The 20th anniversary shine appears to have completely worn off and Zombie Simpsons is slinking into its usual winter doldrums.  Last night’s bizarre compilation of curling scenes and unrelated montages was watched by a mere 5.87 million people.  Hooray.  For the record that’s the second straight episode to fall below six million and the fifth worst ever, narrowly missing out on fourth to last season’s “Coming to Homerica”.  As usual Family Guy did better while its two spinoffs did slightly worse. 

The only disappointing thing about this number is that it isn’t lower.  Right now the crown of Least Watched Season belongs to Season 20, but Season 21 would need ratings in the low 5 million range for the rest of the year to slink under Season 20’s dismal average of 7.12 million people.  The 20th anniversary stuff probably means than Season 21 will be only the second least watched season.  But we can hope!  C’mon people of America, watch something else at 8 on Sundays!