In my country, Homer's voice actor died, and Bart's voice actor did not want to be in the show anymore without him, so they got recasted. The new voices are sound so unfitting. :-/ But maybe I'm just being too picky...
I saw a theory a few years ago that the final episode should just be another normal episode but in the final minutes, everyone gets ready to go to see Bart's school Christmas play and the show finishes as the first ever episode started. Leaving the series in a time loop, that everything that has happened will happen again and explaining why no one has ever aged. I know it's not perfect but I think that's the greatest way to end it.
In a meta sense that sounds perfect but I feel like they should end it with a movie bringing back the realism and being actually funny. One last return to the era that everyone remembers and loved.
I don’t think any show can end cleanly as someone will always want to see something else at the end of the day as we all have our own ideas of where they should end up
Simpsons has been on for so long that I've stopping caring they ruined the characters as a whole homer is way too dumb and obnoxious now bart has the same personality except hes alot more mean and has to have a girlfriend now lisa is a hypocritical sjw bratty feminist spreading modern political garbage marge is the same but kind of boring and maggie still does nothing and is kind of given the south park kenny is a background character treatment To make things worse the show now trys even harder to be relevant by focusing on trends and modern celebrities instead of actually making a story whats not rushed cringeworthy or a waste of time Simpsons is alive for nostalgia and merchandise it still makes money same with family guy so its never going to end because fox & Disney love money.
@@goldenfiberwheat238 Archer's last Season was somewhat decent though. With real-world ISIS pushed back they could technically also revert back to the "in the end, a spy agency also is just a regular workplace" running gag which made the show hilarious in the first place.
Here's how the Simpsons will probably end: it'll just stop suddenly because one of the main actors died, or for some other reason Here's how the Simpsons will actually end: When star formation ceases
Even if he abandoned the series it would still be run into the ground until it's viewers decrease to the point where it eventually dies out without anyone caring. The Simpsons is trapped and will never get out of the loop it's in.
Matt Groening was only ever given one chance to pitch a story for a Simpsons episode...he pitched a story that revolved around Marge losing her hair, revealing rabbit ears underneath. He was never asked again.
Like - Marge becomes a robot, Maybe Moe gets a cell-phone, Has Bart ever owned a bear, Or, how 'bout a crazy wedding? And something happens a do-do-do-do-doooo...
The Show should end with the Simpson Family going on the Tracy Ullman show as special guests. And slowly, as they step on to the stage, the animation starts reverting through time to their original Tracy Ullman short look
Personally if they DO ever decide to do a planned cancellation, I want them to completely mix up the formula for the final season. Each episode of the season is linked, with references to previous episodes in each ep. You can't end decades of a series of with one episode. You need to dedicate time to closing off those character arcs. The episode takes place one year in the future. Bart is turning 11, Lisa is turning 9, Maggie is turning 2, they move into a new grade at school and it shows how they mature. Bart finds a teacher who inspires him like Lisa's substitute from the early episodes. It's long been hinted that Bart is a skilled artist, so maybe the teacher can recognise this and inspire Bart to pursue it. Lisa is also able to find a career path that she enjoys, and spends the season persuing her future. Homer is given the oppertunity to get a tenured position at the Power Plant, which motivates him to do better at his job to secure his family's financial future. Maggie starts growing up and talking/walking. Marge is able to finally feel respected for what she does as a house wife. Burns finally retired for real this time. Skinner is finally able to impress Chalmers. There's a lot of series arcs you could finish off.
AriGoesNoodle S from the top of my head I don’t think I’ve seen that one, maybe, but when I get to it I hope it’s good because that sounds like a genuine heartfelt episode
@@JoshuaRWorkman whell if you want to push it. technically futurama is canonically in the simpsons timeline and there was an episode there where they went to the end of the universe in like the year 100-trillion-trillion so that would be chronologically last.
Honestly, I always thought that the best way to end the Simpsons would be a plot similar to that treehouse episode when Homer walks into a 3D dimension, I love the idea of the series ending with Homer stranded in a weird unfamiliar world (to him) and immidiately getting distracted by sweets with the camera not following him but rather just panning out. Alternatively the series could just end suddenly with no warning, implying that the characters will forever continue living in their weird timeline that doesn't move forward.
What about him going into his land of chocolate world from one of the earlier seasons, but now it’s 3D? And like you said, he lets his love for sweets overcome him and when it pans out, it shows the town being like a chocolatey replica of Springfield, with the whole cast there enjoying themselves.
Even then I bet they are just gonna cast a new one even tho the Simpsons are not at their peak they are still making fat stacks for Disney so I don't think they'd stop if that happened
@@Arcond didn't they almost end it a a few years ago because it wasn't profiting as much as they liked Edit yeah I looked it up and that's why it almost ended in 2011
I would have been fine with the show continuing as long as it has if they'd been willing to grow and age the characters. Allowing us to experience NEW stories with Bart, Lisa, and Maggie as well as deal with Homer and Marge getting the house more to themselves. I get this was created during an era were serialized TV was not yet common-place, but this could have been a great way to take the series after 5 or so seasons. Let them grow with the generation that watched them. Maybe not every year, but every 3 years or so.
The show, shows you them interacting with the twin towers, jorge bush, bill clinton and also donald trump in a 2016 episode i belive, so what is the point of the characters not growing but the world just keeps going even when you make references to different presidents.
The Simpsons is a show with so many narrative contradictions and inconsistencies that no finale would be truly resolute. I liked the concept one of the show’s writers talked about; having the show finish at the beginning, with the family filing into the school hall to watch the Christmas concert in the first episode.
Agreed. I think the writers have a bias against the character; even back in the golden age, they often threw random jokes in just to mock him (hence Bart's entire family inexplicably mocking him for having a stamp collection).
and then replace them with another voice actor that can do a perfect imitation of their predecessor's voice. There's plenty of impressionists out there, it's certainly possible.
The Simpsons has gone down so much, from overused old memes being used and it just being outdated, it will never be the same. I still watch it but the older episodes are just better.
They will give it a damn good try! anything rather than putting this show out of it's misery and continuing to piss us all off! Holidays of future passes would've made a decent finale though.
I think a show like the Simpsons can't really have a clean ending. The show was episodic, without any kind of overarching storyline. I think shows like that just run their course, and their formula runs out of ideas. I think it would've better for the show to have stopped at Season 10, when the season rot became apparent.
@@kazmark_gl8652 Season 4 of Spongebob was actually still really solid, despite coming out after the movie. The quality absolutely plummeted in season 5, though.
