You know how Fox is a weird way of counting Simpsons episodes?

But they refused to count a couple of them making the amount of episodes inconsistent.

The reason for this is a Lost Episode from Season 1.

Finding details about this missing episode is difficult.

No one who was working on the show at the time likes to talk about it.

From what's been pieced together, the Lost Episode was written entirely by Matt Groening.

During production of the first season, Matt started to act strangely.

He was very quiet and seemed nervous and morbid.

Mentioning this to anyone who was present resulted in them getting very angry

and forbidding you to ever mention it to Matt.

I first heard of it at an event where David Silverman was speaking.

Someone in the crowd asked about the episode and Silverman simply left the stage

ending the presentation hours early.

The episode's production number was 7G06.

The title was Dead Bart.

The episode labeled 7G06, Moning Lisa, was made later and given Dead Bart's production code

to hide the latter's existence.

In addition to getting angry, asking anyone who was on the show about this will cause them

to do everything they can to stop you from directly communicating with Matt Groening.

At a fan event, I managed to follow him after he spoke to the crowd

and eventually had a chance to talk to him alone as he was leaving the building.

He didn't seem upset that I had followed him, probably expected a typical encounter with an obsessive fan.

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