| "Podcast News" | |||
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| The Simpsons episode | |||
| Episodeno. | Season 32 Episode 6 | ||
| Directed by | Matthew Faughnan | ||
| Written by | David X. Cohen | ||
| Production code | ZABF22 | ||
| Original air date | November 15, 2020 (2020-11-15) | ||
| Guest appearances | |||
| Morgan Fairchild as Vivienne St. Charmaine Stellan Skarsgård as himself Christine Nangle as Tabitha Shingle | |||
| Episode chronology | |||
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| The Simpsons(season 32) | |||
| List of episodes | |||
"Podcast News" is the 6th episode of the32nd season ofThe Simpsons. It was first shown ontelevision on November 15, 2020. In the episode,Grampa Simpson isaccused of doing amurder.Kent Brockman makes apodcast about the murder.
Marge andLisa get anaddiction for listening to podcasts aboutcrime.Homer andBart visitGrampa at aretirement home. Grampa shows them his newgirlfriend, Vivienne St. Charmaine. On the next day, theSimpson family watchnews on television and learn that Vivienne is dead. Grampa is aprime suspect, but he says he does not remember what happened.Kent Brockman makes a podcast about the murder called "Guilty Grampa". The podcast makes everyone inSpringfield think that Grampa killed Vivienne. Grampa thinks that he did do the murder andconfesses. He is taken tojail. While the last episode of "Guilty Grampa" is being recorded,Dr. Hibbert says that Vivienne did not die. She went to aresort inMexico so that Grampa could give her money forinsurance.
This is the first episode thatDavid X. Cohenwrote since 1998.[1]Morgan Fairchildvoices Vivienne St. Charmaine in the episode. Christine Nangle voices Tabitha Shingle.Stellan Skarsgård is in the episode as himself.[2]Yeardley Smith (voice actor forLisa Simpson) is shown in the episode as herself.[1]
3.50 million people watched the episode when it was first shown on television.[3] Tony Sokol ofDen of Geek said that the episode has "a sense oftensionthroughout" and thought the end of the episode wassatisfying and "morallyambiguous" (saying that more than onelesson is shown in the episode).[4]