Season 5

The Simpsons' fifth season began on 30th September 1993 with the first episode, "Homer's Barbershop Quartet," and ended on 19th May 1994 with "Secrets of a Successful Marriage." David Mirkin was the show runner through most of the season's episodes. Al Jean and Mike Reiss were show runners of two episodes, "Homer's Barbershop Quartet" and "Cape Feare," which had been produced for the previous season. Consequently, they have Season 4's production code, 9FXX, rather than Season 5's, with 1FXX.

The season received eight awards nominations. It won an for "", an  for "Best Television Episodic Comedy" for "Bart Gets an Elephant," a  for "Best Television Comedy Series". David Silverman earned a nomination for "Best Individual Achievement for Creative Supervision in the Field of Animation", Alf Clausen and Greg Daniels received a nomination in the "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music and Lyrics" category for the song "Who Needs the Kwik-E-Mart?", a song from "Homer and Apu." Clausen had another nomination for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore)" for the episode "Cape Feare" and the series was nominated for a for "Best Genre Television Series." The producers again tried to submit episodes for "" category rather than the "" as they had previously done, but were still not nominated.

All 22 episodes of Season 5 including extras were released on DVD on 21st December 2004 in Region 1, 21st March 2005 in Region 2 and 23rd March 2005 in Region 4.