Overview

• Matt Groening told Comic-Con attendees the series has “no end in sight” and will continue until a principal cast member dies.
• Fox has renewed The Simpsons through season 40, extending its record as the longest-running animated sitcom.
• Groening predicted dancing in the streets after President Trump’s death before an imagined President Vance bans dancing.
• The creator forecasted Elon Musk’s crash landing and marooning on Mars, America returning the Statue of Liberty to France, and urged viewers to delete Fox News.
• Showrunner Matt Selman reiterated that flash-forward episodes, including one depicting Marge’s death, are speculative fantasies outside the series’ continuity.