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Twitter Pays Tribute After Long-Time ‘Simpsons’ Writer’s Final Episode Airs Posthumously

Kevin Curran, a longtime writer for The Simpsons who worked on the show for over 15 years, sadly passed away from complications due to cancer in October of 2016 at the age of 59. Curran won three Emmys for his writing on the show, and in 2010 he was nominated for a Humanitas award for his work on the episode “The Greatest Story Ever D’ohed.” Before his death, he also worked as the show’s co-executive producer.

“Kevin Curran was a sweet, brilliant man who said many hilarious things, some unprintable, others which will live forever in a children’s cartoon,” Al Jean, Simpsons executive producer and showrunner, said to The Hollywood Reporter in a statement.

On Sunday, Curran’s final episode of the series aired posthumously. The episode featured Bill Hader as Detective Manacek, a parody of the ’70s TV investigator Thomas Banacek.

People on Twitter both applauded the ingenuity of the episode and mourned once more for the loss of such a smart, insightful writer.

https://twitter.com/scullymike/status/975448559913877504

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https://twitter.com/PKBlake/status/975451192762408960

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The current Simpsons writers were sure to include a special, sweet shoutout to Curran in the credits, which would have surely made him chuckle.

Curran also wrote for The Late Show with David Letterman, which earned him three more Emmys, and had writing stints on Married With Children and Unhappily Ever After.