The starting date and additional information on episodes of the 37th production season have been announced.
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The new information comes from FoxFlash:
In the season premiere, airing September 28, Lisa discovers Marge‘s vintage clothes from the 90’s and is welcomed into the school’s elite fashion club. But to feed their hunger for retro looks, the thrifters break the law — becoming a fashionista bling ring. Meanwhile, Homer gets addicted to a Reacher-type Dad TV show with lots of punching.
In “Keep Chalm and Gary On“, a disgraced Superintendent Chalmers creates a line of skin care for men.
In “Treehouse of Horror XXXVI“, more detailed information on the segments have been revealed:
Chubbo and the Stinker will be the first segment and is a parody of Jaws and The Blob, set in the 1970s Springfield, where two characters get killed off when a monster created from sentient lard, named the “fatburg”, takes over Springfield, feeding on human fat. First, Chief Wiggum is killed, but the big death is Bart Simpson, who, it’s revealed, is drained of all his lard and dies.
An untitled segment features a giant hat on a catapult, an hatapult, due to a character only knowing how to hit things with hats.
In another untitled segment, Krusty makes a deal with the devil on his live Halloween special.
In another untitled segment, in a poseable plastic post-apocalyptic future, Bart and Lisa fight for the future of humanity.
In “Bart and Frink“,
Stay tuned for more new episode titles! Don’t forget to visit our page on Season 37, as we always try to keep it up-to-date!
You’ve got a bit of a misunderstanding going on in the ToH description of “Chubbo & The Stinker”. It is a general parody of late-70s crowd-pleaser films, beginning as a satire of “Smokey & the Bandit” with Homer & Bart as grease-runners, and it switches to a horror (the only link to the ’50s film “The Blob” is the similarity to the sentient Fatberg) with a “Jaws” parody dynamic. (The poster makes a lot of this clear – as well as adding a “Senior Spielbergo” and “Lew Wasserman” joke credit references to non-union Mexican equivalents working on this film!)