# The Simpsons Need to End **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 27, 2020, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-need-to-end/916427 "2020-07-27T00:14:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-need-to-end/916427/41 "2020-07-28T02:54:32Z")
I’m still disturbed that the OP wants the characters to die, not just the show. (“The Simpsons Need To End,” not “_The Simpsons_ Needs To End.”) ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-need-to-end/916427/42 "2020-07-28T03:28:44Z")
I’m sure all the main characters have died at least once over the years. ~Max ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-need-to-end/916427/43 "2020-07-28T12:30:47Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I’m still disturbed that the OP wants the characters to die, not just the show. (“The Simpsons Need To End,” not “_The Simpsons_ Needs To End.”) Unfortunately, Discourse doesn’t allow formatting in the thread title. So your point, though typologically valid, falls, as so many other typological conventions have, to the gods of computerization. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2020, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-need-to-end/916427/44 "2020-07-28T15:28:43Z")
Also saying “need” implies that the OP is stating that the individual characters should “die”, while the OP probably meant to say “needs”, which would be a reference to the overall program. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-need-to-end/916427/45 "2020-07-28T15:41:08Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I’m still disturbed that the OP wants the characters to die, not just the show. (“The Simpsons Need To End,” not “ _The Simpsons_ Needs To End.”) [![](https://mediaproxy.tvtropes.org/width/350/https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cape_feare_038.jpg) ](https://mediaproxy.tvtropes.org/width/350/https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cape_feare_038.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-need-to-end/916427/46 "2020-07-28T16:07:17Z")
Isn’t that German for “the Bart the”? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-need-to-end/916427/47 "2020-07-28T16:08:49Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I’m still disturbed that the OP wants the characters to die, not just the show. (“The Simpsons Need To End,” not “ _The Simpsons_ Needs To End.”) “The Simpsons are going to the afterlife!” ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-need-to-end/916427/48 "2020-07-28T16:30:50Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Would this new show of yours end up being called Family Guy, perchance? Speaking of shows way past their best material… ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-need-to-end/916427/49 "2020-07-28T16:35:22Z")
> [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > Isn’t that German for “the Bart the”? No one that speaks German can be evil. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-need-to-end/916427/50 "2020-07-28T17:43:28Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > No one that speaks German can be evil. Lawrence Welk? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-need-to-end/916427/51 "2020-07-28T18:35:46Z")
> [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > Isn’t that German for “the Bart the”? Only if Bart was a girl. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-need-to-end/916427/52 "2020-07-28T19:03:26Z")
Typical sloppy writing. I stopped watching The Simpsons when they stopped using proper German grammar. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-need-to-end/916427/53 "2020-07-28T19:34:50Z")
Well, Bart IS voiced by a woman. Maybe it was a typical Simpsons meta-joke? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-need-to-end/916427/54 "2020-07-28T20:37:39Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > > [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > > > Isn’t that German for “the Bart the”? > > Only if Bart was a girl. Tell that to Sideshow Bob - he used that excuse. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-need-to-end/916427/55 "2020-07-28T20:46:43Z")
> [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > Tell that to Sideshow Bob - he used that excuse. That’s why he’s a fan of Gilbert & Sullivan - not Wagner. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-need-to-end/916427/56 "2020-07-28T21:04:17Z")
Well, who isn’t a fan of Gilbert & Sullivan? I am the very model of a modern Major General. I’ve information vegetable, animal and mineral. I know the Kings of England, and I quote the fights historical From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical. I’m very well acquainted, too, with systems mathematical I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical. About binomial theorem, I’m teaming with a lot of news With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse! ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-need-to-end/916427/57 "2020-07-28T21:47:12Z")
I think a large part of this show is nostalgia. Parents watch this show with their kids, because the parents used to watch it when they were kids. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-need-to-end/916427/58 "2020-07-28T22:18:08Z")
Didnt we have a thread that was like a “mad libs” template for an episode of CSI I just remember dying at Witty sarcastic reply[\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_] (Cue Roger Daltry) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-need-to-end/916427.md?page=2)