The aid of a special announcement which eventuated to be the movie trailer wasn’t enough to help boost The Simpsons figures on Sunday. Ratings for Million Dollar Abie plummeted to a season-low of 7.83 million viewers. Its the second least watched episode in two years, behind last years ‘The Seven Beer Snitch’ which had 7.3 million. Coincidentally (or not?), ‘Snitch’ aired on the very same weekend a year ago.
The FOX network came fourth overall for the night and second among adults. The Simpsons was in fourth place at 8:00pm behind all major competition.