History Fridge / THESIMPSONS

* In ''Recap/TheSimpsonsS34E22HomersAdventuresThroughTheWindshieldGlass'', we learn that [[spoiler:Marge keeps getting $1,000 dollars from her dead father as a part of his will, money she's been using to help the family during serious emergencies. Later, Homer is in Hell, and so in Marge's Dad. We learn that Marge's Dad is in Hell because he forged checks. Meaning that all the money Marge has been receiving from her father's will was probably stolen via those forged checks, and if anyone ever got wise to how Marge's Dad got his money, then it, as well as any cash Marge already spent from the will, could be demanded back, drying up Marge's emergency funds.]]

** Alternately, the show going on long enough may explain why Bart's status as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court doesn't stick or is ignored in many of the later future episodes: with the advent of [=DVDs=], the internet, online streaming and the myriad of other ways to catch a movie that don't involve going to theaters seen in later present-day episodes, Bart eventually did get to see the movie somehow and thus lacked the motivation to become the Chief Justice after all.

* Notice in "Bart's Inner Child" when Troy McClure's reading the cue cards he's squinting. This is because he has poor eyesight, as shown in "A Fish Called Selma."

* Marge complimenting Homer on being drunk with Burns on the job in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS34E6TreehouseOfHorrorXXXIII "Death Tome"]] isn't just a gag about Japan's cultural norms. Considering [[HateSink who]] [[BadBoss Montgomery]] [[CardCarryingVillain Burns]] is, being willing to drink with him, even for [[TheAlcoholic Homer]], ''might genuinly be'' something he is doing out of dedication for his family.

* In the sixth episode of ''The Simpsons'' [[GoldenAge fourth season]], Homer forbids Bart from watching ''The Itchy & Scratchy Movie'' so that he can learn discipline and grow up to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. At the end of the episode, we see a FlashForward to a grown Bart walking with an elderly Homer having achieved this goal. Two years later, in the 19th episode of The Simpsons' sixth season, we see another FlashForward episode where Lisa is in college and about to get married. Bart is shown holding a job demolishing buildings but mentions that once he works the rage out of his system he will attend law school. Finally in the 17th episode of the eleventh season, "Bart to the Future", Lisa has become President of the United States and Bart helps get her out of a major debt crisis. The two future episodes actually '''confirm''' the FlashForward way back in season four as Bart goes to law school and is ultimately appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by Lisa as thanks for his assistance.

* In "The Mansion Family" it is revealed that Mr. Burns has every single disease in the world, as well as new diseases discovered inside of him. While Burns himself suffers no ill effects due to the "Three Stooges Syndrome" can the more contagious diseases still spread to other people?

* In "Flanders' Ladder" has Bart dreaming of dead people including Sherry Bobbins from "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious," who specifically mentions getting revenge on jet engines. This implies he must have seen her get sucked into the jet engine and witnessed her death. Some Fridge Brilliance here, as he's the only family member who we don't see turn away from the event.

** There's actually a ''third'' meaning: '''Sharp'', as a barber's razor is meant to be.

*** Also Kaiser Wilhelm being called the evilest German has some context, as he is a major scapegoat for the escalation of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI for reasons legit and exaggeration alike. As World War I led directly to World War II, he is, to some extent, responsible for the war that contributed to Hitler's rise to power.

*** Also Kaiser Wilhelm being called the evilest German has some context, as he is a major scapegoat for the escalation of the war for reasons legit and exaggeration alike. As World War 1 led directly to World War 2, he is, to some extent, responsible for the war that contributed to Hitler's rise to power.

* In "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)", Kent Brockman says in a newscast that "Dozens of people are gunned down in Springfield each day". Even using the smallest amount for dozens (24), that would mean 8,760 people are shot every year in Springfield. With a canon population just over 50,000, that's almost 20% of Springfielders shot every year.

* At the end of "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner," Artie goes to prison and makes a lot of inmates angry when he puts out their cigarettes. Other than a non canon Treehouse of Horror episode, we haven't seen Artie since. It's possible he got shanked or beat to death in prison.
** Those would be a "no". He's back and perfectly fine in "Hail to the Teeth".

** It was probably just a mistake on Bob's part. He likely just forgot to mention them or is unaware that the Flanders family has kids.

* The Itchy and Scratchy Movie: I realized something. How was Maggie able to get into Homer's car and go on a joyride? With the obvious RuleOfFunny out of the way, my guess is Homer must have left his keys in the ignition so not only was Bart unfairly punished, he was punished for Homer's screwup.

* In "Lisa the Veterinarian", Bart pulls a prank in the indoor water park that the waters are infested with the fish that can "swim up people's wieners". It's mostly played for laughs, but its nerve-wracking when one considers the fact that there is a fish in the wild that can do just that, a parasitic catfish known scientifically as "Vandellia cirrhosa", or commonly known as "candiru".

** Moot point: Bart knows his explosives too well to make mistakes, but he also knows his dad. It's clear [[EveryoneHasStandards he set Homer up with a dud vest on purpose so that he could have the fun of threatening the town without the consequences of impulsive self-immolation]].

** Skinner explains that he spent a week trapped under a pile of newspapers in his garage, staying alive by eating his mother's canned preserves and staying sane by dribbling a basketball. What he understandably doesn't mention is that he would have spent most of the week lying in his own urine and excrement.

* In "To Cur With Love" has a glimpse of Dr. Hibbert's memoir ''Crying on the inside''; given how it's mentioned in "Make Room For Lisa" that learning to laugh saved him from a early grave just makes you wonder how much he bottles his emotions inside.

