Season 3

1988-11-06 · 2m

Maggie squeaks her toy, setting off a chain reaction of anger through the family. Bart tries to make everyone make up, then ruins it by insulting Homer.

1988-11-13 · 2m

Bart tries to hide a stolen cookie by distracting his parents with a shell game. His plan seems to work, until Maggie eats the cookie she had hidden in her mouth.

1988-11-20 · 2m

Forbidden from watching Itchy & Scratchy, Bart puts on his own show by taking the TV apart to appear on screen. First appearance of Itchy and Scratchy.

1988-11-27 · 2m

The kids take out their anger on a punching bag with Homer's face drawn on it. When he tries to stop them, he is knocked out by the bag. First time Homer says "D'oh!".

1988-12-18 · 2m

Bart narrates a chaotic Christmas with the Simpson family, in the style of The Night Before Christmas.

1989-01-15 · 2m

The kids get to see Krusty the Clown live for the first time. Bart believes Krusty is an impostor and exposes him on television.

1989-01-29 · 2m

Sent out to exercise, Bart unintentionally stops a burglar robbing a candy store and is rewarded, though all he wanted were candy bars.

1989-02-05 · 2m

Ordered to clean his room, Bart makes his sisters do the work while telling a story about a world where giant kids order their tiny parents around.

1989-02-12 · 2m

Bart convinces his sisters to watch a horror film instead of a children's movie, then ends up terrified when one of the space mutants looks just like him.

1989-02-19 · 2m

Homer and Marge try hypnotism to tame the kids, who pretend to become mindless zombies until Bart hits his father with a toy ball.

1989-02-26 · 2m

Bart steals chocolate bars from the supermarket and is caught by security. On the ride home he is rude about it, so Homer loses his temper and makes him walk.

1989-03-12 · 2m

The family drives to Echo Canyon and take turns making echoes. Bart is so disruptive he nearly crushes the car with a boulder, sending Homer after him.

1989-03-19 · 2m

Homer forces Bart to take his Sunday night bath, but Bart floods the bathroom after leaving the water running. Homer chases him through the house.

1989-03-26 · 2m

After eating every cookie in the jar, Bart has a nightmare where he is an inch tall and nearly crushed by giant cookies in the kitchen.

1989-04-16 · 1m

The kids swing from the trees using Homer's neckties. Angered, Homer ends up caught in their trap and they refuse to let him down.

1989-04-23 · 2m

Homer takes the family to a psychologist because they can no longer laugh. The chaos they cause drives the therapist over the edge, which turns out to be exactly the cure they needed.

1989-04-30 · 2m

After Maggie accidentally kicks her ball into Bart's face, he kicks it out of sight and she takes off after it, ending up caught on a branch. To be continued.

1989-05-07 · 2m

Maggie floats through the air hanging from balloons and lands safely back in her playpen, to the family's relief.

1989-05-14 · 2m

A kite gets stuck on the TV antenna and Homer climbs onto the roof to free it. He shreds it in a rage and falls off, while the kids watch cartoons unaware. The final Simpsons short.