Season 23 Information Thread

[horatio huffnagel]

If that is a direct parody like le Jake thinks, that would probably be an excellent episode! I accept your challenge Bleedin Gums! I would love to watch this season non-stop. I've been a fan of this season and like the majority of these episodes. If I could, I absolutely would sit down and watch the first fourteen episodes back to back. Also, I hope Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart has equal billing for bart's story and Apu's. It has been too long since we had a nice Apu story. We had a nice one with Moe Letter Blues, but that was with Homer and Lovejoy as well. I hope he gets more screen time and that the story works. Very exciting to see Disco Stu in the 500th and can't wait to see the rest. Does any one know if they are having 21 or 22 episodes this season?

[ThankYouComeAgain]

Actually, "A tree grows in Springfield" might be interesting because if it follows the same general plot as the books, it'll involve the family--most likely Homer and Marge--in random time periods before and just after Bart and Lisa (and possibly Maggie) were born.

The original plot synopsis can be found on Wikipedia.

Sounds like that Episode when they show Bart when he was little when he was living in a flat with the family and when Lisa was born.
Done before !

[ThankYouComeAgain]

Watch all 14 episodes back to back Joe, I dare ya, 5 hours in a row watching Season 23!

You call that a Challenge !
Watch Season 23 14 episodes back to back while doing the drinking game,
Now that is a Challenge !

[qwerasdf]

[Jesse Pinkman]

when i first heard "a tree grows in springfield" i was all ready to make a sarcastic post, but upon hearing what the title is a parody of, and the episode itself might be a parody, i'm looking forward.

[Alex_Of_Darkness]

Your video doesn't work for me...

[MDB]

Your video doesn't work for me...

just press the youtube' logo

[Alex_Of_Darkness]

yes that what I did...

[Blobulle]

It's the couch gag of the 500th episode slowed.

[SimpsonArgentina]

Season 23 starts today in Latin America.

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

If only I lived there.

[Bleedin' Gums Murphy]

Season 23 starts today in Latin America.

Me encanta Argentina. Mi héroe es Diego Armando Maradona. Jugador de fútbol americano extremadamente talentoso, y lo hizo un montón de drogas también! También las mujeres en Buenos Aires tiene las espaldas más limpio en el mundo entero

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

Yeah, drugs. Those get you all the chicks.

[Bleedin' Gums Murphy]

That goes without saying.

[MDB]

From Fox Flash:
--“THE SIMPSONS”—(8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) CC-HDTV 720p-Dolby Digital 5.1



AUTOMATED ROBOTS TAKE OVER THE SPRINGFIELD WORKFORCE

ON AN ALL-NEW “THE SIMPSONS”

SUNDAY, MARCH 18, ON FOX



Brent Spiner (“Star Trek: The Next Generation”) Makes Guest Voice Appearance



Mr. Burns replaces all of Springfield Power Plant’s employees with robots (guest voice Brent Spiner) but decides to keep Homer as the sole human worker. With unemployment at an all-time high and mechanical arms operating the workplace, Springfield becomes a dismal and humorless place. But when Homer’s machine-programmed peers start to turn on the community and his former real-life employees come to the rescue, they all realize that robots can’t replace human friends in the all-new “Them, Robot” episode of THE SIMPSONS airing Sunday, March 18 (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (SI-2310) (TV-PG D, L, S, V)

[Oh, that's raspberry!]

As I mentioned when I first heard about it the premise still reminds me of that one joke from LETS and for all I know that one joke/moment might be better than all of this, but this has been one of the episodes I've looked forward to the most this season. Also surprised we'll be getting new episodes three weeks in a row this late in the season, except for May of course...

[Zombies Rise from the Sea]

So basically this is a generic sitcom plot about how robots start off useful then they cause chaos with a sprinkle of (robots can't replace humans) in there. Unless they manage to include some really good jokes/social commentary and not have Homer just do awkward unfunny stuff around the robots then this will turn out really, really bad.

[biffwestwood]

I believe the rest of the schedule will look like this:

Mar. 25th (rerun)
April 1st (rerun)
April 8th (rerun due to the Easter holiday)
April 15th (new episode)
April 22nd (no new episodes or a rerun episode since the 25th anniversary special has recently been rescheduled for this date and the lenght is reduced from 3 to 2 hours)
April 29th (new episode)
May 6th (new episode)
May 13th (new episode)
May 20th (new episode, season finale)

I have noticed that so far every episode this season has a guest star except "Holidays of Future Passed" (I'm counting Teddy Roosevelt's archival speech as a guest star since it was hyped up)

[irvine_11]

Mr. Burns replaces all of Springfield Power Plant’s employees with robots (guest voice Brent Spiner) but decides to keep Homer as the sole human worker. With unemployment at an all-time high and mechanical arms operating the workplace, Springfield becomes a dismal and humorless place. But when Homer’s machine-programmed peers start to turn on the community and his former real-life employees come to the rescue, they all realize that robots can’t replace human friends in the all-new “Them, Robot” episode of THE SIMPSONS airing Sunday, March 18 (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (SI-2310) (TV-PG D, L, S, V)

The Scully era reborn?

[The Governor]

This sounds like the prediction Frink made in Itchy and Scratchyland where he calculates the robots will turn on humans.

[Bartesque]

It has been too long since we had a nice Apu story.

Not since Season 10 in fact.

[Alex_Of_Darkness]

This plot sound bad...

[The Governor]

This plot sound bad...

With cool, dry wit like that, you could be an action hero!

[Bartesque]

With cool, dry wit like that, you could be an action hero!

Ice to see comments like this.

[HMS pinafore]

The Scully era reborn?

So this will be an improvement over most other season 23 episodes?

[irvine_11]

I was referring more to the premise sounding like the Scully era reborn. If it ends up giving Scully vibes, then yes, but I have a feeling we're just going to get a bland, humorless sci-fi story.

[Oh, that's raspberry!]

Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart was written by Marc Wilmore. How I Wet Your Mother by Billy Kimball and Ian Maxtone-Graham.

http://simpsonsmusic500.wordpress.co...0-501-and-502/

Assuming this is new info...

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

I was referring more to the premise sounding like the Scully era reborn. If it ends up giving Scully vibes, then yes, but I have a feeling we're just going to get a bland, humorless sci-fi story.

Scully vibes would be good right now.

[irvine_11]

Scully vibes would be good right now.

Thank god for the new Napoleon Dynamite show.

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

Yeah, otherwise the only way I could get my Scully fix would be his twitter.

@scullymike

I'm not Mike Scully by the way.