This post serves as a summary on all we know on future episodes of Seasons 36 and 37 so far. We’ll update it costantly as more news come.
Season 36 started Sunday, September 29, 2024, and will end Sunday, May 18, 2025.
It consists of 22 episodes, 18 airing on Fox and 4 released on Disney+ (with the first counting as 2 episodes). 2 episodes have yet to air on Fox.
Latest update: Season finale, Estranger Things, announced!
Scheduled episodes:
“Full Heart, Empty Pool” (36ABF10)
It’ll be the twenty-first episode.
It will air on May 11, 2025.
Homer and Grampa team up to create a new sport that rivals pickleball, until Homer kicks Grampa off the team.
It was written by Jeff Westbrook.
It guest stars Rick Steves as himself, Robert Smigel as Razelton, Blake Griffin as himself, Megan Rapinoe as herself, and Andrew Luck as himself.
Season Finale: “Estranger Things” (36ABF11)
It’ll be the twenty-second and final episode.
It will air on May 18, 2025.
When Bart & Lisa stop watching Itchy & Scratchy together, Marge fears that they’ll start to drift apart… but she has no idea how bad things are about to get.
It was written by Tim Long.
It guest stars Zooey Deschanel as Quirk Girl, Max Greenfield as Schultz, and Sarah McLachlan as herself.
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.
“Treehouse of Horror XXXVI” (36ABF15)
It will air in Fall as part of Season 37.
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.
“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.
“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.
Harlan Dondelinger, and young Carl and Lenny appear in it.
“The Day of the Jack-Up” (37ABF01) and “Parahormonal Activity” (37ABF02)
No further information available.
Untitled episodes (36ABF13, 36ABF16, 36ABF18, 36ABF19)
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.
Production and further details:
Seasons 37 to 40 will consist of 15 episodes on Fox plus Disney+ esclusive specials that could also air between seasons.
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 Season 36 and 37, as we always try to keep it up-to-date!
Information about the plot for the episode “Bart’s Birthday“, which will air on September 29, 2024, has been released. The episode will be the 1st and Season premiere episode of Season 36.