# What should happen on the last "Simpsons"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 7, 2002, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-happen-on-the-last-simpsons/122856 "2002-08-07T22:16:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-happen-on-the-last-simpsons/122856/21 "2002-08-08T10:19:52Z")
OH OH! I just thought of it!! They should have the season finale depict the Simpsons trying to stop the Death Star from blowing up their planet! Except the Death Star succeeds! I like Death Stars. They’re so Deathy. And Starry. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-happen-on-the-last-simpsons/122856/22 "2002-08-08T12:41:21Z")
I think it should just be another episode, nothing special at all with the exception of a small little snap shot with “Thank you” written on it as the credits run. Some shows are too good to have a crappy “End all” episode. That, or it should be another musical episode. ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-happen-on-the-last-simpsons/122856/23 "2002-08-08T13:03:31Z")
Save the best written episode for that season- play it, then follow it up with an hour long greatest hits recap episode (ala Seinfeld). No “special” episode please— this is the Simpsons. Though it would be nice to see a tribute to Phil Hartman. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![SuperNelson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@SuperNelson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNelson)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-happen-on-the-last-simpsons/122856/24 "2002-08-08T14:24:58Z")
Lisa finally figures out they’re trapped on a TV show (she’s come close, once or twice), and wakes up as Yeardley Smith. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-happen-on-the-last-simpsons/122856/25 "2002-08-08T15:04:46Z")
Great suggestion SuperNelson. The Simpsons do Sophie’s World. Mmm…Philosophophicious. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-happen-on-the-last-simpsons/122856/26 "2002-08-08T17:37:01Z")
My idea for the last show: Everything remains the same as we’ve come to know and love - the characters are proressing through their regular adventures until about 15 minutes into the show. THEN Bob Newhart wakes up next to Suzanne P. and describes the incredibly weird dream he had about these yellow people and an obnoxious boy. He continues to desribe the dream to hear as he prepares for work. THEN Victoria Principal wakes up in her bed, goes to the shower and finds Patrick Duffy. She then explains to him that she just had the weirdest dream about a psychologist who woke up and told his wife about the strangest dream he had about these yellow people and an obnoxious boy… Close credits. ---
**Author:** ![Avalonian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@Avalonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avalonian)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-happen-on-the-last-simpsons/122856/27 "2002-08-08T18:28:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SuperNelson \* > \*\*Lisa finally figures out they’re trapped on a TV show (she’s come close, once or twice), and wakes up as Yeardley Smith. \*\* Oh, I love this one. The real capper to this idea is that everyone else _already knew_. I think it’s either that, or just a normal episode. nah, the Simpsons will NEVER end. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-happen-on-the-last-simpsons/122856/28 "2002-08-08T19:29:23Z")
I agree with it just being a regular episode. No “wrap up” story, don’t let the last half season lead to a special episode, just do it as another episode, then afterwards do a tribute to Phil Hartman. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-happen-on-the-last-simpsons/122856/29 "2002-08-08T19:37:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SPOOFE \* > \*\*OH OH! I just thought of it!! > > They should have the season finale depict the Simpsons trying to stop the Death Star from blowing up their planet! Except the Death Star succeeds! > > \*\* And then Maggie shows up in a Federation runabout and blows the Death Star back to “B” movie serials where it belongs. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-happen-on-the-last-simpsons/122856/30 "2002-08-08T19:51:45Z")
Something involving a snow globe. Or Suzanne Pleshette. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-happen-on-the-last-simpsons/122856/31 "2002-08-08T20:52:05Z")
El Elvis Rojo got it right: Don’t do anything. Just a good, solid, funny episode with a liberal sprinkling of our favorite characters. And that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-happen-on-the-last-simpsons/122856/32 "2002-08-08T20:55:14Z")
> [@](#): > > And then Maggie shows up in a Federation runabout and blows the Death Star back to “B” movie serials where it belongs. A Runabout? You mean the things that couldn’t even scratch a TIE fighter? 😃 (“B Movies”… how many cracks in black hole event horizons have you seen in Star Wars?) ---
**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:** [August 8, 2002, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-happen-on-the-last-simpsons/122856/33 "2002-08-08T22:30:41Z")
Scenario A) We’ll know it’s the final episode because the ratings have been dropping, the show has been going downhill and this episode features Millhouse, Comic Book Guy and Quimby. Scenario B) Homer will screw up at the safety panel one too many times and Springfield vaporizes in a nuclear cloud. Scenario C) Fox will run a clip show to pad out its schedule ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-happen-on-the-last-simpsons/122856/34 "2002-08-08T23:34:27Z")
To stop an alien invasion, Homer has to fight. He gets killed by the Alien Queen. Lisa, Bart and Marge quest to restore Homer’s life by going to the top of a Mountain of eternal Youth (or Mt. McKinley). Meanwhile, Homer as a spirit fights the Queen and wins–with unexpected help. He then tells Lisa as Lisa was channelng for him not to restore him. Then we see Homer walking to the light with Cigarette Smoking Man, and Xena! Great ending to three shows!!! ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-happen-on-the-last-simpsons/122856/35 "2002-08-08T23:50:49Z")
It started as a little strip on the Tracy Ulman show. So… Tracy Ulman wakes out of a coma, shakes her head and there, standing aroung her bed al’a Wizard Of Oz are the real life character voices begging Tracy to wake up. But there has to be the first-ever, world-wide finale ON THE INTERNET - a hunt to find Springfield and the Simpsons. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-happen-on-the-last-simpsons/122856/36 "2002-08-09T01:21:08Z")
I also like the nuclear meltdown scenerio, only instead of everyone dying (fun though that’d be), the government announces a forced evacuation of Springfield; and ala’ _Fiddler On The Roof_, every character ever featured gathers together to sing a sad song of farewell to Springfield as the refugees march off down the road. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-happen-on-the-last-simpsons/122856/37 "2002-08-09T03:48:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SPOOFE \* > **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.** Actually, in one episode (I think where Bart is posing as Edna’s penpal lover), Lisa gets a letter addressed to her, and her zipcode is for San Juan, Puerto Rico. So you’re not too far off, there. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-happen-on-the-last-simpsons/122856/38 "2002-08-09T04:17:05Z")
Fade to with Matt Groening back in '87 (or whenever) wrapping up his pitch of the Simpsons to Tracy Ullman “…and that’s how we’ll finish it up. It’ll be completely different from anything on TV today! Whaddaya think?” Tracy and the studio executives around her exchange skeptical glances. “Yeah, right,” she says before tossing Matt out on his ass. ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-happen-on-the-last-simpsons/122856/39 "2002-08-09T04:36:04Z")
“Anyway you Want It” cues with all of the Simpsons characters dancing in the street, an infinite supply of alcohol coming from an unknown source because it’s a party. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2002, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-happen-on-the-last-simpsons/122856/40 "2002-08-09T05:18:44Z")
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