Every Time The Simpons REALLY Killed Characters

Season thirteen's 'Homer the Moe' is one of the better examples of a post-Golden Era episode and gave everyone's favourite sleazy bartender Moe an opportunity to grow and develop as a character. After losing his passion for bartending, Moe decides to take a trip back to his old bartending college and rekindles his friendship with his mentor and master of mixology, Professor Huntington.

Things are finally looking up for Moe, that's until both he and Professor Huntington find themselves looking over a picturesque lake.

It's there that Huntington confesses that he's dying of cancer and asks Moe if he knows of a cure. Moe simply answers that he doesn't, and in a moment of quiet reflection, Huntington resigns himself to his fate and calmly walks into the lake, drowning himself right in front of Moe.

At first, Moe thinks the professor might just be going for a swim, but the realisation soon settles in and he is left with the same cold feeling as us viewers. It's undeniably one of the show's bleakest moments, but for those of us that love their humour on the darker side, it hits that perfect tragicomedy sweet-spot.