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== [[The Simpsons Movie]], as well as the [[Christmas Episode]] "Holidays of Future Passed are the true series finales. ==
In the movie Homer messes up big time to the point where he almost destroys Springfield, the town wants him dead, Bart finds a new father figure, and Marge tapes over their wedding video. In the end, he saves the day, Bart and Homer finally bond, Homer learns that other people are more important than him, a minor character is [[Killed Off for Real]], and Lisa meets her first real boyfriend so far. Unlike other future episodes, Holiday of Future Passed isn't told by a fortune teller or a look into the future. The main plot is set up by Bart and Lisa whining about having to get their Christmas pictures taken, then fast forward. Unlike other flashfowards, this one seems to be canon.
** Like [[
== A second movie will be made after the show finally ends to give the series one, big, final sendoff. ==
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== The secret to The Simpsons' longevity involves Matt Groening selling his soul and Al Jean and Mike Scully sabotaging their own show and the competition ==
After season four, Matt Groening was facing a crisis: his best writers were leaving due to exhaustion, the show was at the height of its popularity, and there was a line of [[Dueling Shows]] waiting to replace ''[[The Simpsons]]'' as the edgy sitcom that dares to reflect life's foibles with loving satire. Rather than call it quits and cancel the show like a sane person, Groening took a page from ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' and decided to make it better with new writers, not accounting for the fact that this practice doesn't always garner great results. Distraught over how cartoony and surreal the show was turning out, Groening planned to end the show and attempt suicide after completion of the season five finale "Secrets to a Successful Marriage" (the episode where Homer gets thrown out of the house for telling Marge's secrets during a "How to Fix Your Marriage" class at the local Learning Annex), but stopped when Mike Scully and Al Jean offered to help Matt fix the show -- [[Deal
By the time season eight rolled around, Mike Scully and Al Jean were having too much fun warping ''The Simpsons'' and hired Bill Oakley and Josh Weinsten to create the episode "The Itchy, Scratchy, and Poochie Show" as a "Screw You" to fans who loved the show's early years (even though seasons one and two were [[So Bad Its Horrible|wretched]]--in both [[Stylistic Suck|animation]] and writing, so the fans * really* need to take off the [[Nostalgia Filter|rose-colored glasses]] when waxing nostalgic about ''The Simpsons'''s early years). Matt Groening confronted Jean and Scully about the episode, but Jean and Scully took care of the upcoming conflict by [[Distracted
This was not to last, though. Following the creation and airing of "The Principal and the Pauper" (the episode where {{spoiler|Principal Skinner turns out to be an impostor named Armin Tamzarian and the real Seymour Skinner was a POW who was thought to have died during the Vietnam War}}), Groening realized that he had sold his soul and left the show in disgrace (his final wish was to have his names in the Executive Producer so no one would know that he had left). After a year of trying to find himself, Groening teamed up with David X. Cohen (who was also screwed over by Jean and Scully for suggesting to revert ''The Simpsons'' back to the way it was in season 3 -- somewhat like a sappy family sitcom, but with enough sarcasm to keep the treacle from sticking and poke fun at how cornball family sitcom conventions can be) and together, the two went to work on creating ''Futurama''.
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Angry that Groening reneged on their deal (and took a fellow writer with him), Jean and Scully decided to sabotage the show so Matt Groening can get blamed for the show's sorry state. Things got worse when Phil Hartman (the man who voiced crooked lawyer Lionel Hutz and washed-up, alcoholic, {{spoiler|fish-humping}} B-movie actor Troy McClure) died at the hands of his wife -- now Jean and Scully had no hook to get the more jaded viewers to watch the show. To make matters worse, Jean and Scully hired old college friends, drinking buddies, and their own family members as writers, who may be fans of the show, but wouldn't know how to write an episode if someone held them at gunpoint and forced them, so in a desperate bid to keep ''The Simpsons'' on the air (especially around the time that a batch of [[Dueling Shows]] were airing on network TV and cable), Jean and Scully pulled every trick in the book to get people to watch the show -- celebrity guests that added nothing to the plot, wackier stories, a [[Very Special Episode]] where someone important dies {{spoiler|but it turns out to be the least important character in the cast}}.
