Ratings: Treehouse Of Horror XIX
The ratings are in! An impressive total of 12.48 million viewers tuned in last night to watch the nineteenth Simpsons Halloween Special. That’s great news, which shows there’s still a large audience out there who’ll sit down and sample new episodes of The Simpsons.
Treehouse of Horror episodes always tend to be high rating, and this year’s was clearly no exception — More people watched this episode than ANY Season 19 and 17 episode. THOHXIX scored viewers higher than any episode since Season 18’s ‘The Wife Aquatic’ in January 2007 (13.9 million). To find the next highest ratings after that we had to go to Season 16’s ‘Homer & Ned’s Hail Mary Pass’ in 2005, which had 23.1 million viewers. But before that it was Season 15’s ‘I, D’oh-bot’ (16.3 million), and that season’s very own Treehouse ep (16.2 million). Season 14’s Treehouse Of Horror XIII had 16.7 million.
To summarise, Treehouse Of Horror XIX is the third highest rating THOH episode we have on record and the most watched THOH in 5 years. It it the most watched episode since January 07 and the third highest rating of any episode in four years.
The show also trounced Family Guy (9.97 million), the recently cancelled King Of The Hill (8.60 million), and American Dad (7.20 million) for the night. FOX was fourth placed overall and first placed among adults 18 – 49. The Simpsons and King Of The Hill were third in the 8:00 timeslot behind Sunday Night Football and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.
