The Simpsons

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Season 38 Premiere:

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1989

TVPG

Animated

Sitcom

Homer and Marge Simpson raise Bart, Lisa, and baby Maggie in Springfield.

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By the time this legendary animated hit finishes its run, if it ever does, everyone who’s anyone will have lent their voice to the merry madness of Springfield. To open the series’ 38th season, the great Emma Thompson guests with gusto as reclusive children’s book author Constance Clavinger, who’s come to town at PTA president Marge’s request to appear at a book fair in hopes of saving the school from closing. Unfortunately, Marge sends Homer to pick up Constance at the airport, and he’s too engrossed in his phone game to stop her from getting looped. “This pepper pot is off her trolley!” Homer laments, as he tries to remedy his latest fine mess. The Simpsons leads off a comedy lineup that includes the Season 5 premiere of the live-action Animal Control (8:30/7:30c), the Season 3 premiere of Universal Basic Guys (9/8c), and the Season 3 return of Grimsburg (9:30/8:30c) with a spoof of The Last of Us.

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THE SIMPSONS: Marge hopes to save Springfield Elementary by inviting a reclusive British children’s author (guest star Emma Thompson) to appear at the school’s book fair. But Homer botches his assignment of picking the author up at the airport, and the drunken pepper pot leads him on a desperate wild chase to get her to the school on time. in the “The Children's Book Job” Premiere Episode of THE SIMPSONS airing Sunday, Sep. 27 (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX. THE SIMPSONS © 2026 20th Television / FOX.

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