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Category:Season 20

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The Simpsons' twentieth season began airing on Fox September 28, 2008. The season had officially been confirmed to air by the network in May 2008. It currently airs in its usual time, Sundays at 20:00.[1] The Simpsons is now tied with Gunsmoke as the longest running American primetime television series.[2]

Production on the season was delayed because of contract negotiations with the six main voice actors.[3] The dispute was resolved, and the actors' salary was raised to $400,000 (US) per episode. The delay in production has caused the planned 22 episodes to be shortened to 20.[4] Voice actor Dan Castellaneta is to be credited as a consulting producer for the first time.[4]

Episodes

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Upcoming episodes list

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Known titles

  • KABF20 - "Mypods and Broomsticks"[5]
  • LABF01 - "Take My Life, Please"[6]
  • LABF08 - "Father Knows Worst"[7]
  • LABF09 - "Four Great Women and a Manicure"[8]
  • LABF10 - "Waverly Hills 9021-D'oh"[9]
  • LABF11 - "In the Name of the Grandfather"[10]
  • LABF12 - "Coming to Homerica"[11]
  • ?ABF?? - "Lisa the Drama Queen"[12]
  • ?ABF?? - "The Good, the Sad and the Drugly"[13]
  • ?ABF?? - "Dangerous Curves"[14]

Known writers

  • Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, writers of the film Superbad will write an episode. The duo asked the producers of The Simpsons if they could write an episode. They were invited to the writers room where they pitched several episode ideas. One was accepted, and they wrote an outline with the help of some feedback from the regular writers.[15] The table read took place in August 2008, and production on the episode began soon after that.[16] Rogen later said "we sat down for a read-through and three hours later I'm in a studio improv-ing with Homer Simpson, it was the single greatest day of my life."[17]

Known plots and guest stars

  • A December 2008 episode will feature Mr. Burns winning a basketball team in a poker game. The episode will also feature a decline in Springfield's bee population, and the founding of a new habitat, which is later destroyed by Burns.[18] Mark Cuban, Jeff Bezos and Marv Albert[19] will guest star.[20]
  • "Four Great Women & A Manicure" will be a trilogy episode.[19] Maggie Simpson will enter preschool, but is put down for being creative.[19] She later goes on trial in a parody of the novel version of The Fountainhead.[19] It will also "reimagine the worlds of Macbeth, Citizen Kane, and Queen Elizabeth I, with Springfield residents in key roles." Jodie Foster will guest star as an adult speaking Maggie Simpson and it will air in early 2009.[13]
  • "The Good, the Sad and the Drugly" will feature a charitable girl who Bart falls in love with, prompting Bart to behave in order to date her. However, she discovers his true personality, causing him to end up reverting back to his old ways. Anne Hathaway voices the charitable girl.[13]
  • The episode written by Rogen and Goldberg sees Comic Book Guy create a superhero called Everyman,[19] which is adapted into a film starring Homer. Rogen plays his personal trainer. Homer gets into great shape but the film is cancelled, and his life falls apart.[21] The episode is to air in 2009.[22]
  • One episode will be a Prison Break parody.[23]
  • Homer and Grampa go to Ireland to buy a pub, only to discover that pubs are no longer popular there. Kenneth Branagh guest stars as a pub owner.[19][24]
  • Moe falls in love with a woman over the Internet. When he meets her in person, she turns out to be three feet tall. He remains in love with her, but worries about what his friends will think.[19]
  • In a March 2009 episode, Homer tries to kill some rats in his kitchen. They make him a meal which turns out to be less than spectacular, so he continues to try to kill them.[19] It has elements of Ratatouille.[19]
  • Al Jean: "[Homer] leaves Maggie on the doorstep of a convent where they take her and then it turns into a Da Vinci Code satire where they have some use for Maggie at this convent that may involve world peace and they’re trying to get Maggie back. It has National Treasure elements in it and there’s this really cool complicated story line."[19]
  • The Simpsons' house is foreclosed but purchased by Ned Flanders who then rents the home to the Simpsons.[19]
  • Ellen Page guest stars in an episode as a character named Alaska Nebraska.[25]
  • Kelsey Grammer will return as Sideshow Bob.[25]
  • Bart befriends a Muslim boy, but Homer suspects the boy's parents of terrorist activities.[25]
  • Merl Reagle and Shohreh Aghdashloo will guest star in yet to be named episodes.[26]
  • One episode will be shown only after the watershed (9 p.m.) in the United Kingdom.[27]

