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When the Simpsons eventually ends its long run (not in the near Futurama but hopefully sometime in the 2010s) what do you think the final episode ever will be about. They could parody series finales for other long running shows but that might not be good.

It should be a future episode that skips to different places in time to show how Sideshow Bob killed all the Simpsons in their lifetime.

They should treat it like any other episode but give the show some closure (maybe Mona and Herb coming back or Lisa becoming the youngest college student ever

I think they should make a normal episode, but at the end, they do a scene where the parents are tucking the kids into bed the same way that they did on the very first Tracy Ullman short. Bart no longer wonders what the mind is, Lisa isn't afraid of bed bugs anymore, and Maggie no longer fears the "Rock a bye Baby" song. In the end the kids want to come into the bed anyway, along with the dog and cat. Eventually they all start talking about something and the camera just zooms out and leaves them giving the audience the message: Things are still the way they are, and that's how we want it.

I hope they resolve some frequently asked questions like where they live and what ever happened to Marge's dad.

I don't even want to think about the simpsons ending!

But I think they should show like how the characters are in like the future.

The special 'final' episode will be whatever episode the show is currently producing when one of the major voice actors quits, or passes away.

It is very hard for me to imagine a series finale episode because, despite the downfall, I can't imagine this show ever ending! It's still hard for me to believe that this very same show aired a couple of months before I was born. The show is older than I am! 

I know what you mean. A parody would probably work only if it is done correctly and not too heavily.

It makes me sad to think about a final episode, but all that I can say is that I hope they do something clever and don't just put together a clip show. Let's hope that we don't have to think about a finale for at least another five years anyway.

It makes me sad too, but the show isn't going anywhere for a while, so I have a long time to prepare before I am ready for The Simpsons to go.

i don't think they should end it! But if they do, i would want it 2 b a big episode, an hour long - maybe. it should b a big ending, and it should say at the end, Thanks 4 watching the simpsons since 1989.

I was born 3 days before episode 48.

The simpsons ending?! That will be a sad, sad day.

yeah, im 14, the simpsons is 18, thats 4 years before i was born! when i was born, the show already had 4 seasons out! it'll feel weird when it finally bites it someday, to have something thats been around longer than you just stop is probably gonna feel weird. but like most of you have said, though its getting on in years, The Simpsons probably has a good amount of life left in it. Matt Groening doesn't want to kill the show anymore than anyone else, and he said he'll keep going as long as he can. Plus, with the movie coming out, i think itll earn the show an entire new fanbase. Who knows? Maybe The Simpsons has got another 10 years left in it? Or maybe just 1 more? Maybe 20? Who knows, all I know is its not finished yet. Plus, when it finally does get cancelled, do you think FOX will be able to handle the undeniably huge attack from fans its going to get? All those people will be trying to ressurect it, just like Futurama, and thats nowhere near as popular as The Simpsons.

Once The Simpsons ends, people will not try to resurrect it because it has more than enough seasons to make people happy. Futurama only had 5 seasons and 72 episodes and should not have been cancelled in the first place. And FOX doesn't know what they are going to do when The Simpsons ends because they hope it will be a long time from now, so they aren't prepared.