Alec Baldwin, Kelsey Grammer, William H. Macy, Ricky Gervais, Terry Bradshaw, Lily Tomlin, Frances McDormand, former basketball great Dennis Rodman and Yankee pitcher Randy Johnson are among the upcoming guest voices on the Seventeenth season of The Simpsons. Homer gets some stiff competition from guest star Baldwin in the season premiere episode “Bonfire of the Manatees,” Sunday, September 11. Marge, outraged after discovering Homer allowed Fat Tony to shoot an a “gentlemen’s” film in their living room in compensation for his football gambling debt, flees, leaving Homer with the kids. While on her journey of self-discovery, Marge befriends Caleb Thorn (guest-voice Baldwin), an attractive marine biologist on a quest to save not only the endangered manatee, but Marge from a husband who doesn’t seem to appreciate her.
Former athletes Terry Bradshaw and Dennis Rodman, playing themselves, stir up tricks and treats in the annual “ghoultide” Halloween trilogy, “The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror XVI,” Sunday, November 6. Other upcoming guest voices include Michael York, boxer Joe Frazier, Kelsey Grammer returning as Sideshow Bob and – to the delight of Patty and Selma – Richard Dean Anderson. Later in the season, McDormand, Rob Reiner and famed Yankee pitcher Randy Johnson turn up to throw a curve ball.
SOURCE: The Futon Critic