Bart Sees How Everyone Dies - The Simpsons | Flanders' Ladder - Season 29 Episode 21

This scene is from the episode ‘Flanders' Ladder' of The Simpsons' twenty-ninth season, where Bart is visited by a number of vindictive ghosts. In this scene, he enumerates the deaths of nine Simpsons' characters, in a parody of the closing montage from the Six Feet Under series finale.

[HappyNBoy]

I like how they kept Bart becoming a chief justice

[Montesama]

Honestly, Ned being the husband of Marge after Homer's passing seems like a nice way to progress. He would be really good to her, and she's probably patient enough to work around or embrace his practices and habits related to his religious piety (they go to the same church, after all).

[RedRaikou]

Bart actually became a judge, also another episode showed that Bart in a bed in the hospital after realizing he had a good life.

[karaoconnoraliasraidra]

So after Homer died, Ned married Marge, cared for her until the end of her life, and looked at her as fondly as the two main wives we got to know? That’s actually pretty wholesome and beautiful.

[cybremystica]

0:39 Ned’s married half of Springfield at this point

[thesubwaynut]

This would have been the perfect series finale

[julianloevenich]

I love that "Maggie never dies" is on one hand a "Heros never die" statement but on the other could also be feasible irl. 4 others in that clip got to the age of 110-120 and ralph wiggum only dies because he is poisoned, implying that massive medical advancements were still made (as statistically out of maybe 100 important simpsons characters 4 getting to be 115-120 is near impossible). So when Maggie was young enough it could be that future medicine made her functionally immortal.

[supercoolmaniajon]

It's canon guys. Maggie is immortal.

[Jchmcom]

0:37 Man God really giving Ned some tribulations in life before his eternal rest.

[TheHatGuy]

0:57 Wow after all these years of Bart tricking him, at the final battle, so Skinner technically won the battle at the end. And at 0:57 consider that payback.

[truthspeaker]

This should be a perfect ending for this show

[DaFro]

Good to see they kept the joke of Bart becoming Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

[flavieduhaimerochon]

I always get chills after seeing this clip

[cobaltprime]

Ngl Ned and Marge isn’t a bad couple to end on. Good for Skinner tho, living to 119. And Maggie ascended to godhood it seems.

[DavidJackRabbit]

The song playing is Breathe Me by Sia.

[Dr_ludwig]

I forgot that barts full name was Bartholomew

[georgeedmund]

Is anyone else amazed that Ralph out lived Lisa?

[Coolskeleton_]

This is probably one of the darkest Simpsons moments ever, at least in my opinion. Just seeing all of the characters a lot of people have known for almost their whole lives is just really upsetting.

[pedrourbano]

I noticed something, Marge died very similarly to Homer's mom, Mona, in peace, silently, sitting and their loved ones even took a while to actually notice she was dead.

[deadcake]

I honestly don't know what the Simpsons is trying to do with this. Season 20 to 30 was when the show was really having an identity crisis, and this is kinda a strong example to demonstrate that. It's too depressing to be funny, it's too funny to be serious, there's not enough canon credibility to be important, yet it feels too "this should feel important" to just brush it aside. Just doing stuff without really understanding why, or what they vibe should be. Thankfully they've gotten a lot better at keeping consistent vibes post season 30, but this was a real "middle age crisis" period for the show.