The Simpsons Just Killed Off a Character Who’s Always Been There Since Season 1

Summary:

• An iconic animated sitcom The Simpsons is still having its long-standing run on TV — and its latest episode features the death of a character that has been a part of the show since its very beginning.
• Before the episode was released, the series’ writer posted a spoiler-coded poll on social media unveiling who was going to die next.
• Though it may not be evident, the character’s passing still comes as a shock for many fans who got to see him throughout the whole show’s history.

Throughout its long-standing run of 34 years, a legendary animated sitcom The Simpsons has got rid of so many characters that the viewers got to be attached or at least used to.

Many of those characters never even made it to be significantly visible staying in the shadows for years or, in The Simpsons’ case, decades — and now the famous show killed yet another Springfield citizen off.

The series’ new episode called Cremains of the Day premiered on Fox several days ago, but before that gave some chills to fans. Some time before, the show’s writer Matt Selman posted a poll on X and accompanied it with a caption about a character that was going to die in the upcoming episode thus offering his followers to guess who he would “breathe their last”.

The quest wouldn’t be that difficult even for those who know almost nothing about The Simpsons as the poll contained only options like Homer, Bart, Marge, and Larry the silent barfly. Given that Homer, Bart and Marge are the show’s main characters that are very unlikely to die, Larry literally excluded himself from that list.

The episode was obviously not a real shock as many may have guessed it all beforehand, but Larry indeed dies without even leaving his favorite Moe’s Tavern where he was one of the main barflies in there.

Though Larry usually appeared somewhere in the bar’s background drinking beer, almost never talking and making everyone feel like he’s explicitly stupid, his death still seems like a significant loss given that the character’s first appearance in the show was marked in episode 3 of the first ever season back in 1989.

Despite giving him a somewhat weird death, the show appears to honor Larry’s legacy in the episode when Homer, Lenny, Carl and Moe decide to scatter Larry’s ashes in a way that he would’ve loved.

Source: X