Haha Simpsons did a retcon.

[The_Real_Crunk]

So according to the new episode Marge and Homer were in their early 20's during the 90's. RAGE!

Yeah I know. New episodes suck, dont watch them. But c'mon!

[Kefka Jr.]

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But didn't Ms. Pacman come out just as they had Bart?!

[Bon]

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It makes no sense to me.

Homer said he was 26 in 1980...and Bart was born around that time.

Then Lisa is said to be born in 1982...or something.

This episode is lacking some real logic here.

[Duel]

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It's a cartoon

[The_Real_Crunk]

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They didnt even have bart yet in the episode during the flashback, and said hes only 10. So Im guessing they are trying to update it to real time. Since its 2008, they probably changed it to Bart being born in 98.

Home had a grunge band with Lenny, Carl, and Lou, replacing the whole barber shop quartet thing I guess.

[Goufunaki]

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The simpsons have never been good at keeping track of what apparently happens.

All the snowball cats dying, lisa naming it the same as a previous, so there'd be no difference in later episodes.

mr skinner not really being mr skinner, but everyone accepts him anyways and forgets about the real skinner.

bart passes the 4th grade from fear or repeating it, but bart's STILL in 4th grade. I remember an episode where they apparently came back from summer vacation, and still taking the same class with the same teacher.

Then the little things like how homer lost his hair. One joke showed him pulling out his own hair every time he found out they were having another kid, then where he was testing drugs where the side effect was losing hair.

And after Marge and Homer met for the first time in high school, a later episode showed them first meeting as kids in some summer camp, but they looked a bit different back then giving an excuse to not remember until now when talking about their past.




Either the show should have ended years ago, or they should at least properly age the characters a bit to create new stories that make sense. Course the charm wouldn't be the same, but still, the show's been on for so long. Still haven't seen the movie. Heard the marge/homer plot was good, but not the bart/flanders subplot.

[gray]

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most (younger) people don't realize that that's always the way it has been with the simpsons. they always set the flashbacks in however many years from the current episode.


if memory serves, marge and homer fell in love in the late 60s early 70s(rock music and the womens movement were just taking off), but didn't have lisa until 83 or 84, even though she was only two years after bart, whose conception was apparently right after highschool, putting, at best, an unexplained 10 year gap between the two



younguns don't notice cause it's all "way back when" to them


so big deal



thus endeth the nerd lesson

[Loki]

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I thought Bart not remembering the 90's was funny seeing as Bart merchandise pretty much defines the 90's.

[Bon]

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I thought Bart not remembering the 90's was funny seeing as Bart merchandise pretty much defines the 90's.

You get rep for that, bud.

Remember "Do the Bartman?

*sighs*

[josh]

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I thought it was pretty good.

[JPS]

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They redid the simpsons timeline, so subsequent timelines doesnt matter, they probably did this to keep the simpsons from aging and dying out in favor of "younger" cartoons.

http://www.tvsquad.com/2008/01/27/th...that-90s-show/

And the simpsons arent neccesarily good at keeping track of birthdays anyways

http://stason.org/TULARC/tv/simpsons...-Simpsons.html

[Nixon]

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The simpsons became painful to watch after a while, so I stopped. I have all the dvds I need (seasons 1-10, might pick up 11), so I can't really complain.

I haven't watched TV at all for over a year now.

[DarkwingChuck]

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Considering they each have had several birthdays yet remain the same age and only change school grades occassionally for one episode they apparently exist in a Springfield where time has lost all meaning.

[JPS]

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Considering they each have had several birthdays yet remain the same age and only change school grades occassionally for one episode they apparently exist in a Springfield where time has lost all meaning.

Or they're in PARALLEL UNIVERSES!

[John Mora]

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IT'S CALLED A SLIDING TIMESCALE.