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Fox have released a new promotional image from this Sunday’s premiere of “Million Dollar Maybe”, which gives us our first look at Ricardo Bomba, the original character created by Peggy Black of Orange, CT, winner of last year’s Simpsons Character Contest.

The following promotional image has been made available for Sunday February 21st’s “The Color Yellow”. When Lisa discovers that her Southern ancestors helped a slave named Virgil (guest voice Wren T. Brown) escape to freedom, she presents her family’s story during Black History Month.

Fox have released an early promo image for February 14th’s upcoming Winter Olympics episode. Homer takes Marge out for a romantic evening of ice skating and hand-holding, but upon entering the rink, they encounter a curling team practicing. Marge and Homer take to the ice and discover their love for the sport, and soon after, join the curling team and compete with them in the Olympic trials.

A promotional image has been released for “Million Dollar Maybe”, which airs Sunday January 31st on Fox. The episode features the appearance of Chris Martin from band Coldplay, and will also see Peggy Black’s (winner of last year’s Simpsons Character Contest) character creation Ricardo Bomba appear.

Today’s the day when Season 20 is released on DVD and Blu-Ray, bypassing the natural order of the release of seasons 13 – 19. Normally in these updates we detail all the special features contained in said shiny new release. Not this time. Not because I’m a jerk. But because Fox decided not to include any this time. So what am I to fill the rest of the post with? How about: Ten Reasons To NOT Buy This Set. Read on…

The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special – In 3D on Ice, presented by Morgan Spurlock, was an hour long retrospective showcasing 20 years and 450 episodes of the show. Viewers old and new were treated to a rare brief history of the show, through the words of its producers, writers, stars, and guest stars. 13.46 million viewers tuned in to the first half hour of the special, and 11.171 million stayed watching for the second half.

Preliminary figures are in for Sunday’s 450th episode ‘Once Upon a Time in Springfield’. The show was bumped to an after-8pm timeslot due to an overrun of Fox’s NFL coverage, but the 8pm half hour averaged a whopping 21.01 million viewers. These figures will be adjusted later in the week, but we can already tell you before the adjustments that this will be the most-watched episode of Seasons 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 (season 16′s post-Superbowl episode had 23.1 million viewers).