Season 7

The seventh season began airing on September 17, 1995 with the first episode, "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)" and ended on May 19, 1996 with "Summer of 4 Ft. 2", which the season premiere is also the concluding part of the only two part episode from the first part which aired as the season finale of the previous season. David Mirkin executive produced four holdover episodes, "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)" and "Radioactive Man", the latter which is the series first episode to be digitally colored (A technique that would not be repeated until Season 12's "Tennis the Menace" and permanently with and after Season 14's "The Great Louse Detective") before Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein would executive produced the remaining 21 episodes and the following season and its holdovers. Season 7 is also the first season to use CGI as the third segment of "Treehouse of Horror VI" had Homer computer animated as well as Bart.

The season was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Animated Program and had won an Annie Award for Best Animated Television Program.

All 25 episodes of Season 7 including extras were released on DVD on December 13, 2005 in Region 1, January 30, 2006 in Region 2 and March 22, 2006 in Region 4. Like the last one, there were two editions, one with the normal box, and this time, a Marge shaped clamshell boxset.

Episodes

Characters introduced
Disco Stu, Brandine Spuckler

Locations introduced

 * Try-N-Save
 * Tidy Piano Movers

DVD Release
Season 7 was released on DVD in its entirety as The Complete Seventh Season Boxset on December 13, 2005 in region 1, January 30, 2006 in Region 2 and March 29, 2006 in Region by 20th Century Fox. While primarily containing the original 22 episodes, the boxset also consists on bonus features such as storyboards.

Awards
In 1996, "Treehouse of Horror VI" was submitted for the Primetime Emmy Award in the "Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming less than One Hour)" category. They had submitted it because it had a 3D animation sequence, which the producers felt gave them an edge. However, the episode lost to Pinky and the Brain that year, and Bill Oakley later regretted submitting the episode because he felt that a more emotional episode like "Mother Simpson", "Lisa the Vegetarian" or "Bart Sells His Soul" would have had a better chance of winning. Alf Clausen, Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein were also nominated for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music and Lyrics" for the song "Señor Burns" from "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)".

The series won several other awards for this season, including an Annie Award for "Best Animated Television Program". "Lisa the Vegetarian" won both an Environmental Media Award for "Best Television Episodic Comedy" and a Genesis Award for "Best Television Comedy Series, Ongoing Commitment".[22] Although "Treehouse of Horror VI" failed to win the Emmy, the "Homer³" segment was awarded the Ottawa International Animation Festival grand prize.[23]

In 1996, The Simpsons became the first animated series to win a Peabody Award, and won it "for providing exceptional animation and stinging social satire, both commodities which are in extremely short supply in television today."