The Simpsons Dropped a SURPRISE Series Finale
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- For the Season 36 premiere, The Simpsons has done something unprecedented. They aired a SURPRISE series finale. Sort of. As somebody who grew up OBSESSED with The Simpsons, it’s cool to say that the show is going through something of a renaissance. Since Matt Selman took over as showrunner in season 33, the show has started to feel fresher and like it has a renewed energy, but I think beyond that, the thing that’s really made me excited about the show again is the ways it’s been willing to experiment. And tonights’ premiere, Bart’s Birthday, is the PERFECT example of that new energy that The Simpsons is bringing to the table, embracing the show’s obscenely long and storied history to throw itself a premature series finale event. And it’s one that celebrates The Simpsons in a way that an actual series finale would never be able to, so let’s talk about The Simpsons season 36 premiere SLASH series finale.
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They're also apparently shutting down the Simpsons game tapped out
This made me really sad. I loved just doing things in tapped out.
I haven’t played that gay shit since I was 9 years old
Im gonna miss this place
@@thecunninlynguist It was a nice way to relax and just let your mind go you know, fun easy little games like that
@@Rosewiththorns2022 yeah. I never spent any actual money but was able to get a nice stash of donuts. I liked collecting the characters
honestly I think they're gonna go to 40 seasons. The voice cast are all pushing or past 70 at this point
40 seems right to me
They are only 60...except for julie
@@Johnny2Cellos That's 4 years from now, BTW.
@@KarlesGossick yeah and their voices are giving out
Marge can't be understood and the kids are getting harder to understand with every season. Homer can be understood but he sounds more and more off with every season
They'll keep it going even if all the actors straight up just die out. Or try to anyways. They'll replace the voice actors with ones who can immitate the original, try AI or some other trickery, but the show will go on. It will continue past the point of sanity, as it has for many years now.
The ending if the simpsons is gonna have to be like a season long event. It cant just be one episode. Could also do the ending as the simpsons movie 2
Oh yeah, maybe an entire season of it building towards a finale would be cool.
I think if they wanted to end The Simpsons, instead of doing a season finale, they should do a "finale season". Have a full season in which instead of episodes being standalone, have them flow into one another. 18 episodes, each one focusing on a core member of the casts story and how it ends. You're right. You can't end it with one episode. 18 episodes though? I think that could work
That’s a great idea
a la Arrested Development
Call me cynical but I don't think the question of how do you end the Simpsons is even that deep. Episodes like Behind The Laughter, Holidays of Future Past and even the movie make for more apt and fitting conclusions and should've been where it ended, but we move.
And of course if an episode did end with a character aging that would be kinda dumb and desperate, it's not like that's where the series was heading it's just a running gag that the characters don't change.
Behind the Laughter is great but I think that would have been an awful ending personally
@@Johnny2Cellosyou can't have a show where you want people to be invested in your world and characters and end it satirically. It's like a big middle finger from the staff for ever caring
@@Johnny2CellosI remember a quote from the director of Bojack Horseman on how to end a season without knowing if you’re coming back. In short, you have to have the problems resolved within the season but leave enough loose threads and questions that can be explored in the future. The problem however is that Bojack Horseman is serialized while the Simpsons are episodic with a few rare references to its past
@@Johnny2Cellos Agree. The meta episode format has been used succesfully but as an ending? Really doesn't work.
I'd probably go with The Way of the Dog or Barthood as the series finale, idk both of those just kinda feel like perfect endings to me
Conan's joke about the first episode not being as funny as it used to be had me rolling 🤣
You have to have watched the original series as a 4th grader from day 1 to understand why The Simpsons stopped being good by the end of the 90s.
It went from meeting Homer's mother to "he happened to like hookers", and that was just LAME.
I feel like a series in the case of the simpsons its better to leave its ending open ended like the town continues to keep going but we just arent looking at it anymore
Good episode. I hope it wasnt the only herb episode articles hinted at a few months ago.
It won't end until one of the main voice actors gets sick or dies, and at that point, a series finale will feel inappropriate.
You say that like they won't just replace them with AI now after they die.
The voice actor for Marge died a couple months ago dude
@@Kerorofan1990at the very least, as an example, if they find successors for Dan’s characters, when he dies, they should also kill off Abe, as a way of symbolism.
@@jarltryggvi She's still alive, the VA for the Latin American dub is the one that passed away.
@@jarltryggvi That's the Latin American Spanish VA not the original English VA, Julie Kavner is still very much alive.
