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	Matt concluded with positivity on people's concerns: "I guess this speaks to the fact that people care about Marge. At the end of the day, it's probably good for business even when these ridiculous, misleading stories go viral!"<ref>[https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/marge-simpson-not-dead-simpsons-producers-finale-1236442002/ Variety - "Marge Simpson Is Very Much Alive, 'The Simpsons' EP Says After Finale Sparked Online Outrage: 'There Is No Canon!'"]</ref>		Matt concluded with positivity on people's concerns: "I guess this speaks to the fact that people care about Marge. At the end of the day, it's probably good for business even when these ridiculous, misleading stories go viral!"<ref>[https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/marge-simpson-not-dead-simpsons-producers-finale-1236442002/ Variety - "Marge Simpson Is Very Much Alive, 'The Simpsons' EP Says After Finale Sparked Online Outrage: 'There Is No Canon!'"]</ref>
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		+	Smiling Friends responded to the joke about "Screaming Friends" by depicting a scene in the episode "Squim Returns" in which one of the main characters, Pim, watches a lazily drawn parody of The Simpsons, claiming "After 487 seasons they've still got it", which can be seen as a jab at how long the show has gone on for.

	== References ==		== References ==

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 At [[Springfield Elementary School|school]], Bart and Lisa tell the other kids that ''Itchy & Scratchy'' is for babies, who start destroying everything ''Itchy & Scratchy'' related in the school. At home, Marge is surprised to not find them in front of the TV to watch the show. Lisa is watching ''{{ap|Quirk Girl|TV show}}'', while Bart is watching ''[[Screaming Friends]]'', as they've moved on from Itchy and Scratchy in the process. When Marge throws away Bart's toys, [[Itchy]] and [[Scratchy]] come to life to see what happened and watch the family through the window. They remember the moments that Bart and Lisa shared together watching till this happened and they grew apart.
-Marge tells her concerns about Bart and Lisa growing apart to Homer and the next day she shares her concerns and Bart and Lisa promise her they won't drift apart. However, years in the future, Marge dies before Homer and Bart and Lisa do drift apart. 35 years in the future, Lisa is important, having become the youngest commissioner in the history of the women's professional basketball league, while Bart is a junkie. Lisa has to do a speech at her old school in Springfield so she drives there. She sees how things have changed. [[Rod]] and [[Todd]] started a real estate agency and [[Nelson]] grew up to become the new [[Barney]]. She tries to meet her father but is told that everyone at the [[Springfield Retirement Castle|Retirement Castle]] are on a field trip.
+Marge tells her concerns about Bart and Lisa growing apart to Homer and the next day she shares her concerns and Bart and Lisa promise her they won't drift apart. However, years in the future, Marge dies before Homer and Bart and Lisa do drift apart. 35 years in the future, Lisa is important, having become the youngest commissioner in the history of the women's professional basketball league, while Bart is a junkie. Lisa has to do a speech at her old school in Springfield, so she drives there. She sees how things have changed. [[Rod]] and [[Todd]] started a real estate agency, and [[Nelson]] grew up to become the new [[Barney]]. She tries to meet her father but is told that everyone at the [[Springfield Retirement Castle|Retirement Castle]] are on a field trip.
-Lisa decides to go home and finds Homer, [[Lenny]], [[Carl]] and [[Comic Book Guy]] there partying. She then finds out Bart has been lying to her and running an unlicensed retirement home, and scamming the families for the money. Suddenly, they hear a car crash into the garage and run out to see Lenny has crashed her car. She leaves for the school on her old bicycle and places a call to Senior Protective Services before she arrives. At the school, she starts her speech before starting to complain about Bart and is interrupted by [[Principal Skinner]]. [[Chalmers]] takes her back home, where they're playing [[croquet]] and Lisa enjoys playing it with them.
+Lisa decides to go home and finds Homer, [[Lenny]], [[Carl]] and [[Comic Book Guy]] there partying. She then finds out Bart has been lying to her and running an unlicensed retirement home, and scamming the families for the money, with [[Milhouse]] walking in to confirm that he got Lenny and Carl's families to give money. Suddenly, they hear a car crash into the garage and run out to see Lenny has crashed her car. She leaves for the school on her old bicycle and places a call to Senior Protective Services before she arrives. At the school, she starts her speech before starting to complain about Bart and is interrupted by [[Principal Skinner]]. [[Chalmers]] takes her back home, where they're playing [[croquet]] and Lisa enjoys playing it with them.
 Soon after, Carl tells them that Lenny is missing. Bart and Lisa start searching for him before finding him on a tree hallucinating that he's drinking a beer at [[Moe's]]. Bart convinces him to come down, impressing Lisa with his solution. Bart reminds Lisa how while she sits in an office doing nothing, he has to take care of Homer, and when they get home, the "Senior Protective Services" has taken Homer, leaving a note that they've taken him in custody after a complaint from Lisa.
