Forward of the long-running Fox cartoon’s landmark 800th episode on February 15, showrunner Matt Selman revealed how a hypothetical sequence finale would play out for Homer, Marge and their household, insisting that their swan track would not comply with typical TV tropes.
In an interview with The Wrap on February 13, “If the present ever did finish, there is no finale. It will simply be a daily episode that has the household in it. In all probability just a little Easter egg right here and there, however no I will miss this place”.
In actual fact, the present’s inventive workforce beforehand explored the concept of a dramatic goodbye through the season 36 premiere in September 2024, providing a parody of standard completely satisfied endings.
Matt famous, “We did an episode a couple of year-and-a-half in the past that was like a parody of the sequence finale”. He additional stated, “We jammed each doable sequence finale idea into one present, in order that was my method of claiming we’re by no means going to do a sequence finale”.
In any case, though the Matt Groening created sequence has been on the air since 1989, the city of Springfield and its inhabitants have remained largely the identical through the years.
“The present is not supposed to alter,” Matt defined. “The characters reset each week. It is like Groundhog Day however they do not know it they usually do not die that a lot”.
Certainly, numerous characters have been killed off for good through the years, like when Larry the Barfly who appeared within the present’s very first episode died throughout season 35. The present even depicted Marge’s loss of life throughout a flash-forward scene in Might, however after a wave of sturdy reactions on-line, Matt assured followers the matriarch’s demise was purely hypothetical.
“Clearly since The Simpsons future episodes are all speculative fantasies, they’re all completely different each time,” he instructed Selection in June. “Marge will most likely by no means be lifeless ever once more. The one place Marge is lifeless is in a single future episode that aired six weeks in the past.”
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