Bob Dole and Bill Clinton. Golden moment: "I suppose you wantto probe me," says Homer, on board the flying saucer. "Well, you might as well get it over with." Kang, raising a tenticle: "Stop! We have reached the limit of what rectal probing can teach us!"

6. HOMER'S ENEMY (1997) We explore what it would be like to actually work alongside Homer Simpson. Hank Azaria is great as Frank Grimes, Homer's stressed-out new coworker. We've had many funny funerals on this show, but Grimes' send-off (which Homer sleeps through) is perhaps the most touching and hilarious.

5.IN MARGE WE TRUST (1997) Even by Simpsons standards, this is a peculiar episode: Homer freaks out when he finds a Japanese Mr. Sparkle soap box that bears his likeness. ("For lucky best wash, use Mr. Sparkle!") I can't remember how we get there, but the show ends with Reverend Lovejoy saving Ned Flanders from several crazed zoo baboons.
4. A STREETCAR NAMED MARGE (1992) Our first major musical episode. Marge is featured in Oh! Streetcar!, a version of A Streetcar Named Desire directed by the oily Llewellyn Sinclair (played with relish by Jon Lovitz). There's also Maggie's finest moment, in which she plots a Great Escape-style caper from the Ayn Rand School for Tots.
3. MUCH APU ABOUT NOTHING (1996) This episode, satirizing the American anti-immigrant frenzy of the mid-'90s, has some of Apu the Kwik-E-Mark clerk's and Police Chief Wiggum's wittiest lines. Sample: "All right, men," says Wiggum, "here's teh order of deportations. First we'll be rounding up your tired, then yoru poor, then your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..."
2. LIFE ON THE FAST LANE (1990) Marge has a near affair with Jacques, her debonair French bowling instructor, played by the brilliant Albert Brooks. The instructor was Sweedish in the original (titled "Bjorn to Be Wild"), but Brooks wisely changed him to French, and improvised much of the hilariously seductive dialogue with Julie Kavner (as Marge).
1. BART THE DAREDEVIL (1990) The scene in which Homer accidentally attempts to skate- board across Springfield Gorge and doesn't make it is pretty funny, but even funnier--for me, the funniest moment in the series--is when he's loaded into an ambulance, which then hits a tree, sending Homer back over the cliff while strapped to a gurney. Truly inspired mayhem.[]