How many episodes of The Simpsons had been released by the end of its 37th season in 2026?

How to get close to this number

Seasons times episodes per season. An American network season runs around twenty-two episodes, and the question tells you there have been thirty-seven of them. Multiplying those gives a number in the high hundreds, and it is one of the cleanest two-factor estimates available because both inputs are widely known.

The American season length is the key input, and it is much shorter than a weekly Japanese one — which is why a show that has run for nearly four decades has fewer episodes than an anime that ran for ten years. Comparing episode counts across television industries without adjusting for season length produces badly wrong conclusions. Recent seasons have also included a few episodes released only on streaming, and the total counts those too.

The binge-time comparison in the explanation is the right way to make the total concrete: around twelve consecutive days of viewing. Converting a count into a duration is almost always more informative than the count itself, because nobody has an intuition for what eight hundred episodes feels like but everyone understands a fortnight.