The numbers are in and they are deliciously poor. Last night’s Hitchcock-copy-pasta/zombie-retread/musical-number was only able to bore 8.59 million viewers. That’s an improvement from last week, but it’s well below the high for the season and it’s the first Treehouse of Horror to ever fall below 10 million viewers. I find this encouraging if for no other reason than the Treehouse of Horror episodes are almost always the highest rated of the season. Obviously there’s going to be a lot of twentieth anniversary promotional stuff going on for the rest of the year leading up to Spurlock’s little special on the 14th of January, but they flogged last night’s Zombie Simpsons pretty hard and the audience still didn’t show up.
As predicted Zombie Simpsons did manage to out draw The Cleveland Show thus evening their totally relevant blood feud at 2-2, and that’s where the score is going to stand for a while. According to Futon Critic (via) FOX won’t be subjecting America to another Zombie Simpsons until November 15th. In the meantime they’ve got baseball and, on the 8th of November, Seth MacFarlane night. (No, I’m not kidding.) So we get four weeks away from Zombie Simpsons. Hooray!
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2 responses to “Zombie Simpsons Halloween Scores Historically Low”
A friend of mine (who I’m trying to convert to this website) texted me earlier today, saying he’d just watched the episode after DLing it and it was ‘terrible and he was unable to muster one laugh’. As bad as the show has been for ages now, I’ve always been able to rely on the Halloween episodes for a few chuckles. So going by all I’ve read/heard so far, it doesn’t bode well does it? Good news re the ratings.
You’d think that, not only it being a Halloween episode, but the twentieth one at that, they’d be able to churn out at least a few good laughs. If they were too lazy to make anything new and funny, they should’ve just slapped three segments from older, better Halloween episodes together and put that out instead.