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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I grew up watching <a href="https://twitter.com/TheSimpsons?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheSimpsons</a> and now I get to voice myself in an episode! 😱😜 Stay tuned... <a href="https://t.co/LtvrZ39UiJ">pic.twitter.com/LtvrZ39UiJ</a></p>— Gal Gadot (@GalGadot) <a href="https://twitter.com/GalGadot/status/960650277232656384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2018</a></blockquote>
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"Fears Of A Clown" will be the first episode to air on Easter Sunday since "Blame It On Lisa" 16 years ago

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Maybe due to Easter falling on April Fool's Day this year, they decided to pull an early trick on everyone who likes to predict when new episodes will air when basing it on schedules from previous seasons. :lol: Their version of "The joke on April Fool's Day this year is that the Easter Bunny is hiding rotten eggs this Easter."
 
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What happened to "Homer Is Where the Art Isn't"? . I need my Selman dosis. Anyway:

"THE SIMPSONS" - (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) CC-AD-HDTV 720p-Dolby Digital 5.1

HOMER AND MARGE SHARE STORIES OF THEIR D.I.N.K. PAST ON AN ALL-NEW "THE SIMPSONS" SUNDAY, MARCH 11, ON FOX

JK Simmons ("Whiplash"), Kevin Pollak ("The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel") and artist John Baldessari Make Guest-Voice Appearances

Homer and Marge recount the story of their transition from loving their life without kids to being miserable parents in the all-new "3 Scenes Plus A Tag From A Marriage" episode airing Sunday, March 11 (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (SI-2906) (TV-PG D, L, V)

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

Guest Voice Cast: JK Simmons as JJ Gruff, Kevin Pollak as Ross, Bagel Man and Professor, John Baldessari as Himself

Also Homer and Marge are miserable now.
 
Also Homer and Marge are miserable now.
This sounds like projection from the writers' room.

Incidentally, this will be the THIRD Pross & Gammill episode of the season (through a mere dozen episodes).
Let's hope it winds up better than their first two (Whistler's Father, The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used to Be). I'm not optimistic that it will.
 
This sounds like projection from the writers' room.

Incidentally, this will be the THIRD Pross & Gammill episode of the season (through a mere dozen episodes).
Let's hope it winds up better than their first two (Whistler's Father, The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used to Be). I'm not optimistic that it will.

Ooof, this saddens me, Pross and Gammill were such great writers on Seinfeld and they both, Gammill especially, are bright spots on the later season commentaries, I'm sad that once they started writing they apparently aren't that great (then again, it's hard to know how much of the original script actually makes the show)
 
My takeaway from most Pross & Gammill episodes... especially given their extended tenure not head writing episodes but contributing from the sidelines... is that there's very little of them in all of these.

Their latest efforts feel like full committee efforts which invariably results in them feeling segmented, directionless and lacking much in the way of cohesive vision. And this almost always translates into mediocre output - and, as such, it frankly doesn't matter how much of their original script makes it into the finished product or not.

When I go out of my way to criticize a specific writer's episodes and people throw out that "they're largely written by the entire room so your entire criticism is baseless" disclaimer as if I don't realize that, they're forgetting that "being written by the room" is not a good thing either. When a writer owns a script - or when Selman is showrunning - and it's highly focused, it makes a world of difference. Pross & Gammill episodes feel like there's barely a head writer there at all so the room is just spitballing whatever and then we wind up with a mess like Whistler's Father.
 
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this is the important stuff of both articles:

Al Jean:
There’s a great season finale. It’s a satire of “The Amazing Race.” Marge and Homer are a couple that goes on and immediately loses.
Next season’s Halloween, there is a really good Jurassic Park parody where it’s Geriatric Park. They inject all the senior citizens with dinosaur DNA.

Matt Selman
One family member who had a big impact on Moe was his father, and EW has learned that the show has tapped Ray Liotta to voice the not-so-dear dad. Yes, the Shades of Blue star will play Morty Szyslak, who is described as a more cunning, evil version of Moe.
Moe’s episode — which airs in April — will also feature Debi Mazar as Minnie, Moe’s sister.
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It has a musical and everything

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="es"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I had the pleasure of directing Mr Liotta in a fun song for the episode a few months ago. Thanks to a rewrite, I got to direct him again last week. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheSimpsons?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TheSimpsons</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SimpsonsForever?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SimpsonsForever</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/veryniceguy?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#veryniceguy</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/andhecansing?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#andhecansing</a><br> <a href="https://t.co/lYTc4VXQcM">https://t.co/lYTc4VXQcM</a></p>— Chris Ledesma (@mxedtr) <a href="https://twitter.com/mxedtr/status/966467703035719680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">22 de febrero de 2018</a></blockquote>
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Remains to be seen how well the episode will turn out, but that's a pretty good casting choice.
 
