# When will The Simpsons end? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [August 6, 2026, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-the-simpsons-end/1032196 "2026-08-06T23:14:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2026, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-the-simpsons-end/1032196/81 "2026-08-11T06:32:29Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > The only significant voice change is anyone played by Phil Hartman. Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz were both retired after Hartman’s death, and to my knowledge they’ve never been recast. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2026, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-the-simpsons-end/1032196/82 "2026-08-11T07:59:46Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > He looks really familiar… What might I know him from? You know him from such driver’s ed films as _The Adventures of Larry Leadfoot,_ and _Alice Through the Windshield Glass._ ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2026, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-the-simpsons-end/1032196/83 "2026-08-11T08:18:44Z")
You know, he was one of the first celebrities to speak out _against_ horseplay. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2026, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-the-simpsons-end/1032196/84 "2026-08-11T09:49:33Z")
Fish, on the other hand… ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2026, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-the-simpsons-end/1032196/85 "2026-08-11T12:13:52Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > He looks really familiar… What might I know him from? I’ve just noticed that his eyes look a lot like those of Hide the Pain Harold. I wonder if they’re related…? ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2026, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-the-simpsons-end/1032196/86 "2026-08-11T15:46:13Z")
> [@robby](#): > > In the fall of 1989, I went to an Animation Festival at an artsy movie theater near campus. It included several of _The Simpsons_ shorts that had been on _The Tracey Ullman Show_. I remember those on the show. One in particular was Marge singing “Rock-a-bye Baby” to Maggie and the kid is picturing the actual lyrics, a cradle stuck way up a pine tree, the branch breaking, and her plummeting to earth along with the cradle. It ends with Marge turning out the light as she says, “Sweet dreams, sweetheart,” and the last thing you see are two very round eyes in the darkness – that kid ain’t going to sleep any time soon. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2026, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-the-simpsons-end/1032196/87 "2026-08-12T03:28:53Z")
I remember the one where Maggie is alone in the living room and entertaining herself by playing with the electrical socket. She gets zapped each time she sticks something into the socket and is obviously enjoying it. Finally, Marge sticks her head around the corner to check on Maggie and heaves a sigh of relief when she sees her “playing nicely.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-the-simpsons-end/1032196.md?page=4)