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Fear of Flying (The Simpsons)

11th episode of the 6th season of The Simpsons

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2026
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"Fear of Flying" is the eleventh episode of the sixth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It was first broadcast on the Fox network in the United States on December 18, 1994. In the episode, the Simpson family prepares to go on a vacation by plane, but the circumstances force Marge to confess that she has a fear of flying, which she then sees a therapist to uncover the root cause of.

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The public source identifies “Fear of Flying (The Simpsons)” as 11th episode of the 6th season of The Simpsons. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Fear, Flying and Simpsons.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fear of Flying (The Simpsons)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.