TIMELINE-12

PODD

August 23, 1998

DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS

After plans to renew The Simpsons for a tenth season fall through, it is decided to end the show after a nice, long run of nine seasons with an hour-long series finale. The finale is a success, reaping in lots of high ratings, and thus The Simpsons comes to a dignified end (followed by the first Simpsons movie in May of 2000, the second in February of 2004, and the third and final in August of 2009, all of which all excellent).

FINAL NOTES

Goodbye, Timeline-1, and good riddance! I’d like to say it’s been nice knowin’ ya, but that’d be a bald-faced lie! So, in the immortal words of Nelson Muntz, “HAW! HAW!”