The Serfsons

"The Serfsons" is the twenty-ninth season season premiere of the American animated television series The Simpsons, and the 619th episode of the series overall. The episode was directed by Rob Oliver and written by Brian Kelley. It aired in the United States on Fox on October 1, 2017. The episode places the citizens of Springfield in a medieval fantasy kingdom called Springfieldia, where the Simpson family are serfs known as the Serfsons. This is the first Simpsons episode to be scored by composing team Bleeding Fingers Music since longtime composer Alf Clausen, who had scored the show since 1990, was dismissed from that position in August 2017. To date, this episode marks the final time that Apu is voiced by series cast member Hank Azaria and is the last dub of Homer's French-Canadian voice actor Hubert Gagnon following health issues, resulting in his death on June 7, 2020. Plot In the kingdom of Springfieldia, the Serfsons visit Jacqueline Bouvier at The Webs at Giant Spider Acres, a retirement forest, where Marge discovers, to her shock, that Jacqueline is freezing over.