Season 19

The nineteenth season of The Simpsons started in September 2007 and ended in May 2008.

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. Velimorovic, 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, Matt Dillion, Steve Buscemi, Ted Nugent, Julia-Louis Dreyfus, Maurice LaMarche, Alan Moore, Art Speigleman, Dan 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.

Effect of Writers 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.

Episodes

• "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs - September 23, 2007
• "The Homer of Seville" - September 30, 2007
• "Midnight Towboy" - October 7, 2007
• "I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - October 14, 2007
• "Treehouse of Horror XVIII" - November 4, 2007
• "Little Orphan Millie" - November 11, 2007
• "Husbands and Knives" - November 18, 2007
• "Funeral for a Fiend" - November 25, 2007
• "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind" - December 16, 2007
• "E. Pluribus Wiggum" - January 6, 2008
• "That '90s Show" - January 27, 2008
• "Love, Springfieldian Style" - February 17, 2008
• "The Debarted" - March 2, 2008
• "Dial 'N' for Nerder" - March 9, 2008
• "Smoke on the Daughter" - March 30, 2008
• "Papa Don't Leech" - April 13, 2008
• "Apocalypse Cow" - April 27, 2008
• "Any Given Sundance" - May 4, 2008
• "Mona Leaves-a" - May 11, 2008
• "All About Lisa" - May 18, 2008

International airings

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