
This long-running animated comedy focuses on the eponymous family in the town of Springfield in an unnamed U.S. state. The head of the Simpson family, Homer, is not a typical family man. A nuclear-plant employee, he does his best to lead his family but often finds that they are leading him. The family includes loving, blue-haired matriarch Marge, troublemaking son Bart, overachieving daughter Lisa and baby Maggie. Other Springfield residents include the family's religious neighbor, Ned Flanders, family physician Dr. Hibbert, Moe the bartender and police chief Clancy Wiggum.

Grampa busts a kidney when Homer refuses to make a rest stop on a road trip.

Homer, as the mayor's bodyguard, takes flak from Fat Tony after saving the lives of Quimby and actor Mark Hamill.

Dispirited Ned Flanders takes Homer's advice and goes to Las Vegas.

When Chief Wiggum imposes a curfew on Springfield's alleged vandals, he taps into a hidden vein of creativity.