The Top 10 Simpsons Episodes... From More Recent Years

Pretty much every Simpsons fan will agree that the show's best days are well behind it. Blame it on the rehashed storylines, the increased focus on celebrity guest stars or merely the fact that the classic writing staff have gone their separate ways. Any way you slice it, it's telling that our Top 25 Simpsons Episodes countdown didn't include a single episode produced after the year 2000. But even if the show has lost a lot of its bite since the golden years, it still offers some moments of greatness. With the show rapidly approaching the 600 episode mark, it's just a statistical inevitability that some recent episodes will be winners.

The Top 25 Simpsons Episodes

With that in mind, we've decided to showcase the best of The Simpsons' modern era. These are the episodes that didn't merely settle for rehashing the usual formulas like "Homer gets a new job," "How did Homer and Marge meet?" and "The Simpsons are going to [insert foreign country here]!" Instead, they found ways to break new ground and recapture some of that classic Simpsons magic in the process.

A quick note - since our original countdown included picks from Seasons 1 through 11, we limited this countdown to episodes from Season 12 and onward. 

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