Knowing you, I was half expecting to see Abed turning the lights off to the study room in that “I’m gonna miss this place” supercut 😂
Yeah as soon as I heard what this episode was doing, I knew you’d be talking about it. What a trip this was. Poor Bart.
this simpsons will inevitably outlive all of us. The real series finale is when the writers room at fox gets destroyed when the sun explodes and even then there might be 1 more season transmitted by the Kang and Kodos statues they have in the lobby.
And yet there will still only be 8-9 seasons worth watching.
I kinda feel like the actual finale would have to be a movie.
Oh yes, they should do a tv series finale where they wrap some things up but have the second Simpsons movie be the ultimate finale in a big epic scope story. One last hurrah.
I feel like, either it should be one episode (or movie) focused on the family alone, as Johnny said - or it'd have to be a finale season.
ironic how this comes out at the same time as futurama’s season finale.
Both fake series finales in their own way lol
Futurama is gonna have more series finales than some have episodes lol.
@@Creepsandwicheater I say they should release a Blu-ray of just their series finales. It’s literally insane how many they have, but I’m not complaining. Every one is a banger.
@@JamStan1978The Futurama Finale: A 25 Year Time Travel
@@Johnny2Cellos Looking forward to your analysis of the latest season and how thematically these two episodes are eerily similar.
I think Conan’s line about fans complaining about the decline at episode 1 is great, because it implies the existence of hardcore Tracey Ullman era purists. They’re probably out there, and still pouring out frosty chocolate milkshakes in mourning.
But the way the birthday story ends is amazing, and could’ve worked in any season. If you read old newspaper reviews of The Simpsons from the 90s, most of them rave about how edgy and subversive the show was, even though that’s only a small fraction of its success. So ending it all with things getting too perfect, then Homer strangling Bart and everything going back to normal, feels instrinsically Simpsons.
It could’ve been a jab at all those sentimental sitcom finales from an era the classic seasons were fighting in. It could be a blunt “Jerkass Homer” sequence from the middle years. And now, it’s part of this meta narrative about how the show has become impossible to wrap up. It’s a symbol of the show, so making it what caps off hundreds of episodes is symbolic in a way.
I’m just happy I lived to see the series finale. I’ve already been telling people, “Did you see The Simpsons just aired its series finale?”, then seen them get shocked, so I elaborate, “Oh they’re still going, they just made the series finale to get it out of the way.”, and that gets a laugh.
I think I'm gonna miss this place... *turns off internet*
0:54 A series faux-nale, if you will.
You could also see it as a visual display of the writers' and artists' opinions on generative AI programs; the main reason so many of the story conclusions, random cameos, spin-off setups, and even the light-switch bit seem so hollow, even to Bart, make perfect sense when you remember the episode they're showing was "written" by an AI. Bart rejecting the changes it brought about isn't just about setting things back to a sense of "normal", it's about fighting back against the machines, showing the tech bros and executives that nothing is more powerful than the human soul.
But how _do_ they end The Simpsons? Well, it's gonna have to end eventually, nothing lasts forever, especially not the voice cast. I think if they really are gonna go out some day, it'll have to be BIG. What if they spread out its finale into the whole _season_? Let's give as many characters as possible a resolution or a new direction, and finish it up with the family.
Tom Hanks’s cameo was one of my favourite bits in the episode.
I like how he appeared in The Simpsons Movie and has now appeared in an actual episode.
There never going to end the simpsons. They have stories for year's like marge becomes a robot.
What’d u think of episodes 3-10 of Futurama?
LOTS of thoughts, posting em all next week
Wait what? Oh I see. Clever.
I’m really going to miss this channel 🥲
Me too man, can't believe this is the last video he'll ever make for eternity.
I’m not sure what they could do for a Series Finale Episode. But I do think that if they get confirmation for a Final Season, the smartest thing to do would be to have each episode wrapping up different storylines revolving around iconic characters. And then have the final episode of the series be an hour long special revolving around the family.
I think that's a good call, sort of like how Futurama sort of did a few "wrap up" episodes at the end of the Comedy Central era
Or maybe also second movie. It could even be the first of a two parter and the cliffhanger will says "to be continued...yes, we mean it this time"
I'd say the perfect Simpsons ending would be them having to face every single consequence from the years of the family's antics... buuuuut The Amazing World of Gumball already had a faux-finale exactly like that, and even Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law kinda did that sort of thing as well. So if they were to do that sort of plotline, it would feel derivative. That said, The Simpsons doesn't deserve a finale episode so much as a big, theatrical series end-off. You can't end this show with simply one episode. It needs to go out with a bang.
@@mightyfilm Seinfeld did it before either of those. It was already derivative when they did it!
