Fires/Explosions in the Simpsons

This article is a compilation of every instance of explosions and fires in the Simpsons. As of page creation, this article is incomplete.
== Canonical Episodes ==
=== Season 1 ===
=== Season 2 ===
* Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? - During the McBain movie, McBain throws Senator Mendoza out of a window, who then lands on a gas truck, causing a massive explosion. It was unknown why the building McBain was in didn't catch on fire.
*Three Men and a Comic Book - In a flashback (imagined by Bart), Asa Glick was holding his grenade too long while dedicating it to his friends, the blast killing him.
=== Season 3 ===
* Saturdays of Thunder - After Martin crashes the Honor Roller (due to parachute failure), he runs aflame, screaming, while the fire department extinguishes the Honor Roller.
*Flaming Moe's - Homer invents a flaming cocktail (that's the most suitable description in this context).
*The Otto Show - At the Spinal Tap concert, one of the band members tries to set up a flame, yet there appears to be too much ash, causing the fire to grow large and knock out the man who lit it.
=== Season 4 ===
*Homer the Heretic - After Homer's cigar falls on some "beauty magazines", the house catches on fire.
*Homer's Triple Bypass - After Homer repeatedly rams the flatbed carrying the birthplace of Edgar Allan Poe, Hans Moleman swerves off the highway, causing the house to go aflame.
*Brother from the Same Planet - While Bart is waiting for Homer to pick him up, a woman in white robes is blown away, exploding on a nearby mountain.
*Duffless - After Homer is arrested for drunk driving (even though he passed the sobriety test), the cops let Barney drive home (even though he is obviously drunk). Barney then reverses and hits Wiggum, dressed as a beer stein, as he rolls down the hill. Wiggum then hits a tree and explodes.
*Last Exit to Springfield - Mr. Burns shuts down the city's power, resulting in chaos and riots. In the first instance, a car was overturned and caught on fire.
*So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show - After Bart uses a paint shaker to shake a can of Duff Beer to extremes, he places it in the fridge. After Homer opens it, the resulting explosion literally blasts the roof and the car and puts Homer into a coma. It is unknown why Bart didn't suffer injury.
*Marge in Chains - There are two instances of fires. One is when the students ruin Ms. Krabappel's classroom, after Nelson, Martin and Milhouse push the desk over, resulting in a fire. The second instance was the citywide riots over the Jimmy Carter statue.
*Krusty Gets Kancelled - After a truck driver throws a can of beer, Bette Midler throws the bottle at the driver, causing them to swerve off into the mountain and explode. In reality, Midler would have been charged for involuntary manslaughter.
=== Season 5 ===
* Homer Goes to College - In the Nuclear Inspection Van, Homer causes a meltdown, even though the vehicle doesn't even have a trace of radiation, let alone enough to cause a meltdown. Homer also causes a meltdown explaining a proton accelerator at Springfield University.
*Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood - As a man's appendix is about to burst, Dr. Hibbert used his pocket knife to open his abdomen and extract it, whereas he throws it and it subsequently explodes, but rather than the normal appendix bursting, it appears to be a large explosion, enough to destroy a building. Later, while Ned, Homer and their sons are on the dinghy, Ned tries to shoot a flare. Homer scolds him then fires the flare. The flare hit a nearby seaplane, with the pilot surviving.
*Homer the Vigilante - In Frink's security proposal to Scott Christian, he demonstrates a house running away, then catching on fire. Apparently, an actual family signed up for the feature, and their house also caught fire.
*Burns' Heir - At the movie theater, the sound testing is so loud that it shatters a mans teeth, blows up an exit sign, and even causes the head of one of the audience members to explode.
=== Season 6 ===
*Itchy & Scratchy Land - A pink sedan crashes into a light pole. The camera then zooms out to the Simpsons family, watching from their motel room.
*Marge Gets a Job - At the power plant, Marge presses a green button, causing something to catch on fire (with the fire apparently stretching across the hall), nearly killing some workers (who look much like nuclear inspectors).
*Homer Badman - After an angry mob chases Homer and Marge at the candy convention, he uses a makeshift grenade of Poprox and Buzz Cola to fend off the crowd. Instead of some light fizzling, it results in a massive (and possibly deadly) explosion.
*Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy - After Homer checks the photo where "Santa" came to visit him and Abe throws his tonic into the fireplace, they both set the Old Simpson Farm alight. They both catch on fire, yet extinguished themselves easily.
*Fear of Flying - In the opening bar scene, Barney sets Moe's apron on fire as a prank. Also, when Marge recalls her flashbacks during therapy, the engines of her toy plane walker caught on fire when she was a young child, scaring her away.
*Bart's Comet - After Skinner releases the balloon (and Bart unfurls his modifications), he orders Willie to shoot it down. Two fighter jets flying close by identify Willie as an Iraqi fighter jet. One of the jets fires a missile that hits the other jet. The surviving jet released another missile, which hit themselves, killing them on impact. Later in the episode, during the town hall meeting, Professor Frink demonstrates ways to eliminate the comet, they end up in (the model of) Moe's Tavern catching on fire, with Moe being extremely shocked on the occurrences.
*Homie the Clown - Homer stops in the middle of a busy highway to view the new billboard advert, causing numerous cars to pile up and explode.
