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National Post
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- National Post
Marge Simpson lives to die another day
Marge Simpson is dead. Kind of. Well, technically she kind of died a month ago — but fans of The Simpsons are still outraged at the prospect. In the Season 36 finale of The Simpsons, titled 'Estranger Things,' a sequence set 35 years into the future reveals that the blue-haired matriarch has died. A funeral scene shows the family at Marge's grave, and we hear a parody song from Sarah McLachlan reveal that Bart and Lisa have grown apart — despite their mother's efforts. Article content Article content Lisa is the NBA commissioner, and Bart is running an unlicensed retirement home, where his father lives. Marge, meanwhile, is in heaven and married to her longtime crush, Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, who evidently has a fondness for a buffet with a shrimp tower. Article content Article content The flash-forward sequence, which aired in May on Fox and continues to stream on Disney+, went viral again on social media this past week. Article content 'OMG THEY KILLED MARGE it's a sad day for us Simpsons lovers,' one person, who goes by @DecruzJemma, posted on X. Article content 'I haven't even watched The Simpsons in 10+ years but they really killed MARGE?!' another person, who uses the handle @jenniferx30, wrote on the platform. Article content A third person raged, 'WHY DIDN'T SOMEBODY TELL ME THAT MARGE WAS DEAD?!?!?' Article content It was apparently all quite distressing. Article content But since Marge's death happens in a storyline set 35 years from now, upcoming episodes — and seasons — won't likely be affected. Marge and her towering blue beehive will probably be around for plenty more Springfield-based hijinks. Article content Article content Julie Kavner, who has voiced the character since the show debuted in 1989, remains very much alive. And Fox has renewed The Simpsons for four more years, bringing the animated series up to its 40th season. Article content In an interview with People magazine, showrunner and executive producer Matt Selman addressed the 'Estranger Things' episode and what would happen to the show if any of the main cast members were to die. Article content 'That I'm in super denial about,' he said. Article content He added: 'I just hope it's just a regular episode with no winky-winky stuff at all. Just a great family story, just like a classic story that's just funny and involves the whole family and doesn't feel like it needs to wrap up anything or change anything or tie anything up or be magic or talk to the audience directly.'
CTV News
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CTV News
A glimpse of Marge Simpson's death in a flash-forward episode still sending shockwaves through the fandom
Marge feels an overwhelming dread of the empty nest in the "A Mid-Childhood Night's Dream" episode of "The Simpsons." (FOX via CNN Newsource) If you aren't yet caught up with the latest episodes of The Simpsons, be warned: there are spoilers ahead. It's been more than a month since the death of a beloved cartoon character was foretold by the series. But fans still say they're in shock that Marge Simpson, the beloved, blue-haired matriarch, will die before her husband. The episode begins by showing that Lisa and Bart Simpson (voiced by Yeardley Smith and Nancy Cartwright) have drifted apart. In the season finale episode titled 'Estranger Things,' the oldest children of Homer and Marge (Dan Castellaneta and Julie Kavner) suggests the siblings no longer spend time together at this point in the future.' This sets in motion the events that lead to the revelation in a flash-forward sequence that Marge eventually dies before Homer. Few details are revealed about what happened, or when the show might catch up to this point. The episode reveals a future in which a now-adult Lisa is the commissioner of the WNBA. Bart, however, remains in Springfield and a widowed Homer lives in a retirement lookahead shows the late Marge spending time with Beatles musician Ringo Starr (who is still alive in real life) in heaven. 'I'm just so glad we're allowed to marry different people in heaven,' Marge says as the episode ends. Even if this reveal is accurate to the show's eventual storyline and not a dream sequence or alternate future, there is nothing to suggest that Marge won't be featured in the next season. Still, the death was emotional for fans whose mourning has continued a month after the episode aired. 'OMG THEY KILLED MARGE it's a sad day for us Simpsons lovers,' one person posted on social media. This is not the first death in the show since it first aired in 1989, but it is the first time the showrunners have shown the death of one of the main family members. The Simpsons have killed off many characters through the years, including Frank Grimes, Maude Flanders, Edna Krabappel and Larry Dalrymple ( has kept a track of them all). But you can breathe easy: Marge is not going anywhere just yet. It was announced in April that the show has been renewed for four more seasons. Kavner will likely return, since Marge's death happens later in the show's timeline. Matt Groening, the creator of the series, told Variety that The Simpsons fandom is 'as intense as ever,' despite being the longest-running animation series in North America. The death of the Marge character represents a break from how things played out in the Groening family. Matt Groening named Homer and Marge for his parents, and his mother outlived his father.
CTV News
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CTV News
Marge Simpson isn't dead yet, so everyone can calm down
Marge feels an overwhelming dread of the empty nest in the "A Mid-Childhood Night's Dream" episode of "The Simpsons." (FOX via CNN Newsource) There was a death of a beloved character on the Season 36 finale of 'The Simpsons' last month that people are still grieving. But in the colorfully animated world of Springfield, it's probably safe to save our tears for now. In an episode titled 'Estranger Things,' the fate of matriarch Marge Simpson is foreshadowed. A flash-forward 35 years in the future shows a successful Lisa working as the commissioner of the NBA. Bart is running an unlicensed retirement home, where their father Homer lives, paid for by Lisa. The siblings have drifted apart after they stop watching 'The Itchy & Scratchy Show' together. A funeral scene reveals that Marge has passed away. The now-adult Simpson kids stand by her grave site with a tombstone that reads, 'Beloved wife, mother and pork-chop seasoner.' After Lisa finds a video from the past in which her mother advises her children to remain close to each other. Lisa and Bart reunite and their mother looks on from heaven. 'I'm so happy my kids are close again,' Marge says in her afterlife, where it is revealed that she has married her longtime crush, Beatle Ringo Starr. 'Love, we'll be late for the Heaven Buffett,' Starr tells her. 'There's a shrimp tower.' 'Okay, Ringo,' Marge tells him. 'I'm just so glad that we're allowed to marry different people in Heaven.' The internet was not happy. 'OMG THEY KILLED MARGE 😭 it's a sad day for us Simpsons lovers,' one person posted on X. The show - and Marge - aren't going anywhere anytime soon. 'The Simpsons,' the longest running animated series in television history, has been renewed for four more years. By Lisa Respers France.
