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Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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How the Simpsons End on Nuclear War and Everyone Dies

It was supposed to be an environmental message about not destroying our own planet with global warming or whatever potential ramifications of destroying our environment would be. It was like this lighthearted comedy with these big puppet dinosaurs and like, you know, a dinosaur baby that would hit the father with the frying pan. So it was as if the Simpsons ended on basically a nuclear war and everyone dies. How inappropriate to combine hard hitting science with ridiculous jokes. I mean, who would choose that kind of venue for talking about this serious topic? Anyway, let's keep making some jokes about how all the dinosaurs were wiped out millions of years ago.

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