Preview / speculation about the upcoming episodes of The Simpsons.

That Don Guy said:
Have the Billboard Music Awards announced who is going to air them on 11/19 yet?

There's also a "wild card" in the works; if the Baseball ALCS (which I am guessing Fox/FS1 is airing, as they usually alternate the NLCS and ALCS with TBS) goes to Game 7, that should be on 10/22, and the last time this happened, Fox did pre-empt the announced Sunday schedule for it.

As for airing repeats in early December, usually Fox does have a "repeat night" in early December (it used to be the Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend). However, it's possible that Fox may want to air all of the episodes in production before the break for postseason football.
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No, the BMA’s still don’t have a broadcaster. I presume they would move back to Fox and preempt 11/19. ALCS Game 7 could preempt 10/22 if it’s on Fox and not FS1, although I expected at least 4 episodes until 10/29.

Since there’s only 12 episodes, 10 could air this fall (10/1 - 10/22, 11/5 - 11/12, then 11/26 - 12/17), with the other 2 in January despite NFL playoffs: 1/7 at 9:00 and (I know about NBC but still) 1/14 or 1/21. If the strike ends in the next couple of months and production continues, more episodes could air for February or March (long 2 month hiatus though). Or maybe 11 episodes this fall and 1 in January 🧐
 
FanofSimpsons said:
Since there’s only 12 episodes, 10 could air this fall (10/1 - 10/22, 11/5 - 11/12, then 11/26 - 12/17), with the other 2 in January despite NFL playoffs: 1/7 at 9:00 and (I know about NBC but still) 1/14 or 1/21. If the strike ends in the next couple of months and production continues, more episodes could air for February or March (long 2 month hiatus though). Or maybe 11 episodes this fall and 1 in January 🧐
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How about FG situation in long back season 6 - the less number of broadcast episodes (for The Simpsons, it is hard to say now, how many - 12, at minimum😅), but the same period - from Sep…October to May. That resolution was applied to many shows in 2007-08 as I discovered. Why all think the option to burn set all the ready episodes at once?
Already traditional winter breaks easily can help with it.
 
Bohdan said:
How about FG situation in long back season 6 - the less number of broadcast episodes (for The Simpsons, it is hard to say now, how many - 12, at minimum😅), but the same period - from Sep…October to May. That resolution was applied to many shows in 2007-08 as I discovered. Why all think the option to burn set all the ready episodes at once?
Already traditional winter breaks easily can help with it.
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Although that’s what happened, the airing of episodes would feel rare and special occasion, with the lack of weekly installments. Even if the finale is, say May 5 (first Sunday of May), there’s various repeat Sundays besides the World Series, the usual winter break, Oscars, and Easter.

Although Fox could have Sunday night USFL games next spring to preempt their Sunday shows, leaving the finale as early as April 7.
 
Despite the writers are still on strike, I hope the writers would have scary names for Treehouse of Horror XXXIV this upcoming fall. Plus, I'm not worried if they're not gonna have scary names this year
 
Let's wake up for a while from midseason, and turn on our minds in full… to speculation. Here's my specs. for future first season 35 episodes of 2023. The same I did last year, and the year before, and the year before… However, there is a STRIKE now (by the moment of writing this post it isn't ended).

Several major moments before I start:
  1. Don't want to repeat, there are enough of produced eps to translate, until strike(s) will end.
  2. To rich even more time before "start producing" and "finish producing" the episodes, in my view, will air in production order (exceptions are THOH34 and "It's a Blunderful Life", confirmed to be holidays-themed episodes). For this reason I refused my *sigh* "as I would want" "schedule to "as it should be"
  3. There will be no earlier assumed fulfil all ready eps in one "fall season", but also not ridiculous use of 6 football-boost Sundays… I mean, use ONLY of 6 football-boost Sundays (from Oct 1st to December, without Christmas Eve game I'm wondered, NFL on purpose set the games on big religion holidays - Easter as usual, and now Christmas too🙃)

October 1st - episode 1 [Sunday with football boost]
A Midchildhood Night's Dream - OABF16

October 8th - episode 2 [Sunday without football boost]
Homer's Crossing - OABF18

October 15th - episode 3 [Sunday with football boost]
Treehouse of Horror XXXIV - OABF17
What season 33 did learn is that THOH are seen as valuable eps to put on boost Sundays in any case.😌

Then we forget season with fulfil October lineup, and don't have new eps on Oct 22nd and 29th (Fox doesn't want to air THOH on 10/29, which is a travel day for the World Series this year but not a Fox NFL doubleheader day The Simpsons Archive (R))

November 5th - episode 4 [Sunday with football boost]
McMansion & Wife - OABF20

November 12th - episode 5 [Sunday with football boost]
Thirst Trap: A Corporate Love Story - OABF21

