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Fox TV Confirmed the 20th Season of The Simpsons !!!

You can imagine how happy I am to announce this happy news. After almost 20 years in filming history, Finally !! The Simpsons reached the twentieth season !!!!! ( AND FOX TV HAS CONFIRMED IT )

Confirmed Guest Star

• Matt Damon : Lost Verizon ( it should be for the 19th season, but don’t know why, they moved this episode to the 20th season, I guess this happen because the impact of Writer Guild’s Strike few months ago ).

The Simpsons S19E06 – Little Orphan Millie – Personal Review

Personal Review :

I have much to say about this episode, the Van Houtens are re-married, then they showed the Danish Van Houten, then they parodied Saving Private Ryan scene, when Millhouse being told by the “Ice-Cream Men” that his parents were presumably lost in the sea. Overall, I still believed that this episode has a better quality than before.

Rating by me : 6.8 / 10

Plot ( Wikipedia.com )

Kirk and Luann tell The Simpsons they are going to be re-married, much to the delight of Milhouse. While preparing for the wedding, Marge suggests to Homer that he match his tie to her eyes, to which he casually replies that he never notices petty details like eye color. Shocked, Marge covers her eyes so Homer cannot see them unless he remembers their color.

While the Van Houtens are on their cruise honeymoon, Kirk carries Luann down the hallway to their private room. The boat begins swinging from side to side, and the two fall off the boat. Two of the cruise representatives tell Milhouse his parents are lost at sea and possibly dead, which causes Milhouse to become deep in depression. As Milhouse sulks around the Simpson’s house, he is informed the search has stopped. After sucking upon Maggie’s bottle, he discovers he truly is the “world’s oldest baby,” and promises himself that he will soon become a true man. Meanwhile, Homer continues making fruitless attempts at looking for traces of hints that can help him discover the color of Marge’s eye.

Milhouse starts to behave depressingly, and dresses in a black jacket and jeans. Milhouse’s new behavior and attitude (gloomy, mellow, and poetic) grabs the attention of the girls at school, including Lisa. Milhouse starts usurping Bart’s popularity, which aggravates Bart. After concluding that Milhouse with family would be happy again, Bart remembers that Milhouse gets Danish butter cookies every Christmas from Solvang, California. He decides to connect Milhouse with his Danish Uncle Norbert van Houten. Waiting at the airport, Uncle Norbert, dressed like Indiana Jones (including hat and bullwhip) arrives by his own biplane, and asks to be referred to as “Zack,” the proud Danish van Houten with a hatred towards the Dutch van Houten. After Zack arrives to get Milhouse from the school, Milhouse’s popularity escalates even higher.

Feeling desperate about finding Marge’s eye color, Homer remembers a song he used to sing to Marge, and remembers every word except when he sings about her eyes, searching in vain for the missing word that rhymes with such lyrics as “appraisal.” Marge remembers the song and, touched, removes her sun glasses, revealing the eyes that Homer’s song called “a beautiful, deep shade of hazel.” An angry Bart soon discovers Milhouse plans to fly away in a hot air balloon with Zack. After convincing from Lisa, Bart realizes that he loves and thus will miss Milhouse. Milhouse, Zack, and Bart take off in the hot air balloon and come upon an island, where a very much alive Kirk and Luann plan escaping with a nature-made hang-glider. After flying, Kirk and Luann’s hang-glider cuts the hot air balloon and soon, Milhouse re-unites with his parents. Zack states that he has already called for help and then gets into a fight with Kirk over their heritage (Danish and Dutch respectively).

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The Simpsons S19E05 – Treehouse of Horror XVIII – Personal Review

Personal Review :

You have to believe it, I have never seen any Treehouse of Horror since the first season of The Simpsons. I don’t know why, but since I have ”traumatic experience” to ‘’shocking pictures/videos” , I became very afraid to watch something like that. Especially when at the opening sequence of this type of episode, Marge always came and warned the audience that this episode may frighten some viewers and suggests that parents with sensitive children “tuck them into bed early tonight instead of writing us angry letters tomorrow”. This practice was kept up in a small number of subsequent episodes. The creators eventually decided that people knew that the episodes were scary and stopped adding warnings.

Rating by me : – / 10

Plot ( Wikipedia.com )

Opening Segment

In the opening sequence, Marge talks about Halloween being “last week” and suddenly various logos pop up on the screen, including the mini logos for American Idol, Fox Sports, Prison Break, Cops, House and 24. Marge ends up killing several miniature characters that pop up from the logos and bakes them into meatloaf, which she serves to her family. When she cuts it, the other characters’ body parts are shown to spell out the titles and opening credits.

