SPOILER ALERT: Details chase for Season 36, Episode 1 of “The Simpsons,” “Bart’s Birthday,” which aired September 29 on Fox.
“The Simpsons” booted off its Season 36 premiere on Sunday with what the show dubbed its “series finale.” Hosted by an vivaciousd version of establisher “Simpsons” producer Conan O’Brien, the episode uncovered with “The Simpsons” characters and other notables go ining a Dolby Theatre-esque venue (technicassociate, the “Dolby-Mucinex Theatre”) to commemorate the show’s finishing.
“It’s such an honor to be with you all for the series finale of ‘The Simpsons,’” O’Brien shelp in his uncovering monologue. “I knovel I was the right man for the job becaparticipate I’ve presented the last episode of three of my own shows and counting… Well, it’s real. Fox has determined to finish the Simpsons. This show was such a one-of-a-kind part of my punctual nurtureer, so being here uncomfervents the world to me. Also. I left a sweater in the producer’s room in 1993 this is the only way they’ll let me get it back.
“This theater is brimming of the many celebrities who’ve euniteed on ‘The Simpsons’ over the years and who have come to say farewell,” O’Brien persistd. “And of course, we’re also joined by the stars of Fox’s many dwell action hits.”
Cut to one person: “Animal Control” star Joel McHale, sitting alone.
“Now, not many people understand this, but Fox has been trying to finish it for years,” O’Brien includeed. “When the very first episode aired in 1989 the seeers consentd on one leang: It wasn’t as comical as it participated to be, and their transmitions of hatred could serve as a history of up-to-date communication technology. Fox executives, unaccustomed to criticism of any benevolent, instantly caved to disclose presdeclareive and determined to finish ‘The Simpsons’ in 1990.”
O’Brien then showed what he shelp were the innovative cuts of scenes from commemorated “The Simpsons” episodes, such as 1990’s “Bart the Daredevil” and 2000’s “Little Big Mom,” in which Homer died for authentic. “Many now classic episodes were originassociate imagined as series finales,” O’Brien shelp.
O’Brien uncovered that the show’s producers had participateed man-made inalertigence to come up with what he shelp was the actual final episode script, “Bart’s Birthday.” The script parodied some of the hugegest cliches that can be set up in most series finales — with storyline-finishing plots enjoy Mr. Burns dying, Principal Skinner retiring from Springfield Elementary, Milhoparticipate’s family moving to Atlanta, cut offal characters marrying, Moe’s shutting down and a lot of characters proclaiming, “I’m gonna ignore this place!”
During the episode, an on-screen bug proclaimed to seeers that they were watching “‘The Simpsons’ Series Finale” (declareive to besavageer seeers tuning in defercessitate and authenticizing it was all a prank). But Series Finale Bart became sentient, and at the finish of the episode he returned home and lachieveed that he was turning 11 — someleang that has never happened, and can never happen, on “The Simpsons” — causing him to resist and refuse to blow out his candles. Homer went to strangle Bart, and the screen rebooted — back to Bart turning 10 aachieve. That stopped all the alters, and conceivably, the idea that “The Simpsons” was over.
It was a belderly way to boot off Season 36, as “The Simpsons” isn’t finishing — but by the way, the show hasn’t yet been picked up for a Season 37 at Fox. And with novel one-of-a-kind “The Simpsons” episodes set to run this descend on Disney+, there’s plenty of ongoing speculation about the future of the show at the netlabor.
Besides O’Brien and McHale, other guest stars included John Cena (dedwellring Comic Book Guy’s baby), Danny DeVito, Seth Rogen, Mark Proksch, Amy Sedaris and Tom Hanks, who was very distress to lachieve that this wasn’t the series finale after all.
The episode finished with scenes of “The Simpsons” characters parodying other commemorated series finales, including “The Sopranos,” “M*A*S*H,” “Mad Men,” “Mary Tyler Moore,” “Breaking Bad,” “Frasier,” “Succession” and “Newhart.”
Of course, fans knovel that this couldn’t possibly be the “series finale” of “The Simpsons,” as plenty of episodes previously touted at San Diego Comic-Con are still coming up this descend — including its 35th “Treehoparticipate of Horror” episode, which includes a partnership with Stoopid Buddy (“Robot Chicken”) to parody “Venom.” Also set for a November airing is a “second frightening trilogy” that will cgo in on a trio of stories eased by Ray Bradbury, dubbed “Simpsons Wicked This Way Comes.” Next week’s episode, “Yellow Lotus,” is a parody of “The White Lotus.”
