What to Expect When Bart's Expecting

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Episode Information Episode number: 549 Season number: S25 E19 Production code: SABF14 Original airdate: April 27, 2014 Billboard gag: Total Recall – All Items Tainted Chalkboard gag: April showers do not bring Matt Lauers Guest star(s): Joe Mantegna as Fat Tony Tavi Gevinson as Jenny Showrunner: [[Al Jean]] Written by: John Frink Directed by: Matthew Nastuk

[[Category:Episodes showrun by Al Jean]]

"What to Expect When Bart's Expecting" is the nineteenth episode of season 25 of The Simpsons and the five-hundred and forty-ninth episode overall. It originally aired on April 27, 2014. The episode was written by John Frink and directed by Matthew Nastuk. It guest stars Joe Mantegna as Fat Tony and Tavi Gevinson as Jenny.

Synopsis

"Bart hates art class, and so, to try and get it off his timetable, uses voodoo to inadvertently impregnate his teacher. Word quickly spreads around which leads people to believe that Bart has the ability to aid couples trying to conceive children. But Fat Tony also gets wind of this, and kidnaps Bart and Homer, forcing them to breed a thoroughbred racing horse, but it appears the prospective father has other ideas."

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The couch gag was directed by Michal Socha.

Reception

This episode gathered The Simpsons's second-lowest ever ratings on its premiere, receiving only 3.45 million viewers, with a 1.6 18-49 share. This has been reported by The Mirror as a "ratings crisis".

International premieres

Country Date Channel Note Latin America August 31, 2014; Fox Latin America United Kingdom August 17, 2014 Sky1 Gathered 849,000 viewers

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External links

• Couch gag for the episode at YouTube

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