At Long Last Leave

"At Long Last Leave"
The Simpsons episode
Episode no.	500
Directed by	Matthew Nastuk
Written by	Michael Price
Showrunner(s)	Al Jean
Production code	PABF07
Original air date	February 19, 2012
Chalkboard gag	"Bart's earned a day off" (written by Milhouse).
Couch gag	A frame-by-frame montage of couch gags from previous episodes pulls back into a photomosaic of the number "500", then ends with Homer and Bart strangling each other in tuxedos.
Guest appearance(s)
Julian Assange as himself Kelsey Grammer as Sideshow Bob Jackie Mason as Rabbi Krustofski Allison Krauss and Union Station (performing the Simpsons theme song)
Season 23 episodes September 25, 2011 – May 20, 2012 "The Falcon and the D'ohman" "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts" "Treehouse of Horror XXII" "Replaceable You" "The Food Wife" "The Book Job" "The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants" "The Ten-Per-Cent Solution" "Holidays of Future Passed" "Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson" "The D'oh-cial Network" "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches" "The Daughter Also Rises" "At Long Last Leave" "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart" "How I Wet Your Mother" "Them, Robot" "Beware My Cheating Bart" "A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again" "The Spy Who Learned Me" "Ned 'n Edna's Blend" "Lisa Goes Gaga"
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Julian Assange as himself
Kelsey Grammer as Sideshow Bob
Jackie Mason as Rabbi Krustofski
Allison Krauss and Union Station (performing the Simpsons theme song)

"At Long Last Leave" is the fourteenth episode of The Simpsons' twenty-third season, and the 500th episode overall of the series. In the episode, the Simpsons discover that the inhabitants of Springfield have grown tired of them and have secretly decided to throw them out of the city. After being evicted from Springfield, the family members end up in a rugged place without rules and regulations called The Outlands. There, they briefly come across their neighbor Julian Assange, who created . Assange, who is in fear of extradition to Sweden and then the United States, guest-starred in the episode as himself and recorded his lines over the phone having been granted asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in Britain, while waiting for the results of Assange v Swedish Prosecution Authority.

Michael Price wrote "At Long Last Leave" without the intention of it becoming the 500th episode and felt honored when it was selected for the milestone. Television critics have given the episode generally positive reviews, particularly praising it for a montage of the series' couch gags that was included in the opening sequence. The storyline of "At Long Last Leave" has, however, received criticism for being similar to stories previously done on The Simpsons and in The Simpsons Movie.

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