"The Past And The Furious" Disney+-Exclusive 'Simpsons' Episode Gets Premiere Date
Lisa Simpson, vegetarian time traveler is here!
Disney+ may not have House of Mouse but The Simpsons is ready to bring a hoose of moose. As expected, the long-running series will be releasing its next Disney+-exclusive episode during an unusually long winter hiatus from linear television. The streamer has announced that “The Past and the Furious” is next up, and will premiere February 12.
The synopsis for the episode has been released, describing that Lisa travels back in time to 1923 and discovers that the Springfield Mini Moose, once key to the town’s ecosystem, were driven to extinction in 1925. Teaming up with young Monty Burns, Lisa works to save the moose, but her actions unintentionally shape his future as a ruthless tycoon, putting her on a race against time to save Springfield. Ahhhh I love those “The Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker” flavors. “The Past and the Furious” is the second of three Disney+-exclusive episodes that were announced at D23 in August, beginning with the double-length “O C’mon All Ye Faithful”. That premiered on December 17, marking The Simpsons’s exact 35th anniversary as a full series. It leaves “The Yellow Planet” as the last one awaiting a date (for now?).
The poster not only features young Monty, but ancestors for Carl and Smithers too (with the sliding timeline you can’t quite be sure of specifics anymore. The present-day worry seen in Homer and Marge seems to bring a more perilous or accidental circumstance to the time travel, and they’re fully aware that their daughter is missing. Will she ever make it back? Who knows, worst case scenario maybe they can have Roberta Tubbs move in so she can talk again.
The February 12 premiere date for “The Past and the Furious” is pretty much the midpoint of the show’s aforementioned unusually long winter hiatus. “O C’mon All Ye Faithful” premiered a midst a string of four linear-premiering episodes from December 8 to 29, the last Sunday of the year. But Animation Domination hasn’t aired new episodes during the NFL postseason, and returns February 16 without The Simpsons but instead Family Guy in its timeslot finally returning to linear television premieres after ten months. But from there it’ll be just six weeks before The Simpsons’s linear season does resume, retaking that 8 PM timeslot on March 30 and bumping down Family Guy to 8:30 PM.
Source: Animation Magazine