History Fridge / THESIMPSONS

* Marge's appreciation for Michelangelo's "David" in "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge" seems like a plot convenience given that she's never showed much personal affinity for high culture up to that point, but "Brush With Greatness" later in the season offers some context in which it makes perfect sense: she had a passion for art in high school that was crushed out of her by an unkind teacher. (Establishing that her status as a [[MoralGuardians Moral Guardian]] does not extend to being offended by artistic nudity also lays important groundwork for the plot of that episode.)

** The episode also focused on Marge's ability to see inner beauty as an artistic skill: her painting of a sleeping Homer ungracefully sprawled on the couch in his underwear won first prize in a competition because she was able to bring out something about the personality of the man she loved that made the work beautiful to others as well. It's perfectly in-character for her to prefer the oddball NiceGuy of the Beatles (emphasized as such in the episode with his crusade to answer ''all'' his fan mail) over his more traditionally handsome bandmates.

* In "Who Shot Mr. Bruns? (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.

* In "Krusty Gets Busted," Sideshow Bob's retooling of Krusty's show demonstrates a sophisticated and culturally literate approach to children's programming that couldn't be more different from Krusty's. He even gets in AnAesop about treating kids as equals as he's hauled away, pointing out that they were smart enough to catch him. The dark flipside of this, of course, is that Sideshow Bob sees Bart as a WorthyOpponent and seeks his life as ruthlessly as if they were on a level playing field, seeing no reason [[WouldHurtAChild not to hurt a child]].

* In "Krusty Gets Busted," Sideshow Bob's retooling of Krusty's show, ''The Side-Show Bob Cavalcade of Whimsy,'' demonstrates a sophisticated and culturally literate approach to children's programming that couldn't be more different from Krusty's. He even gets in AnAesop about treating kids as equals as he's hauled away, pointing out that they were smart enough to catch him. The fact that Sideshow Bob also treats Bart as an equal when it comes to his grudge against him, meaning that he WouldHurtAChild, is just the dark flipside of this attitude.

* Marge's appreciation for Michelangelo's "David" in "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge" seems like a plot convenience given that she's never showed much personal affinity for high culture up to that point, but "Brush With Greatness" later in the season offers some context in which it makes perfect sense: she had a passion for art in high school that was crushed out of her by an unkind teacher.

* "Bart Gets Hit By a Car" has Homer pondering the fact that he and Marge have been married for ten years, subtly foreshadowing the revelation a few episodes later (in "The Way We Was") that they had a ShotgunWedding after conceiving Bart, who's consistently described as being ten years old. (Notably, this represents a RetCon from Season 1's "Some Enchanted Evening," where Homer complains that in "eleven years" Marge has never let him forget that he banged her head against the door frame while carrying her across the threshold—the episode having likely been written before the writers came up with the backstory, under the assumption that the marriage predated Bart.)

** Assuming it was an innocent mistake, this actually lays the groundwork for a plot point later in the season--in "Principal Charming," Homer tries to set Selma up at Marge's insistence and settles on Skinner as her potential boyfriend, only to accidentally introduce Skinner to what turns out to be ''Patty,'' botching the scheme by causing him to fall in LoveAtFirstSight with the wrong twin.

** Patty and Selma were insulting Marge's cooking and making her feel inadequate as well when Homer approached them. Homer kissing them while getting their names wrong was his way of getting back at them for mistreating Marge, while also appearing that he was still being nice

* In "The Blunder Years", Smithers Jr saw his father die in a rather gruesome way. Luckily he was just a baby when it happend, but it doesn't mean he didn't notice that something was wrong.

* In one episode where Lisa is being bullied by a teacher, Homer has to get Edna to help. Edna does this by sending Bart to be the new teacher's student. In the two minutes that the teacher was in the bathroom, Bart has managed to basically destroy the classroom and terrify the other students. A hint that Bart? May have been holding back the whole time!

* In "Mypods and Broomsticks", when Jimbo, Dolph, and Kearney were bullying Bashir, Kearney mentions "I'm going to punch you extra hard because I find you cute!"... remember that Bashir is around Bart's age and Kearney has been said to be either a teen or a adult...

* In "Who Shot Mr. Bruns? (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 ever year.

* One episode explains that Herb Powell lost his wealth all over again in a NoodleIncident. This seemingly makes his arc a ShaggyDogStory, but then one has to remember, most of what caused his first bankruptsy was actually his own doing, bargaining everything on Homer making a top project and arrogantly refusing to listen to his employees' warnings. Herb blames Homer for everything going wrong and his arc after regaining wealth basically culminates in him.....[[NeverMyFault forgiving Homer for being 100% to blame for everything before.]] Herb losing his fortune repeatedly seems pretty in nature with someone who always believes any failings he has are other people's fault and [[IgnoredEpiphany thus never learns from his own mistakes]].

* Since Dr. Nick did survive from his accident in the movie, why he then appears in season 20 while skipping season 19 entirely? Simple; he spend the whole season healing his injuries.

* In "Bart the Mother", the list of birds that the Bolivian tree lizard has made either endangered or extinct may seem fairly random (silly names aside). Then you realise that they all have one thing in common; none of them are native to South America. Their is presumably because the birds in the lizards' native country presumably have evolved defences against them (e.g. pushing out extra eggs, killing the newly-hatched lizards); this is true of most invasive species (e.g. cane toads in Australia).

* While The Simpsons Gene determining intelligence may or may not be canon, there is one thing in the Simpsons family that may be; musical talent. Music talent has been linked to genetics. Lisa obviously plays the saxophone, Homer was had a barbershop quartet, a grunge band, a number one hit, and has been an opera singer. Grandpa has said to have [[NoodleIncident released an album,]] Bart has been in a boy band and is an excellent drummer, and Maggie is shown to be a world famous musician as an adult in "Holidays of Future Past."

* In "Bart's Comet" after Homer makes Flanders leave the fallout shelter, everyone carries on casually. Homer eventually comes to his senses and says he's disgusted by everyone, especially Rodd and Todd. It may sound like Homer ripping on the Flanders', but Homer was really disgusted that when Flanders told Todd to shoot daddy if he tried to return, he agreed. It shows that while he's jealous and he can be a jerk towards Flanders, Homer doesn't want Flanders to be harmed.

* Rodd and Tod used to go to Springfield Elementary and Ned was part of the PTA, but in recent years we've seen Rodd and Tod in a private Christian school. Ned could've had them taken out of public school and enrolled there after his {{Flanderization}}.

* In the 2005 episode "Future-Drama" Professor Frink shows Bart and Lisa their a FlashForward scenario that takes place eight years from next Tuesday, and it involves. Bart and Lisa going to their senior prom. Proms are usually held on the weekends, and he's going by the date that Tuesday is on. That would mean it correctly did take place on a weekend, eight years into the future.

* At the end of "Lisa the Drama Queen", Lisa lets her former best friend ride off into the night because Lisa wants to live in reality. She let an 8 year old girl ride off alone at night, who knows [[AdultFear what could have happened to her]], especially since she's a OneShotCharacter.

*** I think it's more that The Simpsons frequently like to portray minor celebrities as super-human, like Bette Midler and Johnny Carson in "Krusty Gets Kancelled" being as fast a car and having super strength, respectively. The joke was that Xena has superpowers, but flying isn't one of them -- however, the actress who plays her ''can'' fly.