Season 19

The nineteenth season of The Simpsons started in September 23, 2007 and ended in May 18, 2008. This was the first season to air after The Simpsons Movie.

The Complete Nineteenth Season will be released on DVD on December 3, 2019.

International airings

 * Season 19 began on RTE2 in Ireland on November 9, 2011.

The WGA strike
In November 2007 the WGA (Writers Guild America) went on strike. The season was originally going to have 23 episodes but due to the strike only 17 episodes were finished after "Treehouse of Horror XVIII" aired, the last episode before the strike. Luckily, episodes still went through post-production as FOX edited the scripts after production was finished.

Returning characters
Various returning characters who appeared this season include Sideshow Bob, Cecil Terwilliger Francesca Terwilliger and Gino Terwilliger who all appear in "Funeral for a Fiend". Dr. Velimirovic, the plastic surgeon, appears in "Husbands and Knives" while Gloria, Snake's girlfriend from "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love", appears in "I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings". Mona Simpson appears in "Mona Leaves-a" and Lurleen Lumpkin also returns in "Papa Don't Leech".

Guest stars
Guest stars who appear in this season are Stephen Colbert, Lionel Richie, Placido Domingo, Maya Rudolph,, Steve Buscemi, Ted Nugent, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Maurice LaMarche, Alan Moore, Art Spiegelman, Daniel Clowes, Jack Black, Kelsey Grammer, David Hyde Pierce, John Mahoney, Jon Stewart, and Dan Rather, "Weird Al" Yankovic,Topher Grace, Kurt Loder, Glenn Close, Beverly D'Angelo and The Dixie Chicks.