No, is not like Spongebob. Spongebob was good before the movie. When the Simpsons Movie came out, the show was already really bad for at least 7 years.
@@aidenbeel5425 Like Marge's voice actor? She sounds knackered now. One will either retire, get an illness that'll prevent them from doing to voice anymore or like infinite64 said, pass away. Since one voice actor voices a large fraction of Springfield, if one actor leaves they'll have to find several replacements to fill all the voices.
I feel like one of the better ways to end the series at this point would to have Bart become a cartoonist and make a cartoon about a caricatures of his family growing up, with the stylistic choice to make them have a duller skin color.
The way it should end is as follows Its 2010-13 all the characters are 11/14 years older everything past the date of the movie is no longer cannon. We get as much of the og writing staff as possible. Homer is still working away in 7g while everyone else has progressed and Burns has decided to finally sell the plant and retire. The buyer is Hank Scorpio who wants the plant for some evil scheme (I know this sounds like the series 3 episode and you're right) Hank buys the plant, remberes homer and promotes him. We basically have a drawn out "you only move twice" bit where everything is going well for Homer but at all of Springfields expense not just the Simpsons. Homer has to deocee what's more important his cushy job or Springfield, he comes to the conclusion that Springfield is. Then has to team up with Burns to take over the plant again. We let the film nerds figure out the inbetween bits. The side plot is bart still living at home while Lisa is a semi successful musician. Cut to Marge preparing Bart for an interview basically saying don't fuck this one up, and of course he does. He goes back to the house ready to tell Marge that he almost had it in the bag but Marge doesn't buy it this time and tells him she disappointed that he a fuck up (Marge be not proud vibe) bart gets mad and goes to Moes to drink his problems, where he meets Skinner. They have a discussion about Barts failed jobs and Skinner tells Bart that hes not a bad guy and recounts some previous Skinner bart story line (sweet Seymours badassssss song) and he give Bart an opportunity to work at the school as a councillor of sorts. And because he knows how to relate to the kids better than most teachers he becomes genuinely happy and fulfilled with helping the kids. Theres then a few minute montage of going round all thr major characters in Springfield and them getting closure, Moes bar actually becoming successful, lenny and Carl finally admitting their feelings, Rod and Todd being ready to move out and be actual well adjusted adults, Chalmers promoting Skinner etc. And he final scene is The Simpsons having a family Christmas meal. There's also a talking pie
@@sausageisbetter2810 it's more a fan theory haha but there is some stuff in the newer series hinting to it but its more a one way streak that lenny is into Carl.
The regular show should have ended after season 10, but with films made every three years or so afterwards. Season 10 was the final season where there were more ok-good episodes than bad ones. Unfortunately Disney will want to milk them for another decade.
@@dylancohen9201 Everyone who dies in the zombie attack at the end officially dies. I.e. Kent Brockman, Snake, Grandpa. And Homer finally gets to be a hero for the fans who've been watching him for years (despite that they're aliens).
I just want to see Bart get a happy ending, as opposed to how nearly every flash- forward episode seems determined to show him as an unsuccessful loser.
@Daniel Carey It could work. If we assume The Simpsons was just a reality show in their world, and Springfield is a fake city, kinda like The Truman Show.
Behind The Laughter (the season 11 finale) is when the show should have ended. There are a lot of reasons why this should be and I could write them out but I am feeling my inner Homer (lazy).
I honestly thought I think it was the finale of season 30 where it ended with how the characters all die in the future and I was so confused I was like “What? Was this the end? Surely not.”
why does every single video with a one sentance title about speculation or animated media have a thumbnail of the charaters/people in said thing with their eyes blacked out
The show should have ended in the early 2000s when there started being more bad episodes than good ones. I came here in hopes that someone had put Zombie Simpsons out of it's misery.
It still IS the early 2000s, dumbass. Mid 2000s is 2500. Everyone alive now will be dead by the mid 2000s, dumbass. It is going to be early 2000s for a long ass time, idiot!
@@mahoganycurry8623 one of those classic 'the first series is a bit wobbly' so it's worth persevering. The jump in quality from Series 1 to 2 is about the same as Bojack's if you want a comparison point. If you're a Simpsons fan it's the closest live action has come to its manic energy
How should the simpsons have ended? With either Homer's enemy or Spinoff Showcase. But also holidays of future past was a pretty great episode and potential ending
Honestly, I dont think its worth ending the Simpsons with a well constructed plot, it just seems more likely and in a way pleasing for it to just, end at some point, with a normal season and a normal ending. Let the fans think about what happens to the family. Most people just watch the show cause its on and nothing else is on anyway, I doubt many people care about the plot anymore.
I think it would be pretty poignant to end Simpson's on a fast forward episode. One where they encapsulate all of the different era of the Simpson's.(The amazing first three seasons, the jerk ass homer era) Just make it on how things finally changed but not at all really because even the grandkids are hellions. (Cut to a there way Grandad, dad, grandson, strangle off...pause)
While I can understand your points, still is a big *NO* from me. I can understand why people like this episode, but to me is just a little better than the rest of awful of episodes that are made during the HD era. Is not terrible, but still has a lot of flaws that make me to dislike it, some of them: 1. Not being very funny. If a episode is not very funny, is not worth it. 2. Many details that I consider unimaginative and lazy writing. The main one, Bart being just a bum. Modern Simpsons just like to paint Bart to be just a failure. "Lisa's Wedding" showed the most believable Future Bart for me: working in demolitions and promoting local tough man contest on the side, like the street-smart kid he was in the Classic years. 3. Lisa with Milhouse is another concept that I deeply despise. So I'm still convinced that I don't want this episode to be the finale of the show. I will just insist that the show should have stopped in the late 90's, with modern Simpsons not happening whatsoever. Sorry for broken English, is not my native language.
Agreed. Bart and Lisa can do and deserve so much better. Lisa is clearly deeply unhappy with Milhouse but somehow settles just because he's always had a thing for her? No.
My idea for an ending was to have the whole town realize they’re trapped in time and decide whether or not to stay as they are or move on and grow up. Was pretty surprised when the LEGO episode basically did that exact storyline but I’d still like to see the rest of the town involved in that decision
Ok everyone’s talking about the simpsons ending with a movie, but no one is talking about this guys voice. It’s so nice and almost soothing. I can’t stop listening to him. It mesmerizing.
Why are you blaming Disney? Fox still has full creative control over the show. Don't act as if Fox isn't to blame for milking the franchise bone dry...
The flashforward scene in the episode where Bart and Homer become Catholics; show that Bart becomes a religous figure, with two opposing factions fighting over his legacy.
