*The Season 36 premiere of “The Simpsons” surprised fans by presenting itself as the “series finale,” only to reveal that the storyline was a product of Bart’s AI-generated imagination.
Showrunner Matt Selman explained that the concept stemmed from the challenge of creating a true finale for such an iconic and long-running series. The episode explored potential endings, including Mr. Burns’ death, Moe’s Tavern closing, and Principal Skinner’s retirement.
Speaking about the episode to the New York Post, Selman said, “The discussion that it would be so hard to do a last episode is what led to the fake series finale. That it’s sort of an impossible thing.”
“The show isn’t meant to end,” he added. “To do a sappy crappo series finale, like most other shows do, would be so lame. So we just did one that was like over the top.”
According to Selman, the show’s real series finale will be “a regular episode.”
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“The characters in this crazy show don’t age … I think later we’ll just pick an episode and say that was the last one. No self-aware stuff. Or, one self-aware joke,” he said, noting that his preference is for the show’s last episode to be “a really good story about the family.”
Selman noted that, for many TV fans, their ideas for a series finale “are based on having watched other last shows.”
“And I don’t think it should be a response to the litany of last shows that already exist. We covered that area,” he explained.
“I’ve heard a few people say ‘I think it should be this’ or ‘I think it should be that.’ And it’s hard, because what the show is kind of keeps changing,” Emmy-winning “The Simpsons” writer Carolyn Omine told The Post about the eventual series finale. “So it can’t be the idea you’ve had in your pocket for a while.”
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