Seasons & episodes
S0 · E1Good Night 1987-04-19 · 2 min
Good Night was the first ever Simpsons short to air on The Tracey Ullman Show. The five main family members - Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie - were first introduced in this short. Homer and Marge attempt to calm their children to sleep, with the opposite results. Maggie can be heard saying "good night". She rarely talks throughout the run of the series.
S0 · E2Watching TV 1987-05-03 · 2 min
Bart and Lisa quarrel during commercial breaks over what channel they'll watch. Repeatedly Maggie comes up to the television and changes the channel. Later Homer is saying some speech about family matters then stops when the show comes back on. A piece of music from the Tracey Ullman show plays at one part or another during the short.
S0 · E3Jumping Bart 1987-05-10 · 2 min
Homer makes several attempts to have Bart jump into his arms. Each time Bart jumps Homer is distracted and fails to catch him. Towards the end of the episode boxing gloves are delivered, presumably the ones used in the episode Punching Bag.
S0 · E4Babysitting Maggie 1987-05-31 · 2 min
Marge puts Bart and Lisa in charge of babysitting Maggie. They watch TV while Maggie gets electrocuted, falls down the stairs, and falls off the roof. Maggie sticks a fork in an electrical socket thereby electocuting herself, she crawls up the stairs and falls down them in insane Slinky fashion then she climbs onto the roof in hot pursuit of a butterfly, and falls off it.
S0 · E5The Pacifier 1987-06-21 · 2 min
Lisa and Bart try to get Maggie to stop sucking on her pacifier, but Maggie, who has an entire drawer full of them, refuses to kick the habit.
S0 · E6Burping Contest 1987-06-28 · 2 min
Despite Marge's objections, Bart, Lisa and even Maggie compete in a contest to see who can make the most disgusting burp.
S0 · E7Dinner Time 1987-07-12 · 2 min
Marge serves the family purple goop for dinner, insisting that they say grace first.
S0 · E8Making Faces 1987-09-22 · 2 min
Despite Marge's warnings, the kids make faces. Maggie unclearly speaks in this episode.
S0 · E9The Funeral 1987-10-04 · 2 min
Bart is determined to see his uncle's corpse...but not for long. This is the only appearance of Uncle Hubert.
S0 · E10Maggie's Brain 1987-10-11 · 2 min
Bart and Lisa wonder what's inside Maggie's mind.
S0 · E11Football 1987-10-18 · 2 min
Homer teaches Bart about the importance of Football.
S0 · E12House of Cards 1987-10-25 · 2 min
Bart tries to make a house of cards, but Lisa Maggie make noises that have the "house" fall every time.
S0 · E13Bart and Homer's Dinner 1987-11-01 · 2 min
Bart can't stomach it when he and Homer are forced to fend for themselves.
S0 · E14Space Patrol 1987-11-08 · 2 min
Bart, Lisa and Maggie play a game of "Space Patrol" while Homer and Marge are out. Lisa plays a superhero with Maggie as her sidekick, while Bart puts a jug on his head with the pretense of it being the helmet of an alien warlord. However, his head accidentally plops into it and the jug is left stuck on his head. Lisa "frees" Bart from the jug using a croquet mallet. Lisa and Maggie then hide, allowing Bart, stumbling in a daze amongst pieces of the precious broken jug lying on the floor, to take the blame.
S0 · E15Bart's Haircut 1987-11-15 · 2 min
Bart has his hair cut too short by a barber. This is the first time we hear a character from The Simpsons series say a curse word.
S0 · E16World War III 1987-11-22 · 2 min
Homer wakes up the family to practice for a nuclear drill... in the middle of the night.
S0 · E17The Perfect Crime 1987-12-13 · 2 min
Marge bakes a batch of delicious cookies. Bart attempts to steal them, but burns his fingers trying to pick them up. Everyone except Bart and Maggie leave the kitchen to let them cool down, and Bart takes this opportunity to swipe them, muttering to himself "Aha! The perfect crime!" Homer and Marge come back to find the tray empty. Marge suspects Maggie of eating the cookies, but as a witness she knows exactly who took them and guides them along a trail of cookies running across the floor. His family catch him lying on his back in his bedroom amidst a pile of cookie crumbs. Looking up at them with his stomach full, he groans, "There is no perfect crime." His head bangs back down on the ground and Maggie, secretively, snacks on an uneaten cookie.
S0 · E18Scary Stories 1987-12-20 · 2 min
Bart tells Lisa & Maggie a series of scary stories (in the middle of the dark) only to believe they're coming true.
S0 · E19Grampa and the Kids 1988-01-10 · 2 min
Grampa spends time with the kids. This is Grampa's first appearance.
S0 · E20Gone Fishin' (Sort of) 1988-01-24 · 2 min
Bart and Homer go on a fishing trip. Homer asks Bart for a bologna sandwich, but Bart forgot the bologna. He puts the bait on the sandwich instead. Later on they hit rapids and Homer is almost knocked unconscious. They later fall off of a waterfall.
S0 · E21Skateboarding 1988-02-07 · 2 min
Bart teaches his sisters how to skateboard...or is it the other way around.
S0 · E22The Pagans 1988-02-14 · 2 min
The kids discuss paganism. This is the first time Bart calls his dad "Homer".
S0 · E23Closeted 1988-02-21 · 2 min
Bart locks himself in the closet, and when he busts out, he finds out that the family has gone out without him.
S0 · E24The Aquarium 1988-02-28 · 2 min
At an aquarium Bart swims with the sharks...literally. This is the first time we see a naked Simpsons character. This also marks Lisa Simpson saying the word hell in this short.