The Simpsons Season 19 Premiere on Fox: Recap and Review

TV Network: FOX
Airs: Sunday 8:00 PM (eastern)
Runtime: 30 minutes
Genre: Animation
Series Created by: Matt Groening
Executive Producer: James L. Brooks, David X. Cohen, Al Jean
Starring:
Nancy Cartwright (Bart Simpson), Dan Castellaneta (Homer Simpson), Julie Kavner (Marge Simpson), Yeardley Smith (Lisa Simpson)
Guest stars for this episode include Stephen Colbert (as life coach, Colby), and Lionel Richie.

(series information courtesy of Fox)

There is a new opening sequence which is amusing and entertaining. It is the same basic concept (Bart on his skateboard through town), but with different imagery. This episode begins with a joke about the falling price of the iphone. Burns and Smithers are walking through a mall and an announcement comes over the system saying iphones have dropped to just twenty cents. Burns falls into the mall's wishing pond and Homer meanders along to pull him out. Burns offers to buy Homer dinner for saving him. Bart tells Homer to "have fun with his boyfriend" before Homer leaves for dinner.

Burns takes Homer on his private plane where we meet Lionel Richie, who serenades Homer with "Say You, Say Me" replacing all the words with the word "beer" at Homer's request. They arrive in Chicago to have a dinner of "Chicago-style pizza. In traditional Simpson's humor, they pass a stadium called "Wherever The White Sox Play", a bank called "The First Bank Of Oprah", and attend a day spa called "Ferris Bueller's Day Of Beauty."

Homer gets home and without having any knowledge of recent events, Marge opens the door and says,"Homer you smell like Chicago...did you fly there on a private luxury airline?" Homer is upset because he had a taste of "the good life" and now he wants more.