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Season 24

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Season 24
Season 24 iTunes logo.jpg
Season Information
Original run: September 30, 2012[1]-May 2013
No. of episodes: Unknown
Previous season: 23
Next season: 25

Season 24 is the twenty-fourth season of The Simpsons, which started on September 30, 2012 and ends in May 2013. This season was renewed along with a 25th season.[2]

To celebrate the premiere of Season 24, on September 28, 2012, players of iOS game The Simpsons: Tapped Out were greeted with a notice that to celebrate the premiere, they have been given a Duff racecar from the Springfield Grand Prix. A quest was then given to place the Duff racer.

Episodes

Picture # Original title Original airdate Directed by Written by Prod. code
Moonshine River promo 4.jpg 509 - 1 "Moonshine River" September 30, 2012 Tim Long[3] PABF21
When Bart's love life heats up again it will this time involve five flames. But when Bart learns that Mary has relocated to New York, he decides that she's the one that got away and embarks on a mission to track her down.[4]

Guest starring: Natalie Portman, Anne Hathaway, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sarah Silverman, Al Roker, Don Pardo, Ken Burns, Zooey Deschanel.[5]

Treehouse of Horror XXIII promo 10.jpg 510 - 2 "Treehouse of Horror XXIII" October 7, 2012[6] Steven Dean Moore David Mandel and Brian Kelley PABF17
The episode is set to feature a Back to the Future style story involving Homer and Marge, with Marge ending up with Artie Ziff in an alternative future scenario.[7] In "The Greatest Story Ever Holed" (the first segment), Professor Frink's unstable science experiment inadvertently created the black hole that slowly sucks in the town (and townspeople) of Springfield. The Simpsons adopt a mini-black hole that is growing more powerful. It has an interesting reaction to Bart feeding it his math homework. Comic Book Guy inserts Disney's The Black Hole into the black hole. In a found-footage parody is something really strange is going on in the Simpson house they are also have a segment about Mayan prophecy of the world ending this year.[8][9][6]
Adventures in Baby-Getting promo 5.jpg 511 - 3 "Adventures in Baby-Getting" October 21, 2012[10] Bill Odenkirk[10] PABF18[10]
When Marge's car falls into a sink hole, she buys the perfect replacement to fit her family of five. But she quickly grows to hate it because, as she tells a shocked Homer, the car would be too small if she wanted to have another baby. Meanwhile, Bart and his friends are determined to find out what secret Lisa is keeping when Bart finds her cryptic messages and follows her sneaking off downtown for covert meetings after school.
512 - 4 "Gone Abie Gone" November 11, 2012[11] Joel H. Cohen PABF16
Homer doesn't trust banks, so has stashed Lisa's college fund in an online poker site. The actress and poker expert Jennifer Tilly pops up in an instructional DVD that Lisa watches to brush up on her card skills.[12]
513 - 5 "Penny-Wiseguys" November 18, 2012[13] PABF??
A Fat Tony episode guest starring Steve Carell who plays Dan Gillick, Fat Tony's accountant turned mob boss, when Fat Tony serves jury duty. Dan winds up joining Pin Pals as a replacement for Otto, who has suffered a psychotic breakdown.[14]
??? - ? "The Day the Earth Stood Cool" December 2, 2012 PABF20
A "cool family" from Portland moves in next door to the Simpsons. Homer is desperate to befriend them, while Marge is skeptical, thinking that being cool is not all it's cracked up to be.[15]

Guest starring: Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein and Patton Oswalt

??? - ? "Whiskey Business" Spring 2012 PABF20
Sonny Rollins appears as a hologram to Lisa when she takes exception to a "Tupac-at-Cochella"-style hologram of blues icon Bleeding Gums Murphy and starts a letter writing campaign to stop this holographic exploitation.[16]

Guest starring: Sonny Rollins

??? - ? "Pulpit Friction"
The town is infested with bedbugs, and Lovejoy can’t cope. He’s so boring, nobody will listen to him in the middle of this panic. But then, the most lovable minister visits Springfield and he is much more popular than Reverend Lovejoy. Lovejoy becomes really upset and becomes a hot tub salesman.[17]Bart and Flanders are the only ones unhappy with the new minister, and try to figure out how to get Lovejoy back, despite Lovejoy loving his job.

Guest starring: Edward Norton

??? - ? "A Tree Grows in Springfield" PABF21
??? - ? "The Changing of the Guardian"
??? - ? "A Test Before Trying"
??? - ? "To Cur, with Love"[18]
??? - ? "Homer Goes to Prep School"[18]
Tom Waits helps introduce Homer to a community of survivalists.

