He’s obtained his exit from Springfield deliberate.
“The Simpsons” shocked viewers in October when the long-running animated collection known as its Season 36 premiere its “series finale” — solely to disclose that all the storyline of the episode was generated by AI.
It wasn’t the true finale, however showrunner Matt Selman advised The Publish, “The discussion that it would be so hard to do a last episode is what led to the fake series finale. That it’s sort of an impossible thing.”
“The show isn’t meant to end,” he continued. “To do a sappy crappo series finale, like most other shows do, would be so lame. So we just did one that was like over the top.”
Selman was speaking to The Publish for the present’s Christmas particular, “O C’mon All Ye Faithful,” which is now streaming on Disney+. The particular follows the chaos that ensues as Homer is hypnotized into believing he’s Santa Claus.
For the present’s actual collection finale, Selman would need it to only be “a regular episode.”
“The characters in this crazy show don’t age … I think later we’ll just pick an episode and say that was the last one. No self-aware stuff. Or, one self-aware joke.”
He mentioned he’d prefer it if the present’s final episode was simply “a really good story about the family.”
Emmy-winning “The Simpsons” author Carolyn Omine advised The Publish in regards to the eventual collection finale, “I’ve heard a few people say ‘I think it should be this’ or ‘I think it should be that.’ And it’s hard, because what the show is kind of keeps changing. So it can’t be the idea you’ve had in your pocket for a while.”
Selman added that so many individuals’s concepts for a collection finale “are based on having watched other last shows.”
“And I don’t think it should be a response to the litany of last shows that already exist. We covered that area,” he defined, referring to the fake-out “series finale” episode.
He joked: “[The last episode will be] a parody of ‘A Christmas Carol’ with [Mr. Burns] as Scrooge. The laziest idea!”
