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It’s pretty easy to catch reruns of “The Simpsons,” which in some TV markets air twice daily. But if you want to watch the show on the go, or watch a particular episode, you’re out of luck unless you buy it from your favorite app store.

That will change this summer when FX Networks begins streaming all 530(!) episodes of the long-running series via its FXNOW app, which delivers content from three networks: FX, FXX, and FXM. The app is currently available for iOS and Windows 8.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, FXX Networks in November acquired the rights to “The Simpsons” in “one of the biggest deals of its kind.” The agreement allows the network to broadcast episodes from the show’s first 24 seasons.

The app itself is free, and presumably the “Simpsons” library will be as well. However, as with apps like HBO Go and Watch ABC, you need to be a paid subscriber to one of the six providers that currently support FXNOW: AT&T U-verse, Comcast Xfinity, Midcontinent Communications, Optimum, Suddenlink, or WOW!

The Hollywood Reporter also notes that the app will stream some 165 film titles along with all FX and FXX original series, including “The Americans,” “Justified,” “Louie,” and “The League.”

Those and other shows will roll out in the coming months. As for “The Simpsons,” expect the library to debut in August. Also on tap, according a related Quartz story: a standalone Simpsons app with “a comprehensive, beautifully-curated digital library of all things Simpsons,” said FX Networks CEO John Landgraf.

Now for the important questions: How many of those 530 episodes are actually worth watching? When did the show jump the shark? Or do you think it’s just as funny as ever? For me, the funny starting dropping off around season 12, and these days it’s all but unwatchable. D’oh!

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Remember the Simpsons coin-op arcade game? It’s about to get the iPhone treatment.

EA Mobile is soon to release The Simpsons Arcade, which it calls “a throwback to the actual arcade game from the early 90s.” How soon? EA swore us to secrecy for some reason, but let’s just say you won’t have long to wait.

Update: The game is now available in the App Store for $4.99.

The game casts you as Homer (woo-hoo!), who must race and battle his way through Springfield in his quest for, natch, a donut. (Mmmm…donut.) Oh, and there’s something about a devious scheme that needs foiling (D’oh!).

Wait a sec: If this game’s a 90s throwback, what’s with the Matrix knockoff?
EA Mobile

Homer can punch, kick, dodge, belly-flop, and, my favorite, butt-slam his enemies. Along the way he’ll earn “Family Frenzy” power-ups to summon help from other members of the Simpsons clan.

You’ll also encounter various mini-games, including the very promising-sounding “Slap Homer,” which uses touch and accelerometer controls to “slap” Homer back to life. Somehow, I can’t imagine ever tiring of that.

“Ow! Stop hitting me! It really, really hurts!”
EA Mobile

Thankfully, all the characters’ voices are supplied by the regular Simpsons cast.

I haven’t seen the game firsthand yet, and I actually never played the coin-op original, but I’m dying to try it. How about you? Think you’ll take this trip to the streets of Springfield?

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