# Genetic Inheritance on the Simpsons **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 30, 2000, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genetic-inheritance-on-the-simpsons/24162 "2000-06-30T14:59:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2000, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genetic-inheritance-on-the-simpsons/24162/21 "2000-07-01T06:30:49Z")
> [@](#): > > I think everyone is forgetting something: There is no way to prove that Homer is any of the Simpson kids’ biological father. It’s at least slightly possible that someone else fathered the Simpson kids. Like Troy McLure, maybe. that’s what I was hinting at in the link in the OP (but not Troy McClure, as his marriage to Patty showed). ---
**Author:** ![tcburnett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@tcburnett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tcburnett)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2000, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genetic-inheritance-on-the-simpsons/24162/22 "2000-07-01T07:32:42Z")
I really want to enter this (most interesting) thread, but I have never watched ‘The Simpsons’. So I cannot relate at all, much less as well as you who demonstrate expertise with the series. The last cartoon that I tuned in specifically to see was “Tom Terrific and his wonder-dog, Manfred”. Wait! maybe I liked ‘The Rocky and Bullwinkle’ show as well. After all, Bullwinkle and I graduated from the same university. Any of you kids remember 77 Sunset Strip? (Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb.) Or ‘Adventures of the Texas Rangers’ where those guys were always flying around in a Bell 47 (which I’m rated in)…or “Tales of the Bengal Lancers”? (Guy Kibbee and???) Anyone know Who…rather…WHAT…NellieBelle was? Those were the days, friends. Dobie Gillis, Our Miss Brooks, Ozzie and Harriett, Howdy Dooty. You missed it kids. But I have fond memories. Well, except for my ex, the bitch-from-hell. ---
**Author:** ![mipsman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mipsman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mipsman)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2000, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genetic-inheritance-on-the-simpsons/24162/23 "2000-07-01T14:52:46Z")
TC, I think you are suffering from manic-digressive syndrome. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2000, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genetic-inheritance-on-the-simpsons/24162/24 "2000-07-01T16:31:23Z")
tcbunett, if it makes you feel any better, I was once in the stage version of _Our Miss Brooks_ in junior high… And come one, don’t tell me that you’ve never had conversations about the seemingly trivial aspect of any of your favorite shows! Live a litte, watch a few episodes, you’ll like it. (But try to think of it as an over-the-top sitcom, not a cartoon… That might make it easier to relate.) ---
**Author:** ![Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilligan)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2000, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genetic-inheritance-on-the-simpsons/24162/25 "2000-07-01T17:33:37Z")
Hedgemeister and jti: I thought Marge’s pregnancy with Bart was the reason they got married in the first place. Are you saying she not only cheated on Homer, but used her pregnancy to get a husband, and picked _him_ ? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2000, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genetic-inheritance-on-the-simpsons/24162/26 "2000-07-01T20:04:00Z")
Gilligan, I’m desperately looking for an alternative explanation, as indicated in my OP: Please, not Marge doing this! I’d be crushed. My hair might turn blue from shock. Oh, and by the way, I’ve always assumed that Thelma and Patty’s natural hair colour is blue, but they’ve burned their hair purple from all those cheap home perm kits they must use. ---
**Author:** ![Drogulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Drogulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drogulus)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2000, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genetic-inheritance-on-the-simpsons/24162/27 "2000-07-02T15:46:12Z")
And why does Seymour Skinner’s father, seen serving in WWII in the ‘Hellfish Bonanza’ episode, look just like Principal Skinner (nee Armin Tamzarian ), rather than like his real son? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/genetic-inheritance-on-the-simpsons/24162.md?page=1)