'Dead As a Doornail': The Simpsons Has Killed Off A Veteran Springfield Character — And This Time, The Death is Reportedly Permanent

The Simpsons has abruptly killed a seasoned Springfield character, and said the decease volition not beryllium reversed.

The series' latest episode, Sashes to Sashes, sees aged Springfield nonmigratory Alice Glick illness astatine the religion organ she was often seen playing.

Glick has made dozens of insignificant appearances wrong The Simpsons implicit the years, opening successful the show's 2nd play which aired backmost successful 1991. Alas, aft 34 years, the organist has played her past — and according to the show's co-executive shaper Tim Long, the decease is final.

The Simpsons has killed Alice Glick. Image credit: 20th Century.

"In a sense, Alice the organist volition unrecorded forever, done the beauteous euphony she made," Long told EW, successful a study that states the improvement was permanent. "But successful another, much important sense, yep, she's dormant arsenic a doornail."

The decease comes conscionable months aft The Simpsons aired the high-profile demise of Marge Simpson (albeit successful an occurrence acceptable successful the future), thing which kickstarted a warfare of words implicit what precisely successful the bid is present treated arsenic canon.

As fans pointed to instances wherever characters person been killed disconnected for bully (including Maude Flanders, Edna Krabappel and Larry the barfly), the series' co-showrunner Matt Selman railed against the thought that The Simpsons had a acceptable canon.

"It's a f***ing paradox," Selman told EW previously. "People suck it up anyway. Our amusement is inactive precise fashionable successful some America and internationally. I americium not disquieted astir messing with the timeline."

In the lawsuit of organist Alice Glick, the substance is not helped by the information that she had been seen dying antecedently — backmost successful 2011 occurrence Replaceable You, wherever she was killed by a robot favored and is aboriginal seen successful heaven. The fan-run Simpsons wiki present considers that occurrence non-canonical, with the crushed being that Glick appears successful galore episodes afterwards.

Now successful its 37th season, the amusement has besides conscionable added a caller subordinate to the Simpsons household clan. In the aforesaid episode, Marge reveals her previously-secret aunt Beatrice Bouvier, played by Carrie Coon.

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