Are there episodes not in syndication?

"Star India" shows "The Simpsons" every day. They seem to have skipped two episodes (Last Exit to Springfield and The Front). One was supposed to have been shown on Christmas day, but they showed a Christmas episode instead, but the other wasn't shown at all. Are these episodes not in syndication, or did Star India screw up? (I note that they seem to be showing them in the order they were made rather than the order they were shown originally, so the two episodes definitely were skipped.)

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Drunk and full of pie, wrote:

Those two episodes have been shown many times in American syndication. Don't know enough about "Star India" to know whether they screwed up or not.

As for the main question: AFAIK, all episodes are syndicated in the year following initial release on the FOX network.

There are a couple: 7G04 There's No Disgrace Like Home 8F23 Brother Can You Spare 2 Dimes? 7F05 Dancin' Homer 9F01 Homer the Heretic 7F07 Bart vs. Thanksgiving 9F12 Brother From the Same Planet 8F03 Bart the Murderer 9F15 Last Exit to Springfield 8F11 Radio Bart 2F08 Fear of Flying 8F15 Separate Vocations 2F32 'Round Springfield 8F19 Colonel Homer 4F16 The Canine Mutiny

Well, those are the ones that aren't CUT...all of them are IN syndication, although now stations can play them as they choose, so they may skip over any that they don't like (or ones like 4F22, but that's been seen since 9/11)...of course, they also go in any dumb order they want...the Philadelphia station plays about half of them and they're approximately in order, but the Cleveland one goes in p-code order so as not to miss any.

RTDino90 wrote:

Drunk and full of pie, Matt Garvey wrote:

Nice observation. But, all those episodes "have" been syndicated. Unfortunately, each station who buys the rights to air Simpsons in syndication only has a certain number of times they may air an episode. That's why it seems the "newest" episodes are run the most often in syndication. Of course, the stations may always purchase new episode runs.

The Rack wrote:

Is that true? I would have figured they'd buy them to run forever...how very odd. Oh well...I shouldn't get started on my complaints about such things; as long as everything makes it to the DVDs (UNLIKE 7G07), I'll be happy...ish.

On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Matt Garvey stated this considered view. Waking from my doze, I hastily scrawled -

Certainly seems that way with Sky One over here!

Drunk and full of pie, Matt Garvey wrote:

That can't be true, Lisa. If it were, I'd be terrified.

Drunk and full of pie, The Rack wrote:

Coming up... was the dream really over? Yes it was! Or _was_ it?

The Rack wrote:

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"Dave H." writes:

Why did I have the bowl, Bart? Why did I have the bowl?

In article , Matt Garvey wrote:

Star India plays them more or less in p-code order, except that every once in a while, they skip one for no particularly apparent reason. On the plus side, they don't cut any of the episodes they show. I have to admit that I thought that it was a bit weird that an Indian TV station showed several THOH episodes during the last week of October. I hadn't realized that Halloween was an important holiday in India.

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A couple? That's more than a couple. I know I've seen Dancin' Homer in syndication though.

Kevin

And then I read the original post and find out we are talking about Star India.

Kevin