-She calls them back to withdraw her complaint but they don't accept it and they're told that he's being transferred to [[Florida]]. To think up a solution to the problem, Lisa shuts herself in the attic, where she finds an envelope from Marge to be opened after her passing, with a DVD inside, "Marge Simpson's emotional will." In the video, Marge says that she hopes that Bart and Lisa were close in the future. Getting emotional, Bart and Lisa decide to take action.
+She calls them back to withdraw her complaint, but they don't accept it, and they're told that he's being transferred to [[Florida]]. To think up a solution to the problem, Lisa shuts herself in the attic, where she finds an envelope from Marge to be opened after her passing, with a DVD inside, "Marge Simpson's emotional will." In the video, Marge says that she hopes that Bart and Lisa were close in the future. Getting emotional, Bart and Lisa decide to take action.
 They drive the Camaro on a rescue mission to save Homer from the Disorient Express, but the old people get scared thinking they're escapees from prison, so Lisa suggests reenacting their favorite ''Itchy & Scratchy'' cartoon, where Itchy pours water next to Scratchy, starting off their urge to pee. The old people ask [[Wise Guy]] to stop before the border to Florida so they can use the toilets. Bart and Lisa manage to rescue Homer and take him home in time to watch ''The Itchy & Scratchy Show'' reboot. In [[Heaven]], Marge is happy to see them close again, just before joining {{Ch|Ringo Starr}} for a buffet, being glad she can marry other people in Heaven.

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 |prodcode= [[Production season 36ABF|36ABF11]]
 |airdate= May 18, [[2025]]
-|guests= [[Zooey Deschanel]] as [[Natalya]]<br>[[Max Greenfield]] as [[Schultz]]<br>[[Sarah McLachlan]] as {{Ch|Sarah McLachlan|herself}}
+|guests= [[Zooey Deschanel]] as [[Quirk Girl]]<br>[[Max Greenfield]] as [[Schultz]]<br>[[Sarah McLachlan]] as {{Ch|Sarah McLachlan|herself}}
 |showrunner= Matt Selman
 |corunner = Tim Long
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 }}
-'''"Estranger Things"''' is the eighteenth and final episode of [[Season 36|broadcast season 36]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the seven hundred ninetieth episode overall. It originally aired on May 18, [[2025]]. The episode was written by [[Tim Long]] and directed by [[Matthew Nastuk]]. It guest stars [[Zooey Deschanel]] as [[Natalya]], [[Max Greenfield]] as [[Schultz]], and [[Sarah McLachlan]] as {{Ch|Sarah McLachlan|herself}}.
+'''"Estranger Things"''' is the eighteenth and final episode of [[Season 36|broadcast season 36]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the seven hundred ninetieth episode overall. It originally aired on May 18, [[2025]]. The episode was written by [[Tim Long]] and directed by [[Matthew Nastuk]]. It guest stars [[Zooey Deschanel]] as [[Quirk Girl]], [[Max Greenfield]] as [[Schultz]], and [[Sarah McLachlan]] as {{Ch|Sarah McLachlan|herself}}.
 == Summary ==

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 Four years ago, [[Marge]] goes to the market and asks [[Homer]] to look after the kids, but tells him to not put them in front of the TV, while eating [[Twinkie]]s and taking a nap. Homer does the complete opposite and [[Bart]] and [[Lisa]] start changing channels until they stop at ''{{Krusty show}}'' and an episode of ''[[The Itchy & Scratchy Show]]'', "[[Open Sesame Street]]". They enjoy it so much they swear they'll watch it every day forever before sharing a Twinkie. They continue watching until the present when Marge shows them that they started doing clothing and merchandise for babies too, which leads to Bart and Lisa believing that ''Itchy & Scratchy'' is for babies.
-At [[Springfield Elementary School|school]], Bart and Lisa tell the other kids that ''Itchy & Scratchy'' is for babies, who start destroying everything ''Itchy & Scratchy'' related in the school. At home, Marge is surprised to not find them in front of the TV to watch the show. Lisa is watching ''[[Quirk Girl]]'', while Bart is watching ''[[Screaming Friends]]'', as they've moved on from Itchy and Scratchy in the process. When Marge throws away Bart's toys, [[Itchy]] and [[Scratchy]] come to life to see what happened and watch the family through the window. They remember the moments that Bart and Lisa shared together watching till this happened and they grew apart.
