Season 2

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Season Information Original run: October 11, 1990 – July 11, 1991 No. of episodes: 22 Previous season: 1 Next season: 3 DVD boxset: The Complete Third Season

The Simpsons' second season began on 11th October 1990 with the first episode of the series, "Bart Gets an F" and ended on 11th July 1990 with "Blood Feud". Matt Groening, James L. Brooks and Sam Simon were the show runners of the season, as they also were for the previous season.

While "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish" was the first episode produced for the season, "Bart Gets an F" became the season premiere as Bart was the series' breakout character at the time and the producers wanted to debut with an episode centring on him.

The season had two nominations which were only for "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment" . It won an Emmy award for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming less than One Hour) and was nominated for "Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy Series or a Special", which it did not win.

All of the 22 episodes of Season 2 including extras such as optional commentaries of all the episodes were released on DVD on 6th August 2002 in Region 1, 8th July 2001 in Region 2 and September 2002 in Region 4.

Episodes

#	Original title (top) Alternate title (bottom)	Original airdate	Directed by	Written by	Prod. code
Summary
1 - 1	"Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" "The Simpsons Christmas Special"	December 17, 1989	David Silverman	Mimi Pond	7G08
The Simpsons have a difficult Christmas,primarily due to lack of money as all of the savings, which was intended for shopping, had to be spent to pay for an expensive tattoo removal for Bart and no bonus for Homer in work. They try to ensure a good holiday within their financial pressure whilst Homer tries to earn money in such ways such as being Santa Claus.
2 - 2	"Bart the Genius"	January 14,1990	David Silverman	Jon Vitti	7G02
Bart is considered to be intelligent by a high test score despite that he switched his name to Martin Prince's test and vice versa i.e. being Martin's score. Bart is then enrolled the Enriched Learning Center for Gifted Children, a school that is beyond his intelligence capabilities and is closer to Homer, all while not confessing what he had done in the exam.
3 - 3	"Homer's Odyssey"	January 21,1990	Wes Archer	Jay Kogen & Wallace Wolodarsky	7G03
Homer is promptly fired after an accidental incident when he was distracted by greeting Bart and his class on their field trip to the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. A depressed and unemployed considers suicide until becoming a safety crusader after noting dangerous areas of Springfield.
4 - 4	"There's No Disgrace Like Home"	January 28,1990	Gregg Vanzo & Kent Butterworth	Al Jean & Mike Reiss	7G04
Homer decides to improve his family's behaviour, seeing their dysfunctionality and impoliteness as well as unfavourable comparisons to other families after a picnic from Mr.Burns manor.
5 - 5	"Bart the General"	February 4, 1990	David Silverman	John Swartzwelder	7G05
Bart is constantly bullied by Nelson Muntz, under unfortunate circumstances leading to this, and is desperate to find various methods to stop this.
6 - 6	"Moaning Lisa"	February 11, 1990	Wes Archer	Al Jean & Mike Reiss	7G06
Lisa is being continually unhappy, which begins to decline her performance in school. Homer and Marge cannot make her happier. She meets a musician who also plays the saxophone named Bleeding Gums Murphy, with plays jazz music to express her depression.
7 - 7	"The Call of the Simpsons"	February 18, 1990	Wes Archer	John Swartzwelder	7G09
The Simpsons go camping with their dilapidated RV, although problems arouse when the RV eventually gets destroyed by falling into an abyss, being unable to exit out of the woods and Homer and Bart as well as Maggie are split from Marge and Lisa.
8 - 8	"The Telltale Head"	February 25, 1990	Rich Moore	Al Jean, Mike Reiss, Sam Simon & Matt Groening	7G07
Bart decapitates the head of the Jebediah Springfield statue, thinking that this will impress a gang he is trying to befriend, Jimbo, Dolph and Kearney as they had said so. He becomes worried while carrying the hidden head as the beheaded statue gains public attention.
9 - 9	"Life on the Fast Lane"	March 18,1990	David Silverman	John Swartzwelder	7G11
Marge is unhappy with her birthday present from Homer i.e. a bowling ball as she had never bowled and the ball is best suited to Homer with his name on it and holes his size. She is trained by a French bowling instructor named Jacques, with whom he has fallen for Marge.
10 - 10	"Homer's Night Out"	March 25,1990	Rich Moore	Jon Vitti	7G10
Bart takes a picture of Homer dancing with Princess Kashmir, a belly dancer. The photo is then copied all over Springfield, which Marge is furious at Homer as soon as she sees it, thinking of the photo being an affair. She kicks him out of the house, which he attempts to apologize to her as well as convince that women are not just sex objects like the photo.
11 - 11	"The Crepes of Wrath"	April 15,1990	Wesley Archer & Milton Gray	George Meyer, Sam Simon, John Swartzwelder & Jon Vitti	7G13
After a series of pranks succeded with a recent incident with a cherry bomb, Principal Skinner decides that Bart would be sent to France at a student exchange program. The family including Bart agree and
12 - 12	"Krusty Gets Busted"	April 29, 1990	Brad Bird	Jay Kogen & Wallace Wolodarsky	7G12
Krusty the Clown is arrested as a suspect who robbed the Kwik-E-Mart looked like him. Aware that he is innocent, Bart attempts to find evidence to prove Krusty's innocence and the impersonator responsible for the crime.
13 - 13	"Some Enchanted Evening"	May 13, 1990	David Silverman & Kent Butterworth	Matt Groening & Sam Simon	7G01
Homer and Marge go out for dinner one night while having Bart, Lisa and Maggie responsible by a babysitter called Ms. Botz. Unbeknownst to the family, Botz is known as a wanted bandit for babysitting and which she is covering her identity while Homer and Marge spends their time fairly.

This is a list of articles concerning Simpsons episodes from Season 2.

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