Season 23 Information Thread

[Oh, that's raspberry!]

Homer turns into Popeye in Deep Space Homer and talks like him in Jaws Wired Shut. That episode has several Popeye references actually...

[SimpsonArgentina]

We have now the first promo images of Season 23 Premier.
One of them is the same that the one of "Judge Me Tender" (Season 21 finale episode) at Moe´s but with Homer and Kiefer Sutherland character (Wayne)
The episode have another plot of Marge who "fantasizes about being a contestant on "Top Chef" hosted by Tom Colicchio (guest voicing as himself)...
This reminds me "Sex Pies And Idiot Scrapes"

All this at Foxflash.com
http://www.foxflash.com/div.php/main...=1z2z2z176z5z5

[The Governor]

Holy shit, is there spinich in that pot because I think Homer is turning into Popeye. And that would make a very dumb joke.

It's more like the time when Bart had oranges shoved down his pants.

[Blobulle]

We have now the first promo images of Season 23 Premier.

The Falcon and the d'Ohman.

EDIT : Sorry ! It's indeed another promo card of The Falcon and the d'Ohman.

[Marge-Fan]

Marge gonna be a chef on "The Falcon and the d'Ohman" and a cook blogger on "The Food Wife"?

[Mr. Homer]

Schedule (current):

September 25, 2011: NABF16 - The Falcon and the D'Ohman
October 2, 2011:    NABF17 - Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts
October 9, 2011:    NABF20 - The Food Wife
October 30, 2011:   NABF19 - Treehouse of Horror XXII
November 6, 2011:   NABF21 - Replaceable You
November 13, 2011:  NABF22 - The Book Job
November 20, 2011:  PABF01 - The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants
December 4, 2011:   PABF02 - The Ten-Per-Cent Solution
December 11, 2011:  NABF18 - Holidays of Future Passed
January 8, 2012:    PABF03 - Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson
January 15, 2012:   PABF04 - The D'oh-cial Network
January 29, 2012:   PABF05 - Moe Goes from Rags to Riches
Feburary 12, 2012:  PABF06 - The Daughter Also Rises
Feburary 19, 2012:  PABF07 - At Long Last Leave
March 4, 2012:      PABF08 - How I Wet Your Mother
March 11, 2012:     PABF09 - Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart
March 18, 2012:     PABF10 - Them, Robot
April 15, 2012:     PABF11 - Beware My Cheating Bart
April 29, 2012:     PABF12 - A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again
May 6, 2012:        PABF13 - The Spy Who Learned Me
May 13, 2012:       PABF14 - Lisa Goes Gaga
May 20, 2012:       PABF15 - Season Finale

[Blobulle]

Looks like the season 23 is the last.
Thanks Mr.Homer.

[Marge-Fan]

Blobbule, why the last?
Thanks Mr. Homer. Is it 100% information?

[Mr. Homer]

Yes, that's the schedule. Of course dates are not set in stone. Blobulle, it's just the season finale, not the series finale.

[Blobulle]

Is it the first time we have the complete schedule before the season premiere is broadcasted ?

[Marge-Fan]

Blobulle, well... Mr. Homer was not there back then

[Marge-Fan]

Guys, is there any chance I could get promo in high definition? really need this...

[Who Shot Me ?]

Pretty surprised of the dates for the season, but I like the "new promo card" of The Falcon and The D'ohman.

[Jesse Pinkman]

"how i wet your mother"? what

also, blobulle, i wouldn't worry (unless you're one of the people who wants the show to end). i doubt that just because we have the airdates that means anything about the show ending. it just means... we have the airdates of the season

[Blobulle]

"how i wet your mother"? what

also, blobulle, i wouldn't worry (unless you're one of the people who wants the show to end). i doubt that just because we have the airdates that means anything about the show ending. it just means... we have the airdates of the season

I'll be so happy if the Simpsons go to season 50.
And thanks for your opinion, I hope we'll have at least a 24th season. But it's just a little odd we have the schedule of the season 23 like that.
I also have a doubt on "How I Wet Your Mother"...

