But you get your choice of toppings!
These guys paid Herb to keep it under wraps.
Didn’t Duff Beer have to shut it’s gates after betting there’d be a market in Springfield for non-alcoholic beer? (Homer vs. The Eighteenth Amendment).
Sure, but that doesn’t have anything at all to do with bankruptcy. It might seriously aggravate the shareholders and force the board to boot Herb, but it shouldn’t cause the company to go bankrupt, and certainly not immediately.
I think it was for grins, rather than a real reflection of what would happen in the business world.
Well, they couldn’t sell regular beer, so it wasn’t so much a gamble, but a last ditch effort to stay in business.
It turns out that most baby speech is incredibly explicit profanity directed against its parents.
Keep in mind that these are more “recent” developments. Maude dies in season 11, and the near constant references to previous episodes really starting getting out of hand some time after Season 10.
Back in the early episodes, there really was a reset after each episode. Some stuff may have been made permanent, but it was incredibly rare to reference previous episodes. Herb Powell and the death of Bleeding Gums Murphy were rare exceptions.
In particular, there’s a Season 2 episode that was on in Houston a couple nights ago - “Bart gets an F”. He passes the 4th grade in that episode, but he’s seen back in Krabapple’s class that same season.
Even the Frank Grimes episode (Season 7? 8?) was a little shocking when it first aired, because it was not then common for Homer to reference anything he had done in previous episodes (like going to space or meeting Gerald Ford). Now, it’s fairly common. Even some of the episode titles are doing it - “Flaming Moe” vs “Flaming Moe’s”.
That’s not actually correct - he doesn’t pass the fourth grade in that episode, we’re just told his grades are getting worse and that the school thinks it might be a good idea if he repeats grade four. When he passes, presumably that’s good enough to get everyone off his back. But that nitpick aside, Bart and Lisa have been shown graduating several times and we’ve seen them on summer vacation or starting school I don’t know how many times, but they always wind up in fourth and second grade respectively. After all, none of the characters have ever really aged, although Homer and Marge’s ages were revised a few times.
For “end of the school year” episodes don’t forget the one at that military academy.
The Simpsons works on the same principle as the Marvel Universe, it is always ~15 years since the Fantastic Four got their powers, or rather for the Simpsons, 10 years since Bart was born.
if the family aged then where would we be: Lisa would be president and Bart would be demolishing buildings. how many shows could you get with that?
shows like ‘My Three Sons’ and ‘Ozzie and Harriet’ aged for real and look how long they lasted (they got beat by 11 and 9 years at this point).
Some of the earliest episodes are also exceptions because they were still establishing the normal conditions of the show, for example there is no reset after the Simpsons getting their dog in the first episode.
Yeah, what’s next? A show about the common cat, or the King of Siam?
Instead of twenty-two and counting?
Heh, on reflection, what about a show where the President and the Chief Justice were brother and sister?
Ooh, I’d forgotten about that, Bryan.
Actually, Bart as future Chief Justice is arguably more firmly established than either Bart as building demolisher (though this is compatible with Bart on SCOTUS as he described plans to go to law school) or Lisa as President. Those last two were future “visions” (provided, respectively, by a travelling carnival fortune teller and a Native American mystic) while Bart as Chief Justice was depicted an in episode epilogue and is much “canon” as the episode itself.