Just watched my DVR of last Sundays Simpsons.
WTH? Their “origin” story is quite a bit different than what they told over 2 decades ago. This one makes them married before Marge get’s pregnant with Bart. Did I miss something at the beginning?
They’ve had multiple “origin” stories over the years. The first one was set in 1974, while Homer and Marge were still in high school.
Continuity has never been their strong suit.
If you’re looking for internal consistency in The Simpsons you are going to go mad quite quickly.
So, is this Post-Crisis Springfield? Springfield 2? Is the Anti-CBG behind it all?
Yeah, then I assume someone did the math and asked “How come a 34 year old woman who got knocked up in high school has a 10 year old son?”. (In the first season, Marge’s age comes up quite a bit.)
Then again, I’ve lost count of how many birthdays and anniversaries the Simpsons have had, and they’re all still the same age. So they can really pack a lot into 12 months…
Not quite - this one made them living together (and explicitly not married (hence the “living in sin and loving it” cushion on their couch)) well before Bart was born, which is still a major change to the continuity.
In this episode, initially, they were merely living together, not married, pre-Bart.
But in Capitol City. Which would make for a nasty commute for Homer to the mini-golf course he worked at in Springfield.
At this point, bart would have had to have been born in 2008 for the show to make chronological sense. They just make up back stories all the time.
Well, if the main characters stay the same age for 25+ years, your going to have multiple origin stories.
I believe at this point, Homer was in college in the 60’s, 80’s, and 90’s (I don’t remember 70’s). All of which, is when he met Marge.
The show is on for thirty years now (almost). There is no way they can have any continuity that makes sense. Just enjoy the stories. This episode made me laugh so it was good. But take my opinion with a grain of salt. I love the episode “That 90s Show” which everyone else hates and was similar to his one.
When did Homer ever attend college? Excepting “Homer Goes to College” - that was after he was married and had three kids.
The earliest that Homer ever graduated from High School (which is where he met Marge) was 1972 (35 in 1989), although I think 1974 is the earliest that’s ever been explicitly shown.
Post-Crisis, but pre-Bartpoint.
only if this is on springfield-29 - pre-Bartpoint is no longer possible on the other springfields.
They lost me with the House of M storyline where Maggie had a nervous breakdown and altered reality. Interesting concept but the sight of everyone going around with a pacifier in their mouth didn’t work for me.
“I’m Ralf Wiggam. I don’t know stuff.”
Might be some confusion with some of Marge’s adventures. E.g., in That '90s Show Marge goes to college while Homer goes on to form Sadgasm. But he wasn’t in college.
That episode seems to contradict the latest one somewhat.
Then there was the time Homer taught a “college” class on how to have a successful marriage.
And how come the octuplets seem older than Maggie despite it was Manjula seeing Maggie that prompted months of fruitless baby making and then 8(?) months of pregnancy???
Unless, this isn’t the same Maggie. Maybe there’s Maggie I, Maggie II, etc. Just like with Snowball II, they’ve kept the same baby name for each one. Oh noes!
In a fourth season episode “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie”, Homer is shown in a flashback as a teenager when The Moon Landing happened-an event that happened on July 20 1969.
In a tenth season episode “D’oh-in In the Wind”, Homer is shown in a flashback as a toddler at the Woodstock Festival-an event that happened August 15-17, 1969.
Apparently Homer de-aged ten years in 26 dayd.
Marge wasn’t “knocked up in high school.” Homer and Marge had been dating for years after they first met. Also, a more recent episode (“The Bonfire of the Manatees,” I think) has Marge going to college for four years, and Lisa says that explains the gap between high school and their marriage.
As for having the same birthday multiple times, Milhouse has had two (Bart was at one, but was not invited to the other one), Lisa has had two (Bart gave her a “Michael Jackson” song in the first one and a laser pointer in the second one), and I think Maggie has had two first birthdays as well.
Of course, the less said about how all of the other kids not in Bart or Lisa’s classes age while nobody else does (Sanjay’s son Jamshed went from a toddler to a college graduate; Apu’s octuplets and Selma’s daughter Ling have also aged a little), the better…