Moe also had a career as a child actor, acting in “Little Rascals” shorts (maybe it was “Our Gang”).
“Yeah, that William Faulkner could write an exhaust-pipe gag that would really make you think.”
So he’s a kid who grew up with them but yet wasn’t a citizen? That’s some pithy cartooning. Best TV show ever.
I agree it was a better epsiode than usual, as of late.
I just want to add that I have no problem understanding your date format either, alphaboi867.
The best episode in quite some time. Good jokes throughout.
As for the continuty: who cares? It’s was done to be funny. People complain that the Simpsons isn’t funny, then when it’s funny, complain that they messed with the continuity. :rolleyes:
The Professor’s time machine could explain all the continuity errors to that people.
Moe’s name has also been revealed as Morris. Maybe this is why he’s so screwed-up in the head. 
After this many seasons, you have to be slightly nuts to even keep up with the continuity.
He killed the original Alfalfa! (Luckily, he was an orphan owned by the studio, so nobody pressed charges.)
(The “Our Gang” shorts were renamed “The Little Rascals” when King World brought them to television since they weren’t able to obtain permission from MGM to use the original title, so they’re the same thing.)
Actually, I think the continuity only limits the humor in the Simpsons. One problem is that they have all these years of continuity so that it’s harder to come up with good jokes without worrying about a throwaway line from ten years previously. My feeling is that they should stop worrying about continuty and instead do whatever it takes to get a laugh.
You mean sink further down towards Family Guy?
Sure. The main issue with Family Guy is that the take a funny joke and drag it out waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo longgggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg.
But the continuity weighs very heavy on The Simpsons. Dropping that, and adding a few new recurring characters, is what the show needs to become fresh again.
I don’t think the show has gotten stale, I think the viewers have. The Simpsons is currently, IMO, somewhere around 90-95% as good as it’s ever been (whereas for a few seasons it was a few dozen points lower.) I think people are just starting to get tired of it, because no matter how good an episode is, everybody (not just on the SDMB but in real life and elsewhere on the internets) piles on it with complaints.
Adding a few new recurring characters would more likely be the show’s death throes than a sign of its rebirth. Thankfully the writers know this and I don’t think they’ll put us through it. See: Poochie.
Hey! I resemble that remark!
Eh, I think continuity is just a losing battle. I mean, the entire premise of the show invalidates it. The whole thing takes place within one year, more or less, and yet they’ve had like a dozen different christmas episodes. There’s really no way to reconcile them all as happening on the same christmas. Or the political and current references (“Welcome to Dick Cheney’s America!”) all being mashed into one year. Next to that, what Moe is short for sort of pales in comparison.
I mean it’s not like I expect every detail to be letter perfect on a show that’s pushing two decades. But stuff like “Professor Frink has a son” is stuff that I kind of expect to be remembered. I have no problem with a bit of continuity play for the sake of a good joke, but the whole “I’ve never touched a woman” bit wasn’t even a good joke.
It is entirely possible for professor Frink to both have a son and have never touched a woman. The two things are not mutually exclusive.
Wizard did it.
Yeah, I’m thinking clone.
Oh, come on, he set up the perfect background for a classic time paradox! His son is obviously himself!
But then we also have the episode with Simpson and Son’s sex tonic, where Frink nails his lab assistant.