I have a good feeling about this episode:
SUNDAY, MARCH 18

[EDITOR'S NOTE: Audio descriptions for tonight's episodes of BOB'S BURGERS, THE SIMPSONS, GHOSTED, FAMILY GUY and THE LAST MAN ON EARTH are available on the SAP Audio Channel.]

"THE SIMPSONS" - (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) CC-AD-HDTV 720p-Dolby Digital 5.1

HOMER GETS CAUGHT UP IN A MYSTERY ON AN ALL-NEW "THE SIMPSONS" SUNDAY, MARCH 18, ON FOX

Bill Hader ("Saturday Night Live," "Trainwreck") and Cecily Strong ("Saturday Night Live") Make Special Guest-Voice Appearances

When Homer is accused of stealing a million-dollar painting, only a detective from the 1970s can clear his name, or send him to jail. It's a classic impossible mystery in the all-new "Homer Is Where The Art Isn't" episode of THE SIMPSONS airing Sunday, March 18 (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (SI-2905) (TV-PG D, L, V)

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

Guest Voice Cast: Bill Hader as Manacek; Cecily Strong as Megan



Read more: Listings - SIMPSONS, THE on FOX | TheFutonCritic.com http://www.thefutoncritic.com/listings/20180222fox17/#ixzz57rsNpuMe
 
I would presume from that that the season finale is "Heartbreak Hotel".
This, and "Lisa Gets the Blues" being the New Orleans episode that breaks Gunsmoke's record, makes sense if the remaining episodes this season are in production order - here's Yet Still Even Another Attempt At A Season 29 Finishing Schedule After March 18:
3/25 - No Good Read Goes Unpublished (XABF07)
4/1 - Fears of a Clown (XABF08)
4/8 - Forgive and Regret (XABF09)
4/15 - King Leer (XABF10)
4/22 - Lisa Gets the Blues (XABF11)
4/29 - Left Behind (XABF12)
5/6 - Throw Grampa from the Dane (XABF13)
5/13 - Flanders' Ladder (XABF14)
5/20 - Heartbreak Hotel (XABF15)
 
Is XABF07 "No Good Read Goes Unpunished" or "No Good Read Goes Unpublished"? The latter would make much more sense...
 
Is XABF07 "No Good Read Goes Unpunished" or "No Good Read Goes Unpublished"? The latter would make much more sense...

Let's ask the Fox press release:
"THE SIMPSONS" - (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) CC-AD-HDTV 720p-Dolby Digital 5.1

BOOKS COME TO LIFE ON AN ALL-NEW "THE SIMPSONS" SUNDAY, MARCH 25, ON FOX

Daniel Radcliffe ("Harry Potter") and Jimmy O. Yang ("Silicon Valley") Make Special Guest-Voice Appearances

In an attempt to bring the family together, Marge forces everyone to hand in their electronics and take a trip to a book store in the all-new "No Good Read Goes Unpunished" episode of THE SIMPSONS airing Sunday, March 25 (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (SI-2907) (TV-PG L, V)

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

Guest Voice Cast: Jimmy O. Yang as Sun; Daniel Radcliffe as Himself
Looks like the Simpsons are going to "get some fancy book learnin'," just like in the comic book trade paperback,
 
The best I could have read this years.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I think there will be more. Just my opinion.</p>— Al Jean (@AlJean) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlJean/status/969316127372230656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2018</a></blockquote>
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The best I could have read this years.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I think there will be more. Just my opinion.</p>— Al Jean (@AlJean) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlJean/status/969316127372230656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2018</a></blockquote>
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I doubt it will be cancelled any time soon; I still think it will take one of the major actors' deaths, or maybe one of Dan/Hank/Harry deciding to retire (each does too many episodes to replace without too many people thinking, "It's not the same characters any more"). Even if Fox gets tired of it, there's always FX, or even TBS or Adult Swim, even if they go to 13-episode seasons.

Keep in mind that it is one of very few Fox shows that Fox will air in repeats over the summer, so they must see something in it.
 
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