I’ve gone through and watched all the treehouses of horror and honestly, wished they stuck more to the Halloween/horror theme, over the years its devolved into movie spoofs, which would of been better as their own episodes instead of mediocre ones
9:21 Damn I don't watch Simpsons. It was one of those shows my parents forbid me as a child to watch as well as South Park XD (the latter I agree with haha). But just from watching the photo montage at the being, with Bart always smiling til he flunks out of college and get progressively more aggitated as Lisa's life improves til she married and her smile fades and he finally perks back up 😂 perfect way to show not tell! Also I almost shed a tear when he told her 'She was the person he always wanted to be'. Damn it's hitting me just thinking about it. Well played
There’s a big difference between The Simpsons and South Park lmao. I can see why your parents didn’t let you watch South Park, but The Simpsons is literally a family comedy show lol. It’s meant for families to watch it as appose to just teenagers and adults.
@@lfcforever1482 Yeah I feel you! It was more about it being trashy TV to them. My folks just weren't a fan of "Stupid" as my father put it. It was more about them thinking Homer or Bart stupidity might rub off on me or my brother 😂 He felt the same way about Patrick and Spongebob, CatDog (more so Dog), Stimpy, Beavus and Butthead, or Heffer from Rokko. He just wasn't a fan of foolishness lol but we watched OG Doug and Rugrats Lmao! The 90 had faaaar too many options to fight a losing battle. Plus he was Maaad into anime and bought Mangas and Vhs/DVDs of everything he could find!!! So he had his tastes 😁
I've met so many people who weren't allowed to watch the simpsons as kids and for me it was the polar opposite I started watching them as a literal baby probably before I even knew how to speak bc my parents saw nothing wrong with it there's so much general knowledge that I was first exposed to by the show like Michael Jackson to me was that guy that sang happy birthday Lisa lmao I can't really tell whether it impacted me in a negative way or not or if anyone's stupidity rubbed off on me bc I'll never know what kind of person I'd be if I had never watched it but if someone made a study to determine if you should let kids watch it they could definitely use me 😅
Great video but how is it seemingly everyone completely ignores the greatest animated series finale ever, King of the Hill. Bobby winning states is the ultimate example of a story completing a circle, and the impromptu cookout with every character of note was touching in a way only surpassed by Fry and Leela growing old together only to do it again. A shame that the extreme length/dwindling quality of the Simpsons makes it impossible for whatever ending they choose to be as heart wrenching as its lesser cousins.
I always liked the idea where the series ends with them driving to Springfield Elementary Christmas Paegant and as they're driving we transition between the final episode and the first episode, it ends when they pull up at springfield elementary and walk inside. at which points the credits roll to the sound of the children singing the paegant song.
Herb returns, everyone sings So Long Farewell until it reaches The Simpsons family & thanking the audience for watching the show & danced to their theme song, Homer accidentally destroyed a stage while trying to get a Donut & Beer. The final catchphrase of The series is "D'oh!" Before the credits start rolling with memories of the show while the theme song plays in the background.
I would love to see Skinner get away from his mother and find a partner. He and Edna should have got together. Her and Ned becoming an item never worked for me.
There is a theory that homer was in a coma the whole time. I feel like it would be really interesting and cool if the show ended with homer coming out of a 20 year coma and reconnecting with his family and finding out what happened to them while he was in the coma and how they coped. And the show would end with the family falling asleep in the family home one last time before the show ends. Is it just me that thinks that would be good ?
I didn't like that as an ending, I'm married to the Bart being a Chief Justice of the supreme court because I want that troubled kid to have made good and become a strong role model for the future
There's still time. He was really old in that episode and in later future episodes he was still much younger. I think you can still take it that he ends up there.
I think while this episode does give closure the endings for Bart and Lisa are such downer endings Lisa was meant for something waaaay bigger than being Milhause's sad settled wife and Bart deserved better than to be just an adult loser So while I want it to end I just think they all deserve to end out on top
Thank you! I agree. A lot of comments have noticed about Bart - he becomes a supreme court justice dammit! But only yours and one other mentions the lackluster Lisa storyline of marrying Milhouse. He likes Vaseline on toast!
tbh i really don’t like how in almost every future episode lisa is with milhouse and bart is a failure. i see bart being a successful artist of some sort because there’s a lot of mentions of that in the series, and lisa ending up with someone other than milhouse
Future episodes being used as the end is something I disagree with tbh. I do agree that a finale (if it ever happens, personally I really like the show so I don't mind either way if it stays as long as it's good enough for me to watch) should end on a high note, but more so in the present. I'm also not a big fan of the episode you discussed (although it's probably because I'm not a fan of future episodes).
Id like an ending where 40 year old Bart is put in a similar situation as Homer in "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire". In a show with hundreds of wacky situations, itll be a clean and simple ending reminiscent of its humble beginnings
It's funny how this was the second supposed finale. The first one was the eighth season's finale, which is the Frank Grimes episode. The writers thought it was going to be the last season so they decided to make a crazier episode that they wouldn't have done otherwise, without realizing they were planting the seed for the coming decline on the quality of the series.
I know this is probably old hat now, but the "series finale" v. "season finale" bugged me the whole episode. Either way, fantastic commentary on an overlooked episode.
i feel like the last episode of the Simpsons should end with the death of grandpa Simpson and his death makes the simpsons realize how much they love each other ending of with a Christmas day and have a photo just like the first episode
They should have opened the next episode with future homer and marge find a box of home videos and decided to watch them. Would have been a transition back to the series and set up for a later conclusion episode
to me the Simpsons ended since i stopped watching them, a few years ago. Never looked back ever since and don't feeling like i'm missing out on something. The madness has to end somehow and YOU as the audience have the power to walk away from it.
Yeah when I first saw this episode, it really came out of nowhere. I was shocked at how well written it was and kinda wondered if it had originally been intended as a series finale.
My idea has always been to have the characters age over the course of a final season, and end it when Homer and Marge are elderly. Bring back the best writers from the earliest years.
I think the true Simpsons finale will have to be set in the present. I think Grandpa dying would be a realistic catalyst for an emotional episode that sees Bart and Homer awkwardly try and appreciate each other more.
Regarding this topic, mainly the point towards the end of referencing the first episode, writer Al Jean has commented in interviews that his ideal ending for the series would have it come full circle with episode one, looping by ending with them getting ready for and heading to the Christmas pageant the first episode began with. Now, that is just the opinion of one writer for the series, so don't consider it a hint at an eventual finale. But I find the idea would have gone well with the ending, or perhaps a modified option where, instead of a closed loop, it has them heading to a Christmas pageant for, considering ages in this episode, Bart's kids
For me it should have ended with Trilogy of Error. Simply because that's the last great episode thwy ever made. Everything after that is pretty much crap.
