Starting with the episode " Take My Life, Please", more elaborate Opening Sequences were developed that could change from episode to episode. Season 20 also marks the transition to the HD broadcast format. This is also the first season in production order to be animated in Adobe Flash (later Adobe Animate), with the show continuing to use the software until Season 31, when the animation switched to Toon Boom Harmony. This is the last season to produce episodes in the original 4:3 ratio, plus also the first season to produce 16:9 widescreen episodes from this season's second half onwards. The Complete Twentieth Season was released on DVD on January 12, 2010, just a few weeks after the series' 20th anniversary. Voice actor Dan Castellaneta is to be credited as a consulting producer for the first time. The delay in production has caused the planned 22 episodes to be shortened to 20. Production on the season was delayed because of contract negotiations with the six main voice actors, but was resolved and the actors' salary was raised to $400,000 per episode. The show is now tied with Gunsmoke as the longest running American primetime television series. The season had officially been confirmed to air by the network in May 2008. Al Jean is the showrunner of this season and previous seasons since Season 13. The twentieth season began airing on Septemwith " Sex, Pies, and Idiot Scrapes" and ended on with " Coming to Homerica".
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