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After 26 Years Of Animated Bliss, Marge And Homer Simpson Call It Quits — What Spells The End?

By Shelley Hazen
Published on: 03:40 PST, Jun 10, 2015

If Marge and Homer can’t make it, is there any hope for the rest of us?

In an interview about the upcoming season, producer Al Jean gave Variety a sneak peek at its plot twists. And unfortunately, those plot twists include what we can only hope is a very brief legal separation between Marge and Homer Simpson.

As often happens in real life, their marriage will be derailed by another woman — Lena Dunham, of Girls fame.

Well, not actually Lena Dunham. She will provide the voice of the “other woman,” a pharmacist who evidently enraptures Homer, the Washington Post reported.

We only assume he comes to her looking for medicine to cure his narcolepsy, which, turns out, he’s suffered for years. The condition has been tortuous for Marge throughout their marriage and leads to their break up. That’s when Lena comes into the picture. Homer simply falls in love with her.

Fans can only hope and pray that their separation is only temporary. After all, the duo have been married for 26 years, and yet their children are still pre-pubescent.

And they’ve split up before — in The Simpsons Movie— but never has it become so official and nearly permanent.

Jean revealed some other, less distressing, insights into the upcoming season: A Boyhood-inspired flashback and the brief death of Bart at the hands of Sideshow Bob during “The Treehouse of Horror” episode, the Huffington Post reported. There will be cameos from other Girls actresses, and an episode where Lisa befriends a talented homeless woman. And Spider Pig returns!

Marge, Homer, Bart, Lisa, Maggie, and the gang are coming up to an impressive milestone — surpassing Gunsmoke as the longest-running TV show, according to CNN.

“Now, we’ll get to 625 episodes. That’s amazing. I’m really, really happy to get there. If it goes further, that’s even better. We have two-year options with Fox after that.”

And as long as the show is around, Marge and Homer won’t appear in another movie, since Jean said it’s so “time-intensive.” Though it may be difficult to get those two in the same film together if their legal separation turns into something more permanent.

The new season premieres in September.

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