November 19th - episode 6 [Sunday without football boost, but just before Thanksgiving]
It's a Blunderful Life - OABF19
Yeah, I know about Bob Burger's holiday episode mess in 2016😁. Doubt it can repeat (for the Simpsons, at least) this year

November 26th - repeat (no football on Fox, so let Sunday after Thanksgiving be Sunday after Thanksgiving)

December 3rd - episode 7 [Sunday with football boost]
Iron Marge - OABF22

December 10th - repeat (no football on Fox)

December 17th (The Simpsons Anniversary!🥳) - episode 8 [Sunday with football boost]
Do the Wrong Thing - 35ABF01

I doubted in the last one here. However, among upcoming 35abfs I don't see any "Christmas themed" episode to air before Christmas

There was enough time even to think about further schedule, how many eps to be produced/aired more, but let's wait a while more for the end strike to be ensure (or not)
 
Bohdan said:
There was enough time even to think about further schedule, how many eps to be produced/aired more, but let's wait a while more for the end strike to be ensure (or not)
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With the possible exception of 1/7, I don't see any new episodes after 12/17 until 2/18. Fox won't air anything new against NFL postseason games on NBC and CBS, and the NFL's weekend off before the Super Bowl is both Grammy night and a possible NASCAR night race that Fox would air (although the official NASCAR schedule isn't usually released until mid-September).

Even 1/7 may be pushing it; it's the last game of the NFL regular season and a Fox doubleheader, so Fox would probably show a "sneak preview" of one of its midseason reality shows like Next Level Chef, or maybe the Doc pilot, although this doesn't mean Fox wouldn't air a new Simpsons episode at 9:00 Eastern. (Remember when pilot episodes usually didn't air as part of the series?)
 
I doubt 'Do the Wrong Thing' would be a Christmas episode (although I probably wouldn't be surprised if it does, honestly), given that we never had a Christmas episode for The Simpsons last December and a year before
 
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HomerFan1998 said:
I doubt 'Do the Wrong Thing' would be a Christmas episode
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Maybe I'm totally off base here, but this is the "speculation" thread, after all...but you don't think it's possible that "Do the Wrong Thing" just might, oh, I don't know, say, how about, have at least something to do with the Spike Lee movie Do the Right Thing?
 
That Don Guy said:
Maybe I'm totally off base here, but this is the "speculation" thread, after all...but you don't think it's possible that "Do the Wrong Thing" just might, oh, I don't know, say, how about, have at least something to do with the Spike Lee movie Do the Right Thing?
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I guess so... 😐
 
Since Bumblebee Man's going to appear somewhere in one of the three segments for THOH XXXIV next month, I think this year is probably gonna be the first time when Eric Lopez (in case he continues to voice Bumblebee Man obviously) finally gets his Halloween name for himself, but who knows which Halloween name he's gonna choose though?
 
According to the Season 35 Official Trailer video which we already checked out, it looks like we'll get to see Ms. Peyton again in 'A Mid-Childhood's Night Dream'
 
She is also seen in the background during a scene that could possibly be from "Homer's Crossing"
 
And obviously, the clip where Homer burps green stuff onto Ned Flanders, the other clips where Rod Flanders, Miss Hoover, Lenny and Carl are Homers, Marge flies with the rocket until it explodes, the clip of Itchy and Scratchy with red laser eyes while they tried to shoot Marge, the clip where the monkey was rubbing one of Homer's toes, a clip were adult Lisa tries to kill old Sideshow Bob with a knife, and the clip where Ned has Homer's top and Homer's five o'clock shadow burping green stuff, and a clip where Marge is holding a red key literally has to be for Treehouse of Horror XXXIV
 
If Mcmansion & Wife is indeed gonna be a Homer and Marge episode, I bet it's also gonna have a Bart and Lisa subplot, I suppose
 
I think that "A Mid-Childhood's Night Dream" could be like a "Bartless 2.0". That's because I felt "Bartless" vibes watching some clips from "A Mid-Childhood's Night Dream" presented in the season 35 trailer.
 
And perhaps Homer eating something with green stuff around it most likely has something to do with the Homer burp segment. So I guess there's probably gonna be a Channel 6 news scene happening somewhere in the Homer burp segment
 
MDB said:
Also I think the Fox departament has once again spoiled to much.   Like Lisa killing sideshow bob, c'mon  
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Yes, they did - briefly - blow the lead inadvertently on what made Lisa the Boy Scout unique last season... although, ultimately, it really wasn't to the episode's detriment given that we're the only community hardcore enough to really pick through the tea leaves to qualify what it was bringing to the table in advance.

And yeah, I was hard on them as a result. It was an undeniable self-inflicted stumble but at the end of the day we were still treated to a unique, fresh and wholly excellent concept that was relatively well executed. So it's water under the bridge.

Here's why I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt here...