THEY'LL NEVER STOP FULL FAT VIDEOS
HAVE NO FEARS WE'VE GOT VIDEOS FOR YEARS
Preach
One of them better be clones.
You've lost your way, FullFat
can't wait for 568 more seasons of full fat
When will you get a cell phone?
it wont end until one of the main casts dies , they wouldn't dare recast
In my country, Homer's voice actor died, and Bart's voice actor did not want to be in the show anymore without him, so they got recasted. The new voices are sound so unfitting. :-/ But maybe I'm just being too picky...
@@vernyulkisasszony4708 which country, if you don't mind me asking?
@@vernyulkisasszony4708 Im kinda curious now too
@@vernyulkisasszony4708 what country
@@thegreatwhaleshark9049 i think its germany, Well, i am from germany and i know that Homers voice actor died here, and i assume that Bart Left then
I saw a theory a few years ago that the final episode should just be another normal episode but in the final minutes, everyone gets ready to go to see Bart's school Christmas play and the show finishes as the first ever episode started. Leaving the series in a time loop, that everything that has happened will happen again and explaining why no one has ever aged. I know it's not perfect but I think that's the greatest way to end it.
I remember reading that too and I think that’s a great way to end it.
@Tom Smith Foreal. Horrible idea lmao
Like Futurama
I'm too dumb to comprehend that
In a meta sense that sounds perfect but I feel like they should end it with a movie bringing back the realism and being actually funny. One last return to the era that everyone remembers and loved.
I firmly believe it is impossible to end the Simpsons cleanly. Regardless someone will be sad and/or angry
U can end the series cleanly. Just because a few knuckleheads expect perfection doesnt mean something isnt great
then let them cry
Simpsons real end: 2089
A clean end is for the show, not for the audience. The best results of a series are when the fanservice ends
I don’t think any show can end cleanly as someone will always want to see something else at the end of the day as we all have our own ideas of where they should end up
“When will the Simpsons end?”
When will the human race go extinct?
"How many people did you kill to regain your power."
How much bread have you eaten in your life?
About a couple million years
Probably at the end of 2020
@@GRNGVANNA DIO, YOU BASTARD.
@Dan Kennedy lyons damn Mayans and their math
The Simpsons ending is like having an old pet. You can anticipate the inevitable, but you know you're going to be sad when it happens regardless.
and then you regret not having euthanised it
@@pnutz_2 fucking hell that's dark XD
Simpsons has been on for so long that I've stopping caring they ruined the characters as a whole homer is way too dumb and obnoxious now bart has the same personality except hes alot more mean and has to have a girlfriend now lisa is a hypocritical sjw bratty feminist spreading modern political garbage marge is the same but kind of boring and maggie still does nothing and is kind of given the south park kenny is a background character treatment
To make things worse the show now trys even harder to be relevant by focusing on trends and modern celebrities instead of actually making a story whats not rushed cringeworthy or a waste of time
Simpsons is alive for nostalgia and merchandise it still makes money same with family guy so its never going to end because fox & Disney love money.
pnutz 2 - fmr. capnazrael ouaw how can you say such a horrible thing
@@rebeccaaliberti5053 because we had a dog once that died of old age, outside, in its own bodily fluids over several hours
The Simpsons is the only show I know even it's OG fanbase wants cancelled.
Family guy, American dad, South Park, archer
@Daniel Carey Nothing is consensus, a lot want it to end, a lot don't.
@Daniel Carey I wouldn't say most. Posts on many video just think the show has run it's course. It's a mix.
@@goldenfiberwheat238 Archer's last Season was somewhat decent though. With real-world ISIS pushed back they could technically also revert back to the "in the end, a spy agency also is just a regular workplace" running gag which made the show hilarious in the first place.
@@Exodon2020 yeah they didn’t need isis to be pushed back for that
Here's how the Simpsons will probably end: it'll just stop suddenly because one of the main actors died, or for some other reason
Here's how the Simpsons will actually end: When star formation ceases
I think they have so much dialogue at this point that they can edit it for new episodes. They did that to Mr.Burns I think
Replacing actors can be possible at the times.
@@poweroffriendship2.0 100 trillion more seasons it is then
I mean the simpsons already predicted that
I think changing the cast may cause controversy.
To be honest I feel like The Simpsons has lasted so long that Matt Groening doesn't know how to end it .
True but lets not forget other shows like South Park who will have to end one day and its impossible to say what to expect from final episode
Even if he abandoned the series it would still be run into the ground until it's viewers decrease to the point where it eventually dies out without anyone caring. The Simpsons is trapped and will never get out of the loop it's in.
Matt Groening was only ever given one chance to pitch a story for a Simpsons episode...he pitched a story that revolved around Marge losing her hair, revealing rabbit ears underneath. He was never asked again.
@@lucasoheyze4597 - That was certainly much worse than what the current staff of The Simpsons has been writing.
Killing marge, I hate marge
I just want another Big Film on the Simpsons, to send them off with a Bang.
It will definitely be nostalgic.
if they got many of the original writers and gave it a season 4-8 feel i'd be so down
I’m probably wrong, but I heard something about a Simpsons movie in 2025
this would be great just dont hurt Hans Moleman
Please god no
@@maxamillion2140 3-8
have no fear they've got stories for years
Like - Marge becomes a robot,
Maybe Moe gets a cell-phone,
Has Bart ever owned a bear,
Or, how 'bout a crazy wedding?
And something happens a do-do-do-do-doooo...
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I captured you on camera ☝️😱
Did Marge ever become a robot?
That's not a good thing, pal.
Not good stories but stories never the lest
The Show should end with the Simpson Family going on the Tracy Ullman show as special guests. And slowly, as they step on to the stage, the animation starts reverting through time to their original Tracy Ullman short look
I think that was a halloween special sketch they did years ago.
@@tatehildyard5332 I think so as well
Tate they were haunted by the Tracey Ullman show Simpsons.
Personally if they DO ever decide to do a planned cancellation, I want them to completely mix up the formula for the final season.
Each episode of the season is linked, with references to previous episodes in each ep. You can't end decades of a series of with one episode. You need to dedicate time to closing off those character arcs.
