The Simpsons Go Hollywood, Vol. 1 [VHS] - Region 0

"A Streetcar Named Marge" has the lovely blue-haired missus playing Blanche to Ned Flander's Stanley in the musical Oh Streetcar!. Director Llewelyn Sinclair (Jon Lovitz) is a flamboyant tyrant; Maggie is foisted off to day care, the Ayn Rand School for Tots (where signs such as "Helping is futile" grace the walls); and Homer and Marge have domestic strife ("Why can't you be more supportive?" Marge demands. "Because I don't care," responds Homer). After this episode aired, the producers of the show had to issue a formal apology to the city of New Orleans for trashing it in one of the Oh Streetcar! musical numbers.

In "Marge vs. the Monorail," the town has $3 million, courtesy of Mr. Burns's illegal dumping of waste. The town is quickly taken in by a shyster (voiced by Phil Hartman) who convinces them Springfield needs a monorail. And who better to conduct this misguided train than Homer Simpson ("Are we going to die, son?" Homer asks Bart. "Yeah," he replies, "but at least we're going to take a lot of innocent people"). Leonard Nimoy guest stars on this episode as himself, when he acts as grand marshal for the first monorail run. These two classic Simpsons are hysterical to begin with, and they only improve on repeat viewings. --Jenny Brown