@@einootspork Correct,. Though not quite as chaotic as the Gumball and Harvey Birdman examples. I'd tend to think The Simpsons would be closer to the Gumball example, rather than the more grounded Seinfeld "all the characters come back" clip show type ending. Something where everything that happens causes massive damage to the Simpsons and even the town.
Except... I forgot, they managed to do that twice in The Simpsons already. The movie, and the Outlands episode. D'oh. Still, I don't see the Simpsons ending episode to be anything but chaos and a small bit of sentimentality just as it closes.
To me, the Larry Burns episode would have been the PERFECT ending. It wasn't a finale, but had this strange bittersweet quality to the ending, which would have been an amazing way to wrap up the show.
Honestly, the amount of references and acknowledgements to unfilled story lines in this episode sorta shows a deep care for the show they're writing. Like they know how unruly a series that runs this long can get and know how the community perceives them
That's an interesting way to start and Danny Devito returns as Herb is amazing!
I just hope he returns in a more substantial role later
*It's everything that delivers nothing and yet you feel something.*
I'm of the belief that the true finale is already written. Somewhere they have the script, the story board, even the recorded voice lines ready to go. Maybe they update it every 5 years or so to adapt it to current culture, but I think they're prepared.
not to be a downer, but I don't think there will be a finale. An important cast member will die, and the show will be forced to end. just my opinion
There better be cameos from the Phil Hartman characters! (Lionel Hutz, Troy McClure etc)
The head box simpsons seasons are the bane of my dvd wall. Why the fuck did they have to do that
THE SIMPSONS CANT BE OVER MAN 😢I heard they shut down tapped out like I put years into that game
Child abuse being the best part of the episode was crazy
I think rather than a final episode they should do one big finale season, allowing each episode room to bring closure and a sense of finality for a lot of what the shows done. No matter what they decide to do they better start thinking cause a lot of the actors are going up in the years and it’d suck if they were forced to end rather than it be on their own terms
Why not do an entire season to wrap up the whole show, and end it with a movie?
God I need to get back on my binge watch of The Simpsons
If everyone makes it to then, I hope they make episode 1000 the final episode.
Who are we kidding,
Disney will never let the Simpsons die, AI will replace the cast members once they start dropping
I won’t lie. Part of me really wanted to see Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz in that group shot at Bart’s birthday. But I know out of respect for Phil Hartman, we can never see them again since they need to rest with him. It’s honestly heartbreaking but understandable.
I've spent quite a bit of time over the years thinking about what a Simpsons series finale might look like. There was one idea I had a few years ago that I've personally moved away from, but that people have told me they like, so although I'm not super attached to it any more, I'll share it here since the idea of "what could they possibly do for their real finale?" came up.
The idea would basically to be to do something akin to "Free Churro" from Bojack Horseman, but instead of being a funeral, it's one last one of those "Future" episodes like "Holidays of Future Past" or the many other similar episodes - in those, it's been a recurring thing that Maggie becomes a pop star; have the final ever episode finally allow Maggie to speak properly, have her accepting a Grammy and giving an acceptance speech where she reflects on the family who raised her.
And like Free Churro, the idea was that it'd be important that we only see Maggie talking, no explicit flashbacks. Even if the family members are canonically still alive while she's making the speech, the events she'd be reminiscing on would just be memories, like the characters themselves would be, with it being the final episode. They could have a big celebration episode as the second-to-last episode and leave the finale to be this quieter, more serene departure.
I can't help but think their joke about feeding all finales into an AI might be more based in reality than they let on. I've messed around with AI enough to know that when trying to use it to create fictional narrative, it is good at giving happy endings but not satisfying endings, which seems to be the case here as well
I know it's a dumb joke but I'm gonna say it anyway: we got The Simpsons series finale before GTA 6
lol the junkyard guy just flicking a switch and turning off a tire fire. That's classic Simpsons comedy right there.
At least if they do this, they have to make it more canon. No Sgt. Seymour Skinner and Homer not strangling Bart anymore.
I love that idea of Homer strangling Bart being what puts everything back the way it was. They haven't done that in a while so using that very point as a way of literally forcing the status quo back into the show is a very clever bit of writing
if I recall, I believe they wanted to originally have their series finale end with the family driving to the Christmas Pageant....basically turning the entire series into a circle
I think what they’ll do is make the finale a low-key affair. Perhaps as a remade and extended Goodnight.
