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The Simpsons season 32

The thirty-second season of the American animated television series The Simpsons premiered on Fox on September 27, 2020, and ended on May 23, 2021. This season contained twenty-two episodes. On February 6, 2019, the season was ordered along with the previous season. This season includes the series' 700th episode "Manger Things".

Episodes

Production

Animation

The season was produced during the COVID-19 pandemic, which impacted many other television productions, but left animated production largely unaffected. Executive producer James L. Brooks encouraged the staff to begin working from their homes in early March 2020, before California's stay-at-home order was declared. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in late March 2020, showrunner Al Jean stated, "Production hasn't skipped a day or lost a beat." At that point seven episodes for the season, including the Treehouse of Horror episode, were already completed, and they had started reading the remainder of the twenty-two total. Jean also stated that "we're a little ahead of where we usually are." The series had a panel at the 2020 San Diego Comic-Con, which was marketed as "Comic-Con@Home", to promote the season, with Jean, Matt Selman, David Silverman, Carolyn Omine, and Mike B. Anderson on the panel, with cast member Yeardley Smith serving as moderator. The season contains seven holdover episodes from the season 31 (ZABF) production line.

Voice cast & characters

Main cast

Dan Castellaneta as Homer Simpson, Barney Gumble, Grampa Simpson, Mayor Quimby, Sideshow Mel, Groundskeeper Willie, Squeaky-Voiced Teen, Gil Gunderson, Krusty the Clown, Hans Moleman, Incest Spuckler, Frankie the Squealer, Louie, Rich Texan, Sam, Itchy, Yes Guy, Grizzly Shawn, Scott Christian, Blue-Haired Lawyer and various others
Julie Kavner as Marge Simpson, Selma Bouvier, Patty Bouvier and various others
Nancy Cartwright as Bart Simpson, Maggie Simpson, Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum, Kearney Zxyzwicz, Todd Flanders and various others
Yeardley Smith as Lisa Simpson and herself ("Podcast News")
Hank Azaria as Moe Szyslak, Carl Carlson^[A], Raphael, Comic Book Guy, Luigi Risotto, Cletus Spuckler, Chief Wiggum, Superintendent Chalmers, Old Jewish Man, Snake, Captain McCallister, Johnny Tightlips, Kirk Van Houten, Duffman, Disco Stu, Professor Frink and various others
Harry Shearer as Lenny Leonard, Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Kent Brockman, Rainier Wolfcastle, Reverend Lovejoy, Jasper Beardsley, Principal Skinner, Dewey Largo, Dr. Hibbert^[B], Ned Flanders, Judge Snyder, Legs, Officer Eddie, Herman Hermann, Scratchy and various others

Supporting cast

Pamela Hayden as Milhouse van Houten, Jimbo Jones, Janey Powell, Rod Flanders and various others
Tress MacNeille as Shauna Chalmers, Lindsey Naegle, Dolph Starbeam, Agnes Skinner, Crazy Cat Lady, Mrs. Glick, Lunchlady Dora, Brandine Spuckler and various others
Kimberly Brooks as Lewis Clark and various others
Grey DeLisle as Martin Prince, Sherri and Terri and various others
Alex Désert as Carl Carlson, Officer Lou and various others
Chris Edgerly as additional characters
Dawnn Lewis as Bernice Hibbert and Stewardess ("Three Dreams Denied")
Eric Lopez as Bumblebee Man and various others
Kevin Michael Richardson as Bleeding Gums Murphy, Dr. Hibbert^[C] and various others
Tony Rodríguez as Julio ("Uncut Femmes") and various others
Melanie Minichino as Omelet Woman ("The Last Barfighter")
Maggie Roswell as Helen Lovejoy, Miss Hoover, Maude Flanders, Luann Van Houten and various others
Jenny Yokobori as Kumiko Albertson and Abrams Lackey #2 ("Do Pizza Bots Dream of Electric Guitars?")

Notes

On June 26, 2020, it was stated that "Moving forward, The Simpsons will no longer have white actors voice non-white characters." This follows Mike Henry stating that he will no longer voice the African-American character Cleveland Brown on fellow Fox animated series Family Guy, and Jenny Slate and Kristen Bell's announcement that they will no longer voice mixed-race characters on Big Mouth and Central Park, respectively, in response to the race riots. It also follows series regular Hank Azaria's January 2020 announcement that he will no longer voice the Indian character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon on The Simpsons. Series regular Harry Shearer was not fully in agreement with the decision, stating that "the job of the actor is to play someone who they're not". On September 24, 2020, it was announced that Alex Désert would voice Carl Carlson in the first episode of the season, taking over from Azaria who voiced the character since the first season. He also became the new voice of Lou.

On October 11, 2020, Jean announced that Eric Lopez would begin voicing Bumblebee Man in the episode "Now Museum, Now You Don't" instead of Azaria, who had provided the voice of the character since his introduction in season four. On December 10, 2020, the official logline on FOXFLASH for the episode "The Dad-Feelings Limited" revealed that Kumiko would be voiced by Jenny Yokobori instead of Tress MacNeille, who had voiced the character since her introduction in the season twenty-five episode "Married to the Blob." In the episode "Uncut Femmes", the character of Julio was recast to Tony Rodriguez. On February 22, 2021, it was announced that beginning with "Wad Goals", voice actor Kevin Michael Richardson, who joined the show since Season 21 as different minor characters, would replace Harry Shearer as Dr. Hibbert and in the same episode voice actress Kimberly Brooks took on the role of Lewis Clark. David Harbour, Olivia Colman, Ben Platt, Hannibal Buress, and Michael Palin have guest-starred during the season. Series regular Yeardley Smith also played herself.

Release

The season aired on Sundays during the 2020–21 television season as part of Fox's Animation Domination programming block, along with Bless the Harts, Bob's Burgers, The Great North and Family Guy. One day after an episode aired on Fox, it was also made available on Hulu. It was made available for streaming in the US on Disney+ on September 29, 2021. and in the UK on November 3, 2021.