St. Patrick’s Day has arrived in Springfield, with Cletus angry at his moonshine tasting off! Several old items have returned, including O’Flanagan’s Pub with Tom O’Flanagan for 1900 Cash, the Wishing Well and Leprechaun for 150 Donuts and the Sham Rock Cafe with the Yupprechaun for 120. There’s also the new Green Bear Fountain for 5000 Cash, and the Stack of Beer for 35 donuts (there’s also one free in the questline)
After setting O’Flanagan’s to build, Gil is back again with the Blarney Castle for 115 Donuts.
Nothing can ease Duffman’s pain…. apart from a cool, fresh 18-49.The newest episode of The Simpsons saw a 200,000 drop from last week’s official ratings to 3.59m (adjusted down from the overnight of 3.61m), and also scored a 1.5 and 5 share in the 18-49s, down 6%, the third and second most watched programme in its slot, respectively. The only other FOX show rating higher in total numbers was The Last Man on Earth, which logged a 3.76m figure, getting a 1.6 in the 18-49s, and a share of 4. Family Guy notched the biggest FOX 18-49 of the night, a 1.7 (down 19% from 2.1) and 5 share with a 3.45m in total viewers. Family Guy won FOX’s night in the 18-49 rating, tied with The Simpsons in terms of share, and The Last Man on Earth won in total viewers.
In the UK, the new “Bart’s New Friend” garnered 359,000 viewers when it aired on Sky1 on March 8, down from the previous week’s new ep’s 530,000 official viewers, the lowest-rated episode of this season and is the lowest-rated new episode to air since last June. The episode was the most watched episode of the week on the channel, and placed eighth in the channel’s most-watched programmes of that week. (BARB)
How is it never-ending when it’s around 20 minutes, like every one is?We’ve got a big one today, as we’re celebrating a lot of birthdays, including the episode wherein the family get stuck in a cave and Mr. Burns does something with a goat.
“The Seemingly Never-Ending Story, the thirteenth episode in Season 17 and interestingly the ninth episode of the show to be rated TV-14DL in the US, focuses on the family visiting Carl’s Dad Caverns (although, didn’t we find out his adoptive father, who Carl is named after, was Icelandic? Hmm…) and Homer tries to take a piece of a stalactite as a souvenir, but ends up falling through the cave floor and the family being trapped. To pass the time, Lisa tells Homer a long-winded story about Mr. Burns, a sheep, the Rich Texan, a scavenger hunt, and some treasure. Oh, and Moe.
Second on the episodic birthdays, it was this day in 1992 that a cat got sick and somebody shot a duck, as Santa’s Little Helper’s life was on the cliff-edge. And even further back in 1989, Bart’s reverberations causes the Simpsons’ car to nearly plummet into Echo Canyon.
The Homer deal is back now after a small update today!
Yesterday, a new The Simpsons: Tapped Out update happened in-game for The Homer, the car that Homer designed. It was available for 82 donuts and was supposed to last for 5 days.
Gil popped up in Springfield again to offer the car. If you purchased it, it came with a small quest line, teasing the addition of Herb Powell, Homer’s half brother. However, a few hours later, another update hit and the Gil deal was taken away. The end date was shifted back to 2014 meaning the offer was “over”.
However, if you didn’t get the car, don’t fear. It should be returning again very soon. The offer was a teaser to the addition of Powell Motors and Herb Powell. However, the theory is that EA accidentally released the update early, somehow.
I asked J. Stewart Burns, one of the writers of Tapped Out about it and he said this:
“we moved the update with herb back a bit. the homer was supposed to be a teaser to it. so my guess is… mistake.”
So, The Homer will be making a return at some point. And Herb Powell and Powell Motors will also be coming after that. For more details about the short update and future spoilers for the Herb Powell update, read this page.
The Simpsons developer, executive producer, character designer and writer Sam Simon passed away today from Colorectal cancer.
