Episode
The Simpsons: Midnight Towboy
Overview
Homer takes a job as a tow-truck driver, and Marge hires a service that claims to make babies less clingy. Both decisions have unexpected consequences.
Details
- Series
- The Simpsons
- Season
- Season 19
- Episode
- Episode 3
- Air date
- 2007-10-07
- Runtime
- 23 min
Episode context
Midnight Towboy is Episode 3 in Season 19 of The Simpsons. It aired on 2007-10-07. The runtime is 23 min.
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Episode 2: The Homer of Seville
A freak accident gives Homer an operatic singing voice, and he becomes a star at the Springfield Opera. But with fame and fortune comes a price: He's continually bothered by fans, an obsessed woman in particular.
Episode 4: I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Marge is held hostage during a bank robbery and forms an uneasy bond with one of the thieves before he's taken to prison.
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Homer falls in love with the high life of flying in private planes when he saves Mr. Burns from drowning, and Burns repays him by flying him to Chicago for a night on the town.
Episode 5: Treehouse of Horror XVIII
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Episode 6: Little Orphan Millie
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Episode 7: Husbands and Knives
Marge opens a gym for real women because she's disenchanted with Springfield's snooty, glitzy L.A. Body Works. Her gym, Shapes: A Gym for Women, is a huge success, launching a chain that makes Marge rich and famous. But Homer fears Marge will leave him for someone more attractive and goes to extreme lengths to try to save his marriage.
Episode 8: Funeral for a Fiend
Sideshow Bob tries again for revenge against the Simpsons.
Episode 9: Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind
Homer loses his memory--and his family--when he drinks Moe's most potent libation, the Forget-Me-Shot, in an episode that spoofs "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and "It's a Wonderful Life."
Episode 10: E Pluribus Wiggum
Homer burns down Springfield's fast-food district. In order to float a bond issue to rebuild it, Mayor Quimby moves up election day, making Springfield's primary election the first in the nation. This causes the town to be overrun with reporters, candidates and pundits.
Episode 11: That 90's Show
Flashbacks follow Marge and Homer back to their dating days, when she was a college student and he was working for his father to support her. Then Marge becomes smitten with a professor, so a sorrowful Homer turns to music--and invents grunge.
Episode 12: Love, Springfieldian Style
Homer and Marge celebrate Valentine's Day by going on the Tunnel of Love ride at a carnival, but they end up stranded when Bart pulls a prank involving gelatin. To pass the time, Homer tells the love story of Bonnie and Clyde, Marge tells her version of "Lady and the Tramp," and Bart tells the love story of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen.
Episode 13: The Debarted
A new kid at school named Donny works with Bart on his pranks. But when the pranks start to backfire, Bart wonders if he can trust his new accomplice. Meanwhile, the Simpsons get a fancy loaner car after Marge gets in an accident, and Homer falls in love with it.