SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21

[EDITOR'S NOTE 1: If ALCS Game #7 (SP-0818) is necessary, the baseball game will air live starting at 8:00 PM ET/5:00 PM PT, replacing THE SIMPSONS, FAMILY GUY and AMERICAN DAD, and local programming will air in primetime on the West Coast. ]

[EDITOR'S NOTE 2: If there is no baseball, KING OF THE HILL at 7:00 and 7:30 PM will air on the West Coast only, due to the preceding NFL doubleheader.]

--"THE SIMPSONS"�(8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) CC

BART LIVES DOWN A BASEBALL BLOOPER AND HOMER DISCOVERS THE MAGIC OF A GOOD MATTRESS ON "THE SIMPSONS" SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, ON FOX

Bart becomes a hometown hero when he makes the game-winning catch at his Little League game, sending the Springfield Isotots to the Little League championship for the first time ever. However, Springfield turns on him when he drops an easy pop fly in the bottom of the ninth, losing the game for his team. As the citizens of Springfield continue to mock and terrorize Bart, his guilt and shame threaten to send him over the edge. In an effort to cheer him up, Lisa introduces Bart to Bill Buckner. Meanwhile, after falling asleep in a department store display bed, Homer is saved from disaster when a customer mistakes Homer's crafty excuses for a sales pitch, leading the store owner to hire Homer as a salesperson. When the Lovejoys return a mattress they had purchased in hopes of spicing up their sex life, they find success on Homer's personal mattress and convince him to trade, a transaction Homer and Marge immediately regret and seek to remedy in "The Boys of Bummer" episode of THE SIMPSONS Sunday, Oct. 21 (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (SI-1811) (TV-PG D, S)

Voice Cast: Dan Castellaneta as Homer Simpson, Grampa, Umpire, Mayor Quimby, Groundskeeper Willie, Rich Texan, Krusty, Bill, Shelbyville Manager, and Ghost Homer; Julie Kavner as Marge Simpson, Patty, and Ghost Marge; Nancy Cartwright as Bart Simpson, Nelson, Rod Flanders, Kearney, and Old Bart: Yeardley Smith as Lisa Simpson; Tress Macneille as Saleswoman; Harry Shearer as Mr. Burns, Smithers, Ned Flanders, Lenny, Dr. HIbbert, Baseball Announcer, Rev. Lovejoy, Marty, Otto; Pamela Hayden as Milhouse, Jimbo, and Old Milhouse; Hank Azaria as Old Jewish Man, Chief Wiggum, Mr. Costington, Moe, Apu, Joe Laboot, and Homeless Man;