What long-running plots in Simpsons do you want resolved?

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I have the following:

1) Skinner breaking free of his mother (even if she's not his real mother), and being his own man. I would like to see him get back together with Edna, although its not a priority.

2) Moe settling down with any girl and finding happiness

3) Sideshow bob needs some type of final closure, I always assumed they would kill him off whenever his final episode (probably in the last season), would happen.

4) Mr. Burns officially passing on the Power Plant to someone else.

5) Selma raising her Asian baby

6) Krusty getting together with the princess Penelope and acknowledging his son and daughter.
 
I wish they'd just drop Moe's storyline of crushing loneliness. It's not even funny, its just played out and boring and its made me hate him because now he's a pathetic loser instead of a crooked bartender who pretends to care.
 
Unfortunately, Al Jean has stated that his goal is to bring the entire show back to square one. Which, it would seem, means effectively undoing all the character development that happened before he became showrunner. I can understand him making Barney drunk again because sober Barney was never funny, but the Skinner/Edna romance and the divorce of the VanHoutens were great character turns, and it baffles me why Jean felt it was necessary to make these characters shallow and one-dimensional again.
 
Smithers finally coming out of the closet and telling Mr. Burns his feelings for him (and Mr. Burns actually getting it). I don't care how Burns reacts to the news, but I just want Smithers to get that secret off his chest.
 
Exactly. They spent all those years building up that Skinner/Krabappel stuff for absolutely nothing. Is some continuity in this show really that bad a thing? Ugh. :shrug:
 
I think on some level, Burns knows, and just doesn't want to acknowledge Smither's attraction to him. There was one gag (forget which ep) where Smithers catches on fire and runs around screaming 'I'm flaming!', then we see Burns just giving a deadpan stare into the camera.
 
Wasn't there also an episode where it looks like Smithers and Burns are doing to die (It might've been the episode where the nuclear power plant was going to meltdown, but Homer stops it through sheer dumb luck), and Smithers pretty much confesses his attraction to Burns, and he's like "You have to make my last moments on Earth awkward, don't you?".
 
There's also "The Joy of Sect", where Burns tries to get tax exempt status by making himself into a deity. He asks if Smithers would kneel before him, and Smithers haughtily replies "Boy, would I!", prompting a rather uncomfortable look from Burns.

And elsewhere in the same season, there's "Lisa the Skeptic", where Smithers kisses Burns full on the mouth when he thinks the end of the world is nigh, then tries to laugh it off when the angel skeleton turns out to be phony. That was probably Burns' dawning moment of realization.
 
That was a classic moment, I think it should be in the top 10 best of the Simpsons.

Also, there was the episode "Maison Derriere" where Mrs. Burns is surprised to see Smithers there but Smithers said then his parents forced him to go there but it worked as they taught when we see the picture of Smithers going out of the "maison derriere".
 
I'd love to see Scratchy finally get even with Itchy. I know we had the opportunity to see that once, but...well, you know.:mad:
 
For the Sideshow Bob closure, I actually had this in mind for the final Bob episode:

When Sideshow Bob finally kidnaps Bart from a traffic accident that left the Simpsons family temporarily incapacitated, Bob takes Bart to the old Terwillger cabin in the woods to finish Bart off once and for all. However, when Bart tries to forestall his fate with Sideshow Bob by distraction, Bart triggers a semi-repressed childhood within Sideshow Bob of when he was the older, rebellious son who wanted nothing more than a normal childhood, but had to conform to the standards of his domineering father and the exceedingly family "loyal" younger Brother. From Bob Terwillger's 10th Birthday, all the way to the morning before Cecil auditions for the Krusty Show, his life is shown that he was the "Bart" of the family, and if Bob killed Bart, he would feel that he'd be killing a part of himself that was unfairly swept under the rug at an early age.
 
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