The Bonfire of the Manatees [SEP] series
The Bonfire of the Manatees
"The Bonfire of the Manatees" is the first episode of "The Simpsons'" seventeenth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 11, 2005, making it the first "Simpsons" season premiere to air in September since the eleventh season opened with "Beyond Blunderdome" on September 26, 1999.
The episode was written by Dan Greaney and directed by Mark Kirkland. In its original broadcast, it was watched by around eleven million viewers.
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- Father Sean (Liam Neeson), a priest who helps Bart and Homer temporarily convert to Catholicism.
Series characters Season 17.
- "Bonfire of the Manatees"
- Caleb Thorn (Alec Baldwin), a marine biologist who recruits Marge's help in saving manatees.
- "The Girl Who Slept Too Little"
- Gravedigger Billy (Dan Castellaneta) is Groundskeeper Willie's cousin who is a gravedigger at the cemetery next to 742 Evergreen Terrace. He has been a gravedigger for thirty years