Last night’s episode ‘The Greatest Story Ever D’ohed’ had a total of 5.70 million viewers. These figures bump season 20’s ‘Lisa The Drama Queen’ off the bottom five least watched episodes of all time, which now includes four episodes from the current season:
- “Million Dollar Maybe” (season 21) – 5.11 million
- “Four Great Women and a Manicure” (season 20) – 5.16 million
- “Postcards From The Wedge” (season 21) 5.23 million
- “Stealing First Base” (season 21) – 5.69 million
- “The Greatest Story Ever D’ohed” (season 21) – 5.70 million
The Cleveland Show followed at 8:30 with 5.64 million viewers, while Family Guy built its audience to a healthy 7.27 million viewers at 9:00. The Simpsons was third in its timeslot, edging out NBC’s ‘Minute To Win It’ which was fourth with 4.9 million viewers. You can tell us what you thought of the episode by rating in our poll or commenting below.
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There is no more denying it, Family Guy is now the superior show on FOX. Ratings have told the story the last few months. 24 got the axe, Simpsons may not be far behind.
no,no,no, it was a great episode. family guy is shit,shit,shit
Awful. Just awful. The writers aren’t even trying. Just bang it out and the fans will oink for more.
Was a V.Good Episode, I really enjoy all the jokes, like when the plane arrives, it crash the cup…
The only bad of this episode was the slow story… making some boring…
I think this because I went to Jerusalem, I know how is go there in a holiday.
3/5
I still think that The Simpsons are way better than Family Guy and I don’t think that ratings mean as much these days with internet downloads and stuff. Anyway, I really enjoyed last night’s episode. I thought it was funny and a good effort. 4/5
Im completely with you…
The Simpsons during the good years was much better than Family Guy. These days it isn’t. Family Guy’s quality has gone down since its return, but that probably has something to do with McFarlane doing three shows.
Nope, Seth only produces one show; he just does voices for the others.
Back on topic, anyone who loved this episode (even liked it) needs a serious reality check. Horrible. The show really doesn’t reward those of us who continue to give it chance after chance to redeem itself each week.
dude stfu this is simpsonschannel.com not familyguychannel.com so leave this site to tlk bout famiy guy cuz we dont care bout family fuckin guy seriously stfu and gt a life
if ur gunna talk about family guy, go somewhere else Brian
Three people talked about Family Guy before Brian and another below. Brian then shifted the conversation back on topic. As for the comment above this one, people who like Family Guy have just as much (or little) life as you do. If you are going to pick on people, withhold your comments or you will be banned from viewing this site.
Brian is a parallel to Jesus; he was unjustly persecuted by u mo fo’s. Leave him alone, he’s my male bitch (get it?!!). This site’s vulgar comments are all because of Marbat!!! (waits for Marbat to take this seriously and get angry) lol JK. But it’s just a show guys, get real. Your conflict doesn’t have to be like the one between Jews and Muslims (yet another reference)
exactly he needs to chill
Terrible. Just plain terrible.
Just because 2 million more people watch Family Guy doesnt mean it’s the better show. American Idol gets like 20 – 30 million viewers, but that doesnt mean it’s the best show on T.V.
I enjoyed this past sunday’s episode. It made me laugh and left me feeling good, the same way I feel at the end of every Simpsons episode.
You haters can bitch all you want and call yourselves “the true fans,” but there are still some of us that enjoy new episodes of The Simpsons. Deal with it.
Thank you 🙂
Good episode!
Great jokes too!
However, i don’t think they should have rushed to get to the plot. They were in Israel within 5 minutes.
The Simpsons was strong in key demos: No. 2 in the half-hour among Adults 18-49 and No.1 among Adults 18-34 and Teens.
https://www.rbr.com/tv-cable/tv-cable_ratings/22850.html
This episode was pure and utter shit. Even the fans agree this time, look at those poll results! I’ve been visiting this site for ages and i’ve never seen such a negative result (Though the dumb fanboys on this site probably just got confused because 1/5 was put at the top instead of down the bottom like previous polls.
Just out of curisoity Adam, is it possible to find out the amount of times its been watched online (leagally at least)? I’d be quite interested to know, see if it is the end of the world or just because of the increased use of the ol’ interwebs.
personally i think it was one of the best episodes ever
“shut your face”
First off, love that half of you sound like the Comic Guy. Worst irony ever.
Second, can anyone translate Jacob’s Hebrew? Strong chances there were some funny jokes up in there.
Third, Simpsons is still going on strong, and I’m hoping for another 20 years. It’s not like 24 or Heroes where the plotlines seem to be self parody at this point.
“What the hell? Don’t tell me what to do! I’m going to slap you! And then I’m going to slap you again! Go to hell! You took this from the kibbutz, Kibbutz Dan! My mother, don’t tell me that!”
it was a very good episode 4/5
some of us don’t eat pork, some not shelfish, but we all eat chicken
PEACE AND CHICKEN!!!
The episode was better then last weeks episode it had some funny moments but it wasn’t a great episode reasons why:
-the tour guide guy was realy annoying!
-Bart got his ass kicked by a jewish girl WTF!
-i think that they rushed the plot they were in isreal too fast
-i didn’t get most of the jokes because the jokes were made for jews, i mean they spoke hebrew for 2 minutes come on.
a 3/5 or 6/10 THE MOST!
I enjoyed this episode. Bought it on iTunes.
I think the quality of the Simpsons is much better than Family Guy. The jokes are more mature perhaps and not nearly as cheap and as vulgar.
I’d take a Simpsons story line with jokes worked into that story, verses a Family Guy episode with cutaway joke after joke any day.
