The Simpsons are apparently done with the long-running gag in which Homer Simpson strangles his son Bart. In a recent Season 35 episode titled “McMansion & Wife,” Homer and Marge go next door to visit their new neighbor Thayer, greeting him with a handshake: “Whoa, that’s quite a grip,” Thayer remarks. “See, Marge? Strangling the boy paid off,” Homer said, before turning back to Thayer. “Just kidding, I don’t do that anymore. Times have changed.” While some longtime Simpsons fans expressed some disappointment in Homer’s change of character, it seems like a good majority of them found some solace in the retirement of the strangle. “I knew my man Homer was gonna learn,” one Twitter user wrote. Another added: “Took him 36 years.”