Ay Caramba! Did The Simpsons really kill off Marge in the season 36 finale?

By&nbspEuronews & David Mouriquand

Published connected 26/06/2025 - 13:30 GMT+2•Updated 17:03

Springfield's finest person accompanied astir group passim their childhoods and nan US bid created by Matt Groening successful 1989 remains celebrated to this time pinch nan young and not-so-young alike.

The Simpsons, nan longest-running animated TV series, conscionable aired nan last section of its 36th season. And wouldn't you cognize it, they killed disconnected Marge, nan iconic blue-haired mother and pillar of nan family.

Sort of.

At nan extremity of nan finale, titled "Estranger Things", location is simply a 35-year leap into nan early during which includes a little segment astatine Marge's funeral. An older Homer cries complete a tombstone that reads: “Beloved wife, mother, pork-chop seasoner.”

Marge is seen 1 past clip successful nan afterlife, wherever she's engaged locking tongues pinch now-dead Ringo Starr.

“I’m conscionable truthful gladsome we’re allowed to wed different group successful Heaven,” she says, ending nan episode. 

So, yes, Marge is dead. Its canonical. But she dies successful nan future. As astir of america will.

Viewers and fans don't often header each that good pinch abrupt changes successful their favourite series, and location has been outcry, pinch galore questioning nan reality of Marge's decease successful nan bid timeline.

The Family Guy precedent

Deaths are uncommon successful The Simpsons. In 36 seasons, only a fewer secondary characters specified arsenic Maude Flanders and Larry Dalrymple person snuffed it.

But Family Guy has been done its adjacent stock of obituary controversy.

The cult animated bid created by Seth MacFarlane offers different depiction of an American family, pinch an other helping of absurdity. The Griffin family besides caused contention by sidesplitting disconnected instrumentality favourite Brian, nan family's boozy pup.

In nan sixth section of play 12, Brian is tally complete by a car and dies. However, owed to nan immense outcry from fans, he was revived 2 episodes later - pinch nan thief of Stewie's clip machine.

Would his revival person moreover happened had fans not raged online?

MacFarlane explained successful an question and reply pinch Rolling Stone that Brian's decease was not a ploy to boost ratings, but to show fans that thing tin happen.

It turned retired to beryllium a immense bet and astatine nan time, MacFarlane added that he was "pleasantly surprised" that fans cared capable astir nan characteristic to get truthful angry.

Peppa Pig: A 3rd child

To measurement distant from decease for a moment, let's talk Peppa.

Believe it aliases not, British animated bid Peppa Pig already has 420 episodes.

The child-friendly bid deals pinch mundane situations (riding a bike, going to a flea market, vacation preparations...) successful five-minute episodes.

The main character, Peppa, is nan eldest girl and has not only had a relative since February, but besides a sister, Evie - representing nan first awesome alteration successful nan wildly successful children's series.

The news was announced by Mummy Pig herself connected Good Morning Britain successful February - successful nan shape of a unrecorded connection to nan nation.

Day-to-day appointments pinch TV characters, existent and fictional, consciousness to galore for illustration a reunion pinch aged acquaintances and loved ones.

Major changes - joyful aliases successful nan lawsuit of a characteristic death, little truthful - tin beryllium a imaginative gamble. And successful nan lawsuit of expiration, these punts are often met pinch disapproval and passionate outcry. Understandably, considering nan affectional finance that tin beryllium threatened wrong a acquainted environment.

There's besides nan quality request for consistency, particularly successful troubled times. Escapism is each very good and good, but distabilize nan established bid of things, and outbursts from long-running fans are hardly surprising.

So yes, Marge will die. Even beloved animated characters person to woody pinch Benjamin Franklin's words: "In this world thing tin beryllium said to beryllium certain, isolated from decease and taxes." But her iconic hairsbreadth will return.

However, considering nan bid has nary group aliases accordant birthdays and Marge's mostly accepted canon property is 36, a 35-year leap would mean nan matriarch popped her clogs aged 71. That feels awfully young, no?

The section “Estranger Things” does not uncover really she dies. Maybe that's nan existent enigma to lick here?

We're betting that it was chronic backmost symptom from carrying that gangly hairdo.

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