Someday the nearly unthinkable will happen and “This Simpsons” will air its last episode.
What do you want to happen on the last episode? Another “future” episode, but of Homer’s death? Bart goes to juvie hall? Homer wakes up next to Suzanne Pleshette?
Marge leaves Homer and hooks up with Ned Flanders and takes Maggie with her.
Bart joins the Springfield chapter of the Crips and gets killed in a drive-by.
Lisa finally comes out of the closet and moves in with Patty and Selma to explore her newfound feelings.
And as the closing credits role, Homer sits on the couch watching TV and drinking beer, oblivious to everything.
I picture something like RevTim’s idea except that, when Homer wakes up, he and the whole family are back on the Tracey Ullman show in the original animation style with Tracey coming out onstage telling everyone to go home.
The show is abruptly cancelled in mid-season, with no “last” episode. Then five years later a Simpsons TV movie special is aired, which shows us what happened to the characters.
OR all the voice actors for the major characters walk, and the show has to be renamed and rebuilt around three minor walk-on characters and Homer’s cousin Bill who’s just moved to town.
I expect something sort of like Lumpy’s idea, except that instead of the real life voice talent walking, the show is about the bug-eyed, yellow-skinned “actors” who play Homer, Bart, etc. deciding to quit. Some form of hilarious hijinx ensue, with a maudlin freeze-frame at the end while the credits run.
They’ll hire Chris Carter to write the last few episodes, leading to a finale that’s as understandable as James Joyce, and us uplifting as John Milton.
I’m feeling cranky, can you tell?
Ranchoth
(Magnatite caves my ass…)
Tony gets whacked. Carmella marries that wallpaper guy and takes over the family business. Meadow gets back together with that mulatto guy, and he knocks her up. A.J. gets arrested for pulling a knife on some guy in Central Park (oh wait, that already happened!) Dr. Melfi quits her practice, reunites with her husband and kid, and they go on a “Partridge Family” style tour across the country.
The thing is…they’ve done all the big things that should happen on a last episode.
Remember the “Simpsons Bible Stories”? They all walk out and the Day of Reckoning is upon us. The Simpsons are condemned to Hell (with the exception of Lisa- but why the hell did Marge have to stay behind?), while the Flanders ascend to Heaven. That would have been great for the last episode ever. A downer but a funny one. Someone on the snpp page mentioned that.
And remember when Mr. Smithers FINALLY kissed Burns? That was in “Lisa the Skeptic” and it totally made the leap from innunedo (the staple of this running gag) to actually showing emotion. There was no way Waylon could talk his way past that (though his computer sign on graphic was pretty suggestive too! ), so I personally think they should have saved it.
Same with “Behind the Laughter.” Not that it wasn’t good, but they’ve done everything. They’ve shown us what happens to the Simpsons in the future (in two episodes), so I don’t know what other earth shattering thing they can do to shock us. And when they do make the last episode ever, you just know people online are going to be bitching about it from here till kingdom come.
That said…I don’t want to think about it. But if I had to choose something to happen (other than a long boring clip show), how about an actual alien abduction, by Kang and Kodos? At long last, it is revealed that the aliens live among us. I just think they should be included.
And I like the idea about it being finally revealed what state Springfield is in. Except it should be revealed that they’re Canadian, and they just thought that they were from America. Or that they’re in Jamaica. Or something equally silly and unexpected.