Inspired by this thread, I wondered…
If the Simpsons was to end, how do you think it should happen? Just stop making them? Have all the characters killed in an accident?
Back in the day, I’d have ended it with the “Behind the Laughter” episode.
Now? I really have no idea. It’s become just a huge trainwreck that there’s really no way to end it.
The nuclear power plant blows up levelling Springfield. The camera pans over the devastation to the wrecked Simpsons house. Inside the ruins are the twisted bodies of the Simpsons in cartoon death poses. Sad music plays . . .
Homer raises head : “We done yet ?”
< offstage voice >: “No !”
< sad music >
Homer raises head : “We done yet ?”
< offstage voice >: “No !”
< sad music >
Homer raises head : “We done yet ?”
< offstage voice >: “NO !”
< sad music >
< screen fades to black >
Homer’s voice : “We done -”
< gunshot >
< thud >
< Go to credits >
Just like The Young Ones - “Cliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiff!”
Ned Flanders in: Falling Down.
“I’m the bad-diddly-ad guy?”
Tracy Ullman wakes up in bed…
Homer and Marge take the kids to the diner. Stranger in the diner, in a Members Only jacket. Homer and Marge get some onion rings to share. Everyone’s there except Lisa. She’s fiddling with the bicycle lock, bike keeps falling over and crashing into the bike next to hers on the rack. Finally, she walks in just as Mr. Members Only gets up to use the men’s room…
As I said klast month, in the “Last Episode of Sopranos” thread:
The End of the Last Simpsons:
Homer is the first to arrive at the Donut Shop. He gets a plate of donuts, puts them down on the table in a booth, and sits down with them. He toys idly with one, and eats it. Followed in rapid-cartoon fashion by the others. He then gets up and returns with another plate of donuts.
He sees a booth-mounted jukebox station, like they had in the 1960s, and he flips through the offerings while eating two donuts. He sees an album of “The Sound of Music”, and deposits coins in the box and presses the selection button.
The bell attached to the door rings and Marge comes in carrying Maggie and sits opposite Homer, without saying anything.
The Camera shows people in the surrounding booths, Nelson and his gang at a table, incongruously dressed in Cub Scout uniforms. The Bee guy. Krusty at the counter.
The door bell rings and Bart comes in and sits next to Marge.
A Guy who looks suspiciously like a hydrocephalic, bug-eyed Simsons-style caricature of Matt Groening sits at the counter and looks around nervously
Cut to Lisa trying desperately to park her bike in the bike rack, but it doesn’t fit. Frustrated, she looks elsewhere.
Apu , Montgomery Burns, and Smithers mill around in the donut shop.
The Groening guy gets up and moves over a couple of seats.
The door bell rings and Homer looks up. The Comic Book Shop guy comes in.
Lisa tries to park at another bike rack, but it’s broken
The bell rings again. Homer looks up to see Willy come in.
Lisa finally parks the bike next to a tree and goes toward the donut shop.
Groening guy looks about nervously and goes into the bathroom.
We see Homer. We hear julie Andrews singing “Do, a deer, a female deer…”
The bell rings. Homer looks up.
Julie Andrews sings “…which will bring us back to D’oh…”
Homer looks up
The screenm goes black and silent.
For two whole minutes
Homer: Is that it? Am I dead? Or what?
Marge: Homerrrrr. You’re ruining the scene
Lisa; Yeah, Dad, way to ruin the ambiguity.
Bart; Eat my shorts!
Homer: Why, you little…!
(Sound of Bart gagging)
Sound: Suck1 Suck!
Up comes the production company logo, but without the usual music. But when the silhouetted figure raises its finger to its lips, we DO hear “Shhhhhh!”
…
Nuclear Reactor Explosion!
Springfield goes up in a cloud.
It was already stated by Matt Groening on the Miracle on Evergreen Terrace commentary that this was meant to be the final episode, chronologically. The series ends with the house completely robbed, and the family fighting over a hankerchief that was left behind.
Whole town of Springfield is in attendance at a funeral. Secondary character after secondary character (but no member of the Simpson family) gets up to eulogize a person who is only referred to by the male pronoun and who has died of a heart attack, mentioning (not just verbally, but animated memories - but not clips, new stuff) some wacky incident which involved Homer. Finally, at the end, we see the Simpson family in the crowd, Homer makes some typically un-solemn comment, and we discover it’s Mister Burns in the casket, finally beaten by Father Time, and we viewers realize Burns was involved in all those scenes in the eulogies as well.
As Burns is planted in the ground, people discuss whether Springfield has any future without Burns running the Nuclear Power Plant, and either Marge or Lisa gives an inspiring speech declaring that it’s the people who made Springfield what it had been, and it’s the people who get to decide if Springfield has a future or not, if they want it badly enough (meta-comment at the viewers).
And finally, Bart deflates the sappiness of the moment, making some sort of comment that that’s BS, it’s all up to the big corporations that run everybody’s lives (i.e., Fox) anyway. But he says it wittily, not dumb-sounding like I just did.
Ha! Perfect!
Good, but I’d have it be one of the Life in Hell characters instead. Probably Akbar.
Wakes up startled, looks around, sees Jeff, snuggles up and goes back to sleep.
the same way Lennie ended George in Of Mice and Men, quickly and with little fanfair
Homer wakes up, rolls over and says to Suzanne Pleschette “You wouldn’t believe the dream I had.”
No, it’s Wilma Flintstone n bed with him.
at the end of the final episode, they all go sit on the couch, credits roll.
…then takes out a large eraser and begins erasing the scene. As each person’s mouth is deleted, their sound ceases. When all else is erased, MG erases himself and the silence is multiplied.
The End.
Bart blows out the candles on his 11th birthday cake and go to black.