+At [[Springfield Elementary School|school]], Bart and Lisa tell the other kids that ''Itchy & Scratchy'' is for babies, who start destroying everything ''Itchy & Scratchy'' related in the school. At home, Marge is surprised to not find them in front of the TV to watch the show. Lisa is watching ''{{ap|Quirk Girl|TV show}}'', while Bart is watching ''[[Screaming Friends]]'', as they've moved on from Itchy and Scratchy in the process. When Marge throws away Bart's toys, [[Itchy]] and [[Scratchy]] come to life to see what happened and watch the family through the window. They remember the moments that Bart and Lisa shared together watching till this happened and they grew apart.
 Marge tells her concerns about Bart and Lisa growing apart to Homer and the next day she shares her concerns and Bart and Lisa promise her they won't drift apart. However, years in the future, Marge dies before Homer and Bart and Lisa do drift apart. 35 years in the future, Lisa is important, having become the youngest commissioner in the history of the women's professional basketball league, while Bart is a junkie. Lisa has to do a speech at her old school in Springfield so she drives there. She sees how things have changed. [[Rod]] and [[Todd]] started a real estate agency and [[Nelson]] grew up to become the new [[Barney]]. She tries to meet her father but is told that everyone at the [[Springfield Retirement Castle|Retirement Castle]] are on a field trip.

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 Four years ago, [[Marge]] goes to the market and asks [[Homer]] to look after the kids, but tells him to not put them in front of the TV, while eating [[Twinkie]]s and taking a nap. Homer does the complete opposite and [[Bart]] and [[Lisa]] start changing channels until they stop at ''{{Krusty show}}'' and an episode of ''[[The Itchy & Scratchy Show]]'', "[[Open Sesame Street]]". They enjoy it so much they swear they'll watch it every day forever before sharing a Twinkie. They continue watching until the present when Marge shows them that they started doing clothing and merchandise for babies too, which leads to Bart and Lisa believing that ''Itchy & Scratchy'' is for babies.
-At [[Springfield Elementary School|school]], Bart and Lisa tell the other kids that ''Itchy & Scratchy'' is for babies, who start destroying everything ''Itchy & Scratchy'' related in the school. At home, Marge is surprised to not find them in front of the TV to watch the show. Lisa is watching ''{{ap|Quirk Girl|TV show}}'', while Bart is watching ''[[Screaming Friends]]'', as they've moved on from Itchy and Scratchy in the process. When Marge throws away Bart's toys, [[Itchy]] and [[Scratchy]] come to life to see what happened and watch the family through the window. They remember the moments that Bart and Lisa shared together watching till this happened and they grew apart.
+At [[Springfield Elementary School|school]], Bart and Lisa tell the other kids that ''Itchy & Scratchy'' is for babies, who start destroying everything ''Itchy & Scratchy'' related in the school. At home, Marge is surprised to not find them in front of the TV to watch the show. Lisa is watching ''[[Quirk Girl]]'', while Bart is watching ''[[Screaming Friends]]'', as they've moved on from Itchy and Scratchy in the process. When Marge throws away Bart's toys, [[Itchy]] and [[Scratchy]] come to life to see what happened and watch the family through the window. They remember the moments that Bart and Lisa shared together watching till this happened and they grew apart.
 Marge tells her concerns about Bart and Lisa growing apart to Homer and the next day she shares her concerns and Bart and Lisa promise her they won't drift apart. However, years in the future, Marge dies before Homer and Bart and Lisa do drift apart. 35 years in the future, Lisa is important, having become the youngest commissioner in the history of the women's professional basketball league, while Bart is a junkie. Lisa has to do a speech at her old school in Springfield so she drives there. She sees how things have changed. [[Rod]] and [[Todd]] started a real estate agency and [[Nelson]] grew up to become the new [[Barney]]. She tries to meet her father but is told that everyone at the [[Springfield Retirement Castle|Retirement Castle]] are on a field trip.

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 == Summary ==
-{{desc|When [[Bart]] and [[Lisa]] stop watching [[The Itchy & Scratchy Show|Itchy & Scratchy]] together, [[Marge]] fears that they'll start to drift apart. Years in the future, Lisa is the commissioner for the NBA, and Bart is running an unlicensed retirement home in the [[742 Evergreen Terrace|Simpson house]].}}
+{{Synopsis|When [[Bart]] and [[Lisa]] stop watching [[The Itchy & Scratchy Show|Itchy & Scratchy]] together, [[Marge]] fears that they'll start to drift apart. Years in the future, Lisa is the commissioner for the NBA, and Bart is running an unlicensed retirement home in the [[742 Evergreen Terrace|Simpson house]].}}
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 == Reception ==
-After the episode aired, several news sites falsely reported that [[Marge]] was killed off in the episode, despite the episode being clearly non-canon. On June 26, 2025, [[Matt Selman]] responded to the allegations, pointing out that "after 790 episodes, there is no canon. ‘The Simpsons’ doesn’t even have canon! Obviously since the ‘The Simpsons’ future episodes are all speculative fantasies, they’re all different every time. Marge will probably never be dead ever again. The only place Marge is dead is in one future episode that aired six weeks ago."
