10 Times The Simpsons Got Political

10. Bart-Mangled Banner

Season fifteen's Bart-Mangled Banner sees Bart inadvertently mooning the American flag after a case of temporary deafness causes him to become disoriented.

That's actually the story at its most basic core - while not a bad episode per se, it's actually much more convoluted than that, probably (okay, definitely) overly so. Still, it does a decent job of lampooning political hysteria and over-reaction, partisan political talk shows, and rights-trampling laws like The Patriot Act - spoofed in the episode as the Government Knows Best Act.

With gems like the family being asked "How much do you hate America?" after Bart's accidental disparaging of the flag, Bart-Mangled banner has a lot to offer - but it's far from the best time in which The Simpsons went the political route.