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They’ll Never Stop The Simpsons… Or Will They?
How a season premiere became a series finale.
This meant the show didn’t have to ask for their permission, though Fox Legal made the writers give Conan the line, “This theater is filled with the many celebrities who appeared on The Simpsons over the years, who have come to say farewell. Tom Hanks reprised his role as himself from The Simpsons Movie, even improvising a line, and for the episode-within-the-episode, the AI got John Cena to cameo as himself, which felt to Selman like the type of stunt guest star the show would try to get for a finale. The episode continues in this fashion, mocking other finale clichés like babies (Comic Book Guy’s wife Kumiko Nakamura gives birth) and surprise inheritances (Mr. Burns dies, first as a prank and then for real, accidentally bequeathing his fortune to the power plant’s staff), each culminating in characters parroting the same line and turning off the lights.
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