The eleventh season of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons aired on Fox between September 26, 1999 and May 21, 2000. It started with "Beyond Blunderdome" and ended with "Behind the Laughter". With Mike Scully as the showrunner for the eleventh season, it has twenty-two episodes, including four hold-over episodes from the season 10 production line. Season 11 was released on DVD in Region 1, on October 7, 2008, with both a standard box and Krusty-molded plastic cover.