Regardless of The Simpsons‘ Season 36 premiere being dubbed the “sequence finale,” the long-running animated present has no plans to go away anytime quickly. Nevertheless, showrunner Matt Selman has some concepts in thoughts for the way issues ought to finish when the time comes.
Season 36 premiered on September 29, 2024, with an episode that explored the query of how the enduring Fox sitcom ought to finish. This included eventualities reminiscent of Mr. Burns dying, Moe’s Tavern closing down, and Principal Skinner retiring. In the long run, it turned out to be all a part of Bart’s A.I.-generated phantasm.
Talking concerning the episode to the New York Put up, Selman mentioned, “The dialogue that it will be so arduous to do a final episode is what led to the faux sequence finale. That it’s kind of an unimaginable factor.”
“The present isn’t meant to finish,” he added. “To do a sappy crappo sequence finale, like most different exhibits do, could be so lame. So we simply did one which was like excessive.”
Selman shared comparable sentiments earlier this yr in an interview with Folks, the place he defined, “I at all times felt like there was no good reply to that query [how the show should end] as a result of the present was by no means meant to finish. It was meant to go on ceaselessly. It was meant to make enjoyable of the thought of final episodes and every little thing we do, each episode is each a primary and a final episode of the present.”
With that in thoughts, Selman has his personal concepts of what a final episode of The Simpsons would appear to be, telling the Put up it will simply be “an everyday episode.”
“The characters on this loopy present don’t age… I feel later we’ll simply choose an episode and say that was the final one. No self-aware stuff. Or, one self-aware joke,” he shared, including that he’d just like the final episode simply to be “a very good story concerning the household.”
Carolyn Omine, an Emmy-winning author on the present, additionally spoke to the Put up about an eventual sequence finale, stating, “I’ve heard just a few individuals say ‘I feel it needs to be this’ or ‘I feel it needs to be that.’ And it’s arduous, as a result of what the present is form of retains altering. So it could possibly’t be the thought you’ve had in your pocket for some time.”
Selman famous that many individuals have concepts concerning the sequence finale “based mostly on having watched different final exhibits… And I don’t assume it needs to be a response to the litany of final exhibits that exist already. We coated that space.”
“[The last episode will be] a parody of A Christmas Carol with [Mr. Burns] as Scrooge. The laziest thought!” he quipped.
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