Don’t get my wrong – I laugh at Family Guy, but I think the Simpsons is a far superior show
Just because more people watch FG in ratings, doesn’t make it a superior show.
I think the author who posts the ratings needs to work on his writing skills and delivery. I find them at times to be slanted and misleading and misrepresented. If you want to start a conversation analyzing the numbers and viewership, you need to give the full story. Saying the Simpsons was third for the night doesn’t explain much. Was it a premier for the new NBC show? Did the Simpsons take any demographics? Who gets the writing credit for the episode and how does it match up to their previous episodes?
Numbers and immediate ratings are not everything. Think back to the episode in Season 8 with Frank Grimes. Fans HATED that episode when it came out. It was talked about online as the worst of the worst. Now, all this time later, it’s in many people’s top 10 lists.
A dozen haters on a message board on this website mean nothing.
I wish someone like you was running this site. You actually enjoy watching the show and are interested in a more in-depth perspective on the ratings rather than just how it did against FG and Cleveland.
I’ve also noticed the “slant” in the writing, but when I brought it up, Adam denied it so who knows. At least I’m not the only one who notices it.
The author is welcome to contact me for ideas and support. I’ve e-mailed news ideas before but received no recognition in return. My comments were just constructive criticism, because I think this site has so much more to offer.
OK people you won’t pay attention to 18-49 Nielsen Ratings that is what matters the viewrship doesn’t usually matter the show is the third highest rated scripted show on FOX. and it came in second with the 18-49 ok so really it’s safe for now
While it was nice to see Ned Flanders in his “nice guy” characterization again as opposed to the Jerkass Ned that has typified many of his post-Maude appearances, that’s about all I can find to praise about this episode.
I’ve never disliked an episode enough to complain on a messageboard before, but this is, perhaps, the worst episode of all time and in my opinion, simply not worth watching. The only two jokes that are even slightly amusing both occur in the first five minutes, after that this episode goes straight downhill…
does the next episode ( AMERICAB HISTORY X-CELLENT) have a promocional image?
People!
This situation is bad.
Like a singer I heard once said,” I was a soaring, know I’m crashing. This is bad real bad Micheal Jackson.” didn’t get point of it
Point is, Simpson’s popularity is going down sadly. I Should know, I Love the simpsons.
Though this problem could be solved. Just get more people to watch the show. Tell family and friends, let fans who don’t know about upcoming episodes. SPREAD THE WORD!
or else are nihgtmare’s will come true. Ants will enslave humanity, no wait thats my nightmare, that and THE SIMPSONS have a 1 in 1,000,000 chance of going extinct.
I dont see the show getting canceled. Shows like American Dad and Cleveland will get canceled before the Simpsons do. And if the thought comes up, the actors will probably be presented with a pay cut or the show will be placed on a different night(again) to see how viewership fares in a different timeslot.
I think the only way the show will stop is if the creators/actors decide to end it. And if FOX did go to the extreme of cancelling it…..some other network would probably pick it up.
since the season 7 episode “22 short films about springfield”, Matt Groening started thinking about making a spin-off of the simpsons named “tales from springfield” and that every episode would have a diferent springfield inhabitant and there would be too episodes with young Marge and Homer.
so when the show ENDS!!!, it will not be the end of the simpsons, and the actors have a contract that they’ll do 2 more movies! but just after the series ends.
The cool thing about Matt Groening is that his 2nd show idea, Futurama, was so totally different from The Simpsons. There’s nothing really to compare other than the characters share the same big eyed designs as The Simpsons.
It’s funny, at on point King Of The Hill had more viewers than The Simpsons…but now it’s gone.(which I still think was a mistake because it was another/better show different from the Macfarlane formula) I’m not saying Family Guy is bound to get canceled again, but more viewers for Family Guy doesnt mean The Simpsons will get canceled.
As long as the simpsons retains it’s post as the 2nd/3rd highest rated show on FOX (scripted)… and I’ve seen it go back and forth over the past 2 years…. then it won’t be cancelled.
Ratings are only a fraction of it and as long as other FOX shows continue to do worse, they won’t yank Simpsons. Sorry, but that’s not how it works.
I’m actually going to bring up a good point here.
The Simpsons is also FOX’s only show where they can market to children. Stewie Griffen shirts in 4th grade? No. Bart Simpson T-Shirts? Defenitly.
At it’s heart, The Simpsons is a family show..with raunchier language.
Somehow, you never seem to mention the lead-in.
With ‘Til Death, The Simpsons has he most horrifyingly low rated lead-in it ever had.
Certainly, the show is no longer a tentpole that would lift all shows around it, but any comparisons or analysis of the ratings need for them to be put in context of the lead-in.
When the show has a good lead-in, it get 8-9 million viewers. When ‘Til Death turns most viewers away from FOX, the show struggles, which is in part a function of FOX spending most of its ad time and Dollars to prop up Family Guy so few regular people even know when a new show is on.
Given that FOX has shown a propensity to ignore ratings and renew shows like ‘Til Death or Dollhouse with 2 million viewers, The Simpsons appears not to be in imminent danger.
If FOX ever starts to decide to re-tool its schedule and be serious about regaining the audience it’s lost over the past ten years, then danger would raise its head as the show, commercially speaking, really only deserves further production because it is an endless money-maker in syndication and the more episodes there are (especially in widescreen High-Def) the longer it will keep paying off for the studio.
Creatively, I also think it has improved a lot, especially visually as the directors suddenly started to be a lot more creative when they were handed a wider screen to play with.
Ratings would follow if FOX spent 1/2 of what it spends on Family Guy on promoting the improvements.