# What is the best Simpsons episode of all time?

> Golden-age half-hours, cult deep cuts and one or two episodes people still insist were the last great one.

*By YPB Team · Published August 4, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-best-simpsons-episode-of-all-time*

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## Current results (0 votes)

1. **Marge vs. the Monorail**
   Conan O'Brien's season 4 classic in which a smooth-talking salesman cons Springfield into buying a doomed monorail.
2. **Homer's Enemy**
   Hard-luck everyman Frank Grimes joins the plant and is destroyed by the injustice of Homer's charmed life.
3. **Cape Feare**
   Sideshow Bob stalks Bart to Terror Lake in an extended parody of Cape Fear, rakes and all.
4. **You Only Move Twice**
   Homer takes a dream job with Hank Scorpio, a supervillain who happens to be the perfect boss.
5. **Treehouse of Horror V**
   The Halloween anthology peak, led by The Shinning and its no-TV-and-no-beer madness.
6. **Homer at the Bat**
   Mr. Burns stacks the plant softball team with nine real major-league ringers.
7. **Lisa's Substitute**
   A substitute teacher shows Lisa a wider world, and leaving hurts more than she expects.
8. **Rosebud**
   Mr. Burns will trade anything, including the town's dignity, to get his childhood teddy bear Bobo back.
9. **A Fish Called Selma**
   Washed-up Troy McClure marries Selma to revive his career, culminating in the Planet of the Apes musical.
10. **Homer's Barbershop Quartet**
   The Be Sharps rise and fall as a note-perfect parody of Beatlemania, with George Harrison cameo.

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