Season 25

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 25 will air during the 2013-2014 television season.

As of February 2013, there is no word was to whether this will be the final 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

 * The Man Who Came to Be Dinner
 * Treehouse of Horror XXIV
 * Lisa & the Wonder Girls
 * Four Regrettings and a Funeral
 * White Christmas Blues
 * Labor Pains
 * Homerland
 * Bart's Sister (his baby sister)

Guest stars

 * "The Man Who Came to be Dinner" will be directed by David Silverman and co-written by Al Jean, and will be about Homer going onto a theme park ride, and by mistake traveling to Rigel 7, Kang and Kodos' home planet.
 * Aaron Sorkin will play himself in "Four Regrettings and a Funeral," where he will help Kent Brockman to decide whether or not to work for FOX news. Joe Namath and Gordon Ramsay will also make cameos.
 * Stan Lee will make his second appearance on The Simpsons in this season.
 * Kristen Wiig will make her second appearance on The Simpsons in an episode called "Homerland," playing a character hired by Lisa to investigate Homer after he acts oddly polite after a Nuclear Power Convention.
 * Anderson Cooper will be on an episode of The Simpsons where Lisa befriends a girl who is her match in every way, expect one, she's a conservative Republican. "They run up against each other in the second-grade election," says showrunner Al Jean, "and then we flash to the future where they're [engaged] in an actual presidential debate - and Anderson is the moderator."