*Lisa's Wedding - The librarian sees Hugh and Lisa kissing after they were arguing, and she points it out. Her co-worker notifies her she's a robot, causing her to cry, fizzle out, and explode.
*The PTA Disbands - After Bart says that the school bus the kids are riding is safer than the last one, the scene cuts to the old bus, stripped of wheels. A leaf falls on it, causing a massive explosion.
=== Season 7 ===
*Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two) - In Chief Wiggum's dream, Lisa explains him to look in Mr. Burns' suit, using a flaming card as an example.
*Radioactive Man - As the TV producers show a clip of the '60s Radioactive Man show, the henchmen, under command of The Scoutmaster, start a ring of fire around Radioactive Man.
*Homer the Smithers - After Smithers leaves, Burns' office catches on fire (yet Burns doesn't notice), and Homer quickly extinguishes it. The next day, Homer repeatedly tries to make breakfast for Mr. Burns, but they all catch on fire, even the milk and cereal.
*Summer of 4 Ft. 2 - Homer lights a firework with the stove, and part of the wick falls off. Explosion imminent, he puts the bomb in the fridge, yet remembers that the beer and food would be vaporized. He then puts the firework in the dishwasher, and as it goes off, black goop starts coming out of the sink, as Homer walks away conspicuously.
=== Season 8 ===
*The Springfield Files - Dana Scully sets up a lie detector. When Homer says he understands what is happening, the lie detector explodes.
*Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment - In the opening parade, John Bull's Fish & Chips explodes, a reference to the IRA bombings of London. The scene was cut from British and European airings. After Homer starts making his own alcohol, one of his stills explode while he's mixing it with Bart. through the night, his stills keep exploding, and when he checks it, he lights aflame and rolls on the lawn, deciding to stop homemaking alcohol.
=== Season 9 ===
*The Cartridge Family - In the opening ad, the presenter literally grills a soccer ball. At the game, riot ensues, causing citywide fires, riots, and looting. At the stadium, a valet pulls up a man's car, with the trunk flaming.
*Miracle on Evergreen Terrace - The family's Christmas tree and gifts catch on fire and melt. A few minutes later, the Simpsons bought a new car after the town tried to help them after the burning. The car slides onto thin ice, falls in, and explodes with raining debris.
*The Last Temptation of Krust - In the Canyonero ad, the car causes a bus to crash into a tree and catch on fire. It then drove onto a pile of rival cars, and caught on fire.
*The Trouble with Trillions - The New Years Ball gets stuck, prompting Chief Wiggum to shoot the ball, yet it falls down quicker after he shot it.
=== Season 10 ===
* The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace - As Homer tries to create an invention, the basement is slightly amuck. After he increases the amount of explosives, the basement explodes with much more force, enough to kill Homer.
=== Season 11 ===
* Beyond Blunderdome - In a remake of Mel Gibson's latest movie, Gibson's character starts shooting randomly in the US Capitol, and after the speaker hits his gavel on an fire extinguisher thrown by Gibson, the rotunda explodes, with the East and West Wings going aflame.
**Brother's Little Helper - In the fire safety skit, Ned's pants catch on fire from the cigar. Later, Ned came out with his lower legs aflame, as he stopped, dropped and rolled, yet it only spread the flames quicker. Later in the episode, Bart hijacks a tank from Fort Fragg, and shoots at a calculated trajectory into the air. The shot then hits an MLB satellite, crashing to the earth aflame, proving Bart's "drug rumors".
=== Season 12 ===
* Trilogy of Error - After Linguo is overloaded with grammatical errors (due to the mafia smooth talk), he catches fire next to some unstable fireworks, causing a massive explosion that ultimately kills him.
=== Season 13 ===
* I Am Furious (Yellow) - Moe drives the sedan, mimicking Angry Dad, then seconds later crashes into a light pole, setting the car alight.
=== Season 14 ===
=== Season 15 ===
* The Regina Monologues - After the Mini Cooper crashes into the queen's carriage, one of the carriage wheels can be seen alight.
* I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot - After Snowball V wandered onto the street, an oncoming car crashed into a tree, and caught on fire.
=== Season 16 ===
=== Season 17 ===
=== Season 18 ===
* Homerazzi - After Homer sees a fireproof safe smoking (presumably on fire), the safe explodes.
=== Season 19 ===
=== Season 20 ===
=== Season 21 ===
=== Season 22 ===
=== Season 23 ===
=== Season 24 ===
=== Season 25 ===
=== Season 26 ===
=== Season 27 ===
=== Season 28 ===
=== Season 29 ===
=== Season 30 ===
=== Season 31 ===
=== Season 32 ===
* The Road to Cincinnati - Gary Chalmers crashes Agnes' Buick into a silo of genetically modified soybeans, causing the car and silo to explode.
== Non-Canon Episodes ==
=== Treehouse of Horror ===
* Treehouse of Horror - Homer sprays too much barbecue fluid, causing a miniature mushroom cloud-esque fire when he turns the grill on. 
* Treehouse of Horror IV - Bart warns Otto of the Gremlin on the side of the bus. He then proceeds to ram Hans Moleman's car (which is an AMC Gremlin) off of the road. He then comes to a gentle stop in front of a tree right before his car explodes.
=== Future Episodes ===
== Games ==
* The Simpsons: Hit & Run - 
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