How The Simpsons Should Have Ended 

THEY'LL NEVER STOP FULL FAT VIDEOS HAVE NO FEARS WE'VE GOT VIDEOS FOR YEARS

it wont end until one of the main casts dies , they wouldn't dare recast

I firmly believe it is impossible to end the Simpsons cleanly. Regardless someone will be sad and/or angry

I saw a theory a few years ago that the final episode should just be another normal episode but in the final minutes, everyone gets ready to go to see Bart's school Christmas play and the show finishes as the first ever episode started. Leaving the series in a time loop, that everything that has happened will happen again and explaining why no one has ever aged. I know it's not perfect but I think that's the greatest way to end it.

“When will the Simpsons end?” When will the human race go extinct?

Here's how the Simpsons will probably end: it'll just stop suddenly because one of the main actors died, or for some other reason Here's how the Simpsons will actually end: When star formation ceases

The Simpsons ending is like having an old pet. You can anticipate the inevitable, but you know you're going to be sad when it happens regardless.

The Simpsons is the only show I know even it's OG fanbase wants cancelled.

have no fear they've got stories for years

Bruh momentum

I just want another Big Film on the Simpsons, to send them off with a Bang. It will definitely be nostalgic.

Personally if they DO ever decide to do a planned cancellation, I want them to completely mix up the formula for the final season. Each episode of the season is linked, with references to previous episodes in each ep. You can't end decades of a series of with one episode. You need to dedicate time to closing off those character arcs. The episode takes place one year in the future. Bart is turning 11, Lisa is turning 9, Maggie is turning 2, they move into a new grade at school and it shows how they mature. Bart finds a teacher who inspires him like Lisa's substitute from the early episodes. It's long been hinted that Bart is a skilled artist, so maybe the teacher can recognise this and inspire Bart to pursue it. Lisa is also able to find a career path that she enjoys, and spends the season persuing her future. Homer is given the oppertunity to get a tenured position at the Power Plant, which motivates him to do better at his job to secure his family's financial future. Maggie starts growing up and talking/walking. Marge is able to finally feel respected for what she does as a house wife. Burns finally retired for real this time. Skinner is finally able to impress Chalmers. There's a lot of series arcs you could finish off.

To be honest I feel like The Simpsons has lasted so long that Matt Groening doesn't know how to end it .

The Show should end with the Simpson Family going on the Tracy Ullman show as special guests. And slowly, as they step on to the stage, the animation starts reverting through time to their original Tracy Ullman short look

After watching this, I think I’m gonna make this episode my head canon the final episode

Honestly, I always thought that the best way to end the Simpsons would be a plot similar to that treehouse episode when Homer walks into a 3D dimension, I love the idea of the series ending with Homer stranded in a weird unfamiliar world (to him) and immidiately getting distracted by sweets with the camera not following him but rather just panning out. Alternatively the series could just end suddenly with no warning, implying that the characters will forever continue living in their weird timeline that doesn't move forward.

The Simpsons is a show with so many narrative contradictions and inconsistencies that no finale would be truly resolute. I liked the concept one of the show’s writers talked about; having the show finish at the beginning, with the family filing into the school hall to watch the Christmas concert in the first episode.

Wrap up the “Marge has rabbit ears in her hair” plotarc of the first season.

I would have been fine with the show continuing as long as it has if they'd been willing to grow and age the characters. Allowing us to experience NEW stories with Bart, Lisa, and Maggie as well as deal with Homer and Marge getting the house more to themselves. I get this was created during an era were serialized TV was not yet common-place, but this could have been a great way to take the series after 5 or so seasons. Let them grow with the generation that watched them. Maybe not every year, but every 3 years or so.

The Simpsons has gone down so much, from overused old memes being used and it just being outdated, it will never be the same. I still watch it but the older episodes are just better.

Lets be honest here, they're gonna keep milking this show until one of the lead voice actors dies.

Tbh I don't like how all the future episodes portray Bart as a failure. He's chief justice on the supreme court!

