Spoiler alert for the Season 26 premiere of "The Simpsons."
The wait is over. After months of endless teases, "The Simpsons" revealed which character is leaving Springfield for good, and fans are not happy about it. During the Season 26 premiere of "The Simpsons" on Sunday night, fans said goodbye to Rabbi Hyman Krustofski, Krusty's father.
Rabbi Krustofski was talking to his son when he croaked. His last words to Krusty were "I think you're eh..." For the past several months, "Simpsons" producer Al Jean has been dropping little hints about which character would supposedly die.
In previous interviews Jean said the actor won an Emmy for playing the character, that it was "beloved" and even compared the death to the "Game of Thrones" Purple Wedding. It turns out Jean was pulling everybody's leg and fans didn't find it funny.
"So the #simpsons built up the death of a character that's been on just over 1% of eps? Typical... I see darkness, it's closing in, fading," @another_wayans tweeted.
"The Simpsons teases for a year that it's gonna kill off a major character, then they kill off... Krusty's dad?" @D_Lagz wrote.
"The new Simpsons episode was a major disappointment. Krusty's dad! Really? Overhyped is an understatement," @IamIdriss commented.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly following the premiere, Jean explained why he decided to ax Rabbi Krustofski from the series.
"I was trying to think of a story and I thought, 'It would be a good father-son story if the rabbi passed away and the last thing he said to his son was, I think you're eh.' That the last word that Krusty heard from his dad was 'eh,' and that he had to try to reconcile himself with that, and try to find an answer for this lifetime relationship," Jean said.
"I thought it would be a little sneaky to say that the character had won an Emmy and the next thing I knew it was a huge, worldwide story," he added. "What's funny is at the [Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour in July], we said, 'Okay, we'll make the title kind of easy and it should be really obvious,' so I said, 'Clown in the Dumps.' And then there were people going, '(gasps) You're killing Krusty???' And I was like, 'What? In the dumps doesn't mean you're dead. It means you're sad.' I thought it was so obvious. I would be nuts to kill Krusty. Everybody loves that character."
What did you think of the death?
