Conan OBriens Pitch for the Simpsons Final Episode is Ridiculously Dark

Conan O’Brien’s Pitch for the Simpsons Final Episode is Ridiculously Dark

Conan O’Brien’s dark pitch for a dour ending for FOX’s long-running The Simpsons is rooted in one of the show’s most enduring subplots.

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Conan OBriens Pitch for the Simpsons Final Episode is Ridiculously Dark

The Simpsons is primarily a comedic series, largely driven by a sense of silly satire. Over the years, the show has tackled other genres though, putting their characters through some action-packed, dramatic and even horrifying experiences.

During a special anniversary tribute to The Simpsons, Conan O’Brien ended up pitching a ridiculously dark ending for the long-running franchise that would be a genuinely dramatic conclusion to one of the show’s longest-running subplots.

Conan OBriens Pitch for the Simpsons Final Episode is Ridiculously Dark

The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special – In 3D! On Ice! was a 2010 retrospective on the series up to that point, and was released to coincide with the show’s 450th episode. The special interviewed major members of the show’s production, as well as fans from around the world. This included Conan O’Brien, who’d briefly been a writer on the show — penning the scripts to Season 4’s “New Kid on the Block” and “Marge vs. the Monorail,” as well as Season 5’s “Homer Goes to College.” O’Brien left the show in 1993 to take on NBC’s “Late Night” following the departure of David Letterman, but his influence on the series is undeniable — especially with “Marge vs. the Monorail” often considered one of the show’s best-ever episodes.

The special closed out with O’Brien being asked how he would end the series once and for all — and he deadpan pitched the most somber possible conclusion to the show. In it, Marge would finally stop and look at her husband — and finally decide Homer is too stupid and has screwed up their lives too many times to be ever taken seriously. Noting that the sequence would be “humorless” and played completely for dramatic effect, O’Brien’s ending to the show would have seen Marge declare Homer to be a threat to humanity as a whole before leaving him forever, leaving Homer alone as the credits roll.

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O’Brien’s ending is clearly a gag, meant to be such a radically dark pitch that it could never come to be. But it does speak to Homer and Marge’s marriage, which has consistently proven to be one of the show’s primary storylines. Across the course of the series, the pair have been pushed to the breaking point multiple times, with Marge openly threatening to leave Homer behind and kicking him out of their house. The theme of their troubled marriage was considered for the primary plot of The Simpsons Movie, and ultimately became a major emotional throughline for the storyline that eventually grounded the film. Homer’s often reckless decisions regularly endanger everyone around him, and he’s thrown the Simpsons’ lives into disarray on a whim multiple times. Marge has confronted him plenty of times over these issues, and each time Homer says he’ll be a better husband and father — only to fall back into his old habits by the next episode.

Marge has had plenty of valid reasons to want to leave him over the years, and it’s only their love and their family that keep them together despite Homer’s history of mistakes. Ending the show by splitting up Homer and Marge would be a devastating conclusion, but one that would make a certain amount of sense given their history, and would certainly be one of the most unlikely and dark ways to end the show. But while it may have been a joke ending (instead of Showrunner Al Jean’s seemingly more sincere thoughts for a possible ending for the show), O’Brien’s proposed conclusion to the series does speak to the emotional heft of one of the show’s most consistent dramatic story beats.

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