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The town of Springfield can relaxation simple.
Amid the uproar on-line surrounding the loss of life of “The Simpsons” matriarch Marge Simpson in a flash-forward through the season 36 finale, the present’s government producer defined that the character remains to be very a lot alive within the cartoon’s universe.
“Obviously since ‘The Simpsons’ future episodes are all speculative fantasies, they’re all different every time,” Matt Selman informed Selection in an interview revealed June 26. “Marge will probably never be dead ever again. The only place Marge is dead is in one future episode that aired six weeks ago.”
Within the episode “Estranger Things,” which aired Might 18, Marge’s worst concern got here true when her eldest children Bart and Lisa grew aside and the matriarch (voiced by Julie Kavner) envisions the household’s future, throughout which they ultimately reunite to take care of an ageing Homer, delighting Marge, who watched from heaven.
As Selman defined, when it comes all the way down to it, “’The Simpsons’ doesn’t even have canon!”
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However in relation to the general public outcry over Marge’s obvious loss of life, he sees it as proof the long-running animated sequence — primetime tv’s longest-running scripted sequence in American historical past — remains to be related.
“I guess this speaks to the fact that people care about Marge,” Selman stated. “At the end of the day, it’s probably good for business even when these ridiculous, misleading stories go viral!”
Whereas Marge’s “death” actually prompted a stir, it’s not the primary character’s demise from the present’s 790 episodes that has moved followers. In reality, following final season’s loss of life of mainstay Larry the Barfly — whose backstory had by no means earlier than been explored all through his 35-season run — viewers reminisced on the beloved Springfielder.
“RIP Larry the Barfly — we hardly knew ye,” one fan wrote on X, whereas one other shared, “May your journey end in a bar with bottomless kegs and an eternal happy hour.”
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