Bart Simpson actress Nancy Cartwright reveals when she thinks “The Simpsons” will end — and it’s sooner than you’d think

Wesley StenzelFri, August 7, 2026 at 7:22 PM UTC

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Nancy Cartwright has revealed when she thinks The Simpsons will finish its run.

The actress said she’d be happy to continue working past her expected end point if everyone in the cast is “still alive.”

The Simpsons recently finished its 37th season, and has been renewed through season 40.

Nancy Cartwright doesn’t think The Simpsons will last much longer.

The actress, who has voiced Bart Simpson since the cartoon family’s debut on The Tracey Ullman Show in 1987, shared her two cents on when the animated sitcom might end.

“How long do you think The Simpsons will go?” host Michael Rosenbaum asked the actress on his Inside of You podcast.

Cartwright responded, “40 [seasons].”

That might sound like a lot, but The Simpsons recently wrapped its 37th season and will soon return for its 38th, which means Cartwright expects the show to be finished by the spring of 2029.

“You think it’ll stop at 40?” Rosenbaum asked.

“Yeah,” Cartwright confirmed.

“You’re sure?” he asked again.

“It’s my opinion,” the voice actress said.

A representative for The Simpsons had no comment on Cartwright’s speculation when contacted by Entertainment Weekly.

Cartwright later clarified that she’s very open to continuing the show beyond season 40.

“What if they said, ‘We wanna keep going?’” Rosenbaum inquired.

“Are we still alive?” Cartwright asked of the host’s hypothetical scenario.

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“You’re still alive,” he confirmed. “Would you keep going?”

“Is everybody still alive?” Cartwright asked.

“Yeah!” Rosenbaum said.

“Yeah, we’ll keep going then,” Cartwright said.

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“Would you go as long as they wanted to keep going?” Rosenbaum asked.

“Absolutely,” Cartwright said.

The Simpsons was renewed through season 40 last year as part of a four-season renewal, so we already know that the show is set to last until the end of the 2028-29 broadcast season.

The show will also receive its second-ever theatrical feature film next year. The movie will come almost exactly 20 years after 2007’s The Simpsons Movie, which earned more than $536 million at the global box office.

Simpsons showrunner Matt Selman spoke with EW about how to keep the show from growing stale after decades on the air. “The trick is to tell stories that feel like they’re from a show that is not in its 37th season, right? And also to avoid feeling like we’re repeating ourselves, or just doing episodes that don’t have a personality, or have nothing to say,” Selman said ahead of the show’s most recent season premiere.

“The most important thing to like for any show, especially The Simpsons, is the state of your characters,” he added. “The next most important thing is to deliver originality to the viewer. And originality usually comes from real life — the new things that have happened in real life.”

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Selman recently told the Wrap that he doesn’t expect The Simpsons to have a bombastic finale when it eventually concludes. “We did an episode about a year and a half ago that was like a parody of the series finale,” he said in reference to the season 36 premiere, “Bart’s Birthday.” “We jammed every possible series finale concept into one show, so that was sort of my way of saying we’re never going to do a series finale.”

He continued, “We did a series finale in the middle of the show that made fun of all the ideas of wrapping everything up or ending.”

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