The Simpsons aired its sequence finale yesterday, besides it did not, because it was all one huge prank on you, the viewer.
Spoilers forward.
Final evening, some viewers of The Simpsons felt a bit confused whereas watching the present, as the latest episode did an odd factor: it instructed everybody that this was the present’s sequence finale, as in its remaining ever episode. The episode, titled Bart’s Birthday, is all about TV’s most troublesome boy, and him lastly experiencing his eleventh birthday, a factor thought unthinkable contemplating the present has been working since 1989 and the characters have not aged a day since.
It kicked off with former Simpsons author and TV host Conan O’Brien explaining that it was the present’s finale, the place he performed an animated model of himself in a gap monologue, saying, “It’s such an honor to be with you all for the sequence finale of The Simpsons. I knew I used to be the fitting man for the job as a result of I’ve hosted the final episode of three of my very own reveals and counting… Properly, it’s true. Fox has determined to finish the Simpsons.”
O’Brien went on to elucidate how Fox wished to cancel the present many years in the past, earlier than displaying what he stated had been the unique cuts of traditional episodes like Bart the Daredevil and Little Large Mother, and the way they had been initially conceived because the present’s finales, with Homer being killed off. The host then defined that the present’s writers had really used AI to give you the script for the finale, which included a bunch of series-ending cliches like Bart lastly ageing – besides, once more, after all, this was all only a goof, and Bart remains to be 10 eternally.
Most individuals clearly will not pay attention to episode counts or whether or not a present has been renewed or not, The Simpsons could be very a lot a present many will simply be placed on casually, so clearly the episode was predicated on that – in any case, this was the thirty sixth season’s premiere.
The AI factor extra appears like a jab on the tech than really being written by AI, nevertheless it additionally is not precisely clear whether or not AI was used for the writing course of or not (let’s hope it wasn’t). The Simpsons hasn’t been picked up for season 37 but, so it might nonetheless find yourself being cancelled lastly, but when it does, not less than it sort-of has a sequence finale already.
