The adorable blue-haired mother might have had her last run
It has already existed on our television screens for 35 years, but we can hardly imagine that The Simpsons fans have ever been more shocked than at the season 36 finale when it turned out that Marge is dead.
We have seen off a lot of characters in the long-running comedy show over a series of years with Kwik-E-Mart owner Apu Nahasapeemapetilon being demoted and making no more guest appearances in the last eight years following the release of a documentary exposing the issue with the character being played by a white actor, Hank Azaria.
To the rest of you who may be johnny-come-latelys with the show in recent years we lost recurring characters like Fat Tony and Edna Krabappel and poor ole Ned Flanders lost his wife the second time after the first death of Maude.
Even though The Simpsons have proven quite right in their eerily accurate predictions, which count Donald Trump becoming president, the Coronavirus pandemic and the horse meat scandal, perhaps even the writers could not have foreseen that we would have to bid Marge goodbye in season 36.
Does Marge die in the Simpsons?
In the last episode of the current series that has, officially, been renewed to last one more season, we get to observe the relationship between Bart and Lisa and how it develops as the two enter adulthood.
Lisa later comes to work as a successful professional (though not, perhaps, President as shown in other episodes) when it leaps 35 years into the future, with Bart operating an illegal retirement facility.
This is evident in the episode, where Lisa refers to her dead mother in the beginning, and we also, witness a scene in her burial. An old cassette recorded by a younger Marge is also found, in the eventuality of her passing away before Homer, as Marge expresses it in her ‘very unlikely scenario’.
When and how does Marge die in The Simpsons?
She may still look young since her reason of death has not been given, but she is depicted in heaven. But based on the picture of the funeral, it probably is somewhere in 15-20 years time of our present day and we may need to wait on a future season before being able to pin down how precisely she dies.
What of Homer Simpson?
Once again, it looks like the whole aspect of working in the nuclear plant, combined with this grisly diet obviously have not worked their magic on the dad as yet, despite his numerous injuries and heart surgeries over the years, as Marge takes off before him leaving the donut craving clown all alone.
Homer is shown to have been taken by the ‘senior services’ of Springfield up to Florida, Bart and Lisa combining in the process to help Springfree him so that they can watch another episode of Itchy and Scratchy together.
And comically, all of a sudden they say that Marge has snared another man in heaven with he who answered the train songs of Thomas the tank engine the narrator of whom is Ringo Starr-my guess he was also a member of a rather successful band.
