Look out for job offers guys!

[Dylan]

For Jean era:

When no one signs Lisa's year book, she decides to give up her nerdish attitude and become cool. She gets the opportunity when the Flanderses let the Simpsons and Milhouse use their beach house. She attempts to make friends with a new personallity and ends up with a group of kids. Bart, on the other hand, is jelous of Lisa having friends. He only has Milhouse. He shows Lisa's friends her yearbook and reveals her previous self. Heartbroken, Lisa runs into the house crying. The rivalry between Bart and Lisa continues. However, Lisa's friends decorate their car to show that they still like her. On the way home, Bart shows Lisa her yearbook and that all her friends signed it, ending their rivalry. While all this was happening, Homer purchased fireworks for 4th of July and failed to set them off properly, causing a mess in the kitchen. Oh, and there may be some modern references to replace the old references.

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[Isidro25]

Triforcebun and Nauru-1's summaries are amazingly accurate.

[The Governor]

Last Exit to Springifeld (jean era)

When Homer's Dental Plan is taken away, he decides to get the other workers to go on strike not only to have the dental plan reinstated, but to have a a free myPod for every employee. Meanwhile, with no insurance, Lisa tries to rally springifeld to accept her Budahist-driven Socialized medicine goal, and even gets Micheal Moore involved, but suddenly has second thoughts when her dental 'gas' is Canadian Carbon monixide.

[bartyboy]

The Crepes of Wrath (Jean era)

After Bart throws a cherry bomb into a closet where Skinner and Mrs. Krabappel are having sex, Bart is sent to France. He lives with two gay men who put their own urine in wine and force Bart to drink it. Bart loves it and stays with the two men. The Simpson family soon come to France (The Simpsons are going to France!) and convince Bart to come back.

[The Sanest Fangirl]

The new episode of Simpsons was fucking lame. Homer was talking big words at long streaches. Alot of what was going on was just wrong. I have no episode idea, i just had to express my disgust. FUCK SHINY SHADOWY SIMPSONS.

[The Governor]

The new episode of Simpsons was fucking lame. Homer was talking big words at long streaches. Alot of what was going on was just wrong. I have no episode idea, i just had to express my disgust. FUCK SHINY SHADOWY SIMPSONS.

What the FUCK!?