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A total of 5.11 million viewers watched Sunday night’s new episode ‘Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson’ – unfortunately this makes it the least-watched episode of the season and equal second lowest rating episode of all time, on par with Season 21′s ‘Million Dollar Maybe’. This comes during the tail end of the holiday period when there are less people watching TV.

1. “The Great Simpsina” (season 22) – 4.99 million
2. “Politically Inept, With Homer Simpson” (season 23) – 5.11 million
3. “Million Dollar Maybe” (season 21) – 5.11 million
4. “Four Great Women and a Manicure” (season 20) – 5.16 million
5. “Postcards from the Wedge” (season 21) – 5.23 million

The rest of Fox’s night had Cleveland Show on 4.37 million viewers, Family Guy on 6.03 million, and American Dad with 4.59 million viewers. Fox was fourth overall for the night and third among viewers 18 – 49.

This coming Sunday, another new episode titled ‘The D’oh-cial Network’ will air. You can rate Sunday night’s episode below:

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We hope you’re all as well rested as we are after a whirlwind holiday period. All the best for the upcoming year!

The Simpsons continues with an all new episode this Sunday January 8, titled ‘Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson.’ Homer lands his own political talk show after a video featuring his impassioned rant on poor treatment at the airport goes viral. As his talk show quickly gains popularity nationwide, Homer becomes the spokesperson for the Gravy Movement and the voice of America’s newest political party. But when ill-informed Homer is asked to select the next Republican nominee for President and officially endorses right-wing rock star Ted Nugent (guest voicing as himself), Marge and Lisa worry that Homer’s opinion and influence might be more powerful than he realizes.

The Simpsons has topped the 2012 Writers Guild of America Broadcasting Awards with a total of 4 nominations, all in the same category.

The category is as follows:

ANIMATION

“Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts” (The Simpsons), Written by Tim Long; Fox

“The Blue and the Gray” (The Simpsons), Written by Rob LaZebnik; Fox

“The Silence of the Clamps” (Futurama), Written by Eric Rogers; Comedy Central

The 64th annual WGA Awards will be given out in a ceremony in Los Angeles on February 19th, 2012.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il had a lot of parodies made about him before his death last week.  On the Simpsons season 23 premiere episode “The Falcon and the D’oh Man” the show poked fun at the dictator in a musical titled “Being Short is No Hinderance to Greatness”.

A total of 6.45 million viewers tuned in to watch last night’s Christmas-themed + future episode ‘Holidays of Future Passed’. While down on last week’s impressive figures, they are still far off the lowest we’ve seen this season.

The Cleveland Show (4.98 million) took the place of Allen Gregory this week, though you wouldn’t know it based purely on the results. It might take viewers a few weeks to notice this scheduling change. A new Family Guy followed with 6.05 million viewers, while American Dad ended the night on 4.99 million viewers.

The big winner for the night was NBC’s Sunday Night Football (peaking at 24.02 million), while The Amazing Race finale on CBS had 13.68 million viewers. ABC’s ‘Once Upon A Time’ had 8.91 mllion at 8.00pm.

Fox finished fourth overall for the night but placed third among adults 18 – 49.

That was the last new episode of The Simpsons for the year, but if you missed the episode (which has received high acclaim on fan forums), it will rerun Friday night at 9.30pm and again on Christmas Day if you’re into watching TV on that night. The next new episode is “Politically Inept, With Homer Simpson” which will air January 8. Last night’s episode can be rated below with a choice of five humorous Christmas carol selections (re-used from last year, no less… sshhhhut uuuuuup):

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The Simpsons complete 14th season is out!

Fans in the UK & Australia have already had the opportunity to get theirs, but on Tuesday the complete 14th season was released in the USA.

For those who missed a previous post on the DVD release, special features for Season 14 DVD/Blu Ray include:

• Deleted Scenes
• It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll Featurette
• The 300th Episode Featurette
• In the Beginning
• Halloween Classics
• Foolish Earthlings
• Animation Showcase
• Original Sketches
• Bonus Treehouse of Horror Episodes (Only available on Blu Ray)
• Audio Commentary on All Episodes

The 4-disc set on DVD has a suggested retail price of $49.98.  The Blu-Ray version, which contains 3-discs, retails for $10 more.  A limited edition box with a molded head of Kang (or is that Kodos) is available in stores and from online retailers as well.

Holidays of Future Passed airs this Sunday in North America.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and the Simpsons flash-forward thirty years to find themselves in a tech-savvy, futuristic Springfield. Bart and Lisa have children of their own and decide to spend the holidays as one big family at Homer and Marge’s house. Lisa and Bart turn to Homer and Marge for parenting advice and begin to realize that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

The episode is set in Christmas 30 years in the future, where Homer and Marge are empty nesters and Bart, Lisa and Maggie bring their own kids over to see Homer and Marge for Christmas. Bart is now a lousy, deadbeat dad who actually lives in the school, which is now condos, and Skinner is his landlord. Bart has had two kids and is divorced and Lisa is married to Milhouse. Adult Bart and Lisa get drunk in the Treehouse, talking about their family.