Just few hours to go now for the 600th episode of The Simpsons, the 4th episode of season 28, “Treehouse of Horror XXVII“, Animation on FOX is reliving the first three milestones of the show: Sweet Seymour Skinner’s Baadasssss Song, Trash of the Titans and The Strong Arms of the Ma. Relive them with us in the wait for the 600th, it air October 16!
Relive the 400th and 500th now here and stay tuned for more!
Synopsis, Special Guest and Air Date for the 6th episode of season 28, titled “There Will Be Buds“, and next year’s Halloween Special, part of season 29, “Treehouse of Horror XXVIII“, have been revealed!
The synopsis for the episode was shown on Fox.com:
Homer gets roped into coaching the kids’ lacrosse team with Milhouse‘s dad, Kirk, who is in desperate need of a friend. When Kirk gets too clingy, Homer vents about how much of a loser he is. Kirk overhears his rant and disappears, right when the team needs him most: the championship game.
The air date of the episode is going to be November 6, 2016.
And a special guest will return once again as Joe Mantegna returns as Fat Tony.
Just 3 days before this year’s halloween special, the 600th episode “Treehouse of Horror XXVII“, next year’s special, “Treehouse of Horror XXVIII“, was confirmed by Al Jean on Twitter, and is set to air on Fall 2017, during season 29, which has thus just been confirmed!
.@TheSimpsons today's read. V exciting! pic.twitter.com/SA1h3PgGGd
— Al Jean (@AlJean) October 13, 2016
@WantsHimSorely @TheSimpsons will definitely air fall 2017
— Al Jean (@AlJean) October 13, 2016
Stay tuned for more!
As you may have seen, Sunday’s preliminaries were all over the place thanks to many areas of the country cocking up their schedules with airing repeats (“Halloween of Horror“/”Friends and Family“) at the wrong times. In any case, The Simpsons was down from last week, but it’s unfair to compare against an NFL-boosted episode, so let’s compare it with the season premiere – which it’s up from.
Sunday’s Boston-bashing outing didn’t stray from the prelims with 1.487/5 but fell to 3.221 million viewers, a lower viewer count than both episodes so far this season.
Elsewhere, only Bob’s Burgers was new on Fox’s truncated schedule, with a solid 1.202/4 and 2.793 million viewers. At 9pm, the debate took hold of the schedules with a total 8.6/24 and 33.54 million viewers across the three broadcast networks that showed it (this was 66.5 million with ALL the networks, such as on cable, having their figures added), while NBC showed football with an average of 5.9/16 and 16.62 million viewers.
With a football lead-in, it being the 600th episode and the usual ratings-booster “Treehouse of Horror” episode next week, we could be having some large numbers on our hand next Monday (but by Sod’s Law, will adjust down on the Tuesday).
Sources: TVByTheNumbers and ShowBuzzDaily
UPDATED 29th December 2016 to include previously excluded unrounded final numbers.
A new trailer and a new Promotional Image for the upcoming 4th episode of season 28, the 600th spooktacular “Treehouse of Horror XXVII“, have been released by FOX. The episode airs October 16, 2016.
Stay tuned for more!
Updated post here: ‘Simpsons’ top for Fox, rules the roost outside of sports and debate. Didn’t want to delete in case anyone had bookmarked this page.
Original post:
*At present, last night’s new The Simpsons is sitting at 1.5/5 in the 18-49 ratings (down from last week, as is expected for a non-NFL-boosted episode) as is a repeat an hour before – however, Fox decided to label that 7pm repeat (“Halloween of Horror“) as new, and in some areas, local NFL overruns completely cocked up the schedule (at least one Fox affiliate in Los Angeles ran the repeat during the broadcast of the new ep to the West Coast), leaving the repeat with 4.326 million viewers… and the new ep with 3.386. So the new ep got beaten by a 7pm repeat which rated better than when it did last year.
Yeah, I’m waiting for the final numbers.
One thing I can tell you is that the presidential debate definitely ruled the roost last night all in, yet the biggest individual telecast was Sunday Night Football which peaked at over 6.6 and 20 million viewers.
Tomorrow, expect a proper ratings post.
EA has just released on their website the infographic on the 4 years of The Simpsons: Tapped Out.
It’s almost 5 years now, having the game being released for the first time in February 16, 2016 in Europe on iOs, and have reached 135 Content Updates, with the Treehouse of Horror XXVII event still going.
It’s been 4 long years and the game is still strong! To more years of fun and tapping!
Residents of the United States can get hold of a The Simpsons Google Cardboard viewer, for free! These are being released in connection with the 600th episode, “Treehouse of Horror XXVII“, and the virtual reality couch gag for the episode, Planet of the Couches.
To get your viewer for free, all you need to do is go to simpsonscardboard.com and sign up and order it. This is only open to residents of the United States and isn’t available to anyone else in the world.
For a full gallery of designs, see our article.
The Simpsons stil keep surprising us every day! They will have a Virtual Reality couch gag for its 600th episode!
At the start of “Treehouse of Horror XXVII“, the show’s 600th episode airing on October 16, fans owning a Google Cardboard will be able to watch the couch gag in VR! During the 45-second 2D couch gag, a url will appear and, by following that url, fans will be able to watch a 3-minutes version of the Couch gag.
According to EW, “Fans can enter the Simpsonized world of VR via the Google Spotlight Stories app and using the Google Cardboard viewer and their smart phone (iOS or Android). If interest parties don’t have the viewer, they can access a limited version of the experience by turning their phones in different directions”.
Four Promotional Images for the upcoming 3rd episode of season 28, titled “Trust But Clarify“, have been released by FOX. The episode airs October 9, 2016.
Stay tuned for more!