Guest starring: Tom Waits.[19]

??? - ? "Hardly Kirk-ing" RABF05
??? - ? "Gorgeous Grampa" RABF06[20]
??? - ? "Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing"[21] RABF07[22]
Bart's heartstrings are pulled once again when Mary Spuckler returns to Springfield, but his failure to pay her enough attention strains their relationship.
Guest starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Max Weinberg, Robert Caro, Zooey Deschanel[23]
??? - ? "The Fabulous Faker Boy"[24]
Justin Bieber tries to get into a talent show that Bart is playing piano in and they won’t admit him.
Guest starring Justin Bieber[25]
??? - ? "What Animated Women Want" RABF08[26]
??? - ? "Black-Eyed, Please" RABF09[27]
Ms. Cantwell becomes Lisa's substitute teacher who does not warm to Lisa for some mysterious reason and bullies her and gives Lisa a ‘B’ and Ralph an ‘A’. After Lisa has a reading kangaroo with a bunch of little joeys in it for the books Ms. Cantwell takes the joeys out and puts them in other kangaroos
Guest starring Tina Fey as Ms. Cantwell[28]
??? - ?
Grampa disappears, so the Simpsons are trying to find him and they find out all these things they never knew about him, and Homer's surprised to discover his father had dreams and ambitions, which he is very shocked by.[29] Also, Anika Noni Rose plays a love interest from Grampa's past and happens to be a night club singer,[30] named Rita. It turns out that Rita was married to Grampa when Homer was still a child.[29]
??? - ? Michael Price
Explores the life of Roger Meyers, Jr. and his struggle with trying to live up to the memory of his father. Meanwhile, Itchy & Scratchy Land closes down and Homer and Bart get a small steam train from the park, restore it and install it in their back garden. This attracts the attention of fellow model-train enthusiasts like Rev. Lovejoy and Comic Book Guy, who at first just want to help out, but then end up taking over.[31][32]
??? - ?
There will be a touching story involving Homer and Santa's Little Helper.[32]
??? - ?
Lisa is convinced by Lunchlady Doris to eat bugs.[33]
??? - ?
Lisa defends Bart in kid court. Bart is actually wrongly accused of a crime, of a prank and Lisa is his defender and she gets her comeuppance as always. She gets a little high on her horse.[34]
??? - ? Season finale May 2013 David Silverman[35] Al Jean (co-writer)
The Simpsons go to an amusement park where the lines for the rides are terrible, except for this one rocket called Journey to Your Future. They end up on Kang and Kodos' home planet Rigel VII.[36]

Guest stars

Sources

  1. ↑ http://www.foxflash.com/div.php/main/page?aID=1z2z1z25z1z8&ID=8721
  2. ↑ Simpsons Renewed Through Season 25
  3. ↑ InsideTV
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/05/03/simpsons-portman-hathaway-deschanel/
  5. ↑ http://www.foxflash.com/div.php/main/page?aID=1z4&mo=9&d=30
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 TV-Line
  7. ↑ YouTube - THE SIMPSONS: Al Jean talks "Nedna," season 23 and more
  8. ↑ EntertainmentWeekly
  9. ↑ IGN
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Chris Ledesma's Twitter
  11. ↑ Chris Ledesma's Twitter
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 EW.com
  13. ↑ TheFutonCritic.com - The Simpsons listings
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 InsideTV
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 TV Line
  16. ↑ TVLine.com - The Simpsons Exclusive: Saxophonist Sonny Rollins Gets Tupac Treatment
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 'The Simpsons': Edward Norton to guest as 'the most lovable minister in the world'
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Cocatalog.loc.gov
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Simpsons Exclusive: Can Singer Tom Waits Save Homer From [Spoiler]?
  20. ↑ PAu003625982 in the Copyright Database
  21. ↑ TVLine - "Sherlock's Benedict Cumberbatch Books Dual Guest Role on The Simpsons"
  22. ↑ PAu003625980 in the Copyright Database
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 The Simpsons Exclusive: Zooey Deschanel, Max Weinberg Set For Valentine's-Themed Episode
  24. ↑ TVLine - "Sherlock's Benedict Cumberbatch Books Dual Guest Role on The Simpsons"
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 Justin Bieber to cameo on 'The Simpsons'
  26. ↑ PAu003625992 in the Copyright Database
  27. ↑ PAu003625983 in the Copyright Database
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 Inside TV - "Tina Fey to guest on 'The Simpsons' -- EXCLUSIVE"
  29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named TVLine2
  30. ↑ Wikisimpsons:Chris Ledesma interview
  31. ↑ Channel Guide
  32. ↑ 32.0 32.1 Fruitless Pursuits
  33. ↑ YouTube
  34. ↑ YouTube
  35. ↑ Twitter.com
  36. ↑ TV Guide.com - Keck's Exclusives: The Simpsons in Space
  37. ↑ Simpsons Music 500 - "A Near Death Experience"
  38. ↑ Radio Times - "Benedict Cumberbatch to make Simpsons cameo"
  39. ↑ 39.0 39.1 39.2 Zooey meets Bart on 'Simpsons' road trip
  40. ↑ https://twitter.com/DannyDeVito/status/241685999162359808
  41. ↑ 41.0 41.1 Spinoff Online - "Simpsons’ Al Jean On Season 24, ‘Treehouse’ and the Show’s End"


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