The Simpsons pulled its lowest figures for the season so far on Sunday night. 6.72 million viewers watched new episode ‘MoneyBART’. While these figures are still a million away from danger territory, the worrying signs start to appear when you compare viewership to last season. In Season 21, the show did not go below 7 million viewers until January 31st’s ‘Million Dollar Maybe’. From then on, the show failed to recover, posting figures between 5 and 6.3 million for the rest of the season. On the positive side, the show still received higher-than-average figures last week with ‘Loan-a-Lisa’, and the show is bound to recover, as it always does, for the very next new episode “Treehouse Of Horror XXI” which airs November 7.
Viewership was down across the entire board last night. The Cleveland Show followed at 8.30 with 5.59 million viewers, followed by Family Guy with 7.02 million. American Dad ended the night on 5.38 million viewers. Fox placed fourth network overall as well as among the target 18-49 demographic for the night.
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Terrible ratings but theres the treehouse of horror episode next so that should be exciting!!
Bad ratings…
Good episode.
Great episode, definitely better than the previous two.
The ratings were fine. They always beat American Dad and The Cleveland show so it’s no big deal. I’d only be worried about the ratings if they were in the bottom half, but they never are.
Its a great episode. The main reason for the ratings last week was because FOX was the primary late game for the NFL. And although there were several markets which had fox over CBS as the late game, the vast majority was stuck with switching to CBS at 4 pm. This is a huge reason why ratings fall on weeks like this.
Last week (https://the506.com/sports/?tag=2010-week-4) About 85% of the country was watching FOX for their NFL coverage right before the Simpsons aired. Meaning you get about 15 – 20 million people too lazy to switch which results in higher ratings for The simpsons which is immediately following the game.
Even though the maps for next week are not plotted out, here in chicago I have no CBS early game and 2 fox games. This means that the Vast majority of america will be seeing 1 CBS game and 2 Fox games. 90% of the time, the station with 2 games will be the one who gets more coverage at that 4pm slot. That is the Dallas game so it will get much more coverage. What does this mean? With a big team lead in for the simpsons, the rating should be in the 7-9 million range.
Correction: In the first paragraph I said that FOx had the late game, CBS had the late game.
the plot wasn’t that great neither was the whole of the episode, as i said before: the highlight of the episode was the opening sequence and couchgag. but i may think this because my mood was kinda down yesterday
5/10
The celebrity cameo was stupid.
I hate baseball.
Seriously is this meant to be a way to say ‘both sexes should be treated equally?’
Very boring episode but Family Guy was no better! Glad South Park has not lost its edge.
In my opinion, South Park has been gradually declining in quality since the 12th season. Some of the episodes were even boring, and in some cases, unbearable (the last episode of the 14th season, for example). South Park only has about half as many episodes in a season too, which means the quality of the show is declining prematurely.
I think this episode summarized what the series has become. A bunch of jokes that are either unfinished, drag on for too long despite their lack of humor, or just strait up don’t make any sense. Sometimes they don’t even have jokes. They just have bits of short animation that fills the gaps that should have been reserved for jokes. It was disappointing.
this episode was okay, i guess. There was a few laughs, especially lisa using math for baseball. But maybe thats just because im not a baseball person.