The numbers are in and last night’s flashback laden series of plot twists was watched by 6.08 million people.  That’s not a good number, it’s the third lowest all season and it’s below what Zombie Simpsons was averaging last winter.  But it’s above what Season 21 needs to keep its average viewership above the dismal 7.07 million viewers for Season 20.  As usual Family Guy pulled in slightly more (despite being a rerun) than Zombie Simpsons and both Family Guy spinoffs did slightly worse. 

Depending on how many episodes are left (there’ve been 13, Zombie Simpsons seasons typically have 20-22) the show would need to average between 5.00 and 5.50 million viewers to be worse than Season 20.  (Obviously the more episodes remaining the higher the average can be.)  We’ll see what happens, but that doesn’t seem too probable.  There’d need to be lots of episodes with numbers in the all time low range of “Million Dollar Maybe” to get us there.