Simpsons Top 100 Countdown

#55 Bart After Dark
Season 8, Episode 5 (Guide from the Simpsons Archive)

Seeing an oil spill on the television, Lisa begs Marge to take her on a trip to help clean the animals affected by it, with Marge eventually relenting, and taking Maggie, leaving Homer and Bart to themselves at the house. After tiring of laziness in the filth they create, Bart goes to the park where he witnesses the crash of a radio-controlled plane into a foreboding house. Demonstrating his bravery for the other boys, Bart retrieves the plane, but falls, knocking over a gargoyle statue, and is caught by the proprietor. She takes him home and demands that Homer punish him, which results in Bart going to work for the lady. The house turns out to be a burlesque house, and when Principal Skinner finds Bart there, he alerts the Lovejoys and Flanderses, who confront Homer. As Homer is giving his defense, Marge returns from her trip and joins the four in a moral crusade to rid the town of the house of ill repute. They manage to raise a mob at the next town meeting to tear down the house, but Homer convinces them otherwise with a musical number at the scene. Marge ends up causing serious damage to the house anyways, and becomes the one working at it (not in the naughty way, so don’t you be getting any ideas). Memorable moments include the peach tree, Homer’s poor parenting, Burns in the park, grocery bag attire, clearing up misinformation about witches, bookkeeping jokes, Bart working the greet and toss with Grandpa and Skinner, Homer’s discovery, Homer confronted, the town meeting, the musical number (though I didn’t think it rated as well as a lot of their other ones), Marge’s accident, and Marge repaying her debts.