Talk:List of The Simpsons episodes (season 21–present)

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The new screenshots

I think the new screenshots have to be uploaded again... Ief, why do you upload them in such small resolution ?? (122x92) Is this the only source you have? --enyo 09:36, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Is this the right place?

I just added a lot of infos for the simpsons episode list, and discovered tviv.org. So I was just wondering if wikipedia was the right place for such detailed information???

This does not just concern the simpsons of course,... but shouldn't there just be a link to tviv.org? Is this detailled information necessary in an encyclopedia? Or is it just that tviv.org is redundant?

I also wondered... In my opinion the redirection should be from List_of_The_Simpsons_episodes to The_Simpsons/Episode_List not the opposite. If nobody appeals I will change it.

enyo 17:18, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Don't redirect! The commonly accepted style is to not use slash separaters to organize articles in a hierarchy. --Optichan 19:10, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Why is this? In my opinion it makes much more sense with slash hierarchies...

enyo 10:29, 30 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

First comment

It's great that this list exists. Do you know what the dates for the seasons are? -- Merphant

Indeed I do and production numbers. - fonzy

What does "Series 1", "Series 2", "Series 3" mean? There has only been one series, except for the shorts on the "Tracey Ullman Show". -- Zoe

What the Brits call a "series", the Americans, I think, call a "season". Is it that that's causing the confusion here? I didn't know there was any ambiguity about the word "series" in this context, I must admit. I suppose "season" might be better if there is, as that should make sense to most UK readers, who would know the word as an American usage (other countries, I don't know about). --Camembert

Thanks for the explanation. Yes, season would probably be best for us limited Americans. :) To us, a series is a completely separate program(me). -- Zoe

I did wonder what I should use when i was creating this. Being A "Brit" i used teh word series. - fonzy

I wonder if someone could add episode codes to the list, instead of just dates. The codes are sometimes more useful. Thanks! David 21:10 Dec 23, 2002 (UTC)

Do TV guides publish the episode code in the reruns schedules? If yes, then it is very useful info. Kowloonese 19:45, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)

What about brief episode summaries? I'd find that more useful. Bagpuss

I would like to see the celebrity cameo listed along side the episode. Kowloonese 19:45, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Next to the Trade center episode there is the comment that this has been removed from syndication in the US since 9/11. I had thought this would be the case as well and was shocked when I saw this episode on wxmi in 2003. Does any one have a reference for the removal from syndication? If not I think I will remove the comment Steven jones 02:01, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)

new tables

The new table is good; but it would be better to put each season on a separate page (with a page for the shorts). Andy Mabbett 16:18, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)

That's a good idea but I think we should start by making a table for each season and then we can divide the page into 16 different pages for the 16 seasons plus another page for the shorts. I'll start working on Season 2 soon. Paul99 16:35, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)

wouldn't it be better to use these tables?

Pic	Title	Airdate	Production Code	TV Ratings (viewers)	#
File:GABF09.jpg	The Father, The Son, and The Holy Guest Star	May 15	GABF09	9.4 million	356
File:GABF09.jpg	Bart and Homer are tempted to convert to Catholicism. Liam Neeson guest stars

enyo 17:11, 30 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Prettytable shouldn't be used anymore - use class="wikitable" instead. -Fred Bradstadt 07:50, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well, then wikitable... I ment the structure of the table in fact (having 2 rows for each episode...). With the thumbnails now added, this would make more sense. --enyo 09:05, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I changed just a bit in the proposed table above (removed bgcolor="#CCCCCC"). Besides that, I like the suggestion of having two rows for each episode, next to the thumbnail. -Fred Bradstadt 09:45, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

On the other hand, the episode number is in the leftmost table cell in all tables - shouldn't we keep it there, and then have the screenshot at the rightmost table cell, filling 2 rows:

#	Title	Airdate	Production Code	TV Ratings (viewers)	Pic
356	The Father, The Son, and The Holy Guest Star	May 15	GABF09	9.4 million	File:GABF09.jpg
Bart and Homer are tempted to convert to Catholicism. Liam Neeson guest stars					File:GABF09.jpg

Anyway, I'd like to keep the design consistent with the tables without thumbnails, so that the title, airdate, production code etc. is in the same order throughout the page.

-Fred Bradstadt 18:02, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Episode links

Don't people think that instead of, say linking an episode to Bart the Genius it should be linked to The Simpsons/Bart the Genius. This would both avoid any potential future conflicts with article names(if relavent), and link up the episodes with the simpsons. (Perhaps even putting this page in The Simpsons/List of The Simpsons episodes and the episodes in a sub of that... - Xgkkp 18:44, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

That's a good idea. If someone wants to make that change, they can. For now i'll concentrate on finishing the tables for the seasons. Paul99 21:06, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I disagree. It is considered standard on Wikipedia not to use subdirectory pages. The standard solution is to use a name like Bart the Genius (Simpsons) when there is already an article about Bart the Genius. But that problem won't happen very often with Simpsons episodes. Dbenbenn 02:38, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)

And also, future conflicts are just that. Apparantly you're supposed to avoid the paranthesis when possible; we should probably wait to move the articles when a more important article demands the initial space :) --Headcase 23:47, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I'd really like to see all of the The Simpsons episodes for a season collected together in articles such as The Simpsons: Season Six, rather than taking up their own individual articles and using server space with their images. B.S. 03:24, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)

The individual episode articles have absolutely no negative impact on server space and performance. It would be much less efficient to merge them all into one huge collective page, as the entire page and all its images would have to be loaded every time someone looked up a single episode. -Kaizersoze 04:12, Mar 2, 2005 (UTC)

I'd wholly recommend "TITLE (Simpsons episode)". Cburnett 00:23, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)

I really don't understand why subdirectory pages shouldn't be used... in my opinion this would be the most beautiful way to organize all this information!! I mean.... 'Simple_Simpson' should not be a wikipedia entry on itself like this.... thats just wrong! this is just a subarticle of the simpsons.. Well I'm not very used to wiki, could someone please tell me where these discussions take place normally? or where stuff like this gets decided ?

