Still Shitty

"Are we hot?" - Homer Simpson

"We are not." - Principal Skinner

I was a little worried that the HD thing (and the attendant promotion) might give Zombie Simpsons a nice ratings number.  My fears were unfounded:

While Take My Wife [sic], Please did not break new lows, it received a total of 6.82 million viewers. It is the third least watched episode of the season but the best ratings since November, which is an improvement at least.

Being the best since November isn't much of an accomplishment since there have only been two episodes in that time and as recently as two years ago this show was routinely pulling two million more viewers.  

This was only the tenth episode of the season so if they're going to get to twenty there ought to be a lot of new ones coming relatively soon.  They aren't bothering to compete with the Oscars next Sunday, but there's already one scheduled for March 1st.  Starting from March 1st there are thirteen Sundays until Memorial Day Weekend.  If they're going to get to twenty that means that there's a maximum of three Sundays unpolluted by Zombie Simpsons between now and then. 

Brace yourselves and hope for low ratings.