Fox only renewed the show for seasons 35 and 36 with a lot of the voice actors saying their done after this season. Can’t think of his name but the burns and Smithers actor left the show due to a contractual dispute so I feel like this might be the swan song if Fox doesn’t pick it up for 2 new seasons in 37&38
I don't think that's quite true, some of the writers have already talked about next year's episodes, and none of the voice actors have left. It's a really cushy gig they get to all record from their homes. They've definitely got to be gearing up to end the show at some point here, though.
I haven’t seen the Simpsons in years, but every time I hear their voice all I can think about is how old they sound and it makes me sad
Disney/20th century Fox "we're finally ending The Simpsons!"
I think a good majority of fans would agree that the movie could’ve been a great series finale because you can’t solve every loose end while giving enough attention to the family in one episode.
I feel like the time loop ending may be where it goes from here on out. Out of all of the things you mentioned that's where it seems like it can and should go too
Bro why does Comic Book Guy calling his child the ultimate limited edition collection sound so emotional
Is actually finishing, or is just fake?
it was a fake "ending", it's the first episode of season 36.
I feel that the only way to actually end the Simpsons is dedicate a whole season, maybe 2 as a Simpsons series finale
I'm really gonna miss this series
i like how your watermark is your face because i can make eye contact with you for the entire length of the video
Funny timing to have The Simpsons' mobile game ending just as this airs
I think it’s the biggest downside to the 24ish years of the Al Jean era. They felt like they were an attempt to course correct from the poorly received Mike Scully era. The problem being……they never evolved beyond that. The entire zombie Simpsons era felt like it was just trying to make a classic Simpsons and not a new and interesting take on what that means for a show that’s been on television for 30 years.
It’s a shame it’s just getting good now (given Harry Shearer is 80 now the end is closer than anyone would like to admit)
I definitely think the biggest problem was moving away from the rotating showrunner formula. The show stayed fresh when they swapped out every few years. It got stale when one guy did it for too long, even if he's a legend.
Also *whispers* I prefer the scully era to even the best of the jean era
@@Johnny2Cellos (I do toooo)
Season 9 is deeply uneven but still a classic, season 10 is good. Season 11 (where half the writing got moved to futurama) is objectively bad, but season 12 has a lot of hits (Kentucky fried panda finger ling-ling good still gets me)
I’d struggle to think of anything from 13-33 I’d actively seek out to watch again
Honestly I think with the way they're experimenting with what the show can be it can make it to 1000 episodes.
At this point The Simpsons cannot end, The Simpsons can only stop.
Just when I thought I was out... they pull another Lisa The Boyscout
the simpsons has ended more than twenty years ago. you all are watching some awful rich fan fiction
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Wait they actually ended thw Simpsons?
They should call the next episode "pilot"
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This episode is completely batshit!
I stopped watching The Simpson S26. Just stopped enjoying watching it
I stopped watching way before that, you should check out some of the stuff they've done in 33-36 tho
I like the simpsons but I prefer the old ones I can’t get my head out that Martin isn’t a child 😟
@@tillyannamcdonagh7363 martin is a child, those were fake clips from a clip show
@@anamedguy12 phew that’s a relief thought it was true 😮💨
South Park already used a character's birthday party as a launching point for a possible series finale with "You're Getting Old" in 2011.
Simpsons will never end. Once 1 of the main cast dies rather than a straight-up ending, they'll transition to focusing on Springfield as a whole. Essentially 23 short films about Springfield as a whole series.
Thank you for acknowledging Selman's influence on their recent upsurge in popularity. I am a huge Simpson's Fan and noticed since the time he became a show runner, the show has been easier to watch. No shade to Jean, i just think his heart wasn't in it.
Personally, I feel like even with the new changes happening recently in Simpson's history, it has a large amount of history that cannot simply be wrapped up in one episode. Maybe the series finale would be a "season" finale, where the finality is stretched out over a season's worth of individual but connected stories.
What I mean is that each episode would be something that finished a certain plot line and develop a stop point for a character, and the further on the series you go, the more characters would have settled story arcs and may appear as cameos for the final series while new "status-quos" for potential spin-offs are being developed, leading to a true final episode.
My point is that despite all the changes, the show is too episodic to have a satisfactory ending, so perhaps a way to solve that issue is by making the last season the series finale, by changing the show from an episodic show to a temporary serialized show to wrap things up.
This might sound weird, but it honestly felt like an amazing world of gumball episode, and its pretty good
Damn i donlt watch Simposns anymore, but I might have to check this episode out.
The apology for the clip show episode is actually relevant since there hasn't been a clip show episode since that one and in a way , Batts plot was kinda like the South Park episode where Stan saw everything as shit. Even though he said he was sick of things changing, he was actually sick of things staying the same. For Bart, it's the reversed version
That’s how you do Satire Warner Brothers. In case you don’t know ever since teen titans go WB like to insult its audience like Thundercats roar and Velma.