Exhibit A

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Exhibit B
THOH XXXIV SPOILER

 If this plays out like any competent slasher film send-up (heavily leaning on Scream) that I've seen, it's a huge tell that  we're only seeing a silhouette of Lisa here and not the genuine article (which WOULD be a spoiler). The audience is meant to think it's Lisa. And Bob clearly does albeit in a terrified panic where he's fearful of his life. 

Here's my working theory on how this will play out...
- Bob brutally slaughters Bart at the age of 10 in a memorable callback to Cape Feare as Lisa looks on in terror after having been the only Simpson able to escape to the deck of the ship (damn Bob for drugging Homer like that)
- 30 years pass and a series of copycat murders are taking place with someone dressed like Bob taking out the people who locked him up (i.e. Chief Wiggum) or who had anything to do with his prior attacks on Bart (Selma probably qualfies as well); clearly it's not ACTUALLY Bob 'cause he remains locked up in prison
- Lisa, fearful for the welfare of her immediate family, reconnects with Nelson, a former flame who still carries a torch for her but is now working for the PD in hopes of tracking down the killer before it's too late
 - Nelson will stumble across some evidence that leads him to the conclusion that Lisa - overwhelmed by 30 years of guilt - is carrying out the killings herself
- In a boneheaded act of chivalry, Nelson disguises himself AS Lisa to kill Bob in prison and effectively exonerate her of all the other murders and take the heat on her behalf. And before you argue that it could be Maggie in silhouette or that the silhouette is too thin to be Nelson, he's clearly lost wait (shockingly) as a cop... and the big tell for me... is that the "Lisa" silhouette features a prominent overbite across every frame in the teaser. Which is a very Nelson characteristic.
- Which this farcical attempt thwarted, we shift elsewhere for our climactic confrontation with the copycat killer... and while there may well be multiple reveals... because that's what Scream does (it's often two killers working in tandem to set each other up with false alibis), my three best guesses for the actual culprit are Cecil (so they can make a stupd meta reference to Niles being left out of the new Frasier reboot), Gino (not that anyone remembers Gino - plus he shouldn't even exist in a timeline where Bob killed Bart and then was immediately locked up for it) or Bart himself (and I can't work out a way where that outcome wouldn't be lame).  
 
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Brad Lascelle said:
 If this plays out like any competent slasher film send-up (heavily leaning on Scream) that I've seen, it's a huge tell that  we're only seeing a silhouette of Lisa here and not the genuine article (which WOULD be a spoiler). The audience is meant to think it's Lisa. And Bob clearly does albeit in a terrified panic where he's fearful of his life. 

Here's my working theory on how this will play out...
- Bob brutally slaughters Bart at the age of 10 in a memorable callback to Cape Feare as Lisa looks on in terror after having been the only Simpson able to escape to the deck of the ship (damn Bob for drugging Homer like that)
- 30 years pass and a series of copycat murders are taking place with someone dressed like Bob taking out the people who locked him up (i.e. Chief Wiggum) or who had anything to do with his prior attacks on Bart (Selma probably qualfies as well); clearly it's not ACTUALLY Bob 'cause he remains locked up in prison
- Lisa, fearful for the welfare of her immediate family, reconnects with Nelson, a former flame who still carries a torch for her but is now working for the PD in hopes of tracking down the killer before it's too late
 - Nelson will stumble across some evidence that leads him to the conclusion that Lisa - overwhelmed by 30 years of guilt - is carrying out the killings herself
- In a boneheaded act of chivalry, Nelson disguises himself AS Lisa to kill Bob in prison and effectively exonerate her of all the other murders and take the heat on her behalf. And before you argue that it could be Maggie in silhouette or that the silhouette is too thin to be Nelson, he's clearly lost wait (shockingly) as a cop... and the big tell for me... is that the "Lisa" silhouette features a prominent overbite across every frame in the teaser. Which is a very Nelson characteristic.
- Which this farcical attempt thwarted, we shift elsewhere for our climactic confrontation with the copycat killer... and while there may well be multiple reveals... because that's what Scream does (it's often two killers working in tandem to set each other up with false alibis), my three best guesses for the actual culprit are Cecil (so they can make a stupd meta reference to Niles being left out of the new Frasier reboot), Gino (not that anyone remembers Gino - plus he shouldn't even exist in a timeline where Bob killed Bart and then was immediately locked up for it) or Bart himself (and I can't work out a way where that outcome wouldn't be lame).  
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Okay but seriously this potential outline for the segment sounds really fucking cool, I’d love to see something this
 
FYI, the other, more obvious reason why the leaked image is either Maggie or someone adorning a hastily thought out Lisa mask - or at worst a Bob dream sequence...

 Compare the way Adult Lisa's hair looks in the poster for the episode vs. it reverting to its traditional pointy spikes in silhouette form. Think about this for 5 seconds and you'll realize why this is most likely a red herring. Lisa ain't 8 in this episode, folks. She's almost 40.