The episode takes place one year in the future. Bart is turning 11, Lisa is turning 9, Maggie is turning 2, they move into a new grade at school and it shows how they mature. Bart finds a teacher who inspires him like Lisa's substitute from the early episodes. It's long been hinted that Bart is a skilled artist, so maybe the teacher can recognise this and inspire Bart to pursue it. Lisa is also able to find a career path that she enjoys, and spends the season persuing her future. Homer is given the oppertunity to get a tenured position at the Power Plant, which motivates him to do better at his job to secure his family's financial future. Maggie starts growing up and talking/walking. Marge is able to finally feel respected for what she does as a house wife. Burns finally retired for real this time. Skinner is finally able to impress Chalmers. There's a lot of series arcs you could finish off.
i think this is a really good idea!
Can’t believe I’ve never heard anyone suggest this before. It’s perfect.
I think all of this could work accept for the Homer part, I just can’t see him ever taking his job seriously
This comment made me choke up:(
I like the idea of Bart being an artist, it fits since Marge is also an artist
After watching this, I think I’m gonna make this episode my head canon the final episode
Facts
Yeah, maybe just skip past it if any more episodes turn up that you like, and then come back to it as a final wrap up, maybe.
AriGoesNoodle S from the top of my head I don’t think I’ve seen that one, maybe, but when I get to it I hope it’s good because that sounds like a genuine heartfelt episode
Well, as long as the show continues, this episode would just be chronologically last.
@@JoshuaRWorkman whell if you want to push it. technically futurama is canonically in the simpsons timeline and there was an episode there where they went to the end of the universe in like the year 100-trillion-trillion so that would be chronologically last.
Honestly, I always thought that the best way to end the Simpsons would be a plot similar to that treehouse episode when Homer walks into a 3D dimension, I love the idea of the series ending with Homer stranded in a weird unfamiliar world (to him) and immidiately getting distracted by sweets with the camera not following him but rather just panning out.
Alternatively the series could just end suddenly with no warning, implying that the characters will forever continue living in their weird timeline that doesn't move forward.
What about him going into his land of chocolate world from one of the earlier seasons, but now it’s 3D? And like you said, he lets his love for sweets overcome him and when it pans out, it shows the town being like a chocolatey replica of Springfield, with the whole cast there enjoying themselves.
I thought it was a sex shop or something lol or maybe sexy cakes? I have a brainfog rn.
Bruh momentum
Way more than you'd think
Me
I did
Samee
No one with basic brain functionality
Lets be honest here, they're gonna keep milking this show until one of the lead voice actors dies.
Even then I bet they are just gonna cast a new one even tho the Simpsons are not at their peak they are still making fat stacks for Disney so I don't think they'd stop if that happened
That's sad, Simpsons deserve so much better.
@@Arcond They didn't recast some of the major secondary characters whose voice actors have died, so I wouldn't be entirely sure about that.
@@Arcond didn't they almost end it a a few years ago because it wasn't profiting as much as they liked
Edit yeah I looked it up and that's why it almost ended in 2011
I bet it's gonna be Marge's voice, she honestly doesn't sound so good.
I would have been fine with the show continuing as long as it has if they'd been willing to grow and age the characters. Allowing us to experience NEW stories with Bart, Lisa, and Maggie as well as deal with Homer and Marge getting the house more to themselves. I get this was created during an era were serialized TV was not yet common-place, but this could have been a great way to take the series after 5 or so seasons. Let them grow with the generation that watched them. Maybe not every year, but every 3 years or so.
That would've been amazing. Shows like F is for Family are probably gonna get quite a lot more mileage out of them simply by following that concept.
Maybe they would improve the stories a little, but that would not fix the problem of the episodes not being funny.
@@CorazonMexica True, true
They it wouldn't be the same it they grew up
The show, shows you them interacting with the twin towers, jorge bush, bill clinton and also donald trump in a 2016 episode i belive, so what is the point of the characters not growing but the world just keeps going even when you make references to different presidents.
The Simpsons is a show with so many narrative contradictions and inconsistencies that no finale would be truly resolute. I liked the concept one of the show’s writers talked about; having the show finish at the beginning, with the family filing into the school hall to watch the Christmas concert in the first episode.
...making the whole final episode a prequel to the first one? I like!
@@TetsuDeinonychus Especially if they bring back that animation for part of it. The nostalgia would be so good!
Tbh I don't like how all the future episodes portray Bart as a failure. He's chief justice on the supreme court!
Agreed. That's the main reason I don't like this episode.
Also, Barthood isn't bad either.
SmrtPhonRtistCF, Barthood actually almost made me cry in one small part.
Agreed. I think the writers have a bias against the character; even back in the golden age, they often threw random jokes in just to mock him (hence Bart's entire family inexplicably mocking him for having a stamp collection).
@@jaydee4697 well that makes sense, since you wouldn't expect that from him, but rather the smartass instead.
The Simpsons died on the way to their home planet.
The end.
Ok
@@itsjustanimations4274 Well, they did.
@Luke Mills your emojis don’t even make sense. but i agree what the hell does this comment mean
Isn't that a reference to the Poochie episode? Why does everyone get mad ? 😂
@Luke Mills damn okay then. y’all brits weird
They'll end the show when one of the original main cast dies...
and then replace them with another voice actor that can do a perfect imitation of their predecessor's voice.
There's plenty of impressionists out there, it's certainly possible.
@@Randomyoutuber-4831 nope
Eh
@@rickdarris6152 come on, every voice actor worth their salt can impersonate one of the Simpsons, and they've recasted characters before.
Darth Vader is only 10% James Earl Jones these days.
The Simpsons has gone down so much, from overused old memes being used and it just being outdated, it will never be the same. I still watch it but the older episodes are just better.
The voice actors can't stay alive forever
They will give it a damn good try! anything rather than putting this show out of it's misery and continuing to piss us all off! Holidays of future passes would've made a decent finale though.
It is Canon that Bart becomes a supreme court judge as well. And Lisa becomes president after trump.
Im sure at this point that Lisa is just a younger Hillary Clinton, lol
Yes
Yes
And like Hillary Clinton, she will never take office outside of her own fantasies
@@guilhermehank4938 No she is more like Carly Fiorina I think
I would’ve appreciated a Spoiler Warning before you talked about the ending of so many shows
good thing i've never watched any shows
@@bidoof367 wat
@@Embertuft Spoilers for the simpsons sure. All the other shows? Totally comes out of left field.
@@Embertuft No not really...
@@Embertuft nope
Wrap up the “Marge has rabbit ears in her hair” plotarc of the first season.
