It was lost in the outrage over Brooklyn Nine-Nine being cancelled, but Fox also dropped the axe on dark comedy The Last Man on Earth in May.

That meant that the show ended on a cliffhanger as the season four finale saw the group of survivors confronted by mysterious people in gas masks. Fortunately, creator and star Will Forte has explained just what would have happened in season five if they got the chance to do it.

And it sounds like it would have been brilliant.

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Apparently the gas mask people would have been revealed to have been in the bunker since the virus broke out.

"They had some kind of medical expert or scientist who knew, 'At this certain point, the virus will be dormant. You'll be safe to get back out'. Then they see a bunch of stragglers — us. And we represent a real threat to them, because they'd thought everything was dead, so they quarantine us," Forte told Vulture.

"And we eventually communicate with them a little bit. They get comfortable with us. They're very nice people. They look scary but they end up being nice people. They're probably a couple famous people in there hopefully, or at least one."

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Eventually, the gas mask people would have got comfortable around our beloved group of survivors, only for the survivors to inadvertently infect them as even though they're immune to the virus, the survivors are carriers of the virus.

"So we would infect them and they'd die like wildfire. And then we're back to just us. And maybe one famous person we could talk into staying around. So that would have been it. That arc would have lasted four or five episodes," Forte added.

At least fans now know that the survivors would have been safe and it's nice to discover that Forte is totally OK with the final line of The Last Man on Earth being "farts".

"I don't know if I like it, but it does seem appropriate," he joked.

The Last Man on Earth is available to watch on Amazon Prime Video in the UK.

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