# The Simpsons 03/25/18. Huh? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 29, 2018, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-03-25-18-huh/811413 "2018-03-29T14:06:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-03-25-18-huh/811413/21 "2018-03-29T20:03:29Z")
“do you want to know how I got these(emotional)scars?” ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-03-25-18-huh/811413/22 "2018-03-29T22:46:14Z")
> [@dorvann](#): > > 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. Even back in the days when there could still be continuity, the moon landing age was wrong. And it stood out as wrong. I noticed because at the start of the show I was about Homer’s age, so when they had experiences for him they were about right for me. And I was not a teenager in July 1969. At the time, I thought it was an outright error rather than a wink-wink joke about lack of continuity, because as the show ages, Homer should be younger rather than older. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2018, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-03-25-18-huh/811413/23 "2018-03-30T00:58:11Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > 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. I hadn’t thought of that but it makes me weirdly happy. My child is now older than Bart in that timeline and yet when the family first came on tv (yes I watched original Tracey Ullman airings at that time), I was just barely older than Bart myself. Jeebus, some day kid’s kids will be older than Bart and the show will still be on… ---
**Author:** ![TaoPilot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@TaoPilot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TaoPilot)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2018, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-03-25-18-huh/811413/24 "2018-03-30T01:41:32Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Even back in the days when there could still be continuity, the moon landing age was wrong. And it stood out as wrong. > > I noticed because at the start of the show I was about Homer’s age, so when they had experiences for him they were about right for me. And I was not a teenager in July 1969. At the time, I thought it was an outright error rather than a wink-wink joke about lack of continuity, because as the show ages, Homer should be younger rather than older. I just rewatched the moon landing scene, and it doesn’t seem terribly obvious that Homer is a teenager. He could be 12, which would put him at 17 in 1974 when he was a senior in high school. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2018, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-03-25-18-huh/811413/25 "2018-03-30T03:31:46Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > So, is this Post-Crisis Springfield? Springfield 2? Is the Anti-CBG behind it all? Anti-Comic Book Guy? Is that like Evil Cartman, who is a genuinely nice guy? His name would be Albert Jeffson, of course. > [@Quimby](#): > > I love the episode “That 90s Show” which everyone else hates and was similar to his one. I like “Saddlesore Galactica” (the one with Duncan the horse and the elf jockeys) and “The Principal and the Pauper” (Armin Tamzarian) episodes. All I care about is if they’re funny, people who got bothered by continuity or fantasy plots need to calm down. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2018, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-03-25-18-huh/811413/26 "2018-03-30T16:21:36Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > “I’m Ralf Wiggam. I don’t know stuff.” Nelson: “Hail HYDRA-HA” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2018, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-03-25-18-huh/811413/27 "2018-04-01T05:57:27Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > 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??? I have no comment to make about the octuplets lapping Maggie in aging, but don’t multiple birth pregnancies usually end a few weeks before the 40 week point? ---
**Author:** ![tavalla](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tavalla/32/89_2.png) [@tavalla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tavalla)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-03-25-18-huh/811413/28 "2018-04-02T05:44:40Z")
I decided a long time ago that different seasons are set in different dimensions, thus the different continuities. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-03-25-18-huh/811413.md?page=1)