The finale of the shows 11th season, Behind the Laughter, would have been aperfect ending toThe Simpsons.

The episode is a pitch-perfect satire of the shock-doc TV subgenre popularized at the turn of the millennium.

Pre-existing rifts and walkouts in the production and writing team are represented by a fallout between Simpsons family members.

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“Episodes increasingly resorted to gimmicky premises and nonsensical plots,” it explains.

Still, they correctly predicted what was coming.

This’ll be the last season, he tells a fictional member of the shows production team.

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This prediction was perhaps the episodes most telling of all, yet its the only one it got wrong.

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