Mike Price Says The Simpsons Should End With a Regular Episode

When The Simpsons debuted on Fox in 1989, no one could have predicted that Matt Groening's series would be on the air over three decades and 800 episodes later. The show keeps going, but its long-running voice actors — Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, and Harry Shearer — will likely want to hang up the mic at some point.

The series already winked at the idea of a finale in the Season 36 premiere, “Bart’s Birthday,” which featured Conan O’Brien hosting a fake series finale written by an A.I. chatbot and then resetting the show. Executive producer Mike Price said writer Jeff Conrad decided to get that out of the way, and added, “It’s almost like we got that out of the way.

Now, if and when the show does ever end, I can't tell you, but I would hope it would just be like a regular episode, not some kind of special final episode.” Showrunner Matt Selman has made a similar point: “There’s no finale, it would just be a regular episode that has the family in it.

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