Marge and Lisa visit the nail salon where they engage in a spirited debate as to whether a woman can be smart, powerful and beautiful all at the same time. To prove their point, they spin four tales of famous women featuring famous Springfield faces: Selma as Queen Elizabeth I, Lisa as Snow White, Marge as Lady Macbeth and Maggie as the idealistic architect protagonist from Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead”.
Tag: season 20
Ratings
Ratings: Father Knows Worst
Last night’s episode ‘Father Knows Worst’ entered the danger zone, the below 6 million viewer mark. 5.94 million viewers tuned in to the show, just shy of the record for least-watched episode of all time (Lisa The Drama Queen, 5.75 million). It becomes the second least-watched episode ever, pushing March episode ‘Gone Maggie Gone’ (5.97 million) into third place. ‘Family Guy’s ratings were also lower than usual, with 6.80 million viewers.
Episodes
New Episode: Father Knows Worst
“Father Knows Worst”, the 18th episode of the 20th season airs tonight at 8.00pm on Fox. When Homer observes Bart and Lisa struggling in certain aspects of their academic and social lives at school, he becomes a proponent of “helicopter parenting,” the process of closely monitoring a child and forcing them to succeed. Meanwhile, Marge discovers a sauna in the Simpson family’s basement that she finds hard to resist.
Promos
Promo: Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D’Oh
Fox have released a promotional image for Sunday May 3’s premiere of “Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D’Oh”.
When The Simpsons rent an apartment in the upscale Waverly Hills neighborhood, Lisa is ostracized by the popular girls. Bart uses his newly established bad boy image to impress the other students and increase Lisa’s popularity by telling everyone she is best friends with the pop star Alaska Nebraska.
Ratings
Ratings: The Good, The Sad And The Drugly
A respectable 6.50 million viewers watched last night’s episode ‘The Good, The Sad and the Drugly’. After some poor figures earlier this year, the show has maintained this average figure for the last three episodes. The Simpsons at 8 paved way for Fox’s new offering, ‘Sit Down Shut Up’ which had just 5.21 million viewers. An original installment of ‘Family Guy’ at 9 has 7.40 million viewers, while ‘American Dad’ ended the night with 5.76 million.
Episodes
New Episode: The Good, The Sad And The Drugly
Airing tonight, when Homer forces Bart to sign in under Homer’s name and visit Grampa at his retirement home, and Bart soon becomes smitten with a delightful 11-year-old volunteer named Jenny. Hoping to impress Jenny, Bart offers to volunteer at the home. Meanwhile, Lisa does a report on what Springfield will look like in 50 years and becomes very depressed at the dreary outlook.
Ratings
Ratings: Eeny Teeny Maya Moe
A total of 6.40 million viewers watched Sunday night’s new episode ‘Eeny Teeny Maya Moe’. These figures are about average for the show nowadays. A 9.30 repeat of ‘The Burns And The Bees’ had 5.61 million, which is about what a new American Dad would have gotten in the same slot. Fox was fourth overall for the night but came second in the target demographic 18 – 49. Two repeats of Family Guy took up the 8.30 – 9.30 slot, and averaged to an audience of 6.04 million viewers.
Episodes
New Episode: Eeny Teeny Maya Moe
Moe takes center stage in tonight’s new episode titled Eeny Teeny Maya Moe. In an effort to spend more time with Maggie, Homer takes her to happy hour at Moe’s. While at the bar, Moe tells Homer about his new love, Maya, a woman he met on the internet. When Moe finally meets Maya in person, she is just as beautiful as her photos but he can’t help but notice one small detail: she is three feet tall. In order to make the relationship work, Moe must learn to love their differences.
Ratings
Ratings: Wedding For Disaster
Last nights episode ‘Wedding For Disaster’ had 6.58 million viewers. A further 6.50 million viewers watched a rerun of ‘Take My Life, Please’ at 8.30pm, which had 6.8 million viewers just over a month ago. Fox was fourth overall for the night and third among adults 18 – 49. A new Family Guy episode at 9.00 had 8.20 million viewers, while 5.99 million tuned in to watch American Dad at 9.30.
Ratings
Ratings: In The Name Of The Grandfather
A total of 6.15 million viewers tuned in to watch In The Name Of The Grandfather last night, despite its availability on the net all week due to an exclusive screening in the UK/Ireland. The episode attracted 511,000 viewers on Sky 1 in Ireland earlier this week, more than doubling Sky 1’s previous highest audience for any program in Ireland. A further 957,000 watched the episode in the UK.
Ratings
Ratings: Gone Maggie Gone
Last night’s episode ‘Gone Maggie Gone’ received 5.97 million viewers — beating out last week’s ‘No Loan Again, Naturally’ as second least watched episode of all time. This comes despite Fox’s consistent programming of new episodes, and increase in on-screen advertising throughout the week. But a poor lead-in, an hour of mind-numbing Hole In The Wall, killed any effort Fox had made to bring viewers to the show.
Promos
Promo: Gone Maggie Gone
Fox have today released a promotional image for Sunday March 15’s “Gone Maggie Gone”. When Maggie disappears at a convent, Lisa goes undercover as a nun to solve the mystery. Meanwhile, Homer tries to keep Maggie’s disappearance a secret from Marge, who was blinded while watching a solar eclipse.