E.T. , Go Home

In a spoof of E.T., Marge tells Bart to get butane from their “butane shed” in the back yard and as he does so, he finds Kodos there. Kodos states his desire to return home and that he had come to Earth in peace, though he hints that he was really sent there to destroy mankind. Bart, however, is oblivious to this, and decides to help him return home. Lisa arrives and is happy with the alien in their home and decides to help Bart and Kodos obtain devices that he can use to contact his home planet, though this appears to be part of his diabolical plan. Homer discovers Kodos when the two accidentally share a shower, but he and Marge decide to let the kids help Kodos anyway, after Kodos hints it would be racist to turn him away. When NASA agents arrive at the Simpsons home, Homer distracts them while Bart sneaks Kodos out. However, when Kodos kills several agents along the way, Bart begins to think Kodos’s intentions are not as friendly as he was led to believe. Finally, Kodos reveals that the devices he had the Simpsons collect were for a portal-generating device so that others of his planet can come to Earth and wipe out the human race and eat their heads. When the aliens invade, the rest of the Simpson family shows up, along with military. A brief war is waged, though this time Earth has the upper hand. When Bart is given the option to board a helicopter and shoot Kodos, Bart inexplicably decides to spare his life, though Homer shoots him instead. In the end, Earth emerges victorious and the world is saved. The Simpsons are invited to see Kodos’s dissection, where they reflect that since Kodos was an evil-looking alien who turned out to be bad, it must be good to judge a book by its cover. It is revealed that Kodos is still very much alive, but he is smothered by Homer with a pillow.

Mr. and Mrs. Simpson

In a spoof of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Homer and Marge appear to attend marriage counseling and recount a brief moment of tension between them. In the flashback, when arriving home, Homer locks himself in the bathroom and communicates on a hidden flat screen television, where it is revealed Homer is an assassin assigned to eliminate news reporter, Kent Brockman, by order of Homer’s boss, Mr. Burns. Before he leaves, he tells Marge he will be coming home late from midnight monkey madness; Marge also states that she is busy turning over wheelbarrows, making up an equally farfetched excuse. When Homer prepares to shoot Brockman at his rooftop party from a faraway platform, a woman with large blonde hair (who Homer dubs “the Mystery Skank”) however, stabs Brockman in the chest, killing him instead. After Homer attempts to repeatedly shoot the woman (ending up with several civilian deaths), he manages to shoot the wig off her head, revealing it is Marge, also an assassin. Arriving home, the two avoid each other’s eyes, and Marge makes an excuse for the blonde wig. Not long after, the two attempt to kill one another with various weapons such as grenades, rifles, and a minigun, all the while arguing why the other was an assassin. After killing Chief Wiggum with a crossbow, the two realize they are more attracted with one another when they kill someone together. For this, they soon begin having sex over Chief Wiggum’s body and, back to where the episode started, they both realized that they did not need any marriage counseling, but to kill people together. In the end, it turns out that they were not talking to a marriage counselor, but to Principal Skinner regarding Bart’s misbehavior on the school bus. Both Homer and Marge turn a blind eye to Bart’s misbehavior and simultaneously shoot Skinner instead.

Heck House

On Halloween night, Bart, Lisa, Milhouse and Nelson become frustrated by how some of the locals refuse to give them candy. Deciding to honor the true meaning of “trick-or-treat,” they begin to pull pranks on everyone. Soon, however, their pranks turn into vandalism and everyone begins to complain. Ned Flanders then offers his services to teach them a lesson and fashions the church into a “heck house.” This attracts their attention and they decide to give it a try. Ned tries to simulate what could happen to them for their sins through the use of crude roleplaying, but they scoff at his attempts. Ned then turns to God to give him the power to scare them straight and subsequently transforms into the Devil, sending the kids to Hell. There he brings up an enormous crystal ball revealing Springfield to be full of the Seven Deadly Sins, and shows them simulations of how they may suffer; the first clip shows Homer suffering through gluttony, where he transforms into pasta; the second shows Groundskeeper Willie beating up his tractor in wrath, only for his tractor to transform and cut his head off; the third has Doctor Hibbert with a bumper sticker that brags about his son in pride, where he becomes crushed in between his car and a van; the fourth has Homer suffering sloth, where he is chopped up by a hammock, despite the fact that he had been killed already “by that magic spaghetti”; lust, greed, and envy had Moe in lust for a stripper, greed for all her money, and envy “for the crotchless” after he gets kicked in the groin by the stripper. The kids resolve to change their ways, and Ned returns them back to the surface, reverting back to his original form. The episode ends with Ned telling the viewer that they will go to Hell for watching FOX, its affiliates and reading The Wall Street Journal.