Simon was diagnosed in late 2012 and was given 3-6 months left to live. However, he defied the odds and continued to fight long after that time frame. As well as working on The Simpsons, which he left after season 4 due to creative difficulties, Simon is well known as a member of PETA and his involvement with The Sam Simon Foundation.
I bet a lot are sorry they missed out on THIS. Last Sunday’s Simpsons, in which Chief Wiggum had a disaster with his new military jetpack, was seen by 3.79m in the official ratings, adjudted up from the 3.73m it scored in the overnight ratings, but kept its 1.6/5 in the 18-49s and was still down around 200,000 viewers from the previous week.. The Simpsons was the third most watched FOX program of the night, behind Family Guy (3.98m/(2.1/6)) and The Last Man on Earth (4.35m/(1.9/5)).
Across the pond, Sky1’s first showing of “The Man Who Came To Be Dinner” on March 1 garnered 530,000 official viewers, the eighth most watched programme on the channel that week, and the highest rated Simpsons of the week. This figure is down 21k from the previous week. (BARB)
My mom thinks of so many children, apart from me. No wonder I get away with so much.We’re a bit late to the party here, but Level 50 was finally released after 3 years of waiting on Wednesday (March 4). Well, they had to get through the other 49 first. It’s hard to believe it was September 21, 2012 when we first saw Nelson Muntz and Martin in Tapped Out.
By now, you’re probably worrying about the “Premium Helen Lovejoy”. Don’t worry, she only thinks she is. She gets Database to change her to premium.
But enough about clarifying that, we’ve got a new level. As you know, we’ve got the fan favorite Helen Lovejoy, as well as Jessica Lovejoy, who comes with the Lovejoy Residence for 180 donuts, plus the Municipal House of Pancakes, a favorite amongst the Investorettes for $1m, and Shorty’s, the coffee place where we first saw Helen try to get some Marge gossip way back in 1990, for 60 of those sprinkle-top foodstuffs. It Blows…but this update doesn’t. Unless you count the fact that the “IT BLOWS” doesn’t have the blowing effect like it does in the episode.
The new Friendship levels consist of the air conditioning store, It Blows, where Homer used the money to buy a new air con instead to buy Lisa a new sax, and the Canyonero. We also see the addition of the premium Murderpuss, and the Christmas-leaked Book Burning Mobile. Early Access is available for this update’s premium items until the 16th March.
The Bartman Cave was also implemented as part of the Superhero event.
Find out what Helen’s getting up to in town, whether it’s competing with Marge in the bake sale contest with lemon cakes, cauldron bubbling and other things to do with selling herself off (premium, get it?!) in the Level 50 update!
How comes no one’s ever around when I say something clever? – Marge
Homer: “Barney’s movie had heart, but ‘Football in the Groin’ had a football in the groin”
But despite his movie being about keeping off the booze, the prize turns out to be a lifetime supply of Duff, which Barney tells them to hook up to his veins.
Poor Barney. At least he finally managed to sober up again, for longer than he did briefly when he drove Homer’s car to New York, five years later.
(P.S. Did you know that Jay Sherman only guest starred because he thought it would promote his new series The Critic, and that Matt Groening ordered his name be removed from the episode’s opening and closing credits because he didn’t want to be associated with the episode?)
And, last but not least, we have our other commemorations/birthdays/other things that happened on this day. On this day in 1955, Penn Jillette, the illusionist who guest starred as himself in “The Great Simpsina”, was born. Also, in 1969, Sabine Bohlmann, the German voice of Lisa, was born.
That’s it for this Throwback Thursday! See you next week!
And, for the first time, we’ve also got UK ratings news, as 551,000 people tuned in to watch the, pushed-back US November, episode “Blazed and Confused”, on January 22 on Sky1, 18,000 down from the 7-day official of 569,000 “I Won’t Be Home for Christmas” posted when it aired on December 21.