Yahoo
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Did 'The Simpsons' really kill off Marge? The answer is complicated
The Simpsons' season 36 finale, "Estranger Things," skips ahead to a future where Marge is the first Simpson to die. Fans expressed shock over the death, but flash-forward episodes typically aren't considered canon to the series. "Estranger Things," and the rest of season 36, is currently streaming on Hulu. Sure, characters can die on The Simpsons, though it's pretty rare. Across 36 years and 36 seasons, only a small handful of Springfield's denizens have bit the dust, and they've primarily been smaller characters, such as Maude Flanders and barfly Larry Dalrymple. Perhaps that's why social media has been abuzz in the month following The Simpsons' season 36 finale, "Estranger Things," a flash-forward episode about a future where matriarch Marge is the first Simpson sent to heaven. Many fans are confused — is Marge Simpson really dead? Can the show continue without her? It is, after all, renewed through its 40th season, slated to air in the 2028-2029 season. Yes, Marge dies in "Estranger Things," The Simpsons season 36 finale, though her death occurs many years beyond the series' main timeline. "Beloved wife, mother, pork-chop seasoner," reads her tombstone, which we glimpse as an elderly Homer weeps at her funeral alongside adult depictions of Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. Lisa, now a successful NBA executive, later finds an "emotional will" Marge left behind in the form of a video. In it, she expresses her hope that Bart and Lisa would continue to look out for each other as adults. They haven't been, of course, but the video inspires Lisa to try and mend her relationship with Bart, who's running an unlicensed retirement home out of the Simpson house, where Homer and his aging pals wreak havoc. In the end, after rescuing Homer from Senior Protective Services, the family gathers to watch a rebooted edition of their beloved Itchy and Scratchy, which seems to have taken inspiration from Itchy and Scratchy's Poochie era. Marge proudly watches over them from heaven. "I'm just so happy my kids are close again," she says before being informed by Ringo Starr, who's also deceased apparently, that they're late for the "heaven buffet." Before sharing a kiss with the Beatle, Marge says she's "so glad we're allowed to marry different people in heaven." No, Marge isn't dead in any way that will impact the future of The Simpsons moving forward. As any longtime fan knows, the show's numerous flash-forward episodes exist more or less outside of The Simpsons' canon, depicting possible futures rather than official ones. Unlike, say, Maude Flanders' shocking demise, Marge's death in "Estranger Things" occurred outside of the main timeline. So, while you won't see a (living) Maude in future episodes of The Simpsons, you absolutely will continue to see Marge. That's a good question. After all, a season 35 flash-forward episode depicted Homer's death. But, as "Estranger Things" points out, Homer's habits don't point towards a long, healthy life, whereas Marge is the kind of caring, maternal figure one imagines maybe could live forever. The idea that Homer would outlive her is shocking on its face — the episode even features a song performed by Sarah McLachlan with the lyric, "Marge passed before Homer, if you can believe it." The reaction recalls the furor around "Life of Brian," a season 12 Family Guy episode that killed off the family dog, Brian Griffin. That turned out to be something of a troll, however, as the show resurrected him two episodes later. 'We were all very surprised, in a good way, that people still cared enough about that character to be that angry," Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane said at the time. "We thought it would create a little bit of a stir, but the rage wasn't something we counted on.' Seasons 1 through 35 of The Simpsons are available to stream on Disney+. Season 36, however, is currently only available on Hulu. Entertainment Weekly Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly
CNN
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
Marge Simpson isn't dead yet, so everyone can calm down
There was a death of a beloved character on the Season 36 finale of 'The Simpsons' last month that people are still grieving. But in the colorfully animated world of Springfield, it's probably safe to save our tears for now. In an episode titled 'Estranger Things,' the fate of matriarch Marge Simpson is foreshadowed. A flash-forward 35 years in the future shows a successful Lisa working as the commissioner of the NBA. Bart is running an unlicensed retirement home, where their father Homer lives, paid for by Lisa. The siblings have drifted apart after they stop watching 'The Itchy & Scratchy Show' together. A funeral scene reveals that Marge has passed away. The now-adult Simpson kids stand by her grave site with a tombstone that reads, 'Beloved wife, mother and pork-chop seasoner.' After Lisa finds a video from the past in which her mother advises her children to remain close to each other. Lisa and Bart reunite and their mother looks on from heaven. 'I'm so happy my kids are close again,' Marge says in her afterlife, where it is revealed that she has married her longtime crush, Beatle Ringo Starr. 'Love, we'll be late for the Heaven Buffett,' Starr tells her. 'There's a shrimp tower.' 'Okay, Ringo,' Marge tells him. 'I'm just so glad that we're allowed to marry different people in Heaven.' The internet was not happy. 'OMG THEY KILLED MARGE 😭 it's a sad day for us Simpsons lovers,' one person posted on X. The show - and Marge - aren't going anywhere anytime soon. 'The Simpsons,' the longest running animated series in television history, has been renewed for four more years.