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The Simpsons S19E04 – I Don’t Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sing – Personal Review

Personal Review :

Guess what ? this is the episode that took the 4th spot of Season 19, that has nothing to be laughed about. The title of this episode is a play on the title of the I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. autobiography. This episode also marked with the second appearance of Steve Buscemi as Dwight. There is also a part when Gil Gunderson prepared for his new job as a bank-security but he got shot from Dwight, the official from The Simpsons said that the character is dead, and will be re-added à la Dr. Marvin Monroe. And maybe the little part that I enjoyed the most is when Homer Jay Simpson saw the note from Marge, that contains 5 people that Homer should be married to, if Marge is dead. And there is Lenny Leonard ( gosh … makes Homer looked like a gu(a)y )

Rating by me : 4.6 / 10

Plot ( Wikipedia.com )

Lisa is named “Student of the Millennium”, so Marge stresses that Homer has to attend her ceremony due to past absences at most of the kids’ events. Homer then wakes up early and takes Maggie to the school auditorium. Meanwhile, Marge gets impatient waiting in line at the bank, so she strikes up a conversation with an apparently charming man named Dwight. He later takes out his pistol and holds up the bank. Gil Gunderson then arrives, prepared for his new job as a security guard, however he is repeatedly shot by Dwight’s accomplice.

Homer is smugly waiting for Marge at the ceremony. Marge privately calls Homer, informing him she’s a hostage at a bank robbery. Dwight notices Marge on the phone. Dwight makes a compromise; he will promise to turn himself in as long as Marge promises to visit him in prison, to which she reluctantly agrees.

A nervous Marge returns home. Homer attempts to convince Marge not to visit Dwight in the prison, but Marge wishes to honor her promise and visit him. However, while going to the prison, she makes continuous stops to avoid going to the prison, and misses visiting hours. At the prison, Dwight expectantly waits for Marge. While watching Snake Jailbird and his girlfriend, Gloria, Dwight becomes depressed and then angry, and Marge’s guilt begins to get to her while watching a frightening movie about a prisoner who was to be electrocuted. At the same moment, Dwight is breaking out of Springfield Penitentiary. He finds Marge’s address in a newspaper, and sets out to find her.

At home, while watching TV, Kent Brockman makes a news report on Dwight’s escape from prison. Dwight begins stalking Marge in various places, and successfully catches up to Marge and keeps her as his hostage. Dwight takes her to the same amusement park where he was abandoned by his mother, with the intention to have Marge help him repay the time he had lost, and promises to let her go afterwards, to which Marge, out of sympathy, agrees. He and Marge then ride the Viking ship ride together. Chief Wiggum arrives attempting to save Marge, but he is caught in the ride. Dwight jams the ride’s gears by throwing in his own body to save Wiggum. He survives, fortunately, and returns to prison after being hospitalized and making a full recovery. Back at the prison, Marge finally visits Dwight, who gives her a flattened dandelion encased in a bar of soap he had carved for her with a message on the back intending to recruit her in helping him attempt another prison break. Marge does not agree to the escape attempt and Dwight, although saddened, says she can keep the token.

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The Simpsons S19E03 – Midnight Towboy – Personal Review

Personal Review :

The episode title is a reference to the 1969 film Midnight Cowboy. And it was guest starred by Matt Dillon as Louie. This is the episode that marked the 183rd of Homer Jay Simpson’s Jobs as a Tow Truck Driver. I enjoyed the part that showed Homer Simpson while in captivity, he enthralls the other kidnapped drivers by describing the plots of the summer 2007 releases Transformers and Shrek The Third.

Rating by me : 5.2 / 10

Plot ( Wikipedia.com )

While putting Maggie to bed, Marge discovers Maggie is too clingy. After Maggie’s attachment towards Marge causes a jar of milk to be spilled, Marge (with difficulty) attempts to email “C.R.I.E” (Creative Responses for Infant Edu-loving), a group which enables attached children to be more independent. Meanwhile, Homer finds out the Kwik-E-Mart does not have any more milk, so he takes a trip past Shelbyville and Ogdenville to Guidopolis, a sleazy-looking town where everyone speaks with an Italian-American accent. He goes to the “Mook-E-Mart”, purchases milk, and winds up having his car towed by a man named Louie. Louie lets go of Homer’s car, and after noticing Homer’s fascination, Louie introduces him to the joy of towing cars for a living. Louie decides to help Homer become a tow truck driver, if, and only if, Homer would “stay off [his] turf”. Homer agrees, and becomes Springfield’s tow truck driver.

