A Fictional “Lost Episode” of The Simpsons
“Dead Bart” is a fictional “lost episode” of The Simpsons that Matt Groening, the Simpsons creator, decided not to air due to its content. The storyline is extremely dark. Halfway, Bart is sucked out of a plane window and dies. The description goes on to say that all of act two is comprised entirely of the cast crying, and “Act three opened with a title card saying one year had passed. Homer, Marge, and Lisa were skeletally thin, and still sitting at the table. There was no sign of Maggie or the pets.”