I’ve noticed this over the past several months; the local station is running the same 7-10 Simpsons episodes over and over. Sometimes it’s blatant, as when they ran the episode “Mypods & Broomsticks” a week ago Monday and then again yesterday. Has anyone else noticed this? Is it a local station decision or is it the syndicator messing with us?
I believe with the Simpsons, which episode you see in syndication are left to the local station to schedule. Also, stations only buy about 100 episodes to show in any one year, so you are going to see a lot of repeats if you watch every weeknight.
they show them over and over because they are so good.
my local station has very infrequently (for who knows why, fat finger?) airs an episode a few days after having shown it. though they go through a large package of episodes so repeats are months apart.
I guess that explains why I keep seeing the same episodes of House over and over during the weekly House-a-thon(s). I just know there are a few episodes I’ve never seen. But I’m guaranteed to see the episode with the enormous fat bald guy every.single.week.:mad:
I don’t know about this show in particular, but yes, stations buy a package of X number of programs and the right to air them Y number of times. They may be offered choices, to get more or fewer episodes, or to air them more or fewer times, which will affect the price they pay.
I have heard that since the Simpsons has so many episodes you can buy only certain seasons. Though this doesn’t seem to be true. I can’t find any real references to back it up. Only claims.
WFLD (Fox owned) in Chicago seems to go through odd cycles with the Simpsons, but they air the show three times a day. You can get two old episodes then the next day one from a later season, then it’s back to the old stuff.
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You mean Homer? He’ll be in every episode no matter how much variety they show.
Was that Homer who was too fat for the MRI machine? He didn’t look quite as yellow as usual.
The local Atlanta stations seem to only show episodes from 2006-on, at least for the last couple of years. I would die for an occasional 1990s episode.
3 a day. wow. weekends too?
They successfully treated him for jaundice in one of those episodes that you never get to see. (After first thinking it might be lupus, of course…)