Season 23

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Season 23

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Season 23
Original Run	September 25, 2011 – May 20, 2012
No. of episodes	22
Previous season	22
Next season	24

Season 23 was announced on November 11, 2010. It premiered on September 25, 2011 with "The Falcon and the D'ohman" and ended on May 20, 2012 with "Lisa Goes Gaga".

Episodes

Image	#	Title	Prod. Code	Airdate	Title Reference
	487	The Falcon and the D'ohman	NABF16	September 25, 2011	The Falcon and the Snowman
	488	Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts	NABF17	October 2, 2011	Stop to Smell the Roses
	489	Treehouse of Horror XXII	NABF19	October 30, 2011	N/A
	490	Replaceable You	NABF21	November 6, 2011	Embraceable You
	491	The Food Wife	NABF20	November 13, 2011	The Good Wife
	492	The Book Job	NABF22	November 20, 2011	The Bank Job
	493	The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants	PABF01	November 27, 2011	The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
	494	The Ten-Per-Cent Solution	PABF02	December 4, 2011	The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
	495	Holidays of Future Passed	NABF18	December 11, 2011	Days of Future Passed
	496	Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson	PABF03	January 8, 2012	Politically Incorrect, with Bill Maher
	497	The D'oh-cial Network	PABF04	January 15, 2012	The Social Network
	498	Moe Goes from Rags to Riches	PABF05	January 29, 2012	Going from Rags to Riches
	499	The Daughter Also Rises	PABF06	February 12, 2012	The Sun Also Rises
	500	At Long Last Leave	PABF07	February 19, 2012	At Long Last Love
	501	Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart	PABF09	March 4, 2012	Exit Through the Gift Shop
	502	How I Wet Your Mother	PABF08	March 11, 2012	How I Met Your Mother
	503	Them, Robot	PABF10	March 18, 2012	I, Robot
	504	Beware My Cheating Bart	PABF11	April 15, 2012	Beware My Foolish Heart
	505	A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again	PABF12	April 29, 2012	A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
	506	The Spy Who Learned Me	PABF13	May 6, 2012	The Spy Who Loved Me
	507	Ned 'N Edna's Blend Agenda	PABF15	May 13, 2012	N/A
	508	Lisa Goes Gaga	PABF14	May 20, 2012	Going Gaga

International broadcast from this season

Country / Region	Channel	Premiere
Latin America countries	FOX	February 26, 2012
Hungary	Viasat 6	October 21, 2012
Australia	ELEVEN	October 26, 2011
Italy	Italia 1	March 4, 2013
Mauritius	MBC 1	March 12, 2014

Regarding the show itself

• When a fan asked why there were no musical numbers in The Simpsons Movie, Jean said that they wound up on the cutting room floor, including a big song about Alaska, with music by The Eurythmics' Dave Stewart. "They got pretty far along in the animation, and then we got scared that the movie began to drag in that section," explained Jean, noting that the song will be included on the next DVD release of the movie.
• In answering a fan's question, Groening said that it was always his intention to not have the characters on the show age, thanks to the wonders of animation. But, as he quipped, "we may do it when we run out of ideas. That may be the last sad season of The Simpsons. Bart will turn 11."
• Two more "Banksy-eseque" gags occurred during the season.
• The 500th episode, titled "At Long Last Leave", aired February 19, 2012.
• The guest voices this season included Kiefer Sutherland, Jane Lynch, Michael Cera, Andy Garcia, Armie Hammer, Joan Rivers, Jeremy Irons, and Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim.
• Anthony Bourdain had a cameo in "The Food Wife".[1]
• Bryan Cranston guest starred as Stradivarius Cane in "The Spy Who Learned Me", a suave Hollywood superspy.[2]
• Although Lisa explored romantic possibilities with Michael Cera's character, "(...)she may ultimately find true love with a certain four-eyed nerd."[3]
• The show bent its format with an episode that followed the saga of Moe's bar rag over hundreds of years, voiced by Jeremy Irons. ("Moe Goes from Rags to Riches")
• The family finally visited the last continent they had not yet been to, Antarctica. ("A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again").
• In one episode Mr. Burns had an iPad app called Angry Burns.
• One episode involved an Inception parody where one dream level was drawn in The Tracey Ullman Show style and Dan Castellaneta reverted to his old, Walter Matthau-inspired Homer voice for the segment. ("How I Wet Your Mother")
• Homer became a Glenn Beck-esque TV pundit and leader of the "Gravy Boat" movement. His preferred presidential candidate is Ted Nugent, who guest-stars. ("Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson")
• Homer became addicted to Stranded, a show that's based on Lost. The show ended 5 years previously but Homer wouldn't let anyone tell him how it ended.[4]
• Lady Gaga, whose song Just Dance was heard in the Season 21 episode "Moe Letter Blues" returned as a guest star in "Lisa Goes Gaga".
• Since “Holidays of Future Passed” was originally intended to be the series finale, this would’ve been the series’ final season.