References

  1. ↑ Fox Announces Primetime Slate for 2008-2009. FoxFlash (2008-05-15). Retrieved on 2008-05-15.
  2. ↑ Bill Keveney (2008-09-28). 'The Simpsons' Hits a Landmark. ABC. Retrieved on 2008-10-02.
  3. ↑ Michael Schneider. "Still no deal for 'Simpsons' cast"Variety. Retrieved on 2008-05-20. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Simpsons cast sign new pay deal"BBC News. Retrieved on 2008-09-08. 
  5. ↑ Reg. # PAu003355198 in the U.S. Copyright Records database Retrieved on September 9, 2008.
  6. ↑ Reg. # PAu003352797 in the U.S. Copyright Records database Retrieved on August 17, 2008.
  7. ↑ Reg. # PAu003354102 in the U.S. Copyright Records database Retrieved on August 31, 2008.
  8. ↑ Reg. # PAu003354177 in the U.S. Copyright Records database Retrieved on August 31, 2008.
  9. ↑ Reg. # PAu003356303 in the U.S. Copyright Records database Retrieved on September 22, 2008.
  10. ↑ Reg. # PAu003355663 in the U.S. Copyright Records database Retrieved on September 12, 2008.
  11. ↑ Reg. # PAu003355661 in the U.S. Copyright Records database Retrieved on September 12, 2008.
  12. ↑ Reg. # PAu003346870 in the U.S. Copyright Records database Retrieved on June 9, 2008.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Dan Snierson. "Exclusive: Jodie Foster, Anne Hathaway to guest on 'The Simpsons'", Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved on 2008-09-04. 
  14. ↑ Reg. # PAu003353533 in the U.S. Copyright Records database Retrieved on September 6, 2008.
  15. ↑ Liam Burke (2008-04-30). From Superbad To Superheroes - Evan Goldberg on Hornet and The Boys. Empire. Retrieved on 2008-04-30.
  16. ↑ Jami Philbrick (2008-07-26). “Superbad” writers Rogen and Goldberg to pen episode of “The Simpsons”. Comic Book Resources. Retrieved on 2008-08-01.
  17. ↑ Evan Fanning (2008-09-14). Why Seth Rogen is on a high. Irish Independent. Retrieved on 2008-09-17.
  18. ↑ Laura Saltman. "'The Simpson's' Cele-Bart Twenty Seasons. So Why Did Bart Tell Me To F Off?", Access Hollywood. Retrieved on 2008-09-12. 
  19. ↑ 19.00 19.01 19.02 19.03 19.04 19.05 19.06 19.07 19.08 19.09 19.10 April MacIntyre. "'The Simpsons' Al Jean interview, new season begins September 28"Monsters and Critics. Retrieved on 2008-09-25. 
  20. ↑ Dan Snierson. "'The Simpsons': Denis Leary, Julia Louis-Dreyfus among next season's guest stars", Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved on 2008-07-05. 
  21. ↑ James Hibberd. "MacFarlane, Groening face the critics", The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved on 2008-07-15. 
  22. ↑ Alynda Wheat. "Comic-Con: 'The Simpsons'...coming to an end?"Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved on 2008-07-26. 
  23. ↑ "Madonna set for Simpsons cameo?"Yahoo!. Retrieved on 2007-08-05. 
  24. ↑ "Homer Simpson will try to vote for Barack Obama, but machine will give the votes to John McCain", Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved on 2008-09-24. 
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 Bill Keveney. "'The Simpsons' hits a landmark", USA Today. Retrieved on 2008-09-25. 
  26. ↑ "The Simpsons on FOXFLASH"FoxFlash. Retrieved on 2008-07-19. 
  27. ↑ "Sky1 Autumn launch: '24', 'Caprica', Cilla..."Digital Spy. Retrieved on 2008-08-06. 




Season 20 Episodes
Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes • Lost Verizon • Double, Double, Boy in Trouble • Treehouse of Horror XIX • Dangerous Curves • Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words • MyPods and Boomsticks • The Burns and the Bees • Lisa the Drama Queen • Take My Life, Please • How the Test Was Won • No Loan Again, Naturally • Gone Maggie Gone • In the Name of the Grandfather • Wedding for Disaster • Eeny Teeny Maya, Moe • The Good, the Sad, and the Drugly • Father Knows Worst • Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh • Four Great Women and a Manicure • Coming to Homerica

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