Season 24

The Simpsons was confirmed on October 7, 2011 as being renewed through its 25th season. This occurred as part of the negotiations with the show's main actors over their salaries as a means of keeping the show going. Season 24 will air during the 2012-2013 television season.

Al Jean, executive producer of The Simpsons, has said he views the two additional seasons as a beginning and that it is a goal to complete thirty seasons by the end of the decade.

Episodes

 * Moonshine River
 * Treehouse of Horror XXIII
 * Adventures in Baby-Getting
 * Gone Abie Gone
 * Penny-Wiseguys
 * A Tree Grows in Springfield
 * The Day the Earth Stood Cool
 * To Cur, with Love
 * A Test Before Trying
 * The Changing of the Guardian
 * Homer Goes to Prep School
 * Hardly Kirk-ing
 * Gorgeous Grampa
 * Love is a Many-Splintered Thing
 * What Animated Women Want
 * Black-Eyed, Please
 * Pulpit Friction
 * The Fabulous Faker Boy

Guest Stars

 * Benedict Cumberbatch will appear in an episode entitled "Love is a Many-Splintered Thing," playing a Snake-like character, and a sinister accountant who trys to kill Bashir bin Laden and his mum and dad.
 * Edward Norton will make his second appearance in an episode entitled "Pulpit Friction." In it, he's a rival minister to Reverend Lovejoy. When he becames more popular, Lovejoy becomes a hot tub salesman.
 * Max Weinberg, bandleader on the talk show Conan and member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band will appear in "Love is a Many-Splintered Thing".
 * Justin Bieber will be set to play himself on an episode called "The Fabulous Faker Boy." He will enter a talent show with Bart in it and fail.
 * Danny DeVito will reprise his role as Homer's half-brother Herb Powell for a third time.
 * Tina Fey as Ms. Cantwell, a substitute teacher who picks on Lisa, in the episode Black-Eyed, Please.

Unknown episodes

 * Michael Price wrote an episode where Bart and Homer help to obtain a small steam train in the now closed Itchy & Scratchy Land.