A total of 5.86 million viewers watched the Season 20 finale ‘Coming To Homerica,’ the last new episode of The Simpsons until September. This makes the episode the least watched season finale in the history of the show and the third lowest rating episode of all time. King Of The Hill had 5.16 million at 8.30, while at 9.00, Family Guy had 7.33 million viewers and American Dad a solid 5.65 million. Fox was third overall for the night and among viewers 18 – 49.
The Simpsons returns with all new episodes for Season 21 in September 2009.
We’ll be running a series of polls over the coming weeks in order to rate the best and worst Season 20 episodes. You may cast your votes for the top 3 episodes of the season below. From this we’ll narrow the poll down to the top 5. Then we’ll do the same with the worst episodes.
Season 20 Tournament: What were your your top 3 episode of the season?
- Treehouse of Horror XIX (26%, 111 Votes)
- Gone Maggie Gone (26%, 111 Votes)
- Coming to Homerica (26%, 108 Votes)
- Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh (22%, 92 Votes)
- Eeny Teeny Maya Moe (21%, 87 Votes)
- Mypods and Boomsticks (19%, 78 Votes)
- How the Test Was Won (15%, 63 Votes)
- Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes (14%, 60 Votes)
- Father Knows Worst (13%, 56 Votes)
- The Good, the Sad and the Drugly (13%, 55 Votes)
- No Loan Again, Naturally (12%, 49 Votes)
- Wedding for Disaster (10%, 40 Votes)
- Take My Life, Please (9%, 37 Votes)
- Four Great Women and a Manicure (8%, 33 Votes)
- In the Name of the Grandfather (7%, 31 Votes)
- Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words (7%, 31 Votes)
- The Burns and the Bees (7%, 31 Votes)
- Lost Verizon (7%, 30 Votes)
- Double, Double, Boy in Trouble (6%, 27 Votes)
- Dangerous Curves (4%, 15 Votes)
- Lisa the Drama Queen (-172%, 15 Votes)
Total Voters: 420
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May 18th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
I really thought it would get better ratings than that. I really enjoyed this episode. I felt like it had quite a few elements of the show’s golden years in it as well.
May 18th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
I felt like it decent, but if I was watching it as a new fan or someone that wasn’t already a die-hard fan, I would think it was pretty lame. When they have an episode that’s supposed to be critiquing political situations (the border wall), it’d be better if it was more recent (the border wall started a few years ago already). Also, it was not very edgy at all.
May 18th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
It was a good episode, The rating is very bad but the good is that is the 2 most watched on FOX.
May 18th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
i thoght it was great. suprised at the ratings. i laughed my ass off.
May 18th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
i must admit, i missed it for the survivor season finale
May 18th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
I really enjoyed this episode. I actually think that this last season has been the best in the last four or five years. There have been a lot of great episodes this year and really no episodes that I absolutely can’t watch (like That 90’s Show!). Hopefully they keep it up next year!
I have a question: For some reason, the show hasn’t been letterboxed for the last 2 weeks and I’ve noticed parts where there are clearly things being cut off the side of the screen. Is this just my local Fox station that is doing this or has this been a national thing?
May 18th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
An enjoyable episode with some classic elements. It felt a little like the Simpsons Movie with the Springfield-wide storyline, but there were a fair few ordinary gags. I did love the Chief Wiggum moments though!
May 19th, 2009 at 2:52 am
This was undoubtedly the best episode in this season, and it really deserved to be the last one in the season.
Generally, this season was, by my opinion, much better then the last season (plots, gags, guests and everything else), but number of viewers is very bad…
I hope that next season gonna bring us even better episodes, and that number of viewers will be much, much bigger, as it used to be in a old days.
May 19th, 2009 at 10:24 am
I agree Nicolas. I have enjoyed this season a lot. I had been put off new episodes from the Simpsons for a while, but now I can be excited about them again, despite a few bad eggs in there.
From an artistic point of view, I have really enjoyed watching the HD episodes and the Simpsons-Movie-style artwork in the shows.
May 19th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Do you think Fox will cancel The Simpsons? The end is near my friends.
May 19th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
@Abuchawo – Not a chance. Merch is bringing in $$$ so can’t see it happening
May 19th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
also, to abuchawo, they got renewed for 2 more seasons, so they’re safe till then.
May 19th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
Homerica episode is kinnda strange ,but as a Norwegian i was glad to see they had a lot of facts right this time. Exept every word was used as if it was swedish. It id as different as canadien and texan.
But the list Marge got at the hospital was hilarious. “shot in the head”
And the biggest sport in Norway is NOT wintersports like ski jump, but soccer and handball.
fun facts
May 20th, 2009 at 3:03 am
@Norwegian boy- Don’t be so disappointed with the way Your country has been presented in the show, because most of the facts probably were collected from internet pages about Norway, and You can’t always rely on that kind of information…
However, countries in Europe are so, so far from US, and all of them seem so little comparing with giant States, so mistakes can be forgiven…
May 20th, 2009 at 6:49 am
No reason to be disappointed with how Norway was portraited, found it hillarious! They did a pretty good job collecting facts and making referances, many of ‘em I think went over the head of the non-Norwegian viewers, so kudos to the writers for a well performed job.
Anyone up for a cag of Aquavit?
May 20th, 2009 at 10:25 am
I’m from Australia, so I’ve seen my country represented poorly by the Simpsons too! Pretty funny though.
Aussies always secretly laugh at how little Americans really know about us, so we can’t complain really.
May 20th, 2009 at 11:25 am
@bobby – not neccisarily. Could technically get out of the contract but I would assume that would end up in a legal battle which i’m sure neither lot want.
May 21st, 2009 at 12:05 am
@gaulty-potentially but i doubt they would. why would they want to cut their own show short 2 years?
May 21st, 2009 at 2:53 am
I don’t think that anyone who is involved in producing The Simpsons Show wants to get out of contract, and stop making show. Who would voluntarily give away chance to earn some extra money on making another two seasons? At the other hand, if FOX wants to cut out the Simpsons, they’ll do it with out problems, but luckily that moment hasn’t come, yet…
May 23rd, 2009 at 2:45 am
> missed it for the survivor season finale
Over here, it was preempted by the 3-hour survivor finale, and I was just lucky to catch 1/2 of it on a different day, when I was flipping around looking for something to watch. Of course the ratings will be lower, if it isn’t where and when we expect it to be. What next… move it to Wednesdays at 3:00am and cancel it because there’s only 5 people watching (the rest are asleep) ???
May 24th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
I’m maybe little late with this, but I’ve actually seen season finale today. It’s really great episode, with great animation and very nice story line. Plot is great, and classic Simpsons gags are really on top.
I don’t actually see why are people making such a big deal about the quality of the Simspons today? Show is better then ever, but ratings hit the bottom…
I think that our expectations about the show are very high, and actually people don’t know what they want from show! They expect something innovative, something great, but don’t really know what that might be…
I’m really generally satisfied with the 20th season, and I just hope that quality of the next seasons will remain on this level.
May 24th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
USA! USA! USA! AMERICA + HOMERICA ROCKS HOMIES! Seriously, i fear the show will be canceled like King of the Hill
after the contract expires