Too late. It has already been contradicted.
should of ended when the “aurora borealis” burnt seymour’s house down
The aurora borealis Burns down the whole town, the end. No one survives. No spin offs possible
@@Abigart69 They can still do prequels like "Young Homer"
@@f_f_f_8142 oh god
@pot p can I see it?
@@BillyButcher91 no
Imagine having a nearly perfect finale to a cartoon you created that has lasted over 20 years and then your boss says
Ha, no
Ugh I’d hate that
**cough cough** Spongebob **cough cough**
Imagine if The Simpsons ended when humanity ended. No finale, no cancelation. The series abruptly ends along with the race who created it... bruh
I think a show like the Simpsons can't really have a clean ending. The show was episodic, without any kind of overarching storyline. I think shows like that just run their course, and their formula runs out of ideas. I think it would've better for the show to have stopped at Season 10, when the season rot became apparent.
Finally someone gets it.
No finale will ever come close to Futurama. I cried when that show ended. Then I watched all the seasons again, twice.
The Simpsons should’ve ended with the movie. It was the perfect way to end the show.
agree
Same with SpongeBob.
as far as I'm concerned both shows ended with their first movie and new shows with the same name started right after.
@@kazmark_gl8652 Season 4 of Spongebob was actually still really solid, despite coming out after the movie. The quality absolutely plummeted in season 5, though.
No, is not like Spongebob. Spongebob was good before the movie. When the Simpsons Movie came out, the show was already really bad for at least 7 years.
the reason is, the creator wanted yellow so then when passing through channels it becomes more noticeable than if it was skin colour
Its going to end when one of the main characters voice actors die
Or maybe when there older and they kinda suck at the original vioce
@@aidenbeel5425 Like Marge's voice actor? She sounds knackered now. One will either retire, get an illness that'll prevent them from doing to voice anymore or like infinite64 said, pass away. Since one voice actor voices a large fraction of Springfield, if one actor leaves they'll have to find several replacements to fill all the voices.
The voice actor for the teacher died.
@@jasondylan9230 I know I'm saying the cast they can't work without
Yeah I doubt they would come back frim that atleast I doubt it I guess they could recast
Can you please do a video on the final story arc of the clone wars season 7?
I wished they did all unfinished episode
YES^^^^
Please do this
As you young hip kids say this "bitch ass nigga" needs to do this!
I feel like one of the better ways to end the series at this point would to have Bart become a cartoonist and make a cartoon about a caricatures of his family growing up, with the stylistic choice to make them have a duller skin color.
Stupid ass idea.
@@MrParkerman6 lol respect the man
@@MrParkerman6 Actually is pretty logical story you see a lot of people don’t realize it but Bart is actually Matt
The way it should end is as follows
Its 2010-13 all the characters are 11/14 years older everything past the date of the movie is no longer cannon.
We get as much of the og writing staff as possible.
Homer is still working away in 7g while everyone else has progressed and Burns has decided to finally sell the plant and retire. The buyer is Hank Scorpio who wants the plant for some evil scheme (I know this sounds like the series 3 episode and you're right) Hank buys the plant, remberes homer and promotes him. We basically have a drawn out "you only move twice" bit where everything is going well for Homer but at all of Springfields expense not just the Simpsons. Homer has to deocee what's more important his cushy job or Springfield, he comes to the conclusion that Springfield is. Then has to team up with Burns to take over the plant again. We let the film nerds figure out the inbetween bits.
The side plot is bart still living at home while Lisa is a semi successful musician.
Cut to Marge preparing Bart for an interview basically saying don't fuck this one up, and of course he does. He goes back to the house ready to tell Marge that he almost had it in the bag but Marge doesn't buy it this time and tells him she disappointed that he a fuck up (Marge be not proud vibe) bart gets mad and goes to Moes to drink his problems, where he meets Skinner. They have a discussion about Barts failed jobs and Skinner tells Bart that hes not a bad guy and recounts some previous Skinner bart story line (sweet Seymours badassssss song) and he give Bart an opportunity to work at the school as a councillor of sorts. And because he knows how to relate to the kids better than most teachers he becomes genuinely happy and fulfilled with helping the kids.
Theres then a few minute montage of going round all thr major characters in Springfield and them getting closure, Moes bar actually becoming successful, lenny and Carl finally admitting their feelings, Rod and Todd being ready to move out and be actual well adjusted adults, Chalmers promoting Skinner etc. And he final scene is The Simpsons having a family Christmas meal.
There's also a talking pie
I would actually like to see this become an episode you have got a future as a really great show writer keep it up
That's....not too bad! :)
lenny and carl? Did they have a thing?
@@sausageisbetter2810 it's more a fan theory haha but there is some stuff in the newer series hinting to it but its more a one way streak that lenny is into Carl.
the talking pie bought it for me
The regular show should have ended after season 10, but with films made every three years or so afterwards.
Season 10 was the final season where there were more ok-good episodes than bad ones. Unfortunately Disney will want to milk them for another decade.
Simpsons Hit & Run is the canonical ending of the show after Season 14.
I'm not even joking.
Can you explain?
@@dylancohen9201 Everyone who dies in the zombie attack at the end officially dies.
I.e. Kent Brockman, Snake, Grandpa.
And Homer finally gets to be a hero for the fans who've been watching him for years (despite that they're aliens).
Imagine a Simpsons hit and run movie? and a redo of the original game to go along with it?
My head would explode
I just want to see Bart get a happy ending, as opposed to how nearly every flash- forward episode seems determined to show him as an unsuccessful loser.
That's a long way to say "Behind the Laughter"
thought this said "Behind the Slaughter", which would imply the exsistance of a man, in such a position. A, male behind the genocide, if you will.
@@ryguy4465 i bet his skin is purple, too
@@lunastie39 He seems like a security guard to me, as well.
That's an odd way of spelling "Eternal Moonshine of a Simpson Mind"
@Daniel Carey It could work. If we assume The Simpsons was just a reality show in their world, and Springfield is a fake city, kinda like The Truman Show.
It actually kind of upsets me that this wasn't the series finale. It begs the question, will the actual finale live up?
If there ever is
Behind The Laughter (the season 11 finale) is when the show should have ended. There are a lot of reasons why this should be and I could write them out but I am feeling my inner Homer (lazy).
As much as I hate season 11, "Behind the Laughter" would have been an okay episode to stop.
Missing letters:the man s Full word:the man behind the slaughter
I honestly thought I think it was the finale of season 30 where it ended with how the characters all die in the future and I was so confused I was like “What? Was this the end? Surely not.”
why does every single video with a one sentance title about speculation or animated media have a thumbnail of the charaters/people in said thing with their eyes blacked out
The show should have ended in the early 2000s when there started being more bad episodes than good ones. I came here in hopes that someone had put Zombie Simpsons out of it's misery.
