Season 27

Season 27 was hinted by Al Jean via Twitter, where he stated that the show would definitely not finish in May 2015 ^[2]. The season premiered on September 27, 2015 with "Every Man's Dream" and ended on May 22, 2016 with "Orange is the New Yellow"".

The Metacritic website reported on August 6, 2014, that the series was "already renewed through 2015-16 season".^[3]

In production, this season is the last to be produced by Film Roman. In the next season, Fox Television Animation took over producing the show.

Episodes

Image	#	Title	Prod. Code	Airdate	Title Reference
	575	Every Man's Dream	TABF14	September 27, 2015	One Man's Dream
	576	Cue Detective	TABF17	October 4, 2015	True Detective
	577	Puffless	TABF19	October 11, 2015	Duffless
	578	Halloween of Horror	TABF22	October 18, 2015	Treehouse of Horror
	579	Treehouse of Horror XXVI	TABF18	October 25, 2015	N/A
	580	Friend with Benefit	TABF21	November 8, 2015	Friends With Benefits
	581	Lisa with an "S"	TABF20	November 22, 2015	Liza with a Z
	582	Paths of Glory	VABF01	December 6, 2015	Paths of Glory
	583	Barthood	VABF02	December 13, 2015	Boyhood
	584	The Girl Code	VABF03	January 3, 2016	Girl Code
	585	Teenage Mutant Milk-caused Hurdles	VABF04	January 10, 2016	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
	586	Much Apu About Something	VABF05	January 17, 2016	Much Apu About Nothing
	587	Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4	VABF07	February 14, 2016	Love Is in the Air
	588	Gal of Constant Sorrow	VABF06	February 21, 2016	Man of Constant Sorrow
	589	Lisa the Veterinarian	VABF08	March 6, 2016	Lisa the Vegetarian
	590	The Marge-ian Chronicles	VABF09	March 13, 2016	The Martian Chronicles
	591	The Burns Cage	VABF10	April 3, 2016	The Birdcage
	592	How Lisa Got Her Marge Back	VABF11	April 10, 2016	How Stella Got Her Groove Back
	593	Fland Canyon	VABF12	April 24, 2016	Grand Canyon
	594	To Courier with Love	VABF14	May 8, 2016	To Sir, with Love
	595	Simprovised	VABF13	May 15, 2016	Improvised
	596	Orange is the New Yellow	VABF15	May 22, 2016	Orange is the New Black

Confirmed guest stars

• Kelsey Grammer reprises his role as Sideshow Bob.^[4]
• Kristen Bell as Harper in "Friend with Benefit".^[5]

Trivia Notice

• Nibbles, the class hamster passed away in this season right after Krusty the Clown's father, Hyman Krustofsky passed away in the season 26 episode: Clown in the Dumps.
• Kevin Michael Richardson did not appear in any of the season's episodes but its final episode.

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