At home, a hippie arrives to help Marge with Maggie’s independence. After the woman orders Marge to leave Maggie alone in the room, Maggie’s cry makes Marge desperate to hug Maggie; when the woman explains that “hugs are drugs, and Maggie is addicted”. After kicking the woman and rushing to the living room, she finds Maggie is happily building her own blocks, which spells “I’m OK”. Later, a more independent Maggie climbs on a table leg in the kitchen, picks up a book and banana and seats herself in her high-chair, much to Marge’s sad disappointment that she’s no longer needed.

After towing the Rich Texan’s limo, Homer becomes so successful he goes as far as to tow down Arnie Pie’s helicopter. After a brief celebration at Moe’s, he then tows Lenny’s car, Principal Skinner’s car, as well as the Sunday School bus, causing Ned to sardonically call Homer, “Towmer”. The residents of Springfield begin getting frustrated with Homer’s continuing tow-antics, so they plan revenge upon him. They put a car in Guidopolis (and cover the city limits sign with one saying “You’re still in Springfield”) beside a fire hydrant. They then spray on a handicap parking only logo near the car’s parking spot and stuff multiple tickets under the windshield wipers, with the intention of luring Homer to Guidopolis.

At home, Maggie makes a baby book including her toenails and hair. After seeing her more independent, Marge begins to miss her, so she bonds with a sack of potatoes. At Guidopolis, Homer becomes abducted by Louie who keeps him in his basement with other tow truck drivers who trespassed his area, where he bonds with them.

Homer’s absence causes parking pandemonium. Lenny and Carl park their GMC in the handicap area, Agnes Skinner parks sideways, Rainier Wolfcastle parks his Hummer on top of her, Duffman lowered his blimp down, the Sea Captain brings his ship on the sidewalk, and a train engineer crashes through it all. Marge worries about Homer, who had not returned home for four days. Maggie, worried for her father and mother’s happiness uses her newfound independent abilities to save Homer by riding on Santa’s Little Helper through the night to Guidopolis. A humble Maggie rescues all tow truck drivers from the cellar, and returns home with Homer. After giving the sack of potatoes a punch, Maggie gives Marge her pacifier and hugs Marge, reuniting with her.

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The Simpsons S19E02 – The Homer of Seville – Personal Review

Personal Review :

I would rather to say that the episode’s title should be “The Art of Homer” . This episode gives you the Theatrical Side of Homer Jay Simpson. This episode was guest starred by Plácido Domingo as himself and
Maya Rudolph as Julia. Maybe only the little part of this episode that has something to be laughed at. I’m only enjoyed the part that Homer’s Entourage, Lenny Leonard and Carl Carlson, get into a limousine and suddenly the limousine started to went up and down ( you figure it out by yourself guys … I can’t write it as long as there is a policy that contains those ‘words’ ). This part is a parody of the HBO series Entourage. The music played when Lenny (who dresses like Turtle) and Carl are in the limousine is the show’s theme song, Superhero, by Jane’s Addiction.

Rating by me : 5.5 / 10

Plot ( Wikipedia.com )

The episode starts with the Simpsons family escaping Church. Marge decides she wants to eat out instead of cooking for herself as usual. After finding out every place has lines, Marge goes as far as to break into someone’s apparent party. It does not take long for them to realize that they crashed a funeral. Homer volunteers to be a pallbearer, filling in for a man who has twisted his ankle. After falling into an open grave, Homer is sent to the hospital.

While at the hospital, Homer finds out his “D’oh” did not sound like it normally does. While causing the bed to sit upright, and lay flat, Dr. Hibbert notices Homer’s diaphragm is safely under his stomach when he is lying down, giving him the ability to sing in an operatic voice that causes new born babies to cease crying and weak patients to feel stronger.

