They'll Never Stop The Simpsons is a song from the episode "Gump Roast" performed by Dan Castellaneta. It is a parody of Billy Joel's song "We Didn't Start the Fire" along with the namesake cover by Fall Out Boy. The music was written by Alf Clausen and the lyrics by Matt Selman. It is the tenth track on the album The Simpsons: Testify. Most of the lyrics reference past episodes.
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- Kodos:
- I can't believe we're going to the People's Choice Awards!
- Kang:
- And tomorrow, the Daytime Emmys! Oh, look! It's Burt Reynolds and Michael Jeter!
- Kodos:
- Could an Evening Shade reunion be in the works? [gasps] There's Shannen Doherty! Didn't you have a thing with her?
- Kang:
- Don't go there!
- Castellaneta:
- Ullman shorts, Christmas show,
- Marge's fling, Homer's bro,
- Bart in well, Flanders fails,
- Whacking Snakes, Monorail,
- Mr. Plow, Homer space,
- Sideshow Bob steps on rakes,
- Lisa's future, Selma's hubby,
- Marge not proud, Homer chubby,
- Homer worries Bart is gay,
- Poochie, U2, NRA,
- Hippies, Vegas and Japan
- Octuplets and Bart's boy band,
- Marge murmurs, Maude croaks,
- Lisa Buddhist, Homer tokes,
- Maggie blows Burns away,
- What else do I have to say?!
- They'll Never Stop The Simpsons!
- Have no fears, we've got stories for years, like
- Marge becomes a robot,
- Maybe Moe gets a cell phone, has Bart ever owned a bear?
- Or, how 'bout a crazy wedding?
- Where something happens and doo doo doo doo doo…
- Sorry for the clip show.
- Have no fears, we've got stories for years!
Trivia[]
- One clip that is not from an episode (or predicting one) shows Homer using a pair of skis to jump a shark. This is a reference to the episode of Happy Days where Fonzie jumps a shark on water skis, which is often cited as the moment when the show Happy Days became so out of character that audiences hated it.
- The phrase "jump[ing] the shark" has come to describe an event on a TV show that's so outrageous, cliched, tasteless, or otherwise out of character for the show that audiences cite it as the reason why they don't watch the show anymore.
- For The Simpsons, many point to the Season 9 episode "The Principal and the Pauper" as the "jump the shark" moment, as Seymour Skinner was revealed to be an imposter, which clashed with a lot of previous episodes (i.e. "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song") about Principal Skinner's life. The episode had since been considered non-canon, but the damage was already done.
- Others cite that Homer's increasing idiocy and "jerkass" personality, as well as the influx of gratuitous celebrity cameos, slide into wacky, over-the-top, often vulgar humor (as seen on episodes like "Homer vs. Dignity", "Saddlesore Galactica", "Kill the Alligator and Run", "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge", and other episodes from Mike Scully's turn as showrunner), and the callous treatment of Maude Flanders' "death are reasons why the show had "jumped the shark."
- The phrase "jump[ing] the shark" has come to describe an event on a TV show that's so outrageous, cliched, tasteless, or otherwise out of character for the show that audiences cite it as the reason why they don't watch the show anymore.
- An instrumental version of the episode plays during the credits of Season 36 premiere "Bart's Birthday", another episode that plays on the idea of the series needing to end soon, but refusing to.