The Simpsons Beyond Forever!: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family ...Still Continued

The Simpsons Beyond Forever!: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family ...Still Continued is an episode guide book for the eleventh and twelfth seasons of the television series, The Simpsons. It was published in 2002 by HarperCollins. It is edited by Jesse L. McCann and is a companion to the prior episode guide books, The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family (covering the first eight seasons) and The Simpsons Forever! (covering the ninth and tenth seasons). It is followed by The Simpsons One Step Beyond Forever!, which covers seasons 13 and 14.

The book consists of synopses and quotes for each episode, beginning with "Beyond Blunderdome" and ending with "Simpsons Tall Tales." In this way it follows the last two books. However, this edition dedicates two pages of coverage to each episode, and four pages of coverage for each Halloween special. It thus outdoes the prior editions, which had one-to-two page coverage for each episode. The One Step Beyond Forever! book also continues the two-page spread episode coverage. The book also continues the work of the last two editions by listing the times Homer cries "D'oh!" or says "Mmm...", as well as new couch gags, but it includes unique features as well, like Church Marquees. Sketches from the early production are included.

The creator of The Simpsons, Matt Groening, wrote an introduction to the book, as he had for the previous editions. In it, he refers to the eleventh and twelfth seasons as the "Wackier-Than-Ever Years," and explains that it had been the objective to take the series in unexpected directions. To this end, the character Apu became the father of octuplets ("Eight Misbehavin'") and Homer lost a thumb ("Trilogy of Error"). Groening also acknowledges the death of the character Maude Flanders during this timeframe ("Alone Again, Natura-Diddily"), saying that it was "funny, funny stuff - well, weird, anyway."

Groening goes on to claim that these two seasons contained some of his personal favorite scenes from all the series. He lists among these the farm animals driven insane by the food product tomacco ("E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)") and the portrayal of the dolphins enslaving mankind ("Treehouse of Horror XI"). He also identifies the episode "Worst Episode Ever" as one of he particularly enjoyed, calling it "a very special story."

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