# death on the simpsons **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 16, 2000, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-on-the-simpsons/13826 "2000-01-16T19:53:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-on-the-simpsons/13826/21 "2000-01-18T00:26:00Z")
I bet they’re gonna kill Kenny. You bastards! ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2000, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-on-the-simpsons/13826/22 "2000-01-18T21:22:00Z")
Just thinking of dearly departed (or at least MIA) Simpsons characters, I wonder what _did_ happen to Uter \< sp? \>, the German exchange student. On a recent (or not, I was without Fox for a couple years) episode, Principal Skinner repeatedly denied knowledge of an Uter, and at one point Uter’s parents even begged him, “Please, we just want closure.” You don’t suppose the faculty really did eat him… * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Muscular Dystrophy Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-on-the-simpsons/13826/23 "2000-01-24T22:47:00Z")
Someone on the Simpsons last night made a not-so-cryptic comment about suicide. Does anyone remember who it was and what the comment was? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-on-the-simpsons/13826/24 "2000-01-24T22:58:00Z")
I believe the not so cryptic comment came from Moe. I can’t remember the wording, but I think he’s made a couple of other remarks to that effect. ---
**Author:** ![Kakkerlak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bb73d2/32.png) [@Kakkerlak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kakkerlak)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2000, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-on-the-simpsons/13826/25 "2000-01-25T01:00:00Z")
A presenter at the Springfield Awards show said something about a person who had jumped off a tall building. The camera jumps to Moe- he brightens and says to himself “Yeah! That’s a way to do it!” (or something to that effect). Is this misdirection? Would Moe really kill himself? I’m assuming hilarity could ensue if he willed the bar to Carl or Lenny or Homer. Speaking of Lenny… Marge has developed a strange affection for him. Maybe Homer bumps Lenny off in a fit of rage. He is an NRA life member… ---
**Author:** ![Utinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Utinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Utinni)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2000, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-on-the-simpsons/13826/26 "2000-01-25T01:36:00Z")
Yeah, they have been spending a lot of time on Lenny lately, haven’t they? (BTW, did anyone else laugh really loud at that Grammy joke from last night? That was frickin’ hilarious!) * * * “War doesn’t determine who’s right. War determines who’s left.” ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2000, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-on-the-simpsons/13826/27 "2000-01-25T03:47:00Z")
I’ve always thought of Lenny and Carl as the Guildenstern and Rozencrantz to Homer’s Hamlet. So, the obvious thing is to kill them both off simultaneously, at Homer’s (mis)direction. * * * and the stars o’erhead were dancing heel to toe ---
**Author:** ![TheUnforgiven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TheUnforgiven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheUnforgiven)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2000, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-on-the-simpsons/13826/28 "2000-01-25T05:53:00Z")
I think Moe may be a likely candidate because of his incredibly low level of self esteem. Other likelys include the comic book store owner, Snake, Chief Wiggum (sorry Wiggum), Otto, or Dr. Nick. Snake seems the most likely to me. But if either Professor Frink or Captain McCallister are killed off, I will be extremely mad!! * * * “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.” -H.P. Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu” ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2000, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-on-the-simpsons/13826/29 "2000-01-25T06:11:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by ChuckSki: > > **Seems to me that Barney’s rolls have been getting smaller and less frequent.** Really? You think he’s losing weight? * * * Yer pal, Satan ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2000, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-on-the-simpsons/13826/30 "2000-01-25T06:35:00Z")
I thought that Moe was voiced by Hank Azaria (sp?). He’s the guy who married Helen Hunt, appeared in ‘Godzilla’ and ‘The Birdcage’, also voices Apu and a few others. I could accept him leaving the show to pursue other roles (as his film career seems to be on an upswing), but they’d have to kill off more than one major character, so I doubt Moe is the one who bites it. That’s just IMHO…feel free to crucify me if I am wrong. * * * ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2000, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-on-the-simpsons/13826/31 "2000-01-25T16:58:00Z")
At the end of Sunday’s episode, I was concerned about half the town’s men! “Something’s clawing at my leg! …There, it stopped.” Brrrrr… 🙂 * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Muscular Dystrophy Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2000, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-on-the-simpsons/13826/32 "2000-01-25T17:16:00Z")