Honestly the only explanation for it actually being her would be if the murder of her brother so epically damaged her that she effectively split into two divergent personalities after the incident... a normal one and a vengeful one who still believes she's an 8-year-old girl (because her life ended that day). I just don't put much stock into that theory given that we just had a Lisa personality break 5 THOH specials ago. 
 
Actually, you know what I think Jessica Conrad's scary name should be for this year? Jessica Dumb Rat. Get it?
 
HomerFan1998 said:
Actually, you know what I think Jessica Conrad's scary name should be for this year? Jessica Dumb Rat. Get it?
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You do realize, that if writers still striking, there won't be any "scary names"? And I'm sure that if writers won't have, all the rest (cast, animators, producers) won't have as well.
 
I suppose you might have a point there Bohdan. Although it's been over 20 years since a Treehouse of Horror didn't have scary names for the Simpsons crew, besides the first Treehouse of Horror from over 30 years ago, but... Either way, I might be okay if there won't be scary names for this year's Treehouse of Horror
 
For those of you (AHEM) those of us (that's better) working on your Season 35 schedule speculations, note that NASCAR has announced that there will be no Bristol dirt race this year, so, while the 2024 NASCAR schedule has not been officially announced yet, I am assuming there will be no race on Easter night for Fox to air.
 
That Don Guy said:
For those of you (AHEM) those of us (that's better) working on your Season 35 schedule speculations, note that NASCAR has announced that there will be no Bristol dirt race this year, so, while the 2024 NASCAR schedule has not been officially announced yet, I am assuming there will be no race on Easter night for Fox to air.
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NASCAR has also announced that there will be a race on Sunday night 2/4, which I assume Fox will air, so no need to worry about whether or not Fox would air a new episode against the Grammys.
 
Strange - 10/8 will have a third airing of Lisa the Boy Scout while there are a number of other episodes that haven't even aired twice yet. I can understand why it's not Not It or THOH XXXIII (I wouldn't be surprised if Fox is saving those to air on 10/29), but why not The King of Nice or Clown v. Board of Education?
 
If Fox is short on episodes this season, here's one way it can fill the gap; normally, the NASCAR All-Star Race airs on FS1, but it will be on Sunday night 5/19 in 2024, so it could be moved to Fox.
 
That Don Guy said:
If Fox is short on episodes this season, here's one way it can fill the gap; normally, the NASCAR All-Star Race airs on FS1, but it will be on Sunday night 5/19 in 2024, so it could be moved to Fox.
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Here’s another possibility: the upcoming merged season of the XFL / USFL, which I heard will be split between FOX, NBC, ABC, and ESPN. If there’s Sunday night games like the USFL had, then FOX could air a handful, or perhaps all of them for the spring.
 
We're BAAAAAAAAACK for another time!

Homer's Crossing
(funny fact just noticed: this is the first time ever when season premiere of the next season starts with "[insert character name]'s…" as well as season finale of previous season)
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1. Plot ("Feeling worthless at work, Homer volunteered to be a school crossing guard. However, when his security group receives too much funding, the crossing guards become a force to be feared.") - Homer Gets a Job.:cricket: Saying more original this is another redo of «Homer the Vigilante» from season 5, that also produced «Poppa’s Got a Brand New Badge» from season 13 and «Crook and Ladder» from season 18. Shortly, nothing original. With that the story sounding is atypical for recent seasons - as I have noticed, it's more for season 16-17 (oh, recalled «See Homer Run») - Homer tries not to take attention to himself, as it was a year ago, but to show own value. However, this ridiculous development is a little minus to the story. 3/5
2. The biggest possible problem. In short: see how did last seasons' premieres use Homer? Not to tell the story, but to highlight the social topic: conspiracy, "boss sucks", social media, Christian movies. Hell even in no-Homer-centric «The Star of the Backstage» Homer was used as additional "cool guy" to put Marge even more to background. And here the topic is classic… abuse of power. In two words, the problem is in wrong using of Homer.
3. Cesar Mazariegos (for who this episode is debut in non-non-canon stories) is ok-to-good writer, while Steven Dean Moore is good-to-ok animation director. They both coworked just a year ago on «Not It» - not so straight episode. Tim Long as corunner is what the episode needs - a healthy reducing to absurdity🤪. The key word is "healthy", because Long can make the story too out-of-earth, painful to watch.
4. Promo stuff. Even without directions from the staff, Fox department pleasantly surprised with promotion - clear promo images, long informative trailer (I will return to), synopsis, longer than a sentence. Great!:thumbsup:

SO Going just with the story I already prepared for "miss", but combining all we have and had, I become "carefully optimistic". My mark which system as always I'm going to improve fluctuates around 4/5, lower or upper who knows
 
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