The voice actors can't stay alive forever

No finale will ever come close to Futurama. I cried when that show ended. Then I watched all the seasons again, twice.

It is Canon that Bart becomes a supreme court judge as well. And Lisa becomes president after trump.

They'll end the show when one of the original main cast dies...

Imagine if The Simpsons ended when humanity ended. No finale, no cancelation. The series abruptly ends along with the race who created it... bruh

I feel like one of the better ways to end the series at this point would to have Bart become a cartoonist and make a cartoon about a caricatures of his family growing up, with the stylistic choice to make them have a duller skin color.

Imagine having a nearly perfect finale to a cartoon you created that has lasted over 20 years and then your boss says Ha, no

I think a show like the Simpsons can't really have a clean ending. The show was episodic, without any kind of overarching storyline. I think shows like that just run their course, and their formula runs out of ideas. I think it would've better for the show to have stopped at Season 10, when the season rot became apparent.

The Simpsons died on the way to their home planet. The end.

The regular show should have ended after season 10, but with films made every three years or so afterwards. Season 10 was the final season where there were more ok-good episodes than bad ones. Unfortunately Disney will want to milk them for another decade.

The Simpsons should’ve ended with the movie. It was the perfect way to end the show.

Can you please do a video on the final story arc of the clone wars season 7?

Its going to end when one of the main characters voice actors die

I just want to see Bart get a happy ending, as opposed to how nearly every flash- forward episode seems determined to show him as an unsuccessful loser.

That's a long way to say "Behind the Laughter"

King Of The Hill has one of my favorite comedy finales. We finally see Hank and Bobby really see eye to eye.

Well in Doctor Who 'Planet of the Ood"' they seem to hint the Simpsons will carry on to 4222 😂

should of ended when the “aurora borealis” burnt seymour’s house down

Simpsons Hit & Run is the canonical ending of the show after Season 14. I'm not even joking.

The way it should end is as follows Its 2010-13 all the characters are 11/14 years older everything past the date of the movie is no longer cannon. We get as much of the og writing staff as possible. Homer is still working away in 7g while everyone else has progressed and Burns has decided to finally sell the plant and retire. The buyer is Hank Scorpio who wants the plant for some evil scheme (I know this sounds like the series 3 episode and you're right) Hank buys the plant, remberes homer and promotes him. We basically have a drawn out "you only move twice" bit where everything is going well for Homer but at all of Springfields expense not just the Simpsons. Homer has to deocee what's more important his cushy job or Springfield, he comes to the conclusion that Springfield is. Then has to team up with Burns to take over the plant again. We let the film nerds figure out the inbetween bits. The side plot is bart still living at home while Lisa is a semi successful musician. Cut to Marge preparing Bart for an interview basically saying don't fuck this one up, and of course he does. He goes back to the house ready to tell Marge that he almost had it in the bag but Marge doesn't buy it this time and tells him she disappointed that he a fuck up (Marge be not proud vibe) bart gets mad and goes to Moes to drink his problems, where he meets Skinner. They have a discussion about Barts failed jobs and Skinner tells Bart that hes not a bad guy and recounts some previous Skinner bart story line (sweet Seymours badassssss song) and he give Bart an opportunity to work at the school as a councillor of sorts. And because he knows how to relate to the kids better than most teachers he becomes genuinely happy and fulfilled with helping the kids. Theres then a few minute montage of going round all thr major characters in Springfield and them getting closure, Moes bar actually becoming successful, lenny and Carl finally admitting their feelings, Rod and Todd being ready to move out and be actual well adjusted adults, Chalmers promoting Skinner etc. And he final scene is The Simpsons having a family Christmas meal. There's also a talking pie

I would’ve appreciated a Spoiler Warning before you talked about the ending of so many shows

It actually kind of upsets me that this wasn't the series finale. It begs the question, will the actual finale live up?

Behind The Laughter (the season 11 finale) is when the show should have ended. There are a lot of reasons why this should be and I could write them out but I am feeling my inner Homer (lazy).