While shopping for organs, Mr. Burns overhears Homer and immediately hires him to sing the lead in his production of La bohème. Homer wows the crowd at the Springfield Opera House. Homer becomes an enormous celebrity who consistently receives attention from older aged women. While running from a mob of his crazed fans, Homer is saved by a person on a motorcycle he assumes is a man, however at the home “he” is revealed to be a “she”, named Julia. When Marge goes into the kitchen to make pie, Julia stands up and suddenly strips her clothes off for Homer, and threatens Homer that she will tell Marge Homer attacked her if he tells. Over the next few days, she keeps appearing in sexually suggestive positions. Homer, soon enraged, fires her.

Next morning, Homer is nearly bitten by a poisonous cobra, and Lisa worries someone is trying to kill Homer, but luckily, Homer beat the cobra silly. At Homer’s next performance, Chief Wiggum goes to general measures, none of which are useful. Julia arrives to shoot Homer with a poisonous blowdart. While Marge saves Homer, the shot fires through a French Horn and back into Julia’s neck. Every sniper in the opera house starts shooting at Julia, although all but one miss. She survived when the bullet opened a hole for the poison to come out and the falling chandelier squeezed the poison out. She was taken to the hospital, vowing revenge on Marge – possibly hinting a future plot, similar to the Sideshow Bob series of incidents. Homer gives up opera to work on his new passion: painting.

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The Simpsons S19E01 – He Loves to Fly and He D’ohs – Personal Review

Personal Review :

This episode marks the 401st episode of The Simpsons, after nearly 20 years in television. This episode is the first in the 19th season of The Simpsons. This is the episode that makes me being ‘addicted’ to this TV Episode. I really enjoyed the Opening’s Sequence, Chalkboard Gag, and also the Couch Gag. This episode marks the first appearance for Lionel Richie and also American ( 2nd ) Funniest Man, Stephen Colbert. There are not much jokes, but I enjoyed when Lionel Richie sang “Say you, Say me” and he changed all the words that contains “Say” with “Beer” according to request from Homer, it looks that The Simpsons finally got their jokes back.

Rating by me : 7.0 / 10

Plot ( Wikipedia.com )

While on a shopping trip to the Springfield Mall, Mr. Burns finds a penny in a water fountain and reaches in to grab it; while doing so he falls in. The rushing water nearly drowns him, but Homer arrives and pulls him out of the water, saving Mr. Burns’s life. To reward him, Mr. Burns offers to take Homer out to dinner. Homer says he likes Chicago deep dish pizza, so Mr. Burns takes him to Chicago on his private plane. On the plane, Homer is treated with luxury and gets serenaded by Lionel Richie.

After returning from Chicago, Homer tells Marge that he is tired of being a normal person and becomes depressed. Marge decides to help Homer and hires him a life coach named Colby Kraus, who will help with Homer’s dream. Colby starts right away in his treatment with Homer by videotaping his every move. At the bowling alley and after watching Homer’s daily habits for a few days, Colby realizes that bowling is the one thing Homer is good at and enjoys doing. He instructs Homer to wear his bowling shoes everywhere he goes to help instill confidence in everything he does. The bowling shoes work, Homer becomes a new man, and as a result he receives numerous new job offers. Homer decides to only go for an interview at Handyman’s Choice Copper Tubing due to the fact that he would be required to fly in the company jet as part of his new job.

However, the Rich Texan does not hire him, but Homer decides not to tell his family and pretends to go to work every day, although he is actually just going to the local Krusty Burger. The next day, Bart’s class stops at the Krusty Burger after a field trip and Bart is shocked to discover Homer sitting at a booth alone. Homer comes clean and explains to Bart that his job interview didn’t go so well when his interviewer, the Rich Texan, discovered that Homer knows nothing about copper tubing. Bart convinces Homer that he should tell Marge what has happened and Homer calls her from a pay phone. But when Homer hears Marge’s happy voice he can’t bring himself disappoint her and tell her the truth about his “new” job. Instead he concocts a story about him having to fly on the “company” jet for work and instructs Marge to meet him at the airport in an hour. Homer pays a Marine to fly him into the air, so he can tell Marge up in the air with luxury so she would not get upset. Once in the air, Marge can’t believe all the luxuries the private jet has to offer. Homer sits Marge down to tell her the truth, but just before he can, the plane endures turbulence. Homer and Marge head into the cockpit to see what the problem is, only to discover that the pilot had passed out. Homer shoves the pilot aside and takes hold of the jet’s controls. Marge pulls out her cell phone and calls Colby Kraus and frantically asks for his guidance. Thanks to Colby’s motivation, Homer manages to land the plane safely on the ground. When they land, Homer explains to Marge that flying in private jets is simply too dangerous and that he plans to go back to work at the Power Plant.

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