It still IS the early 2000s, dumbass. Mid 2000s is 2500. Everyone alive now will be dead by the mid 2000s, dumbass. It is going to be early 2000s for a long ass time, idiot!
@@MrParkerman6 this is sarcastic right
@@MrParkerman6 are you like 8? XD
Imagine referencing; spaced, the office, Peep show, BoJack horseman and life on Mars in one video.
Taste.
All of them make up my Top Ten TV Shows with 30 Rock, The Simpsons, Breaking Bad, Doctor Who and Nathan For You making my top 10 - Chris from Full Fat
@@FullFatVideos never seen 30 rock. Goons have to give it a watch.
@@mahoganycurry8623 one of those classic 'the first series is a bit wobbly' so it's worth persevering. The jump in quality from Series 1 to 2 is about the same as Bojack's if you want a comparison point. If you're a Simpsons fan it's the closest live action has come to its manic energy
@@FullFatVideos Thank for the recommendation.
Well in Doctor Who 'Planet of the Ood"' they seem to hint the Simpsons will carry on to 4222 😂
King Of The Hill has one of my favorite comedy finales. We finally see Hank and Bobby really see eye to eye.
If it ends one day, I wouldn't be surprised if a spinoff is made short after
How should the simpsons have ended? With either Homer's enemy or Spinoff Showcase. But also holidays of future past was a pretty great episode and potential ending
Good video. I tried watching a season 17 episode and truly couldn’t believe what I was watching and what had become of the greatest cartoon series.
Simpsons should have ended with this episode as the finale for season 9.
its been almost 2 years since this, and its only reaffirmed my idea that the show will only end when fox and Disney ends
Lads... Where's Cory in the house?
Greatest, anime, EVER.
It should end like this:
Bart: “And that kids, is the complete story of the craziest year of my life: 1990.”
Honestly, I dont think its worth ending the Simpsons with a well constructed plot, it just seems more likely and in a way pleasing for it to just, end at some point, with a normal season and a normal ending. Let the fans think about what happens to the family.
Most people just watch the show cause its on and nothing else is on anyway, I doubt many people care about the plot anymore.
I think it would be pretty poignant to end Simpson's on a fast forward episode. One where they encapsulate all of the different era of the Simpson's.(The amazing first three seasons, the jerk ass homer era) Just make it on how things finally changed but not at all really because even the grandkids are hellions. (Cut to a there way Grandad, dad, grandson, strangle off...pause)
While I can understand your points, still is a big *NO* from me.
I can understand why people like this episode, but to me is just a little better than the rest of awful of episodes that are made during the HD era. Is not terrible, but still has a lot of flaws that make me to dislike it, some of them:
1. Not being very funny. If a episode is not very funny, is not worth it.
2. Many details that I consider unimaginative and lazy writing. The main one, Bart being just a bum. Modern Simpsons just like to paint Bart to be just a failure. "Lisa's Wedding" showed the most believable Future Bart for me: working in demolitions and promoting local tough man contest on the side, like the street-smart kid he was in the Classic years.
3. Lisa with Milhouse is another concept that I deeply despise.
So I'm still convinced that I don't want this episode to be the finale of the show.
I will just insist that the show should have stopped in the late 90's, with modern Simpsons not happening whatsoever.
Sorry for broken English, is not my native language.
Yes to all of this.
Agreed. Bart and Lisa can do and deserve so much better. Lisa is clearly deeply unhappy with Milhouse but somehow settles just because he's always had a thing for her? No.
I love how John Simm was wearing basically the same suit in Life on Mars as he was when playing the Master
My idea for an ending was to have the whole town realize they’re trapped in time and decide whether or not to stay as they are or move on and grow up.
Was pretty surprised when the LEGO episode basically did that exact storyline but I’d still like to see the rest of the town involved in that decision
Ok everyone’s talking about the simpsons ending with a movie, but no one is talking about this guys voice. It’s so nice and almost soothing. I can’t stop listening to him. It mesmerizing.
Disney is not going to make a good ending. They just want money
Simpsons doesnt make a whole lot of money anymore tho
@@Misantroph0 that's not surprising
Why are you blaming Disney? Fox still has full creative control over the show. Don't act as if Fox isn't to blame for milking the franchise bone dry...
The flashforward scene in the episode where Bart and Homer become Catholics; show that Bart becomes a religous figure, with two opposing factions fighting over his legacy.
I’ve gone through and watched all the treehouses of horror and honestly, wished they stuck more to the Halloween/horror theme, over the years its devolved into movie spoofs, which would of been better as their own episodes instead of mediocre ones
9:21 Damn I don't watch Simpsons. It was one of those shows my parents forbid me as a child to watch as well as South Park XD (the latter I agree with haha). But just from watching the photo montage at the being, with Bart always smiling til he flunks out of college and get progressively more aggitated as Lisa's life improves til she married and her smile fades and he finally perks back up 😂 perfect way to show not tell! Also I almost shed a tear when he told her 'She was the person he always wanted to be'. Damn it's hitting me just thinking about it. Well played
There’s a big difference between The Simpsons and South Park lmao. I can see why your parents didn’t let you watch South Park, but The Simpsons is literally a family comedy show lol. It’s meant for families to watch it as appose to just teenagers and adults.
@@lfcforever1482 Yeah I feel you! It was more about it being trashy TV to them. My folks just weren't a fan of "Stupid" as my father put it. It was more about them thinking Homer or Bart stupidity might rub off on me or my brother 😂 He felt the same way about Patrick and Spongebob, CatDog (more so Dog), Stimpy, Beavus and Butthead, or Heffer from Rokko. He just wasn't a fan of foolishness lol but we watched OG Doug and Rugrats Lmao! The 90 had faaaar too many options to fight a losing battle. Plus he was Maaad into anime and bought Mangas and Vhs/DVDs of everything he could find!!! So he had his tastes 😁
Julie nolke
I've met so many people who weren't allowed to watch the simpsons as kids and for me it was the polar
opposite I started watching them as a literal baby probably before I even knew how to speak bc my parents saw nothing wrong with it there's so much general knowledge that I was first exposed to by the show like Michael Jackson to me was that guy that sang happy birthday Lisa lmao I can't really tell whether it impacted me in a negative way or not or if anyone's stupidity rubbed off on me bc I'll never know what kind of person I'd be if I had never watched it but if someone made a study to determine if you should let kids watch it they could definitely use me 😅
Great video but how is it seemingly everyone completely ignores the greatest animated series finale ever, King of the Hill. Bobby winning states is the ultimate example of a story completing a circle, and the impromptu cookout with every character of note was touching in a way only surpassed by Fry and Leela growing old together only to do it again. A shame that the extreme length/dwindling quality of the Simpsons makes it impossible for whatever ending they choose to be as heart wrenching as its lesser cousins.
