This post serves as a summary on all we know on future episodes of Season 36 and beyond so far. We’ll update it costantly as more news come.
Season 36 started Sunday, September 29, 2024. After tonight’s special on Disney+, it’ll resuming airing on Fox on March 30 with the episode “The Flandshees of Innersimpson“.
It consists of 22 episodes, 18 airing on Fox and 4 released on Disney+ (with the first counting as 2 episodes). 7 episodes have yet to be aired on Fox and 1 to be released on Disney+.
The Simpsons will return on Fox on March 30:
“The Flandshees of Innersimpson” (36ABF05)
It’s the fifteenth episode.
Bart dips his toe into the world of celebrity DJ-ing, and Homer finally pushes Flanders too far.
The episode was written by Dan Vebber.
It guest stars Jane Kaczmarek and Rachel Bloom.
Unscheduled Episodes:
“Yellow Planet” (35ABF20)
It’s the third episode to be released exclusively on Disney+. It’ll be the last one to air in Season 36.
Nature documentary style episode, ala The Blue Planet and National Geographic, in which the characters are adorable, screwed up, animals.
The episode will be the last to have Pamela Hayden in the cast, as for her retirement, however the last episode she recorded was “O C’mon All Ye Faithful“.
The episode was written by J. Stewart Burns and directed by Timothy Bailey. It’s showran by Matt Selman, Al Jean, Tim Long and Brian Kelley.
“The Last Man Expanding” (36ABF06)
It’ll be Comic Book Guy episode.
The episode was written by J. Stewart Burns and directed by Timothy Bailey. It was showran by Al Jean.
“P.S., I Hate You” (36ABF07)
The episode was written and co-showran by Cesar Mazariegos. It was directed by Michael Polcino.
“Abe League of Their Moe” (36ABF08)
A Baseball themed episode with a parody of Shōhei Ōtani and his Picadillos gambling scandal. Hank Azaria says it’s a “good Moe show”.
The episode was written by Joel H. Cohen and directed by Rob Oliver. It was co-showran by Michael Price.
“Estranger Things” (36ABF11)
Nothing is known about this episode.
“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)
The episode was written by Christine Nangle and co-showran by Rob LaZebnik.
“Treehouse of Horror XXXVI” (36ABF15)
The episode was written and showran by Michael Price, written by Michael Price, Broti Gupta and Dan Greaney, and directed by Matthew Faughnan.
The episode will air in Fall.
“Bad Boys… for Life?” (36ABF17)
The episode was written and showran by Al Jean and directed by Eric Koenig.
It’ll be a Bart-centric episode.
It guest stars Matthew Modine.
The episode will air this year.
Unscheduled Episodes without Production Code:
“The Beautiful Shame“
Originally “The Beautiful Shame” had the production code 35ABF08. However, in January of 2024 “The Yellow Lotus” script was read with this code, while “The Beautiful Shame” was postponed.
“Marge and Homer and Moe and Maya“
The episode was written and showran by Al Jean.
Work on the episode began before the 2023 WGA and the SAG-AFTRA strikes.
Untitled episodes:
36ABF09
It was written by Broti Gupta.
36ABF10, 36ABF13, 36ABF16, 36ABF18
Nothing is known about this episodes.
36ABF19, 36ABF20, 36ABF21 and 36ABF22
The table reads will be in January and February.
Upcoming plots:
In one episode, Marge‘s self-image in the town that everyone thinks she’s a good person is at stake when Homer and Marge have to respond to a kidnapping and extortion situation. The kidnappers have not yet been decided on, but they’re thinking of Jimbo and Shauna.
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:
Production Season 36 is 22 episodes long.
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.
Guest stars:
In Al Jean episodes Sidse Babett Knudsen will guest star.
John DiMaggio will guest star as an original character.
Stay tuned for more news and don’t forget to visit our pages on Season 36, as we always try to keep it up-to-date!
New guest stars on upcoming Season 36 episodes have been announced.
