The Simpsons

Everybody sing! “They’ll never stop The Simpsons!/Have no fears, we’ll have stories for years.”
The Simpsons will return in 2012.

Sundays, 8 PM ET, Fox

Current Season: 23 - Total Episodes: 22
Highest Rated: Ep 9, Season 23

B-

“Lisa Goes Gaga”

by Rowan Kaiser May 20, 2012 -

The Simpsons does PR for Lady Gaga. With jokes, fortunately.

B+

“Ned ’N’ Edna’s Blend”

by Rowan Kaiser May 14, 2012 -

Bad premise? No problem! The Simpsons deals with its “Nedna” relationship with surprising deftness.

B+

“The Spy Who Learned Me”

by Rowan Kaiser May 7, 2012 -

Bryan Cranston and Eric Idle show up for a pleasant, if conventional episode.

A-

“A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again”

by Rowan Kaiser April 30, 2012 -

The Simpsons have a good time on a cruise ship. Too good of a time.

Ep. 22, Season 23
“Lisa Goes Gaga”
Ep. 21, Season 23
“Ned ’N’ Edna’s Blend”
Ep. 20, Season 23
“The Spy Who Learned Me”
Ep. 19, Season 23
“A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again”

Features Reviews

Season

newest oldest

“Lisa Goes Gaga”
Episode 22

The Simpsons does PR for Lady Gaga. With jokes, fortunately.
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B-
“Ned ’N’ Edna’s Blend”
Episode 21

Bad premise? No problem! The Simpsons deals with its “Nedna” relationship with surprising deftness.
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B+
“The Spy Who Learned Me”
Episode 20

Bryan Cranston and Eric Idle show up for a pleasant, if conventional episode.
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B+
“A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again”
Episode 19

The Simpsons have a good time on a cruise ship. Too good of a time.
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A-
“Beware My Cheating Bart”
Episode 18

A stellar Bill Plympton couch gag is the best part of a mediocre Simpsons.
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C+
“Them, Robot”
Episode 17

The satire in this episode is too gentle, but the good-natured gags keep it afloat.
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B
“How I Wet Your Mother”
Episode 16

Although it never reaches outright hilarity, “How I Wet Your Mother” is one of the more interesting episodes of this season, and the major reason for this is focus.
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B+
“Exit Through The Kwik-E-Mart”
Episode 15

The Simpsons take on Exit Through The Gift Shop, but the satire is relatively mild for this subject.
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B
“At Long Last Leave”
Episode 14

Presenting the middle of The Simpsons’ bell curve.
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B-
“The Daughter Also Rises”
Episode 13

It must be difficult to piece together an episode when the Simpsons Plot Generator software churns out parts as random as Mythbusters, Hemingway, Michael Cera, and Pyramus And Thisbe.
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C+
“Moe Goes From Rags To Riches”
Episode 12

In telling the story of Moe’s bar rag, The Simpsons creates a baffling and disappointing waste of a promising idea.
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C-
“The D’Oh-cial Network”
Episode 11

When The Simpsons takes on Facebook, the satire is tamer than it should be.
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B-
“Politically Inept, With Homer Simpson”
Episode 10

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B
"Holidays Of Future Passed"
Episode 9

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A
“The Ten-Per-Cent Solution”
Episode 8

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A-
“The Man In The Blue Flannel Pants”
Episode 7

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B-
“The Book Job”
Episode 6

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A-
“The Food Wife”
Episode 5

Tim And Eric, foodies come to Springfield.
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B+
“Replaceable You”
Episode 4

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C-
"Treehouse Of Horror XXII"
Episode 3

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C+
“Bart Stops To Smell The Roosevelts”
Episode 2

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B
“The Falcon And The D’OHman”
Episode 1

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B

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Dark Shadows composer Danny Elfman on his long collaboration with Tim Burton
“I think my destiny was to be someone who scribbles in dark rooms.”
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In The Rockford Files, James Garner played a PI who was in on the joke
James Garner and the ’70s private eye who was as annoyed with clichés as those watching at home
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Sherlock in “The Case Of The Swiftly Saturating Sunday Schedule”
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The Simpsons, Don’t Trust The B----- In Apartment 23, and pie from the sky on Parks And Recreation
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End it already: When cancellation is the best thing that can happen to a TV series
Just because a TV show could go on forever doesn’t mean it should.
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If it pleases the court, The Good Wife would like to end its third season
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus vetoes the “Seinfeld curse” in Veep
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Girls [marimba loop] what we really want is Girls
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Matt Groening reveals the location of Springfield, sort of
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Alex Rocco talks about Magic City, The Godfather and more
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Batter up!: The A.V. Club’s pop culture baseball all-star team
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