Holding issues recent in its thirty sixth season, The Simpsons took to drastic measures and murdered considered one of their most beloved characters: blue-haired matriarch Marge (voiced by Julie Kavner).
Within the season finale titled “Estranger Issues,” which aired on Might 18, the present provided a glimpse into the longer term, revealing Bart and Lisa (voiced by Nancy Cartwright and Yeardley Smith) as estranged adults.
The finale’s nostalgic flashback revisited Bart and Lisa’s first introduction to the psychotic cat-and-mouse duo Itchy and Scratchy. However once they found that child sister Maggie additionally cherished the present, their particular bond over its hilariously horrifying cartoon violence started to fade, inflicting the siblings to float aside, a lot to Marge’s dismay.
Nervous that her youngsters will grow to be distant sooner or later, she lectures her children about leaning on one another for assist sooner or later. “No matter you do, don’t drift aside. You share a journey together with your siblings nobody else will ever perceive. Don’t ever, ever take that with no consideration,” begs a weepy Mom Marge.
And naturally, like at all times, she is dismissed by the callous, yellow palms of her youngsters.
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Nevertheless, to drive the seriousness of the message dwelling, the trauma-inducing vocals of animal-lover Sarah McLachlan set the scene for the longer term, displaying a now a lot older Lisa and Bart. Because the music “A Mom’s Heartbreak” performs, the viewers is shocked to study that Marge handed away because the “digital camera” pans to her graveside to see her family and friends grieving, as her epitaph reads: “Beloved Spouse, Mom, Pork-chop seasoner.”
Within the time soar, Lisa is now the commissioner of the NBA, whereas Bart runs an unlicensed retirement dwelling out of their childhood abode that homes Homer (Dan Castellaneta) and his miscreant buddies. After a number of assorted shenanigans, the siblings discover their groove once more and bond over their shared loss.
The episode ends on a little bit of a cheerful notice as Marge watches from above on a cloud, delighted to see her children reunited earlier than she walks off hand-in-hand along with her longtime crush, The Beatles‘ drummer Ringo Starr.
Although the episode is ready within the distant future, Marge’s demise took followers without warning. Viewers could also be accustomed to the occasional lack of a supporting or recurring character, however by no means a core member of the Simpson household (exterior of a “Treehouse of Horror” particular).
With the collection renewed by way of Season 40, Marge Simpson’s demise could proceed to hang-out viewers if the writers return to future-set episodes. Whereas it isn’t the primary time audiences have glimpsed what lies forward for Fox’s First Household of Animation, this model is arguably some of the heartbreaking. The present has a historical past of ignoring beforehand established futures, akin to President Lisa, so this explicit destiny for Marge could ultimately be put aside.
Because the present returns this fall with Season 37, followers will be capable to see how the collection follows up with Marge’s demise.
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