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Season 17
Homer runs for mayor.
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Lisa fights creationism.
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- The Monkey Suit (originally aired May 14, 2006) Springfield Elementary begins teaching creationism instead of evolution. Lisa tries holding underground evolution seminars, but is arrested and stands trial. Marge gets involved. New!
- See Homer Run (originally aired November 20, 2005) Homer tries to win back Lisa's respect as a safety-promoting salamander and becomes a local hero. He then runs for mayor along with many other Springfield residents when voters try to recall Mayor Quimby.
Season 16 (2004-05)
Springfield legalizes same-sex marriages.
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Lisa vists Springfield Glacier.
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The Simpsons go to China.
Springfield's new prison.
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Bart gets fat from vending-machine food.
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Homer experiences the Rapture.
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- Thank God It's Doomsday (originally aired May 8, 2005) Homer gets obsessed with the Rapture as depicted in a movie, "Left Below" (obviously inspired by the popular "Left Behind" book series), and predicts the end of the world.
- The Heartbroke Kid (originally aired May 1, 2005) Bart gets fat from junk food and not enough exercise. He gets sent to a fat camp to lose his weight, and the Simpsons turn the house into a youth hostel to pay for it.
- Seven-Beer Snitch (originally aired April 4, 2005). Springfield builds a new concert hall to help improve its image compared to Shelbyville, which has its own theater district. Unfortunately, Springfield's residents fail to support the concert hall, and it is turned into the Montgomery Burns State Prison. Homer is arrested on an outdated law but becomes a snitch.
- Goo Goo Gai Pan (originally aired March 13, 2005). Selma hits menopause and seeks to adopt a Chinese baby. She pretends that Homer is her husband in order to meet a requirement (though single persons actually are allowed by the Chinese government to adopt) and goes to China with the Simpsons to pick up Ling Bouvier.
- On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister (originally aired March 6, 2005). Lisa and Bart go on a class field trip to the Springfield Glacier, which is now just a puddle; the result, Lisa thinks, of global warming. Bart continues to mock his sister, and she gets a restraining order on him. Homer works at "Sprawl-Mart" and gets locked inside overnight.
- There's Something About Marrying (originally aired Feb. 20, 2005). In order to increase tourism, Springfield allows same-sex marriages, thus joining Massachusetts as the only place where homosexual couples can get married. Marge's sister Patty announces that she is a lesbian and that she is getting married to a female golfer.
- Midnight Rx (originally aired January 16, 2005). Faced with Burns' latest evil scheme - cutting employees' health plans - Homer and Grandpa Simpson go to Canada to get prescription drugs there.
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