Viewers get a look ahead at the Simpson family’s future in the Season 36 finale, titled “Estranger Things.” Early on in the episode, Marge worries th

The season 36 finale, titled “Estranger Things,” features a flashforward to thirty-five years in the future, when Lisa (Yeardley Smith) and Bart Simpson (Nancy Cartwright) are adults, and their mother, Marge Simpson (Julie Kavner), is dead.

Enough people freaked out about Marge dying in the season 36 finale of The Simpsons that a producer has set the record straight on the show's canon.