Simpsons Top 100 Countdown

#65 Trash of the Titans
Season 9, Episode 22 (Guide from the Simpsons Archive)

Homer gets into a dispute with the Springfield sanitation department, which results in their refusal to collect his garbage. After Marge forges an apology from him, Homer escalates the dispute and runs against the incumbent (elected sixteen straight times) sanitation commissioner in the upcoming election. After a lousy start to his campaign, he adopts the slogan “Can’t someone else do it?” and promises a drastic increase in the duties the town’s garbagemen will perform. Homer wins the election, but spends an entire year’s budget in one month. He finds a new revenue source by selling garbage dumping rights to Springfield’s abandoned mine to other cities. However, when the mine starts overflowing and spewing out garbage in inconvenient places, Homer is kicked out of office. Springfield solves its garbage woes by moving the whole town ten miles away. Memorable moments include marketing Love Day (and other assorted Love Day stuff), Homer’s first incident with the garbagemen (especially his appearance afterwards), the Simpson dump, Homer shaking things up at city hall, Homer’s initial campaign failings (such as the U2 concert), the debate, Garbageman (a good start for an episode to make the top 100 seems to be including a musical number), the opening briefcase, drug dealing, Quimby’s discovery, the town meeting and not the ending (swing and a miss on that).