“Coming To Homerica”, the 20th season finale, airs May 17th on Fox. When nearby Ogdenville’s economy crumbles due to tainted barley discovered in Krusty’s veggie burgers, the unemployed workers of Ogdenville flock to Springfield. After Mayor Quimby closes Springfield’s borders and enlists private citizens to help patrol them, Homer organizes a border patrol group.
Month: April 2009
Promos
Promo: Four Great Women and a Manicure
Marge and Lisa visit the nail salon where they engage in a spirited debate as to whether a woman can be smart, powerful and beautiful all at the same time. To prove their point, they spin four tales of famous women featuring famous Springfield faces: Selma as Queen Elizabeth I, Lisa as Snow White, Marge as Lady Macbeth and Maggie as the idealistic architect protagonist from Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead”.
Ratings
Ratings: Father Knows Worst
Last night’s episode ‘Father Knows Worst’ entered the danger zone, the below 6 million viewer mark. 5.94 million viewers tuned in to the show, just shy of the record for least-watched episode of all time (Lisa The Drama Queen, 5.75 million). It becomes the second least-watched episode ever, pushing March episode ‘Gone Maggie Gone’ (5.97 million) into third place. ‘Family Guy’s ratings were also lower than usual, with 6.80 million viewers.
Episodes
New Episode: Father Knows Worst
“Father Knows Worst”, the 18th episode of the 20th season airs tonight at 8.00pm on Fox. When Homer observes Bart and Lisa struggling in certain aspects of their academic and social lives at school, he becomes a proponent of “helicopter parenting,” the process of closely monitoring a child and forcing them to succeed. Meanwhile, Marge discovers a sauna in the Simpson family’s basement that she finds hard to resist.
Promos
Promo: Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D’Oh
Fox have released a promotional image for Sunday May 3’s premiere of “Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D’Oh”.
When The Simpsons rent an apartment in the upscale Waverly Hills neighborhood, Lisa is ostracized by the popular girls. Bart uses his newly established bad boy image to impress the other students and increase Lisa’s popularity by telling everyone she is best friends with the pop star Alaska Nebraska.
Ratings
Ratings: The Good, The Sad And The Drugly
A respectable 6.50 million viewers watched last night’s episode ‘The Good, The Sad and the Drugly’. After some poor figures earlier this year, the show has maintained this average figure for the last three episodes. The Simpsons at 8 paved way for Fox’s new offering, ‘Sit Down Shut Up’ which had just 5.21 million viewers. An original installment of ‘Family Guy’ at 9 has 7.40 million viewers, while ‘American Dad’ ended the night with 5.76 million.
Episodes
New Episode: The Good, The Sad And The Drugly
Airing tonight, when Homer forces Bart to sign in under Homer’s name and visit Grampa at his retirement home, and Bart soon becomes smitten with a delightful 11-year-old volunteer named Jenny. Hoping to impress Jenny, Bart offers to volunteer at the home. Meanwhile, Lisa does a report on what Springfield will look like in 50 years and becomes very depressed at the dreary outlook.
News
Season 12 Standard Box Art Revealed
Thanks to TVShowsOnDVD, today sees the reveal of the standard box art for The Complete Twelfth Season on DVD, featuring Comic Book Guy in a Superman-esque pose.
News
Introducing The Simpsons Stamps
Today saw the release of a sneak peek of the new Simpsons stamps which will go on sale in the US from May 7. The stamps come in 5 designs, one dedicated to each member of the Simpsons family.
News
Best. Couch Gag. Ever. Contest
As The Simpsons Poster Contest draws to a close and the winners are announced, Fox have decided to treat US fans to yet another contest. This time around, fans are being asked to create their very own live-action couch gag video, and upload it to MySpace for a chance at winning a trip to Los Angeles to attend The Simpsons 21st season premiere party, a Sony Home Entertainment System and a custom Simpsons drawing.
Ratings
Ratings: Eeny Teeny Maya Moe
A total of 6.40 million viewers watched Sunday night’s new episode ‘Eeny Teeny Maya Moe’. These figures are about average for the show nowadays. A 9.30 repeat of ‘The Burns And The Bees’ had 5.61 million, which is about what a new American Dad would have gotten in the same slot. Fox was fourth overall for the night but came second in the target demographic 18 – 49. Two repeats of Family Guy took up the 8.30 – 9.30 slot, and averaged to an audience of 6.04 million viewers.