When that served only to drive more viewers away (leaving behind only but the truly braindead/heavily medicated/rabid fans who couldn't tell a good episode from a bad one), Jean and Scully called upon the studio janitor (who practices voodoo in his spare time) to create dolls symbolizing all the shows that threatened to take the place of ''The Simpsons'' and regularly stuck needles in them whenever Jean and/or Scully read a scathing review about this week's episode of ''The Simpsons'' being a steaming pile and declaring that an hour of The Weather Channel would make for better, smarter viewing. A lot of the [[Dueling Shows]], like ''[[Mission Hill]]'', ''[[The Oblongs]]'', ''[[Baby Blues]]'', ''[[King of the Hill]]'', and ''[[Sit Down, Shut Up]]'' were easily defeated, but the ones like ''[[South Park]]'', ''[[Family Guy]]'', ''[[
When that failed, Jean and Scully simply bribed people to praise the show and favor it over other superior shows such as ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' and ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' and created ''The Simpsons Movie'' in a feeble attempt at staying culturally relevant. Sadly, it worked well enough for ''The Simpsons'' to stay on the air longer. To this day, Jean and Scully continue to curse good animated shows and use their janitor's magic to keep the Simpsons on the air as a [[Franchise Zombie]], but with the tepid reviews from season 21's "Judge Me Tender," the magic may be fading.
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* One of the comic stories did have TV producers setting up a Truman Show around Homer. It ended once he found out and agreed to keep it going - and ''tried'' to be funny, which ended up backfiring horribly.
== Noah from the episode "Father Knows Worst" is a young [[Total Drama Island
''Someone'' has to say it. And they're both smart.
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== Homer is [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]. ==
He never had Moe put the crayon back in his brain - he worried that he would have died and left his family [[Sayonara, Zetsubou
== They are all suffering from jaundice. ==
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== Mr Burns is undead. ==
In the early seasons, he seemed pretty normal for his age. But now,he's a pathetically weak old man, incapable of simple tasks. The reasons for this is simple-Mr Burns isn't actually alive. At some point, he ended up dying, but he made a [[Deal
== Maggie grows up to be a either a [[Little Miss Badass]] or an [[Badass Normal]] superheroine ==
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== Some day in the future, ''The Simpsons'' will be the longest running TV series in human history ==
Well ... does anybody doubt it?
* ''[[
* As would Doctor Who. Including both the old and the new series they've done 31 seasons, and they're about to start the 32nd.
* If we're including all genres and all timeslots, we'd have to get rid of [[The Tonight Show]] too, and then [[The Simpsons]] would have to last another 35 years, which is still over twice how long it's been on now. Good luck.
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== The show's seemingly never-ending run is really [[Springtime for Hitler]] by Matt Groening. ==
Think about it: by the time Season 9 was coming to a close, Groening decided he had enough. He felt the show had a nice run and that it was time to move on. Unfortunately, the show was still a [[Cash Cow Franchise|cash cow]] and Groening knew damn well that the cash-mongering executives at [[
* Not unprecedented; ''[[The Producers|Springtime For Hitler]]'' was a hit.
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== Harry Shearer can criticize ''The Simpsons'' because he is too invaluable to replace. ==
He's the only one on the crew to admit that the show has [[Jumped the Shark]] long ago. (Remember, even if people [[Your Mileage May Vary|disagree on when]], most people think it has.) But because he plays virtually half the male supporting cast, it would not be worth it for Fox and Gracie Films to replace him. They would have to hire at least a dozen more people to replace the voices of all the characters he voices. And they simply cannot [[McLeaned|kill]] [[Put
* Most people think it's jumped the shark, but a chunk of those people think it has recovered since around season 21.
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While at the same time making a point of all the many secondary characters Springfield still has to offer for potential new stories. Of course, a spin-off series will follow and receive very mixed reviews.
== The next Treehouse of Horror episode will contain a segment that is a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
* While Homer is in Springfield he notices a murder in Springfield that happened twenty years ago. He asks his father Abe about it, and Abe will appear with cat eyes saying that nothing happened. Bart then sneaks up, and cuts Homer's arm with a ratchet, and Homer strangles him. Soon, Springfield is destroyed, and time seems to repeat itself.
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== The last season will involve revoking the [[Status Quo Is God]]. ==
It's only fitting that, if its the end, they might as well do something they've never done before(and they've done a lot). Examples of what they could do can be posted below, as well as a scenario.
* Abe Simpson's death. Considering Homer's "daddy issues", it would be quite interesting to see what emotions he might go through, and how the family will react to one another. I see it as this: the family ends up forgetting/ignoring a routine visit to the Retirement place, unaware that Abe suffered a heart attack due to Jasper cutting in line to his meds. As Abe spends his last days in a hospital bed, there will be massive tension between Homer and Abe. Homer will end up using this time to [[Calling the Old Man Out|call the old man out]] for his poor and [[Abusive Parents|abusive]] parenting skills, [[Freudian Excuse|and letting this contribute to the way he is]]. Marge and the kids will [[What the Hell, Hero?|call Homer out]], but Homer will stand by his words. Pissed off, he'll leave the family to "think about things". At Moe's bar, he'll start talking about it. Moe, being the [[Jerk
== Bart is [[The Antichrist]] ==
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