Determined to prove how invaluable he is to his mentor, he selects a replacement who is sure to be terrible at his job. This late Season Seven episode sees Smithers take an enforced vacation after failing Mr.
In its original airing on the Fox Network during the November sweeps period, the episode had a 3.7 Nielsen rating viewed in approximately 8.2 million homes. We begin with IMDb’s fifteenth-best episode of The Simpsons: Homer The Smithers. The episode also contains references to The Office, A Clockwork Orange and Sesame Street. The Simpsons season 1 DVD commentary for the episode 'Some Enchanted Evening' (DVD). The first segment references Jumanji, the second is a loose parody of Dead Calm and the third satirizes the Twilight novel and film series. Daniel Radcliffe and Hugh Laurie both guest starred in the episode. "Treehouse of Horror XXI" was written by Joel H. This is the 21st Treehouse of Horror episode, and, like the other "Treehouse of Horror" episodes, consisted of three self-contained segments: In "War and Pieces", Bart and Milhouse discover a real-life board game that they must win to return home in "Master and Cadaver", Marge and Homer go on a honeymoon on a sailboat, and rescue a mysterious castaway named Roger and in "Tweenlight", Lisa falls in love with a vampire named Edmund. The Simpsons has been renewed through its 30th season next year, during the show’s 29th season, it will hit episode 636, surpassing Gunsmoke as producing the most episodes ever of. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 7, 2010. "Treehouse of Horror XXI" is the fourth episode of The Simpsons' twenty-second season.