The Official Simpsons Griefing Thread

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Bart's still looking pretty good, considering he'll be 40 this year.
 
Replicant Sasquatch said:
Majority of American troop involvement in Vietnam went from 1965 to 1973. Older episodes reference Skinner as fighting during the peak years from 69-69. Even if they retconned Skinner to a latecomer to the war, he'd have to be close to 70 by 2019.

America was involved in a lot of shit from the late 80s through the early 90s, when Skinner would've had to serve for his age to be right in Current Year. Some of the Army Rangers at Mogadishu fought in the Gulf War. So if your autism demands he be a multi-year combat veteran, he can still count.
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Give it a few years and Skinner can have been a fucking War on Terror veteran.
 
The Pink Panther said:
Alright. MY MISTAKE, but it looked like they were in their 20's. They weren't in high school, and Homer's hair was pretty long.

My point is, the timeline is CONFUSED.
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Lisa’s Wedding was set in the future year of 2010, at present the year she was born.
BR55 said:
Give it a few years and Skinner can have been a fucking War on Terror veteran.
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Apparently Grampa will always be a World War II veteran, even though that would now make him about a hundred.
 
I'm convinced Springfield is caught in some kind of time loop where their backstories are the same but their environment changes.
 
Do they still say "yoink" on the new Simpsons?

John Titor said:
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What they should've done is kept the Simpsons set in the '90s if they want the characters to never age. Then it could become a (now crappy) nostalgia show.
 
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John Titor said:
I'm convinced Springfield is caught in some kind of time loop where their backstories are the same but their environment changes.
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I remember somewhere that the supposed explanation is that everyone looks the same because the preservatives in Springfield's food has basically frozen everyone in time.

It doesn't make any sense under scrutiny, especially when Bart asks about the 90s when The Simpsons existed back then, and I can't remember if that's the official explanation either.
 
It makes more sense if you approach Zombie Simpsons like I think of the Legend of Zelda "timeline": episodes are different stories with the same characters/setting.
 
Or maybe you could think of it as a fictional cartoon thus not bound by any constraints of reality.
 
Jewelsmakerguy said:
It's always been confused, even in the early seasons.

Only difference is that they made an attempt toward consistency unlike now.
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It was easier when there wasn't years of continuity behind them.

As people have pointed out, The Simpsons is a show of the 90's (although the shorts started in the late 80's). Once Y2k came around it got more and more out of its depth.
 
Glad I couldn't help said:
It was easier when there wasn't years of continuity behind them.

As people have pointed out, The Simpsons is a show of the 90's (although the shorts started in the late 80's). Once Y2k came around it got more and more out of its depth.
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Oh yeah. How many 38 year olds nowadays look like Homer? How many families are single income homes compared to back then?

The Simpsons is as anachronistic now as it was groundbreaking back in the day.
 
RumblyTumbly said:
Oh yeah. How many 38 year olds nowadays look like Homer? How many families are single income homes compared to back then?

The Simpsons is as anachronistic now as it was groundbreaking back in the day.
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The Simpsons is unrealistic now. They have a big-ass house, 3 story, 3 bed, 2.5 bath, and Homer makes 60k a year. Nowadays, they'd be living in an apartment. 1 story, 2 bed, 2 or even 1 bath. They are lower-middle class now. Frank Grimes was right. With such stupidity and being at a middling income job, how does Homer even have all the great shit that he gets?
 
The Pink Panther said:
The Simpsons is unrealistic now. They have a big-ass house, 3 story, 3 bed, 2.5 bath, and Homer makes 60k a year. Nowadays, they'd be living in an apartment. 1 story, 2 bed, 2 or even 1 bath. They are lower-middle class now. Frank Grimes was right. With such stupidity and being at a middling income job, how does Homer even have all the great shit that he gets?
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Homer's barely even fat any more. He weighs 239 pounds. Nowadays that's not out of the ordinary at all.

The entire plot of one 1995 episode is him purposely becoming massively obese to qualify as disabled and work from home, and all the wackiness that comes from a person being so outrageously huge like wearing a muumuu because he can't find clothes.

And just how massive was he?
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300 pounds.

Seems almost quaint now.
 
I've been thinking a lot about The Simpsons lately. It was my favorite show of all time when I was a kid, and every Sunday night I would watch it religiously.

Even some of the seasons most people consider to be bad (like Seasons 11-15) I can still enjoy due to the nostalgia of it all. It really wasn't until after the release of The Simpsons Movie that I fully realized the show had jumped the shark and couldn't be bothered to watch it anymore, at least not regularly.

I'm gonna have to second the notion that Al Jean needs to just quit now (but he won't as long as he keeps making bank on reruns and merchandising) and FOX needs to take the show out by the woodshed and put it out of its misery once their current contract expires.

Once Zombie Simpsons is put out of its misery and the Disney-FOX merger is finally completed and The Simpsons becomes a Disney IP, then maybe (and this is a pretty big maybe) they can bring back a rebooted Simpsons to wash the taste of the past ten seasons or so out of everyone's mouths (and ideally not fuck it up).

I'm being very optimistic here though given Disney's current track record with the Star Wars sequels and those incessant Marvel Cinematic Universe movies.

Not as a full show, but maybe another movie or a nostalgic mini-series event that is explicitly a nostalgic period piece set in the 1990's (or maybe the very early 2000's at the absolute latest) and get a good staff of writers, ideally a mix of fresh writers willing to take risks mixed in with some of the more acclaimed Simpsons writers from the old days still around who would be able and wiling to be on board with such a project.

Keep Al Jean and anyone who has worked as a writer on The Simpsons since 2007 as far away from this hypothetical (yet likely inevitable) nostalgia reboot as possible, and it might be tolerable, maybe even semi-decent.

Heck, if I were in charge of Disney or FOX, not only would I fire Al Jean, but I'd blacklist him from working on the show for the rest of his life.

You'd probably have to get a new voice cast for nearly everyone with the possible exception of Bart. Sad, but true.

Julie Kavner is practically on her death bed at this point, and both Dan Castellaneta and Harry Shearer are elderly. Hank Azaria and Tress MacNeille are approaching old age as it is, and the only cast member I can think of who wouldn't be either long dead or utterly ancient by the time the show ends its original run would be Nancy Cartwright as I think she was in her twenties when she first started voicing Bart.

Even then Cartwright would be pretty old by then, but hopefully not so old and frail that she could not do voice work. I have no idea how old Yeardley Smith is, so I can't really comment on that.

Again, if Disney were smart about this once the FOX deal is fully worked out, then they should can the current show, do either a new movie or a big mini-series event that is essentially a throwback to "Classic Simpsons" to end the franchise on a good note, and then just keep making major bank off of merchandising, licensing, and streaming.

I'd love to see the full series of The Simpsons on an actual streaming service (aside from FX Now or Hulu only streaming the most current season) and Disney is supposedly launching their own streaming service either late this year or early next year.

In addition to the core Disney canon, Star Wars, and Marvel, The Simpsons in its entirety could also make for an awesome launch title.

They could even just start off with the first ten or fifteen seasons if there's not enough space for the whole series right off the bat.

Seasons 1-10 are pretty much the only ones anyone's going to be wanting to watch (I might be able to go up to Seasons 15 or 16 due to nostalgia, but any of the seasons made after the movie are universally agreed upon to be awful)
 
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