[biffwestwood]

The only title we have no information on is that of the season finale.

Matt Groening, Al Jean, and company must be trying to decide whether to make PABF15 the Series Finale (and possibly have PABF16-PABF22 be shown in first run syndication like with four King of the Hill episodes) or keep the show going on for a few more years.

I'm still expecting the voice actors to demand pay raises for the fourth time.

According to the "proposed" schedule, The 500th episode will be the 500th episode to air and also the 500th episode production wise. Thankfully, no warped explanations.

[SimpsonArgentina]

Schedule (current):

September 25, 2011: NABF16 - The Falcon and the D'Ohman
October 2, 2011:    NABF17 - Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts
October 9, 2011:    NABF20 - The Food Wife
October 30, 2011:   NABF19 - Treehouse of Horror XXII
November 6, 2011:   NABF21 - Replaceable You
November 13, 2011:  NABF22 - The Book Job
November 20, 2011:  PABF01 - The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants
December 4, 2011:   PABF02 - The Ten-Per-Cent Solution
December 11, 2011:  NABF18 - Holidays of Future Passed
January 8, 2012:    PABF03 - Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson
January 15, 2012:   PABF04 - The D'oh-cial Network
January 29, 2012:   PABF05 - Moe Goes from Rags to Riches
Feburary 12, 2012:  PABF06 - The Daughter Also Rises
Feburary 19, 2012:  PABF07 - At Long Last Leave
March 4, 2012:      PABF08 - How I Wet Your Mother
March 11, 2012:     PABF09 - Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart
March 18, 2012:     PABF10 - Them, Robot
April 15, 2012:     PABF11 - Beware My Cheating Bart
April 29, 2012:     PABF12 - A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again
May 6, 2012:        PABF13 - The Spy Who Learned Me
May 13, 2012:       PABF14 - Lisa Goes Gaga
May 20, 2012:       PABF15 - Season Finale

Where did you get this kind of information!???

[The Governor]

Matt Groening, Al Jean, and company must be trying to decide whether to make PABF15 the Series Finale (and possibly have PABF16-PABF22 be shown in first run syndication like with four King of the Hill episodes) or keep the show going on for a few more years.

I'm sure Fox already made that decision for them, and it's one a lot of us over the age of 13 don't want to hear.

[SimpsonArgentina]

The only title that I think could be the "Antarctica" episode is "At Long Last Leave"
(Could be this one the 500 episode? Remember "Bart-Mangled Banner" the Simpsons go to Paris at the end.)
Like that, the voyage to Antarctica could be part of the 500 episode. It sounds like another version of The Simpsons Movie in that way.

[biffwestwood]

The only title that I think could be the "Antarctica" episode is "At Long Last Leave"
(Could be this one the 500 episode? Remember "Bart-Mangled Banner" the Simpsons go to Paris at the end.)
Like that, the voyage to Antarctica could be part of the 500 episode. It sounds like another version of The Simpsons Movie in that way.

If the "Trip to Antarctica episode" is not the 500th episode (at long last leave), I think it will instead be the season finale since none of the other known titles seem to fit to me.

[SimpsonArgentina]

If the "Trip to Antarctica episode" is not the 500th episode (at long last leave), I think it will instead be the season finale since none of the other known titles seem to fit to me.

Yes, after all Season 10 ends with "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo", but I don´t like this way to end a season, I mean with a "trip episode".

I want to know more about "A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again" too.

[That Don Guy]

Let me see if I can try (or at least make some guesses) as to the "gaps" in the new episode schedule:
October 16: Baseball ALCS Game 7 (ALCS Game 2 is on 10/9, but I assume that will be a day game so it doesn't conflict with NLCS Game 1 the same day; 10/16 can't be a day game as that's a FOX NFL doubleheader day)
October 23: World Series Game 4
November 27: the Sunday after Thanksgiving - Fox usually airs a new episode on this day, so my guess is, they're doing some sort of run of movies that weekend
December 18, December 25, January 1: "Christmas break"
January 22: NFC Championship Game
February 5: no sense wasting a new episode against the Super Bowl
February 29: no sense wasting a new episode against the Oscars
March 25 through April 8: this isn't the first time Fox has had three straight Sundays in March/April without new episodes (in 2007, Homerazzi premiered 3/25, and the next new episode was Marge Gamer on 4/22), but it's still surprising (why not air PABF10 on 3/25?)

