Treehouse Of Horror XX
Episodes
New Episode: The Great Wife Hope
The third episode of Season 21, ‘The Great Wife Hope’, airs tonight on Fox. The men and boys of Springfield become obsessed with Mixed Martial Arts, a violent sport where fighters inflict severe pain on one another. When Marge and her friends stage a protest, the show’s promoter embraces the controversy and challenges Marge to a match, promising to shut down the competition if she wins.
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Marge Simpson to Appear on Cover of Playboy
Marge Simpson will be the first ever cartoon character to make the front cover of Playboy Magazine this month when the issue celebrates the 20th Anniversary of The Simpsons. The issue, due out Friday, October 16th, will feature a story inside called “The Devil in Marge Simpson” and another three pages of pictures.
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Season 20 DVD/Blu-Ray Box Art
The official box art for The Simpsons: The Complete Twentieth Season has today been revealed by Amazon.com. Only one box type is available at this time and we are yet to learn whether or not there will be a limited edition box. But judging by the box art itself, our guess is that this is it for the Season 20 release. Update: High Resolution image now avaliable.
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Season 20 Coming To DVD/Blu-Ray
No, that is not a typo. While Season Twelve of The Simpsons was released last month, it appears that Fox are keen to go back to a two-per-year release plan by rushing a release of The Complete Twentieth Season, possibly in time for Christmas 2009. The news was confirmed after Amazon added the title yesterday and KFC unveiled a Season 20 DVD giveaway promotion in conjunction with The Simpsons Ride.
Ratings
Ratings: Bart Gets A ‘Z’
The ratings are in and a total of 9.32 million viewers watched last night’s new episode “Bart Gets A ‘Z'”. That is an increase on the season premiere. The Cleveland Show stayed strong with 8.70 million viewers, a 2 million viewer improvement on last year’s King Of The Hill. Family Guy was the winner of the night with 9.67 million viewers.
Ratings
Ratings: Homer The Whopper
Last night’s season premiere of The Simpsons was seen 8.21 million. This ranked it 3rd on the night behind Family Guy, which was seen by 10.17 million, and the series premiere of The Cleveland Show with 8.42. Fourth was American Dad with 7.12. Fox was 2nd among adults 18-49 on the night behind NBC with it’s Sunday Night Football.
Episodes
New Episode: Homer The Whopper
Catch the season 21 premiere of The Simpsons tonight at 8:00pm on Fox. Comic Book Guy casts Homer as the lead in “Everyman,” a feature film based on the new comic book superhero he created. To whip him into shape for the part, the movie studio hires celebrity fitness trainer Lyle McCarthy (guest voice Seth Rogen) but Homer has trouble sticking to his new, healthy regimen.
Promos
Promo: Treehouse Of Horror XX
Fox has released a promotional image and airdate for this season’s Treehouse Of Horror XX. For a nice change, the episode will be airing on October 18, before Halloween rather than after. The episode will parody classic Hitchcock films when Lisa strikes a deal with Bart to take revenge on their teachers; Lampoon “28 Days Later,” when Krusty’s latest fast food sandwich transforms Springfield into enraged zombies; And re-imagine “Sweeney Todd” when an impaled Homer provides Moe with an unexpectedly delicious beer flavored with his blood
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Sacha Baron Cohen to Voice Israeli Tour Guide
Most famous for his work as either Ali G, Borat or the recent Bruno, British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen is soon to guest star in a season 21 episode of The Simpsons, where the family take a church-group trip to the holy land.
Episodes News
Synopsis: Bart Gets a ‘Z’
An official episode synopsis for the 2nd episode of the 21st season of The Simpsons has been released by Fox, entitled “Bart Gets a ‘Z'”. The episode airs on October 4th.
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Dan Castellaneta Wins An Emmy
The Creative Arts Emmy award winners were announced this week, and while The Simpsons were in contention for Outstanding Animated Series for the episode ‘Gone Maggie Gone’, it lost out to South Park’s ‘Margaritaville’. It wasn’t all bad news though, as Dan Castellaneta was awarded his fourth Emmy in the voice-over category for his work in ‘Father Knows Worst’. This means that contenders Harry Shearer and Hank Azaria missed out. Congratulations Dan!