Last nights episode ‘The Burns And The Bees’ had 6.19 million viewers, which places it as the least watched episode of Season 20. Furthermore, the episode barely just sits atop the three lowest rating episodes of all time from last season, Mona Leaves-a (6.02 million), All About Lisa (6.11 million), and Any Given Sundance (6.18 million). The Burns And The Bees is now the fourth least watched episode of all time, while long standing positionee ‘The Way We Weren’t’ which had 6.20 million viewers back in 2004, sits at #5.
It was the last episode that will air until January 18 — over a month break, and I’m sure many fans were confused by the Christmas opener which was tacked on and out of place. The Simpsons was fourth in its timeslot, while the FOX network was second overall for the night and first among adults 18-49. A repeat of Family Guy scored higher viewers, with 6.54 million, while American Dad had 5.27 million viewers.
wow. I wasn’t expecting ratings this bad.
I watched it and liked it
hmm I can’t imagine Lisa the Drama Queen will fair any better than this, it deserves to but after such a long break I dunno if people will really twig there was a new episode on.
The Simpsons is dying. These newer episode are terrible, someone needs to be fired and a lot of thought needs to be made to return this show to the quality expected and demanded by the viewers. If it keeps up like this, I estimate that The Simpsons will be off the air after this season of after the next. It’s a shame, because this show has so much potential, and the writers/producers really needs to focus on what made this show so great and popular over the past two decades. But this show has really gone in the wrong direction.