While The Simpsons season 36, episode 1 might break a lot of the shows rules, the outing also found time to bring back one of its oldest and most controversial jokes. The Simpsons is constantly changing its own canon. While The Simpsons season 37 might give the show a more consistent, serialized plot line, the season 26 premiere Barts Birthday reveled in just how messy and unclear the shows canon is with a string of increasingly audacious meta-jokes. The entire episode was presented as an in-universe series finale for The Simpsons, written by the AI software Hack GPT.
