This post serves as a summary on all we know on future episodes, including upcoming episodes and season 37, so far. We’ll update it costantly as more news come.
Season 36 has concluded Sunday, May 18, 2025. Season 37 will start this fall, with a chance of more Disney+ exclusive episodes airing in between.
Latest update: Info on the episode count per each season!
Season 37:
The following episodes have no schedule yet but they’ve been confirmed as part of season 37.
“Treehouse of Horror XXXVI” (36ABF15)
It will air in Fall 2025.
It was written and showran by Michael Price, written by Michael Price, Broti Gupta and Dan Greaney, and directed by Matthew Faughnan.
One of the segments will feature a giant hat on a catapult, an hatapult, due to a character only knowing how to hit things with hats.
Uncoming episodes:
The following episodes have no schedule yet. They will be either Disney+ Exclusive episodes, or part of Season 37 to 40, as the show has been renewed for 4 more seasons, airing Fall 2025-Spring 2026, Fall 2026-Spring 2027, Fall 2027-Spring 2028, and Fall 2028-Spring 2029, 15 episodes each (plus Disney+ exclusive ones).
“Men Behaving Manly” (36ABF12)
It’ll be a Homer, Moe, Lenny, Carl and Barney episode.
It was written by John Frink and directed by Steven Dean Moore. It was showran by Al Jean.
“Keep Chalm and Gary On” (36ABF14)
It was written by Christine Nangle and co-showran by Rob LaZebnik.
“Bad Boys… for Life?” (36ABF17)
It was written and showran by Al Jean and directed by Eric Koenig.
It’ll be a Bart-centric episode.
It guest stars Matthew Modine.
It will air this year.
Unknown title (36ABF19)
It was written by Cesar Mazariegos.
“Extreme Makeover: Homer Edition” (36ABF20-21)
It’s a double lenght episode, and the 799th and 800th in production order.
The title is a pun on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition that involves its plot.
It was written by Michael Price and Nick Dahan and directed by Matthew Nastuk for part 1 and Timothy Bailey for part 2. It was showran by Matt Selman and Michael Price.
“Yellow Mirror” (36ABF22)
It was written by Carolyn and Kai Omine and directed by Matthew Faughnan.
Harlan Dondelinger, and young Carl and Lenny appear in it.
“The Day of the Jack-Up” (37ABF01), “Parahormonal Activity” (37ABF03), “MultipLISAty” (37ABF05) and “¡The Fall Guy-Yi-Yi!” (37ABF06)
No further information available.
“Guess Who’s Coming to Skinner” (37ABF04)
It was written by John Frink and co-showran by Michael Price.
Untitled episodes (36ABF13, 36ABF16, 36ABF18, 36ABF19, 37ABF02)
Nothing is known about them.
Upcoming plots:
One episode will reference the court room scene from the film Anatomy of a Fall.
One idea Al Jean has is Willie posing on OnlyFans.
Michael Price is co-writing an episode that started as Homer being like Ned Merrill, but going home by invading people’s backyard barbecues. It still has a slight Cheever-ish aspect to it but they lost the BBQs.
One episode will have a parody in the style of late cartoonist Jules Feiffer.
In one episode (possibly “Keep Chalm and Gary On“), Chalmers becomes “a manosphere kind of guru selling male beauty products.
One Lisa and Marge episode about thrifting culture.
One episode will share new info on Professor Frink‘s emotional backstory.
One episode will get “very deep in a creative way” with the backstory of the Quimby family.
There will be three more Disney+ exclusive episodes coming soon. One of them has two distinct, dystopian stories, while another counts as an addition to the streaming parody episodes like “A Serious Flanders“.
An upcoming episode will include a sequence animated in the style of a Jules Feiffer cartoon.
“Another indie movie influence that will certainly be prominently part of the Simpsons culture moving forward” will be introduced in an upcoming episode.
An upcoming Disney+ exclusive will be a parody of Ripley and The Talented Mr. Ripley, written by Cesar Mazariegos.
Another episode will feature an extended parody of The Godfather Part II, complete with parallel stories in the past and present featuring Mayor Quimby and his father.
Production and further details:
Seasons 37 to 40 will consist of 15 episodes on Fox plus 2 Disney+ esclusive specials.
There are not plans of another cannon halloween episodes for now.
Matt Selman wants to do a Bluey couch gag in response to the Bluey opening parody.
Jessica Conrad has several episodes written.
Stay tuned for more news and don’t forget to visit our pages on upcoming episodes and season 37, as we always try to keep it up-to-date!
The new Disney+ Short, airing on October 11, 2024, has been announced to be called “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year“. The director for the Season 36 episode “The Yellow Lotus” has been announced too.