+After the episode aired, several news sites falsely reported that [[Marge]] was killed off in the episode, despite the episode being clearly non-canon. On June 26, 2025, [[Matt Selman]] responded to the allegations, pointing out that "after 790 episodes, there is no canon. 'The Simpsons' doesn't even have canon! Obviously since the 'The Simpsons' future episodes are all speculative fantasies, they're all different every time. Marge will probably never be dead ever again. The only place Marge is dead is in one future episode that aired six weeks ago."
-Regarding the news sites reporting it, Matt said, "Here’s my take: Websites need traffic, and headlines equal traffic. And then you can explain that the headline was misleading at the very end of the article. Every single media outlet that ran this story knew that in no way was Marge dead. They all knew it, but they ran the headline anyway."
+Regarding the news sites reporting it, Matt said, "Here's my take: Websites need traffic, and headlines equal traffic. And then you can explain that the headline was misleading at the very end of the article. Every single media outlet that ran this story knew that in no way was Marge dead. They all knew it, but they ran the headline anyway."
-Matt concluded with positivity on people's concerns: "I guess this speaks to the fact that people care about Marge. At the end of the day, it’s probably good for business even when these ridiculous, misleading stories go viral!"<ref>[https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/marge-simpson-not-dead-simpsons-producers-finale-1236442002/ Variety - "Marge Simpson Is Very Much Alive, ‘The Simpsons’ EP Says After Finale Sparked Online Outrage: ‘There Is No Canon!’"]</ref>
+Matt concluded with positivity on people's concerns: "I guess this speaks to the fact that people care about Marge. At the end of the day, it's probably good for business even when these ridiculous, misleading stories go viral!"<ref>[https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/marge-simpson-not-dead-simpsons-producers-finale-1236442002/ Variety - "Marge Simpson Is Very Much Alive, 'The Simpsons' EP Says After Finale Sparked Online Outrage: 'There Is No Canon!'"]</ref>
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+== Reception ==
-After the episode aired, several news site falsely reported that [[Marge]] was killed off in the episode, despite the episode being clearly non-canon. On June 26, 2025, [[Matt Selman]] responded on the allegations pointing out that "after 790 episodes, there is no canon. ‘The Simpsons’ doesn’t even have canon! Obviously since the ‘The Simpsons’ future episodes are all speculative fantasies, they’re all different every time. Marge will probably never be dead ever again. The only place Marge is dead is in one future episode that aired six weeks ago.".
+After the episode aired, several news sites falsely reported that [[Marge]] was killed off in the episode, despite the episode being clearly non-canon. On June 26, 2025, [[Matt Selman]] responded to the allegations, pointing out that "after 790 episodes, there is no canon. ‘The Simpsons’ doesn’t even have canon! Obviously since the ‘The Simpsons’ future episodes are all speculative fantasies, they’re all different every time. Marge will probably never be dead ever again. The only place Marge is dead is in one future episode that aired six weeks ago."
-Regarding the news site reporting it, Matt said "Here’s my take: Websites need traffic, and headlines equal traffic. And then you can explain that the headline was misleading at the very end of the article. Every single media outlet that ran this story knew that in no way was Marge dead. They all knew it, but they ran the headline anyway.".
+Regarding the news sites reporting it, Matt said, "Here’s my take: Websites need traffic, and headlines equal traffic. And then you can explain that the headline was misleading at the very end of the article. Every single media outlet that ran this story knew that in no way was Marge dead. They all knew it, but they ran the headline anyway."
-Matt concluded with positivity on people's concerns: "I guess this speaks to the fact that people care about Marge. At the end of the day, it’s probably good for business even when these ridiculous, misleading stories go viral!".<ref>[https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/marge-simpson-not-dead-simpsons-producers-finale-1236442002/ Variety - "Marge Simpson Is Very Much Alive, ‘The Simpsons’ EP Says After Finale Sparked Online Outrage: ‘There Is No Canon!’"]</ref>
+Matt concluded with positivity on people's concerns: "I guess this speaks to the fact that people care about Marge. At the end of the day, it’s probably good for business even when these ridiculous, misleading stories go viral!"<ref>[https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/marge-simpson-not-dead-simpsons-producers-finale-1236442002/ Variety - "Marge Simpson Is Very Much Alive, ‘The Simpsons’ EP Says After Finale Sparked Online Outrage: ‘There Is No Canon!’"]</ref>
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