When the first official episode of The Simpsons, “Bart the Genius” aired on Fox on this day 25 years ago, it changed my life quite a bit. Through strife, laughter, and love, this series has done so much for me over the years. To honor the series’ 25th Anniversary, I’ve listed my favorite 25 episodes of the series.

Picking up where I left off with the first half, there are just far too many episodes I want to talk about and so little time. It was near impossible to boil it down to 25 (and this half especially) but with a few hours of work I did just that. Enjoy!

Honorable Mentions: Treehouse of Horror V, Thank God, It’s Doomsday, A Star is Burns, Gump Roast, Homer vs. The Eighteenth Amendment, Marge vs. The Monorail, Lemon of Troy, And Maggie Makes Three, I Married Marge, Marge Be Not Proud, Flaming Moe’s, The Mansion Family, Brick Like Me, ‘Round Springfield, 22 Short Films About Springfield, Homer the Whopper, Stark Raving Dad, Lisa the Beauty Queen, Homer’s Phobia