Imagine referencing; spaced, the office, Peep show, BoJack horseman and life on Mars in one video. Taste.

I honestly thought I think it was the finale of season 30 where it ended with how the characters all die in the future and I was so confused I was like “What? Was this the end? Surely not.”

The show should have ended in the early 2000s when there started being more bad episodes than good ones. I came here in hopes that someone had put Zombie Simpsons out of it's misery.

How should the simpsons have ended? With either Homer's enemy or Spinoff Showcase. But also holidays of future past was a pretty great episode and potential ending

why does every single video with a one sentance title about speculation or animated media have a thumbnail of the charaters/people in said thing with their eyes blacked out

Disney is not going to make a good ending. They just want money

If it ends one day, I wouldn't be surprised if a spinoff is made short after

I love how John Simm was wearing basically the same suit in Life on Mars as he was when playing the Master

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Good video. I tried watching a season 17 episode and truly couldn’t believe what I was watching and what had become of the greatest cartoon series.

Honestly Holidays of future past is one of the best Simpson episodes and it would've been an amazing final

Lads... Where's Cory in the house?

I’ve gone through and watched all the treehouses of horror and honestly, wished they stuck more to the Halloween/horror theme, over the years its devolved into movie spoofs, which would of been better as their own episodes instead of mediocre ones

I really like this concept. Cheers to a another solid video.

The flashforward scene in the episode where Bart and Homer become Catholics; show that Bart becomes a religous figure, with two opposing factions fighting over his legacy.

Honestly, I dont think its worth ending the Simpsons with a well constructed plot, it just seems more likely and in a way pleasing for it to just, end at some point, with a normal season and a normal ending. Let the fans think about what happens to the family. Most people just watch the show cause its on and nothing else is on anyway, I doubt many people care about the plot anymore.

9:21 Damn I don't watch Simpsons. It was one of those shows my parents forbid me as a child to watch as well as South Park XD (the latter I agree with haha). But just from watching the photo montage at the being, with Bart always smiling til he flunks out of college and get progressively more aggitated as Lisa's life improves til she married and her smile fades and he finally perks back up 😂 perfect way to show not tell! Also I almost shed a tear when he told her 'She was the person he always wanted to be'. Damn it's hitting me just thinking about it. Well played

My idea for an ending was to have the whole town realize they’re trapped in time and decide whether or not to stay as they are or move on and grow up. Was pretty surprised when the LEGO episode basically did that exact storyline but I’d still like to see the rest of the town involved in that decision

While I can understand your points, still is a big *NO* from me. I can understand why people like this episode, but to me is just a little better than the rest of awful of episodes that are made during the HD era. Is not terrible, but still has a lot of flaws that make me to dislike it, some of them: 1. Not being very funny. If a episode is not very funny, is not worth it. 2. Many details that I consider unimaginative and lazy writing. The main one, Bart being just a bum. Modern Simpsons just like to paint Bart to be just a failure. "Lisa's Wedding" showed the most believable Future Bart for me: working in demolitions and promoting local tough man contest on the side, like the street-smart kid he was in the Classic years. 3. Lisa with Milhouse is another concept that I deeply despise. So I'm still convinced that I don't want this episode to be the finale of the show. I will just insist that the show should have stopped in the late 90's, with modern Simpsons not happening whatsoever. Sorry for broken English, is not my native language.

Simpsons should have ended with this episode as the finale for season 9.

It should have ended with series 11 episode 22, behind the laughs.

I enjoyed this so much!

It really should just end with a regular episode now, it’s been on so long you’re never going to please everybody and it’ll continue with movies and stuff afterwards plus a lot of tv show finales are crap.

Ok everyone’s talking about the simpsons ending with a movie, but no one is talking about this guys voice. It’s so nice and almost soothing. I can’t stop listening to him. It mesmerizing.

I always liked the idea where the series ends with them driving to Springfield Elementary Christmas Paegant and as they're driving we transition between the final episode and the first episode, it ends when they pull up at springfield elementary and walk inside. at which points the credits roll to the sound of the children singing the paegant song.

