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The Simpsons hit low figures again, with 6.48 million tuning in to watch Sunday night’s ‘Stop Or My Dog Will Shoot’. It is the third-lowest rated premiere episode on record, just ahead of Marge Gamer last month (6.40 million) and The Way We Weren’t in Season 15 (6.2 million). A repeat at 8.30 scored 6.7 million viewers, while Family Guy at 9 had 7.21 million.

The episode has raised a number of questions, as it was postponed from its original airdate of three weeks ago (we assumed) due to events at Virginia Tech. While the episode did not include any directly offensive content on this matter, Rudy Giuliani was notably absent despite his appearance on the promotional material. Seems like the episode was delayed to remove his scenes.

And next week is the Season Finale, but the big question is, which episode will air at 8.30pm and become the 400th episode. Fox can’t make up their mind, despite hyping up 24 Minutes as the finale, they’ve switched the titles at the last minute but not the synopsis on their scheduling details. So.. wait and see I guess!