They're finally ending it? This is a show that was around when my father was a teenager! It shaped American culture, became the poster child for shows that go on too long and now it's finally going to finish it's legacy!
Can't tell if this is a bit, or you commented before watching for some reason
@@HamazuraGODIt's a bit. I know this isn't the end.
The actual end is going to be a huge event like a second movie.
@@claytonrios1
Okay, thanks. I've seen a LOT of people make comments solely based on the thumbnail and title before so I can't be sure anymore. I agree about the movie idea. I think they'll try to go for 40 seasons and then a final movie, perhaps.
@@HamazuraGOD As long as the cast can make it to that point I'll be happy.
@@claytonrios1 I hope this is true.
A big part of me thinks Disney might be unwilling to let go of a profitable series easily.
I agree the show has been going up in quality lately.
It is just me or does anybody thought or felt that this episode Literally was "what if bart was trap under a Genjutsu/Genjutsu world" cause it Basically a Genjutsu at this point with how everyone acting differently and getting their good ending.
This episode put a lot of things into perspective and made me realize I may not be ready to live in a The Simpson-less world xD.
Despite whatever feelings I may have (I love what they are doing now even if I never grew accustomed to the digital hd style), the Simpsons is a constant I am grateful for in my life.
Last episode of the simpsons should not be about progress, it should just be a funny episode that is unrepentant about what it is and what it meant. I don't even want an emotional episode, I don't want a sad episode, a funny episode with a random romp that fully involves the family would be perfect.
I feel like the Simpsons should be one of like 3 shows ever to have the finale be a full season long instead of just one episode. It would be nice for the Simpsons
I'll just say this. The Simpsons will always be a masterpiece of animation.
Make a movie 2 simpson ans at the end of there next adventure loop it to the first show. But the same time apu returns and needs to return cause the loop so it fit. But i take it as Homer and His farther storyline instead of Homer and Bart. Like the first movie where Homer learns to let go the past and reliesing his kids are getting older and it loops but we now know bart is 11
I feel like, even though they are seperate entities now, that it's no coincidence that Futurama's latest actual Season Finale touched on similar themes.
I like those aspect of packing plot lines on one episode but why not have it be like a season arc?
Wouldn’t that be a bit new for the Simpsons? Sure two parters and the tree house of horror episodes sure but still a whole season dedicated to character storylines being wrapped up .
But then again what does some random nobody online know about concluding a series 🤡
Personally I think they should do like a 4 parter for the Actually!
I stopped watching the show when It started going mainstream and only talking about Hot topics and everything.That's just going on right now.Instead of being original , like it used to be
we get all these characters and story closure moments and yet still no Moe and Maya. Why?
1:11 I thought Burns told Don to shave those sideburns, after all these years he still hasn’t done it.
The movie.
Absolutely possible for an ending.
I've seen this episode and the Futurama finale back to back. And while Futurama was indeed written to be a finale and turned into its own faux finale by being renewed again before they could change it, I've noticed a similarity. Bart and Fry's character arcs in both episodes were both about being hyper aware that something was wrong. At the risk of repeating a certain cartoon scientist meme, it's weird it happened twice on Matt Groening shows that aired barely a day apart. Of course, Bart was more about being well aware that things were changing and wrapping up suspiciously and Fry having various flashbacks that either happened, didn't happen, or could have happened. They were both levels of meta, but The Simpsons was meta about the show ending, while Futurama was meta about all the things that did happen and the time loop that the new episodes started with. Anyway, I kind of wish Bart would have told off the entire family, and not just Homer. That was an excellent "Wham moment," and it would have hit even harder if he pissed off the entire family.
There's also a bunch of one off kid character cameos when they are in the school auditorium
Yes, VAs are passing away as time goes on, so I guess they should wrap it up soon.
Let me say that I heard of a sheep in a wolf’s clothing, but I can’t believe there’s an Season premiere in a Season’s finale performance, there I am happy to say that this series finale is premature for all of us and still, it was very happy to see Conan O’ Brian in the show again.
The way to end The Simpsons is by acknowledging that it isn't a story at all: it's a set of stock characters. So just let a bunch of different animation studios do a bunch of shorts that can be literally whatever they want. That would be the way to sell the idea that it can't end because it's not a sequence and it hasn't been for a long time. It's a toybox that people will still be playing with after the show becomes unprofitable.
I just hope when they end it it's set to Pride (In the name of love) by U2
Meanwhile, what did you think of the Futurama season finale?