The twenty-fourth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons aired on the Fox network between September 30, 2012 and May 19, 2013.

Guest stars for the season included Zooey Deschanel, race car driver Jeff Gordon, composer Marvin Hamlish, Anika Noni Rose, Jennifer Tilly, Steve Carell, Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein, Patton Oswalt, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tina Fey, former United States Attorney General Janet Reno, Edward Norton, and Jane Krakowski.

[4][5] A Halloween special: -An intro showing a botched Mayan sacrifice in the past causing the end of the world in 2012.

In October 2011, 20th Century Fox Television announced that the current business model of The Simpsons could not continue and that it needed to reach a new financial agreement with the cast.

[29] A deal was reached with the cast after an intervention by executive producers Al Jean and James L. Brooks as well as creator Matt Groening.

[32] Executive producer Matt Selman was also the showrunner for several episodes, a role he performed starting the previous season.

A first-run, season 24 episode of The Simpsons was the Fox Broadcasting Company's fourth-most expensive program to sponsor, up from fifth in 2011.