Bart refuses a dare to interrupt Lisa's saxophone performance at school, which makes Marge proud.

Christian producers to make a movie about his experience with help from Homer and Ned, but he starts to feel guilty.

When he learns that a young Homer is trying to set a record number of bounces, Ned stops him and is electrocuted.

Following a failed prank phone call, Bart, Nelson and Milhouse get Moe a mail-order Russian bride named Anastasia on the dark web.

However, they booked an extremely small motel room, but Homer tells Bart and Lisa to pretend to be happy.

Marge needs to visit a relative out of town, so she makes Homer promise not to watch a new season of a streaming television show.

Meanwhile, Bart enters an essay contest to win a shopping cart full of Krusty toy store merchandise.

After eating in a restaurant, a parking valet accidentally gives Homer a classic car belonging to Comic Book Guy.

Still feeling romantic at home, he carries her up the stairs, but he falls, resulting in a hernia for Homer and an ankle injury for Marge.

Homer's pain medication gives him hallucinations and makes him lazier while Marge's physical therapist helps her recover and later teaches her kite-surfing.

Bart decides to protest with his friends after Krusty announces the debut of an all-female reboot of The Itchy & Scratchy Show.

When the director of the Capitol City Philharmonic visits, Dewey Largo tries to impress him as a conductor, but he selects Lisa for his youth orchestra instead.

She is offered a spot in the next-level class that is more expensive and farther away, but she purposely fails the audition so that her family does not have to endure more hardship.

However, after Marge talks about all of Homer's past schemes, he lies to the children and says rats ate it after Grampa left the can open.

Mr. Burns cuts health care benefits for his employees, so Marge buys healing crystals for Bart for his attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

The season features guest appearances from Dave Attel, Emily Deschanel, Gal Gadot, Jonathan Groff, Pete Holmes, Rhys Darby, Tracy Morgan, RuPaul, Bryan Batt, Lawrence O'Donnell, Patti LuPone, Marc Maron, Guillermo del Toro, Wallace Shawn, Awkwafina, Chelsea Peretti, Nicole Byer, Ken Jeong, John Lithgow, Liev Schreiber, Illeana Douglas and Jenny Slate.

The episode "Heartbreak Hotel" saw George Segal reprising the role of Nick from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

that he had originally played 52 years earlier, musician Josh Groban provides the singing voice for longtime character Professor Frink, musician Dave Matthews gives voice to Lloyd the bartender from The Shining and the five main cast members of Bob's Burgers also reprised their roles for a crossover couch gag in the episode "My Way or the Highway to Heaven".

Several prior guest stars returned this season, including longtime recurring guest star Jon Lovitz in various roles, two stints from actor J. K. Simmons to make his 4th and 5th appearances in the series, Scott Thompson returning for his fourth time as Grady, comedian Jackie Mason reprising his role as Rabbi Krustofsky once more, and Terry Gross and Ken Burns appearing as themselves.

Natasha Lyonne, Will Forte and Werner Herzog all returned to roles they had previously performed once before playing Sophie Krustofsky, King Toot and Walter Hotenhoffer respectively.

[29] Executive producer Matt Selman was also the showrunner for several episodes, a role he performed since the twenty-third season.

When the acquisition was first announced, it was noted that the show had predicted the event in the tenth season episode "When You Dish Upon a Star".

[38] Jean acknowledged the event by posting a drawing on social media of Homer strangling Mickey Mouse while Bart smiles.

[39] The following month, Disney posted a video on social media of the Simpson family reluctantly putting on mouse ears.

[41] In September 2018, Fox released a 30th anniversary logo for the series featuring a silhouette of Marge and Maggie.

[42] The series celebrated its thirtieth anniversary with a 15-hour marathon on the channel FXX starting December 9, 2018 featuring 30 handpicked episodes by showrunner Al Jean.

[43] Additionally, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", the show's first episode, re-aired on Fox on December 23, 2018.

In the latter several Canadian children chime "stupid newfies" before a character closely resembling Ralph Wiggum calls himself one and proceeds to beat a baby seal pup plush toy with a club while singing about being a Newfoundlander.

[71] Musician Bruce Moss rejected an offer from the show's producers to use his song "The Islander" for the episode, referring to them as "morally bankrupt" and turning down $20,000 US.

[72] On July 16, 2019, it was announced that the show had received two nominations for the 71st Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, with the episode "Mad About the Toy" being nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program and cast member Hank Azaria getting a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance for the episode "From Russia Without Love" playing the characters Moe Szyslak, Carl Carlson, Duffman and Kirk Van Houten.