The Simpsons episode where Homer joins Lollapalooza because Bart and Lisa think he’s lame for liking Grand Funk Railroad is 26 years old which makes it as old as Grand Funk Railroad was at that time. Let us all now drift out to sea on our ice floes.
Uh, he joins the Hullabalooza music festival not Lollapalooza. Worst OP ever.
Oh, I’ve wasted my life.
It’s been quite the wild ride for me, being about Bart’s age watching Tracey Ullman, now well past Homer and Marge’s ages. My kid and I started watching them from the beginning and I preface the episodes with “And this is about when I first got my permit,” or “Your uncle was born this week.”
Are you being sarcastic, dude?
I don’t even know anymore.
I mean, it’s pretty bad, but not in the qualitative sense.
As for that mistake, a wizard did it!
When kids these days say “bad,” they mean “good.” And to “shake your booty” means “to wiggle one’s butt”.
I graduated high the same year Homer did, but I am now 30 years older than he is.
I was in the 4th grade when the The Simpsons got their own show, the same grade Bart is supposed to be in. Now I’m a few years older than Homer.
Julie Kavner’s voice is starting to show her age. She was older than Marge when she started doing the voice, and that was 33 years ago!
When The Simpsons first started, it was totally reasonable for a family of five to own a house and live off the income of one parent.
Today, actually that’s still pretty reasonable. All joking aside, it’s hard to make less than six figures for a technical role at a nuclear plant. Homer may be wildly unqualified for his position but he still gets paid for it just like everyone else.
Meanwhile I live in an apartment above a bowling alley and below another bowling alley.
Wow!!
And they hardly live a middle-class lifestyle. Yeah, they have a mortgage but they drive an old shit station wagon that’s likely not worth more than its scrap value, do not have a savings account, cannot afford traditionally higher-cost food like steak, and in one noteworthy episode Homer chose to steal cable because he couldn’t afford to get it the honest way (noteworthy because it was Phil Hartman’s first guest appearance). Bart has to use an old extention cord for a belt and that crack in the kitchen wall and the oil stain on the driveway have both been there for over three decades. Duff is clearly the cheapest beer available in Springfield.
So yeah, at least until the post season 8 silliness began and all accepted canon went out the window, the fact that the Simpsons lived the lifestyle they did was one of the more realistic aspects of the show.
I was a the Universal theme park in Orlando a couple weeks ago, and part off it has a Simpsons theme. I checked the gift shop; no personalized license plates.
They did have personalized shot glasses, though.
Were they all out of Bort shot glasses?
They had quite a few; must have just restocked.