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Season 22 launches on Sunday September 26. Fox has released these generic promotional images to mark the occasion.

Season 22 premieres on September 26 with an episode titled ‘Elementary School Musical’.

Marge sends Lisa to a performing arts camp where artsy counselors (guest voices Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie of “Flight of the Conchords”) and fellow musically inclined campers (guest voices Lea Michele, Cory Monteith and Amber Riley of Glee) inspire her to embrace her creative side. After she returns to Springfield, Lisa becomes restless with her ho-hum suburban lifestyle and catches the first bus to Sprooklyn in hopes of reconnecting with her inner hipster.

A bunch of promotional images for the episode featuring the guest cast can be seen below.

The Simpsons: The Complete Thirteenth Season has been released on DVD and Blu-Ray today in the United States and Canada.

You can pick up the box pictured on the left on DVD at Amazon for $31.99 or on Blu-Ray for $39.99. Those of you who prefer the limited edition head boxes will have to settle for the DVD version as it is not available on Blu-Ray. That version is selling on Amazon for $32.49.

The set features all 22 episodes from the thirteenth season of the show with commentaries on each of the episodes, including guest commentators Stan Lee, Joe Mantegna, Delroy Lindo, Robert Pinsky and others. Deleted scenes are included, as well as numerous featurettes, animation showcases, galleries, and commercials.

For those of you not lucky enough to get a copy today because you don’t live in North America, the set is available in the UK on September 13 and in Australia on September 29th. Post your thoughts on the set below!

At The Simpsons panel at Comic Con 2010 in San Diego yesterday morning, the cast of the show revealed what we can expect to see in the upcoming 22nd season (premiering Sept 26, 2010) and more.

• The cast of Glee will feature in an episode
• Other guest stars include Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg, Cheech and Chong, Wallace and Gromit, Jon Hamm, Daniel Radcliffe, Martha Stewart, Hugh Laurie, and Jonah Hill
• A teaser from Treehouse of Horror XXI was shown, in which board games come to life and wreak havoc on Springfield
• A teaser from this year’s Christmas special showed The Simpsons in puppet form
• 2011′s Christmas special will see The Simpsons 30 years in the future in which Bart, Lisa and Maggie bring their own kids over to Homer and Marge’s for Christmas.
• Al Jean reiterated “There’s no end in sight” for the show
• They won’t rule out the possibility of a spin-off; Matt Selmon says “Come on, Seth MacFarlane does one show three times”.

Thanks to the LA Times.

The limited edition box art for The Complete Thirteenth Season has been revealed, which includes the ‘three-dimensional’ Ralph Wiggum head we’ve suspected since the set was announced.

The limited edition box is only available for the DVD version of the set, so Blu-Ray owners will get less selection this time around. The set will be released on August 24. Further details are available in our original post.

Sunday’s season finale ‘Judge Me Tender’ had a total of 5.74 million viewers. Its competition was strong, up against the series finale of Lost — a recap special at 8.00pm had 10.09 million viewers by comparison. The Cleveland Show followed with 4.9 million viewers for its finale, while Family Guy was the strongest animated contender for the night with 6.13 million at 9.00 and 6.39 million at 9.30 against 13 million viewers for the start of Lost’s final chapter.

The Season 21 finale ‘Judge Me Tender’ airs Sunday night in North America. Fox has released three new promotional images at the last minute which also reveal another guest voice, Rupert Murdoch.

In the episode, when ‘Moe’ discovers a hidden talent for judging contests, he is approached by a television agent to join the ‘American Idol’ judges’ panel. Moe flies to Los Angeles where he tours the Fox lot and receives some sage career advice.