The Simpsons airs its landmark 500th episode this Sunday, and its fans are celebrating by setting a world record. Two guys, Jeremiah Franco and Carin Shreve, broke the Guinness World Record for the longest continuous television viewing by watching all the episodes of the animated Fox comedy, taking them 86 hours and 37 minutes to do so. That translates to more than three and a half days.
The record was set after Fox invited viewers of the show to participate in a challenge that had them watching up to 500 episodes back-to-back. The Simpsons‘ 500th episode, “At Long Last Leave,” centers on the Simpsons family getting evicted from Springfield and join an off-the-grid community outside of town. But when Homer and Marge try to return to Springfield, their friends give them a hostile welcome.