[biffwestwood]

Let me see if I can try (or at least make some guesses) as to the "gaps" in the new episode schedule:
October 16: Baseball ALCS Game 7 (ALCS Game 2 is on 10/9, but I assume that will be a day game so it doesn't conflict with NLCS Game 1 the same day; 10/16 can't be a day game as that's a FOX NFL doubleheader day)
October 23: World Series Game 4
November 27: the Sunday after Thanksgiving - Fox usually airs a new episode on this day, so my guess is, they're doing some sort of run of movies that weekend
December 18, December 25, January 1: "Christmas break"
January 22: NFC Championship Game
February 5: no sense wasting a new episode against the Super Bowl
February 29: no sense wasting a new episode against the Oscars
March 25 through April 8: this isn't the first time Fox has had three straight Sundays in March/April without new episodes (in 2007, Homerazzi premiered 3/25, and the next new episode was Marge Gamer on 4/22), but it's still surprising (why not air PABF10 on 3/25?)

April 1st will not have a new episode because FOX will be showing a 25th anniversary tribute special.

April 8th already had a good chance of no new episode since that is Easter Sunday.

I also have no logical explanation on why they would not air a new episode on March 25th, or April 22nd. But your explanations on the other dates appear to be accurate.

[Oh, that's raspberry!]

Schedule (current):

September 25, 2011: NABF16 - The Falcon and the D'Ohman
October 2, 2011:    NABF17 - Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts
October 9, 2011:    NABF20 - The Food Wife
October 30, 2011:   NABF19 - Treehouse of Horror XXII
November 6, 2011:   NABF21 - Replaceable You
November 13, 2011:  NABF22 - The Book Job
November 20, 2011:  PABF01 - The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants
December 4, 2011:   PABF02 - The Ten-Per-Cent Solution
December 11, 2011:  NABF18 - Holidays of Future Passed
January 8, 2012:    PABF03 - Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson
January 15, 2012:   PABF04 - The D'oh-cial Network
January 29, 2012:   PABF05 - Moe Goes from Rags to Riches
Feburary 12, 2012:  PABF06 - The Daughter Also Rises
Feburary 19, 2012:  PABF07 - At Long Last Leave
March 4, 2012:      PABF08 - How I Wet Your Mother
March 11, 2012:     PABF09 - Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart
March 18, 2012:     PABF10 - Them, Robot
April 15, 2012:     PABF11 - Beware My Cheating Bart
April 29, 2012:     PABF12 - A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again
May 6, 2012:        PABF13 - The Spy Who Learned Me
May 13, 2012:       PABF14 - Lisa Goes Gaga
May 20, 2012:       PABF15 - Season Finale

Thanks again for all the info!

[Jesse Pinkman]

Schedule (current):

September 25, 2011: NABF16 - The Falcon and the D'Ohman
October 2, 2011:    NABF17 - Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts
October 9, 2011:    NABF20 - The Food Wife
October 30, 2011:   NABF19 - Treehouse of Horror XXII
November 6, 2011:   NABF21 - Replaceable You
November 13, 2011:  NABF22 - The Book Job
November 20, 2011:  PABF01 - The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants
December 4, 2011:   PABF02 - The Ten-Per-Cent Solution
December 11, 2011:  NABF18 - Holidays of Future Passed
January 8, 2012:    PABF03 - Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson
January 15, 2012:   PABF04 - The D'oh-cial Network
January 29, 2012:   PABF05 - Moe Goes from Rags to Riches
Feburary 12, 2012:  PABF06 - The Daughter Also Rises
Feburary 19, 2012:  PABF07 - At Long Last Leave
March 4, 2012:      PABF08 - How I Wet Your Mother
March 11, 2012:     PABF09 - Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart
March 18, 2012:     PABF10 - Them, Robot
April 15, 2012:     PABF11 - Beware My Cheating Bart
April 29, 2012:     PABF12 - A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again
May 6, 2012:        PABF13 - The Spy Who Learned Me
May 13, 2012:       PABF14 - Lisa Goes Gaga
May 20, 2012:       PABF15 - Season Finale