* The opening sequence of the Simpsons gives a great depiction of the more negative aspects of the main cast. [[AttentionWhore Bart repeatedly causes trouble just to get noticed]]. [[TooDumbToLive Homer's stupidity is a constant danger to himself and others]]. [[ParentalNeglect Marge often doesn't notice her kids until something bad has happened.]] And [[ItsAllAboutMe Lisa prides herself by being better then everyone else much to the annoyance of those around her]].

*** Also Kaiser Wilhelm being called the evilest German has some context: while he didn't start World War 1, he is a major scapegoat for the escalation of it for reasons legit and exaggeration alike. As World War 1 led to World War 2, he is, to some extent, responsible for the war that contributed to Hitler's rise to power.

** Also remember in "Simpsons Bible Stories" Bart was King David, Jesus was a direct descendant of David.

* In "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken", Homer and his friends wreck up the school on a joyride, and the damages are blamed on rowdy kids, thus causing a curfew to be placed. This was all gone in the next episode. This may have been NegativeContinuity, but the 500th episode (''At Long Last Leave'') had Mayor Quimby illustrate Springfield's hatred of the whole family by showing [[CallBack a photo of Homer wrecking the school]]. So they must have found out the ''real'' cause and lifted the curfew, although these episodes were about 13 years apart. The only problem is that Lenny, Carl, and Barney [[FridgeLogic aren't present in the photo]]?
** Homer wrecked the school again, this time alone.

** With Don Mattingly getting sent home over his sideburns, that makes ''eight'' misfortunes. What's number nine? Homer getting beaned unconscious during his last turn at the bat. Granted that won them the game, but to Homer it definitely qualifies.

* "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer" confirms that Fat Tony is, in fact, a widower. By "The Real Housewives of Fat Tony", however, Selma (his current wife) discovers Tony is actually still married to someone else she didn't know about. Remembering the former episode, you might think Tony probably just remarried after his wife's death. But now take into consideration the "real" Fat Tony had been killed in "Donnie Fatso", and the Fat Tony we currently know is just 'Fit Tony', his overweight cousin. Does that never-before-mentioned marriage make more sense?
* In "Moonshine River" Bart visits old girlfriends who he burned his bridges with, just to get rejected again. He visits Gina, the girl he knew from juvenile hall just to get punched in the face. This might seem weird considering the ending of that episode, but if you consider how much time has passed between that episode and this one (the former aired in 2004, this one aired in 2012)... She's not punching him in the face because they had a falling out, she's mad because it's the first time in nearly ten seasons he paid her a visit.

* The opening sequence of the Simpsons gives a great depiction of the more negative aspects of the main cast. Bart is an AttentionWhore who repeatedly causes trouble just to get noticed. Homer is TooDumbToLive whose stupidity is a constant danger to himself and others. Marge's ParentalNeglect causes her not to notice her kids until something bad has happened. And finally if Bart is an AttentionWhore Lisa is ItsAllAboutMe. She defines herself by being better then everyone else much to the annoyance of those around her.

* "Lisa's Wedding" has an elderly Maude Flanders and Professor Frink alive and well, despite the former dying in the series and the latter [[DrivenToSuicide hanging himself]] in "Future-Drama." This may just seem like NegativeContinuity, but remember that by "Future-Drama" scientists have invented magic and cloning machines can be afforded by the perpetually in-debt Moe. It's not out of the question that magic and/or cloning could've allowed them to appear. Maude's non-presence in "Holidays of Future Passed" is FridgeHorror though, due to [[CloneDegeneration how she was]] [[CameBackWrong brought back.]]

** Then again this ''is'' the run-down, perpetually low-budget Springfield Elementary we are talking about. Maybe after one-to-many dubious acts from the faculty, Flanders ([[OnlySaneMan who is usually more down-to-earth than most of the cast]], even after his {{Flanderization}}) transferred his kids to a school he could trust.

* Fridge Funny. In "Lisa Goes Gaga", Bart dresses Maggie with weird items and presents her to Lady Gaga under the nickname "Baby [=GooGoo=]". Lady Gaga's stage name is taken from a Queen song titled Radio [=GaGa=], for which the chorus goes like this at some point: "Radio Gaga, ''Radio [=GooGoo=]'', Radio Ga-Ga". Hard to say if it was intentional from the writers, but it makes the joke even better.

* More Future Brilliance: In "Holidays Of Future Passed" we see that Superintendent Chalmers is cryogenically frozen. In the previous future episode, Future-Drama, it's shown that he became a vegetable due to use of [[FictionalDrug Stem.]] It's possible he was frozen so that they could find a cure for the brain damage.

* In the opening credits Bart does a [[CouchGag chalkboard gag]] almost every week. Some of these are stuff he did, and some appear to be outrageous claims. Mrs. Krabappel is a smoker, so some of them are just him dicking around and making up stuff to entertain himself when she's on her break.

* In 1993, Butterfinger aired a commercial where Bart's candy bar was stolen and viewers had to determine who it was (out of Burns, Lisa, Otto, Krusty, Nelson, and Homer) to win $50 grand. A month later, a new commercial aired that revealed the thief was Krusty. The winner, Nancy Fredholm, must have noticed the Butterfinger was taken from a Krusty brand safe.

* The swearjar subplot in “Bart the Lover” kicks off when Todd Flanders says “Hell no, I said I don’t want any damn vegetables” to which Ned punishes him by telling him no Bible stories before bed. Hell and damn are obviously in the Bible, but Flanders was more angry about the context he was using those words as opposed to him knowing them.

* In "I Married Marge", it shows Bart's birth. The first thing he does is set Homer's tie on fire with a cigarette lighter. Where did baby Bart get that? Patty and Selma were in the room earlier.

** No, it's because she's [[MeaningfulName Lawless]], so she doesn't obey the [[IncrediblyLamePun laws]] of physics.

* Moe reacts rather violently to Bart's prank calls. Of course: He's a [[IncrediblyLamePun Bart Ender]].