Thanks. As said, I’m basically not into this stuff – don’t know who Skinner is. Must have seen one of the episodes which you mention above; and erroneously imagined from same, the Vietnam thing.
I know that there was an episode where Homer and Marge attended their high school reunion, and the reunion was for the class of 1974. 1974 is when I graduated high school, and I’m sixty years old.
The James Bond novels are similar in many ways - James Bond himself never seems to age (despite having served in WWII), but oddly enough people around him do (such as M). There’s a fan theory “James Bond” is actually an assigned codename given to whichever agent has the 007 designation, explaining why the world’s top secret agent seems to be perpetually in his late 30s while his secretary and bossand other collegauges age and retire. And also why he isn’t pretty much instantly made whenever he tries to do anything even slightly espionagey.
This x1000.
Except that, also “according to episode history,” Lisa was born in August, 1984, so she “should be” only 32, and Maggie was born in 1993, so she “should be” only 23.
But then again, Bart was born after Marge started college in 1991.
But then again again, in at least one episode, it has been mentioned that Bart foiled Sideshow Bob’s attempt to frame Krusty for armed robbery “in 1990,” and Bart, Lisa, and Maggie were all in the audience at Krusty’s show.
And The Simpsons is not alone in this; an episode of Family Guy had Brian and Stewie go back in time ten years to meet themselves, even though neither of them are 10 years old…
Brian Griffin also has a 13-year-old son.
Even if Bart was conceived the night of the special edition re-release of The Empire Strikes Back instead of the original 1980 version, he’d be about 18.
My thanks. Right – the horrible headmaster: does ring a faint bell after all.
Headmaster? I think we have a foreigner here.
The 1966 version of Casino Royale did this (after a catastrophe at MI5 headquarters); they designated all agents as 007.
That’s why I tend to say that my favorite Bond is George Raft.
In the season 6 episode Lisa’s Wedding, a fortune teller at a carnival tells Lisa about her near-wedding to Hugh St. John Alastair Parkfield (voiced by Mandy Patinkin). The date of the wedding was August 1, 2010.
Weddings of Future Past!
Remember, Lt. Abe Simpson also served in WWI.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen that clip, or I forgot I’ve seen it. But that was hilarious.
Fortunately that movie isn’t canon. shudders
We say “headmaster” (or more often in this PC age, “head teacher”); you say “school principal”; I’d reckon that either sounds equally odd, to “the other crowd” !
Kinda a spin on this trope is that characters sharing the same continuity will age faster the further from the limelight they are, e.g., Phantom Blonde, who is cognizant she’s fictional, teams up with She Hulk to reclaim her youth. Likewise, Bosko and Honey (reimagined as foxes instead of black caricatures) regain their vitality after being rescued from obscurity in Tiny Toon Adventures.
No, we just say “principal”.
But that’s just a job, not a title, so it’s still bizarre on the show (and some other shows seem to make this error, maybe it’s a californiaism?) when they call him “Principal Skinner” not “Mr. Skinner”.
We watched I Married Marge the other night.
The deep embedding of this episode into 1980/81 is remarkable. Over and over the time period is brought up.
And this is two years into the run of the show. So if this had been a Season 1 episode the flashback should have been to 1978/79. Bart would be 37 in that Universe.
Great episode, but it contradicts others. E.g., There are no family members at the wedding but elsewhere it’s mentioned that Patty and Selma cause problems at the wedding.
It’s a cartoon, just like Mickey Mouse.