--enyo 09:22, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding season 17

I don't think we need a table for season 17 yet. Hardly anything is known about it, and the season 16 section has barely been started. Kaizersoze 20:54, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)

On a different note, I'm questioning the episodes airing in September. For the past several years, Fox has started airing new episodes with "Treehouse" in Novermber. It's possible they'll break with tradition, but is there a source saying they will?Bjones

Regarding the listing of Halloween episodes

Perhaps it should be pointed out that the Halloween special in which groundskeeper Willie attacks the towns children in their dreams is an abvious spoof of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies... IAmAndrewsSoul 16:14, Dec 18, 2004.

A question regarding numbering of episodes

===>Help Can anyone tell me why the 302nd episode was touted as the 300th, and the 351st as the 350th? Thanks. Justin (koavf) 23:20, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)

I believe it's explained in the article for the "300th episode". Something to do with sweeps or something. Optichan 02:36, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)

Good List

GOod list I modeled it for the List of King of the Hill episodes article. If someone wants to help out that would be great, esp. with episode summaries. --ShaunMacPherson 29 June 2005 12:38 (UTC)

Production Code

Is there any logic behind the prod. code? --130.243.79.252 16:41, 19 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sure there is. They signify the order in which the episodes were produced, but they don't always air in that order. The series started out with the 7GXX production line, and here's an explanation of the rest:

7Gxx - Season one - first 13 episodes (incidentally this is what Sector 7G was named after) (the G probably came from Gracie Films, the production company).
xFxx - Seasons two through nine switched to production codes with F as the second letter for whatever reason.
- 7F - season 2
- 8F - season 3
- 9F - season 4
- 1F - season 5
- -through-
- 5F - season 9
XABFXX - The show switched to these longer numbers, possibly to fit in better with Futurama (xACVxx) and Family Guy (xACXxx) and also because they were running out of numbers to use for the xFxx line.
- AABF - season 10
- -through-
- HABF - season 17
3Gxx - this was a special production line that consisted of four episodes written by a separate staff headed by Al Jean and Mike Reiss, while the regularstaff was working on the xFxx production line. The four episodes aired in a few different seasons.

--Kaizersoze 04:36, August 4, 2005 (UTC)

List of The Simpsons TV ads

If the above topic survives the vfd at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/List of The Simpsons TV ads, I recommend deleting the advertisements section from the article here. Any objections? -- BDAbramson ^talk 19:35, August 14, 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject - List of Television Episodes

We need some volunteers to give input on how a list of television episodes (such as this one) should look. Please follow the link at the top and join the project. Otherwise, I hope there are some fans who are willing to adjust this page to match the preferred format as described on the page. Thanks!--Will2k 14:47, August 24, 2005 (UTC)

I'm glad a list is available, although there are also episode guides I can check. I'm sort of a fan. Although I think the show declined a bit around season 10, but has rebounded a bit recently. Anyway I'm changing this to incomplete lists of Movie, TV, etc. I hope that's okay. It's just that "Incomplete lists" is very crowded right now. I'm not trying to screw up where people find this. If anything it might be easier at the new place--T. Anthony 06:49, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion

List of The Simpsons episodes by theme has been deleted, just letting people know. - Matthew238 02:34, 4 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Can't create an episode's article

I've been creating anonymously for over two years by now. It was certainly a shock to for me to read about this experimental creation limitation (announced here). As a Ricky Gervais fan I was attempting to add some details, available from Ricky's site about the Gervais-written episode "Homer Simpson, This is Your Wife", . 66.167.253.134 20:34, 5 December 2005 (UTC).[reply]

Far too long

This is just too big. I'm not saying that it isn't a good resource, but it's so big it makes it hard to find a particular episode. I think we should make articles for "List of The Simpsons episodes in Series One" or something, and make List of The Simpsons episodes into a disambiguation page.

While I agree the page is rather long, I don't feel splitting it down into separate pages would be very beneficial to those looking for a specific episode without knowledge of which season it was from. - Wezzo 14:07, 16 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Also, looking back up the talk page, it looks as though this has already been planned. Can't say I agree with it, but it looks like such a plan may go ahead. - Wezzo 14:08, 16 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I don't like the idea of spliting this page. It is more convienant the way it is. Every episode I'm looking for right in the page. Splitting it would cause some difficulties in scrolling through episodes. - Ted87

Me neither. I know it takes a long time for the page to load for some, but I really don't know what episode is in what season. Firefox does a good job of rendering the page as it loads, you may want to try that browser.—Fitch 19:08, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

IMO splitting is a bad idea. I've used this list countless times with no trouble whatsoever. When you know the name but not the season of an episode you can Ctrl-F it, which would be a lot harder split up. The ToC links make travelling to distant seasons easy. I really don't see the prob. Ludraman 21:24, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Which Episode was this?

What episode was it where there was a huge lottery jackpot in Sprinfield and Kent Brockman won it?

--I may be wrong but I think it may have been the episode called "Dog of Death" in which Santas Little Helper gets sick.

you are correct. swidly 01:06, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]