The Simpsons has returned to Fox with Season 37 of the animated series, and the showrunner behind it all has teased fans about what’s coming not only in the rest of the season but also the Episode 800 milestone. The Simpsons has been locked into a huge future with Fox. Not only is the franchise currently working on a brand new movie releasing 20 years after the first, but Fox has renewed the animated series for four more seasons. This means that The Simpsons will have two movies and 40 seasons by the time both deals reach their end, and tons of new milestones are still on the way.
The Simpsons Season 37 will also be crossing over the very impressive 800th episode milestone with a new release coming next year, and showrunner Matt Selman spoke to Entertainment Weekly all about what’s potentially coming in the special itself. Teasing that it will be featuring a version of Santa’s Little Helper that has gone through a big change, Selman did play coy about what’s actually happening in the episode itself, “The dog gets fat.”
The Simpsons Showrunner Teases Episode 800 Special
“It’s in February. That I can tease,” Selman teased. “I probably shouldn’t tease anything. I don’t think they want me talking about the 800th yet. I’ll say this: It involves the dog. That’s a big tease. How about this, I’ll give you a little more: The dog gets fat.” This falls in line with previous teases about the special that also further revealed that it’s going to be a two episode special airing on the same evening. But it’s still a mystery as to what the actual episode is going to be about.
Selman also dropped some big teases about the rest of The Simpsons Season 37 too, “Other episodes coming up have a lot more fun with the population of the town. There’s an episode where Superintendent Chalmers becomes like a man-o-sphere skincare guru,” Selman teased. “That’s a big, fresh, funny new world of Instagram advertising and this kind of golden age of snake oil that we now live in. And Chalmers is a character that we really like — he’s an interesting, kinda arrogant dude, but he’s got a soul. What happens when he loses everything? And then how does he build it back? That’s fun.”
The Simpsons Will Explore the Quimby Family History
“And there’s a show also coming up where Bart goes to work for Professor Frink, and that’s an interesting pair of characters — you wouldn’t think those two would be like peas in a pod, but they have a really interesting friendship journey,” Selman continued. “And the show has to be satirical. So that episode will make fun [of] billionaire life-extension body-hacking lunatics. Or, I don’t know, maybe they’re geniuses. Lunatics or geniuses. And it touches on the growth of tech culture and where Professor Frink fits into that, and what it means to be smart or stupid in the modern world.”
But the biggest tease has Selman noting that fans will get to see a much deeper dive into the Quimby family, and that would be a big deal as we’ve only gotten to see glimpses of them in the past, “We also have a big show coming up that is a deep dive into the Quimby family. You have this cartoony mayor, but what if there was a more epic Godfather II-style saga behind the Quimbys that led Quimby to becoming a goofy mayor? And what if there was a tragedy behind all that? Not a Chappaquidick-level tragedy, but a small tragedy.”
We’ll see how it all shakes out soon as The Simpsons Season 37 airs new episodes with Fox on Sunday evenings as 8:00PM PT before streaming with Hulu the next day. What do you think? Leave a comment below and join the conversation now in the ComicBook Forum!
HT – Entertainment Weekly