thanks for this info. I'm disappointed we're getting a gap between april 15 and the 29th, and no new episode is airing on the 22nd (my 18th birthday )

I want to know more about "A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again" too.

i honestly thought that was some fake title made. that's probably the most random title for an episode in... about a couple seasons?

that and How I Wet Your Mother just seem like weird titles. Obviously HIWYM is a pun, but still.

i also hope that the 500th episode isn't the Antartica episode. i mean, very few people want that episode to be an episode, and to have it as a milestone like the 500th episode, just seems weird. we already know that it is about the Simpsons learning that the citicizens of Springfield don't want them anymore. don't bring them traveling to Antartica to 'start new lives' (which could very well happen) into the mix.

[biffwestwood]

Here is the information on "The Falcon and the D'ohman" from the FOX schedule.




**SEASON PREMIERE**—“THE SIMPSONS”—(8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) CC-HDTV 720p-Dolby Digital 5.1



HOMER’S NEW FRIEND SAVES HIM FROM A VIOLENT TERRORIST

ON THE SEASON PREMIERE OF “THE SIMPSONS”

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, ON FOX



Kiefer Sutherland (“24”) and Tom Colicchio (“Top Chef”)

Make Guest Voice Appearances



Fan Voting Results From The “Nedna” Cliffhanger Will Be Revealed



Homer befriends Wayne (guest voice Kiefer Sutherland), a reserved security guard recently hired by the nuclear power plant. Plagued by violent flashbacks from his past as a CIA agent, he must overcome his tortured nightmares to save Homer from a Ukranian terrorist. Meanwhile, Marge fantasizes about being a contestant on “Top Chef” hosted by Tom Colicchio (guest voicing as himself), and the future of Springfield’s hottest “it” couple Nedna, Edna Krabappel (guest voice Marcia Wallace) and Ned Flanders, will be revealed after months of online fan voting and speculation in the all-new “The Falcon and the D’Ohman” season premiere episode of THE SIMPSONS airing Sunday, Sept. 25 (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (SI-2216) (TV-PG L, V)



Voice Cast: Dan Castellaneta as Homer Simpson; Julie Kavner as Marge Simpson; Nancy Cartwright as Bart Simpson; Yeardley Smith as Lisa Simpson; Hank Azaria as Moe; Harry Shearer as Skinner; Pamela Haden as Milhouse; Tress MacNeille as Dolph



Guest Voice Cast: Kiefer Sutherland as Wayne; Tom Colicchio as himself; Marcia Wallace as Mrs. Edna Krabappel.



For episodic artwork and more information on this episode of THE SIMPSONS, please visit http://foxflash.com/div.php/main/page?aID=1z2z2z175.



Contact: Jill Hudson 310-369-2953 jill.hudson@fox.com

[Gran2]

i honestly thought that was some fake title made. that's probably the most random title for an episode in... about a couple seasons?

I'm assuming it's a reference to A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, a 1997 collection of essays by David Foster Wallace. Or so Google tells me.

after months of online fan voting and speculation

Ha.

[Jesse Pinkman]

ah. i figured that was a pun on something (cause pretty much every title is), but i had no idea on what. thanks. i still think it's pretty random though

[biffwestwood]

"At Long Last Leave" may sound like an original title but that is a pun on "At Long Last Love" which is a 1975 movie/musical which has never been released to the home market.

Fortunately, we now have some puns that are less obvious.

[The Governor]

that and How I Wet Your Mother just seem like weird titles. Obviously HIWYM is a pun, but still.

Whose the douchebag in this episode? :P