It should end like this: Bart: “And that kids, is the complete story of the craziest year of my life: 1990.”

Id like an ending where 40 year old Bart is put in a similar situation as Homer in "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire". In a show with hundreds of wacky situations, itll be a clean and simple ending reminiscent of its humble beginnings

I would love to see Skinner get away from his mother and find a partner. He and Edna should have got together. Her and Ned becoming an item never worked for me.

Future episodes being used as the end is something I disagree with tbh. I do agree that a finale (if it ever happens, personally I really like the show so I don't mind either way if it stays as long as it's good enough for me to watch) should end on a high note, but more so in the present. I'm also not a big fan of the episode you discussed (although it's probably because I'm not a fan of future episodes).

Great video but how is it seemingly everyone completely ignores the greatest animated series finale ever, King of the Hill. Bobby winning states is the ultimate example of a story completing a circle, and the impromptu cookout with every character of note was touching in a way only surpassed by Fry and Leela growing old together only to do it again. A shame that the extreme length/dwindling quality of the Simpsons makes it impossible for whatever ending they choose to be as heart wrenching as its lesser cousins.

I completely agree and I've always thought that they should have continued the series in the time established in this episode.

There is a theory that homer was in a coma the whole time. I feel like it would be really interesting and cool if the show ended with homer coming out of a 20 year coma and reconnecting with his family and finding out what happened to them while he was in the coma and how they coped. And the show would end with the family falling asleep in the family home one last time before the show ends. Is it just me that thinks that would be good ?

The Simpson’s is a cash cow. It will never end.

Herb returns, everyone sings So Long Farewell until it reaches The Simpsons family & thanking the audience for watching the show & danced to their theme song, Homer accidentally destroyed a stage while trying to get a Donut & Beer. The final catchphrase of The series is "D'oh!" Before the credits start rolling with memories of the show while the theme song plays in the background.

Guys I can’t wait for season 27127273683920102 of the Simpson’s to come out! 🥰

I didn't like that as an ending, I'm married to the Bart being a Chief Justice of the supreme court because I want that troubled kid to have made good and become a strong role model for the future

I think while this episode does give closure the endings for Bart and Lisa are such downer endings Lisa was meant for something waaaay bigger than being Milhause's sad settled wife and Bart deserved better than to be just an adult loser So while I want it to end I just think they all deserve to end out on top

My idea has always been to have the characters age over the course of a final season, and end it when Homer and Marge are elderly. Bring back the best writers from the earliest years.

I personally hate the idea of Lisa ending up with Milhouse, she deserves better

I mean the reason that it hasn't ended is cuz M O N E Y , C A S H M O N E Y

Thanks for all the endings of so many tv shows I haven't seen yet

its been almost 2 years since this, and its only reaffirmed my idea that the show will only end when fox and Disney ends

I haven't watched the Simpsons for more than 15 years so for me, it already has ended.

Bart used to have a different future: US Chief Justice

Yeah when I first saw this episode, it really came out of nowhere. I was shocked at how well written it was and kinda wondered if it had originally been intended as a series finale.

JUST GREAT! Make me want to watch this!

to me the Simpsons ended since i stopped watching them, a few years ago. Never looked back ever since and don't feeling like i'm missing out on something. The madness has to end somehow and YOU as the audience have the power to walk away from it.

“ America’s favorite yellow family” lol 😂👏

Even if they just made the final scene the Tracey Ulman short of Homer and Marge tucking in the kids I’d probably cry.

This was an excellent video on how to end a story.

I personally think the series should have gone on hiatus after "Behind the Laughter", then come back in 2019-20.

I honestly just pretend that any season after season 8 doesnt exist.

The Simpsons:*ends* Bart and Lisa’s kids:hold my beers- THE SIMPSONS 2

The Simpsons beginning and ending with Christmas episodes would have be perfect in my opinion

honestly imo simspons was at it's worse inbetweens easons 22-26. before getting a bit better.