Being a self confessed simpson freak, and as far as I can tell, that last that was seen of Uter was when the Bus left him behind in Colonial Springfield while they are trying to get away, with Uter saying the immortal line “I cant keep up!! I’m full of chocolate!!”. I may be wrong on that front though… Over on this side of the Atlantic we are several weeks behind… the latest episode we saw was the one where homer gets a Motorbike. A character dying? Could be Ms. Krabappel, but I doubt that anyone will actually die. * * * John Larrigan “82.35% of all statistics are made up on the spot”–Vic Reeves ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2000, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-on-the-simpsons/13826/33 "2000-01-25T20:06:00Z")
**Roachman** noted: _A presenter at the Springfield Awards show said something about a person who had jumped off a tall building. The camera jumps to Moe- he brightens and says to himself “Yeah! That’s a way to do it!” (or something to that effect)._ Also, I think it was just a few weeks ago that we saw Moe with his head in the oven, with a big “No Funeral” sign taped to his back. A timely phone call kept him from doing anything rash. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2000, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-on-the-simpsons/13826/34 "2000-01-25T20:23:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by whitetho: > \*\ ***Roachman** noted: _A presenter at the Springfield Awards show said something about a person who had jumped off a tall building. The camera jumps to Moe- he brightens and says to himself “Yeah! That’s a way to do it!” (or something to that effect)._ > > Also, I think it was just a few weeks ago that we saw Moe with his head in the oven, with a big “No Funeral” sign taped to his back. A timely phone call kept him from doing anything rash. \*\* ## This seems more along the lines of a running gag, like Smithers being in love with Mr. Burns, rather than foreshadowing. You know: “Hahaha! That crazy suicidal Moe!” “You’ll find the chap stick right next to the public toothbrush on a string.” – Miss Gretchen ---
**Author:** ![Inkz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecb155/32.png) [@Inkz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inkz)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2000, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-on-the-simpsons/13826/35 "2000-01-25T22:14:00Z")
I suspect it will be a purposfully anticlimactic thing. Build the suspense up for weeks and weeks in the press and on the internet, then kill off a minor charactor like the Telemundo Bee guy or the comic book store owner in the last thirty seconds almost as an afterthought. On a side note, how perfectly written is that comic book store owner? I went to high school with a guy exactly like that. Ten years later I visit my home town for thanksgiving and there he is. Owns the comic book store, balding on the top with a long mousy brown ponytail behind, thirty pounds heavier. Talking about “Doctor Who” and telling kids not to get fingerprints on the Star Wars figures. Egad. Inky ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2000, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-on-the-simpsons/13826/36 "2000-01-25T23:17:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Roachman: > **Maybe Homer bumps Lenny off in a fit of rage. He is an NRA life member…** Homer was kicked out for opening beers with his revolver. No one does more safety training than than the NRA. 😃 * * * Come let us go, I’ve a cask of amontillado. ---
**Author:** ![Utinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Utinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Utinni)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2000, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-on-the-simpsons/13826/37 "2000-01-25T23:35:00Z")
I’m with Inkz. Build up the supense… Hey, whatever happened to Roy (from the Poochie episode)? I know he moved into an apartment “with two sexy ladies”, but we haven’t seen him since then. Just imagine, at the end of an episode: “Did you hear Roy died?..” * * * “War doesn’t determine who’s right. War determines who’s left.” ---
**Author:** ![Manduck2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9dc877/32.png) [@Manduck2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck2)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-on-the-simpsons/13826/38 "2000-01-27T21:40:00Z")
It’s got to be Maude. Check out [this article](http://www.canoe.com/Television/jan27_simpsons.html). What it says, in a nutshell, is that they know who gets killed, but they don’t want to spoil it for us, so they narrow it down to 3 possibilities: Moe, Principal Skinner, and Maude. They also include a little summary of how each gets killed. You notice that the Maude summary is pretty vague - it just says she dies in an “untimely accident”. The Moe and Skinner scenarios are more explicit and also seem kind of improbable; I think we all agree that when Moe goes, it’ll be by suicide, and the idea of Willie killing Skinner is unlikely (maybe in a Halloween episode, but not in “real life”). So it has to be Maude. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-on-the-simpsons/13826/39 "2000-01-27T23:03:00Z")
Misdirection? Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought the producers never actually gave names to any of the episodes, just code numbers. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9dc877/32.png) [@Manduck2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck2)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-on-the-simpsons/13826/40 "2000-01-28T00:26:00Z")
I think you’re wrong, kuni - according to the faq at [www.snpp.com,](http://www.snpp.com,) the episodes all have titles, but the titles don’t usually appear in the credits. The title often appears in the TV Guide listing, however. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-on-the-simpsons/13826.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-on-the-simpsons/13826.md?page=3)