I personally hate the idea of Lisa ending up with Milhouse, she deserves better
Louise T I’ll ship lisa and nelson forever 😞
Colin from the movie!
Milhouse likes Vaseline on toast.
Honestly Holidays of future past is one of the best Simpson episodes and it would've been an amazing final
I always liked the idea where the series ends with them driving to Springfield Elementary Christmas Paegant and as they're driving we transition between the final episode and the first episode, it ends when they pull up at springfield elementary and walk inside. at which points the credits roll to the sound of the children singing the paegant song.
Herb returns, everyone sings So Long Farewell until it reaches The Simpsons family & thanking the audience for watching the show & danced to their theme song, Homer accidentally destroyed a stage while trying to get a Donut & Beer.
The final catchphrase of The series is "D'oh!" Before the credits start rolling with memories of the show while the theme song plays in the background.
I would love to see Skinner get away from his mother and find a partner. He and Edna should have got together. Her and Ned becoming an item never worked for me.
Wow that's wild I don't think I ever even knew Ned and Edna got together.
The Simpson’s is a cash cow. It will never end.
It's not a cashcow show
Perhaps if it was for children it would've gotten worse
@@mrnobody2018 he means it makes truckloads of money
There is a theory that homer was in a coma the whole time. I feel like it would be really interesting and cool if the show ended with homer coming out of a 20 year coma and reconnecting with his family and finding out what happened to them while he was in the coma and how they coped. And the show would end with the family falling asleep in the family home one last time before the show ends. Is it just me that thinks that would be good ?
It should have ended with series 11 episode 22, behind the laughs.
Now heres a question for you. How should doctor who end?
The dr will end feminism
We have a video on this if you want to check it out! :)
@@FullFatVideos really a must have missed that
About 2 series ago
The real question is when should star wars end:
The answer is 1983
I didn't like that as an ending, I'm married to the Bart being a Chief Justice of the supreme court because I want that troubled kid to have made good and become a strong role model for the future
There's still time. He was really old in that episode and in later future episodes he was still much younger. I think you can still take it that he ends up there.
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@Adrian Roberto wow had to ruin it
I completely agree and I've always thought that they should have continued the series in the time established in this episode.
I think while this episode does give closure the endings for Bart and Lisa are such downer endings
Lisa was meant for something waaaay bigger than being Milhause's sad settled wife and Bart deserved better than to be just an adult loser
So while I want it to end
I just think they all deserve to end out on top
Thank you! I agree. A lot of comments have noticed about Bart - he becomes a supreme court justice dammit! But only yours and one other mentions the lackluster Lisa storyline of marrying Milhouse. He likes Vaseline on toast!
tbh i really don’t like how in almost every future episode lisa is with milhouse and bart is a failure. i see bart being a successful artist of some sort because there’s a lot of mentions of that in the series, and lisa ending up with someone other than milhouse
I really like this concept. Cheers to a another solid video.
Future episodes being used as the end is something I disagree with tbh. I do agree that a finale (if it ever happens, personally I really like the show so I don't mind either way if it stays as long as it's good enough for me to watch) should end on a high note, but more so in the present. I'm also not a big fan of the episode you discussed (although it's probably because I'm not a fan of future episodes).
Same here. The only future episode I like is "Lisa's Wedding".
Id like an ending where 40 year old Bart is put in a similar situation as Homer in "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire".
In a show with hundreds of wacky situations, itll be a clean and simple ending reminiscent of its humble beginnings
It's funny how this was the second supposed finale. The first one was the eighth season's finale, which is the Frank Grimes episode. The writers thought it was going to be the last season so they decided to make a crazier episode that they wouldn't have done otherwise, without realizing they were planting the seed for the coming decline on the quality of the series.
I know this is probably old hat now, but the "series finale" v. "season finale" bugged me the whole episode. Either way, fantastic commentary on an overlooked episode.
I haven't watched the Simpsons for more than 15 years so for me, it already has ended.
Hey, what's the name of the track playing in the background around the 9:00 mark?
i feel like the last episode of the Simpsons should end with the death of grandpa Simpson and his death makes the simpsons realize how much they love each other ending of with a Christmas day and have a photo just like the first episode
They should have opened the next episode with future homer and marge find a box of home videos and decided to watch them. Would have been a transition back to the series and set up for a later conclusion episode
to me the Simpsons ended since i stopped watching them, a few years ago. Never looked back ever since and don't feeling like i'm missing out on something. The madness has to end somehow and YOU as the audience have the power to walk away from it.
@Daniel Carey Obviously that only applies to those who are losing faith in it.
Yeah when I first saw this episode, it really came out of nowhere. I was shocked at how well written it was and kinda wondered if it had originally been intended as a series finale.
Bart used to have a different future: US Chief Justice
My idea has always been to have the characters age over the course of a final season, and end it when Homer and Marge are elderly. Bring back the best writers from the earliest years.
I personally think the series should have gone on hiatus after "Behind the Laughter", then come back in 2019-20.
I had that same idea as well, but have the Hiatus once every few years, like do what Venture Bros did.
What happened in that episode.
I think the true Simpsons finale will have to be set in the present. I think Grandpa dying would be a realistic catalyst for an emotional episode that sees Bart and Homer awkwardly try and appreciate each other more.
Regarding this topic, mainly the point towards the end of referencing the first episode, writer Al Jean has commented in interviews that his ideal ending for the series would have it come full circle with episode one, looping by ending with them getting ready for and heading to the Christmas pageant the first episode began with.
Now, that is just the opinion of one writer for the series, so don't consider it a hint at an eventual finale. But I find the idea would have gone well with the ending, or perhaps a modified option where, instead of a closed loop, it has them heading to a Christmas pageant for, considering ages in this episode, Bart's kids
I honestly just pretend that any season after season 8 doesnt exist.
After the real finale then we gotta find a cannon storyline
Guys I can’t wait for season 27127273683920102 of the Simpson’s to come out! 🥰
That song at 10:08 was used by a metal gear solid youtuber i used to watch back in like 2015... jeez.
For me it should have ended with Trilogy of Error. Simply because that's the last great episode thwy ever made. Everything after that is pretty much crap.