Plot: Wedding For Diaster
This new episode airing 29 March is entitled Wedding For Diaster
Kelsey Grammer guest-voices as Sideshow Bob. When their marriage turns out to be invalid, Homer asks Marge for a re-do on their “I do’s.” But when Homer mysteriously disappears just before the wedding, Bart and Lisa go searching for answers.
Preview: How The Test Was Won
“How the Test Was Won” airs tommorow night.
Bart is informed that he and a select group of students have received perfect scores on a practice test for the upcoming Vice President’s Assessment Test.
As a result, he will be exempt from taking the real exam and will be transported by helicopter to a pizza party. However, Bart and the others soon realize their trip is not what it seems, and their day turns into an adventure all its own.
“No Loan Again, Naturally” airs 08 March and “Gone Maggie Gone” airs 15 March
Plot: In The Name of the Grandfather
This episode atcually airs in the UK (17 March) before it does in the US (22 March).
In The Name of the Grandfather sees Homer make Grampa’s dream of a final beer in a pub in the village of Dunkilderry come true.
Homer is prompted into the out-of-character act of kindness for Abe Simpson after forgetting to join him in the father and son three-legged race at Springfield Retirement Castle’s seniors’ sports day. After a scolding by Marge, Homer takes Grampa across the water to O’Flanagan’s where he claims to have spent the best night of his life. On arrival, however, the village isn’t quite how he remembers it.
Father and son inevitably drink too much and end up buying the pub off Tom O’Flanagan, whose voice has been provided by Colm Meaney. In news which will either be greeted with joy or horror by Fáilte Ireland, the pair also stop off at several Irish landmarks including the Giant’s Causeway, the Blarney Castle and, obviously, the Guinness Brewery.
To mark the broadcast, the executive producers of the show Al Jean and James L Brooks, along with Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart, will also travel to Ireland for an exclusive screening of the episode while Homer Simpson has been drafted into to edit the March edition of Sky Magazine.
Jean, Brooks and Cartwright are also scheduled to feature in Dublin’s St Patrick’s Festival Parade and are expected to be on a Simpson’s float which is in the process of being hastily assembled.
Remember, it’s in High Definition too.
Plot: Gone Maggie Gone
Well, were getting quite far ahead on listings now, this newbie is airing 15 March.
When Homer leaves Maggie on the doorstep of a convent in order to get Santa’s Little Helper out of some trouble, the nuns think Maggie is an abandoned baby and take her in.
Starting a chain of events that results in Lisa, Principal Skinner, and Comic Book Guy racing against the Freemasons to find a jewel…
And that airs after “No, Loan Again Naturally”, maybe another new episode on the 22nd?
Aftermath: Take My Life, Please
Well the switch to HD wasn’t good enough to bring back lots of our dissapering viewers.
We did not hit rock bottom again but did get an extremly low 6.83 million. It is the third least watched in all of Season 20, but the highest rating since November. The show came fourth after The Amazing Race, Dateline and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.
Other shows on Fox that night were:
- 19:00 = NASCAR = 5.55million
- 19:30 = American Dad (repeat) = 3.44million
- 20:30 = King of the Hill = 5.32million
- 21:00 = Family Guy = 7.33million
- 21:30 = American Dad = 5.88million
Plot: No Loan Again, Naturally
A new episode of The Simpsons sees the family fall victim to the current economic climate.
When a letter stating “WARNING: Your adjustable mortgage rate is about to be reset” arrives, Homer and Marge go to see their brokers. But when the new mortgage rate comes in at far more than they can afford the Simpsons are forced to put their home up for sale. Homer is so depressed he tries to hang himself from a tree, but his weight causes the tree to collapse, crushing the family car.
As the house goes up for auction, Flanders does his good deed for the day by outbidding Mr. Burns and becoming the family’s new landlord. The Simpsons are incredibly grateful to their neighbour.
But when Flanders calls round and spots a leak, which he promptly fixes, Homer begins to take advantage of his landlord’s generosity. Soon, the family faces losing their home again. D’oh!
This episode airs the week after “How the Test Was Won”, the 8th March.
