The Simpsons has always had a lot of fun in having conversations with its fans through the show’s humor.
(Insert joke here about how that should have happened with any number of episodes over the past 15 years.)
And here, Al Jean and the creative team went with a send up of the “Dead Bart” creepypasta entry, which is perhaps the most bizarre Simpsons fan theory out there, in that it’s not so much about the characters or the canon, but rather an alleged “lost episode” that was immediately shelved after animation due to its horrific imagery and subject matter.